Castaways and Containers: Modernity at S

MODERNITY AT SEA

In this course, we’ll explore the ambitions, challenges, and failures of globalization through the lens of castaway literature, with works spanning from the seventeenth century to the present. In today’s postindustrial economies, labor has been outsourced to other parts of the world, and we depend on global shipping networks to supply us with commodities and to relieve us of our massive outputs of waste. Manufactured goods, raw materials, trash, people, and nonhuman species all circulate the globe via container ships and shipping networks that we rarely consider when we purchase something at a local Target. This course moves back and forth between early modernity and the present to consider the wastes generated by global economic circuits. We’ll begin by locating the origins of the global capitalist imaginary in texts written by proponents of colonial exploration and expansion. We’ll then turn to the transatlantic slave trade and to the archives of the black Atlantic to investigate forms of racialized violence and anticolonial resistance in the history of finance capital in the Atlantic world. Finally, we’ll bring our observations to bear on the forms of globalization that sustain contemporary postindustrial economies: from the containerization of shipping to the uneven environmental harms endured by nonhuman ecosystems and the poor in the global South.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 4 points

POOR IN AMERICA: THE EXPERIENCE AND IMPA

This course focuses on the life experiences and impact of poverty in the contemporary United States.  We will be exploring the consequences of financial and material deprivation on work, housing, health, parenting, children, as well as the limits and opportunities for inter-generational mobility and how each of these intersect with gender, racial and ethnic identities.  We will be learning about the experiences of individual persons as well as how these particular experiences reflect the overarching patterns of social, political and economic trends in the United States.  The course will incorporate a diverse set of disciplinary perspectives to shed light on the challenges faced by persons living in poverty.  In addition, there will be an emphasis on learning about and critically assessing methodological approaches applied in the literature.  No prior knowledge of methods is required and any technical references will be explained in class.

• Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Rose Razaghian
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

SR SEM IN BIOLOGY

SENIOR SEMINAR IN BIOLOGY

Prerequisites: BIOL BC1500, BIOL BC1501, BIOL BC1502, BIOL BC1503, and BIOL BC2100 or the equivalent. Enrollment is limited to 12; must attend first class to hold place.
Required for all majors who do not select the year-long Senior Thesis Research & Seminar (BIOL BC3593 & BC3594) to fulfill their senior capstone requirement. These seminars allow students to explore the primary literature in the Biological Sciences in greater depth than can be achieved in a lecture course. Attention will be focused on both theoretical and empirical work. Seminar periods are devoted to oral reports and discussion of assigned readings and student reports. Students will write one extensive literature review of a topic related to the central theme of the seminar section.
Topics vary per semester and include, but are not limited to:
 Plant Development
, 
Animal Development & Evolution,
 Molecular Evolution, Microbiology & Global Change, Genomics, Comparative & Reproductive Endocrinology, and Data Intensive Approaches in Biology.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Hilary Callahan
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 17 Info
• 4 points

GUIDED RESEARCH & SEMINAR

An independent research project in Biology under the guidance of a faculty member and suiting the needs of the individual student. Projects conducted outside of the Barnard Biology Department must have a member of the Department acting as a sponsor. Attendance at a weekly seminar is required. By the end of the year, students write a scientific paper and orally present their results to the Barnard Biology Department. Completion of both BIOL BC3591 and BIOL BC3592 fulfills two upper-level laboratory requirements in the major. Must be taken in sequence, beginning in the fall.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• M 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

Research and scholarly writing in chosen topics relating to dance. Methods of investigation are drawn from prominent archival collections and personal interviews, as well as other resources. Papers are formally presented to the Dance Department upon completion.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Paul A Scolieri
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS RESEARCH & SEMINAR

Prerequisites: Permission of a faculty sponsor and the department. Cannot be taken concurrently with BIOL BC3591 or BIOL BC3592.
Same as BIOL BC3591-BC3592, including the weekly seminar. Completion of both BIOL BC3593 and BC3594 fulfills the senior requirement or two upper level laboratory requirements, but not both in the major. Must be taken in sequence, beginning in the fall.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• M 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS RESEARCH & SEMINAR

SENIOR THESIS SEMINAR

Prerequisites: Permission of a faculty sponsor and the department. Cannot be taken concurrently with BIOL BC3591 or BIOL BC3592.
Same as BIOL BC3591-BC3592, including the weekly seminar. Completion of both BIOL BC3593 and BC3594 fulfills the senior requirement or two upper level laboratory requirements, but not both in the major. Must be taken in sequence, beginning in the fall.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• M 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

A research and writing workshop designed to help students plan and execute a major research project, and communicate their ideas in a common scholarly language that crosses disciplinary boundaries.  Content is determined by students' thesis topics, and includes general sessions on how to formulate a proposal and how to generate a bibliography.  Students present the fruits of their research in class discussions, culminating in a full-length seminar presentation and the submission of the written thesis.

