Prerequisites: Non-native English speakers must reach Level 10 in the American Language Program prior to registering for ENGL GS1010.
University Writing
helps undergraduates engage in the conversations that form our intellectual community. By reading and writing about scholarly and popular essays, students learn that writing is a process of continual refinement of ideas. Rather than approaching writing as an innate talent, this course teaches writing as a learned skill. We give special attention to textual analysis, research, and revision practices. University Writing offers the following themed sections, all of which welcome students with no prior experience studying the theme. Students interested in a particular theme should register for the section within the specified range of section numbers.
UW: Contemporary Essays (sections from 001 to 069)
. Features contemporary essays from a variety of fields.
UW: Readings in Music (sections in the 070s)
. Features essays that analyze the politics, histories, communities, philosophies, and techniques of music-making, from the classical to the contemporary.
UW: Readings in American Studies (sections in the 100s)
. Features essays that explore the culture, history, and politics that form American identity.
UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality (sections in the 200s).
Features essays that examine relationships among sex, gender, sexuality, race, class, and other forms of identity.
UW: Readings in Human Rights (sections in the 400s).
Features essays that investigate the ethics of belonging to a community and issues of personhood, identity, representation, and action.
UW: Readings in Data Sciences (sections in the 500s).
Features essays that study how our data-saturated society challenges conceptions of cognition, autonomy, identity, and privacy.
UW: Readings in Medical-Humanities (sections in the 600s).
Features essays that explore the disciplines of biomedical ethics and medical anthropology, to challenge our basic assumptions about medicine, care, sickness, and health.
University Writing for International Students (sections in the 900s)
. Open only to international students, these sections emphasize the transition to American academic writing cultures through the study of contemporary essays from a variety of fields. For further details about these classes, please visit:
http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp
.
Prerequisites: Non-native English speakers must reach Level 10 in the American Language Program prior to registering for ENGL GS1010.
University Writing
helps undergraduates engage in the conversations that form our intellectual community. By reading and writing about scholarly and popular essays, students learn that writing is a process of continual refinement of ideas. Rather than approaching writing as an innate talent, this course teaches writing as a learned skill. We give special attention to textual analysis, research, and revision practices. University Writing offers the following themed sections, all of which welcome students with no prior experience studying the theme. Students interested in a particular theme should register for the section within the specified range of section numbers.
UW: Contemporary Essays (sections from 001 to 069)
. Features contemporary essays from a variety of fields.
UW: Readings in Music (sections in the 070s)
. Features essays that analyze the politics, histories, communities, philosophies, and techniques of music-making, from the classical to the contemporary.
UW: Readings in American Studies (sections in the 100s)
. Features essays that explore the culture, history, and politics that form American identity.
UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality (sections in the 200s).
Features essays that examine relationships among sex, gender, sexuality, race, class, and other forms of identity.
UW: Readings in Human Rights (sections in the 400s).
Features essays that investigate the ethics of belonging to a community and issues of personhood, identity, representation, and action.
UW: Readings in Data Sciences (sections in the 500s).
Features essays that study how our data-saturated society challenges conceptions of cognition, autonomy, identity, and privacy.
UW: Readings in Medical-Humanities (sections in the 600s).
Features essays that explore the disciplines of biomedical ethics and medical anthropology, to challenge our basic assumptions about medicine, care, sickness, and health.
University Writing for International Students (sections in the 900s)
. Open only to international students, these sections emphasize the transition to American academic writing cultures through the study of contemporary essays from a variety of fields. For further details about these classes, please visit:
http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp
.
Prerequisites: Non-native English speakers must reach Level 10 in the American Language Program prior to registering for ENGL GS1010.
University Writing
helps undergraduates engage in the conversations that form our intellectual community. By reading and writing about scholarly and popular essays, students learn that writing is a process of continual refinement of ideas. Rather than approaching writing as an innate talent, this course teaches writing as a learned skill. We give special attention to textual analysis, research, and revision practices. University Writing offers the following themed sections, all of which welcome students with no prior experience studying the theme. Students interested in a particular theme should register for the section within the specified range of section numbers.
UW: Contemporary Essays (sections from 001 to 069)
. Features contemporary essays from a variety of fields.
UW: Readings in Music (sections in the 070s)
. Features essays that analyze the politics, histories, communities, philosophies, and techniques of music-making, from the classical to the contemporary.
