METROPOLITICS OF RACE & PLACE

This class explores how racism and racialized capitalism and politics shape the distribution of material resources among cities and suburbs in metropolitan areas and the racial and ethnic groups residing in them. Readings and discussion focus on the history of metropolitan area expansion and economic development, as well as contemporary social processes shaping racial and ethnic groups’ access to high-quality public goods and private amenities. We address racial and ethnic groups’ evolving political agendas in today’s increasingly market-driven socio-political context, noting the roles of residents; federal, state, and local governments; market institutions and actors; urban planners, activist organizations, foundations, and social scientists, among others. Here is a sample of specific topics: race/ethnicity and who “belongs” in what “place;” inequitable government and market investment across racial and ethnic communities over time and “sedimentation effects” (for example, the “redlining” of Black communities leading to their inability to access loan and credit markets and the resulting wealth gap between Blacks and Whites); gentrification processes; creating sufficient, sustainable tax bases; and suburban sprawl. Assignments will include two short response papers, mid-term and final exams, and another project to be determined.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Angela Simms
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• 3 points

POETIC METER AND FORM

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required. This course will investigate the uses of rhythmic order and disorder in English-language poetry, with a particular emphasis on formal elements in free verse. Through a close analysis of poems, well examine the possibilities of qualitative meter, and students will write original creative work within (and in response to) various formal traditions. Analytical texts and poetic manifestos will accompany our reading of exemplary poems. Each week, well study interesting examples of metrical writing, and Ill ask you to write in reponse to those examples. Our topics will include stress meter, syllable-stress meter, double and triple meter, rising and falling rhythms, promotion, demotion, inversion, elision, and foot scansion. Our study will include a greate range of pre-modern and modern writers, from Keats to W.D. Snodgrass, Shakespeare to Denise Levertov, Blake to James Dickey, Whitman to Louise Gluck etc. As writers, well always be thinking about how the formal choices of a poem are appropriate or inappropriate for the poems content. Well also read prose by poets describing their metrical craft.

• Department: Writing
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph N Fasano
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

EAR-TRAINING III

Sight-singing techniques of modulating diatonic melodies in simple, compound, or irregular meters that involve complex rhythmic patterns. Emphasis is placed on four-part harmonic dictation of modulating phrases.

• Department: Music
• MW 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• TR 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Barami Waspe
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• Instructor: Peter M Susser
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 1 points

EAR-TRAINING IV

Techniques of musicianship at the intermediate level, stressing the importance of musical nuances in sight-singing. Emphasis is placed on chromatically inflected four-part harmonic dictation.

• Department: Music
• MW 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter M Susser
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 1 points

MUSIC IN EAST ASIA

A topical approach to the concepts and practices of music in relation to other arts in the development of Asian civilizations.

• Department: Music
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Noah D Rosen
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• Instructor: Jessie L Rubin
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• Instructor: Paola C Messina
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• Instructor: George H Murer
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• 3 points

Provocations in Twentieth-Century Poetic

Provocations in 20th C Po

This is a class about poetry and revolt. In a century of wars, unchecked proliferation of industrial and market systems in the continued legacy of settler-colonialism and the consolidation of state powers, does language still conduct with revolutionary possibilities? In this class, we will read manifestos, philosophical treatises, political tracts, literary polemics, poems, scores, and so on, as we consider poetry’s long-standing commitment to visionary practices that seek to liberate consciousness from the many and various structures of oppression. The term “poetry” is not limited to itself but becomes, in our readings, an open invitation to all adjacent experiments with and in the language arts. As such, we will look at the emergence of the international avant-gardes as well as a few student movements that populate and complicate the explorations of radical politics in the twentieth-century. In addition to our readings, students will be asked to produce creative responses for class discussion. Final projects will be provocations of their own design. Required Texts: Friedrich Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morality Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: The Communist Manifesto Aimé Césaire: Notebook of A Return to the Native Land Hilda Hilst: The Obscene Madame D Marguerite Duras: Hiroshima Mon Amour Guy Debord: Society of the Spectacle

• Department: Writing
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Lynn Xu
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• 3 points

LABORATORY IN MICROBIOLOGY

Enrollment limited to 16. Provides experience in the isolation, cultivation, and analysis of pure cultures of microorganisms. Methods used for the study of cell structure, growth, physiology, and genetics of microbes will be incorporated into laboratory exercises.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• R 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Gabrielle Corradino
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• 3 points

MUSIC THEORY III

Intermediate analysis and composition in a variety of tonal idioms.  A one-hour weekly lab is required, to be scheduled at the beginning of the term.  Course to be taken in conjunction with the Ear-Training sequence, up through Ear-Training IV.

