ADVANCED LITERARY TIBETAN II

This course will focus on helping students gain greater profiency in reading Tibetan Buddhist philosophical and religious historical texts.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Sonam Tsering Ngulphu
  Info
• 4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Enrollment in a college level course of instruction not offered by the Barnard or Columbia Physical Education Departments. Department approval required prior to the first day of the Physical Education registration period.

• Department: Physical Education @Barnard
• Instructor: Lisa K Northrop
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 1 points

ACCELERATED PHYSICS II

Prerequisites: PHYS UN2801 This accelerated two-semester sequence covers the subject matter of PHYS UN1601, PHYS UN1602 and PHYS UN2601, and is intended for those students who have an exceptionally strong background in both physics and mathematics. The course is preparatory for advanced work in physics and related fields. There is no accompanying laboratory; however, students are encouraged to take the intermediate laboratory, PHYS UN3081, in the following year.

• Department: Physics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Norman H Christ
  CULPA: 34 Wikipedia Info
• 4.5 points

VIETNAM IN THE WORLD

This course examines the history of Vietnam in the World and serves as a follow-up to ASCE UN1367: Introduction to East Asian Civilizations, Vietnam (though it is not a prerequisite). This course will explore Vietnam’s multifaceted relations with the wider world from the late 19th Century to present day as war – ranging from civil, imperial, global, decolonization, and superpower interventions – forged the modern imperial polity to the current nation-state.

• Department: History
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Lien-Hang Nguyen
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

DISC - VIETNAM IN THE WORLD

Required Discussion Section for HIST 2881 Vietnam in the World. Students must also register for HIST 2881.

• Department: History
• Instructor: Lien-Hang Nguyen
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 0 points

MASTERPIECES-INDIAN ART & ARCH

Introduction to 2000 years of art on the Indian subcontinent. The course covers the early art of Buddhism, rock-cut architecture of the Buddhists and Hindus, the development of the Hindu temple, Mughal and Rajput painting and architecture, art of the colonial period, and the emergence of the Modern.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Kalyani M Ramachandran
  Info
• Instructor: Tara Kuruvilla
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

DATA:PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Data-empowered algorithms are reshaping our professional, personal, and political realities, for good--and for bad. Data: Past, Present, and Future moves from the birth of statistics in the 18th century to the surveillance capitalism of the present day, covering racist eugenics, World War II cryptography, and creepy personalized advertising along the way. Rather than looking at ethics and history as separate from the science and engineering, the course integrates the teaching of algorithms and data manipulation with the political whirlwinds and ethical controversies from which those techniques emerged. We pair the introduction of technical developments with the shifting political and economic powers that encouraged and benefited from new capabilities. We couple primary and secondary readings on the history and ethics of data with computational work done largely with user-friendly Jupyter notebooks in Python.

• Department: History
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• 3 points

INTERMEDIATE MODERN TURKISH II

A continuation of the study of the written and spoken language of Turkey, with readings of literary, historical, and other texts. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Betul Tarhan
  Info
• 4 points

Social History of U.S. Public Health

SOCIAL HIST OF US PUB HEA

The purpose of this course is to provide students with an historical understanding of the role public health has played in American history. The underlying assumptions are that disease, and the ways we define disease, are simultaneously reflections of social and cultural values, as well as important factors in shaping those values. Also, it is maintained that the environments that we build determine the ways we live and die. The dread infectious and acute diseases in the nineteenth century, the chronic, degenerative conditions of the twentieth and the new, vaguely understood conditions rooted in a changing chemical and human-made environment are emblematic of the societies we created. Among the questions that will be addressed are: How does the health status of Americans reflect and shape our history? How do ideas about health reflect broader attitudes and values in American history and culture? How does the American experience with pain, disability, and disease affect our actions and lives? What are the responsibilities of the state and of the individual in preserving health? How have American institutions--from hospitals to unions to insurance companies--been shaped by changing longevity, experience with disability and death?

• Department: History
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: James K Colgrove
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 4 points

Social History of U.S. Public Health

SOCIAL HIST OF US PUB HEA

The purpose of this course is to provide students with an historical understanding of the role public health has played in American history. The underlying assumptions are that disease, and the ways we define disease, are simultaneously reflections of social and cultural values, as well as important factors in shaping those values. Also, it is maintained that the environments that we build determine the ways we live and die. The dread infectious and acute diseases in the nineteenth century, the chronic, degenerative conditions of the twentieth and the new, vaguely understood conditions rooted in a changing chemical and human-made environment are emblematic of the societies we created. Among the questions that will be addressed are: How does the health status of Americans reflect and shape our history? How do ideas about health reflect broader attitudes and values in American history and culture? How does the American experience with pain, disability, and disease affect our actions and lives? What are the responsibilities of the state and of the individual in preserving health? How have American institutions--from hospitals to unions to insurance companies--been shaped by changing longevity, experience with disability and death?

• Department: Auditing
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: James K Colgrove
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 0 points

Science, Technology, Power

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, POWE

This course explores the intimate entanglements of technology, science, bodies, culture, and power, with a focus on post-World War II U.S. society. In this lecture course, we will draw on history, feminist thought, anthropology, sociology, science fiction, and visual/digital art to investigate the historical and cultural contexts shaping the dreams, practices, and products of technoscience. We will explore technologies and sciences as sites of power, complex pleasures, and embodied transformations in our own everyday lives.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jacqueline Orr
  Info
• 3 points

SOCIAL HIST OF AMER PUB HEALTH-DIS

Required Discussion Section for HSPB 2950 Social History of American Public Health. Students must also register for HSPB 2950.

