THERMODYNAMICS-KINETICS

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3231, PHYS BC2001, PHYS BC 2002, MATH UN1102 or MATH UN1201. Introduction to the laws of thermodynamics; application primarily to ideal systems. Free energy and equilibrium. Kinetics: rate laws and mechanisms, experimental techniques.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Marisa C Buzzeo
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

Animals in the History of East Central E

Animals HIST-E Central EU

Over the last two decades scholars in the humanities and social sciences have embraced “the animal turn”: by asking questions about the place of animals in human societies and about animals’ experiences in various times and places they have instigated a field that has come to be known as Animal Studies. This research has expanded the range of analytical tools we have at our disposal to examine social worlds and to study meaning, representation, agency, and context and it also encouraged us to re-consider fundamental questions about the human–animal divide: what it is, where it is, and what its significance is. Moreover, it has become evident that animals are not just passive recipients of human action, but at times they can act as autonomous agents that can contributing the shaping of the world that we share with them. Although this course adopts a perspective which is first and foremost historical, it also emphasizes the field’s interdisciplinary embedding and intersectional potentials. It shows that the study of historical developments through the lens of animals is not only intellectually rewarding in its own right, but it also provides new perspectives on a range of crucial topics, such as the history of war, capitalism, colonialism, consumption and entertainment. The majority of accounts in the field addresses developments in the Anglophone world. While also paying attention to the results of that research, the regional focus of this course will be on East Central Europe. After the first three sessions that serve as an introduction to the field, a number of case studies will reveal that animals have always been an integral part of the region’s social, cultural and economic life and that studying them in a historical perspective provides potentials for nuancing or even revising established knowledge on the history of East Central Europe.

• Department: History
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Monika Baar
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• 4 points

METHODS, APPLCTNS PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: (CHEM BC3253) CHEM BC3253 or permission of instructor. Lecture: MWF 11:00-11:50. Advanced topics in physical chemistry, including statistical mechanics, reaction dynamics, materials science, catalysis, and nanotechnology. Particular emphasis will be placed on topics related to climate and energy.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• MWF 11 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Andrew C Crowther
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

FIRST AMENDMENT VALUES

Prerequisites: POLS W1201 or an equivalent. Not an introductory course. Not open to students who have taken the colloquium POLS BC3302. Examines the first amendment rights of speech, press, religion and assembly. In-depth analysis of landmark Supreme Court rulings provides the basis for exploring theoretical antecedents as well as contemporary applications of such doctrines as freedom of association, libel, symbolic speech, obscenity, hate speech, political speech, commercial speech, freedom of the press and religion. (Cross-listed by the American Studies Program.)

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Paula A Franzese
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ENVIR CONTR/POLLUTN REDUCT SYS

Sources of solid/gaseous air pollution and the technologies used for modern methods of abatement. Air pollution and its abatement from combustion of coal, oil, and natural gas and the thermodynamics of heat engines in power generation. Catalytic emission control is contrasted to thermal processes for abating carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, oxides of nitrogen and sulfur from vehicles and stationary sources. Processing of petroleum for generating fuels. Technological challenges of controlling greenhouse gas emissions. Biomass and the hydrogen economy coupled with fuel cells as future sources of energy.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Farrauto
  h-index: 52 Info
• 3 points

Disability Histories of Europe in the Tw

Disability HIST-EUR-20th

Approximately 10%-15% of the world’s population is estimated to have a disability and this number is expected to rise in the next decades. Moreover, as the saying goes: everyone is just one accident away from disability. Although the potentials of the concept as a category of historical analysis are comparable to those of class, race, gender, sexuality and ethnicity; until recently, the history of people of disabilities has remained a rather neglected field and its promise to enrich and revise mainstream narratives on European history has not sufficiently been explored. This course responds to calls to bring disability from the margins to the center of historical inquiry. Rather than treating disability as merely a medical impairment, it will explore its historical and cultural variability.Unlike the overwhelming majority of academic accounts and courses which study the Anglophone world, this course will primarily focus on (continental) Europe, while also paying attention to global aspects. It is not restricted to one particular type of disability; instead, it historicizes the emergence of various categories and classifications. Topics will include disability and war, the Cold War, welfare, social movements and disability rights, culture and identity, the Deaf community, disability as a concern of global governance and global health. Special attention will be paid to regions that often remain peripheral in comprehensive studies, such as Eastern and Northern Europe. In doing so, the course seeks to reveal how the application of disability as an analytical tool can contribute to rethink the overall dynamics of European history.