• Department: Slavic Languages @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Holly Myers
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

GUIDED RESEARCH

Prerequisites: Permission of a faculty sponsor.
Similar to BIOL BC3591x/ BC3592y but a variable point course without seminar or an oral presentation. Does not fulfill Biology major requirements.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• Instructor: Elizabeth P Bauer
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 21 Info
• Instructor: Hilary Callahan
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: John Glendinning
  CULPA: 23 h-index: 39 Info
• Instructor: Paul E Hertz
  CULPA: 22 Info
• Instructor: Jennifer H Mansfield
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 15 Info
• Instructor: Alison Pischedda
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 11 Info
• Instructor: Brian Morton
  CULPA: 21 Info
• Instructor: Jonathan Snow
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 18 Info
• Instructor: Jj L Miranda
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 1-4 points

PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. 4 hours of laboratory work by arrangement.
Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• Instructor: Christian Rojas
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Marisa C Buzzeo
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Dina C Merrer
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Andrew C Crowther
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Michael Campbell
  Info
• Instructor: Subhasish Chatterjee
  h-index: 16 Info
• Instructor: Rachel Austin
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia h-index: 28 Info
• Instructor: Christina Vizcarra
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Rachel Austin
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia h-index: 28 Info
• 2 points

PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. 8 hours of laboratory work by arrangement.
Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• Instructor: Christian Rojas
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Marisa C Buzzeo
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Dina C Merrer
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Andrew C Crowther
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Michael Campbell
  Info
• Instructor: Subhasish Chatterjee
  h-index: 16 Info
• Instructor: Rachel Austin
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia h-index: 28 Info
• Instructor: Christina Vizcarra
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Rachel Austin
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia h-index: 28 Info
• 4 points

CLASSICAL CONTROL SYSTEMS

Prerequisites: (MATH UN2030) MATH V2030.
Analysis and design of feedback control systems. Transfer functions; block diagrams; proportional, rate, and integral controllers; hardware, implementation. Routh stability criterion, root locus, Bode and Nyquist plots, compensation techniques.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard W Longman
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 45 Info
• 3 points

REHEARSAL&PERFRMNCE; IN DANCE

Prerequisites: Audition. Do not register for this course until you have been selected at the audition. Subject to cap on studio credit. Can be taken more than once for credit up to a maximum of 3 credits a semester.
Students are graded and take part in the full production of a dance as performers, choreographers, designers, or stage technicians.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 1-3 points

REHEARSAL&PERFRMNCE; IN DANCE

Prerequisites: Audition. Do not register for this course until you have been selected at the audition. Subject to cap on studio credit. Can be taken more than once for credit up to a maximum of 3 credits a semester.
Students are graded and take part in the full production of a dance as performers, choreographers, designers, or stage technicians.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• TR 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 1-3 points

FOUNDATIONS OF OPTIMIZATION

Prerequisites: (MATH UN2010)
Corequisites: COMS W3134,COMS W3137

For undergraduates only. This course is required for all undergraduate students majoring in IE, OR:EMS, OR:FE and OR. This class must be taken during (or before) the fifth semester.
 Introduction to mathematical programming models and computational techniques. Linear programming and the simplex method, dynamic programming, implicit enumeration for integer programs; production planning applications. IEOR E3608 must be completed by the fifth term. Only students with special academic circumstances may be allowed to take these courses in alternative semesters with the consultation of CSA and Departmental advisors. Recitation section required.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Vineet Goyal
  h-index: 21 Info
• 3 points

Tokyo Olympics Japanese- N2 Level Profic

TOKYO OLYMPICS JPNS N2

Prerequisites: Completion of Second-Year Japanese or above.
This course is intended to prepare students for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) N2 level, which will be administered by the Japan Foundation on December 1, 2019. With nearly 890,000 people taking the JLPT in 2017 compared to 750,000 in 2016, this test has shown to be a reliable means by which to evaluate the Japanese proficiency of non-native speakers. Passing this test, therefore, provides students with more opportunities to work in Japan, to study at Japanese universities, or to receive scholarships to further their Japanese studies. The JLPT can also help earn students a position working for the Tokyo Olympics, which will take place in the summer of 2020.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Naofumi Tatsumi
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 2.5 points

Korean Art in the Age of Global Encounte

KOREAN ART GLOBAL ENCOUNT

This seminar explores the artistic developments in Korea with a focus on its encounter with the arts of China, Japan, and Europe from the fifteenth century to the present. Each class examines case studies the works of a particular artist—to examine the way in which Korean artists developed their distinctive style and established the aesthetic values in response to specific historical junctures. There will be two field trips to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Ja W Lee
  Info
• 4 points

