LITERARY TEXTS&CRIT; MTHDS(SEM)

Prerequisites: Students who register for ENGL UN3011 must also register for ENGL UN3001 Literary Texts, Critical Methods lecture.
This seminar, led by an advanced graduate student in the English doctoral program, accompanies the faculty lecture
ENGL UN3001
. The seminar both elaborates upon the topics taken up in the lecture and introduces other theories and methodologies. It also focuses on training students to integrate the terms, techniques, and critical approaches covered in both parts of the course into their own critical writing, building up from brief close readings to longer research papers.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Tiana A Reid
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 0 points

LITERARY TEXTS&CRIT; MTHDS(SEM)

LITERARY TEXT&CRIT; MTHDS

Prerequisites: Students who register for ENGL UN3011 must also register for ENGL UN3001 Literary Texts, Critical Methods lecture.
This seminar, led by an advanced graduate student in the English doctoral program, accompanies the faculty lecture
ENGL UN3001
. The seminar both elaborates upon the topics taken up in the lecture and introduces other theories and methodologies. It also focuses on training students to integrate the terms, techniques, and critical approaches covered in both parts of the course into their own critical writing, building up from brief close readings to longer research papers.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Danielle N Drees
  Info
• 0 points

PROBLEMS IN DRAWING

Prerequisites:
VIAR R1000
.
(Formerly R4005) Students will connect with the very heart of the Western Art tradition, engaging in this critical activity that was the pillar of draftsmanship training from the Renaissance on through the early Modern Era. This pursuit is the common thread that links artists from Michelangelo and Rubens to Van Gogh and Picasso. Rigorous studies will be executed from plaster casts of antique sculptures, and pedagogical engravings. Students will confront foundational issues of academic training; assessing proportion and tonal value, structure and form. Hours will be spent on a single drawing pushing to the highest degree of accuracy in order develop a means for looking at nature. There is a focus on precision and gaining a thorough understanding of the interaction between light and a surface. This approach emphasizes drawing by understanding the subject and the physical world that defines it. While this training has allowed great representational artists of the past to unlock the poetry from the world around them and continues to inspire a surging new realist movement, it can also serve as a new way of seeing and a launching point for achieving creative goals. If the class is full, please visit
http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program
.

• Department: Visual Arts
• T 5 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Edward Minoff
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

BROWNFIELDS

Prerequisites: One college level science course or permission of the instructor. Anyone who has taken EESC BC1002 Introduction to Environmental Science cannot take this course.

Brownfields
considers interconnections between groundwater contamination, toxics, human health, government, economics, and law using the award-winning interactive learning simulation
Brownfield Action,
Through a semester-long, laboratory exploration of a simulated brownfield, students engage in an environmental site assessment and development of a plan for remediation and revitalization.

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-noon
• 3 points

ECONOMIC HISTORY-UNITED STATES

Prerequisites: ECON BC3035 or ECON BC3033, or permission of the instructor.
Economic transformation of the United States from a small, open agrarian society in the late colonial era to the leading industrial economy of the 20th century. Emphasis is given to the quantitative, institutional, and spatial dimensions of economic growth, and the relationship between the changing structures of the economy and state.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: David Weiman
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 3 points

SHORELINES AND STREAMS

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited. Four required field trips that take a substantial portion of the day.
An interdisciplinary study of shoreline processes, the larger ecosystems of which they are a part, and the geologic events and human impacts that have brought them through time to their current state. A problem-oriented, field-methods course, providing hands-on experience with tools and observational methods in a variety of outdoor environments. Involves sampling and measurement techniques for rocks and minerals, fossils, water, soil, flora, and fauna, as well as field and laboratory work, data interpretation and analysis, and the creation of a sample collection. Emphasis on the writing process through the reading of Rachel Carson's
The Edge of the Sea
, a daylong field trip to Montauk Point, and the writing of a term essay on the natural history and origin of a grain of garnet found at the top of the dune at Napeague Bay.

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• F 8:40 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Peter M Bower
  CULPA: 56 Info
• 3 points

AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES

Political parties have evoked widespread scorn in the U.S. since the founding era; and yet, they arose almost immediately and have endured for over two centuries. In this course, we will examine why parties formed despite the Founders’ disdain for them. (In 1789, Thomas Jefferson wrote, “If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go at all.” In 1800, he won the presidency as a candidate of a major party.) We will dig into scholarly debates about what exactly parties are, what purpose they serve, and how and why they have changed over time as organizations, in the electorate, and in government.
Topics will include the presidential nomination process from the founding through the much-discussed 2016 primary election season, the life cycle of third parties, and the relationship between political parties and interest groups. Students will learn what is and is not unique about the current historical moment, and how history might shape our expectations of parties moving forward.
Throughout the course, we will pay particularly close attention to the roots of contemporary party polarization, and the implications of this phenomenon for representation and governance. In 1950, the American Political Science Association released a report criticizing the two major parties for excessive similarity; today, party polarization evokes widespread concern. Is there an ideal level of party difference? How much is too much? We will address these difficult questions, among others, in this broad survey of American political parties.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Katherine L Krimmel
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

BIRD,PLANT &LAND-USE; DYNAMICS

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 12 students. Permission of the instructor required.
This class looks at the response of wildlife (birds and plants) to climate change and land-use issues from the end of the last glaciation to the present. We visit wildlife refuges along a rural-suburban-urban gradient in order to observe and measure the role refuges play in conservation.  Case study topics are:  (1) land-use change over time:  a paleoenvironmental perspective, (2) environmental transformations:  impact of exotic and invasive plants and birds on local environments and (3) migration of Neotropical songbirds between their wintering and breeding grounds:  land-use, crisis and conservation.  Format:  lecture, student presentations, field trips and data collection/analysis.

