ACTING II
ACTING II: SCENE/CHARACTR STDY
Prerequisite: Open to all Barnard and Columbia undergraduates. Permission of Instructor required; students admitted from Waiting List. Students must have taken Acting I or equivalent to be eligible for Acting II sections. Acting II will offer several different sections, focusing on a specific range of conceptual, embodiment, and physical acting skills. Please check with the Theatre Department website forspecific offerings and audition information. May be retaken for full credit. All sections of Acting II fullfull the “Arts and Humanities” Foundations requirement at Barnard College.
- Department: Theatre @Barnard
- MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gisela D Cardenas Ojeda
Info - 3 points
ACTING II
ACTING II: CTMP MUS THTR
Prerequisite: Open to all Barnard and Columbia undergraduates. Permission of Instructor required; students admitted from Waiting List. Students must have taken Acting I or equivalent to be eligible for Acting II sections. Acting II will offer several different sections, focusing on a specific range of conceptual, embodiment, and physical acting skills. Please check with the Theatre Department website forspecific offerings and audition information. May be retaken for full credit. All sections of Acting II fullfull the “Arts and Humanities” Foundations requirement at Barnard College.
- Department: Theatre @Barnard
- TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mana Allen
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
ACTING II
ACTING II: CHEKHOV/VIEWPOINTS
Prerequisite: Open to all Barnard and Columbia undergraduates. Permission of Instructor required; students admitted from Waiting List. Students must have taken Acting I or equivalent to be eligible for Acting II sections. Acting II will offer several different sections, focusing on a specific range of conceptual, embodiment, and physical acting skills. Please check with the Theatre Department website forspecific offerings and audition information. May be retaken for full credit. All sections of Acting II fullfull the “Arts and Humanities” Foundations requirement at Barnard College.
- Department: Theatre @Barnard
- TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gisela D Cardenas Ojeda
Info - 3 points
Black Archival Theory and Praxis
Historically, archives have often served purposes of social control and territorial dominance through constructing normative accounts that assert authority about whose and which pasts are collectively significant. But Black people and Black communities have long documented their own histories
, pointing to the possibility for archives to create “new histories of who we are (self-representation), who we were (identity construction), and who we want to be in this space (empowerment)” (Burgum, 2020, p. 9). Engaging historically displaced and disenfranchised communities as interpreters and investigators disrupts what counts as real knowledge and allows for a larger reading of archival data into alternative historical narratives – imagining not only what happened in the past, but also
what could have been
. What, then, are Black archives? What possibilities might they bring to assembling histories and experiences od Black life that are not reducible to presumed and documented experiences of racialized inequality and dispossession? How might we imagine, as Saidiya Hartman (2008) writes, “what cannot be verified…to reckon with the precarious lives which are visible only in the moment of their disappearance”?This course seeks to answer these and other questions as students navigate claims to authority inherent to archives,
and
the potential for archives to transcend their role in preserving a normative past and serve as a site of imaginative politics for those whose pasts are not always deemed collectively significant. Our readings and conversations will be organized around several themes, including
care
,
home
,
refusal, fugitivity
, and
repair
. Through our study of everyday individuals participating in archival acts of observing, recording, collecting, framing, we will build understanding of how social, political, and economic processes and practices of the past continue to shape our lives.
- Department: African American and African Diaspora
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Brandi Summers
Info - 3 points
PHYSIOLOGY
In this primarily human physiology course, we will discuss how the major organ systems function, with an emphasis on cellular, molecular, and physical mechanisms. Organ systems covered include musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, respiratory, urinary, and digestive systems. Traditional lectures focus primarily on the normal functioning of organ systems, while pathophysiology is introduced through five case studies during the semester. After this course, students should be able to 1) describe the basic functioning of the major organ systems and how they contribute to homeostasis and health, 2) apply key concepts in physics and chemistry, such as flow, pressure/volume relationships, and mass action, to physiological systems, 3) use key concepts in molecular and cell biology to gain a mechanistic understanding of physiological processes, explain how organ systems work in an integrated way to achieve homeostasis and health, and 4) predict changes in organ function upon drug treatment, genetic mutation, or disease conditions.
- Department: Biological Sciences
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ava E Brent
Info - 3 points
THIRD YEAR CHINESE W II
Prerequisites: CHNS W4005 or the equivalent. Admission after Chinese placement exam and an oral proficiency interview with the instructor. Especially designed for students who possess good speaking ability and who wish to acquire practical writing skills as well as business-related vocabulary and speech patterns. Introduction to semiformal and formal Chinese used in everyday writing and social or business-related occasions. Simplified characters are introduced.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- MWR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Hailong Wang
CULPA: 22 Info - 5 points
COMPOSITION AND CONVERSATION
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 12 students. Discussions on contemporary issues and oral presentations. Creative writing assignments designed to improve writing skills and vocabulary development. FREN BC1204: French Intermediate II or the equivalent level is required.
- Department: French @Barnard
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Karen Santos da Silva
CULPA: 4
Info
- 3 points
THIRD YEAR JAPANESE II
Prerequisites: JPNS W4005 or the equivalent. Readings in authentic/semi-authentic texts, videos, and class discussions.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
- MTWR 11:40 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kyoko M Loetscher
CULPA: 3
Info
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Instructor:
Naoko Sourial
Info - 5 points
THIRD YEAR KOREAN II
Prerequisites: KORN W1202 or the equivalent and consultation with instructor. (See Entrance to Language Courses Beyond the Elementary Level in the main bulletin under Department of Instruction -- East Asian Languages and Cultures.) Readings in modern Korean. Selections from modern Korean writings in literature, history, social sciences, culture, and videos and class discussions.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- MTWR 11:40 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
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Instructor:
Hyunkyu Yi
CULPA: 8
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Instructor:
Eunice Chung
CULPA: 1 Info - 5 points
QUANTUM PHYSICS
Prerequisites: BC3001 or C2601 or the equivalent. Wave-particle duality and the Uncertainty Principle. The Schrodinger equation. Basic principles of the quantum theory. Energy levels in one-dimensional potential wells. The harmonic oscillator, photons, and phonons. Reflection and transmission by one-dimensional potential barriers. Applications to atomic, molecular, and nuclear physics.
