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 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Samuel Lipsyte
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS

An introduction to the study of language from a scientific perspective. The course is divided into three units: language as a system (sounds, morphology, syntax, and semantics), language in context (in space, time, and community), and language of the individual (psycholinguistics, errors, aphasia, neurology of language, and acquisition). Workload: lecture, weekly homework, and final examination.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: John H McWhorter
  CULPA: 26 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
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Benjamin Marcus
  Info
• 4 points

AFRICAN URBANISM

This class examines the production and experience of contemporary African urban life.  It examines emerging questions coming out of Africa about the nature of ‘ordinary’ cities; urban informality and the rise of so-called ‘slum urbanism’; urban infrastructures; religions and the production of enclave urbanism; transport and informal labor; and the sensory experience of ordinary urban life.  We will also explore different ways of understanding and representing the city including photography, film, sound, and art.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Brian Larkin
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 3 points

APPLIED MATHEMATICS II: PDE'S

Introduction to partial differential equations; integral theorems of vector calculus. Partial differential equations of engineering in rectangular, cylindrical, and spherical coordinates. Separation of the variables. Characteristic-value problems. Bessel functions, Legendre polynomials, other orthogonal functions; their use in boundary value problems. Illustrative examples from the fields of electromagnetic theory, vibrations, heat flow, and fluid mechanics.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael K Tippett
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 43 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED BENGALI II

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

ADVANCED DUTCH II

see department for details

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

ADVANCED INDONESIAN II

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
• Instructor: Stephane A Charitos
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

THIRD-YEAR RUSSIAN II

Prerequisites: RUSS UN2102 or the equivalent and the instructors permission. Enrollment limited. 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.
• Instructor: Tatiana Mikhailova
  Info
• 4 points

PAINTING III: Advanced Painting

PAINTING III: Adv Paintin

Prerequisites: (VIAR UN1000) and (VIAR UN2100) Painting III:  Advanced study in painting will be a material inquiry into the consequential concepts, histories, and critical language embedded in making painting’s historical past and its’ present.  Is painting now a singular “medium”? How do facture, scale, form and a multitude of image-making options, regardless of “style”, accrue as to create meaning?  Participants are expected to present work weekly, as Individual studio or group critiques. These will be augmented by readings of selected historical essays and contemporaneous writings, as well as visual presentations on a rotating basis.

• Department: Visual Arts
• W 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Thomas White
  Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED YORUBA II

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

ADVANCED ZULU II

Prerequisites: ZULU W1201-W1202 or the instructors 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

The Art of the Gods: Images of the Divin

Divine images made the gods present, gave physical and tangible form to something not (often) to be seen or touched, and served as a crystallization of the religious imagination of society. The way different cultures represented the divine can tell us a lot about the use of images in those cultures, as well as communicating much about how the gods themselves were understood. This topic connects art historical concerns of form, material, and style to rituals, social practices, and religious beliefs. This course will combine these elements, showing the interconnections between physical appearance and sacred function in the Greek and Roman world; Mesopotamia and Egypt will act as crucial points of comparison.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexander Ekserdjian
  Info
• 4 points

THE ART OF THE ESSAY

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.

• Department: English @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Shelly Fredman
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Vrinda Condillac
  CULPA: 28 Info
• Instructor: Sasha N Bonet
  Info
• 3 points

MECHANICS

MECHANICS I

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

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeffrey W Kysar
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 37 Info
• 4 points

MECHANICS

MECHANICS I-RECITATION

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

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• F 10:15 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
• F 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• F 1:05 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
• F 10:15 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
• F 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• F 4:15 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• F 5:30 p.m.-6:45 p.m.
• F 3:35 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
• F 10:15 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Jeffrey W Kysar
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 37 Info
• 0 points