THIRD YEAR MOD COLLOQ TIBET I

For those whose knowledge is equivalent to a student who’s completed the Second Year course. The course develops students’ reading comprehension skills through reading selected modern Tibetan literature. Tibetan is used as the medium of instruction and interaction to develop oral fluency and proficiency.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Sonam Tsering
  Info
• 4 points

Poetry and Catastrophe

This seminar begins with a simple paradox: why is it that poetry is inconsequential to our day-to-day lives, but when faced with catastrophe--war, environmental disaster, personal loss--it is so common to turn to poetry? As W.H. Auden wrote in response to the death of W.B. Yeats and in the shadow of a new war, "poetry makes nothing happen," and yet "it survives/ ... / A way of happening, a mouth." Our task will be to understand what Auden meant as well as to explore alternative views of poetry's resources for responding to catastrophe. After a brief introduction to interpreting poetic form, both in single-author works and also in groups of poems from different poets written in response to specific catastrophes (World War I, the Holocaust, and 9/11). We will study works from a variety of schools and movements, mainly British and American, with all readings in English. Some of the poets considered are Wilfred Owen, W.H. Auden, Jorie Graham, T.S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, H.D., and Paul Celan.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jeremy E Stevens
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

ROAD TRIPS:TRAVEL IN ITAL CIN

Corequisites: Cap at 25.
Explores the representation of national identity in Italian cinema from the Facist era to the present. Examines how both geography and history are used to construct an image of Italy and the Italians. Special focus on the cinematic representation of travel and journeys between North and South. Films by major neo-realist directors (Rossellini, De Sica, Visconti) as well as by leading contemporaries (Moretti, Amelio).

• Department: Italian @Barnard
• W 6:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 3 points

VISUAL CULTRS-MOD SOUTH ASIA

This lecture course introduces students to the power and meaning of popular visual cultures of South Asia. Visual culture is a crucial arena for the enactment of social transformations and the creation of collective imaginaries. We will track such varied modern media types as calendar art, photography, film, architecture, clothing, and religious festivals, loosely following key chronological signposts in the shared histories of the subcontinent. Together, we will practice a new way of understanding history and society – a visual way that will make us aware of the diversity of hopes, fears, and dreams that comprise South Asia. Designed for students with a basic understanding of South Asian history, the course aims to familiarize you with key methodological approaches in visual culture studies and current debates in South Asian art history and media theory.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Debashree Mukherjee
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE

INSITUTIONAL CRITIQUE

Examines precedents for institutional critique in the strategies of early twentieth-century historical avant-garde and the post-war neo-avant-garde. Explores ideas about the institution and violence, investigates the critique and elaboration of institutional critique from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, and considers the legacies of institutional critiques in the art of the present.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Rosalyn Deutsche
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 3 points

JEWISH TALES FROM FOUR CITIES: THE IMMIG

JEWISH IMMIG NYC PARIS LO

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required.
Examines Jewish immigrant experience in New York, Buenos Aires, London, and Paris, c.1880-1930. Focus on the Old World origins of the arrivals, the formation of neighborhoods, ethnic institutions, family, work, cultural expressions, and relations with the rest of society. Based on readings and primary research (newspapers, letters, songs, photographs, etc.).

• Department: History @Barnard
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jose Moya
  CULPA: 19 h-index: 18 Info
• 4 points

PROBABILITY FOR ENGINEERS

Prerequisites: Solid knowledge of calculus, including multiple variable integration.
For undergraduates only. Required for the OR:FE concentration. Must be taken during (or before) the third semester. Students who take IEOR E3658 may not take W4150 due to significant overlap. Recommended: strong mathematical skills. Introductory course to probability theory, and does not assume any prior knowledge of the subject. Teaches foundations required to use probability in applications, but the course itself is theoretical in nature. Basic definitions and axioms of probability and notions of independence and conditional probability introduced. Focus on random variables, both continuous and discrete, and covers topics of expectation, variance, conditional distributions, conditional expectation and variance, and moment generating functions. Also Central Limit Theorem for sums of random variables. Consists of lectures, recitations, weekly homework, and in-class exams.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Lacker
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 13 Info
• 3 points