- Department: Physics and Astronomy @Barnard
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Reshmi Mukherjee
CULPA: 7
Wikipedia
h-index: 63
Info
- 3 points
ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES & OPTICS
Prerequisites: PHYS UN3008 Maxwells equations and electromagnetic potentials, the wave equation, propagation of plane waves, reflection and refraction, geometrical optics, transmission lines, wave guides, resonant cavities, radiation, interference of waves, and diffraction.
- Department: Physics
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
William A Zajc
CULPA: 16 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
PERFORMING GREEK TRAGEDY ON THE MODERN S
PERF GREEK TRAGDY ON MOD
This course aims to explore performing Greek tragedy on the modern stage. It will include an introduction to original performance practices in ancient Greece (space, masking, choral performance, costume, acting techniques) and an examination of how artists from different contemporary theatrical traditions have adapted ancient texts in modern performances and new versions of the plays. The bulk of the course will be focused on the problems of acting, interpreting, and reinterpreting parts of three plays on the stage, Sophocles’
Antigone
, Euripides’
Medea
, and Sophocles’
Ajax
along with a new version by Ellen McLaughlin, who teaches playwriting at Barnard,
Ajax in Iraq
. Students will view all or parts of particularly interesting recent productions from various theatrical traditions, which will help them to tackle challenging issues such as choral performance and choral rhythms, masking, character work, dialogues and presenting formal political debates.
For contemporary actors training in Greek tragedy offers a unique opportunity to improve their performance on stage through ensemble work and representing character through speech. It enhances dramaturgical capacities that a contemporary theater practitioner must exercise in exploring theory in practice and vice versa.
This class is directed to students particularly interested in dramaturgy, directing, designing, translation, and Greek tragedy as well as acting.
- Department: Theatre @Barnard
- MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
- 3 points
TONI MORRISON: AN ETHICAL POETICS
Toni Morrison set herself a challenge: to engage language in complex literary ways in order to reveal the ‘fact’ of race in the lived experiences of Americans—those made to bear the burden of being ‘raced,’ those exercising the prerogative of ‘racing,’ and those who imagine that none of this applies to them. We travel with her artistic path from
The Bluest Eye
to her later novels to learn how her choice to create figurative, logical narratives seek their own understanding of the ethics of what she called the “manageable, doable, modern human activity” of living in ‘the house of race.’
- Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Yvette Christianse
Wikipedia Info - 4 points
FIELD GEOLOGY
ITALY
This is a field geology course focusing on the Apennine Mountains of central Italy, where a developing “accretionary prism” (associated with oceanic crust subduction) can be observed directly. Students will learn how to interpret the evolution of paleo-environments from the sediment lithologies, textures, fossils, compositions; and the tectonic history from the present day spatial and structural relationships. The rocks range from early Mesozoic oceanic crust and sediments to late Cenozoic sediments impacted by the rise of the Alps. The course visits several classic geological localities, including the Gubbio site of the discovery that the dinosaur extinction was caused by a meteorite, a Carrara Marble quarry (favored by Michelangelo for his sculptures), evaporite sediments from the dry-down of the Mediterranean, the magnificent Frasassi Cave, and effects of recent earthquakes.
Priority: This course has a limited number of spaces, and enrollment requires the instructors' permission. Students interested in enrolling are instructed to contact the instructors by email. Priority is given to Columbia College and General Studies senior and junior majors and minors in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Barnard senior and junior majors and minors in Environmental Science. Barnard students must receive permission from the Barnard Environmental Science department chair in order to receive the subsidy.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
- T 7:30 p.m.-9:20 p.m.
- 3 points
METHODS FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH
Prerequisites: SOCI UN1000 The Social World or Instructor Permission Required for all Sociology majors. Introductory course in social scientific research methods. Provides a general overview of the ways sociologists collect information about social phenomena, focusing on how to collect data that are reliable and applicable to our research questions.
- Department: Sociology @Barnard
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Randa B Serhan
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
COLLAGE: MIXED MEDIA
Prerequisites: (VIAR UN1000) (Formerly R3515) This course approaches drawing as an experimental and expressive tool. Students will explore the boundaries between drawing and sculpture and will be encouraged to push the parameters of drawing. Collage, assemblage and photomontage will be used in combination with more traditional approaches to drawing. The class will explore the role of the imagination, improvisation, 3-dimensional forms, observation, memory, language, mapping, and text. Field trips to artists’ studios as well as critiques will play an important role in the course. The course will culminate in a final project in which each student will choose one or more of the themes explored during the semester and create a series of artworks. This course is often taught under the nomenclature Drawing II - Mixed Media.
- Department: Visual Arts
- R 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Diana Cooper
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
SHORT PROSE FORMS
Prerequisites: No Prerequisites. Department approval NOT required. Flash fiction, micro-naratives and the short-short have become exciting areas of exploration for contemporary writers. This course will examine how these literary fragments have captured the imagination of writers internationally and at home. The larger question the class seeks to answer, both on a collective and individual level, is: How can we craft a working definition of those elements endemic to short prose as a genre? Does the form exceed classification? What aspects of both crafts -- prose and poetry -- does this genre inhabit, expand upon, reinvent, reject, subvert? Short Prose Forms incorporates aspects of both literary seminar and the creative workshop. Class-time will be devoted alternatingly to examinations of published pieces and modified discussions of student work. Our reading chart the course from the genres emergence, examining the prose poem in 19th-century France through the works of Mallarme, Baudelaire, Max Jacob and Rimbaud. Well examine aspects of poetry -- the attention to the lyrical, the use of compression, musicality, sonic resonances and wit -- and attempt to understand how these writers took, as Russell Edson describes, experience and made it into an artifact with the logic of a dream. The class will conclude with a portfolio at the end of the term, in which students will submit a compendium of final drafts of three of four short prose pieces, samples of several exercises, selescted responses to readings, and a short personal manifesto on the short prose form.
- Department: Writing
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alan Ziegler
CULPA: 5
Info
- 3 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.
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Instructor:
Edward Minoff
CULPA: 4
Info
- 3 points
THE ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION
Prerequisites: ECON BC3035 and ECON BC2411 or permission of the instructor. Analyzes education policies and education markets from an economic perspective. Examines challenges that arise when researchers attempt to identify the causal effects of inputs. Other topics: (1) education as an investment, (2) public school finance, (3) teacher labor markets, (4) testing/accountability programs, (5) school choice programs, and (6) urban public school reforms.