• Department: Music
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Galen P Degraf
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

EAST ASIAN CINEMA

This course introduces students to major works, genres and waves of East Asian cinema from the Silent era to the present, including films from Japan, Korea, Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. How has cinema participated in East Asian societies’ distinct and shared experiences of industrial modernity, imperialism and (post)colonialism? How has cinema engaged with questions of class, gender, ethnic and language politics? In what ways has cinema facilitated transnational circulations and mobilizations of peoples and ideas, and how has it interacted with other art forms, such as theatre, painting, photography and music? In this class, we answer these questions by studying cinemas across the region sideby- side, understanding cinema as deeply embedded in the region’s intertwining political, social and cultural histories and circulations of people and ideas. We cover a variety of genres such as melodrama, comedy, historical epic, sci-fi, martial arts and action, and prominent film auteurs such as Yasujir? Ozu, Akira Kurosawa, Yu Hy?nmok, Chen Kaige, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Ann Hui. As cinema is, among other things, a creative practice, in this course, students will be given opportunities to respond to films analytically and creatively, through writing as well as creative visual projects. As a global core course, this class does not assume prior knowledge of East Asian culture or of film studies.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ying Qian
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

MUSIC THEORY IV

Intermediate analysis and composition in a variety of tonal and extended tonal idioms.  A one-hour weekly lab is required, to be scheduled at the beginning of the term.  Course to be taken in conjunction with the Ear-Training sequence, up through Ear-Training IV.

• Department: Music
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph P Dubiel
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

RACE, GNDR, SXLTY&PNSHMNT

RACE GNDR SXLTY & PNSHMNT

This 4-credit course will examine constructions of criminality, historical shifts in punishmentregimes, and the lived experience of incarceration. We will draw on classic sociological texts, aswell as feminist, queer, and critical race theory. In so doing, we will develop an understanding ofthe interconnections between punishment regimes and other systems of social power. Studentswill learn to engage with, but also produce critical knowledge about punishment by conductingseveral small qualitative research assignments.

• Department: Sociology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Joss T Greene
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

COLL:PLTCS OF BAD BEHAVIOR

This course explores the politics of what happens when people, institutions, or states deviate from expected behavior. The course will span all subfields of political science, engaging issues such as lies, scandal, money laundering, corruption, campaign finance, election fraud, racism, and incarceration.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Miller
  CULPA: 18 h-index: 14 Info
• 4 points

INTRO ORGANIC CHEMISTRY-LAB

Prerequisites: (CHEM BC2001) General Chemistry I with lab. Corequisites: CHEM BC3230 Basic techniques of experimental organic chemistry. Principles and methods of separation, purification, and characterization of organic compounds. Selected organic reactions.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• M 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• T 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• W 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• R 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• F 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• T 8:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• R 8:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• 2.5 points

INTRO TO PORTUGUESE STUDIES

INTRO TO PORTUGUESE CULTURES

This course presents the students with the information and basic tools needed to interpret a broad range of topics and cultural production from the Portuguese-speaking world: literary, filmic, artisitic, architectural, urban, etc. We will use a continuing cross-disciplinary dialogue to study everyday acts as a location of culture. This course will center on interpretation as an activity and as the principal operation though which culturally sited meaning is created and analyzed. Among the categories and topics discussed will be history, national and popular cultures, literature (high/low), cultural institutions, migration, and globalization. Students will also acquire the fundamental vocabulary for the analysis of cultural objects. This course is required for the concentration in Portuguese Studies.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Iuri Bauler Pereira
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS

Operational amplifier circuits. Diodes and diode circuits. MOS and bipolar junction transistors. Biasing techniques. Small-signal models. Single-stage transistor amplifiers. Analysis and design of CMOS logic gates. A/D and D/A converters.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Charles A Zukowski
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

MAKING PEOPLE PUBLIC ON THE EARLY MODER

Before the development of mass media—newspapers, television, film—who was famous and why? What did such fame entail, and what were the cultural uses to which celebrated individuals were put? This seminar examines the early modern commercial theater’s role in making people public, particularly those individuals unaffiliated with the court. How do early modern forms of popular fame resemble and differ from classical notions of
fama
, from the kinds of celebrity made possible in the eighteenth-century, and even from our own? We will consider these questions by turning to plays written by a number of early modern playwrights, including Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker, and John Webster, in a range of different genres (comedy, tragedy, history).

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Allison K Deutermann
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• 4 points

URBAN SPACE & CONFLICT IN MIDDLE EAST

URBAN SPACE&CONFLICT MID EAST

This course explores how civil war, revolution, militarization, mass violence, refugee crises, and terrorism impact urban spaces, and how city dwellers engage in urban resilience, negotiate and attempt to reclaim their right to the city. Through case studies of Beirut (1975-present), Baghdad (2003-present), Cairo (2011-present), Diyarbakir (1914-present), Aleppo (1914-present), and Jerusalem (1914-present), this course traces how urban life adjusted to destruction (and post-conflict reconstruction), violence, and anarchy; how neighborhoods were reshaped; and how local ethnic, religious, and political dynamics played out in these cities and metropolises. Relying on multi-disciplinary and post-disciplinary scholarship, and employing a wealth of audiovisual material, literary works, and interviews conducted by the instructor, the course scrutinizes how conflicts have impacted urban life in the Middle East, and how civilians react to, confront, and resist militarization in urban spaces.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Khatchig Mouradian
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• 3 points

MODERN V

Intermediate Advanced.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Wesley Ensminger
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• Instructor: Colleen Thomas
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 0-1 points

INTRO TO LITERARY STUDIES I

Prerequisites: FREN UN3405 Advanced Grammar and Composition or an AP score of 5 or the instructors permission. Reading and discussion of major works from the Middle Ages to 1750.

