SHAKESPEARE I

A critical and historical introduction to Shakespeare's comedies, histories, tragedies, and romances. Please note that you do
not
need to take ENGL BC3163: Shakespeare I and ENGL BC3164: Shakespeare II in sequence; you may take them in any order.

• Department: English @Barnard
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Peter Platt
  CULPA: 23 Info
• 3 points

17TH CENTURY PROSE & POETRY

17TH-CENTURY PROSE & POETRY

The seventeenth-century produced great lyric poetry exploring love and desire, doubt and faith, sex and God. It was also a century of intellectual, political, and religious revolutions, giving birth to modern ways of thinking. We will read poetry by John Donne, Aemelia Lanyer, George Herbert, Robert Herrick, Andrew Marvell, but we will begin with extended attention to Donne, whose poetry continues to influence contemporary poetry. For science, politics, religion, and philosophy and how they are intertwined, we will read prose by Francis Bacon (on “modern experimental science”) and Thomas Browne (on science and faith), Thomas Hobbes (government as the solution to a brutish life) and the radical "Levelers" (early communists), “mad” Margaret Cavendish, and the Quaker Margaret Fell (defense of women’s right to preach). Fascinating readings, understood in their historical context with a sense of their current resonance. ,

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Achsah Guibbory
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

THE AMERICAN MUSICAL

Prerequisites: reading ability of music and some theoretical knowledge is required.
Musical theater is one of America's most vital and important art form. Several of its major creators studied at Columbia, including Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein II, John Kander, and Fred Ebb. This course will present a historical survey of American musical theater from its origins in late nineteenth-century; through the musicals of figures like Kern, Gershwin, and Rodgers & Hammerstein; through Sondheim and the "megamusical" of Lloyd Webber. Focus will be on selected shows, through which broader cultural and musical trends will be examined.

• Department: Music
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Walter M Frisch
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

18TH CENTURY NOVEL

18TH-CENTURY NOVEL

The development of the novel form in Great Britain.  Topics will include: epistolary fiction, the novel of sentiment, Gothicism; the novel's roots in romance, satire, and the picaresque; modern theories of the origins and development of the novel. Works by: Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, Austen, and others.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ross T Hamilton
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 3 points

POWR, RGHTS, SOCIAL CHNGE ACHVNG JUSTICE

This lecture course, accompanied by its weekly discussion section, will introduce students to the field of justice. It will combine an intellectual history of conceptions of justice and modes of political change with an exploration of the main areas of public interest and advocacy. The course is intended to serve as a bridge from the Columbia Core to present issues of social justice. Throughout, the discussion will question how we—contemporary subjects and citizens—can improve our social and political condition and achieve justice.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Bernard Harcourt
  Wikipedia h-index: 37 Info
• 4 points

THE ROMANTIC ERA

Romantic writers in their intellectual, historical, and political context, with reference to contemporary movements in philosophy, music, and the plastic arts. Authors include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, P.B. Shelley, and Keats. An emphasis on close reading of the poetry.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ross T Hamilton
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 3 points

VICTORIAN AGE IN LITERATURE

VICTORIAN LITERATURE: THE NOVE

“We have become a novel-reading people,” wrote Anthony Trollope in 1870. “Novels are in the hands of us all; from the Prime Minister down to the last-appointed scullery maid.” This course will consider why the novel was so important to Victorian culture and society. What made the Victorian novel such a fertile form for grappling with the unprecedented cultural changes of the nineteenth century? To address this question, we will explore how Victorian novels both responded to, and participated in, major social and cultural shifts of the period, including industrialism and urbanization; colonialism and empire; the changing status of women, sexuality, and marriage; the emergence of Darwinism; class conflict and social reform; and the expansion of education and literacy. This course will also consider more broadly what novels are for, and what the Victorians thought they were for. Do novels represent the world as it really is, or do they imagine it as it ought to be? What kinds of solutions to social and political problems can novels offer? Can novels ethically improve (or corrupt) their readers? We will consider these issues in the context of realism, Victorian literature’s trademark genre, but we’ll also explore an array of other genres, such as the industrial novel, the Bildungsroman, the sensation novel, detective fiction, and gothic fiction. Authors include Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, and others.

