LABORATORY IN ANIMAL BEHAVIOR

Prerequisites: (BIOL BC1500) and (BIOL BC1502) and (BIOL BC2280) and (BIOL BC1501) and (BIOL BC1503) This lab provides an introduction to animal behavior research, including current research approaches and practical applications of these findings. Students will complete two main projects. The first is a group project using the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, which will involve observing, recording, and analyzing reproductive behaviors. The second is an independent project that will be designed, conducted, and analyzed by students using publicly available animal behavior resources and/or data. Both projects will incorporate critical thinking, problem solving and experimental design, with an emphasize on scientific writing and oral presentation skills.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• T 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Alison Pischedda
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

WORLD CINEMA: LATIN AMERICA

An overview of the major developments in the art and industry of cinema in Latin America, ranging from its earliest days to the most recent works of the digital era. The interaction of Latin American filmmakers with international movements such as neorealism, modernism, cinema vérité, and postmodernism will be addressed. Among the filmmakers to be studied are Luis Buñuel, Glauber Rocha, Raúl Ruiz and Lucrecia Martel. Students will discover the major industrial tends as well as artistic currents that have defined Latin American cinema, as well as have the chance to analyze a number of key works both in terms of their varying approaches to filmmaking as well as their resonance with political/social/historical issues.

• Department: Film
• F 10:10 a.m.-1:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Ramirez Soto
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• 3 points

WORLD CIN: LAT AM DISCUSSION

The global success of film directors Alejandro González Iñárritu, Alfonso Cuarón, and Guillermo del Toro has attracted much attention to the New Mexican Cinema. Yet this «Nuevo cine mexicano» cannot be understood without knowing the traditions of Mexico’s intricate film history. This course explores the numerous tendencies of Mexican cinema through the analysis of its most representative genres, features, and directors since the so called Golden Age (1938-1957). An in-depth analysis of films such as Emilio Fernández’s 
La perla
 (1947), Luis Buñuel’s 
Los olvidados 
(1950), Jomi García Ascot’s and María Luisa Elío's 
En el balcón vacío
 (1962), Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 
La montaña sagrada
 (1973), and Arturo Ripstein's 
Profundo carmesí
 (1996) will contribute to define the characteristics of the most relevant «national» genres – from 1940s melodramas to 1970s psychedelic movies and 1990s crime films. The study of the New Mexican Cinema of Iñárritu (
Amores perros
, 2000), Cuarón (
Y tu mamá también
, 2001), and del Toro (
El laberinto del fauno
, 2006) will comprise an examination of the complex relationship between the US and Mexican film industries, as well as a critique of the very notion of «national identity» in today’s globalized world. We will also analyze new tendencies in commercial, experimental, and documentary Mexican films – including Carlos Reygadas' 
Luz silenciosa
 (2007) and Pedro González 
Rubio's Alamar 
(2009).

• Department: Film
• M 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• T 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• T 11:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Alex Yew
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• Instructor: Josephine Simonian
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• Instructor: Raman K Nimmala
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• 0 points

Interpreting Scientific Evidence

Evaluating Scientific Evi

This class focuses on how we gather reliable scientific evidence about human biology and public health. The aim is to help students better interpret and evaluate the scientific evidence that they will encounter throughout their lifetime, in primary papers but also as presented in news, advertisement, and politics. To these ends, students will be introduced to basic definitions and concepts in statistics and epidemiology, including point estimates and measures of uncertainty, p-values, error rates, association and causation, different study designs, and selection bias. Readings will draw from a textbook as well as the primary literature. The second half of the course will turn to dissecting the representation and misrepresentation of scientific evidence presented in different venues. It will draw primarily from the textbook “Calling Bullshit” and include discussions of timely examples from the news.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Molly Przeworski
  Wikipedia h-index: 58 Info
• 3 points

SCULPTURE I

(Formerly R3330) The fundamentals of sculpture are investigated through a series of conceptual and technical projects. Three material processes are introduced, including wood, metal, and paster casting. Issues pertinent to contemporary sculpture are introduced through lectures, group critiques, discussions, and field trips that accompany class assignments. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• F 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• T 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jon Kessler
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Sable Smith
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• 3 points

INTERMEDIATE POETRY WORKSHOP

Intermediate poetry workshops are for students with some prior instruction in the rudiments of poetry writing and prior poetry workshop experience. Intermediate poetry workshops pose greater challenges to students and maintain higher critical standards than beginning workshops. Students will be instructed in more complex aspects of the craft, including the poetic persona, the prose poem, the collage, open-field composition, and others. They will also be assigned more challenging verse forms such as the villanelle and also non-European verse forms such as the pantoum. They will read extensively, submit brief critical analyses, and put their instruction into regular practice by composing original work that will be critiqued by their peers. By the end of the semester each student will have assembled a substantial portfolio of finished work. Please visit
https://arts.columbia.edu/writing/undergraduate
 for information about registration procedures.

