ISRAELI SOC & ISR-PLS CONFLICT

The purpose of the course is to acquaint students with Israeli society through the lens of the Israeli- Palestinian conflict. The underlying assumption in this course is that much of the social, economic, political, and cultural processes in contemporary Israel have been shaped by the 100-year Israeli- Arab/Palestinian conflict.

• Department: Sociology
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Yinon Cohen
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 33 Info
• 3 points

Biochemistry

Prerequisites: 1 year of Introductory Biology, 1 year General Chemistry, and 1st semester Organic Chemistry.  Biochemistry is the study of the chemical processes within organisms that give rise to the immense complexity of life. This complexity emerges from a highly regulated and coordinated flow of chemical energy from one biomolecule to another. This course serves to familiarize students with the spectrum of biomolecules (carbohydrates, lipids, amino acids, nucleic acids, etc.) as well as the fundamental chemical processes (glycolysis, citric acid cycle, fatty acid metabolism, etc.) that allow life to happen. The course will end with a discussion of diseases that have biochemical etiologies. In particular, this course will employ active learning techniques and critical thinking problem-solving to engage students in answering the question: how is the complexity of life possible? NOTE: While only the 1st semester of Organic Chemistry is listed as a pre-requisite, it is highly recommended that you take all of Organic Chemistry beforehand.

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

WORKSHOP SUSTAINABLE DEVEL

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

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 4 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score. An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria E Lozano
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Gabriela Derobles
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• Instructor: Almudena Mar N-Cobos
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• 3 points

PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor given at first class meeting. Students will create and workshop plays, with a focus on learning new approaches to language and structure. Recommended for students undertaking a senior thesis in playwriting.

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

THERMODYNAMICS

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

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Arvind Narayanaswamy
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 26 Info
• 3 points

THERMODYNAMICS

THERMO RECITATION

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

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• F 9 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Arvind Narayanaswamy
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 26 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED SWAHILI I

Prerequisites: SWHL UN2101-UN2102 or the instructor's permission. An introduction to the advanced syntactical, morphological, and grammatical structures of Swahili grammar; detailed analysis of Swahili texts; practice in conversation. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

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

ADVANCED WOLOF I

Prerequisites: Two years of Wolof or instructor permission. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Mariame S Sy
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• 4 points

SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER

Prerequisites: One introductory course in Sociology suggested. Examination of factors in gender identity that are both universal (across time, culture, setting) and specific to a social context. Social construction of gender roles in different settings, including family, work, and politics. Attention to the role of social policies in reinforcing norms or facilitating change.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Nic Rios
  Info
• 3 points

LAB IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Introduction to the use of molecular techniques to answer questions about subcellular biological phenomena. Techniques include isolation of genomic and plasmid DNAs, restriction enzyme analysis, DNA and protein electrophoresis, bacterial transformation, and plasmid subcloning.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• W 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points

TOPICS IN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Selected topics in molecular genetics and gene regulation, with a focus on examples from human evolution, physiology, and disease. The course will be organized into four modules with combined lecture and journal club-style discussion. Module topics include molecular regulation of transcription, epigenetic regulation of the genome, gene regulatory networks, and genome architecture and evolution. We will draw from examples in the current literature and explore current experimental approaches in molecular genetics of humans and model organisms.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer H Mansfield
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 15 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO URBAN ETHNOGRAPHIES

INTRO/URBAN ETHNOGRAPHIES

What is ethnography and what makes ethnography “urban”? This course explores how social scientists use ethnography to analyze questions and dilemmas often associated with urban settings. We will combine close readings of ethnographies with field-based inquiry, including our own studies of urban public space. Through both our readings and our field exercises, we will focus on the methods at the heart of ethnography: observation and participant-observation.

As we read other scholars’ work, we will ask how the author uses ethnographic tools to explore issues that are suitable for intensive fieldwork. We will assess which kinds of research problems and theoretical perspectives are a good fit with ethnography and the roles that ethnography can play in transdisciplinary research projects. You will apply what you have learned about research to design your own pilot fieldwork. The ethnographies that we read together will examine intersections of housing, race, and class in urban communities. You are welcome to extend this focus to your own fieldwork, but it’s not required to do so. This is a writing-intensive course, and we will devote a considerable portion of class time to workshop your individual projects.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points

SELECTIONS FROM GREEK LIT

GREEK LITERATURE SELECTIONS

Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.

• Department: Classics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Seth R Schwartz
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

LATIN LITERATURE SELECTIONS

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

• Department: Classics @Barnard
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Darcy Krasne
  h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

CELL BIOLOGY

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

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Snow
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 18 Info
• 3 points

ETHICS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVPT

Aiming to improve human conditions within many diverse environments, sustainable development seeks to create, increase and perpetuate benefit and to cease, rectify and reverse harm. Sustainable development is consequently inextricable from the fabric of ethics, woven with determinations of benefit and harm to the existence and well-being of both humans and nonhumans. Underlying such determinations are those of self- and other-regarding motivation and behavior; and underlying these are still others, of sensitivity and rationality in decision-making, whether individual, social or public. Sustainable development is interlaced with and contingent upon all these determinations, at once prescriptive and judgmental, which can be called the ethics of sustainable development. This course is divided into four main sections, of which two are intended to show the ethical fallacies of unsustainable development, and two, the ethical pathways of sustainable development. The first section focuses upon ethically problematic basic assumptions, including human (species) hegemony, happy (hedonic) materialism, and selective (data) denial. The second focuses upon ethically problematic ensuing rationalizations, including those pertaining to damages, victims, consequences and situations of climatic, chemical, biological and ecological harm. The third section responds to these rationalizations with ethically vital considerations of earth justice, environmental justice, culturally-based ethics, and sector-based ethics (water, food, place and climate ethics). Finally, the fourth section responds to the initial, longstanding problematic assumptions with a newly emergent ethical paradigm, comprising biotic wholeness, environmental integrity and the deliberative zero-goal. Tying all sections together is the central theme: to be sustainable, development must be ethical. Reflecting the collaborative quality of the field of sustainable development, the course extends to readings whose authors have all pursued their work at intersections of science and ethics, environment and ethics, policy and ethics, business and ethics, and sustainable development and ethics.

