INTERMEDIATE SPANISH II

Prerequisites:
SPAN W1201
or a score of 450-624 in the department's Placement Examination.
An intensive course in Spanish language communicative competence, with stress on oral interaction, reading, witting and culture as a continuation of SPAN W1201.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• TRF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TRF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TRF 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MWF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Reyes Llopis-Garcia
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 10 Info
• 4 points

INTERMEDIATE FRENCH I

Prerequisites: FREN BC1001, BC1002, BC1102, C1101 and C1102, or an appropriate score on the placement test.
Further development of oral and written communication skills. Readings in French literature.

• Department: French @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Baseem Shahin
  Info
• Instructor: Karen Santos da Silva
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Hadley T Suter
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Sarah J Lazur
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Karen Santos da Silva
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Sarah J Lazur
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

INTENSIVE INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN

Prerequisites:
ITAL V1102
or the equivalent, with a grade of B+ or higher.
An intensive course that covers two semesters of intermediate Italian in one, and prepares students for advanced language and literature study. Grammar, reading, writing, and conversation. Exploration of literary and cultural materials. This course may be used to fulfill the language requirement if preceded by both V1101 and V1102. Students who wish to use this course for the language requirement, and previously took Intensive Elementary, are also required to take at least one of the following: ITAL V3333, V3334, V3335, or V3336, for a total of three (3) semesters of Italian Language.

• Department: Italian
• TRF 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Maria Luisa Gozzi
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 6 points

FIRST-YEAR ENGLISH (WORKSHOP)

Close examination of texts and regular writing assignments in composition, designed to help students read critically and write effectively.  Sections will focus on Legacy of the Mediterranean or Women and Culture and meet three times a week.  For more information on the curriculum, please visit the course website: http://firstyear.barnard.edu/rlh

• Department: English @Barnard
• MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TRF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TRF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TRF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mary Kolisnyk
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• Instructor: Wendy C Schor-Haim
  CULPA: 11 Info
• Instructor: Shelly Fredman
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Vrinda Condillac
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 4 points

INTERMEDIATE FRENCH II

Prerequisites: FREN BC1203 or an appropriate score on the placement test.
Advanced work in language skills. Readings in French literature.

• Department: French @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Masha C Mimran
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

RAPID READING & TRANSLATION

Primarily for graduate students and others who need to develop their reading knowledge of Italian. Grammar and vocabulary review; practice in reading and translating Italian from a variety of fields, including literature, art history, and political science, depending on the needs of the students. No previous knowledge of Italian is required. Note: this course may not be used to satisfy the language requirement or to fulfill major or concentration requirements.

• Department: Italian
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria Luisa Gozzi
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 3 points

ACCELERATED INTER FREN I + II

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• MTWR noon-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Vincent Aurora
  CULPA: 55 Info
• 8 points

INTERMEDIATE ORAL FRENCH

• Department: French @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Isabelle Jouanneau-Fertig
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 3 points

RAPID READING AND TRANSLATION

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew T Trumbo-Tual
  Info
• 3 points

HONORS MATHEMATICS A

Prerequisites: (see Courses for First-Year Students).
The second term of this course may not be taken without the first. Multivariable calculus and linear algebra from a rigorous point of view. Recommended for mathematics majors. Fulfills the linear algebra requirement for the major. (SC)

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Thaddeus
  CULPA: 24 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ARABIC FOR HERITAGE SPEAKERS I

This is an intensive course that combines the curriculum of both First and Second Year Arabic in two semesters instead of four, and focuses on the productive skills (speaking and writing) in Modern Standard Arabic (Fusha). Students are exposed intensively to grammar and vocabulary of a high register. After successful completion of this course, students will be able to move on to Third Year Arabic. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MTWR 11:40 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Youssef Nouhi
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 5 points

SPANISH FOR HERITAGE SPEAKERS

Prerequisites: Oral fluency. "L" course. Enrollment limited to 15 students.
Designed for heritage and non-heritage students from Spanish-speaking backgrounds who have listening/speaking proficiency beyond the intermediate level, but little or no formal instruction. Introduction to Spanish grammar with emphasis on syntax, writing/reading skills, and vocabulary acquisition. May be taken instead of Intermediate Spanish (1201/1202) to satisfy language requirement.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• TRF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jesus Suarez-Garcia
  CULPA: 22 Info
• 4 points

GRAMMATIK AKTIV

An intensive study of key features of German grammar, with an emphasis on skill-building exercises and practical solutions to common problems of writing and speaking on the intermediate level; aims at building confidence in using simple and more complex sentence structures.

