SUPERVISED INDEPENDENT RESEARCH

All supervisors will be Columbia faculty who hold a PhD. Students are responsible for identifying their own supervisor and it is at the discretion of faculty whether they accept to supervise independent research. Projects must be focused on Hellenic Studies and can be approached from any disciplinary background. Students are expected to develop their own reading list in consultation with their supervisor. In addition to completing assigned readings, the student must also write a Hellenic studies paper of 20 pages. Projects other than a research paper will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Hellenic Studies is an interdisciplinary field that revolves around two main axes: space and time. Its teaching and research are focused on the study of post-classical Greece in various fields: Language, Literature, History, Politics, Anthropology, Art, Archaeology, and in various periods: Late Antique, Medieval, Byzantine, Modern Greek etc. Therefore, the range of topics that are acceptable as a Hellenic Studies seminar paper is broad. It is upon each supervisor to discuss the specific topic with the student. The work submitted for this independent study course must be different from the work a student submits in other courses, including the Hellenic Studies Senior Research Seminar.

• Department: Classics
• Instructor: Paraskevi Martzavou
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• 3 points

PUBLIC ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 Types of market failures and rationales for government intervention in the economy. Benefit-cost analysis and the theory of public goods. Positive and normative aspects of taxation. The U.S. tax structure.

• Department: Economics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jacob Bastian
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• 3 points

Race, Law, and Culture in Latin America

Race, Law & Culture Latin

This interdisciplinary course explores how the socio-economic, cultural, and legal foundations, institutions, and politics of the Latin America were shaped by the legacy of slavery and structural racism. It covers the origin of the political and juridical systems of selected Latin American countries, including Haiti, Cuba, and Brazil, with a focus on how race set the limits of and impeded the exercise of popular citizenship. Adopting an Afro-diasporic perspective, more specifically the idea of “Amefricanidade” (by Lelia Gonzalez), the course will illuminate the political and cultural situation in Latin American and Caribbean countries. The definition of law used in this course is not limited to understanding law as a “system of rules”. We will work on law as part of the historical dynamics of socioeconomic life and culture in the Latin American countries analyzed. Thus, the course will analyze more specifically how race relations and practices of popular citizenship have shaped legal and extralegal spheres, including ways that cultural production, performance, and embodied practices have reshaped and negotiated Latin America's legal systems. The course will provide an overview of the relationship between racial issues and the formation of legal institutions in Latin America, with an emphasis on Brazil, Cuba and Haiti, given the strong African presence, black culture, African diasporic religiosity, and the socioeconomic impacts of slavery and structural racism in the social formation of these countries, which can serve as a comparative model for analysis with other countries in Latin America and the Southern United States. Objectives: Learn to detect and assess the impacts of racialization in legal, political, aesthetic, and social structures across a variety of cultural and national contexts in the Americas. More generally, this class seeks to apply academic theories on race relations and cultural studies since the 1500s to analyzing the economics, politics, and performances of race in shaping social life the Americas.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Silvio Luiz de Almeida
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• 3 points

Statistical machine learning for genomic

Statistical ML for genomi

Introduction to statistical machine learning methods using applications in genomic data and in particular high-dimensional single-cell data. Concepts of molecular biology relevant to genomic technologies, challenges of highdimensional genomic data analysis, bioinformatics preprocessing pipelines, dimensionality reduction, unsupervised learning, clustering, probabilistic modeling, hidden Markov models, Gibbs sampling, deep neural networks, gene regulation. Programming assignments and final project will be required.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Elham Azizi
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• 3 points

PSYCHOBIOLOGY OF INFANT DEVPT

Prerequisites: (PSYC UN1001 or PSYC UN1010) and a course in developmental psychology, and the instructors permission. The focus of the seminar is on human development during the fetal period and early infancy. We will examine the effects of environmental factors on perinatal perceptual, cognitive, sensory-­motor, and neurobehavioral capacities, with emphasis on critical conditions involved in both normal and abnormal brain development. Other topics include acute and long term effects of toxic exposures (stress, smoking, and alcohol) during pregnancy, and interaction of genes and the environment in shaping the developing brain of high-risk infants, including premature infants and those at risk for neurodevelopmental disorders such as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

• Department: Psychology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 4 points

SCI&ART IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL ILLUSTRATION

SCI&ART IN ARCH ILLUSTRATION

Archaeology has provided a rich imaginative resource for many artists, who have found inspiration in the discipline’s material engagement with the past, its evocation of absent presences, and its strange juxtaposition of practical activity and textual narrative. In this course we continue the exploration of art’s intersections with archaeology, but we take an alternate starting point. Scientific illustration has been a key part of archaeological work since the discipline’s origins in the antiquarian investigations of the 16th and 17th centuries. These antiquarian records drew upon techniques that were elaborated during the Renaissance and many of these illustrative forms remain relevant today.

• Department: Anthropology
• T 12:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Zoe Crossland
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• 4 points

Neural Plasticity

This seminar provides an overview of the mechanisms and behaviors associated with neural plasticity. Students will obtain a basic working knowledge of the different types of neural plasticity, and how these affect cognition and behaviors.

• Department: Psychology
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Tina Kao
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

Early American Law and Society

How does law shape the way that people live together in society, and how do changes in society bring about changes in the law? How is law lived on the ground, and how did its subjects think about it and use it for their own purposes?  In this class, we will read recent and significant scholarship in the history of the early American republic (c. 1776-1840) that explores these questions, drawing on the history of the law and legal sources. Although this class will touch on some of the better-known arguments among scholars of legal history, its approach will be more practical than theoretical. Its primary focus will not be on the evolution of American law as a conceptual matter, or on philosophical arguments about the nature of the law. Rather, students in this class will read in order to become better researchers: to learn more about how law
worked
in the early American republic, about the institutions through which it operated, about how it changed over time, and how it formed (and was formed by) American society. This reading-intensive class is intended for graduate students and advanced undergraduate students who are interested in the history of the law, or in conducting research projects that draw extensively on legal sources. For undergraduates, previous coursework in US history is strongly recommended.

