Barnard Architecture + Design Summer Ins
Architecture + Design Ins
The Barnard Architecture + Design Summer Institute explores how design impacts the
built environment through hands-on design projects, field trips, and opportunities to
meet designers and makers throughout the city.
This program introduces high school students to architecture and related fields that
contribute to the design of our city. This three-week program includes on-campus work
in the architecture design studio, computer lab, and the Barnard Design Center, as well
as field trips throughout the city to see design offices, construction projects, and
exhibitions. Students will design through drawings and models - by hand and digitally.
Summer students will be mentored by current college students majoring in architecture
and will have opportunities to meet design professionals and those who help imagine
and construct the built environment.
- Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
- MTWRF 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lindsay Harkema
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Fashion and Dress in World Cultures
Fashion and dress are considered markers of individual and social identities, used to express religious beliefs, group association, class, ceremonial functions, domestic functions, gender dynamics, and sexuality dynamics. This course will explore global fashion and dress— focusing on textiles and body ornaments used in different cultures throughout history. The course will be organized geographically—Asia, Africa, the Americas, etc. — spanning from the early modern period to the contemporary era. The course will encourage students to engage with theoretical frameworks from material culture, anthropology, history, and textile and fashion study.
- Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
- R 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
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Summer Food Institute
Barnard’s 2-Week Sustainable Food and the City introduces students to the U.S food system, examining food production, distribution, consumption, and waste management through four key lenses: agriculture; health, policy and justice; food systems and climate change; and soil health.
Each week, students will explore farms all across the city and New York state to learn hands-on from farmers growing our food. The program will invite experts and professionals from each unit to guide student's learning experience. Students will take a deep dive into each of these units to imagine a food system that produces food in an ecologically mindful way while supporting our communities and the planet.
- Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
- MTWRF 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
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PREPARATION-COLLEGE CHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: High school algebra or the instructor's permission. Recommended: high school physics and chemistry. This course is preparation for CHEM UN1403 General Chemistry I Lecture or the equivalent, as well as for other science courses. It is intended for students who have not attended school for sometime or who do not have a firm grasp of high school chemistry. Topics include inorganic nomenclature, chemical reactions, chemical bonding and its relation to molecular structure, stoichiometry, periodic properties of elements, chemical equilibrium, gas laws, acids and bases, and electrochemistry. Please note that students must attend a recitation section.
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- MTWR 6:15 p.m.-7:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Luis A Avila
CULPA: 22
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Robotics and Autonomous Driving
Robotics & Auton. Driving
- Department: Engineering
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Instructor:
Sinisa Vukelic
CULPA: 2 h-index: 11 Info - 0 points
Robotics and Autonomous Driving
Robotics & Auton. Driving
- Department: Engineering
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Instructor:
Sinisa Vukelic
CULPA: 2 h-index: 11 Info - 0 points
Robotics and Autonomous Driving
Advanced Robotics
- Department: Engineering
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Instructor:
Yevgeniy Yesilevskiy
h-index: 7 Info - 0 points
EXTENDED RESIDENCE F/T
Extended Residence
- Department: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Instructor:
Richard Slusarczyk
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EXCHANGE SCHOLAR PROGRAM
N/A
- Department: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Instructor:
Yinghui Mao
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EXCHANGE SCHOLAR PROGRAM
N/A
- Department: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Instructor:
Yinghui Mao
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Leading by Example: Theories of Leadersh
How should those in positions of power use it? What is the role of society, mentorship, education, and individuals in preparing people for leadership roles? This course will take a historical view at the ways in which people in various cultures and societies across different time periods have sought to answer these questions. In approaching this topic, we will consider the role of exemplarity—the idea that someone else’s actions, behaviors, and political ideas might inform our own practice. To this end, we will read texts that use exemplarity to model political and non-political leadership. This class will consist of several readings, brief writing assignments, and a final in-class symposium in which students will present the results of a research project.
- Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
- R 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alejandro Cuadrado
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Leading by Example: Theories of Leadersh
How should those in positions of power use it? What is the role of society, mentorship, education, and individuals in preparing people for leadership roles? This course will take a historical view at the ways in which people in various cultures and societies across different time periods have sought to answer these questions. In approaching this topic, we will consider the role of exemplarity—the idea that someone else’s actions, behaviors, and political ideas might inform our own practice. To this end, we will read texts that use exemplarity to model political and non-political leadership. This class will consist of several readings, brief writing assignments, and a final in-class symposium in which students will present the results of a research project.
- Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
- R 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alejandro Cuadrado
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FULL-TIME SUMMER RESEARCH PROG
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- Department: Columbia College
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Instructor:
Alice Heicklen
CULPA: 15 Info - 0 points
FULL-TIME SUMMER RESEARCH PROG
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- Department: Columbia College
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Instructor:
Alice Heicklen
CULPA: 15 Info - 0 points
FULL-TIME SUMMER RESEARCH APPT
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- Department: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Instructor:
Richard Slusarczyk
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DOCTORAL CONTINUOUS REGISTRATION
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- Department: Public Health
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Instructor:
Carlos Correa
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Research and Professional Skills in STEM
Research & Professional S
This course will introduce students to concepts and methods that allow them to develop their research voice, navigate the virtual research landscape, and develop an online professional presence.
- Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
- R 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
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Research and Professional Skills in STEM
Research & Professional S
This course will introduce students to concepts and methods that allow them to develop their research voice, navigate the virtual research landscape, and develop an online professional presence.
- Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
- R 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
- 0 points
Sustainability, Diversity, and Inclusion
Sustainability Diversity
The course seeks to address the social movements of "sustainability" and "inclusion" with a focus on their respective claims regarding "(bio)diversity" as essential to a healthy planet and an equitable society. These principles will be explored in the context of our contemporary geopolitics and political economy to examine why difference is often - to the contrary - characterized by inequality. Furthermore, scholarship in sociobiology and sustainable development will raise our consciousness about how the destruction of the material world is intimately tied to increasing stratification in the social world. Finally, we will turn our attention to the culture wars: great disagreements, misunderstandings, and contests of expressive values that include inauthentic and well-intentioned ignorance and inconsistency regarding these social movements. In this context we will also consider the political economy of knowing and being to define our own praxes for living in and making a more enduring and just social world.
- Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
- R 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
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Sex and Gender Across Long Time
The idea of gender is a relatively recent formulation, often complicated by the ferocity distinction between the sexes found across history. This course (divided into two parts) uses art objects, literary texts, philosophy, psychology and finally film and digital media to interrogate the ideas of sex and gender, to explore the violent ways in which female sexuality has been denied or constrained, that same sex desire was erased or pathologized, and how the transgender experience, even as it works to deny sexual difference, complicates the relations between both sex and gender.
- Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
- R 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ross T Hamilton
CULPA: 25
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Sex and Gender Across Long Time
The idea of gender is a relatively recent formulation, often complicated by the ferocity distinction between the sexes found across history. This course (divided into two parts) uses art objects, literary texts, philosophy, psychology and finally film and digital media to interrogate the ideas of sex and gender, to explore the violent ways in which female sexuality has been denied or constrained, that same sex desire was erased or pathologized, and how the transgender experience, even as it works to deny sexual difference, complicates the relations between both sex and gender.
- Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
- R 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ross T Hamilton
CULPA: 25
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Global Modernism
The aim of this course is to explore the history and discourses of modern art, modernism, and the
avant-garde via the social and theoretical questions understood to have driven the development
of artistic modernism around the globe from roughly 1789 to 1968. The course will be organized
according to four major lenses of inquiry: “Aesthetic Categories within Social Art Histories,”
“Formalism and Autonomy,” “Perception and Artistic Production,” and “the Role of the Mind,
or, the Beholder’s Share.” Each of these lenses, or themes, will be driven by a set of readings,
images, and key terms that together constitute “conversations,” or orientations toward the history
of modern art. An aim of this course is to enable students to identify and ultimately enter into
focused, art-historical conversations and to understand their positioning within the broader
discourse. However, because there is a fair amount of conceptual overlap among the course’s
themes, the foremost goal is to enable critical analysis of modern, visual artworks from multiple
perspectives, or within multiple frameworks. In considering the many, dynamic engagements of
theory, history, and visual artworks, this course will provide not only a strong knowledge of
modern art, modernism, and the avant-garde, it will also help students develop a sense of the
methods used to study the histories and theories of modern art.
- Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
- R 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
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Competitive Programming
Intro to Computer Science
- Department: Engineering
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Instructor:
Paul S Blaer
CULPA: 46
h-index: 8
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Competitive Programming
Advanced Computer Science
- Department: Engineering
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Instructor:
Daniel Bauer
CULPA: 17
h-index: 13
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Flash Forms
An Intro to Reading/Writi
The most compelling creative nonfiction usually balances two things on a scale: looking inward and looking outward. The writer usually commands the attention of the reader with personal fixation, urgent inquisition, and/or evocative occurrence before allowing the self to move beyond and observe, digest, and/or criticize the world with a keen eye. To learn how to do so, we will be reading diverse works of nonfiction that center an honest, complex, and incredibly porous narrative, each combining the reflective and the analytical in its distinct style. We will also approach major genres of nonfiction, including memoir and personal essay, and other miscellaneous forms such as diary and writing with archival materials. There will be voluntary in-class and take-home exercises that encourage students to practice techniques exemplified by assigned texts, while weekly writing assignments will give students opportunities to adopt these skills to fit their own language and style.
- Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
- R 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
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PROGRAM EXTENSION
this will be used for students in flat-rate/full-time programs who are approved by OEM & OSA who due to academic or personal reason must re-take courses. The course will be zero credits and zero billable (see EXRS P0001 as an example). Students enrolled in this course will be responsible for University wide fees.
- Department: Public Health
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1/2-RESIDENCE UNIT
Residence Unit
- Department: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Instructor:
Richard Slusarczyk
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DOCTORAL RESEARCH REGISTRATION
- Department: Public Health
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Instructor:
Carlos Correa
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FULL-TIME STUDY ABROAD PROGRAM
This is a "dummy" course for CC and SEAS students studying abroad on a Columbia-Approved program (programs not administered by Columbia) for the semester.
- Department: Global Programs
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Women & Comedy
“Women and Comedy” focuses on the intersection between comedy and gender, race, class and sexuality. Aware that as Judith Butler says, “the process of securing greater freedom for women requires an ongoing rethinking of this category,” we use the term “woman” not as a fixed position but an entry point into discussing history – specifically to interrogate and challenge comedy’s all-too-long and enduring history of making a punchline out of marginalized groups. 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 course does exclusively focus on humorists and welcomes writers of all genres who want to get playful. 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 whatever shape or form it takes. As we shift to sharing our own thoughts and work, we will do so from a place of generosity. As Charna Halpern, Del Close and Kim “Howard” Johnson put it: “A truly funny scene is not the result of someone trying to steal laughs at the expense of his partner, but of generosity – of trying to make the other person (and his ideas) look as good as possible.” Let’s share and discuss from this place of generosity. Rather than prescriptive critiques, let’s ask one another “what’s the fun of this story?” Let’s urge each other to see how can that fun remain, adhere, and grow through our time together.
- Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
- R 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nina Sharma
CULPA: 5
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Biomedical Engineering: Where Biology, M
MITIGATING CLIMATE CHANGE
- Department: Engineering
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Biomedical Engineering: Where Biology, M
A BETTER PLANET BY DESIGN
- Department: Engineering
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Instructor:
Athanasios Bourtsalas
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Biomedical Engineering: Where Biology, M
- Department: Engineering
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Instructor:
Lauren N Heckelman
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Biomedical Engineering: Where Biology, M
- Department: Engineering
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Instructor:
Lauren N Heckelman
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Biomedical Engineering: Where Biology, M
Intro Cheme Engineering
- Department: Engineering
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Instructor:
Christopher Vic S Chen
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F/T MATRICULATION-HLTH SCIENCE
- Department: Public Health
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Instructor:
Carlos Correa
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1/4-RESIDENCE UNIT
- Department: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Instructor:
Richard Slusarczyk
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DOCTORAL RESEARCH REGISTRATION
- Department: Public Health
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Instructor:
Carlos Correa
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Health and Society Institute
This program examines the interplay of science, medicine, and the experience of health and illness by way of epistemological questions—“How do we know what we know?”—to appreciate not only what becomes defined and recognized as a disease, but the power relationships that produce these effects. This program takes up current and historical examples to interrogate how the benefits of advances in science and medicine remain unequally shared, while exploring critical tools social scientists have offered as possible interventions. Major themes from this session will address biomedicine as a cultural system, the politics of surveillance and care, the performance and rituals of healing, the structure of the US public health system, and others. Students will be engaging with work from a range of scholars, including anthropologists, philosophers, historians, physicians, scientists, and journalists, also with an eye to how these perspectives can inform the health experience of living in New York City.
- Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
- MTWRF 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Maxine Weisgrau
CULPA: 24 Info - 0 points
Race, Ethnicity, and US Society
Race, Ethnicity, & US Soc
What is “race”? What is “ethnicity”? How are they related and how do they shape the life chances of people in the United States? In this class, we discuss racism’s origin story, particularly how capitalist interests motivated the creation of racial hierarchy. We focus on how White-controlled institutions and elite actors mediate racial and ethnic groups’ access to material and social resources, leading to Whites disproportionately benefiting from U.S. social processes. We investigate social processes through intersectional—noting relationships between race, class, and gender—and historical lens, highlighting how racism evolves over time in response to resistance. We also examine the consequences of racism across social domains. Our course concludes by grappling with the questions: (1) How effective have social movements, and other forms of social organization, been in resisting and ending racism? (2) What are the implications for current racial justice activism?
- Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
- R 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Angela Simms
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ALP INTENSIVE-SUMMER A
- Department: American Language Program
- F 10:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
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ALP INTENSIVE-SUMMER A
- Department: American Language Program
- F 10:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
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ALP INTENSIVE-SUMMER A
- Department: American Language Program
- F 10:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Flash Forms
"For sale: baby shoes, never worn." In six words, the unidentified writer (sometimes attributed as Ernest Hemingway) prompts the reader to imagine a whole story. Who are the parents? What happened to the baby? Where are the parents selling the shoes? Who will buy them? A work of flash fiction or nonfiction gives us just enough information to suggest narrative and character, while leaving us to fill in the gaps with our imagination. In this workshop, we'll practice writing very short essays, stories, and prose poems, assessing what makes them evocative and memorable. We'll read very short works by Jamaica Kincaid, John Edgar Wideman, Lydia Davis, George Saunders, and others, with attention to how these writers create meaning through very few words, while gesturing towards context off the page. We'll practice writing flash with prompts given in class. Writers will come away with not only a toolbox for crafting this short form, but also with strategies for crafting vivid scenes and dynamic characters in fiction more broadly.
- Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
- R 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alexandra P Watson
CULPA: 16 Info - 0 points
P/T MATRICULATION-HLTH SCIENCE
- Department: Public Health
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Instructor:
Carlos Correa
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DOCTORAL RESEARCH REGISTRATION
- Department: Public Health
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Instructor:
Carlos Correa
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Health and Society Institute Section 2
Health & Society Institut
This program examines the interplay of science, medicine, and the experience of health and illness by way of epistemological questions—“How do we know what we know?”—to appreciate not only what becomes defined and recognized as a disease, but the power relationships that produce these effects. This program takes up current and historical examples to interrogate how the benefits of advances in science and medicine remain unequally shared, while exploring critical tools social scientists have offered as possible interventions. Major themes from this session will address biomedicine as a cultural system, the politics of surveillance and care, the performance and rituals of healing, the structure of the US public health system, and others. Students will be engaging with work from a range of scholars, including anthropologists, philosophers, historians, physicians, scientists, and journalists, also with an eye to how these perspectives can inform the health experience of living in New York City.
Students will also take a concurrent course on understanding the lived experiences of health and wellness through qualitative research techniques.
- Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
- MTWRF 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gina A Jae
CULPA: 1 Info - 0 points
Civil Engineering: Human Impact and the
INNOVATION AND DESIGN
- Department: Engineering
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The Perzine Is Political: Critical Think
The Perzine Is Political, will use zines in the Barnard Library's extensive collection of creative nonfiction texts written by authors holding a wide range of identities, along with excerpts from the book Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism, scholarly articles, and lay publications The class will include a digital element, doing textual analysis with the zine corpus, and will explore how critical making challenges the research paper as the default or only way of demonstrating knowledge.
- Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
- R 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
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Electrical Engineering: Harnessing the E
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
- Department: Engineering
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Instructor:
David G Vallancourt
CULPA: 28
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Electrical Engineering: Harnessing the E
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
- Department: Engineering
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Instructor:
David G Vallancourt
CULPA: 28
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1-RESIDENCE UNIT-HLTH SCIENCE
- Department: Public Health
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Instructor:
Carlos Correa
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Science In Your Life: Through the Eyes o
What do Diet Coke, solar panels, and synthetic organs have in common? They are all things that a chemical engineer can work on improving! Whether it's making batteries more efficient to electrify the nation, designing instruments for space exploration, or creating new, vegan products for skin care, chemical engineers are influential in all aspects of society. Ever wonder what's inside a vanadium flow battery? Have you heard of using gene therapy to cure cancer? Do you wish you knew a little more about microrobots that are used for water purification?