• Department: History
• Instructor: James K Colgrove
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 0 points

Science and Pseudoscience: Alchemy to AI

During the 2020 US presidential election and the years of the COVID-19 pandemic, science and “scientific truths” were fiercely contested. This course provides a historical perspective on the issues at stake. The course begins with an historical account of how areas of natural knowledge, such as astrology, alchemy, and “natural magic,” which were central components of an educated person’s view of the world in early modern Europe, became marginalized, while a new philosophy of nature (what we would now call empirical science) came to dominate the discourse of rationality. Historical developments examined in this course out of which this new understanding of nature emerged include the rise of the centralized state, religious reform, and European expansion. The course uses this historical account to show how science and pseudoscience developed in tandem in the period from 1400 to 1800. This historical account equips students to examine contemporary issues of expertise, the social construction of science, pluralism in science, certainty and uncertainty in science, as well as critical engagement with contemporary technologies.

• Department: History
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• 4 points

Science and Pseudoscience: Alchemy to AI

During the 2020 US presidential election and the years of the COVID-19 pandemic, science and “scientific truths” were fiercely contested. This course provides a historical perspective on the issues at stake. The course begins with an historical account of how areas of natural knowledge, such as astrology, alchemy, and “natural magic,” which were central components of an educated person’s view of the world in early modern Europe, became marginalized, while a new philosophy of nature (what we would now call empirical science) came to dominate the discourse of rationality. Historical developments examined in this course out of which this new understanding of nature emerged include the rise of the centralized state, religious reform, and European expansion. The course uses this historical account to show how science and pseudoscience developed in tandem in the period from 1400 to 1800. This historical account equips students to examine contemporary issues of expertise, the social construction of science, pluralism in science, certainty and uncertainty in science, as well as critical engagement with contemporary technologies.

• Department: Auditing
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• 0 points

Science and Pseudoscience: Alchemy to AI

Required discussion section for HIST UN2978 lecture.

• Department: History
• 0 points

LAWS OF WAR IN THE MIDDLE DIS

• Department: History
• Instructor: Adam Kosto
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 0 points

INTRO LIT/METHODS OF ART HIST

Required course for department majors. Not open to Barnard or Continuing Education students. Students must receive instructors permission. Introduction to different methodological approaches to the study of art and visual culture. Majors are encouraged to take the colloquium during their junior year.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Meredith Gamer
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

THE ART OF STRUCTURAL DESIGN

Basic scientific and engineering principles used for the design of buildings, bridges, and other parts of the built infrastructure. Application of principles to analysis and design of actual large-scale structures. Coverage of the history of major structural design innovations and of the engineers who introduced them. Critical examination of the unique aesthetic/artistic perspectives inherent in structural design. Consideration of management, socioeconomic, and ethical issues involved in design and construction of large-scale structures. Introduction to recent developments in sustainable engineering, including green building design and adaptable structural systems.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: George Deodatis
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 42 Info
• 3 points

Power, Truth, and Storytelling: Framing

POWER, TRUTH, AND STORYTE

How does a story’s frame affect how we read it? What power does a storyteller have over how we interpret narratives and create meaning? How do we understand “truth” in the context of fictional stories? In this course, we will explore the power dynamics of frame narratives, or stories within stories. We will consider how multiple storytellers and levels of narration affect our understanding of “truth” in fiction, as well as our own role and responsibility as readers to uncover narrative truth. Our readings will include story cycles, standalone stories with competing narrators, stories that include “found” manuscripts, and narratives with temporal frames. We will also consider how authors and critics attempted to frame literary works and control how they were interpreted or read. In all of our works, we will pay particular attention to the power dynamics and ethics of framing. Our close readings of literary works will be informed by theoretical texts on framing and discussions of framing in works of art.

• Department: Slavic Languages @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Erica S Drennan
  Info
• 3 points

GLOBAL LONG-FORM PHOTOGRAPHY

How have artists been informed and influenced by the natural world? This course will examine how photography and literature have responded to nature, ecology, and the environment. We will explore how close-looking might inform an artist’s practice regarding the living environment - its bounty - and its degradation. Students will study works whose makers have seen art as a form of praise of the natural world, as well as those who investigate the relationship between art and environmental activism. Readings will include those by John Muir, Rachel Carson, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Carl Jung, Robert Macfarlane, Mary Oliver, Kerri ni Dochartaigh and others. Particular emphasis will be placed on how photography over the past hundred years has responded to shrinking natural landscapes, environmental destruction, and global warming. We will study in-depth photographic essays by some of the following artists: Robert Adams; Rene Effendi; Kikuji Kawada; Dornith Doherty; Kirk Crippens and Gretchen Le Maistre; Brad Tempkin; Pablo Lopez Luz; Mandy Barker; Robert Zhoa Renhui, Masahisa Fukashe, and Meghann Riepenhoff. Students will be required to write response papers weekly, participate in weekly discussions, and produce a term-long photographic essay.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Diana Matar
  Info
• 4 points

TUTORIAL IN EARTH SCIENCE

Prerequisites: declared major in Earth and environmental sciences and the departments permission. Students with particular interest in one of the many components of the Earth and environmental sciences should approach a director of undergraduate studies during the registration period so that tutorial-level exposure to the subject can be arranged. Each point requires two hours each week of readings, discussion, and research work under the close supervision of a member of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, American Museum of Natural History, or Goddard Institute for Space Studies. In consultation with the supervisor, the student selects a topic for intensive study and the time and place of the tutorial discussion sessions. May be repeated for credit up to a maximum of 12 points, with a maximum of 6 points with each staff member.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• Instructor: Galen A McKinley
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 32 Info
• 1-3 points

SOCIAL THEORY

Prerequisites: Sophomore standing. Required for all sociology majors. Prerequisite: at least one sociology course of the instructor's permission. Theoretical accounts of the rise and transformations of modern society in the19th and 20th centuries. Theories studied include those of Adam Smith, Tocqueville, Marx, Durkheim, Max Weber, Roberto Michels. Selected topics: individual, society, and polity; economy, class, and status: organization and ideology; religion and society; moral and instrumental action.

