COLUMBIA UNIV JAZZ ENSEMBL

COLUMBIA UNIV JAZZ ENSEMBLE

The Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program in the Music Performance Program (MPP) offers students the opportunity to participate in various jazz ensembles, both large and small, instrumental and vocal, that cover a wide range of musical ensembles. All ensembles perform at an intermediate level or higher and require some past jazz experience.

• Department: Music
• Instructor: Don Sickler
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• 1 points

COLUMBIA UNIV JAZZ ENSEMBL

JAZZ ENSEMBLE - BIG BAND

The Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program in the Music Performance Program (MPP) offers students the opportunity to participate in various jazz ensembles, both large and small, instrumental and vocal, that cover a wide range of musical ensembles. All ensembles perform at an intermediate level or higher and require some past jazz experience.

• Department: Music
• Instructor: Don Sickler
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• 1 points

COLUMBIA UNIV JAZZ ENSEMBL

JAZZ ENSEMBLE - FREE

The Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program in the Music Performance Program (MPP) offers students the opportunity to participate in various jazz ensembles, both large and small, instrumental and vocal, that cover a wide range of musical ensembles. All ensembles perform at an intermediate level or higher and require some past jazz experience.

• Department: Music
• Instructor: John David Gibson
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• 1 points

FITNESS OUTSIDE

A fitness course based on outdoor workouts. Includes walking, jogging and basic body weight training for cardiovascular, core, and muscular endurance. Students will visit locations both on and off campus for a variety of fitness activities. This course is designed for all fitness levels. Must be willing to workout in public spaces.

• Department: Physical Education @Barnard
• MW 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• TR 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• MW noon-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Laura Masone
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: India C Choquette
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• Instructor: Melanie Rodriguez
  Info
• 1 points

WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLE

BLUEGRASS ENSEMBLE

In collaboration with the Center for Ethnomusicology, MESAAS, Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies and the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program, the Music Performance Program (MPP) offers students the opportunity to participate in various world music ensembles: Arab Music, Bluegrass, Japanese Gagaku/Hogaku, Klezmer and Latin American Music. Each ensemble requires different levels of experience, so please refer to the World Music section of the Music Performance Program website for more info. Please note the Latin American Music Ensemble focuses on two different Latin music traditions: The Afro-Cuban Ensemble meets in the Fall and the Brazilian Ensemble meets in the Spring.

• Department: Music
• Instructor: James L Kerr
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• 1 points

WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLE

GAGAKU

In collaboration with the Center for Ethnomusicology, MESAAS, Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies and the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program, the Music Performance Program (MPP) offers students the opportunity to participate in various world music ensembles: Arab Music, Bluegrass, Japanese Gagaku/Hogaku, Klezmer and Latin American Music. Each ensemble requires different levels of experience, so please refer to the World Music section of the Music Performance Program website for more info. Please note the Latin American Music Ensemble focuses on two different Latin music traditions: The Afro-Cuban Ensemble meets in the Fall and the Brazilian Ensemble meets in the Spring.

• Department: Music
• Instructor: Alicia Lindsey
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• 1 points

WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLE

HOGAKU: SHAKUHACHI

In collaboration with the Center for Ethnomusicology, MESAAS, Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies and the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program, the Music Performance Program (MPP) offers students the opportunity to participate in various world music ensembles: Arab Music, Bluegrass, Japanese Gagaku/Hogaku, Klezmer and Latin American Music. Each ensemble requires different levels of experience, so please refer to the World Music section of the Music Performance Program website for more info. Please note the Latin American Music Ensemble focuses on two different Latin music traditions: The Afro-Cuban Ensemble meets in the Fall and the Brazilian Ensemble meets in the Spring.

• Department: Music
• Instructor: Elizabeth Brown
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• 1 points

WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLE

HOGAKU: KOTO

In collaboration with the Center for Ethnomusicology, MESAAS, Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies and the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program, the Music Performance Program (MPP) offers students the opportunity to participate in various world music ensembles: Arab Music, Bluegrass, Japanese Gagaku/Hogaku, Klezmer and Latin American Music. Each ensemble requires different levels of experience, so please refer to the World Music section of the Music Performance Program website for more info. Please note the Latin American Music Ensemble focuses on two different Latin music traditions: The Afro-Cuban Ensemble meets in the Fall and the Brazilian Ensemble meets in the Spring.

• Department: Music
• Instructor: Yumi Kurosawa
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• 1 points

WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLE

KLEZMER ENSEMBLE

In collaboration with the Center for Ethnomusicology, MESAAS, Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies and the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program, the Music Performance Program (MPP) offers students the opportunity to participate in various world music ensembles: Arab Music, Bluegrass, Japanese Gagaku/Hogaku, Klezmer and Latin American Music. Each ensemble requires different levels of experience, so please refer to the World Music section of the Music Performance Program website for more info. Please note the Latin American Music Ensemble focuses on two different Latin music traditions: The Afro-Cuban Ensemble meets in the Fall and the Brazilian Ensemble meets in the Spring.

