Introduction to American Politics Discus
Intro Am Pol Discussion
Discussion section
- Department: Political Science
-
Instructor:
Dani Hogan
Info -
Instructor:
Robab Vaziri
Info - 0 points
Introduction to American Politics Discus
Intro Am Pol Discussion
Discussion section
- Department: Political Science
-
Instructor:
Robab Vaziri
Info - 0 points
AI in Society - DISC
This is a mandatory discussion section for course UN2210 AI in Society. Please register for one AI in Society discussion section to take the course.
- Department: Sociology
-
Instructor:
Ari Galper
Info -
Instructor:
Emily R Mazo
Info -
Instructor:
Claire M Corsten
Info - 0 points
TRADITIONS IN NONFICTION
Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required. The seminar provides exposure to the varieties of nonfiction with readings in its principal genres: reportage, criticism and commentary, biography and history, and memoir and the personal essay. A highly plastic medium, nonfiction allows authors to portray real events and experiences through narrative, analysis, polemic or any combination thereof. Free to invent everything but the facts, great practitioners of nonfiction are faithful to reality while writing with a voice and a vision distinctively their own. To show how nonfiction is conceived and constructed, class discussions will emphasize the relationship of content to form and style, techniques for creating plot and character under the factual constraints imposed by nonfiction, the defining characteristics of each authors voice, the authors subjectivity and presence, the role of imagination and emotion, the uses of humor, and the importance of speculation and attitude. Written assignments will be opportunities to experiment in several nonfiction genres and styles.
- Department: Writing
-
Instructor:
Zoe K Hardwick
Info - 3 points
MODERN RUSSIAN HISTORY
An introductory survey of the history of Russia, the Russian Empire, and the Soviet Union over the last two centuries. Russia’s role on the European continent, intellectual movements, unfree labor and emancipation, economic growth and social change, and finally the great revolutions of 1905 and 1917 define the “long nineteenth century.” The second half of the course turns to the tumultuous twentieth century: cultural experiments of the 1920s, Stalinism, World War II, and the new society of the Khrushchev and Brezhnev years. Finally, a look at very recent history since the East European revolutions of 1989-91. This is primarily a course on the domestic history of Russia and the USSR, but with some attention to foreign policy and Russia’s role in the world.
- Department: History
-
Instructor:
Yana Skorobogatov
Info - 4 points
MODERN RUSSIAN HISTORY-DISCUSSION
- Department: History
-
Instructor:
Aisha Garaeva
Info -
Instructor:
Aleksandr Orlov
Info -
Instructor:
Brandon T Waldau
Info - 0 points
MODERN RUSSIAN HISTORY-DISCUSSION
- Department: History
-
Instructor:
Brandon T Waldau
Info -
Instructor:
Zinaida Osipova
Info -
Instructor:
Jenna Lee
Info - 0 points
SECOND YEAR CHINESE W II
Second-Year Chinese W (I & II) : This course is designed for heritage learners with conversational abilities and foundational literacy skills in Mandarin Chinese. Through a combination of interactive lessons, focused linguistic exercises, cultural exploration, and real-world applications, students will deepen their understanding of their cultural heritage while expanding their vocabulary and enhancing their language skills. By the end of the course, students will be better equipped to engage confidently with family members and other Chinese-speaking communities.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
-
Instructor:
Yaxi Zheng
Info - 5 points
NATURE & POWER: ENV HIST NORTH AMERICA
Environmental history seeks to expand the customary framework of historical inquiry, challenging students to construct narratives of the past that incorporate not only human beings but also the natural world with which human life is intimately intertwined. As a result, environmental history places at center stage a wide range of previously overlooked historical actors such as plants, animals, and diseases. Moreover, by locating nature within human history, environmental history encourages its practitioners to rethink some of the fundamental categories through which our understanding of the natural world is expressed: wilderness and civilization, wild and tame, natural and artificial. For those interested in the study of ethnicity, environmental history casts into particularly sharp relief the ways in which the natural world can serve both to undermine and to reinforce the divisions within human societies. Although all human beings share profound biological similarities, they have nonetheless enjoyed unequal access to natural resources and to healthy environments—differences that have all-too-frequently been justified by depicting such conditions as “natural.”
- Department: History
-
Instructor:
Karl Jacoby
CULPA: 2 h-index: 8 Info - 4 points
NATURE & POWER: ENV HIST NORTH AMERICA
Environmental history seeks to expand the customary framework of historical inquiry, challenging students to construct narratives of the past that incorporate not only human beings but also the natural world with which human life is intimately intertwined. As a result, environmental history places at center stage a wide range of previously overlooked historical actors such as plants, animals, and diseases. Moreover, by locating nature within human history, environmental history encourages its practitioners to rethink some of the fundamental categories through which our understanding of the natural world is expressed: wilderness and civilization, wild and tame, natural and artificial. For those interested in the study of ethnicity, environmental history casts into particularly sharp relief the ways in which the natural world can serve both to undermine and to reinforce the divisions within human societies. Although all human beings share profound biological similarities, they have nonetheless enjoyed unequal access to natural resources and to healthy environments—differences that have all-too-frequently been justified by depicting such conditions as “natural.”