• Department: Sociology
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ryan A Hagen
  Info
• 4 points

LITERARY TEXTS & CRIT METHODS

Prerequisites: Students who register for ENGL UN3001 must also register for one of the sections of ENGL UN3011 Literary Texts, Critical Methods. This course is intended to introduce students to the advanced study of literature. Students will read works from different genres (poetry, drama, and prose fiction), drawn from the medieval period to the present day, learning the different interpretative techniques required by each. The course also introduces students to a variety of critical schools and approaches, with the aim both of familiarizing them with these methodologies in the work of other critics and of encouraging them to make use of different methods in their own critical writing. This course (together with the companion seminar ENGL UN3011) is a requirement for the English Major and Concentration. It should be taken as early as possible in a students career. Fulfillment of this requirement will be a factor in admission to seminars and to some lectures.

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

SYSTEMS AND BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

This course provides an in-depth examination of the physiological bases of behavior and the development, organization, and function of the nervous system. Specific topics include methods used in behavioral neuroscience, development of the nervous system, sensory and motor systems, homeostasis, sexual differentiation, biological rhythms, stress, learning and memory, psychopathology, and neurological disorders.

• Department: Neuroscience & Behavior @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Russell D Romeo
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 3 points

Social Theory- DISC

SOCIAL THEORY- DISC

Prerequisites: SOCI UN3000 Discussion section for Social Theory (SOCI UN3000).

• Department: Sociology
• W 5 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
• R 9 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Francisco Lara Garcia
  h-index: 2 Info
• Instructor: Bonnie R Siegler
  Info
• 0 points

HARLEM MOVEMENT LEGACIES

Harlem Movement Legacies
is intended for you to explore the geography and culture of Harlem, New York City through movement. This course embodies the Akan principle of
sankofa,
looking back to move forward: We will explore the cultural roots of movement styles we engage with, come to understand their influence within the community, and their importance to the lives of their participants and viewers, all while looking toward the futures of these movement traditions. Students will engage with a mixture of concert, popular, and vernacular dance forms, exploring venues for dance practice and performance from The Apollo to the street. The topics covered during the semester are not intended to be exhaustive or reflect a chronological ordering, but rather a survey of the breadth of movement practices in Harlem. Students will have the opportunity to witness, embody, critically discuss and write about dance forms that have emerged and thrive Uptown. Most imp​​ortantly, the work students produce by the semester’s end will contribute to critical archival documentation of Harlem’s movement culture bearers. Experiential learning will take place through lectures, films, site visits, and attending classes, performances, or rehearsals. During the semester, you will be asked to apply critical thinking, reading, and writing skills to Dance­ related texts and choreography. By the end of the semester, you should be able to understand and interpret the language and form of movement work in the context of time and place.  The big questions we will tackle during this course include:
How do we see, write about and talk about dance? What is legacy?

What are the dance and movement traditions in Harlem? What are the artistic impulses, pertinent issues, communities and contexts that bring this work to life? How are Harlem movement legacies honored and sustained? What is the future of these traditions?
Dance itself is the primary source material for this course, and we will learn to read it closely as we ask these questions. The major assignments for this course will ask students to capture and interpret Harlem’s movement legacies through movement, oral storytelling, and writing.

• Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
• F 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Sydnie L Mosley
  Info
• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS

Prerequisites: the departments permission. Required for all thesis writers.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Cole
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED GERMAN II

Corequisites: Course either taken before or after GERM V3001. Intensive practice in oral and written German. Discussions, oral reports, and weekly written assignments, based on material of topical and stylistic variety taken from German press and from literary sources.

• Department: German @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Irene Motyl
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED PROJ PHOTOGRAPHY

SUPERVISED PHOTO PROJECTS

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 15 students. Designed for students to conduct independent projects in photography. Priority for enrollment to the class will be Barnard College students who are enrolling in classes at ICP (International Center of Photography). The cost of ICP will be covered by Barnard College. All of the other students enrolling in the course (CC, GS SOA) will be responsible for their own ICP course expenses.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: John Miller
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

MECHANICS

Prerequisites: general physics, and differential and integral calculus. Newtonian mechanics, oscillations and resonance, conservative forces and potential energy, central forces, non-inertial frames of reference, rigid body motion, an introduction to Lagranges formulation of mechanics, coupled oscillators, and normal modes.

• Department: Physics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Cory Dean
  h-index: 49 Info
• 3 points

THIRD YEAR CHINESE II

THIRD YEAR CHINESE N II

Prerequisites
: Two years of college-level Chinese or the equivalent
Texts: Jingua Chinese (Columbia University staff, published by Peking University Press; simplified characters)

Introduces Chinese social values and attitudes, focusing on the rapid changes now taking place in China. Uses materials from Chinese newspapers and modern short stories to teach essential elements of semi-formal and formal writing. Reading and writing are routine tasks and oral discussion and debate are important components of the class, allowing students to integrate and improve their communication skills in Chinese. To enroll in this course, you must apply to the
Virtual Columbia Summer: Chinese Language Program
through the Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement (UGE).
Tuition charges apply; scholarships available.