• Department: English @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Rebecca J Hildebrand
  Info
• 3 points

AMERICAN LITERATURE SINCE 1945

In the wake of World War II, the so-called American Century rises out of the ashes of fascism, haunted by the specter of bombs blurring the boundary between victory and defeat.  An ideological civil war ensues, punctuated by literary resistance to grand narratives and their discontents.  Authors include Ellison, O’Connor, Ginsberg, Bishop, Pynchon, Robinson, Merrill, Morrison, Didion, and Wallace.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Margaret S Vandenburg
  CULPA: 59 Info
• 3 points

AESTHETICS OF GROTESQUE

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

INT'L HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

This course will introduce students to the international law of human rights, and give a basic orientation to fundamental issues and controversies. The course has two principal focal points: first, the "nuts and bolts" of how international law functions in the field of human rights, and second, the value and limitations of legal approaches to a variety of human rights issues. Throughout the course, both theoretical and practical questions will be addressed, including who bears legal duties and who can assert legal claims, how these duties might be enforced, and accountability and remedy for violations. Attention will be given to how international law is made, what sorts of assumptions underlie various legal mechanisms, and how the law works in a variety of contexts.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Belinda Cooper
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

REPUBLICANISM: PLATO TO PETTIT

The course is divided into two main parts. The first half examines features of classical republicanism and its developments from Greece and Rome up to the late eighteenth century. We will analyze the relationship between ethics and politics, the significance of the mixed constitution, the problem of political instability, the role of character in political action, and the relationship between virtuous citizens, good arms and good laws. The second half will be more issue-based, as we will examine the resurgence of republicanism in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, in part as a critique of liberal democracy. We will explore the efforts to define "republican" freedom, the relationship between equality and freedom (and the challenges posed by the market and inequality in resources), the relationship between republicanism and democracy, and the role and nature of civic virtue. The class will end with consideration of recent efforts on the part of some political theorists to redefine patriotism or loyalty to one's particular state in the modern world and to think about what republicanism might require on a global scale.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jessica L Kimpell
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

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
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Monica F Cohen
  CULPA: 8 Info
• Instructor: Andrew L Lynn
  CULPA: 17 Info
• Instructor: Maura L Spiegel
  CULPA: 40 Info
• Instructor: Timea Szell
  CULPA: 14 Info
• Instructor: Margaret S Vandenburg
  CULPA: 59 Info
• 4 points

MODERNISM

Psychoanalysis, world war, and shifting gender paradigms inspire fragmented narratives, stream-of-consciousness prose, and improbable blends of erudition and the avant-garde. Stylistic innovation notwithstanding, Modernism authorizes a remarkably traditional literary canon. Special attention will be devoted to how seminal manifestos, most notably "Tradition and the Individual Talent" and
A Room of One's Own,
frame the movement's embattled aesthetics. Works by Eliot, Woolf, Barnes, Faulkner, Hemingway, Joyce, Lawrence, Pound, Stein, Toomer, and Yeats.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Margaret S Vandenburg
  CULPA: 59 Info
• 3 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
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Bernard Faure
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

FILM PRODUCTION

Prerequisites: FILM BC3201 or equivalent. Sophomore standing. Interested students MUST attend the first day of class for instructor permission--registering for the course only through myBarnard or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment.
This workshop introduces the student to all the cinematic tools necessary to produce their own short narrative work.  Using what the student has learned in film studies, we'll break down shot syntax, mise-en-scene and editing strategies and master them in weekly video exercises.  We'll include casting, working with actors and expressive camera work in our process as we build toward a final video project.  By the end of the course, the student will have created a DVD containing a collection of their video pieces and their final project.  Priority given to junior and senior film majors.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Sandra Luckow
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC HEALTH

An introduction to and overview of public health. Through a series of sessions with leading public health experts, this course views the multifaceted nature of public health through a prismic lens addressing key concepts, approaches, and issues of historical and contemporary import: What is public health and how has public health evolved over time? What are the core methods of public health? What are the approaches to understanding and addressing both infectious and chronic, non-communicable diseases? What role do micro- and macro-level determinants (i.e., biology and social context) play in public health? What are the global trends in population health? How does the individual life course bear on population health? How do systems, policy, and population health mutually shape each other? How are public health programs designed and evaluated? What are the limits of public health?

• Department: Public Health
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Dana March
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

CIRCUIT ANALYSIS

Prerequisites: (ELEN E1201) or (APMA E2000) or equivalent.
A course on analysis of linear and nonlinear circuits and their applications. Formulation of circuit equations. Network theorems. Transient response of first and second order circuits. Sinusoidal steady state-analysis. Frequency response of linear circuits. Poles and zeros. Bode plots. Two-port networks.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Charles A Zukowski
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• 3.5 points

RELIGION IN AMERICA I

This course offers a survey of American religions from the 1500s through the mid-1800s. We examine the politics of conversion in different kinds of colonialisms; the different strands of Christianity in early America and their cultural contexts; the emergence of evangelical Protestantism; the effects of religious disestablishment in the early republic; and the relationship between religion and social movements.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Tiffany Hale
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED DIRECTING

