INTRO-ACCOUNTING & FIN - DISC

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• F 8 a.m.-10 a.m.
• 0 points

Perception and Cognition in Social Life

Percept/Cognit in Social

This course focuses on perception and cognition in social life. We start by addressing the core social motivations we experience in everyday life (e.g., our desire to feel like we belong to a group). Next, we examine how these motivations shape our basic sensory experiences—for example why we can’t help but anthropomorphize inanimate objects or enjoy holding hands with our partner. We then examine the mental strategies we use to meet our social needs, such as how we figure out other people’s thoughts and feelings, as well as our own. Finally, we wrap up by examining how these motivations, perceptions, and cognitions play out not just within one mind – but also between minds in everyday social interaction.  This course will not only teach you the fundamental science behind the social mind. It will also let you see your own social life through a whole new lens.

• Department: Psychology
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Meghan Meyer
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• 3 points

ECOLOGY

The definition of ecological problems in experimentally tractable ways; the design of experiments and analysis of ecological data; class projects on population ecology. Students conduct individual projects during last month of term.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Emlyn J Resetarits
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• 3 points

Evolution

Prerequisites: BIOL BC1500, 1501, 1502, 1503 or equivalent

Theodosius Dobzhansky—an influential evolutionary biologist who spent much of his career at Columbia University—famously wrote, “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.” Evolution underlies all biodiversity, from the COVID-19 virus to redwood trees, from New York rats to our own bodies and minds. This course introduces students to the evolutionary processes at all scales, from molecular evolution and population genetics within single species, to macro patterns of diversification and evolution in deep time as studies through phylogenies and the fossil record. The overarching goal of the course is for students to gain a solid command of the major concepts in evolutionary theory and how they are interweaved with all life around us.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Rafael Marcondes
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• 3 points

LABORATORY IN ANIMAL BEHAVIOR

Prerequisites: (BIOL BC1500) and (BIOL BC1502) and (BIOL BC2280) and (BIOL BC1501) and (BIOL BC1503) This lab provides an introduction to animal behavior research, including current research approaches and practical applications of these findings. Students will complete two main projects. The first is a group project using the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, which will involve observing, recording, and analyzing reproductive behaviors. The second is an independent project that will be designed, conducted, and analyzed by students using publicly available animal behavior resources and/or data. Both projects will incorporate critical thinking, problem solving and experimental design, with an emphasize on scientific writing and oral presentation skills.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• T 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Alison Pischedda
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

Interpreting Scientific Evidence

Evaluating Scientific Evi

This class focuses on how we gather reliable scientific evidence about human biology and public health. The aim is to help students better interpret and evaluate the scientific evidence that they will encounter throughout their lifetime, in primary papers but also as presented in news, advertisement, and politics. To these ends, students will be introduced to basic definitions and concepts in statistics and epidemiology, including point estimates and measures of uncertainty, p-values, error rates, association and causation, different study designs, and selection bias. Readings will draw from a textbook as well as the primary literature. The second half of the course will turn to dissecting the representation and misrepresentation of scientific evidence presented in different venues. It will draw primarily from the textbook “Calling Bullshit” and include discussions of timely examples from the news.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 9:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• 3 points

SCULPTURE I

(Formerly R3330) The fundamentals of sculpture are investigated through a series of conceptual and technical projects. Three material processes are introduced, including wood, metal, and paster casting. Issues pertinent to contemporary sculpture are introduced through lectures, group critiques, discussions, and field trips that accompany class assignments. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• F 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• T 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jon Kessler
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Justin Lowe
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• 3 points

ISLAM-DISCUSSION

• Department: Religion
• R 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• R 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• F 11:10 a.m.-noon
• F 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Aziza Shanazarova
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• 0 points

ISLAM

An introduction to the Islamic religion in its premodern and modern manifestations. The first half of the course concentrates on “classical” Islam, beginning with the life of the Prophet, and extending to ritual, jurisprudence, theology, and mysticism. The second half examines how Muslims have articulated Islam in light of colonization and the rise of a secular modernity. The course ends with a discussion of American and European Muslim attempts at carving out distinct spheres of identity in the larger global Muslim community.