• Department: History
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Monika Baar
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• 4 points

ENGINEERING FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

ENGINEER FOR DEVP COMMUNI

Introduction to the challenges and realities of implementing design solutions with high-risk, low-resource communities in urban and rural settings in both developed and developing countries. History and theory of international development towards preparing globally responsible and informed professionals. Real-world examples of development work across technical sectors including water, sanitation, energy, health, communication technology, shelter, food systems, and environment. Role of engineering in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Course projects follow a Design for Impact process resulting in an engineering design, an action plan, and the identification of indicators for impact evaluation.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• 3 points

WRITING FOR TELEVISION: SHORT FORM

WRITING FOR TELEVISION SH

Corequisites: Please note that since this is a Film course, it does not count as a writing course for English majors with a Writing Concentration. This course will focus on the primary pillar of television production: the teleplay. Through a number of creative exercises, students will learn the intricacies of the unique screenwriting formats that are the half-hour and hour-long teleplays. Together we will cover the differences between an episode arc and a seasonal one, the requirements of A/B/C story plotting, and how to write an effective show bible. We will survey the existing pantheon of great television writing in order to help students narrow in on their individual sensibilities. By the end of the course, students will have a written original pilot.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• R 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Hal Ackerman
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• 3 points

RETHINKING MIDDLE EAST POLITCS

This course examines a set of questions that have shaped the study of the politics of the modern Middle East. It looks at the main ways those questions have been answered, exploring debates both in Western academic scholarship and among scholars and intellectuals in the region itself. For each question, the course offers new ways of thinking about the issue or ways of framing it in different terms. The topics covered in the course include: the kinds of modern state that emerged in the Middle East and the ways its forms of power and authority were shaped; the birth of economic development as a way of describing the function and measuring the success of the state, and the changing metrics of this success; the influence of oil on the politics of the region; the nature and role of Islamic political movements; the transformation of the countryside and the city and the role of rural populations and of urban protest in modern politics; and the politics of armed force and political violence in the region, and the ways in which this has been understood. The focus of the course will be on the politics of the twentieth century, but many topics will be traced back into developments that occurred in earlier periods, and several will be explored up to the present. The course is divided into four parts, each ending with a paper or exam in which participants are asked to analyze the material covered. Each part of the course has a geographical focus on a country or group of countries and a thematic focus on a particular set of questions of historical and political analysis.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Timothy Mitchell
  Wikipedia h-index: 34 Info
• 4 points

COMPUTER SCIENCE THEORY

Prerequisites: (COMS W3203) Corequisites: COMS W3134,COMS W3136,COMS W3137 Regular languages: deterministic and non-deterministic finite automata, regular expressions. Context-free languages: context-free grammars, push-down automata. Turing machines, the Chomsky hierarchy, and the Church-Turing thesis. Introduction to Complexity Theory and NP-Completeness.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Mihalis Yannakakis
  CULPA: 14 Wikipedia h-index: 93 Info
• 3 points

COMPUTER SCIENCE THEORY

Prerequisites: (COMS W3203) Corequisites: COMS W3134,COMS W3136,COMS W3137 Regular languages: deterministic and non-deterministic finite automata, regular expressions. Context-free languages: context-free grammars, push-down automata. Turing machines, the Chomsky hierarchy, and the Church-Turing thesis. Introduction to Complexity Theory and NP-Completeness.

• Department: Computer Science
• Instructor: Mihalis Yannakakis
  CULPA: 14 Wikipedia h-index: 93 Info
• 3 points

RETHINKING MIDDLE EAST POL-DIS

Required discussion section for MDES UN3260 Rethinking Middle East Politics

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• W 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 7:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• R noon-12:50 p.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• R 11 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• R 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• W 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 0 points

MONEY AND BANKING

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 or the equivalent. Introduction to the principles of money and banking. The intermediary institutions of the American economy and their historical developments, current issues in monetary and financial reform.

