SENIOR SEMINAR

SR SEM:US RACE/CRIME/INCR PLCY

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and the completion of all courses (except for the senior requirement) required for the economics track, political economy track, or economics and mathematics majors. Exceptions to these prerequisites may be granted by the chair of the department only. Seminar sections are limited to 15 students. A topic in economic theory or policy of the instructors choice. See department for current topics and for senior requirement preference forms.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• W noon-1:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Morgan C Jr. Williams
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• 4 points

SEM: ISSUES URBAN TEACHING

Corequisites: EDUC BC3063 or EDUC BC3065. Enrollment limited to student teachers enrolled in the Education Program. Designed to help student teachers develop as reflective practictioners who can think critically about issues facing urban schools, particularly how race, class and gender influence schooling; and to examine the challenges and possibilities for providing intellectually engaging, meaningful curriculum to all students in urban classrooms.

• Department: Education @Barnard
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Maria S Rivera Maulucci
  h-index: 10 Info
• 4 points

RESEARCH SEM ECONOMIC HISTRY I

Must be supervised by a faculty member approved by the program adviser. This is the 1st semester of a two-semester course sequence.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Alan Dye
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 4 points

Ethos of Care: Reparations and Repair

In the age of human rights, governments and individuals are increasingly being called upon to embrace responsibility for historical injustices, to reckon with and repair past wrongdoings. Demands for reparations and repair are not new, what is new, however, is the conversation about reparations and repair occurring across multiple scales. Propelled by an ‘ethos of care’ that increasingly seems to orient contemporary politics this interdisciplinary seminar asks: what are the moral and material implications of this ethos of care? What are the possibilities and limitations of reparations and promises of repair? How do these social phenomena intersect with historically contingent demands to a
debt
that is owed? This course investigates apologies, their symbolic and performative implications to understand material questions of repair, debt and redistribution. Drawing from cultural anthropology, history, international law, and human rights studies, we will ground our conceptual conversation in a number of historical and ongoing instances of racial injustices focusing on three cases studies related to transatlantic slavery, racial segregation and Native genocide.

• Department: Anthropology
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Anna K Schirrer
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• 4 points

SEM IN CURRENT RES. PROBLEMS

A detailed study of a selected field of active research in physics. The motivation, techniques, and results obtained to the present, as well as the difficulties and unsolved problems. For Physics majors only. Priority given to seniors; juniors by permission of the instructor.

• Department: Physics
• W 5:30 p.m.-6:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel A Rosen
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 2 points

CELLULAR/MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY

Prerequisites: two semesters of a rigorous, molecularly-oriented introductory biology course (such as UN2005 and UN2006), or the instructors permission. This course will cover the basic concepts underlying the mechanisms of innate and adaptive immunity, as well as key experimental methods currently used in the field. To keep it real, the course will include clinical correlates in such areas as infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases, cancer immunotherapy and transplantation. Taking this course wont turn you into an immunologist, but it may make you want to become one, as was the case for several students last year. After taking the course, you should be able to read the literature intelligently in this rapidly advancing field. SCE and TC students may register for this course, but they must first obtain the written permission of the instructor, by filling out a paper Registration Adjustment Form (Add/Drop form). The form can be downloaded at the URL below, but must be signed by the instructor and returned to the office of the registrar. http://registrar.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/reg-adjustment.pdf

• Department: Biological Sciences
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Christian W Schindler
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

CELLULAR/MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY

Prerequisites: two semesters of a rigorous, molecularly-oriented introductory biology course (such as UN2005 and UN2006), or the instructors permission. This course will cover the basic concepts underlying the mechanisms of innate and adaptive immunity, as well as key experimental methods currently used in the field. To keep it real, the course will include clinical correlates in such areas as infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases, cancer immunotherapy and transplantation. Taking this course wont turn you into an immunologist, but it may make you want to become one, as was the case for several students last year. After taking the course, you should be able to read the literature intelligently in this rapidly advancing field. SCE and TC students may register for this course, but they must first obtain the written permission of the instructor, by filling out a paper Registration Adjustment Form (Add/Drop form). The form can be downloaded at the URL below, but must be signed by the instructor and returned to the office of the registrar. http://registrar.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/reg-adjustment.pdf

