MULTICULTURAL ELEMENTARY PEDA
This seminar will engage prospective teachers in developing effective strategies for teaching at the elementary school level in ways that draw upon five specific domains of knowledge: knowledge of self, content, pedagogy, context and students. Students will be introduced to a variety of teaching approaches and develop ways to adapt them to teach various subjects to students in urban public school settings, understanding the intellectual, social and emotional needs of elementary school students. Students will learn to write lesson plans, develop assessments and practice teaching in “microteaching” sessions taught to peers. We will explore state standards, approaches to classroom management, and Universal Design for Learning as we develop approaches to create caring, democratic learning communities.
- Department: Education @Barnard
- MW 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lisa Edstrom
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
MULTICULTURAL SECONDARY PEDAG
What does it mean to be an excellent teacher? The Seminar in Secondary Multicultural Pedagogy will engage this question as you work to develop methods for teaching your subject(s) in ways that draw upon five specific domains of knowledge: knowledge of self, content, pedagogical methods, context, and students. You will be introduced to a variety of multicultural teaching approaches and develop ways to adapt them to your particular subject area and to the intellectual, social, and emotional needs of adolescent learners. Throughout the course, we will consider how to effectively differentiate instruction for and support ELL students and students with special needs. Seminar sessions will include discussions, presentations of lessons, group activities, and problem-solving issues teachers encounter in the classroom. We will explore culturally responsive approaches to: learning; learning standards; instruction and assessment; creating caring, democratic learning communities; selecting curriculum content, and engaging all students in learning. Assignments will ask you to reflect on the teaching/learning process in general, and on the particulars of teaching your academic discipline. We will accomplish this through lesson planning, practice teaching two mini-lessons, observing your peers teaching and offering feedback, and exploring stances and strategies for multicultural pedagogy in your content area.
- Department: Education @Barnard
- MW 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Madeleine Neufeld
Info - 4 points
ARTS AND HUMANITIES IN THE CITY:CRITICAL
ARTS & HUMANITIES IN THE CITY
Using the theme of “Arts and Humanities in the City”, this seminar will build participants’ knowledge of critical literacy, digital storytelling methods, and ways to use New York City as a resource for teaching the Arts (Dance, Theatre, Music, and Visual Arts), Social Studies, and English Language Arts in grades K-12. Critical literacy is an approach to teaching and learning that focuses on developing students’ abilities to read, analyze, understand, question, and critique hidden perspectives and socially-constructed power relations embedded in what it means to be literate in a content area.
- Department: Education @Barnard
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Madeleine Neufeld
Info - 4 points
US Poetry of the 1960s
Arguably the most consequential decade of the postwar era, the 1960s saw American poetry become a site of radical experiment and political contestation, as longstanding assumptions of white male-dominated culture were placed under unprecedented pressure. This course traces that upheaval across movements—Beat, Black Mountain, Black Arts, New York School, San Francisco Renaissance. Poets to be studied include Allen Ginsberg, Russell Atkins, Gwendolyn Brooks, Amiri Baraka, Frank O'Hara, Jack Spicer, Charles Olson, N.H. Pritchard, Robert Creeley, Larry Eigner, John Ashbery, Diane di Prima, and Jayne Cortez. We will attend to questions of form—breath, the page, sound, performance, and the boundary between poetry and music—within the historical contexts of the Civil Rights, Black Power, feminist, gay liberation, and environmental movements.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Paul Stephens
Info - 4 points
SENIOR THESIS I
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and the completion of all courses (except for the senior requirement) required for the economics department majors. Exceptions to these prerequisites may be granted by the chair of the department only. Tutorials and conferences on the research for and writing of the senior thesis. This is the 1st semester of a two-semester course sequence.
- Department: Economics @Barnard
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- W noon-1:50 p.m.
