ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

Prerequisites: MATH UN1102 and MATH UN1201 or the equivalent. Special differential equations of order one. Linear differential equations with constant and variable coefficients. Systems of such equations. Transform and series solution techniques. Emphasis on applications.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• 3 points

DAILY LIFE IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE

This course is designed as travellers guide to medieval Europe. Its purpose is to provide a window to a long-lost world that provided the foundation of modern institutions and that continues to inspire the modern collective artistic and literary imagination with its own particularities. This course will not be a conventional history course concentrating on the grand narratives in the economic, social and political domains but rather intend to explore the day-to-day lives of the inhabitants, and attempts to have a glimpse of their mindset, their emotional spectrum, their convictions, prejudices, fears and hopes. It will be at once a historical, sociological and anthropological study of one of the most inspiring ages of European civilization. Subjects to be covered will include the birth and childhood, domestic life, sex and marriage, craftsmen and artisans, agricultural work, food and diet, the religious devotion, sickness and its cures, death, after death (purgatory and the apparitions), travelling, merchants and trades, inside the nobles castle, the Christian cosmos, and medieval technology. The lectures will be accompanied by maps, images of illuminated manuscripts and of medieval objects. Students will be required to attend a weekly discussion section to discuss the medieval texts bearing on that weeks subject. The written course assignment will be a midterm, final and two short papers, one an analysis of a medieval text and a second an analysis of a modern text on the Middle Ages.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
• 4 points

Introduction to Mathematical Modeling I

Intro Mathematical Modeli

Prerequisites: MATH UN1101 (Calculus I) or equivalent courses. This course introduces students to mathematical modeling through hands-on, project-based learning. Topics include fundamental concepts from linear algebra, multivariable calculus, differential equations, probability and statistics, and introductory machine learning.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• 3 points

INTERMEDIATE GERMAN I

Prerequisites: Equivalent to GERM UN2101 Topics include personal interests, biographies, German unification, stereotypes, and German-American relations. Assignments and activities are diversified to integrate undergraduate and graduate students’ academic and personal interests. Upon successful completion of the course (with a minimum grade of B), students should achieve intermediate-high proficiency (ACTFL scale) in speaking, listening, reading, and writing German. Students are advised that this course is a full-time commitment. Students should expect to study 2 hours every day for every hour spent in the classroom and additional time on weekends. Students planning to study in Berlin in spring are advised to complete GERM S2101 in the Summer Session. The Department of Germanic Languages will assist in selecting the appropriate course. Equivalent to GERM UN2101 taught during the regular semesters.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWR 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 4 points

Political Theory I

Political theory examines the ideas and institutions that shape political life.  This course introduces key texts and arguments about the best way to organize political power, how it should be used, and for what purpose.

We will address these larger questions by studying how major thinkers, ancient and modern, analyzed political diversity, division, and conflict.  What are the sources of conflicting identities, interests, passions, and values in politics?  How can partisanship and contestation avoid degenerating into open war and unjust domination?  Which institutions, laws, and practices are best able to manage conflict consistent with other political goals, such as freedom, equality, justice?  

Course goals: Demonstrate broad knowledge of key texts, thinkers, concepts, and debates in the history of political thought; compare, contrast, and classify definitions of diversity and their political significance; interpret texts and reconstruct their core arguments and concepts; evaluate arguments, concepts, and theories in terms of consistency, plausibility, and desirability; develop persuasive interpretations and arguments through textual analysis; present and defend ideas and arguments clearly in writing and discussion.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• 4 points

INTERMEDIATE RUSSIAN I

Prerequisites: RUSS UN1101 and RUSS UN1102 or placement test $15.00= Language Resource Fee, $15.00 = Materials Fee , Builds upon skills acquired at introductory level. Emphasis on speaking, reading, writing, and grammar review. Taken with RUSS S2102R, equivalent to full-year intermediate course.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWR 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
• 4 points

INTERMEDIATE SPANISH I

Prerequisites: SPAN S1102, or the equivalent. Equivalent to SPAN C1201 or F1201. Rapid grammar review, composition, and reading of literary works by contemporary authors.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWR 9 a.m.-11:05 a.m.
• 4 points

INTERMEDIATE SPANISH I

Prerequisites: SPAN S1102, or the equivalent. Equivalent to SPAN C1201 or F1201. Rapid grammar review, composition, and reading of literary works by contemporary authors.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWR 9 a.m.-11:05 a.m.
• 4 points

INTERMEDIATE GERMAN II

Prerequisites: Equivalent to GERM UN2102 Topics cover areas of German literature, history, art, and society. Students also read a German drama. Assignments and activities are diversified to integrate undergraduate and graduate students’ academic and personal interests. Intermediate-high to advanced-low proficiency (ACTFL scale) in speaking, listening, reading, and writing German is expected upon successful completion (with a minimum grade of B). Prepares students for advanced German, upper-level literature and culture courses and study in Berlin. Students are advised that this course is a full-time commitment. Students should expect to study 2 hours every day for every hour spent in the classroom and additional time on weekends. Students planning to study in Berlin in spring are advised to complete GERM S2102 in the Summer Session. The Department of Germanic Languages will assist in selecting the appropriate course. Equivalent to GERM UN2102 taught during the regular semesters.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWR 4 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 4 points

INTERMEDIATE RUSSIAN II

Prerequisites: RUSS UN2101 or placement test $15.00= Language Resource Fee, $15.00 = Materials Fee , Continuation of RUSS S2101H.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWR 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
• 4 points

INTERMEDIATE SPANISH II

Prerequisites: SPAN S1201, or the equivalent. Equivalent to SPAN C1202 or F1202. Readings of contemporary authors, with emphasis on class discussion and composition.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWR 9 a.m.-11:05 a.m.
• MTWR noon-2:05 p.m.
• MTWR 9 a.m.-11:05 a.m.
• 4 points

THE AMERICAN ECONOMY

Prerequisites: ECON UN1105 The course surveys issues of interest in the American economy, including economic measurement, well-being and income distribution, business cycles and recession, the labor and housing markets, saving and wealth, fiscal policy, banking and finance, and topics in central banking. We study historical issues, institutions, measurement, current performance and recent research.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• 3 points

Political Theory I Discussion

Discussion section

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 0 points

Psychopathology

Prerequisites: PSYCBC1001 Introduction to Psychology or its accepted equivalent. . An introduction to the study of abnormal behavior and various psychological disorders such as depression, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, and personality disorders. The course broadly reviews scientific and cultural perspectives on abnormal behavior with an emphasis on clinical descriptions and diagnosis, etiology, treatment, and research methods. The following Columbia University course is considered overlapping and a student cannot receive credit for both the BC course and the equivalent CU course: PSYC UN2620 Abnormal Behavior.

• Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Wheaton
  h-index: 31 Info
• 3 points

Psychopathology

Prerequisites: PSYCBC1001 Introduction to Psychology or its accepted equivalent. . An introduction to the study of abnormal behavior and various psychological disorders such as depression, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, and personality disorders. The course broadly reviews scientific and cultural perspectives on abnormal behavior with an emphasis on clinical descriptions and diagnosis, etiology, treatment, and research methods. The following Columbia University course is considered overlapping and a student cannot receive credit for both the BC course and the equivalent CU course: PSYC UN2620 Abnormal Behavior.

• Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Wheaton
  h-index: 31 Info
• 3 points

PSYCHOLOGY OF DRUG USE & ABUSE

Prerequisites: BC1001 or permission of the instructor. 

The aim of this course is to critically examine the complex interaction of biological, psychological and environmental factors which impact the etiology, symptoms, and treatment of substance abuse and dependence. The course focuses on those drugs which have abuse and dependence potential with specific emphasis on Alcohol and the Depressants, the Psychostimulants, and the Opiates.  A primary objective is to provide insight into factors which contribute to challenges with substances for some individuals and to better understand their felt and lived experience with drugs.

The course begins with a review of theoretical perspectives including disease, behavioral, cognitive, social learning, psychodynamic, and neurobiological models.  The physical, psychological, and socio-cultural effects/impact of each major class of drug will then follow. Within each category, we will also discuss controversial issues related to each drug for example: methadone maintenance, needle exchange programs, Ritalin/Adderall abuse, the “opiate epidemic.”  Throughout the course, case histories, film documentaries and memoirs will provide personal accounts of the drug experience.  We conclude the course with an overview of treatment interventions.

• Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
• TR 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• Instructor: E'Mett McCaskill
  CULPA: 38 Info
• 3 points

PSYCHOLOGY OF DRUG USE & ABUSE

Prerequisites: BC1001 or permission of the instructor. 

The aim of this course is to critically examine the complex interaction of biological, psychological and environmental factors which impact the etiology, symptoms, and treatment of substance abuse and dependence. The course focuses on those drugs which have abuse and dependence potential with specific emphasis on Alcohol and the Depressants, the Psychostimulants, and the Opiates.  A primary objective is to provide insight into factors which contribute to challenges with substances for some individuals and to better understand their felt and lived experience with drugs.

The course begins with a review of theoretical perspectives including disease, behavioral, cognitive, social learning, psychodynamic, and neurobiological models.  The physical, psychological, and socio-cultural effects/impact of each major class of drug will then follow. Within each category, we will also discuss controversial issues related to each drug for example: methadone maintenance, needle exchange programs, Ritalin/Adderall abuse, the “opiate epidemic.”  Throughout the course, case histories, film documentaries and memoirs will provide personal accounts of the drug experience.  We conclude the course with an overview of treatment interventions.

• Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
• TR 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• Instructor: E'Mett McCaskill
  CULPA: 38 Info
• 3 points

CITY AS STAGE: SITE SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE

CITY AS STAGE: PERF IN NY

This course explores the history and practice of Site-Specific Performance in New York City from the 1960’s to the present, focusing on theater, but also touching on the fields of music, dance and interdisciplinary performance. How have artists been inspired by New York City’s architecture, street life, natural environment, and rich cultural history to make performances that reach outside traditional performance venues? What practical, artistic, economic, and social concerns shape this kind of impulse? In what ways have artists repurposed existing spaces for artistic activity, and in some cases, permanently transformed a site? This is a studio course in which students gain inspiration from notable examples of site-specific artworks in New York City, while also engaging in a series of hands-on activities and site-specific performance assignments which will be presented on the Barnard campus. Throughout the six-week session, students will venture off campus to view ongoing site-specific artwork, visit spaces claimed and permanently transformed by artists, and attend a site-specific performance. A secondary, but equally important goal of the course is to give students agency in creating their own performances within limited means, and turning the chronic limitations of space, funds, and personnel into strengths and creative opportunities.

• Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Kara M Feely
  Info
• 3 points

CITY AS STAGE: SITE SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE

CITY AS STAGE: PERF IN NY

This course explores the history and practice of Site-Specific Performance in New York City from the 1960’s to the present, focusing on theater, but also touching on the fields of music, dance and interdisciplinary performance. How have artists been inspired by New York City’s architecture, street life, natural environment, and rich cultural history to make performances that reach outside traditional performance venues? What practical, artistic, economic, and social concerns shape this kind of impulse? In what ways have artists repurposed existing spaces for artistic activity, and in some cases, permanently transformed a site? This is a studio course in which students gain inspiration from notable examples of site-specific artworks in New York City, while also engaging in a series of hands-on activities and site-specific performance assignments which will be presented on the Barnard campus. Throughout the six-week session, students will venture off campus to view ongoing site-specific artwork, visit spaces claimed and permanently transformed by artists, and attend a site-specific performance. A secondary, but equally important goal of the course is to give students agency in creating their own performances within limited means, and turning the chronic limitations of space, funds, and personnel into strengths and creative opportunities.

• Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Kara M Feely
  Info
• 3 points

HIST OF PHIL: AQUINAS TO KANT

PHIL UN2101 is not a prerequisite for this course. Exposition and analysis of central philosophical problems as discussed by innovative thinkers from Aquinas through Kant. Authors include figures like Descartes, Elisabeth of Bohemia, Spinoza, Anne Conway, Leibniz, Berkeley, Hume, Émilie du Châtelet, and Kant. ,

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• 3 points

Introduction to American Politics

Intro American Politics

In this course, students will gain familiarity with some of the major questions and theoretical frameworks in the American Politics subfield of political science and learn how to think theoretically and empirically about politics.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• 4 points

Second-Year Chinese I

As the first half of a one-year program for intermediate Chinese learners, this course helps students consolidate and develop language skills used in everyday communication. Texts are presented in the form of dialogues and narratives that provide language situations, sentence patterns, word usage, and cultural information. This course will enable students to conduct everyday tasks such as shopping for cell phone plans, opening a bank account, seeing a doctor, or renting a place to live. At the end of the course, students will be ready to move on to the second half of the program, which focuses on aspects of Chinese culture such as the social norms of politeness and gift-giving. Semi-formal and literary styles will also be introduced as students transition to more advanced levels of Chinese language study. While providing training for everyday communication skills, Second Year Chinese aims to improve the student's linguistic competence in preparation for advanced studies in Mandarin.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWRF 10 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• 5 points

Second-Year Chinese II

As the second half of a one-year program for intermediate Chinese learners, this course helps students consolidate and develop everyday communicative skills in Chinese, as well as introducing aspects of Chinese culture such as the social norms of politeness and gift-giving. Semi-formal and literary styles will also be introduced as students transition to more advanced levels of Chinese language study. While providing training for everyday communication skills, Second Year Chinese aims to improve the student's linguistic competence in preparation for advanced studies in Mandarin.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWRF 10 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• 5 points

COGNITION: BASIC PROCESSES

An introduction to basic concepts in cognitive psychology. Topics include theories and
phenomena in areas such as attention, memory, concepts and categories, language, reasoning,
decision making, and consciousness.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• 3 points

The Song Within Us: Composition, Analysi

This class offers insight through composing, analysis, and performance for the composer, singer/songwriter, and performance artist. Coupling specifics of rhythm, melody, and harmony with story telling, lyric writing and the voice itself, students will be encouraged to share their imagination in song regardless of style, genre, or aesthetic. Music ranging from Chant to Music Theatre, the German lied to international pop fusion will be included as models upon which to base discussion and creative endeavor. Improvisation and musicianship techniques will complement pedagogical presentations of tonal and non - tonal compositional practice. A required final project based on any combination of composition, analysis, and performance, and in any media will be due at the end of the semester. All levels of experience and all types of instruments are welcome. Notation software is recommended but not required.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• 3 points

ACCOUNTING & FINANCE FOR ECONOMICS

The purpose of this course is to provide a basic introduction to accounting, including the
foundations of accounting concepts, the underlying mechanics, and the overall perspective required
to become intelligent users of accounting information. The course will focus on the main
financial statements, the nature of accrual measurement, and the information perspective. In addition,
we will explore some accounting methods in detail, such as revenue recognition, assets,
liabilities, and equity.
The overarching perspective is that accounting reports provide information that is useful for
a variety of purposes. In the course, I will also provide insights into how the financial markets
use accounting information to evaluate executives, predict future stock returns, assess firms’
riskiness, and allocate society’s resources to their most productive uses.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• 3 points

ISLAM

This course is designed as an introduction to the Islamic religion, both in its pre-modern and modern manifestations. The semester begins with a survey of the central elements that unite a diverse community of Muslim peoples from a variety of geographical and cultural backgrounds. This includes a look at the Prophet and the Qur'an and the ways in which both were actualized in the development of ritual, jurisprudence, theology, and sufism/mysticism. The course then shifts to the modern period, examining the impact of colonization and the rise of liberal secularism on the Muslim world. The tension between traditional Sunni and Shi'i systems of authority and movements for 'modernization' and/or 'reform' feature prominently in these readings. Topics range from intellectual attempts at societal/religious reform (e.g. Islamic Revivalism, Modernism, Progressivism) and political re-interpretations of traditional Islamic motifs (e.g. Third-Worldism and Jihadist discourse) to efforts at accommodating scientific and technological innovations (e.g. evolution, bioethics ). The class ends by examining the efforts of American and European Muslim communities to carve out distinct spheres of identity in the larger global Muslim community ( umma) through expressions of popular culture (e.g. Hip-Hop).

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• 4 points

ISLAM

This course is designed as an introduction to the Islamic religion, both in its pre-modern and modern manifestations. The semester begins with a survey of the central elements that unite a diverse community of Muslim peoples from a variety of geographical and cultural backgrounds. This includes a look at the Prophet and the Qur'an and the ways in which both were actualized in the development of ritual, jurisprudence, theology, and sufism/mysticism. The course then shifts to the modern period, examining the impact of colonization and the rise of liberal secularism on the Muslim world. The tension between traditional Sunni and Shi'i systems of authority and movements for 'modernization' and/or 'reform' feature prominently in these readings. Topics range from intellectual attempts at societal/religious reform (e.g. Islamic Revivalism, Modernism, Progressivism) and political re-interpretations of traditional Islamic motifs (e.g. Third-Worldism and Jihadist discourse) to efforts at accommodating scientific and technological innovations (e.g. evolution, bioethics ). The class ends by examining the efforts of American and European Muslim communities to carve out distinct spheres of identity in the larger global Muslim community ( umma) through expressions of popular culture (e.g. Hip-Hop).