• Department: Earth Institute
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Adela J Gondek
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

RACE. SPACE, URB SCHOOLS

Many people don’t think of themselves as having attended segregated schools. And yet, most of us went to schools attended primarily by people who looked very much like us. In fact, schools have become more segregated over the past 30 years, even as the country becomes increasingly multiracial. In this class, we will use public schools as an example to examine the role race plays in shaping urban spaces and institutions. We will begin by unpacking the concept of racialization, or the process by which a person, place, phenomenon, or characteristic becomes associated with a certain race. Then, we will explore the following questions: What are the connections between city schools and their local contexts? What does it mean to be a “neighborhood school”? How do changes in neighborhoods change schools? We will use ethnographies, narrative non-fiction, and educational research to explore these questions from a variety of perspectives. You will apply what you have learned to your own experiences and to current debates over urban policies and public schools. This course will extend your understanding of key anthropological and sociological perspectives on urban inequality in the United States, as well as introduce you to critical theory.

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

FEMINIST THEORY

Prerequisites: LIMITED TO 20 BY INSTRUC PERM; ATTEND FIRST CLASS

This course provides a theoretical itinerary to the emergence of contemporary queer theory and engagement with some contemporary legacies of the movement. The goal is not to be exhaustive nor to establish a correct history of queer theory but to engage students in the task of understanding and creating intellectual genealogies.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 4 points

SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHITECTURE

SP TPC: ABSTR, PROJ, DIST

See the Barnard and Columbia Architecture Department website for the course description: 
https://architecture.barnard.edu/architecture-department-course-descriptions

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael E Schissel
  Info
• 3 points

SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHITECTURE

SP TPC: IMMERSIVE ROOM

See the Barnard and Columbia Architecture Department website for the course description: 
https://architecture.barnard.edu/architecture-department-course-descriptions

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Clara Kraft Isono
  Info
• 3 points

MUSIC IN EAST ASIA

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

• Department: Music
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Kevin Fellezs
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

Regulation of Behaviors for Survival

Reg of Survival Behaviors

To maximize their survival animals must regulate their behavior in response to external environmental cues and their own internal state. A fundamental goal of neuroscience is to understand how neural circuits in the brain function to influence behavior. The aim of this course is to highlight the neural basis of innate behaviors that are critical for survival and discuss modern approaches to study the neuronal regulation of classically studied aspects of behavior. We will explore motor control (escape responses), sensory systems (vision, taste, and olfaction), and survival behaviors (feeding, drinking, mating, and aggression). Focus will be on recent and current research, the diversity of approaches for studying it, and how this knowledge can be applied to solve scientific questions. Students will read primary scientific literature and a significant portion of the course will be presentation and discussion-based.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Laura Duvall
  Info
• 3 points

MUSICS OF INDIA & WEST ASIA

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

• Department: Music
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• 3 points

INFRASTRUCTURES

Infrastructures are the built networks moving goods, commodities, people, energy, waste organizing human action in modern societies. This course critically examines the work of infrastructures globally. It examines issues of urbanism, racial infrastructures, infrastructural breakdown and emergency, postcolonial infrastructures, climate change, and extraction.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Brian Larkin
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 4 points

LABORATORY IN MICROBIOLOGY

Enrollment limited to 16. Provides experience in the isolation, cultivation, and analysis of pure cultures of microorganisms. Methods used for the study of cell structure, growth, physiology, and genetics of microbes will be incorporated into laboratory exercises.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• R 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Gabrielle Corradino
  Info
• 3 points

MUSIC THEORY III

Intermediate analysis and composition in a variety of tonal idioms.

• Department: Music
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph P Dubiel
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

POETRY AND THE POLITICS OF DECOLONIZATIO

POETRY AND DECOLONIZATION

The course looks at poets, writing in the twentieth century and after, whose work is concerned with liberation from colonial rule and, subsequently, with the formation of a post-colonial literary voice. Poetry in the period of decolonization deals with issues of national, racial, class and gender identity, place and displacement, and freedom from linguistic and political oppression. We will read, among others, poets from the Indian Subcontinent and Middle East such as Tagore, Iqbal, Faiz and Darwish; two leading poets of négritude, Aimé Césaire and Léopold Senghor, in relation to movements in Caribbean, African, and American literature from the Harlem Renaissance to the present (Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Kamau Brathwaite, Derek Walcott, and Nicolas Guillén); Latin American poets including Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, and Nicanor Parra; and English-language poets including W.B. Yeats, William Carlos Williams, and voices of more contemporary movements in poetry including the Beat, feminist, LGBTQ, indigenous, and "Black Lives Matter" movements. Using theory and historical background, we will look at the work of each poet comparatively in the context of international development and political change. The course offers a critical approach to globalization through literature; since decolonization has touched so much of the world, we are open to works from other literatures that students propose. Though class discussions will be in English, students are encouraged, to the greatest extent possible, to read the poetry in the original language. Please email me as needed for further information.

• Department: English @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Linn C Mehta
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 4 points

MUSIC THEORY IV

Intermediate analysis and composition in a variety of tonal and extended tonal idioms.

• Department: Music
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• 3 points

Fashion, Dress, and Cultural Futures in

Fashion in Oceania

This upper-level seminar examines fashion and dress as historical forces and contemporary practices in Oceania and the Pacific diaspora. Clothing is treated not as decoration, but as a domain where colonialism and missionization were enacted, where gender and class hierarchies are negotiated, where Indigenous political and cultural projects take material form, and where creative economies and transnational networks are built.