• Department: History
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Hannah Farber
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• 4 points

WOMEN IN CITIES: SUST URB DSGN,PLNG,MGMT

The course will examine both acknowledged indicators of women’s and girls’ inclusion in the conceptualization and life of a city (e.g., access to shelter, clean water, sanitation, safe transport, healthcare, education, jobs and leadership positions), and those not sufficiently acknowledged (stability and tenure in housing, labor force inclusion and wage parity, physical, mental and environmental health, sexual and reproductive rights, freedom from violence, assured levels of participation in policy- and decision-making, etc.). Migrating between multiple cultural and sociopolitical contexts, and between the individual and metropolitan, national and indigenous levels of policymaking, the course will look at how today’s cities have evolved; the consequential disconnect between enshrined legal frameworks, regulatory and administrative structures, and concrete urban realities; and at how, through a sustainable process of inclusive community and private sector engagement, responsive design, and strategic budgeting to realize select well-defined priorities, tomorrow’s cities can be better attuned to the human scale of their primary constituents by becoming more aware, inclusive, accommodating and enabling of women and families. Each week, one or more leading and cutting-edge thinkers and practitioners in the areas of urban and environmental design and management, corporate social responsibility, landscape architecture and planning, sustainable engineering, and urban health,  wellbeing and women’s rights will share their experience, current thinking and ideas in featured guest lectures; these will be followed by wide-ranging conversations among the instructor, lecturers and students, enabling students to hear firsthand how private, public and non-profit sector managers, policymakers and designers approach and deal with such issues as (for instance) making transport hubs equally navigable for women with strollers, walkers or young children, or implementing green or family-friendly CSR policies.

• Department: Sustainability Management
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Susan M Blaustein
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• 3 points

Stress and the Brain

This course will use clinical studies and experimental research on animals to understand the impact of stress during various periods of development on brain function and behavior.  We will address the long- and short-term consequences of stress on cognition, emotion, and ultimately psychopathology through investigating how various stressors can induce neurobiological and behavioral outcomes through genetic, epigenetic, and molecular mechanisms in the brain.

• Department: Psychology
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer Blaze
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• 4 points

HEALTH PHYSICS

Fundamental principles and objectives of health physics (radiation protection), the quantities of radiation dosimetry (the absorbed dose, equivalent dose, and effective dose) used to evaluate human radiation risks, elementary shielding calculations and protection measures for clinical environments, characterization and proper use of health physics instrumentation, and regulatory and administrative requirements of health physics programs in general and as applied to clinical activities.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• M 5:30 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter Caracappa
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• 3 points

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 The theory of international trade, comparative advantage and the factor endowments explanation of trade, analysis of the theory and practice of commercial policy, economic integration. International mobility of capital and labor; the North-South debate.

• Department: Economics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Reka Juhasz
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• 3 points

Columbia Commons IPE Seminar

Relationships of Care

• Department: Medicine
• Instructor: Jordana Vanderselt
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• 0-2 points

Columbia Commons IPE Seminar

Aging and End-of-Life

• Department: Medicine
• Instructor: Jordana Vanderselt
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• 0-2 points

Columbia Commons IPE Seminar

Spirituality and Healthcare

• Department: Medicine
• Instructor: Jordana Vanderselt
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• 0-2 points

Columbia Commons IPE Seminar

Vaccine Safety

• Department: Medicine
• Instructor: Jordana Vanderselt
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• 0-2 points

PROCESS SAFETY

Aimed at seniors and graduate students. Provides classroom experience on chemical engineering process safety as well as Safety in Chemical Engineering certification. Process safety and process control emphasized. Application of basic chemical engineering concepts to chemical reactivity hazards, industrial hygiene, risk assessment, inherently safer design, hazard operability analysis, and engineering ethics. Application of safety to full spectrum of chemical engineering operations.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert G Bozic
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• 3 points

TOOLS FOR ANALYTICS

MS IEOR students only. Introduction programming in Python, tools with the programmer's ecosystem. Python, Data Analysis tools in Python (NumPy, pandas, bokeh), GIT, Bash, SQL, VIM, Linux/Debia, SSH.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• M 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Lynn Root
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• 3 points

ADVANCED VIDEO

Prerequisites: (VIAR UN3500) VIAR UN3500 Beginning Video or prior experience in video or film production. Advanced Video is an advanced, intensive project-based class on the production of digital video. The class is designed for advanced students to develop an ambitious project or series of projects during the course of the semester. Through this production, students will fine-tune shooting and editing skills as well as become more sophisticated in terms of their aesthetic and theoretical approach to the moving image. The class will follow each student through proposal, dailies, rough-cut and fine cut stage. The course is organized for knowledge to be shared and accumulated, so that each student will learn both from her/his own process, as well as the processes of all the other students. Additional screenings and readings will be organized around the history of video art and the problematics of the moving image in general, as well as particular issues that are raised by individual student projects. NOTE: There is only one section offered per semester. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• W 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew E Buckingham
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• 3 points

METHDS IN GENETICS & DEVELPMNT

Open only to students in the department. A survey of laboratory methods used in research. Students rotate through the major laboratories of the department.

• Department: Genetics and Development
• 4 points

READINGS IN HEBREW TEXTS II

Prerequisites: MDES W4501 or the instructors permission. Students must have a good familiarity with the Hebrew verb system, and the ability to read a text without vowels. This course focuses on central identities shaping Israeli society and is designed to give students extensive experience in reading Hebrew. Through selected readings of contemporary literary works and media texts, students will increase their proficiency in Hebrew and enhance their understanding of Israeli culture and society. All readings, written assignments, and class discussions are in Hebrew. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

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

ITL CULTRL ST II:WWI-PRESENT

An interdisciplinary investigation into Italian culture and society in the years between World War I and the present. Drawing on historical analyses, literary texts, letters, film, cartoons, popular music, etc. the course examines some of the key problems and trends in the cultural and political history of the period. Lectures, discussion and required readings will be in English. Students with a knowledge of Italian are encouraged to read the primary literature in Italian.