Comical Expression in Multicult Lit/Film

COMIC EXPRSN: GERMAN LIT/

This course is designed for participants who are interested in learning more about the role of humor in 20th/21st-c. literature and film. The survey begins with an introduction to key elements of the comical in literature and film, including slapstick, clowning, mime, or stunts. Discussions revolve around the issue of how or whether humor is universally recognizable or whether it is regionally, historically, and culturally defined. To shed light on this difficult question we will consider both historical and geographical settings. In close studies of popular films and literary texts we will examine the characters’ proclivities and discuss their gender-based perspectives as well as the influence of racial, religious or age-related identities. Our weekly readings—which include excerpts from major novels, selected scenes from films as well as short stories--provide us with rich and instructive examples of how eating habits, choice of food, calendrical events (holiday vs. weekday) may be related to the formation and expression of cultural identity. Romantic comedies reveal not only personal preferences and the joy of eating—they also signal collective taste patterns and indicate what kind of fantasies or constraints have governed the daily or festive dietary practices from the early 20th c. on. While the comical is first and foremost represented in time-honored genres such as comedies  or jokes, we will concentrate on the modern tradition in this course. This approach allows us to address the social, political, and cultural issue of multiculturalism and to build bridges between individual text/film and their historical contexts in the German-speaking countries. The emphasis of the course lies on a critical investigation of how cultural identity is related to self-expression and to physical interaction on the page, the stage or the screen. The course is taught in English, all readings are in English, and there are no prerequisites.

• Department: German @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Erk Grimm
  CULPA: 10 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
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexandra P Watson
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 3 points

DYNAMICS AND VIBRATIONS

Prerequisites: (MATH UN1201) MATH V1201. Corequisites: ENME E3105. Kinematics of rigid bodies; momentum and energy methods; vibrations of discrete and continuous systems; eigen-value problems, natural frequencies and modes. Basics of computer simulation of dynamics problems using MATLAB or Mathematica.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew W Smyth
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

Transatlantic Translation

TRANSATLANTIC TRANSLATION

A workshop in which students from the BC/CU community collaborate with a team of students from the École Normale Supérieure-Lyon on two translation projects. In addition to video-conferenced group sessions, students will work virtually with their translation partner in France, and consult in-person with their Barnard instructor. Application through Professor Postlewate. Prerequisite: Previous translation course or experience required.

• Department: French @Barnard
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Laurie Postlewate
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING

APPLIED DATA MINING

Prerequisites: STAT UN2103. Students without programming experience in R might find STAT UN2102 very helpful. This course is a machine learning class from an application perspective. We will cover topics including data-based prediction, classification, specific classification methods (such as logistic regression and random forests), and basics of neural networks. Programming in homeworks will require R.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Wayne Lee
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

Undergraduate Mentored Research

Prerequisites: the project mentors permission. This course provides a mechanism for students who undertake research with a faculty member from the Department of Statistics to receive academic credit. Students seeking research opportunities should be proactive and entrepreneurial: identify congenial faculty whose research is appealing, let them know of your interest and your background and skills.

• Department: Statistics
• Instructor: Liam M Paninski
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

Undergraduate Mentored Research

Prerequisites: the project mentors permission. This course provides a mechanism for students who undertake research with a faculty member from the Department of Statistics to receive academic credit. Students seeking research opportunities should be proactive and entrepreneurial: identify congenial faculty whose research is appealing, let them know of your interest and your background and skills.

• Department: Statistics
• Instructor: Carsten Chong
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

Undergraduate Mentored Research

People vs. Algorithms

Prerequisites: the project mentors permission. This course provides a mechanism for students who undertake research with a faculty member from the Department of Statistics to receive academic credit. Students seeking research opportunities should be proactive and entrepreneurial: identify congenial faculty whose research is appealing, let them know of your interest and your background and skills.

• Department: Statistics
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• 0-1 points

Undergraduate Mentored Research

Prerequisites: the project mentors permission. This course provides a mechanism for students who undertake research with a faculty member from the Department of Statistics to receive academic credit. Students seeking research opportunities should be proactive and entrepreneurial: identify congenial faculty whose research is appealing, let them know of your interest and your background and skills.