- Department: Auditing
-
Instructor:
Karl Jacoby
CULPA: 2 h-index: 8 Info - 0 points
Accelerated Korean for Heritage Speakers
Accelerated Korean II
Accelerated Korean II is specifically designed for heritage students of Korean, who already have previous knowledge of basic grammar and culture. This course completes the college's two-year foreign language requirement.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
-
Instructor:
Ji-Young Jung
Info - 5 points
Accelerated Korean for Heritage Speakers
Accelerated Korean II
Accelerated Korean II is specifically designed for heritage students of Korean, who already have previous knowledge of basic grammar and culture. This course completes the college's two-year foreign language requirement.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
-
Instructor:
Ji-Young Jung
Info - 5 points
MELLON MAYS UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP SEN
MMUF SENIOR 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.
SODB: THIRD & FOURTH YR SEM
Prerequisites: SODBX1111 Must be enrolled on Scholars of Distinction Program This is the course associated with the Barbara Silver Horowitz Scholars of Distinction program. It is for students in that program. Note at the end of their second year, the students will have developed a project for the summer between their second and third years at Barnard. During their third year, they will develop a robust research project connected to or deriving from that summer’s work.
- Department: Scholars of Distinction @Barnard
- 1.5 points
Staging Early Modern London
This lecture course examines the performances through which early modern London (c. 1558-1642) “staged” itself: at the public and private theaters, on the street in civic and royal rituals, and in popular entertainments. In so doing, we will examine how the capital city’s sense of itself came to be shaped by its various performances – its relationship with the crown, with the country, with strangers and foreigners – and how key sites (the “liberties,” the Royal Exchange, the Guildhall, the Thames, Covent Garden, Hyde Park) came to hold meaning for London audiences.
We will be reading texts by dramatists including Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Francis Beaumont, Thomas Middleton, and James Shirley, as well as less studied texts.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
-
Instructor:
Alan Stewart
CULPA: 14 h-index: 13 Info - 3 points
Staging Early Modern London
This lecture course examines the performances through which early modern London (c. 1558-1642) “staged” itself: at the public and private theaters, on the street in civic and royal rituals, and in popular entertainments. In so doing, we will examine how the capital city’s sense of itself came to be shaped by its various performances – its relationship with the crown, with the country, with strangers and foreigners – and how key sites (the “liberties,” the Royal Exchange, the Guildhall, the Thames, Covent Garden, Hyde Park) came to hold meaning for London audiences.
We will be reading texts by dramatists including Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Francis Beaumont, Thomas Middleton, and James Shirley, as well as less studied texts.
- Department: Auditing
-
Instructor:
Alan Stewart
CULPA: 14 h-index: 13 Info - 0 points
Chinese Contemporary Culture & Society T
Chinese Contemporary Film
This course will use films to introduce Chinese contemporary history, culture, and values. As the first part of this course, it focuses primarily on films produced in mainland China. Students will explore a selection of films from the early 1930s to the present, spanning various genres and themes, including internationally renowned Chinese films, independent productions, and mainstream popular works, while also reflecting diverse customs and dialects. Through this exploration, students will develop a foundational understanding of China’s contemporary history, society, and its rich and diverse cultural traditions and values. Each film will be analyzed within its historical context, considering both its aesthetic form and social content. Class meetings incorporate lectures, film screenings, discussions, and student presentations.
Gender, Sexuality, and Health: Social Sc
Gender and sexuality are fundamental to how we understand ourselves as individuals – but have you thought about them as kinds of social inequality, similar to race, class, or disability? In this course, students will learn about gender and sexuality as elements of social context which are fundamental to our social worlds, as aspects of social organization, as key forms of inequality (heterosexuality/homosexuality, cis/trans or nonbinary, men/women), and as forces that shape health. Developing skills to analyze how gender and sexuality shape health includes mastering some key concepts at the intersection of social science, gender and sexuality studies, and health sciences as well as learning some content about social aspects of a range of health problems.
This course, which has no prerequisites, may be of particular interest to students majoring in sociology, anthropology, or gender and sexuality studies, as well as to students interested in health science careers (note, our engagement with questions about inequality and social structure speak to topics on the MCAT). A key element of course design is that all graded writing is done *during* class time (of course with appropriate disability accommodations), both with the goal of structuring AI-free writing and helping students manage their workload.