• Department: Italian @Barnard
• TR 10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Nelson Moe
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

INTERNATIONAL MACROECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213. Econ GU4505 is an elective in the economics major. The course develops models for the analysis of the determinants of international capital flows, trade imbalances, and exchange rates. The models are then used as the basis for the discussion of topics such as Global Imbalances, Uncertainty and the Current Account, The Global Saving Glut, Purchasing Power Parity, Sudden Stops, Real Exchange Rates and Productivity, Covered Interest Rate Parity, Uncovered Interest Rate Parity, Borrowing Externalities and Optimal Capital Controls, Overborrowing,  Macroeconomic Adjustment under Flexible and Fixed Exchange Rates,  Twin Deficits, and Balance of Payment Crises.

• Department: Economics
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Martin Uribe
  CULPA: 16 Wikipedia h-index: 52 Info
• 3 points

HEALTHCARE OPERATIONS MGT

Prerequisite(s): for senior undergraduate Engineering students: IEOR E3608, E3658, and E4307; for Engineering graduate students (M.S. or Ph.D.): Probability and statistics at the level of IEOR E4150, and deterministic models at the level of IEOR E4004; for healthcare management students: P8529 Analytical methods for health services management. Develops modeling, analytical, and managerial skills of engineering and health care management students. Enables students to master an array of fundamental operations management tools adapted to the management of health care systems. Through real-world business cases, students learn to identify, model, and analyze operational improvements and innovations in a range of health care contexts.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Van Anh Truong
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

ARCHITECTURE AND MONEY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points

READINGS IN CLASSICAL CHINESE

Prerequisites: CHNS W4007 or the equivalent. Admission after placement exam. Focusing on Tang and Song prose and poetry, introduces a broad variety of genres through close readings of chosen texts as well as the specific methods, skills, and tools to approach them. Strong emphasis on the grammatical and stylistic analysis of representative works. CC GS EN CE

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• WF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Andrew Plaks
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• 4 points

PROBLEMS IN INT'L HISTORY

The object of this course is to illuminate how histories of the realm we think of as "international" are structured by means of key concepts, foundational concepts that form semantic fields of politics and policy. The seminar will chiefly be devoted to some ways of this in the empirical context of what is now being called the subfield of ‘the U.S. in the World.’

• Department: History
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Anders G Stephanson
  CULPA: 37 Info
• 4 points

Jacques Lacan: An introduction to his wo

Introduction to Jacques L

Jacques Lacan (1901 – 1981) was without any doubt the most influential psychoanalyst since Sigmund Freud. A meticulous yet inventive reader of the founder of psychoanalysis, he opened himself up to a panoply of sciences, philosophies, and other discourses as well as to political events and social phenomena in order to attune psychoanalysis not only to its own internal exigencies but also to those that he considered to be the ones of his time.   We will read Lacan according to this double exigency: to formalize anew its own logic, methodology, and construction of objects, which proceed “
sui generis
” as Freud said; and to put them in friction with some of the phenomena and structural determinants of what seems to impose itself on us today: the erosion of discourse as social bond in a time of an ever increasing number of displaced people; a radical change of the status of speech and the “letter”—as well as literature—in the hyper-digitalized world; the renewed enigma of sex and bodily enjoyment in the context of a tele-techno-medical science becoming increasingly autonomous; the status of “nature” as that what might survive only in being destroyed. In short: What concepts are needed to think the “unconscious” today?   The course will proposed as an introduction to Lacan for which no previous acquaintance with his work is required. It will cover texts and seminars from all the periods of his work with a focus on the those from the 1970s.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Marcus Coelen
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• 4 points

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Management of complex projects and the tools that are available to assist managers with such projects. Topics include project selection, project teams and organizational issues, project monitoring and control, project risk management, project resource management, and managing multiple projects.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• T 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Moshe Rosenwein
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• 3 points

The Philosophical Life

The history of philosophy is not only the story of how particular concepts and doctrines — regarding cosmology, metaphysics, mind, language, ethics, politics — developed in the past.  It also is the story of different conceptions of the philosophical life itself.  In recent decades historians and philosophers have become increasingly interested in this subject.  This seminar is devoted to examining different themes and episodes in this history, from antiquity to the present.  In the spring of 2022 we will focus on ideas about the philosophical life in classic modern thinkers, from Bacon to Kant.

• Department: History
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Lilla
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• 4 points

Industry Projects in Analytics & Operati

Industry Projs in Analyti

Teams of students work on real-world projects in analytics. Focus on three aspects of analytics: identifying client analytical requirements; assembling, cleaning and organizing data; identifying and implementing analytical techniques (e.g., statistics and/or machine learning); and delivering results in a client-friendly format. Each project has a defined goal and pre-identified data to analyze in one semester. Client facing class. Class requires 10 hours of time per week and possible client visits on Fridays.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• M 9 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Michael Robbins
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• 3 points

3RD YR MODERN HEBREW II

Prerequisites: Third Year Modern Hebrew I or Hebrew for Heritage Speakers II Focus on transition from basic language towards authentic Hebrew, through reading of un-adapted literary and journalistic texts without vowels. Vocabulary building. Grammar is reviewed in context. A weekly hour is devoted to practice in conversation. Daily homework includes reading, short answers, short compositions, listening to web-casts, or giving short oral presentations via voice e-mail. Frequent vocabulary quizzes. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

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

Interpretive Archaeology

The objective of this graduate seminar is to bring a historiographical dimension to the training of students enrolled in archaeology and art history of the ancient world or Classics, by providing them with the keys to various readings of ancient Greek societies and their material culture and the way these have been constantly renewed since the nineteenth century. Through class discussions of ancient sources and modern texts, the seminar will develop ways of identifying the interpretive models that have shaped classical scholarship up to now. The seminar will offer the opportunity to discuss these models, be they supplementary or conflicting, in order to move towards an ever more explicit reasoning on the interpretations of ancient sources and archaeological evidence.

