CRITICAL WRITING

(Formerly called Literary Criticism & Theory.) Provides experience in the reading and analysis of literary texts and some knowledge of conspicuous works of literary criticism. Frequent short papers. Required of all English majors before the end of the junior year. Sophomores are encouraged to take it in the spring semester even before officially declaring their major. Transfer students should plan to take it in the fall semester.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Timea Szell
  CULPA: 14 Info
• Instructor: Andrew L Lynn
  CULPA: 17 Info
• Instructor: Stefan Pedatella
  CULPA: 36 Info
• Instructor: John J Pagano
  CULPA: 27 Info
• 4 points

THEORY

An exploration of alternative theoretical approaches to the study of religion as well as other areas of humanistic inquiry.  The methods considered include: sociology, anthropology, philosophy, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, structuralism, genealogy, and deconstruction.  (Previous title: Juniors Colloquium)

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• W 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Beth A Berkowitz
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 6 Info
• 4 points

THE VISUAL & VERBAL ARTS

THE VISUAL AND VERBAL ARTS

Analysis and discussion of the relation of literature to painting, photography, and film. Emphasis on artistic and literary concepts concerning the visual dimension of narrative and poetic texts from Homer to Burroughs. Explores the role of description, illustration, and montage in realist and modern literature.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Erk Grimm
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

MULTILINGUALSM & JEWISH LITERATURE

• Department: Institute for Israel & Jewish Studies
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• 3 points

DIRECTING I

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor given at first class meeting.
Exploration of the evolution of the director's role in Europe and the US, including the study of important figures. Emphasis on text analysis, and varied schools of acting in relation to directing practice. Students gain a foundation in composing stage pictures and using stage movement to tell a story. All students will direct at least one fully-realized scene.  Fulfills one course in Directing requirement for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• MW 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Shannon M Sindelar
  Info
• 3 points

SOLID EARTH DYNAMICS

Prerequisites: any 1000-level or 2000-level EESC course; MATH UN1101 Calculus I and PHYS UN1201 General Physics I or their equivalents. Concurrent enrollment in PHYS UN1201 is acceptable with the instructor's permission.
Properties and processes affecting the evolution and behavior of the solid Earth. This course will focus on the geophysical processes that build mountains and ocean basins, drive plate tectonics, and otherwise lead to a dynamic planet. Topics include heat flow and mantle circulation, earthquakes and seismic waves, gravity, Earth's magnetic field, and flow of glaciers and ice sheets.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Meredith Nettles
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 31 Info
• 3 points

DIRECTING II

Prerequisites: Students required to have taken THTRV 3200 Directing I, THTRV 3203 Collaboration: Directing and Design, or equivalent. Enrollment limited to 14 students. Permission of instructor given at first class meeting.
Course focuses on developing an individual directorial style, placing emphasis on visual research, and the use of different staging environments: end-stage, in the round, environmental. Class is structured around scene-work and critique, and each student will direct at least three fully-realized scenes. Material typically drawn from European avant-garde. Fulfills additional coursework in Directing required for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors concentrating in Directing.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Alice A Reagan
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

CERAMICS II

Prerequisites:
VIAR R2200
.
(Formerly R3131) This course will focus on using ceramics as a primary art making machine by breaking out of the constraints wedded to this traditional material. Building on the foundation set in 
VIAR R2200
Ceramics I, this course will delve further into the technical and historical aspects of the ceramic process.,Students will use a self-directed working process to facilitate the incorporation of ceramics materials into their existing art making while allowing them room to go in their own conceptual direction.  Rigorous group and individual critiques will be held on a regular basis.  Content is a priority in this class, and with the further understanding of ceramic processes and materials, the goal is for the student to be fluid in producing their ideas without the obstruction of technical difficulties.  In addition to the rigorous making of objects from start to finish our technical progression will be broken down into three parts:,Part one:,Testing and understanding of ceramic materials. Students will formulate their own glazes and clay bodies from raw ceramic materials. Rigorous testing will take place throughout the semester.,Part two:,Focuses on the in-depth understanding of using kilns. Students will start with loading and unloading of their own work. Programming our electric kilns, firing the kiln and learning the different results obtained at different temperatures. The end result is for the student to have confidence in firing their own work when they leave this class.,Part thee:,Students will learn advanced building techniques such a large scale hand building, mold making, slip casting, advanced image-making such as ceramic decal production and transferware.

• Department: Visual Arts
• R 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph J Peet
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• 3 points

DISCRETE MATHEMATICS

Prerequisites: Any introductory course in computer programming.
Logic and formal proofs, sequences and summation, mathematical induction, binomial coefficients, elements of finite probability, recurrence relations, equivalence relations and partial orderings, and topics in graph theory (including isomorphism, traversability, planarity, and colorings).

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ansaf Salleb-Aouissi
  CULPA: 21 h-index: 16 Info
• 3 points

RELIGION IN AMERICA II

Survey of American religion from the Civil War to the present, with an emphasis on the ways religion has shaped American history, culture, and identity.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Gale L Kenny
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

RELIGION IN THE ARCHIVE

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Gale L Kenny
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN URBAN POLITICS

This course examines the pattern of political development in urban America, as the country's population has grown in urbanized locations. It explores the process by which cities and suburbs are governed, how immigrants and migrants are incorporated, and how people of different races and ethnicities interact in urbanized settings as well as the institutional relations of cities and suburbs with other jurisdictions of government. The course focuses both on the historical as well the theoretical understandings of politics in urban areas.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Carlos Vargas-Ramos
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