• Department: Religion
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Aziza Shanazarova
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• 4 points

European Intellectual History

EURO INTELLECTUAL HISTORY

This course provides an introduction to some of the major landmarks in European cultural and intellectual history, from the aftermath of the French Revolution to the 1970s. We will pay special attention to the relationship between texts (literature, anthropology, political theory, psychoanalysis, art, and film) and the various contexts in which they were produced. Among other themes, we will discuss the cultural impact of the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, industrialism, colonialism, modernism, the Russian Revolution, the two world wars, decolonization, feminism and gay liberation movements, structuralism and poststructuralism. In conjunction, we will examine how modern ideologies (liberalism, conservatism, Marxism, imperialism, fascism, totalitarianism, neoliberalism) were developed and challenged over the course of the last two centuries. Participation in weekly discussion sections staffed by TAs is mandatory. The discussion sections are 50 minutes per session. Students must register for the general discussion (“DISC”) section, and will be assigned to a specific time and TA instructor once the course begins.

• Department: History
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Camille A Robcis
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

European Intellectual History

EURO INTELLECTUAL HISTORY

This course provides an introduction to some of the major landmarks in European cultural and intellectual history, from the aftermath of the French Revolution to the 1970s. We will pay special attention to the relationship between texts (literature, anthropology, political theory, psychoanalysis, art, and film) and the various contexts in which they were produced. Among other themes, we will discuss the cultural impact of the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, industrialism, colonialism, modernism, the Russian Revolution, the two world wars, decolonization, feminism and gay liberation movements, structuralism and poststructuralism. In conjunction, we will examine how modern ideologies (liberalism, conservatism, Marxism, imperialism, fascism, totalitarianism, neoliberalism) were developed and challenged over the course of the last two centuries. Participation in weekly discussion sections staffed by TAs is mandatory. The discussion sections are 50 minutes per session. Students must register for the general discussion (“DISC”) section, and will be assigned to a specific time and TA instructor once the course begins.

• Department: Auditing
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Camille A Robcis
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

DISC - European Intellectual History

DISC-EURO INTELLECTUAL

Required Discussion Section for HIST 2310 European Intellectual History. Students must first register for HIST 2310.

• Department: History
• 0 points

Religion and Nasty Women

Used in 2016 by then presidential candidate, Donald Trump, in reference to his female opponent, Hillary Clinton, the phrase “nasty woman” has become a badge of honor and a rallying cry for women’s empowerment.

The origin of the word “nasty,” attested in the 14th century, indicates highly unpleasant qualities- nauseating or unclean, in a literal or figurative way. It also came to evoke indecency and obscenity- and religious traditions have a long history of such depiction of women.

After introducing some key texts on the otherness and objectification of women (including by Aristotle, Beauvoir, Kristeva, Nussbaum, and Butler), we will examine a number of female characters-  goddesses, prostitutes, and virgins  - in the Mesopotamian, Greek, Jewish, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, and Islamic corpus  that fit the definition of nasty. We will also analyze some of the underlying tropes of impurity and danger that characterize nastiness involving bodily fluids, sexuality, and knowledge. Spanning theology, literature, movies, and popular culture the course aims to be a survey of religious-based misogyny as well as women’s responses in their pursuit of agency.

• Department: Religion
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Clemence C Boulouque
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

Religion and Nasty Women

Used in 2016 by then presidential candidate, Donald Trump, in reference to his female opponent, Hillary Clinton, the phrase “nasty woman” has become a badge of honor and a rallying cry for women’s empowerment.

The origin of the word “nasty,” attested in the 14th century, indicates highly unpleasant qualities- nauseating or unclean, in a literal or figurative way. It also came to evoke indecency and obscenity- and religious traditions have a long history of such depiction of women.