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

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Prerequisites: one year of biology. This is a lecture course designed for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. The focus is on understanding at the molecular level how genetic information is stored within the cell and how it is regulated. Topics covered include genome organization, DNA replication, transcription, RNA processing, and translation. This course will also emphasize the critical analysis of the scientific literature and help students understand how to identify important biological problems and how to address them experimentally. SPS and TC students may register for this course, but they must first obtain the written permission of the instructor, by filling out a paper Registration Adjustment Form (Add/Drop form). The form can be downloaded at the URL below, but must be signed by the instructor and returned to the office of the registrar. http://registrar.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/reg-adjustment.pdf

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

FIFTH YEAR KOREAN II

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Joowon Suh
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• 4 points

CONDUCTING MUSIC

Prerequisites: advanced music major and extensive contemporary music background. Analysis of the modern repertory of contemporary music with directional emphasis on actual conducting preparation, beating patterns, rhythmic notational problems, irregular meters, communication, and transference of musical ideas. Topics will include theoretical writing on 20th-century conducting, orchestration, and phrasing.

• Department: Music
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeffrey Milarsky
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

After the Human

The advent of high-speed computing, Big Data, new forms of Artificial Intelligence, and global networking is rapidly transforming all aspects of life.  Implants, transplants, genetic engineering, cloning, nanotechnology, cyborgs, hybrids, prostheses, mobile phones, tracking devices and wearable devices. The Internet of Things and the Internet of Bodies are becoming interconnected to transform what once was known as human being.  These developments raise fundamental questions about what comes after the human.  This course considers the philosophical and theological implications of this question by addressing the following issues: Natural vs. Artificial, Treatment vs. Enhancement, the Artificial Intelligence Revolution, Ubiquitous Computing, the Internet of Things, the Singularity, Extended Mind and Superintelligence, Internet of Bodies and Superorganisms, Death and After Life.  Students will have the option of writing a term paper or doing a project related to the course readings.

• Department: Religion
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Mark C Taylor
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• 4 points

FIFTH YEAR CHINESE II

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Lening Liu
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 4 points

The Politics of Memory. Remembrance, Eth

This seminar will explore the multidimensional interplay between collective memory, politics, and history in France since 1945. We will examine the process of memorializing key historical events and periods – the Vichy regime, the Algerian War, the slave trade – and the critical role they played in shaping and dividing French collective identity. This exploration will focus on multiple forms of narratives – official history, victims’ accounts, literary fiction – and will examine the tensions and contradictions that oppose them. The seminar will discuss the political uses of memory, the influence of commemorations on French collective identity, and the role played by contested monuments, statues and other “
lieux de mémoire
” (“sites of memory”). We will ask how these claims on historical consciousness play out in the legal space through an exploration of French “memorial laws”, which criminalize genocide denial and recognize slave trade as a crime against humanity. These reflections will pave the way to retracing the genesis of the “
devoir de mémoire
” (“duty to remember”), a notion that attempts to confer an ethical dimension to collective memory. The seminar will examine the multiple uses of the French injunction to remember – as a response to narratives of denial, as an act of justice towards the victims, and as an antidote to the recurrence of mass crimes and persecutions. We will examine how amnesty is used to reconcile conflicting collective memories and will evaluate the claim that the transmission

• Department: French
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Emmanuel Kattan
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• 3 points

DATA ANALYTICS

IEOR students only; priority to MSBA students. Survey tools available in Python for getting, cleaning, and analyzing data. Obtain data from files (csv, html, json, xml) and databases (Mysql, PostgreSQL, NoSQL), cover the rudiments of data cleaning, and examine data analysis, machine learning, and data visualization packages (NumPy, pandas, Scikit-lern, bokeh) available in Python. Brief overview of natural language processing, network analysis, and big data tools available in Python. Contains a group project component that will require students to gather, store, and analyze a data set of their choosing.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Uday Menon
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• 3 points

ANALYTICS IN PRACTICE

MSBA students only. Groups of students will work on real world projects in analytics, focusing on three aspects: identifying client analytical requirements; assembling, cleaning, and organizing data; identifying and implementing analytical techniques (statistics, OR, machine learning); and delivering results in a client-friendly format. Each project has a well-defined goal, comes with sources of data preidentified, and has been structured so that it can be completed in one semester. Client-facing class with numerous on-site client visits; students should keep Fridays clear for this purpose.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• R 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Hardeep Johar
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• Instructor: Uday Menon
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• 3 points

MACHINE LEARNING FE & OPR

MS IEOR students only. Introduction to machine learning, practical use of ML algorithms and applications to financial engineering and operations. Supervised learning: regression, classification, resampling methods, regularization, support vector machines (SVMs), and deep learning. Unsupervised learning: dimensionality reduction, matrix decomposition, and clustering algorithms.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Christian Kroer
  h-index: 16 Info
• 3 points

ANALYTICS ON THE CLOUD

To introduce students to programming issues around working with clouds for data analytics. Class will learn how to work with infrastructure of cloud platforms, and discussion about distributed computing, focus of course is on programming. Topics covered include MapReduce, parallelism, rewriting of algorithms (statistical, OR, and machine learning) for the cloud, and basics of porting applications so that they run on the cloud.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• M 8:40 a.m.-11:10 a.m.
• Instructor: Hardeep Johar
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• 3 points

Religion and the Sexed Body

This seminar will examine how bodily practices associated with gender and sexualities are cultivated, regulated, and articulated within various religious traditions and how these practices have been influenced by global processes, including colonialism, the accelerating movement of people and technologies, and modern secularism and identity politics. Throughout the course we will tack back and forth between theoretical works and ethnographic/historical writing, in order to articulate what is probably the most difficult aspect of original research: how to bring together “high theory” and primary sources ranging from field research to data drawn from a variety of media.

