COLUMBIA UNIV JAZZ ENSEMBL

JAZZ ENSEMBLE - PIANO TRIO

Prerequisites: Auditions are required. Sign up for an audition on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu Prerequisites: Audition Required: Sign up for an audition time on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu Accepting NEW STUDENTS in FALL semester ONLY. All accepted MPP students must register for lessons and ensembles by the change-of-program deadline in order to be allowed to attend lessons that semester. Petitioning students must notify MPP staff prior to this deadline. Contact Music Performance Program at mpp@columbia.edu

• Department: Music
• Instructor: Bruce Barth
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• 1 points

COLUMBIA UNIV JAZZ ENSEMBL

JAZZ ENSEMBLE

Prerequisites: Auditions are required. Sign up for an audition on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu Prerequisites: Audition Required: Sign up for an audition time on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu Accepting NEW STUDENTS in FALL semester ONLY. All accepted MPP students must register for lessons and ensembles by the change-of-program deadline in order to be allowed to attend lessons that semester. Petitioning students must notify MPP staff prior to this deadline. Contact Music Performance Program at mpp@columbia.edu

• Department: Music
• Instructor: Bruce Barth
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• 1 points

COLUMBIA UNIV JAZZ ENSEMBL

COLUMBIA UNIV JAZZ ENSEMBLE

Prerequisites: Auditions are required. Sign up for an audition on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu Prerequisites: Audition Required: Sign up for an audition time on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu Accepting NEW STUDENTS in FALL semester ONLY. All accepted MPP students must register for lessons and ensembles by the change-of-program deadline in order to be allowed to attend lessons that semester. Petitioning students must notify MPP staff prior to this deadline. Contact Music Performance Program at mpp@columbia.edu

• Department: Music
• Instructor: Vince Cherico
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• Instructor: Victor J Lin
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• 1 points

COLUMBIA UNIV JAZZ ENSEMBL

JAZZ ENSEMBLE - FREE JAZZ

Prerequisites: Auditions are required. Sign up for an audition on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu Prerequisites: Audition Required: Sign up for an audition time on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu Accepting NEW STUDENTS in FALL semester ONLY. All accepted MPP students must register for lessons and ensembles by the change-of-program deadline in order to be allowed to attend lessons that semester. Petitioning students must notify MPP staff prior to this deadline. Contact Music Performance Program at mpp@columbia.edu

• Department: Music
• Instructor: Ole Mathisen
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• 1 points

COLUMBIA UNIV JAZZ ENSEMBL

JAZZ ENSEMBLE - HYBRID ENS

Prerequisites: Auditions are required. Sign up for an audition on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu Prerequisites: Audition Required: Sign up for an audition time on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu Accepting NEW STUDENTS in FALL semester ONLY. All accepted MPP students must register for lessons and ensembles by the change-of-program deadline in order to be allowed to attend lessons that semester. Petitioning students must notify MPP staff prior to this deadline. Contact Music Performance Program at mpp@columbia.edu

• Department: Music
• Instructor: Ole Mathisen
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• 1 points

COLUMBIA UNIV JAZZ ENSEMBL

COLUMBIA UNIV JAZZ ENSEMBLE

Prerequisites: Auditions are required. Sign up for an audition on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu Prerequisites: Audition Required: Sign up for an audition time on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu Accepting NEW STUDENTS in FALL semester ONLY. All accepted MPP students must register for lessons and ensembles by the change-of-program deadline in order to be allowed to attend lessons that semester. Petitioning students must notify MPP staff prior to this deadline. Contact Music Performance Program at mpp@columbia.edu

• Department: Music
• Instructor: Ole Mathisen
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• Instructor: Don Sickler
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• 1 points

COLUMBIA UNIV JAZZ ENSEMBL

JAZZ ENSEMBLE - BIG BAND

Prerequisites: Auditions are required. Sign up for an audition on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu Prerequisites: Audition Required: Sign up for an audition time on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu Accepting NEW STUDENTS in FALL semester ONLY. All accepted MPP students must register for lessons and ensembles by the change-of-program deadline in order to be allowed to attend lessons that semester. Petitioning students must notify MPP staff prior to this deadline. Contact Music Performance Program at mpp@columbia.edu

• Department: Music
• Instructor: Ole Mathisen
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• 1 points

FITNESS OUTSIDE

A fitness course based on outdoor workouts. Includes walking, jogging and basic body weight training for cardiovascular, core, and muscular endurance. Students will visit locations both on and off campus for a variety of fitness activities. This course is designed for all fitness levels. Must be willing to workout in public spaces.

