INDEPENDENT STUDY

Prerequisites: Open to majors who have fulfilled basic major requirements or written permission of the staff member who will supervise the project. Specialized reading and research projects planned in consultation with members of the Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures teaching staff.

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• Instructor: Lili Xia
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• Instructor: David L Moerman
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 1-4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Prerequisites: Open to majors who have fulfilled basic major requirements or written permission of the staff member who will supervise the project. Specialized reading and research projects planned in consultation with members of the Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures teaching staff.

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• 1-4 points

UNDERGRADUATE FIELDWORK

May be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 total points may be used toward the 128-credit degree requirement. Only for BMEN undergraduate students who include relevant off-campus work experience as part of their approved program of study. Final report and letter of evaluation required. Fieldwork credits may not count toward any major core, technical, elective, and non-technical requirements. May not be taken for pass/fail credit or audited.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• Instructor: Lauren N Heckelman
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• 1-2 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Prerequisites: approval prior to registration; see the director of undergraduate studies for details. A creative/scholarly project conducted under faculty supervision.

• Department: Music @Barnard
• Instructor: Gail R Archer
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 1-4 points

NYP DESIGN WORKSHOP

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Thomas de Monchaux
  Info
• 3 points

SPECIAL TOPICS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

LS - Future Entrepreneurs

Current topics in biomedical engineering. Subject matter will vary by year.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Millard Y Chan
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• 3 points

SPECIAL TOPICS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Spec Topics: SynBio

Current topics in biomedical engineering. Subject matter will vary by year.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• 3 points

Hebrew: History, Politics, Culture, Lite

Hebrew: Hist, Poli, Cult,

• Department: Slavic Languages
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Offer Dynes
  Info
• 3 points

Pedagogy Seminar

LANGUAGE PEDAGOGY

What kind of teacher would you like to become? What experience, knowledge and opinions regarding learning and teaching a language and language and communication do you bring to class? How can theoretical and practical literature help us augment our personal experiences? How do we plan and execute lesson plans? What role do institutional expectations play? What can we learn from how others teach? How can we ensure to welcome a wide spectrum of students into our classes? What impact has the pandemic on the way we approach teaching? How can we grow as educators through self-reflection, our interactions with colleagues, and through our understanding theoretical and practical knowledge that goes beyond planning the next class? 

Collaboratively, we will discuss these and other questions using our concrete experience, practical and theoretical literature, and opportunities for professional development. We will apply our knowledge and create materials together, visit colleagues in other language and reflect on our learning and teaching experience.

Learning Goals: At the end of this class, you will:


be able to understand and use the concept of ‘Backward Design’

have acquired a basis in a spectrum of different research-based perspectives that you can use to decide on the usefulness of pedagogical strategies in a given situation. 

be familiar with the basic terminology as well as the most relevant sources for the field of foreign language pedagogy

have familiarity with applying theory to practice by designing classroom activities you will be able to use in your class

have started to develop strategies for continuous reflection and deepening of pedagogical practices (through discussion, observations, journals)

take first steps to developing your own teaching philosophy statement

• Department: Germanic Languages
• Instructor: Jutta Schmiers-Heller
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS

ADV GEOGRAPHIC INFO SYSTE

Prerequisite: Successful completion of URBS UN2200 Introduction to GIS Methods, or equivalent with instructor permission.

With the veritable explosion of urban data alongside the continued proliferation of new tools for its consideration, this course allows students to develop specialized approaches to spatial analysis while introducing a series of common advanced techniques and nuanced methodological questions. Aimed at covering a variety of topics with immediate relevance to urbanism in practice and in research, the course operates with a two-fold mission: (1) to critically discuss the theories, concepts, and research methods involved in spatial analysis and (2) to learn the techniques necessary for engaging those theories and deploying those methods. The class will work to meet this mission with a dedicated focus on the urban environment and the spatial particularities and relationships that arise from the urban context.

Among others, this course takes as a foundational premise that spatial analysis within geographic information systems is an incredibly powerful and double-edged weapon: it provides both the methods for answering complex spatial questions and the means for effectively communicating the results. Like any other weapon it can serve many ends, and as such an advanced course in spatial analysis must frame its use within the developing discourse on professional practice and responsibility.