• Department: Religion
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Verena H Meyer
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• 4 points

TOPICS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH

AI, Games, and Markets

This course focuses on core statistical techniques that are necessary to excel in a career in data science or business analytics. We start the course with a deeper dive into the theory of statistical inference, and introduce the Bayesian approach, which is common in industry. Next we introduce a common suite of testing methods, with a special emphasis on the general linear model. We conclude the course with several advanced topics that are highly useful in industry. Emphasis will be placed on applications and examples from industry.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Christian Kroer
  h-index: 16 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN CIVIL WAR AND RECONST

POSTWARS AND RECONSTRUCTION

Few events in American history can match the significance of the American Civil War and Reconstruction and few left a better cache of records for scholars seeking to understand its signal events, actors, and processes.  Starting with the secession of eleven southern states, white southerners’ attempts to establish a proslavery republic (the Confederate States of America) unleashed an increasingly radical, even revolutionary war.  Indeed, as the war assumed a massive scope it drove a process of state building and state-sponsored slave emancipation in the United States that ultimately reconfigured the nation and remade the terms of political membership in it.

• Department: History
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Stephanie McCurry
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

TECHNIQUES OF THE ULTRAREAL

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Phillip W Crupi
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• 3 points

BUDDHIST CONTEMPLATIVE SCIENCES

Buddhist  arts  and  sciences  traditionally  are  divided  into  the  interconnected  disciplines  of  ethics  (śīla), wisdom/philosophy  (prajñā),  and  “meditation”  or  experiential  cultivation  (samādhi/bhāvanā).  This  seminar course  introduces  the  latter  discipline,  thus  complementing  and  completing  Prof.  Yarnall’s  Columbia seminars  on  Buddhist  Ethics  (RELI  UN3500)  and  Indo-Tibetan  Buddhist  Philosophy  (RELI  GU4630), either  of  which—in  addition  to  his  introductory  lecture  course  on  Indo-Tibetan  Buddhism  (RELI UN2205)—are  encouraged  as  prerequisites.  This  course  will  provide  a  detailed  presentation  of  key Buddhist  contemplative  sciences,  including:  stabilizing  meditation  (śamatha);  analytic  insight  meditation (vipaśyanā);  cultivation  of  the  four  immeasurables,  and  form  and  formless  trances;  mind  cultivation  (lo jong);  mindfulness  meditation;  Zen  meditation;  great  perfection  (dzogchen);  and  the  subtle  body-mind states  activated  and  transformed  through  advanced  tantric  yoga  techniques.  These  arts  and  sciences  will be  explored  both  within  their  traditional  interdisciplinary  frameworks,  as  well  as  in  dialog  with  related contemporary  disciplines,  including:  cognitive  sciences,  neuroscience,  psychology,  psychiatry,  philosophy, epistemology,  and  so  forth.  To  be  conducted  in  a  mixed  lecture/seminar  format  (active,  prepared  participation  required).

• Department: Religion
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Thomas F Yarnall
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

DATA MINING

Course covers major statistical learning methods for data mining under both supervised and unsupervised settings. Topics covered include linear regression and classification, model selection and regularization, tree-based methods, support vector machines, and unsupervised learning. Students learn about principles underlying each method, how to determine which methods are most suited to applied settings, concepts behind model fitting and parameter tuning, and how to apply methods in practice and assess their performance. Emphasizes roles of statistical modeling and optimization in data mining.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• W 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Krzysztof M Choromanski
  Info
• 3 points

MEDICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR

Required for all graduate students in the Medical Physics Program. Practicing professionals and faculty in the field present selected topics in medical physics.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Cheng S Wuu
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 0 points

MICRO/NANO STRUCT CELL ENG

Design, fabrication, and application of micro-/nanostructured systems for cell engineering. Recognition and response of cells to spatial aspects of their extracellular environment. Focus on neural, cardiac, coculture, and stem cell systems. Molecular complexes at the nanoscale.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lance Kam
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 38 Info
• 3 points

MICRO/NANO STRUCT CELL ENG

Design, fabrication, and application of micro-/nanostructured systems for cell engineering. Recognition and response of cells to spatial aspects of their extracellular environment. Focus on neural, cardiac, coculture, and stem cell systems. Molecular complexes at the nanoscale.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Lance Kam
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 38 Info
• 3 points

A Structural View of Biology

The course covers a general introduction to the theory and experimental techniques of structural biology (protein expression and purification, protein crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance) and then how to use the structural information to understand biochemical and biological processes. The first part of the course will cover the general introduction to structural biology. The second part of the course will involve discussions and explorations of various structures, led by the instructor but with substantial participation from the students, to understand the molecular mechanisms of selected biochemical and biological processes. In the final part of the course, each student will select and lead discussions on a primary structural biology paper. The overall goal of the course is to increase the understanding of how protein structures are determined, what protein structures look like, and how to use the structures to understand biology.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Liang Tong
  CULPA: 8 Wikipedia h-index: 85 Info
• 3 points

Abolitionist Feminism

This seminar is a deep study of the feminist history, theory, and practice of criminal punishment abolition from the 19th century through the present. It explores key conceptual frameworks, political conundrums, and genealogies of abolition especially in relation to Black, Native, women of color, queer, and Marxist feminisms. We will explore linkages and divergences from movements to abolish slavery. Students will engage past and current organizing movements and read and hear from activists who are organizing for prison abolition. We will explore the relationship between prison abolition and other movements for radical change and the tensions around abolition and carcerality that exist among feminists. Does abolitionist feminism have a cohesive set of political projects or philosophies? What tensions exist among feminists who advocate for abolition?

