Analysis and discussion of representative works from the Middle Ages to the present.
Prerequisites: BC1001 and departmental permission. Enrollment limited to 25 students per section.
Corequisites: BC1125 Psychology of Personality Lecture.
Laboratory consists of experiments related to the principal approaches to personality and their implications for personality development, psychological adjustment, and everyday behavior. Students will participate in all stages of personality research: conceptualizing a personality construct, designing and administering tests, identifying individual differences, and carrying out a study.
This intensive semester provides all of elementary German enabling students to understand, speak, read, and write in German. Topics range from family and studies to current events. Conducted entirely in German, requirements include oral and written exams, essays, German-culture projects, and a final exam.
Prerequisites: BC1001 or permission of the instructor.
Lecture course covering the principal approaches to personality and their implications for personality development, psychological adjustment, and everyday behavior.
Prerequisites: BC1001 Introduction to Psychology and departmental permission via Barnard Department of Psychology Lab and Statistics Lottery (students enter lottery via eBear the previous semester). Enrollment limited to 22 students per section.
Corequisites: BC1129 Developmental Psychology Lecture.
Laboratory course involving experiments related to cognitive, linguistic, perceptual, motor, social, affective, and personality development from infancy to adolescence. The course offers an opportunity for direct observation of children; major areas of research at each level of development are covered.
Prerequisites: BC1001 or permission of the instructor.
Lecture course covering cognitive, linguistic, perceptual, motor, social, affective, and personality development from infancy to adolescence.
This course investigates key intellectual moments in the rich literary history that originated in classical Greece and Rome and continues to inspire some of the world's greatest masterpieces. Close readings of works reveal how psychological and ideological paradigms, including the self and civilization, shift over time, while the historical trajectory of the course invites inquiry into the myth of progress at the heart on canonicity. Texts include Euripides, The Bacchae; the Homeric Hymn to Demeter; Homer, Odyssey; Vergil, Aeneid; Dante, Inferno; Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales; Margery Kempe, The Book of Margery Kempe; Shakespeare [selection depends on NYC theatre offerings]; Madame de Lafayette, La Princesse de Cleves.
A survey of fantasy works that examines the transformative role of the Imagination in aesthetic and creative experience, challenges accepted boundaries between the imagined and the real, and celebrates Otherness and Magicality in a disenchanted world. Readings will be selected from fairy tales, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest; Romantic poetry by Blake, Coleridge, Keats, and Dickinson; Romantic art by Friedrich, Waterhouse, and Dore; Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Lewis Carroll's Alice books, Tennyson's Idylls of the King, Tolkien's Lord of the Rings; Magical Realist works by Borges, Garcia Marquez, and Allende; Sondheim & Lapine's Into the Woods, Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories.
Prerequisites:
BCRS W1102
or the equivalent.
Readings in Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian literature in the original, with emphasis depending upon the needs of individual students.
Prerequisites:
BENG W1101-W1102
or the instructor's permission.
Further develops a student's knowledge of Bengali, a major language of northeast India and Bangladesh.
Prerequisites:
CANT W1101-W1102
or the instructor's permission.
This course further continues the study of the Cantonese language. Emphasis is on linguistic rules to enable students to communicate with more competence. The lessons will not only focus on language, but also incorporate discussions on history, current events, literature, popular culture, and native values. Includes field trips to Chinatown and other Cantonese-speaking neighborhoods. Note: This course is part of the language exchange program with New York University (NYU). Classes will be held at NYU.
Prerequisites:
CATL W1120
.
The first part of Columbia University´s comprehensive intermediate Catalan sequence. The main objectives of this course are to continue developing communicative competence - reading, writing, speaking and listening comprehension - and to further acquaint students with Catalan cultures.
Prerequisites:
CHNS C1101-1102
or
CHNS F1101-1102
, or the equivalent. See Admission to Language Courses.
Designed to further the student's four skills acquired in the elementary course, this program aims to develop higher level of proficiency through comprehensive oral and written exercises. Cultural aspects in everyday situations are introduced. Traditional characters. Section subject to cancellation if under-enrolled. CC GS EN CE
Prerequisites:
CHNS C1101-1102
or
CHNS F1101-1102
, or the equivalent. See Admission to Languages Courses.
Same course as C1201x. CC GS EN CE
Prerequisites:
CZCH W1102
or the equivalent.
Rapid review of grammar. Readings in contemporary fiction and nonfiction, depending upon the interests of individual students.
Prerequisites:
DTCH W1101-W1102
or the equivalent.
Continued practice in the four skills (aural comprehension, reading, speaking, and writing); review and refinement of basic grammar; vocabulary building. Readings in Dutch literature.
Corequisites:
EGYP W1101-W1102
or the instructor's permission.
Advanced readings in ancient Egyptian texts.
Prerequisites: MATH V1101.
Basic concepts of electrical engineering. Exploration of selected topics and their application. Electrical variables, circuit laws, nonlinear and linear elements, ideal and real sources, transducers, operational amplifiers in simple circuits, external behavior of diodes and transistors, first order RC and RL circuits. Digital representation of a signal, digital logic gates, flipflops. A lab is an integral part of the course. Required of electrical engineering and computer engineering majors.
Prerequisites: Required for all first-year students. Enrollment restricted to Barnard students. May not be taken for P/D/F.
Close examination of texts and regular writing assignments in composition, designed to help students read critically and write effectively. Sections of the course are grouped in three clusters: I. Legacy of the Mediterranean; II. The Americas; III. Women and Culture. The first cluster features a curriculum of classic texts representing key intellectual moments that have shaped Western culture. Offering revisionist responses to the constraints of canonicity, the last two clusters feature curricula that explore the literary history of the Americas and the role of women in culture. For more information on the curriculum, please visit the course website: http://firstyear.barnard.edu/rlh
Prerequisites:
FINN W1101-W1102
or the instructor's permission.
Continued practice in aural comprehension, reading, speaking, and writing; review and refinement of grammatical structures; vocabulary building. Readings include Finnish fiction and nonfiction.
Corequisites: Recommended:
FREN W1221
-
FREN W1222
.
Prepares students for advanced French language and culture. Develops skills in speaking, reading, and writing French. Emphasizes cross-cultural awareness through the study of short stories, films, and passages from novels. Fosters the ability to write about and discuss a variety of topics using relatively complex structures.