UW: Readings in American Studies (sections in the 100s)
. Features essays that explore the culture, history, and politics that form American identity.
UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality (sections in the 200s).
Features essays that examine relationships among sex, gender, sexuality, race, class, and other forms of identity.
UW: Readings in Human Rights (sections in the 400s).
Features essays that investigate the ethics of belonging to a community and issues of personhood, identity, representation, and action.
UW: Readings in Data Sciences (sections in the 500s).
Features essays that study how our data-saturated society challenges conceptions of cognition, autonomy, identity, and privacy.
UW: Readings in Medical-Humanities (sections in the 600s).
Features essays that explore the disciplines of biomedical ethics and medical anthropology, to challenge our basic assumptions about medicine, care, sickness, and health.
University Writing for International Students (sections in the 900s)
. Open only to international students, these sections emphasize the transition to American academic writing cultures through the study of contemporary essays from a variety of fields. For further details about these classes, please visit:
http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp
.
Prerequisites: Non-native English speakers must reach Level 10 in the American Language Program prior to registering for ENGL GS1010.
University Writing
helps undergraduates engage in the conversations that form our intellectual community. By reading and writing about scholarly and popular essays, students learn that writing is a process of continual refinement of ideas. Rather than approaching writing as an innate talent, this course teaches writing as a learned skill. We give special attention to textual analysis, research, and revision practices. University Writing offers the following themed sections, all of which welcome students with no prior experience studying the theme. Students interested in a particular theme should register for the section within the specified range of section numbers.
UW: Contemporary Essays (sections from 001 to 069)
. Features contemporary essays from a variety of fields.
UW: Readings in Music (sections in the 070s)
. Features essays that analyze the politics, histories, communities, philosophies, and techniques of music-making, from the classical to the contemporary.
UW: Readings in American Studies (sections in the 100s)
. Features essays that explore the culture, history, and politics that form American identity.
UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality (sections in the 200s).
Features essays that examine relationships among sex, gender, sexuality, race, class, and other forms of identity.
UW: Readings in Human Rights (sections in the 400s).
Features essays that investigate the ethics of belonging to a community and issues of personhood, identity, representation, and action.
UW: Readings in Data Sciences (sections in the 500s).
Features essays that study how our data-saturated society challenges conceptions of cognition, autonomy, identity, and privacy.
UW: Readings in Medical-Humanities (sections in the 600s).
Features essays that explore the disciplines of biomedical ethics and medical anthropology, to challenge our basic assumptions about medicine, care, sickness, and health.
University Writing for International Students (sections in the 900s)
. Open only to international students, these sections emphasize the transition to American academic writing cultures through the study of contemporary essays from a variety of fields. For further details about these classes, please visit:
http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp
.
Prerequisites: Non-native English speakers must reach Level 10 in the American Language Program prior to registering for ENGL GS1010.
University Writing
helps undergraduates engage in the conversations that form our intellectual community. By reading and writing about scholarly and popular essays, students learn that writing is a process of continual refinement of ideas. Rather than approaching writing as an innate talent, this course teaches writing as a learned skill. We give special attention to textual analysis, research, and revision practices. University Writing offers the following themed sections, all of which welcome students with no prior experience studying the theme. Students interested in a particular theme should register for the section within the specified range of section numbers.
UW: Contemporary Essays (sections from 001 to 069)
. Features contemporary essays from a variety of fields.
UW: Readings in Music (sections in the 070s)
. Features essays that analyze the politics, histories, communities, philosophies, and techniques of music-making, from the classical to the contemporary.
UW: Readings in American Studies (sections in the 100s)
. Features essays that explore the culture, history, and politics that form American identity.
UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality (sections in the 200s).
Features essays that examine relationships among sex, gender, sexuality, race, class, and other forms of identity.
UW: Readings in Human Rights (sections in the 400s).
Features essays that investigate the ethics of belonging to a community and issues of personhood, identity, representation, and action.
UW: Readings in Data Sciences (sections in the 500s).
Features essays that study how our data-saturated society challenges conceptions of cognition, autonomy, identity, and privacy.
UW: Readings in Medical-Humanities (sections in the 600s).
Features essays that explore the disciplines of biomedical ethics and medical anthropology, to challenge our basic assumptions about medicine, care, sickness, and health.