After introducing some key texts on the otherness and objectification of women (including by Aristotle, Beauvoir, Kristeva, Nussbaum, and Butler), we will examine a number of female characters-  goddesses, prostitutes, and virgins  - in the Mesopotamian, Greek, Jewish, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, and Islamic corpus  that fit the definition of nasty. We will also analyze some of the underlying tropes of impurity and danger that characterize nastiness involving bodily fluids, sexuality, and knowledge. Spanning theology, literature, movies, and popular culture the course aims to be a survey of religious-based misogyny as well as women’s responses in their pursuit of agency.

• Department: Auditing
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Clemence C Boulouque
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 0 points

Religion and Nasty Women - Discussion

Religion and Nasty Women-

Used in 2016 by then presidential candidate, Donald Trump, in reference to his female opponent, Hillary Clinton, the phrase “nasty woman” has become a badge of honor and a rallying cry for women’s empowerment.

The origin of the word “nasty,” attested in the 14th century, indicates highly unpleasant qualities- nauseating or unclean, in a literal or figurative way. It also came to evoke indecency and obscenity- and religious traditions have a long history of such depiction of women.

After introducing some key texts on the otherness and objectification of women (including by Aristotle, Beauvoir, Kristeva, Nussbaum, and Butler), we will examine a number of female characters-  goddesses, prostitutes, and virgins  - in the Mesopotamian, Greek, Jewish, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, and Islamic corpus  that fit the definition of nasty. We will also analyze some of the underlying tropes of impurity and danger that characterize nastiness involving bodily fluids, sexuality, and knowledge. Spanning theology, literature, movies, and popular culture the course aims to be a survey of religious-based misogyny as well as women’s responses in their pursuit of agency.

• Department: Religion
• R 5 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
• F 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Clemence C Boulouque
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 0 points

MUSIC THEORY I

Elementary analysis and composition in a variety of modal and tonal idioms.

• Department: Music
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Cheng W Lim
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• 3 points

MUSIC THEORY II

Elementary analysis and composition in a variety of tonal idioms.

• Department: Music
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Cheng W Lim
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• 3 points

Northern Baroque Art and Knowledge

N. Baroque Art & Knowledg

This course will explore the intersections between visual and intellectual culture in Northern Europe during the long seventeenth century. Sessions will examine outstanding productions by such figures as Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer, Peter Paul Rubens, Maria Sibylla Merian, Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain, Charles le Brun, and others. In addition, we will study visual and material culture, from philosophical prints to anatomical models of eyes, produced by less well-known artists and artisans. The themes and topics we will discuss include the redefinition of the aims and nature of art and knowledge; collecting; competing theories of vision, attention and discernment; and the shifting interrelations of art, religion, philosophy, and science in this period in Northern Europe. We will consider a broad range of objects, including paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, architecture, gardens, shells, and flowers. The course is suitable for students from all disciplines and all years.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Susanna C Berger
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• 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: History @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Tiersten
  CULPA: 45 Info
• 3 points

SCIENCE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVPT

The course provides students with an understanding of Earth's natural systems that is essential to addressing the multi-faceted issues of sustainable development.  After completing the course, students should be able to incorporate scientific approaches and perspectives into their research in other fields or policy decisions and be able to use scientific methods of data analysis.  The semester will highlight the climate system and solutions from both physical and ecological perspectives; water resources; food production and the cycling of nutrients; and the role of biodiversity in sustainable development.  The course emphasizes key scientific concepts such as uncertainty, experimental versus observational approaches, prediction and predictability, the use of models, and other essential methodological aspects.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• 3 points

SCIENCE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVPT

The course provides students with an understanding of Earth's natural systems that is essential to addressing the multi-faceted issues of sustainable development.  After completing the course, students should be able to incorporate scientific approaches and perspectives into their research in other fields or policy decisions and be able to use scientific methods of data analysis.  The semester will highlight the climate system and solutions from both physical and ecological perspectives; water resources; food production and the cycling of nutrients; and the role of biodiversity in sustainable development.  The course emphasizes key scientific concepts such as uncertainty, experimental versus observational approaches, prediction and predictability, the use of models, and other essential methodological aspects.

