PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
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Dina C Merrer
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PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
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Approaches to Global Thought
Challenges confronting the world today require multiple perspectives, approaches, and methods to grasp their complexity and devise responses and solutions. Whether addressing the climate crisis, public health threats, global and local inequities, social problems, geopolitical tensions, or any number of other problems, all demand the expertise developed in disciplinary training as well as flexible thinking and the ability to collaborate and solve problems across disciplinary boundaries. This course places students with different majors into conversation with each other to consider the approaches of their own disciplines, learn about the methodological “tool kits” of other fields, investigate examples of transdisciplinary research, and work with their classmates to design their own problem-centered collaborative projects.
- Department: Committee on Global Thought
- R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Laura L Neitzel
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
INTL LAW & U.N. IN PRACTICE
Prerequisites: POLS UN1601 or HRTS UN3001 An equivalent course to POLS UN1601 or HRTS UN3001 may be used as a pre-requisite, with departmental permission. Examines the development of international law and the United Nations, their evolution in the Twentieth Century, and their role in world affairs today. Concepts and principles are illustrated through their application to contemporary human rights and humanitarian challenges, and with respect to other threats to international peace and security. The course consists primarily of presentation and discussion, drawing heavily on the practical application of theory to actual experiences and situations. For the Barnard Political Science major, this seminar counts as elective credit only. (Cross-listed by the Human Rights Program.)
- Department: Human Rights (HRTB)
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Martin S Flaherty
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As If: Anthropologies of the Future
This seminar engages--through science fiction and speculative fiction, film, and companion readings in anthropology and beyond—a range of approaches to the notion of the “future” and to the imagination of multiple futures to come. We will work through virtual and fictive constructions of future worlds, ecologies, and social orders “as If” they present alternative possibilites for pragmatic yet utopian thinking and dreaming in the present (and as we’ll also consider dystopian and “heterotopian” possibilities as well).
- Department: Anthropology
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Marilyn Ivy
CULPA: 11
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REHEARSAL&PERFRMNCE IN DANCE
Prerequisites: Audition. Do not register for this course until you have been selected at the audition. Subject to cap on studio credit. Can be taken more than once for credit up to a maximum of 3 credits a semester. Students are graded and take part in the full production of a dance as performers, choreographers, designers, or stage technicians.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- MW 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
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REHEARSAL&PERFRMNCE IN DANCE
Prerequisites: Audition. Do not register for this course until you have been selected at the audition. Subject to cap on studio credit. Can be taken more than once for credit up to a maximum of 3 credits a semester. Students are graded and take part in the full production of a dance as performers, choreographers, designers, or stage technicians.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- MW 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
- TR 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
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REHEARSAL&PERFRMNCE IN DANCE
Prerequisites: Audition. Do not register for this course until you have been selected at the audition. Subject to cap on studio credit. Can be taken more than once for credit up to a maximum of 3 credits a semester. Students are graded and take part in the full production of a dance as performers, choreographers, designers, or stage technicians.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- TR 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
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INDEPENDENT STUDY
This course can be worth 1 to 4 credits (each credit is equivalent to approximately three hours of work per week), and requires a Barnard faculty as a mentor. The course will be taken for a letter grade, regardless of whether the student chooses 1, 2, 3, or 4 credits. The expectations for each of these options are as follows: 1 credit, 3h/week commitment, 5-10 page "Research Report" at the end of the term; 2 credits, 6h/week commitment, 5-10 page "Research Report" at the end of the term; 3 credits, 9h/week commitment, 15-20 page "Research Report" at the end of the term; 4 credits, 12h/week commitment, 15-20 page "Research Report" at the end of the term. "Research Report" is a document submitted to the person grading the student, the instructor of record for the section in which the student has enrolled. If a student is working off-site, then input from the off-site research mentor will inform the grading. The "Research Report" can take a variety of forms: progress reports on data collected, training received, papers read, skills learned, etc.; or organized notes for lab notebooks, lab meetings, etc.; or manuscript-like papers with Intro, Methods, Results, Discussion; or some combination thereof, depending on the maturity of the project. Ultimately, this will take different forms for different students/labs.
- Department: Psychology @Barnard
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THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM OF CO
US JOURNALISM OF CONSCIEN
From Frederick Douglass’s The North Star, which insisted that journalism could be a tool for liberation and collective conscience, to today’s digital-first platforms, American journalism has always been a site of struggle over truth, power, and representation. This course explores the power of journalism to shape public conscience — from the days when print was the Twitter of its time to the rise of radio, television, and digital media. At its core, this seminar centers the voices of journalists of conscience — those who speak truth to power, challenge dominant narratives, and reflect the full spectrum of human experience. We will approach journalism through a lens that foregrounds the perspectives of people of color, recognizing how mainstream media has historically erased, distorted, or marginalized their voices while also highlighting the powerful traditions of resistance and self-representation in journalism.
To foster meaningful connection and collaboration, students will be split into groups for the semester. These groups will meet in breakout rooms during each class session to workshop ideas, respond to prompts, and sometimes collaborate on short journalistic pieces. The goal is to make a large seminar feel intimate and to encourage peer-to-peer dialogue throughout the course.