• Department: Writing
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Alexander Dimitrov
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• 3 points

INTERMEDIATE ARMENIAN I

Prerequisites: MDES UN1301 and MDES UN1302 or the equivalent. A continuation of the study of reading, writing and speaking of Armenian. In Intermediate Armenian I, students learn to communicate about a wide range of topics. Such topics include biographical narration, cooking and recipes, health and well-being, holidays and celebrations, travel and geography, etc. At this level, students continue to develop their skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening while perfecting the grammatical concepts to which they were introduced in the first year. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Charry Karamanoukian
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• 4 points

HIST PHIL III:KANT-NIETZSCHE

Prerequisites: None. Exposition and analysis of major texts and figures in European philosophy since Kant. Authors include Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche. Required discussion section (PHIL UN2311). Attendance in the first week of classes is mandatory.

• Department: Philosophy @Barnard
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Frederick Neuhouser
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia h-index: 16 Info
• 4 points

HIST PHIL III:KANT-NIETZSCHE

Prerequisites: None. Exposition and analysis of major texts and figures in European philosophy since Kant. Authors include Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche. Required discussion section (PHIL UN2311). Attendance in the first week of classes is mandatory.

• Department: Auditing
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Frederick Neuhouser
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia h-index: 16 Info
• 0 points

WAR IN GERMANY 1618-2018

• Department: History
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam Tooze
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

WAR IN GERMANY 1618-2018-DIS

• Department: History
• W 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• W 7:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• R 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• R 7:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam Tooze
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

INTRO TO JUDAISM

A historical overview of Jewish belief and practice as these have crystallized and changed over the centuries. Special attention to ritual and worship, the forms of religious literature, central concepts, religious leadership and institutions, Israel among the nations.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Beth A Berkowitz
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 6 Info
• 4 points

BUDDHISM: EAST ASIAN

Lecture and discussion. An introductory survey that studies East Asian Buddhism as an integral , living religious tradition. Emphasis on the reading of original treatises and historiographies in translation, while historical events are discussed in terms of their relevance to contemporary problems confronted by Buddhism. There is a mandatory weekly discussion session.

• Department: Religion
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Michael Como
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 4 points

Intro to Judaism- Discussion

A historical overview of Jewish belief and practice as these have crystallized and changed over the centuries. Special attention to ritual and worship, the forms of religious literature, central concepts, religious leadership and institutions, Israel among the nations.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• R 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• W 6 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Catherine M Otachime
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• Instructor: Millie Forman
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• 0 points

HISTORY OF PHILOSPHY III REC

HISTORY OF PHIL III R

• Department: Philosophy @Barnard
• T 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• T 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Anthony E Garruzzo
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• 0 points

TRADITIONS IN POETRY

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required. 

“For those, in dark, who find their own way by the light of others’ eyes.” —Lucie Brock-Broido

The avenues of poetic tradition open to today’s poets are more numerous, more invigorating, and perhaps even more baffling than ever before. The routes we chose for our writing lead to destinations of our own making, and we take them at our own risk—necessarily so, as the pursuit of poetry asks each of us to light a pilgrim’s candle and follow it into the moors and lowlands, through wastes and prairies, crossing waters as we go. Go after the marshlights, the will-o-wisps who call to you in a voice you’ve longed for your whole life. These routes have been forged by those who came before you, but for that reason, none of them can hope to keep you on it entirely. You must take your steps away, brick by brick, heading confidently into the hinterland of your own distinct achievement.

 

For the purpose of this class, we will walk these roads together, examining the works of classic and contemporary exemplars of the craft. By companioning poets from a large spread of time, we will be able to more diversely immerse ourselves in what a poetic “tradition” truly means. We will read works by Edmund Spencer, Dante, and Goethe, the Romantics—especially Keats—Dickinson, who is mother to us all, Modernists, and the great sweep of contemporary poetry that is too vast to individuate.