• Department: Auditing
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: John C Mutter
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 0 points

MODERN III

Modern III continues training in contemporary/modern technique for the beginning-intermediate  level dancer, emphasizing alignment and musicality while expanding on the dancer’s physical and  intellectual understanding of articulation, phrasing, dynamics, performance and focus. Our class  will incorporate relevant principals from classical modern techniques along with contemporary  aesthetics, improvisation and reflection. Our class aims to create a space that is in support of your  artistic development, aesthetic fluency, and creative explorations as a dancer

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Tamisha Guy
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• Instructor: Francesca Dominguez
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• 2 points

MODERN IV

Modern IV is a contemporary technique class for the intermediate to advanced-intermediate level  dancer, emphasizing alignment and musicality while expanding on the dancer’s physical and  intellectual understanding of articulation, phrasing, dynamics, performance, and focus. Our class  will incorporate relevant principles from classical modern techniques with contemporary  aesthetics, improvisation, and reflection. Our class aims to create a space that is in support of your  technical and aesthetic development as a dancing practitioner, performer, and creator.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• F 1 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Caroline Fermin
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• Instructor: Jodi Melnick
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 2 points

Contemporary Caribbean Dance

Course Description:
 

This intermediate Contemporary Caribbean Dance class draws from different Caribbean dance styles. This Caribbean fusion class explains different cultural dances, focusing on African Diaspora principles and practices such as syncopation in body and in music.

Based on many of the dance of the Caribbean Islands, students learn to identify dances and rhythms that draw from traditions, such as Arara, Palo, Salsa, Rumba, Tambu, Tumba, Merengue, Reaggaton, Cha Cha Cha, Zouk and Afro Dance, as well as more contemporary styles such as “Technica Cubana” and learn to apply them in contemporary combinations.  The course is designed for students who have some dance training and are looking to widen their understanding of different dances and learn to use different body parts that are not traditionally used in modern dance but are recognizable in Jazz, hip hop and current offerings in popular

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Gabri Christa
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 2 points

World economy, Empire & War: 1900-50

World Econ/Empire/War: 19

World economy, Empire and War: 1900-1950 covers the dramatic upheavals in the world economy that brought nineteenth-century era of globalization to an end an initiated a new era of national economics and global geopolitics. The course will cover the age of imperialism, the crises of the interwar period, the arms race of the 1930s, World War II and the Cold War.

• Department: History
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam Tooze
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

World economy, Empire & War: 1900-50 - D

World Econ/Empire/War DIS

Required zero-point/ungraded discussion section for “World economy, Empire & War: 1900-50” lecture (HIST 2344)

• Department: History
• R 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• R 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• R 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• W 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• 0 points

Conquests and Transformations: Ireland s

Ireland since 1500

We are often led to believe that Ireland is a place defined by timeless tradition: ancient songs and stories, a rural way of life, persistent and mysterious religious antagonisms. The real history of modern Ireland, however, is defined by dramatic and restless change: political, social, economic, even environmental. This lecture course will introduce you to the broad sweep of modern Irish history, acquainting you with a rich historical literature and striking primary sources covering everything from the contentious and deadly politics of potato-farming to the secret lives of combatants in the Northern Ireland Troubles. It will view Ireland not as a place out of time but as somewhere from which we can gain a unique perspective on some of the historical forces that have shaped our world: empire, capitalism, religion, migration, and nationalism.

• Department: History
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: James Stafford
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• 4 points

Conquests and Transformations: Ireland s

Ireland since 1500 - DISC

Required zero-point/ungraded discussion section for “Conquests and Transformations: Ireland since 1500” lecture (HIST 2347)

• Department: History
• W 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 0 points

Musicianship: Rhythm

In this course, students at all levels of experience and musical interest will participate in solo and group activities and projects with a focus on musical beat, meter, and rhythm patterns, developing a sense of steady and changing tempo, and an understanding how rhythm contributes to style in music. Rhythmic articulation, nuance, and interpretation will be developed through the impact of agogic, metric, tonal, and dynamic accent. This course combines the standards of conservatory musicianship with standards of critical thinking, here represented as critical listening. The repertoire for Musicianship: Rhythm covers vocal and instrumental music, and is open to classical, pop, jazz, folk, music theatre, computer, and international music styles and genres.