• Department: Economics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Tri Vi Dang
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 10 Info
• 3 points

LATIN AMER LIT (IN TRANSLATN)

Study of contemporary Latin American narrative; its origins and apotheosis. Readings include Machado de Assis, Borges, Garcia Marquez, Puig, and others.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Alfred Mac Adam
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 3 points

Decolonizing the Arabian Nights

Decolonizing Arabian Nigh

In a unique revival of interest, the
Arabian Nights
has made its way to   the academy as the handiest and most approachable cultural commodity. Courses are given on its history, translation, media reproduction, Walt Disney’s appropriation, and, occasionally, narratology. By the end of the 19th century, it was available in translation or abridgement in every written language. This course resituates its advent and vogue in specific cultural contexts that closely relate to the rise of the bourgeoisie and the colonial enterprise. It also explores popular and intellectual or critical responses in terms of the rise of literary theory and modes of literary production. Its massive presence gives way in time to pantomime, parody, and pastiche, before engaging again the attention of prominent writers and theorists of ‘prose poetics’   and the fantastic. Its referential popular presence undergoes fluctuations to fit media stereotypes and hegemonic regimes of thought. This course attempts to dislodge originals from adaptations, highlight the nature of entry in terms of a commoditizing enterprise that reproduces the
Arabian Nights
as a ‘western text’, a point that in turn incites a counter search for manuscripts, and ‘authentication’ processes.  Originals and translations will be compared and cinematic or theater productions will be studied, along with paintings, covers, and tourist guides that present the
Nights
as a commodity in a post-industrial society.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Muhsin Al-Musawi
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

Decolonizing Arabian Nights-Discussion

Declnizing Arabian Nights

In a unique revival of interest, the
Arabian Nights
has made its way to   the academy as the handiest and most approachable cultural commodity. Courses are given on its history, translation, media reproduction, Walt Disney’s appropriation, and, occasionally, narratology. By the end of the 19th century, it was available in translation or abridgement in every written language. This course resituates its advent and vogue in specific cultural contexts that closely relate to the rise of the bourgeoisie and the colonial enterprise. It also explores popular and intellectual or critical responses in terms of the rise of literary theory and modes of literary production. Its massive presence gives way in time to pantomime, parody, and pastiche, before engaging again the attention of prominent writers and theorists of ‘prose poetics’   and the fantastic. Its referential popular presence undergoes fluctuations to fit media stereotypes and hegemonic regimes of thought. This course attempts to dislodge originals from adaptations, highlight the nature of entry in terms of a commoditizing enterprise that reproduces the
Arabian Nights
as a ‘western text’, a point that in turn incites a counter search for manuscripts, and ‘authentication’ processes.  Originals and translations will be compared and cinematic or theater productions will be studied, along with paintings, covers, and tourist guides that present the
Nights
as a commodity in a post-industrial society.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• M 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 0 points

INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3231 or Permission of Instructor. Structure, bonding and spectroscopy in inorganic compounds: applications of group theory to chemistry; ligand field theory; vibrational and electronic spectroscopy of transition metal complexes; selected topics from coordination chemistry, organometallics, bioinorganic chemistry, solid state and materials chemistry, mineralogy, and biogeochemistry.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Michael Campbell
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• 3 points

Modern Southeast Asian History

This seminar explores the modern history of Southeast Asia, a diverse region of nearly a dozen nations that includes an extraordinary ethnic mix, all of the world’s major religions, and a broad spectrum of political systems. Considered one of the “main crossroads of the world,” we will explore
the region’s modern history, including western colonial conquest, resistance struggles for decolonization, differing modes of economic development, thorough-going revolutions, and inter-ethnic violence set against the backdrop of increasing globalization.

• Department: History
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Lien-Hang Nguyen
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

HIGH ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS

• Department: Astronomy
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Lorenzo Sironi
  h-index: 39 Info
• 3 points

UNSEEN MASTERWORKS OF WORLD CINEMA

UNSEEN MSTERWRKS: WORLD C

In 1952, the British Film Institute’s prestigious journal Sight - Sound polled the world’s leading film critics to compile a list of the best motion pictures of all time. It was one of the first attempts to establish an authoritative film canon at an international scale. Since then, dozens of magazines, cinematheques, and festivals around the globe publish their “best movies” lists every year. These polls tend to reproduce a canonical selection of “classics” that includes Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941), Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958), The Godfather (Coppola, 1972), and other familiar titles among contemporary film audiences. The canon itself would not be worth bothering with if it hadn’t been so influential in academic circles. University film programs often integrate this selection without questioning the ideological motivations behind it. In this class, we study “unseen masterworks” of world cinema that have been usually marginalized in conventional analysis of film. We challenge the standard, anglo-centric, sexist, heteronormative, and racist-by-omission film history in order to articulate a critique of cultural hegemony – and its tendency to depoliticize film as a medium. For that purpose, we look at a series of paradigmatic features in terms of their 1) explorative approach to film style, and 2) politically subversive narrative. In-class screenings include The World of Apu (Ray, 1959), The Exterminating Angel (Buñuel, 1962), Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara, 1964), Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Paradjanov, 1965), The Red and the White (Jancsó, 1967), Mandabi (Sembene, 1968), Johnny Got His Gun (Trumbo, 1971), Oh Lucky Man! (Anderson, 1973), Seven Beauties (Wertmüller, 1975), and ...but the clouds... (Beckett, 1977). Required readings include Amos Vogel’s Film as a Subversive Art (1974), seminal texts by film directors, and excerpts from Gilles Deleuze’s The Movement Image (1983), The Time-Image (1985), and “The Exhausted” (1992).