• Department: Physical Education @Barnard
• MW 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• TR 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: India C Choquette
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• Instructor: Laura Masone
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 1 points

WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLE

BLUEGRASS ENSEMBLE

Prerequisites: Auditions are required. Sign up for an audition on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu Prerequisites: Audition Required: Sign up for an audition time on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu Accepting NEW STUDENTS in FALL semester ONLY. All accepted MPP students must register for lessons and ensembles by the change-of-program deadline in order to be allowed to attend lessons that semester. Petitioning students must notify MPP staff prior to this deadline. Contact Music Performance Program at mpp@columbia.edu

• Department: Music
• Instructor: James L Kerr
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• 1 points

WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLE

GAGAKU

Prerequisites: Auditions are required. Sign up for an audition on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu Prerequisites: Audition Required: Sign up for an audition time on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu Accepting NEW STUDENTS in FALL semester ONLY. All accepted MPP students must register for lessons and ensembles by the change-of-program deadline in order to be allowed to attend lessons that semester. Petitioning students must notify MPP staff prior to this deadline. Contact Music Performance Program at mpp@columbia.edu

• Department: Music
• Instructor: Alicia Lindsey
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• 1 points

WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLE

HOGAKU: SHAKUHACHI

Prerequisites: Auditions are required. Sign up for an audition on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu Prerequisites: Audition Required: Sign up for an audition time on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu Accepting NEW STUDENTS in FALL semester ONLY. All accepted MPP students must register for lessons and ensembles by the change-of-program deadline in order to be allowed to attend lessons that semester. Petitioning students must notify MPP staff prior to this deadline. Contact Music Performance Program at mpp@columbia.edu

• Department: Music
• Instructor: Elizabeth Brown
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• 1 points

WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLE

HOGAKU: KOTO

Prerequisites: Auditions are required. Sign up for an audition on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu Prerequisites: Audition Required: Sign up for an audition time on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu Accepting NEW STUDENTS in FALL semester ONLY. All accepted MPP students must register for lessons and ensembles by the change-of-program deadline in order to be allowed to attend lessons that semester. Petitioning students must notify MPP staff prior to this deadline. Contact Music Performance Program at mpp@columbia.edu

• Department: Music
• Instructor: Yumi Kurosawa
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• 1 points

WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLE

KLEZMER ENSEMBLE

Prerequisites: Auditions are required. Sign up for an audition on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu Prerequisites: Audition Required: Sign up for an audition time on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu Accepting NEW STUDENTS in FALL semester ONLY. All accepted MPP students must register for lessons and ensembles by the change-of-program deadline in order to be allowed to attend lessons that semester. Petitioning students must notify MPP staff prior to this deadline. Contact Music Performance Program at mpp@columbia.edu

• Department: Music
• Instructor: Jeff Warschauer
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• 1 points

WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLE

AFRO-CUBAN ENSEMBLE

Prerequisites: Auditions are required. Sign up for an audition on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu Prerequisites: Audition Required: Sign up for an audition time on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu Accepting NEW STUDENTS in FALL semester ONLY. All accepted MPP students must register for lessons and ensembles by the change-of-program deadline in order to be allowed to attend lessons that semester. Petitioning students must notify MPP staff prior to this deadline. Contact Music Performance Program at mpp@columbia.edu

• Department: Music
• 1 points

WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLE

ARAB MUSIC ENSEMBLE

Prerequisites: Auditions are required. Sign up for an audition on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu Prerequisites: Audition Required: Sign up for an audition time on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu Accepting NEW STUDENTS in FALL semester ONLY. All accepted MPP students must register for lessons and ensembles by the change-of-program deadline in order to be allowed to attend lessons that semester. Petitioning students must notify MPP staff prior to this deadline. Contact Music Performance Program at mpp@columbia.edu

• Department: Music
• F 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Taoufik Ben-Amor
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 1 points

BODY SCULPTING

This course focuses on strength and endurance exercises using hand weights, resistance bands, body bars, gliding discs and balls.  Muscle toning exercises are discussed and practiced in detail to develop muscle definition for the upper and lower body.  Emphasis is placed on correct body placement.  Informative coloring sessions enhance the physical learning.  Instruction in stretching technique included.