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Sarah Haley
  Info
• 3 points

Tibetan Science - Medicine, Knowledge, a

This course aims to pose the question of what ‘science’ can be in Tibetan and Himalayan cultures, and to examine these ‘sciences’ in their social, religious, political, transnational, and inter-cultural dimensions. Especially through the field of medicine, it explores the main developments of Tibetan knowledge mostly during the modern era from the 17th century onward, building on both ethnography and primary and secondary written sources. This course pays particular attention to the relation of this knowledge to various states, centralizing institutions, and policies and practices of legitimization, and further to the modernization and globalization of the production, application, and consumption of Tibetan medical knowledge, including during the current Covid-19 pandemic.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Anna Sehnalova
  Info
• 4 points

TIBET IN THE WORLD: CULTURAL PRODUCTION

CLTRL PROD & SOCL CHANGE:

This course explores the intersection of cultural production with national policies and global economies in the context of Tibet. We will focus not on colonial sources (Mythos Tibet) but on a wide range of representational and expressive practices
 by contemporary Tibetans
 in film, literature, music, social media, art, performance, local museums, etc. -- all since the 1990s. Tibetan cultural production today is at once localized and transnational, whether it is the vision and work of artists in the People's Republic of China or the creation of Tibetans living in the diaspora. We will explore the impact of colonialism and socioeconomic marginalization on the de-centering and re-centering of ethnicity and identity in education, publishing, and the arts.  How do Tibetan artists, musicians, filmmakers, writers, comedians, and other cultural producers  negotiate the complexities of modernity, secularization, globalization and political agendas, vis-à-vis incentives to preserve traditions, while engaging creatively? Each week will focus on 2 to 3 primary sources and 1 or 2 related secondary readings. Our discussions of the primary source materials (film screenings, readings, artwork, performances, etc.) will be enriched with readings in Cultural Studies, sociology, and anthropology, and by conversations with area artists.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lauran Hartley
  Info
• 4 points

COLLECTING ARCH TERRITORIES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Wasiuta
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH

Distribution Systems

We introduce various queueing models, including queueing networks, some classic and some new, with applications to a variety of industries such as telecommunications, computer science, inventory systems, health care, and insurance risk, among others. The basic mathematical tools for analyzing the models and solving for quantities of interest involve stochastic processes such as Markov chains, but also other tools from operations research such as optimization and stochastic simulation. This course is aimed at MS and undergraduate students who have already had a basic course in stochastic modeling such as IEOR 3106/4106.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Van Anh Truong
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH

VISUALIZATION & STORYTELLING W

Each offering of this course is devoted to a particular sector of Operations Research and its contemporary research, practice, and approaches. If topics are different, then course can be taken more than once for credit.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Instructor: Michelle Glaser
  Info
• 1.5 points

TOPICS IN OR

PEFORMANCE OBJECTIVES & RESUL

Each offering of this course is devoted to a particular sector of Operations Research and its contemporary research, practice, and approaches. If topics are different, then course can be taken more than once for credit.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Instructor: Nicolas Chikhani
  Info
• 1.5 points

TOPICS IN OR

FIN & STRUCTURING FOR DS

Each offering of this course is devoted to a particular sector of Operations Research and its contemporary research, practice, and approaches. If topics are different, then course can be taken more than once for credit.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• F 1:30 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• 3 points

TOPICS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH

Reinforcement Lrning:Thry&Prac

Each offering of this course is devoted to a particular sector of Operations Research and its contemporary research, practice, and approaches. If topics are different, then course can be taken more than once for credit.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Shipra Agrawal
  h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH

Value Invest,Modrn Apprch

Each offering of this course is devoted to a particular sector of Operations Research and its contemporary research, practice, and approaches. If topics are different, then course can be taken more than once for credit.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• W 5:40 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Khosrow Dehnad
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 1.5 points

TOPICS IN OPERATION RESEARCH

Causal Inference

Each offering of this course is devoted to a particular sector of Operations Research and its contemporary research, practice, and approaches. If topics are different, then course can be taken more than once for credit.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Christopher J Dolan
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN OR

MACHINE LEARNING IN PRACT

Each offering of this course is devoted to a particular sector of Operations Research and its contemporary research, practice, and approaches. If topics are different, then course can be taken more than once for credit.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• T 6 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Gary Kazantsev
  Info
• 1.5 points

JUDAISM & CHRISTIANITY S.ASIA

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Rachel McDermott
  CULPA: 37 Info
• 4 points

HUMAN RIGHTS IN ANTHROPOCENE

In August 2016, a working group of the International Geological Congress voted to acknowledge a new geological epoch, following 11,700 years of the Holocene, and that it would be called The Anthropocene. The announcement indicated a new era in the earth’s chronology marked by the consequences of human activity on the planet’s ecosystems. Closely related to discussions of sustainability, investigations into the Anthropocene tend to focus on environmental and ecological issues while ignoring its social justice dimensions. This course will investigate how Human Rights has and will be impacted by the Anthropocene, with special attention paid to the human dimensions and consequences of anthropogenic change. Do new and troubling revelations about anthropogenic mistreatment of the earth and its resources modify or amplify the kinds of responsibilities that govern activity between individuals and communities? How do we scale the human response from the urban, to the periurban, to the rural? How must the study of Human Rights evolve to address violence and mistreatment associated not just among humans but also amid human habitats? What sorts of juridical changes must occur to recognize and respond to new manifestations of social injustice that relate directly to consequences of anthropogenic changes to the Earth system? Topics will include discussions of the Environmental Justice movement, agribusiness, access to (and allocation of) natural resources, population growth; its global impact, advocacy for stronger and more accountability through environmental legal change, biodiversity in urban environments, and the growing category of environmental refugees.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Noah B Chasin
  Info
• 3 points

Performance Art; Developing a Visual Lex

What happens to a body stilled in space, when it takes a shape and holds it? How does its relationship to public space change? How is its transformation attenuated when the body is in formation with other bodies, a breathing still life of people and props? This performance art course will use the question of a body’s stillness as a platform to create interdisciplinary projects that exist between dance, sculpture, collaborative movement, and performance art. Through core readings and case study presentations, we will discuss unique possibilities of representation and challenges this form enables, and the prominent role it has been taking within the visual arts in recent years. Students will engage with a variety of aesthetic strategies and formal techniques such as movement workshops, sensory exercises, video, wearable sculptures, collaboration, scores, and group meditation. Studio work will focus on concrete intersections between the body and the object, and case studies chosen to encourage students to think of movement as a form of resistance, and to consider the political implication of collaborative work that unfolds over time. Performativity in the context of this class is widely defined, and no prior experience is required.