Prerequisites: Open to students who have taken at least one course in directing. Required for students approved for Directing thesis, but open to all qualified students. Permission of instructor given at first class meeting.
This course requires students to draw on all previous theatre training, synthesizing scholarship and research toward dynamic fully-realized scene work. Emphasis is on the director-actor relationship; students will direct at least three fully-realized scenes, typically drawn from Shakespeare, Chekhov, or other playwrights. Students may have the opportunity to make devised work, and will collaborate with students in the Advanced Acting class. Required for, but not limited to, students undertaking a senior thesis in directing. Fulfills additional directing coursework in Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts major.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• F 11 a.m.-1:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Alice A Reagan
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

MUSIC, RACE & IDENTITY

Music, Race and Identity explores the complex relationships among race, art, organization, economics, social movements, and identity. The three sections of the course each examines a major stage in American race relations: slavery and segregation, the period leading up to and through the civil rights revolution, and the post-civil rights era. Emphasis is on the shifting conceptions of identity and the changing role of race and racism in the spirituals, gospel music, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, rock ‘n’ roll, crossover soul, Hip Hop, and contemporary popular music. As we make our way toward the current moment, two related questions will loom large in the light of the historical terrain we have traversed:  to what extent do issues of economic and social inequality more than membership in racial communities increasingly determine identity and taste? And to what extent can we say that we are moving toward a “postethnic” sensibility in the musical realm, in which displays of ethnic identity coexist with  trading places, the severing of racial ownership from aesthetic genre, and the blurring of racial boundaries.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Rieder
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

KOREAN LITERATURE & FILM

KOREAN LITERATURE AND FILM

Prerequisites: weekly film screening required.
Traces the history of Korean cinema and literature from 1945 to the present. Particular attention is given to the relationship between visual and literary representations of national division, war, gender, rapid industrialization, authoritarianism, and contemporary consumer culture.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points

LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE CHOICE

Much of politics is about combining individual preferences or actions into collective choices. We will make use of two theoretical approaches. Our primary approach will be social choice theory, which studies how we aggregate what individuals want into what the collective “wants.” The second approach, game theory, covers how we aggregate what individuals want into what the group gets, given that social, economic, and political outcomes usually depend on the interaction of individual choices. The aggregation of preferences or choices is usually governed by some set of institutional rules, formal or informal. Our main themes include the rationality of individual and group preferences, the underpinnings and implications of using majority rule, tradeoffs between aggregation methods, the fairness of group choice, the effects of institutional constraints on choice (e.g., agenda control), and the implications for democratic choice. Most of the course material is highly abstract, but these abstract issues turn up in many real-world problems, from bargaining between the branches of government to campus elections to judicial decisions on multi-member courts to the allocation of relief funds among victims of natural disasters to the scoring of Olympic events. The collective choice problem is one faced by society as a whole and by the smallest group alike.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Jeffrey R Lax
  CULPA: 32 h-index: 22 Info
• 3 points

FROM DECADENCE TO DADA (ENG)

• Department: German @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Erk Grimm
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Prerequisites: One introductory course in Sociology suggested.
Social movements and the theories social scientists use to explain them, with emphasis on the American civil rights and women's movements.  Topics include theories of participation, the personal and social consequences of social movements, the rationality of protest, the influence of ideology, organization, and the state on movement success, social movements, and the mass media.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Marnie F Brady
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED COMPOSITION I

Prerequisites:
MUSI V3310
or the instructor's permission.
Composition in more extended forms. Survey of advanced techniques of contemporary composition. (Previously called Advanced Composition.)

• Department: Music
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: George Lewis
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia h-index: 18 Info
• 3 points

PHILOSOPHY OF LANG & MIND

PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE & MIND

This course will provide an introduction to meaning, reference, understanding, and content in language, thought, and perception.  A central concern will be the question of the relation of meaning to truth-conditions, and what is involved in language and thought successfully latching on to reality.  If you have not already taken an elementary course in first order logic, you will need to catch up in that area to understand some crucial parts of the course.  All the same, the primary concerns of the course will be philosophical, rather than technical.