 

While it is the imperative of this class to equip you with the knowledge necessary to advance in the field of poetry, this task shall be done in a Columbian manner. Consider this class an initiation, of sorts, into the vocabulary which distinguishes the writers who work under our flag, each of us bound by this language that must be passed on, and therefore changed, to you who inherit it. As I have learned the words, I have changed them, and I give them now to you so that you may pave your own way into your own ways, inspired with the first breath that brought you here, which may excite and—hopefully—frighten you. You must be troubled. This is essential

• Department: Writing
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jane H Crager
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• 3 points

EAR-TRAINING I

Designed to improve the students basic skills in sight-singing, and rhythmic and melodic dictation with an introduction to four-part harmonic dictation.

• Department: Music
• TR 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• MW 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Mary Asti
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• Instructor: Ramin Amir Arjomand
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 1 points

EAR-TRAINING II

Techniques of sight-singing and dictation of diatonic melodies in simple and compound meter with strong emphasis on harmonic dictation.

• Department: Music
• TR 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Joviala
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• 1 points

MUSIC THEORY I

Elementary analysis and composition in a variety of modal and tonal idioms.

• Department: Music
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter M Susser
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 3 points

MUSIC THEORY II

Elementary analysis and composition in a variety of tonal idioms.

• Department: Music
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Cheng W Lim
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• 3 points

SCIENCE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVPT

The course provides students with an understanding of Earth's natural systems that is essential to addressing the multi-faceted issues of sustainable development.  After completing the course, students should be able to incorporate scientific approaches and perspectives into their research in other fields or policy decisions and be able to use scientific methods of data analysis.  The semester will highlight the climate system and solutions from both physical and ecological perspectives; water resources; food production and the cycling of nutrients; and the role of biodiversity in sustainable development.  The course emphasizes key scientific concepts such as uncertainty, experimental versus observational approaches, prediction and predictability, the use of models, and other essential methodological aspects.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• 3 points

MODERN III

Modern III continues training in contemporary/modern technique for the beginning-intermediate  level dancer, emphasizing alignment and musicality while expanding on the dancer’s physical and  intellectual understanding of articulation, phrasing, dynamics, performance and focus. Our class  will incorporate relevant principals from classical modern techniques along with contemporary  aesthetics, improvisation and reflection. Our class aims to create a space that is in support of your  artistic development, aesthetic fluency, and creative explorations as a dancer

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Tamisha Guy
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• Instructor: Francesca Dominguez
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• 2 points

MODERN IV

Modern IV is a contemporary technique class for the intermediate to advanced-intermediate level  dancer, emphasizing alignment and musicality while expanding on the dancer’s physical and  intellectual understanding of articulation, phrasing, dynamics, performance, and focus. Our class  will incorporate relevant principles from classical modern techniques with contemporary  aesthetics, improvisation, and reflection. Our class aims to create a space that is in support of your  technical and aesthetic development as a dancing practitioner, performer, and creator.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• F 1 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Marjorie Folkman
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Jodi Melnick
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 2 points

Contemporary Caribbean Dance

Course Description:
 

This intermediate Contemporary Caribbean Dance class draws from different Caribbean dance styles. This Caribbean fusion class explains different cultural dances, focusing on African Diaspora principles and practices such as syncopation in body and in music.

Based on many of the dance of the Caribbean Islands, students learn to identify dances and rhythms that draw from traditions, such as Arara, Palo, Salsa, Rumba, Tambu, Tumba, Merengue, Reaggaton, Cha Cha Cha, Zouk and Afro Dance, as well as more contemporary styles such as “Technica Cubana” and learn to apply them in contemporary combinations.  The course is designed for students who have some dance training and are looking to widen their understanding of different dances and learn to use different body parts that are not traditionally used in modern dance but are recognizable in Jazz, hip hop and current offerings in popular

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Gabri Christa
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 2 points

INTRO TO INDIAN CIVILIZATION

Introduction to Indian civilization with attention to both its unity and its diversity across the Indian subcontinent. Consideration of its origins, formative development, fundamental social institutions, religious thought and practice (Vedic, Buddhist, Jain, Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh), literary and artistic achievements, and modern challenges.

Students must register for a section of ASCM UN2358.