• Department: German @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Irene Motyl
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 2 points

FIRST YEAR ARABIC I

An introduction to the language of classical and modern Arabic literature. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MTWR 8:50 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
• MTWR 11:40 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
• MTWR 2:40 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
• MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
• Instructor: Reem Faraj
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 5 points

INTER MODERN GREEK CONVERSATN

For students in GRKM V1201, but also open to students not enrolled in GRKM V1201, who wish to improve their spoken Modern Greek. For more information, contact Dr. Maria Hadjipolycarpou at mh3505@columbia.edu

• Department: Classics
• F 11:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Karen R Van Dyck
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 1 points

FIRST YEAR ARABIC II

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
• Instructor: Abeer Shaheen
  h-index: 0 Info
• 5 points

INTRO-AMERICAN POLITICS-DISC

INTRO TO AMERICAN POLITCS-DISC

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• M 9 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
• M 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• M 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• M 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• T 9 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
• T 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• T 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• W 9 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• W 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 9 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
• R 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• F 11 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• F 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• F 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Seth A Green
  h-index: 3 Info
• Instructor: Matthew A Carr
  Info
• 0 points

INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS

Prerequisites: one semester of calculus.
Designed for students who desire a strong grounding in statistical concepts with a greater degree of mathematical rigor than in STAT W1111. Random variables, probability distributions, pdf, cdf, mean, variance, correlation, conditional distribution, conditional mean and conditional variance, law of iterated expectations, normal, chi-square, F and t distributions, law of large numbers, central limit theorem, parameter estimation, unbiasedness, consistency, efficiency, hypothesis testing, p-value, confidence intervals, maximum likelihood estimation. Serves as the pre-requisite for ECON W3412.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• F 11:40 a.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Birol Emir
  CULPA: 14 Info
• Instructor: Frank Caridi
  CULPA: 9 Info
• Instructor: Ha Nguyen
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Yang Kang
  h-index: 10 Info
• 3 points

SECOND YEAR ARABIC I

Prerequisites:
MDES W1210-W1211
or the equivalent.
A continuation of the study of the language of contemporary writing. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MTWR 8:50 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• MTWR 11:40 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
• MTWR 4:10 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Abeer Shaheen
  h-index: 0 Info
• Instructor: Faris Al Ahmad
  Info
• Instructor: Tarik Belhoussein
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 5 points

SECOND YEAR ARABIC II

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MTWR 2:40 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Tarik Belhoussein
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 5 points

COMPREHENSIVE INTERMED PORT

Prerequisites:
PORT W1102
or
PORT W1320
.
This course discusses contemporary issues based on articles from Lusophone newspapers and magazines. Students will review grammar, expand their vocabulary and improve oral expression, writing, and reading skills. They are also exposed to audiovisual material that will deepen their understanding of Lusophone societies and culture.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• MWF 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• MWF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jizelda F Galvao
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• 4 points

COMPREHENSIVE INTER SPANISH

Prerequisites: this course is an intensive and fast-paced coverage of both
SPAN W1201
and
SPAN W1202
. Students MUST demonstrate a strong foundation in Spanish and meet the following REQUIREMENTS: a score ABOVE 480 in the Department's Placement Examination; or A- or higher in
SPAN W1120
. If you fulfill the above requirements, you do not need the instructor's permission to register. HOWEVER the instructor will additionally assess student proficiency during the Change of Program Period. Students who do not have the necessary proficiency level may not remain in this course.
Replaces the sequence SPAN W1201-SPAN W1202.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• TRF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TRF 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Perla Rozencvaig
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 4 points

SECOND YEAR CHINESE W

Prerequisites:
CHNS C1112
or
F1112,
or the equivalent. See Admission to Language Courses.
Continuation of CHNS C1112, with a focus on reading comprehension and written Chinese. Traditional characters. CC GS EN CE

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MWR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Jia Xu
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 5 points

INTERMED CONVERSATN FRENCH I

Corequisites: Recommended:
FREN W1201
-
FREN W1202
.
Conducted in French. Practice in conversational French, with emphasis on comprehension, pronunciation, and idiomatic usage.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Greet Van Belle
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 2 points

INTERMEDIATE CONVERSATN I

INTERMD ITALIAN CONVERSATION I

Prerequisites:
ITAL W1112
or sufficient fluency to satisfy the instructor.
Corequisites: Recommended:
ITAL V1201-V/W1202
or
ITAL W1201-W1202
.
Conversation courses may not be used to satisfy the language requirement or fulfill major or concentration requirements. Intensive practice in the spoken language, assigned topics for class discussions, and oral reports.