Students read ethnographic and historical scholarship that centers Pacific perspectives and interrogates how garments, materials, bodies, markets, institutions, and media shape everyday life. Topics include mission clothing and morality, gender and respectability, heritage and tradition, diaspora and migration, fashion platforms and mediation, hybridity and experimentation, intellectual property and Indigenous sovereignty, museums and cultural governance, ecological knowledge, and climate change.

Assignments emphasize analytical writing, discussion leadership, annotated bibliographies, object-based case studies, and a substantial final research project. Students develop skills in evidence-based argumentation, ethical interpretation across difference, and connecting local case studies to global processes without erasing Indigenous histories and lived experience.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Paige West
  CULPA: 41 h-index: 23 Info
• 4 points

CONSUMER CULTURE IN MOD EUROPE

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

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

NOW. Moving in the Moment: An Introducti

Intro to Dance Improvisat

There are as many reasons to improvise as there are cultures. People from all over the world have turned to improvised dance for personal, social, and political reasons. Improvisation is equally as useful in developing self-expression as it is in forming community and mutual understanding. It can be a vehicle for discovering more about our world by heightening our senses and awareness. It can be a mind-puzzle, as practitioners devise creative constraints for the purposes of producing structure and clarity. Whatever the reason for improvising, all practitioners share a sense of questioning and curiosity. This course will cover five units of study, each one aimed at exploring a different function of improvisation: self- expression; music and space; our bodies and environment; structure and cognition; and community-building. Learning in the classroom will rely on reading texts and viewing images and videos, written work, peer-to-peer learning and self-directed inquiry. In the studio, students will be given different exercises and prompts to explore and refine. By the end of the semester students will understand how improvisation occurs and how it differs from codified or prescriptive work, and why different people choose to improvise. They will also be able to develop and perform their own improvisatory work, drawing from the skills learned over the semester.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• W 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Caroline Fermin
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• 3 points

MODERN V

This contemporary technique class invites students into an embodied practice focusing on a daily physical experimentation and challenge. Emphasis will be placed on corporeal ways to explore questions around propelling, listening, connecting, healing, and action. This course offers a chance for students to use their sensatorial experience to reflect on individual pathways/ desires for expression while, challenging the body to take risks and practice as their movement knowledge expands. Emphasis on sensation, initiation, and weight will be introduced in a floor or standing warm-up that will expand to a standing exploration of the transition between form and space. A focus will be to continue our development of a strong-grounded technique with healthy placement that moves with ease in and out of the floor. We will continue to develop our true embodied relationship to environment, people, and time.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Francesca Dominguez
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• Instructor: Colleen Thomas
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 2 points

INTRO TO GERMAN LIT (GERMAN)

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

• Department: Germanic Languages
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Claudia Breger
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED YIDDISH

Course Description and Goals:

This course focuses predominantly on developing reading comprehension skills, as well as on listening,  writing, speaking, and some more advanced grammar. It explores literary and scholarly texts examining the  modern Jewish experience in the context of the twentieth-century history and culture of the Ashkenazi Jews.  Supplementary texts will be selected based on students’ interests and may include historical pedagogical  materials, past and present newspaper articles, polemic, poetry, historical and scholarly articles. We will  also venture outside the classroom to explore the Yiddish world today: through field trips to Yiddish theater,  Yiddish-speaking neighborhoods, Yiddish organizations, such as YIVO, and so on. We will apply our reading  and translating skills to contribute to the Mapping Yiddish New York online project, and will also have  Yiddish-speaking guests. At the end of the semester, you will be able to converse in Yiddish on a variety of  everyday topics and read authentic Yiddish literary and non-literary texts. Welcome back to Yiddishland!

• Department: Germanic Languages
• TR 2:10 p.m.-3:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Agnieszka Legutko
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

IMPROVISATION

Improvisation is an open level, movement based class in which students will learn collaborative improvisation tools, skills, practices, and mindset through experience, reflection, practice, and generation. Deep play, support for others, and a willingness to experiment and reflect are key in this discovery based course.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• F 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Caroline Fermin
  Info
• 2 points

MODERN VI

This contemporary technique class invites students into an embodied practice focusing on a daily physical experimentation and challenge. Emphasis will be placed on corporeal ways to explore questions around propelling, listening, connecting, healing, and action. This course offers a chance for students to use their sensatorial experience to reflect on individual pathways/ desires for expression while, challenging the body to take risks and practice as their movement knowledge expands. Emphasis on sensation, initiation, and weight will be introduced in a floor or standing warm-up that will expand to a standing exploration of the transition between form and space. A focus will be to continue our development of a strong-grounded technique with healthy placement that moves with ease in and out of the floor. We will continue to develop our true embodied relationship to environment, people, and time.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Boudreau
  Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Tamisha Guy
  Info
• 2 points

Introduction to Armenian Studies

Intro to Armenian Studies

Historians frequently situate Armenia between two powers: between Rome and Persia, then Byzantium and Islam. This class will shake up the usual “between-two-worlds” paradigm, which places Armenia and Armenians in the crosshairs of world powers. Instead, we will study Armenians as active participants in world dramas, at the center of global developments. Our main goal will be to draw upon a variety of sources to tell the story of Armenia and Armenians: histories, poems, art, coins, buildings, etc.  

Goals


Critically assess what it means to study history. Why are we learning this?

Analyze primary sources, whether written or material. How can we study this?

Engage with modern scholarship on Armenian experiences. How have other people studied this?