• Department: Statistics
• Instructor: John P Cunningham
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO FICTION WRITING

INTRO TO FICTION WRITING

Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here: 
https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
. In this course, we will learn and practice essential concepts and techniques of writing fiction. We’ll break down the elements of the craft—everything from character, setting, and pacing to point of view, syntax, and imagery––and we’ll build an understanding of how stories work. Class time will include exercises and prompts; close reading of a wide range of published stories; discussions of process; and workshops of student stories. Come prepared to work hard, be open, and take risks.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Anna Solomon
  Info
• 3 points

THE AFRICANA COLLOQUIUM

CARIBBEAN WOMEN HERSTORIES

This course is concerned with two interrelated topics: 1) the long, complicated history of voyages to Latin America; and 2) the myriad and evolving ways voyagers to the region have portrayed its landscapes, people, food, festivals, and more. The course will move chronologically from the 15th century to the present, with each week devoted to grappling with a type of voyage characteristic of a given era, including:

conquest voyages undertaken by figures such as Christopher Columbus and Hernán Cortés

settler-colonial voyages undertaken by Iberians seeking new lives in the New World

captive voyages undertaken by Africans destined for enslavement in households, cities, and rural environs

freedom voyages undertaken by African Americans escaping from slavery

sex-tourism voyages undertaken by North Americans and Europeans

We will view these topics through a combination of different forms of media (such as letters, travel accounts, features, and films) and traditional scholarly sources that will help contextualize them.

• Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Celia E Naylor
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

INTRODUCTION TO POETRY WRITING

Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
. Section 1: Varied assignments designed to confront the difficulties and explore the resources of language through imitation, allusion, free association, revision, and other techniques. Section 2: By exploring a wide variety of contemporary and historical poets, this class will focus on introducing and expanding your knowledge of the art and craft of poetry and offer exemplars for your creativity. Both in-class and take-home exercises offer new ways to use language (diction, syntax) musicality (meter, rhythms, form and style and other devices) to create your own new works.

• Department: English @Barnard
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Alexander Dimitrov
  Info
• 3 points

BEHAVIORAL BIOL-DISC

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• W 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• F 11:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Marina Cords
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 0 points

EXERCISES IN STYLE

TBA

• Department: Writing
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Joss Lake
  Info
• 3 points

GANDHI, KING & POLS OF NONVIOLENCE

Since Gandhi’s experiments in mass
satyagraha
over a century ago, nonviolence has become a staple of protest politics across the globe.  From the Occupy movements to the Arab Spring to Movement for Black Lives, it might even be entering a new phase of revitalization.  At the same time, what exactly nonviolence is and what it can accomplish in politics is very much under debate.   This course aims to understand the politics of nonviolence by examining the political ideas and political careers of its most well-known twentieth-century advocates, M.K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.   Though still venerated as founding figures of nonviolent protest, Gandhi and King have come to be remembered in ways that can misconstrue how they understood and practiced nonviolent politics.  To many, Gandhi is a saintly idealist, who wanted to imbue politics with the spirit of
ahimsa
, truth, and conscience.   Likewise, King is taken to be a spokesman for interracial brotherhood and Christian love.  While partly true, these images also downplay the political side of their nonviolence – the techniques of organizing and strategies of protest that made their movements successful.  We will examine the evolution of Gandhi’s and King’s political thinking in relation to the movements they led – the Indian independence movement and the civil rights movement in the US.  We will consider how the theory and practice of nonviolence evolved and changed as it moved from one context to another.  We will be especially focused on understanding the dynamics of nonviolent protest.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Karuna Mantena
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

GANDHI, KING&NONVIOLENCE-DISC

This is the required discussion section for 
POLS UN3112.

• Department: Political Science
• M 11:10 a.m.-noon
• R 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• T 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• T 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• T 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• T 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Sinead J Carolan
  Info
• 0 points

VOICES FROM THE EDGE

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required. What does it mean to be marginalized? Does it simply mean that white folks or men or heterosexuals or Americans dont listen to you very much? This is a reductive way of thinking that limits both minorities and majorities. In this seminar well read work that challenges our received notions about the edge and whos in it. Well read with an eye toward issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality but well also think about marginalization in terms of genre, geography, and even personal politics. Our goal wont be to categorize and quantify hardships, but to appreciate some great--though overlooked--writing. And, finally, to try and understand how these talented artists wrote well. During the semester students will write short fiction inspired by the work they read and the craft issues discussed in class.