- M 10:10 a.m.-noon
- M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Linda Bell
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Randall Reback
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Sharon Harrison
CULPA: 38
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Instructor:
Thuy Nguyen
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SENIOR SEMINAR
SR SEM: ECON OF HIGHER ED
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and the completion of all courses (except for the senior requirement) required for the economics department majors. Exceptions to these prerequisites may be granted by the chair of the department only. Seminar sections are limited to 16 students. A topic in economic theory or policy of the instructors choice. See department for current topics and for senior requirement preference forms.
- Department: Economics @Barnard
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Linda Bell
Wikipedia h-index: 19 Info - 4 points
SENIOR SEMINAR
SR SEM:UNINTENDED CONSEQS
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and the completion of all courses (except for the senior requirement) required for the economics department majors. Exceptions to these prerequisites may be granted by the chair of the department only. Seminar sections are limited to 16 students. A topic in economic theory or policy of the instructors choice. See department for current topics and for senior requirement preference forms.
- Department: Economics @Barnard
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Sharon Harrison
CULPA: 38
h-index: 13
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SENIOR SEMINAR
SR SEM: INTRPRET OF SGNLS
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and the completion of all courses (except for the senior requirement) required for the economics department majors. Exceptions to these prerequisites may be granted by the chair of the department only. Seminar sections are limited to 16 students. A topic in economic theory or policy of the instructors choice. See department for current topics and for senior requirement preference forms.
- Department: Economics @Barnard
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rajiv Sethi
CULPA: 24
h-index: 33
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SENIOR SEMINAR
SR SEM:DISCRM & PBLC PLCY
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and the completion of all courses (except for the senior requirement) required for the economics department majors. Exceptions to these prerequisites may be granted by the chair of the department only. Seminar sections are limited to 16 students. A topic in economic theory or policy of the instructors choice. See department for current topics and for senior requirement preference forms.
- Department: Economics @Barnard
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Morgan C Jr. Williams
Info - 4 points
SENIOR SEMINAR
SR SEM: HUMAN FREEDOM
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and the completion of all courses (except for the senior requirement) required for the economics department majors. Exceptions to these prerequisites may be granted by the chair of the department only. Seminar sections are limited to 16 students. A topic in economic theory or policy of the instructors choice. See department for current topics and for senior requirement preference forms.
- Department: Economics @Barnard
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lalith Munasinghe
CULPA: 33 Info - 4 points
SEM: ISSUES URBAN TEACHING
CRITICAL INQUIRY URBAN TCHNG
Enrollment limited to student teachers enrolled in the Education Program. Designed to help student teachers develop as reflective practitioners who can think critically about issues facing urban schools, particularly how race, class and gender influence schooling; and to examine the challenges and possibilities for providing intellectually engaging, meaningful curriculum to all students in urban classrooms.
- Department: Education @Barnard
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rachel Throop
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
RESEARCH SEM ECONOMIC HISTRY I
Must be supervised by a faculty member approved by the program adviser. This is the 1st semester of a two-semester course sequence.
- Department: Economics @Barnard
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alan Dye
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Instructor:
David Weiman
CULPA: 40 Info - 4 points
Growing Up Palestinian
This course explores broad questions about how sociopolitical contexts shape the development of children and youth, by focusing on the experiences of young Palestinians growing up across multiple geographies. We will read a variety of texts—primarily those narrated by Palestinians—including, memoir, film, and social science research to address the following questions: How do the various social, cultural, political, and legal contexts in which Palestinians grow up affect the experiences of growing up Palestinian? How (and why) do young people forge a sense of national identity across diverse territories, both within and outside of the borders of their historic homeland? How do socio-political contexts shape young people’s rights, including the right to education? How do children and youth shape their environments? How does a close examination of the Palestinian case challenge normative ideas about childhood and youth, while also supporting us to articulate universal conditions that would support the well-being of all young humans?
- Department: Education @Barnard
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Thea R Abu El-Haj
Info - 4 points
SEM IN CURRENT RES. PROBLEMS
A detailed study of a selected field of active research in physics. The motivation, techniques, and results obtained to the present, as well as the difficulties and unsolved problems. For Physics majors only. Priority given to seniors; juniors by permission of the instructor.