The course is designed with a combination format. Early weeks are predominantly lecture-style presentations supplemented with discussion and technical demonstration and exercises. Students are expected to complete these exercises outside of class (as homework), bringing their questions to our discussion. The latter half of the course is a project-based seminar. Seminar-style presentation and discussion will rely heavily on student participation and preparation to consider the variety of spatial methods available and their implications on urban research and intervention. Woven throughout the semester is the development of a self-driven research project, through which students will engage and compare the methodological advantages and disadvantages of several assumptions, approaches, analyses, and datasets.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Leah M Meisterlin
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

GENEALOGIES OF FEMINISM

Artists,Workers & Witches

Genealogies of Feminism:
 
Course focuses on the development of a particular topic or issue in feminist, queer, and/or WGSS scholarship. Open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates, though priority will be given to students completing the ISSG graduate certificate. Topics differ by semester offered, and are reflected in the course subtitle. For a description of the current offering, please visit the link in the Class Notes.

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Julia Bryan-Wilson
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

CORE STUDIO SEMESTER I

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• MWF 2 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Mireia Luzarraga
  Info
• 9 points

QUANTITATIVE PHYSIOLOGY I

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Lance Kam
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 38 Info
• 3 points

ESSENTIALS OF CHEM ENGIN A

Part of an accelerated consideration of the essential chemical engineering principles from the undergraduate program, including selected topics from Introduction to Chemical Engineering, Transport Phenomena I and II, and Chemical Engineering Control. While required for all M.S. students with Scientist to Engineer status, the credits from this course may not be applied toward any chemical engineering degree.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• F 10 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
• Instructor: Christopher S Chen
  Info
• 3 points

ESSENTIALS OF CHEM ENGIN B

Part of an accelerated consideration of the essential chemical engineering principles from the undergraduate program, including topics from Reaction Kinetics and Reactor Design, Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics, I and II, and Chemical and Biochemical Separations. While required for all M.S. students with Scientist to Engineer status, the credits from this course may not be applied toward any chemical engineering degree.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• F 11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher S Chen
  Info
• 3 points

CORE STUDIO SEMESTER III

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• 9 points

ADVANCED STUDIO V

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• 9 points

INTRO TO CLASSICAL JAPANESE I

Prerequisites: JPNS C1202 or the equivalent. Introduction to the fundamentals of classical Japanese grammar. Trains students to read Japanese historical and literary texts from the early period up to the 20th century.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: David B Lurie
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Lorenzo M Polvani
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 69 Info
• 3 points

HISTORY & THEORY OF PLANNING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Hiba Bou Akar
  h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

SELECTNS FROM GREEK LIT

Prerequisites: GREK V1201 and V1202, or their equivalent. Since the content of the course changes from year to year, it may be taken in consecutive years.

• Department: Classics @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Nancy Worman
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

LATIN LIT PROSE SELECTIONS

Prerequisites: LATN V3012 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.

• Department: Classics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Katharina Volk
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

INTRODUCTN TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE

Introductory course is for individuals with an interest in medical physics and other branches of radiation science. Topics include basic concepts, nuclear models, semi-empirical mass formula, interaction of radiation with matter, nuclear detectors, nuclear structure and instability, radioactive decay process and radiation, particle accelerators, and fission and fusion processes and technologies.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• T 6:30 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Stephen L Ostrow
  Info
• 3 points

MATH METHODS IN CHEMICAL ENGIN

Mathematical description of chemical engineering problems and the application of selected methods for their solution. General modeling principles, including model hierarchies. Linear and nonlinear ordinary differential equations and their systems, including those with variable coefficients. Partial differential equations in Cartesian and curvilinear coordinates for the solution of chemical engineering problems.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Venkat Venkatasubramanian
  h-index: 58 Info
• 3 points

