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)
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Sophia D'Addio
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Susan M Sivard
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Rachel F Himes
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Pujan Karambeigi
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Susan M Sivard
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Aaron Slodounik
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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.
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Barbara Spinelli
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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.
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Emma Ianni
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
MASTERPIECES OF WESTERN MUSIC
Analysis and discussion of representative works from the Middle Ages to the present.
- Department: Core (A&S)
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Finola Merivale
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Mariusz Kozak
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Walter M Frisch
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Ashkan Behzadi
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Velia Ivanova
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Larry Jackson
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Velia Ivanova
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Hannah S Kendall
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Marilyn McCoy
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Lucy Turner
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Giuseppe Gerbino
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Lucy Turner
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John H McWhorter
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Elaine Sisman
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Joshua Navon
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Audrey Amsellem
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HAUNTED AMERICAS
In this course, we will encounter ghosts and hauntings in literature from the Americas, primarily from Latin American and Caribbean writers. These ghosts expose something hidden in the past and pull dark secrets into the light. We will think about haunting not just as a supernatural experience, but as a mechanism that reveals layers of history and unearths long buried injustices. A few of the characters we will meet are: A Cuban exile living in Miami who is haunted by the life he left behind; a teenager in Argentina who explores her queer identity and confronts the ghosts of the state violence; a General accused of genocide who defends his innocence, though the ghosts in his home say otherwise. The ghosts in these stories force the characters to reckon with, or fall prey to, legacies of colonialism, war, and migration. Readings include literary works by Mariana Enriquez, Edwidge Danticat, Carlos Fuentes, Jean Rhys, Ana Menéndez, and others.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Francesca E Austin Ochoa
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READING THE FUTURE
How do we think about the future? Why do we develop the hopes and fears that we do? How do present conditions and discourses inform, influence, or limit our senses of personal and political possibility? In this section of First-Year Writing, we will explore conceptions of the future in 19th through 21st-century literary fiction. We will begin by close reading 20th-century short stories that evoke hopes and fears for the future on individual, social, and global scales. We will then turn to H.G. Wells’ classic novella
The Time Machine
and place its portrayal of the future in the context of late Victorian science and socioeconomics. Finally, we will consider how contemporary literature reflects and responds to the accelerating climate crisis, and explore fiction’s role in helping us apprehend the potential for radical environmental disruption.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael Shelichach
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MUSIC IN NARRATIVE
How and to what ends does literature represent musical form or the feeling of musical encounter? In this course, we will discuss narratives in which music plays a significant role, whether through musical allusion or its sustained thematic presence, or through principles of musical composition and gesture that play in the background, informing a text’s structural flow. We will consider complex resonances between literary narratives and histories of music culture and aesthetics, asking how writers use music to world-build, to characterize, and to situate a text culturally and politically. Throughout the semester, we will pay particular attention to narratives that showcase the musical lives of characters belonging to historically marginalized groups. In doing so, we will question how race, gender, and sexuality intersect with musical histories of aesthetic power. Literary readings may include works by Jane Austen, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and James Joyce. Secondary readings in performance studies and musical aesthetics may include selections by Jennifer Lynn Stoever, Judith Butler, Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer, Maria Edgeworth, and others.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Weybright
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SPECULATING THE PAST
Recent works as diverse as The New York Times’s
Overlooked Project
and Netflix’s
Bridgerton
raise questions about what records we keep, how we narrate history, and the factors that determine what stories we can tell. In this class, we will probe these questions by reading literary works that turn to a speculative mode to make sense of history, past and present. As we enter the critical conversation about the historical record, we will explore how authority and value are assigned to different texts and accounts. In so doing, we will also develop our ability to read texts' and documents' own theorizations of truth and fact. Readings may include work by Virginia Woolf, Marlene NourbeSe Philip, Carmen Maria Machado, Adrienne Rich, and N.K. Jemisin alongside critical texts by Saidiya Hartman, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, and others. Course costs will not exceed $15.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sarah Schwartz
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TALKING BACK
Inspired by bell hooks's assertion that “moving from silence to speech is for the oppressed…a gesture of defiance that heals,” we read and write with attention to the power dynamics of speech and silence, of talking and talking back. Our literary and critical texts demand attention to the ways in which power shapes narrative, and narrative shapes power. We will think especially about how the oppressed, the colonized, the exploited, speak to and against erasure; and also how the marginalized create community by talking and talking back. The readings include literary works by Nella Larsen, Jamaica Kincaid, Toni Morrison, and Layli Long Soldier; and critical works by Frantz Fanon, Judith Butler, bell hooks, and others. The only book length work you will need is Toni Morrison’s Jazz (around $15 new).