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Alison Vacca
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• 3 points

CONTACT IMPROVISATION

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

This course will introduce the exploration of a partnering technique that is enriching for the mind and body. Contact Improvisation is not only an important tool for the dancer as it informs the body how to move with weight and connection and is required by most contemporary styles – it is also a technique that informs the artist in us all as it emphasizes listening, trust, and spontaneous creativity. In this course, students will use contact to support the creation of most duets, trios, and larger group dance.   Focus is placed on recent improvisatory forms, sensation building, center connection, and finding the safe edges of risk as well as applying these studies to creation and expression. Students in this course will explore their own weight and how it relates to other bodies by listening as well as employing emotional, psychological, and cultural structures to their improvisation. Emphasis is placed on listening and sensation rather than controlling or leading. Students will explore the dynamic ride and risk taking of improvisation and trusting another body by giving and taking weight. Contact Improvisation is open to all students.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 9 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Colleen Thomas
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 2 points

Pop Cultures: The Art of the Ordinary

POP CULTURES

Explores facets of modern Pop Culture by discussing historical developments, international range, literary and audiovisual representation of an aesthetics of the ordinary in the 20th/21st centuries. Emphasis on questions of public appreciation, pleasure, taste, consumption, and impact in examinations of prose, poetry, film, music, and the arts. Course taught in German.

• Department: German @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Erk Grimm
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

COLL: GRASSROOTS ACTIVISMS AND SOCIAL CH

COLL: GRASSRTS ACT & SOC

How do ordinary people come together to enact social change in society? Focusing on the United States, this course explores how everyday people engage in collective action from the ground up, through social movements, community organizing, and other forms of advocacy and activisms. In particular, we will consider the role of grassroots movements and organizations as agents of democratic representation and catalysts for political transformation for marginalized communities. We will engage key questions about why groups choose to make political demands outside of formal institutional spaces, what kinds of visions for social change they put forward, how they seek to achieve their ideals, and how successful they are. The course will focus on contemporary activisms around racial justice, immigrant rights, LGBTQ+ rights, feminism, and labor.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sonya G Chen
  Info
• 4 points

HISPANIC CULTURES I (SP)

Prerequisites: L course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion of language requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300). Provides students with an overview of the cultural history of the Hispanic world, from eighth-century Islamic and Christian Spain and the pre-Hispanic Americas through the late Middle Ages and Early Modern period until about 1700, covering texts and cultural artifacts from both Spain and the Americas.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• 3 points

IN OTHER WORDS: WORLD POETRY & COSMOPOLI

WORLD POETRY & COSMOPOLIT

What is “world poetry”? This course will try to give an answer to this vexing question. You are being introduced to a number of influential poets who have entered a dialogue about what it means to write, read, translate and appreciate poetry in a global context. The impact of globalization is most visible in a number of anthologies which made considerable efforts to move beyond the existing range of national representatives and to make an English-speaking audience familiar with the names and works of poets who are bilingual or who write in their native language. Throughout the semester, we will read English translations of these poems (but feel free to read the original if you know the language). Secondly, the global context is of great importance for understanding each poet’s vision of the world since poets are involved in processes of “world-making” as well as reacting to the world’s past and present. s the semester progresses you will see that the poets are part of a larger conversation; some themes, forms and issues we discovered at the beginning will return in the middle or toward the end of the term. The selection of poets is based on considerations of gender, race, age and religious affiliation; many of the poets whose works we are going to discuss are iconic figures; in studying other cases, you will be exposed to new voices (for example, young South African poets) whose significance will emerge in a critical discussion of the anthologists’ rationale and criteria for selecting poets and marginalizing others.

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

HISPANIC CULTURES II (SP)

This course surveys cultural production of Spain and Spanish America from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Students will acquire the knowledge needed for the study of the cultural manifestations of the Hispanic world in the context of modernity. Among the issues and events studied will be the Enlightenment as ideology and practice, the Napoleonic invasion of Spain, the wars of Spanish American independence, the fin-de-siecle and the cultural avant-gardes, the wars and revolutions of the twentieth century (Spanish Civil War, the Mexican and Cuban revolutions), neoliberalism, globalization, and the Hispanic presence in the United States. The goal of the course is to study some key moments of this trajectory through the analysis of representative texts, documents, and works of art. Class discussions will seek to situate the works studied within the political and cultural currents and debates of the time. All primary materials, class discussion, and assignments are in Spanish. This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ronald D Briggs
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

DEVELOPMENT

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

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Rishita Shah
  Info
• 3 points

BIOCHEMISTRY LAB TECHNIQUES

BIOCHEMISTRY LAB TECHNIQUES -

Prerequisites: Organic II lab (CHEM BC3333, BC3335, or equivalent); Quantitative analysis lab (BC3338, BC3340, or equivalent); Biochemistry (CHEM BC3282y, CHEM C3501, or equivalent).

Theory and application of fundamental techniques for the isolation, synthesis and characterization of biological macromolecules including proteins, lipids, nucleotides and carbohydrates. Techniques include spectroscopic analysis, gel electrophoresis, chromatography, enzyme kinetics, immunoblotting, PCR, molecular cloning and cell culture, as well as modern laboratory instrumentation, such as UV-Vis, GC-MS and HPLC.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• MF noon-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Lori Cobani
  Info
• 5 points

Reproductive Biology

Seminar - Reproductive Bi

This course will explore developing topics in mammalian reproductive biology. Using textbooks and primary literature sources we will explore the molecular and physiological nature of reproduction, including fertilization, assisted reproductive technologies, and physiological changes to the reproductive system during and after birth. These topics will be further discussed in the context of medicine and society, with a particular focus on healthcare disparities in local communities.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Rishita Shah
  Info
• 3 points

Death and Dignity: Forensic Science and

Forensic scientific investigations of mass political violence have proliferated in recent decades. As a form of “science in the service of human rights,” forensic methods are used to locate and identify the remains of people killed in mass political violence and, more broadly, to corroborate witness testimonies of rights abuses and contribute evidence for potential use in war crimes trials. Yet forensic investigations of mass violence are not only scientific endeavors, but also highly social and political ones. Families of the dead and disappeared have long been at the forefront of demanding state action to locate, exhume, and return the remains of their loved ones. What drives states, on the one hand, and families of the dead and disappeared, on the other, to turn to forensic exhumations of the dead? What social and political work does forensic science—and the dead bodies it unveils—do to mediate restorative transformation in the wake of mass political violence?