FORENSIC OSTEOLOGY

Prerequisites: no prior experience with skeletal anatomy required. Not appropriate for students who have already taken either EEEB G4147 or EEEB G4148. An exploration of the hidden clues in your skeleton. Students learn the techniques of aging, sexing, assessing ancestry, and the effects of disease, trauma and culture on human bone. EBHS students have priority at first session. Taught as lecture/lab.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• MW 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jill S Shapiro
  CULPA: 46 Info
• 3 points

LIFE OF A CATHEDRAL:NOTRE-DAME

LIFE OF A CATHEDRAL: NOTRE-DAM

Notre-Dame of Amiens, often considered the "classic" Gothic cathedral, is studied each year by the more than one thousand students enrolled in the Columbia University Core course, Art Humanities. Like a great city, the cathedral brings together multiple segments of society in lively collaboration and conflict. We will explore the three overlapping worlds of the cathedral: the world of the clergy (owners and principal users), the world of the layfolk (parishioners, townsfolk and pilgrims) and the world (most mysterious) of the architects, or master masons. The semester is thus divided into three parts: each class will be preceded by an intense look at a specific aspect of the life of the cathedral and a reading presented by one of the participants. Participants in the class will also be invited to contribute to the development of a new website on the cathedral, designed for the use of Art Humanities students. We plan to organize a one-week study trip to Paris and Amiens in March 2015 (Spring Break) in order to continue the conversation in situ.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Stephen Murray
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 4 points

LIT & REVOLUTION (20TH C LIT)

Survey of Russian literature from symbolism to the culture of high Stalinism and post-Socialist realism of the 1960-70s, including major works by Andrei Bely, Blok, Olesha, Babel, Bulgakov, Platonov, Zoshchenko, Kharms, Kataev, Pasternak, Venedikt Erofeev. Knowledge of Russian not required.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jessica E Merrill
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

TOLSTOY AND DOSTOEVSKY

Two epic novels, Tolstoy's War and Peace and Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, will be read along with selected shorter works. Other works by Tolstoy include his early Sebastopol Sketches, which changed the way war is represented in literature; Confession, which describes his spiritual crisis; the late stories "Kreutzer Sonata" and "Hadji Murad"; and essays on capital punishment and a visit to a slaughterhouse. Other works by Dostoevsky include his fictionalized account of life in Siberian prison camp, The House of the Dead; Notes from the Underground, his philosophical novella on free will, determinism, and love; "A Gentle Creature," a short story on the same themes; and selected essays from Diary of a Writer. The focus will be on close reading of the texts. Our aim will be to develop strategies  for appreciating the structure and form, the powerful ideas, the engaging storylines, and the human interest in the writings of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. No knowledge of Russian is required.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Liza Knapp
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 3 points

ASIATIC RUS:EMPIRE & STATE

The aim of this course is to provide students with a fresh perspective on the concept of Eurasia originating in imperial Russian intellectual history. The course sets out to highlight the impact of nomadic political cultures on shaping the operation of Russian imperial policies and practices and their legacies, a perspective that is typically not represented in Eurasian and Russian history courses as a major idea of analysis. The course’s focus therefore will be on the spread of Russian rule over Eurasia’s steppe regions and Turkestan. Among other things, the course explores how the interplay of the nomadic concepts of sovereignty and territoriality enabled the rise of the Russian empire. Beyond ethnic and cultural history special attention will be devoted to economic and military history, as well as political institutions and diplomacy. We will also look at the ways in which the concept of Eurasia continued to inspire Soviet and post-Soviet politicians and other related groups to construct and reconstruct boundaries between East and West.

• Department: History
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Gulnar T Kendirbai
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL HISTOR

This course looks at key developments of American History through the prism of Supreme Court decisions and their aftermath.  A. How did the Supreme Court reflect, and affect, and effect, historic patterns of U.S. growth, expansion and development?  B. How did the Supreme Court respond to, or exacerbate, crises in U.S. history, and how did it impact the legal and economic framework that underpins what the U.S. has become, and is becoming?  C. How did the perception of individual and collective rights and liberties, and of the function and role of governments -- both federal and state -- evolve over time?

• Department: Political Science
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert L Tortoriello
  Info
• 3 points

POST-COLONIAL/POST-SOCIALIST:VOICES FROM

• Department: Slavic Languages @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Bradley Gorski
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION

All of us have spent many years in school and understand that schools impact our lives in important ways. But how exactly does formal schooling shape young people? And how do students make sense of their lives in the context of schools and educational systems more broadly? In this class we will examine education as a central institution in modern society, and we will grapple with an important question: What role does education play in reinforcing or challenging broader patterns of social inequality and mobility?   Particular emphasis will be placed on higher education as a critical site in which these processes take shape.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO COMPOSITION I

Prerequisites: The prerequisites for this course are V1002 Fundamentals of Western Music and the instructor's permission. Permission of instructor. Music majors and concentrators have priority.
Composition in shorter forms. Basic issues of musical structure and expression are explored in traditional and contemporary repertory.

• Department: Music
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Georg Friedrich Haas
  Info
• 3 points

HYDROSYSTEMS ENGINEERING

Prerequisites: (CHEN E3110) or (ENME E3161) or (SIEO W3600) or CHEN E3110 or ENME E3161 or equiv, SIEO W3600 or equiv, or instructor's permission
A quantitative introduction to hydrologic and hydraulic systems, with a focus on integrated modeling and analysis of the water cycle and associated mass transport for water resources and environmental engineering. Coverage of unit hydrologic processes such as precipitation, evaporation, infiltration, runoff generation, open channel and pipe flow, subsurface flow and well hydraulics in the context of example watersheds and specific integrative problems such as risk-based design for flood control, provision of water, and assessment of environmental impact or potential for non-point source pollution. Spatial hydrologic analysis using GIS and watershed models.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Eric A Rosenberg
  Info
• 3 points

BEFORE 'BLACK LIVES MATTER':READING INSU

Black Lives Matter is an American phenomenon. This course situates BLM in relation to other and earlier movements in the Global South and elsewhere. Through textual analysis and critical reading, we take up the discursive, rhetorical, and poetical strategies of opposition to marginalization, criminalization, and racial othering.

• Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Yvette Christianse
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

FIRST AMENDMENT VALUES

Prerequisites: POLS W1201 or an equivalent. Not an introductory course. Not open to students who have taken the colloquium POLS BC3302. Enrollment limited to 25 students; L-course sign-up.
Examines the first amendment rights of speech, press, religion and assembly. In-depth analysis of landmark Supreme Court rulings provides the basis for exploring theoretical antecedents as well as contemporary applications of such doctrines as freedom of association, libel, symbolic speech, obscenity, hate speech, political speech, commercial speech, freedom of the press and religion. (Cross-listed by the American Studies Program.)

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Paula A Franzese
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

WRITING FOR TELEVISION

Corequisites: Please note that since this is a Film course, it does not count as a writing course for English majors with a Writing Concentration.
This course will focus on the primary pillar of television production: the teleplay. Through a number of creative exercises, students will learn the intricacies of the unique screenwriting formats that are the half-hour and hour-long teleplays. Together we will cover the differences between an episode arc and a seasonal one, the requirements of A/B/C story plotting, and how to write an effective show bible. We will survey the existing pantheon of great television writing in order to help students narrow in on their individual sensibilities. By the end of the course, students will have a written original pilot.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Rubeintz Philippe
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

COMPUTER SCIENCE THEORY

Prerequisites: (COMS W3203)
COMS W3203
.
Corequisites:
COMS W3134
,
W3136
, or
W3137
.
Regular languages: deterministic and non-deterministic finite automata, regular expressions. Context-free languages: context-free grammars, push-down automata. Turing machines, the Chomsky hierarchy, and the Church-Turing thesis. Introduction to Complexity Theory and NP-Completeness.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Tal Malkin
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia h-index: 45 Info
• 3 points

SEXUALITY & SOCIETY

The purpose of this course is to explore the relationship between sexuality and society. Our aim is to provide an enormously broad introduction to this topic area, covering historical and national variation, exploring biological, psychological, historical, and sociological texts, and thinking critically about issues such as reproduction, desire, and identity. These readings can, at times, be demanding. Some will cover genetics; others will contain relatively dense cultural theory.

• Department: Sociology
• TR 10:20 a.m.-11:35 a.m.
• Instructor: Benjamin P Haber
  Info
• 3 points

SOCIOLOGY OF WORK & GENDER

This course examines gender as a flexible but persistent boundary that continues to organize our work lives and our home lives, as well as the relationship between the two spheres. We will explore the ways in which gender affects how work is structured; the relationship between work and home; the household as a place of paid (and unpaid) labor; and how changes in the global economy affect gender and work identities.

• Department: Sociology
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Teresa Sharpe
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 3 points

LATIN AMER LIT (IN TRANSLATN)

Study of contemporary Latin American narrative; its origins and apotheosis. Readings include Machado de Assis, Borges, Garcia Marquez, Puig, and others.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Alfred Mac Adam
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 3 points

BRITISH LITERATURE 1950-PRES

British Literature Since 1950

This course examining post-war British literature, film and music builds a narrative of post-war Britain by looking at the tensions, battles and struggles between white Britons and immigrants of color from the Caribbean, Africa, and South Asia. Black British cultural production (denoting work by peoples of South Asian as well as African and Caribbean origin) both challenged traditional conceptions of the nation and offered creative and transformative responses to a mounting atmosphere of racism and xenophobia. The materials I have assembled for class – novels, music, films – depict not only the immigrant experience but also the bleakness of postwar Britain and the subcultural movements among both Black and white youth that opposed and challenged the rigid class system, the monarchy, patriarchal family structures and post-imperial illusions of grandeur.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew Hart
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

HIGH ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS

Prerequisites: One year of calculus-based general physics. Physics majors could take this course with no previous astronomy background.

• Department: Astronomy
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Lorenzo Sironi
  h-index: 39 Info
• 3 points

FREAKS & AESTHETES IN FIFTIES FAMILIES

1950S FAMILIES

Prerequisites: E-mail Professor Ross Posnock (rp2045@columbia.edu ) with the subject heading "seminar application." In your message, include basic information: 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.
We will read J.D. Salinger's Glass Family fiction, which features a group of hyper-articulate New York prodigies who experiment with Eastern religion, Robert Lowell's prose and poetry in  Life Studies, a breakthrough in "confessional" subject matter, and Carson McCuller's novel A Member of the Wedding,about the coming of age of a Southern tomboy. We will also watch and discuss Nicholas Ray's film Rebel Without a Cause with James Dean, the most famous portryal of teenage rage and angst. All these works narrate crises of conformity in postwar America--the much advertised sense of "alienation"--and dramatize the possibility of alternative values and improvised families.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ross Posnock
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 4 points

SELF: A COGNITIVE EXPLORATION

• Department: Psychology
• F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Karen J Kelly
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

REPRESSION RESISTANCE IN IBERI

Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score.
An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the
Directory of Classes
for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Iria Ameixeiras Cundins
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• 3 points

PLAYWRITING LAB

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and writing sample required.
Students will develop original dramatic scripts. Students will also read drafts of writers currently produced on New York stages to understand why changes and rewrites were made. Recommended for students undertaking a senior thesis in playwriting.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew Bragen
  Info
• 3 points

SCULPTURE II

Prerequisites: VIAR UN2300 or the instructor's permission.
(Formerly R3331) Continuation of
VIAR UN2300
. The objective of the class is to engage in in-depth research and hands on studio projects related to a specific theme to be determined by each student. Each student is expected to complete class with four fully realized and thematically linked works. Wood, metal, and plaster will be provided for this class but video, sound, performance and various mixed media approaches are highly encouraged. In addition, lecture and field trips will be part of the course. If the class is full, please visit 
http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program
.