• Department: Italian
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Barbara Spinelli
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 2 points

INTERMED CONVERSATN FRENCH II

Corequisites: Recommended:
FREN W1201
-
FREN W1202
.
Conducted in French. Practice in conversational French, with emphasis on comprehension, pronunciation, and idiomatic usage.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Maya J Sidhu
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• 2 points

ETHNICITY & SOCIAL TRANSFRMTN

Novels, memoirs, films and fieldwork based on the American experience of immigration during the twentieth centure. Readings will include works by Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Christina Garcia, Julia Alvarez, Fae Ng, Gish Jen, Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, and Malcolm X.

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

UNIVERSAL TIMEKEEPER

• Department: Astronomy
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: David J Helfand
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 3 points

JAZZ DANCE I

Prerequisites: BC1137, BC1138, BC1332, or BC1333. Intermediate level in modern or ballet technique is required.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Katiti King
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 0-1 points

THE AMERICAS I

Transcends the traditional and arbitrary distinction that separates North and South American literatures. The Americas emerge not as a passive colonial object but as an active historical and aesthetic agent. Emanating from what might be called the geographical site of modernity, American literature is characterized by unprecedented diversity and innovation. In addition to classic American novels, short stories, and poetry, the multicultural curriculum features genres ranging from creation myths and slave narratives to Gothicism and magic realism. Texts include: Popul Vuh; Shakespeare, The Tempest; Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Anne Bradstreet, and Phillis Wheatley, selected poetry; Madre Marïa de San Josï, Vida; Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Huntly; Toussaint L'Ouverture, selected letters; Leonora Sansay, Secret History; Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano; William Apess, A Sonof the Forest; Esteban Echeverrïa, "The Slaughterhouse"; Herman Melville, "Benito Cereno."

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Linn C Mehta
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 3 points

ECONMC LIFE & HUMAN CHARACTER

Governing authority can be defined as the relationship between ruler and ruled in which the framing of issues, the myths and narrative history of the state, and the reasoned elaboration of the government's decision are accepted by the citizens of subjects of the state.  The crisis of authority occurs when this relationship is disrupted.  In this seminar we will examine such crises in Ancient Greece, Renaissance Western Europe, Twentieth Century United State, and post-communist Eastern Europe, through the writings of such authors as Plate, Machiavelli, Milton, Mill, de Tocqueville, King, and Michnik.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Andre Burgstaller
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 3 points

VIOLENCE AND JUSTICE

What is the relationship between violence and justice? Are these mutually exclusive terms or do they at times overlap? Is violent disobedience of law unjustifiable at all times? How about violence used by to draw attention to questions of injustice?  This first year seminar aims to inquire into these challenging questions by studying the theoretical debates on the relationship between violence, politics, and justice (e.g. Sorel, Fanon, Arendt, Zizek), analyzing different conceptions of civil disobedience (e.g. Plato, Thoreau, Marcuse, Rawls, Habermas), looking at examples of political struggles (e.g. civil rights movement, student protests of late 60s, labor movement, anti-colonial struggle, anti-globalization protests, suffragettes), and grappling with the question of how representations of violence affect our judgment about its legitimacy (e.g. Conrad's Secret Agent).