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Rohini S Shukla
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• 4 points

Global Environmental History

This class introduces students to the field of environmental history from a global perspective. Environmental history is the study of the relationship between nature and society over time. It deals with the material environment, cultural and scientific understandings of nature, and the politics of socio-economic use of natural resources. The class combines the study of classic texts that were foundational to the field with modern case studies from all over the world. It addresses questions of global relevance, such as: how did the environment shape human history? How did humans shape the natural environment? How are power relations of class, race and gender embedded in the environment we live in? The class welcomes students from the natural and social sciences, as well as the humanities. The goal of the course is to understand how the relationship between environment and society in history led to the current climate crisis.

• Department: History @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Angelo Caglioti
  h-index: 2 Info
• 3 points

BUDDHISM: EAST ASIAN-DISC

• Department: Religion
• W noon-1 p.m.
• W 1 p.m.-2 p.m.
• W 4 p.m.-5 p.m.
• W 5 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 9 a.m.-10 a.m.
• R 10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• W 4 p.m.-5 p.m.
• W noon-1 p.m.
• F 10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• F 11 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Mehreen Z Jiwan
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• 0 points

ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN LITERATURE

This colloquium is a course on many influential texts of literature from Ancient Near Eastern cultures, including Sumerian, Egyptian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Hittite, Canaanite, and others. The emphasis is on investigating the literary traditions of each culture – the subject matter, form, methods, and symbolism– that distinguish them from one another and from later traditions of the Middle East. The course is not
a “civilization” course, nor is it a history class, although elements of culture and history will be mentioned as necessary. The course is intended to provide a facility with, and an awareness of, the content and context of ancient works of literature in translation from the Ancient Middle East.

Students in this course will gain a familiarity with the major cultures of the Ancient Middle East, the best known and most remarked upon stories, and the legacy of those works on some later traditions. The course is organized thematically in order to facilitate comparison to the materials in similar courses at Barnard and Columbia. The approach will be immediately familiar to students who have previously taken Asian Humanities (AMEC) or Literature-Humanities (Core), but the course does not require any previous experience with literature or the Ancient Near East and is open to everyone.

All assigned readings for the course will be in English. The course meets once a week and sessions are two hours long.

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Nathanael P Shelley
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

CONTEMPORARY BIOLOGY I

Prerequisites: one year of college chemistry or the written permission of either the instructor or the premedical adviser is required. Recommended as the introductory biology course for science majors who have completed a year of college chemistry and premedical students. The fundamental principles of biochemistry, molecular biology, and genetics. SPS and TC students may register for this course, but they must first obtain the written permission of the instructor, by filling out a paper Registration Adjustment Form (Add/Drop form). The form can be downloaded at the URL below, but must be signed by the instructor and returned to the office of the registrar. http://registrar.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/reg-adjustment.pdf

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• 3 points

PLTCS CRIME& POLICING IN U.S.

This course will examine the historical development of crime and the criminal justice system in the United States since the Civil War. The course will give particular focus to the interactions between conceptions of crime, normalcy and deviance, and the broader social and political context of policy making.

• Department: History @Barnard
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew Vaz
  Info
• 3 points

INTERMEDIATE SANSKRIT I

Prerequisites: Elementary Sanskrit II or instructor permission. This course constitutes the first half of a year-long reading course designed to give students the tools necessary for advanced study in Classical Sanskrit. Readings in epic (itihasa), poetry (kavya), systematic thought (sastra), and commentary (vyakhyana) will introduce students to a variety of important genres and their distinctive conventions. A focus upon the Sanskrit tradition’s own categories of analysis—grammatical, commentarial, and prosodic—will enable students to begin to make sense of original Sanskrit texts as generations of the tradition’s own readers have. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jay Ramesh
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• 4 points

Romantic Poetry

This course examines major British poets of the period 1789-1830.  We will be focusing especially on the poetry and poetic theory of William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and John Keats.  We will also be reading essays, reviews, and journal entries by such figures as Robert Southey, William Hazlitt, and Dorothy Wordsworth.  The class is open to all undergraduate; first-year students and non-English majors are welcome.  Graduate students interested in taking the course should email the professor.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Erik Gray
  CULPA: 35 Info
• 3 points

Romantic Poetry

This course examines major British poets of the period 1789-1830.  We will be focusing especially on the poetry and poetic theory of William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and John Keats.  We will also be reading essays, reviews, and journal entries by such figures as Robert Southey, William Hazlitt, and Dorothy Wordsworth.  The class is open to all undergraduate; first-year students and non-English majors are welcome.  Graduate students interested in taking the course should email the professor.