Terrorism in Literature & Film

Rflctns btwn Ital Rd Brgd&9/11

How does the experience of terrorism impact artworks both aesthetically and thematically? And how do artworks that thematize terrorism reveal underlying issues and inner dynamics of contemporary society? In this interdisciplinary course, we will treat novels and films that use the theme of terrorism as a rich resource for understanding the consequences of terroristic violence and the trauma it produces at an individual and social level. To do so, we will compare the cultural reflections on the attack on the Twin Towers in Manhattan on 9/11 to Italy's years of lead, which was the most disruptive case of domestic terrorism in a Western democracy prior to 2001. We will explore issues such as: the representation of the body of the terrorist and his/her victims; memory and trauma; women's role in or vis a vis terroristic associations; children's perspective on terroristic violence; terrorism and its effect on the nuclear family; the perspective of the Other and postcolonialism; martyrdom and sacrifice. As a result of our close analysis of films and novels on terrorism, we will be able to discover the specificity of 9/11 and the Italian years of lead, and the way in which art not only works as a therapeutic device, but also as analytic tool for political change. This is thus a course that would also be of interest for students of Comparative Literature, Film and Media Studies, English, and Political Science.
(No previous knowledge is required. All course materials will be in English.)

• Department: Italian
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Massimiliano L Delfino
  Info
• 3 points

Art in Archaeological Practice

PRINCIPLES OF ARTS IN ARC

Please see syllabus attached

• Department: Anthropology
• F 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeffrey L Benjamin
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

INTRO HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY

This course will survey selected social, cultural and aesthetic or technical developments in the history of photography, from the emergence of the medium in the 1820s and 30s through to the present day. Rather than attempt comprehensively to review every aspect of photography and its legacies in the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the course will instead trace significant developments through a series of case studies. Some of the latter will focus on individuals, genres or movements, and others on various discourses of the photographic image.  Particular attention will be placed on methodological and theoretical concerns pertaining to the medium.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexander Alberro
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

DRAMA, THEATRE AND THEORY

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission.
(Seminar). Theatre typically exceeds the claims of theory. What does this tell us about both theatre and theory? We will consider why theatre practitioners often provide the most influential theoretical perspectives, how the drama inquires into (among other things) the possibilities of theatre, and the various ways in which the social, spiritual, performative, political, and aesthetic elements of drama and theatre interact. Two papers, weekly responses, and a class presentation are required. Readings include Aristotle, Artaud, Bharata, Boal, Brecht, Brook, Castelvetro, Craig, Genet, Grotowski, Ibsen, Littlewood, Marlowe, Parks, Schechner, Shakespeare, Sowerby, Weiss, and Zeami. 
Application Instructions:
E-mail Professor Austin Quigley (aeq1@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Drama, Theatre, Theory seminar." In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course. Admitted students should register for the course; they will automatically be placed on a wait list, from which the instructor will in due course admit them as spaces become available.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Austin E Quigley
  Info
• 4 points

VENTURING TO CHANGE THE WORLD

VENTURING INTO THE WORLD

How do founders and their new ventures change the world? Changes in technology and society are increasing the power of small teams to impact everything. Startups, large corporations, social groups and governments are increasingly focused on the power of innovation to solve the world’s hardest problems. The ideas and patterns driving this recent form of change-making build on frameworks defining the development of modern civilizations since the Renaissance. , Venturing to Change the World introduces the intellectual foundations and practical aspects of founding a new venture. We explore the entrepreneurial mindset, team formation, idea selection, how ideas become products with markets, and the key steps in building a venture. Our scope is commercial as well as social ventures, and the course is appropriate not only for prospective founders but anyone who will operate in a society increasingly animated by entrepreneurial activity.

• Department: Columbia College
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• 3 points

SENIOR FIELD ESSAY SEMINAR

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to senior majors.
Individual research on topic related to major thematic concentration and preparation of senior thesis.

• Department: American Studies @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jordan Camp
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SENIOR FIELD ESSAY SEMINAR

SENIOR SEMINAR I

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to senior majors.
Individual research on topic related to major thematic concentration and preparation of senior thesis.

• Department: American Studies @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Manu M Vimalassery
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 4 points

LEADERSHIP IN ORGANIZATION

Initially, the emphasis is on understanding the challenges confronting leaders and developing skills to effectively deal with these obstacles. Beyond intelligence and technical know-how, what separates effective leaders from other team members is a set of social skills (e.g. impression management, self-awareness). This course identifies these critical leadership skills and provides ideas and tools for improving them. Then, the course considers how social intelligence skills fit the needs of managers at different stages of their careers. In early stages, managers need to achieve a good person-job fit, find mentors, and build an effective social network. At the mid-career stage, managers need to lead an effective unit with increasing complexity and responsibilities. Finally, the course examines challenges managers face at later career stages as they become partners, CFOs, CEOs, etc.