• Department: Writing
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Dennard T Dayle
  Info
• 3 points

CLIMATE IMPACTS ON HUMANS IN NYC

CLIMATE IMPACTS HUMANS IN

How has climate shaped the history and development of NYC? How do climate and climate change affect our lives today? How will climate change affect our lives tomorrow? Variations in climate and weather have been major sources of risk and opportunity for humanity long before the industrial revolution began warming the planet. The growing impacts of climate change on human civilization over recent decades have turned attention from the future of our climate to the present. In this course, we investigate how the climate system intersects and interacts with the complex human system of NYC. The trajectory of this course will be set by the drafting of a final paper which will be done in small pieces throughout the semester. The first few weeks of the course will include lectures, activities, and assignments that will guide the selection of a specific climate impact for NYC and the formation of a ​research question​ for your final paper. This initial research question will then guide the majority of your assignments for the rest of the semester. Using this question, the five major sections of a scientific paper to structure the schedule for the remainder of the course: Introduction, Data, Methods, Results, and Conclusions.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Nathan J Lenssen
  Info
• 3 points

PLAYWRITING II

Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
. What makes a play alive? Often a playwright is surprised into their strongest work. The practices of experimentation and analysis, curiosity and audacity lead to new possibilities. Students will read and respond to plays, identifying elements and strategies, and each week bring in fragments and scenes written in response to weekly prompts. By the middle of the semester, students will choose the piece that feels the most viable and develop it into what in most cases will be a thirty page play. NOTE: Playwriting I (ENGL BC3113) is NOT a prerequisite, and students need not have written a play before.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Kathleen Tolan
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

EXPERIMENTAL MECH OF MATERIALS

Prerequisites: (ENME E3113) ENME E3113. Material behavior and constitutive relations. Mechanical properties of metals and cement composites. Structural materials. Modern construction materials. Experimental investigation of material properties and behavior of structural elements including fracture, fatigue, bending, torsion, buckling.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• F 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Shiho Kawashima
  h-index: 24 Info
• 4 points

STORY WRITING II

Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here: 
https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
. Advanced workshop in writing, with emphasis on the short story. Some experience in the writing of fiction required. Conference hours to be arranged.

• Department: English @Barnard
• R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Nellie G Hermann
  Info
• 3 points

MOD ARCHITECTURE IN THE WORLD

Prerequisites: Designed for but not limited to sophomores; enrollment beyond 60 at the discretion of the instructor. How has architecture been “modern”? This course will introduce students to things, practices, figures, and ideas behind this contentious and contradictory concept, emerging in multiple locations around the world. Students in this course will learn about architecture as it was practiced, taught, thought, and experienced across landscapes of social and cultural difference during the past two centuries. Learning about the past through historical consciousness around architecture and investigating the history of architecture as a discursive field are fundamental to liberal arts thinking generally, and important for students in architecture, the history and theory of architecture, art history, and urban studies. Students in this course will be introduced to:Architecture as enmeshed with other forms of cultural productionCulturally-specific intellectual and public debates around the architectural and urbanMakers, thinkers, and organizers of the designed or built environmentGeographies, territories, and mobilities associated with architecture as an end or means for material extraction, refinement, trade, labor, and constructionSites, institutions, media, events, and practices which have come to hold meaning Modernity, modernism, and modernization in relation to each other, as social, cultural, and technological drivers holding stakes for past events as well their histories. In this course, we will ask questions about ideas and practices within disparate socially-and culturally-constructed worlds, and across other asymmetries. For example, can we draw a coherent historical thread through Lisbon in 1755, Bombay in 1854, Moscow in 1917, the moon in 1969, and al-Za’atari refugee camp in 2016? Are such narratives of coherence themselves the trace of the modernist impulse in architectural history? In this course, we will study modern architecture’s references to an art of building as well the metaphors it gives rise to. Embedded in this examination are social and cultural questions of who made and thought modern architecture, and aesthetic and historical questions around the figure of the architect.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ralph Ghoche
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 2 Info
• 3 points

FICTION WRITING

Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
.  Assignments designed to examine form and structure in fiction.