• Department: Auditing
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Erik Gray
  CULPA: 35 Info
• 0 points

TWENTIETH CENTURY ART

The course will examine a variety of figures, movements, and practices within the entire range of 20th-century art—from Expressionism to Abstract Expressionism, Constructivism to Pop Art, Surrealism to Minimalism, and beyond–situating them within the social, political, economic, and historical contexts in which they arose. The history of these artistic developments will be traced through the development and mutual interaction of two predominant strains of artistic culture: the modernist and the avant-garde, examining in particular their confrontation with and development of the particular vicissitudes of the century’s ongoing modernization. Discussion section complement class lectures. Course is a prerequisite for certain upper-level art history courses.

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

CHINESE RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS

This course provides a chronological and thematic introduction to Chinese religions from their beginnings until modern times. It examines distinctive concepts, practices and institutions in the religions of China. Emphasis will be placed on the diversity and unity of religious expressions in China, with readings drawn from a wide-range of texts: religious scriptures, philosophical texts, popular literature and modern historical and ethnographic studies. Special attention will be given to those forms of religion common to both “elite” and “folk” culture: cosmology, family and communal rituals, afterlife, morality and mythology. The course also raises more general questions concerning gender, class, political patronage, and differing concepts of religion.

• Department: Religion
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ruifeng Chen
  Info
• 4 points

TWENTIETH CENTURY ART-DISC

Required discussion section for UN2405 Twentieth Century Art.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• T 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• T 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• T 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• W 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• R 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• R 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• R 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Yuma Terada
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• Instructor: Rhea C Stark
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• Instructor: Yuma Terada
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• Instructor: Rhea C Stark
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• Instructor: Yasmine Yakuppur
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• 0 points

Chinese Religious Traditions - Discussio

Chinese Religious Trad -

This course provides a chronological and thematic introduction to Chinese religions from their beginnings until modern times. It examines distinctive concepts, practices and institutions in the religions of China. Emphasis will be placed on the diversity and unity of religious expressions in China, with readings drawn from a wide-range of texts: religious scriptures, philosophical texts, popular literature and modern historical and ethnographic studies. Special attention will be given to those forms of religion common to both “elite” and “folk” culture: cosmology, family and communal rituals, afterlife, morality and mythology. The course also raises more general questions concerning gender, class, political patronage, and differing concepts of religion.

• Department: Religion
• W 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• W 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Saila Sri Kambhatla
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• 0 points

LAB IN WRITING FILM CRITICISM

Lab in Writing Film Criticism 

This course will focus on writing fresh, original criticism, on developing an individual voice, and on creating strong arguments supporting your ideas (qualities that translate to many areas, from reviewing to pitching a film project). Screenings in and outside class will be followed by discussion and in-class writing exercises, as well as regular writing assignments. How do you choose an effective critical approach? How do you make your opinions vivid and convincing on the page? We will also analyze recent criticism and consider the changing landscape of film criticism today.

Prerequisite:
Instructor’s permission. Submit a short, film-related sample to cj2374@columbia.edu
Note: Because permission is required, on-line registration may say the course is full when it is not. Priority given to film majors.

• Department: Film
• M 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Caryn James
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• 3 points

STATISTICS FOR ECONOMICS

Elementary computational methods in statistics. Basic techniques in regression analysis of econometric models. One-hour weekly recitation sessions to complement lectures.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Mulu Gebreyohannes
  Info
• 4 points

SECOND YEAR CLASSICAL TIBETAN I

SECOND YEAR CLASSICAL TIBT I

n/a

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sonam Tsering Ngulphu
  Info
• 4 points

UNITED STATES 1940-1975

Emphasis on foreign policies as they pertain to the Second World War, the atomic bomb, containment, the Cold War, Korea, and Vietnam. Also considers major social and intellectual trends, including the Civil Rights movement, the counterculture, feminism, Watergate, and the recession of the 1970s.

• Department: History @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark C Carnes
  CULPA: 50 Info
• 3 points

UNITED STATES 1940-1975

Emphasis on foreign policies as they pertain to the Second World War, the atomic bomb, containment, the Cold War, Korea, and Vietnam. Also considers major social and intellectual trends, including the Civil Rights movement, the counterculture, feminism, Watergate, and the recession of the 1970s.