• Department: French
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Anna P Langewiesche
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• 3 points

INTRO TO LITERARY STUDIES II

Prerequisites: FREN UN3405 Advanced Grammar and Composition or an AP score of 5 or the instructors permission. Reading and discussion of major works from 1750 to the present.

• Department: French
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Katherine M Manansala
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO ITALIAN LITERATURE II

Prerequisites: ITAL UN2102 or the equivalent. UN3334-UN3333 is the basic course in Italian literature. UN3334: Authors and works from the Cinquecento to the present. Taught in Italian.

• Department: Italian
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Steven J Baker
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

SCIENCE, STATE POWER, ETHICS

A comparative study of science in the service of the State in the U.S., the former Soviet Union, Fascist Italy, and Nazi Germany during pivotal periods through the first half of the 20th century. Topics to be covered include the political and moral consequences of policies based upon advances in the natural sciences making possible the development of TNT, nerve gas, uranium fission and hydrogen fusion atomic bombs. Considers the tensions involved in balancing scientific imperatives, patriotic commitment to the nation-state, and universal moral principles and tensions faced by Robert Oppenheimer, Andrei Sakharov, Neils Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. Selected readings include: Michael Frayn's play 
Copenhagen,
 
Hitler's Uranium Club 
by Jeremy Bernstein, Brecht's 
Galileo
, John McPhee's 
The Curve of Binding Energy,
 Richard Rhodes' 
The Making of the Atomic Bomb.

• Department: Science and Public Policy @Barnard
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Timothy J Halpin-Healy
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

SELECTED TOPICS

GER B1.1:Facets of Berlin

Prerequisites: GERM UN2102 or the equivalent This two-point course is designed to strengthen both oral and written communication and the ability to engage in critical analysis in German. Students will develop interpretative skills needed for communicating questions, ideas, and opinions; build vocabulary; interact comfortably with various forms of media; and communicate new skills through discussions, various writing assignments, and a presentation. This course does not fulfill degree requirements.

• Department: Global Programs
• 0 points

SELECTED TOPICS

GER B1.2: Facets of Berlin

Prerequisites: GERM UN2102 or the equivalent This two-point course is designed to strengthen both oral and written communication and the ability to engage in critical analysis in German. Students will develop interpretative skills needed for communicating questions, ideas, and opinions; build vocabulary; interact comfortably with various forms of media; and communicate new skills through discussions, various writing assignments, and a presentation. This course does not fulfill degree requirements.

• Department: Global Programs
• 0 points

SELECTED TOPICS

German Discourse&Cult. I

Prerequisites: GERM UN2102 or the equivalent This two-point course is designed to strengthen both oral and written communication and the ability to engage in critical analysis in German. Students will develop interpretative skills needed for communicating questions, ideas, and opinions; build vocabulary; interact comfortably with various forms of media; and communicate new skills through discussions, various writing assignments, and a presentation. This course does not fulfill degree requirements.

• Department: Global Programs
• 6 points

ADVANCD CONVERSTN & COMPOSTN I

Prerequisites: GERM UN2102 or the equivalent This two-point course is designed to strengthen both oral and written communication and the ability to engage in critical analysis in German. Students will develop interpretative skills needed for communicating questions, ideas, and opinions; build vocabulary; interact comfortably with various forms of media; and communicate new skills through discussions, various writing assignments, and a presentation. This course does not fulfill degree requirements.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Cosima Mattner
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• 2 points

MODERN VI

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Yoshito Sakuraba
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• 0-1 points

SHAKESPEARE II

(Lecture). Shakespeare II examines plays from the second half of Shakespeare’s dramatic career, primarily a selection of his major tragedies and his later comedies (or “romances”).

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Jean E Howard
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED ITALIAN II

ADV IT: LING/CULT DIVERS-ITALY

Prerequisites: ITAL V3335 Advanced reading, writing, speaking with emphasis on authentic cultural materials. Topic and semester theme varies.

• Department: Italian
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Felice Beneduce
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

ITALIAN THROUGH CINEMA

ADV ITAL: ITALIANO NEL CINEMA

Prerequisites: ITAL V3335. Students will develop advanced language competence while analyzing and discussing Italian film comedies and their reflection of changing Italian culture and society. Films by Monicelli, Germi, Moretti, Wertmuller, Soldini and others.

• Department: Italian
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Patrizia Palumbo
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

QUANTITATVE-INSTRMNTL TECH-LAB

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3231 and CHEM BC3333  Quantitative techniques in volumetric analysis, pH measurement, UV-Visible, absorption, and fluorescence spectroscopy, and chromatographic separations. Data analysis with spreadsheets.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• T 1:10 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• R 1:10 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• 3 points

EARLY CHRISTIANITY

Examines the competing currents within early Christianity, with emphasis placed on the literary and social expressions of Christian belief and identity. Topics to be covered include persecution and martyrdom, debates over authority and religious experience, orthodoxy and heresy, and asceticism and monasticism, among others.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Castelli
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

DESCRIPTIVE GRAMMAR-HUNGARIAN

DESCRIPTIVE GRAMMAR/HUNGARIAN

This course is designed for those curious about the structure of Hungarian - an unusual language with a complex grammar quite different from English, or, indeed, any Indo -European language. The study of Hungarian, a language of the Finno-Ugric family, offers the opportunity to learn about the phonology of vowel harmony, the syntax of topic-comment discourse, verb agreement with subjects and objects, highly developed case systems and possessive nominal paradigms. In addition to its inflectional profile, Hungarian derivation possibilities are vast, combinatory, and playful. During the semester we will touch upon all the important grammatical aspects of Hungarian and discuss them in relation to general linguistic principles and discourse, and finally, through some text analysis, see them in action. Although the primary discussion will center on Hungarian, we will draw on comparisons to other Finno-Ugric languages, most notably Finnish and Komi; students are encouraged to draw on comparisons with their own languages of interest. No prerequisite. Counts as Core Linguistics.