- Department: Sociology
-
Instructor:
Jennifer S Hirsch
Wikipedia Info - 4 points
THINKING AND DECISION MAKING
Prerequisites: an introductory course in psychology. Models of judgment and decision making in both certain and uncertain or risky situations, illustrating the interplay of top-down (theory-driven) and bottom-up (data-driven) processes in creating knowledge. Focuses on how individuals do and should make decisions, with some extensions to group decision making and social dilemmas.
- Department: Psychology
-
Instructor:
Katherine T Fox-Glassman
CULPA: 6
h-index: 4
Info
- 3 points
JAZZ DANCE II
In This JAZZ ll Level Course,
You will develop a solid understanding within your body that demonstrates advanced fundamentals, rhythm, technique, connectivity and phrasing necessary to communicate each movement. You will learn new phrases and dynamic material while continuously applying technical information. We will delve deeper into technique preparing your body to perform more efficiently and effectively at a higher rate while reducing the risk of injury.
Prerequisites: DNCE BC1247, BC1248 or permission of instructor.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
-
Instructor:
Ehizoje J Azeke
Info - 2 points
AFRICAN DANCE I
In West Africa, dance is part of daily life. It is used to mark occasions such a birth, death, harvest, and marriage. It is also used to unite the community in times of crisis. West African dance is not as much a strict technique as it is a movement coming from the spirit and the rhythm of the drum and the energy of the people. While there are certain steps that go with specific rhythms, it leaves space for the individual interpretation and improvisations which is an important element. Dancing is more about the communication between dancer and drummer. The movement of West African dance tends to be energetic and big. It is very expressive, and the energy is outward.
Some African dance steps are taken directly from daily activities such as planting or hunting. Most, however, are an expression of joy or release of the spirit. Dancing is done by communicating with a drummer to create positive energy. It is a way to enjoy oneself and each other. In African dance, the name of the dance is the same as the name of the rhythm played by the drummer. The individual steps that make up the dance do not have names. In this course, we are going to be learning various West African dances such as Sikko, Socco, Kuku, Mandiany, Farakorroba, Sunu, Soli, Lamba, Mandjo, Diambadong, Doundounba, Kaolask, Thieboudjeune, Niarry---gorong, Ekongkong, Wolossodong, Zaouly, Ngorong, Niakka, Maraka, Djansa and Lengeng/Kutiro.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
-
Instructor:
Maguette Camara
CULPA: 7
Info
- 2 points
AFRICAN DANCE I
In West Africa, dance is part of daily life. It is used to mark occasions such a birth, death, harvest, and marriage. It is also used to unite the community in times of crisis. West African dance is not as much a strict technique as it is a movement coming from the spirit and the rhythm of the drum and the energy of the people. While there are certain steps that go with specific rhythms, it leaves space for the individual interpretation and improvisations which is an important element. Dancing is more about the communication between dancer and drummer. The movement of West African dance tends to be energetic and big. It is very expressive, and the energy is outward.
Some African dance steps are taken directly from daily activities such as planting or hunting. Most, however, are an expression of joy or release of the spirit. Dancing is done by communicating with a drummer to create positive energy. It is a way to enjoy oneself and each other. In African dance, the name of the dance is the same as the name of the rhythm played by the drummer. The individual steps that make up the dance do not have names. In this course, we are going to be learning various West African dances such as Sikko, Socco, Kuku, Mandiany, Farakorroba, Sunu, Soli, Lamba, Mandjo, Diambadong, Doundounba, Kaolask, Thieboudjeune, Niarry---gorong, Ekongkong, Wolossodong, Zaouly, Ngorong, Niakka, Maraka, Djansa and Lengeng/Kutiro.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
-
Instructor:
Maguette Camara
CULPA: 7
Info
- 2 points
AFRICAN DANCE II
Prerequisites: DNCE BC2252 or permission of instructor.
In West Africa, dance is part of daily life. It is used to mark occasions such a birth, death, harvest, and marriage. It is also used to unite the community in times of crisis. West African dance is not as much a strict technique as it is a movement coming from the spirit and the rhythm of the drum and the energy of the people. While there are certain steps that go with specific rhythms, it leaves space for the individual interpretation and improvisations which is an important element. Dancing is more about the communication between dancer and drummer. The movement of West African dance tends to be energetic and big. It is very expressive, and the energy is outward.
Some African dance steps are taken directly from daily activities such as planting or hunting. Most, however, are an expression of joy or release of the spirit. Dancing is done by communicating with a drummer to create positive energy. It is a way to enjoy oneself and each other.
In African dance, the name of the dance is the same as the name of the rhythm played by the drummer. The individual steps that make up the dance do not have names.