This course explores how the forensic sciences—in particular, forensic anthropology, archaeology, and genetics—are mobilized after atrocity to make rights claims to postmortem dignity, postwar memory, and transformative justice. It approaches forensic science from a holistic (or, in anthropological terms, “four-field”) perspective, in which the scientific cannot be separated from the social or political, given the profound social transformations brought about by war. Practices in biological and forensic science cannot be separated from the social and political contexts of the political violence and human rights violations they investigate. What would it look like to conceive of forensic science from a multi-focal, interdisciplinary perspective? 

This discussion-based seminar explores the complex social and scientific worlds that come into being over the course of postwar forensic exhumations, bringing the living and the dead into new forms of relation. We situate forensic investigations within broader struggles over historical and collective memory, narratives of past violence, and accountability for state violence. Drawing primarily on ethnographic and sociocultural anthropological perspectives from Latin America and other global regions, the course engages debates on international humanitarianism, necropolitics, and human rights in death. We critically assess the promises and limits of forensic science as a tool for human rights intervention, while remaining attentive to its af

• Department: Human Rights (HRTB)
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer Trowbridge
  Info
• 4 points

CELLULAR & MOLECULAR NEUROSCIENCE

This upper-level lecture course provides an in-depth analysis of neuroscience at the molecular and cellular levels. Topics include: the structure and function of neuronal membranes, the ionic basis of the membrane potential and action potential, synaptic transmission, synaptic plasticity, and sensory transduction.

• Department: Neuroscience & Behavior @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexis S Hill
  Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth P Bauer
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 21 Info
• 3 points

Colloquium: Transnational Kleptocracy

COLL: TRANSNTNL KLEPTOCRA

The term “kleptocracy” literally means “rule by thieves” and refers to the extensive grand corruption that elite rulers, allies and their family members engage in to privately enrich themselves at the expense of their populations. Traditionally, kleptocracy has been viewed as a scourge on developing countries, associated with greedy authoritarian rulers in conflict-prone, resource rich and/or aid dependent states. However, in recent years scholars and policymakers have increasingly become aware of the critical role played by international actors, institutions, legal structures and professional service providers that facilitate kleptocracy at a global level. Unlike other transnational illicit sectors such as narcotics trafficking or terrorism, many aspects of kleptocracy networks are publicly visible and perfectly legal. Overall, these networks function to enable the domestic plundering of these elites, the whitewashing of their reputations, and the exacerbation of vast inequality, both within the countries that kleptocrats systemically plunder and between the Global South and the West which receives and benefits from many of the proceeds of these corrupt activities. 

The first part of the course (Weeks 2-5) examines the transnational actors, service professionals and institutions that facilitate money laundering by kleptocrats. The second part (Weeks 6-7) concentrates on how kleptocrats launder their reputations, by presenting themselves as global philanthropists or business professionals and by acquiring residency in other jurisdictions through the growing market for citizenship.  The final part of the course (Weeks 8-10) examines recent developments in international policy efforts to counter kleptocracy, including incorporating such efforts into national security strategies, enacting extraterritorial legislation to punish corporate bribery, sanctioning individual kleptocrats and oligarchs, and amending libel laws in countries like the UK that are routinely used by kleptocrats to intimidate journalists and deter investigations into their dealings.  

Finally, throughout the course we will grapple with the methodological challenges posed by trying to study and detect illegal and secretive patterns of behavior. What are the tools, resources and research techniques available to researchers and policy makers interested in making more evidence-based assessments about kleptocracy and grand corruption?

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• T 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Alexander A Cooley
  CULPA: 22 h-index: 33 Info
• 4 points

RETHINKING SPANISH TRANSLATION

Through special attention to translation method and practice, this course aims to develop a solid foundation on which to build the full set of competences required to become thoughtful, alert, self-critical translator while extending and improving the students competence of Spanish through complex translation tasks of a wide range of texts presented with a progressive overall structure and thematic organization. With a professional approach, it focuses on translation as a cross-cultural and crosslinguistic communicative activity that integrates areas such as interlanguage pragmatics, discourse analysis and transfer.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Javier Perez Zapatero
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy

Vertebrates have been around for millions of years. In that time, they have evolved morphological attributes to live in the sea, on land, and in the air; hunt or scavenge food; escape from predation; and more. Yet despite the vast differences that have evolved, vertebrates (including humans) share many common traits. In this course, we will explore the evolution of the vertebrate body plan, focusing specifically on the evolution of form and function in many body systems. We will examine the evolution of homologous structures and identify how vertebrates have evolved a wide array of adaptations within the constraints of evolution. Though anatomy courses necessitate memorization of some key structures, we will focus more on the function of those structure, the broad principles of evolution, and the research techniques used in the related field of functional morphology rather than memorizing large lists of terms.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jordan Balaban
  Info
• 3 points

Visual Neuroscience: From the Eyeball to

VISUAL NEUROSCIENCE

By absorbing electromagnetic radiation through their eyes, people are able to catch frisbees, recognize faces, and judge the beauty of art. For most of us, seeing feels effortless. That feeling is misleading. Seeing requires not only precise optics to focus images on the retina, but also the concerted action of millions of nerve cells in the brain. This intricate circuitry infers the likely causes of incoming patterns of light and transforms that information into feelings, thoughts, and actions. In this course we will study how light evokes electrical activity in a hierarchy of specialized neural networks that accomplish many unique aspects of seeing. Students will have the opportunity to focus their study on particular aspects, such as color, motion, object recognition, learning, attention, awareness, and how sight can be lost and recovered.  Throughout the course we will discuss principles of neural information coding (e.g., receptive field tuning, adaptation, normalization, etc.) that are relevant to other areas of neuroscience, as well as medicine, engineering, art and design.