• Department: Music
• Instructor: Jeff Warschauer
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• 1 points

WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLE

AFRO-CUBAN ENSEMBLE

In collaboration with the Center for Ethnomusicology, MESAAS, Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies and the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program, the Music Performance Program (MPP) offers students the opportunity to participate in various world music ensembles: Arab Music, Bluegrass, Japanese Gagaku/Hogaku, Klezmer and Latin American Music. Each ensemble requires different levels of experience, so please refer to the World Music section of the Music Performance Program website for more info. Please note the Latin American Music Ensemble focuses on two different Latin music traditions: The Afro-Cuban Ensemble meets in the Fall and the Brazilian Ensemble meets in the Spring.

• Department: Music
• 1 points

WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLE

ARAB MUSIC ENSEMBLE

In collaboration with the Center for Ethnomusicology, MESAAS, Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies and the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program, the Music Performance Program (MPP) offers students the opportunity to participate in various world music ensembles: Arab Music, Bluegrass, Japanese Gagaku/Hogaku, Klezmer and Latin American Music. Each ensemble requires different levels of experience, so please refer to the World Music section of the Music Performance Program website for more info. Please note the Latin American Music Ensemble focuses on two different Latin music traditions: The Afro-Cuban Ensemble meets in the Fall and the Brazilian Ensemble meets in the Spring.

• Department: Music
• R 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Taoufik Ben-Amor
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 1 points

BODY SCULPTING

This course focuses on strength and endurance exercises using hand weights, resistance bands, body bars, gliding discs and balls.  Muscle toning exercises are discussed and practiced in detail to develop muscle definition for the upper and lower body.  Emphasis is placed on correct body placement.  Informative coloring sessions enhance the physical learning.  Instruction in stretching technique included.

• Department: Physical Education @Barnard
• TR 8 a.m.-8:50 a.m.
• TR 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Laura Masone
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Melanie Rodriguez
  Info
• 1 points

BARNARD-COLUMBIA CHORUS I

Prerequisites: auditions by appointment made at first meeting. Contact Barnard College, Department of Music (854-5096). Membership in the chorus is open to all men and women in the University community. The chorus gives several public concerts each season, both on and off campus, often with other performing organizations. Sight-singing sessions offered. The repertory includes works from all periods of music literature. Students who register for chorus will receive a maximum of 4 points for four or more semesters.

• Department: Music @Barnard
• TR 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Gail R Archer
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 1 points

BARNARD-COLUMBIA-CHAMBR SINGER

Prerequisites: auditions by appointment made at first meeting. Contact Barnard College, Department of Music (854-5096). Membership in the chorus is open to all men and women in the University community. The chorus gives several public concerts each season, both on and off campus, often with other performing organizations. Sight-singing sessions offered. The repertory includes works from all periods of music literature.

• Department: Music @Barnard
• TR 8 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Gail R Archer
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 1 points

SCIENCE JOURNAL CLUB

Prerequisites: ) Limited to 16 students who are participating in the Science Pathways Scholars Program. Students in this seminar course will be introduced to the scientific literature by reading a mix of classic papers and papers that describe significant new developments in the field. Seminar periods will be devoted to oral reports, discussion of assigned reading, and student responses. Section 1: Limited to students in the Science Pathways Scholars Program. Section 2: Limited to first-year students who received a 4 or 5 on the AP and are currently enrolled in BIOL BC1500.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• W 4 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Sedelia Rodriguez
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 1 points

Environmental Science Journal Club

ENVIRNMTL SCIENCE JOURNAL

Students entering college usually have had little exposure to Environmental Science with few High Schools teaching an Environmental Science Class and even fewer an AP Environmental Science Class.  For this reason, many students do not know that Environmental Science exists as a major nor what it means to major in Environmental Science and related fields.  The goal of this class is to introduce students to Environmental Science along with the related fields of Sustainability and Environmental Justice.  This introduction to Environmental Science and Sustainability will occur through a mix of talks, classic and recent journal articles, and guest speakers. Students will have weekly readings which over the course of the semester will cover a wide swath of topics.  The instructors along with guest speakers who are experts in their field, will come and talk to students about their work as well as their journey through their career.  The class will be discussion-driven with students expected to contribute every week.  There will be a reading to prepare for class each week.  Students will post responses to the readings before coming to class in order to be prepared for discussions.  In addition, students will be expected to lead discussions and participate in activities during the semester.  The class is limited to students participating in the Environmental Science Pathways Scholars Program. 