• Department: Italian
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Carol H Rounds
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

ADV SPECTROS CHEMISTRY - LECT

Corequisites: CHEM BC3348 This course combines chemical synthesis, inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry, and nanoscience into experiments with an emphasis using spectroscopy to determine chemical structure and reactivity. you will gain experience with a range of instruments, techniques, calculations, and theories. Instrumentation will include UV-Visible, infrared, near-infrared, fluorescence, and Raman spectroscopy.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• M 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• 0 points

Advanced Spectroscopy, Measurement, and

ADVANCED SPECTROSCOPY - L

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3333 or 3338 and CHEM BC3253 Corequisites: CHEM BC3271 This course combines chemical synthesis, inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry, and nanoscience into experiments with an emphasis using spectroscopy to determine chemical structure and reactivity. You will gain experience with a range of instruments, techniques, calculations, and theories. Instrumentation will include UV-Visible, infrared, near-infrared, fluorescence, and Raman spectroscopy.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 3 points

HISPANIC CULTURES I (SP)

Prerequisites: L course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion of language requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300). Provides students with an overview of the cultural history of the Hispanic world, from eighth-century Islamic and Christian Spain and the pre-Hispanic Americas through the late Middle Ages and Early Modern period until about 1700, covering texts and cultural artifacts from both Spain and the Americas.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel S Saenz
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• Instructor: Alexandra V Mendez
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• 3 points

LUSOPHONE AFR/AFRO-BRAZ CULTRS

This course focuses on Lusophone African and African Brazilian cultures and the relations, continuities, ruptures and influences between them. Brazil is the result of the miscegenation of Ameridians, African and Europeans, and this means that is also a cultural mélange of these groups. The African cultural contribution to Brazilian culture and grand-narrative is the primary focus of this course, however, to understand Brazil one needs to understand the cultural diversity found in Lusophone Africa, with which Brazil has had a long relationship. The readings for this course include texts from different disciplines and genres. We will study texts, movies and other forms of visual arts from the following authors: José Eduardo Agualusa, Pepetela, Mia Couto, Jorge Amado, Achille, Mbembe, Hilton Costa, Jocélio Teles dos Santos, Livio Sansone, José Luis Cabaço, Benedita da Silva and Solano Trindade.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Joao Nemi Neto
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

HISPANIC CULTURES II (SP)

ENLIGHTENMENT THROUGH PRESENT

This course surveys cultural production of Spain and Spanish America from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Students will acquire the knowledge needed for the study of the cultural manifestations of the Hispanic world in the context of modernity. Among the issues and events studied will be the Enlightenment as ideology and practice, the Napoleonic invasion of Spain, the wars of Spanish American independence, the fin-de-siecle and the cultural avant-gardes, the wars and revolutions of the twentieth century (Spanish Civil War, the Mexican and Cuban revolutions), neoliberalism, globalization, and the Hispanic presence in the United States. The goal of the course is to study some key moments of this trajectory through the analysis of representative texts, documents, and works of art. Class discussions will seek to situate the works studied within the political and cultural currents and debates of the time. All primary materials, class discussion, and assignments are in Spanish. This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ramon Flores Pinedo
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• Instructor: Tamara A Hache
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• Instructor: Eduardo Andres Vergara Torres
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• Instructor: Manuela M Luengas Solano
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Javiera V Irribarren Ortiz
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• Instructor: Anne Freeland
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 4 Info
• Instructor: Bruno Bosteels
  Wikipedia h-index: 21 Info
• 3 points

PHENOMENOLOGY & EXISTENTIALISM

• Department: Philosophy @Barnard
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Taylor Carman
  CULPA: 40 Wikipedia h-index: 19 Info
• 3 points

URBAN ELSEWHERES: EXPLORING A WORLD OF C

We live in an increasingly urbanized world. But what does it mean to be “urban”? As urbanization reaches more corners of the globe, its forms and processes become increasingly diverse.
Urban Elsewheres
is dedicated to investigating this diversity and to exploring the implications that unfamiliar urban phenomena might have for how we understand urbanization—both elsewhere in the world and in our own backyards. Through a comparative engagement with case studies drawn from around the world, this course will challenge some of our most deeply held, common sense assumptions about urbanization. Students will be asked to stretch the conceptual limits of urbanization and explore the social and political possibilities of an expanded urbanism. In doing so, the course will engage with the many of the most heated theoretical debates about urbanization, equipping students with a set of comparative analytical tools with which to explore the wider field of urban studies.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Nick R Smith
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• 4 points