Through weekly readings, in-class discussions, site visits, guest speakers, and multimedia projects, students will examine how journalism has both reflected and resisted dominant narratives across history. Students will also create original work that embodies conscience-based journalism.
- Department: English @Barnard
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Maria D Hinojosa
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ADVANCED OPTIMIZATION
For undergraduates only. Required for all undergraduate students majoring in IE, OR:EMS, OR:FE, and OR. This is a follow-up to IEOR E3608 and will cover advanced topics in optimization, including integer optimization, convex optimization, and optimization under uncertainty, with a strong focus on modeling, formulations, and applications.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Bento Natura
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POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND INTERNATIONAL R
POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY & IR
This course introduces students to psychological theories of international politics. We pose a series of questions about the role of individuals in international relations and consider different theories of political decision making (including rational choice, cognitive, motivational, and organizational theories), personality and leadership, and the role of images, values, and identity in shaping international behavior. We’ll put these theories in the context of other ways of explaining state behavior, evaluate their usefulness, and you’ll make use of these theories to explain an international relations course of your choosing.
- Department: Political Science @Barnard
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Marjorie Castle
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Our Magnetic Universe: An Introduction t
This course explores how magnetic fields shape the cosmos — from the Earth’s magnetosphere and the Sun’s corona to galaxies, clusters, and the cosmic web itself. The course introduces the fundamental physics of plasmas and magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), providing a quantitative framework for understanding how magnetic fields interact with charged matter across vastly different environments. Through lectures, problem sets, and student-led presentations, students learn analytical, numerical, and observational approaches used in modern astrophysics to study magnetic phenomena. By the end of the semester, participants gain the tools to critically read and communicate research on astrophysical magnetism, bridging core physical principles with their diverse cosmic applications.
- Department: Astronomy
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Ryan E Golant
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MATERIALS/PROCESSES IN MANUFAC
Introduction to microstructures and properties of metals, polymers, ceramics and composites; typical manufacturing processes: material removal, shaping, joining, and property alteration; behavior of engineering materials in the manufacturing processes.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Sinisa Vukelic
CULPA: 2 h-index: 11 Info - 3 points
THIRD YEAR MODERN TIBETAN II
For those whose knowledge is equivalent to a student whos completed the Second Year course. The course develops students reading comprehension skills through reading selected modern Tibetan literature. Tibetan is used as the medium of instruction and interaction to develop oral fluency and proficiency.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Sonam Tsering
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Imperial Art and Architecture of Beijing
Imperial Art & Arch. Beij
Imperial art and architecture in Beijing—the capital of the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties (1271-1911)—have inspired awe and admiration in the Western world since the late 19th century. Despite massive destruction caused by foreign invasions before 1911 and rapid urban development after 1949, a significant portion of historic Beijing has survived, including imperial temples and gardens, princely courtyard residences, alleyway neighborhoods, and, most importantly, the Forbidden City—the magnificent seat of imperial power. Moreover, artifacts and artworks from the palaces of Beijing are now housed in museums across the Western world.
This seminar introduces students to the imperial art and architecture of Beijing through the lens of the reign of two Qing-dynasty rulers: the Qianlong Emperor (r. 1736-1796) and Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908). Their artistic legacies have profoundly shaped modern understanding of the city’s imperial past. Over the spring break, students will travel with the instructor to Beijing to visit sites that were inhabited, commissioned, or even designed by these two rulers.
Through lectures in New York City and a field study in Beijing, the course encourages students to consider questions such as: How did art and architecture serve to reinforce and glorify Qianlong’s rule over the multiethnic Qing empire for much of the 18th century—a reign often celebrated as inclusive, efficient, and prosperous, yet also criticized as despotic, corrupt, and repressive? To what extent did Empress Dowager Cixi’s artistic patronage inherit or challenge conventional imperial traditions? And how does historic Beijing continue to shape the social and political life of its inhabitants—and influence broader national identity—in contemporary China?
The course features a study trip to Beijing, where we will explore imperial palaces, gardens, and temples to engage directly with the monuments discussed in class. Each student will prepare a presentation in advance, taking the lead as a guide during our site visits. These presentations will serve as the foundation for the final research papers.
SENIOR RESEARCH THESIS
Discussions of the student's Independent Research project during the fall and spring terms that culminate in a written and oral senior thesis. Each project must be supervised by a scientist working at Barnard or at another local institution.
- Department: Psychology @Barnard
- M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Lisa K Son
CULPA: 25 Info - 1 points
NAT'L & CONTEMP WORLD POLITICS
The causes and consequences of nationalism. Nationalism as a cause of conflict in contemporary world politics. Strategies for mitigating nationalist and ethnic conflict.
- Department: Political Science
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Jack L Snyder
CULPA: 27 Info - 3 points
SEM-DEVELOPMNTL PSYCHOPATHOLGY
Prerequisites: at least two of the following courses: (UN1001, UN1010, UN2280, UN2620, UN2680, UN3280) and the instructor's permission. Developmental psychopathology posits that it is development itself that has gone awry when there is psychopathology. As such, it seeks to understand the early and multiple factors contributing to psychopathology emerging in childhood and later in life. We will use several models (e.g. ones dominated by biological, genetic, and psychological foci) to understand the roots of mental illness.