• Department: Auditing
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Christian W Schindler
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 0 points

PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY I-LECTURES

Prerequisites: (CHEM UN1403 and CHEM UN1404) or (CHEM UN1604) or (CHEM UN2045 and CHEM UN2046) and (MATH UN1101 and MATH UN1102) or (MATH UN1207 and MATH UN1208) and (PHYS UN1401 and PHYS UN1402) PHYS UN1201 - PHYS UN1202 is acceptable; PHYS UN1401 - PHYS UN1402 or the equivalent is HIGHLY recommended. Corequisites: CHEM UN3085 Elementary, but comprehensive, treatment of the fundamental laws governing the behavior of individual atoms and molecules and collections of them. CHEM UN3079 covers the thermodynamics of chemical systems at equilibrium and the chemical kinetics of nonequilibrium systems. Although CHEM UN3079 and CHEM UN3080 are separate courses, students are expected to take both terms sequentially. A recitation section is required. Please check the Directory of Classes for details and also speak with the TA for the course.

• Department: Chemistry
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Xiaoyang Zhu
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 85 Info
• 4 points

CIRCUIT ANALYSIS LABORATORY

Companion lab course for ELEN E3201. Experiments cover such topics as: use of measurement instruments; HSPICE simulation; basic network theorems; linearization of nonlinear circuits using negative feedback; op-amp circuits; integrators; second order RLC circuits. The lab generally meets on alternate weeks.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• M 2:40 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
• R 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Charles A Zukowski
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• 1 points

CIRCUIT ANALYSIS LABORATORY

Companion lab course for ELEN E3201. Experiments cover such topics as: use of measurement instruments; HSPICE simulation; basic network theorems; linearization of nonlinear circuits using negative feedback; op-amp circuits; integrators; second order RLC circuits. The lab generally meets on alternate weeks.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• F 8 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Charles A Zukowski
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• 1 points

INTERMEDIATE LABORATORY WORK

Prerequisites: phys UN2601 or phys un2802 Primarily for junior and senior physics majors; other majors must obtain the instructors permission. Each experiment is chosen by the student in consultation with the instructor. Each section meets one afternoon per week, with registration in each section limited by the laboratory capacity. Experiments (classical and modern) cover topics in electricity, magnetism, optics, atomic physics, and nuclear physics.

• Department: Physics
• R 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• F 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Elena Aprile
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Morgan May
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 2 points

SIGNALS & SYSTEMS LABORATORY

Companion lab course for ELEN E3801. Experiments cover topics such as: introduction and use of MATLAB for numerical and symbolic calculations; linearity and time invariance; continuous-time convolution; Fourier-series expansion and signal reconstruction; impulse response and transfer function; forced response. The lab generally meets on alternate weeks.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• M 6:10 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• F 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Xiaodong Wang
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 1 points

PHYSICL-ANALYTICL LABORATORY I

Corequisites: CHEM UN3079 A student-centered experimental course intended for students who are co-registered or have completed CHEM UN3079 and CHEM UN3080. The course emphasizes techniques of experimental physical chemistry and instrumental analysis, including vibrational, electronic, and laser spectroscopy; electroanalytical methods; calorimetry; reaction kinetics; hydrodynamic methods; scanning probe microscopy; applications of computers to reduce experimental data; and computational chemistry. Students must also attend the compulsory Mentoring Session. Please check the Directory of Classes for details.

• Department: Chemistry
• T noon-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Luis A Avila
  CULPA: 22 Info
• 4 points

INDIVIDUAL SENIOR PROJECTS

Prerequisites: Meets senior requirement. Instructor permission required. The instructor will supervise the writing of long papers involving some form of sociological research and analysis.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• Instructor: Deborah Becher
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 4 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth Bernstein
  CULPA: 27 Info
• Instructor: Angela Simms
  Info
• Instructor: Debra Minkoff
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Mignon R Moore
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Jonathan Rieder
  CULPA: 17 Info
• Instructor: Amy Zhou
  Info
• 4 points

Senior Research Seminar: Methods of Inqu

SENIOR RESEARCH SEMINAR I

This course is the first semester of a year-long senior capstone experience for the Educational Studies major. Over the course of the year, students will design and carry-out an inquiry project, and they will report on this project through an appropriate medium, for a specific purpose and audience. To this end, we will address the following: the relationship between theory, experience, and the development of a research question; the research methods that are appropriate for our research; the purposes of our research; the consequences our research might have and for whom; how we analyze data; and how we communicate with the audience of our research.