• Department: Philosophy
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher Peacocke
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

COMPUTER SCIENCE THEORY

Prerequisites: (COMS W3203)
Corequisites: COMS W3134,COMS W3136,COMS 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 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Xi Chen
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia h-index: 64 Info
• 3 points

19TH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY: HEGEL

Prerequisites: Phil UN2201 or PHIL UN3251
Examines major themes of Hegel's philosophy, with emphasis on social and political thought. Topics include Hegel's critique of Kant, the possibility of metaphysics, the master-slave dialectic, and the role of freedom in a rational society. Readings from Kant’s Third Critique help explain how Hegel's project develops out of Kant's transcendental idealism. Some knowledge of Kant's moral theory and his Critique of Pure Reason is presupposed. Prerequisite: at least one of PHIL UN2201, PHIL UN2301, or PHIL UN3251.

• Department: Philosophy @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Frederick Neuhouser
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia h-index: 16 Info
• 3 points

COMPUT APPROACHES-HUMAN VISION

Prerequisites: some background in psychology and/or neurophysiology (e.g., PSYC UN1001, PSYC UN1010, PSYC UN2230, PSYC UN2450; BIOL UN3004 or BIOL UN3005) is desirable. See instructor if you have questions about your background. Some background in mathematics and computer science (e.g., calculus or linear algebra, a programming language) is highly recommended.
Study of human vision--both behavioral and physiological data--within a framework of computational and mathematical descriptions. Please contact Prof. Graham by e-mail (
nvg1@columbia.edu
) if you are interested in this course.

• Department: Psychology
• Instructor: Norma V Graham
  CULPA: 29 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

NONFIC DIGTL VIDEO PRODCTN

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 12 students. Registering for the course only through myBarnard or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment. Attend first class for instructor permission. Lab section required.
This workshop course is designed to familiarize students with digital video technologies while they investigate various aesthetic and theoretical concepts related to nonfiction cinema and its engagement with the real. Through weekly readings, discussions, screenings, critiques, and practical exercises, students will develop a solid understanding of how to use digital video as an expressive tool. The course will culminate in the completion of a five-minute video work by each student. Students should be both self-directed and interested in developing a support system for each other's work.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• M 11 a.m.-1:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Margaret J McLagan
  Info
• 3 points

WORKSHOP IN SUSTAINABLE DEVPT

The upper level undergraduate Sustainable Development Workshop will be modeled on client based graduate-level workshops, but with more time devoted to methods of applied policy analysis and issues in Sustainable Development.  The heart of the course is the group project on an issue of sustainable development with a faculty advisor providing guidance and ultimately grading student performance. Students would receive instruction on methodology, group work, communication and the context of policy analysis. Much of the reading in the course would be project-specific and identified by the student research teams. Offered in Fall and Spring. For registration issues contact Cari Shimkus (
cshimkus@ei.columbia.edu
).

• Department: Earth Institute
• TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Radley M Horton
  Info
• 4 points

ISRAELI SOC & ISR-PLS CONFLICT

The purpose of the course is to acquaint students with Israeli society through the lens of the Israeli- Palestinian conflict. The underlying assumption in this course is that much of the social, economic, political, and cultural processes in contemporary Israel have been shaped by the 100-year Israeli- Arab/Palestinian conflict.

• Department: Sociology
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Yinon Cohen
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 33 Info
• 3 points

VOTING AND AMERICAN POLITICS

Elections and public opinion; history of U.S. electoral politics; the problem of voter participation; partisanship and voting; accounting for voting decisions; explaining and forecasting election outcomes; elections and divided government; money and elections; electoral politics and representative democracy.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Robert Erikson
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia h-index: 59 Info
• 3 points

BIOCHEMISTRY

• Department: Biological Sciences
• T 7:10 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Danny N Ho
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

YOUR LONGER LIFE:BIOLOGY,PERSON,SOCIETY

• Department: Public Health
• R 2:30 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
• 3 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

(IN)DIGESTIBLE CULTURES

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: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Alberto Carpio Jimenez
  Info
• 3 points

THERMODYNAMICS

Classical thermodynamics. Basic properties and concepts, thermodynamic properties of pure substances, equation of state, work, heat, the first and second laws for flow and nonflow processes, energy equations, entropy, and irreversibility. Introduction to power and refrigeration cycles.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Sinisa Vukelic
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER

Prerequisites: One introductory course in Sociology suggested.
Examination of factors in gender identity that are both universal (across time, culture, setting) and specific to a social context. Social construction of gender roles in different settings, including family, work, and politics. Attention to the role of social policies in reinforcing norms or facilitating change.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Marnie F Brady
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

