ELEMENTARY SPANISH II

Prerequisites: SPAN UN1101 or a score of 280-379 in the departments Placement Examination. An intensive introduction to Spanish language communicative competence, with stress on basic oral interaction, reading, writing and cultural knowledge as a continuation of SPAN UN1101. The principal objectives are to understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of immediate relevance; communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a direct exchange of information on familiar matters; describe in simple terms aspects of our background and personal history; understand the main point, the basic content, and the plot of filmic as well as short written texts. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• TRF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TRF 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• TRF 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• TRF 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• MWR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• MWR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• MWR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Francisca Aguilo Mora
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Jose Placido Ruiz-Campillo
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• 4 points

PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS

Corequisites: ECON UN1155 How a market economy determines the relative prices of goods, factors of production, and the allocation of resources and the circumstances under which it does it efficiently. Why such an economy has fluctuations and how they may becontrolled.

• Department: Economics
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Sunil K Gulati
  CULPA: 113 Info
• Instructor: Prajit K Dutta
  CULPA: 20 Info
• Instructor: Waseem Noor
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

ACCELERATED ELEM FRENCH

Prerequisites: The instructor's permission This course covers in one semester the material normally presented in Elementary French I and II. This course is especially recommended for students who already know another Romance language.

• Department: French
• MTWR 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Pascale Hubert-Leibler
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 8 points

HEALTH COACHING

This course is designed to teach students the process of identifying, setting, and achieving a specific health behavior change goal within the Wheel of Health. The course will consist of short lectures, discussions, and individual health coaching sessions. Action steps towards the health goal will be expected each week outside of class meeting times.

• Department: Physical Education @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa K Northrop
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 1 points

Seeing, Surveilling, and Performing

SEEING/SURVEILLING/PERFOR

In this course, we will read texts that raise questions about how gender, race, class, and sexuality are performed under the surveillance of culture. We will discuss not only how performance helps to create and stabilize categories that include and exclude, but also how performance can disrupt and destabilize these categories. Literary texts will include
Passing
by Nella Larsen,
Fantomina
by Eliza Haywood, poems by Ovid, and the film
Paris is Burning.
Secondary texts will include Sara Ahmed, Talia Bettcher, Judith Butler, Mary Ann Doane, W.E.B Dubois, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Jack Halberstam, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Laura Mulvey, and James C. Scott.

• Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Vrinda Condillac
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 3 points

American Exceptionalism

AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM

In this course we probe the ideology of American "exceptionalism." We treat the literary history of this idea as a transtemporal conversation involving its founding architects, experimental reformers, and ardent critics concerned with the question of what should be valued on the American continent and within American experience. We become cartographers of this conversation and interlocutors within it, as we explore how habits of conceiving truth, power, and the relationship of human beings to the natural world have controlled what counts as exceptional and what ordinary. Where should we direct our awe? We approach our subject through a theoretical lens that combines elements of pragmatism, ordinary language philosophy, and feminism.  Core readings will include James Baldwin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Audre Lorde, and Henry David Thoreau. Cost of materials will not exceed $30.

• Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Kristi-Lynn Cassaro
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• 3 points

THE RISE OF CIVILIZATION-DISC

• Department: Anthropology
• R 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• R 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• F 11:10 a.m.-noon
• M 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• M 11:10 a.m.-noon
• T 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• T 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Saphe Shamoun
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• 0 points

The Body as Border

THE BODY AS BORDER

In our course, we'll examine the legacy of the body as a boundary that defines and separates categories like self and other, sanctioned and forbidden, and male and female. How and why has the body become the site of difference and distinction? What happens when a body crosses boundaries and collapses categories -- what is threatened, what made possible? Readings will likely include John Milton's
Paradise Lost,
Mary Shelley's
Frankenstein,
Nella Larsen's
Passing,
Akwaeke Emezi's "Who is Like God?", and essays and articles by scholars including Susan Stryker, bell hooks, Judith Butler, and Jeffrey Jerome Cohen.

• Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Wendy C Schor-Haim
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 3 points

Wild Tongues

WILD TONGUES

In this course, we’ll examine storytelling and language through the lens of gender. How are constructions of gender used to police what kinds of stories are told, who can tell them, and who is believed? What forms and strategies of narration are available and to whom? Our focus on tongues—both linguistic and anatomical—allows us to ask questions about the forms that language takes and the relationship of narrations and language to the body. How have women engaged and re-deployed existing myths and narratives? How is the self both constructed and policed through narratives of gender, race, class, sexuality, family? In our analyses, we’ll work to challenge fixed or binary understandings of gender and power by asking how these writers engage and challenge the various ways in which the category of "women" is constructed within culture. Readings are subject to change but may include
The Hymn to Demeter,
selections from Ovid’s
Metamorphoses,
selected poems by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Toni Morrison's
The Bluest Eye,
Yvette Christiansë's
Castaway,
and/or selections from Cherrie Moraga's
Loving in the War Years
and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's
Dictee
and critical conversation texts by authors including Gloria Anzaldúa, Sara Ahmed, and Audre Lorde.

• Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Meredith A Benjamin
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

HUMAN ORIGINS & EVOLUTION-DISC

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• R 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• F noon-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Jill S Shapiro
  CULPA: 46 Info
• 0 points

Women and Comedy

WOMEN AND COMEDY

"What a language it is, the laughter of women,
high-flying and subversive.
Long before law and scripture
we heard the laughter, we understood freedom." -Lisel Mueller
"I’m not funny, what I am is brave." - Lucille Ball
  This course focuses on the intersection between comedy and gender, race, class and sexuality. We will explore laughter as a subversive act and how the identity of a "funny woman" can be both dangerous and liberating. As Margo Jefferson writes, "Given the history of social restriction and sexual regulation, how many women have been in a position to -- or been willing to -- take these risks?" We will explore how the tools of comedy can be used to make mischief, to transgress the bounds of genre and form and to contest popular ideas about difference and power. How can humor be illuminating? How can humor be feminist? How can humor be intersectional? How can humor help us tell the hard truths? Can we laugh at oppression without laughing it off?
  This is not a course on humor writing or one that exclusively focuses on humorists. Rather than "funny," we focus on "fun," explore playfulness as it occurs in myriad ways across a diverse variety of texts. As we do, we will find models, key writerly moves, to adapt into our own writing.
  Readings will include work by Tina Fey, Audre Lorde, Patricia Lockwood, among others. We'll also be viewing performances, from stand up to sketches to sitcoms, that speak to themes we are exploring. You need one book for this class: Tina Fey's
Bossypants
. Course costs will not exceed $30.

• Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Nina Sharma
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

REAL TALK / REAL TIME

This course takes as its foundation the words of bell hooks: “When our lived experience of theorizing is fundamentally linked to processes of self-recovery, of collective liberation, no gap exists between theory and practice.” Over the course of this term, students will learn to embrace their responsibility as intellectuals in the largest sense. By recognizing current issues as sites of intersectional analysis, they will learn to merge their scholarly activities with public discussion and organizational activism. Working collaboratively, they will research topics of current import and, on that basis, organize two speaker events, thereby learning how public intellectual organizing engages both theory and practice.

• Department: Consortium for Critical Interdisciplinary Studies @Barnard
• F noon-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Yvette Christianse
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• 1 points

FIRST YEAR CHINESE W

The course is specially designed for students of Chinese heritage and advanced beginners with good speaking skills. It aims to develop the student's basic skills to read and write modern colloquial Chinese. Pinyin system is introduced; standard Chinese pronunciation, and traditional characters. Classes will be conducted mostly in Chinese. Open to students with Mandarin speaking ability in Chinese only. CC GS EN CE

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MTR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Tianqi Jiang
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Hailong Wang
  CULPA: 22 Info
• 5 points