Please note the program dates are different from the Summer Term A & B dates.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTWR 8:50 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
• MTWR 1:10 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
• MTWR 4:10 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Zhirong Wang
  CULPA: 11 Info
• Instructor: Jia Xu
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Lingjun Hu
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Xiaoxing Cheng
  Info
• 5 points

ACTING I

Prerequisite: Open to all Barnard and Columbia undergraduates. Permission of Instructor required; students admitted from Waiting List. Course develops physical, vocal, and imaginative range and skills needed to approach the text of a play: text analysis, speech exercises, non-verbal behavior, improvisation designed to enhance embodiment, movement, and projection. Fulfills one course in Acting for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors. 
Gateway course to advanced courses; transfer students who have previous college-level course may be exempted with approval of Chair
.
 May be retaken for full credit.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• TR 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Sharon Fogarty
  Info
• Instructor: Tina C Mitchell
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: David L Skeist
  Info
• 3 points

NEUROBIO II: DEVPT & SYSTEMS

Prerequisites: BIOL UN3004, one year of biology, or the instructors permission. This course is the capstone course for the Neurobiology and Behavior undergraduate major at Columbia University and will be taught by the faculty of the Kavli Institute of Brain Science: http://www.kavli.columbia.edu/ Science: http://www.kavli.columbia.edu/. It is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Knowledge of Cellular Neuroscience (how an action potential is generated and how a synapse works) will be assumed. It is strongly recommended that students take BIOL UN3004 Neurobiology I: Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, or a similar course, before enrolling in BIOL UN3005. Students unsure about their backgrounds should check a representative syllabus of BIOL UN3004 on the BIOL UN3004 website (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/w3004/). Website for BIOL UN3005: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/w3005/index.html

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Rafael Yuste
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia h-index: 106 Info
• 4 points

NEUROBIO II: DEVPT & SYSTEMS

Prerequisites: BIOL UN3004, one year of biology, or the instructors permission. This course is the capstone course for the Neurobiology and Behavior undergraduate major at Columbia University and will be taught by the faculty of the Kavli Institute of Brain Science: http://www.kavli.columbia.edu/ Science: http://www.kavli.columbia.edu/. It is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Knowledge of Cellular Neuroscience (how an action potential is generated and how a synapse works) will be assumed. It is strongly recommended that students take BIOL UN3004 Neurobiology I: Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, or a similar course, before enrolling in BIOL UN3005. Students unsure about their backgrounds should check a representative syllabus of BIOL UN3004 on the BIOL UN3004 website (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/w3004/). Website for BIOL UN3005: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/w3005/index.html

• Department: Auditing
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Rafael Yuste
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia h-index: 106 Info
• 0 points

ACTING II

ACTING II: SUZUKI

Prerequisite: Open to all Barnard and Columbia undergraduates. Permission of Instructor required; students admitted from Waiting List. Students must have taken Acting I or equivalent to be eligible for Acting II sections. Acting II will offer several different sections, focusing on a specific range of conceptual, embodiment, and physical acting skills. Each course fulfills one course in Acting requirement for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors. Please check with the Theatre Department website forspecific offerings and audition information. May be retaken for full credit.  All sections of Acting II fullfull the “Arts and Humanities” Foundations requirement at Barnard College.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• MW 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Tina C Mitchell
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

ACTING II

ACTING II: ACTING THE SONG

Prerequisite: Open to all Barnard and Columbia undergraduates. Permission of Instructor required; students admitted from Waiting List. Students must have taken Acting I or equivalent to be eligible for Acting II sections. Acting II will offer several different sections, focusing on a specific range of conceptual, embodiment, and physical acting skills. Each course fulfills one course in Acting requirement for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors. Please check with the Theatre Department website forspecific offerings and audition information. May be retaken for full credit.  All sections of Acting II fullfull the “Arts and Humanities” Foundations requirement at Barnard College.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Wendy Waterman
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

ACTING II

ACTING II: CHEKHOV

Prerequisite: Open to all Barnard and Columbia undergraduates. Permission of Instructor required; students admitted from Waiting List. Students must have taken Acting I or equivalent to be eligible for Acting II sections. Acting II will offer several different sections, focusing on a specific range of conceptual, embodiment, and physical acting skills. Each course fulfills one course in Acting requirement for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors. Please check with the Theatre Department website forspecific offerings and audition information. May be retaken for full credit.  All sections of Acting II fullfull the “Arts and Humanities” Foundations requirement at Barnard College.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Gisela D Cardenas Ojeda
  Info
• 3 points

THIRD YEAR CHINESE W II

Prerequisites: CHNS W4005 or the equivalent. Admission after Chinese placement exam and an oral proficiency interview with the instructor. Especially designed for students who possess good speaking ability and who wish to acquire practical writing skills as well as business-related vocabulary and speech patterns. Introduction to semiformal and formal Chinese used in everyday writing and social or business-related occasions. Simplified characters are introduced.

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

COMPOSITION AND CONVERSATION

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 12 students. Discussions on contemporary issues and oral presentations. Creative writing assignments designed to improve writing skills and vocabulary development. FREN BC1204: French Intermediate II or the equivalent level is required.

• Department: French @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Karen Santos da Silva
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

THIRD YEAR JAPANESE II

Prerequisites: JPNS W4005 or the equivalent. Readings in authentic/semi-authentic texts, videos, and class discussions.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTWR 11:40 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
• MTWR 2:40 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Keiko Okamoto
  CULPA: 13 Info
• Instructor: Kyoko M Loetscher
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 5 points

THIRD YEAR KOREAN II

Prerequisites: KORN W1202 or the equivalent and consultation with instructor. (See Entrance to Language Courses Beyond the Elementary Level in the main bulletin under Department of Instruction -- East Asian Languages and Cultures.) Readings in modern Korean. Selections from modern Korean writings in literature, history, social sciences, culture, and videos and class discussions.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTWR 11:40 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Hyunkyu Yi
  CULPA: 8 Info
• Instructor: Ji-Young Jung
  Info
• 5 points

QUANTUM PHYSICS

Prerequisites: BC3001 or C2601 or the equivalent. Wave-particle duality and the Uncertainty Principle. The Schrodinger equation. Basic principles of the quantum theory. Energy levels in one-dimensional potential wells. The harmonic oscillator, photons, and phonons. Reflection and transmission by one-dimensional potential barriers. Applications to atomic, molecular, and nuclear physics.