This course gives you a taste of everyday science in your life and shows you how chemical engineers are working towards solving the prevalent issues of the world. You'll become more knowledgeable about what goes into objects and processes you might normally overlook. We will show you what engineering hurdles the world faces today along with how you can get involved. Hopefully, you'll finish this course marveling at the recent advances of engineering and inspired to become an engineer!
- Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
- R 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
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Science In Your Life: Through the Eyes o
What do Diet Coke, solar panels, and synthetic organs have in common? They are all things that a chemical engineer can work on improving! Whether it's making batteries more efficient to electrify the nation, designing instruments for space exploration, or creating new, vegan products for skin care, chemical engineers are influential in all aspects of society. Ever wonder what's inside a vanadium flow battery? Have you heard of using gene therapy to cure cancer? Do you wish you knew a little more about microrobots that are used for water purification?
This course gives you a taste of everyday science in your life and shows you how chemical engineers are working towards solving the prevalent issues of the world. You'll become more knowledgeable about what goes into objects and processes you might normally overlook. We will show you what engineering hurdles the world faces today along with how you can get involved. Hopefully, you'll finish this course marveling at the recent advances of engineering and inspired to become an engineer!
- Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
- R 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
- 0 points
CHILD ABUSE REPORTING EDUCATION
CHLD ABUSE REPORTING EDUC
The Child Abuse Reporting Education (CARE) Project is an online resource designed to teach graduate students in the Columbia University School of Social Work and the College of Dental Medicine how to recognize the symptoms of child abuse and how to report abuse when acting in their professional capacities.
The Child Abuse Reporting Education (CARE) online training. CARE is a mandatory requirement to graduate. It will take you approximately 60 minutes. Social Workers have the responsibility as mandated reporters of child abuse.
- Department: Social Work
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Instructor:
Marlene Leo
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Latine NYC: A Critical View of Hispanics
New York City is the largest Hispanic city in the United States with a population of 2.3 million Latinxs representing 29% of the population, with a total of 19% in the whole state. At the same time, this same population is one of the most under-served and under-represented with 38% Hispanics living under the line of poverty and 40% being uninsured. Within a Critical Discourse Analysis framework, during the four weeks students will be able to learn about some of the challenges the Hispanic communities experience while living in the city (i.e. racism, classism, gentrification, etc.) and the way these are translated into real life experiences.
- Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
- R 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Maria E Lozano
CULPA: 7
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History of Photography 1839-1945
The aim of this course is to introduce students to the big questions associated with photography
and its history as an art form, a technology, and a mode of social and cultural communication. By
the end of this course, students will have a rich understanding of the history of the emergence of
photography and photographic theory. They will be able to engage with aesthetic, technological,
and social discourses surrounding photography’s invention and development from 1839 through
the second World War. Students will be able to relate theory with the practice of photography,
and understand the roles photography plays in the histories of art, society, and communication.
- Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
- R 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
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1/2-RESIDENCE-HLTH SCIENCE
- Department: Public Health
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Instructor:
Carlos Correa
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The DNA of Fiction Filmmaking
At the heart of every movie is its story. In this immersive workshop, you will develop your visual storytelling skills to create a short screenplay – the DNA of a winning film.
You will learn how to grab viewers by their collective shirt collar and more importantly, hold their attention until the final credits roll. Emphasis will be placed on the classic three-act structure, plot, character development, conflict, and dialogue. Through notes and discussion of your work, we will help pick the lock on the stories only you can tell. While the world you create on the page may be fictional, you will get at the emotional truth of the characters’ lives through specifics. Perhaps paradoxical and even a bit counterintuitive, Greta Gerwig said it best, “The more particular you make something, the more universal it becomes.”
Since the script illuminates the story for everyone who helps bring your vision to the screen, you’ll also discover how best to collaborate with actors, directors, cinematographers, and designers. And in short exercises, you’ll get a chance to experience the many aspects of filmmaking – including acting, storyboarding, shooting, production designing, and location scouting.