• Department: Neuroscience & Behavior @Barnard
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Alex White
  h-index: 13 Info
• 4 points

ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY

Prerequisites: BC1001 and BC1129 Developmental Psychology or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 20 senior majors. Barnard students receive priority. Examines adolescent development in theory and reality. Focuses on individual physiological, sexual, cognitive, and affective development and adolescent experiences in their social context of family, peers, school, and community. Critical perspectives of gender, race and ethnicity, sexuality, and teen culture explored.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• T 9 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Erica Musser
  Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN NEUROETHICS

Prerequisites: BC1001 and one of the following: Neurobiology, Behavioral Neuroscience, Fundamentals of Neuropsychology, or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 20 students. Recent advancements in neuroscience raise profound ethical questions. Neuroethics integrates neuroscience, philosophy, and ethics in an attempt to address these issues. Reviews current debated topics relevant to the brain, cognition, and behavior. Bioethical and philosophical principles will be applied allowing students to develop skill in ethical analysis.

• Department: Neuroscience & Behavior @Barnard
• R 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: E'Mett McCaskill
  CULPA: 38 Info
• 4 points

MODELS OF NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS

MODELS NEUROPSYCHIATRIC D

This course is a seminar designed to enhance students understanding of the methods used in primary research to inform how we study and understand the neural basis of both normative and pathological behavior in humans through the use of model systems. Through this course students will read and discuss primary research papers, debate the merits, limitations, and applicability of various approaches for advancing our understanding of the human condition, gain skills in presentation of scientific data, and a richer understanding of the scientific process. Topics covered will include the study of depression, anxiety, aging, memory, evolution, developmental disorders, and genetics (among others).

• Department: Neuroscience & Behavior @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Kevin G Bath
  Info
• 4 points

CANINE COGNITION

Prerequisites: PSYC BC1001 and one other Psychology course. Enrollment limited to 15 students. Permission of the instructor is required. An examination of the scientific study of the domestic dog. Emphasis will be on the evolutionary history of the species; the dogs social cognitive skills; canid perceptual and sensory capacities; dog-primate comparative studies; and dog-human interaction.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexandra C Horowitz
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

RESEARCH SEMINAR IN HISTORY I

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

• Department: History @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Angelo Caglioti
  h-index: 2 Info
• 4 points

PSYCHOBIOLOGY OF STRESS

• Department: Neuroscience & Behavior @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Russell D Romeo
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 4 points

NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

INTERVENTIONS DEVELOP DISABIL

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the history of disability as a construct, as well as major models of disability. Both medical and social models (as well as others) will be examined across each of the major neurodevelopmental disabilities explored, including: ADHD, autism, intellectual disability, specific learning disability, and communication/language/speech and motor disabilities. We will examine the ways in which disability is rooted in disparities associated with power and resources, political rights, and social status. We will also utilize an intersectional lens in approaching disability to examine intersections with class, ethnicity, gender, race, sexuality, and more. For each disability, we will examine cultural, historical, and socio-political context; diagnostic criteria; epidemiology; etiology; assessment; and interventions/common accommodations. For each disability, we will also engage with several first-person, lived experience accounts and attempt to identify links to the different models and theories of disability, as well as theories of intersectionality.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• R 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Erica Musser
  Info
• 4 points

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING PRACTICE

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

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

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING PRACTICE

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

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• F 6 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: David G Vallancourt
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 1 points

TOPICS IN MUSIC & SOCIETY

This course seeks to approach the study of music and society by comparatively studying repertories from different parts of the world, how the history of ideas and methods of studying such repertoires shaped them, the practices that constitute them and the ways they are understood and used by different peoples. Central to this course is the interrelationship between the constitution of a repertoire and the history of the construction of knowledge about it.

• Department: Music
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Aaron A Fox
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

American Studies Methods: Archive Fever

AMST Methods: Archive Fev

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

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

SOUND DESIGN

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor given at first class meeting. Studies the art and practice of designing sound and scoring music for dramatic performance. Students study the relationship between concert and incidental music, and read plays toward the production of a score for live theatre. Students also read broadly in the fields of sound, music, acoustics, and the cultural analysis of sound as a component of performance. Background in music or composition not essential. .

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• M 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Baker
  Info
• 3 points

The Global Threat of Antimicrobial Resis

Antimicrobial Resistance

Antimicrobial resistant bacterial infections were estimated to account for 1.27 million deaths worldwide in 2019. The goal of the seminar is to provide an in-depth analysis of this ongoing threat. Discussions will include the molecular mechanisms, epidemiology of transmission and the consequences of antimicrobial resistant infections. It will also cover current efforts to reduce the spread and emergence of these difficult to treat pathogens, both in the community and the healthcare setting.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

SCENE DESIGN

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 12 students. Permission of instructor given at first class meeting. Introduction to designing for the theatre. The course will focus on set design, developing skills in script analysis, sketching, model making, storyboarding and design presentation. Some investigation into theatre architecture, scenic techniques and materials, and costume and lighting design.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• F 11 a.m.-1:50 p.m.
• 3 points

Read, Think, Write in French

UN3405 enables students to hone and perfect their reading and writing skills while improving their ability to express and organize thoughts in French. In this engaging advanced language class, students are exposed to major texts in fields as diverse as journalism, sociology, anthropology, politics, literature, philosophy and history. Stimulating class discussions, targeted reviews of key grammatical points in context, and an array of diverse writing exercises all contribute to strengthen students’ mastery of the French language. This course also works as a bridge class between Intermediate French II and courses that focus on French and Francophone cultures, history and literature (such as 3409 and 3410). Students who take this class will be fully prepared to take advanced content classes or spend a semester in a Francophone country. This class is required for the French major and minor.