- Department: Psychology
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Hannah E Hoch
CULPA: 27 Info - 4 points
TOPICS IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Prerequisites: (PSYC UN1001) Instructor permission required. A seminar for advanced undergraduate students exploring different areas of clinical psychology. This course will provide you with a broad overview of the endeavors of clinical psychology, as well as discussion of its current social context, goals, and limitations.
- Department: Psychology
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Usha Barahmand
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Irit Felsen
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Jeffrey M Cohen
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Rewriting History: Queer-Feminist Art fr
Rewriting History: Queer
In 1987, the queer-feminist Chicana scholar and poet Gloria Anzaldúa reflected on the politics of writing and rewriting histories. Mobilized by the social revolutions of the 1970s and 1980s, Anzaldúa sought to intervene in contemporary history, arguing that the act of retrieval—mining and sifting through our past—is necessary for sensing and creating uninhibited possibilities. Drawing on Anzaldúa’s understanding of the stakes of historiography, this course explores how artists have sought to reimagine queer-feminist pasts and enact latent futures. It focuses on the period from the 1970s onward, when the proliferation of mnemonic, time-based media, such as video, sound, slides, and photography, as well as ephemeral forms like performance and participation, emerged as significant material and conceptual foci for artists. Artists’ engagements with institutions crucial to the creation and circulation of history, memory, and knowledge—such as universities, the mass media, AI companies, and museums—are examined alongside enduring queer-feminist themes of education, motherhood, family, home, exile, kin, and futurity. Students will become cognizant of how contemporary art influences cultural, political, and social traditions and institutions, and how “old” and “new” ideas co-exist and conflict. The course offers an art historical perspective on contemporary art, mapping its relations to late modern art, while also foregrounding the question: how can we, as “contemporaries,” engage with art and art history in a way that responds to the demands of the present? Artists we examine include Mary Kelly, Ana Mendieta, Magali Lara, Jenny Holzer, Emily Kame Kngwarray, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, D. Harding, Simone Leigh, and Jesse Darling. Writers include Anzaldúa, Rosalyn Deutsche, Tina Campt, Aileen Moreton Robinson, and Ruha Benjamin.
- Department: Art History @Barnard
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Veronica Tello
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AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY
This course is concerned with what policy the American government should adopt toward several foreign policy issues in the next decade or so, using materials from contradictory viewpoints. Students will be required to state fairly alternative positions and to use policy analysis (goals, alternatives, consequences, and choice) to reach conclusions.
- Department: Political Science
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Elizabeth N Saunders
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AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY-DISC
Corequisites: POLS UN3631 This is the required discussion section for POLS UN3631.
- Department: Political Science
- M 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
- M 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- M 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
- W 11:10 a.m.-noon
- R 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
- R 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Amita O Diarra
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DEPRESSION
Depression has existed since time immemorial. But our explanations of it have shifted, from sin to an imbalance of the humours, and a poetic inspiration; from the eighteenth-century mechanistic understanding of the self, to the Freudian family romance that generates trauma, and to our current neuro-genetic understanding of the mind as a machine that can achieve happiness with pharmaceutical intervention. We will follow these permutations, even as we read novels, poems, plays, and view film (and art) for their diagnostic awareness of mental suffering. And we will also ask the question: what if depression comes not from within but without, the intelligent response of aware minds to a world that has become undone.
- Department: English @Barnard
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Daphne Miriam Merkin
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MOD JEWISH INTELLECTUAL HIST
This course analyzes Jewish intellectual history from Spinoza to the present. It tracks the radical transformation that modernity yielded in Jewish thought, both in the development of new, self-consciously modern, iterations of Judaism and Jewishness and in the more elusive but equally foundational changes in "traditional" Judaisms. Questions to be addressed include: the development of the modern concept of "religion" and its effect on the Jews; the origin of the notion of "Judaism" parallel to Christianity, Islam, etc.; the rise of Jewish secularism and of secular Jewish ideologies, especially the Jewish Enlightenment movement (Haskalah), modern Jewish nationalism, and Zionism; the rise of Reform, Modern Orthodox, and Conservative Judaisms; Jewish neo-Romanticism and neo-Kantianism, and American Jewish religious thought.
- Department: History
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Michael F Stanislawski
CULPA: 66 Wikipedia Info - 4 points
MOD JEWISH INTELLECTUAL HIST
This course analyzes Jewish intellectual history from Spinoza to the present. It tracks the radical transformation that modernity yielded in Jewish thought, both in the development of new, self-consciously modern, iterations of Judaism and Jewishness and in the more elusive but equally foundational changes in "traditional" Judaisms. Questions to be addressed include: the development of the modern concept of "religion" and its effect on the Jews; the origin of the notion of "Judaism" parallel to Christianity, Islam, etc.; the rise of Jewish secularism and of secular Jewish ideologies, especially the Jewish Enlightenment movement (Haskalah), modern Jewish nationalism, and Zionism; the rise of Reform, Modern Orthodox, and Conservative Judaisms; Jewish neo-Romanticism and neo-Kantianism, and American Jewish religious thought.