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Terryanne Maenza-Gmelch
  CULPA: 14 h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

Prerequisites: MATH UN3027 and MATH UN2010 or the equivalent
Introduction to partial differential equations. First-order equations. Linear second-order equations; separation of variables, solution by series expansions. Boundary value problems.

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Ovidiu Savin
  CULPA: 22 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN EDUCAT

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. Course enrollment will be determined after the first class meeting; application is available on CourseWorks.,,Open to all students; preference given to Urban Teaching, Education Studies and Urban Studies students.
Contemporary Issues in Education is an introduction to the range of intellectual dilemmas that are a part of American schooling through the illumination of the various social, philosophical, economic, and institutional forces that shape the learning environment. The topics serve to promote critical thought of educational dilemmas stemming from issues such as power and authority, the intersection of race, gender, socio-economic inequity, and challenges that confront students such as identity, marginalization and resiliency. This course is open to all students interested in investigating one’s best “fit” in the education realm, which may include classroom teaching, educational policy, reform, and NGO-based involvement.

• Department: Education @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Thea Abu El-Haj
  Info
• 4 points

MIGRATION, GLOBALIZATION, AND EDUCATION

MIGRATION, GLOBAL & EDUC

• Department: Education @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Thea Abu El-Haj
  Info
• 4 points

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

Process-oriented introduction to the law and its use in environmental policy and decision-making. Origins and structure of the U.S. legal system. Emphasis on litigation process and specific cases that elucidate the common law and toxic torts, environmental administrative law, and environmental regulation through application and testing of statutory law in the courts. Emphasis also on the development of legal literacy, research skills, and writing.

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

PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI POLIT/SOC

The History of the Jewish Enlightenment (Haskala) in 19th century Europe and the development of Zionism through the current "peace process" between the state of Israel and the Arab states and the Palestinian national movement. Provides a historical overview of the Zionist-Palestinian conflict to familiarize undergraduates with the background of the current situation. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph A Massad
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

THEATER OF THE ABSURD

Prerequisites: FREN BC3021, BC3022, BC3023, BC3024, or the equivalent.
Close reading and occasional screening of major plays associated with the Theater of the Absurd. Philosophical and literary origins of the concept of the absurd; social and political context of its emergence; theatrical conventions of early performances; popular and critical reception. Authors include: Jarry, Adamov, Arrabal, Beckett, Genet, Ionesco, Maeterlinck, Sartre, Camus.

• Department: French @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter T Connor
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 3 points

COLL:POL VIOLENCE & TERRORISM

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Kimberly Marten
  CULPA: 71 Wikipedia h-index: 19 Info
• 4 points

PROJECT LAB IN MICROBIOLOGY

Prerequisites: one year of Intro Bio. An introductory biology or chemistry lab is recommended.
Bacteria are not just unicellular germs. This lab course will broaden your awareness of the amazing world of microbiology and the diverse capabilities of microbes. The focus will be on bacterial multicellularity, pigment production, and intercellular signaling. Pigment-producing bacteria will be isolated from the wild (i.e. Morningside Campus or your skin), and characterized using standard genetic tools (PCR, DNA gel electrophoresis, transformation, screen) and microbiology techniques (isolation of bacteria and growth of bacterial colonies, media preparation, enrichment techniques for pigments). These techniques will also be applied in the study of bacterial multicellularity and signaling in the standard lab strain
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
. 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 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Lars E Dietrich
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 5 points

SEM IN CURRENT RES. PROBLEMS

A detailed study of a selected field of active research in physics. The motivation, techniques, and results obtained to the present, as well as the difficulties and unsolved problems. For Physics majors only. Priority given to seniors; juniors by permission of the instructor.

• Department: Physics
• T 5:30 p.m.-6:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Sebastian Will
  h-index: 18 Info
• Instructor: Rachel A Rosen
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 2 points

GLOBAL RADICALISM

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

PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY II-LECTURES

Prerequisites: CHEM UN3079
Corequisites: CHEM UN3086

CHEM UN
3080
 covers the quantum mechanics of atoms and molecules, the quantum statistical mechanics of chemical systems, and the connection of statistical mechanics to thermodynamics. Although 
CHEM UN
3079
 and 
CHEM UN
3080
 are separate courses, students are expected to take both terms sequentially. A recitation section is required.  Please check the Directory of Classes for details and also speak with the TA for the course.

• Department: Chemistry
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Xiaoyang Zhu
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 85 Info
• 4 points

INTERMEDIATE LABORATORY WORK

Prerequisites:
PHYS W2601
or
PHYS W2802
. Primarily for junior and senior physics majors; other majors must obtain the instructor's permission.
Each experiment is chosen by the student in consultation with the instructor. Each section meets one afternoon per week, with registration in each section limited by the laboratory capacity. Experiments (classical and modern) cover topics in electricity, magnetism, optics, atomic physics, and nuclear physics.