• Department: Physics and Astronomy @Barnard
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Reshmi Mukherjee
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia h-index: 63 Info
• 3 points

MAJ COLLOQ:LIT/MTHDS ARCH HIST

This course, on the one hand, examines the intertwined histories of art history and architectural history from the late nineteenth century onwards and, on the other, focuses on questions that have been central to architectural history since the field’s beginnings. It combines theoretical inquiry with practical training in historical research. Students will be asked to carry out research projects in various archives in New York City and complete a single writing assignment in stages.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Barry G Bergdoll
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

ARCHAEOL BEFORE THE BIBLE

Please note that this is not a class on “biblical archaeology”. It is a course about the politics of archaeology in the context of Israel/Palestine, and the wider southwest Asia region. This course provides a critical overview of prehistoric archaeology in southwest Asia (or the Levant - the geographical area from Lebanon in the north to the Sinai in the south, and from the middle Euphrates in Syria to southern Jordan). It has been designed to appeal to anthropologists, historians, and students interested in the Ancient Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Studies. The course is divided into two parts. First, a social and political history of archaeology, emphasizing how the nature of current theoretical and practical knowledge has been shaped and defined by previous research traditions and, second, how the current political situation in the region impinges upon archaeological practice. Themes include: the dominance of "biblical archaeology" and the implications for Palestinian archaeology, Islamic archaeology, the impact of European contact from the Crusades onwards, and the development of prehistory.

• Department: Anthropology
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Brian Boyd
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

Animal Behavior and the Endocrine System

Animal Behav and Endocrin

Why do birds sing in the spring? How does a tadpole become a frog? In this course, we will dive into the mechanisms that drive the fascinating behaviors of animals. Students will first learn about hormones, chemical messengers within the body, and how they function within the endocrine system. Then, we will focus on the manner in which hormones both regulate and respond to specific types of animal behavior: mating and reproduction, aggression, stress, sociality, and parental care. Through these topics, students will engage with and learn to critically assess scientific literature. This course is reading and writing intensive; students will have weekly readings from the textbook and from theoretical and empirical scientific papers, and will write weekly reflection papers. Students will also contribute to a community of learning through discussion groups and peer review sessions. At the end of the semester, students will use the skills they have built throughout the course to investigate a question of their choosing, propose potential hypotheses, and complete a scientific literature review contributing to the field of behavioral endocrinology. Additional skills required to complete this paper are bolstered by weekly exercises in select topics (e.g. interpreting figures, claims assessment techniques, conducting a literature search, etc.). These exercises will also encourage students to think critically about the biases and implications for how science in this field is conducted.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Stefanie J Siller
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• 3 points

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES & OPTICS

Prerequisites: PHYS UN3008 Maxwells equations and electromagnetic potentials, the wave equation, propagation of plane waves, reflection and refraction, geometrical optics, transmission lines, wave guides, resonant cavities, radiation, interference of waves, and diffraction.

• Department: Physics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• 3 points

PERFORMING GREEK TRAGEDY ON THE MODERN S

PERF GREEK TRAGDY ON MOD

This course aims to explore performing Greek tragedy on the modern stage. It will include an introduction to original performance practices in ancient Greece (space, masking, choral performance, costume, acting techniques) and an examination of how artists from different contemporary theatrical traditions have adapted ancient texts in modern performances and new versions of the plays. The bulk of the course will be focused on the problems of acting, interpreting, and reinterpreting parts of three plays on the stage, Sophocles’
Antigone
, Euripides’
Medea
, and Sophocles’
Ajax
along with a new version by Ellen McLaughlin, who teaches playwriting at Barnard,
Ajax in Iraq
. Students will view all or parts of particularly interesting recent productions from various theatrical traditions, which will help them to tackle challenging issues such as choral performance and choral rhythms, masking, character work, dialogues and presenting formal political debates. For contemporary actors training in Greek tragedy offers a unique opportunity to improve their performance on stage through ensemble work and representing character through speech.  It enhances dramaturgical capacities that a contemporary theater practitioner must exercise in exploring theory in practice and vice versa. This class is directed to students particularly interested in dramaturgy, directing, designing, translation, and Greek tragedy as well as acting.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

Introduction to Construction: Case Studi

Construction Case Studies

Introduction to basic principles of how builders construct different types of projects. Detailed weekly cases of construction processes for infrastructure and building projects highlighting major differences between project types; challenges and solutions typically faced by project teams during construction. Types of projects covered: tunnels, bridges, skyscrapers, neighborhood development, mega programs, airports, and education. Detailed case studies of past and current iconic national and international projects, including in New York area. Site visits to active construction projects to learn directly from site engineers and team. CEEM sophomores only.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Ibrahim Odeh
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• 3 points

METHODS FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: SOCI UN1000 The Social World or Instructor Permission Required for all Sociology majors. Introductory course in social scientific research methods. Provides a general overview of the ways sociologists collect information about social phenomena, focusing on how to collect data that are reliable and applicable to our research questions.

