WOMEN AND LEADERSHIP

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor. Limited to 15.
  Examination of the social conditions and linguistic practices that have shaped the historical and contemporary gendering of leadership, power, and authority in the United States and around the world. Through examples drawn from the social, political, and economic worlds, we will explore leadership in varying racial, class, and regional contexts.

• Department: Athena Center for Leadership Studies @Barnard
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Heather M Hurwitz
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

NEIGHBORHOOD & COMMUNITY DVLP

New York City is made up of more than 400 neighborhoods. The concept of neighborhoods in cities has had many meanings and understandings over time. Equally complex is the concept of community used to describe the people attached to or defined by neighborhood. While neighborhood can be interpreted as a spatial, social, political, racial, ethnic, or even, economic unit; community often refers to the group of stakeholders (i.e. residents, workers, investors) whose interests directly align with the conditions of their environment. Community development is “a process where these community members come together to take collective action and generate solutions to common problems” that result from the changing contexts in their neighborhoods. Using a variety of theories and approaches, residents organize themselves or work with community development practitioners on the ground to obtain safe, affordable housing, improve the public realm, build wealth, get heard politically, develop human capital, and connect to metropolitan labor and housing markets. To address the ever-changing contexts of neighborhoods, community development organizations are taking on new roles and adapting (in various cases) to larger forces within the city, region and nation such as disinvestment, reinvestment, increased cultural diversity, an uncertain macroeconomic environment, and changes in federal policy.
For more than a century, city-dwellers—and especially New Yorkers—have been tackling these challenges. This course will examine both historic and contemporary community building and development efforts, paying special attention to approaches which were shaped by New York City. This urban center, often described as a “city of neighborhoods,” has long been a seedbed for community-based problem-solving inventions. The course will focus on the theories (why?), tools (how?), and actors (who?) within the field of community development practice and is organized around important sectors (housing, economic development, food systems, arts), case studies, and contested concepts (public participation, social capital, public space).

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mary Rocco
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

EMPIRE&TECHNLGY; COLONIAL WRLD

Prerequisites: Third-year bridge course (W3300), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350).
Exploration of the scientific and technological practices through which the Spanish Empire established and legitimated itself during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Chronicles and travel literature will show how knowledges such as cartography, metallurgy, and botany grounded technological expansion and its deployment of indigenous peoples and resources.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Orlando Bentancor
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

PUERTO RICO: COLONIAL EXPRNCE

Prerequisites: Third-year bridge course (W3300), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350).
This course analyzes how political conflicts and cultural attitudes emerged in Puerto Rico throughout colonial Spanish rule (1492-1898) reappear or influence developing thought after the transfer of sovereignty to the United States and through the 1952 creation of the Commonwealth, as manifested in legal, journalistic, literary, and other cultural works.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Wadda Rios-Font
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

MAKING BARNARD HISTORY

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required.
Introduction to historical research through a range of the historical sources and methods available for a comprehensive history of Barnard College. Will include a review of the secondary literature, the compiling and analysis of qualitative and quantitative data through archival research, the conduct of an oral history interview, and the construction of a historical narrative.

• Department: History @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert A McCaughey
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 4 points

NEUROSCIENCE AND SOCIETY

Prerequisites: Science of Psychology (PSYC 1001) or Mind, Brain, & Behavior (PSYC 1010), or equivalent introductory psychology course. Students who have not taken one of these courses may also be admitted with instructor permission.
This course investigates the ways in which research in human neuroscience both reflects and informs societal issues. Topics include how neuroscience research is interpreted and applied in areas such as healthcare, education, law, consumer behavior, and public policy.

• Department: Psychology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Caroline B Marvin
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

INDEP BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: Concurrent with registering for this course, a student must register with the department and provide a written invitation from a mentor; details of this procedure are available at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/w3500/index.htm.
Corequisites: There will not be a recitation section this semester.
The course involves independent study, faculty-supervised laboratory projects in contemporary biology. Concurrent with registering for this course, a student must register with the department, provide a written invitation from a mentor and submit a research proposal; details of this procedure are available at
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/w3500/index.htm
. A paper summarizing results of the work is required by the last day of finals for a letter grade; no late papers will be accepted. See the course web site (above) for more details.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• Instructor: Ron M Prywes
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 2-4 points

SUPERVISED READINGS IN PHYSICS

Prerequisites: the written permission of the faculty member who agrees to act as supervisor, and the director of undergraduate studies' permission.
Readings in a selected field of physics under the supervision of a faculty member. Written reports and periodic conferences with the instructor.