• Department: Visual Arts
• F 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Tamar Ettun
  Info
• 3 points

DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS

Digital Control Systems

Real-time control using digital computers. Solving scalar and state-space difference equations. Discrete equivalents of continuous systems fed by holds. Z-transer functions. Creating closed-loop difference equation models by Z-transform and state variable approaches. The Nyquist frequency and sample rate selection. Classical and modern based digital control laws. Digital system identification.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Richard W Longman
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 45 Info
• 3 points

DYNAMIC PRICING/REVENUE MGMT

Focus on capacity allocation, dynamic pricing and revenue management. Perishable and/or limited product and pricing implications. Applications to various industries including service, airlines, hotel, resource rentals, etc.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Vineet Goyal
  h-index: 21 Info
• 3 points

DIGITAL MANUFACTURING

Additive manufacturing processes, CNC, Sheet cutting processes, Numerical control, Generative and algorithmic design. Social, economic, legal, and business implications. Course involves both theoretical exercises and a hands-on project.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• M 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Hod Lipson
  Wikipedia h-index: 79 Info
• 3 points

ROBOTICS STUDIO

Hands-on studio class exposing students to practical aspects of the design, fabrication, and programming of physical robotic systems. Students experience entire robot creation process, covering conceptual design, detailed design, simulation and modeling, digital manufacturing, electronics and sensor design, and software programming.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• M 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• M 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Hod Lipson
  Wikipedia h-index: 79 Info
• 3 points

TECHNOLOGY,RELIGION,FUTURE

This seminar will examine the history of the impact of technology and media on religion and vice versa before bringing into focus the main event: religion today and in the future. Well read the classics as well as review current writing, video and other media, bringing thinkers such as Eliade, McLuhan, Mumford and Weber into dialogue with the current writing of Kurzweil, Lanier and Taylor, and look at, among other things: ethics in a Virtual World; the relationship between Burning Man, a potential new religion, and technology; the relevance of God and The Rapture in Kurzweils Singularity; and what will become of karma when carbon-based persons merge with silicon-based entities and other advanced technologies.

• Department: Religion
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: David R Kittay
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

ARCHITECTURE CONCEPTS FROM 1968 TO THE P

ARCH: THE CONTEMPORARY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Bernard Tschumi
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

INTRO-POLYMERS/SOFT MATERIALS

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Christopher J Durning
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE II

(Lecture). This survey of African American literature focuses on language, history, and culture. What are the contours of African American literary history? How do race, gender, class, and sexuality intersect within the politics of African American culture? What can we expect to learn from these literary works? Why does our literature matter to student of social change? This lecture course will attempt to provide answers to these questions, as we begin with Zora Neale Hurstons Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) and Richard Wrights Native Son (1940) and end with Melvin Dixons Loves Instruments (1995) with many stops along the way. We will discuss poetry, fiction, drama, and non-fictional prose. Ohter authors include Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Malcom X, Ntzozake Shange, Audre Lorde, and Toni Morrison. There are no prerequisites for this course. The formal assignments are two five-page essays and a final examination. Class participation will be graded.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert G O'Meally
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 3 points

Socialist China in the Western Gaze (194

Socialist China, Western

This seminar attempts to historicize China’s contemporary cultural diplomacy initiatives by examining the nation’s place in the world from the 1950s to the 1970s. Topics include China’s role in the socialist world of the 1950s and 1960s, global Maoist political movements, socialist China in the imagination of Western intellectuals, Western fascination with Maoist “people’s” science, and controversies over the depiction of China in 1970s European documentary cinema.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Gavin Healy
  Info
• 4 points

SHAKESPEARE PERFORMANCE STUDIES

This course will work across three general approaches to Shakespearean drama and performance. First, we’ll consider the historical forms of performance that have used Shakespearean drama as the material for theatrical endeavor. Second, we’ll consider theoretical paradigms for performance that resituate an understanding that privileges either the “theatrical” or the “literary” identity of Shakespeare’s plays. And, finally, we’ll consider how we might consider the plays as themselves theoretical instruments for thinking about performance. Throughout the semester we will consider stage, film, and online productions, and the ways they articulate a sense of both “Shakespeare” and “performance.” This course is a seminar, and while there is no formal prerequisite, students who have had a previous Shakespeare course will find the reading more manageable: we will rarely be doing the kind of “overview” of a play, but will be incisively considering specific elements of performance. Application Instructions: E-mail the instructor 
wworthen@barnard.edu
 with the title of the course in the subject line. 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 admit them as spaces become available.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: William B Worthen
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED HINDI II

ADVANCED HINDI-URDU II

Advanced Hindi I and II are third year courses in the Hindi-Urdu program that aim to continue building upon the existing four language skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing) along with grammar and vocabulary in a communicative approach. The objective of these courses is to strengthen students’ language skills and to go beyond them to understand and describe situations and the speech community, understand and discuss Hindi literature and films, news items, T.V. shows and current events. Students will also be given opportunities to work on their areas of interest such as popular culture, professional and research goals in the target language. Students will be expected to expand their vocabulary, enhance grammatical accuracy and develop cultural appropriateness through an enthusiastic participation in classroom activities and immersing themselves in the speech community outside. This course will be taught in the target language. All kinds of conversations such as daily life, on social/public interests’ topics as well as on academic interests, will occur in the target language. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Rakesh Ranjan
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 5 points

