PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS

Corequisites: ECON UN1155 How a market economy determines the relative prices of goods, factors of production, and the allocation of resources and the circumstances under which it does it efficiently. Why such an economy has fluctuations and how they may becontrolled.

• Department: Economics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Waseem Noor
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Brendan O'Flaherty
  CULPA: 64 Info
• 4 points

Language and Power

LANGUAGE AND POWER

This course will address the relationship between language and power from a philosophical perspective. We will investigate questions such as: How does language influence the way we think of gender, race, society, and politics? What are the limits, if any, on free speech? In what ways, if any, can language be used to harm people? Topics may include hate speech, trigger warnings, slurs, dog whistles, propaganda, and silencing.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Karen Lewis
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 7 Info
• 3 points

HEALTH COACHING

This course is designed to teach students the process of identifying, setting, and achieving a specific health behavior change goal within the Wheel of Health. The course will consist of short lectures, discussions, and individual health coaching sessions. Action steps towards the health goal will be expected each week outside of class meeting times.

• Department: Physical Education @Barnard
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa K Northrop
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 1 points

THE RISE OF CIVILIZATION-DISC

• Department: Anthropology
• T 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• T 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• T 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• M 11:10 a.m.-noon
• W 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jenny Ni
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• 0 points

Elementary Spanish for Heritage Speakers

Elem Spanish Heritage Spe

Prerequisites: Scoring at this level on the department’s Spanish as a Heritage Language Placement test (https://columbia-barnard.vega-labs.com).

The principal aim of SPAN UN1108 is to build upon and further develop the informal knowledge of Spanish that heritage learners bring to the classroom—usually from family and neighborhood exposure to the language—and cultivate formal speaking, listening, reading, and writing abilities. Students are not expected to have any academic training in written Spanish prior to enrolling in this course.

Spanish heritage language courses at Columbia/Barnard focus on the development of communicative abilities and literacy from sociolinguistic and sociocultural approaches. Throughout the semester, students will be reviewing spelling patterns, building vocabulary, acquiring and effectively using learning strategies, and strengthening composition skills in Spanish. Cultural projects and readings reinforce learners’ understanding of the multiple issues related to Hispanic cultures in the United States and in other Spanish-speaking societies.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• TRF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TRF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Antoni Fernandez Parera
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 1 Info
• 4 points

Women and Comedy

WOMEN AND COMEDY

"What a language it is, the laughter of women,
high-flying and subversive.
Long before law and scripture
we heard the laughter, we understood freedom."

-Lisel Mueller

"I’m not funny, what I am is brave." - Lucille Ball
 

This course focuses on the intersection between comedy and gender, race, class and sexuality. We will explore laughter as a subversive act and how the identity of a "funny woman" can be both dangerous and liberating. As Margo Jefferson writes, "Given the history of social restriction and sexual regulation, how many women have been in a position to -- or been willing to -- take these risks?" We will explore how the tools of comedy can be used to make mischief, to transgress the bounds of genre and form and to contest popular ideas about difference and power. How can humor be illuminating? How can humor be feminist? How can humor be intersectional? How can humor help us tell the hard truths? Can we laugh at oppression without laughing it off?
 

This is not a course on humor writing or one that exclusively focuses on humorists. Rather than "funny," we focus on "fun," explore playfulness as it occurs in myriad ways across a diverse variety of texts. As we do, we will find models, key writerly moves, to adapt into our own writing.
 

Readings will include work by Tina Fey, Audre Lorde, Patricia Lockwood, among others. We'll also be viewing performances, from stand up to sketches to sitcoms, that speak to themes we are exploring. You need one book for this class: Tina Fey's
Bossypants
. Course costs will not exceed $30.

• Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Nina Sharma
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

BEHAVIORAL BIOL-DISC

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• W 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• F 11:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Marina Cords
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 0 points

A BARNARD EDUCATION AT WORK

Per its mission statement, “Barnard College aims to provide the highest-quality liberal arts
education to promising and high-achieving young women… They graduate prepared to lead
lives that are professionally satisfying and successful, personally fulfilling, and enriched by a love
of learning.” This course finds its roots in the connection posited here, between undergraduate
study and professional life. Students will be asked to revisit a foundational text they have
encountered in their major, and use it as a mode of exploration and reflection on an internship.
They will consider how the text’s themes and ideas can be reinterpreted and recontextualized in
the working world, and think about what practical, moral, political, aesthetic and personal
insights it affords. More broadly, students will be prompted to consider the relationship of the
liberal arts degree (which purports to prepare students for no particular career) to their chosen
career path. This course will further hone the critical thinking and writing skills that are
translatable to any profession, and enables a Barnard student to put into practice the
complexities they have learned in the classroom, by encouraging them to analyze the
professional world from different perspectives, and in the context of other ideas and traditions.
The text will be selected from a list provided by the student’s major department, and will be
subject to approval from the course instructor.
On a weekly basis, in this discussion-based class, the student shares their ideas about their text
and how it relates to their internship. They respond to and engage with their classmates. They
are required to spend about two hours with their text per week. They are also required to
create a three to five minute presentation, to be shared with the full group. The group is also
responsible for providing feedback on the presentation. The presentation ultimately evolves
into a final paper of 8-10 pages that explores the line of inquiry from their text as it is
instantiated in their work experience. Students are graded on their discussion (40%),
presentation (25%), and final paper (35%).