DOSTOEVSKY,TOLSTOY & ENG NOVEL

A close reading of works by Dostoevsky (Netochka Nezvanova; The Idiot; A Gentle Creature) and Tolstoy (Childhood, Boyhood, Youth; Family Happiness; Anna Karenina; The Kreutzer Sonata) in conjunction with related English novels (Bronte's Jane Eyre, Eliot's Middlemarch, Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway). No knowledge of Russian is required.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Liza Knapp
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 3 points

LOTUS SUTRA/E ASIAN BUDDHISM

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: David L Moerman
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 4 points

Indigenous Rights and Settler Colonialis

Indig Rts Settler Colonia

Course Description

This interdisciplinary course explores both the rights of Indigenous people in settler colonies as well as the complex historical and theoretical relationship between human rights and settler colonialism. We will pursue three lines of inquiry. The first critically explores how central political concepts of the international state system—sovereignty, property, territory, self-determination—entwine the histories of settler colonialism and human rights. The second charts the rise and mechanisms of the international Indigenous rights movement, in particular its activity at the United Nations leading to the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007, and its contributions to ongoing debates on environmental and climate justice, group rights, natural resources and territorial autonomy, and cultural rights. The third unit interrogates settler state responses to the movement for Indigenous human rights, such as cooptation, recognition, and apology.

Through readings drawn from history, ethnography, political and critical theory, international relations, Native studies, law, and documents produced by intergovernmental organizations and NGOs, we will explore and deepen the tensions between human rights as a theory and practice and the political lives and aspirations of Indigenous peoples and activists. What technologies of rule—such as residential school systems and property law—do settler colonial states deploy to dispossess Indigenous peoples? How have Indigenous peoples used the international human rights regime to mobilize against such dispossession? How have these states resisted the global Indigenous rights movement? And can the human rights regime, rooted in the international state system, meaningfully contribute to anticolonial movements in liberal settler colonies? While we will touch on settler colonialism as it manifests around the globe, the course’s geographical focus will be on North America.

Course objectives

Throughout this course, you will:


Develop a historically-informed understanding of both international indigenous rights and settler colonialism as idea, practice, institution, and discourse;

Place the literature on human rights and settler colonialism into critical conversation in order to deepen existing conceptual problems and generate new ones;

Identify the main arguments in theoretical texts, legal and policy documents, and public debates

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Timothy Wyman-McCarthy
  Info
• 3 points

BUSINESS CHINESE I

The Business Chinese I course is designed to prepare students to use Chinese in a present or future work situation. Students will develop skills in the practical principles of grammar, vocabulary, and cross-cultural understanding needed in today’s business world.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Zhong Qi Shi
  Info
• 4 points

MEDIA CHINESE

Prerequisites: at least 3 years of intensive Chinese language training at college level and the instructor's permission. This advanced course is designed to specifically train students' listening and speaking skills in both formal and colloquial language through various Chinese media sources. Students view and discuss excerpts of Chinese TV news broadcasts, soap operas, and movie segments on a regular basis. Close reading of newspaper and internet articles and blogs supplements the training of verbal skills.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Yuan-Yuan Meng
  CULPA: 33 Info
• 4 points

FOURTH YEAR CHINESE I

Prerequisites: Third Year Chinese or the equivalent The course is designed to help students master formal Chinese for professional or academic purposes. It includes reading materials and discussions of selections from Chinese media on contemporary topics, Chinese literature, and modern Chinese intellectual history. The course aims to enhance students' strategies for comprehension, as well as their written and oral communication skills in formal modern Chinese.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MWR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Ling Yan
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 4 points

FOURTH YEAR CHINESE ADV I

Prerequisites: CHNS W4006 or the equivalent. This is a non-consecutive reading course designed for those whose proficiency is above 4th level. See Admission to Language Courses. Selections from contemporary Chinese authors in both traditional and simplified characters with attention to expository, journalistic, and literary styles.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MWF 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Chen Wu
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 22 Info
• 4 points

FOURTH YEAR JAPANESE I

Prerequisites: JPNS W4006 or the equivalent. Sections 1 & 2: Readings of advanced modern literary, historical, political, and journalistic texts, and class discussions about current issues and videos. Exercises in scanning, comprehension, and English translation. Section 3: Designed for advanced students interested in developing skills for reading and comprehending modern Japanese scholarship.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MWF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Kyoko M Loetscher
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