- Department: Auditing
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Michael F Stanislawski
CULPA: 66 Wikipedia Info - 0 points
OBSERVATIONAL ASTRONOMY
Prerequisites: one year of general astronomy Introduction to the basic techniques used in obtaining and analyzing astronomical data. Focus on ground-based methods at optical, infrared, and radio wavelengths. Regular use of the telescope facilities atop the roof of the Pupin Labs and at Harriman Observatory. The radio-astronomy portion consists mostly of computer labs, In research projects, students also work on the analysis of data obtained at National Observatories.
- Department: Astronomy
- R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
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Mental health in Literature from antiqui
This seminar explores the relationship between literature, culture, and mental health. It pays particular emphasis to the
poetics
of emotions structuring them around the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance and the concept of hope. During the course of the semester, we will discuss a variety of content that explores issues of race, socioeconomic status, political beliefs, abilities/disabilities, gender expressions, sexualities, and stages of life as they are connected to mental illness and healing. Emotions are anchored in the physical body through the way in which our bodily sensors help us understand the reality that we live in. By feeling backwards and thinking forwards, we will ask a number of important questions relating to literature and mental health, and will trace how human experiences are first made into language, then into science, and finally into action.
The course surveys texts from Homer, Ovid, Aeschylus and Sophocles to Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, C.P. Cavafy, Dinos Christianopoulos, Margarita Karapanou, Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, Katerina Gogou etc., and the work of artists such as Toshio Matsumoto, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Anohni.
- Department: Classics
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Nikolas Kakkoufa
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TOPICS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND PHILOSOP
TOPICS IN COG SCI & PHILO
This course will focus on one topic at the intersection of cognitive science and philosophy. Potential topics include free will, consciousness, modularity, mental representation, probabilistic inference, the language of thought, and the computational theory of mind.
- Department: Cognitive Science @Barnard
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Joshua J Kramer
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PROBABILITY FOR ENGINEERS
Introductory course to probability theory and does not assume any prior knowledge of subject. Teaches foundations required to use probability in applications, but course itself is theoretical in nature. Basic definitions and axioms of probability and notions of independence and conditional probability introduced. Focus on random variables, both continuous and discrete, and covers topics of expectation, variance, conditional distributions, conditional expectation and variance, and moment generating functions. Also Central Limit Theorem for sums of random variables. Consists of lectures, recitations, weekly homework, and in-class exams.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Daniel Lacker
CULPA: 4
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MAFIA MOVIES
Examines representations of the mafia in American and Italian film and literature. Special attention to questions of ethnic identity and immigration. Comparison of the different histories and myths of the mafia in the U.S. and Italy. Readings includes novels, historical studies, and film criticism. Limit 25
- Department: Italian @Barnard
- T 6:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
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Nelson Moe
CULPA: 10 h-index: 6 Info - 3 points
Early American Horror
Buried alive. Driven mad with guilt. Dissolved into a vast, anonymous universe. These are some of the terrors that this undergraduate seminar will address as we explore the aesthetic, philosophical, and historical dimensions of early American horror. How did Puritan, Gothic, and other early American horror writers complicate cultural attitudes towards the unthinkable, the cruel, and the perverse in works of supernatural horror? What do Gothic fiction’s enduring tropes—such as haunted houses, doppelgängers, and sentient machines—reveal about the massive social and economic changes of the nineteenth century, including the expansion and intensification of slavery, the expropriation of Indigenous land, and the economic transition to industrial capitalism? And what might early American horror fail to capture about these underlying political realities? Our historical attention to race, labor, and gender will enable us to reconsider canonical American horror literature and illuminate the reliance on early American literary tropes in contemporary horror films for representing the uniquely disturbing experiences of modern life.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ethan A Plaue
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SOUTH ASIA
SOUTH ASIA: ANTHRO APPROACHES
This course draws on ethnography, history, fiction, and other genres to think about diverse peoples and places in the region known as South Asia. Rather than attempt to fix or define "South Asia" as a singular category, we will explore how particular social and scholarly categories through which dimensions of South Asian life have come to be known (such as caste, class, religion, gender, sexuality, disability, and kinship) are experienced, negotiated, and reworked by actual persons in specific situations. By examining both categories and practices, we will ask: What kinds of relationships exist between the messiness of everyday life and the classifications used by both scholars and "local" people to describe and make sense of it? How do scholarly and bureaucratic ideas not merely reflect but also shape lived realities? How do lived realities affect the ways in which categories are named and understood? In addressing such questions, categories sometimes thought of as stable or timeless emerge as, in fact, contingent and embodied.
- Department: Anthropology @Barnard
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Elizabeth M Green
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
The Politics of Work
In this class we will examine the politics, organization, and experience of work. In the first three weeks we will get our bearings and consider some basic (but difficult!) questions about work, including: What counts as work and who counts as a worker? How important are our jobs to our survival in the world, and what makes for a good or bad job? In this section you will start thinking about and analyzing your own work experiences. In weeks four and five we will read what sociology’s founders had to say about work, and consider some of the important shifts to work that accompanied industrialization. Then we will turn to 20th century transformations, including the rise of the service economy and worker-customer relations, changes in forms of managerial control and worker responses to these changes, globalization, and the proliferation of precarious work. Finally, we will turn to examining gender, class and race in labor markets and on the job, paid and unpaid reproductive labor, the construction of selves at work, and the job of fashion modeling. Throughout the course we will examine how the sociology of work is bound up with other key institutions including gender, race, class, and the family.