• Department: Education @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Thea R Abu El-Haj
  Info
• 4 points

ADV ELECTROMAGNETISM LAB

Classical electromagnetic wave phenomena via Maxwells equations, including: (i) Michaelson and Fabry-Perot Interferometry, as well as a thin-film interference and elementary dispersion theory; (ii) Fraunhofer Diffraction (and a bit of Fresnel); (iii) Wireless Telegraphy I: AM Radio Receivers; and (iv) Wireless Telegraphy II: AM Transmitters. Last two labs pay homage to relevant scientific developments in the period 1875-1925, from the discovery of Hertzian waves to the Golden Age of Radio. Complements PHYS W3008 Electromagnetic Waves and Optics.

• Department: Physics and Astronomy @Barnard
• F 10:30 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Stiliana Savin
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED INDEPENDENT RES

Prerequisites: the instructors permission for entrance, and the departmental representatives permission for aggregate points in excess of 12 or less than 4. This course may be repeated for credit (see major and concentration requirements). Individual research under the supervision of a member of the staff. Research areas include organic, physical, inorganic, analytical, and biological chemistry. Please note that CHEM UN3098 is offered in the fall and spring semesters.

• Department: Chemistry
• Instructor: Vesna Gasperov
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 4 Info
• 4 points

GUIDED RESEARCH IN ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: Instructors permission Provides students with the experience of participating in the research process by matching them to a faculty mentor who will put them to work on one of his or her current research projects.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• Instructor: Anja Tolonen
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 8 Info
• Instructor: Martina Jasova
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 7 Info
• 1-2 points

GUIDED RESEARCH IN ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: Instructors permission Provides students with the experience of participating in the research process by matching them to a faculty mentor who will put them to work on one of his or her current research projects.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• Instructor: Elizabeth O Ananat
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 18 Info
• 1-2 points

GUIDED RESEARCH IN ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: Instructors permission Provides students with the experience of participating in the research process by matching them to a faculty mentor who will put them to work on one of his or her current research projects.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• Instructor: Randall Reback
  CULPA: 17 h-index: 14 Info
• Instructor: Belinda Archibong
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 7 Info
• Instructor: Alan Dye
  CULPA: 19 Info
• Instructor: David Weiman
  CULPA: 40 Info
• Instructor: Lalith Munasinghe
  CULPA: 33 Info
• Instructor: Sharon Harrison
  CULPA: 38 h-index: 13 Info
• Instructor: Homa S Zarghamee
  CULPA: 17 Info
• Instructor: Elham Saeidinezhad
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Rajiv Sethi
  CULPA: 24 h-index: 33 Info
• 1-2 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

• Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
• Instructor: Celia E Naylor
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• Instructor: Joan Snitzer
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Delphine A Fawundu
  Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Anne Higonnet
  CULPA: 31 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: John Miller
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 1 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Independent Study. Instructor permission required.

• Department: Computer Science @Barnard
• Instructor: Mark Santolucito
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 8 Info
• Instructor: Adam Z Poliak
  Info
• Instructor: Wayne Lee
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Mark Santolucito
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 8 Info
• 1 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Prerequisites: ECON BC3033 or ECON BC3035 or permission of the instructor. Topic(s), requirements, workload and point value to be determined in consultation with faculty advisor. Forms available at the Office of the Registrar.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• Instructor: Martina Jasova
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 7 Info
• Instructor: Lalith Munasinghe
  CULPA: 33 Info
• 1-3 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Independent study

• Department: Film @Barnard
• Instructor: Maura L Spiegel
  CULPA: 40 Info
• Instructor: Ross T Hamilton
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 1 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

• Department: French @Barnard
• Instructor: Peter T Connor
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 3 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY II

Independent Study in Human Rights.