University Writing for International Students (sections in the 900s)
. Open only to international students, these sections emphasize the transition to American academic writing cultures through the study of contemporary essays from a variety of fields. For further details about these classes, please visit:
http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp
.
Prerequisites: Corequisite EEEB UN1111
Study of non-human primate behavior from the perspective of phylogeny, adaptation, physiology and anatomy, and life history. Focuses on the four main problems primates face: finding appropriate food, avoiding being eaten themselves, reproducing in the face of competition, and dealing with social partners. Along with
Human Origins & Evolution
, this serves as a core required class for the EBHS program.
What is the nature of our planet and how did it form? This class explores Earth's internal structure, its dynamical character expressed in plate tectnics and earthquakes, and its climate system. It also explores what Earth's future may hold. Lecture and lab. Students who wish to take only the lectures should register for
W1411
.
Prerequisites: Course does not fulfill biology major requirements or premedical requirements. BIOL BC1001 or equivalent preparation and background. Enrollment in laboratory sections limited to 16 students per section.
Exploration of modern biology as it pertains to contemporary issues. One module examines the microbiological agents that cause disease and addresses how such agents can be used as weapons for terrorism or war. Another module considers human physiology, focusing on major health issues. The third module explores growth and resource use, emphasizing the uniqueness of human populations. Lab exercises introduce biological techniques for studying these topics.
Prerequisites: high school science and math.
A review of the history and environmental consequences of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons of mass destruction (WMD); of how these weapons work, what they cost, how they have spread, how they might be used, how they are currently controlled by international treaties and domestic legislation, and what issues of policy and technology arise in current debates on WMD. What aspects of the manufacture of WMD are easily addressed, and what aspects are technically challenging? It may be expected that current events/headlines will be discussed in class.
Rome and its empire, from the beginning to late antiquity.
Field(s): ANC
It focuses on key texts from Latin America in their historical and intellectual context and seeks to understand their structure and the practical purposes they served using close reading and, when possible, translations. The course seeks to establish a counterpoint to the list of canonical texts of Contemporary Civilization. The selections are not intended to be compared directly to those in CC but to raise questions about the different contexts in which ideas are used, the critical exchanges and influences (within and beyond Latin America) that shaped ideas in the region, and the long-term intellectual, political, and cultural pursuits that have defined Latin American history. The active engagement of students toward these texts is the most important aspect of class work and assignments. NO FIRST YEAR STUDENTS PERMITTED.
This course focuses on the structures and processes that led the U.S. to build the largest carceral regime on the planet in the post-1970s United States. Through readings, lectures, and original research, students will develop analyses of how this growth coincided with a shift in the racial composition of prisons from majority white to almost seventy percent people of color. Students will develop a number of concept such as race, class, gender, neoliberalism, abolition, policing, and surveillance that are foundational for analyzing the formation of the carceral state.
This seminar will introduce students to critical theories of race and ethnicity. It will familiarize students will interdisciplinary scholarship on power and difference, with a special focus on the historically specific relationships between race, capitalism, empire, dispossession, migration, political economy, and the U.S. state's regulation of gender and sexuality. Throughout the course, students will consider the political and economic critiques of race and power that have been articulated by antiracist freedom, anticolonial, feminist, queer of color, and immigrant labor struggles.
Prerequisites: BC1001 or permission of the instructor.
Weekly meetings with researchers to discuss the nature of scientific inquiry in psychology; and intellectual, professional, and personal issues in the work of scientists.
Prerequisites: (see Courses for First-Year Students).
Functions, limits, derivatives, introduction to integrals, or an understanding of pre-calculus will be assumed. , The Help Room in 333 Milbank Hall (Barnard College) is open during the day, Monday through Friday, to students seeking individual help from the teaching assistants.
(SC)
Prerequisites: a score of 0-279 in the department's Placement Examination.
An introduction to Spanish communicative competence, with stress on basic oral interaction, reading, witting, and cultural knowledge. Principal objectives are to understand and produce commonly used sentences to satisfy immediate needs; ask and answer questions about personal details such as where we live, people we know and things we have; interact in a simple manner with people who speak clearly, slowly and are ready to cooperate; and understand simple and short written and audiovisual texts in Spanish. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.
Prerequisites: intermediate high school algebra.