• Department: Film @Barnard
• T 10 a.m.-1:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Breixo Viejo Vinas
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

WORKSHOP IN SUSTAINABLE DEVPT

The upper level undergraduate Sustainable Development Workshop will be modeled on client based graduate-level workshops, but with more time devoted to methods of applied policy analysis and issues in Sustainable Development. The heart of the course is the group project on an issue of sustainable development with a faculty advisor providing guidance and ultimately grading student performance. Students would receive instruction on methodology, group work, communication and the context of policy analysis. Much of the reading in the course would be project-specific and identified by the student research teams. Offered in Fall and Spring. For registration issues contact Cari Shimkus (cshimkus@ei.columbia.edu).

• Department: Earth Institute
• MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Joyce Klein Rosenthal
  h-index: 16 Info
• Instructor: Radley M Horton
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• 4 points

ILLEGAL IS NOT A NOUN: DISRUPTING NARRAT

This course engages with narratives about detention and deportation in the modern United States, with special attention to the stories of Latinx people. We will analyze how journalistic writing, documentaries, and personal narratives shape public policy and American attitudes about the "the immigrant experience." What are these narratives, how are they told, and what are their implications? How do writers disrupt these narratives? We will develop four scholarly essays over the course of the semester to investigate these questions.

• Department: English @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria D Hinojosa
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• 4 points

BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: (CHEM BC3230) and (CHEM BC3231) BIOL BC1502. Introduction to biochemical building blocks, macromolecules, and metabolism. Structures of amino acids, lipids, carbohydrates, nucleic acids. Protein structure and folding. Enzyme mechanisms, kinetics, allostery. Membranes and biosignaling. Catabolism and anabolism with emphasis on chemical intermediates, metabolic energy, catalysis by specific enzymes, regulation.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonelle White
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• 3 points

BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY II

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3282 or equivalent. Advanced topics in the field of biochemistry, including enzyme mechanisms, pharmaceutical drug design, and disease therapies. Emphasis will be placed on discussion of current scientific literature.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Christina Vizcarra
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

FICTIONS OF LAW AND CUSTOM: WHITENESS IN

AMER LIT: FICT. OF LAW&CU

This course examines "white" American identity as a cultural location and set of discourses and traditions with a history—in Mark Twain’s terms, "a fiction of law and custom." What are the origins of "Anglo-Saxon" American identity? What are the borders, visible and invisible, against which this identity has leveraged position and power?  How have these borders shifted over time, and in social and cultural space? How has whiteness located itself at the center of political, historical, social and literary discourse, and how has it been displaced?  How does whiteness mark itself, or mask itself, in literature and in larger cultural practices?  What does whiteness look like, sound like, and feel like from the perspective of the racial "other"? And in what ways do considerations of gender and class complicate these other questions?

• Department: English @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Kristin Carter
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE: 1492-1852

The class aims to provide a broad acquaintance with classic works of American literature from the period 1492-1852. The emphasis will be on literature produced before the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Most people grow up thinking of this date as the starting point of US history: “a new birth of freedom,” as Abraham Lincoln called it. And it was, in a way. But we will be trying to understand it differently: as an end-point of the chaotic, multinational, multicultural world that was North America before the USA existed. Most of the texts composed during the first three centuries of American literature were written by authors who assumed that North America was destined forever to remain an outpost of the British, French, and Spanish empires. Before 1776, the Americans who most often dreamed of “declaring independence” were not white men in wigs, but rather enslaved people of African descent or members of Indigenous nations fighting to retain their sovereignty against the European empires. From these peoples’ perspective, the Revolutionary War did not bring an end to the “colonial period” of American history, as white Americans began telling themselves in the 1780s and 90s. According to early US nationalists like James Fenimore Cooper, America had already achieved freedom in a legal and political sense by the year 1800; now it just had to bring its culture up to speed. In reality, however, the ink on the Constitution had hardly dried before the USA became an empire in its own right. Freedom remained an unresolved
problem
that creators of American literature had to work through. That ongoing process, which began in the fifteenth century and continues today, is mainly what we will be studying.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Ryan Carr
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• 4 points