• Department: Visual Arts
• T 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

SCULPTURE III

Prerequisites:
VIAR R2300
.
(Formerly R3332) Sculpture III is an invitation for immersive sculpting. The class will explore the idea of experiences and construction of contexts as central research topics. The class becomes a laboratory space to explore various techniques to heighten body awareness and spatial sensibility. Through assignments and workshops, the students will practice how to digest these sensory experiences through their studio practice. Historical precedents for art outside the usual mediums and venues will be our reference points to investigate how our own work may take part in a generative process that evolves the definition of sculpture. The assignments in the first half of the semester point the students to performance, site specificity, and sound, that utilize New York City's odd spots and professionals. While building such common experiential platforms, the class will also build language for a dialogic space, through weekly in-class discussions lead by the instructor, guests, and rotating panels of the students. As the semester progresses, the emphasis will gradually be shifted from experiential learning to intensive studio work on a final project, where the students are asked to pay close attention to how various methods and fields of subjects combine. The resulting project has to be the best work you have ever done. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• T 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

LAB IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Prerequisites: BIOL BC2100 OR BIOL BC3310 (which can be taken as corequisites) or permission of instructor. Enrollment limited to 16.
Introduction to the use of molecular techniques to answer questions about subcellular biological phenomena. Techniques include isolation of genomic and plasmid DNAs, restriction enzyme analysis, DNA and protein electrophoresis, bacterial transformation, and plasmid subcloning.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• R 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer H Mansfield
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 15 Info
• 3 points

VIROLOGY

Prerequisites: two semesters of a rigorous, molecularly-oriented introductory biology course (such as
C2005
), or the instructor's permission.
The course will emphasize the common reactions that must be completed by all viruses for successful reproduction within a host cell and survival and spread within a host population. The molecular basis of alternative reproductive cycles, the interactions of viruses with host organisms, and how these lead to disease are presented with examples drawn from a set of representative animal and human viruses, although selected bacterial viruses will be discussed.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Vincent R Racaniello
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ISLAM IN POST-COLONIAL WORLD

This course focuses on the multiple manifestations of the Islamic vision in the modern world. It begins with a survey of core Muslim beliefs before shifting to an examination of the impact of colonization and secular modernity on contemporary formulations of Islam.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Hussein Rashid
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

THE QUR'AN:A COMPAR PERSPECTV

This course develops an understanding of the Qu'ran's form, style, and content through a close reading of comparable religious texts. Major topics include the Qu'ranic theory of prophecy, its treatment of the biblical tradition (both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament), and its perspective on the pre-Islamic pagan religion.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Najam I Haider
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

FOOD AND THE SOCIAL ORDER (SOPHOMORE SEM

FOOD & SOCIAL ORDER/EURO HIST

This course will examine changing patterns of production and consumption of food in Europe from prehistoric to modern times. Topics include the development of settled agriculture, the significance of geographical location, exploration and colonialism; the impact of social stratification and ideologies of taste on food consumption; changing knowledge about health and hygiene; the involvement of the state in food security; the development of the science of nutrition; the regulation of food safety; food and social welfare in the twentieth century, the globalization of food production, dietary norms, and access to markets.

• Department: History @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Deborah Valenze
  CULPA: 16 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

EAR-TRAINING III

Sight-singing techniques of modulating diatonic melodies in simple, compound, or irregular meters that involve complex rhythmic patterns. Emphasis is placed on four-part harmonic dictation of modulating phrases.

• Department: Music
• MW 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• TR 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 1 points

INTRO TO TALMUD TEXT STUDY

Prerequisites: basic Hebrew grammar and vocabulary.
This course is designed for students with knowledge of Hebrew to acquire the skills for reading and interpreting the Babylonian Talmud, the classic work of Jewish law and lore, in its original language. Students will master technical skills along with theories and methods for conceptualizing the Talmud as a text. Prerequisite: basic Hebrew grammar and vocabulary.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Beth A Berkowitz
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

EAR-TRAINING IV

Techniques of musicianship at the intermediate level, stressing the importance of musical nuances in sight-singing. Emphasis is placed on chromatically inflected four-part harmonic dictation.

• Department: Music
• MW 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 1 points

MICROBIOLOGY

Microbiology

Prerequisites: BIOL BC1500, BIOL BC1501, BIOL BC1502, BIOL BC1503 or the equivalent, and BIOL BC2100.
Survey of the diversity, cellular organization, physiology, and genetics of the major microbial groups. Also includes aspects of applied microbiology and biotechnology, the function of microorganisms in the environment, and the role of microbes in human diseases.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Stephen L Sturley
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

MUSIC THEORY III

Prerequisites:
MUSI V2319
.
Corequisites: one course from Ear-training I-IV (
V2314
,
V2315
,
V3316
, or
V3317
, as determined by placement exam.)
Intermediate analysis and composition in a variety of tonal idioms. (Through Spring 2014, this course was entitled Chromatic Harmony and Counterpoint I.)

• Department: Music
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• 3 points

MUSIC THEORY IV

Prerequisites:
MUSI V3321
.
Corequisites: one course from Ear-Training I-IV (
V2314
,
V2315
,
V3316
, or
V3317
, as determined by placement exam.)
Intermediate analysis and composition in a variety of tonal and extended tonal idioms. (Through Spring 2014, this course was entitled Chromatic Harmony and Counterpoint II.) A one-hour weekly lab is required, to be scheduled at the beginning of the term.