• Department: Physics
• Instructor: Jeremy R Dodd
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 3 points

BEGINNING VIDEO

Beginning Video is an introductory class on the production and editing of digital video. Designed as an intensive hands-on production/post-production workshop, the apprehension of technical and aesthetic skills in shooting, sound and editing will be emphasized. Assignments are developed to allow students to deepen their familiarity with the language of the moving image medium. Over the course of the term, the class will explore the language and syntax of the moving image, including fiction, documentary and experimental approaches. Importance will be placed on the decision making behind the production of a work; why it was conceived of, shot, and edited in a certain way. Class time will be divided between technical workshops, viewing and discussing films and videos by independent producers/artists and discussing and critiquing students projects. Readings will be assigned on technical, aesthetic and theoretical issues. Only one section offered per semester. 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.
• Instructor: Peter M Clough
  Info
• 3 points

ENLIGHTENMENT/COUNTER ENLIGHTENMENT

Prerequisites: completion of FREN UN3333 or UN3334 and UN3405, or the director of undergraduate studies' permission.
Taking modern definitions and critiques of Enlightenment as its starting point, this course will look at how the Enlightenment defined itself as a philosophical, cultural and literary movement, practiced self-criticism from within, and responded to dissension and critique from without. Authors will include Adorno, Horkheimer, Foucault and Israel for the modern critical context, and Voltaire, Diderot, Buffon, Rousseau, Sade and Kant for the eighteenth century material. The course will be given in French, but non-majors may write papers in English. This course fulfills the French Major requirement for a course on literature before 1800.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Joanna R Stalnaker
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 3 points

19TH CENTURY NYC:A SPATIAL HISTORY

19TH C NYC SPATIAL HIST

History of 19
th
-century New York City with a focus on spatial history. We explore three major themes, including the city’s rapidly changing built environment, its social environment, and urban metabolism. Methodologically, we focus on spatial analysis, especially historical Geographic Information Systems.

• Department: History @Barnard
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Gergely Baics
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

COLL: MAKING DEMOCRACY WORK

Prerequisites: POLS V1501 or the
equivalent
.
Admission by application
through the Barnard department only. Enrollment limited to 16 students.
Barnard syllabus
.
Examination of democratic consolidation and promotion. What makes democracy work and what, if anything, can outside actors do to help this process along? Topics include the theoretical literature on democratic consolidation, historical cases of intervention, debates about America’s role in promoting democracy, and examination of some of the research on democracy promotion. (Cross-listed by the Europen Studies and Human Rights Programs.)

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sheri Berman
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia h-index: None Info
• 4 points

INDEP BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH - REC

INDEP BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH-REC

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ron M Prywes
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 0 points

ADVANCED WORKSHOP TRANSLATION

Prerequisites: CPLT BC 3110 - Introduction to Translation Studies is a recommended prerequisite.
A deep immersion in the theory and practice of translation with a focus on translating into English. The first half of the course is devoted to discussing readings in the history of translation theory while translating brief practical exercises; in the second half, translation projects are submitted to the class for critical discussion. The foreign texts for these projects, chosen in consultation with the instructor, will be humanistic, not only literature as conventionally defined (prose fiction and poetry, memoir and travel writing), but also the gamut of text types in the human sciences, including philosophy, history, and ethnography. The aim is not just to translate, but to think deeply about translating, to develop writing practices by drawing on the resources of theory, past and present, and by examining translations written by professionals.  In the spring of 2016, the workshop will be offered in two sections by Professor Peter Connor and Professor Emily Sun. The sections will share most of the common readings in the history of translation theory, but Professor Sun's section will emphasize issues specific to translating East Asia. Enrollment in each workshop is limited to 12 students. Admission into the class is by permission of the instructor. CPLT BC 3011 "Introduction to Translation Studies" is a recommended prerequisite, plus, normally, two advanced courses beyond the language requirement in the language from which you intend to translate. Preference will be given to seniors and to comparative literature majors.  Please Email
pconnor@barnard.edu
by 1 December 2015 with the following information: Name, year of graduation, major, college (BC, CU, etc.); a list of courses you have taken in the language from which you intend to translate; any other pertinent courses you have taken; a brief (max 300 word) statement explaining why you wish to take the workshop (this statement is not required if you have taken or are taking CPLT BC3110 Intro to Translation Studies).

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter T Connor
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 4 points

ART/WORK: SEX,AESTH,CAPTLISM

Prerequisites: none
How can performances, theatrical texts, and other art/media objects illuminate the operations of gender, sexuality, and race in global capitalism? Drawing from a range of artistic media and critical traditions, we explore how aesthetic thought can help us analyze the sexual, racial, and national character of contemporary labor and life.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexander Pittman
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

HIST APPROACHES TO FEM QUESTNS

This course will provide students with a comparative perspective on gender, race, and sexuality by illuminating historically specific and culturally distinct conditions in which these systems of power have operated across time and space. In particular, the course seeks to show how gender has not always been a binary or primary category system.  Such approach is also useful in understanding the workings of race and sexuality as mechanisms of differentiation.  In making these inquiries, the course will pay attention to the intersectional nature of race, gender, and sexuality and to strategic performances of identity by marginalized groups.

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Saidiya Hartman
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

COLUMBIA UNI & SLAVERY

In this course, students will write original, independent papers of around 25 pages, based on research in both primary and secondary sources, on an aspect of the relationship between Columbia College and its colonial predecessor King's College, with the institution of slavery.