DEVELOPMENT

Introduction to animal developmental biology and its applications. This course will examine the basic mechanisms through which animal bodies organize themselves, from an integrative perspective at the levels of genes and gene networks, cell properties and behaviors, coordinated interactions of cells in developing tissues, organs and organ systems, and the role of developmental processes in morphological evolution. Topics include: fertilization, cleavage and gastrulation, establishment of body axes, neural development, organ formation, tissue and organ regeneration, stem cells and medical applications, evolution of developmental programs, and teratogenesis.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Rishita Shah
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• 3 points

URBAN ELSEWHERES - DISCUSSION

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• 0 points

URBAN ELSEWHERES - DISCUSSION

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• 0 points

URBAN ELSEWHERES - DISCUSSION

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• 0 points

BIOCHEMISTRY LAB TECHNIQUES

Prerequisites: Organic II lab (CHEM BC3333, BC3335, or equivalent); Quantitative analysis lab (BC3338, BC3340, or equivalent); Biochemistry (CHEM BC3282y, CHEM C3501, or equivalent). Lecture: T 1:10-12:50; Laboratory two afternoons: T 2:10-6:00 / TH 1:10-5:00. Theory and application of fundamental techniques for the isolation, synthesis and characterization of biological macromolecules including proteins, lipids, nucleotides and carbohydrates. Techniques include spectroscopic analysis, gel electrophoresis, chromatography, enzyme kinetics, immunoblotting, PCR, molecular cloning and cell culture, as well as modern laboratory instrumentation, such as UV-Vis, GC-MS and HPLC.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• 5 points

CLIMATE CHANGE AND LAW

The purpose of this course is to provide students with a broad introduction to the field of climate law in the United States and at the international level. The course begins with an overview of the causes and effects of global climate change and the methods available to control and adapt to it. We then examine the negotiation, implementation and current status of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol, and the Copenhagen Accord. The focus then turns to the past and proposed actions of the U.S. Congress, the executive branch and the courts, as well as regional, state and municipal efforts. The Clean Air Act, the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act will receive special attention. We evaluate the various legal tools that are available to address climate change, including cap-and-trade schemes; carbon taxation; command-and-control regulation; litigation; securities disclosures; and voluntary action. The roles of energy efficiency, renewable energy sources, carbon capture and sequestration, and forestry and agriculture each receive close attention. Implications for international human rights, international trade, environmental justice, and international and intergenerational equity are discussed. The course concludes with examination of the special challenges posed by China; proposals for adaptation and geoengineering; and business opportunities and the role of lawyers. Offered in the Spring.

• Department: Earth Institute
• R 4:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Gerrard
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Queer Latinx Criticism

QUEER LATINX CRITICISM

This seminar traces some of the main critical currents and themes of the field of Queer Latinx Studies. Beginning with the path-breaking anthology of radical women of color,
This Bridge Called Our Back
(1981), co-edited by Chicana lesbian feminist writers Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa, we consider how their foundational work has been taken up by a second generation of Latina lesbian critics as well as in Gay Latino studies. The seminar then turns from the West Coast to the East Coast and to New York City as a key place for queer Latinx cultures and theorizations, from the Warhol factory (1962-1984), to the Nuyorican Poets café (1975), to New York dance clubs and drag balls. We explore how these performing cultures inform one of the principal critical voices of Queer Latinx Criticism: the late José E. Muñoz whose works
Disidentifications:
Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics
(1999),
Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity
(2009), and the posthumous
The Sense of Brown
(2020) decisively participated in the shaping of the field of Queer of Color Critique. We then consider how Queer Latinx studies is situated in the broader field of Latin American queer studies and specific theorizations (the tacit; translocase) that emerge out of this particular emplacement. Lastly, we consider the recent theorizations of Latinx and Chicanx Trans lives and cultures and how these are informing the field of Queer Latinx studies.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Maja Horn
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

PHYSIOLOGY

Prerequisites: BIOL BC1500, BIOL BC1501, BIOL BC1502, BIOL BC1503 or the equivalent. This course examines how mammals carry out basic functions like manipulating objects, sensing the external world, oxygenating tissues, and processing food. Emphasis is placed on (a) how the body regulates itself through the integrated action of multiple organ systems and (b) what goes awry in disease.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: John Glendinning
  CULPA: 23 h-index: 39 Info
• 3 points

ATYPICAL DEVELOPMENT IN COGNITION, LANGU

ATYP DVLPMT: COG, LANG, B

Cognition, language and behavior are central elements of the human experience. Development in these areas begins shortly after conception and continues through the first two decades of life. Children's development usually follows a known and predictable course. In a sizable minority of cases, development goes awry, either before or shortly after birth, leading to a range of challenges and disorders in cognition, language and behavior. This course explores the etiology and presentation of disordered cognition, language and behavior resulting from developmental impairments. Vulnerabilities associated with prenatal, perinatal, infancy, childhood and adolescent stages will be analyzed. Students will be familiarized with contemporary research on the defining characteristics, associated features, possible causes, and current approaches to intervention and prevention for a wide range of issues associated with atypical development in cognition, language and behavior.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Hannah E Hoch
  CULPA: 27 Info
• 4 points