• Department: Human Rights (HRTB)
• Instructor: J.C. Salyer
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Widney Brown
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

This course can be worth 1 to 4 credits (each credit is equivalent to approximately three hours of work per week) and requires a Barnard faculty as a mentor who has to provide written approval. The course entails a scholarly component; for this, a research report is required by the end of the term. The research report can take the form that best suits the nature of the project. The course will be taken for a letter grade, regardless of whether the student chooses 1, 2, 3, or 4 credits.

• Department: Neuroscience & Behavior @Barnard
• Instructor: Maria de la Paz Fernandez
  h-index: 11 Info
• Instructor: Rae Silver
  Wikipedia h-index: 69 Info
• Instructor: Peter D Balsam
  CULPA: 25 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth P Bauer
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 21 Info
• Instructor: Russell D Romeo
  CULPA: 9 Info
• Instructor: John Glendinning
  CULPA: 23 h-index: 39 Info
• Instructor: Kara Pham
  CULPA: 9 Info
• Instructor: Alex White
  h-index: 13 Info
• 1-4 points

INDEPENDENT PROJECTS

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• Instructor: Angela Simms
  Info
• 1 points

INTRO TO MECHANCIS OF FLUIDS

INTRO TO MECHANICS OF FLUIDS

Basic continuum concepts. Liquids and gases in static equilibrium. Continuity equation. Two-dimensional kinematics. Equation of motion. Bernoulli’s equation and applications. Equations of energy and angular momentum. Dimensional analysis. Two-dimensional laminar flow. Pipe flow, laminar, and turbulent. Elements of compressible flow.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Karen Kasza
  h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO MECHANCIS OF FLUIDS

FLUIDS RECITATION

Basic continuum concepts. Liquids and gases in static equilibrium. Continuity equation. Two-dimensional kinematics. Equation of motion. Bernoulli’s equation and applications. Equations of energy and angular momentum. Dimensional analysis. Two-dimensional laminar flow. Pipe flow, laminar, and turbulent. Elements of compressible flow.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• F 10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Karen Kasza
  h-index: 17 Info
• 0 points

ADVANCED FICTION WORKSHOP

Prerequisites: The department's permission required through writing sample. Please go to 609 Kent for submission schedule and registration guidelines or see http://www.arts.columbia.edu/writing/undergraduate. Building on the work of the Intermediate Workshop, Advanced Workshops are reserved for the most accomplished creative writing students. A significant body of writing must be produced and revised. Particular attention will be paid to the components of fiction: voice, perspective, characterization, and form. Students will be expected to finish several short stories, executing a total artistic vision on a piece of writing. The critical focus of the class will include an examination of endings and formal wholeness, sustaining narrative arcs, compelling a reader's interest for the duration of the text, and generating a sense of urgency and drama in the work.

• Department: Writing
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Victor D Lavalle
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Daniel A Magariel
  Info
• 3 points

APPLIED MATH I: LINEAR ALGEBRA

Matrix algebra, elementary matrices, inverses, rank, determinants. Computational aspects of solving systems of linear equations: existence-uniqueness of solutions, Gaussian elimination, scaling, ill-conditioned systems, iterative techniques. Vector spaces, bases, dimension. Eigenvalue problems, diagonalization, inner products, unitary matrices.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Yuan He
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED BENGALI I

• Department: Language Resource Center
• Instructor: Stephane A Charitos
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED DUTCH I

This advanced course is a content-based language course, and is centered around the history of the Low Countries. Each week focuses on a specific era, such as the counts of Holland in the 13th century and the Reformation in the 16th century. Students will read texts about history and literature of the historical periods. Students will read texts at home and discuss them in class, explore history-related websites and watch short video clips. Attention will be paid to advanced grammar issues and vocabulary.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• MW 1:15 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Wijnie de Groot
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 3 points

GEOCHEM FOR A HABITABLE PLANET

Prerequisites: Any 1000-level or 2000-level EESC course; MATH UN1101 Calculus I and CHEM UN1403 General Chemistry I or their equivalents. The origin, evolution, and future of our planet, based on the book How to Build a Habitable Planet by Wallace S. Broecker. This course will focus on the geochemical processes that built Earth from solar material, led to its differentiation into continents and ocean, and have maintained its surface at a comfortable temperature. Students will participate in a hands-on geochemistry project at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Terry A Plank
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