• Department: History
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Karl Jacoby
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 8 Info
• 4 points

BUDDHISM E ASIAN MED CULTURES

This seminar introduces students to the intersections between Buddhism and medicine in East Asia in the premodern period. The course begins with Buddhist ideas and practices concerning health and disease in ancient India over two millennia ago, and follows the eastward transmission of these concerns and activities into China, Korea, and Japan until roughly the 16
th
century. In addition to secondary studies representing the latest research in this burgeoning field, this course gives special attention to critical readings of shorter selections of primary sources translated into English, including sutras, monastic regulations, recipe collections, liturgical documents, and longevity manuals. Reading these selections through multiple methodological frameworks—social history, history of the body, and material culture, students will gain an appreciation of the rich diversity that characterized Buddhist healthcare practices before the introduction of Western medicine. A fundamental premise of this course is that different currents of Buddhism constituted medical cultures in their own right, a perspective that will help us to complicate conventional notions of both “religion” and “medicine.” We will aim to achieve a nuanced understanding of the ways that healing concerns shaped how monks and nuns related to actors of other therapeutic communities, and therefore emphasis is placed on the social and cultural contexts in which Buddhist medical practices were embedded. Students will thereby acquire a basic grounding in East Asian Buddhism to complement our particular concern with the dynamics of medical history. Previous coursework in Buddhism or East Asian religion is thus recommended but not required.

• Department: Religion
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Andrew C Macomber
  Info
• 3 points

SENIOR SEMINAR II

Individual research in Women's Studies conducted in consultation with the instructor. The result of each research project is submitted in the form of the senior essay and presented to the seminar.

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Instructor: Patricia Dailey
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR II

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor. Enrollment limited to senior majors.
Individual research in Women's Studies conducted in consulation with the instructor. The result of each research project is submitted in the form of the senior essay and presented to the seminar.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Bernstein
  CULPA: 27 Info
• 4 points

NEW/OLD FORMS OF POL PROTEST

This course will introduce the students to the important topic of political protest. Each week we will address different aspects of the phenomenon: from the determinant to the actors and strategies of protest. We will discuss how the forms of protest have changed and the current role of the internet in general and social media in particular. Finally, we will discuss the role of the state and state repression, in particular censorship in the dynamics of protest. Since this is a comparative politics course, we will cover a range of different countries, including the United States, as well as both democratic and authoritarian regimes.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Chiara Superti
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

FEMINIST MEDIA THEORY

The integration of contemporary media and social practices of all types is intensifying. This seminar examines media theory and various media platforms including Language, Photography, Film, Television, Radio, Digital Video, and Computing as treated by feminists, critical race and queer theorists, and other scholars and artists working from the margins.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan L Beller
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

COLL:NON-STATE GOV CRIME/WAR

Prerequisites: (POLS UN1501)
The conventional wisdom is that crime and civil war are linked to disorder. But these are far from disorderly and ungoverned spaces. Unpacking these settings reveals complex forms of non-state governance constructed by a range of actors, including rebel and guerillas, gangs, vigilantes, and protection rackets – sometimes facilitated by the state.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Eduardo Moncada
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 12 Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED ORGANIC CHEMISTRY LAB

Prerequisites: CHEM W3543 or CHEM W3545.
Corequisites: CHEM UN2443,CHEM UN2444
A project laboratory with emphasis on complex synthesis and advanced techniques including qualitative organic analysis and instrumentation.

• Department: Chemistry
• T 1 p.m.-6 p.m.
• M 1 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Fay W Ng
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

LATIN AMERICAN FILM

This course aims to give students an introductory overview of some of the most salient issues surrounding contemporary Latin American film since the late 1960s. Starting with a selection of films from the experimental “new cinema” or “third cinema” of the 1960s, we will also study the contemporary production of international blockbuster movies in the 2000s, in Argentina, Brazil, Cuba and Mexico. Topics to be covered include the relationship between cinema and underdevelopment; cinema and revolution; cinema and emancipation; documentary film and fiction; gender and sexuality; neoliberalism and the market; spectatorship and subjectivity.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Bruno Bosteels
  Wikipedia h-index: 21 Info
• 3 points

DRUGS & POLITICS IN AMERICAS

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Eduardo Moncada
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

COMPOSITION:SITE/EXPERIMENTAL

Focuses on collaborative creation as conceptual artists, choreographers, improvisers, and performers with an emphasis on site-specific projects and experimental methods.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jody Sperling
  Info
• 3 points

MISSISSIPPI SEMESTER: CHILD CARE, RACE,

This upper-level seminar brings together a small group of students for intensive study about the history of welfare using Mississippi as a case study.  The course involves several components: theoretical and historical reading about the evolution of the welfare state, specific analysis of welfare in Mississippi, an eight-day trip to Mississippi to map the availability of child care for welfare recipients and conduct interviews with users and providers of low-income child care centers, and post-trip analysis/digitizing of the data and writing of op-eds.  The course is designed in conjunction with a local advocacy organization, Mississippi Low-Income Child Care Initiative.

• Department: History @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Premilla Nadasen
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SR SEM IN BIOLOGY

SENIOR SEMINAR IN BIOLOGY

Prerequisites: BIOL BC1500, BIOL BC1501, BIOL BC1502, BIOL BC1503, and BIOL BC2100.
Required of all majors who do not select Senior Thesis (BIOL BC3593x / BC3594y) to fulfill the senior requirement, these seminars allow students to explore the primary literature in the Biological Sciences in greater depth than can be achieved in a lecture course. Attention will be focused on both theoretical and empirical work. Seminar periods are devoted to oral reports and discussion of assigned readings and student reports. Students will write one extensive literature review of a topic related to the central theme of the seminar section.
Topics vary per semester and include:
1. Plant Development
 