ARTISTIC HUMANITY

Between 1400 and 1600, in the context of the Iberian conquest and colonization of the “four parts of the world," artifacts were looted, melted, and destroyed; other objects traveled between continents in physical and textual forms. They were sent and offered as proof of the new territories, desired and collected. The powerful subtlety of unexpected artistic forms, media, and monuments triggered a new space of inquiry. Novel materials, techniques, and ideas about artistry were observed far and near—in the Americas, in Asia, in Africa, and in Europe. They were also described, compared and analyzed in letters, histories, or inventories. All around a sphere that could now be mentally embraced, missionaries, collectors, historians, and artists felt under the power of novel creations: intricate shell jewelries, wood and stone sculptures, turquoise masks, feather mosaics, painted manuscripts and folding screens, ivory spoons, carved temples, monumental cities, and so on. These splendid artworks deeply challenged conceptual boundaries such as those between: idol and image, beautiful and frightening, civilized and barbarian, center and periphery, classic and modern, and ancient and new. The artworks and their descriptions contributed to define humanity as immanently creative and to conceive artistic creation as a distinctive form of thought. Section 001 will be taught in Spanish; section 002 will be taught in English.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• T 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Alessandra Russo
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

LAB IN MOLEC & CELL NEUROSCI

Prerequisites: BIOL BC3362 (or corequisite). Enrollment limited to 16. Introduction to techniques commonly used in current neurobiological research, including intracellular and extracellular recording of action potentials, neuroanatomical methods, and computer simulation of the action potential.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• R 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth P Bauer
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 21 Info
• 3 points

PSYCHOLOGY OF LEADERSHIP

Prerequisites: Students must have one of the following pre-requisites for this course: PSYC BC1125 Personality Psychology, PSYC BC1138 Social Psychology, or PSYC BC2151 Organizational Psychology, and permission by the instructor. An in-depth examination of the concept of leadership in psychology with an emphasis on womens leadership. Topics include the role of gender, culture, and emotional intelligence as well as an examination of transactional and transformational models. Topics will be discussed with an equal emphasis on theory, research, and application. Students must have prerequisites and permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Tara Well
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

PSYCHOLOGY OF CREATIVITY

Prerequisites: BC1001 and permission of the instructor. Consideration of classic Psychodynamic (the unconscious/incubation), Psychometric (testing/training), and Personaility (train/motivation) models of creativity. Application of contemporary Process (cognitive/problem-solving) models to art, literature, and independently selected areas of expertise. Process models are involving constraint selection within well-established domains are emphasized.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Patricia D Stokes
  CULPA: 48 Info
• 4 points

Science, Environment and European Coloni

SCIENCE, ENVIRONMENT & EU

Science and colonialism were driving forces in the making of the global and interconnected world where we live today. The history of “Western science” is deeply intertwined with Europe’s encounter with the world, as colonialism provided the laboratory for disciplines such as geography, natural history, medicine, and anthropology. The challenges and opportunities of new natural environments shaped the way Europeans explored, analyzed, and studied nature and society. The circulation of specimens, data, and scientific expertise made colonial governance possible. This course will introduce students to major themes regarding the relationship between science, colonial environments and European empires. Students will develop reading skills and will explore key topics in early and late modern European history, the history of science, and environmental history.

• Department: History @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Angelo Caglioti
  h-index: 2 Info
• 4 points

Documents and Evidence in Contemporary L

Documents & Evidence Latn

This course focuses on the ways in which contemporary Latin American culture constructs fiction from documents and archival materials. It examines the new ways of constructing fiction in contemporary Latin America. The course begins by questioning the ideas of author, authority, and authorship. “Documentality” is an approach to the complex web of techniques and procedures that place the “I” at the center of a new documentary fiction that questions the values of the real and the fictional. We will discuss literary texts, movies, and art exploring the value of the documents and the processes of fictionalization. Through works by authors from Mexico, Argentina and Chile we will question the relationships between life, history, politics, and aesthetics. We will focus on gender, race, memory, and political approaches.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Graciela Montaldo
  Info
• 3 points

HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY

Prerequisites: BC1001 and two more psychology courses, and permission of the instructor required. Consideration of research on the interaction of biological, psychological, and social factors related to physical health and illness. Topics include the relationship of stress to illness, primary prevention, mind-body methods of coping with stress and chronic illness (such as meditation), and the relationship between psychological factors and recovery from illness. Enrollment limited to 15.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Tara Well
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY

Prerequisites: BC1001 and BC1129 Developmental Psychology or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 20 senior majors. Barnard students receive priority. Examines adolescent development in theory and reality. Focuses on individual physiological, sexual, cognitive, and affective development and adolescent experiences in their social context of family, peers, school, and community. Critical perspectives of gender, race and ethnicity, sexuality, and teen culture explored.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Susan R Sacks
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

SOCIOLING ASPECTS U.S.SPANISH

Prerequisites: Third-year bridge course (W3300), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350). Sociolinguistics studies the connections between language and social categories such as class, gender, and ethnicity. This course will address how social, geographic, cultural, and economic factors affect the different usages of Spanish among its millions of speakers. Through theory and practice of various research tools including Ethnography of Communication and Discourse Analysis, students with explore topics such as English-Spanish contact in the US, code-switching, and Spanglish, as well as issues of identity, bilingualism, and endangered languages.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria E Lozano
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