- Department: Physics
- M 5:30 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kerstin M Perez
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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY I-LECTURES
Prerequisites: (CHEM UN1403 and CHEM UN1404) or (CHEM UN1604) or (CHEM UN2045 and CHEM UN2046) and (MATH UN1101 and MATH UN1102) or (MATH UN1207 and MATH UN1208) and (PHYS UN1401 and PHYS UN1402) PHYS UN1201 - PHYS UN1202 is acceptable; PHYS UN1401 - PHYS UN1402 or the equivalent is HIGHLY recommended. Corequisites: CHEM UN3085 Elementary, but comprehensive, treatment of the fundamental laws governing the behavior of individual atoms and molecules and collections of them. CHEM UN3079 covers the thermodynamics of chemical systems at equilibrium and the chemical kinetics of nonequilibrium systems. Although CHEM UN3079 and CHEM UN3080 are separate courses, students are expected to take both terms sequentially. A recitation section is required. Please check the Directory of Classes for details and also speak with the TA for the course.
- Department: Chemistry
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Xiaoyang Zhu
CULPA: 5
h-index: 85
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CIRCUIT ANALYSIS LABORATORY
Companion lab course for ELEN E3201. Experiments cover such topics as: use of measurement instruments; HSPICE simulation; basic network theorems; linearization of nonlinear circuits using negative feedback; op-amp circuits; integrators; second order RLC circuits. The lab generally meets on alternate weeks.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- M 2:40 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
- R 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
- F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
David G Vallancourt
CULPA: 28
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INTERMEDIATE LABORATORY WORK
Prerequisites: phys UN2601 or phys un2802 Primarily for junior and senior physics majors; other majors must obtain the instructors permission. Each experiment is chosen by the student in consultation with the instructor. Each section meets one afternoon per week, with registration in each section limited by the laboratory capacity. Experiments (classical and modern) cover topics in electricity, magnetism, optics, atomic physics, and nuclear physics.
- Department: Physics
- W 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
- R 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
- F 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elena Aprile
CULPA: 21 Wikipedia Info - 2 points
ELECTRONICS LABORATORY
Prerequisites: PHYS UN3003 or PHYS UN3007 May be taken before or concurrently with this course. A sequence of experiments in solid-state electronics, with introductory lectures.
- Department: Physics
- MW 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
John Parsons
CULPA: 31
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SIGNALS & SYSTEMS LABORATORY
Companion lab course for ELEN E3801. Experiments cover topics such as: introduction and use of MATLAB for numerical and symbolic calculations; linearity and time invariance; continuous-time convolution; Fourier-series expansion and signal reconstruction; impulse response and transfer function; forced response. The lab generally meets on alternate weeks.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- M 6:10 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
- R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
- F 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
- T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Xiaodong Wang
CULPA: 15 Info - 1 points
PHYSICL-ANALYTICL LABORATORY I
Corequisites: CHEM UN3079 A student-centered experimental course intended for students who are co-registered or have completed CHEM UN3079 and CHEM UN3080. The course emphasizes techniques of experimental physical chemistry and instrumental analysis, including vibrational, electronic, and laser spectroscopy; electroanalytical methods; calorimetry; reaction kinetics; hydrodynamic methods; scanning probe microscopy; applications of computers to reduce experimental data; and computational chemistry. Students must also attend the compulsory Mentoring Session. Please check the Directory of Classes for details.
- Department: Chemistry
- T noon-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Luis A Avila
CULPA: 22
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INDIVIDUAL SENIOR PROJECTS
Prerequisites: Meets senior requirement. Instructor permission required. The instructor will supervise the writing of long papers involving some form of sociological research and analysis.
- Department: Sociology @Barnard
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Deborah Becher
CULPA: 8
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Elizabeth Bernstein
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Maricarmen Hernandez
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Debra Minkoff
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Mignon R Moore
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Jonathan Rieder
CULPA: 17
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Angela Simms
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Amy Zhou
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Randa B Serhan
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
Senior Research Seminar: Methods of Inqu
SENIOR RESEARCH SEMINAR I
This course is the first semester of a year-long senior capstone experience for the Educational Studies major. Over the course of the year, students will design and carry-out an inquiry project, and they will report on this project through an appropriate medium, for a specific purpose and audience. To this end, we will address the following: the relationship between theory, experience, and the development of a research question; the research methods that are appropriate for our research; the purposes of our research; the consequences our research might have and for whom; how we analyze data; and how we communicate with the audience of our research.