- Department: Sociology
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Teresa Sharpe
CULPA: 14
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Power, Technology, and the Future of Wor
Power, Tech, & Fut. Work
The increasingly rapid development of technologies including artificial intelligence has raised fear of widespread automation. These fears are not new – rather, they have emerged frequently in the past during periods of economic slowdown and technological growth. This course will examine the relationship between work, power, and technology. It will discuss how, and how much new technologies are changing the way people work, if these changes in technology will lead to a replacement of workers or a change in the types and standards of available work. We will look at the potentials and limits of technology in the workplace, with a particular focus on power: understanding why technologies are designed, who they are used by, and for what purposes. We will put these technological developments in the context of long term changes in the American and global economy, and look at what the future may hold, and how we can imagine new futures for ourselves.
The Ancient Table: Archaeology of Cookin
ANCT TBL: ARCH COOKING &
Prerequisites: None Humans don’t just eat to live. The ways we prepare, eat, and share our food is a complex reflection of our histories, environments, and ideologies. Whether we prefer coffee or tea, cornbread or challah, chicken breast or chicken feet, our tastes are expressive of social ties and social boundaries, and are linked to ideas of family and of foreignness. How did eating become such a profoundly cultural experience? This seminar takes an archaeological approach to two broad issues central to eating: First, what drives human food choices both today and in the past? Second, how have social forces shaped practices of food acquisition, preparation, and consumption (and how, in turn, has food shaped society)? We will explore these questions from various evolutionary, physiological, and cultural viewpoints, highlighted by information from the best archaeological and historic case studies. Topics that will be covered include the nature of the first cooking, beer-brewing and feasting, writing of the early recipes, gender roles and ‘domestic’ life, and how a national cuisine takes shape. Through the course of the semester we will explore food practices from Pleistocene Spain to historic Monticello, with particular emphasis on the earliest cuisines of China, Mesoamerica, and the Mediterranean.
- Department: Anthropology @Barnard
- M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Camilla Sturm
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
The Politics of Care
THE POLITICS OF CARE
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What are the consequences of entrenched inequalities in the context of care? How might we (re)imagine associated practices as political projects? Wherein lie the origins of utopic and dystopic visions of daily survival? How might we track associated promises and failures as they travel across social hierarchies, nationalities, and geographies of care? And what do we mean when we speak of “care”? These questions define the scaffolding for this course. Our primary goals throughout this semester are threefold. First, we begin by interrogating the meaning of “care” and its potential relevance as a political project in medical and other domains. Second, we will track care’s associated meanings and consequences across a range of contents, including urban and rural America, an Amazonia borderland, South Africa, France, and Mexico. Third, we will address temporal dimensions of care, as envisioned and experienced in the here-and-now, historically, and in a futuristic world of science fiction. Finally, and most importantly, we will remain alert to the relevance of domains of difference relevant to care, most notably race, gender, class, and species.
Upper level seminar; 4 points
Summer:
What do we mean when we speak of “care”? How might we (re)imagine practices of care as political and moral projects? What promises, paradoxes, or failures surface amid entrenched inequalities? And what hopes, desires, and fears inform associated utopic and dystopic visions of daily survival? These questions will serve as a scaffolding of sorts for this course, and our primary goals are fourfold.
First,
we will begin by interrogating the meaning of “care” and its potential relevance as a political project in medical and other domains.
Second,
we will track care’s associated meanings and consequences across a range of contents, communities, and geographies of care.
Third
, we will remain alert to the temporal dimensions of care, as envisioned and experienced historically, in the here-and-now, and in the futuristic world of science fiction.
Finally,
we will consider the moral underpinnings of intra-human alongside interspecies care.
Enrollment limited to 10; 4 points
- Department: Anthropology @Barnard
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gina A Jae
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
ISSUES IN 19TH C FRENCH P
ISSUES IN 19TH C FRENCH ART
AHIS3682OC. Issues in Nineteenth Century Art.
3 points.
Taught in English.
Instructor Nicolas Baudouin, Instructor in Art History.
We will focus on a key artistic period that is full of upheavals. We will particularly consider the affirmation of the individuality of the artist in relation to the institutions and great pictorial movements that have marked the history of French painting of that time.
To enroll in this course, you must apply to the
Columbia Summer in Paris
program through the Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement (UGE).
Global Learning Scholarships available.
Tuition
charges apply.
Please note the program dates are different from the Summer Session Terms. Visit the
UGE
website for the start and end dates for the Columbia in Summer in Paris program.
Please email uge@columbia.edu with any questions you may have.
- Department: Global Programs
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Instructor:
Nicolas Baudouin
Info - 3 points
ISSUES IN 19TH C FRENCH P
ISSUES IN 19TH C FRENCH ART
AHIS3682OC. Issues in Nineteenth Century Art.