PLAYING WITH GENDER IN THE MIDDLE AGES

What kind of flexibility and play does gender signify in medieval literature? How was gender enacted and how did it impact identity, sexuality, shape-shifting, intimacy and empowerment? How does it echo in our ideas of queerness, closeness, and sexual identity as understood today? This class will look at how a kind of power associated with gender and sexuality figures in medieval literature and is echoed in contemporary poetics and theory. This course takes the idea of _play_ seriously (despite the paradoxical nature of this statement), discerning how gender embodies a form of discursive and non discursive play in premodern works. In doing so, we will examine how the definition of gender is implicated in theological, cultural, and scientific discourses on the nature of the body and sexuality, how it links to the role of the liminality in discourses of power, and how poetic play and gender figure in contemporary contexts, both literary and theoretical. We begin by looking at representations and attitudes towards gender in the Middle Ages via literary and non-literary texts, examining the role of gender in relation to rhetoric, philosophy, representations of Christ, Old Norse mythology, and more. We will then look at how medieval texts play with gender and speak to modern times. Often, medieval texts and modern theoretical work will be paired together to “dialogue” with one another. And, since dialogue is a trans-historical pedagogical form of play, we will see where our discussions take us, possibly mofifying the syllabus, letting our course transform along the way.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Patricia Dailey
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

CONTAGION AND THE VICTORIAN NOVEL

Contagion is a common feature of the Victorian literary imagination. And for good reason: contagious diseases proliferated in the 19th century, when transmission theories and treatment methods were still in flux. Many Victorian novels explicitly represent these epidemic illnesses, which might afflict specific characters or connect whole communities through networks of infection. But in addition to indexing the physical body’s very real susceptibility to communicable disease, the figure of contagion also harbors significant symbolic potential. What exactly did contagion
mean
for British writers in the 19th century? Who or what is identified as contagious in Victorian novels—and why? Our course takes these questions as a launch pad for studying contagion and the Victorian novel. Beginning with texts in which contagious disease plays an obvious role, we’ll make our way through a series of novels in which actual contagion features less and less overtly, but in which the
idea
of contagion maintains an influential presence. We’ll also read contemporary essays that offer critical frameworks for considering contagion from various angles: as an object of scientific and medical study; as a phenomenon that amplifies rhetorics and practices of racism and xenophobia; and as a symptom of interconnected life, in all its vulnerability. And we’ll think together about the place of the novel in 19th-century discourses on contagion. What made this literary form well-suited to exploring contagion’s causes and effects? What do we make of the fact that Victorian novels
themselves
were often seen as both literally and figuratively “contagious”? Novelists whose work we will engage with and compare include Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Bram Stoker, and H. G. Wells. As an aid to our comparative analysis, we’ll learn to use digital humanities tools Hypothesis and Palladio,

which enable collaborative annotations of electronic texts and visual mapping

of data. Using these programs, course participants will work together on a semester-long project of mapping contagion

across Victorian novels: a “contact tracing” exercise that will allow us to make compelling connections among many different representations of contagion. At the same time, this class is also an experiment in the possibilities and limitations of a consciously “presentist” approach to literature: a way of engaging with l

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Diana R Newby
  Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN EXTINCTIONS: THE MAKING OF THE

Contemporary portrayals of extinction often suggest the novelty of its occurrence and progress. Yet extinction has been a consistent and defining phenomenon in the American hemisphere since its colonization, unfolding in various modalities: as an historical narrative, an affective haunt, an ecological danger, and a colonial practice. This course will seek to make sense of the importance of extinction as both a foundational narrative and a lived reality of the "New World." We will examine how extinction in multiple forms was necessary for the establishment of early colonial societies, and chart an alternative history of the American democracy through literary records that bear witness to how settlers' claims of possession wreaked dispossession for other humans, animals, and plants on unparalleled scales. When extinction is imposed by forces of colonization, racism, sexism, anthropocentrism, and war, what possibilities of evasion or survival are there? What forms of remembrance can be had for extinguished lives? How does the idea of extinction push us to rethink how we understand life itself? No prerequisites.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Ami Yoon
  Info
• 4 points

EE SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT

Students work in teams to specify, design, implement and test an engineering prototype. Involves technical as well as non-technical considerations, such as manufacturability, impact on the environment, economics, adherence to engineering standards, and other real-world constraints. Projects are presented publicly by each design team in a school-wide expo.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• F 6 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: David G Vallancourt
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 3 points

CANINE COGNITION

Prerequisites: BC1001 and one other Psychology course. Enrollment limited to 15 students. Permission of the instructor is required. An examination of the scientific study of the domestic dog. Emphasis will be on the evolutionary history of the species; the dogs social cognitive skills; canid perceptual and sensory capacities; dog-primate comparative studies; and dog-human interaction.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Alexandra C Horowitz
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