THE WRITER'S PROCESS

Enrollment limited to Barnard students. Application process and permission of instructor required:
https://writing.barnard.edu/become-writing-fellow
. Exploration of theory and practice in the teaching of writing, designed for students who plan to become Writing Fellows at Barnard. Students will read current theory and consider current research in the writing process and engage in practical applications in the classroom or in tutoring. The Writer’s Process is only open to those who applied to and were accepted into the Writing Fellows Program.
Note: This course now counts as an elective for the English major.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Pamela Cobrin
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Cecelia B Lie-Spahn
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

LOVE & LITERATURE

LOVE AND LITERATURE

This course offers an in-depth study of love as it has been treated in a variety of French literary texts. These texts will be related to a number of important philosophical and theological approaches to love, particularly in respect of certain ideas concerning ethical love, erotic love, and religious faith as an act of loving God. The first objective of this class is to show how one can relate literature to philosophy and theology; the second is to gain a broad, but thematically focused familiarity with French literature, and with some literary works beyond the French tradition. FREN BC1204: French Intermediate II or the equivalent level is required.

• Department: French @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Brian D O'Keeffe
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED INDONESIAN I

This course offers students the opportunity to practice advanced structures of Bahasa Indonesia, a major language of Indonesia and South East Asia. This course is offered by videoconferencing from Cornell as part of the Shared Course Initiative.

• Department: Language Resource Center
• 3 points

CONVERS ABOUT LUSOPHONE WORLD

Prerequisites: PORT W1220. This conversation class will help students develop their oral proficiency in Portuguese. We will discuss current events, participate in challenging pronunciation exercises, improve understanding of Portuguese idioms, develop conversation strengths, confront weaknesses, and increase fluency in spoken Portuguese.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Joao Nemi Neto
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

THIRD-YEAR RUSSIAN I

Prerequisites: RUSS UN2102 or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission. Recommended for students who wish to improve their active command of Russian. Emphasis on conversation and composition. Reading and discussion of selected texts and videotapes. Lectures. Papers and oral reports required. Conducted entirely in Russian.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MWF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Tatiana Mikhailova
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• 4 points

PAINTING II

Prerequisites: (VIAR UN1000) and (VIAR UN2100) (Formerly R3202) Painting II: Extension of VIAR UN2100 This course explores the transition of representational form towards abstraction in the early 20th century (Cubism) with full consideration to recent movements such as geometric abstraction, organic abstraction, gestural abstraction, color field and pattern painting. Students will be encouraged to find dynamic approaches to these classic tropes of 20th and 21st century abstraction.

• Department: Visual Arts
• T 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Gregory Amenoff
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SENIOR FICTION WORKSHOP

Prerequisites: The department's permission required through writing sample. Please go to 609 Kent for submission schedule and registration guidelines or see http://www.arts.columbia.edu/writing/undergraduate. Seniors who are majors in creative writing are given priority for this course. Enrollment is limited, and is by permission of the professor. The senior workshop offers students the opportunity to work exclusively with classmates who are at the same high level of accomplishment in the major. Students in the senior workshops will produce and revise a new and substantial body of work. In-class critiques and conferences with the professor will be tailored to needs of each student.

• Department: Writing
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Crystal H Kim
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED YORUBA I

• Department: Language Resource Center
• Instructor: Stephane A Charitos
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED ZULU I

Prerequisites: ZULU W1201-W1202 or the instructor's permission. This course allows students to practice adanced structures of the Zulu language. Please note this course is offered by videoconference from Yale through the Shared Course Initiative.

• Department: Language Resource Center
• 3 points

ACADEMIC WRITING INTENSIVE

Academic Writing Intensive is a small, intensive writing course for Barnard students in their second or third year who would benefit from extra writing support. Students attend a weekly seminar, work closely with the instructor on each writing assignment, and meet with an attached Writing Fellow every other week. Readings and assignments focus on transferable writing, revision, and critical thinking skills students can apply to any discipline. Students from across the disciplines are welcome. This course is only offered P/D/F. To be considered for the course, please send a recent writing sample to
mbenjami@barnard.edu
, ideally from your First-Year Writing or First-Year Seminar course, or any other writing-intensive humanities or social sciences course at Barnard (no lab reports please).