APPLIED ELECTROMAGNETISM

Vector analysis, electrostatic fields, Laplaces equation, multipole expansions, electric fields in matter: dielectrics, magnetostatic fields, magnetic materials, and superconductors. Applications of electromagnetism to devices and research areas in applied physics.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Gerald A Navratil
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 46 Info
• 3 points

BIOCHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: one year each of Introductory Biology and General Chemistry. Corequisites: Organic Chemistry. Primarily aimed at nontraditional students and undergraduates who have course conflicts with BIOC UN3501. Biochemistry is the study of the chemical processes within organisms that give rise to the immense complexity of life. This complexity emerges from a highly regulated and coordinated flow of chemical energy from one biomolecule to another. This course serves to familiarize students with the spectrum of biomolecules (carbohydrates, lipids, amino acids, nucleic acids, etc.) as well as the fundamental chemical processes (glycolysis, citric acid cycle, fatty acid metabolism, etc.) that allow life to happen. In particular, this course will employ active learning techniques and critical thinking problem-solving to engage students in answering the question: how is the complexity of life possible? NOTE: While Organic Chemistry is listed as a corequisite, it is highly recommended that you take Organic Chemistry beforehand.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Danny N Ho
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

WORKSHOP SUSTAINABLE DEVEL

Students address real-world issues in sustainable development by working in groups for an external client agency. Instruction in communication, collaboration, and management; meetings with and presentations to clients and academic community. Projects vary from year to year. Readings in the course are project-specific and are identified by the student research teams.

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Logan Brenner
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 4 Info
• 4 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score. An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Maria Agustina Battezzati
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• Instructor: Vered L Engelhard
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• Instructor: Miguel Angel Blanco Martinez
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• 3 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

BILINGUAL IDENTITIES

Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score. An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Francisca Aguilo Mora
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

SPAIN THROUGH ITS ART

Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score. An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Angelina Craig-Florez
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 3 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

SPORTS,POLITICS,&IDENTITY

Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score. An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Antoni Fernandez Parera
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 1 Info
• 3 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

LGBT IDENTITIES IN SPAIN

Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score. An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Javier Perez Zapatero
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

PLAYWRITING LAB

Students will develop original dramatic scripts. Students will also read drafts of writers currently produced on New York stages to understand why changes and rewrites were made. Recommended for students undertaking a senior thesis in playwriting.  Fulfills one of three courses in performance fields for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors: playwriting.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew Bragen
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• 3 points

SCULPTURE II

Prerequisites: VIAR UN2300 or the instructors permission. (Formerly R3331) Continuation of VIAR UN2300. The objective of the class is to engage in in-depth research and hands on studio projects related to a specific theme to be determined by each student. Each student is expected to complete class with four fully realized and thematically linked works. Wood, metal, and plaster will be provided for this class but video, sound, performance and various mixed media approaches are highly encouraged. In addition, lecture and field trips will be part of the course. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• T 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sable Smith
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• 3 points

SENIOR POETRY WORKSHOP

Prerequisites: The departments 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
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Timothy B Donnelly
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• 4 points

ADVANCED SWAHILI II

Prerequisites: Advanced Swahili I or the instructor's permission. An introduction to the advanced syntactical, morphological, and grammatical structures of Swahili grammar; detailed analysis of Swahili texts; practice in conversation. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Abdul Nanji
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

SCULPTURE III

Prerequisites: VIAR R2300. (Formerly R3332) Sculpture III is an invitation for immersive sculpting. The class will explore the idea of experiences and construction of contexts as central research topics. The class becomes a laboratory space to explore various techniques to heighten body awareness and spatial sensibility. Through assignments and workshops, the students will practice how to digest these sensory experiences through their studio practice. Historical precedents for art outside the usual mediums and venues will be our reference points to investigate how our own work may take part in a generative process that evolves the definition of sculpture. The assignments in the first half of the semester point the students to performance, site specificity, and sound, that utilize New York Citys odd spots and professionals. While building such common experiential platforms, the class will also build language for a dialogic space, through weekly in-class discussions lead by the instructor, guests, and rotating panels of the students. As the semester progresses, the emphasis will gradually be shifted from experiential learning to intensive studio work on a final project, where the students are asked to pay close attention to how various methods and fields of subjects combine. The resulting project has to be the best work you have ever done. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• T 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sable Smith
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED WOLOF II