Students will:


be exposed to a wide swath or Environmental Science Literature

be exposed to topics in Environmental Justice

begin to hone skills characteristic of an Environmental Scientist

become better prepared for Barnard and an Environmental Major

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• W 4 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 1 points

EARTH RESOURCES & SUSTAIN DEV

Prerequisites: none; high school chemistry recommended. Survey of the origin and extent of mineral resources, fossil fuels, and industrial materials, that are non renewable, finite resources, and the environmental consequences of their extraction and use, using the textbook Earth Resources and the Environment, by James Craig, David Vaughan and Brian Skinner. This course will provide an overview, but will include focus on topics of current societal relevance, including estimated reserves and extraction costs for fossil fuels, geological storage of CO2, sources and disposal methods for nuclear energy fuels, sources and future for luxury goods such as gold and diamonds, and special, rare materials used in consumer electronics (e.g. ;Coltan; mostly from Congo) and in newly emerging technologies such as superconducting magnets and rechargeable batteries (e.g. heavy rare earth elements, mostly from China). Guest lectures from economists, commodity traders and resource geologists will provide ;real world; input. Discussion Session Required.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter Kelemen
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 84 Info
• 3 points

FIRST YEAR MOD COLLOQ TIBET I

This is an introductory course and no previous knowledge is required. It focuses on developing basic abilities to speak as well as to read and write in modern Tibetan, Lhasa dialect. Students are also introduced to modern Tibetan studies through selected readings and guest lectures.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTWR 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Sonam Tsering
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• 5 points

INTRODUCTION TO LATINO STUDIES

This course provides an introductory, interdisciplinary discussion of the major issues surrounding this nations Latino population. The focus is on social scientific perspectives utilized by scholars in the field of Latino Studies. Major demographic, social, economic, and political trends are discussed. Key topics covered in the course include: the evolution of Latino identity and ethnicity; the main Latino sub-populations in the United States; the formation of Latino communities in the United States; Latino immigration; issues of race and ethnicity within the Latino population; socioeconomic status and labor force participation of Latinos; Latino social movements; and the participation of Latinos in U.S. civil society.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Carlos G Zuniga-Nieto
  Info
• 3 points

REACTING TO THE PAST

In these seminars, students play complex historical role-playing games informed by classic texts. After an initial set-up phase, class sessions are run by students. These seminars are speaking- and writing-intensive, as students pursue their assigned roles objectives by convincing classmates of their views. Examples of games played in First-Year Seminar Reacting class include: 1) The Threshold of Democracy: Athens in 403 B.C. explores a pivotal moment following the defeat of Athens in the Peloponnesian War, when democrats sought to restore democracy while critics, including the supporters of Socrates, proposed alternatives. The key text is Plato's Republic. 2)
Confucianism and the Succession Crisis of the Wanli Emperor
examines a dispute between Confucian purists and pragmatists within the Hanlin Academy, the highest echelon of the Ming bureaucracy, taking
Analects
of Confucius as the central text. 3)
The Trial of Anne Hutchinson
revisits a conflict that pitted Puritan dissenter Anne Hutchinson and her supporters against Massachusetts Governor John Winthrop and the orthodox ministers of New England. Students work with testimony from Hutchinsons trial as well as the Bible and other texts. 4)
Greenwich Village, 1913: Suffrage, Labor and the New Woman
investigates the struggle between radical labor activists and woman suffragists for the hearts and minds of Bohemians, drawing on foundational works by Marx, Freud, Mary Wollstonecraft, and others.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark C Carnes
  CULPA: 50 Info
• Instructor: Kate A Glasner
  CULPA: 31 Info
• 3 points

ELEMENTARY HINDI-URDU I

An introduction to the most widely spoken language of South Asia. Along with an understanding of the grammar, the course offers practice in listening and speaking. The Hindi (Devanagari) script is used for reading and writing. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MTWR 4:10 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Aftab Ahmad
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 5 points

PHYSICS I:MECHANICS/RELATIVITY

Prerequisites: Corequisite: MATH UN1102 Calculus II or equivalent. Fundamental laws of mechanics, kinematics and dynamics, work and energy, rotational dynamics, oscillations, gravitation, fluids, introduction to special relativity and relativistic kinematics. The course is preparatory for advanced work in physics and related fields.

• Department: Physics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Jeremy R Dodd
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 3.5 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS

This introductory course surveys key topics in the study of international politics, including the causes of war and peace; the efficacy of international law and human rights; the origins of international development and underdevelopment; the politics of global environmental protection; and the future of US-China relations. Throughout the course, we will focus on the
interests
of the many actors of world politics, including states, politicians, firms, bureaucracies, international organizations, and nongovernmental organizations; the
interactions
between them; and the
institutions
in which they operate. By the end of the semester, students will be better equipped to systematically study international relations and make informed contributions to critical policy debates.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jayme R Schlesinger
  Info
• 4 points

PHYSICS I:MECHANICS/RELATIVITY-REC

• Department: Physics
• T 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• T 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• W 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• R 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeremy R Dodd
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 0 points

2ND TERM GEN CHEM (INTENSIVE)

Prerequisites: Acceptable performance on the Department placement exam during orientation week AND either a grade of "B" or better in CHEM UN1403 or AP chemistry or the equivalent. Please contact Vesna Gasperov (
vg2231@columbia.edu
) or your academic advisor at CSA for further information.
Corequisites: MATH UN1102

Topics include chemical kinetics, thermodynamics and chemical bonding.  Students must register simultaneously for a corresponding recitation section. Please check Courseworks or contact the instructor or departmental adviser for additional details.