- Department: Education @Barnard
- R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nora M Gross
Info - 4 points
ADV ELECTROMAGNETISM LAB
Classical electromagnetic wave phenomena via Maxwells equations, including: (i) Michaelson and Fabry-Perot Interferometry, as well as a thin-film interference and elementary dispersion theory; (ii) Fraunhofer Diffraction (and a bit of Fresnel); (iii) Wireless Telegraphy I: AM Radio Receivers; and (iv) Wireless Telegraphy II: AM Transmitters. Last two labs pay homage to relevant scientific developments in the period 1875-1925, from the discovery of Hertzian waves to the Golden Age of Radio. Complements PHYS W3008 Electromagnetic Waves and Optics.
- Department: Physics and Astronomy @Barnard
- F 10:30 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Stiliana Savin
CULPA: 4 Info - 3 points
More than Real: Dreams, Imagination, and
More Than Real
This course is thematic, though a loose history of dreaming, imaginative praxis, and virtual reality environments across South Asia will emerge through the networked conversations across texts. The advantage of a thematic course allows us to cover various genres such as: ritual manuals; epic; poetry; philosophical argument; biographical accounts; prophecies; conversion stories; and medical textbooks to name a handful. At the end of the course, we will see how the texts encountered in the first part have been repurposed to speak to social justice movements around caste - both within South Asia and the diaspora population in the U.S. The thematic of dreaming and imagination also provides flexibility in method: because students will have the opportunity to study conversations between different historical actors across religious traditions about dreams, they will also have the opportunity to revise problematic accounts of religious pluralism and communalism in South Asia. Students will read primary texts from Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, and Sikh traditions to name a handful. Students can look forward to reading about worlds within rocks; falling asleep and waking up as another person only to die in the dream world, wake up and then realize your dream-life family is somehow real and looking for you; how to finally interpret those pesky dreams about teeth falling out; dismembered bodies generating the universe; daydreaming about a cloud that thinks mountain peaks look like nipples; how to build a mind-temple that Shiva prefers to the physical one with fancy rock; and much more!
- Department: Religion @Barnard
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Meghan E Hartman
Info - 4 points
SUPERVISED INDEPENDENT RES
Prerequisites: the instructors permission for entrance, and the departmental representatives permission for aggregate points in excess of 12 or less than 4. This course may be repeated for credit (see major and concentration requirements). Individual research under the supervision of a member of the staff. Research areas include organic, physical, inorganic, analytical, and biological chemistry. Please note that CHEM UN3098 is offered in the fall and spring semesters.
- Department: Chemistry
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Instructor:
Vesna Gasperov
CULPA: 1 h-index: 4 Info - 4 points
GUIDED RESEARCH IN ECONOMICS
- Department: Economics @Barnard
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Sarah M Gertler
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Ashley Wong
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Linda Bell
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Martina Jasova
CULPA: 7
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Randall Reback
CULPA: 17 h-index: 14 Info - 1-2 points
THE ENGLISH CONFERENCE
The English Conference: The Lucyle Hook Guest Lectureship is a two to four-week course each semester on a special topic presented by a visiting scholar. The series was endowed by a gift from Professor Emerita of English Lucyle Hook to bring our students and faculty the perspective of scholars of literature in English working outside the College community. It can only be taken for pass/fail for 1 point. Students must attend all four class sessions and write a final paper in order to receive credit for this course.