• Department: Columbia College
• R 9 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Rachel I McDonald
  h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

SURVEY OF LATIN AMERICAN LIT

20TH-C SPANISH AMERICAN LIT

A survey of major works and authors in their historical and personal context, with emphasis on lyric poetry, narrative and essay.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Gustavo Perez-Firmat
  CULPA: 8 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

AUDEN

Selected poems, plays, and prose.  To apply, please send Prof. Mendelson an e-mail message with the heading "Auden Seminar"; include your name, the year you expect to graduate, the names of any possibly relevant courses that you have taken, and a truthful one-sentence explanation of why you want to join the seminar.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Edward Mendelson
  CULPA: 64 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

AIDS, The Arts, Body Culture

AIDS,THE ARTS,BODYCULTURE

Relations between AIDS activists and AIDS artists in challenging Western theories of immunology and immune suppression.  Critique of linkages between LGBTQ communities and the pharmaceutical industry.  Focus on subcultures within China, India, Haiti, Nigeria, and the U.S. where indigenous and folkloric responses to HIV transmission are employed, often alongside Western medicines.  Review of research of anthropologists and public health officials who have reconceptualized HIV from the phenomenological vantage of lived experience and somatic awareness.  Embodied healing practices: dance and movement structures, shaking and miracle cures, Tai Chi, Qi Gong, Yoga, that is, body practices, rites, and herbal protocols utilized in tandem with Western HIV medications.  Response anthropologists to AIDS in its first decade contrasted with 2019.  Sensation of illness in relation to artistic expression.  Site visits to performances and art exhibits when feasible.

• Department: Anthropology
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Robinson-Appels
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

MAPPING AFR MIGRATIONS

*In this course, we will be studying African migrations to Africa, and within the continent, in the 19
th
and 20
th
centuries. We will be reading scholarly works on spatial history, African migrations, and ‘Back-to-Africa’ movements.
*We will also be analyzing primary sources on African migrations, which shall form the bases of a series of digital scholarship workshops.  These workshops will cover mapping with ArcGIS, translating qualitative knowledge into quantitative data, and effective digital storytelling.

• Department: History @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Abosede A George
  CULPA: 14 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

BERL/ISTANBUL:MIGRATN,CLTR,VAL

BERLIN/ISTANBUL (GER)

An intensive seminar analyzing questions of migration, identity, (self-) representation, and values with regard to the Turkish minority living in Germany today. Starting with a historical description of the „guest worker“ program that brought hundreds of thousands of Turkish nationals to Germany in the 1960s and 1970s, the course will focus on the experiences and cultural production of the second and third generations of Turkish Germans, whose presence has profoundly transformed German society and culture. Primary materials include diaries, autobiographies, legal and historical documents, but the course will also analyze poetry, novels, theater plays and films. In German.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Claudia Breger
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

US Theatre in the 21st Century

In this seminar, we will read and view plays that tell new stories—some that took Broadway by storm and others that had only a brief life onstage. We will ask how a moment of unprecedented diversity in US playwriting responds to earlier eras of theater, what it suggests for the future, and what it leaves us still wanting. Can playwrights still experiment with new forms—and can audiences still be surprised or shocked by theater? How does the US history of settler colonialism, slavery, and changing immigration policies show up in playwriting today? Who is represented onstage, who is pulling the creative strings behind the scenes, and who is doing the work of getting the show on its feet every night? We will encounter some of the most innovative American playwrights and performers of the 21st century—including Suzan-Lori Parks, Annie Baker, Taylor Mac, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, and Peggy Shaw—through play texts, videos of performances, and one class trip to see a new play together. This course is open to English and Theater majors, as well as non-majors with an interest in theater. Email Danielle at
dnd2118@columbia.edu
 with your name, year, major, and a brief paragraph about your favorite play to apply.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Danielle N Drees
  Info
• 4 points

True Crime: Fact and Feeling, 1927-Prese

FACT&FEELING;, 1927-PRESNT

What's true in true crime? Often dismissed as trashy, true crime not only evokes strong emotional responses (revealing truth about social mores), but also has a philosophical dimension in search for truth. Defining true crime as a mode in many media (drama, film, graphic novels, and podcasts), this course explores how true crime expresses affective reactions to crime, and how it crafts narratives to make sense of shocking events. Works discussed include In Cold Blood, OJ: Made in America, and Serial.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Julia K Sirmons
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

ENVIR SCIENCE SENIOR SEMINAR

Guided, independent, in-depth research culminating in the senior thesis in the spring. Includes discussion about scientific presentations and posters, data analysis, library research methods and scientific writing. Students review work in progress and share results through oral reports. Weekly seminar to review work in progress and share results through oral and written reports. Prerequisite to
EESC W3901
.