PROJCT LAB IN MOLECULR BIOLOGY

PROJECT LAB IN MOLECULAR GENET

Prerequisites: BIOL BC2100 or permission of instructor. Enrollment limited to 16.
Laboratory course in which students conduct original research projects in molecular genetics. Students will participate in experimental design, conduct and data analysis, and work with key techniques for studying gene structure, expression and function such as nucleic acid extraction and synthesis, cloning, bioinformatics analysis, PCR and qPCR. Students will present their results orally and in writing. Enrollment in both semesters (BIOL BC3305 and BIOL BC3306) of this full-year course is required, and fulfills two upper-level lab courses for the Barnard Biology major. Must be taken in sequence, beginning in the fall. -B. Morton, J. Mansfield

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• W 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points

INTRO TO URBAN ETHNOGRAPHIES

INTRO URBAN ETHNOGRAPHIES

Prerequisites: Students must attend first class.
This course explores how scholars from different social science disciplines have used ethnography to understand how immigrants and rural migrants experience as well as affect cities. Community, work, and health, in cities within and outside the US, are used as lenses. Students will also perform their own ethnographic research.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 3 points

CELL BIOLOGY

Prerequisites: BIOL BC1500, BIOL BC1501 BIOL BC1502, BIOL BC1503, or equivalent, and BIOL BC2100.
This course explores the components, systems, and regulatory mechanisms involved in eukaryotic cellular function. Topics include: signal transduction, translational and protein quality control, organellar and cytoskeletal dynamics, and some coordinated responses such as proliferation and programmed cell death. Throughout the course we will see how general cell biology can be specialized to achieve specific cellular functions through regulation of the basic machinery. We will also explore the cellular and molecular bases for a variety of human pathologies, with an emphasis on cancer. In addition to lecture, we will spend some time discussing the material, including selected articles from the primary literature, and learning through group presentations.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• 3 points

TECHNIQUES OF 20TH CENT MUSIC

Prerequisites:
MUSI V3322
or the instructor's permission.
Materials, styles, and techniques of 20th-century music. Topics include scales, chords, sets, atonality, serialism, neoclassicism, and rhythm.

• Department: Music
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ellie Hisama
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

LABORATORY IN CELL BIOLOGY

Prerequisites: BIOL BC1500, BIOL BC1501, BIOL BC1502, BIOL BC1503 or the equivalent, BIOL BC2100. Enrollment limited to 16.
Introduction to cell biological techniques used to investigate structural, molecular, and physiological aspects of eukaryotic cells and their organization into tissues. Techniques include light and electron microscopy, cell culture, isolation of cellular organelles, protein electrophoresis and Western Blot analysis.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• R 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Snow
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 18 Info
• 3 points

SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHITECTURE

CURATING ARCH AND ENV

Prerequisites: Prerequisite is the completion of one architecture studio or similar. Must apply for placement in course.
Topics vary yearly. Course may be repeated for credit.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• MW 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Irina C Verona
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

THEORIZING ACTIVISM

THEORIZIING ACTIVISM

Prerequisites: Critical Approaches or Feminist Theory or permission of instructor.
Helps students develop and apply useful theoretical models to feminist organizing on local and international levels.  It involves reading, presentations, and seminar reports.  Students use first-hand knowledge of the practices of specific women's activist organizations for theoretical work.

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

WOMEN PAINTERS IN EUROPE

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Cole
  CULPA: 4 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 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• TR 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• 1 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 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 1 points

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: Jj L Miranda
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

LABORATORY IN MICROBIOLOGY

LAB IN MICROBIOLOGY

Prerequisites: BIOL BC3320 (or corequisite). Enrollment limited to 16.
Provides experience in the isolation, cultivation, and analysis of pure cultures of microorganisms. Methods used for study of cell structure, growth, physiology, and genetics of microbes will be incorporated into small independent projects.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• T 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer H Mansfield
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 15 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.
• Instructor: Peter M Susser
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 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
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• 3 points

RACE, GNDR, SXLTY&PNSHMNT;

RACE, GNDR, SXLTY & PNSHMNT

This 4-credit course will examine constructions of criminality, historical shifts in punishment
regimes, and the lived experience of incarceration. We will draw on classic sociological texts, as
well as feminist, queer, and critical race theory. In so doing, we will develop an understanding of
the interconnections between punishment regimes and other systems of social power. Students
will learn to engage with, but also produce critical knowledge about punishment by conducting
several small qualitative research assignments.

• Department: Sociology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Joss T Greene
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

GLOBAL URBANISM

Using classical texts about cities (do they still work for us?) and on the diverse new literatures on cities and larger subjects with direct urban implications, we ill use a variety of data sets to get a detailed empirical information, and draw on two large ongoing research projects involving major and minor global cities around the world (a total of over 60 cities are covered in detail as of 2008).  Students will need to register for a discussion section as well; details to be announced.