When registering, be sure to add your name to the wait list for the recitation corresponding to the lecture section (CHEM UN1606).  Information about registration for the required recitation will be sent out before classes begin. Please expect to also be available for review sessions on Fridays from 8:10am-9:55am.

• Department: Chemistry
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Wei Min
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 42 Info
• 4 points

2ND TERM GEN CHEM(INTENS)-REC

• Department: Chemistry
• T 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• T 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• R 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Wei Min
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 42 Info
• 0 points

HINDI FOR HERITAGE SPEAKERS I

This is an accelerated course for students of South Asian origin who already possess a knowledge of basic vocabulary and limited speaking and listening skills in Hindi. They may not have sufficient skills in reading and writing but are able to converse on familiar topics such as: self, family, likes, dislikes and immediate surroundings. This course will focus on developing knowledge of the basic grammar of Hindi and vocabulary enrichment by exposing students to a variety of cultural and social topics related to aspects of daily life; and formal and informal registers. Students will be able to read and discuss simple texts and write about a variety of everyday topics by the end of the semester. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MTWR 2:40 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Rakesh Ranjan
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 5 points

STATISTCS-BEHAVIORL SCIENTISTS

Prerequisites: PSYC UN1001 or PSYC UN1010 Recommended preparation: one course in behavioral science and knowledge of high school algebra. Corequisites: PSYC UN1611 Introduction to statistics that concentrates on problems from the behavioral sciences.

• Department: Psychology
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Katherine T Fox-Glassman
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 4 Info
• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS-DISC

INT'L POLITICS-DISC

This is the required discussion section for POLS UN1601.

• Department: Political Science
• R 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• R 11:10 a.m.-noon
• F 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• F 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• M 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• W 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• R 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• T 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• M 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• W 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Dany L Niangar
  Info
• 0 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS-DISC

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS - DISC

This is the required discussion section for POLS UN1601.

• Department: Political Science
• T 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• T 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• T 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• F 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• M 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Ben Mylius
  Info
• 0 points

STATISTCS-BEHAV SCIENTISTS-LAB

Corequisites: PSYC UN1610 Required lab section for PSYC UN1610.

• Department: Psychology
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Katherine T Fox-Glassman
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 4 Info
• 0 points

URDU FOR HERITAGE SPEAKERS I

Prerequisites: a knowledge of basic vocabulary and limited speaking and listening skills in Urdu. This is an accelerated course for students of South Asian origin who already possess a knowledge of basic vocabulary and limited speaking and listening skills in Urdu. They are not expected to know how to read and write in Urdu but are able to converse on familiar topics such as self, family, likes, dislikes and immediate surroundings. This course will focus on developing knowledge of the basic grammar of Urdu and vocabulary enrichment by exposing students to a variety of cultural and social topics related to aspects of daily life; and formal and informal registers. Students will be able to read and discuss simple Urdu texts and write about a variety of everyday topics by the end of the semester. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MTWR 2:40 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Aftab Ahmad
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 5 points

TAI CHI

This series of classes will provice the practice of Tai Chi Chuan as a moving meditation and health maintenance exercise. This process involves both physical and nonphysical work and introduces Tai Chi as an exercise of consciousness. There will also be recommended reading selections in the history and philosophical underpinnings of Tai Chi. No pre-requisite for this course. Each class will consist of physical practice of the Tai Chi sequence of movements/postures, also discussion including history of and principles of Tai Chi.

• Department: Physical Education @Barnard
• MW 11 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Stephen Shulman
  Info
• 1 points

BEGINNING YOGA

An introduction to Hatha Yoga focusing on the development of the physical body to increase flexibility and strength. Breathing practices and meditation techniques that relax and revitalize the mind and body are included.

• Department: Physical Education @Barnard
• MW 9 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
• MW 10 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• TR 9 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Cynthia Lanzas
  Info
• 1 points

YOGA/MEDITATION

This course includes an introduction to Hatha Yoga, which focuses on the development of the physical body through asanas, or poses, and classic meditation and relaxation techniques.  Regular meditation practice at home is required.

• Department: Physical Education @Barnard
• TR 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa K Northrop
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 1 points

ELEMENTARY PERSIAN I

An introduction to the spoken and written language of contemporary Iran. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MTWR 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Saeed Honarmand
  Info
• 4 points

Intro Darkroom Photography

Introductory course to analog photographic tools, techniques, and photo criticism. This class explores black & white, analog camera photography and darkroom processing and printing.  Areascovered include camera operations, black and white darkroom work, 8x10 print production, and critique. With an emphasis on the student’s own creative practice, this course will explore the basics of photography and its history through regular shooting assignments, demonstrations, critique, lectures, and readings. No prior photography experience is required.