- Department: English @Barnard
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rachel Eisendrath
CULPA: 6
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Margins of the Middle Ages
This seminar course examines how people during the early Middle Ages defined their existence through negotiated boundaries of gender, class, ethnicity, race, religion, and other aspects of the human condition. Our work will curate the contributions of marginalized groups to decenter traditional narratives. Students will leave this course with a broad understanding of early medieval history, an appreciation of historical work done by people often omitted from our histories, and a mastery of historical and interdisciplinary tools for promoting our awareness and understanding of marginalized groups. Work will include two research papers, including one focused on a manuscript selected from the Columbia collections.
- Department: History @Barnard
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Matthew Delvaux
Info - 4 points
INDEPENDENT STUDY
- Department: French @Barnard
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Instructor:
Brian D O'Keeffe
CULPA: 28
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INDEPENDENT STUDY
This course can be worth 1 to 4 credits (each credit is equivalent to approximately three hours of work per week) and requires a Barnard faculty as a mentor who has to provide written approval. The course entails a scholarly component; for this, a research report is required by the end of the term. The research report can take the form that best suits the nature of the project. The course will be taken for a letter grade, regardless of whether the student chooses 1, 2, 3, or 4 credits.
- Department: Neuroscience & Behavior @Barnard
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Peter D Balsam
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Elizabeth P Bauer
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Bj Casey
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John Glendinning
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Russell D Romeo
CULPA: 9
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Alex White
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E'Mett McCaskill
CULPA: 38
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Kara Pham
CULPA: 9
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Kevin G Bath
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Alexis S Hill
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INTRO TO QUANTUM MECHANICS
Basic concepts and assumptions of quantum mechanics, Schrodinger's equation, solutions for one-dimensional problems including square wells, barriers and the harmonic oscillator, introduction to the hydrogen atom, atomic physics and X-rays, electron spin.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Aravind Devarakonda
Info - 3 points
INTRO TO MECHANCIS OF FLUIDS
INTRO TO MECHANICS OF FLUIDS
Basic continuum concepts. Liquids and gases in static equilibrium. Continuity equation. Two-dimensional kinematics. Equation of motion. Bernoulli’s equation and applications. Equations of energy and angular momentum. Dimensional analysis. Two-dimensional laminar flow. Pipe flow, laminar, and turbulent. Elements of compressible flow.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Karen Kasza
h-index: 17 Info - 3 points
INTRO TO MECHANCIS OF FLUIDS
FLUIDS RECITATION
Basic continuum concepts. Liquids and gases in static equilibrium. Continuity equation. Two-dimensional kinematics. Equation of motion. Bernoulli’s equation and applications. Equations of energy and angular momentum. Dimensional analysis. Two-dimensional laminar flow. Pipe flow, laminar, and turbulent. Elements of compressible flow.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
- F 10 a.m.-11 a.m.
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Instructor:
Karen Kasza
h-index: 17 Info - 0 points
Crystallography
A first course in crystallography, crystal symmetry, Bravais lattices, point groups and space groups. Diffraction and diffracted intensities. Exposition of typical crystal structures in engineering materials, including metals, ceramics and semiconductors. Crystalline anisotropy.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
William Bailey
CULPA: 12 Info - 3 points
Contemporary Topics in Neuroscience
Contemp Topics in Neurosc
This seminar course examines emerging and debated topics in contemporary neuroscience, with an emphasis on mechanisms relevant to learning and memory and neuropsychiatric disorders. Students will read and critique primary research articles and reviews spanning neural ensembles and memory, fear learning and generalization, stress and trauma, sex differences, circuit tools for causal inference and connectivity, neuroimmune mechanisms, aging-related cognitive decline, single-cell and spatial genomics, brain–body interactions, and emerging therapeutics. The course also introduces AI-enabled approaches for analyzing and interpreting neuroscience data. The course emphasizes experimental logic, figure interpretation, scientific communication, and responsible translation from animal models to human conditions.