In this course, we are going to be learning various West African dances such as Sikko, Socco, Kuku, Mandiany, Farakorroba, Sunu, Soli, Lamba, Mandjo, Diambadong, Doundounba, Kaolask, Thieboudjeune, Niarry-gorong, Ekongkong, Wolossodong, Zaouly, Ngorong, Niakka, Maraka, Djansa and Lengeng/Kutiro.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
-
Instructor:
Maguette Camara
CULPA: 7
Info
- 2 points
AFRO-CUBAN DANCE
This course introduces students to the African-based dances of Cuba, including dances for the Orisha, Rumba, and the immensely joyful “Rueda de Casino” style of Salsa. In addition to learning rhythms, songs, and dances, we will have an ongoing, informal discussion about the historical and contemporary significance of Afro-Cuban dance performance, making connections to personal experience through practice and ongoing reflection. We engage Afro-Cuban music and dance as a living and evolving tradition, where culture, artistry, and history are intimately bound.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
-
Instructor:
Rebecca Bliss
Info - 2 points
Machine Intelligence
This course will survey historical and modern developments in machine intelligence from fields such as psychology, neuroscience, and computer science, and from approaches such as cybernetics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, connectionism, neural networks, and deep learning. Emphasis will be placed on the conceptual understanding of topics. The course does not include, nor require a background in, computer programming and statistics. The overall goal is for students to become informed consumers of artificial intelligence applications.
- Department: Psychology
-
Instructor:
Trenton Jerde
h-index: 11 Info - 3 points
Advanced Explorations in AfroCuban Dance
Advanced AfroCuban Dance
An upper-level exploration of Afro-Cuban Dance focused on performance. Building on the foundation of Afro-Cuban Dance: Orisha, Rumba, Salsa, this course is a deeper dive into aesthetic principles, cultural themes, and improvisation as performance in the African dance context. Students explore multiple distinct dances and learn to engage the storytelling and cultural significance of each dance through improvisation with the drums. The course culminates with final, in-class presentations. Open to experienced movers and students who have completed Afro-Cuban Dance: Orisha, Rumba, Salsa. Permission of instructor required.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
-
Instructor:
Rebecca Bliss
Info - 2 points
THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
Prerequisites: ECON UN1105 Covers five areas within the general field of international economics: (i) microeconomic issues of why countries trade, how the gains from trade are distributed, and protectionism; (ii) macroeconomic issues such as exchange rates, balance of payments and open economy macroeconomic adjustment, (iii) the role of international institutions (World Bank, IMF, etc); (iv) economic development and (v) economies in transition.
- Department: Economics
-
Instructor:
Waseem Noor
CULPA: 7 Info - 3 points
HIP HOP DANCE & CULTURE III (ADVANCED)
HIP HOP DANCE & CULTURE 3
Advanced technique and repertory in hip hop. Classes are geared to condition the body for the rigors of hip-hop technique by developing strength, coordination, flexibility, stamina, and rhythmic awareness, while developing an appreciation of choreographic movement and structures. Compositional elements of hip-hop will be introduced and students may compose brief movement sequences. The course meets twice weekly and is held in the dance studio.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
-
Instructor:
Bo Park Park
Info - 2 points
Social Cognition
This course provides an overview of social cognition, which blends cognitive and social
psychology to understand how people make sense of the social world. Topics may include social
perception, inference, memory, motivation, affect, understanding the self, stereotypes, and
cultural cognition.
- Department: Psychology
-
Instructor:
Chujun Lin
Info - 3 points
ACCOUNTING & FINANCE FOR ECONOMICS
The purpose of this course is to provide a basic introduction to accounting, including the
foundations of accounting concepts, the underlying mechanics, and the overall perspective required
to become intelligent users of accounting information. The course will focus on the main
financial statements, the nature of accrual measurement, and the information perspective. In addition,
we will explore some accounting methods in detail, such as revenue recognition, assets,
liabilities, and equity.
The overarching perspective is that accounting reports provide information that is useful for
a variety of purposes. In the course, I will also provide insights into how the financial markets
use accounting information to evaluate executives, predict future stock returns, assess firms’
riskiness, and allocate society’s resources to their most productive uses.
- Department: Economics @Barnard
-
Instructor:
Jose Cao-Alvira
CULPA: 2 Info -
Instructor:
Waldo Ojeda
Info - 3 points
INTRO-ACCOUNTING & FIN - DISC
- Department: Economics @Barnard
-
Instructor:
Faculty
h-index: 37 Info - 0 points
INTRO-ACCOUNTING & FIN - DISC
- Department: Economics @Barnard
-
Instructor:
Faculty
h-index: 37 Info - 0 points
ANIMAL BEHAVIOR
Prerequisites: BIOL BC1500, BIOL BC1501, BIOL BC1502, BIOL BC1503 or equivalent. This introduction to animal behavior takes an integrative approach to understand the physiological and genetic basis of behavior, the ecological context of behavior, and the evolutionary consequences of behavior. This course focuses on the process of scientific research, including current research approaches in animal behavior and practical applications of these findings.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
-
Instructor:
Alison Pischedda
CULPA: 3
h-index: 11
Info
- 3 points
EARTH'S ENVIRO SYST: LIFE SYST
Prerequisites: high school algebra. Recommended preparation: high school chemistry and physics.