• Department: Auditing
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark C Carnes
  CULPA: 50 Info
• 0 points

History Painting and Its Afterlives

History Painting & Afterl

This course will study the problematic persistence of history painting as a cultural practice in nineteenth century Europe, well after its intellectual and aesthetic justifications had become obsolete. Nonetheless, academic prescriptions and expectations endured in diluted or fragmentary form. We will examine the transformations of this once privileged category and look at how the representation of exemplary deeds and action becomes increasingly problematic in the context of social modernization and the many global challenges to Eurocentrism. Selected topics explore how image making was shaped by new models of historical and geological time, by the invention of national traditions, and by the emergence of new publics and visual technologies. The relocation of historical imagery from earlier elite milieus into mass culture forms of early cinema and popular illustration will also be addressed.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan K Crary
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

LABORATORY IN SCREENWRITING

This lab is limited to declared Film and Media Studies majors.  Exercises in the writing of film scripts.

• Department: Film
• M 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• T 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• F 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Melanie A Rish
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• Instructor: Rali Chaouni
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• Instructor: Vishnu S Sinha
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• 3 points

PRINTMAKING I: INTAGLIO

(Formerly R3401) Enables the student to realize concepts and visual ideas in a printed form. Basic techniques are introduced and utilized: the history and development of the intaglio process; demonstrations and instruction in line etching, relief, and dry point. Individual and group critiques. Portfolio required at end. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• MW 2:30 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer Nuss
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• 3 points

PRACTICUM SCENIC PAINT

May be retaken for full credit. 

Prerequisites: permission of Theatre Department Production Manager, Michael Banta (
mbanta@barnard.edu
). Training and practical props and/or scenic painting work on Departmental mainstage productions.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• Instructor: Michael Banta
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• 1 points

PRACTICUM LIGHTS & SOUND

May be retaken for full credit. 

Prerequisites: permission of Theatre Department Production Manager, Michael Banta (
mbanta@barnard.edu
). Training and practical lighting and/or sound work on Departmental mainstage productions.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• Instructor: Gregory Winkler
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 1 points

PRACTICUM WARDROBE & RUN CREW

May be retaken for full credit. 

Prerequisites: permission of Theatre Department Costume Shop Manager Kara Feely (kfeely@barnard.edu). Training and practical costume construction and fitting work on Departmental mainstage productions.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• Instructor: Kara M Feely
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• 1 points

PRACTICUM STAGE MANAGEMENT

May be retaken for full credit. 

Prerequisites: permission of Theatre Department Production Manager, Michael Banta (
mbanta@barnard.edu
). Training and practical stage management work on Departmental  mainstage productions.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• Instructor: Michael Banta
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• 3 points

PRACTICUM DESIGN & PRODUCTION ASSISTANT

PRACTICUM DESIGN & PROD A

May be retaken for full credit. 

Prerequisites: permission of the Senior Thesis Festival coordinator. Training and practical design work assisting student designers for the Senior Thesis Festival.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• Instructor: Michael Banta
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• 2 points

COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

Prerequisites: PSYC UN1001 or equivalent introductory course in Psychology This course provides an in-depth survey of data and models of a wide variety of human cognitive functions. Drawing on behavioral, neuropsychological, and neuroimaging research, the course explores the neural mechanisms underlying complex cognitive processes, such as perception, memory, and decision making. Importantly, the course examines the logic and assumptions that permit us to interpret brain activity in psychological terms.

• Department: Psychology
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Alfredo Spagna
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 15 Info
• 3 points

PRINTMAKING I: RELIEF

(Formerly R3411) Printmaking I: Relief introduces woodcut and other relief techniques. Given the direct quality of the process, the class focuses on the students personal vision through experimentation with this print medium. Individual and group critiques. Portfolio required at end. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• MW 9:30 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Nathan N Catlin
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• 3 points

U.S. ERA OF CIVIL WAR & RECON

It is difficult to exaggerate the significance of the American Civil War as an event in the making of the modern United States and, indeed, of the western world.  Indeed the American Civil War and Reconstruction introduced a whole series of dilemmas that are still with us.  What is the legacy of slavery in U.S. history and contemporary life?  What is the proper balance of power between the states and the central government? Who is entitled to citizenship in the United States?   What do freedom and equality mean in concrete terms?

This course surveys the history of the Civil War and Reconstruction in all of its aspects.  It focuses on the causes of the war in the divergent development of northern and southern states; the prosecution of the war and all that it involved, including the process of slave emancipation; and the contentious process of reconstructing the re-united states in the aftermath of Union victory.  The course includes the military history of the conflict, but ranges far beyond it to take the measure of the social and political changes the war unleashed.  It focuses on the Confederacy as well as the Union, on women as well as men, and on enslaved black people as well as free white people.  It takes the measure of large scale historical change while trying to grasp the experience of those human beings who lived through it.