COMP NEURO: CIRCUITS IN BRAIN

The biophysics of computation: modeling biological neurons, the Hodgkin-Huxley neuron, modeling channel conductances and synapses as memristive systems, bursting neurons and central pattern generators, I/O equivalence and spiking neuron models. Information representation and neural encoding: stimulus representation with time encoding machines, the geometry of time encoding, encoding with neural circuits with feedback, population time encoding machines. Dendritic computation: elements of spike processing and neural computation, synaptic plasticity and learning algorithms, unsupervised learning and spike time-dependent plasticity, basic dendritic integration. Projects in MATLAB.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Aurel A Lazar
  h-index: 53 Info
• 3 points

PROTECTN OF INDUST/INTELL PROP

Exposes scientists and engineers to the development, protection, and exploitation of intellectual property rights. Legal processes for obtaining and defending intellectual property rights are detailed. Best practices for innovation and commercialization are explored. Methods for valuation and monetization of intellectual property are illustrated through application of basic accounting and financial principles to case studies.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• M 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Kenneth Spall
  Info
• 3 points

HUMANS & THE CARBON CYCLE

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Galen A McKinley
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 32 Info
• 3 points

JAPANESE BUDDHIST VISUAL CULTR

This course explors the principal modes, media, and contexts of visual culture in Japanese Buddhist history. Through the analysis of selected case studies, the course examines of the modalities of perception, materiality, and reception that distinguish the form and function of visual media in Japanese Buddhist contexts. Students are expected to have completed preliminary coursework in relevant areas of East Asian history, religion, or art history.

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: David L Moerman
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 3 points

FUNDAMNTLS OF URB DIGITAL DES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Sybil Wa
  Info
• 1.5 points

ARCH DRWG REP I

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Amelyn Ng
  Info
• 3 points

ARCH-PLANNING-PRESERVATION-NY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Rosalie Genevro
  Info
• 3 points

CCCP ARCH COLLOQUIUM I

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Felicity Scott
  Info
• 3 points

BIOTECHNOLOGY

Prerequisites: genetics or molecular biology. The course covers techniques currently used to explore and manipulate gene function and their applications in medicine and the environment. Part I covers key laboratory manipulations, including DNA cloning, gene characterization, association of genes with disease, and methods for studying gene regulation and activities of gene products. Part II also covers commercial applications, and includes animal cell culture, production of recombinant proteins, novel diagnostics, high throughput screening, and environmental biosensors.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• 3 points

Transformative Concepts in Systems Biolo

Systems biology approaches are rapidly transforming the technological and conceptual foundations of research across diverse areas of biomedicine. In this course we will discuss the fundamental developments in systems biology with a focus on two important dimensions: (1) the unique conceptual frameworks that have emerged to study systems-level phenomena and (2) how these approaches are revealing fundamentally new principles that govern the organization and behavior of cellular systems. Although there will be much discussion of technologies and computational approaches, the course will emphasize the conceptual contributions of the field and the big questions that lie ahead. Lectures and discussions of primary literature will enable students to scrutinize research in the field and to internalize systems biology thinking in their own research. To make this a concrete endeavor, the students will develop mini-NIH-style grant proposals that aims to study a fundamental problem/question using systems biology approaches. The students will then convene an in-class NIH-style review panel that will assess the strengths and weaknesses of these proposals. In addition, the students will have the opportunity to defend their proposals in a live presentation to the class. The course is open to graduate students in Biological Sciences. Advanced undergraduates in biological sciences, and other graduate students with background in biology from other disciplines, including physics, chemistry, computer science, and engineering may also attend after consulting with the instructor.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 2:40 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Saeed Tavazoie
  Info
• 3 points