• Department: Sociology
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Saskia J Sassen
  CULPA: 16 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

VVEDENIE V RUSSKUIU LITERATURU

SCARY STORIES

Prerequisites: two years of college Russian or the instructor's permission.
The course is devoted to the reading, analysis, and discussion of a number of Russian prose fiction works from the eighteenth to twentieth century. Its purpose is to give students an opportunity to apply their language skills to literature. It will teach students to read Russian literary texts as well as to talk and write about them. Its goal is, thus, twofold: to improve the students' linguistic skills and to introduce them to Russian literature and literary history. A close study in the original of the "scary stories" in Russian literature from the late eighteenth century. Conducted in Russian.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Irina Reyfman
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO GERMAN LIT (GERMAN)

Prerequisites: GERM UN2102 or the equivalent.
Examines short literary texts and various methodological approaches to interpreting such texts in order to establish a basic familiarity with the study of German literature and culture.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Dorothea von Muecke
  Info
• 3 points

SHAKESPEARE I

(Lecture). This course will cover the histories, comedies, tragedies, and poetry of Shakespeare’s early career. We will examine the cultural and historical conditions that informed Shakespeare’s drama and poetry; in the case of drama, we will also consider the formal constraints and opportunities of the early modern English commercial theater. We will attend to Shakespeare’s biography while considering his work in relation to that of his contemporaries. Ultimately, we will aim to situate the production of Shakespeare’s early career within the highly collaborative, competitive, and experimental theatrical and literary cultures of late sixteenth-century England.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: James Shapiro
  CULPA: 25 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

GENDER&WARS;:PERSPECTIVES FROM THE GLBL S

Gender and Wars: Perspectives

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

EARLY CHRISTIANITY

Examines the competing currents within early Christianity, with emphasis placed on the literary and social expressions of Christian belief and identity. Topics to be covered include persecution and martyrdom, debates over authority and religious experience, orthodoxy and heresy, and asceticism and monasticism, among others.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Castelli
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

TECHNIQUES & TOOLS FOR THE CRITIQUE OF D

Prerequisites: HUMA UN1123
This course introduces students to topics in the digital production and reception of music since the introduction of digital computers, including: the history of digital speech synthesis, the importance of format to the study of digital media, file-sharing and music copyright, collaboration in twentieth-century music performance, the role of online communities and commercial algorithms in the emergence of new musical genres, the use of music in video games (“ludomusicology”), the challenges of designing improvising musical “agents” that use artificial intelligence, and the virtues and pitfalls of techno-optimism about music in the twenty-first century. Each weekly regular class meeting is paired with a practicum, in which students will learn how to use a number of research software packages to: visualize and compare audio recordings, analyze social networks of musicians and music consumers, extract meaning from text corpora originating in online music communities, emulate old and obsolete hardware using a modern desktop computer, and access useful—but not always easy-to-access—online data sources using server-side web APIs.

• Department: Music
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Eamonn P Bell
  Info
• 3 points

JAPANESE CONTEMP CINEMA & MEDIA CULTURE

In this course, we will look at the contemporary history and theory of cinema and media culture in Japan.  To be more specific, the course will closely examine 1) the various traits of postmodern Japanese cinemas in the 1980s and the 1990s after the phase of global cinematic modernism, 2) contemporary media phenomena such as media convergence and the media ecologies of anime, 3) media activism after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, and beyond.  We will proceed through careful analysis of films, anime, and digital media, while also addressing larger questions of historiography in general.  In other words, this course asks, what is it to study Japanese cinema and media (outside Japan)?  What would be a heuristic narrative mode to examine the (trans-)national history of Japanese cinema and media?  Such inquiries will be integrated into the ways we analyze and discuss the films and media works selected for our weekly screenings.
The readings will extend the realm of the course topics to include broader cultural criticism in an attempt to surface the interrelation of (audio-)visual media and culture in Japan.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Takuya Tsunoda
  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: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Patricia E Grieve
  CULPA: 15 Info
• Instructor: Santiago Acosta
  Info
• Instructor: Orlando Bentancor
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

MOLECULAR&CELLULAR; NEUROSCI

Prerequisites: BIOL BC1500, BIOL BC1501, BIOL BC1502, BIOL BC1503 or the equivalent, and one term of organic chemistry.
Structure and function of neural membranes; ionic basis of membrane potential and action potential; synaptic transmission and neurochemistry; sensory transduction and processing; reflexes and spinal cord physiology; muscle structure and function; neuronal circuitry; nervous system development.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth P Bauer
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 21 Info
• 3 points

MEDIEVAL SPANISH LIT

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jesus Rodriguez-Velasco
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