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Ayten Gundogdu
  CULPA: 20 h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

UTOPIAS

In his 1516 work Utopia, Englishman Thomas More created a name for a perfect society from Greek roots meaning either no-place or the good place (eutopia). More's vision of an ideal alternative world reflected his worries about social problems in England as well as the possibilities he imagined in America, which offered a real new world for most Europeans in the early 1500s. More was neither the first nor last person to imagine an alternate world, and this class will examine the ways writers, politicians, social critics, and revolutionaries have constructed eutopias (or good societies) as well as dystopias (bad societies) in fiction and in real life. We will ask how utopian fiction has developed as a distinctive genre, and we will also ask how utopian thought is a product of its particular time. What motivates writers and thinkers to come up with alternative models of society? What has made utopian fiction and science fiction so interesting to so many different kinds of writers? Additionally, what is the relationship between people who have written fictional visions of the future and those people who have tried to create real utopian societies? Can one person's eutopia become another's dystopia? Readings in the class will range from Plato's Republic through modern science fiction and studies of surbubia. Texts include More's Utopia, Columbus's journals, Shakespeare's The Tempest, the Communist Manifesto, Gilman's Herland, and Hopkins's Of One Blood. We will also examine attempts to create utopias, including several American experimental communes from the early 1800s, nationalist racial dystopias such as Nazi Germany, and master-planned communities in the modern United States.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Gale L Kenny
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

GENERAL PHYSICS I LAB

Corequisites:
PHYS W1201x-W1202y
.
This course is the laboratory for the corequisite lecture course (PHYS W1201x-W1202y) and can be taken only during the same term as the corresponding lecture.

• Department: Physics
• M 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Giuseppina C Cambareri
  Info
• 1 points

GENERAL PHYSICS I LAB

Corequisites:
PHYS W1201x-W1202y
.
This course is the laboratory for the corequisite lecture course (PHYS W1201x-W1202y) and can be taken only during the same term as the corresponding lecture.

• Department: Physics
• M 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• M 4:10 p.m.-7:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Giuseppina C Cambareri
  Info
• 1 points

GENERAL PHYSICS I LAB

Corequisites:
PHYS W1201x-W1202y
.
This course is the laboratory for the corequisite lecture course (PHYS W1201x-W1202y) and can be taken only during the same term as the corresponding lecture.

• Department: Physics
• M 4:10 p.m.-7:10 p.m.
• M 7:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Giuseppina C Cambareri
  Info
• 1 points

GENERAL PHYSICS I LAB

Corequisites:
PHYS W1201x-W1202y
.
This course is the laboratory for the corequisite lecture course (PHYS W1201x-W1202y) and can be taken only during the same term as the corresponding lecture.

• Department: Physics
• M 7:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
• T 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Giuseppina C Cambareri
  Info
• 1 points

GENERAL PHYSICS I LAB

Corequisites:
PHYS W1201x-W1202y
.
This course is the laboratory for the corequisite lecture course (PHYS W1201x-W1202y) and can be taken only during the same term as the corresponding lecture.

• Department: Physics
• T 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• T 4:10 p.m.-7:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Giuseppina C Cambareri
  Info
• 1 points

GENERAL PHYSICS I LAB

Corequisites:
PHYS W1201x-W1202y
.
This course is the laboratory for the corequisite lecture course (PHYS W1201x-W1202y) and can be taken only during the same term as the corresponding lecture.

• Department: Physics
• T 4:10 p.m.-7:10 p.m.
• T 7:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Giuseppina C Cambareri
  Info
• 1 points

GENERAL PHYSICS I LAB

Corequisites:
PHYS W1201x-W1202y
.
This course is the laboratory for the corequisite lecture course (PHYS W1201x-W1202y) and can be taken only during the same term as the corresponding lecture.

• Department: Physics
• T 7:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
• W 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Giuseppina C Cambareri
  Info
• 1 points

GENERAL PHYSICS I LAB

Corequisites:
PHYS W1201x-W1202y
.
This course is the laboratory for the corequisite lecture course (PHYS W1201x-W1202y) and can be taken only during the same term as the corresponding lecture.

• Department: Physics
• W 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-7:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Giuseppina C Cambareri
  Info
• 1 points

GENERAL PHYSICS I LAB

Corequisites:
PHYS W1201x-W1202y
.
This course is the laboratory for the corequisite lecture course (PHYS W1201x-W1202y) and can be taken only during the same term as the corresponding lecture.

• Department: Physics
• W 4:10 p.m.-7:10 p.m.
• W 7:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Giuseppina C Cambareri
  Info
• 1 points

GENERAL PHYSICS I LAB

Corequisites:
PHYS W1201x-W1202y
.
This course is the laboratory for the corequisite lecture course (PHYS W1201x-W1202y) and can be taken only during the same term as the corresponding lecture.

• Department: Physics
• W 7:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
• R 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Giuseppina C Cambareri
  Info
• 1 points