• Department: Barnard College
• W 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mulu Gebreyohannes
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• Instructor: Erica A Siegel
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• 1 points

MELLON MAYS UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP JUN

MMUF JUNIOR YEAR COLLOQUI

This is a course designed for the students enrolled in the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program.  It should be taken fall and spring semesters of a student's third and fourth years at the college (for a total of 6 course credits total over the two years). The goal of this course is to become familiar with academic research and writing, as well as the  culture of colleges/ universities in order to prepare students to apply to graduate school and earn the PhD.. The program hones academic writing skills (research papers, project and grant proposals, academic reflections designed to facilitate intentional goal setting and planning), teaches skills related to scholarly presentations (oral and written), as well as familiarizes students with academic culture in particular diversity, equity and inclusion issues and concerns in the academy. Students are expected to attend all the events and meetings associated with the program.

• Department: Barnard College
• F noon-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Tamara Walker
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• 1.5 points

SODB:FIRST AND SECOND YR SEM

This is a course designed for the students enrolled in the Barbara Silver Horowitz ’55 Scholars of Distinction program. It should be taken fall and spring semesters of a students first and second years at the college (for a total of 4 course credits total over the two years). Each month is organized around an outing (or several outings) with readings and guest speakers to complement the outing. Students are expected to attend all the events and meetings. Each student will also produce a blog post connected to or inspired by each event. These posts will appear on the Barnard College website dedicated to the program. Blog posts do not have to cover the event per se, they might, for example, attend to ancillary issues raised by the event or topics raised by the accompanying readings.

• Department: Scholars of Distinction @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Shayoni Mitra
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 1 points

FIRST YEAR CHINESE W II

The course is specially designed for students of Chinese heritage and advanced beginners with good speaking skills. It aims to develop the students basic skills to read and write modern colloquial Chinese. Pinyin system is introduced; standard Chinese pronunciation, and traditional characters. Classes will be conducted mostly in Chinese. Open to students with Mandarin speaking ability in Chinese only. CC GS EN CE

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MWR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MWR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• MTR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Tianqi Jiang
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Hailong Wang
  CULPA: 22 Info
• Instructor: Tao Peng
  Info
• 5 points

BODIES AND DESIRES

In this First-Year Writing course, we’ll examine a series of questions centered on bodies and desires. How is the body both constructed and policed through narratives of gender, race, class, and sexuality? How are bodies and desire mediated through and represented in language? We’ll consider how bodies become not just sites of objectification or of power but also of pleasure. We’ll think about the politics of respectability, in questioning who can be a subject, rather than object, of desire. In our analyses, we’ll work to challenge fixed or binary understandings of gender and power. Readings are subject to change but may include: Nella Larsen's
Passing
, Eliza Haywood's
Fantomina
, short stories by Luisa Valenzuela, Carmen Maria Machado and/or ir'ene lara Silva, poems by Sally Wen Mao and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and conversation texts by Audre Lorde, Patricia Hill Collins, bell hooks, Sara Ahmed, John Berger, and/or Judith Butler.

• Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Meredith A Benjamin
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

RAPID READING AND TRANSLATION

This course, conducted in English, is designed to help graduate students from other departments gain proficiency in reading and translating Spanish texts for scholarly research. The course prepares students to take the Reading Proficiency Exam that most graduate departments demand to fulfill the foreign-language proficiency requirement in that language. Graduate students with any degree of knowledge of Spanish are welcome. A grade of A- or higher in this class will satisfy the GSAS foreign language proficiency requirement in Spanish.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• T 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Leyre Alejaldre Biel
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

WOMEN OF COLOR IN SPECULATIVE LITERATURE

WOMEN OF COLOR&SCIENCE FI

"The Future is Female" except in science fiction, where it still looks pretty white and male.  What happens when women of color take on such tropes as space exploration, cybernetics, superpowers, and the end of the world?  How can women of color change the way we not only think of the future, but think of the present as well?  In this class we’ll look at how speculative literature looks at the intersections of race, gender, class, sexuality, technology, and environmental concerns.  Readings will include work from such authors as Octavia Butler, Franny Choi, Sam Chanse, G Willow Wilson, and Tananarive Due with potential critical readings from Lisa Yaszek, Charlotte E Howell, and bell hooks.

• Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Quincy Jones
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• 3 points

CROSSING BORDERS: THE AMERICAS

This course cuts across borders between North, South and Central America and the Caribbean, in a search for the ways in which literature illuminates different aspects of American identity--especially gender, class, ecological, racial and ethnic identities. Since modernity, in the sense of freedom from tradition, first developed in the Americas, the literatures of the Americas involve diversity and innovation from their beginning. After examining the roots of Modernism in North and South America at the end of the 19th century, we will look at the development of modernism, post-modernism and post-colonialism in the 20th and early 21st centuries through the study of key novels, short stories, and poetry from North and South America and the Caribbean, including works by Martí, Lorde, Anzaldúa, DuBois, Hurston, Hughes, Eliot, Neruda, Césaire, García Márquez, Borges, Cortázar, Valenzuela, Kincaid, Danticat, Lahiri and Valeria Luiselli. Considering these works in their historical, political and aesthetic contexts helps us to grapple with the multiple formations of American identities.

• Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Linn C Mehta
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 3 points

COMPREHENSIVE BEG CATALAN

An extensive introduction to the Catalan language with an emphasis on oral communication as well as the reading and writing practice that will allow the student to function comfortably in a Catalan environment.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Elsa Ubeda
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY GREEK

Covers all of Greek grammar and syntax in one term. Prepares the student to enter second-year Greek (GREK UN2101 or GREK UN2102).

• Department: Classics
• MWF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Hanna Golab
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• 4 points

MASTERPIECES OF WESTERN ART

Discussion and analysis of the artistic qualities and significance of selected works of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Parthenon in Athens to works of the 20th century.

• Department: Core (A&S)
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Kutay Sen
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• Instructor: Aaron Slodounik
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• Instructor: Rachel L Hutcheson
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Martina Mims
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Xiaohan Du
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• Instructor: Sophia A Merkin
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• Instructor: Rachel L Hutcheson
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Caroline A Wamsler
  CULPA: 9 Info
• Instructor: Xiaohan Du
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• Instructor: Sophia A Merkin
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• Instructor: Tara Kuruvilla
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Brandon Agosto
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• Instructor: Francesco Cassini
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• Instructor: Susannah E Blair
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• Instructor: Tara Kuruvilla
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Francesco Cassini
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• Instructor: Susannah E Blair
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• Instructor: Monica K Bulger
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• Instructor: Sophia D'Addio
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Irina T Oryshkevich
  CULPA: 11 Info
• Instructor: Laura Tibi
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• Instructor: Monica K Bulger
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• Instructor: Cecilia Resende Santos
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• Instructor: Emma C Leidy
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• Instructor: Kent M Minturn
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Alessandra Di Croce
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• Instructor: Page S Knox
  CULPA: 14 Info
• Instructor: Leah E Werier
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• Instructor: Leslie Tait
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• Instructor: Diana Mellon
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• Instructor: Danny Smith
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• Instructor: Leah E Werier
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• Instructor: Susan M Sivard
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Luke Cohen
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• Instructor: Emily Spratt
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• Instructor: Muge Arseven
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Luke Cohen
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• Instructor: Diana Mellon
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• Instructor: Muge Arseven
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Matthew E Teti
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Alex Marko
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• Instructor: Catherine M Zhu
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• Instructor: Valerie J Zinner
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• Instructor: Ioanna Theocharopoulou
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• Instructor: Valerie J Zinner
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• 3 points

INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY ITALIAN

An intensive course that covers two semesters of elementary Italian in one, and prepares students to move into Intermediate Italian.  Students will develop their Italian communicative competence through listening, (interactive) speaking, reading and (interactive) writing. The Italian language will be used for real-world purposes and in meaningful contexts to promote intercultural understanding. This course is especially recommended for students who already know another Romance language.  May be used toward fulfillment of the language requirement.

• Department: Italian
• TRF 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Barbara Spinelli
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 6 points

INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY LATIN

Equivalent to Latin 1101 and 1102. Covers all of Latin grammar and syntax in one term to prepare the student to enter Latin 1201 or 1202. This is an intensive course with substantial preparation time outside of class.

• Department: Classics
• TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicholas Koudounis
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• 4 points

Music Humanities

Analysis and discussion of representative works from the Middle Ages to the present.

• Department: Core (A&S)
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Amanda L Morrill
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• Instructor: Calder M Hannan
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• Instructor: Velia Ivanova
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Mariusz Kozak
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 5 Info
• Instructor: Julia Doe
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• Instructor: Velia Ivanova
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Mariusz Kozak
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 5 Info
• Instructor: Justin T Gregg
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Ruth Opara
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• Instructor: Audrey Amsellem
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 0 Info
• Instructor: Justin T Gregg
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Giuseppe Gerbino
  CULPA: 12 Info
• Instructor: Audrey Amsellem
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 0 Info
• Instructor: Russell J O'Rourke
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• Instructor: Cristina Gonzalez Rojo
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• Instructor: Manuel Garcia Orozco
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• Instructor: Russell J O'Rourke
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• Instructor: Lucy Turner
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• Instructor: Scott Douglass
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• Instructor: Nandini R Banerjee-Datta
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• Instructor: Lucy Turner
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• Instructor: Walter M Frisch
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points