• Department: Physical Education @Barnard
• MW 10 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• MW 11 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• MW 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• TR 9 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa K Northrop
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 1 points

BARNARD-COLUMBIA CHORUS I

Prerequisites: auditions by appointment made at first meeting. Contact Barnard College, Department of Music (854-5096). Membership in the chorus is open to all men and women in the University community. The chorus gives several public concerts each season, both on and off campus, often with other performing organizations. Sight-singing sessions offered. The repertory includes works from all periods of music literature. Students who register for chorus will receive a maximum of 4 points for four or more semesters.

• Department: Music @Barnard
• TR 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Gail R Archer
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 1 points

BARNARD-COLUMBIA-CHAMBR SINGER

Prerequisites: auditions by appointment made at first meeting. Contact Barnard College, Department of Music (854-5096). Membership in the chorus is open to all men and women in the University community. The chorus gives several public concerts each season, both on and off campus, often with other performing organizations. Sight-singing sessions offered. The repertory includes works from all periods of music literature.

• Department: Music @Barnard
• TR 8 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Gail R Archer
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 1 points

SCIENCE JOURNAL CLUB

Prerequisites: ) Limited to 16 students who are participating in the Science Pathways Scholars Program. Students in this seminar course will be introduced to the scientific literature by reading a mix of classic papers and papers that describe significant new developments in the field. Seminar periods will be devoted to oral reports, discussion of assigned reading, and student responses. Section 1: Limited to students in the Science Pathways Scholars Program. Section 2: Limited to first-year students who received a 4 or 5 on the AP and are currently enrolled in BIOL BC1500.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• W 4 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Sedelia Rodriguez
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 1 points

EARTH RESOURCES & SUSTAIN DEV

Prerequisites: none; high school chemistry recommended. Survey of the origin and extent of mineral resources, fossil fuels, and industrial materials, that are non renewable, finite resources, and the environmental consequences of their extraction and use, using the textbook Earth Resources and the Environment, by James Craig, David Vaughan and Brian Skinner. This course will provide an overview, but will include focus on topics of current societal relevance, including estimated reserves and extraction costs for fossil fuels, geological storage of CO2, sources and disposal methods for nuclear energy fuels, sources and future for luxury goods such as gold and diamonds, and special, rare materials used in consumer electronics (e.g. ;Coltan; mostly from Congo) and in newly emerging technologies such as superconducting magnets and rechargeable batteries (e.g. heavy rare earth elements, mostly from China). Guest lectures from economists, commodity traders and resource geologists will provide ;real world; input. Discussion Session Required.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter Kelemen
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 84 Info
• 3 points

FIRST YEAR MOD COLLOQ TIBET I

This is an introductory course and no previous knowledge is required. It focuses on developing basic abilities to speak as well as to read and write in modern Tibetan, Lhasa dialect. Students are also introduced to modern Tibetan studies through selected readings and guest lectures.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTWR 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Sonam Tsering
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• 5 points

REACTING TO THE PAST

In these seminars, students play complex historical role-playing games informed by classic texts. After an initial set-up phase, class sessions are run by students. These seminars are speaking- and writing-intensive, as students pursue their assigned roles objectives by convincing classmates of their views. Examples of games played in First-Year Seminar Reacting class include: 1) The Threshold of Democracy: Athens in 403 B.C. explores a pivotal moment following the defeat of Athens in the Peloponnesian War, when democrats sought to restore democracy while critics, including the supporters of Socrates, proposed alternatives. The key text is Plato's Republic. 2)
Confucianism and the Succession Crisis of the Wanli Emperor
examines a dispute between Confucian purists and pragmatists within the Hanlin Academy, the highest echelon of the Ming bureaucracy, taking
Analects
of Confucius as the central text. 3)
The Trial of Anne Hutchinson
revisits a conflict that pitted Puritan dissenter Anne Hutchinson and her supporters against Massachusetts Governor John Winthrop and the orthodox ministers of New England. Students work with testimony from Hutchinsons trial as well as the Bible and other texts. 4)
Greenwich Village, 1913: Suffrage, Labor and the New Woman
investigates the struggle between radical labor activists and woman suffragists for the hearts and minds of Bohemians, drawing on foundational works by Marx, Freud, Mary Wollstonecraft, and others.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark C Carnes
  CULPA: 50 Info
• Instructor: Kate A Glasner
  CULPA: 31 Info
• Instructor: Jennifer L Worth
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