2. Animal Development and Evolution 
3
. Molecular Evolution 4. Microbiology and Global Change 5. Genomics 6. Comparative and Reproductive Endocrinology.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Stephen L Sturley
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

GUIDED RESEARCH & SEMINAR

An independent research project in Biology under the guidance of a faculty member and suiting the needs of the individual student. Projects conducted outside of the Barnard Biology Department must have a member of the Department acting as a sponsor. Attendance at a weekly seminar is required. By the end of the year, students write a scientific paper and orally present their results to the Barnard Biology Department. Completion of both BIOL BC3591 and BIOL BC3592 fulfills two upper-level laboratory requirements in the major. Must be taken in sequence, beginning in the fall.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• M 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Jessica Goldstein
  CULPA: 14 Info
• Instructor: Alison Pischedda
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 11 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS RESEARCH

SENIOR THESIS SEMINAR

Prerequisites: Permission of a faculty sponsor and the department. Cannot be taken concurrently with BIOL BC3591 or BIOL BC3592.
Completion of both 
BIOL BC3593
 and 
BC3594
 fulfills the senior requirement in the major. Must be taken in sequence, beginning in the fall. - K. McGuire.  
Prerequisites: Permission of a faculty sponsor and the department. Cannot be taken concurrently with 
BIOL BC3591
or 
BIOL BC3592
.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• M 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Jessica Goldstein
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 4 points

GUIDED RESEARCH

Prerequisites: Permission of a faculty sponsor.
Similar to BIOL BC3591x/ BC3592y but a variable point course without seminar or an oral presentation. Does not fulfill Biology major requirements.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• Instructor: Elizabeth P Bauer
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 21 Info
• Instructor: Hilary Callahan
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: John Glendinning
  CULPA: 23 h-index: 39 Info
• Instructor: Jennifer H Mansfield
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 15 Info
• Instructor: Alison Pischedda
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 11 Info
• Instructor: Brian Morton
  CULPA: 21 Info
• Instructor: Stephen L Sturley
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 1-4 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: Political Science @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Martin S Flaherty
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

PHYSICAL COSMOLOGY

• Department: Astronomy
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Zoltan Haiman
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 83 Info
• 3 points

JEWS AND THE CITY

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Over the course of the nineteenth century, millions of Jews uprooted themselves from their places of birth and moved to cities scattered throughout the world.  This mass urbanization not only created new demographic centers of world Jewry, but also fundamentally transformed Jewish political and cultural life.  In this course, we shall analyze primary source material, literary accounts as well as secondary sources as we examine the Jewish encounter with the city, and see how Jewish culture was shaped by and helped to shape urban culture.  We shall compare Jewish life in six cities spanning from Eastern Europe to the United States and consider how Jews’ concerns molded the urban economy, urban politics, and cosmopolitan culture.  We shall also consider the ways in which urbanization changed everyday Jewish life.  What impact did it have on Jewish economic and religious life?  What role did gender and class play in molding the experiences of Jews in different cities scattered throughout the world?

• Department: History
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Rebecca Kobrin
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED OPTIMIZATION

For undergraduates only. This course is required for all undergraduate students majoring in IE, OR:EMS, OR:FE and OR.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Shipra Agrawal
  h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

UNCONVENTIONAL APPROACHES TO IR

Prerequisites: (POLS UN 1601)
This class will examine modern issues in international relations (e.g., drones, global financial crises, cyber warfare, international terrorism) by drawing from unconventional theories of international relations (including feminist, critical, postcolonial, and geopolitical approaches). To begin, we will briefly review “old,” or conventional, approaches to international relations that you likely learned about in your Intro to IR class—realism, liberalism, constructivism, etc. We will also consider how these approaches do and/or do not help us make sense of the contemporary, global political landscape. From there, we will move on to explore contemporary challenges and problems in IR. As we analyze these new issues, we will review unconventional approaches to international relations and use new, or unconventional, IR lenses to shed light on these problems.

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

THE RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF HIP HOP

This is an undergraduate lecture course introducing students to the study of religion through an engagement with the history of hip hop music. More specifically, this course is organized chronologically to narrate a history ot religion in the United States (from 1970 to the present day) by mapping the ways that a variety of religious ideas and practices have animated rap music’s evolution and expansion during this time period. While there are no required prerequisites for the course, prior coursework in religious studies, African American studies, and/or popular music is helpful.

• Department: Religion
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Josef Sorett
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

GLOBALIZATION& INTNL POLITICS

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Katelyn Jones
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY

Prerequisites: an introductory course in neuroscience, like PSYC UN1010 or PSYC UN2450, and the instructor's permission.
Analysis of the assessment of physical and psychiatric diseases impacting the central nervous system, with emphasis on the relationship between neuropathology and cognitive and behavioral deficits.