• Department: English @Barnard
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer F Boylan
  Info
• 3 points

ECONOMETRICS LAB/RECITATION

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• F 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Morgan C Jr. Williams
  Info
• 0 points

TRANSPORT PHENOMENA II

Prerequisites: (CHEN E3110) CHEN E3110x Corequisites: CHEN E3220 Developments in Transport I are extended to handle turbulence. Topics include: Turbulent energy cascade, wall-bounded turbulent shear flow, time-averaging of the equations of change, Prandtls mixing length hypothesis for the Reynolds stress, the Reynolds analogy, continuum modeling of turbulent flows and heat transfer processes, friction factor, and Nusselt number correlations for turbulent conditions. Then macroscopic (system-level) mass, momentum, and energy balances for one-component systems are developed and applied to complex flows and heat exchange processes. The final part focuses on mass transport in mixtures of simple fluids: Molecular-level origins of diffusion phenomena, Ficks law and its multicomponent generalizations, continuum-level framework for mixtures and its application to diffusion dominated processes, diffusion with chemical reaction, and forced/free convection mass transport.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Kyle Bishop
  h-index: 42 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED SCREENWRITING

This course is ideal for writers of their SECOND THROUGH TWELFTH screenplays. The first several weeks will focus on STORY: What it is, what it isn’t, how to recognize the difference. How to find your own individual stories that nobody else in the universe can tell. Through studies of existing screenplays and films in coordination with and hands-on writing exercises which we will share in class, we will develop our skills in all aspects of screenwriting; building fascinating characters, dialogue, story construction (The BIG PICTURE) and scene construction (The Small Picture) Perfection is not the goal; but rather it is to be able to say truly at the end of each day’s writing, “I did the best I could with what I had at the time. (Phillip Roth quoting heavyweight champion Joe Louis)

• Department: Film @Barnard
• R 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Hal Ackerman
  Info
• 3 points

FIGURE PAINTING

Prerequisites: VIAR R1000 and VIAR R2100. (Formerly R3210) Course provides the experience of employing a wide range of figurative applications that serve as useful tools for the contemporary artist. Non-Western applications, icon painting, and the European/American traditions are presented. Individual and group critiques. Portfolio required at end. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• F 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Pablo Montealegre
  Info
• 3 points

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

Methods of structural analysis. Trusses, arches, cables, frames; influence lines; deflections; force method; displacement method; computer applications.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria Q Feng
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 46 Info
• 3 points

PUBLIC SPEAKING

Open only to undergraduates.
In Spring 2023
: section 1 is for Barnard first-year students only; join the waitlist to be let into the course. Section 2 is for all other undergraduates, preference to juniors and seniors; attend first class for instructor permission. This course will introduce you to principles of effective public speaking and debate, and provide practical opportunities to use these principles in structured speaking situations. You will craft and deliver speeches, engage in debates and panel discussions, analyze historical and contemporary speakers, and reflect on your own speeches and those of your classmates. You will explore and practice different rhetorical strategies with an emphasis on information, persuasion and argumentation. For each speaking assignment, you will go through the speech-making process, from audience analysis, purpose and organization, to considerations of style and delivery. The key criteria in this course are content, organization, and adaptation to the audience and purpose. While this is primarily a performance course, you will be expected to participate extensively as a listener and critic, as well as a speaker.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniela Kempf
  Info
• 3 points

AIDS and U.S. Society - Why HIV/AIDS Mat

In this course on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the U.S., we will initially focus on the early years of the AIDS epidemic and explore how public health experts and public officials struggled to understand this mysterious disease and how societal responses were affected by prejudices and stereotypes about stigmatized groups and risks of transmission and acquisition. Do these conditions persist today? How do they affect goals to end the HIV epidemic in the United States? And how do they play out in other aspects of healthcare and the social world (e.g., politics, social relationships, religious institutions)?