While sharing work will be the focus of the course, we’ll also take full advantage of New York City as both a set and source of inspiration. After all, this is a fantastic place to eavesdrop, people watch, and capture the magic for all to see.
- Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
- R 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
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The Politics of Remembrance: Black Women
This course is a general overview of the methods and approaches to the histories written on slavery and resistance. In it, we will consider the expansive reach of the Transatlantic slave trade to the Americas, its relationship to modern-day capitalism, and the contemporary debates on reparations. Students will learn to interpret and read various sources that contemplate the political and socioeconomic realities of slave societies. We will mainly examine the experiences of enslaved African-descended people through Black feminist approaches and methods. Therefore, the course will mainly focus on the location of women in these societies and the construction of gendered and racialized identities within these frameworks. In effect, this course explores how Black people, particularly Black women, have organized resistance strategies during slavery and through the re-narration of slave histories in academic and public spaces.
In the second half of the course, students will consider the relationship between studies on slavery and the collective public memory of slavery in Europe, coastal Africa, the Caribbean, and North and South America. To better understand activism and the construction of memory, students will visit various “memory spaces” in New York City, including the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the African Burial Ground, and the Flatbush Burial Ground. As this course demonstrates, the history of slavery is often written and narrated outside of official institutions and academic spaces. From this perspective, we will also engage with alternative methods (i.e., the body/corporeal forms) to narrate the slave past in theater, public protest, and “rest as activism” through outlets like the “Unheard Voices” theater workshop and yoga/ meditative practices. Overall, the course will unpack issues of gender and race by studying slavery and its narration throughout the transatlantic world and how the descendants of enslaved people have “rewrote” these histories in their intellectual work, art, and political activism
- Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
- R 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
- 0 points
ENGL FOR ADV LEGAL STUDY
- Department: American Language Program
- MTWRF 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
- 0 points
1 Residence Unit-Climate School
1 RU Climate School
1 RU Full Time Enrollment in the Climate School
- Department: Climate School
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Uses of Violence
In this course, we’ll explore the use of violence in short stories and fiction. We’ll look
at how violence, be it emotional, political, or physical, can serve to develop conflict
and character in fiction. How does fictional violence serve to disrupt and unsettle
not only the narrative, but the reader as well? To explore this, we’ll move from the
philosophical exploration of violence in works by Dostoyevsky and Moravia to the
more raucous display in Cormac McCarthy’s Westerns and Highsmith and
Thompson’s noirs, from the repressed, lurking violence in short stories by writers
Such as Carver and Gaitskill to the textual violence found in postmodern writers like
Acker. Along the way, we’ll meet assassins, prisoners, skinheads, schoolgirls, and
gangsters. How and why do these characters excite or repel us? How far can we
push the characters in our own fiction, and how far should we? How can violence
illuminate the larger political or societal forces that exist in specific moments of
history? How does violence in fiction create an often unexpected, yet deeply
significant, catharsis and consequence?
- Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
- R 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
- 0 points
1/2 RU Climate School
1/2 RU tuition for Climate School students
- Department: Climate School
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Design Interactions
What differentiates acts of design from other, everyday processes? Looking across our environments, we might sense the spaces we occupy are the result of hyper-controlled, coordinated procedures. From this vantage point, design seems to be everywhere, and so, how do we locate it? This course will revisit historic and contemporary design methods, artifacts, and visions to better see the ways we conceive of, represent, and mobilize design to act on the world. Design will be presented across multiple scales--from the molecular to the bodily to the planetary--as both a normalizing and potentially subversive tool. We will question its limitations and push its capacity to address existing inequities through activist and interdisciplinary approaches. Guest speakers and field trips will supplement lectures and readings. Students will apply concepts presented in class to exercises conducted in design workshops.
- Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
- R 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
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ENGL FOR PROF PURPOSE:BUSINESS
- Department: American Language Program
- R 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Carolyn Dunn
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1/4 Residence Unit Climate School
1/4 RU Climate School
1/4 RU tuition for Climate School Students
- Department: Climate School
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ENGLISH FOR PROF PURPOSE:SIPA
- Department: American Language Program
- MTWRF 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jeanne K Lambert
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Instructor:
Paula Bassoff
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Extended Residence Climate School
Extended Residence CLIM
Extended Residence enrollment category for Climate School students.
- Department: Climate School
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