- Department: Economics @Barnard
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Randall Reback
CULPA: 17 h-index: 14 Info - 3 points
FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
Enables students to become informed users of financial information by understanding the language of accounting and financial reporting. Focuses on the three major financial statements that companies prepare for use of management and external parties--the balance sheet, the income statement, and the statement of cash flows. Examines the underlying concepts that go into the preparation of these financial statements as well as specific accounting rules that apply when preparing financial statements. Also looks at approaches to analyze the financial strength and operations of an entity. Uses actual financial statements to understand how financial information is presented and to apply analysis techniques.
CLASSICAL LATIN PROSE
Prerequisites: LATN W2202 or equivalent This course is intended to complement Latin V3012: Augustan Poetry in providing students I a transition between the elementary, grammatical study of Latin texts to a more fluent understanding of complex literary style. Latin V3013 will largely concentrate on different styles of writing, particularly narrative, invective, and argument. Text will be drawn primarily from Ciceros orations, with some readings form his rhetorical works.
- Department: Classics
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lien Van Geel
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
LABORATORY IN MATERIALS SCI II
Metallographic sample preparation, optical microscopy, quantitative metallography, hardness and tensile testing, plastic deformation, annealing, phase diagrams, brittle fracture of glass, temperature and strain-rate dependent deformation of polymers; written and oral reports. This is the second of a two-semester sequence materials laboratory course.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- M 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ismail C Noyan
CULPA: 7
Info
- 3 points
Neurobiology II Recitation
Discussion/recitation section for BIOL UN3005 Neurobiology II
- Department: Biological Sciences
- M 6 p.m.-7:10 p.m.
- T 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
- W 6:10 p.m.-7:10 p.m.
- R 5 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Abhishek Shah
Info - 0 points
ADVANCED ORAL FRENCH
Prerequisites: At least one French course after completion of FREN BC1204: Intermediate II or permission of the instructor. Oral presentations and discussions of French films aimed at increasing fluency, acquiring vocabulary, and perfecting pronunciation skills.
- Department: French @Barnard
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Karen Santos da Silva
CULPA: 4
Info
- 3 points
Readings from the Greek New Testament
Readings - Greek New Test
The New Testament introduces us to a register, or rather registers, of Greek radically unlike those of the high canon of classical texts. In broad terms, all the texts in the collection possess features that link them to the documentary Greek used in early imperial papyri and inscriptions, for example, the obsolescence of the optative, the infrequency of certain particles, and the relative simplicity of the syntax. But there is remarkable variety within these broad constraints: Matthew straightforwardly imitates the language of the Greek Old Testament, Markan prose is pared down to the point of being gnomic, Luke/Acts has some generic markers of historiography without any meaningful indication that the classical historians served the author as a model, and the lively paraenetic/argumentative/hysterical style of the authentic Pauline Epistles resists facile classification. The existence of such texts reminds us of the need to break out of the Atticistic canon if we want to get a full picture of Imperial Greek. We need to determine who in socio-economic terms the writers and readers of such texts may have been and whether there may not have been many more like them. In this way we can complicate the facile view that draws an excessively close connection between the eastern Empire, Greekness and the Greek city, and the Second Sophistic. Not all Greek writing was a vehicle for the dissemination of an exclusivistic Greekness. It will also not be ignored that these texts are important not only for literary scholars and Roman social historians, but also for historians of Christianity and Judaism, for reasons too obvious to require explication. But no texts analyze themselves: students will be introduced to the central problems raised by the texts and the main methodological and theoretical approaches used to solve them.
- Department: Classics
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Seth R Schwartz
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
MODERN POLITICAL THOUGHT
This course is a survey of modern political theory (approximately the 16th-19th centuries), examining the revolutionary challenges to classical and medieval political philosophy posed by such writers as Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Burke, and Marx. Our work seeks to address themes and questions such as: what is modern about modern political theory? What is human nature? What is power and how is it deployed? What are the possibilities and limits of social contract theory? What are the nature and scope of rights, duties, freedom, and equality? What is the relation between the state and the individual? What are rights and do they authorize political resistance? What are the core modern political values and how do modern political theorists grapple with their implementation? Does modernity signify
an age of progress
in terms of knowledge about the world and freedom for human beings? Or do modern technological, political and social developments actually constitute
a new kind of prison
? How do modern political thinkers conceptualize or fail to conceptualize race and gender? In what ways can modern political thought animate thinking about contemporary politics?
Simultaneously, we seek to critically engage with these classic texts about politics, political subjects, and political life in two ways. First, we will question what “modern” or “modernity” means historically and theoretically; in doing so, we will interrogate practices and theories of exclusion and violence that seek to grant only some subjects and collectivities access to the presumed progress of “modernity.” Second, and in a related vein, we will analyze these texts for the discourses of race and gender they produce, both explicitly and tacitly. We pursue these objectives by examining contemporary readings of this time period and of the theorists upon whom we will focus.
- Department: Political Science @Barnard
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jonathan J Keller
Info - 3 points
ECONOMETRICS
Prerequisites: ECON BC3033 or ECON BC3035, and ECON BC2411 or STAT W1111 or STAT W1211, or permission of the instructor. Specification, estimation and evaluation of economic relationships using economic theory, data, and statistical inference; testable implications of economic theories; econometric analysis of topics such as consumption, investment, wages and unemployment, and financial markets.
- Department: Economics @Barnard
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sinem Sonmez
Info - 4 points
Inhabiting Form: Writing the Body
The body is our most immediate encounter with the world, the vessel through which we experience our entire lives: pleasure, pain, beauty, horror, limitation, freedom, fragility and empowerment. In this course, we will pursue critical and creative inquiries into invocations and manifestations of the body in multiple genres of literature and in several capacities. We will look at how writers make space for—or take up space with—bodies in their work.
The etymology of the word “text” is from the Latin
textus
, meaning “tissue.” Along these lines, we will consider the text itself as a body. Discussions around body politics, race, gender, ability, illness, death, metamorphosis, monstrosity and pleasure will be parallel to the consideration of how a text might function itself as a body in space and time. We will consider such questions as:
What is the connective tissue of a story or a poem? What is the nervous system of a lyric essay? How is formal constraint similar to societal ideals about beauty and acceptability of certain bodies? How do words and language function at the cellular level to build the body of a text? How can we make room to honor, in our writing, bodies that have otherwise been marginalized?