• Department: Music
• MW 9:05 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• TR 12:05 p.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Joviala
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• Instructor: Peter M Susser
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 1 points

Musicianship: Melody

In this course, students at all levels of experience and musical interest will participate in solo and group activities and projects with a focus on scales, intervals, melodic contour and phrasing, and how they contribute to style in music. The repertoire for Musicianship: Melody covers vocal and instrumental music, and is open to classical, pop, jazz, folk, music theatre, computer, and international music styles and genres.

• Department: Music
• MW 12:05 p.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TR 12:05 p.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Joviala
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• Instructor: Sadie Dawkins
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• 1 points

Shadow of the Sun King: Early Modern Fra

Early Modern France

This course will offer a survey of French history from the Wars of Religion to the Revolution, when the kingdom was the predominant power in Europe. Topics to be addressed include the rise of the Bourbon monarchy, the crystallization of absolutism as a political theology, the spectacular rise and collapse of John Law’s financial system, the emergence of the philosophe movement during the Enlightenment, and the gradual de-legitimation of royal power through its association with despotism. Thematically, the course will focus on shifting logics of representation—that is, the means by which political, economic, and religious power was not only reflected, but also generated and projected, through a range of interrelated practices that include Catholic liturgy, courtly protocols, aristocratic codes of honor, financial experimentation, and the critical styles of thinking and reading inculcated by the nascent public sphere.

• Department: History
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Charly J Coleman
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

Shadow of the Sun King: Early Modern Fra

Early Modern France

This course will offer a survey of French history from the Wars of Religion to the Revolution, when the kingdom was the predominant power in Europe. Topics to be addressed include the rise of the Bourbon monarchy, the crystallization of absolutism as a political theology, the spectacular rise and collapse of John Law’s financial system, the emergence of the philosophe movement during the Enlightenment, and the gradual de-legitimation of royal power through its association with despotism. Thematically, the course will focus on shifting logics of representation—that is, the means by which political, economic, and religious power was not only reflected, but also generated and projected, through a range of interrelated practices that include Catholic liturgy, courtly protocols, aristocratic codes of honor, financial experimentation, and the critical styles of thinking and reading inculcated by the nascent public sphere.

• Department: Auditing
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Charly J Coleman
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 0 points

Musicianship: Harmony

In this course, students at all levels of experience and musical interest will examine the phenomenon of simultaneous sound with chords and chord progressions, and experience harmony’s impact on musical structure and style. Harmonic articulation, nuance, and interpretation will be developed through the exploration of agogic, metric, tonal, and dynamic accent. The repertoire for Musicianship: Harmony covers vocal and instrumental music, and is open to classical, pop, jazz, folk, music theatre, computer, and international music styles and genres.

• Department: Music
• TR 9:05 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Peter M Susser
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 1 points

Shadow of the Sun King: Early Modern Fra

Early Modern France - DIS

Required discussion section for HIST UN2353

• Department: History
• F 10 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• F 11 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• 0 points

INTRO TO INDIAN CIVILIZATION

Introduction to Indian civilization with attention to both its unity and its diversity across the Indian subcontinent. Consideration of its origins, formative development, fundamental social institutions, religious thought and practice (Vedic, Buddhist, Jain, Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh), literary and artistic achievements, and modern challenges.

Students must register for a section of ASCM UN2358.