• Department: Physics
• M 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• R 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• F 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Elena Aprile
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Cory Dean
  h-index: 49 Info
• Instructor: Morgan May
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 2 points

ELECTRONICS LABORATORY

Prerequisites:
PHYS W3003
or
W3007
. May be taken before or concurrently with this course.
A sequence of experiments in solid-state electronics, with introductory lectures.

• Department: Physics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: John Parsons
  CULPA: 31 Info
• 3 points

PHYSICL-ANALYTCL LABORATORY II

Prerequisites: CHEM UN3085 CHEM UN3080 is acceptable corequisite for CHEM UN3086
A student-centered experimental course intended for students who are co-registered or have completed 
CHEM UN
3079
 and 
CHEM UN
3080
. The course emphasizes techniques of experimental physical chemistry and instrumental analysis, including vibrational, electronic, and laser spectroscopy; electroanalytical methods; calorimetry; reaction kinetics; hydrodynamic methods; scanning probe microscopy; applications of computers to reduce experimental data; and computational chemistry. Students must also attend the compulsory Mentoring Session. Please check the Directory of Classes for details.

• Department: Chemistry
• T noon-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Luis A Avila
  CULPA: 22 Info
• 4 points

QUANTUM PHYSICS LABORATORY

Experiments illustrating phenomenological aspects of the early quantum theory: (i) Hydrogenic Spectra: Balmer Series & Bohr-Sommerfeld Model; (ii) Photoelectric Effect: Millikan's Determination of h/e; (iii) Franck-Hertz Experiment; and (iv) Electron Diffraction Phenomena. Substantial preparation required, including written and oral presentations, as well as an interest in developing the knack and intuition of an experimental physicist. This course is best taken concurrently with PHYS BC3006
Quantum Physics
.

• Department: Physics and Astronomy @Barnard
• F 9 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Reshmi Mukherjee
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia h-index: 63 Info
• 3 points

CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Prerequisites: introductory organismal biology course, ideally EEEB UN2002.
Applications of biological principles to the conservation of biodiverstiy. Because conservation biology is a cross-disciplinary field, some of the social, philosophical, and economic dimensions of biological conservation are also addressed.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points

THE ENGLISH CONFERENCE

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Gordis
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 1 points

SUPERVISED INDEPENDENT RES

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission for entrance, and the departmental representative's permission for aggregate points in excess of 12 or less than 4.
This course may be repeated for credit (see major and concentration requirements). Individual research under the supervision of a member of the staff. Research areas include organic, physical, inorganic, analytical, and biological chemistry. Please note that
CHEM UN3098
is offered in the fall and spring semesters.

• Department: Chemistry
• Instructor: Vesna Gasperov
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 4 Info
• 4 points

FUNDAMENTALS OF GLOBAL HEALTH

Many of the greatest challenges in public health are global. This course uses a multidisciplinary approach to discuss the major underlying determinants of poor health and the relationship between health and political, social and economic development. Drawing upon the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, students will be introduced to the evolution of modern approaches to the setting of global health priorities, the functions and roles of health systems, an overview of current global health practices, and the major institutional players in global health. The first unit of the class will focus on establishing the foundations for a public health approach to understanding the challenges of global health. This will involve exploration of the factors shaping the global distribution of disease and their connection with issues of social, economic, and political development, as reflected in the Millennium Development Goals. The second unit will explore in further detail a number of major health priorities. A significant goal of the class will be to identify common sources of vulnerability and challenge across health risks, and the consequent need for a systemic approach to their being addressed. The third and final unit builds upon this analysis to demonstrate the multi-disciplinary, multi-level approach required to effectively address global health priorities, and the political and organizational cooperation required to achieve this. The class concludes with an analysis of the major challenges and threats to global coordination regarding such threats as pandemic influenza and emerging health threats related to climate change. Offered in the spring.

• Department: Public Health
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• 3 points

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

PROGRAMMING LANG (JAVASCRIPT)

Prerequisites: Fluency in at least one programming language.
Introduction to a programming language. Each section is devoted to a specific language. Intended only for those who are already fluent in at least one programming language. Sections may meet for one hour per week for the whole term, for three hours per week for the first third of the term, or for two hours per week for the first six weeks. May be repeated for credit if different languages are involved.

• Department: Computer Science
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Ramana Isukapalli
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 1 points

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

PROGRAMMING LANG (C# AND .NET)

Prerequisites: Fluency in at least one programming language.
Introduction to a programming language. Each section is devoted to a specific language. Intended only for those who are already fluent in at least one programming language. Sections may meet for one hour per week for the whole term, for three hours per week for the first third of the term, or for two hours per week for the first six weeks. May be repeated for credit if different languages are involved.

• Department: Computer Science
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Dimitri Kopaliani
  Info
• 1 points

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

PROGRAMMING LANG (PYTHON)

Prerequisites: Fluency in at least one programming language.
Introduction to a programming language. Each section is devoted to a specific language. Intended only for those who are already fluent in at least one programming language. Sections may meet for one hour per week for the whole term, for three hours per week for the first third of the term, or for two hours per week for the first six weeks. May be repeated for credit if different languages are involved.