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alexandra P Watson
CULPA: 16 Info - 3 points
CONTESTED TRUTHS: MEMORY, AUTHORITY AND
This class examines the ways that a historical event can be remembered and described differently by direct participants, and how personal biases, such as race, gender and class, affect the process of recollection and narration. Some of the texts that will be read and discussed include Sara Collins’
The Confessions of Frannie Langton
, Ian McEwan’s
Atonement
, and Alison Bechdel's
Fun Home
, among others. Our analysis of these texts will be augmented by theoretical works drawn from sociology and literary studies.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Benjamin M Breyer
CULPA: 13
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BALLET I
This course is designed for the absolute beginner or the student returning to ballet class after a lengthy hiatus and is intended to familiarize the student with the classical ballet terminology, to foster independence in this particular vocabulary, to introduce the historical context of the Western art form and conventions of a ballet class. Learning the physical practice of this centuries-old craft will give the student basic classical ballet terminology as well as gaining an anatomical understanding of the body.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- F 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Vincent McCloskey
CULPA: 2 Info - 0-1 points
TO UPEND A WORLD: ABOLITIONIST POETICS
In our class we will discuss abolition as a name for a set of imaginings that call for complete and total eradication of systems ("Worlds") that perpetuate collective harms. We will think about how capitalism, colonialism, and white supremacy limit our imaginations, and how we can think in ways that remake our world. Students will read essays by Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Pheng Cheah, Denise F. DaSilva, Edouard Glissant, and Christina Sharpe, and will trouble received readings of significant literary texts through abolitionist lenses to discern a range of liberatory strategies in the poetry, literary nonfiction, and fiction of writers including Audre Lorde, W.E.B. DuBois, James Baldwin, Lucille Clifton, M Nourbese Philip, Robin Coste Lewis, Etheridge Knight, Randall Horton, dg nanouk okpik, and Jackie Wang. As a class, students will discuss and consider these writers’, as well as their own, interventions in the context of literature's world-making power. (*Readings subject to change).
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
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Joey de Jesus
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THE TEENAGE STRANGE
Teenagers inhabit a strange land: in exile from childhood, still immigrating to adulthood. How have different writers mapped the liminal territory of the teenage experience? In this class, we will step away from the rich tradition of realistic Coming-of-Age narratives and explore how genre frameworks—including speculative, horror, fairy tale, gothic, and quest traditions—have been used to illuminate the Teenage Strange. How have writers used the strangeness of genre to render this slice of time? How does genre capture the teenage intersection between public and private inquiry—between larger questions about the world, and more private questions about the self? How does genre construct questions about fear, desire, rage, shame, power, culture, and love? How does it deconstruct reality so it can be seen, investigated, and felt? Readings may include work by Octavia Butler, A.S. King, Angela Carter, Carmen Maria Machado, Shirley Jackson, Joan He, Francesca Lia Block, Kelly Link, Viktor Shklovsky, Ursula K. LeGuin, Akwaeke Emezi, and others.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Emily K Austin
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BALLET II
This course is designed for the student with prior beginning ballet study, knowledge of the basic ballet vocabulary and the ability to process a combination with relative proficiency. During this semester you will be introduced to an expanded vocabulary, with focused attention will increase your technical ability, work with dynamics and speed, may work with a partner to analyze a movement combination or may be asked to produce and present a combination in class.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- F 1 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
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Kate A Glasner
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Juan Rodriguez
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COLONIALISM, IMPERIALISM, AND SEXUALITY
COLONIALISM AND SEXUALITY
This course considers the abundance of European literature and travel writing that detail the encounter between the colonizer and colonized. These narratives deploy stereotypes to characterize non-European geographies and people as excessively sensual and cast outside the progressive flow of time, waiting to be discovered by the white traveler. Edward Said termed this projected fantasy of sexual decadence “Orientalism,” or the cultural/historical reduction of “the East” into a stockpile of recognizable tropes. This reduction serves an ideological goal: to portray the North/West as the intellectual/cultural elite, and the South/East as the mere object of the former’s cataloguing fetish. This First-Year Writing course interrogates canonical texts of nineteenth- and twentieth-century European literature and travel writing by formulating questions about the erotic dimension of empires, with Said’s critical intervention as our guide. How is sexuality configured in colonial writing? What do these configurations tell us about the ideological map superimposed over the colony and the metropole? How do these constructions of sexuality continue to proliferate in our contemporary moment, and for what political ends?