• Department: Visual Arts
• MW 9:30 a.m.-noon
• TR 9:30 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Matthew E Buckingham
  Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Kevin II Claiborne
  Info
• 3 points

INTRO DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY

Since Walter Benjamin’s concept of “work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction” (1935), photography has been continuously changed by mechanical, and then digital, means of image capture and processing. This class explores the history of the image, as a global phenomenon that accompanied industrialization, conflict, racial reckonings, and decolonization. Students will study case studies, read critical essays, and get hands-on training in capture, workflow, editing, output, and display formats using digital equipment (e.g., DSLR camera) and software (e.g., Lightroom, Photoshop, Scanning Software). Students will complete weekly assignments, a midterm project, and a final project based on research and shooting assignments. No Prerequisites and no equipment needed. All enrolled students will be able to check out Canon EOS 5D DSLR Camera; receive an Adobe Creative Cloud license; and get access to Large Format Print service.

• Department: Visual Arts
• MW 1 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• TR 1 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Dana N Buhl
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• Instructor: Paula L Lycan
  Info
• 3 points

DRAMA, THEATRE, AND ART

Drama, Theatre, and Art will consider the ways in which the performing arts and the visual arts help change the ways we see art and life. Beginning with reimagined classics and Shakespeare’s plays, we will move to the 18th-21st centuries and note how views of individual agency, social justice, and collective responsibility have changed over time. We will also ask what the performing arts and visual arts of the past have to say about issues confronted in the arts of the present. This will help us to understand how evolving aesthetic movements such as realism, impressionism, and modernism promote and critique our cultural perspectives and our social values. Plays may include Sarah Ruhl’s
Eurydice,
Shakespeare’s
Romeo and Juliet
, Timberlake Wertenbaker’s
Our Country’s Good
, Anton Chekhov’s
The Seagull,
Thornton Wilder’s
Our Town
, Lorraine Hansberry’s
A Raisin in the Sun
and
Les Blancs
, Yasmina Reza’s
Art
, Suzan-Lori Parks'
Fucking A
; novels include Virginia Woolf’s
To the Lighthouse
; musicals include Stephen Sondheim’s
Sunday in the Park with George
. Art from the Metropolitan Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, and other sites will promote student engagement, visual and verbal interactions, and cross disciplinary conversations.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Patricia D Denison
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

Artful Adaptations

ARTFUL ADAPTATIONS

Can the violent fantasies of a fairytale shape romantic comedy? Can dance tell the same story as classical tragedy? What does Bollywood have to do with Renaissance England? Can ancient mythology animate American slave narrative? As biologists ask why does life appear in such a dazzling array of forms, this class asks why do certain stories get told and retold in such a dazzling array of varieties? Using as possible textual anchors Snow White, Medea, and Romeo and Juliet, this course will explore poems, short stories, plays, novels, paintings, films, musicals, dance, illustration, advertisement, song, memes, and other cultural objects to consider the accretion of meaning that results when stories cross, historical, cultural, and generic borders.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Monica F Cohen
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

WRITING AMERICAN LIVES

This interdisciplinary course explores the problem of representing American experience, one’s own or someone else’s, in the context of a nation-state’s fraught history of self-fashioning. What motivates a person to tell his or her life story, or to investigate someone else’s, and how are these stories bound by both authors and readers to narratives of citizenship, belonging, and/or exclusion? What motivates a writer to share what she shares, and what motivates an audience to demand what it demands from her? What claims about the exemplary or excessive qualities of the life story are made, or are emulated, by the life story’s readers? In addition to critical consideration of biography and memoir in traditional media, your work in this class will include examinations of the fake memoir and the digital overshare; you will also be invited to curate a branded footprint of your own, using tools of new media.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Kristin Carter
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

TECH & SOCIETY: GOOD, BAD & OTHER

Computing and information technology has improved our lives in many ways, contributing to significant advances in science and medicine; making it easy and efficient to communicate with people across the world; and enabling online business and recreational activities; and more. However, the same technologies can also have negative impacts, such as the move to a surveillance society and surveillance capitalism; major disruptions in the workforce of the future as automation becomes more widespread; and social media contributing to depression in young people and the weaponization of disinformation. This seminar will explore technical, cultural, legal, and economic factors that can impact how computing technology is used, while raising the question of how to encourage and ensure that these technologies are used for good, while eliminating or mitigating the potential negative impacts.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Emily Black
  Info
• 3 points

Activism, Performance, Social Movements

PERFORMING PUB & POL ACTI

This seminar examines how activism shapes the political process through performance, and how social movements often spread by theatrical means. We start our exploration with the notion of "the publics" as introduced by the twentieth-century German philosopher Jürgen Habermas and then expand our view of this concept to the contemporary political setting. We look at both how elected representatives use theatrical tropes to shape their public personas, and also how popular protests stage large-scale public interventions. How might performance as a series of citational strategies allow us to think about the political process?  How do we assess the success or failure of a tactic in a social movement?