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• 4 points

COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS

Examines the shaping of European cultural identity through encounters with non-European cultures from 1500 to the post-colonial era. Novels, paintings, and films will be among the sources used to examine such topics as exoticism in the Enlightenment, slavery and European capitalism, Orientalism in art, ethnographic writings on the primitive, and tourism.

• Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Tiersten
  CULPA: 45 Info
• 3 points

COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS

Examines the shaping of European cultural identity through encounters with non-European cultures from 1500 to the post-colonial era. Novels, paintings, and films will be among the sources used to examine such topics as exoticism in the Enlightenment, slavery and European capitalism, Orientalism in art, ethnographic writings on the primitive, and tourism.

• Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Tiersten
  CULPA: 45 Info
• 3 points

WITCHES

What is this course about? Well, it’s about witches…but what are witches about? Witches are about
gender, sexuality, morality, fear, and authority, among other things. For millennia, female spirituality
and female sexuality have been paired in ways that reveal deep-seated anxieties about the female
body and its power. From ancient Mesopotamian goddess worship to the frenzied witch hunts of
early modern Europe to the child-devouring crones of folk tales from cultures around the world,
we’ll delve into what the witch and those who name and pursue her reveal about deeply-held cultural
beliefs, desires, and anxieties. We’ll work together to analyze the figure of the witch across time and
space and develop our own ideas about why she is so constantly compelling. We’ll also look at our
own sociocultural moment and connect what we learn about witches to the world around us.

• Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Wendy C Schor-Haim
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 3 points

WITCHES

What is this course about? Well, it’s about witches…but what are witches about? Witches are about
gender, sexuality, morality, fear, and authority, among other things. For millennia, female spirituality
and female sexuality have been paired in ways that reveal deep-seated anxieties about the female
body and its power. From ancient Mesopotamian goddess worship to the frenzied witch hunts of
early modern Europe to the child-devouring crones of folk tales from cultures around the world,
we’ll delve into what the witch and those who name and pursue her reveal about deeply-held cultural
beliefs, desires, and anxieties. We’ll work together to analyze the figure of the witch across time and
space and develop our own ideas about why she is so constantly compelling. We’ll also look at our
own sociocultural moment and connect what we learn about witches to the world around us.

• Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Wendy C Schor-Haim
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 3 points

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY I-LECTURES

Prerequisites: CHEM S1403 General Chemistry I Lecture, CHEM S1404 General Chemistry II Lecture and CHEM S1500 General Chemistry Lab or their equivalents taken within the previous five years. Principles of organic chemistry. The structure and reactivity of organic molecules from the standpoint of modern theories of chemistry. Stereochemistry, reactions of organic molecules, mechanisms of organic reactions, syntheses and degradations of organic molecules, spectroscopic techniques of structure determination. Please note that students must attend a recitation for this class. Students who wish to take the full organic chemistry lecture sequence and laboratory should also register for CHEM S2444Q Organic Chemistry II Lecture and CHEM S2543Q Organic Chemistry Lab (see below). This course is equivalent to CHEM UN2443 Organic Chemistry I Lecture.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWR 9:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• 4 points

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY II-LECTURES

Prerequisites: CHEM S2443D Organic Chemistry I Lecture or the equivalent. The principles of organic chemistry. The structure and reactivity of organic molecules are examined from the standpoint of modern theories of chemistry. Topics include stereochemistry, reactions of organic molecules, mechanisms of organic reactions, syntheses and degradations of organic molecules, and spectroscopic techniques of structure determination. This course is a continuation of CHEM S2443D Organic Chemistry I Lecture. Please note that students must attend a recitation for this class. Students who wish to take the full organic chemistry lecture sequence and laboratory should also register for CHEM S2443D Organic Chemistry I Lecture and CHEM S2543Q Organic Chemistry Lab - see below. This course is equivalent to CHEM UN2444 Organic Chemistry II Lecture.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWR 9:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• TR 5:35 p.m.-8:05 p.m.
• 4 points

BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Prerequisites: PSYC UN1001 An introduction to the analysis of psychological issues by anatomical, physiological, and pharmacological methods. Topics include neurons, neurotransmitters, neural circuits, human neuroanatomy, vision, learning, memory, emotion, and sleep and circadian rhythms.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• 3 points

EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY

Prerequisites: PSYC UN1001 or equivalent Traditional psychologists have focused primarily on answering “how?” questions regarding the mechanisms that underlie behavior (i.e. How does the system work?). In contrast, evolutionary psychologists focus primarily on answering “why?” questions (i.e. Why does this system exist, and why does it have the form it does?). This course is designed to apply our knowledge of evolutionary theory to psychology in order to answer such questions.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• 3 points

Earth's Past and Present Climate

Earth's Past & Present Cl

The course examines the modern atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and other components of the Earth’s climate system, and considers how they have changed in the past. Topics include global energy balance, greenhouse gases, thermodynamics of the atmosphere, moisture and clouds, ocean biology, chemistry and physics. The general circulation of the atmosphere as well as the surface and deep ocean will be considered from first principles and modern observations. Multiple intervals of Earth’s past will be considered, including substantially warmer and colder periods than the modern, as well as the repeated oscillations between glaciations and interglacial episodes of the past two million years. Some emphasis will be place on relatively rapid climate changes that have occurred naturally in the past, and the course will conclude with a consideration of recent trends and future projections.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
• 3 points

ANALYSIS AND OPTIMIZATION

Prerequisites: MATH V1102-MATH V1201 or the equivalent and MATH V2010. Mathematical methods for economics. Quadratic forms, Hessian, implicit functions. Convex sets, convex functions. Optimization, constrained optimization, Kuhn-Tucker conditions. Elements of the calculus of variations and optimal control.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• 3 points

Introduction to Comparative Politics

Intro Comp Politics

The course provides a broad overview of the comparative politics subfield by focusing on important substantive questions about the world today.  Particular attention will be paid to understanding differences between democracies and autocracies, on one hand, and between different forms of democracy, on the other.  What influences whether countries become and/or stay democratic?  On this basis, should we expect China to democratize?  Why do we care if a country is democratic or not?  Do democracies perform better (or worse) than non-democracies in policy areas of importance?  What is “good representation” and how do political institutions affect the prospects for achieving it?  How does the choice of democratic institutions influence the prospects for stable and successful democracy?  Are there particular institutional forms that are appropriate in particular contexts (such as ethnically divided Iraq), or do cultural factors overwhelm institutional considerations? 

In addressing these broad questions, the course has three ancillary goals.  The first is to teach students how to pose and evaluate falsifiable theoretical arguments about substantive questions of interest.  The second is to introduce the quantitative, formal and qualitative methodologies that political scientists use to develop and evaluate arguments.  Finally, the course will require students to develop knowledge of the political systems of a number of foreign countries.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• 4 points

Introduction to Comparative Politics Dis

Intro CP Discussion

Discussion section

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• 0 points

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY LABORATORY

Prerequisites: CHEM UN1500 General Chemistry Lab, CHEM UN2443 Organic Chemistry I - Lecture. Techniques of experimental organic chemistry, with emphasis on understanding fundamental principles underlying the experiments in methodology of solving laboratory problems involving organic molecules. Attendance at the first laboratory session is mandatory. Please note that you must complete CHEM UN2443 Organic Chemistry I Lecture or the equivalent to register for this lab course. This course is equivalent to CHEM UN2543 Organic Chemistry Laboratory.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 1:10 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
• 3 points

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY LABORATORY

Prerequisites: CHEM UN1500 General Chemistry Lab, CHEM UN2443 Organic Chemistry I - Lecture. Techniques of experimental organic chemistry, with emphasis on understanding fundamental principles underlying the experiments in methodology of solving laboratory problems involving organic molecules. Attendance at the first laboratory session is mandatory. Please note that you must complete CHEM UN2443 Organic Chemistry I Lecture or the equivalent to register for this lab course. This course is equivalent to CHEM UN2543 Organic Chemistry Laboratory.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 1:10 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
• 3 points

International Politics

Why do countries go to war? What conditions foster international cooperation? How do alliances between countries function? How are countries affected by global trade and investment, and in turn how does the political economy of individual countries shape international conflict and cooperation? How do ideas and culture (including both positive ideas like human rights and negative ideas like racism) affect international politics? What role do individuals and groups play in shaping international politics? What explains the international response to the COVID-19 pandemic? Why isn’t there significant cooperation on climate change, and can a new global cooperation emerge? What issues have garnered international attention, and how has that shaped the countries’ cooperation? What causes terrorism? Is the proliferation of nuclear (or cyber) weapons a threat to peace, and if so, how should the world response? Does UN peacekeeping work?