• Department: Music
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• 3 points

SOCIOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

During the past decades, sociologists have been studying, theoretically and empirically, emotions and their social, cultural, and political significance. This course introduces students to the major sociological and anthropological theories of emotions (evolutionary, phenomenological, interactionist, constructionist and discursive). It will focus on different social spheres of emotions, such as fear, anger, hate, love, shame and loneliness, as well as on the relations between emotions, conciliatory and antagonistic. We will also explore the role that emotions play in constructing collective identities and identifications.

• Department: Sociology
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Niza Yanay
  Info
• 3 points

COLL: HARLEM IN THEORY

Prerequisites:
Admission by application
through the Barnard department only. Enrollment limited to 16 students.
Harlem in Theory is an advanced political theory colloquium.  Its focus is both thematic and methodological.  Joining a two-thousand year tradition of doing philosophy in and for the city, we theorize Harlem as urbs and civitas (place and socio-political association) and bring Harlem to bear on philosophy.  We explore the political theorist's craft by engaging different theoretical approaches and methodologies used by political, social and critical theorists.  Our readings include political philosophy, critical frameworks for interpretation and historical, social scientific and literary works about Harlem - supplemented by film, music and of course periodic trips to various Harlem venues. General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC).

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• W 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Michelle R Smith
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS

Prerequisites: (ELEN E3201) ELEN E3201.
Operational amplifier circuits. Diodes and diode circuits. MOS and bipolar junction transistors. Biasing techniques. Small-signal models. Single-stage transistor amplifiers. Analysis and design of CMOS logic gates. A/D and D/A converters.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: David G Vallancourt
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 3 points

URBAN SPACE & CONFLICT IN MIDDLE EAST

URBAN SPACE-CONFLICT MID EAST

This course explores how civil war, revolution, militarization, mass violence, refugee crises, and terrorism impact urban spaces, and how city dwellers engage in urban resilience, negotiate and attempt to reclaim their right to the city. Through case studies of Beirut (1975-present), Baghdad (2003-present), Cairo (2011-present), Diyarbakir (1914-present), Aleppo (1914-present), and Jerusalem (1914-present), this course traces how urban life adjusted to destruction (and post-conflict reconstruction), violence, and anarchy; how neighborhoods were reshaped; and how local ethnic, religious, and political dynamics played out in these cities and metropolises. Relying on multi-disciplinary and post-disciplinary scholarship, and employing a wealth of audiovisual material, literary works, and interviews conducted by the instructor, the course scrutinizes how conflicts have impacted urban life in the Middle East, and how civilians react to, confront, and resist militarization in urban spaces.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Khatchig Mouradian
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED YIDDISH

ADVANCED YIDDISH I

Prerequisites:
YIDD W1201-W1202
or the instructor's permission.
Reading of contemporary authors. Stress on word usage and idiomatic expression, discussion.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Agnieszka Legutko
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

GENDER&WARS;:PERSPECTIVES FROM THE GLBL S

Wars are salient features of globalization. But, how can we understand the relationship between gender and war? How do notions of masculinities and femininities operate in the organizing, waging, protesting, and commemorating war? Starting from the premise that gender is crucial to explaining what happens in national revolutionary wars, postcolonial conflicts and civil wars, peacekeeping and humanitarian interventions, and the social and personal aspects when wars come to an end; this course considers a transnational feminist analysis to reflect on the relationship between gender and militarism. It pulls together literature from different disciplinary fields to explore the gendered dimensions of wars of national liberation, armed conflicts, wartime gender based/sexual violence, politics of victimhood, anti-war activism, resistance and agency. We will pay particular attention to case studies from the global South.
The gendered analyses of war will be explored from a multi-disciplinary framework including history, anthropology, sociology, political science, international relations, philosophy, literature and film. We will utilize film, journalistic accounts, ethnographic narratives and other resources to explore the complex ways in which people, especially men and women experience and respond to wars differently.

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Selina Makana
  Info
• 3 points

SHAKESPEARE II

(Lecture). Shakespeare II examines plays from the second half of Shakespeare’s dramatic career, primarily a selection of his major tragedies and his later comedies (or “romances”).

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Jean E Howard
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 3 points

WOMEN IN RENAISSANCE DRAMA CULTRE

WOMEN IN REN DRAMA CULTRE

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lauren E Robertson
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

HISPANIC CULTURES I (SP)

Prerequisites: L" course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion of language requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300).
Provides students with an overview of the cultural history of the Hispanic world, from eighth-century Islamic and Christian Spain and the pre-Hispanic Americas through the late Middle Ages and Early Modern period until about 1700, covering texts and cultural artifacts from both Spain and the Americas.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Alexandra V Mendez
  Info
• Instructor: Patricia E Grieve
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

HISPANIC CULTURES II (SP)

This course surveys cultural production of Spain and Spanish America from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Students will acquire the knowledge needed for the study of the cultural manifestations of the Hispanic world in the context of modernity. Among the issues and events studied will be the Enlightenment as ideology and practice, the Napoleonic invasion of Spain, the wars of Spanish American independence, the fin-de-siècle and the cultural avant-gardes, the wars and revolutions of the twentieth century (Spanish Civil War, the Mexican and Cuban revolutions), neoliberalism, globalization, and the Hispanic presence in the United States. The goal of the course is to study some key moments of this trajectory through the analysis of representative texts, documents, and works of art. Class discussions will seek to situate the works studied within the political and cultural currents and debates of the time. All primary materials, class discussion, and assignments are in Spanish.
This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Omar Duran-Garcia
  Info
• Instructor: David Mejia
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Ronald D Briggs
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

PHENOMENOLOGY & EXISTENTIALISM

PHENOMENOLOGY&EXISTENTIALISM;

Prerequisites: Two prior philosophy courses. Enrollment limited to 30.
Survey of selected works of Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty. Topics include intentionality, consciousness and self-consciousness, phenomenological and hermeneutical method, the question of being, authenticity and inauthenticiy, bad faith, death, and the role of the body in perception.