• Department: Sociology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Lisa A Rosen-Metsch
  Info
• 3 points

STRUCTURAL DESIGN

Prerequisites: (ENME E3113) Design criteria for varied structural applications, including buildings and bridges; design of elements using steel, concrete, masonry, wood, and other materials.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Tom T Panayotidi
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

LITERACY:THEORY&PRACT FIELDWORK

• Department: Education @Barnard
• F 8 a.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Edstrom
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 0 points

ADVANCED POETRY WRITING II

Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
. This workshop seeks to introduce emerging student poets to the forms and currents of contemporary poetic practice and also encourage you to discover your own difference. Each week explores a different conceptual theme (voice, surrealism, diction, etc.), which we will explore through creative in-class writing exercises. We will read many women of color, including potentially selections from Bhanu Kapil, M. NourbeSe Philip, Layli Long Soldier, Etel Adnan, Kim Hyesoon, and LaTasha Diggs.

• Department: English @Barnard
• R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Ken Chen
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• 3 points

COMPUTER-AIDED STRUCTRL DESIGN

Corequisites: CIEN E3125. Introduction to software for structural analysis and design with lab. Applications to the design of structural elements and connections.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Tom T Panayotidi
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 1 points

BACH'S SACRED MUSIC

Bach’s sacred music in its historical, theological, and social context.

• Department: Music
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Giuseppe Gerbino
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 3 points

Time Moves Both Ways

What is time travel, really? We can use a machine or walk through a secret door. Take a pill or fall asleep and wake up in the future. But when we talk about magic machines and slipstreams and Rip Van Winkle, we are also talking about memory, chronology, and narrative. In this seminar, we will approach time travel as a way of understanding "the Fourth Dimension" in fiction. Readings will range from the speculative to the strange, to the realism of timelines, flashbacks, and shifts in perspective. Coursework will include short, bi-weekly writing assignments, a completed short story, and a timeinflected adaptation.

• Department: Writing
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Hilary J Leichter
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• 3 points

DESIGN PROJECTS

Prerequisites: (CIEN E3125) and (CIEN E3126) CIEN E3125 and CIEN E3126. Capstone design project in civil engineering. This project integrates structural, geotechnical and environmental/water resources design problems with construction management tasks and sustainability, legal and other social issues. Project is completed in teams, and communication skills are stressed. Outside lecturers will address important current issues in engineering practice. Every student in the course will be exposed with equal emphasis to issues related to geotechnical engineering, water resources / environmental engineering, structural engineering, and construction engineering and management.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• R 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Tom T Panayotidi
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

How to Write Funny

"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."    --Mel Brooks  "Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the  End."                                                                                                                --Sid Caesar  "Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it."                                                                                                                                  --E.B. White    "What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke."                                                                                                                                       --Steve Martin  "Patty Marx is the best teacher at Columbia University." --Patty Marx  One of the above quotations is false. Find out which one in this hu

• Department: Writing
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Patricia A Marx
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• 3 points

An Odyssey of Odysseys: Receptions of Ho

Homer’s
Odyssey
, likely composed around the 9th or 8th century BCE, has had an enduring legacy. Our journey this semester will bring us into contact with a varied selection of artistic endeavors, spanning different cultures, times, and media, that draw on the
Odyssey
for material or inspiration. A guiding set of broadly-formulated questions will steer our course: Can we find in the
Odyssey
some of the same meaning, today, that it held for its original audience and that it held, subsequently, for later Greeks? Do receptions of the
Odyssey
try to recapture it, reframe it, refashion it, or become something independent?  (Are these mutually exclusive options?) How do we read these works in light of the
Odyssey
, and also how do we re-visit and re-read the
Odyssey
in light of its receptions? It is no secret that the present bears the enduring weight of the past, but is the past changed as a result?

• Department: Classics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Darcy Krasne
  h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

HIST-WEST MUS:CLASSICAL-20TH CENTURY

Topics in Western music from the Classical era to the present day, focusing on the development of musical style and thought, and on analysis of selected works.