In this course we will begin to grapple with these questions. We will use theories developed by philosophers, political scientists and policy analysts, and we will examine the historical roots of today’s problems, in order to explain and predict the patterns of international politics and the possibilities for change. Throughout the course, students will be encouraged to choose and develop their own theories to explain events.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of the semester, students will accomplish the following:


Demonstrate broad factual and causal knowledge of important current and historical issues in international relations.

Apply contending theories from the political science literature and the policy world to analyze, compare, and evaluate events and trends in international relations.

Assess the value of competing theories in explaining events.

Synthesize facts and arguments across cases in order to reason critically and argue creatively, through both oral discussions in section and written essays.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• 4 points

ARTS OF CHINA JAPAN KOREA

Introduces distinctive aesthetic traditions of China, Japan, and Korea--their similarities and differences--through an examination of the visual significance of selected works of painting, sculpture, architecture, and other arts in relation to the history, culture, and religions of East Asia.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• 3 points

International Politics Discussion

Int'l Politics Discussion

Discussion section for POLS UN2601

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 0 points

ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR

Prerequisites: PSYC W1001 or PSYC W1010 or the instructor's permission. An examination of definitions, theories, and treatments of abnormal behavior.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• WF 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• 3 points

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

Surveys important methods, findings, and theories in the study of social influences on behavior. Emphasizes different perspectives on the relation between individuals and society.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• 3 points

World Dance History

A survey of the major dance traditions of Africa, Asia, Europe, India, the Middle East, and the Americas. Lectures and discussions address primary written and visual sources, ethnographic and documentary films, workshops, and performances.

• Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
• TR 10 a.m.-1:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul A Scolieri
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 3 points

World Dance History

A survey of the major dance traditions of Africa, Asia, Europe, India, the Middle East, and the Americas. Lectures and discussions address primary written and visual sources, ethnographic and documentary films, workshops, and performances.

• Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
• TR 10 a.m.-1:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul A Scolieri
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 3 points

ANTHROPOLOGY OF CLIMATE CHANGE

This course focuses on some of the present, and possible future, socio-ecological conditions of life on planet
earth. In particular we will work to understand the historic, economic, political, and socio-cultural forces that
created the conditions we call climate change. With this we will take a particular interest in the question of how
race, ethnicity, Indigeneity, class, and gender articulate with the material effects of climate change. The course
also focuses on how we, as scholars, citizens, and activists can work to alter these current conditions in ways
that foster social and ecological justice for all living beings. Although we will ground our scholarship in
anthropology, to encourage interdisciplinary and even transdisciplinary thought, weekly readings will be drawn
from across scholarly and activist canons. While becoming familiar with scholarly and activist conversations
about space and place, risk and vulnerability, and ontology and epistemology, we will work through a series of
recent events as case studies to understand causes, effects, affects, and potential solutions.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• 3 points

Masterpieces of Islamic Art

A topical introduction to the architecture and arts of the Islamic cultures of North Africa, Spain, Arabia, Turkey, Iran and Central Asia, from their origins in late antiquity to 1400 CE. A wide variety of media will be explored as we look at artistic accomplishments in both the religious and secular realms. We will study architectural monuments from palaces to mosques as well as small-scale luxury items like textiles, metalwork, ceramics, and illuminated manuscripts. 
There will be at least one mandatory class trip to the Metropolitan Museum.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• 3 points

Clinical Psychology

Clinical psychology is a broad and expanding field. This course will provide students with a broad overview of approaches to treatment and assessment in clinical psychology. These include theoretical orientations and current debates within the field. The course will also provide students with cultural and ethical considerations within the field. Finally, the course will offer many illustrative examples of the application of the provided material.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• 3 points

MASTERPIECES-INDIAN ART & ARCH

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

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• 3 points

ART IN CONTEXT: LATINE/LATIN AMERICAN AR

ART IN CONTEX: LATINE/LAT

According to the 2022 one-year American Community Survey (ACS) of the U.S. Census Bureau, New York City’s second largest population comprising about 29% of the total can be identified as
Latine
–that is, the people hailing from diverse areas of the region known as Latin America, from Tierra del Fuego to today’s Mexico and the Caribbean. Yet, despite the steady and increasing Latine presence in New York City at least since the nineteenth-century, Latine representation within NYC and, more broadly, the US American cultural scene has been an ongoing battle or even a series of different battles waged by individuals and groups with diverse understanding of what Latine or Latin American art means, and why and how it should be presented and shown, to whom, and to what ends. This summer class examines these battles through the study of history and present of self-identified Latin American and Latine arts organizations in New York from museums through varied non-for-profit and grassroots arts institutions to commercial art galleries, exposing students to a comprehensive cross-section of the art ecosystem in order to develop a nuanced understanding of the dynamic relationships between different constituencies that institutions crystalize: patrons, administrators, artists, and diverse publics. In other words, who do the institutions represent and to whom?

Some of the institutions studied and visited during the course will be The Hispanic Society Museum and Library, murals at the New School, The Americas Society, El Museo del Barrio, The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America at the Museum of Modern Art, ISLAA–Institute for Studies on Latin American Art, The Clemente–Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Education Center, CCCADI–The Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, En Foco, Hutchinson Modern and Contemporary, and Ruiz-Healey Art. Through readings, site visits, and discussions with representatives of these institutions, students will gain a thorough understanding of the evolving definitions and facets of Latine culture and their continued vital role in NYC and US at large. They will also become familiar with a wide range of visual expressions in different media, spanning colonial times to the present.

• Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
• TR 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Dorota Biczel
  Info
• 4 points

ART IN CONTEXT: LATINE/LATIN AMERICAN AR

ART IN CONTEX: LATINE/LAT

According to the 2022 one-year American Community Survey (ACS) of the U.S. Census Bureau, New York City’s second largest population comprising about 29% of the total can be identified as
Latine
–that is, the people hailing from diverse areas of the region known as Latin America, from Tierra del Fuego to today’s Mexico and the Caribbean. Yet, despite the steady and increasing Latine presence in New York City at least since the nineteenth-century, Latine representation within NYC and, more broadly, the US American cultural scene has been an ongoing battle or even a series of different battles waged by individuals and groups with diverse understanding of what Latine or Latin American art means, and why and how it should be presented and shown, to whom, and to what ends. This summer class examines these battles through the study of history and present of self-identified Latin American and Latine arts organizations in New York from museums through varied non-for-profit and grassroots arts institutions to commercial art galleries, exposing students to a comprehensive cross-section of the art ecosystem in order to develop a nuanced understanding of the dynamic relationships between different constituencies that institutions crystalize: patrons, administrators, artists, and diverse publics. In other words, who do the institutions represent and to whom?

Some of the institutions studied and visited during the course will be The Hispanic Society Museum and Library, murals at the New School, The Americas Society, El Museo del Barrio, The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America at the Museum of Modern Art, ISLAA–Institute for Studies on Latin American Art, The Clemente–Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Education Center, CCCADI–The Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, En Foco, Hutchinson Modern and Contemporary, and Ruiz-Healey Art. Through readings, site visits, and discussions with representatives of these institutions, students will gain a thorough understanding of the evolving definitions and facets of Latine culture and their continued vital role in NYC and US at large. They will also become familiar with a wide range of visual expressions in different media, spanning colonial times to the present.

• Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
• TR 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Dorota Biczel
  Info
• 4 points

THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF ISLAM

This course centers on the constantly changing ambivalent everyday lived realities, experiences, interpretations as well as the multiple meanings of Islam and focuses less on the study of Islam as a discursive tradition. Furthermore, the course challenges stereotypes of Islam, and of people who one way or another can be called Muslims; most often perceived as a homogenous category through which all Muslim societies are imagined. The course is divided into six parts. The first part introduces the idea of “anthropology of Islam” through different readings in anthropology and various, experiences, practices, dimensions of Islam as a relationship between humans and God. In the second part, the focus is to listen to Islam and connect the different sonic bodies of Islam to power and politics. The third part interrogates preconceived ideas about Islam, gender, feminism, and agency. The fourth part studies Islam, body, sexuality and eroticism. The fifth part is concerned with Islam, youth culture, identity, belonging and rebellion. The last part critically analyzes Islam, modernity, orientalism, post-colonialism and not least today’s fear and notion of imagined enemies.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• 3 points

EVAL THE EVID OF AUTHENTICITY

The adjudged authenticity of a work of art is fundamental in determining its value as a commodity on the art market or, for example, in property claim disputes or in issues of cultural property restitution. Using case studies some straightforward and others extremely vexing--this course examines the many ways in which authenticity is measured through the use of provenance and art historical research, connoisseurship, and forensic resources. From within the broader topics, finer issues will also be explored, among them, the hierarchy of attribution, condition and conservation, copies and reproductions, the period eye and the style of the marketplace.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• 4 points

EVAL THE EVID OF AUTHENTICITY

The adjudged authenticity of a work of art is fundamental in determining its value as a commodity on the art market or, for example, in property claim disputes or in issues of cultural property restitution. Using case studies some straightforward and others extremely vexing--this course examines the many ways in which authenticity is measured through the use of provenance and art historical research, connoisseurship, and forensic resources. From within the broader topics, finer issues will also be explored, among them, the hierarchy of attribution, condition and conservation, copies and reproductions, the period eye and the style of the marketplace.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• 4 points

Political Violence and Terrorism

Course Description
When is violence used against noncombatants for political purposes and what is the impact of
such violence? This course focuses on political violence by individuals and groups, whether or
not is sanctioned by a state. We will examine a variety of explanations for such violence,
including rationalist, psychological/emotion-based, and organizational approaches. We will also
discuss the impact of political violence: Does it get the job done, so to speak? Does violence
move terrorist groups closer to their goals? Does indiscriminate violence by the state spur
rebellion or suppress insurgencies? Does insurgent violence against civilians make them more or
less effective?
Our focus on just two questions—why does this violence happen and what is its impact?—allows
us to explore how social scientists explore such questions. Students will learn how to approach
academic journal articles and book chapters—identifying the authors’ purposes and the different
sections, and figuring out what they may gain from their reading. They will distinguish between
critiques of a theoretical claim based on its logic and premises and critiques based on empirical
evidence. They will understand what it means to evaluate theoretical tools on the basis of their
usefulness for understanding how things work. They will practice explaining new cases (and
predicting their outcomes) using these theoretical tools.

• Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Marjorie Castle
  Info
• 3 points

Political Violence and Terrorism

Course Description
When is violence used against noncombatants for political purposes and what is the impact of
such violence? This course focuses on political violence by individuals and groups, whether or
not is sanctioned by a state. We will examine a variety of explanations for such violence,
including rationalist, psychological/emotion-based, and organizational approaches. We will also
discuss the impact of political violence: Does it get the job done, so to speak? Does violence
move terrorist groups closer to their goals? Does indiscriminate violence by the state spur
rebellion or suppress insurgencies? Does insurgent violence against civilians make them more or
less effective?
Our focus on just two questions—why does this violence happen and what is its impact?—allows
us to explore how social scientists explore such questions. Students will learn how to approach
academic journal articles and book chapters—identifying the authors’ purposes and the different
sections, and figuring out what they may gain from their reading. They will distinguish between
critiques of a theoretical claim based on its logic and premises and critiques based on empirical
evidence. They will understand what it means to evaluate theoretical tools on the basis of their
usefulness for understanding how things work. They will practice explaining new cases (and
predicting their outcomes) using these theoretical tools.

• Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Marjorie Castle
  Info
• 3 points

Mapping Trade and Connecting Cultures

Mapping Trade Connect. Cu

This course will utilize New York City collections to show how the movement of luxury materials, made possible by nomads, was essential to the production of the canonical art works we now admire in museums. We will begin by studying nomadic cultures in the classroom and at the AMNH to better understand why tents are one of the oldest forms of architectural expression throughout the world. We then move to address how recent exhibitions have highlighted an interconnected globe in the premodern period, and what revelations these shows have brought to changing our perspective on how we make art into history and consider future directions in visualizing heretofore silent journeys. Students will get to know NYC collections, meet curators and conservators, and spend the entire semester with one object, which they will research in depth throughout the semester.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• 4 points

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR THRU FIELDWORK

Why do birds sing? Why do wolves hunt in packs, but spiders hunt alone? Why are worker bees willing to die to protect the queen? Using evolutionary principles as the unifying theme, we will survey the study of animal behavior, including the history, basic principles, and research methods. 

Fieldwork as an important component of this course.  Through a range of approaches, students will gain familiarity with the scientific method, behavioral observation and research design.   Although this is listed as a 3000-level course, no prior biology experience is required. Fulfills the science requirement for most Columbia and GS undergraduates

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• 3 points

INTRO TO VIDEO STORYTELLING

The Introduction to Video Storytelling course teaches students the basics of conceiving, researching, and reporting a story through video. Students will learn to think critically about what makes for a good video story--what makes it newsworthy, what makes video the proper medium for conveying that story--and how to execute using the latest technology. Students will learn how to use and handle a camera, how to best record sound, how to properly frame and light a subject or scene, as well as learn how to use Adobe Premiere editing software. Students will have one complete video story at the end of the 6-week course.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• 3 points

Microbiology

This course introduces students to the physiology, morphology, pathogenicity, and genetics of microorganisms and their diverse applications. Topics include microbial evolution, cell structure and function, metabolic pathways, information flow and regulation, microbial systems, and the influence of microorganisms on health and disease. Core methods in microbiological research will be examined through the analysis of primary scientific literature and case studies.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• 3 points

WAR REPORTING:THE COVERAGE OF

War Reporting: The Coverage of Armed Conflict explores the origins and roles of modern war reporting, examines the challenges journalists face, and discusses journalism's place in the public discourse of armed conflict and political violence, most notably terrorism. Taught by U.S. Marine corps veteran and Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and author, C.J. Chivers, class discussions will be lively and require student engagement. There will be guest lectures and seminars with leading journalists with experience in recent wars, as well discussions with security and legal professionals who assist and guide news organizations in their coverage of war. The examination of risks to journalists on conflict beats will include detailed case studies of real kidnappings and battlefield deaths, and study examples of risk mitigation and best practices in the field. The course is intended for students with a deep interest in war, terrorism and journalism, including both news consumers and aspiring practitioners. It aims to promote skepticism of official narratives and critical thinking about journalism itself.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• 3 points

SUPERHERO MOVIES AND NEW YORK

In
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
, plumes of dust fill the New York City streets as the monster Bowser attacks the city. Mario, seemingly beaten, hides in a pizzeria. What inspires him to keep fighting? He sees himself in a TV ad for his plumbing business, wearing a superhero cape and flying next to the Freedom Tower. He finds solace in the representation of himself as a superhero and in a city that refused to concede that the game was over after 9/11. Such a scene is emblematic of a seminar that will explore the superhero’s relationship to the city’s history and its traumas. Our eye will move between Hollywood blockbusters and global art cinema to help us mull how the superhero exemplifies, for some, the excesses of the U.S. during the global War on Terror. We will see Batman’s alter-ego Bruce Wayne run towards what looks like an imploding World Trade Center on 9/11 (
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
) and witness the superhero framed as an ideological smokescreen for the callous administration of George W. Bush who used the attacks to justify an endless war (
The Broken Circle Breakdown
).