We will also consider non-human bodies (animals & organisms) and embodiments of the supernatural (ghosts, gods & specters) in our inquiries. Students will process and explore these ideas in both creative and analytical writings throughout the semester, deepening their understanding of embodiment both on and off the page.
- Department: Writing
- M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Samantha Zighelboim
Info - 3 points
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING II
Various concepts within the field of biomedical engineering, foundational knowledge of engineering methodology applied to biological and/or medical problems through modules in biomechanics, bioinstrumentation, and biomedical imaging.
- Department: Biomedical Engineering
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- 3 points
ANALYSIS OF CHEM ENGIN PROBLMS
Advance chemical-engineering problem-solving skills through the use of computational tools (primarily developed in Excel or Python). Examples are drawn from thermodynamics, transport phenomena, and chemical kinetics. The course is project based, emphasizing data analysis and report writing. Unstructured collaboration with peers is highly encouraged. Requisite numerical methods and Chemical Engineering concepts introduced.
- Department: Chemical Engineering
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alexander Urban
h-index: 24 Info - 3 points
NUMBER THEORY AND CRYPTOGRAPHY
Prerequisites: one year of calculus. Prerequisite: One year of Calculus. Congruences. Primitive roots. Quadratic residues. Contemporary applications.
- Department: Mathematics
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Siddhi Krishna
Info - 3 points
MARKETING MANAGEMENT
Designed to provide students with an understanding of the fundamental marketing concepts and their application by business and non-business organizations. The goal is to expose students to these concepts as they are used in a wide variety of settings, including consumer goods firms, manufacturing and service industries, and small and large businesses. The course gives an overview of marketing strategy issues, elements of a market (company, customers, and competition), as well as the fundamental elements of the marketing mix (product, price, placement/distribution, and promotion).
- Department: Columbia College
- W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jenny M Fernandez
Info - 3 points
MAJOR FRENCH TEXTS II
Prerequisites: FREN BC3021 may be taken for credit without completion of FREN BC3022. The Age of Enlightenment, Romanticism, Realism, and Symbolism. FREN BC1204: French Intermediate II or the equivalent level is required.
- Department: French @Barnard
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Brian D O'Keeffe
CULPA: 28
Info
- 3 points
MIGRATION & ECONOMIC CHANGE
Prerequisites: (Econ BC 3035) or (Econ BC 3033) This course examines a wide variety of topics about migration and its relationship to economic development, globalization, and social and economic mobility. At its core, this course reflects a key reality: that the movement of people--within regions, within countries, and across borders--is both the result of and impetus for economic change.
- Department: Economics @Barnard
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ashley Timmer
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
FINANCIAL ECONOMICS
Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and STAT UN1201 Institutional nature and economic function of financial markets. Emphasis on both domestic and international markets (debt, stock, foreign exchange, eurobond, eurocurrency, futures, options, and others). Principles of security pricing and portfolio management; the Capital Asset Pricing Model and the Efficient Markets Hypothesis.
- Department: Economics
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Waldo Ojeda
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Instructor:
Elham Saeidinezhad
CULPA: 5 Info -
Instructor:
Jose Cao-Alvira
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
INCLUSIVE APPROACHES TO TEACHING LITERAC
LITERACY: THEORY & PRACTI
This seminar engages students in an exploration of how schools prepare students to be literate across multiple subject areas. Engaging students with theory and practice, we will look at how students learn to read and write, considering approaches for literacy instruction from early childhood through adolescence. Understanding that schools are required to meet the needs of diverse learners, we will explore literacy instruction for K-12 students with special needs, multilingual learners, and students from diverse cultural backgrounds. This course requires 60 hours of clinical experience (fieldwork).
- Department: Education @Barnard
- T 9 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Drew Chambers
Info - 6 points
BIRD,PLANT &LAND-USE DYNAMICS
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 16 students. One year of college-level science. Primarily for Environmental Majors, Concentrators and Minors. 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. Case study topics are: (1) land-use and climate change over time: a paleoenvironmental perspective, (2) environmental transformations: impact of invasive plants and birds and pathogens on local environments and (3) migration of Neotropical songbirds between their wintering and breeding grounds: land-use, crisis and conservation. We visit wildlife refuges along a rural-suburban-urban gradient in order to observe and measure the role refuges play in conservation. Format: lecture, student presentations, short labs, data collection/analysis and field trips (some on a weekend day in April in place of the week day meeting).
- Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
- W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Terryanne Maenza-Gmelch
CULPA: 14
h-index: 5
Info
- 3 points
Urban Ecosystems
URBAN ECOSYSTEMS
Urban Ecosystems will cover scientific principles, concepts, and methodologies required to understand complex systems and the natural and social-ecological relationships at work in cities. You will learn the basics of ecological process and patterns of ecosystems especially applied in cities, understand how humans interact with and impact ecological processes and patterns in cities, and explore approaches for dealing with current and future urban challenges. Format: Lecture, discussion, small group work, field trips
- Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
- TR 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Cook
CULPA: 1 h-index: 11 Info - 3 points
Economic History of Global Capitalism
ECON HIST OF GLOBAL CAPIT
The course is an introduction to the economic developments that gave rise to capitalist economies and economic globalization from 1500 to the 20th century. We apply economic and empirical reasoning to examine many transformations that have shaped the economies of the modern era—demographic, technological, and institutional changes. We compare the rise of Europe and other Eurasian civilizations, especially China. We examine the role of slavery and imperialism in global economic integration. We examine how the rise of modern capitalism influenced human material well-being and conflict and has led to the convergence and divergence of nations in the global economy.
Volcanoes and the Environment
VOLCANOES AND THE ENVIRON
This course seeks to impart students with knowledge of volcanic eruptions on Earth and the effects on the environment as a whole. The course will focus on the physical mechanisms responsible for eruptions, the effects eruptions have on humans and other living organisms, as well as the environment. The course will investigate how eruptions have contributed to global climate change. The course will also look at the positive effects volcanoes have had on Earth, such as providing nutrient rich soils for growing crops and providing renewable geothermal energy--a cleaner energy resource. Format: lecture, field trip, data collection and analysis, student presentations.
- Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sedelia Rodriguez
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
Prerequisites: (MATH UN2010 and MATH UN2030) 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 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Simon Brendle
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING LAB II
Experiments in engineering and physical phenomena: aerofoil lift and drag in wind tunnels, laser Doppler anemometry in immersed fluidic channels, supersonic flow and shock waves, Rankine thermodynamical cycle for power generation, and structural truss mechanics and analysis.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
- TR 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Bianca N Howard
Info - 3 points
Bermuda: Case Studies in Environmental S
Bermuda: Env Susdev
This course focuses on the ecology, geology, and sustainability of Bermuda. Students will explore the local flora, fauna, geology and hydrology of various habitats in the context of environmental change brought on by issues such as rising global temperatures, invasive species, and development. Students will also look into sustainability issues, such as energy, drinking water, solid waste, and wastewater issues, some of which the country addresses in unique ways. The course will also contrast some of these topics with those in the NYC area and other subtropical and tropical islands.
Classes will meet during the spring semester at Barnard in preparation for a field trip to Bermuda for five days during spring break.
Students and faculty will use the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) field station for both lodging and laboratory facilities. BIOS will provide bus and boat-based transportation.
The excursions to caves, volcanic and pink sand beaches, outcrops, rare plant habitats and bird conservation areas in addition to engagement with the local experts at BIOS will provide an authentic opportunity to study the natural history of and environmental threats to an offshore island compared to our local environment in NYC.
Students will take detailed field notes in Bermuda. After returning from the trip, they will focus on one or two aspects of the field trip and research related issues in depth. Topics will include: transportation, energy acquisition, electricity generation, wind energy, solar power, carbon capture and storage, drinking water, waste management, sewage treatment and disposal, biological conservation, ecological restoration, social & environmental justice, economy, and food supply. Students are also encouraged to compare issues in Bermuda with NYC and other islands.
The final products of the semester will be a detailed field journal, a mini research project with an annotated bibliography and a poster summarizing the results.
- Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
- W 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- 3 points
IMAGERY AND FORM IN THE ARTS
Operation of imagery and form in dance, music, theater, visual arts and writing; students are expected to do original work in one of these arts. Concepts in contemporary art will be explored.
- Department: Art History @Barnard
- M 4 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jozefina Chetko
Info - 4 points
GENETICS
Prerequisites: BIOL UN2005 and BIOL UN2006. General genetics course focused on basic principles of transmission genetics and the application of genetic approaches to the study of biological function. Principles will be illustrated using classical and contemporary examples from prokaryote and eukaryote organisms, and the experimental discoveries at their foundation will be featured. Applications will include genetic approaches to studying animal development and human diseases. SPS and TC students must obtain the written permission from the instructor, by filling out a Registration Adjustment Form (Add/Drop form). https://www.registrar.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/reg-adjustment.pdf
- Department: Biological Sciences
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- 3 points
INTERMEDIATE MACROECONOMICS
Prerequisites: An introductory course in economics and a functioning knowledge of high school algebra and analytical geometry or permission of the instructor. Systematic exposition of current macroeconomic theories of unemployment, inflation, and international financial adjustments.
- Department: Economics @Barnard
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nuria Quella
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
INTERMEDIATE MICROECONOMICS
Prerequisites: An introductory course in microeconomics or a combined macro/micro principles course (ECON BC1003 or ECON W1105, or the equivalent) and one semester of calculus or ECON BC1007, or permission of the instructor. Preferences and demand; production, cost, and supply; behavior of markets in partial equilibrium; resource allocation in general equilibrium; pricing of goods and services under alternative market structures; implications of individual decision-making for labor supply; income distribution, welfare, and public policy. Emphasis on problem solving.
- Department: Economics @Barnard
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lalith Munasinghe
CULPA: 33 Info - 4 points
THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
Dans ce cours, nous examinerons le phénomène qui domine—et révolutionne—le discours philosophique, religieux, sociologique et politique au 18e siècle en Occident: les Lumières. Visant les dogmes jusque-là incontestables d'un Etat monarchique et d'une Eglise catholique autoritaires, ce mouvement réclame la liberté de la pensée et du culte; condamne l'intolérance religieuse, l’iniquité politique et le préjugé culturel; expose et déplore l’inégalité sociale; examine les bases de l’autorité politique; et subvertit par ses propos l'idéo. A l'exception d'un texte de l'Allemand Immanuel Kant, nous nous bornerons à lire des écrits des principaux philosophes francophones des Lumières (Voltaire, Diderot, et Rousseau), aussi bien que deux romans "dystopiques” (Charrière et de Sade), et deux textes politiques parus durant la Révolution française.
- Department: French @Barnard
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Caroline Weber
CULPA: 8
Wikipedia
Info
- 3 points
INTERNATIONAL MONEY & FINANCE
Prerequisites: ECON BC3033. Introduction to balance of payments and exchange rate theory; capital mobility and expectations; internal and external adjustment under fixed and flexible exchange rates; international financial markets; capital mobility and expectations; international policy coordination and optimum currency areas; history of the international monetary system.
- Department: Economics @Barnard
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jose Cao-Alvira
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
A PICTURE + A THOUSAND WORDS: COMICS AND
We’ve all heard “A picture is worth a thousand words” but what is the worth a picture
and
a thousand words? In this seminar, we’ll explore how the practice of visual art in combination with writing can open up a world of possibilities and how experimenting with ideas in different mediums help us push through creative stagnation. We’ll investigate different traditions of art and language across cultures and time. Readings will range from graphic memoirs to prose architecture to a bird eating a letter. There’s no drawing ability required or necessary for the course, only the willingness to experiment with your own creativity as you exercise Einstein's concept of “Combinatory Play.”
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
- F 8:40 a.m.-11:10 a.m.
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Instructor:
Dana Neacsu
h-index: 8 Info - 3 points
THEORETICL FOUNDTNS-POLIT ECON
Prerequisites: An introductory course in economics or permission of the instructor. Intellectual origins of the main schools of thought in political economy. Study of the founding texts in classical political economy, Marxian economics, neoclassicism, and Keynesianism.