• Department: Computer Science
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Lawrence Stead
  Info
• Instructor: Ronghui Gu
  h-index: 11 Info
• 1 points

APPLIED MATHEMATICS II: PDE'S

Prerequisites: (MATH UN2030) or the equivalent
Introduction to partial differential equations; integral theorems of vector calculus. Partial differential equations of engineering in rectangular, cylindrical, and spherical coordinates. Separation of the variables. Characteristic-value problems. Bessel functions, Legendre polynomials, other orthogonal functions; their use in boundary value problems. Illustrative examples from the fields of electromagnetic theory, vibrations, heat flow, and fluid mechanics.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Donsub Rim
  Info
• 3 points

DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGY

MODERN iOS APPLICATION DEVELOP

Prerequisites: Fluency in at least one programming language.
Introduction to software development tools and environments. Each section devoted to a specific tool or environment. One-point sections meet for two hours each week for half a semester, and two point sections include an additional two-hour lab.

• Department: Computer Science
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew A Hitti
  Info
• 1 points

DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGY

DEV TECH (USING LINUX)

Prerequisites: Fluency in at least one programming language.
Introduction to software development tools and environments. Each section devoted to a specific tool or environment. One-point sections meet for two hours each week for half a semester, and two point sections include an additional two-hour lab.

• Department: Computer Science
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert E Coyne
  Info
• Instructor: Daniel R Mechanic
  Info
• 1 points

DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGY

DEV TECH (STRATEGIC DESIGN)

Prerequisites: Fluency in at least one programming language.
Introduction to software development tools and environments. Each section devoted to a specific tool or environment. One-point sections meet for two hours each week for half a semester, and two point sections include an additional two-hour lab.

• Department: Computer Science
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Gary Zamchick
  Info
• 1 points

THIRD-YEAR RUSSIAN II

Prerequisites: RUSS UN2102 or the equivalent and the instructor's permission.
Enrollment limited. Recommended for students who wish to improve their active command of Russian. Emphasis on conversation and composition. Reading and discussion of selected texts and videotapes. Lectures. Papers and oral reports required. Conducted entirely in Russian.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MWF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Alla Smyslova
  CULPA: 20 Info
• Instructor: Nataliya Kun
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

THE ART OF THE ESSAY

Prerequisites: Can count towards major. Students who are on the electronic waiting list or who are interested in the class but are not yet registered MUST attend the first day of class.
(Formerly called Essay Writing.) Essay writing above the first-year level. Reading and writing various types of essays to develop one's natural writing voice and craft thoughtful, sophisticated and personal essays.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Aaron C Schneider
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Shelly Fredman
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Wendy C Schor-Haim
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 3 points

FICTION & PERSONAL NARRATIVE

Prerequisites: Writing sample required to apply: required cover sheet and instructions are available here: http://english.barnard.edu/forms-procedures/forms. Students cannot add this course to their schedules until after they are admitted.
In this workshop we will read risky and urgent examples of life writing, from autobiographical fiction to radical and poetic memoir and essay. Some writers we could be reading include Claudia Rankine, Lydia Davis, Hervé Guibert, Chris Kraus, and others. I hope to help you push your texts to their vibrant full potential. We will also be developing an innovative vocabulary to describe the work you're reading and writing. Open to anyone willing to read, write, and rewrite adventurously.

• Department: English @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Katie M Zambreno
  Info
• 3-4 points

APPLIED DATA MINING

Prerequisites: STAT UN2103. Students without programming experience in R might find STAT UN2102 very helpful.
Data Mining is a dynamic and fast growing field at the interface of Statistics and Computer Science. The emergence of massive datasets containing millions or even billions of observations provides the primary impetus for the field. Such datasets arise, for instance, in large-scale retailing, telecommunications, astronomy, computational and statistical challenges. This course will provide an overview of current practice in data mining. Specific topics covered with include databases and data warehousing, exploratory data analysis and visualization, descriptive modeling, predictive modeling, pattern and rule discovery, text mining, Bayesian data mining, and causal inference. The use of statistical software will be emphasized.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter Orbanz
  h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

Undergraduate Mentored Research

Prerequisites: the project mentor's permission.
This course provides a mechanism for students who undertake research with a faculty member from the Department of Statistics to receive academic credit.  Students seeking research opportunities should be proactive and entrepreneurial: identify congenial faculty whose research is appealing, let them know of your interest and your background and skills.

• Department: Statistics
• Instructor: Liam M Paninski
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO FICTION WRITING

Prerequisites: Writing sample required to apply: required cover sheet and instructions are available here: http://english.barnard.edu/forms-procedures/forms. Students cannot add this course to their schedules until after they are admitted.
Practice in writing short stories with discussion and close analysis in workshop setting.

• Department: English @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 3-4 points

THE BODY IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE

THE BODY IN EARLY MOD EUR

Capitalism shapes every aspect of our daily lives. Thinkers on both the left and the right of the political spectrum agree that capitalism structures our economic, social, and political relationships. Yet, there is little agreement as to the definition of capitalism and its normative implications. The definition and interpretation of capitalism differs across time and space, always evolving in response to challenges, crises, and contradictions. 
The aim of this course is to provide students with analytical tools to think critically and historically about the concept of capitalism. By studying how philosophers, economists, and political theorists have defined and described the concept of capitalism throughout its history (from the early seventeenth century to the present), students will be provided with a set of terminologies and analytical frameworks that enable them to interrogate the various dimensions of capitalism. The readings in the course are selected to illustrate the fact that capitalism has always been controversial. We will read texts authored by both proponents and critics of capitalism. We will explore how various canonical figures have thought about private property, markets, money, economic growth, injustice, inequality, alienation, and socialism.