ELEMENTARY HINDI-URDU I

An introduction to the most widely spoken language of South Asia. Along with an understanding of the grammar, the course offers practice in listening and speaking. The Hindi (Devanagari) script is used for reading and writing. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MTWR 4:10 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Aftab Ahmad
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 5 points

PHYSICS I:MECHANICS/RELATIVITY

Prerequisites: Corequisite: MATH UN1102 Calculus II or equivalent. Fundamental laws of mechanics, kinematics and dynamics, work and energy, rotational dynamics, oscillations, gravitation, fluids, introduction to special relativity and relativistic kinematics. The course is preparatory for advanced work in physics and related fields.

• Department: Physics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Brian Cole
  CULPA: 23 Info
• 3.5 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS

This introductory course surveys key topics in the study of international politics, including the causes of war and peace; the efficacy of international law and human rights; the origins of international development and underdevelopment; the politics of global environmental protection; and the future of US-China relations. Throughout the course, we will focus on the
interests
of the many actors of world politics, including states, politicians, firms, bureaucracies, international organizations, and nongovernmental organizations; the
interactions
between them; and the
institutions
in which they operate. By the end of the semester, students will be better equipped to systematically study international relations and make informed contributions to critical policy debates.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Kimberly Marten
  CULPA: 71 Wikipedia h-index: 19 Info
• 4 points

PHYSICS I:MECHANICS/RELATIVITY-REC

• Department: Physics
• T 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• T 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• W 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• R 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• F 9 a.m.-10:15 a.m.
• Instructor: Brian Cole
  CULPA: 23 Info
• 0 points

2ND TERM GEN CHEM (INTENSIVE)

Prerequisites: Acceptable performance on the Department placement exam during orientation week AND either a grade of "B" or better in CHEM UN1403 or AP chemistry or the equivalent. Please contact Vesna Gasperov (
vg2231@columbia.edu
) or your academic advisor at CSA for further information.
Corequisites: MATH UN1102

Topics include chemical kinetics, thermodynamics and chemical bonding.  Students must register simultaneously for a corresponding recitation section. Please check Courseworks or contact the instructor or departmental adviser for additional details.

When registering, be sure to add your name to the wait list for the recitation corresponding to the lecture section (CHEM UN1606).  Information about registration for the required recitation will be sent out before classes begin. Please expect to also be available for review sessions on Fridays from 8:10am-9:55am.

• Department: Chemistry
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ann E McDermott
  CULPA: 22 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

2ND TERM GEN CHEM(INTENS)-REC

• Department: Chemistry
• T 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• T 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• T 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• W 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• R 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Ann E McDermott
  CULPA: 22 Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

HINDI FOR HERITAGE SPEAKERS I

This is an accelerated course for students of South Asian origin who already possess a knowledge of basic vocabulary and limited speaking and listening skills in Hindi. They may not have sufficient skills in reading and writing but are able to converse on familiar topics such as: self, family, likes, dislikes and immediate surroundings. This course will focus on developing knowledge of the basic grammar of Hindi and vocabulary enrichment by exposing students to a variety of cultural and social topics related to aspects of daily life; and formal and informal registers. Students will be able to read and discuss simple texts and write about a variety of everyday topics by the end of the semester. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MTWR 2:40 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Rakesh Ranjan
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 5 points

STATISTCS-BEHAVIORL SCIENTISTS

Prerequisites: PSYC UN1001 or PSYC UN1010 Recommended preparation: one course in behavioral science and knowledge of high school algebra. Corequisites: PSYC UN1611 Introduction to statistics that concentrates on problems from the behavioral sciences.

• Department: Psychology
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Katherine T Fox-Glassman
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 4 Info
• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS-DISC

This is the required discussion section for POLS UN1601.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• M 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• M 11:10 a.m.-noon
• M 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• M 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• T 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• T 11:10 a.m.-noon
• W 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• W 11:10 a.m.-noon
• W 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• W 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 10 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• R 9 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Kylan J Rutherford
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• 0 points

STATISTCS-BEHAV SCIENTISTS-LAB

Corequisites: PSYC UN1610 Required lab section for PSYC UN1610.