Poets, Rebels, Exiles: 100 Years of Russ

POETS, REBELS, EXILES

Poets, Rebels, Exiles examines the successive generations of the most provocative and influential Russian and Russian Jewish writers and artists who brought the cataclysm of the Soviet and post-Soviet century to North America. From Joseph Brodsky—the bad boy bard of Soviet Russia and a protégé of Anna Akhmatova, who served 18 months of hard labor near the North Pole for social parasitism before being exiled—to the most recent artistic descendants, this course will interrogate diaspora, memory, and nostalgia in the cultural production of immigrants and exiles.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Anna Katsnelson
  Info
• 3 points

CCCP ARCH THESIS I

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• 9 points

NEURAL NETWRKS & DEEP LEARNING

Developing features - internal representations of the world, artificial neural networks, classifying handwritten digits with logistics regression, feedforward deep networks, back propagation in multilayer perceptrons, regularization of deep or distributed models, optimization for training deep models, convolutional neural networks, recurrent and recursive neural networks, deep learning in speech and object recognition.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Zoran Kostic
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

WORKSHP ON WEALTH & INEQUALITY

Participants may elect to enroll in the 1-credit CWI independent study offered through the Sociology Department. CWI takes place Thursdays from 2-4pm in Knox Hall, room 509. The course ID for Fall 2025 is SOCI4043GU.

The Center for Wealth and Inequality (CWI), in this course, is a forum for students interested in social science topics broadly related to inequality. In particular, it will provide an opportunity for students to read and discuss the works presented in the weekly CWI seminar series, while also sharing and refining their own works in progress.  The CWI seminar series is sponsored by Columbia University’s Institute for Social and Economic Research Policy (ISERP) and is devoted to the investigation of social and economic inequality.  The seminar invites speakers from both within and outside of Columbia to present recent papers covering a wide range of topics pertaining to inequality, such as poverty, labor market behavior, education, and the family.  The research topics and methodologies are at the cutting edge of the interdisciplinary study of wealth and inequality, as the CWI seminar invites speakers from multiple social science disciplines and fields. Past speakers include Annette Lareau, Adam Gamoran, Timothy Smeeding, Lisa Kahn, Mario Small, Rob Warren and Florencia Torche, among numerous others.

The primary preparation for these gatherings is to read the papers slated for presentation, whether written by an outside speaker or a student within the course. Students will meet to constructively critique these papers collectively, raising key questions and concepts for discussion and debate.  One student will serve as the discussion leader each week by kicking off the dialogue.  This student also will have the opportunity to prepare a review of the paper, if desired.  When discussing CWI seminar papers, the product of each meeting will be a shortlist of pertinent questions for the visiting speaker, which participants will be encouraged to ask during the Q&A following each seminar. When focusing on student papers, participants will provide detailed comments geared towards supporting further development of our peers’ work. We regularly will be joined by the CWI presenters.

The spirit behind the student independent study is one of collective student growth and learning through semi-structured discussion.  While the course will pose a relatively

• Department: Sociology
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 1 points

ARCH ELECTIVE INTERNSHIP

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Karen Cover
  Info
• 1.5 points

GLOBAL ASSMT-REMOTE SENSING

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• F 9 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
• Instructor: Christopher Small
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 47 Info
• 3 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

Intensive study of a philosophical issue or topic, or of a philosopher, group of philosophers, or philosophical school or movement. Open only to Barnard senior philosophy majors.

• Department: Philosophy @Barnard
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Taylor Carman
  CULPA: 40 Wikipedia h-index: 19 Info
• 4 points

UP ELECT INTERNSHIP

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Douglas Woodward
  Info
• 1.5 points

SENIOR ESSAY

A substantial paper, developing from an Autumn workshop and continuing in the Spring under the direction of an individual advisor. Open only to Barnard senior philosophy majors.