PSYCH OF STEREOTYPING/PREJUDIC

PSYCH OF STEREOTYPING AND PREJ

Prerequisites: (PSYC BC1001) Permission of the instructor.
Review of current literature from experimental social psychology pertaining to stereotyping and prejudice. Topics include: functions and costs of stereotyping, the formation and maintenance of stereotypes, and stereotype change. Recent research concerning the role of cognitive processes in intergroup perception will be emphasized.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Steven Stroessner
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 4 points

HUMAN AND MACHINES

HUMANS AND MACHINES

Prerequisites: (PSYC BC1001) and Instructor approval
This course will examine the social psychology of Human-Machine interactions, exploring the idea that well-established social psychological processes play critical roles in interactions with non-social objects. The first half of the seminar will examine the social psychology of perception across distinct sensory modalities (shape, motion, voice, touch), whereas the second half will focus on social psychological processes between humans and non-human entities (objects, computers, robots).

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• R 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Steven Stroessner
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 4 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

SEMINAR IN GLOBAL THOUGHT

INQUIRIES INTO AN INTERCONNECT

This course on global thought will consider the ways in which we think about, debate, and give meaning to the interconnected world in which we live.  In thematically focused collaborative teams, students will examine how the flows of people, things and ideas across national borders both connect our world and create uneven consequences within and among communities.   We will locate ourselves in these processes, suggesting we need go no further than our closets, tables, and street corners to consider the meanings of globalization and our roles in the world today. This course has been approved to partially satisfy the Global Core requirement.

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

DEMOCRACY & DICTATORSHIP EUR

DEMOCRACY& DICTATORSHIP EUR

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Sheri Berman
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia h-index: None Info
• 3 points

COMP POL OF GENDER INEQUALITY

Prerequisites:
Not an introductory-level course
. Not open to students who have taken the colloquium POLS BC 3507. Enrollment limited to 20 students; L-course sign-up through
eBear
.
Barnard syllabus
.
Uses major analytical perspectives in comparative politics to understand the persistence of gender inequality in advanced industrial states. Topics include: political representation and participation; political economy and capitalism; the historical development of welfare states; electoral systems, electoral quotas; the role of supranational and international organizations; and social policy.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Claire F Ullman
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE

Prerequisites: (biol un2005 and biol un2006) or (biol un2401 and biol un2402)
The goal of this seminar is to provide an in-depth analysis of the ongoing threat of antimicrobial resistance. Discussions will include the molecular mechanisms, diverse epidemiology of transmission, the consequences of antimicrobial resistance and efforts to reduce the further emergence and spread of these pathogens both in the community and in healthcare settings. In the process, you learn a fair amount of medical microbiology.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Franklin Lowy
  Info
• 3 points

SCENE DESIGN

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

PROBLEMS IN DESIGN

Prerequisites: Some design experience is helpful, though not required. Enrollment limited to 12 students.
Studio-based course explores the main elements of theatrical design: sets, costumes, lighting, and sound. Students examine these design elements as both individual and interrelated components of a production. A series of guest artists contribute to understanding the design process, collaboration, and making a design idea a reality on stage. Fulfills one course in Design requirement for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• F 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Kara M Feely
  Info
• 3 points

ENGLISH PROSE FICTION IN THE RENAISSANCE

RENAISSANCE PROSE FICTION

The rise of the English novel is routinely dated to the early eighteenth century, but there had been a thriving market for prose fiction for at least two centuries. This seminar course tracks the experiments in English prose fiction in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, through such genres as utopian travel narrative, picaresque, romance, spiritual autobiography, and criminal biography. Authors to be studied include Thomas More, George Gascoigne, Thomas Nashe, Philip Sidney, Francis Bacon, Margaret Cavendish, John Bunyan, Aphra Behn, and Daniel Defoe.
Each seminar will be based on one primary text that everyone should read. Secondary reading will be made available via Courseworks: designated students will take responsibility for presenting this material each week.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Alan Stewart
  CULPA: 14 h-index: 13 Info
• 4 points

MUSLIMS IN DIASPORA

Consideration of controversies surrounding mosque-building, headscarves, honor killing, and other publicized issues that expose tensions surrounding citizenship and belonging for Muslims in North America and Europe. Exploration of film and other media representations of Muslims in the West. There will be additional meeting times for film screenings

• Department: Religion
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Derek Mancini-Lander
  Info
• 4 points

COMPUTER GRAPHICS & DESIGN

Introduction to drafting, engineering graphics, computer graphics, solid modeling, and mechanical engineering design. Interactive computer graphics and numerical methods applied to the solution of mechanical engineering design problems. A laboratory fee of $175 is collected.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Sinisa Vukelic
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

SYMBOLIC LOGIC

Corequisites:
PHILV3413
Required Discussion Section (0 points).
Advanced introduction to classical sentential and predicate logic. No previous acquaintance with logic is required; nonetheless a willingness to master technicalities and to work at a certain level of abstraction is desirable. This course has unrestricted enrollment.