Prerequisites: Advanced Wolof I or instructor permission. This course will further your awareness and understanding of the Wolof language and culture, as well as improve your mastery of grammar, writing skills, and oral expression. Course materials will incorporate various types of text including tales, poetry, literature as well as multimedia such as films, and videos, television and radio programs.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• Instructor: Mariame S Sy
  Info
• 4 points

LAB IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Introduction to the use of molecular techniques to answer questions about subcellular biological phenomena. Techniques include isolation of genomic and plasmid DNAs, restriction enzyme analysis, DNA and protein electrophoresis, bacterial transformation, and plasmid subcloning.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• T 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Stephen L Sturley
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

IND STUDIES-CIVIL ENGIN-JUNIOR

A project on civil engineering subjects approved by the chairman of the department.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• Instructor: Raimondo Betti
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 31 Info
• Instructor: Adrian Brugger
  h-index: 4 Info
• Instructor: Gautam Dasgupta
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 19 Info
• Instructor: George Deodatis
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 42 Info
• Instructor: Xuan Di
  h-index: 15 Info
• Instructor: Maria Q Feng
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 46 Info
• Instructor: Jacob Fish
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 54 Info
• Instructor: Marco Giometto
  h-index: 9 Info
• Instructor: Shiho Kawashima
  h-index: 24 Info
• Instructor: Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou
  h-index: 26 Info
• Instructor: Hoe I Ling
  h-index: 45 Info
• Instructor: Andrew W Smyth
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Waiching Sun
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 30 Info
• Instructor: Haim Waisman
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 29 Info
• Instructor: Huiming Yin
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 25 Info
• 1-3 points

JEWISH CULTURE IN TRANSL IN MED IBERIA

JEWISH CULTURE IN MED IBERIA

The course explores both the practice of translation (the rendering of texts from one language into another) and the idea of translation (as a medium of cultural transmission) in medieval Iberia. Jews were not only the paradigmatic translators of texts from Arabic to Latin and Castilian but were also translators of literary phenomena into the Jewish literary cultures of Iberia. Further, Hebrew texts made their way into Romance languages, rendered by both Jewish and non-Jewish writers. Theoretical materials on translation and historical background on translation practices of the period will accompany readings. All readings are in English, but all texts will be made available in the original language, and students are encouraged to read in the original whenever possible. Sources in bold are primary sources. Students are expected to spend three hours preparing for each class session.

• Department: Institute for Israel & Jewish Studies
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Isabelle C Levy
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

IND STUDIES-CIVIL ENGIN-SENIOR

A project on civil engineering subjects approved by the chairman of the department.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• Instructor: Raimondo Betti
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 31 Info
• Instructor: Adrian Brugger
  h-index: 4 Info
• Instructor: Gautam Dasgupta
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 19 Info
• Instructor: George Deodatis
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 42 Info
• Instructor: Xuan Di
  h-index: 15 Info
• Instructor: Maria Q Feng
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 46 Info
• Instructor: Jacob Fish
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 54 Info
• Instructor: Marco Giometto
  h-index: 9 Info
• Instructor: Shiho Kawashima
  h-index: 24 Info
• Instructor: Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou
  h-index: 26 Info
• Instructor: Hoe I Ling
  h-index: 45 Info
• Instructor: Andrew W Smyth
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Waiching Sun
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 30 Info
• Instructor: Haim Waisman
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 29 Info
• Instructor: Huiming Yin
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 25 Info
• 1-3 points

Race and Aesthetics in Cinema

Race & Aesthetics in Cine

This course examines the intersection of race and aesthetics in cinema. Race, here, is used
intersectionally to include not only race and ethnicity, but also all of the affiliated lines of
contact, including national identity, gender, and sexuality. While the study of race is typically
associated with political questions and concerns, and aesthetics are frequently linked with artistic
form, this course seeks to locate the intersection of those categories in cinema and to complicate
the ways in which the terms operate in relation to one another. Films and readings are drawn
from a diverse set of global cultures, artists, and authors, and span a broad historical horizon. Our
discussions will include questions including (but not limited to): do certain forms of racial
representation generate unique aesthetic form? For instance, can we trace a specific kind of
aesthetics in the works produced by the L.A. Rebellion filmmakers? How do certain film
movements align with and inspire one another, such as those between Black and Asian/Asian
American filmmakers? How does analyzing a film’s formal elements further our understandings
of the thematic, political, cultural, and social forces that underpin the film? Together, we will
think through these issues, informed by a range of theoretical frameworks including critical race
theory, postcolonial theory, feminist theory, and queer theory.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Viola Lasmana
  Info
• 4 points