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Rachel McDermott
  CULPA: 37 Info
• 4 points

INTRO TO INDIAN CIV - DISC

Discussion section for ASCM UN2357: Intro to Indian Civilization

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• W 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• T 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• F 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: DiVyashre Ashok Kumar Malhari
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• Instructor: Arkadeep Mitra
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• Instructor: DiVyashre Ashok Kumar Malhari
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• 0 points

The Modern Girl

This course clocks the prehistory and history of the “modern girl,” a physiologically and biologically understood, anatomically correct, commodity-defined, human rights bearing person that revolutionized how we define women.  Beginning with the early modern global trade networks that created the material conditions for women’s political action, the course moves through imperialism and colonialism, Cold War gender formations, and the contemporary consumer cultures of Asia and their global entanglements.  Our focus this semester is Asia and beyond and our central questions are (1) how did gendered commodities –machine fabricated, internationally circulated– lay material conditions for women’s political action and liberation struggles; (2) how is commodification of the girl figure a blessing and a curse; (3) is the modern girl one subject of feminism and how does socialist feminist theory and political movements historically connect to the modern girl phenomenon? In this class we figure out how to analyze 20th century new media e.g., silent films, phonograph records, lithography, commercial brand images, lantern slides, and, of course, the fashion and advertising industries. We will develop historical tools to help us understand how cultural forms deliver material political impacts and results.  This is a lecture course with time set aside for your visual presentations and your analysis of the readings, images, and ideas. This course has no prerequisites, and is open to all students, including those in their first year.

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Tani Barlow
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• 3 points

Global Environmental History

This class introduces students to the field of environmental history from a global perspective. Environmental history is the study of the relationship between nature and society over time. It deals with the material environment, cultural and scientific understandings of nature, and the politics of socio-economic use of natural resources. The class combines the study of classic texts that were foundational to the field with modern case studies from all over the world. It addresses questions of global relevance, such as: how did the environment shape human history? How did humans shape the natural environment? How are power relations of class, race and gender embedded in the environment we live in? The class welcomes students from the natural and social sciences, as well as the humanities. The goal of the course is to understand how the relationship between environment and society in history led to the current climate crisis.

• Department: History @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Angelo Caglioti
  h-index: 2 Info
• 3 points

Nineteenth-Century Art in Europe

19th-Century Art in Europ

How do you represent a revolution? What does it mean to picture the world as it “really” is? Who may be figured as a subject or citizen, and who not? Should art improve society, or critique it? Can it do both? These are some of the many questions that the artists of nineteenth-century Europe grappled with, and that we will explore together in this course. This was an era of rapid and dramatic political, economic, and cultural change, marked by wars at home and colonial expansion abroad; the rise of industrialization and urbanization; and the invention of myriad new technologies, from photography to the railway. The arts played an integral and complex role in all of these developments: they both shaped and were shaped by them. Lectures will address a variety media, from painting and sculpture to the graphic and decorative arts, across a range of geographic contexts, from Paris, London, Berlin, and Madrid to St. Petersburg, Cairo, Haiti, and New Zealand. Artists discussed will include Jacques-Louis David, Francisco Goya, Théodore Géricault, J.M.W. Turner, Adolph Menzel, Ilya Repin, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Mary Cassatt, James McNeill Whistler, C. F. Goldie, Victor Horta, and Paul Cézanne.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Meredith Gamer
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

CONTEMPORARY BIOLOGY I

Prerequisites: one year of college chemistry or the written permission of either the instructor or the premedical adviser is required. Recommended as the introductory biology course for science majors who have completed a year of college chemistry and premedical students. The fundamental principles of biochemistry, molecular biology, and genetics. SPS 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
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• 3 points

PLTCS CRIME& POLICING IN U.S.

This course will examine the historical development of crime and the criminal justice system in the United States since the Civil War. The course will give particular focus to the interactions between conceptions of crime, normalcy and deviance, and the broader social and political context of policy making.