GIS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMNT

This course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive overview of theoretical concepts underlying GIS systems and to give students a strong set of practical skills to use GIS for sustainable development research. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are a system of computer software, data and analysis methods used to create, store, manage, digital information that allow us to create maps and dynamic models to analyze the physical and social processes of the world. Through a mixture of lectures, readings, focused discussions, and hands-on exercises, students will acquire an understanding of the variety and structure of spatial data and databases, gain knowledge of the principles behind raster and vector based spatial analysis, and learn basic cartographic principles for producing maps that effectively communicate a message. Student will also learn to use newly emerging web based mapping tools such as Google Earth, Google Maps and similar tools to develop on-line interactive maps and graphics. The use of other geospatial technologies such as the Global Positioning System will also be explored in this class. Case studies examined in class will draw examples from a wide ranges of GIS applications developed to assist in the development, implementation and evaluation of sustainable development projects and programs. On completion of the course, students will: 1. use a variety of GIS software programs to create maps and reports; 2. develop a sound knowledge of methods to search, obtain, and evaluate a wide variety of spatial data resources; 3. develop skills needed to determine best practices for managing spatial data resources; 4. use GIS to analyze the economic, social and environmental processes underlying the concept of building a sustainable world; 5. Gain an understanding of the limits of these technologies and make assessments of uncertainty associated with spatial data and spatial analysis models. Offered in the fall and spring.

• Department: Earth Institute
• R 10:10 a.m.-12:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Linda I Pistolesi
  Info
• 3 points

RESRCH SEMINAR IN HISTORY II

Prerequisites: Open to Barnard College History Senior Majors. Individual guided research and writing in history and the presentation of results in seminar and in the form of the senior essay. See Requirements for the Major for details.

• Department: History @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Tiersten
  CULPA: 45 Info
• 4 points

HOW WRITERS THINK

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor. (Seminar). This course uses contemporary philosophies of research and writing to train students to become writing center and library consultants. Readings will highlight major voices in rhetoric and composition research, with an emphasis on collaborative learning theory. We will ground our study in hands-on teaching experiences: students will shadow Columbia Writing Center consultants and research librarians and then practice strategies they learn in consultation with other students. Those who successfully complete this course will be eligible to apply for a peer writing consultant job in the Columbia Writing Center. This course is co-taught by the director of the Writing Center and the undergraduate services librarian.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Susan Mendelsohn
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 3 Info
• 4 points

PSYCHOBIOLOGY OF SLEEP

This seminar will explore sleep and circadian rhythms, emphasizing how these factors and their disruption influence health, function, and well-being. Topics will include the physiological and neurobiological generation of sleep and circadian rhythms, and the interaction between these systems with cognitive, behavioral, endocrine, metabolic, and mood/psychiatric variables in humans.

• Department: Neuroscience & Behavior @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ari Shechter
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 23 Info
• 4 points

ENVIRONMENTAL VISUALIZATIONS OF NYC

Prerequisites: (ARCH UN1020) or (ARCH UN3101) or (ARCH UN3103) or Students must have taken at least one architectural design studio or an equivalent multimedia production course. The goal of this seminar + workshop course is to develop new visual representations of impact of environmental issues on New York City. We will focus on two catastrophic events and sites: Greenpoint Oil Spill (1978), Newtown Creek; and Hurricane Sandy (2012), Lower Manhattan; and examine related toxic histories, environmental damage, impacted communities, clean-up and protection efforts and planning and design possibilities. Resourcing historical maps, on-site documentation and future design proposals, the class will explore environmental crises and their impact on the built environment and on the social, cultural and political life of the city. Students will conduct research at The Map Division of the New York Public Library, meet with environmental and design experts, and visit sites in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Based on this research, students will use digital mapping techniques, 360 video, VR (virtual reality) and AR (augmented reality) technologies to create compelling experiential, spatial, analytical, critical, and reflective reconstructions of catastrophic events and remediation. Course readings further examine environmental issues and climate change from four unique perspectives: mapping and urban/ecological histories; design research reports; global and planetary views; and graphic, audio-visual imaginaries.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 4 points

BERLIN CONSORTIUM FOR GERMAN STUDIES

"""Golden 20s"" in Berlin?"

• Department: Global Programs
• 3 points

BERLIN CONSORTIUM FOR GERMAN STUDIES

"""Heimat:"" A German Concep"

• Department: Global Programs
• 0 points

BERLIN CONSORTIUM FOR GERMAN STUDIES

"""Golden 20s"" in Berlin?"

• Department: Global Programs
• 3 points

BERLIN CONSORTIUM FOR GERMAN STUDIES

"""Heimat:"" A German Concep"

• Department: Global Programs
• 0 points

BERLIN CONSORTIUM FOR GERMAN STUDIES

Berlin in Film

• Department: Global Programs
• 3 points

BERLIN CONSORTIUM FOR GERMAN STUDIES

Berlin: A City of Women?

• Department: Global Programs
• 3 points

BERLIN CONSORTIUM FOR GERMAN STUDIES

Germany's Cult. Identity

• Department: Global Programs
• 3 points

BERLIN CONSORTIUM FOR GERMAN STUDIES

The Divided Berlin

• Department: Global Programs
• 3 points

TOPICS IN MUSIC & SOCIETY

This course seeks to approach the study of music and society by comparatively studying repertories from different parts of the world, how the history of ideas and methods of studying such repertoires shaped them, the practices that constitute them and the ways they are understood and used by different peoples. Central to this course is the interrelationship between the constitution of a repertoire and the history of the construction of knowledge about it.

• Department: Music
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Mario R Cancel-Bigay
  Info
• 3 points