• Department: History
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Heidi L Hausse
  Info
• 4 points

INTRO TO POETRY WRITING

Prerequisites: Writing sample required to apply: required cover sheet and instructions are available here: http://english.barnard.edu/forms-procedures/forms. Students cannot add this course to their schedules until after they are admitted.
Our objective in this class is to write new poems each week, and find ways to illuminate and articulate our processes as we go along.  Among the questions we’ll explore:  How do imagination, “real life,” and conscious artifice (among other things) enter into the writing of poems?  How does a poem interface with its reader/listener?  What’s the role of enigma, or even opacity, in poetry?  How much clarity or accessibility is desirable? We’ll read poets representing a range of styles and esthetics, with a slight emphasis on contemporary American work. Regular attendance, full participation in class discussions, keeping an “observations” journal (and sharing writing from it each week), and the submission of a final portfolio of poems written in response to prompts and readings are requirements for earning credit in this class.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Regan Good
  Info
• 3-4 points

BEHAVIORAL BIOL-DISC

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• R 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• F 11:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Nicole A Thompson
  Info
• 0 points

PLAYWRITING II

Prerequisites: Writing sample required to apply: required cover sheet and instructions are available here: http://english.barnard.edu/forms-procedures/forms. Students cannot add this course to their schedules until after they are admitted.
What makes a play alive? Often a playwright is surprised into their strongest work. The practices of experimentation and analysis, curiosity and audacity lead to new possibilities. Students will read and respond to plays, identifying elements and strategies, and each week bring in fragments and scenes written in response to weekly prompts. By the middle of the semester, students will choose the piece that feels the most viable and develop it into what in most cases will be a thirty page play.  
NOTE: Playwriting I (ENGL 3113) is NOT a prerequisite, and students need not have written a play before.

• Department: English @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Kathleen Tolan
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3-4 points

STORY WRITING II

Prerequisites: Some experience in writing of fiction. Conference hours to be arranged. Writing sample required to apply: required cover sheet and instructions are available here: http://english.barnard.edu/forms-procedures/forms. Students cannot add this course to their schedules until after they are admitted.
Advanced workshop in writing, with emphasis on the short story.

• Department: English @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Mary Gordon
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia Info
• 3-4 points

FIGURE PAINTING

Prerequisites:
VIAR R1000
and
VIAR R2100
.
(Formerly R3210) Course provides the experience of employing a wide range of figurative applications that serve as useful tools for the contemporary artist. Non-Western applications, icon painting, and the European/American traditions are presented. Individual and group critiques.Portfolio required at end. If the class is full, please visit 
http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program
.

• Department: Visual Arts
• T 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Aliza Nisenbaum
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

PUBLIC SPEAKING

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 14 students. Open only to undergraduates, preference to seniors and juniors. Attend first class for instructor permission. Registering for the course only through myBarnard or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment.
This course will introduce you to principles of effective public speaking and debate, and provide practical opportunities to use these principles in structured speaking situations. You will craft and deliver speeches, engage in debates and panel discussions, analyze historical and contemporary speakers, and reflect on your own speeches and those of your classmates. You will explore and practice different rhetorical strategies with an emphasis on information, persuasion and argumentation. For each speaking assignment, you will go through the speech-making process, from audience analysis, purpose and organization, to considerations of style and delivery. The key criteria in this course are content, organization, and adaptation to the audience and purpose. While this is primarily a performance course, you will be expected to participate extensively as a listener and critic, as well as a speaker.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Daniela Kempf
  Info
• 3 points

CREATV NONFIC:GENDERED MEMOIR

Prerequisites: Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here: https://english.barnard.edu/departmental-forms#creativewriting.
A workshop in writing short autobiographical story with particular attention to the role gender plays in shaping experience. Focus on student writing, along with readings from the work of authors such as Augusten Buroughs; Alice Sebold; Alison Bechdel; Mary Karr, and others.
,PLEASE NOTE: This course has been renumbered. It was previously ENGL BC3120, section 3 and has not changed in content.

• Department: English @Barnard
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer F Boylan
  Info
• 3-4 points

SPACES AND TERRITORIES OF HOUSING

SPACES&TERRITORIES;/HOUSING

This class offers a critical platform for the discussion of housing in the modern and contemporary periods. We will explore the definition of housing at different scales, ranging from domestic objects and spatial arrangements to urban proposals and territorial organizations. Housing plays a central role in the formation of subjectivity, the definition of cultural norms, and the consolidation of social relations. Residential spaces and housing complexes are involved in shaping everyday intimate life and in the management of populations. We will analyze the development of housing in relation to changing technologies, cultural shifts, and political transformations. We will additionally consider the relationship of diverse processes of modernization and different traditions of housing around the world, ultimately discussing housing paradigms in the contemporary world characterized by global processes and accelerating transformations.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ignacio Gonzalez Galan
  Info
• 3 points

DIASPORIC WOMEN AT WORK

This course is an exploration of different ways of conceptualizing the relationships between gender and labor over time, including critiques linking gendered labor to race and class. Grounded primarily in ethnography and political economy, we will look at some of the changes and continuities in the relationship between gender and forms of labor ranging from women in factories to affective labor/caring work in the African Diaspora, particularly the Caribbean and Latin America.