We will draw heavily on the works of feminist scholars like bell hooks, Judith Butler, Kimberle Crenshaw,  and Peggy Phelan, to discuss movements such as ACT UP, Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, #MeToo. Equally, we will look at histories of student activism such as the 1968 Morningside Park gym construction, campus anti-apartheid actions, Carry That Weight at Columbia and Barnard, and Friday School Climate Strike and March for our Lives. Students reflect on their own histories or experiences with activism, as personal involvement and/or politics of the places they come from. Through the semester students are exposed to various techniques of protest performance including zines, podcasts, art campaigns and poetry circles. Based on shared interests and affinities, students work in groups to class devise activist performances as a final project.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Shayoni Mitra
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

Creativity and Inspiration

CREATIVITY AND INSPIRATIO

Where do creative ideas come from? The Muses, according to Plato. The unconscious, according to some later thinkers. One thing both answers share is the thought that creative ideas come from something “other than” or “not controlled by” the creator – or, as we’ll put it, that creativity requires inspiration. In this class, we will explore this and related ideas in Western thinking about creativity. In doing so, we’ll examine how creative people themselves, from painters to mathematicians, have described their own creative process and experiences. We’ll examine approaches to creativity from the Taoist tradition, comparing them with the Western approaches that will be our main focus. At the end of the class, we’ll think about whether computer programs can be creative, and what it might mean for claims about inspiration if they can be. Readings will include selections from Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret Boden, Chung-yuan Chang, bell hooks, Sigmund Freud, Immanuel Kant, Iris Murdoch, Martha Nussbaum, and others.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Christopher P Prodoehl
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• 3 points

Dreamstories

DREAMSTORIES

The complex relationship between dreaming and narrative storytelling is as contemporary as it is ancient. In this first-year seminar, we will examine Greco-Roman, medieval, modern, and postmodern representations of dreaming in literature, philosophy and film - texts that range from classical epic (Homer, Virgil) through medieval allegory (Dante, Machaut) to psychoanalysis (Freud and his contemporaries), queer metafiction (Winterson, Sarduy, Lynch), and beyond. We will consider among other topics how dreams raise fundamental questions about being, memory, desire, interpretation, and Utopian politics. Students will practice critical writing and discussion, and also have the opportunity to engage their own dreams and fantasies both analytically and creatively.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Eugene A Petracca
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• 3 points

Storytelling

STORYTELLING

Why do we tell stories? Why do we feel a need to relate the things that happen to us? Why do writers and artists make things up? In this section of First-Year Seminar, we will explore these questions as well as others connected to the fundamental practice of storytelling. We will read and discuss short stories, novels, and memoirs that reflect on or call into question the narrator’s reasons for telling the story. We will also consider essays by literary critics, psychologists, and scientists on the human impulse to narrate. Literary texts may include works by Henry James, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, Shirley Jackson, Haruki Murakami, and Carmen Maria Machado. Critical and theoretical texts may include works by Sigmund Freud, James Baldwin, and Joan Didion.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Shelichach
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• 3 points

Poetry, Identity, Word Sorcery

POETRY, IDENTITY, WORD SO

Poetry is a very complicated series of words found in perpetually dust-covered books written by white men who died a half of century before you were born. Or is it? Poetry is archaic. Poetry is academic. Poetry is hard. Or in the words of Ntosake Shange, it’s “razzamatazz hocus pocus zippity-do-dah.” The magic of poetry is not in its mystery, but in its ability to connect with people, and to connect people with people, even across space and time. In this class we will explore how poetry speaks to identity, speaks to history, and speaks intersections of race, gender, sexuality, tragedy, triumph, and trauma. We will read poetry – mostly contemporary poets, mostly female-identified poets, mostly poets of color, and mostly poets from the margins – read theories on poetry, and maybe try our hand at a little poetry writing. Readings will include such authors as Tina Chang, Yolanda Wisher, Jillian Weise, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, Tracie Morris, Audre Lorde, Laylia Long Soldier, and the word sorceress herself Sonia Sanchez.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Quincy Jones
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• 3 points

On Friendships Between Women

ON FRIENDSHIPS BETWEEN WO

How do we reflect on the intimacies of friendship, and what might be particular to such intimacies between women? What makes a friendship good or bad? What tensions or correspondences might we trace between friendship and adjacent categories of relationality—’frenemies,’ sisterhood, lovers? In this course, we will apply close analytical examinations of literary and cultural texts in order to theorize the various shapes friendship may take. Throughout the semester, we will question how the friendships we encounter are situated within and/or against a variety of cultural and socioeconomic contexts. In doing so, we will explore friendship’s conceptual role in narratives of emotional development, education and intellectual life, work, community, and domesticity. Literary and theoretical texts may include works by Jane Austen, Toni Morrison, Kamila Shamsie, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Jean Chen Ho, bell hooks, Virginia Woolf, Anahit Behrooz, Roxane Gay, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich. Selections from film and television may include the tv dramatization of Elena Ferrante’s
My Brilliant Friend
and Keira Knightley’s portrayal of Georgiana Cavendish in
The Duchess
, among others. In discussions and writing assignments both formal and creative, we will consider how the (un)friendly relationships represented in these texts shift, break, and thrive given the conditions under which they are conducted.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Weybright
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• 3 points