Provincializing Prohibition: The War

Despite being driven by an overarching rationale of zero tolerance, the War on Drugs across the Western Hemisphere encompasses a wide array of policies and interventions that have very different effects on manifold peoples and places. This course closely examines these interventions – as well as their alternatives and various forms of resistance – in places as diverse as Philadelphia and San Francisco, the “Tierra Caliente” of Michoacán and Guerrero (Mexico), the Afro-indigenous Moskitia region of Central America, and the Colombian and Peruvian Amazon and Andes regions. The course will put to the test the thesis that the War on Drugs is reproducing the conditions driving drug commerce, in large part by allowing for the emergence of interests which have the aim of extracting, producing, and subsidizing capital at various points of the punitive regime. Through detailed ethnographic and historical analyses of drug-related governmental intervention, the course probes the multifarious entanglement between drug control regimes and the social formations from which they emerge and upon which they act. We will engage scholarship on crop substitution and crop eradication programs in South America, regimes of coca regulation in the Andes, militarization and drug rehabilitation programs in Central America, and territorial reconfigurations in Tohono Indigenous land along the US-Mexico border, among others.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Fernando Montero Castrillo
  Info
• 4 points

PROJECT LAB MOLECULAR GENETCS

Laboratory course in which students conduct original research projects in molecular genetics. Students will participate in experimental design, conduct data analysis, and work with key techniques for studying gene structure, expression, and function including nucleic acid extraction and synthesis, cloning, bioinformatics analysis, PCR, and qPCR. Students will present their results orally and in writing. Enrollment in both semesters (BIOL BC3305 and BIOL BC3306) of this full-year course is required, and fulfills two upper-level lab courses for the Barnard Biology major. Must be taken in sequence, beginning in the fall.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• W 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO MICROBIAL GENOMICS

INTRO TO MICROBIAL GENOMI

This course will focus on understanding, implementing, and using basic bioinformatic algorithms and tools to analyze microbial genomes and genomic information. Topics cover a history of genome sequencing methods, local and global alignment methods, sequence annotation tools,
de novo
genome assembly, multiple sequence alignments, and simple molecular phylogeny. Theoretical lectures will be taught in parallel with labs focused on hands-on analysis of real-world data so that students create tangible and applicable skills.
Knowledge of a programming language is required to take this course
. Class notes are intended to be self-contained for these topics.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• T 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Allison Lopatkin
  h-index: 15 Info
• 3 points

SOCIAL PROB IN CONTEMP CHINA

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Leta Hong Fincher
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

GREEK LITERATURE SELECTIONS II

GREEK LITERATURE: POETRY

Prerequisites: GREK UN2101 - GREK UN2102 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.

• Department: Classics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Marcus Folch
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

LATIN LITERATURE SELECTIONS

Prerequisites: LATN UN2102 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.

• Department: Classics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Seth R Schwartz
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ETHICS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVPT

Aiming to improve human conditions within many diverse environments, sustainable development seeks to create, increase and perpetuate benefit and to cease, rectify and reverse harm. Sustainable development is consequently inextricable from the fabric of ethics, woven with determinations of benefit and harm to the existence and well-being of both humans and nonhumans. Underlying such determinations are those of self- and other-regarding motivation and behavior; and underlying these are still others, of sensitivity and rationality in decision-making, whether individual, social or public. Sustainable development is interlaced with and contingent upon all these determinations, at once prescriptive and judgmental, which can be called the ethics of sustainable development. This course is divided into four main sections, of which two are intended to show the ethical fallacies of unsustainable development, and two, the ethical pathways of sustainable development. The first section focuses upon ethically problematic basic assumptions, including human (species) hegemony, happy (hedonic) materialism, and selective (data) denial. The second focuses upon ethically problematic ensuing rationalizations, including those pertaining to damages, victims, consequences and situations of climatic, chemical, biological and ecological harm. The third section responds to these rationalizations with ethically vital considerations of earth justice, environmental justice, culturally-based ethics, and sector-based ethics (water, food, place and climate ethics). Finally, the fourth section responds to the initial, longstanding problematic assumptions with a newly emergent ethical paradigm, comprising biotic wholeness, environmental integrity and the deliberative zero-goal. Tying all sections together is the central theme: to be sustainable, development must be ethical. Reflecting the collaborative quality of the field of sustainable development, the course extends to readings whose authors have all pursued their work at intersections of science and ethics, environment and ethics, policy and ethics, business and ethics, and sustainable development and ethics.