Role of life in biogeochemical cycles, relationship of biodiversity and evolution to the physical Earth, vulnerability of ecosystems to environmental change; causes and effects of extinctions through geologic time (dinosaurs and mammoths) and today. Exploration of topics through laboratories, data analysis, and modeling. REQUIRED LAB: EESC UN2310. Students will be expected to choose a lab section during the first week of class from the options listed in the Directory of Classes. Co-meets with EEEB 2002
- Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
- 4.5 points
CHALLENGES OF SUSTAINABLE DEV
This course provides an introduction to the field of sustainable development, drawing primarily from social science and policy studies. It offers a critical examination of the concept of sustainable development, showing how factors like economics, population, culture, politics and inequality complicate its goals. Students will learn how different social science disciplines (political science, demography, economics, geography, history, law, and sociology) approach challenges of sustainable development across a variety of topics (fisheries, climate change, air pollution, consumption, energy, conservation, and water management). The course provides students with some of the fundamental concepts, vocabulary, and analytical tools to pursue and think critically about sustainable development. Offered in the Spring.
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
-
Instructor:
Jon Kessler
CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
Dreaming Empire: Britain & Russia in 19C
Dreaming Empire: Brit&Rus
The course falls neatly into two halves, addressing the British and Russian empires as they were in the 19th century. The purpose of the course is to become familiar with imperial thinking, the thought (pro-empire, anti-empire, and simply permeated by empire, to put it in terms familiar to a contemporary audience) implicit in various literary works of the time. For the most part, the readings assigned are primary texts. These will be heavily supplemented during course meetings: the instructor will bring in various materials that would be obscure if assigned to students outside of class, but with live explanations in-class, will enrich their understanding of the primary readings.
Most readings are literary texts, though students will also read and receive guidance in secondary academic literature about those works. A few philosophical and historical texts from the time under examination will also be assigned.
- Department: Slavic Languages @Barnard
-
Instructor:
John C Wright
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
HIST PHIL III:KANT-NIETZSCHE
Prerequisites: None. Exposition and analysis of major texts and figures in European philosophy since Kant. Authors include Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche. Required discussion section (PHIL UN2311). Attendance in the first week of classes is mandatory.
- Department: Philosophy @Barnard
-
Instructor:
Taylor Carman
CULPA: 40
Wikipedia
h-index: 19
Info
- 4 points
INTERMEDIATE ARMENIAN II
Prerequisites: MDES W1310-W1311 or the equivalent. A continuation of the study of reading, writing and speaking of Armenian. In Intermediate Armenian II, students learn to communicate about a wide range of topics. Such topics include biographical narration, cooking and recipes, health and well-being, holidays and celebrations, travel and geography, etc. At this level, students continue to develop their skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening while perfecting the grammatical concepts to which they were introduced in the first year. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
-
Instructor:
Charry Karamanoukian
Info - 4 points
EARTH ENVIR SYST-LIFE SYST-LAB
This three hour lab is required of all students who enroll in EESC UN2300. There are currently five lab sections.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
- 0 points
EARTH ENVIR SYST-LIFE SYST-LAB
This three hour lab is required of all students who enroll in EESC UN2300. There are currently five lab sections.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
- 0 points
EARTH ENVIR SYST-LIFE SYST-LAB
This three hour lab is required of all students who enroll in EESC UN2300. There are currently five lab sections.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
- 0 points
EARTH ENVIR SYST-LIFE SYST-LAB
This three hour lab is required of all students who enroll in EESC UN2300. There are currently five lab sections.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
- 0 points
EARTH ENVIR SYST-LIFE SYST-LAB
This three hour lab is required of all students who enroll in EESC UN2300. There are currently five lab sections.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
- 0 points
THE DOCUMENTARY TRADITION
This class offers an introduction to the history of documentary cinema and to the theoretical and philosophical questions opened up by the use of moving images to bear witness, persuade, archive the past, or inspire us to change the future. How are documentaries different than fiction films? What is the role of aesthetics in relation to facts and evidence in different documentary traditions? How do documentaries negotiate appeals to emotions with rational argument? From the origins of cinema to our current “post-truth” digital age, we will look at the history of how cinema has attempted to shape our understanding of reality. FILM W2311
- Department: Film
-
Instructor:
Nico Baumbach
Info - 3 points
THE DOCUMENTARY TRADITION
This class offers an introduction to the history of documentary cinema and to the theoretical and philosophical questions opened up by the use of moving images to bear witness, persuade, archive the past, or inspire us to change the future. How are documentaries different than fiction films? What is the role of aesthetics in relation to facts and evidence in different documentary traditions? How do documentaries negotiate appeals to emotions with rational argument? From the origins of cinema to our current “post-truth” digital age, we will look at the history of how cinema has attempted to shape our understanding of reality. FILM W2311
- Department: Auditing
-
Instructor:
Nico Baumbach
Info - 0 points
THE DOCUMENTARY TRADITION-DISC
- Department: Film
-
Instructor:
Daisy E Gadsby
Info -
Instructor:
Zacha del Rosario
Info - 0 points
HISTORY OF PHILOSPHY III REC
HISTORY OF PHIL III - REC
- Department: Philosophy @Barnard
-
Instructor:
Taylor Carman
CULPA: 40
Wikipedia
h-index: 19
Info
-
Instructor:
Jared W Jones
Info - 0 points
TRADITIONS IN POETRY
Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required.