- Department: Neuroscience & Behavior @Barnard
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alessia Mastrodonato
Info - 4 points
OPEN FICTION WORKSHOP
Prerequisite: Student must have taken beginning workshop in any undergraduate creative writing concentration. Open workshops are for students who are acquainted with and have experience in at least one beginning workshop in creative writing. In Open Fiction Workshops, particular attention will be paid to the components of fiction: voice, perspective, characterization, and form. Students will be expected to finish several short stories, executing a total artistic vision on a piece of writing. The critical focus of the class will include an examination of endings and formal wholeness, sustaining narrative arcs, compelling a reader's interest for the duration of the text, and generating a sense of urgency and drama in the work. A portfolio of fiction will be written and revised with critical input from the instructor and workshop. Outside readings may be used to supplement and inform the exercises and written projects. Please visit
https://arts.columbia.edu/writing/undergraduate
for information about registration procedures.
- Department: Writing
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Sophie F Kemp
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Samuel Lipsyte
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Heidi S Julavits
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Giada Scodellaro
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APPLIED MATH I: LINEAR ALGEBRA
Matrix algebra, elementary matrices, inverses, rank, determinants. Computational aspects of solving systems of linear equations: existence-uniqueness of solutions, Gaussian elimination, scaling, ill-conditioned systems, iterative techniques. Vector spaces, bases, dimension. Eigenvalue problems, diagonalization, inner products, unitary matrices.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Yuan He
CULPA: 3
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ADVANCED DUTCH I
This advanced course is a content-based language course, and is centered around the history of the Low Countries. Each week focuses on a specific era, such as the counts of Holland in the 13th century and the Reformation in the 16th century. Students will read texts about history and literature of the historical periods.
Students will read texts at home and discuss them in class, explore history-related websites and watch short video clips.
Attention will be paid to advanced grammar issues and vocabulary.
- Department: Germanic Languages
- TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
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Nicolette Dekens
Info - 3 points
GEOCHEM FOR A HABITABLE PLANET
Prerequisites: Any 1000-level or 2000-level EESC course; MATH UN1101 Calculus I and CHEM UN1403 General Chemistry I or their equivalents. The origin, evolution, and future of our planet, based on the book How to Build a Habitable Planet by Wallace S. Broecker. This course will focus on the geochemical processes that built Earth from solar material, led to its differentiation into continents and ocean, and have maintained its surface at a comfortable temperature. Students will participate in a hands-on geochemistry project at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Terry A Plank
CULPA: 6
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THE WRITER'S PROCESS
Enrollment limited to Barnard students. Application process and permission of instructor required:
https://writing.barnard.edu/become-writing-fellow
. Exploration of theory and practice in the teaching of writing, designed for students who plan to become Writing Fellows at Barnard. Students will read current theory and consider current research in the writing process and engage in practical applications in the classroom or in tutoring. The Writer’s Process is only open to those who applied to and were accepted into the Writing Fellows Program.
Note: This course now counts as an elective for the English major.
- Department: English @Barnard
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Alexandra P Watson
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Pamela Cobrin
CULPA: 6
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LOVE & LITERATURE
This course offers an in-depth study of love as it has been treated in a variety of French literary texts. These texts will be related to a number of important philosophical and theological approaches to love, particularly in respect of certain ideas concerning ethical love, erotic love, and religious faith as an act of loving God. The first objective of this class is to show how one can relate literature to philosophy and theology; the second is to gain a broad, but thematically focused familiarity with French literature, and with some literary works beyond the French tradition. FREN BC1204: French Intermediate II or the equivalent level is required.
- Department: French @Barnard
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Brian D O'Keeffe
CULPA: 28
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ADVANCED INDONESIAN I
This course offers students the opportunity to practice advanced structures of Bahasa Indonesia, a major language of Indonesia and South East Asia. This course is offered by videoconferencing from Cornell as part of the Shared Course Initiative.
- Department: Language Resource Center
- TWR 8 a.m.-8:50 a.m.
- 3 points
INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS
An introduction to the study of language from a scientific perspective. The course is divided into three units: language as a system (sounds, morphology, syntax, and semantics), language in context (in space, time, and community), and language of the individual (psycholinguistics, errors, aphasia, neurology of language, and acquisition). Workload: lecture, weekly homework, and final examination.