• Department: Philosophy @Barnard
• Instructor: Caroline D Bowman
  Info
• 3 points

OBJECT HISTORIES

• Department: Anthropology
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Vanessa L Agard-Jones
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

MECHATRONICS & EMBEDDED MICRO

Enrollment limited to 12 students. Mechatronics is the application of electronics and microcomputers to control mechanical systems. Systems explored include on/off systems, solenoids, stepper motors, DC motors, thermal systems, magnetic levitation. Use of analog and digital electronics and various sensors for control. Programming microcomputers in Assembly and C. Lab required.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Enrico Zordan
  h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

INTRO-GENOMIC INFO SCI & TECH

INTRO GENOMIC INFO SCI & TECH

Introduction to computational biology with emphasis on genomic data science tools and methodologies for analyzing data, such as genomic sequences, gene expression measurements and the presence of mutations. Applications of machine learning and exploratory data analysis for predicting drug response and disease progression. Latest technologies related to genomic information, such as single-cell sequencing and CRISPR, and the contributions of genomic data science to the drug development process.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• M 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Tai-Hsien Ou Yang
  Info
• 3 points

Tropical Biology

Study ecology, evolution, and conservation biology in one of the world’s most biologically spectacular settings, the wildlife-rich savannas of Kenya. Although we will meet have a few meetings during the fall semester, the majority of the coursework will be completed during a 16 day field trip to Kenya during winter break. Students will spend their time immersed in an intensive field experience gaining sophisticated training in fieldwork and biological research. Note that there is a lab fee to cover all in-country expenses, and students are also responsible for the cost of airfare to and from Kenya.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• Instructor: Dustin Rubenstein
  h-index: 36 Info
• 4 points

INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: (CHEM UN1403 and CHEM UN1404) or (CHEM UN1604) or (CHEM UN2045 and CHEM UN2046) , or the equivalent. Principles governing the structure and reactivity of inorganic compounds surveyed from experimental and theoretical viewpoints. Topics include inorganic solids, aqueous and nonaqueous solutions, the chemistry of selected main group elements, transition metal chemistry, metal clusters, metal carbonyls, and organometallic chemistry, bonding and resonance, symmetry and molecular orbitals, and spectroscopy.

• Department: Chemistry
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan S Owen
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 40 Info
• 4.5 points

CELLULAR/MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY

Prerequisites: Two semesters of a rigorous, molecularly-oriented, introductory biology course, such as UN2005 (
Inc.,
 
Biochemistry of DNA & Proteins, basic Genetics, Metabolism & Cell Physiology
) and UN2006 (
Cell biology, inc. intra-cellular transport, phagocytosis, protein regulation, as well as Inter-cellular communication, inc., cell-cell contact, receptors/ligands & transporters
).  This course will cover the integration of innate and adaptive immune systems, as well as how immune response contributes to health and disease (
e.g., Infectious disease, allergies, autoimmunity, immune deficiencies, the microbiome and cancer immunotherapy
).   Students will also become familiar with important immunological methods, which will provide an opportunity to explore some of the current literature.   Sophomores will require permission from their advisor to enroll, and graduate student will require the instructor’s permission to enroll.  SPS, Barnard, and TC students may register for this course with the instructor’s approval on a Registration Adjustment Form (Add/Drop form), which can be downloaded ( 
http://registrar.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/reg-adjustment.pdf
) and then returned to the office of the registrar.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Christian W Schindler
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

HP ELECT INTERNSHIP

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Sarahgrace Godwin
  Info
• 1.5 points

CORE STUDIO I - TUTORIAL

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Oscar A Mayorga Caballero
  Info
• Instructor: Emma F Sumrow
  Info
• Instructor: Galen J Pardee
  Info
• Instructor: Mireia Luzarraga
  Info
• 0 points

CORE STUDIO III - TUTORIAL

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Lindy Roy
  Info
• Instructor: Gary Bates
  Info
• Instructor: Eric Bunge
  Info
• Instructor: Galia Solomonoff
  Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

ADV STUDIO V - TUTORIAL

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• 0 points

ADV STUDIO V - TUTORIAL

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Amale Andraos
  Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

ADV STUDIO V - TUTORIAL

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• 0 points

ADV STUDIO V - TUTORIAL

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Ziad Jamaleddine
  Info
• Instructor: Michael Bell
  Wikipedia h-index: 12 Info
• 0 points

ADV STUDIO V - TUTORIAL

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• 0 points

ADV STUDIO V - TUTORIAL

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Hilary M Sample-Meredith
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• Instructor: Mario A Gooden
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• Instructor: David E Benjamin
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ADV STUDIO V - TUTORIAL

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• 0 points

ADV STUDIO V - TUTORIAL

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• 0 points

ADV STUDIO V - TUTORIAL

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Marc Tsurumaki
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ADV STUDIO V - TUTORIAL

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• 0 points

HISTORY OF GREEK LITERATURE I

Prerequisites: at least two terms of Greek at the 3000-level or higher. Readings in Greek literature from Homer to the 4th century B.C.