- Department: Economics @Barnard
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kurt Semm
Info - 3 points
GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND SCHOOL
GENDER SEXUALITY AND SCHOOL
Broadly, this course explores the relationship between gender, sexuality, and schooling across national contexts. We begin by considering theoretical perspectives, exploring the ways in which gender and sexuality have been studied and understood in the interdisciplinary field of education. Next, we consider the ways in which the subjective experience of gender and sexuality in schools is often overlooked or inadequately theorized. Exploring the ways that race, class, citizenship, religion and other categories of identity intersect with gender and sexuality, we give primacy to the contention that subjectivity is historically complex, and does not adhere to the analytically distinct identity categories we might try to impose on it.
- Department: Education @Barnard
- M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ileana Jimenez
Info - 4 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.
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Instructor:
Joseph A Massad
CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info - 4 points
Monetary Theory & Policy
MONETARY THEORY & POLICY
This course deals with topics in both monetary theory and monetary policy and is designed for students interested in monetary economics and/or those aiming at working in policy institutions such as central banks. Monetary economics examines the relationship between real economic variables at the aggregate level and nominal variables (such as the inflation rate, nominal interest rates, nominal exchange rates, and the supply of money). Therefore, monetary economics overlaps significantly with macroeconomics. However, students in this class learn the "Money View" framework as their analytical tool as it provides a more in-depth treatment of money and central banking than is customary
in standard macroeconomics textbooks.
- Department: Economics @Barnard
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elham Saeidinezhad
CULPA: 5 Info - 3 points
PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI POL/SOC DS
Required discussion section for MDES UN3042: Palestinian and Israeli Politics and Society
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- W 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
- W 11:10 a.m.-noon
- W 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- W 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Hazem Fahmy
Info - 0 points
COMPLICATING CLASS: EDUCATION AND THE L
EDUCATION & LIMITS EQUITY
In this course, we start from the premise that a failure to understand what social class is and how social class matters in daily life stops us from having conversations about the possibilities and limitations of schooling and, as such, prevents us from doing what we can to improve the schooling experiences of poor and working-class students. Throughout the semester, we will work to “complicate class”, reconsidering what class is, why class matters, and how we can best think about the relationship between social class and schooling. You will develop a language for talking about class, considering the affordances and constraints of various conceptions of class. You will also leave with critical questions about the possibilities and limitations of relying on schools as a solution to social problems. Recognizing restraints, we will conclude by reflecting on how we might work toward creating more equitable learning environments for poor and working-class students.
- Department: Education @Barnard
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rachel Throop
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
Introduction to Behavioral Economics
INTRO TO BEHAVIORAL ECON
This course reviews the assumption of rationality in microeconomic theory and presents evidence (primarily from experimental psychology and economics) of how judgement and decision-making systematically deviate from what rationality predicts.
- Department: Economics @Barnard
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Jeffrey Carpenter
Info - 3 points
Provinces of the Roman Empire
Between the mid-third century BCE and mid-second century BCE, Rome rapidly acquired a Mediterranean empire consisting of territories that it divided into administrative units called provinces. Through the examination of documentary and literary sources, and art and archaeology, this seminar traces the formation and growing complexity of Roman provincial administration and life in the provinces during the Republic and imperial period. Topics of study include the responsibilities of the provincial governor and his staff; the creation of provincial landscapes through the destruction of cities and construction of long-distance roads; the emergence of new provincial identities; revolts against Rome; and provincial expressions of loyalty to the emperor.
- Department: History
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sailakshmi Ramgopal
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
BIG DATA WITH PYTHON
Big Data is changing how we interact with and understand the environment. Yet analyzing Big Data requires new tools and methods. Students will learn to use Python programming to analyze and visualize large environmental and earths systems data sets in ways that Excel is not equipped to do. This will include both time series and spatial analyses with programming occurring interactively during class and assignments designed to strengthen methods and results. Students will learn to write code in Python, plot, map, sub-select, clean, organize, and perform statistical analyses on large global scale data sets, using the data in analysis, and take any data set no matter how large or complicated.
- Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Brian Mailloux
CULPA: 10
h-index: 36
Info
- 3 points
DISCRETE TIME MODELS IN FINANC
Prerequisites: (MATH UN1102 and MATH UN1201) or (MATH UN1101 and MATH UN1102 and MATH UN1201) and MATH UN2010 Recommended: MATH UN3027 (or MATH UN2030 and SIEO W3600). Elementary discrete time methods for pricing financial instruments, such as options. Notions of arbitrage, risk-neutral valuation, hedging, term-structure of interest rates.
- Department: Mathematics
- MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mikhail Smirnov
CULPA: 16 Info - 3 points
PROJECT LAB-MOLECULAR GENETICS
Multicellular animals contain a diverse array of cell types, yet start from a single cell. How do cells decide what kind of cell to be? In this lab course, we will use the tools of molecular biology and genetics to explore this fascinating question. We will use the nematode
Caenorhabditis elegans
, a powerful model organism used in hundreds of research labs. The course will be divided into three modules:
C. elegans
genetics, molecular cloning, and genetic screening. Laboratory techniques will include PCR, gel electrophoresis, restriction digest, ligation, transformation, RNAi, and
C. elegans
maintenance. Students will pursue original projects; emphasis will be placed on scientific thinking and scientific communication. SPS 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). Prerequisites: UN2005/UN2401 and UN2006/UN2402, or the equivalent at a different institution.
- Department: Biological Sciences
- MW 12:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michelle Attner
Info - 5 points
MATH & THE CITY
Prerequisites: the instructors permission. In partnership with NYC public school teachers, students will have opportunities to engage in mathematical learning, lesson study, curriculum development, and implementation, with a focus on using the City as a resource. Students will explore implications for working with diverse populations. Non-math majors, pre-service elementary students and first-year students welcome. Fieldwork and field trips required. Note: Students in the Childhood Urban Teaching Program may use this course as a pedagogical elective.
- Department: Education @Barnard
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Maria S Rivera Maulucci
h-index: 10 Info - 4 points
POLITICAL VIOLENCE
When is violence used against noncombatants in conflicts and what is the impact of such violence? This course focuses on violence against civilians by armed organizations, whether states or non-state actors. We will examine a variety of explanations for such violence, including rationalist, psychological/emotion-based, and organizational approaches. We will also discuss the impact of political violence. Does it get the job done, so to speak? Does violence move terrorist groups closer to their goals? Does indiscriminate violence by the state spur rebellion or suppress insurgencies? Does insurgent violence against civilians make them more or less effective? While we emphasize violence intentionally causing harm to civilians we will also consider collateral damage.