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Andrew Ragni
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FEMINIST FAIRYTALES
In this class we will read and discuss feminist fairy tales: adaptations of classic tales and newly-imagined stories which—rather than promising a simple and tidy “happily ever after”—privilege female agency and offer up critiques of patriarchal structures. In dialog with texts that center women and other intersecting identities, we will talk about colorism, sexuality, desire, misogyny, motherhood, and more. Analyzing how these texts unmask and challenge various forms of oppression, we will explore how and why the magical and often didactic nature of the fairy tale genre lends itself to thinking critically about our current world and to envisioning more equitable futures. Readings include literary texts by Ovid, Julia Alvarez, Olga Broumas, Charles Perrault, Luisa Valenzuela, Nalo Hopkinson, Jeanette Winterson, Amal El-Mohtar, and Kelly Link. In dialog with these literary texts, we will also engage with various theoretical texts and perspectives; with film (Georges Méliès and Disney’s
Frozen
); with artwork; and with music (Taylor Swift).
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Penelope Usher
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PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS-DISC
Required Discussion section for ECON UN1105 Principles of Economics
- Department: Economics
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BEGINNING NONFICTION WORKSHOP
Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required. The beginning workshop in nonfiction is designed for students with little or no experience in writing literary nonfiction. Students are introduced to a range of technical and imaginative concerns through exercises and discussions, and they eventually submit their own writing for the critical analysis of the class. Outside readings supplement and inform the exercises and longer written projects.
- Department: Writing
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Peter M Raffel
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Wally Suphap
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INTRO-ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Basic concepts of electrical engineering. Exploration of selected topics and their application. Electrical variables, circuit laws, nonlinear and linear elements, ideal and real sources, transducers, operational amplifiers in simple circuits, external behavior of diodes and transistors, first order RC and RL circuits. Digital representation of a signal, digital logic gates, flipflops. A lab is an integral part of the course. Required of electrical engineering and computer engineering majors.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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David G Vallancourt
CULPA: 28
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CALCULUS III
Prerequisites: MATH UN1101 or the equivalent Vectors in dimensions 2 and 3, complex numbers and the complex exponential function with applications to differential equations, Cramers rule, vector-valued functions of one variable, scalar-valued functions of several variables, partial derivatives, gradients, surfaces, optimization, the method of Lagrange multipliers. (SC)
- Department: Mathematics @Barnard
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Chris Ivanov
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GENERAL PHYSICS I
Prerequisites: some basic background in calculus or be concurrently taking MATH UN1101 Calculus I. The accompanying laboratory is PHYS UN1291-UN1292 The course will use elementary concepts from calculus. The accompanying laboratory is PHYS UN1291 - UN1292. Basic introduction to the study of mechanics, fluids, thermodynamics, electricity, magnetism, optics, special relativity, quantum mechanics, atomic physics, and nuclear physics.
- Department: Physics
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Eric Raymer
CULPA: 3
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- 3 points
CALC-BASED INTRO TO STATISTICS
Prerequisites: one semester of calculus. Designed for students who desire a strong grounding in statistical concepts with a greater degree of mathematical rigor than in STAT W1111. Random variables, probability distributions, pdf, cdf, mean, variance, correlation, conditional distribution, conditional mean and conditional variance, law of iterated expectations, normal, chi-square, F and t distributions, law of large numbers, central limit theorem, parameter estimation, unbiasedness, consistency, efficiency, hypothesis testing, p-value, confidence intervals, maximum likelihood estimation. Serves as the pre-requisite for ECON W3412.
- Department: Statistics
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Ashley Datta
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Joyce T Robbins
CULPA: 5
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INTERMEDIATE CANTONESE II
- Department: Language Resource Center
- TWR 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
- 4 points
CALCULUS IV
Prerequisites: MATH UN1102 and MATH UN1201 or the equivalent Multiple integrals, Taylor's formula in several variables, line and surface integrals, calculus of vector fields, Fourier series. (SC)
- Department: Mathematics
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Qiao He
Info - 3 points
GENERAL PHYSICS II
Prerequisites: This course will use elementary concepts from calculus. Students should therefore have had some high school calculus, or be concurrently enrolled in MATH UN1101. Taken with accompanying lab PHYS UN1291- PHYS UN1292, the sequence PHYS UN1201- PHYS UN1202 satisfies requirements for medical school. Electricity, magnetism, optics, and modern physics.
- Department: Physics
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
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Michael H Shaevitz
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P. Michael Tuts
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INTERMEDIATE QUECHUA II
- Department: Language Resource Center
- MWF 9:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
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Instructor:
Stephane A Charitos
CULPA: 6
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- 4 points
INTERMEDIATE YORUBA II
- Department: Language Resource Center
- MTWR 9:05 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Stephane A Charitos
CULPA: 6
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- 4 points
INTERMEDIATE FRENCH I
Prerequisites: FREN BC1001, BC1002, BC1102, C1101 and C1102, or an appropriate score on the placement test. Further development of oral and written communication skills. Readings in French literature.
- Department: French @Barnard
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Hadley T Suter
CULPA: 7
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- 3 points
GENERAL PHYSICS I - REC
- Department: Physics
- M 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
- T 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- T 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
- W 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
- R 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- R 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Eric Raymer
CULPA: 3
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