“For those, in dark, who find their own way by the light of others’ eyes.” —Lucie Brock-Broido
The avenues of poetic tradition open to today’s poets are more numerous, more invigorating, and perhaps even more baffling than ever before. The routes we chose for our writing lead to destinations of our own making, and we take them at our own risk—necessarily so, as the pursuit of poetry asks each of us to light a pilgrim’s candle and follow it into the moors and lowlands, through wastes and prairies, crossing waters as we go. Go after the marshlights, the will-o-wisps who call to you in a voice you’ve longed for your whole life. These routes have been forged by those who came before you, but for that reason, none of them can hope to keep you on it entirely. You must take your steps away, brick by brick, heading confidently into the hinterland of your own distinct achievement.
For the purpose of this class, we will walk these roads together, examining the works of classic and contemporary exemplars of the craft. By companioning poets from a large spread of time, we will be able to more diversely immerse ourselves in what a poetic “tradition” truly means. We will read works by Edmund Spencer, Dante, and Goethe, the Romantics—especially Keats—Dickinson, who is mother to us all, Modernists, and the great sweep of contemporary poetry that is too vast to individuate.
While it is the imperative of this class to equip you with the knowledge necessary to advance in the field of poetry, this task shall be done in a Columbian manner. Consider this class an initiation, of sorts, into the vocabulary which distinguishes the writers who work under our flag, each of us bound by this language that must be passed on, and therefore changed, to you who inherit it. As I have learned the words, I have changed them, and I give them now to you so that you may pave your own way into your own ways, inspired with the first breath that brought you here, which may excite and—hopefully—frighten you. You must be troubled. This is essential
Northern Renaissance Art
This course will explore extraordinary artworks made by Northern European painters, sculptors, weavers, and printmakers from about 1400 to 1590. Sessions will examine outstanding productions by such figures as Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Hieronymus Bosch, Albrecht Dürer, Hans Baldung Grien, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hans Holbein, and Bernard Palissy. The themes we will discuss include the redefinition of the aims and nature of art and the artist, Protestantism and iconophobia, the ascent of the printing press, the dissemination of humanism, familial relations, courtly politics, art and knowledge, technology, the persecution of witches, as well as exploration and the broad-based shift from a European to a global mindset. The course will focus on the patterns of visual culture and how those patterns develop over time. The course is suitable for students from all disciplines and all years.
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
-
Instructor:
Susanna C Berger
Info - 3 points
Renaissance Architecture
RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE
This course examines the history of architecture between roughly 1400 and 1600 from a European perspective outward. Employing a variety of analytical approaches, it addresses issues related to the Renaissance built environment thematically and through a series of specific case studies. Travelling across a geographically diverse array of locales, we will interrogate the cultural, material, urban, social, and political dimensions of architecture (civic, commercial, industrial, domestic, ecclesiastical and otherwise). Additional topics to be discussed include: antiquity and its reinterpretation; local identity, style, and ornament; development of building typologies; patronage and politics; technology and building practice; religious change and advancements in warfare; the creation and migration of architectural knowledge; role of capitalism and colonialism; class and decorum in domestic design; health and the city; the mobility of people and materials; architectural theory, books, and the culture of print; the media of architectural practice; the growth of cities and towns; the creation of urban space and landscape; architectural responses to ecological and environmental factors; and the changing status of the architect.
Students must registere for a required discussion section.
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
-
Instructor:
Michael J Waters
CULPA: 5
h-index: 3
Info
- 4 points
Renaissance Architecture - Discussion Se
Discussion section for AHIS UN2317.
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
-
Instructor:
Matthew S Lopez
Info - 0 points
Renaissance Architecture - Discussion Se
Discussion section for AHIS UN2317.