3 points.
Taught in English.
Instructor Nicolas Baudouin, Instructor in Art History.
We will focus on a key artistic period that is full of upheavals. We will particularly consider the affirmation of the individuality of the artist in relation to the institutions and great pictorial movements that have marked the history of French painting of that time.
To enroll in this course, you must apply to the
Columbia Summer in Paris
program through the Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement (UGE).
Global Learning Scholarships available.
Tuition
charges apply.
Please note the program dates are different from the Summer Session Terms. Visit the
UGE
website for the start and end dates for the Columbia in Summer in Paris program.
Please email uge@columbia.edu with any questions you may have.
- Department: Global Programs
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Instructor:
Nicolas Baudouin
Info - 3 points
Gender Trouble in French and Francophone
French and francophone literature from past centuries is replete with queer and feminist literary utopias. While some French-language authors have imagined fictional places where patriarchal structures have been weakened or reversed, others have imagined worlds in which the category of gender itself has been problematized or done away with. This course introduces students to the rich and long history of such texts from the middle ages to the present. Authors and filmmakers will include Christine de Pizan, George Sand, Alice Guy, Monique Wittig, Hélène Cixous, Léonora Miano, Mati Diop, Céline Sciamma and Paul Preciado. Class taught entirely in French.
- Department: French
- MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Anna P Langewiesche
Info - 3 points
Business & Politics in Globalized World
Business & Politics Globa
Companies (or, as we’ll mostly refer to them, firms) play a number of important roles in both domestic and international politics; among other activities, they create jobs, engage in trade and in-vestment, create social responsibility programs, lobby governments, and create much of the world’s pollution. How should we think about firms as political actors? Why, when, and how do firms attempt to influence policymaking? And when do they succeed? In this course, we will study strategic collaboration, competition, and collusion between firms and governments in a range of settings and policy areas. To do so, we will draw on insights from international relations, economics, and business scholars, and we will frequently engage with current real-world examples of business-government relations. Topics will include (among others) lobbying, corporate social responsibility, taxation and tax avoidance, public-private governance, and corporate influence in foreign policy.
- Department: Political Science
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Calvin N Thrall
Info - 3 points
Disability Narratives in Latin America
Disability Narratives Lat
This course surveys Latin American literary texts that have deeply engaged with disability in the
20 th and 21 st century. Against the tendency to treat disability merely as a useful metaphor or to
simply import Global Northern vocabulary and methodologies of disability studies to other
locations, this course turns to Latin American literary texts by authors that have been directly
“touched” by disability to foreground the concerns, vocabularies, and commitments that their
texts reveal. This includes authors who either through their personal experience with disability
or as caretakers—as parents, siblings, or close friends of people with disabilities—have closely
grappled with the experience of non-normative bodies and minds in the Latin American
context. In this course we ask how are subjects with disabilities represented in a variety of
genres (novel, essay, poem, graphic novel) and what constraints and possibilities circumscribe
these subjectivities and their lives. Ultimately, we will ask what vision of disability justice
emerges from these localized experiences and creative interventions beyond now globalized
disability discourses of inclusion/access and independence/autonomy.
- Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Maja Horn
CULPA: 7
Info
- 4 points
Mass-Mediated Politics in Modern Latin A
Mass-Med Politics Mod Lat
This undergraduate seminar offers an introduction to the study of mass media and politics in Latin America from the early 19th to the early 21st century. Throughout the course, the students will get acquainted with some of the key concepts, problems, and methods through which historians and communication scholars have probed the relationship between mass media and political power in the region. We will define and understand media broadly, but we will focus largely on printed media and, to a lesser extent, radio, cinema, and television. We will discuss both breaks and continuities between different media technologies, journalistic cultures, and political regimes. Knowledge of Spanish is welcome, but not mandatory.
- Department: History @Barnard
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alfonso Salgado
Info - 4 points
Research Immersion in OR and Data Analyt
An overview of active research areas in Operations Research and Data Analytics, and an introduction to the essential components of research studies. This course helps students develop fundamental research skills, including paper reading, problem formulation, problem-solving, scientific writing, and research presentation. Classes are in seminar format, with students analyzing research papers, developing research projects, and presenting research findings.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Adam N Elmachtoub
CULPA: 1 h-index: 13 Info - 3 points
STRATEGY FORMULATION
This class is an introduction to strategic management and the decisions that firms make in their historical context. We look at the growth of the large multi-product firm in almost all countries in the world and the the process by which they internationalized their activities and, very often, were also forced to retreat from their international positions. We treat strategies as relation to two broad goals of the class: to understand why some companies are financially much more successful than others; and to analyze how managers can devise a set of actions (the strategy) and design processes and structures that allow their company to obtain a competitive advantage. You will learn the analytical tools developed in universities, in consulting and industrial firms, and even in the military. These tools include what companies do to outperform their rivals; to analyze the competitive moves of rival firms by game-theoretic concepts; and when it makes sense for companies to diversify and globalize their business. Applications will be to Walmart and Apple, European firms and to Asian firms, and developing country firms.