READING (IN THEORY)

This reading-intensive course will engage, over time with essential texts of the current critical canon. Offered over a series of semesters, it is aimed at developing a practice of reading: close or distant, and always attentive. Let us say: slow reading. What does it mean to read? Where and when does reading start? Where does it founder? What does reading this author (Freud, for example) or that author (say, Foucault) do to the practice of reading? Can we read without misreading? Can we read for content or information without missing the essential? Is there such a thing as essential reading? Favoring a demanding and strenuous exposure to the text at hand, this course promises just that: a demanding and strenuous exposure to reading. The course can be repeated for credit.

• Department: Religion
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Gil Anidjar
  CULPA: 22 Info
• 3 points

Significant Others

What is the relationship between homoeroticism and homosociality? How does this relationship form conceptions of gender and sexuality in ways that might be historically unfamiliar and culturally or regionally specific? We pursue these questions through the lens of friendship and its relationship to ideas and expressions of desire, love, and loyalty in pre-modern times. We begin by considering the intellectual basis of the modern idea of friendship as a private, personal relationship, and trace it back to earlier times when it was often a public relationship of social and political significance. Some of these relationships were between social equals, while many were unequal forms (like patronage) that could bridge social, political or parochial differences. Thinking through the relationships and possible distinctions between erotic love, romantic love and amity (love between friends), we will draw on scholarly works from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, particularly philosophy, sociology, political theory, literature, history, and art history. We will attend to friendship’s work in constituting, maintaining and challenging various social and political orders in a variety of Asian contexts (West, Central, South and East Asian), with comparative reference to scholarship on European and East Asian contexts. Primary source materials will include philosophy, religious manuals, autobiographies, popular love stories, heroic epics, mystical poetry, mirror for princes, paintings, material objects of exchange, and architectural monuments, largely from Islamic and Asian contexts.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Mana Kia
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 11 Info
• 4 points

U.S. LATINO LITERATURE

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Frances Negron-Muntaner
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ASSET ALLOCATION

Models for pricing and hedging equity, fixed-income, credit-derivative securities, standard tools for hedging and risk management, models and theoretical foundations for pricing equity options (standard European, American equity options, Asian options), standard Black-Scholes model (with multiasset extension), asset allocation, portfolio optimization, investments over longtime horizons, and pricing of fixed-income derivatives (Ho-Lee, Black-Derman-Toy, Heath-Jarrow-Morton interest rate model).

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Yanwei Jia
  Info
• 3 points

RECORDED SOUND

Prerequisites: The instructors permission. As music moves into the 21st century, we find ourselves surrounded by an ever-evolving landscape of technological capability. The world of music, and the music industry itself, is changing rapidly, and with that change comes the opening – and closing – of doorways of possibility. What does this shift mean for today’s practicing artist or composer? With big label recording studios signing and nurturing fewer and fewer artists, it seems certain that, today, musicians who want to record and distribute their music need to be able to do much of the recording and production work on their own. But where does one go to learn how to do this – to learn not only the “how to” part of music production, but the historical underpinnings and the development of the music production industry as well? How does one develop a comprehensive framework within which they can place their own artistic efforts? How does one learn to understand what they hear, re-create what they like and develop their own style? This class, “Recorded Sound,” aims to be the answer. It’s goal is to teach artists how to listen critically to music from across history and genres in order to identify the production techniques that they hear, and reproduce those elements using modern technology so they can be incorporated into the artist’s own musical works.

• Department: Music
• M 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Rosana Caban
  Info
• 3 points

ADV SEM CURRENT PERS THRY

• Department: Psychology
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Svetlana Komissarouk
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 3 Info
• 3 points

Sound and Listening Cultures of the Indi

Sound Listening Cult Indi

This course will explore major themes in the growing field of Sound Studies with a focus on the rich history of sound and varied cultures of sound and listening in the Indian subcontinent. The main questions that we will address include: how have political, commercial, and cultural movements shaped
 what
 the diverse populations of South Asia listen to and
 how
 they listen?  How have different forms of media shaped/ informed listening experiences in South Asia? How do listening practices and cultures from the subcontinent differ from those in other regions?  In this class we will listen to the human voice, rumor/gossip, gramophone, loud speakers, radio, film, and mp3. We will discuss the role political speeches, film songs, and devotional songs in shaping South Asian politics and culture in the twentieth-century as the subcontinent transitioned from colonial rule to nation-states. Drawing on the interdisciplinary nature of Sound Studies, we will read works from across the disciplines—anthropology, ethnomusicology, Religious Studies, Media Studies, and history. Organized thematically, this course will focus on the twentieth century, but the readings will address earlier time periods.   This is an upper-level undergraduate and graduate (MA) seminar. Students are expected to have some background in South Asian studies/history or media/sounds studies. The class will meet once a week for discussion of readings. In addition to readings there will be a several required film screenings or listening activities.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Isabel Huacuja Alonso
  Info
• 4 points

ARCHITECTURAL DAYLIGHTING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Davidson Norris
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

READINGS IN URDU LIT

READINGS IN URDU LIT II

Two semesters of prior coursework in Urdu for Heritage Speakers (Urdu for Heritage Speakers I and II) or one semester of Advanced Urdu or the instructor’s permission. This course is a literary course, with in-depth exposure to some of the finest works of classical and modern Urdu poetry i.e. genres of
ghazal
 and 
nazm
. This course is open for both undergraduates and graduates. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Aftab Ahmad
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 4 points

TALMUDIC NARRATIVE

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Beth A Berkowitz
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 6 Info
• 4 points