• Department: Earth Institute
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Adela J Gondek
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

RACE. SPACE, URB SCHOOLS

Many people don’t think of themselves as having attended segregated schools. And yet, most of us went to schools attended primarily by people who looked very much like us. In fact, schools have become more segregated over the past 30 years, even as the country becomes increasingly multiracial. In this class, we will use public schools as an example to examine the role race plays in shaping urban spaces and institutions. We will begin by unpacking the concept of racialization, or the process by which a person, place, phenomenon, or characteristic becomes associated with a certain race. Then, we will explore the following questions: What are the connections between city schools and their local contexts? What does it mean to be a “neighborhood school”? How do changes in neighborhoods change schools? We will use ethnographies, narrative non-fiction, and educational research to explore these questions from a variety of perspectives. You will apply what you have learned to your own experiences and to current debates over urban policies and public schools. This course will extend your understanding of key anthropological and sociological perspectives on urban inequality in the United States, as well as introduce you to critical theory.

• Department: Education @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Fawziah Qadir
  Info
• 3 points

HEAT TRANSFER

Steady and unsteady heat conduction. Radiative heat transfer. Internal and external forced and free convective heat transfer. Change of phase. Heat exchangers.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Michael Burke
  h-index: 22 Info
• 3 points

HEAT TRANSFER

RECITATION

Steady and unsteady heat conduction. Radiative heat transfer. Internal and external forced and free convective heat transfer. Change of phase. Heat exchangers.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• F 1 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Burke
  h-index: 22 Info
• 0 points

FEMINIST THEORY

This course explores the formation of desire, sexuality, and subjectivity through the frameworks of feminist epistemologies (the question of what we can know) and feminist ethics (the question of how to be responsible within our relationships and local and global communities). We will reflect on the tension between the limits of what we can know about ourselves and others and the imperative to care for each other and remain accountable for our individual and collective actions and inaction. We will investigate how our deepest emotions, intimate encounters, and secret fantasies are formed by larger social and political contexts. In turn, we will also question how these intimate relationships with ourselves and our companions may be seen as feminist acts of resistance, disruption, and creation. Objective I: to closely engage diverse feminist perspectives in late-twentieth- and twenty-firstcentury phenomenology, existentialism, Marxism, queer theory, critical race theory, and psychoanalysis. Objective II: to begin to locate your own feminist perspective within the intersection of your unique experiences and the larger historical and social contexts that form you and which you may seek to transform.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Marisa Solomon
  Info
• 4 points

SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHITECTURE

EMBODYING VULNERABILITY

See the Barnard and Columbia Architecture Department website for a description of this semester's topic. 
architecture.barnard.edu/workshops

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ivan Munuera
  Info
• 3 points

THEORIZING ACTIVISM

Considering local, national, and international activist case studies through social movement theories, we work together to understand what activism looks like, the people who engage in it, how activist messages are constructed, and how visions of transformation are developed. Prerequisite:
Either
one introductory WGSS course
or
Critical Approaches to Social and Cultural Theory
or
Permission of the Instructor.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Kimberly Springer
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 13 Info
• 4 points

Resistant Mind: Colonial Power, Optics,

“Narrative fiction provides a controlled wilderness, an opportunity to be and to become the Other,” writes Toni Morrison. The immersion in the Other’s inner self is one of the most valuable experiences we derive from reading fiction, but how, exactly, is this immersion effect created? What makes it possible for us to know fictional characters more intimately than we know our closest friends? Is it not slightly disturbing and even unethical to expose a subject, albeit fictional, as radically as the fiction writer exposes and studies the hero? This course surveys a variety of ways in which the private life and the consciousness of the Other can be represented through discursive practices of literature, film, and photography. Drawing its perspective from postcolonial studies, formal narratology, and poststructuralist criticism, this course examines how different methods of narrating the Other participate in constructing an ethics of power and resistance within a work of art. We read and view a diverse selection of works ranging from the classics of Russian and American fiction to postcolonial photography and documentary productions which experiment with perspective and power dynamic. No prerequisites.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Vera Senina
  Info
• 3 points