• Department: Psychology
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: E'Mett McCaskill
  CULPA: 38 Info
• 3 points

POLITCS OF INTL ECON RELATIONS

This upper-level undergraduate course examines the intersection of politics and economics at primarily the international level. The course involves the careful reading and evaluation of the dominant theoretical and methodological approaches as currently used in the IPE field, as well as examination of prominent debates within the major IPE subject areas of trade, finance, development and globalization.  This class does not have an economics or a specific political science prerequisite, but assumes a general understanding of historical and contemporary political and economic events. As a 3000-level course, this class would not be an appropriate choice for students who have not already taken introductory courses in political science, including international relations and comparative politics.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer H Dwyer
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 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.
• Instructor: David Schiminovich
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

FEMINISM/POSTMODERNISM IN ART

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Rosalyn Deutsche
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 3 points

MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES

MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATEW

In Trump’s presidential campaign, perhaps no country loomed as large as Mexico. Trump singled out the United States’ southern neighbor and its people in his speeches, promising to build a wall along the border, to deport millions of Mexicans, and to end the North American Free Trade Agreement. He described Mexicans in racist terms, and he proclaimed his love of the taco bowl to counter charges of discrimination. Today, there is more uncertainty about the future of Mexico-U.S. relations than at any other time in living memory.
It is critical to understand this bilateral relationship not only because it is in flux, but also because these two countries are so deeply connected. Mexican migration to the United States is the most massive flow of immigrants in modern history. No country has more consulates in another country than Mexico has in the United States. Trade between these countries is crucial for both economies. The people of these two nations constantly share and adapt each other’s cuisine, music, language, and holidays. But despite proximity and interconnection, tension and violence are also near-constant features of interactions between the two countries. How has this peculiarly close, unequal, and ambivalent relationship between Mexico and the United States in the past two hundred years? By the end of this course, you will be able to offer some answers to this thorny question.
The course is divided into 4 units, spanning from nineteenth century to the present day, although the bulk of the course focuses on the twentieth century. We will cover periods of great tension between the countries, such as the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) and the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920), but we will also examine moments when friendlier relations prevailed. We will look at Mexican migration over the past 150 years. We will also note the intensity of cultural exchanges between the countries, particularly during the twentieth century, that have spanned from fine arts to fast food. Finally, we will talk about the economic ties that have long linked Mexico and the United States, including the 1994 signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

• Department: History
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel G Newman
  Info
• 4 points

TPCS IN INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

This course explores how and why states and non-state actors use violent and non-violent strategies in international politics. While not all topics in international security can be covered thoroughly in one semester, this course will give a sampling of many of the topics, including military doctrines and strategies, diplomatic policies, social forces, civil wars, and roles of individuals. Though historical and current events will be used as examples to illustrate how various theories work, students should keep in mind that this is not a course on current events.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Zachary C Shirkey
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

SOCIAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

• Department: Psychology
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Kevin Ochsner
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 86 Info
• 3 points

INTERNATIONAL LAW

What is public international law, and what does it influence the behavior of states, corporations, and individuals in the international system? This introductory course engages these questions as well as the politics of applying and enforcing public international law in various contexts and issue areas. An understanding of basic international legal principles, institutions, and processes is developed through exploration of foundational cases, and by means of (required) participation in a multi-week group simulation of an international legal dispute.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Tonya L Putnam
  CULPA: 29 Info
• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL LAW-DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

INTERNATIONAL LAW-DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

INTERNATIONAL LAW-DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

INTERNATIONAL LAW-DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

LABOR CULTURE 20THC LATIN AMER

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• W 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Karen Benezra
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

INDEPENDENT CLINICAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: concurrent with registering for this course, a student must register with the department, provide a written invitation from a mentor, and submit a research proposal.

BIOL 3700
will provide an opportunity for students interested in independent research work in a hospital or hospice setting. In these settings, where patients and their needs are paramount, and where IRB rules and basic medical ethics make “wet-lab biology research” inappropriate, undergraduates may well find a way nevertheless, to assist and participate in ongoing clinical research. Such students, once they have identified a mentor willing to provide support, participation, and advising, may apply to the faculty member in charge of the course for 2-4 points/semester in
BIOL W3700
. This course will closely follow procedures already in place for
BIOL 3500
, but will ask potential mentors to provide evidence that students will gain hands-on experience in a clinical setting, while participating in a hospital- or hospice-based research agenda. A paper summarizing results of the work is required by the last day of finals for a letter grade; no late papers will be accepted.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• Instructor: Deborah Mowshowitz
  CULPA: 104 Wikipedia Info
• 2-4 points

STRATEGY FORMULATION

Provides an introduction to strategic management with two broad goals: 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 that allow their company to obtain a financial advantage. Allows students to gain a better understanding of strategic issues and begin to master the analytic tools the strategists use, by studying the strategic decisions of companies in many different industries and countries, ranging from U.S. technology firms to a Swiss bank and a Chinese white-goods manufacturer. Topics include what companies can do to outperform their rivals; analysis of the competitive moves of rival firms relying heavily on game-theoretic concepts; and when it makes sense for companies to diversify and globalize their business.

• Department: Columbia College
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth B Chiles
  Info
• 3 points

ETHICS

Prerequisites: one course in philosophy.
Corequisites:
PHIL V3711
Required Discussion Section (0 points).
This course is mainly an introduction to three influential approaches to normative ethics: utilitarianism, deontological views, and virtue ethics. We also consider the ethics of care, and selected topics in meta-ethics.