- Department: Political Science @Barnard
- TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Marjorie Castle
Info - 3 points
ARTS AND HUMANITIES IN THE CITY:CRITICAL
ARTS & HUMANITIES IN THE CITY
Using the theme of “Arts and Humanities in the City”, this seminar will build participants’ knowledge of critical literacy, digital storytelling methods, and ways to use New York City as a resource for teaching the Arts (Dance, Theatre, Music, and Visual Arts), Social Studies, and English Language Arts in grades K-12. Critical literacy is an approach to teaching and learning that focuses on developing students’ abilities to read, analyze, understand, question, and critique hidden perspectives and socially-constructed power relations embedded in what it means to be literate in a content area.
- Department: Education @Barnard
- R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Drew Chambers
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.
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Instructor:
Lars E Dietrich
CULPA: 1 Info - 5 points
Computer Science in the City: Content &
Using the overarching theme of “Computer Science in the City,” this course will build participants’ knowledge of pedagogical methods for the teaching of computer science while exploring ways to use the City as a resource for teaching and learning. Course participants will have an opportunity to gain an understanding of concepts and practices appropriate for K-12 students as they explore the New York State Learning Standards.
As we explore the multitude of opportunities for teaching computer science in New York City, we will also take into consideration the diversity of the students that course participants teach or are preparing to teach. We will examine the social and political contexts that learning and teaching happen in, and consider the implications of these contexts for different groups of students. As participants develop an understanding of what it means to be literate in computer science, they will explore ways to make computer science education more meaningful and accessible to all students by infusing it with students’ daily and cultural experiences. We will explore notions of social justice and the implications for teaching computer science for social justice by addressing barriers to engagement, persistence, and achievement in mathematics.
Working in teams to plan for Computer Science Enrichment lessons, participants will explore ways to teach computer science using a constructivist approach while being responsive to the demands of the NYS Next Generation Standards, Universal Design for Learning (UDL), growth mindsets, critiques of growth mindsets, and tenets of justice and caring. Participants will also have an opportunity to build positive computer science mindsets for themselves and for K-12 students as they engage in experiential learning, plan for Computer Science Enrichment sessions that incorporate ways to visualize and communicate computer science content and skills, and evaluate the efficacy of their planning and teaching in light of their students’ learning outcomes.
- Department: Education @Barnard
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Maria S Rivera Maulucci
h-index: 10 Info - 4 points
SENIOR THESIS II
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and completion of all courses (except for the senior requirement) required for the economics track, political economy track, or economics and mathematics majors. Exceptions to these prerequisites may be granted by the chair of the department only. Tutorials and conferences on the research for and writing of the senior thesis. This is the 2nd semester of a two-semester course sequence.
- Department: Economics @Barnard
- M noon-2 p.m.
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth O Ananat
CULPA: 2 h-index: 18 Info -
Instructor:
Kurt Semm
Info -
Instructor:
Sharon Harrison
CULPA: 38
h-index: 13
Info
- 4 points
SENIOR SEMINAR
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and the completion of all courses (except for the senior requirement) required for the economics track, political economy track, or economics and mathematics majors. Exceptions to these prerequisites may be granted by the chair of the department only. Seminar sections are limited to 15 students. A topic in economic theory or policy of the instructors choice. See department for current topics and for senior requirement preference forms.
- Department: Economics @Barnard
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lalith Munasinghe
CULPA: 33 Info -
Instructor:
Elham Saeidinezhad
CULPA: 5 Info -
Instructor:
Rajiv Sethi
CULPA: 24
h-index: 33
Info
- 4 points
STUDENT TEACHING/URBAN SCHOOLS
Prerequisites: completion of EDUC BC2052 or EDUC BC2062 and EDUC BC2055, with grades of B or better. NYCDOE Fingerprinting. Corequisites: EDUC BC3064. Enrollment limited. Supervised student teaching in elementary schools includes creating lesson plans, involving students in active learning, using cooperative methods, developmentally appropriate assessment, and meeting the needs of diverse learners in urban schools. Teaching skills developed through weekly individual and/or group supervision meetings (to be scheduled at the beginning of the semester), conferences, and portfolio design. Requires 100 hours of teaching at two different grade levels, full-time for one semester. Note: Students are only permitted to leave their student teaching placements early twice a week, once for EDUC BC3064 and one other day for one additional course having a start time of 2 pm or later. Students are only permitted to take one additional course while enrolled in EDUC BC3063 and EDUC BC3064.
- Department: Education @Barnard
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Drew Chambers
Info - 6 points
SECONDARY STU TCHNG URB SCHLS
Prerequisites: Completion of EDUC BC2052 or EDUC BC2062 and EDUC BC2055, with grades of B or better. NYCDOE Fingerprinting required. Corequisites: EDUC BC3064. Enrollment limited. Supervised student teaching in secondary schools includes creating lesson plans, involving students in active learning, using cooperative methods, developmentally appropriate assessment, and meeting the needs of diverse learners in urban schools. Teaching skills developed through weekly individual and/or group supervision meetings (to be scheduled at the beginning of the semester), conferences, and portfolio design. Requires 100 hours of teaching at two different grade levels, full-time for one semester. Note: Students are only permitted to leave their student teaching placements early twice a week, once for EDUC BC3064 and one other day for one additional course having a start time of 2 pm or later. Students are only permitted to take one additional course while enrolled in EDUC BC3064 and EDUC BC3065.
- Department: Education @Barnard
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ishrat Ahmed
Info - 6 points
SURREALISM
This course examines the aesthetic, psycho-sexual, and socio-political dimensions and implications of Surrealism, an international avant-garde movement that emerged in Paris in the wake of World War I. Focusing on artworks from a number of different genres, we will explore such issues as: the avant-garde reformulation, subversion, and/or destruction of pre-existing artistic conventions and practices; the development of an alternative literary tradition privileging the “humour noir” of such subversive authors as Jonathan Swift and the Marquis de Sade; the celebration of dreams, desire, and the unconscious, as conceived by Sigmund Freud; the rejection of “bourgeois” values such as order, rationality, morality, decency, patriotism, work, and “high culture”; the transformation of lieux communs into artistic dreamscapes; the rhetoric of violence and anarchy; and the politics of gender.