• Department: Psychology
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Katherine T Fox-Glassman
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 4 Info
• 0 points

URDU FOR HERITAGE SPEAKERS I

Prerequisites: a knowledge of basic vocabulary and limited speaking and listening skills in Urdu. This is an accelerated course for students of South Asian origin who already possess a knowledge of basic vocabulary and limited speaking and listening skills in Urdu. They are not expected to know how to read and write in Urdu but are able to converse on familiar topics such as self, family, likes, dislikes and immediate surroundings. This course will focus on developing knowledge of the basic grammar of Urdu and vocabulary enrichment by exposing students to a variety of cultural and social topics related to aspects of daily life; and formal and informal registers. Students will be able to read and discuss simple Urdu texts and write about a variety of everyday topics by the end of the semester. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MTWR 2:40 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Aftab Ahmad
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 5 points

TAI CHI

This series of classes will provice the practice of Tai Chi Chuan as a moving meditation and health maintenance exercise. This process involves both physical and nonphysical work and introduces Tai Chi as an exercise of consciousness. There will also be recommended reading selections in the history and philosophical underpinnings of Tai Chi. No pre-requisite for this course. Each class will consist of physical practice of the Tai Chi sequence of movements/postures, also discussion including history of and principles of Tai Chi.

• Department: Physical Education @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• TR 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Stephen Shulman
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• 1 points

BEGINNING YOGA

An introduction to Hatha Yoga focusing on the development of the physical body to increase flexibility and strength. Breathing practices and meditation techniques that relax and revitalize the mind and body are included.

• Department: Physical Education @Barnard
• MW 8 a.m.-8:50 a.m.
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• MW 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• TR 10 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• TR 11 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• TR 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Cynthia Lanzas
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• Instructor: Melanie Rodriguez
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• 1 points

PHOTOGRAPHY: PHOTO I

(Formerly R3701) An introductory course in the technical, aesthetic, and conceptual foundations of photography. With an emphasis on the student’s own creative practice, this course will explore the basics of photography and its history through regular shooting assignments, demonstrations, critique, lectures, and readings. No prior photography experience is required.

• Department: Visual Arts
• MW 9:30 a.m.-noon
• TR 9:30 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Paula L Lycan
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• Instructor: Roni Aviv
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• 3 points

ELEMENTARY PERSIAN I

An introduction to the spoken and written language of contemporary Iran. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MTWR 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Saeed Honarmand
  Info
• 4 points

DRAMA, THEATRE, AND ART

Drama, Theatre, and Art will consider the ways in which the performing arts and the visual arts help change the ways we see art and life.  Beginning with reimagined classics and Shakespeare’s plays, we will move to the 18th-21st centuries and note how views of individual agency, social justice, and collective responsibility have changed over time.  We will also ask what the performing arts and visual arts of the past have to say about issues confronted in the arts of the present.  This will help us to understand how evolving aesthetic movements such as realism, impressionism, and modernism promote and critique our cultural perspectives and our social values. Plays include Sarah Ruhl’s
Eurydice
, Shakespeare’s
Romeo and Juliet
, Timberlake Wertenbaker’s
Our Country’s Good
, Thornton Wilder’s
Our Town
, Lorraine Hansberry’s
A Raisin in the

Sun
and
Les Blancs
, and Yasmina Rez’s
Art
; novels include Virginia Woolf’s
To the Lighthouse
; musicals include Stephen Sondheim’s
Sunday in the Park with George
and Rachel Chavkin’s
Hadestown
.  Art from The Metropolitan Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, and other sites will promote student engagement with visual and verbal interactions and cross disciplinary conversations.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Patricia D Denison
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

ARTS OF ADAPTATION

Can a ballet tell the same story as a Shakespeare tragedy? Do the violent fantasies of a fairytale shape romantic comedy? What does Bollywood have to do with Victorian England? Can ancient mythology animate slave narrative? Using as textual anchors Grimms’ Snow White, Ovid’s Medea, Shakespeare’s
Romeo and Juliet
, and Austen’s
Pride and Prejudice
, this course will explore poems, paintings, films, musicals, dance, illustration, advertisement and song to consider the accretion of meaning that results when stories cross, historical, cultural, and generic borders.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Monica F Cohen
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