The Ethics of Identity

THE ETHICS OF IDENTITY

This course will explore evolving understandings of three central aspects of identity - gender, race, and disability - by focusing on their impact on contemporary ethical issues. Should pregnant people be categorized as a 'vulnerable' population in medical research, for instance, and how can race and/or disability status be factored into these discussions in ways that support rather than erase marginalized groups? Is trans-phobia the reason people were so dismissive of Rachel Dolezal's claim to be Black, or is there a difference between gender and race that makes someone's claim to be transgendered quite different from Dolezal's claim to be transracial? If we could eliminate disabilities in the womb, should we, or is that just another form of objectionable eugenics? To address these sorts of questions, we'll need to talk about different views of what gender, race, and disability
are
, as well as what people's experiences of how these identities intersect tells us about power, prejudice, and pride. Readings will include selections from Simone deBeauvoir's
The Second Sex
, Cathy Park Hong's
Minor Feelings: an Asian-American Reckoning
, Kwame Anthony Appiah's
Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race
, the edited collection
What is Race?: Four Philosophical Views
, Elizabeth Barnes's
The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability
, and Eva Kittay's
Learning from My Daughter: The Value and Care of Disabled Minds
.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher P Prodoehl
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• 3 points

Freedom and Captivity

FREEDOM AND CAPTIVITY

How has freedom been conceptualized and practiced across time and space? How have forms of captivity challenged and constrained pursuits of liberation? In this interdisciplinary first-year seminar, students will examine a broad range of texts, including activist manifestoes, audio podcasts, graphic novels, memoirs and letters, moving-image media, and works of political theory. We will study processes of industrial change, political revolution, and social upheaval, and we will analyze freedom and captivity from the vantage point of the colony and the liberated territory, the factory and the office, the home and the school, the farm and the prison, the dinner party and the moving train. We will consider works by the Attica Liberation Faction, Héctor Babenco, Simone de Beauvoir, Bong Joon-ho, Luis Buñuel, Aimé Césaire, the Combahee River Collective, Critical Resistance, Angela Davis, W. E. B. Du Bois, Michel Foucault, Antonio Gramsci, Rebecca Hall, George Jackson, Joy James, Robin D. G. Kelley, Laleh Khalili, Andreas Malm, Karl Marx, the New York City Black Panther 21, Kwame Nkrumah, Jacques Rancière, Joe Sacco, Ousmane Sembène, Baruch Spinoza, Sunaura Taylor, Ernest Wamba Dia Wamba, Lea Ypi, and others.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew S Anastasi
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• 3 points

Transnational Feminism

TRANSNATIONAL FEMINISM

What does it mean to be a feminist? In this course, we will examine the link between feminist activism and social policies from the eighteenth-century to the postMeToo era through the example of the UK, Iran, Argentina, and France. How does activism influence law making and how do social policies influence feminism? How does activism differ from one country to another? What do these differences reveal about our own culture? We will focus on issues such as the history of women’s suffrage, the fight for political representation, access to child care and education, reproductive rights, bodily autonomy, parental leave policies, and gender-based violence. We will examine these matters through novels, scholarly works, newspaper articles, political pamphlets as well as comics and street art.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Elsa Stephan
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

Vote Counting Counts

VOTE COUNTING COUNTS

Elections have always had controversy. Campaign advice going back to Cicero has encouraged lies, bribes, and buttering up. And today there are more opportunities to vote than ever, be it for “American Idol” or New York State Governor. You know you can’t be counted if you don’t vote. In this class, the question is how will you— or should you, be counted when you do. How we count votes, from any type of ballot, reflects the goals of the process and impacts strategy for both candidates and voters. We consider counting options and their impacts, while executing an election of our own.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Lindsay C Piechnik
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

Queer Times

QUEER TIMES

This first-year seminar brings together poems, fiction, films, contemporary art, and nonfiction (essays, op-eds and critical theory) that focus on expressions of queer identities across different historical moments and cultural contexts. We will explore how understandings of queerness have shifted across times and cultures, how queer subjects (now and in the past) have negotiated dominant discourses of sexuality and gender, and how narratives of queerness in our course texts intersect with other positionalities such as race, ethnicity, religion, and citizenship.

Organized around three sections (queer pasts, queer presents and queer futures), the course will consider the following questions: How has queerness been articulated and defined at various points in the past, especially outside of Western Europe and North America,  and how does this inform or change the way we view it today? What are some of the key preoccupations of queer writers and activists in our present day and how might we participate in their conversations? How do we envision queer futures, and how can queer imaginings of the future allow us to think critically about our presents today? 