• Department: History @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew Vaz
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• 3 points

INTERMEDIATE SANSKRIT I

Prerequisites: Elementary Sanskrit II or instructor permission. This course constitutes the first half of a year-long reading course designed to give students the tools necessary for advanced study in Classical Sanskrit. Readings in epic (itihasa), poetry (kavya), systematic thought (sastra), and commentary (vyakhyana) will introduce students to a variety of important genres and their distinctive conventions. A focus upon the Sanskrit tradition’s own categories of analysis—grammatical, commentarial, and prosodic—will enable students to begin to make sense of original Sanskrit texts as generations of the tradition’s own readers have. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jay Ramesh
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• 4 points

CHINESE RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS

This course provides a chronological and thematic introduction to Chinese religions from their beginnings until modern times. It examines distinctive concepts, practices and institutions in the religions of China. Emphasis will be placed on the diversity and unity of religious expressions in China, with readings drawn from a wide-range of texts: religious scriptures, philosophical texts, popular literature and modern historical and ethnographic studies. Special attention will be given to those forms of religion common to both “elite” and “folk” culture: cosmology, family and communal rituals, afterlife, morality and mythology. The course also raises more general questions concerning gender, class, political patronage, and differing concepts of religion.

• Department: Religion
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Kelly Carlton
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• 4 points

Chinese Religious Traditions - Discussio

Chinese Religious Trad -

This course provides a chronological and thematic introduction to Chinese religions from their beginnings until modern times. It examines distinctive concepts, practices and institutions in the religions of China. Emphasis will be placed on the diversity and unity of religious expressions in China, with readings drawn from a wide-range of texts: religious scriptures, philosophical texts, popular literature and modern historical and ethnographic studies. Special attention will be given to those forms of religion common to both “elite” and “folk” culture: cosmology, family and communal rituals, afterlife, morality and mythology. The course also raises more general questions concerning gender, class, political patronage, and differing concepts of religion.

• Department: Religion
• R 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• R 11:10 a.m.-noon
• F 10 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• F noon-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Kelly Carlton
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• 0 points

LAB IN WRITING FILM CRITICISM

Lab in Writing Film Criticism 

This course will focus on writing fresh, original criticism, on developing an individual voice, and on creating strong arguments supporting your ideas (qualities that translate to many areas, from reviewing to pitching a film project). Screenings in and outside class will be followed by discussion and in-class writing exercises, as well as regular writing assignments. How do you choose an effective critical approach? How do you make your opinions vivid and convincing on the page? We will also analyze recent criticism and consider the changing landscape of film criticism today.

Prerequisite:
Instructor’s permission. Submit a short, film-related sample to cj2374@columbia.edu
Note: Because permission is required, on-line registration may say the course is full when it is not. Priority given to film majors.

• Department: Film
• T 2:10 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Caryn James
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

STATISTICS FOR ECONOMICS

Elementary computational methods in statistics. Basic techniques in regression analysis of econometric models. One-hour weekly recitation sessions to complement lectures.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Randall Reback
  CULPA: 17 h-index: 14 Info
• Instructor: Jose Cao-Alvira
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

SECOND YEAR CLASSICAL TIBETAN I

n/a

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Dorjee Gyaltsen
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• 4 points

STATS FOR ECONOMICS - REC

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• F 10 a.m.-noon
• None None-None
• 0 points

UNITED STATES 1940-1975

Emphasis on foreign policies as they pertain to the Second World War, the atomic bomb, containment, the Cold War, Korea, and Vietnam. Also considers major social and intellectual trends, including the Civil Rights movement, the counterculture, feminism, Watergate, and the recession of the 1970s.

• Department: History @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark C Carnes
  CULPA: 50 Info
• 3 points

UNITED STATES 1940-1975

Emphasis on foreign policies as they pertain to the Second World War, the atomic bomb, containment, the Cold War, Korea, and Vietnam. Also considers major social and intellectual trends, including the Civil Rights movement, the counterculture, feminism, Watergate, and the recession of the 1970s.

• Department: Auditing
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark C Carnes
  CULPA: 50 Info
• 0 points

History Painting and Its Afterlives

History Painting & Afterl

This course will study the problematic persistence of history painting as a cultural practice in nineteenth century Europe, well after its intellectual and aesthetic justifications had become obsolete. Nonetheless, academic prescriptions and expectations endured in diluted or fragmentary form. We will examine the transformations of this once privileged category and look at how the representation of exemplary deeds and action becomes increasingly problematic in the context of social modernization and the many global challenges to Eurocentrism. Selected topics explore how image making was shaped by new models of historical and geological time, by the invention of national traditions, and by the emergence of new publics and visual technologies. The relocation of historical imagery from earlier elite milieus into mass culture forms of early cinema and popular illustration will also be addressed.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan K Crary
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

LABORATORY IN SCREENWRITING

This lab is limited to declared Film and Media Studies majors.  Exercises in the writing of film scripts.