• Department: Music
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Benjamin A Steege
  Info
• 3 points

Failed Empire: Sweden in the Early Moder

FAILED EMPIRE: SWEDEN

The geopolitical map of the world was in flux during the seventeenth century. As Spain was losing its control over Europe and the Atlantic world, a number of ambitious small states on the periphery of Europe set their sights on achieving imperial glory. By mid-century, The Dutch Republic, England, and Sweden were the primary contenders. Each nation developed a sense of manifest destiny and dedicated scarce resources to establish an imperial presence, from which they could conquer the world. While the former two nations succeeded in creating vast empires, the latter enjoyed only a brief stint as a world power. This failure had nothing to do with a lack of effort or moral considerations. This course explores Sweden’s imperial efforts and investigates its failures. It examines how military, political, religious, commercial, and scientific endeavors contributed to Sweden’s quest for riches and prominence. The seminar begins by discussing Sweden’s sudden military success during the Thirty Years’ War and the consequent formation of a Baltic empire. We next investigate Sweden’s presence on the west coast of Africa, where it built fort Carlsborg, and the east coast of North America, where it founded New Sweden. While these ventures failed relatively rapidly, Sweden continued to pursue a colonial presence through trade and the acquisition in 1784 of St. Barthélemy, a colony from which they engaged in trade, including the slave trade.

• Department: History @Barnard
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Carl Wennerlind
  CULPA: 30 Info
• 4 points

ARISTOTLE

• Department: Philosophy
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Dhananjay Jagannathan
  Info
• 3 points

ARISTOTLE

• Department: Auditing
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Dhananjay Jagannathan
  Info
• 0 points

THIRD-YEAR CONVERSATION FR II

Prerequisites: completion of the language requirement in French or the equivalent. Conversation on contemporary French subjects based on readings in current popular French periodicals.

• Department: French
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexandra Borer
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 2 points

INTERMEDIATE MACRO-DIS

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• M 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 0 points

DATA STRUCTURES IN JAVA

Prerequisites: (COMS W1004) or knowledge of Java. Data types and structures: arrays, stacks, singly and doubly linked lists, queues, trees, sets, and graphs. Programming techniques for processing such structures: sorting and searching, hashing, garbage collection. Storage management. Rudiments of the analysis of algorithms. Taught in Java. Note: Due to significant overlap, students may receive credit for only one of the following three courses: COMS W3134, COMS W3136, COMS W3137.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul S Blaer
  CULPA: 46 h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

INTERMEDIATE MICRO THEORY RECITATION

INT MICRO THEORY RECITATI

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• M 5 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 5 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 0 points

HONORS DATA STRUCTURES & ALGOL

Prerequisites: (COMS W1004) or (COMS W1007) Corequisites: COMS W3203 An honors introduction to data types and structures: arrays, stacks, singly and doubly linked lists, queues, trees, sets, and graphs. Programming techniques for processing such structures: sorting and searching, hashing, garbage collection. Storage management. Design and analysis of algorithms. Taught in Java. Note: Due to significant overlap, students may receive credit for only one of the following three courses: COMS W3134, W3136, or W3137.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Bauer
  CULPA: 17 h-index: 13 Info
• 4 points

BALLET V

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Antonio Carmena
  Info
• Instructor: Marjorie Folkman
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 0-1 points

INTRODUCTION VOCAL REPERTOIRE

This course is designed for developing singers. Group vocalizing, learning of songs and individual workshop performances are aimed at improving the students technical skill and the elements necessary to create a meaningful musical and dramatic experience. Attention to text, subtext, emotional and psychological aspects of a piece and the performers relationship to the audience are included in the work. Repertoire is predominantly in English and comes from both classical and popular traditions Individual coaching sessions are available with the class accompanist and help strengthen the students confidence and skill. The class culminates with an in-class performance.