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Wendy C Schor-Haim
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 4 points

WOMEN OF THE LEFT BANK

This course will group together the women who shaped and epitomized Left Bank culture in Paris from the Belle Époque to the mid-twentieth century; it will also situate these women in relation to their male peers whose works went on to establish the canons of Symbolism, Dadaism, Surrealism, and Existentialism. We will focus primarily on the realms of literature, philosophy, and art, but we will also examine how some of these women advanced cultural production more broadly—by starting publishing presses, opening bookshops, holding salons, etc. Readings will be primarily in French (Colette, Anna de Noailles, Renée Vivien, Simone de Beauvoir; Breton, Valéry, Aragon, Sartre) but will also include some English-language authors (Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes, Anaïs Nin). All discussions, coursework, and examinations will be in French.

• Department: French @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Hadley T Suter
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

Endangered Languages in the Global City:

ENDANGERED LANGUAGES

Of the world’s estimated 7,000 languages – representing migrations and historical developments thousands of years old – the majority are oral, little-documented, and increasingly endangered under the onslaught of global languages like English. This course will take the unprecedented, paradoxical linguistic capital of New York City as a lens for examining how immigrants form communities in a new land, how those communities are integrated into the wider society, and how they grapple with linguistic and cultural loss. Interdisciplinary with an experiential learning component, the course will focus on texts, materials, encounters, and fieldwork with three of the city’s newest and least-studied indigenous immigrant communities (indigenous Latin Americans, Himalayans, and Central Asians).Indigeneity, though often invisible or perceived as marginal in global cities like New York, is in fact pervasive and fundamental. Cities now constitute a crucial site for understanding migration and cultural change, with language a vehicle for culture. Studying cultures only in situ (i.e. in their homelands) risks missing a crucial dimension. Students will be immersed in stateless, oral, immigrant cultures while also gaining a hands-on critical understanding of language endangerment and urban sociolinguistic research, first through field experiences and guest speakers (Endangered Language Alliance partners) and then by going out together into communities to work on projects in small teams. The Endangered Language Alliance (ELA), where the instructor is Co-Director, was formed as a non-profit research institute in 2010 as a forum for researchers, community members, activists, artists, and other New Yorkers to come together to support indigenous and minority languages. ELA’s video recordings provide first-hand testimony of endangered languages in the global city – in indigenous languages with English translation – available in few other places. Those texts will be central to this course, supplemented by the new,first-ever, detailed language map of New York City being produced by ELA.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ross Perlin
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ENERGY,MINERALS,MATERIALS SYST

ENERGYMINERALSMATERIALS SYST

Overview of energy resources, resource management from extraction and processing to recycling and final disposal of wastes. Resources availability and resource processing in the context of the global natural and anthropogenic material cycles; thermodynamic and chemical conditions including nonequilibrium effects that shape the resource base; extractive technologies and their impact on the environment and the biogeochemical cycles; chemical extraction from mineral ores, and metallurgical processes for extraction of metals. In analogy to metallurgical processing, power generation and the refining of fuels are treated as extraction and refining processes. Large scale of power generation and a discussion of its impact on the global biogeochemical cycles.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Raymond Farinato
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

THE ART OF THE ESSAY

NOTE: Students who are on the electronic waiting list or who are interested in the class but are not yet registered MUST attend the first day of class. Fall 2022 course description: Essay writing above the first-year level. Reading and writing various types of essays to develop one's natural writing voice and craft thoughtful, sophisticated and personal essays.  Summer 2022 course description: The Art of the Essay is a writing workshop designed to help you contribute meaningfully in public discourse about the issues that matter most to you. You will write three types of essays in this class, all of which will center personal experience as valuable evidence of larger phenomena or patterns. Your essays will build in complexity, as you introduce more types of sources into conversation about your topics as the semester goes on. You will hone your skills of observing, describing, questioning, analyzing, and persuading. You will be challenged to confront complications and to craft nuanced explorations of your topics. We will also regularly read and discuss the work of contemporary published essayists, identifying key writerly moves that you may adapt as you attempt your own essays.  You will have many opportunities throughout the semester to brainstorm ideas, receive feedback from me and your peers, and develop and revise your drafts. At the end of the semester, you will choose a publication to which to submit or pitch one or more of your essays.