Designed for students in fields that emphasize quantitative methods. Graphical and numerical summaries, probability, theory of sampling distributions, linear regression, analysis of variance, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing. Quantitative reasoning and data analysis. Practical experience with statistical software. Illustrations are taken from a variety of fields. Data-collection/analysis project with emphasis on study designs is part of the coursework requirement.
This course offers an introduction to the language that has been spoken by the Ashkenazi Jews for more than a millennium, and an opportunity to discover a fabulous world of Yiddish literature, language and culture in a fun way. Using games, new media, and music, we will learn how to speak, read, listen and write in a language that is considered one of the richest languages in the world (in some aspects of vocabulary). We will also venture outside the classroom to explore the Yiddish world today: through field trips to Yiddish theater, Yiddish-speaking neighborhoods, Yiddish organizations, such as YIVO or Yiddish farm, and so on. We will also have Yiddish-speaking guests and do a few digital projects. At the end of the two-semester course, you will be able to converse in Yiddish on a variety of everyday topics and read most Yiddish literary and non-literary texts. Welcome to Yiddishland!
Grammar, reading, composition, and conversation.
Prerequisites: SPAN UN1101 or a score of 280-379 in the department's Placement Examination.
An intensive introduction to Spanish language communicative competence, with stress on basic oral interaction, reading, writing and cultural knowledge as a continuation of SPAN UN1101. The principal objectives are to understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of immediate relevance; communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a direct exchange of information on familiar matters; describe in simple terms aspects of our background and personal history; understand the main point, the basic content, and the plot of filmic as well as short written texts. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.
This course offers an introduction to the language that has been spoken by the Ashkenazi Jews for more than a millennium, and an opportunity to discover a fabulous world of Yiddish literature, language and culture in a fun way. Using games, new media, and music, we will learn how to speak, read, listen and write in a language that is considered one of the richest languages in the world (in some aspects of vocabulary). We will also venture outside the classroom to explore the Yiddish world today: through field trips to Yiddish theater, Yiddish-speaking neighborhoods, Yiddish organizations, such as YIVO or Yiddish farm, and so on. We will also have Yiddish-speaking guests and do a few digital projects. At the end of the two-semester course, you will be able to converse in Yiddish on a variety of everyday topics and read most Yiddish literary and non-literary texts. Welcome to Yiddishland!
Corequisites: ECON UN1155
How a market economy determines the relative prices of goods, factors of production, and the allocation of resources and the circumstances under which it does it efficiently. Why such an economy has fluctuations and how they may becontrolled.
Prerequisites: BC1001 or permission of the instructor.
Lecture covering selected topics illustrating the methods, findings, and theories of contemporary cognitive psychology. Topics include attention, memory, categorization, perception, and decision making. Special topics include neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience.
Prerequisites: BC1001 Introduction to Psychology lecture, and instructor permission. Enrollment limited to 16 students per section.
Corequisites: PSYC BC1119
Laboratory course to accompany BC1119. Students conduct experiments related to the physiological bases of behavior: development, organization and function of the nervous system; neurochemistry, neurophysiology and synaptic transmission. Topics include: the neural bases of sensory systems; homeostasis; sexual behavior; biological rhythms; emotionality and stress; learning and memory; and psychopathology. A portion of this course uses rats as experimental subjects and involves brain dissections.
Prerequisites: BC1001 or permission of the instructor.
Lecture course covering an introduction to the physiological bases of behavior: development, organization and function of the nervous system; neurochemistry, neurophysiology and synaptic transmission. Topics include: the neural bases of sensory systems; homeostasis; sexual behavior; biological rhythms; emotionality and stress; learning and memory; and psychopathology.
Equivalent to
HUMA C1121
and
F1121
. Not a historical survey but an analytical study of masterpieces, including originals available in the metropolitan area. The chief purpose is to acquaint students with the experience of a work of art. A series of topics in the development of Western art, selected to afford a sense of the range of expressive possibilities in painting, sculpture, and architecture, such as the Parthenon, the Gothic cathedral, and works of Michelangelo, Bruegel, Picasso, and others. Space is limited. Columbia University undergraduates who need this course for graduation are encouraged to register during early registration.
Discussion and analysis of the artistic qualities and significance of selected works of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Parthenon in Athens to works of the 20th century.
Analysis and discussion of representative works from the Middle Ages to the present.