• Department: Philosophy
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Tamar A Lando
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

SYMBOLIC LOGIC - REC

• Department: Philosophy
• T 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• F 11:10 a.m.-noon
• 0 points

REFLEXIVITY IN ART & FILM

This seminar will explore a range of individual works of Western art from the 16th century to late 20th century in which the tension between illusionism and reflexivity is foregrounded. It will focus on well-known paintings and films in which forms of realism and verisimilitude coexist with features that affirm the artificial or fictive nature of the work or which dramatize the material, social and ideological conditions of the work’s construction. Topics will include art by Durer, Holbein, Velazquez, Watteau, Courbet, Morisot, Vertov, Deren, Godard, Varda, Hitchcock and others. Readings will include texts by Auerbach, Gombrich, Brecht, Jameson, Barthes, Didi-Huberman, Bazin, Lukacs, Mulvey, and Daney

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jonathan K Crary
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SURVEY-POSTWAR GERMAN LIT(GER)

Prerequisites:
GERM W3333
or the director of undergraduate studies' or the instructor's permission.
A survey of major literary texts of postwar Germany, including the so-called "rubble" literature, Group 47, GDR, New Subjectivity, minority voices and Holocaust memory. Works by Celan, Sachs, Dürrenmatt, Böll, Bachmann, Th. Bernhard, Wolf, P. Schneider, Schlink, Sebald.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Claudia Breger
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 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

TPCS IN SEXUALITY AND GENDER LAW

TPCS IN SEXUALITY & GENDER LAW

As society shifts in its views about sexuality and gender, so too does the law.  Indeed, legal developments in this area have been among the most dynamic of the past couple of decades.  Yet law does not map easily or perfectly onto lived experience, and legal arguments do not necessarily track the arguments made in public debate.
In this seminar, we will explore the evolving jurisprudence of sexuality and gender law in a variety of areas.  Our goal throughout the semester will be to understand and think about these issues as lawyers do - with our primary focus on understanding and evaluating the arguments that can be made on both (or all) sides of any particular case, with some attention to the factors outside of the courtroom that might shape how courts approach their work.  Related to this, we will also seek to understand how and why some of the jurisprudence has changed over time.

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Suzanne Goldberg
  Info
• 3 points

IMMIGRANT NEW YORK

Immigrant NY

• Department: History
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Rebecca Kobrin
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

WOMEN, GENDER POL-MUSLIM WORLD

Practices like veiling that are central to Western images of women and Islam are also contested issues throughout the Muslim world. Examines debates about Islam and gender and explores the interplay of cultural, political, and economic factors in shaping women's lives in the Muslim world, from the Middle East to Southeast Asia.

• Department: Anthropology
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Lila Abu-Lughod
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia h-index: 48 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

READINGS IN JEWISH LITERATURE

READINGS: HUMOR IN JEWISH LIT

Through an analysis of far-flung examples of comic Jewish literature created by Jews over three centuries and three continents, this course will attempt to answer two questions. First, are there continuities in Jewish literary style and rhetorical strategy, and if so, what are they? And second, can Jewish literature help us to understand the tensions between universality and particularity inherent in comic literature more generally? Works and authors read will include Yiddish folktales, Jewish jokes, Sholem Aleichem, Franz Kafka, Philip Roth, Woody Allen, and selections from American television and film, including the Marx Brothers, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Jerry Seinfeld, and Larry David.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Jeremy Dauber
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

NANNIES,MAIDS & CARE WORKERS

NANNIES, MAIDS, &CARE; WORKERS

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Preregistration required.
Examines construction of home as private space and gender expectations defining reproductive labor as "women's work." Emphasis on US, but also explores global patterns of race, labor and migration, shifting notions of "Rights" and citizenship as well as domestic workers' strategies of resistance in a context of labor and feminist organizing.

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

BUDDHIST ETHICS

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
An investigation of the main textual sources of the Buddhist ethical tradition, with attention to their historical operation within Buddhist societies, as well as consideration of their continuing influence on comtemporary developments, Western as well as Asian.

• Department: Religion
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Thomas F Yarnall
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

BIOCHEM I-STRUCTURE/METABOLISM

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Brent R Stockwell
  CULPA: 14 Wikipedia h-index: 79 Info
• 4 points