• Department: Africana Studies (AFRS)
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Tamisha D Navarro
  Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED POETRY WRITING II

ADVANCED POETRY WRIT II

Prerequisites: Writing sample required to apply: required cover sheet and instructions are available here: http://english.barnard.edu/forms-procedures/forms. Students cannot add this course to their schedules until after they are admitted.
A further study of poetic practice for committed student-writers with experience in writing and reading poems. In the classroom, student poems and ideas about poetics are shared, questioned, and critiqued. There will also be readings in and critical interpretation of traditional and contemporary poetry.

• Department: English @Barnard
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Catherine Barnett
  Info
• 3-4 points

HERCULES:HERO,MURDERER,PHILOS,BUFFOON

Hercules is one of the most ancient, widespread, and enduring figures to emerge from the ancient Mediterranean. He is a figure of multiples: myriad labors, multiple wives, multiple fathers, and multiple identities. Together we will discover a broad range of literature on this hero and-like ancient writers and thinkers-we will use Hercules to explore mortality, divinity, masculinity, madness, and contradiction. We will read Hercules in different ancient genres, with a particular emphasis on Tragedy, Comedy, and Philosophy. The final units of our course will explore contemporary "heros," including the Hulk, "The Rock," and Disney's Hercules.

• Department: Classics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Kate M Brassel
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

HIST-WEST MUS:CLASSICAL-20TH C

Prerequisites:
MUSI V2318-2319
. May be taken before or concurrently with this course.
Topics in Western music from the Classical era to the present day, focusing on the development of musical style and thought, and on analysis of selected works.

• Department: Music
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Julia Doe
  Info
• 3 points

AMER COWBOY/ICONOG OF WEST

THE AMERICAN COWBOY

We will consider the image and role of the cowboy in fiction, social history, film, music, and art. Readings will include Cormac McCarthy's "The Border Trilogy.

• Department: English @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Margaret R Ellsberg
  CULPA: 54 Info
• 3 points

THIRD-YEAR CONVERSATION FR II

Prerequisites: completion of the language requirement in French or the equivalent.
Conversation on contemporary French subjects based on readings in current popular French periodicals.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Elodie F Boissard
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• 2 points

GENDERED CONTROVERSIES

Investigates the significance of contemporary and historical issues of social, political, and cultural conflicts centered on women's bodies. How do such conflicts constitute women, and what do they tell us about societies, cultures, and politics? - D. Ko

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Janet Jakobsen
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

DATA STRUCTURES IN JAVA

Prerequisites: (COMS W1004) or knowledge of Java.
Data types and structures: arrays, stacks, singly and doubly linked lists, queues, trees, sets, and graphs. Programming techniques for processing such structures: sorting and searching, hashing, garbage collection. Storage management. Rudiments of the analysis of algorithms. Taught in Java. Note: Due to significant overlap, students may receive credit for only one of the following three courses:
COMS W3134
,
COMS W3136
,
COMS W3137
.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul S Blaer
  CULPA: 46 h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

CREATIVE NON-FICTION

Prerequisites: Prerequisites: Writing sample required to apply: required cover sheet and instructions are available here: http://english.barnard.edu/forms-procedures/forms. Students cannot add this course to their schedules until after they are admitted.
In this course, we'll learn some of the techniques involved in writing an entertaining, informative profile.  Topics we will cover in reading and writing assignments will include the question of "objectivity" in profile-writing, how to convey complex controversies in lucid, lively prose, how to structure a long form article, strategies for interviewing difficult interview subjects, and what makes an enticing lede.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3-4 points

HONORS DATA STRUCTURES & ALGOL

DATA STRUCTURES/ALGORITHMS

Prerequisites: (COMS W1004) or (COMS W1007)
COMS W1004 or W1007
.
Corequisites:
COMS W3203
.
An honors introduction to data types and structures: arrays, stacks, singly and doubly linked lists, queues, trees, sets, and graphs. Programming techniques for processing such structures: sorting and searching, hashing, garbage collection. Storage management. Design and analysis of algorithms. Taught in Java. Note: Due to significant overlap, students may receive credit for only one of the following three courses:
COMS W3134
,
W3136
, or
W3137
.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Bauer
  CULPA: 17 h-index: 13 Info
• 4 points

INTRODUCTION VOCAL REPERTOIRE

This course is designed for developing singers. Group vocalizing, learning of songs and individual workshop performances are aimed at improving the student's  technical skill and the elements necessary to create a meaningful musical and dramatic experience. Attention to text, subtext, emotional and psychological aspects of a piece and the performer's  relationship to the audience are included in the work. Repertoire is predominantly in English and comes from both classical and popular traditions Individual coaching sessions are available with the class accompanist and help strengthen the students' confidence and skill. The class culminates with an in-class performance.

• Department: Music @Barnard
• F 2 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Josephine Mongiardo
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

VOCAL REPERTOIRE, TECHNIQUE

Vocal exercises and exploration of wide-ranging repertoires, styles, and languages of the Western European song tradition. The rich variety of English, French, Italian and German poetry and music from the Baroque period through the Twentieth Century allows the student to experience both the music and the cultural environment of each of these styles. Attention is given both to meaning oftext and musical interpretation. Individual coaching sessions are available with the class accompanist and help strengthen the students' confidence and skill. The class culminates with an in-class performance.

• Department: Music @Barnard
• F 12:15 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Jean-Paul Bjorlin
  Info
• 3 points

MAJOR ENGLISH TEXTS II

A chronological view of the variety of English literature through study of selected writers and their works. Spring: Romantic poets through the present.