- Department: French @Barnard
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Caroline Weber
CULPA: 8
Wikipedia
Info
- 3 points
African American Anthropology
From the early days when the discipline of anthropology was actively constructing notions of race and debating the relationship between race and culture, Black people in the United States have been subjects, objects, authors, and, at times a conundrum of categorization, helping to define and shape social science fields. This course surveys anthropology’s history, methods, debates, big questions, and recurring themes, primarily (though not exclusively) as they relate to Black people in the U.S. It takes into account the specificities of U.S. racial formations and American-style cultural anthropology. What theories and sensibilities emerge within and outside of the disciplinary confine in work by, with, and about Black people in the Americas? This course engages foundational work as well as newer ethnographic writings and other media that push the anthropological horizon. Through reading, listening, watching, discussing, collaborative study, and writing assignments, the course probes key concepts including the social construction of race, the culture concept, “the field,” diaspora, and many others. It also explores more recent turns to decolonizing, activist, and abolitionist anthropologies. Instructor's permission required for enrollment.
- Department: Anthropology
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lashaya Howie
Info - 4 points
RESEARCH SEM ECONOMIC HIST II
Must be supervised by a faculty member approved by te program adviser. This is the 2nd semester of a two-semester course sequence.
Education, Crisis and Futures
Education is a social project of making futures. It is a field where people imagine selves and worlds to come
while navigating current constraints and past legacies. Even in the face of various crises that disrupt
educational systems globally, education is often understood as a crisis response and charged with the task of
forging alternative futures and driving social and economic progress.
In this course, we will interrogate the politics of crisis and futurity in education. First, we will explore how
notions of crisis are mobilized to define problems and solutions in education research and policy. In this
exploration, we will ask how histories and politics of domination along lines of race, class, gender, and other
social categories are articulated or silenced in discourses of educational crisis. We will attend to how crises
create both danger and opportunity by considering how they serve to justify violent, dispossessive restructuring
and how they lay bare structures of inequality in ways that generate collective action and transformation.
Next, we will Interrogate education’s futural orientations. We will probe familiar progress narratives and explore
what roles education plays in shaping how marginalized communities imagine and enact futures beyond the
status quo, attending to both its affordances and limitations. Throughout the course, we will draw on
speculative fiction and on scholarship in anthropology, Black studies, and comparative education to investigate
the politics of crisis and futurity in diverse educational contexts. We will engage study as speculative practice
through collaborative and independent exercises that invite us to develop praxes for just futures of education.
- Department: Education @Barnard
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Amelia S Herbert
Info - 4 points
Society and Power in the Hellenistic Age
SOCIETY/POWER HELLENISTIC
This course explore the Hellenistic world (not to be confused with the “Hellenic world”)— the spaces and communities in the Mediterranean, Africa and Western Asia, in the centuries following the destruction of the Achaimenid empire. The themes studied include the formation of large tributary empires, and their strategies for implementing control; local political agency; cultural interaction, within frameworks of imperial power, between Greek and non-Greek; social relations; economic history; and more. This world seems created by a historical accident, but might equally be described as the result of deep structural features (the convergence of polis institutions, the rise of a connected economy, the spread of Greek cultural forms). The interpretation of this extraordinary period has been influenced by a number of factors, some intrinsic to the field (the availability of rich documentary evidence), some extrinsic (the rise and fall of European colonialism); it also has been characterised by paradigm shifts (from decline to vitality to diversities). This course will offer the occasion to test paradigms of “globalization” across many ancient contexts. It will do so by close reading of courses, broader surveys, and constant engagement with historical problems. Its main focus will be on the third and early second centuries BCE (“high Hellenistic period”), with some attention paid to the following century. The historian Polybios (ca. 200 BCE-after 118 BCE) will serve as a guide for both periods, especially his narrative of the year 217 BCE which culminates in the narrative of the battle of Raphia (as well as the arrival of the Roman Republic on the political scene of the Eastern Mediterranean).
The course aims to achieve the following goals. First, to impart familiarity with events in a crucial period of ancient history. Second, to impart with the physical, historical, and human geographies of the area covered by the “Hellenistic world”— in the longue durée. This means spaces and regions from Spain to Central Asia: ancient Afro-Eurasia.Thirdly, to learn how to read fragmentary or indirect sources, often documentary, and in conjunction with material and visual evidence. Fourthly, to read historical studies by modern scholars, evaluate academic argument (notably in the deployment of evidence but also of theoretical models), and to produce historical argument in exams and paper. Fifthly, to evaluate the history of the Hellenistic age from a
Growing Up Palestinian
This course explores broad questions about how sociopolitical contexts shape the development of children and youth, by focusing on the experiences of young Palestinians growing up across multiple geographies. We will read a variety of texts—primarily those narrated by Palestinians—including, memoir, film, and social science research to address the following questions: How do the various social, cultural, political, and legal contexts in which Palestinians grow up affect the experiences of growing up Palestinian? How (and why) do young people forge a sense of national identity across diverse territories, both within and outside of the borders of their historic homeland? How do socio-political contexts shape young people’s rights, including the right to education? How do children and youth shape their environments? How does a close examination of the Palestinian case challenge normative ideas about childhood and youth, while also supporting us to articulate universal conditions that would support the well-being of all young humans?
- Department: Education @Barnard
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Thea R Abu El-Haj
Info - 4 points
Society and Power in the Hellenistic Age
Society/Power Hellenistic
Discussion Sections for CLCV UN3069
- Department: Classics
- F 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Jose M Romero Lotero
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Instructor:
Araceli T Rizzo
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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY II-LECTURES
Prerequisites: CHEM UN3079 Corequisites: CHEM UN3086 CHEM UN3080 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 UN3079 and CHEM UN3080 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 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Xiaoyang Zhu
CULPA: 5
h-index: 85
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INTERMEDIATE LABORATORY WORK
Prerequisites: phys UN2601 or phys un2802 Primarily for junior and senior physics majors; other majors must obtain the instructors 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
- F 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Morgan May
CULPA: 3
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DIGITAL SYSTEMS LABORATORY
Companion lab course for CSEE W3827. Experiments cover such topics as logic gates; flip-flops; shift registers; counters; combinational logic circuits; sequential logic circuits; programmable logic devices. The lab generally meets on alternate weeks.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kenneth Shepard
CULPA: 2 Wikipedia h-index: 64 Info - 1 points