While strongly focused on the post-9/11 superhero and its links to New York City, the cross-media seminar will track the superhero’s initial rise in popularity during the trauma of World War II. It will mobilize the archival resources of Columbia's Rare Book & Manuscript Library collections around the papers of noted
X-Men
writer Chris Claremont, so students can read how the artist conceived of bringing histories around the Holocaust into his spectacular stories. Such dips into the archives will help us assess how such empowered figures offer surprising routes of representation for the disenfranchised. We will also consider the authoritarian possibilities of the vigilante Batman, situating Frank Miller’s
The Dark Knight Returns
against a cultural study that draws links between the comic and Bernhard Goetz who killed four black teenagers in a Manhattan subway in 1984. To further frame how the superhero serves as a potent means of socio-political critique, acclaimed artists and writers will be invited into the classroom. These include Paul Pope whose
Batman: Year 100
(2006) presents a dystopian superhero that allegorizes the oppressive aspects of the War on Terror’s surveillance regime. A culminating field trip to the National September 11 Memorial Museum will be organized. There, students will visit “The World Trade Center

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• 3 points

VIDEO GAMES AND FILM

Cinema and videogames are moving-image-based media, and, especially over the past two decades, they have been credited with influencing each other. But how deep do their similarities actually go? In what way do the possibilities available to game developers differ from those available to filmmakers? How does each medium segment and present space, time, and action? What aesthetic effects are open to games that are not open to cinema, and vice versa? This course offers a comprehensive exploration of the dynamic relationship between cinema and video games. Through a combination of film screenings, gameplay, theoretical reading/discussions, and practical assignments, students will examine the historical, cultural, aesthetic, and narrative connections between these two influential media forms. The course aims to foster an understanding of how cinema and video games intersect, inform, and influence one another, providing a unique perspective on storytelling techniques within these mediums. The course will culminate in a final presentation where students will adapt an existing intellectual property, preferably a film or TV show, into a video game (or vice versa), justifying their creative choices.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 2 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
• 3 points

FINANCIAL ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: STAT UN1201, ECON UN3211 Intermediate Microeconomics and ECON UN3213 Intermediate Macroeconomics. Equivalent to ECON UN3025. Institutional nature and economic function of financial markets. Emphasis on both domestic and international markets (debt, stock, foreign exchange, Eurobond, Eurocurrency, futures, options, and others). Principles of security pricing and portfolio management; the capital asset pricing model and the efficient markets hypothesis.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• 3 points

Narrative Design for Games and Interacti

Narr Design for Games & I

Traditionally, stories have followed a linear path, with a clear distinction between teller and audience. Yet, since the late 20th century, this model is shifting. Today, postmodern fiction, video games, interactive films, VR, participatory theater and immersive experiences offer audiences agency, creating a challenge for creators: how do they uphold narrative integrity while allowing for choice, collaboration, and remixing?

In this class, we’ll examine how modern narrative designers craft stories across media that invite audience participation. Through history, analysis, and workshops, we’ll explore how creators design for interaction while preserving tone and themes, turning audiences into active participants.

For the final assignment, students will develop a 12-15 minute pitch presentation for an original story concept, adapting it into an interactive format that balances strong authorial vision with audience agency.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 10 a.m.-1:10 p.m.
• 3 points

WHAT IS CREATIVE WRITING FOR? PROSE WRIT

PROSE WRITING IN PARIS

​​​​​​
WRIT3043OC: 
What is Creative Writing For? Prose Writing in Paris
, 3 credits. 
Instructor:  
Nellie Hermann
, Adjunct Associate Professor, Barnard College; Core Faculty, Narrative Medicine; Creative Director, Columbia Narrative Medicine; Course Director, Narrative Medicine Certificate.

This course will plot a journey through a series of themes designed to examine what creative writing might be
for
as an applied practice (not only as an art): how can the tools of creative work connect us more deeply to the world around us, and therefore potentially transform any other endeavor we take on? Throughout the month, we will write and read – each week will feature a few different texts (all of them by French writers or by writers who lived in Paris)  which will form the background of the week’s work, and a particular piece of prose writing will be due at the end of that week. We will rely heavily on the city of Paris to be our teacher and guide in these various themes, and will involve the city in our explorations. In addition to the reading and generative exercises through each week, students will share one longer-form piece of writing with the group, and we will spend at least four class sessions workshopping these pieces as a group, with formal workshop letters due from students to underscore the attention they are giving to each other’s work.  
This course counts toward the Medical Humanities Major at Columbia University.

To enroll in this course, you must apply to the
 
Columbia Summer Creative Writing in Paris
 
program through the Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement (UGE).
 
Global Learning Scholarships 
available. 
Tuition 
charges apply. 
Please note the program dates are different from the Summer Sessions Terms. Visit the
UGE
website for the start a

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Nellie G Hermann
  Info
• 3 points

Film Criticism & Story Development

Criticism is an important skill to have, to appreciate and understand film more. But criticism isn’t black and white, and most importantly, it can help inform us of how to shape, tell, and develop a story that resonates with the audience.

This course will begin by exploring the basics of film criticism and film appreciation, as students develop their skills in analyzing and identifying components that make a film work (or fall short). As they approach the second half of the course, students will transform their skills in critiquing into productive feedback and use what they’ve learned to form and develop stories of their own, write a 1-2 page treatment, and finally pitch their story ideas in front of the class.

Everyone is interested in telling a story, but through the lens of film criticism, students will appreciate the creative process and learn how it is empowered by what we watch and most importantly, how we watch. Students will use this summer course to identify and prepare for areas of focus that they might be interested in pursuing (screenwriting, directing, producing) in their academic career.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 2 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
• 3 points

WRITING THROUGH ART: POETRY IN PARIS

WRIT3045OC: 
Writing Through Art: Poetry in Paris
, 3 credits.

Instructor: 
Dorothea Lasky
, Director of MFA in Poetry Program; Associate Professor of Writing, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

At least since the Greek poet Simonides of Ceos called "painting silent poetry and poetry painting that speaks," creative writing has existed in conversation with a variety of other art forms, particularly visual art. In this class, we will explore creative writing as an interdisciplinary practice, with an emphasis on the work of artists who create in both the visual and textual fields. Among other key critical questions, we will consider:

1. How has an intersection with visual art been important to creative writing historically?

2. How does visual experience relate to particular aspects of creative writing?

3. How can we use visual art towards our own creative process in the future, either by using visual art in writing or by incorporating illustration in the presentation of our written work?

A mix of texts—classic and contemporary poetry and prose, illuminated manuscripts, children’s picturebooks, literature that we might consider 
visually-driven
, and related scholarship­­––form the basis for our investigations, discussions, and creative work.

To enroll in this course, you must apply to the
 
Columbia Summer Creative Writing in Paris
 
program through the Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement (UGE).
 
Global Learning Scholarships 
available. 
Tuition 
charges apply.

Please note the program dates are different from the Summer Sessions Terms. Visit the 
UGE
 website for the start and end dates for the Columbia Summer Creative Writing in Paris program. Please email 
uge@columbia.edu
 with a

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Dorothea S Lasky
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

British Literature to 1500

This course will introduce some of the most fascinating texts of the first eight hundred years of English literature, from the period of Anglo-Saxon rule through the Hundred Years’ War and beyond—roughly, 700–1500 CE. We’ll hit on some texts you’ve heard of – 
Beowulf
 and selections from Chaucer’s 
Canterbury Tales
 – while leaving time for some you may not have encountered – Marie de France’s 
Lais
 and Margery of Kempe’s 
Book
. Along the way, we’ll also hone skills of reading, writing, and oral expression crucial to appreciating and discussing literature in nuanced, supple ways. 

If you take this course, you’ll discover how medieval literature is both a mirror and a foil to modern literature. You’ll explore the plurilingual and cross-cultural nature of medieval literary production and improve (or acquire!) your knowledge of Middle English. Plus, you’ll flex your writing muscles with two papers.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• 3 points

Victorian Crime Stoppers

Who were the crime stoppers of the nineteenth century, a century marked by the establishment of the police force?
In 1829, Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel founded the Metropolitan Police, giving rise to the slang nicknames “Bobbies” for constables in England and “Peelers” in Ireland, terms that are still recognized today. In this course we move from the seemingly absent institutionalized justice system in representations of crime in fiction (
Oliver Twist
) to its codification in the press (
The Illustrated Police News, Penny Dreadfuls,
and the infamous case of Jack the Ripper). This leads us to look in depth at the rise of detective fiction, sensation fiction, and the gothic in the long 19th century. From medicine, psychology, criminology to phrenology, mesmerism, and studies on hysteria, we examine scientific and pseudo-scientific discourses that framed and questioned the nature of crime, morality, policing, and the boundaries of good and evil. We consider how Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle pioneered the detective genre, but also how crime appeared, not just as theft or murder, but as (proto-)crimes against humanity (
The Island of Doctor Moreau
and the question of vivisection) or the denunciations of the crimes of the British empire (Joseph Conrad’s
Heart of Darkness
). We also examine gothic and sensational reactions to crime alongside the rise of psychoanalysis, spiritualism, and questions of gender and sexuality. Throughout, the course asks students to consider moral, ethical, and cultural questions in Victorian literature: how do literature and science construct notions of good and evil? How are race, gender, class, empire, and sexuality implicated in ideas of crime and criminality? Why were the Victorians and why are we still drawn to stories of transgression and detection?