- Department: Mendelson Center
- R 10:25 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Len Sherman
Info - 3 points
Modern Library Resources for Scientific
Library Science Research
Guided exploration of chemistry research using modern library resources. Topics include: organization and evaluation of information, information ethics, the history of citation, and use of databases. Culminates in the creation of an online research guide on a specific chemistry topic, using a variety of carefully considered and annotated sources.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
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Instructor:
Michael Campbell
Info - 1 points
LATINX RACIAL IDENTITY & CULTURAL PRODUC
LATINX RACIAL CULTURAL PR
The course will investigate the impact of racial identity among Latinx in the U.S. on cultural production of Latinos in literature, media, politics and film. The seminar will consider the impact of bilingualism, shifting racial identification, and the viability of monolithic terms like Latinx. We will see how the construction of Latinx racial identity affects acculturation in the U.S., with particular attention to hybrid identities and the centering of black and indigenous cultures. Examples will be drawn from different Latinx ethnicities from the Caribbean, Mexico and the rest of Latin America.
- Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Edward Morales
Info - 4 points
INTRO TO COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
A basic course in communication theory, stressing modern digital communication systems. Nyquist sampling, PAM and PCM/DPCM systems, time division multipliexing, high frequency digital (ASK, OOK, FSK, PSK) systems, and AM and FM systems. An introduction to noise processes, detecting signals in the presence of noise, Shannons theorem on channel capacity, and elements of coding theory.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Irving Kalet
CULPA: 3
h-index: 12
Info
- 3 points
MAJOR WOMEN FILMMAKERS
Traditional film history has consigned a multitude of cinema practices to an inferior position. By accepting Hollywood’s narrative model as central, film scholars have often relegated non-male, non-white, non-Western films to a secondary role. Often described as “marginal” or “peripheral” cinemas, the outcomes of these film practices have been systematically excluded from the canon. Yet… are these motion pictures really “secondary”? In relation to what? And according to whom? This course looks at major films by women filmmakers of the 20th Century within a tradition of political cinema that 1) directly confronts the hegemonic masculinity of the Hollywood film industry, and 2) relocates the so-called “alternative women’s cinema” at the core of film history. Unlike conventional feminist film courses, which tend to be contemporary and anglocentric, this class adopts a historical and worldwide perspective; rather than focusing on female directors working in America today, we trace the origins of women’s cinema in different cities of the world (Berlin, Paris, New York) during the silent period, and, from there, we move forward to study major works by international radical directors such as Lorenza Mazzetti, Agnès Varda, Forough Farrokhzad, Věra Chytilová, Chantal Akerman, Lina Wertmüller, Barbara Loden, Julie Dash, and Mira Nair. We analyse how these filmmakers have explored womanhood not only as a source of oppresion (critique of patriarchal phallocentrism, challenge to heteronormativity, etc) but, most importantly, as a source of empowerment (defense of matriarchy, equal rights, lesbian love, inter- and transexuality...). Required readings include seminal texts of feminist film theory by Claire Johnston, Laura Mulvey, Ann Kaplan, bell hooks, and Judith Butler. Among the films screened in the classroom are silent movies –
Suspense
(Lois Weber, 1913),
The Seashell and the Clergyman
(Germaine Dulac, 1928)—, early independent and experimental cinema –
Girls in Uniform
(Leontine Sagan, 1931),
Ritual in Transfigured Time
(Maya Deren, 1946)—, “new wave” films of the 1950s and 1960s –
Cléo from 5 to 7
(Varda, 1962),
Daisies
(Chytilová, 1966)–,
auteur
cinema of the 1970s –
Seven Beauties
(Wertmüller, 1974),
Jeanne Dielman
(Akerman, 1975)–, and documentary films –
- Department: Film @Barnard
- M 4:10 p.m.-7:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sophia de Baun
Info - 3 points
Exploratory Data Analysis & Visualizatio
Exploratory Data Anal & V
Course Description: This course focuses on discovering patterns, relationships, and insights in real-world data through exploratory techniques.
- Department: Statistics
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Joyce T Robbins
CULPA: 5
Info
- 3 points
SENIOR RESEARCH ESSAY SEMINAR
- Department: American Studies @Barnard
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dani Joslyn
Info -
Instructor:
Manu Karuka
Info - 4 points
RESEARCH DESIGN: DATA ANALYSIS
This course examines the basic methods data analysis and statistics that political scientists use in quantitative research that attempts to make causal inferences about how the political world works. The same methods apply to other kinds of problems about cause and effect relationships more generally. The course will provide students with extensive experience in analyzing data and in writing (and thus reading) research papers about testable theories and hypotheses. It will cover basic data analysis and statistical methods, from univariate and bivariate descriptive and inferential statistics through multivariate regression analysis. Computer applications will be emphasized. The course will focus largely on observational data used in cross-sectional statistical analysis, but it will consider issues of research design more broadly as well. It will assume that students have no mathematical background beyond high school algebra and no experience using computers for data analysis.