• Department: French
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Laurence Marie
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Sophie Queuniet
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

SEMINAR IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

PersonalityDisorders

This course offers an in-depth examination of depressive disorders, including major depressive disorder, persistant depressive disorder, post-partum depression, premenstrual dysmorphic disorder, and pediatric depression.   Topics include historical perspectives, current understanding of diagnoses and symptoms, neural changes associated with the disorders, and research on effective treatments.  Emphasis will be placed on the impact of depressive disorders on families and communities, as well as gender and cultural differences in diagnosis, treatment and outcomes.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Kathleen M Taylor
  CULPA: 78 Info
• 4 points

MACHINE DESIGN

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

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Yevgeniy Yesilevskiy
  h-index: 7 Info
• 3 points

Intro French & Francophone Literature

Intro French Francophone

This class offers students an introduction to major works that have marked the history of literature in French from the Middle Ages to the present. Our focus will be on close reading and discussion, but works will also be placed in historical context. We will look at a variety of literary genres (sonnet, short story, comedy, autobiography, narrative poetry, novel), and our readings will be complemented by visual materials such as paintings and films. The course is taught entirely in French and is one of two core courses for the major and minor in French. Students are encouraged to take FREN 3405 prior to this course.

• Department: French
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Joanna R Stalnaker
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 3 points

COLLOQUIUM ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN A DIVERSE

COLL:HUMAN RGTS DIVERSE W

Examination of human rights within the context of international migration. The course covers topics such as citizenship, state sovereignty, border control, asylum-seekers, refugees, and undocumented immigrants. (Cross-listed by the Human Rights Program.)

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Ayten Gundogdu
  CULPA: 20 h-index: 8 Info
• 4 points

COLL: BUILDING PEACE

How can we build peace in the aftermath of extensive violence? How can international actors help in this process? This colloquium focuses on international peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding efforts in recent conflicts. It covers general concepts, theories, and debates, as well as specific cases of peacebuilding successes and failures. Cross-listed with Human Rights.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Severine Autesserre
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia h-index: 14 Info
• 4 points

STAGE MANAGEMENT

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor, given at first class meeting. This course explores the role of the stage manager and production manager in theatrical production. Students undertake hands-on exercises to develop the practical and collaborative skills essential to working both as a stage manager and production manager--script analysis; production timeline and rehearsal management; technical rehearsal; budgeting; working with directors and designers; working with unions; health and safety codes; house management; box office.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Michael Banta
  Info
• 3 points

French in the World: A Linguistic Survey

French: Linguistic Survey

This course examines French from a linguistic perspective: the historical development of the language, as well as important phonetic, phonological, and sociolinguistic aspects of varieties of French from around the world. The course is intended for undergraduates in French, as well as students in linguistics, and is open to students across the Columbia community.

• Department: French
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Eric T Matheis
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

Mechanics of Solids for Mechanical Engin

Introduction to the mechanics of solids with an emphasis on mechanical engineering applications. Stress tensor, principal stresses, maximum shear stress, stress equilibrium, infinitesimal strain tensor, Hooke’s law, boundary conditions. Introduction to the finite element method for stress analysis. Static failure theories, safety factors, fatigue failure.  Assignments include finite element stress analyses using university-provided commercial software.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Kristin Myers
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 25 Info
• 3 points

PRIVACY IN A NETWORKED WORLD

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

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

ENG DES-CONCPT/DESIGN GENERATN

A preliminary design for an original project is a prerequisite for the capstone design course. Will focus on the steps required for generating a preliminary design concept. Included will be a brainstorming concept generation phase, a literature search, incorporation of multiple constraints, adherence to appropriate engineering codes and standards, and the production of a layout drawing of the proposed capstone design project in a Computer Aided Design (CAD) software package. Note: MECE students only.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• MW 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Yevgeniy Yesilevskiy
  h-index: 7 Info
• 3 points

MISINFORMATION, JUSTICE & DESIGN

MISINFO, JUSTICE & DESIGN

In this course, we work together to understand and address the challenges of misinformation, disinformation, and strategic manipulation in online environments. Students develop a deep understanding of the problem space from an information and social justice perspective by reading and discussing research—both historical and contemporary—on how and why misinformation and disinformation spread. Alongside this, we explore the process, both personal and interpersonal, by which these issues can be approached and addressed in our own lives. This will involve reflecting on our own presuppositions, beliefs, and biases about information; and doing a project in which we apply the principles of Human-Centered Design to investigate different design directions for addressing misleading information. Through this, students gain important contextual knowledge and hands-on design experience that they can take into future professional domains (from education to policy to technology), where they can contribute to building more trustworthy information systems.

• Department: Computer Science @Barnard
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ahmer Arif
  Info
• 4 points

LANGUAGE & REVOLUTION

Prerequisites: Third-year bridge course (W3300), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350). Kants Enlightenment motto, sapere aude, took on political significance for Spanish American revolutionaries who made their case in prose, pushing against the constraints of the essay. This course traces the genres evolution from the transatlantic debate over political independence to the exuberant declarations of intellectual independence that would follow.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ronald D Briggs
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL

INTRO TO AMERICAN CON LAW

This course will introduce students to basic concepts in American Constitutional Law - including the history and development of the U.S. Constitution, theories and practice of constitutional interpetation, and the historical context of major controversies of the Supreme Court. Students will develop the intellectual ability to read case law, properly conceptualize and analyze constitutional issues, and will foster an informed perspective on the nature and limits of constitutional decision making. Class will spend particular attention on the development of civil rights and civil liberties.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan J Keller
  Info
• 3 points

Evolution of Intelligence, Animal Commun

Prerequisites: PSYC UN1001, and the instructors permission.