• Department: Philosophy
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Michele Moody-Adams
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SENIOR RESEARCH ESSAY SEMINAR

• Department: American Studies @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Christina Heatherton
  Info
• 4 points

DATA ANALYSIS & STATS-POL RES

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
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Robert Y Shapiro
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

GLOBAL RADICALISM

At the turn of the twentieth century, struggles against racism, capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism encircled the globe. From Irish republicanism in Dublin, Bolshevism in Moscow, revolution in Mexico City, to anti-lynching crusades in Birmingham, as well as all their unanticipated international alliances, these movements represented the largest waves of rebellion hitherto sustained by the global economy. This seminar offers an intensive overview of these various struggles and spaces. Through examination of primary and secondary sources, students will consider radical social movements from distinct yet overlapping cultural and political traditions. We will discuss how participants in these struggles confronted issues of gender, accumulation, and uneven development in their evolving revolutionary theories. Taking a uniquely spatial approach, we will observe how geographies of accumulation emerged alongside sites of global resistance. Throughout the course we will consider the contemporary relevance of these debates, observing how global radicalism might be charted in our present world.

• Department: American Studies @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Christina Heatherton
  Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN OTTOMAN HISTORY, 1300-1700

• Department: History
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Tunc Sen
  Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN LITERATURE & CULTURE

THE BEAT GENERATION

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Ann Douglas
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

PHOTO:DIGITAL DOCUMENTARY

(Formerly R4702) The goal of the course is for each student to create small-scale documentary projects using photography and writing with an eye towards web publishing. Taking advantage of the ease and speed of image production and distribution, students will propose and workshop projects that can be quickly completed and uploaded to a class website. Assignments, readings and discussions will focus on the role of the documentary tradition in the history of photographic art practice. Students must provide their own laptop and digital camera. If the class is full, sign up for the wait list at 
http://arts.columbia.edu/photolist
.

• Department: Visual Arts
• TR 1 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Kai McBride
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

ETHICS - REC

ETHICS-REC

• Department: Philosophy
• W 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• F 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Philip C Yaure
  Info
• 0 points

SCOPE AND METHODS

This class introduces students to a variety of statistical methods used to investigate political phenomena. We will address the principles behind these methods, their application, and their limitations. The course aims to provide anyone interested in political science with a proficient understanding of the intuitions behind several of the methods most commonly used to analyze political data and identify causal paths. By the end of the course, students will have acquired important analytical and practical skills and will be able to evaluate the quality and reliability of scholarly and journalistic work done using quantitative methods. Students will also learn basic statistical software skills (R).

• Department: Political Science
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Daniel M Corstange
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

SCOPE AND METHODS - DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

SCOPE AND METHODS - DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

SCOPE AND METHODS - DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

SCOPE AND METHODS - DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

MELODRAMA, HORROR, CRIME, VAUDEVILLE

EARLY FLM, THTRE, POP CULTURE

The great pioneer of early film, Georges Méliès, claimed that his principal aim was the creation of “stage effects” in his films.  In their 1920 manual,
How to Write Photoplays
, John Emerson and Anita Loos imagine motion pictures as a sequence of “scenes” modeled on stage plays.  In the first decades of the twentieth century, the new medium of cinema attempted to replicate such popular theatrical genres as melodrama, horror, crime, vaudeville, and circus.  But it also transformed these through its distinctive apparatus.  In this seminar we will study the first half century of (largely) British and American cinema, analyzing popular films (most of them classics of their genre) as they both emerged from and broke with the theatre.  With a focus on narrative and genre (and the ideologies embedded in these), we will be asking broad questions about popular and mass culture, the politics of spectatorship, medium and technology, the psychology of social space, the representation of identity (national, racial, sexual...), and more.  At the same time, much of the work of the seminar will be devoted to close reading—both of the films’ theatrical features (
mise-en-scène
, pictorial composition, gesture, facial and bodily expression, blocking...) and of their specifically cinematic features (light and shadow, camera movement, editing and sound effects...)—treating these as keys to understanding both technique and broader meaning.  While our primary texts will be the films themselves, we will also read selected works of film history and criticism in order to gain an understanding of current debates, assess critical methodologies, and develop analytic tools.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Julie S Peters
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

PHILANTHROPY & SOCIAL DIFFERENCE

PHILANTHROPY & SOC DIFF

Philanthropy and Social Difference
will introduce students to the history of Anglo-American philanthropy, as described in both historical and literary texts by writers including Jane Addams, James Agee, Andrew Carnegie, and George Orwell.  Through reading these texts, students will receive an experiential perspective on the social problems that philanthropy seeks to address.  The course will also focus on best practices in contemporary philanthropy, teaching students how to make informed decisions in making grants to nonprofit organizations.  In addition, students will have the opportunity to practice philanthropy directly by making grants from course funds to nonprofit organizations selected by the class.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 4 points

GENDER,SEXUALITY,POWER,AFRICA

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required.
This course deals with the scholarship on gender and sexuality in African history. The central themes of the course will be changes and continuities in gender performance and the politics of gender and sexual difference within African societies, the social, political, and economic processes that have influenced gender and sexual identities, and the connections between gender, sexuality, inequality, and activism at local, national, continental, and global scales.

• Department: History @Barnard
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Abosede A George
  CULPA: 14 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

HISTORIES OF POVERTY IN AFRICA

In this course we will explore in a critical manner the concept of poverty in Africa. The emphasis is on historicizing categories such as poverty and wealth, debt and charity and on the ways in which people in Africa have understood such categories. As such the course takes a longue durée approach spanning over a millennium of history, ending with contemporary understandings of poverty.