• Department: Classics
• MW 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth K Irwin
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

FOURTH YEAR KOREAN I

Prerequisites: KORN W4006 or the equivalent. Selections from advanced modern Korean writings in social sciences, literature, culture, history, journalistic texts, and intensive conversation exercises.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MWR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Ji-Young Jung
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• 4 points

LAT LITERATURE OF THE REPUBLIC

Prerequisites: at least two terms of Latin at the 3000-level or higher. Latin literature from the beginning to early Augustan times.

• Department: Classics
• MW 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Katharina Volk
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

RELIGION LAB

In their research, scholars of religion employ a variety of methods to analyze texts ranging from historical documents to objects of visual culture. This course acquaints students with both the methods and the materials utilized in the field of religious studies. Through guided exercises, they acquire research skills for utilizing sources and become familiarized with dominant modes of scholarly discourse. The class is organized around a series of research scavenger hunts that are due at the start of each week's class and assigned during the discussion section (to be scheduled on the first day of class). Additional class meeting on Thursdays.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Meghan E Hartman
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• 4 points

Advanced Solid State Devices and Materia

Adv Solid State Device &

Crystal structure and energy band theory of solids. Carrier concentration and transport in semiconductors. P-n junction and junction transistors. Semiconductor surface and MOS transistors. Optical effects and optoelectronic devices. Fabrication of devices and the effect of process variation and distribution statistics on device and circuit performance. Course shares lectures with ELEN E3106, but the work requirements differ. Undergraduate students are not eligible to register.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Savannah Eisner
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• 3 points

BIOSTATISTICS FOR ENGINEERS

Fundamental concepts of probability and statistics applied to biology and medicine. Probability distributions, hypothesis testing and inference, summarizing data and testing for trends. Signal detection theory and the receiver operator characteristic. Lectures accompanied by data analysis assignments using MATLAB as well as discussion of case studies in biomedicine.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana
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• 4 points

MECHANISMS OF TRANSPORT

Continuum frame-work for modeling non-equilibrium phenomena in fluids with clear connections to the molecular/microscopic mechanisms for conductive transport. Continuum balances of mass and momentum; continuum-level development of conductive momentum flux (stress tensor) for simple fluids; applications of continuum framework for simple fluids (lubrication flows, creeping flows). Microscopic developments of the stress for simple and/or complex fluids; kinetic theory and/or liquid state models for transport coefficients in simple fluids; Langevin/Fokker- Plank/Smoluchowski framework for the stress in complex fluids; stress in active matter; applications for complex fluids.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher J Durning
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

TECH I: ENVMTS IN ARCH

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 9 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Lola Ben-Alon
  h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED BUSINESS CHINESE

Advanced Business Chinese is designed to help students who have studied at least three years of Chinese (or the equivalent) to achieve greater proficiency in the oral and written use of the language and gain knowledge in depth about China’s business environment and proven strategies. Student will critically examine the successes and failures of firms within the Chinese business arena.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Zhong Qi Shi
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• 4 points

TECH III: MATERIALS + ASSEMBLIES

TECH III: MAT + ASSEMBLIE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 9 a.m.-noon
• 3 points

TECH IV: INTEG BLDG SYSTM

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Berardo Matalucci
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• 3 points

LANG DOCUMENTATION/FIELD MTHDS

Prerequisites: LING 3101: Introduction to Linguistics and LING 4376: Phonetics & Phonology