• Department: Sociology
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Gerard Torrats-Espinosa
  h-index: 6 Info
• 4 points

BEHAVIOR BIOL-LIVING PRIMATES

Prerequisites: introductory biology course in organismal biology and the instructors permission. Corequisite EEEB UN3111 Survey of non-human primate behavior from the perspective of phylogeny, adaptation, physiology and anatomy, and life history. Focus on the four main problems primates face: finding appropriate food, avoid being eaten themselves, reproducing in the face of competition, and dealing with social partners.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Marina Cords
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 3 points

LITERARY TEXTS&CRIT MTHDS(SEM)

Prerequisites: Students who register for ENGL UN3011 must also register for ENGL UN3001 Literary Texts, Critical Methods lecture. This seminar, led by an advanced graduate student in the English doctoral program, accompanies the faculty lecture ENGL UN3001. The seminar both elaborates upon the topics taken up in the lecture and introduces other theories and methodologies. It also focuses on training students to integrate the terms, techniques, and critical approaches covered in both parts of the course into their own critical writing, building up from brief close readings to longer research papers.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Lilith D Todd
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• Instructor: Emma E Hitchcock
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 1 Info
• Instructor: Benjamin N Hulett
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• Instructor: Patrick Anson
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• Instructor: Bernadette A Myers
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• 0 points

METHODS SOCIAL RESEARCH-DISC

Prerequisites: SOCI UN1000 Section Discussion for SOCI UN3010, METHODS FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH

• Department: Sociology
• R 1 p.m.-1:50 p.m.
• F 9 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Joss T Greene
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Flavien Ganter
  h-index: 2 Info
• 0 points

PROBLEMS IN DRAWING

Prerequisites: VIAR R1000. (Formerly R4005) Students will connect with the very heart of the Western Art tradition, engaging in this critical activity that was the pillar of draftsmanship training from the Renaissance on through the early Modern Era. This pursuit is the common thread that links artists from Michelangelo and Rubens to Van Gogh and Picasso. Rigorous studies will be executed from plaster casts of antique sculptures, and pedagogical engravings. Students will confront foundational issues of academic training; assessing proportion and tonal value, structure and form. Hours will be spent on a single drawing pushing to the highest degree of accuracy in order develop a means for looking at nature. There is a focus on precision and gaining a thorough understanding of the interaction between light and a surface. This approach emphasizes drawing by understanding the subject and the physical world that defines it. While this training has allowed great representational artists of the past to unlock the poetry from the world around them and continues to inspire a surging new realist movement, it can also serve as a new way of seeing and a launching point for achieving creative goals. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• T 5 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Edward Minoff
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

TRANSLATION SEMINAR

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Students do not need to demonstrate bilingual ability to take this course. Department approval NOT needed. Corequisites: This course is open to undergraduate & graduate students. This course will explore broad-ranging questions pertaining to the historical, cultural, and political significance of translation while analyzing the various challenges confronted by the arts foremost practitioners. We will read and discuss texts by writers and theorists such as Benjamin, Derrida, Borges, Steiner, Dryden, Nabokov, Schleiermacher, Goethe, Spivak, Jakobson, and Venuti. As readers and practitioners of translation, we will train our ears to detect the visibility of invisibility of the translators craft; through short writing experiments, we will discover how to identify and capture the nuances that traverse literary styles, historical periods and cultures. The course will culminate in a final project that may either be a critical analysis or an original translation accompanied by a translators note of introduction.

• Department: Writing
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Katrine O Jensen
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• 3 points

African Voices & Colonial Documents: Uga

AFR Voices & COL Docs: Ug

This course introduces students to researching and writing African colonial history with a specific focus on Uganda. Students will be guided through the missionary sources available at Columbia and we will discuss how African voices can and cannot be found in these archives. At the end of the semester students will have produced an original primary source paper on Ugandan history.

• Department: History
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Rhiannon Stephens
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING

Enables students to become informed users of financial information by understanding the language of accounting and financial reporting. Focuses on the three major financial statements that companies prepare for use of management and external parties--the balance sheet, the income statement, and the statement of cash flows. Examines the underlying concepts that go into the preparation of these financial statements as well as specific accounting rules that apply when preparing financial statements. Also looks at approaches to analyze the financial strength and operations of an entity. Uses actual financial statements to understand how financial information is presented and to apply analysis techniques.

• Department: Columbia College
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Yao Liu
  h-index: 3 Info
• 3 points

CLASSICAL LATIN PROSE

Prerequisites: LATN W2202 or equivalent This course is intended to complement Latin V3012: Augustan Poetry in providing students I a transition between the elementary, grammatical study of Latin texts to a more fluent understanding of complex literary style. Latin V3013 will largely concentrate on different styles of writing, particularly narrative, invective, and argument. Text will be drawn primarily from Ciceros orations, with some readings form his rhetorical works.

• Department: Classics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Darcy Krasne
  h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

LABORATORY IN MATERIALS SCI II

Metallographic sample preparation, optical microscopy, quantitative metallography, hardness and tensile testing, plastic deformation, annealing, phase diagrams, brittle fracture of glass, temperature and strain-rate dependent deformation of polymers; written and oral reports. This is the second of a two-semester sequence materials laboratory course.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• M 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Ismail C Noyan
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

Neurobiology II Recitation

Discussion/recitation section for BIOL UN3005 Neurobiology II

• Department: Biological Sciences
• M 9 a.m.-10 a.m.
• T 9 a.m.-10 a.m.
• W 9 a.m.-10 a.m.
• R 9 a.m.-10 a.m.
• W 6 p.m.-7 p.m.
• 0 points

DAILY LIFE

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required. In his poem A Few Days, James Schuyler reflects A few days / are all we have. So count them as they pass. They pass too quickly / out of breath. Before we know it, as Schuyler says, Today is tomorrow. This course will encourage us to slow down time and document today while it is still today. One of the courses main points is to pursue the ordinary, and to recognize that the ordinary -- whether presented as poems, essays, stories, fragments, etc. -- can become art. Assignments will provide broad examples of how to portray dailiness. Each week you will write a short piece (1-3 pages) that responds to these assignments while engaging your own daily life. The form is open. You could, for example, write a poem or story with a brief critical preface, or you could compose an essay that explores formal and/or thematic qualities. You can also create multimedia work. The important thing is to treat the materials we will read as springboards into your own artistic practice.