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Martin Stute
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 52 Info
• 3 points

SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS

Corequisites: MATH UN1201,APMA E2000
Modeling, description, and classification of signals and systems. Continuous-time systems. Time domain analysis, convolution. Frequency domain analysis, transfer functions. Fourier series. Fourier and Laplace transforms. Discrete-time systems and the Z transform.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• TR 7:10 p.m.-8:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Xiaodong Wang
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3.5 points

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING LAB I

Fundamental considerations of wave mechanics; design philosophies; reliability and risk concepts; basics of fluid mechanics; design of structures subjected to blast; elements of seismic design; elements of fire design; flood considerations; advanced analysis in support of structural design.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• W 1:10 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Aaron M Kyle
  Info
• 3 points

TOXIC

It is no secret by now that we live in a toxic sea. Every day, in every place in this world, we are exposed to an unknown number of contaminants, including those in the places that we live, the air that we breathe, the foods that we eat, the water that we drink, the consumer products that we use, and in the social worlds that we navigate. While we are all exposed, the effects of these exposures are distributed in radically unequal patterns, and histories of racialization, coloniality, and gendered inequality are critical determinants of the risks to wellness that these toxic entanglements entail. Scientists use the term "body burden" to describe the accumulated, enduring amounts of harmful substances present in human bodies. In this course, we explore the global conditions that give rise to local body burdens, plumbing the history of toxicity as a category, the politics of toxic exposures, and the experience of toxic embodiment. Foregrounding uneven exposures and disproportionate effects, we ask how scientists and humanists, poets and political activists, have understood toxicity as a material and social phenomenon. We will turn our collective attention to the analysis of ethnographies, memoirs, maps, film, and photography, and students will also be charged with creating visual and narrative projects for representing body burden of their own.

• Department: Anthropology
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Vanessa L Agard-Jones
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

SHANGE & DIGITAL STORYTELLING

NTOZAKE SHANGE & DIG STORYTEL

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 12 students. Permission of the instructor required. Interested students should complete the application at http://bit.ly/Ntozake2019. Students should have taken a course beyond the intro level from ONE of the following areas: American Literature (through the English Department), Africana Studies, American Studies, Theatre or Women's Studies. Students who successfully complete into this course will be eligible to take the second half of the course in Spring 2019. NOTE: There will be three extra sessions scheduled in the Digital Humanities Center.
A poet, performance artist, playwright and novelist, Ntozake Shange's stylistic innovations in drama, poetry and fiction and attention to the untold lives of black women have made her an influential figure throughout American arts and in Feminist history.  This semester will examine Shange's works in the context of political and artistic organizing by women of color in the 1970s and 80s. In addition to our analysis of primary texts, students will be introduced to archival research in Ntozake Shange’s personal archive at Barnard College.  This in-depth exploration of Shange's work and milieu is complemented with an introduction to digital tools, public research and archival practice. You can find more information and apply for the course at
http://bit.ly/Ntozake2019
. On Twitter @ShangeWorlds.

• Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Kim F Hall
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

EPIC FAILS & NEW WORLD DREAMS

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
(Seminar). This course examines how European exposure to Africa and the Americas influenced transatlantic literature from Columbus to Aphra Behn, asking how art and texts from all three continents reflected, responded to, and shaped the contact zones created by early modern expansion. Topics include the creation of geographic identities and selves; visual versus verbal representations of ‘savages'; gender and sexuality at home and abroad; old genres and new technologies; utopian communities; travel for pleasure, profit, and pain. Authors include More, Milton, Montaigne, Donne, Guaman Poma, Shakespeare, Sor Juana de la Cruz, & the Basque trans ex-nun, Catalina de Erauso. All texts available in the original and in translation.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Bianca F Calabresi
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• 4 points

EPIC FAILS & NEW WORLD DREAMS

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Bianca F Calabresi
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• 4 points

ARCH ENGAGE: PAST IN PUB EYE

This course provides a panoramic, but intensive, inquiry into the ways that archaeology and its methods for understanding the world have been marshaled for debate in issues of public interest. It is designed to examine claims to knowledge of the past through the lenses of alternative epistemologies and a series of case-based problems that range from the academic to the political, legal, cultural, romantic, and fraudulent.

• Department: Anthropology
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Terence N D'Altroy
  CULPA: 37 Info
• 4 points

Jane Austen and the Poets

Austen relished contemporary verse as did her readers. Studying her perfectly structured novels together with, for example, William Cowper’s rambling, loco-descriptive, blank-verse meditations on nature and society, or George Crabbe’s biting couplets about miserable village life, shall enrich our appreciation of the atmosphere in which Austen cultivated her sensibility, anticipated the taste and moral tenor of her readers, and exercised artistic control. We will read three of her novels —Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Persuasion—alongside the poets she and her readers loved and whose poems they enjoyed hearing recited by characters in her novels. Our poets include Johnson, Cowper (her beloved favorite), Crabbe, Smith, Barbauld, Wordsworth, and Coleridge, among others.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Marianne Giordani
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER SYSTS

Prerequisites: an introductory programming course.
Fundamentals of computer organization and digital logic. Boolean algebra, Karnaugh maps, basic gates and components, flipflops and latches, counters and state machines, basics of combinational and sequential digital design. Assembly language, instruction sets, ALU’s, single-cycle and multi-cycle processor design, introduction to pipelined processors, caches, and virtual memory.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Martha A Kim
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 3 points

SENIOR THESIS SEMINAR

A year-long course for outstanding senior majors who want to conduct research in primary sources on a topic of their choice in any aspect of history, and to write a senior thesis possibly leading toward departmental honors.