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
-
Instructor:
Matthew S Lopez
Info -
Instructor:
Beatrice Mognon
Info - 0 points
Renaissance Architecture - Discussion Se
Discussion section for AHIS UN2317.
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
-
Instructor:
Beatrice Mognon
Info -
Instructor:
Juul G Van Haver
Info - 0 points
Renaissance Architecture - Discussion Se
Discussion section for AHIS UN2317.
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
-
Instructor:
Juul G Van Haver
Info - 0 points
MUSIC THEORY I
Elementary analysis and composition in a variety of modal and tonal idioms.
- Department: Music
-
Instructor:
Peter M Susser
CULPA: 20
Info
- 3 points
Breadbasket, Borderland, Battleground: E
Ukraine: Economy, Space,
Adopting a long-term perspective that centers on the dynamic interplay of economy, space, and political power, this course investigates how Ukraine's geography – its richness in natural resources and trade routes; its centrality as a crossroads between sea, settlement, and steppe, and between rival religious, imperial, and national projects; its vastness, which fostered divergent developmental trajectories and deep regional diversity; and its openness, which offered few natural barriers to contact and conquest – have shaped the country’s history from antiquity to the present.
- Department: History
-
Instructor:
Andrey A Shlyakhter
Info - 4 points
MUSIC THEORY II
Elementary analysis and composition in a variety of tonal idioms.
- Department: Music
-
Instructor:
Galen P Degraf
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
Breadbasket, Borderland, Battleground: E
Ukraine: Econ,Space,Power
Required zero-point/ungraded discussion section for “Breadbasket, Borderland, Battleground: Economy, Space, & Power in Ukraine, ca. 750 BCE – 2026 AD” lecture (HIST 2319)
- Department: History
- 0 points
Introduction to Music Cognition
Intro to Music Cognition
The aim of music cognition is to understand the musical mind. This course is an introduction to a variety of key topics in this field, including human development, evolution, neural processing, embodied knowledge, memory and anticipation, cross-cultural perspectives, and emotions. The course explores recent research on these topics, as well as ways in which this research can be applied to music scholarship. Readings are drawn from fields as diverse as music theory, psychology, biology, anthropology, and neuroscience, and include general works in cognitive science, theoretical work focused on specific musical issues, and reports of empirical research.
- Department: Music
-
Instructor:
Mariusz Kozak
CULPA: 4 h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
Nineteenth Century Britain: Politics, S
This course covers all aspects of British history – political, imperial, economic, social and cultural – during the century of Britain’s greatest global power. Particular attention will be paid to the emergence of liberalism as a political and economic system and as a means of governing personal and social life. Students will read materials from the time, as well as scholarly articles, and will learn to work with some of the rich primary materials available on this period.
- Department: History
-
Instructor:
Susan Pedersen
CULPA: 15
Wikipedia
Info
- 4 points
Nineteenth Century Britain: Politics, S
This course covers all aspects of British history – political, imperial, economic, social and cultural – during the century of Britain’s greatest global power. Particular attention will be paid to the emergence of liberalism as a political and economic system and as a means of governing personal and social life. Students will read materials from the time, as well as scholarly articles, and will learn to work with some of the rich primary materials available on this period.
- Department: Auditing
-
Instructor:
Susan Pedersen
CULPA: 15
Wikipedia
Info
- 0 points
NINETEENTH CENTURY BRITAIN-DIS
- Department: History
-
Instructor:
Susan Pedersen
CULPA: 15
Wikipedia
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.
Prerequisites:
Intermediate experience in ballet and/or contemporary modern
- Department: Dance @Barnard
-
Instructor:
Caroline Fermin
Info -
Instructor:
Tamisha Guy
Info - 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.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
-
Instructor:
Francesca Dominguez
Info -
Instructor:
Jodi Melnick
CULPA: 3
Info
- 2 points
EVERYDAY COMMUNISM
This lecture course comparatively and transnationally investigates the twentieth-century communism as a modern civilization with global outreach. It looks at the world spread of communism as an ideology, everyday experience, and form of statehood in the Soviet Union, Europe, Asia (Mao’s China), and post-colonial Africa. With the exception of North America and Australia, communist regimes were established on all continents of the world. The course will study this historical process from the October Revolution (1917) to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster (1986), which marked the demise of communist state. The stress is not just on state-building processes or Cold War politics, but primarily on social, gender, cultural and economic policies that shaped lived experiences of communism. We will closely investigate what was particular about communism as civilization: sexuality, materiality, faith, selfhood, cultural identity, collective, or class and property politics. We will explore the ways in which “ordinary people” experienced communism through violence (anti-imperial and anti-fascist warfare; forced industrialization) and as subjects of social policies (gender equality, family programs, employment, urban planning). By close investigation of visual, material and political representations of life under communism, the course demonstrates the variety of human experience outside the “West” and capitalist modernity in an era of anti-imperial politics, Cold War, and decolonization, as well as current environmental crisis.