• Department: History
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Stephanie McCurry
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

U.S. ERA OF CIVIL WAR & RECON

It is difficult to exaggerate the significance of the American Civil War as an event in the making of the modern United States and, indeed, of the western world.  Indeed the American Civil War and Reconstruction introduced a whole series of dilemmas that are still with us.  What is the legacy of slavery in U.S. history and contemporary life?  What is the proper balance of power between the states and the central government? Who is entitled to citizenship in the United States?   What do freedom and equality mean in concrete terms?

This course surveys the history of the Civil War and Reconstruction in all of its aspects.  It focuses on the causes of the war in the divergent development of northern and southern states; the prosecution of the war and all that it involved, including the process of slave emancipation; and the contentious process of reconstructing the re-united states in the aftermath of Union victory.  The course includes the military history of the conflict, but ranges far beyond it to take the measure of the social and political changes the war unleashed.  It focuses on the Confederacy as well as the Union, on women as well as men, and on enslaved black people as well as free white people.  It takes the measure of large scale historical change while trying to grasp the experience of those human beings who lived through it.

• Department: Auditing
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Stephanie McCurry
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

U.S. ERA OF CIVIL WAR & RECON-DISCUSSION

• Department: History
• W 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• R 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• R 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• R 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• R 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Stephanie McCurry
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

Social Neuroscience

This course will provide a broad overview of the field of social neuroscience. We will consider how social processes are implemented at the neural level, but also how neural mechanisms help give rise to social phenomena and cultural experiences. Many believe that the large expansion of the human brain evolved due to the complex demands of dealing with social others—competing or cooperating with them, deceiving or empathizing with them, understanding or misjudging them. What kind of “social brain” has this evolutionary past left us with? In this course, we will review core principles, theories, and methods guiding social neuroscience, as well as research examining the brain basis of processes such as theory of mind, emotion, stereotyping, social group identity, empathy, judging faces and bodies, morality, decision-making, the impact of culture and development, among others. Overall, this course will introduce students to the field of social neuroscience and its multi-level approach to understanding the brain in its social context.

• Department: Psychology
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jon B Freeman
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

INTRO AFRICAN-AMERCN HISTORY

Major themes in African-American History: slave trade, slavery, resistance, segregation, the New Negro, Civil Rights, Black Power, challenges and manifestations of the contemporary Color Line.General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS).

• Department: History @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Celia E Naylor
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

PRINTMAKING I: SILKSCREEN

(Formerly R3413) Printmaking I: Silkscreen introduces silkscreen and other silkscreen techniques. Given the direct quality of the process, the class focuses on the students personal vision through experimentation with this print medium. Individual and group critiques. Portfolio required at end. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• R 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Aurelien T Couput
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• 3 points

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY I-LECTURES

Prerequisites: (CHEM UN1403 and CHEM UN1404) or CHEM UN1604 The principles of organic chemistry. The structure and reactivity of organic molecules are examined from the standpoint of modern theories of chemistry. Topics include stereochemistry, reactions of organic molecules, mechanisms of organic reactions, syntheses and degradations of organic molecules, and spectroscopic techniques of structure determination. Although CHEM UN2443 and CHEM UN2444 are separate courses, students are expected to take both terms sequentially. Students must ensure they register for the recitation which corresponds to the lecture section. Please check the Directory of Classes for details.

• Department: Chemistry
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: James Leighton
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia h-index: 46 Info
• Instructor: Neel H Shah
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 20 Info
• Instructor: Charles E Jr Doubleday
  Info
• 4 points

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY I-LECTURES

Prerequisites: (CHEM UN1403 and CHEM UN1404) or CHEM UN1604 The principles of organic chemistry. The structure and reactivity of organic molecules are examined from the standpoint of modern theories of chemistry. Topics include stereochemistry, reactions of organic molecules, mechanisms of organic reactions, syntheses and degradations of organic molecules, and spectroscopic techniques of structure determination. Although CHEM UN2443 and CHEM UN2444 are separate courses, students are expected to take both terms sequentially. Students must ensure they register for the recitation which corresponds to the lecture section. Please check the Directory of Classes for details.

• Department: Auditing
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Charles E Jr Doubleday
  Info
• 0 points