• Department: History
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Elisheva Carlebach
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: George Chauncey
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Natasha J Lightfoot
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Hilary-Anne Hallett
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

CULTURE,HEALTH,HEALING E. ASIA

HEALTH & SOC CONTEMP E ASIA

Why do certain mental illnesses only appear in specific regions of the world? What processes of translation, adaption, and “indigenization” take place when Western psychiatric diagnostic categories, pharmaceutical regimens, and psychodynamic treatments travel to China, South Korea and Japan? How do East Asian therapeutic modalities such as Traditional Chinese Medicine and the practice of qigong destabilize biomedical assumptions about the etiology and treatment of mental illness? This course engages these and other questions through anthropological analysis of the experiences of people struggling with mental illness, the mental health practitioners who treat them, and the broader economic, social and political contexts that shape these interactions.

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Nicholas A Bartlett
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

HUMAN RIGHTS & PUBLIC HEALTH

Prerequisites: Enrollment in the course is open to 18 undergraduates who have completed at least one core course in human rights and /or international law.
This seminar introduces students to the field of health and human rights.  It examines how to advocate for and implement public health strategies using a human rights framework. It takes note of current international and domestic debates about the utility of a “human rights-based approach” to health, discusses methods and ethics of health-related human rights research, and examines case studies of human rights investigations to explore the role of human rights analysis in promoting public health.

• Department: Human Rights (HRTB)
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Alice W Brown
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• 4 points

RELIGION,SOC JUSTICE,HUM RGTS

Prerequisites: At least one course on Human Rights or Religion, or permission of the instructor
This seminar will provide students with the concepts and methodologies necessary to assess some of the different, often ambiguous, roles that the world's major religions play in contemporary international affairs, notably in relation to poverty alleviation and human rights abuses in general as well as to the use of violence and community relations.

• Department: Human Rights (HRTB)
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: J. Paul Martin
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• 4 points

ANTHROP OF THE ANTHROPOCENE

This course focuses on the political ecology of the Anthropocene. As multiple publics become increasingly aware of the extensive and accelerated rate of current global environmental change, and the presence of anthropogenesis in ever expanding circumstances, we need to critically analyze the categories of thought and action being developed in order to carefully approach this change. Our concern is thus not so much the Anthropocene as an immutable fact, inevitable event, or definitive period of time (significant though these are), but rather for the political, social, and intellectual consequences of this important idea. Thus we seek to understand the creativity of "The Anthropocene" as a political, rhetorical, and social category. We also aim to examine the networks of capital and power that have given rise to the current state of planetary change, the strategies for ameliorating those changes, and how these are simultaneously implicated in the rhetorical creation of "The Anthropocene".

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Patrick F Nason
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• 4 points

Introduction to Fashion Studies

Intro to Fashion Studies

This seminar examines the many meanings of fashion, design, and style; how values underlying fashion are selected, preserved, denied, reinvented or rethought; how the symbolic meanings and ideological interpretations are connected to creation, production and consumption of fashion goods. Based on an anthropological perspective and framework, this interdisciplinary course will analyze ways in which we can understand fashion through the intersections of many different levels: political, economic, aesthetic, symbolic, religious, etc. The course will study how fashion can help us understand the ways in which tradition and innovation, creativity and technology, localism and globalization, identity and diversity, power and body, are elaborated and interpreted in contemporary society, and in relation to a globalized world.
Short videos that can be watched on the computer will be assigned. 
There are no pre-requisites for this course. In English.