• Department: Philosophy @Barnard
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Taylor Carman
  CULPA: 40 Wikipedia h-index: 19 Info
• 3 points

HISTORY OF THE SELF

History of the Self: Montaigne

This course is one of a series on the history of the modern self. The works of Montaigne, Pascal, Rousseau, Tocqueville, or another Enlightenment thinker are critically examined in a seminar setting.
Fall 2017 the topic is Tocqueville.

• Department: History
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Lilla
  CULPA: 57 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

PHYSIOLOGY

Prerequisites: BIOL BC1500, BIOL BC1501, BIOL BC1502, BIOL BC1503 or the equivalent.
Physiology of major organ systems; function and control of circulatory, respiratory, digestive, excretory, endocrine, nervous, and immune systems in animals; emphasis on vertebrates.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: John Glendinning
  CULPA: 23 h-index: 39 Info
• 3 points

LABORATORY IN PHYSIOLOGY

Prerequisites: Pre- (or co-) requisite is a physiology lecture class (e.g., BIOL BC3360). Enrollment limited to 16.
Provides a hands-on introduction to the different physiological systems in vertebrates and invertebrates. Emphasizes the operation of a variety of physiological monitoring devices and the collection and analysis of physiological data.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• R 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: John Glendinning
  CULPA: 23 h-index: 39 Info
• 3 points

ANXIETY, OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE, AND RELAT

ANXIETY AND OCD

Prerequisites: (PSYCH BC2141) and (PSYCH BC1001)
This course presents an in depth investigation of anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and OCD-related disorders, from a primarily psychological perspective. The course will focus on the phenomenology, correlates, and contributing factors of these conditions.  Students will also learn about the current psychological treatments for these disorders. Emphasis will be placed on recent empirical research findings.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Wheaton
  h-index: 31 Info
• 4 points

LAB IN MOLEC & CELL NEUROSCI

Prerequisites: BIOL BC3362 (or corequisite). Enrollment limited to 16.
Introduction to techniques commonly used in current neurobiological research, including intracellular and extracellular recording of action potentials, neuroanatomical methods, and computer simulation of the action potential.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• W 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth P Bauer
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 21 Info
• 3 points

PSYCHOLOGY OF LEADERSHIP

Prerequisites: Students must have one of the following pre-requisites for this course: PSYC BC1125 Personality Psychology, PSYC BC1138 Social Psychology, or PSYC BC2151 Organizational Psychology, and permission by the instructor.
An in-depth examination of the concept of leadership in psychology with an emphasis on women’s leadership. Topics include the role of gender, culture, and emotional intelligence as well as an examination of transactional and transformational models. Topics will be discussed with an equal emphasis on theory, research, and application.  Students must have prerequisites and permission of the instructor.
Enrollment limited to 15.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Tara Well
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

INTELLECTUAL LIFE IN 19C BRITAIN

INTELLECTUAL LIFE 19C BRITAIN

This course aims to give students a wide overview of the transformation of intellectual life of Britain in the long nineteenth century as well as a sense of some of the dynamics of intellectual change in this period. The nineteenth century has been long-established as a period of enormous social, economic, and political upheaval. The course has been designed as a critical examination of key ideas and themes in the intellectual and cultural history of this period. The topics covered range from ideas about identity, empire, and history, through conceptions of progress in natural and social science as well as anti-industrialization and economic commentary, to questions of sex, gender, race, and the avant garde raised at the fin de si├Ęcle. This course will equip students with skills in reading, analyzing, and contextualizing texts in the history of ideas.

• Department: History
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Emily Jones
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

PSYCHOLOGY OF CREATIVITY

Prerequisites: BC1001 and permission of the instructor.
Consideration of classic Psychodynamic (the unconscious/incubation), Psychometric (testing/training), and Personaility (train/motivation) models of creativity. Application of contemporary Process (cognitive/problem-solving) models to art, literature, and independently selected areas of expertise. Process models are involving constraint selection within well-established domains are emphasized.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Patricia D Stokes
  CULPA: 48 Info
• 4 points

HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY

Prerequisites: BC1001 and two more psychology courses, and permission of the instructor required.
Consideration of research on the interaction of biological, psychological, and social factors related to physical health and illness. Topics include the relationship of stress to illness, primary prevention, mind-body methods of coping with stress and chronic illness (such as meditation), and the relationship between psychological factors and recovery from illness. 
Enrollment limited to 15.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Tara Well
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY

Prerequisites: BC1001 and BC1129 Developmental Psychology or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 20 senior majors. Barnard students receive priority.
Examines adolescent development in theory and reality. Focuses on individual physiological, sexual, cognitive, and affective development and adolescent experiences in their social context of family, peers, school, and community. Critical perspectives of gender, race and ethnicity, sexuality, and "teen culture" explored.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Susan R Sacks
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

CANINE COGNITION

Prerequisites: BC1001 and one other Psychology course. Enrollment limited to 15 students. Permission of the instructor is required.
An examination of the scientific study of the domestic dog. Emphasis will be on the evolutionary history of the species; the dog's social cognitive skills; canid perceptual and sensory capacities; dog-primate comparative studies; and dog-human interaction.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Alexandra C Horowitz
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