WRITING AMERICAN LIVES

This interdisciplinary course explores the problem of representing American experience, one’s own or someone else’s, in the context of a nation-state’s fraught history of self-fashioning. What motivates a person to tell his or her life story, or to investigate someone else’s, and how are these stories bound by both authors and readers to narratives of citizenship, belonging, and/or exclusion? What motivates a writer to share what she shares, and what motivates an audience to demand what it demands from her? What claims about the exemplary or excessive qualities of the life story are made, or are emulated, by the life story’s readers? In addition to critical consideration of biography and memoir in traditional media, your work in this class will include examinations of the fake memoir and the digital overshare; you will also be invited to curate a branded footprint of your own, using tools of new media.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Kristin Carter
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

Women & Comedy

WOMEN & 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? At every step, we will put our inquiry into action – trying our hand at satire, sketch and storytelling to explore our own intersections. Readings may include Audre Lorde’s
Sister Outsider
, Samantha Chanse’s
Lydia’s Funeral Video
and Patricia Lockwood’s
Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals
.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Nina Sharma
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

IS GOD DEAD?

IS GOD DEAD/

Friedrich Nietzsche’s 1882 pronouncement that “God is dead” is one of the most notorious and widely-referenced criticisms of the relationship between Theology and Modernity in contemporary thought. But what does it mean to say “God is dead,” in fact? What was Nietzsche talking about? How might this statement be “true”? How might it be inaccurate? In this class, we will use Nietzsche’s statement as a jumping-off point to begin thinking about how  modern ideas about the continuities and distinctions between religion and politics developed between the 16th to the 20th centuries in such a way that to say “God is dead” became a meaningful summation of Modernity. In addition to Nietzsche, we will read classical and critical works of political theology from a diverse array of authors such as  Jean Bodin, Thomas Hobbes, Benedict de Spinoza, Beatriz Kampa Vita, Carl Schmitt, Max Weber, Zora Neale Hurston, W.E.B. DuBois, and Simone Weil to answer for questions: What does it mean to talk about God? Is God dead? If so, when and how did God die? And if God is not dead, how has God been kept alive — and where can this figure be found today?

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Timothy Vasko
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

TECH & SOCIETY: GOOD, BAD & OTHER

Computing and information technology has improved our lives in many ways, contributing to significant advances in science and medicine; making it easy and efficient to communicate with people across the world; and enabling online business and recreational activities; and more. However, the same technologies can also have negative impacts, such as the move to a surveillance society and surveillance capitalism; major disruptions in the workforce of the future as automation becomes more widespread; and social media contributing to depression in young people and the weaponization of disinformation. This seminar will explore technical, cultural, legal, and economic factors that can impact how computing technology is used, while raising the question of how to encourage and ensure that these technologies are used for good, while eliminating or mitigating the potential negative impacts.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Rebecca N Wright
  Wikipedia h-index: 34 Info
• 3 points

SURVEILLANCE, CONTAGION, AND CARE

SURVEILLANCE, CONTAGION &

Very recent events have forced local, regional, and international communities to once again confront contagion as a globally shared event. This seminar examines some of the historical and contemporary expressions of contagion as moral and ethical experience. We will interrogate the surveillance systems that are utilized by modern governments and economies not only as public health goods and private sector assets, but also legacies of conquest, colonialism, and capitalism. Finally, we explore the role of care within these systems, its inherent power dynamics, and the politics of vulnerability. Texts include (and are not limited to) Katherine Anne Porter’s 
Pale Horse, Pale Fire
; excerpts from Camus, Galeano, Sontag, Foucault; historical and sociological accounts of tuberculosis; anthropological and ethnographic accounts of the global HIV epidemic; feminist philosophers on the politics of care and the sciences (e.g., Sandra Laugier, Annemarie Mol); and written and audio journalism topical to these accounts.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Gina A Jae
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