• Department: Italian
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Barbara Faedda
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• 3 points

SENIOR THESIS SEMINAR I

Prerequisites: Limited to Barnard Anthropology Seniors.
Offered every Fall. Discussion of research methods and planning and writing of a Senior Essay in Anthropology will accompany research on problems of interest to students, culminating in the writing of individual Senior Essays. The advisory system requires periodic consultation and discussion between the student and her adviser as well as the meeting of specific deadlines set by the department each semester.  Limited to Barnard Senior Anthropology Majors.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 4 points

MODERN JAPAN: IMAGES & WORDS

MODERN JAPAN: IMAGES AND WORDS

This course relies primarily on visual materials to familiarize students with the history of Japan from the beginning of the nineteenth century through the present. It follows a chronological order, introducing students to various realms of Japanese visual culture—from woodblock prints to film, anime, and manga—along with the historical contexts that they were shaped by, and in turn helped shape. Special attention will paid to the visual technologies of nation-building, war, and empire; to historical interactions between Japanese and Euro-American visual culture; to the operations of still versus moving images; and to the mass production of visual commodities for the global marketplace. Students who take the course will emerge not only with a better understanding of Japan’s modern historical experience, but also with a more discerning eye for the ways that images convey meaning and offer access to the past.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Gregory Pflugfelder
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 3 points

French Civilization through Graphic Nove

GRAPHIC NOVELS & CINEMA

Prerequisites: FREN UN3405 or DUS permission
In France and Belgium, the
bande dessinées
[comic strips] and graphic novels are recognized as the ‘Ninth Art’, after cinema and visual arts. Popular and celebrated, the
bande dessinées
have their own museum in Angoulême, France. The medium has quickly evolved from its 19th-century roots in caricature to become a reflection of Francophone identity, history, and artistry.
While studies tend to focus on France and Belgium, this course moves beyond Europe into the history of France and its colonial empire. This is reflected in graphic novels from "Tintin au Congo"– which is still at the core of controversies about the representations of Africa and Africans by European colonizers –  to "Le Chat du Rabbin" – which narrates the history of the Algerian colonization. After reading the graphic novels, students will watch and analyze several cinematographic adaptations. Thanks to a fellowship from the Center for Teaching and Learning, students will have the opportunity to write and design their own digital graphic novel.

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

ECOCRITICISM FOR THE END TIMES

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
This seminar aims to show what an anthropologically informed, ecocritical cultural studies can offer in this moment of intensifying ecological calamity.  The course will not only engage significant works in anthropology, ecocriticism, philosophy, literature, politics, and aesthetics to think about the environment, it will also bring these works into engaged reflection on "living in the end times" (borrowing cultural critic Slavoj Zizek's phrase).  The seminar will thus locate critical perspectives on the environment within the contemporary worldwide ecological crisis, emphasizing the ethnographic realities of global warming, debates on nuclear power and energy, and the place of nature.  Drawing on the professor's long experience in Japan and current research on the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster,  the seminar will also take care to unpack the notion of "end times," with its apocalyptic implications, through close considerations of works that take on the question of ecocatastrophe in our times.  North American and European perspectives, as well as international ones  (particularly ones drawn from East Asia), will give the course a global reach.

• Department: Anthropology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Marilyn Ivy
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

INTRO TO CLASSICAL RHETORIC

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
(Seminar). This course examines rhetorical theory from its roots in ancient Greece and Rome and reanimates the great debates about language that emerged in times of national expansion and cultural upheaval. We will situate the texts of Plato, Isocrates, Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, and others in their historical contexts to illuminate ongoing conversations about the role of words and images in the negotiation of persuasion, meaning making, and the formation of the public. In the process, we will discover that the arguments of classical rhetoric play out all around us today. Readings from thinkers like Judith Butler, Richard McKeon, Robert Pirsig, and Bruno Latour echo the ancients in their debates about hate speech regulation, the purpose of higher education, and the ability of the sciences to arrive at truth. We will discover that rhetoricians who are writing during eras of unprecedented expansion of democracies, colonization, and empire have a great deal to say about the workings of language in our globalizing, digitizing age.
Application instructions:
E-mail Professor Sue Mendelsohn (sem2181@columbia.edu) by April 11 with the subject heading "Rhetoric seminar". In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course. Admitted students should register for the course; they will automatically be placed on a wait list, from which the instructor will in due course admit them as spaces become available.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Susan Mendelsohn
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 3 Info
• 4 points

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROJECT

Candidates for the B.S. degree may conduct an investigation of some problem in chemical engineering or applied chemistry or carry out a special project under the supervision of the staff.  Credit for the course is contingent upon the submission of an acceptable thesis or final report.  No more than 6 points in this course may be counted toward the satisfaction of the B.S. degree requirements.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• Instructor: Scott Banta
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 36 Info
• Instructor: Kyle Bishop
  h-index: 42 Info
• Instructor: Christopher M Boyce
  h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Jingguang Chen
  Wikipedia h-index: 89 Info
• Instructor: Christopher J Durning
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Daniel Esposito
  h-index: 22 Info
• Instructor: Oleg Gang
  h-index: 45 Info
• Instructor: Jingyue Ju
  h-index: 77 Info
• Instructor: Sanat Kumar
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 79 Info
• Instructor: Edward F Leonard
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 0-6 points