• Department: Film
• F 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• M 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• W 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Alek Abate
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• Instructor: Anna Dunn
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• Instructor: Devyn Chuang
  Info
• 3 points

PRINTMAKING I: INTAGLIO

(Formerly R3401) Enables the student to realize concepts and visual ideas in a printed form. Basic techniques are introduced and utilized: the history and development of the intaglio process; demonstrations and instruction in line etching, relief, and dry point. Individual and group critiques. Portfolio required at end. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• MW 2:30 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer Nuss
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• 3 points

PRACTICUM SCENIC PAINT

May be retaken for full credit. 

Prerequisites: permission of Theatre Department Production Manager, Michael Banta (
mbanta@barnard.edu
). Training and practical props and/or scenic painting work on Departmental mainstage productions.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• Instructor: Michael Banta
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• 1 points

PRACTICUM LIGHTS & SOUND

May be retaken for full credit. 

Prerequisites: permission of Theatre Department Production Manager, Michael Banta (
mbanta@barnard.edu
). Training and practical lighting and/or sound work on Departmental mainstage productions.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• Instructor: Gregory Winkler
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 1 points

PRACTICUM WARDROBE & RUN CREW

May be retaken for full credit. 

Prerequisites: permission of Theatre Department Costume Shop Manager Kara Feely (kfeely@barnard.edu). Training and practical costume construction and fitting work on Departmental mainstage productions.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• Instructor: Kara M Feely
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• 1 points

PRACTICUM STAGE MANAGEMENT

May be retaken for full credit. 

Prerequisites: permission of Theatre Department Production Manager, Michael Banta (
mbanta@barnard.edu
). Training and practical stage management work on Departmental  mainstage productions.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• Instructor: Michael Banta
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• 3 points

PRACTICUM DESIGN & PRODUCTION ASSISTANT

PRACTICUM DESIGN & PROD A

May be retaken for full credit. 

Prerequisites: permission of the Senior Thesis Festival coordinator. Training and practical design work assisting student designers for the Senior Thesis Festival.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• Instructor: Michael Banta
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• 2 points

PRINTMAKING I: RELIEF

(Formerly R3411) Printmaking I: Relief introduces woodcut and other relief techniques. Given the direct quality of the process, the class focuses on the students personal vision through experimentation with this print medium. Individual and group critiques. Portfolio required at end. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• MW 9:30 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Nathan N Catlin
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• 3 points

PRINTMAKING I: SILKSCREEN

(Formerly R3413) Printmaking I: Silkscreen introduces silkscreen and other silkscreen techniques. Given the direct quality of the process, the class focuses on the students personal vision through experimentation with this print medium. Individual and group critiques. Portfolio required at end. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• R 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Garrett S Ball
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• 3 points

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY I-LECTURES

Prerequisites: (CHEM UN1403 and CHEM UN1404) or CHEM UN1604 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. Although CHEM UN2443 and CHEM UN2444 are separate courses, students are expected to take both terms sequentially. Students must ensure they register for the recitation which corresponds to the lecture section. Please check the Directory of Classes for details.

• Department: Chemistry
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: James Leighton
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia h-index: 46 Info
• Instructor: Luis M Campos
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 45 Info
• Instructor: Talha Siddiqui
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Charles E Jr Doubleday
  Info
• 4 points

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY - REC

• Department: Chemistry
• W 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: James Leighton
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia h-index: 46 Info
• 0 points

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY - REC

• Department: Chemistry
• W 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• W 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• R 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• R 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• F 11:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: James Leighton
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia h-index: 46 Info
• 0 points