PERFORMING PUBLICS & POLITICAL ACTIVISM

PERFORMING PUB & POL ACTI

This seminar examines how different publics engage in the political process through performance. We start our exploration with the notion of "the publics" as introduced by the twentieth-century German philosopher Jürgen Habermas and then expand our view of this concept to the contemporary political setting. We will look at both how elected representatives use theatrical tropes to shape their public personas, and equally at how popular protests stage large scale public interventions. How might performance as a series of citational strategies allow us to think about the political process? We will draw heavily on the works of feminist performance scholars like Judith Butler, Shannon Jackson and Peggy Phelan, who discuss the different ways in which gendered bodies navigate public space. In this seminar students will be required to draw on their personal experiences of public performances. This may be in the shape of their own activism, politics in their hometowns, their favorite public figures, or memorable live shows they have watched. Writing ethnographically, students will engage with the theorists we read to investigate how performance has shaped their lives. For Fall 2020 we will be focusing on public responses to the COVID-19 crisis. Different populations reacted differently to the global pandemic. From local politicians, medical professionals, frontline workers to everyday citizens, everyone reflected, in different measure, on the loss of the public sphere. We assembled in the digital commons instead. How did we deal with our own isolation from public life while at the same time thinking of keeping the collective body safe from contagion? What are the ways in which we engaged with our community to reaffirm a common humanity?

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Shayoni Mitra
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

Journeys

JOURNEYS

The journey is a central motif in narrative writing dating back many thousands of years. The classical example of the journey comes from the experiences of Odysseus in Homer’s The Odyssey but journeys also feature in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible as well as the Buddha. The idea of the journey as a transformative experience has remained relevant and, indeed, become so prevalent that it is arguably the foundation of modern popular culture. This class examines the idea of the journey (and travel in a wider sense) through five primary analytic frameworks. The course begins (framework #1) with the interplay between travel and wonder as epitomized in the classical Islamic literary tradition through the travel accounts of Battuta and the famous story of Sinbad. It then turns to Jonathan Swift’s use of travel as a means for social satire in
Gulliver’s Travels
(framework #2) before drawing on William James’ psychological framework to consider the journey as a metaphor for conversion (framework #3) through the example of Malcolm X. The course then considers travel writing in the modern period as a performative or confessional act through representative examples from Kerouac, Didion, Krakauer, and Gilbert. This is followed by an engagement with Joseph Campbell’s notion of the monomyth as embodied by the films
Star Wars: A New Hope
(1977) and
Spirited Away
(1991). The final reading in the course centers on Octavia Butler’s
Kindred
which depicts a series of voyages through time that demand a reckoning or confrontation with the past.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Najam I Haider
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

Here/There: Migrant Narratives

HERE/THERE: MIGRANT NARRA

This first-year seminar brings together fiction and nonfiction texts, films and contemporary art that focus on migrant, immigrant, refugee, expat and exile experiences. We will explore how migrant subjects negotiate dominant discourses of nationality and citizenship, and how their identities as migrants intersect with their other positionalities, with a particular emphasis on race and queerness. Some questions we will consider: How are immigrant, migrant and refugees marginalized, racialized and queered by dominant discourses? How do Black and/or queer subjects negotiate belonging when they travel across cultural, national, linguistic and religious borders? How do these authors, filmmakers resist erasure and complicate our understanding of home, belonging and identity? Readings are subject to change, but will likely include the following: poetry by Safia Elhillo, Fatimah Asghar, C.F. Cavafy; essays by Hannah Arendt and Edward Said; op-eds and news stories on immigration, USCIS documents; fiction by James Baldwin and Jamaica Kincaid; contemporary art & films by (im)migrant artists and filmmakers.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Duygu Ula
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 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 first-year seminar, we’ll look at how speculative literature approaches 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 Seminar Program @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Quincy Jones
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• 3 points

Writing Caribbean Feminisms

WRITING CARIBBEAN FEMINIS

This course offers an in-depth engagement with the
Critical Caribbean Feminisms
series, organized at Barnard College since 2015. These in-person conversations with contemporary Caribbean and Caribbean diaspora women authors and the accompanying podcast series center their experience with race, gender, diaspora, and writing. In this course we consider how the authors’ thoughts on the Caribbean, feminism, and their experience in the U.S. are represented and expanded upon in their writings through close readings of their novels, short stories, essays, and poems. The course culminates with each student proposing a Caribbean woman writer to add to the podcast series and suggesting how this writer’s voice resonates with and expands on the authors and themes studied throughout the course. Some of the authors we will read and discuss are Jamaica Kincaid, Audre Lorde, Claudia Rankine, Edwidge Danticat, and Roxane Gay, among many others.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Maja Horn
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