Imagining Social Justice

IMAGINING SOCIAL JUSTICE

While George Orwell may have been right when he remarked that "history is written by the winners," imaginative literature is almost always preoccupied with the losers. This course investigates how representational writing wrests its central themes and rhetorical strategies from imagining the voices of the disenfranchised. We begin from the premise that such acts of representation substitute as forms of redress, whether a justice of retribution and restoration or simply a caring gesture of bearing witness. Units will feature "fallen women" plots, plots of economic injustice, plots of racial injustice, and vigilantism. Texts may include the "Hymn to Demeter," Sophocles’s
Antigone
, Eliza Haywood’s
Fantomina
, Christina Rossetti’s
Goblin Market
, Elizabeth Gaskell’s
Mary Barton
, Toni Morrison’s
The Bluest Eye
, Emerald Fennell’s
Promising Young Woman
, examples of the American Western, the limited TV series
Watchmen
, and theoretical work by Ahmed, Fricker, Hartman, Ortner, Solnit, Spillers.

• Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Monica F Cohen
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

MELLON MAYS UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP JUN

MMUF JUNIOR YEAR COLLOQUI

This is a course designed for the students enrolled in the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program.  It should be taken fall and spring semesters of a student's third and fourth years at the college (for a total of 6 course credits total over the two years). The goal of this course is to become familiar with academic research and writing, as well as the  culture of colleges/ universities in order to prepare students to apply to graduate school and earn the PhD.. The program hones academic writing skills (research papers, project and grant proposals, academic reflections designed to facilitate intentional goal setting and planning), teaches skills related to scholarly presentations (oral and written), as well as familiarizes students with academic culture in particular diversity, equity and inclusion issues and concerns in the academy. Students are expected to attend all the events and meetings associated with the program.

• Department: Barnard College
• F noon-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Monica L Miller
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 1.5 points

ORIGINS AND MEANING

This course is a one-semester journey across cosmological history, from the beginning of time to something akin to its end. We will explore the origin of inanimate physical structures (the cosmos as a whole, as well as that of galaxies, stars, planets, particles, atoms and complex molecules), the origin of life (replicating molecules, the first cells, as well as more complex life forms), the origin of mind (self-reflective conscious awareness) and the origin of culture (language, myth, religion, art, and science). We will then consider what science in particular tells us about the very far future, where we will encounter the likely demise of all complex matter, all life and all consciousness. In the face of such disintegration we will examine the nature of value and purpose. We will recognize that the deepest understanding of reality emerges from blending all of the accounts we discuss—from the reductionist to the humanist to the cosmological—and only through such amalgamation can we fully grasp the long-standing human search for meaning.

• Department: Physics
• F 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Brian Greene
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SODB:FIRST AND SECOND YR SEM

This is a course designed for the students enrolled in the Barbara Silver Horowitz ’55 Scholars of Distinction program. It should be taken fall and spring semesters of a students first and second years at the college (for a total of 4 course credits total over the two years). Each month is organized around an outing (or several outings) with readings and guest speakers to complement the outing. Students are expected to attend all the events and meetings. Each student will also produce a blog post connected to or inspired by each event. These posts will appear on the Barnard College website dedicated to the program. Blog posts do not have to cover the event per se, they might, for example, attend to ancillary issues raised by the event or topics raised by the accompanying readings.

• Department: Scholars of Distinction @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 1 points

EUR HIST 1500-1789 DISC

• Department: History @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• W 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 6:30 p.m.-7:20 p.m.
• R 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• R 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• R 5:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Deborah Valenze
  CULPA: 16 Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

WOMEN OF COLOR IN SPECULATIVE LITERATURE

WOMEN OF COLOR&SCIENCE FI

"The Future is Female" except in science fiction, where it still looks pretty white and male.  What happens when women of color take on such tropes as space exploration, cybernetics, superpowers, and the end of the world?  How can women of color change the way we not only think of the future, but think of the present as well?  In this class we’ll look at how speculative literature looks at the intersections of race, gender, class, sexuality, technology, and environmental concerns.  Readings will include work from such authors as Octavia Butler, Franny Choi, Sam Chanse, G Willow Wilson, and Tananarive Due with potential critical readings from Lisa Yaszek, Charlotte E Howell, and bell hooks.

• Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Quincy Jones
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• 3 points

COMPREHENSIVE BEG CATALAN

An extensive introduction to the Catalan language with an emphasis on oral communication as well as the reading and writing practice that will allow the student to function comfortably in a Catalan environment.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Elsa Ubeda
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

NEW YORK CITY IN LITERATURE

Discover New York City! Beginning in the 19th century and moving to the present day, this course employs NYC as a lens through which we focus our exploration of the ways race, class, gender, and religion play parts in defining America. Our readings alternately imagine and challenge the idea that NYC is a locus of freedom and the American dream, a place that welcomes immigrants and refugees. Traveling back in time, we explore the city that Walt Whitman idealized as inclusive and democratic and that Frederick Douglass, escaping slavery, knew as a place of precarious freedom. Moving forward, we explore Edith Wharton’s city of the 1880’s Gilded Age, Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes’ city of the 1920’s Harlem Renaissance. We explore Alan Ginsberg’s city of the 1950’s Beats and the contemporary city of international immigrants and newcomers. In plays, poems, novels, and short stories – and in excursions throughout the city – we explore the diverse and startling ways NYC becomes home for our authors and for us. Writers may include Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Horatio Alger, Edith Wharton, Edgar Alan Poe, Israel Zangwill, Shaun Tan, Langston Hughes, Alan Ginsberg, Frank O’Hara, Edwidge Danticat, and Colson Whitehead.

• Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer L Rosenthal
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

COMPREHENSIVE BEGINNING SPAN

Intensive, fast-paced elementary Spanish course for 
multilingual learners who have had little to no formal education in Spanish
. Replaces the sequence SPAN UN1101-SPAN UN1102.
Prerequisites
:  Take the Department's 
Language Placement Examination
. (It is only for diagnostic purposes, to assess your language learning skills, not your knowledge of Spanish).  If you score approximately 330 OR MORE, you may qualify for this course if: - 
you have had little to no formal education in Spanish
, AND  - you identify with ONE of the following language learner profiles: 


Learners of Spanish as a 3rd language
: fluent in a language other than English


Informal learners of Spanish
: English speakers who have “picked up” Spanish by interacting with Spanish speakers in informal settings


“Receptive” Spanish heritage learners
: English dominant, but you understand Spanish spoken by family and community members

(The exam is only an initial assessment for diagnostic purposes. Your score might be high, even if you have never studied Spanish in a formal setting).  You do not need my permission to register*. I will further assess your level during the Change of Program period. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or if you are unsure about your placement in this course. *Students who do not have the necessary proficiency level may not remain in this course. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• TRF 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Diana Romero
  CULPA: 27 Info
• 4 points

LIVES IN TRANSLATION

This class focuses on the theme of translation and what happens when texts and people cross national, cultural, linguistic, racial or gendered borders. Through our classroom discussions and essays, we will explore the following questions: Why or how do texts lend themselves to or resist translation? How do encounters with dominant discourses necessitate acts of self-translation or resistance to translation, especially for people of color, immigrants or queer communities? How do narratives (both fictional and personal) change when translated across cultures and time to fit with local discourses? What is the role of the translator in these acts of remaking? Drawing on postcolonial and translation theory, we will consider how writers have pushed back against dominant narratives through texts that cross and complicate linguistic, cultural and national borders. Readings are subject to change but will likely include a selection from following: literary texts by James Baldwin, Sappho, Marjane Satrapi, Ocean Vuong, Fatimah Asghar, Irena Klepfisz, as well as various English translations of the
1001 Night
s; and scholarly texts by Gloria Anzaldúa, Edward Said, bell hooks, Friedrich Schleiermacher and Jorge Luis Borges. Course costs will not exceed $20; access to books can also be made available to students who need them.

• Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Duygu Ula
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY GREEK

Covers all of Greek grammar and syntax in one term. Prepares the student to enter second-year Greek (GREK UN2101 or GREK UN2102).

• Department: Classics
• TRF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jacob C Haagenson
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• 4 points

MASTERPIECES OF WESTERN ART

Discussion and analysis of the artistic qualities and significance of selected works of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Parthenon in Athens to works of the 20th century.

• Department: Core (A&S)
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: David H Schneller
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Martina Mims
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Virginia S Girard
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• Instructor: David H Schneller
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Irina T Oryshkevich
  CULPA: 11 Info
• Instructor: Alex G Weintraub
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• Instructor: Kalyani M Ramachandran
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• Instructor: Whitney A Kite
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• Instructor: Alex G Weintraub
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• Instructor: Nicholas C Morgan
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Giulia Bertoni
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• Instructor: Katherine H Gobel
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• Instructor: Nicholas C Morgan
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Alexander Ekserdjian
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• Instructor: Caitlin M Miller
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• Instructor: Eleonora Pistis
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• Instructor: Corey Ratch
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• Instructor: Alyse B Muller
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• Instructor: Sehyun Oh
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• Instructor: Aleksa Zivkovic
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• Instructor: Sarah E Bevin
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• Instructor: Leah E Werier
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• Instructor: Steven A Niedbala
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• Instructor: Benjamin Young
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Lucas T Cohen
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Kent M Minturn
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Catherine J Damman
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• Instructor: Sandrine S Larrive-Bass
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Steven A Niedbala
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• Instructor: Catherine J Damman
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• Instructor: Leah E Werier
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• Instructor: Sophia D'Addio
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Susan M Sivard
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Page S Knox
  CULPA: 14 Info
• Instructor: Sophia D'Addio
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Margot D Bernstein
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: John M Beeson
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• Instructor: Giovanni Lovisetto
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• Instructor: Margot D Bernstein
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: James C Chamberlain
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Caroline A Wamsler
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 3 points

INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY ITALIAN

An intensive course that covers two semesters of elementary Italian in one, and prepares students to move into Intermediate Italian.  Students will develop their Italian communicative competence through listening, (interactive) speaking, reading and (interactive) writing. The Italian language will be used for real-world purposes and in meaningful contexts to promote intercultural understanding. This course is especially recommended for students who already know another Romance language.  May be used toward fulfillment of the language requirement.

• Department: Italian
• TRF 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Barbara Spinelli
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 6 points

INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY COURSE

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• Department: Classics
• TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Valeria Spacciante
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• 4 points

WRITING AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Beginning with the Popol Vuh, the Mayan myth of creation, which records the first contact with the Spanish conquistadors about 1555, we will construct a history of American nature writing up to the present. Description and interpretation of nature has shaped artistic representation from the very beginning of human history, and we will focus on texts and images from the Americas with reference to selected European texts: beginning with selected Native American writing, we will move from the 18th century to excerpts from Wordsworth's "Prelude" in England (1798), which in turn influenced Emerson's essay "Nature" (1836) and Thoreau's writing in Walden and "Civil Disobedience" (1851). In the 20th century, we will look at the environmental impact of writing and images of nature, drawing from Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" (1962) and John McPhee's "Encounters with the Archdruid" (1971). This will lead us to look at activist organizations including NRDC and the work of Greta Thunberg and, finally, we will both write and analyze contemporary environmental journalism, including Bill McKibben's "The End of Nature" and Liz Kolbert's
The Sixth Extinction
.

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

MASTERPIECES OF WESTERN MUSIC

Analysis and discussion of representative works from the Middle Ages to the present.

• Department: Core (A&S)
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Anna-Louise R Walton
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• Instructor: Calder M Hannan
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• Instructor: Lauren M Shepherd
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• 3 points