- Department: Slavic Languages
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
John H McWhorter
CULPA: 26
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THIRD-YEAR RUSSIAN I
Prerequisites: RUSS UN2102 or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission. Recommended for students who wish to improve their active command of Russian. Emphasis on conversation and composition. Reading and discussion of selected texts and videotapes. Lectures. Papers and oral reports required. Conducted entirely in Russian.
- Department: Slavic Languages
- MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Tatiana Mikhailova
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Literary Sinhala I
This one-semester course introduces the distinctive grammatical forms and vocabulary used in Literary Sinhala. While focused particularly on the development of reading skills, the course also introduces students to Literary Sinhala composition, builds students’ listening comprehension of semi-literary Sinhala forms (such as those used in radio and TV news), and guides students in incorporating elements of the literary register of Sinhala in their spoken production.
- Department: Language Resource Center
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
- 3 points
PAINTING II
Prerequisites: (VIAR UN1000) and (VIAR UN2100) (Formerly R3202) Painting II: Extension of VIAR UN2100 This course explores the transition of representational form towards abstraction in the early 20th century (Cubism) with full consideration to recent movements such as geometric abstraction, organic abstraction, gestural abstraction, color field and pattern painting. Students will be encouraged to find dynamic approaches to these classic tropes of 20th and 21st century abstraction.
- Department: Visual Arts
- W 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Heidi Howard
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THIRD YEAR VIETNAMESE I
This course is designed for students who have completed fourth semester Vietnamese or have equivalent background of intermediate Vietnamese. The course is aimed at enhancing students' competence in reading and listening comprehension as well as the ability to present or show their knowledge of the language and various aspects of Vietnamese with the use of more advanced Vietnamese.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Chung Nguyen
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
SENIOR FICTION WORKSHOP
Seniors who are majors in creative writing are given priority for this course. Enrollment is limited, and is by permission of the professor. The senior workshop offers students the opportunity to work exclusively with classmates who are at the same high level of accomplishment in the major. Students in the senior workshops will produce and revise a new and substantial body of work. In-class critiques and conferences with the professor will be tailored to needs of each student. Please visit
https://arts.columbia.edu/writing/undergraduate
for information about registration procedures.
- Department: Writing
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Rivka R Galchen
CULPA: 6
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ADVANCED ZULU I
Prerequisites: ZULU W1201-W1202 or the instructor's permission. This course allows students to practice adanced structures of the Zulu language. Please note this course is offered by videoconference from Yale through the Shared Course Initiative.
- Department: Language Resource Center
- MW 1 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nandipa Sipengane
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PLANETARY DYNAMICS & PHYSICS
Prerequisites: one year of calculus-based Physics. The physics and astrophysics of planets, comets, asteroids, natural and artificial satellites, and pretty much anything in the Solar System - including the Sun. Detailed study of the Earths atmosphere and oceans: circulations, climate, and weather. Orbital dynamics. The emerging science of extrasolar planets. The origin, evolution, and eventual fate of planets.
- Department: Astronomy
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
James H Applegate
CULPA: 44 Info - 3 points
ACADEMIC WRITING INTENSIVE
This course is designed for Barnard students in their second or third year who are seeking more practice with academic writing skills. In a small, supportive group, we will break down the core reading, writing, revision, and critical thinking skills that produce strong academic writing, no matter the discipline. You will get to know yourself deeply as a writer: when you get a writing assignment, what does your writing process look like -- how do you get started? When do you resist writing, and why? What do you do when you get stuck -- not only so you can get that paper done, but so you can learn from the process, too? Please note that in addition to the weekly seminar and regular one-on-one meetings with the instructor, students are also required to meet with an assigned Writing Fellow for one hour every other week (Writing Fellows will be assigned and meetings scheduled at the beginning of the semester). This course is only offered P/D/F.