- Department: History
-
Instructor:
Malgorzata Mazurek
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
DISC - Everyday Communism
DISCUSSION SECTION for HIST UN 2336 Everyday Communism
- Department: History
- 0 points
DISC - Everyday Communism
DISCUSSION SECTION for HIST UN 2336 Everyday Communism
- Department: History
-
Instructor:
Xavier A Puente
Info -
Instructor:
Ziqian Zheng
Info -
Instructor:
Marie E Robin
Info -
Instructor:
Ton-Nu D Nguyen
Info -
Instructor:
Lelia A Roche
Info -
Instructor:
Elijah Ferrante
Info - 0 points
Introduction to Korean Society: Explorin
This introductory lecture course introduces students with little or no prior knowledge of Korea or the
Korean language to Korean society by exploring cultural codes—shared symbols, values, and practices
that shape everyday life—through the lens of media and literature. By engaging with short stories, films,
TV shows, music, and other cultural texts, students will examine how these cultural codes influence
Korean social norms, identities, and global representations.
The course focuses on six key cultural codes—food, language, family structure, religion, economic
development, and the two Koreas—as reflected in Korean literature, film, drama, and YouTube content.
Through these themes, students will gain a foundational yet comprehensive understanding of Korean
society. At the same time, they will strengthen their critical and analytical skills in interpreting culture,
cultivating a deeper awareness of how meaning is constructed and communicated across different media.
- Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
-
Instructor:
Hwanhee Kim
Info - 3 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
-
Instructor:
Mary Asti
Info -
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
-
Instructor:
Peter M Susser
CULPA: 20
Info
- 1 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
-
Instructor:
Michael J Rose
Info -
Instructor:
Michael Joviala
Info - 1 points
Fascism in European History
FASCISM IN EURO HISTORY
What was Fascism? What kind of appeal did authoritarianism and dictatorship have in interwar Europe? How did the Fascist “New Order” challenge liberal democracies and why did it fail in World War II? What was the common denominator of Fascist movements across Europe, and in particular in Mussolini’s Italy, Salazar’s Portugal, Franco’s Spain, culminating in Nazi Germany?
This class examines the history of Fascism as an ideology, constellation of political movements, and authoritarian regimes that aimed at controlling the modernization of European societies in the interwar period. Thus, the course focuses in particular on the relationship between politics, science and society to investigate how Fascism envisioned the modernity of new technologies, new social norms, and new political norms. The class will also explore Fascism’s imperialist goals, such as the calls for national renewal, the engineering of a new race, and the creation of a new world order.
- Department: History @Barnard
-
Instructor:
Angelo Caglioti
h-index: 2 Info - 3 points
POLITICS OF TERROR:FRENCH REV
This course examines the political culture of eighteenth-century France, from the final decades of the Bourbon monarchy to the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. Among our primary aims will be to explore the origins of the Terror and its relationship to the Revolution as a whole. Other topics we will address include the erosion of the kings authority in the years leading up to 1789, the fall of the Bastille, the Constitutions of 1791 and 1793, civil war in the Vendee, the militarization of the Revolution, the dechristianization movement, attempts to establish a new Revolutionary calendar and civil religion, and the sweeping plans for moral regeneration led by Robespierre and his colleagues in 1793-1794.
- Department: History
-
Instructor:
Charly J Coleman
CULPA: 7
Info
- 4 points
POLITICS OF TERROR:FRENCH REV
This course examines the political culture of eighteenth-century France, from the final decades of the Bourbon monarchy to the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. Among our primary aims will be to explore the origins of the Terror and its relationship to the Revolution as a whole. Other topics we will address include the erosion of the kings authority in the years leading up to 1789, the fall of the Bastille, the Constitutions of 1791 and 1793, civil war in the Vendee, the militarization of the Revolution, the dechristianization movement, attempts to establish a new Revolutionary calendar and civil religion, and the sweeping plans for moral regeneration led by Robespierre and his colleagues in 1793-1794.
- Department: Auditing
-
Instructor:
Charly J Coleman
CULPA: 7
Info
- 0 points
POLITICS OF TERROR:FRENCH REV-DISC
MANDATORY Discussion Section for HIST UN 2398 The Politics of Terror: The French Revolution. Students must also be registered for HIST 2398.
- Department: History
-
Instructor:
Ahmed Tabbakh
Info - 0 points
POLITICS OF TERROR:FRENCH REV-DISC
MANDATORY Discussion Section for HIST UN 2398 The Politics of Terror: The French Revolution. Students must also be registered for HIST 2398.
- Department: History
-
Instructor:
Ahmed Tabbakh
Info -
Instructor:
Lezhou Jiang
Info - 0 points