Readings are subject to change but will likely include a selection from the following and more: fiction and poetry by Sappho, Emily Dickinson, Akwaeke Emezi, Irena Klepfisz, Alexis Pauline Gumbs; memoirs and essays by Carmen Maria Machado, Edafe Okporo, Kazim Ali; artwork by Zanele Muholi, Salman Toor and Nilbar Gures, films and documentaries on various course topics, as well as critical theory by Michel Foucault, Heather Love and others.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Duygu Ula
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

Impostors and Impersonators

IMPOSTORS AND IMPERSONATO

In this class, we will look at the fascination and the fear we have about impostors who construct false identities and impersonators who take on the identity of someone else—from folk and fairy tales to popular shows like
Inventing Anna
and the
Tinder Swindler
to conversations about identity deception in deep fakes and ChatGPT. We will examine the stories of con artists, doppelgängers, catfishers, identity theft fraudsters and those with impostor syndrome to understand: How do we construct what is real and what is fake? How do we determine what is deceptive and what is authentic? We will also look at current advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning and interrogate legal rulings on identity deception to understand how we authenticate and determine the originality of the self. Texts may include
Fantomina
by Eliza Haywood,
Doppelganger
by Naomi Klein,
Passing
by Nella Larsen, and
The Fraud
by Zadie Smith. Visual media may include
Parasite
,
The Talented Mr. Ripley
, and
Kagemusha
.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Vrinda Condillac
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 3 points

STARS AND ATOMS

Prerequisites: recommended preparation: a working knowledge of high school algebra. What is the origin of the chemical elements? This course addresses this question, starting from understanding atoms, and then going on to look at how how atoms make stars and how stars make atoms. The grand finale is a history of the evolution of the chemical elements throughout time, starting from the Big Bang and ending with YOU. You cannot enroll in ASTR W1836 in addition to ASTR BC1754 or ASTR W1404 and receive credit for both.

• Department: Astronomy
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Kathryn V Johnston
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 54 Info
• 3 points

PILATES PRACTICE

This is a beginning level Pilates mat course consiting of one group class and one individual at-home practice required each week.  A combination of online resources in Panopto/Canvas and in-person meetings will be used to track student practice and progress.  Regular home practice will teach students to confidence and make exercise a part of their regular routine despite time constraints.

• Department: Physical Education @Barnard
• R 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa K Northrop
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 1 points

INTRO TO SUSTAINABLE DEVPT SEM

The course is designed to be a free flowing discussion of the principals of sustainable development and the scope of this emerging discipline. This course will also serve to introduce the students to the requirements of the undergraduate program in sustainable development and the content of the required courses in both the special concentration and the major. The focus will be on the breadth of subject matter, the multidisciplinary nature of the scholarship and familiarity with the other key courses in the program. Offered in the Fall and Spring.

• Department: Earth Institute
• T 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jason Smerdon
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 47 Info
• 1 points

INTRODUCTION TO COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS

INTRO TO COMICS/GRAPHIC N

This course provides students with an introduction to the scholarly study of comics and graphic novels. It is designed to teach students how to analyze these texts by paying special attention to narrative forms and page design. As part of this focus, attention will be given to the way that comics and graphic novels are created and the importance of publication format. In addition to studying comics and graphic novels themselves, we will look at the way that scholars have approached this emergent field of academic interest.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Benjamin M Breyer
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 3 points

ELEMENTARY MODERN TURKISH I

An introduction to the written and spoken language of Turkey. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Zuleyha Colak
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 0 Info
• 4 points

ASTRONOMY LAB I

ASTRONOMY LAB 1

Laboratory for ASTR UN1403. Projects include observations with the departments telescopes, computer simulation, laboratory experiments in spectroscopy, and the analysis of astronomical data. Lab 1 ASTR UN1903 - goes with ASTR BC1753, ASTR UN1403 or ASTR UN1453.

• Department: Physics and Astronomy @Barnard
• M 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• T 7 p.m.-10 p.m.
• 1 points

ASTRONOMY LAB II

Laboratory for ASTR UN1404. Projects include use of telescopes, laboratory experiments in the nature of light, spectroscopy, and the analysis of astronomical data. Lab 2 ASTR UN1904 - goes with ASTR BC1754 or ASTR UN1404 (or ASTR UN1836 or ASTR UN1420).

• Department: Physics and Astronomy @Barnard
• W 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• 1 points

First Year Seminar in Biology

FIRST YEAR SEM IN BIOLOGY

If you are interested in biology, come hear Columbia University professors discuss their biology-related research. Find out how the body works, the latest therapies for disease and maybe even find a lab to do research in. 
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/UN1908/index.
htm

• Department: Biological Sciences
• R 3 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Alice Heicklen
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 1 points

MULTV. CALC. FOR ENGI & APP SCI

Differential and integral calculus of multiple variables. Topics include partial differentiation; optimization of functions of several variables; line, area, volume, and surface integrals; vector functions and vector calculus; theorems of Green, Gauss, and Stokes; applications to selected problems in engineering and applied science.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Shanyin Tong
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• Instructor: Drew C Youngren
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points