• Department: English @Barnard
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Margaret R Ellsberg
  CULPA: 54 Info
• Instructor: Sasha N Bonet
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• Instructor: Alexandra P Watson
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 3 points

Language, Brain and Mind

The ability to speak distinguishes humans from all other animals, including our closest relatives, the chimpanzees. Why is this so? What makes this possible? This course seeks to answer these questions. We will look at the neurological and psychological foundations of the human faculty of language. How did our brains change to allow language to evolve? Where in our brains are the components of language found? Are our minds specialized for learning language or is it part of our general cognitive abilities to learn? How are words and sentences produced and their meanings recognized? The structure of languages around the world varies greatly; does this have psychological effects for their speakers?

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: William Foley
  h-index: 0 Info
• 3 points

WHAT WAS NAZISM?

How did political theory explain the rise of Nazism in Germany? What models did it develop to understand the structure of the Nazi state, politics and the economy? What can we learn from this for dealing with the crises of democracy and the emergence of authoritarian politics today? This course in political theory and the history of political thought will explore contemporary answers to these questions. It will explore the thought of crucial thinkers on the problems and pitfalls of modern parliamentary democracy such as Max Weber and Hans Kelsen, as well as some of the most influential theoretical voices associated with ideas of Fascism, Totalitarianism and Anti-Semitism such as Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Ernst Fraenkel and Hannah Arendt. 
The course will be structured around texts mainly from the 1920s to the 1960s which still have relevance for political theory today. A strong emphasis will be laid on originally German thinkers who fled to the US in the time of Nazi rule and who contributed decisively to American political science and its particular outlook in the post-war era.  
This course aims to contextualise the discussed texts within the intellectual world of their own time. Students with an interest in twentieth century political, intellectual and social history will, therefore, be particularly welcome. However, the questions raised in the set texts also demand a theoretical and creative engagement with questions of good democratic rule, the challenges of mass society and participation, political in- and exclusion, minority rights and the emergence of terror and authoritarian rule. Additionally there will be a midterm and a final exam which will examine both students’ understanding of the set texts as well as their own thinking on the political theoretical problems raised in this course.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Clara Maier
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• 3 points

EXTRASOLAR PLANETS & ASTROBIOL

• Department: Astronomy
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: David Kipping
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 44 Info
• 3 points

FICTION & PERSONAL NARRATIVE

Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here: 
https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
. Short stories and other imaginative and personal writing.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Timea Szell
  CULPA: 14 Info
• Instructor: Ken Chen
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• 3 points

MECHANICS

Elements of statics; dynamics of a particle and systems of particles.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• F 11:40 a.m.-2:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou
  h-index: 26 Info
• 4 points

APPLIED STATISTICAL METHODS

Prerequisites: At least one, and preferably both, of STAT UN2103 and UN2104 are strongly recommended. Students without programming experience in R might find STAT UN2102 very helpful. This course is intended to give students practical experience with statistical methods beyond linear regression and categorical data analysis. The focus will be on understanding the uses and limitations of models, not the mathematical foundations for the methods. Topics that may be covered include random and mixed-effects models, classical non-parametric techniques, the statistical theory causality, sample survey design, multi-level models, generalized linear regression, generalized estimating equations and over-dispersion, survival analysis including the Kaplan-Meier estimator, log-rank statistics, and the Cox proportional hazards regression model. Power calculations and proposal and report writing will be discussed.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Xiaofei Shi
  h-index: 4 Info
• 3 points

SOLID STATE DEVICES-MATERIALS

Crystal structure and energy band theory of solids. Carrier concentration and transport in semiconductors. P-n junction and junction transistors. Semiconductor surface and MOS transistors. Optical effects and optoelectronic devices. Fabrication of devices and the effect of process variation and distribution statistics on device and circuit performance.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ioannis Kymissis
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 48 Info
• 3.5 points