Instructor permission is required; to be considered for the course,
please fill out this brief questionnaire
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- Department: English @Barnard
- W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Cecelia B Lie-Spahn
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
ENERGY,MINERALS,MATERIALS SYST
ENERGY & MATERIALS SYSTEMS
Overview of energy resources, resource management from extraction and processing to recycling and final disposal of wastes. Resources availability and resource processing in the context of the global natural and anthropogenic material cycles; thermodynamic and chemical conditions including nonequilibrium effects that shape the resource base; extractive technologies and their impact on the environment and the biogeochemical cycles; chemical extraction from mineral ores, and metallurgical processes for extraction of metals. In analogy to metallurgical processing, power generation and the refining of fuels are treated as extraction and refining processes. Large scale of power generation and a discussion of its impact on the global biogeochemical cycles.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- 3 points
THE ART OF THE ESSAY
NOTE: Students who are on the electronic waiting list or who are interested in the class but are not yet registered MUST attend the first day of class.
Fall 2022 course description: Essay writing above the first-year level. Reading and writing various types of essays to develop one's natural writing voice and craft thoughtful, sophisticated and personal essays.
Summer 2022 course description: The Art of the Essay is a writing workshop designed to help you contribute meaningfully in public discourse about the issues that matter most to you. You will write three types of essays in this class, all of which will center personal experience as valuable evidence of larger phenomena or patterns. Your essays will build in complexity, as you introduce more types of sources into conversation about your topics as the semester goes on. You will hone your skills of observing, describing, questioning, analyzing, and persuading. You will be challenged to confront complications and to craft nuanced explorations of your topics. We will also regularly read and discuss the work of contemporary published essayists, identifying key writerly moves that you may adapt as you attempt your own essays. You will have many opportunities throughout the semester to brainstorm ideas, receive feedback from me and your peers, and develop and revise your drafts. At the end of the semester, you will choose a publication to which to submit or pitch one or more of your essays.
- Department: English @Barnard
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Wendy C Schor-Haim
CULPA: 11
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Instructor:
Margaret R Ellsberg
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Instructor:
Vrinda Condillac
CULPA: 28
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Language, Brain and Mind
The ability to speak distinguishes humans from all other animals, including our closest relatives, the chimpanzees. Why is this so? What makes this possible? This course seeks to answer these questions. We will look at the neurological and psychological foundations of the human faculty of language. How did our brains change to allow language to evolve? Where in our brains are the components of language found? Are our minds specialized for learning language or is it part of our general cognitive abilities to learn? How are words and sentences produced and their meanings recognized? The structure of languages around the world varies greatly; does this have psychological effects for their speakers?
- Department: Slavic Languages
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
William Foley
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Language, Brain and Mind
The ability to speak distinguishes humans from all other animals, including our closest relatives, the chimpanzees. Why is this so? What makes this possible? This course seeks to answer these questions. We will look at the neurological and psychological foundations of the human faculty of language. How did our brains change to allow language to evolve? Where in our brains are the components of language found? Are our minds specialized for learning language or is it part of our general cognitive abilities to learn? How are words and sentences produced and their meanings recognized? The structure of languages around the world varies greatly; does this have psychological effects for their speakers?
- Department: Auditing
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
William Foley
h-index: 0 Info - 0 points
Women Writers of Contemporary Middle Eas
WOMEN WRITERS MIDEAST AFR
Since the last decades of the twentieth century there has been a dramatic increase in the number of women writers from the Middle East and North Africa. This advanced course, which will be taught mainly in French, provides a window into this rich and largely neglected branch of world literature. Students will encounter the breadth and creativity of contemporary Middle Eastern and North African women’s literature by reading a range of twentieth- and twenty-first-century novels, short stories, memoirs and poetry available in French or in translation, and by viewing films that are from or about Iran, Lebanon, Algeria, and Egypt. How do Middle Eastern women authors address women’s oppression – both social and physical – and enunciate issues such as the tension between tradition and modernity, sexuality, identity and class from a female perspective? What literary traditions and models do they draw on? How different are those texts written in French for a global audience, as opposed to those written in Persian or Arabic? What are the effects of reading them in translation? Authors will include Marjane Satrapi, Shahrnush Parsipur, Assia Djebar, Maïssa Bey and Nawal El Saadawi.
- Department: French @Barnard
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Melanie Heydari
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