• Department: English @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Margaret R Ellsberg
  CULPA: 54 Info
• 3 points

BERTOLT BRECHT:MAKING OF THTR

BERTOLT BRECHT:MAKING OF THEAT

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 16; permission of instructor given at first class meeting. Course is conducted in English and readings are in English; German majors and German-speaking students may do readings and papers in German.
This class provides a comprehensive overview of the drama, theatre, and theory of Bertolt Brecht, the most influential European playwright and theorist of the twentieth century, in the context of their original historical contexts and subsequent legacies.  Fulfills one (of two) required courses in dramatic literature for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts major.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Hana Worthen
  Info
• 4 points

WORLDMUSE ENSEMBLE

Worldmuse Ensemble delves into compelling music from many genres such as world music, gospel, classical--old and new. We perform without a conductor, increasing awareness and interaction among ourselves and our audience. We collaboratively integrate music, dance, and theatre traditions (masks etc.). For experienced singers, and instrumentalists and dancers who sing.

• Department: Music @Barnard
• F 2:15 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jean-Paul Bjorlin
  Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO NARRATIVE MEDICINE

Prerequisites: Post-bacc students require instructor permission.
Narrative Medicine was designed to give doctors and healthcare professionals a more profound understanding of, and empathy for, the experience of illness. It teaches how to listen and what to listen for. While the skills developed are directly applicable to the practice of medicine, they are also important in any field in which human relationships are central: business, law, architecture, social work, and the creative arts. The multidisciplinary course entails a rigorous integration of didactic and experiential methodology to develop a heightened awareness of self and others and build a practical set of narrative competencies.

• Department: English @Barnard
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Charlotte M Friedman
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

INVENTION AND REVISION

A creative writing workshop in fiction,  devoted to the imaginative process, and most specifically, to the arts of invention and revision. In addition to considering the wellspring of creative ideas themselves, students will write stories in a variety of lengths— moderate, long, and as short-shorts.  Through this process, apprentice writers will become intimate with the most essential aspect of creating imaginative work: the dedication to seeing one’s ideas—just like the human soul itself-- morph and grow over time, until it finds its most perfect draft.

• Department: English @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer F Boylan
  Info
• 3-4 points

WESTRN THTR TRAD: MODERN

WESTRN THEATRE TRAD: MODERN

Dialectical approach to reading and thinking about the history of dramatic theatre in the west, interrogating the ways poetry inflects, and is inflected by, the material dynamics of performance. We will undertake careful study of the practices of performance, and of the sociocultural, economic, political, and aesthetic conditions animating representative plays of the Western tradition from the late eighteenth century to today; course will also emphasize development of important critical concepts for the analysis of drama, theatre, and performance. Specific attention will be given to the ideology of realism and naturalism, the development of epic theatre, the theatre of cruelty, postcolonial performance, and the continuing invention of dramatic forms (theatre of the absurd, speechplays, postdramatic theatre), as well as to the political and theoretical impact of race, gender, sexuality in modern performance culture. Writing: 2-3 papers; Reading: 1-2 plays, critical and historical reading per week; final examination. Fulfills one (of two) Theatre History requirements for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: William B Worthen
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

PSYCH ASPECTS HUMAN SEXUALITY

Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing, BC1001 and two other psychology courses and permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 20 students.
This seminar is a critical examination of research and theory in human sexuality.  The first part of the course is an overview of influential social science research on sexuality during the 20th century.  The second part is a detailed investigation of contemporary research and writing on selected issues in human sexual behavior, including sexual socialization, gender and sexuality, and contemporary approaches to understanding psychosexual disorders.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Wendy McKenna
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 4 points

THE CANTERBURY TALES

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher C Baswell
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

TRADITIONAL INDIAN PERFORMNCE

Course provides a perspective on traditional forms of Indian performance from classical theory to contemporary traditional practices. Course covers Sanskrit drama, Kathakali, Ramlila, and Chhau; extensive video of performances and guest practitioners. Fulfills one course in World Theatre requirement for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Shayoni Mitra
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED PROGRAMMING

Prerequisites: COMS W3134 or equivalent.
C programming language and Unix systems programming.  Also covers Git, Make, TCP/IP networking basics, C++ fundamentals.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jae W Lee
  CULPA: 42 Info
• 4 points

LANGUAGES OF LOSS

Prerequisites: Sophomore standing
A study of the genre of elegy across time and cultures. Emphasis on how poets express grief and relate to literary traditions. Comparisons of European, Chinese, and American elegies (by Theocritus, Milton, Qu Yuan, Holderlin, Wordsworth, Whitman, Bishop, and others) and discussions of the relationship between singular and collective life.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Emily Sun
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

THE ENGLISH COLLOQUIUM

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to Barnard English majors.
In the Enlightenment colloquium we will look at English and European imaginative and intellectual life during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. During this period, writers tried in new ways to reconcile the tensions between reason and religion. Categories of thought that underlie our world today were taking shape: secularity, progress, the public and the private, individual rights, religious tolerance. Writers articulated principles of equality in an era of slavery. Literary forms like the novel, which emerges into prominence during this period, express in irreducibly complex ways these and other changes. In this intensive course, we will study from multiple angles a variety of authors that may include Hobbes, Dryden, Locke, Spinoza, Lafayette, Defoe, Swift, Pope, Richardson, Voltaire, Fielding, Johnson, Diderot, Sterne, and Wollstonecraft, among others.