• Department: History
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Rhiannon Stephens
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF CANCER

Prerequisites: three terms of biology (genetics and cell biology recommended).
Cancer is one of the most dreaded common diseases. Yet it is also one of the great intellectual challenges in biology today. How does a cell become cancerous? What are the agents that cause this to occur? How do current findings about genes, cells, and organisms ranging from yeast cells to humans inform us about cancer? How do findings about cancer teach us new biological concepts? Over the past few years there have been great inroads into answering these questions which have led to new ways to diagnose and treat cancer. This course will discuss cancer from the point of view of basic biological research. We will cover topics in genetics, molecular and cell biology that are relevant to understanding the differences between normal and cancer cells. These will include tumor viruses, oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes, cell cycle regulation, programmed cell death and cell senescence. We will also study some current physiological concepts related to cancer including angiogenesis, tumor immunology, cancer stem cells, metastasis and new approaches to treatment that are built on recent discoveries in cancer biology. The text book for this course is "The Biology of Cancer Second Edition by Robert A Weinberg (Garland Science). Additional and complementary readings will be assigned. SCE and TC students may register for this course, but they must first obtain the written permission of the instructor, by filling out a paper Registration Adjustment Form (Add/Drop form). The form can be downloaded at the URL below, but must be signed by the instructor and returned to the office of the registrar. 
http://registrar.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/reg-adjustment.pdf

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Carol L Prives
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

EARTH & ENVIR ENGIN LAB I

Prerequisites: (CHEE E3010) CHEE E3010.
Corequisites: EAEE E3255
Experiments on fundamental aspects of Earth and environmental engineering with emphasis on the applications of chemistry, biology and thermodynamics to environmental processes: energy generation, analysis and purification of water, environmental biology, and biochemical treatment of wastes. Students will learn the laboratory procedures and use analytical equipment firsthand, hence demonstrating experimentally the theoretical concepts learned in class.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• Instructor: Robert Farrauto
  h-index: 52 Info
• 2 points

SEM IN CONTEMP ART PRACTICE

SEM IN CONETMP ART PRCATICE

(Formerly R4601)
Offered Spring 2017, Not Fall 2016
. New York City is the most abundant visual arts resource in the world. Visits to museums, galleries, and studios on a weekly basis. Students encounter a broad cross-section of art and are encouraged to develop ideas about what is seen. The seminar is led by a practicing artist and utilizes this perspective. Columbia College and General Studies Visual Arts Majors must take this class during their junior year. If the class is full, please visit
http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program
.

• Department: Visual Arts
• R 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

ENVIR SCIENCE SENIOR SEM II

Guided, independent, in-depth research culminating in the senior thesis in the spring. Includes discussion about scientific presentations and posters, data analysis, library research methods and scientific writing. Students review work in progress and share results through oral reports. Weekly seminar to review work in progress and share results through oral and written reports. Prerequisite to
EESC W3901
.

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Martin Stute
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 52 Info
• 3 points

COLL:POLITICS OF DEVELOPMENT

COLL:POLITCS OF DEVELOPMENT

Prerequisites: V 1501 or equivalent
Description: The semester-long course aims to study political and social factors behind economic development and exam empirical cases of the success and failure in economic growth in order to understand the key features of the development processes. In the last two centuries, some countries successfully achieved economic growth and development, while other failed to do so. Even in the post-WWII period, the world has witnessed the rise and decline of economies around the world. Why do nations succeed or fail in economic development? How do political institutions affect economic outcomes? What are the ways in which state and market interact and influence each other? Can democracy be considered a cause of development, an outgrowth of development, or neither and to which extent? How do external factors such as foreign aid encourage or discourage development? We will try to examine these questions by taking a historical-institutional and comparative approach and take a critical look at the role of political and other institutions by applying theoretical guidelines and empirical cases. We will explore competing explanations for the successes and failures of economic development in the world. Objective:1. Understand some important concepts and theories within the fields of comparative politics and political economy. To explore the interconnections between politics, economy, and society in the context of development policy and practice.2. Develop basic analytic skills to explore various factors that shape political, economic, and social development and underdevelopment in the world;3. Understand some country specific political economy processes and how these processes prove or disprove certain theories and policies.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Xiaobo Lu
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS SEMINAR

A year-long course for outstanding senior majors who want to conduct research in primary sources on a topic of their choice in any aspect of history, and to write a senior thesis possibly leading toward departmental honors. 
Field(s): ALL

• Department: History
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Elizabeth Blackmar
  CULPA: 22 Info
• Instructor: Matthew J Connelly
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Marwa Elshakry
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

HEALTH & SOC CONTEMP E ASIA

Why do certain mental illnesses only appear in specific regions of the world? What processes of translation, adaption, and “indigenization” take place when Western psychiatric diagnostic categories, pharmaceutical regimens, and psychodynamic treatments travel to China, South Korea and Japan? How do East Asian therapeutic modalities such as Traditional Chinese Medicine and the practice of qigong destabilize biomedical assumptions about the etiology and treatment of mental illness? This course engages these and other questions through anthropological analysis of the experiences of people struggling with mental illness, the mental health practitioners who treat them, and the broader economic, social and political contexts that shape these interactions.