- Department: Political Science
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Abdullah Aydogan
h-index: 4 Info - 3 points
LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS: FOUNDATIONS AND E
LLM FOUNDATIONS AND ETHIC
Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT-3, ChatGPT, LLaMA are models that are trained on large amounts of data and are adaptable to a wide range of tasks. They are the basis of most state-of-the-art systems in Natural Language Processing. While the potential of these technologies for social good is large, the risks are also comparable. In this course, the students will learn the fundamentals about the modeling, theory and ethical aspects of LLMs and their applications, while gaining experience working with them. The course will be structured as a seminar, where one class is dedicated to instructor-led lecture and one to studentled discussion of papers around topics covered in the lecture. Each paper discussion will be structured as a panel of 3-4 students, each with an assigned role. Each panel role covers one aspect of critically assessing an academic/industry paper. Everyone in the class should participate by commenting and asking questions from the panel. The class is project-based, meaning there will be a semester-long project focused on evaluating LLMs and/or building LLMs around a topic/problem/task you care about, with an end of semester final paper. The projects will be done by groups of 3-4 students.
Prerequisite(s): COMS W3134 or W3136 or W3137 (or equivalent). Background in probability/statistics and linear algebra is also required and experience with Python programming is strongly encouraged. Some previous or concurrent exposure to NLP, AI or machine learning is beneficial, but not required.
- Department: Computer Science @Barnard
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Smaranda Muresan
h-index: 22 Info - 3 points
Persuasion at scale: causal inference, m
Persuasion at Scale
By employing statistical and computational methods, including randomized controlled trials, natural experiments, and machine learning techniques, students will engage directly with real-world data to uncover the intricacies of persuasion across different sectors, including but not limited to quantifying the effects of partisan media, social media, and political campaigns. The course will also delve into the historical evolution of these persuasive techniques, providing students with a rich contextual background to better understand current trends and anticipate future developments.
This course fulfills the quantitative methods requirement for the Political Science major.
- Department: Political Science
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- 3 points
VIOLENCE BY AND AGAINST WOMEN
VIOLENCE BY/AGAINST WOMEN
- Department: Global Programs
- 3 points
RESEARCH DESIGN: SCOPE AND METHODS
RESEARCH DESIGN: SCOPE&ME
This class aims to introduce students to the logic of social scientific inquiry and research design. Although it is a course in political science, our emphasis will be on the science part rather than the political part — we’ll be reading about interesting substantive topics, but only insofar as they can teach us something about ways we can do systematic research. This class will introduce students to a medley of different methods to conduct social scientific research.
- Department: Political Science
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Caterina Chiopris
Info - 4 points
SCOPE AND METHODS - DISC
This is the required discussion section for
POLS UN3720.
- Department: Political Science
- R 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
- W 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
- T 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
- T 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
- W 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- W 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
- W 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
- W 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sally Eun Ji Son
Info - 0 points
Literary Guides to Living and Dying Well
Surrounded by friends on the morning of his state-mandated suicide, Socrates invites them to join him in considering the proposition that philosophizing is learning how to die. In dialogues, essays, and letters from antiquity to early modernity, writers have returned to this proposition from Plato’s
Phaedo
to consider, in turn, what it means for living and dying well. This course will explore some of the most widely read of these works, including by Cicero, Seneca, Jerome, Augustine, Boethius, Petrarch, and Montaigne, with an eye to the continuities and changes in these meanings and their impact on the literary forms that express them.
Application instructions: E-mail Prof. Eden (khe1@columbia.edu) with your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course. Admitted students should register for the course; they will automatically be placed on a wait list from which the instructor will in due course admit them as spaces become available.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kathy H Eden
CULPA: 19
Wikipedia
Info
- 4 points
VIRGINIA WOOLF
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Edward Mendelson
CULPA: 64
Wikipedia
Info
- 4 points
Queer Science & Tech Studies
Queer Science & Technolog
Technology has long shaped our understanding of sex and gender, from stone tools to artificial intelligence. Likewise, scientific knowledge systems and practices have profoundly impacted processes of categorization and defined what is ‘natural’ and ‘normal.’ Yet, simultaneously, sociocultural conceptions of sex and gender bear upon science and technology. How might we think about this nexus in a time of fraught contestations over sex, gender, and visions of what the world ought to be like, vis-à-vis science and technology? Leveraging intersections of science and technology studies (STS) and feminist and queer studies, this seminar queries the mutually constitutive relationships between science, technology, gender, and sex across time and space.
- Department: Anthropology
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Madisson Whitman
Info - 4 points
GENDER, SEXUALITY AND THE AMERICAN STAGE
PERFORMING THE BODY POLIT
This seminar investigates how American theatre/performance, as read through the lens of gender and sexuality, operates as a cultural force. Simply put, the U.S. is obsessed with sex; theatre/performance has proven a fertile medium for America’s expression of this obsession. Exploring texts from the seventeenth through the twenty-first centuries, we will consider how performance intersects with the nation state’s desire to regulate how we “practice” gender both publicly and behind closed doors and how that intersects, overlaps and influences the politics of American Identity. How is performance, which always includes gendered/raced/classed/sexualized bodies, situated in relationship to ideas of a national body politic? How does the American nation state hinge on how gender and sexuality are performed both on-stage and off?
- Department: English @Barnard
- R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Pamela Cobrin
CULPA: 6
Info
- 4 points