• Department: Music @Barnard
• F 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Coralie Gallet
  Info
• 3 points

VOCAL REPERTOIRE, TECHNIQUE

VOCAL REPERTOIRE TECHNIQUE

Vocal exercises and exploration of wide-ranging repertoires, styles, and languages of the Western European song tradition. The rich variety of English, French, Italian and German poetry and music from the Baroque period through the Twentieth Century allows the student to experience both the music and the cultural environment of each of these styles. Attention is given both to meaning oftext and musical interpretation. Individual coaching sessions are available with the class accompanist and help strengthen the students confidence and skill. The class culminates with an in-class performance.

• Department: Music @Barnard
• F 11 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Jean-Paul Bjorlin
  Info
• 3 points

SOIL MECHANICS

Prerequisites: (ENME E3113) Index properties and classification; compaction; permeability and seepage; effective stress and stress distribution; shear strength of soil; consolidation; slope stability.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Waiching Sun
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 30 Info
• 4 points

BALLET VI

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• F 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Cynthia Anderson
  Info
• Instructor: Ashley Tuttle
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 0-1 points

CLASSIC VARIATIONS

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ashley Tuttle
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 0-1 points

TOPICS COMPARATIVE LIT

LITERATURE AND VIOLENCE

The objective of this class is to examine a given topic and relate it to a number of literary texts. Students will examine a variety of literary genres and to an equally wide variety of cultural, linguistic, and historical contexts.

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

WORLDMUSE ENSEMBLE

Worldmuse Ensemble delves into compelling music from many genres such as world music, gospel, classical--old and new. We perform without a conductor, increasing awareness and interaction among ourselves and our audience. We collaboratively integrate music, dance, and theatre traditions (masks etc.). For experienced singers, and instrumentalists and dancers who sing.

• Department: Music @Barnard
• F 1 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Jean-Paul Bjorlin
  Info
• 3 points

LIT & POP CLTRE FRANCO'S SPAIN

Prerequisites: Third-year bridge course (W3300), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350). Examination of the literature and culture produced in Spain during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco: the interaction between culture allowed and sponsored by the regime, and the voices of resistance against repression and censorship.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Wadda Rios-Font
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

INVENTION, REVISION, AND IMAGINATION

INVENTION AND REVISION

Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
. A creative writing workshop in fiction, devoted to the imaginative process, and most specifically, to the arts of invention and revision. In addition to considering the wellspring of creative ideas themselves, students will write stories in a variety of lengths—moderate, long, and as short-shorts. Through this process, apprentice writers will become intimate with the most essential aspect of creating imaginative work: the dedication to seeing one’s ideas morph and grow over time.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer F Boylan
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• 3 points

WESTRN THTR TRAD: MODERN

Dialectical approach to reading and thinking about the history of dramatic theatre in the west, interrogating the ways poetry inflects, and is inflected by, the material dynamics of performance. Course undertakes careful study of the practices of performance, and of the sociocultural, economic, political, and aesthetic conditions animating representative plays of the Western tradition from the late eighteenth century to today; course will also emphasize development of important critical concepts for the analysis of drama, theatre, and performance. Specific attention will be given to the ideology of realism and naturalism, the development of epic theatre, the theatre of cruelty, postcolonial performance, and the continuing invention of dramatic forms (theatre of the absurd, speechplays, postdramatic theatre), as well as to the political and theoretical impact of race, gender, sexuality in modern performance culture. Writing: 2-3 papers; Reading: 1-2 plays, critical and historical reading per week; final examination. Fulfills one (of two) Theatre History requirements for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Paige M Johnson
  Info
• 3 points

MATH & THE CITY FIELDWORK LAB

• Department: Education @Barnard
• W 3:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• F 9 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Maria S Rivera Maulucci
  h-index: 10 Info
• 0 points

TRADITIONAL INDIAN PERFORMNCE

Course provides a perspective on traditional forms of Indian performance from classical theory to contemporary traditional practices. Course covers Sanskrit drama, Kathakali, Ramlila, and Chhau; extensive video of performances and guest practitioners.Course may fulfill
either
the Global Theatre requirement,
or
one (of two) required courses in dramatic literature/theatre studies/performance studies for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts major, but not both.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Shayoni Mitra
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points