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• T 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• 3 points

HUMAN RIGHTS & PUBLIC HEALTH

Prerequisites: Enrollment in the course is open to 18 undergraduates who have completed at least one core course in human rights and /or international law.
This seminar introduces students to the field of health and human rights.  It examines how to advocate for and implement public health strategies using a human rights framework. It takes note of current international and domestic debates about the utility of a “human rights-based approach” to health, discusses methods and ethics of health-related human rights research, and examines case studies of human rights investigations to explore the role of human rights analysis in promoting public health.

• Department: Human Rights (HRTB)
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Alice W Brown
  Info
• 4 points

TEMP RELOC:NARR-TIME&BODY; EARLY AMER LIT

THE BODY IN EARLY AMERICAS

This course begins with texts from the first wave of European colonists, moving from exploration of what is now Texas with de Vaca to Ralph Lane’s and Thomas Harriot’s Virginia and William Bradford’s Plymouth. We will then focus our attention on the space of Massachusetts, theorizing how the religious narratives of women and native peoples written by Mary Rowlandson, John Eliot, and Thomas Shepard demonstrate the limitations of the governing Puritan male order. In the weeks following, we will turn to the genre of natural history in the space of the Caribbean and Virginia, where we will probe the relationship of the body and the natural in the works of Hans Sloane, James Grainger, and Thomas Jefferson. The course will close with an examination of narratives of slavery with the works of Aphra Behn, Britton Hammon, James Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, Olaudah Equiano, Mary Prince, and William Earle, as well as Édouard Glissant’s more contemporary
Poetics of Relation
.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Kimberly A Takahata
  Info
• 4 points

THE PUBLIC&THE; PRIVATE

In an era in which government surveillance, hacking, and social media regularly challenge the line between our public and private lives, exploring the nature of the public/private dichotomy is a pressing task.  In this course we will explore how philosophers in the Western tradition have understood the contrast between the public and the private beginning with the ancient ideal of the polis as the site of genuine human flourishing and freedom, we will go on to explore the way in which modern thinkers have problematized this ideal in the context of capitalism, mass culture, and modern pluralistic societies.  By engaging with thinkers such as Aristotle, Arendt, Dewey, Rawls, and Habermas, we will ask questions such as: what kind of freedom do we enjoy when we are in public with other people, and what kind of freedom do we enjoy in private? Are both equally valuable? What is the relationship between public opinion and a healthy democracy? How does capitalism and the mass medial affect the public sphere? What are the dangers of an impoverished public sphere? Is the very distinction between the public and the private gendered in pernicious ways?

• Department: Philosophy
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Laura A Martin
  Info
• 3 points

THE HISTORY OF MODERN KOREA

Prerequisites: Recommended:
HSEA W3862
.
Korean history from the mid 19th century to the present, with particular focus on politics, society, and culture in the 20th century. Major Cultures Requirement: East Asian Civilization List B.
Group(s): C

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Charles K Armstrong
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

WARS OF INDOCHINA

This seminar will focus on the wars that ravaged Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos – the region often referred to as “Indochina” – in the latter half of the 20
th
Century.  This period in Indochinese history witnessed batttles for decolonization, revolutionary struggles, state and nation-building under the Cold War divide, superpower interventions, and fighting at the local, regional and global levels. Introducing students to the current debates in the field, students will become familiar with the rich historiography on this subject. In addition to weekly readings and discussions, students will write a research paper, based on a deep understanding of the secondary literature as well as a thorough analysis of primary sources.

• Department: History
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Lien-Hang Nguyen
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

NEOLIBERAL URBAN-POL OF EXCLUS

This seminar examines the impact of neo-liberal strategies and practices of urban development and governance on contemporary American cities with special emphasis on the dividing practices that have led to the segregation, stigmatization and exclusion of urbanites on the basis of class, race, sex/gender and other power-laden ascriptions of difference and pathology. We will situate the formative period of neoliberal urbanism in the urban renewal or "slum clearance" programs of the 1950s and 1960s-initiatives that registered post-war anxieties concerning civil defense, urban disinvestment and growing populations of racial-cum-ethnic "minorities." Through a reading of key anthropological ethnographies and other literature across disciplines, we will examine topics including: deindustrialization and the construction of the inner city and "ghetto underclass," the cultural politics of neo-liberal governance, the privatization and policing of public space, gated communities, gentrification and socioeconomic polarization, and homelessness

• Department: Anthropology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Steven Gregory
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

THE MONGOLS IN HISTORY

HISTORY OF THE MONGOLS

Study of the role of the Mongols in Eurasian history, focusing on the era of the Great Mongol Empire. The roles of Chinggis and Khubilai Khan and the modern fate of the Mongols to be considered.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Morris Rossabi
  CULPA: 12 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

UNDERGRAD RES IN APPLIED MATH

Prerequisites: Written permission from instructor and approval from adviser.
This course may be repeated for credit, but no more than 6 points of this course may be counted toward the satisfaction of the B.S. degree requirements. Candidates for the B.S. degree may conduct an investigation in applied mathematics or carry out a special project under the supervision of the staff. Credit for the course is contingent upon the submission of an acceptable thesis or final report.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Daniel Bienstock
  h-index: 38 Info
• Instructor: Mark A Cane
  Wikipedia h-index: 99 Info
• 0-4 points