This course provides training in linguistic fieldwork for language
documentation and description. We will work with a speaker of an understudied language
to investigate the structure of the language (its sounds, word and sentence formation,
ways of expressing meaning, and usage) and learn about its speakers and their
communities, both in NYC and abroad. Through this process, students will learn
collaborative linguistic fieldwork techniques as well as the art of writing linguistic
descriptions. This course will draw on all aspects of students’ linguistic training to date,
and the success of the course will depend on our ability as a class to work together
cooperatively with the language consultant and language community more broadly to
document and describe the language.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Meredith Landman
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

THE NOVEL IN AFRICA

The main task of this course will be to read novels by African writers. But the novel in Africa also involves connections between the literary genre of the novel and the historical processes of colonialism, decolonization, and globalization in Africa. One important question we'll consider is how African novels depict those historical experiences in their themes and plots—we'll read novels that are about colonialism, etc. A more complex question is how these historical processes relate to the emergence of the novel as an important genre for African writers. Edward Said went so far as to say that without imperialism, there would be no European novel as we know it. How can we understand the novel in Africa (whether read or written) as a product of the colonial encounter? How did it shape the process of decolonization? What contribution to history, whether literary or political, does the novel in Africa make? We'll undertake a historical survey of African novels from the 1930s to the present, with attention to various subgenres (village novel, war novel, urbanization novel, novel of postcolonial disillusion, Bildungsroman). We'll attend to how African novelists blend literate and oral storytelling traditions, how they address their work to local and global audiences, and how they use scenes of characters reading novels (whether African or European) in order to position their writing within national, continental, and world literary space.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer Wenzel
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 15 Info
• 4 points

ADV CHEM ENGI THERMODYNAMICS

The course provides a rigorous and advanced foundation in chemical engineering thermodynamics suitable for chemical engineering PhD students expected to undertake diverse research projects. Topics include Intermolecular interactions, non-ideal systems, mixtures, phase equilibria and phase transitions and interfacial thermodynamics.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Sanat Kumar
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 79 Info
• 3 points

EXPLORE, EXPLAIN, PROPOSE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 3:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
• 6 points

Topics in Israeli Cinema

Israel has a unique and constantly-evolving national cinema, the product of its diverse immigrant population, influences from neighboring nations, and dramatic national history. Beginning with artistic influences from abroad and culminating with native self-examinations, this course will provide a survey of Israeli film history, recurring foci of Israeli cinema, and introductions to influential filmmakers from early director and impresario Menahem Golan to Orthodox writer/director Rama Burshtein.

Each class meeting will include a complete screening of an Israeli feature film, as well as clips of related works. Readings will include critical essays and histories which elaborate on in-class screenings and cover additional topics and films. Written assignments will be three analytical essays which will encourage critical thinking, close analysis of films, and independent research beyond the materials presented in class.

All readings are in English. All feature films and film clips are in Hebrew (some include Arabic), and will be presented with English subtitles. Students fluent in Hebrew and Arabic are encouraged to interpret the dialogue for additional meaning that may not be translated in the subtitles.

• Department: Institute for Israel & Jewish Studies
• T 10 a.m.-1:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Stuart Weinstock
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• 3 points

ADVANCED ORGANIC CHEMISTRY I

Prerequisites: elementary organic and physical chemistry. The mechanisms of organic reactions, structure of organic molecules, and theories of reactivity. How reactive intermediates are recognized and mechanisms are deduced using kinetics, stereochemistry, isotopes, and physical measurements.

• Department: Chemistry
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Tomislav Rovis
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• 4.5 points

BIOTECHNOLOGY LAW

Prerequisites: at least 4 college-level biology or biotechnology courses. This course will introduce students to the interrelated fields of patent law, regulatory law, and contract law that are vital to the biotech and biopharmaceutical sectors. The course will present core concepts in a way that permits students to use them throughout their corporate, academic, and government careers. SCE and TC students may register for this course, but they must first obtain the written permission of the instructor, by filling out a paper Registration Adjustment Form (Add/Drop form). The form can be downloaded at the URL below, but must be signed by the instructor and returned to the office of the registrar. http://registrar.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/reg-adjustment.pdf

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Alan J Morrison
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• 3 points