Psychopolitics

PSYCHOPOLITICS

What shapes our psychic lives today? How are histories of pain and possibility transmitted, ruptured, and transformed across generations? This class draws on anthropology, psychoanalysis, critical theories, literature, and poetry to explore the politics of the psyche. We will read writings by bell hooks, Frantz Fanon, Natalie Diaz, Ocean Vuong, Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault, Gananath Obeyesekere, David Eng, Shinhee Han, and others. We begin with common encounters that inform and disrupt our lives, move to concepts of self and culture, explore how these are inflected by violent histories and extractive economies, and end with questions of what lives on.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Emily Ng
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• 3 points

Literature on Trial

LITERATURE ON TRIAL

Why are novels so interested in trials? What is the relationship between literary and legal interpretation, and between the role of a reader and that of a juror? How do we interpret “facts” in a literary text versus a legal context? What does justice look like in a literary work? In this course, we will read works that feature trials in order to explore the relationship between the literary and the legal, two very different ways of making sense of the world that collide in literature about trials. We will put literary characters on trial in order to explore how guilt, judgment, and redemption operate in the works we read, and to consider our own role and responsibility as readers. Readings will include works by James Baldwin, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Vladimir Nabokov, Claudia Rankine, and Marjane Satrapi.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Erica S Drennan
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• 3 points

Creativity and Inspiration

CREATIVITY AND INSPIRATIO

Where do creative ideas come from? The Muses, according to Plato. The unconscious, according to some later thinkers. One thing both answers share is the thought that creative ideas come from something “other than” or “not controlled by” the creator – or, as we’ll put it, that creativity requires 
inspiration
. In this class, we will explore this and related ideas in Western thinking about creativity. In doing so, we’ll examine how creative people themselves, from painters to mathematicians, have described their own creative process and experiences. We’ll examine approaches to creativity from the Taoist tradition, comparing them with the Western approaches that will be our main focus. At the end of the class, we’ll think about whether computer programs can be creative, and what it might mean for claims about inspiration if they can be. Readings will include selections from James Baldwin, Margaret Boden, Chung-yuan Chang, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, bell hooks, Immanuel Kant, Henri Poincaré, Flannery O’Connor, Elizabeth Robinson, and others.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher P Prodoehl
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• 3 points

Yoga for Dancers

YOGA FOR DANCERS

The study of yoga to deepen and complement dance training and performance.

Focusing on principles and practices of Hatha yoga, students will learn to integrate approaches to breathing, alignment, posing, and flow into their own movement practice.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Gabri Christa
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 0-1 points

STARS AND ATOMS

Prerequisites: recommended preparation: a working knowledge of high school algebra. What is the origin of the chemical elements? This course addresses this question, starting from understanding atoms, and then going on to look at how how atoms make stars and how stars make atoms. The grand finale is a history of the evolution of the chemical elements throughout time, starting from the Big Bang and ending with YOU. You cannot enroll in ASTR W1836 in addition to ASTR BC1754 or ASTR W1404 and receive credit for both.

• Department: Astronomy
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Kathryn V Johnston
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 54 Info
• 3 points

SEM-CONTEMP PHYSICS/ASTRONOMY

Prerequisites: any 1000-level course in the Physics or Astronomy Department. May be taken before or concurrently with this course. Lectures on current areas of research with discussions of motivation, techniques, and results, as well as difficulties and unsolved problems. Requirements include weekly problem sets and attendance of lectures.

• Department: Physics
• F 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Charles J Hailey
  CULPA: 42 Wikipedia Info
• 1 points

INTRO TO SUSTAINABLE DEVPT SEM

The course is designed to be a free flowing discussion of the principals of sustainable development and the scope of this emerging discipline. This course will also serve to introduce the students to the requirements of the undergraduate program in sustainable development and the content of the required courses in both the special concentration and the major. The focus will be on the breadth of subject matter, the multidisciplinary nature of the scholarship and familiarity with the other key courses in the program. Offered in the Fall and Spring.

• Department: Earth Institute
• T 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jason Smerdon
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 47 Info
• 1 points

ELEMENTARY MODERN TURKISH I

An introduction to the written and spoken language of Turkey. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Zuleyha Colak
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 0 Info
• 4 points

ASTRONOMY LAB I

Laboratory for ASTR UN1403. Projects include observations with the departments telescopes, computer simulation, laboratory experiments in spectroscopy, and the analysis of astronomical data. Lab 1 ASTR UN1903 - goes with ASTR BC1753, ASTR UN1403 or ASTR UN1453.

• Department: Physics and Astronomy @Barnard
• M 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• T 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• 1 points