• Department: English @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Aaron C Schneider
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Maire Jaanus
  CULPA: 15 Info
• Instructor: James G Basker
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

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 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel Eisendrath
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

PERCEPTION AND LANGUAGE

Prerequisites: BC 1001 and one of the following: BC1106/1107, BC1109/1110, BC1118/1119, BC1128/1129, or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 20 students
Psychological investigations of spoken communication from a listener's perspective. Topics include perception and sounds of speech and the apprehension of meaning from words and utterances; the perceptual basis for rhyme and rhythm in speech; and the natural history of vocal communication.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Robert E Remez
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia h-index: 23 Info
• 4 points

THEORIES OF PERFORMANCE STUDIES

THEORIES PERFORMNC STUDIES

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 16 students.
Course surveys the wide range of genres and categories addressed by the practice of modern "performance studies"; it introduces a number of performance practices, as well as relevant interdisciplinary methodologies. Students consider live performances as well as a number of mediated works, learning to think critically and creatively about the relation between text, technology, and the body. Course fulfills the Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts major requirement in Drama, Theatre, Theory.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Shayoni Mitra
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

17TH CENTURY PROSE & POETRY

17TH CENTURY PROSE AND 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
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Achsah Guibbory
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

DRAMA, THEATRE, AND THEORY

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 16 students.
Intensive immersion in fundamental principles and practices of world drama, theatre, and performance, past and present. Close readings of performances, plays, video, film, and digital media.  Assignments include presentations, performance projects, and critical writing. Fulfills one course in Drama, Theatre, and Theory requirement for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Hana Worthen
  Info
• 4 points

20TH CENTURY MUSIC

Prerequisites: one year music theory or equivalent 3000 level course
This 3000 level course is open to undergraduate students who have completed one year of Music Theory or equivalent. The class is a chronological survey of music for the piano and its predecessors, from the Renaissance to the present. It consists of lectures, discussion, reading and listening, analysis and performance projects, exploration of period instruments, musical styles, and repertoire. Comparative listening of great performers and their legendary interpretations will aid the discussion of the piano idiom and performance practice. Attention will be given to elements of style and form, historical background, and issues of performance. There will be a class outing to the Metropolitan Museum’s instrument collection. Please prepare for each session by completing the listening and reading assignments, in order to be able to participate in class discussion. All required readings are available in the Gabe M. Wiener Music Arts Library (call numbers provided in the bibliography section).

• Department: Music
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: George Lewis
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia h-index: 18 Info
• 3 points

LIBERALISM:ORIGINS&CHALLENGES;

Liberalism is a moral and political outlook that stresses the equal worth of individuals and advocates a range of rights protecting individual conscience, speech, association, movement, and property. This course explores the historical origins, moral claims, and contemporary controversies of liberal thought. Students will investigate the conceptual foundations of liberalism and consider several contemporary critical challenges liberals face. The course is divided into topics that each focus on a particular type of challenge. How, if at all, can liberals accommodate the claims of equality, community, national, multiculturalism, feminism, value pluralism, and moral skepticism?

• Department: Political Science
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Luke S Macinnis
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

VICTORIAN AGE IN LITERATURE

This course explores important works from one of the most vibrant periods in the history of the novel. Beginning with Jane Austen, the most significant transitional figure from the preceding period, other authors may include Gaskell, Dickens, C. Brontë, Eliot, Hardy, and James. While attending to form and style, we will focus on the relation of these fictional worlds to the social realities of the time, and on how the novels reflect and challenge Victorian ideas about self and society, education, ambition and social class, femininity and desire, labor and domesticity.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Monica F Cohen
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

AMERICAN LITERATURE 1800-1870

Beginning with literature from the late Republican period, this course considers how nascent efforts to forge a national identity culminate in Civil War.  Writers include Brown, Irving, Emerson, Poe, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Douglass, Melville, Jacobs, Whitman, and Dickinson.

• Department: English @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Gordis
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

RELIGIOUS CONVERSION IN HIST

CONVERSION IN HISTORICAL PERSP

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Boundary crossers have always challenged the way societies imagined themselves. This course explores the political, religious, economic, and social dynamics of religious conversion. The course will focus on Western (Christian and Jewish) models in the medieval and early modern periods. It will include comparative material from other societies and periods. Autobiographies, along with legal, religious and historical documents will complement the readings.

• Department: History
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Elisheva Carlebach
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN LITERATURE 1871-1945

This interdisciplinary course situates late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature within the context of historical and cultural change. Students read works by Whitman, Melville, Twain, James, Griggs, Wharton, Cather, Faulkner, and Hurston alongside political and cultural materials including Supreme Court decisions, geometric treatises, composite photography and taxidermic tableaux.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennie Kassanoff
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 3 points

FILM MUSIC:HIST&AESTHETICS; HOLYWOOD FILM

• Department: Music
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ralph R Whyte
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 0 Info
• 3 points

CONSERVATION BIOLOGY-DISC

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• W 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• R 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Sacha Spector
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 0 points

POSTMODERNISM

This course considers how Postmodernism's profound distrust of language and narrative transforms the form and function of literature. Writers include Stoppard, Pynchon, Didion, Morrison, Robinson, Coetzee, Ishiguro, Wallace, Ashbery, and Hejinian.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Margaret S Vandenburg
  CULPA: 59 Info
• 3 points