GIS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMNT

This course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive overview of theoretical concepts underlying GIS systems and to give students a strong set of practical skills to use GIS for sustainable development research. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are a system of computer software, data and analysis methods used to create, store, manage, digital information that allow us to create maps and dynamic models to analyze the physical and social processes of the world. Through a mixture of lectures, readings, focused discussions, and hands-on exercises, students will acquire an understanding of the variety and structure of spatial data and databases, gain knowledge of the principles behind raster and vector based spatial analysis, and learn basic cartographic principles for producing maps that effectively communicate a message. Student will also learn to use newly emerging web based mapping tools such as Google Earth, Google Maps and similar tools to develop on-line interactive maps and graphics. The use of other geospatial technologies such as the Global Positioning System will also be explored in this class. Case studies examined in class will draw examples from a wide ranges of GIS applications developed to assist in the development, implementation and evaluation of sustainable development projects and programs. On completion of the course, students will: 1. use a variety of GIS software programs to create maps and reports; 2. develop a sound knowledge of methods to search, obtain, and evaluate a wide variety of spatial data resources; 3. develop skills needed to determine best practices for managing spatial data resources; 4. use GIS to analyze the economic, social and environmental processes underlying the concept of building a sustainable world; 5. Gain an understanding of the limits of these technologies and make assessments of uncertainty associated with spatial data and spatial analysis models. Offered in the fall and spring.

• Department: Earth Institute
• W 4 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 3 points

RESRCH SEMINAR IN HISTORY II

Prerequisites: Open to Barnard College History Senior Majors.
Individual guided research and writing in history and the presentation of results in seminar and in the form of the senior essay.  See Requirements for the Major for details.

• Department: History @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Tiersten
  CULPA: 45 Info
• 4 points

HOW WRITERS THINK

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
(Seminar). This course uses contemporary philosophies of research and writing to train students to become writing center and library consultants. Readings will highlight major voices in rhetoric and composition research, with an emphasis on collaborative learning theory. We will ground our study in hands-on teaching experiences: students will shadow Columbia Writing Center consultants and research librarians and then practice strategies they learn in consultation with other students. Those who successfully complete this course will be eligible to apply for a peer writing consultant job in the Columbia Writing Center. This course is co-taught by the director of the Writing Center and the undergraduate services librarian.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Susan Mendelsohn
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 3 Info
• 4 points

MAJOR TEXTS: MIDDLE EAST/INDIA

Readings in translation and discussion of texts of Middle Eastern and Indian origin. Readings may include the Qur'an, Islamic philosophy, Sufi poetry, the Upanishads, Buddhist sutras, the
Bhagavad Gita,
Indian epics and drama, and Gandhi's
Autobiography.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Allison Busch
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 4 points

ENVIRONMENTAL VISUALIZATIONS OF NYC

ENVIRON VISUALISATIONS OF NYC

Prerequisites: (ARCH UN1020) or (ARCH UN3101) or (ARCH UN3103) or Students must have taken at least one architectural design studio or an equivalent multimedia production course.
The goal of this seminar + workshop course is to develop new visual representations of impact of environmental issues on New York City. We will focus on two catastrophic events and sites: Greenpoint Oil Spill (1978), Newtown Creek; and Hurricane Sandy (2012), Lower Manhattan; and examine related toxic histories, environmental damage, impacted communities, clean-up and protection efforts and planning and design possibilities. Resourcing historical maps, on-site documentation and future design proposals, the class will explore environmental crises and their impact on the built environment and on the social, cultural and political life of the city. Students will conduct research at The Map Division of the New York Public Library, meet with environmental and design experts, and visit sites in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Based on this research, students will use digital mapping techniques, 360 video, VR (virtual reality) and AR (augmented reality) technologies to create compelling experiential, spatial, analytical, critical, and reflective reconstructions of catastrophic events and remediation. Course readings further examine environmental issues and climate change from four unique perspectives: mapping and urban/ecological histories; design research reports; global and planetary views; and graphic, audio-visual imaginaries.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 4 points

COMPUTATIONAL EARTH SCIENCE

Prerequisites: Required: at least a semester of calculus and physics; any 1000-level or 2000-level EESC,course. Recommended: EESC3201 (Solid Earth Dynamics).
Computer models are essential for understanding the behavior of complex natural systems in geosciences. This course is an introduction to writing computer models to simulate Earth processes. Students will learn methods for numerical modeling of a variety of geoscience topics, such as seismic waves, groundwater flow, glacier growth, ocean currents and more. Simulations will be created by learning to program with a user-friendly language (Python). Student learning will be facilitated through a combination of lectures, in-class exercises,homework assignments and a final project on a student-selected modeling topic.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Kerry Key
  h-index: 33 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN MUSIC & SOCIETY

This course seeks to approach the study of music and society by comparatively studying repertories from different parts of the world, how the history of ideas and methods of studying such repertoires shaped them, the practices that constitute them and the ways they are understood and used by different peoples.  Central to this course is the interrelationship between the constitution of a repertoire and the history of the construction of knowledge about it.

• Department: Music
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Aaron A Fox
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

ELECTROMAGNETICS

Prerequisites: (MATH UN1201) and (PHYS UN1402) or (PHYS UN1602) or MATH V1201, PHYS C1402 or PHYS C1602, or equivalents.
Basic field concepts. Interaction of time-varying electromagnetic fields. Field calculation of lumped circuit parameters. Transition from electrostatic to quasistatic and electromagnetic regimes. Transmission lines. Energy transfer, dissipation, and storage. Waveguides. Radiation.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Keren Bergman
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 69 Info
• 4 points