A systematic review of the evolution language covering the theory of evolution, conditioning theory, animal communication, ape language experiments, infant cognition, preverbal antecedents of language and contemporary theories of language.

• Department: Psychology
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Herbert S Terrace
  CULPA: 29 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

NEIGHBORHOOD & COMMUNITY DVLP

New York City is made up of more than 400 neighborhoods. The concept of neighborhoods in cities has had many meanings and understandings over time. Equally complex is the concept of community used to describe the people attached to or defined by neighborhood. While neighborhood can be interpreted as a spatial, social, political, racial, ethnic, or even, economic unit; community often refers to the group of stakeholders (i.e. residents, workers, investors) whose interests directly align with the conditions of their environment. Community development is “a process where these community members come together to take collective action and generate solutions to common problems” that result from the changing contexts in their neighborhoods. Using a variety of theories and approaches, residents organize themselves or work with community development practitioners on the ground to obtain safe, affordable housing, improve the public realm, build wealth, get heard politically, develop human capital, and connect to metropolitan labor and housing markets. To address the ever-changing contexts of neighborhoods, community development organizations are taking on new roles and adapting (in various cases) to larger forces within the city, region and nation such as disinvestment, reinvestment, increased cultural diversity, an uncertain macroeconomic environment, and changes in federal policy. For more than a century, city-dwellers—and especially New Yorkers—have been tackling these challenges. This course will examine both historic and contemporary community building and development efforts, paying special attention to approaches which were shaped by New York City. This urban center, often described as a “city of neighborhoods,” has long been a seedbed for community-based problem-solving inventions. The course will focus on the theories (why?), tools (how?), and actors (who?) within the field of community development practice and is organized around important sectors (housing, econom

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 3 points

IMMIGRANT NEW YORK

• Department: History
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Rebecca Kobrin
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

Field Work & Research Seminar: Toddler C

FLDWRK-RSRCH SEM-BAR TOD CNTR

PSYC BC1129/2129 (with or without lab) as well as permission of the instructor.

The Barnard Toddler Center provides the focus for this seminar and research in applied developmental psychology, an amalgam of developmental, educational, and clinical psychology. The seminar integrates theory and research and for AY 20-21 will use daily recordings of the toddler sessions as the centerpiece for understanding early development. The unique context of Covid19 will be used to understand risks in development, especially for vulnerable children and families. Second term students will also conduct research on parenting during the pandemic.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Anna Shusterman
  Info
• 4 points

POST 9/11 IMMIGRATION POLICIES

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

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

Gene-Environment Interactions & Epigenet

Gene-Env Interaction & Ep

The aim of this course is to examine the biological bases of individual differences in behavior. We will start by examining how individual differences in behavior and health are shaped by gene-environment interactions. We will complement these studies with the endophenotype approach and discuss its role in our contemporary views of complex disorders. We will then introduce behavioral epigenetics studies that are suggested to mediate the effects of gene-environment interactions at different levels of analysis. We will continue by discussing how these topics shape and are shaped by developmental programming. We will end the semester by discussing the major debates around these topics as well as their implications in real life and public policies. By covering these topics, students are expected to gain a better understanding of how our behavior is i) formed and shaped by gene-environment interactions over time, ii) influenced by the underlying physiological and epigenetic mechanisms, and iii) changed by developmental processes. With this information, the students are expected to view individual differences in behavior in a perspective that is highly interdisciplinary and dynamic.

• Department: Psychology
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Elif A Duman
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• 4 points

INDEP BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH

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

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

COLL:POLIT ECON:CORRPTN/CONTRL

Prerequisites: POLS V1501 or the equivalent. Admission by application through the Barnard department only. Enrollment limited to 16 students. Barnard syllabus. Comparative political economy course which addresses some important questions concerning corruption and its control: the concept, causes, patterns, consequences, and control of corruption. Introduces students to and engages them in several key social science debates on the causes and effects of political corruption.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Xiaobo Lu
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

Indians and Empires in North America

Indians & Empires in N Am

In this course you will be asked to re-think American history.   That is, we will approach the history of America as a continental history.  This will require that we think of North America as a New World space, a place that was inhabited and occupied by indigenous peoples, and then remade by the arrival and settlement of Europeans.  You will be asked to imagine a North America that was indigenous and adaptive, as well as colonial and Euro-American.  This approach to the study of North American history is designed to challenge the epistemology and literature of the history of colonization and American expansion, which displaces Native peoples from the central narrative of American history by placing them at the physical margins of colonial and national development.  Instead we will explore the intersection and integration of indigenous and Euro-American national identity and national space in North America and trace their co-evolution from first contact through the early nineteenth century.

• Department: History
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Michael Witgen
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• 4 points

GENDERED CONTROVERSIES

Love and sex have long been studied as historical constructs influenced by social, political, and economic dimensions. This course aims to expand this discourse by incorporating the often-overlooked lens of technological mediation. Beginning with the premise that romantic love is deeply shaped by the affordances of the technology of the time, a critical awareness of technological mediation in romance –especially of digital technologies, i.e. online dating, social media, or cybersex— allows for a deeper understanding of how social categories such as gender, race, class, ability, or sexuality are technologically-mediated, thereby informing our societal and cultural perceptions of love, dating, and sex. 

 

Sandra Moyano-Ariza is Term Assistant Professor of WGSS and Research Director at BCRW. Her research works at the intersection of pop culture, philosophy, and digital technologies, with interests in the fields of media studies and digital scholarship, contemporary feminist theory, critical race theory, posthumanism, and affect theory.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sandra Moyano-Ariza
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• 4 points