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• 3 points

Law and Literature

In contemporary American culture, legal practice and literary studies share a commitment to careful use of language, rigorous interpretation, and a deep and imaginative engagement with meaning. Scholars and practitioners have been debating for decades how the two practices can reinforce each other, improve each other, critique each other, and refute each other. (As this debate shows, both communities also love to argue.) In this course, we will read and discuss a classic set of literary texts that speak to certain preoccupations within the legal tradition. We will also look at certain debates and controversies within legal discourse to see how the tools and insights of literary and cultural analysis can change our perspective. We won’t be focusing on literary history nor legal doctrine – no previous knowledge of either is required. Instead, we will look at texts where shared concerns – about interpretation, about evidence, about empathy, and about justice and fairness – allow us to use both literary and legal thinking to advance our own understanding of these ongoing debates.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• 3 points

The 1990s A Literary History

The 1990s A Literary Hist

How should we write the literary history of the 1990s—the decade in which history briefly died, the Internet arrived, and everything became “global”? The central gamble of this class is that the 1990s are now far enough away from us in time that a new sort of cultural and historical perspective is becoming possible. What kind of critical judgments can we make about the literature of the 1990s and how confident can we be about our objectivity? Can we identify trends that emerged, or ended, in the period? What body of texts, or group of authors or forms, should we use in writing the literary history of the 1990s – and what criteria should we use for their selection?

Our class meetings will feature extended discussion of significant literary works published in Britain and the US during the 1990s. Authors include major poets and novelists from the period: Thom Gunn, Harryette Mullen, Cormac McCarthy, Hanif Kureishi, Toni Morrison, W. G. Sebald, and Anne Carson. Literary discussion will be mixed with readings from criticism (academic and popular), literary theory, and literary sociology. Students will complete a variety of assignment types, including book reviews, short in-class essays, bibliographic projects, and creative options.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• 3 points

Reading and Writing Memoir

This seminar has two central goals: first, to teach you how to write a clear, indeed eloquent essay, a skill that will prove useful throughout your life.  Second, to read some of the greatest (or most interesting) examples of the literary genre of memoir, with the goal of creating at the end of the course a memoir (of some aspect of your life) that responds to the history of the genre (second goal) and is well written (the first).   

The seminar will read excerpts from Augustine, Cellini, Montaigne, Rousseau, Casanova, Wollstonecraft, Proust, Jacobs, Arenas, Erneaux, Lous, Knausgaard, Sebald, and Ferrante.   We will analyze the memoirs in terms of the creation, and transformation, of the genre of autobiography, and its relation to the novel form.   And as we shift from one assignment to other, more complex ones, we will emphasize clarity of expression as the beginning of a personal style.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• 3 points

Sex and Gender across Long Time

The idea of gender is a relatively recent formulation, often complicated by the ferocity division between the sexes found across history.  This course uses art objects, literary texts, philosophy, psychology and finally film and digital media to interrogate the ideas of sex and gender, to explore the violent ways in which female sexuality has been denied or constrained, that same-sex desire was erased or pathologized, and how transgenderism, even as it works to deny sexual difference, complicates the relations between both sex and gender.  

The goal of this course is to explore the transformations of notions of sex, and more recently gender, across history. We will engage in writing exercises designed to sharpen our interpretive and analytical abilities, and over the six weeks develop a research project of approximately 20 pages. Through our conversations, we hope that we will be able to understand the complex issues surrounding these explosive ideas – ideas that impact us in so many ways – and in so doing gain a powerful, intellectual voice.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• 3 points

Worlds of Alexander the Great

This course looks at the narrative and the historical context for an extraordinary event: the conquest of the Persian empire by Alexander III of Macedonia, conventionally known as “Alexander the Great”. We will explore the different worlds Alexander grew out of, confronted, and affected: the old Greek world, the Persian empire, the ancient near-east (Egypt, Levant, Babylonia, Iran), and the worlds beyond, namely pre-Islamic (and pre-Silk Road) Central Asia, the Afghan borderlands, and the Indus valley. The first part of the course will establish context, before laying out a narrative framework; the second part of the course will explore a series of themes, especially the tension between military conquest, political negotiation, and social interactions. Overall, the course will serve as an exercise in historical methodology (with particular attention to ancient sources and to interpretation), an introduction to the geography and the history of the ancient world (classical and near-eastern), and the exploration of a complex testcase located at the contact point between several worlds, and at a watershed of world history.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• 3 points

URBAN LATIN/X AMERICA: ETHNOGRAPHIC PERS

URBAN LATINX AMERICA: ETH

This seminar examines the social, economic, and political landscapes of Latin American cities and the Latinx urban experience through ethnographic analysis. It explores key themes such as rural to urban and transnational migration, urban poverty, theories of “marginality” and informality, violence and urban segregation, grassroots movements, urban citizenship and neoliberal urban governance. Students will read ethnographies to gain an in-depth understanding of how cities are lived and experienced, while we delve into theoretical debates important in the field of Latin American urban studies and Latinx studies. The course unsettles the category of Latin America, to introduce a discussion of the “Latinization” of U.S. cities, and engages the history and lived experience of Latinxs in New York City as a prime example of this phenomenon. We will interrogate ethnographic, audiovisual materials (included to complement the readings) and lived experience, from a postcolonial perspective. This means, discussing the politics of knowledge production and representation, the impact of colonialism in transnational flows of knowledge and labor, the contributions to urban theory from the perspective of cities located in the Global South, and the active efforts of Latinxs in New York city to transform space and carve out spaces of self-representation and sovereignty.

• Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Andreina Torres Angarita
  Info
• 3 points

URBAN LATIN/X AMERICA: ETHNOGRAPHIC PERS

URBAN LATINX AMERICA: ETH

This seminar examines the social, economic, and political landscapes of Latin American cities and the Latinx urban experience through ethnographic analysis. It explores key themes such as rural to urban and transnational migration, urban poverty, theories of “marginality” and informality, violence and urban segregation, grassroots movements, urban citizenship and neoliberal urban governance. Students will read ethnographies to gain an in-depth understanding of how cities are lived and experienced, while we delve into theoretical debates important in the field of Latin American urban studies and Latinx studies. The course unsettles the category of Latin America, to introduce a discussion of the “Latinization” of U.S. cities, and engages the history and lived experience of Latinxs in New York City as a prime example of this phenomenon. We will interrogate ethnographic, audiovisual materials (included to complement the readings) and lived experience, from a postcolonial perspective. This means, discussing the politics of knowledge production and representation, the impact of colonialism in transnational flows of knowledge and labor, the contributions to urban theory from the perspective of cities located in the Global South, and the active efforts of Latinxs in New York city to transform space and carve out spaces of self-representation and sovereignty.

• Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Andreina Torres Angarita
  Info
• 3 points

Harlem on My Mind: Harlem Renaissance Li

This course explores the cultural contexts and aesthetic debates surrounding the Harlem or New Negro literary renaissance, 1920s to 1930s. Through fiction, poetry, essays, and artwork, we will consider the movement within the context of American modernism and African American cultural history, focusing on the relationship or tension between art/literature and socio-political change.  Topics considered include: patronage, passing, primitivism, and the problematics of creating a “racial” art in/for a community comprised of differences in gender, class, sexuality, and geographical origin. In the summer of 2026, we will work with the Alexander Gumby Collection of Negroiana at the Columbia Rare Book and Manuscript Library to think through the era’s cultural history and the impact of different archival media on its historiography.

• Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Monica L Miller
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

Harlem on My Mind: Harlem Renaissance Li

This course explores the cultural contexts and aesthetic debates surrounding the Harlem or New Negro literary renaissance, 1920s to 1930s. Through fiction, poetry, essays, and artwork, we will consider the movement within the context of American modernism and African American cultural history, focusing on the relationship or tension between art/literature and socio-political change.  Topics considered include: patronage, passing, primitivism, and the problematics of creating a “racial” art in/for a community comprised of differences in gender, class, sexuality, and geographical origin. In the summer of 2026, we will work with the Alexander Gumby Collection of Negroiana at the Columbia Rare Book and Manuscript Library to think through the era’s cultural history and the impact of different archival media on its historiography.

• Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Monica L Miller
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

Applied Bayesian Analysis

This is a course in intermediate statistical inference techniques in the context of applied research
questions in data science. Assuming some prior exposure to probability and statistics, this course will
first introduce the student to the principles of Bayesian inference, then apply them in estimation and
prediction in the context of linear and generalized linear models, counting and classification, mixture and
multilevel models, including scientific computation (like MCMC methods). Students will also learn
about the main benefits of using Bayesian vs. frequentist methods, like naturally combining prior
information with the data; posterior probabilities as easier to interpret alternatives to p-values; parameter
estimation “pooling” in hierarchical model and so on.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWR 1:30 p.m.-3:05 p.m.
• 3 points

Archaic Greek Ceramics

This course explores the functions and meanings of Greek painted ceramics made in the sixth century BCE, taking the collections of the Metropolitan Museum as its focus. Today these vessels are enshrined in display cases and elevated as art objects. But what roles did they play for the ancient people who used them? Who made them, and how? What substances did they hold? What did their decorations mean? Why were they acquired by people living thousands of miles away from where they were made? We will examine the overlapping roles of Archaic Greek vessels as functional containers, artistic creations, ancient commodities, and modern collectors’ items. Rather than foregrounding Athenian vases, we will consider them alongside Boeotian, Corinthian, Chalcidian, East Greek, and Laconian vessels to better understand the many roles ceramics played across the Greek world. The relationship between Greek ceramics and those created by neighboring cultures including the Etruscans and Egyptians will be discussed. Emphasis will be placed on understanding Greek vessels as objects that connected different cultures as they moved through the Mediterranean.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• 3 points

FICTION & PERSONAL NARRATIVE

Writing sample required to apply for this course. For the application form and full instructions, please go to https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses

Spring 2026: Fiction and Personal Narrative: Crafting the Narrative "I"

In this workshop, we will practice taking creative risks, writing fiction and nonfiction. We will examine four key craft areas: voice, characterization, imagery, and arrangement, both in contemporary published writing and in the writing of the people in this class. In small and large group workshops, we will consider each writer’s work with care and attention to the writer’s vision. By discussing each work-in-progress on its own terms, we will help our fellow writers deepen the meaning and impact of their work. Through risk-taking, and building a creative community, we will also grow and deepen our personal relationships to craft. Model readings will be contemporary short stories or personal essays, mostly written in the first person, including work by Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Tony Tulathimutte, K-Ming Chang, Cleyvis Natera, Melissa Febos, Ling Ma, and Deesha Philyaw.

• Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexandra P Watson
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 3 points

FICTION & PERSONAL NARRATIVE

Writing sample required to apply for this course. For the application form and full instructions, please go to https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses

Spring 2026: Fiction and Personal Narrative: Crafting the Narrative "I"

In this workshop, we will practice taking creative risks, writing fiction and nonfiction. We will examine four key craft areas: voice, characterization, imagery, and arrangement, both in contemporary published writing and in the writing of the people in this class. In small and large group workshops, we will consider each writer’s work with care and attention to the writer’s vision. By discussing each work-in-progress on its own terms, we will help our fellow writers deepen the meaning and impact of their work. Through risk-taking, and building a creative community, we will also grow and deepen our personal relationships to craft. Model readings will be contemporary short stories or personal essays, mostly written in the first person, including work by Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Tony Tulathimutte, K-Ming Chang, Cleyvis Natera, Melissa Febos, Ling Ma, and Deesha Philyaw.

• Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexandra P Watson
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 3 points

Constructing the Sacred in Ancient Greec

This course examines the conception and spatialization of religious experience in ancient Greece through brief chronological surveys and thematic case studies. Definitions of “sacred,” “ritual,” and “divine” will frame lectures and class discussions on cult locations and religious architecture in mainland Greece and western Asia Minor from the Archaic (8th century BCE) to the Early Roman Imperial (2nd century CE) periods.

The architectural articulation of sanctuaries will be observed in relation to socio-political, historical, and artistic conditions in which these spaces were formed and existed. Case studies will involve both conventional (e.g., athletic) and idiosyncratic (e.g., healing, mystery performances) cult practices.

The second half of the summer session will focus on the materiality of the sacred through smallscale dedications and will make use of the vast collections of the Metropolitan Museum. Finally, we will observe NYC’s urban fabric in walking tours where we consider Greek Revival architecture and phenomena such as continuity, transformation, de-sacralization, and secularization.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• 3 points

Clean Object-Oriented Design

A course in designing, documenting, coding, and testing robust computer software, according to object-oriented design patterns and clean coding practices. Taught in Java.Object-oriented design principles include: use cases; CRC; UML; javadoc; patterns (adapter, builder, command, composite, decorator, facade, factory, iterator, lazy evaluation, observer, singleton, strategy, template, visitor); design by contract; loop invariants; interfaces and inheritance hierarchies; anonymous classes and null objects; graphical widgets; events and listeners; Java's Object class; generic types; reflection; timers, threads, and locks.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Chris Murphy
  Info
• 3 points

Undergraduate Mentored Research

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

• Department: Statistics
• Instructor: Daniel Rabinowitz
  CULPA: 19 h-index: 34 Info
• 3 points

Democracy: Theory & Practice

The goal of this course is to provide students with an overview of constitutive debates over the theory and practice of democracy along three major lines: democracy as a word (with a time-honored ancestry and a tortuous trajectory across the centuries); democracy as a constellation of principles and values; and democracy as an array of institutions and procedures that instantiate the word and pursue the foundational principles of popular sovereignty and democratic self-rule. In doing so, we will read the work of major representatives of historical and contemporary political thought who assessed democracy’s shortcomings and potential, examined the relationship between its theory and its practice, and offered prominent resources for thinking about democracy’s future in our present.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• 3 points

HISTORY OF CAPITALISM

Capitalism shapes every aspect of our daily lives. Thinkers on both the left and the right of the political spectrum agree that capitalism structures our economic, social, and political relationships. Yet, there is little agreement as to the definition of capitalism and its normative implications. The definition and interpretation of capitalism differs across time and space, always evolving in response to challenges, crises, and contradictions. The aim of this course is to provide students with analytical tools to think critically and historically about the concept of capitalism. By studying how philosophers, economists, and political theorists have defined and described the concept of capitalism throughout its history (from the early seventeenth century to the present), students will be provided with a set of terminologies and analytical frameworks that enable them to interrogate the various dimensions of capitalism. The readings in the course are selected to illustrate the fact that capitalism has always been controversial. We will read texts authored by both proponents and critics of capitalism. We will explore how various canonical figures have thought about private property, markets, money, economic growth, injustice, inequality, alienation, and socialism.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
• 4 points

DATA STRUCTURES IN JAVA

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

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul S Blaer
  CULPA: 46 h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

France and the African Diaspora

France/African Diaspora

HIST3136OC. France and the African Diaspora, 3 points.

Insructor:  Frank Guridy, Dr. Kenneth and Kareitha Forde Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies.  

Taught in English. This course also counts as a
Global Core Requirement a
t Columbia University.

This course explores France’s complex racialized colonial history by encouraging students to examine the ways the country helped constitute a racialized colonial empire and the ways it created the conditions the conditions to challenge it. The course encourages students to contemplate how France has figured into the creation of the African Diaspora and how diasporic movements for freedom have shaped France. The course will build upon the concept of vernacular landscapes to encourage students to examine how these histories are memorialized, or not, in France today. Topics to be explored will include: the impact of slavery on France, including its port cities including Nantes; the intertwined character of the French and Haitian Revolutions; the convergence of anti-colonial movements in Paris during the interwar period and beyond, and the experiences of Black expatriates in the country during the twentieth century. The course’s location at Reid Hall in Paris will give students ample opportunities to students to examine the reciprocal impact between France and decolonization and freedom movements.

To enroll in this course, you must apply to the 
Columbia Summer in Paris
 program through the Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement (UGE).  
Global Learning Scholarships available.
  
Tuition 
charges apply. 

Please note the program dates are different from the Summer Session Terms. Visit the 
UGE
 website for the start and end dates for the Columbia in Summer in Paris program.

Please email uge@columbia.edu with any questions you may have.

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Frank Guridy
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

How the Ancients Argued: The Global Rhet

Long before Aristotle’s Rhetoric and far from Athens and Rome, rhetoricians were teaching people how to communicate powerfully in politics, the law, and the street. This course surveys the ancient rhetorics of Egypt, China, the Americas, and the Arab world. We will examine a body of primary texts from 2,300 B.C.E. to 1,500 C.E. that teach people to wield language effectively.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 4 points