• Department: Writing
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: John D Cotner
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• 3 points

ENVIRONMENTAL MEASURMENTS

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited. Required field trip on first Friday of the semester. Hands-on approach to learning environmental methods. Students take a one-day cruise on the Hudson River to collect environmental samples. These samples are then analyzed throughout the semester to characterize the Hudson River estuary. Standard and advanced techniques to analyze water and sediment samples for nutrients and contaminants are taught.

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Brian Mailloux
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 36 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED ORAL FRENCH

Prerequisites: At least one French course after completion of FREN BC1204: Intermediate II or permission of the instructor. Oral presentations and discussions of French films aimed at increasing fluency, acquiring vocabulary, and perfecting pronunciation skills.

• Department: French @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Anne Boyman
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 3 points

Incarcerated Yet Inspired: Exploring Cri

Welcome to the Incarcerated Yet Inspired, a cross-genre, creative writing seminar. Over the course of this semester, we will conduct a close reading of literary works that are based on the lives of individuals who have been ostracized, incarcerated, and isolated from their communities. While some of the writers we will  study have been personally affected by the criminal justice system, others have drawn upon their research, observations, and experiences working in prisons to tell a compelling story. Through our weekly analysis and discussion, we will explore the thematic elements and artistic choices each writer employs in their work. We will also challenge our existing thoughts about prisons as an institution and develop a better understanding of how the prism of art and justice can be valuable to you as writers.

• Department: Writing
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher P Wolfe
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• 3 points

ECONOMETRICS

Prerequisites: ECON BC3033 or ECON BC3035, and ECON BC2411 or STAT W1111 or STAT W1211, or permission of the instructor. Specification, estimation and evaluation of economic relationships using economic theory, data, and statistical inference; testable implications of economic theories; econometric analysis of topics such as consumption, investment, wages and unemployment, and financial markets.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Morgan C Jr. Williams
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• 4 points

Inhabiting Form: Writing the Body

The body is our most immediate encounter with the world, the vessel through which we experience our entire lives: pleasure, pain, beauty, horror, limitation, freedom, fragility and empowerment. In this course, we will pursue critical and creative inquiries into invocations and manifestations of the body in multiple genres of literature and in several capacities. We will look at how writers make space for—or take up space with—bodies in their work. The etymology of the word “text” is from the Latin
textus
, meaning “tissue.” Along these lines, we will consider the text itself as a body. Discussions around body politics, race, gender, ability, illness, death, metamorphosis, monstrosity and pleasure will be parallel to the consideration of how a text might function itself as a body in space and time. We will consider such questions as:
What is the connective tissue of a story or a poem? What is the nervous system of a lyric essay? How is formal constraint similar to societal ideals about beauty and acceptability of certain bodies? How do words and language function at the cellular level to build the body of a text? How can we make room to honor, in our writing, bodies that have otherwise been marginalized?
We will also consider non-human bodies (animals & organisms) and embodiments of the supernatural (ghosts, gods & specters) in our inquiries. Students will process and explore these ideas in both creative and analytical writings throughout the semester, deepening their understanding of embodiment both on and off the page.

• Department: Writing
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Samantha Zighelboim
  Info
• 3 points

Brain Evolution

If an engineer were to build “the brain”, they would not be able to reproduce any of the brains that exist on Earth. Our brains were not designed to be perfect, but are a result of millions of years of evolution and adaptation. The goal of this course is to provide an overview of brain evolution, ranging from the evolution of the first neurons to the origin of the human brain. Specifically, the course will focus on recent insights emerging from studies of development, gene expression, and neural circuit architecture. The evolutionary perspective on commonly used terms, such as “neuron” and “brain”, and general principles of brain organization and function emerging from comparative studies will be discussed.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Maria Tosches
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• 3 points

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING II

Various concepts within the field of biomedical engineering, foundational knowledge of engineering methodology applied to biological and/or medical problems through modules in biomechanics, bioinstrumentation, and biomedical imaging.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• 3 points

ANALYSIS OF CHEM ENGIN PROBLMS

Advance chemical-engineering problem-solving skills through the use of computational tools (primarily developed in Excel or Python).  Examples are drawn from thermodynamics, transport phenomena, and chemical kinetics. The course is project based, emphasizing data analysis and report writing. Unstructured collaboration with peers is highly encouraged. Requisite numerical methods and Chemical Engineering concepts introduced.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Alan West
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 48 Info
• 3 points

NUMBER THEORY AND CRYPTOGRAPHY

Prerequisites: one year of calculus. Prerequisite: One year of Calculus. Congruences. Primitive roots. Quadratic residues. Contemporary applications.

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Daniele Alessandrini
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 10 Info
• 3 points

Queer Caribbean Critique

QUEER CARIBBEAN CRITIQUE

This seminar analyzes the different critical approaches to studying same-sex desire in the Caribbean region. The region’s long history of indigenous genocide, colonialism, imperialism, and neo-liberalism, have made questions about “indigenous” and properly “local” forms of sexuality more complicated than in many other regions. In response, critics have worked to recover and account for local forms of same-sex sexuality and articulated their differences in critical and theoretical terms outside the language of “coming out” and LGBT identity politics. On the other hand, critics have emphasized how outside forces of colonialism, imperialism, and the globalization of LGBT politics have impacted and reshaped Caribbean same-sex desires and subjectivities. This course studies these various critical tendencies in the different contexts of the Anglophone, Francophone, Hispanophone, and Dutch Caribbean.

• Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Maja Horn
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

MARKETING MANAGEMENT

Designed to provide students with an understanding of the fundamental marketing concepts and their application by business and non-business organizations. The goal is to expose students to these concepts as they are used in a wide variety of settings, including consumer goods firms, manufacturing and service industries, and small and large businesses. The course gives an overview of marketing strategy issues, elements of a market (company, customers, and competition), as well as the fundamental elements of the marketing mix (product, price, placement/distribution, and promotion).

• Department: Columbia College
• T 10:10 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ran Kivetz
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• 3 points

CONTEMPORARY WAR LITERATURE

This seminar will explore recent writing about war and conflict from the perspective of combatants, civilians, embedded journalists, medics, military families, and veterans. Together we’ll read a range of contemporary novels, short stories, and reportage and examine how writers describe, critique, report, imagine, and experience war. The course will be organized into three sections: anticipating war, experiencing war, and returning from war. We’ll draw on canonical works of 20th century war literature by Wilfred Owen, Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, Tim O’Brien, and Michael Herr, and connect these works to writing about war and conflict from the 21st century. We’ll read fiction and reportage by Phil Klay, Viet Than Nguyen, Anna Burns, Salar Abdoh, C.J. Chivers, Matt Gallagher, Graham Barnhart, Ben Fountain, Teresa Fazio, Ahmed Saadawi, and Will Mackin, and others, as well as contemporary war poetry from the United States and Afghanistan.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Therese A Cox
  Info
• 4 points

MAJOR FRENCH TEXTS II

Prerequisites: FREN BC3021 may be taken for credit without completion of FREN BC3022. The Age of Enlightenment, Romanticism, Realism, and Symbolism. FREN BC1204: French Intermediate II or the equivalent level is required.

• Department: French @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Brian D O'Keeffe
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 3 points

MIGRATION & ECONOMIC CHANGE

Prerequisites: (Econ BC 3035) or (Econ BC 3033) This course examines a wide variety of topics about migration and its relationship to economic development, globalization, and social and economic mobility. At its core, this course reflects a key reality: that the movement of people--within regions, within countries, and across borders--is both the result of and impetus for economic change.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ashley Timmer
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

FINANCIAL ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and STAT UN1201 Institutional nature and economic function of financial markets. Emphasis on both domestic and international markets (debt, stock, foreign exchange, eurobond, eurocurrency, futures, options, and others). Principles of security pricing and portfolio management; the Capital Asset Pricing Model and the Efficient Markets Hypothesis.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Elham Saeidinezhad
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Tamrat Gashaw
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

INCLUSIVE APPROACHES TO TEACHING LITERAC

LITERACY: THEORY & PRACTI

This seminar engages students in an exploration of how schools prepare students to be literate across multiple subject areas. Engaging students with theory and practice, we will look at how students learn to read and write, considering approaches for literacy instruction from early childhood through adolescence. Understanding that schools are required to meet the needs of diverse learners, we will explore literacy instruction for K-12 students with special needs, multilingual learners, and students from diverse cultural backgrounds.

• Department: Education @Barnard
• W 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Edstrom
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

HYDROLOGY

Prerequisites: EESC V2100, physics, or permission of instructor. Includes a weekend field trip. Alternate years. Hands-on study and discussion of the basic physical principles of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff, and subsurface flow), as well as environmentally relevant applications based on case studies. Special focus on the New York City area, the arid Southwest, and the developing world. Coverage of contemporary global water resources issues, including pollution control, sustainable development, and climate change. General Education Requirement: Quantitative and Deductive Reasoning (QUA).

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Martin Stute
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 52 Info
• 3 points

Urban Ecosystems

URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Urban Ecosystems will cover scientific principles, concepts, and methodologies required to understand complex systems and the natural and social-ecological relationships at work in cities. You will learn the basics of ecological process and patterns of ecosystems especially applied in cities, understand how humans interact with and impact ecological processes and patterns in cities, and explore approaches for dealing with current and future urban challenges. Format: Lecture, discussion, small group work, field trips

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Cook
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

Economic History of Global Capitalism

ECON HIST OF GLOBAL CAPIT

The course is an introduction to the economic developments that gave rise to capitalist economies and economic globalization from 1500 to the 20th century. We apply economic and empirical reasoning to examine many transformations that have shaped the economies of the modern era—demographic, technological, and institutional changes. We compare the rise of Europe and other Eurasian civilizations, especially China. We examine the role of slavery and imperialism in global economic integration. We examine how the rise of modern capitalism influenced human material well-being and conflict and has led to the convergence and divergence of nations in the global economy.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Alan Dye
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 3 points

Volcanoes and the Environment

VOLCANOES AND THE ENVIRON

This course seeks to impart students with knowledge of volcanic eruptions on Earth and the effects on the environment as a whole. The course will focus on the physical mechanisms responsible for eruptions, the effects eruptions have on humans and other living organisms, as well as the environment. The course will investigate how eruptions have contributed to global climate change. The course will also look at the positive effects volcanoes have had on Earth, such as providing nutrient rich soils for growing crops and providing renewable geothermal energy--a cleaner energy resource. Format: lecture, field trip, data collection and analysis, student presentations.

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Sedelia Rodriguez
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

Prerequisites: (MATH UN2010 and MATH UN2030) or the equivalent introduction to partial differential equations. First-order equations. Linear second-order equations; separation of variables, solution by series expansions. Boundary value problems.

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Florian Johne
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points