YOUTH-INTERCONNECTED WRLD

What does it mean to be 20 years old in our rapidly changing, interconnected world?  There are more youth (aged 15-25) in the world today than at any other time in history, with the majority living in the developing world.  They approach adulthood as the world confronts seismic shifts in the geopolitical order, in the nature and future of work, and in the ways we connect with each other, express identity, engage politically, and create communities of meaning.    What unique challenges and opportunities confront young people after decades of neoliberal globalization?  What issues are most pressing in developing nations experiencing a “youth bulge” and how do they compare to developed nations with rapidly aging populations?  How do young people envision their futures and the future of the world they are inheriting? This course will examine recent scholarship while engaging the young people in the class to define the agenda and questions of the course, and to conduct their own research.
“Global 20” complements a new research project of the Committee on Global Thought, “Youth in a Changing World,” which investigates from the perspective of diverse participants and of young people themselves, the most pressing issues confronting young people in the changing world today.   The course will serve as an undergraduate “lab” for the project, and among other involvements, students in the course will help conceive, plan, and take part in a NYC-wide “Youth Think-In” sponsored by the CGT during the Spring 2018 semester.   Within the course, students will become “regional experts” and examine the primary themes of the class through the prism of specific areas or nations of their choosing.  A final class project includes a “design session” that will consider how universities might better train and empower youth to confront the challenges and embrace the opportunities of our interconnected world of the 21
st
century.

• Department: Committee on Global Thought
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Laura L Neitzel
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

COSTUME DESIGN

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• F 11 a.m.-1:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Sandra Goldmark
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

LIGHTING DESIGN

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• T 9:35 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Betsy Adams
  Info
• 3 points

COMPUTERS AND SOCIETY

Broader impact of computers. Social networks and privacy. Employment, intellectual property, and the media. Science and engineering ethics. Suitable for nonmajors.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Steven M Bellovin
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

PRINTMAKING I: PHOTOGRAVURE

Prerequisites: VIAR UN1400 or VIAR UN2420 or VIAR UN1700
(Formerly R3417) A concise study and application of the copper plate photogravure process. Usage of current available resources substituting for materials that are no longer available for photogravure. This is a 19th century obsolete photomechanical reproduction process that is constantly challenging the ingenuity of it's practitioners to keep it alive and a viable technique in the 21st century.  The course objectives are understanding and demonstrating proficiency in the photogravure process and creation of finished printed images from the process learned. It is important for the future of this process that the students understand not only the "how", but the "why" of going through all of these procedures. If the class is full, please visit
http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program
.

• Department: Visual Arts
• R 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Craig Zammiello
  Info
• 3 points

AMERICAN FUTURES IN THE PROGRESSIVE ERA

AMERICAN FUTURES IN PROG ERA

Seminar covers ideas about “progress” in the United States, 1880-1917, and explores different visions for the American future, concerning race, immigration, wealth distribution, gender, and state power. We will read a different thinker each week and, throughout the semester, consider if and how these visions of the American future came to be.

• Department: History
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Jarod Roll
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

PRINTMAKING II: INTAGLIO

Prerequisites: VIAR UN2420
(Formerly R3402) Continues instruction and demonstration of further techniques in intaglio. Encourages students to think visually more in the character of the medium, and personal development is stressed. Individual and group critiques. Portfolio required at end. If the class is full, please visit
http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program
.

• Department: Visual Arts
• MW 2:30 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Carolyn H Hulbert
  Info
• 3 points

TELLING ABOUT THE SOUTH

A remarkable array of Southern historians, novelists, and essayists have done what Shreve McCannon urges Quentin Compson to do in William Faulkner's
Absalom, Absalom!
--tell about the South--producing recognized masterpieces of American literature.  Taking as examples certain writers of the 19th and 20th centuries, this course explores the issues they confronted, the relationship between time during which and about they wrote, and the art of the written word as exemplified in their work.
Group(s): D

Field(s): US 
Limited enrollment. Priority given to senior history majors. After obtaining permission from the professor, please add yourself to the course wait list so the department can register you in the course.

• Department: History
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Barbara J Fields
  CULPA: 22 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

RUSSIAN FOR HERITAGE SPKRS II

Prerequisites:
RUSS V3430
or the instructor's permission.
This course is designed to help students who speak Russian at home, but have no or limited reading and writing skills to develop literary skills in Russian. THIS COURSE, TAKEN WITH RUSS V3430, MEET A TWO YEAR FOREIGN LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT. Conducted in Russian.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Alla Smyslova
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 3 points

CORP BEHAVIOR & PUBLIC HEALTH

In the decades since the publication of Silent Spring and the rise of the environmental movement, public awareness of the impact of industrial products on human health has grown enormously. There is growing concern over BPA, lead, PCBs, asbestos, and synthetic materials that make up the world around us. This course will focus on environmental history, industrial and labor history as well as on how twentieth century consumer culture shapes popular and professional understanding of disease. Throughout the term the class will trace the historical transformation of the origins of disease through primary sources such as documents gathered in lawsuits, and medical and public health literature. Students will be asked to evaluate historical debates about the causes of modern epidemics of cancer, heart disease, lead poisoning, asbestos-related illnesses and other chronic conditions. They will also consider where responsibility for these new concerns lies, particularly as they have emerged in law suits. Together, we will explore the rise of modern environmental movement in the last 75 years.

• Department: History
• W 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: David Rosner
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

CATALAN REGIONALISM/NATNLISM

Prerequisites: Third-year bridge course (W3300), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350).
In the nineteenth century, the failure of the Spanish State to find political alternatives to centralism, coupled with Catalonia's industrial and economic takeoff, led to the development of a strong regionalist sentiment, and eventually a nationalist movement. From this period and through the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, intellectuals became engaged in the creation of a cultural repertoire to ground and strengthen the claim to a Catalan nationality. In this course, we will examine both the burgeoning literature in dialogue with Spanish and European currents, and the establishment of other national traditions in the fields of art, language, music, urban planning/architecture, and sport.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Wadda Rios-Font
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

COLL: GENDER & PUBLIC POLICY

In this course, we will examine how notions of sex and gender have shaped public policies, and how public policies have affected the social, economic, and political citizenship of men and women in the United States over time.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• T noon-1:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Katherine L Krimmel
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points