INTERMEDIATE MICROECONOMICS

Prerequisites:
ECON W1105
or the equivalent;
MATH V1101
,
MATH V1201
(or
MATH V1207
).
The determination of the relative prices of goods and factors of production and the allocation of resources.

• Department: Economics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Susan M Elmes
  CULPA: 44 Info
• 3 points

ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS

American Government & Politics
Prerequisites: None. Some knowledge of American politics and government (i.e. prior high school or college coursework) is recommended.
Barnard syllabus
.

"L" sign-up through myBarnard.
The political setting in which environmental policy-making occurs. The course will focus on grassroots and top-down policy-making in the United States with some comparative examples.Topics include the conservation movement and national agenda politics, pollution control and iron triangle politics, alternative energy policy and subsidy politics, climate change and issue networks, and transnational environmental issues and negotiation of international policy regimes. (Cross-listed by the American Studies Program.)

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard M Pious
  CULPA: 59 Info
• 3 points

INTERMEDIATE MACROECONOMICS

Prerequisites:
ECON W1105
or the equivalent;
MATH V1101
or
MATH V1207
.
This course covers the determination of output, employment, inflation and interest rates. Topics include economic growth, business cycles, monetary and fiscal policy, consumption and savings and national income accounting.

• Department: Economics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Danilo Guaitoli
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Irasema Alonso
  CULPA: 12 Info
• Instructor: Jasmina Arifovic
  Info
• 3 points

LAW & SOCIETY

Examines how people use law, how law affects people, and how law develops, using social scientific research.  Covers law in everyday life; legal and social change; legal subjects such as citizens and corporations, and the legitimacy of law.  Recommended for pre-law and social-science majors.  No required prerequisites or previous knowledge.

• Department: Auditing
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Deborah Becher
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 4 Info
• 0 points

LAW & SOCIETY

LAW AND SOCIETY

Examines how people use law, how law affects people, and how law develops, using social scientific research.  Covers law in everyday life; legal and social change; legal subjects such as citizens and corporations, and the legitimacy of law.  Recommended for pre-law and social-science majors.  No required prerequisites or previous knowledge.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Deborah Becher
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 4 Info
• 3 points

LITERATURE & EMPIRE (19C LIT)

Explores the aesthetic and formal developments in Russian prose, especially the rise of the monumental 19th-century novel, as one manifestation of a complex array of national and cultural aspirations, humanistic and imperialist ones alike. Works by Pushkin, Lermonotov, Gogol, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov. Knowledge of Russian not required.

• Department: Auditing
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Cathy Popkin
  CULPA: 21 Info
• 0 points

LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE CHOICE

Much (most?) of politics is about combining individual preferences or actions into collective choices. We will make use of two theoretical approaches. Our primary approach will be social choice theory, which studies how we aggregate what individuals want into what the collective “wants.” The second approach, game theory, covers how we aggregate what individuals want into what the group gets, given that social, economic, and political outcomes usually depend on the interaction of individual choices. The aggregation of preferences or choices is usually governed by some set of institutional rules, formal or informal. Our main themes include the rationality of individual and group preferences, the underpinnings and implications of using majority rule, tradeoffs between aggregation methods, the fairness of group choice, the effects of institutional constraints on choice (e.g., agenda control), and the implications for democratic choice. Most of the course material is highly abstract, but these abstract issues turn up in many real-world problems, from bargaining between the branches of government to campus elections to judicial decisions on multi-member courts to the allocation of relief funds among victims of natural disasters to the scoring of Olympic events. The collective choice problem is one faced by society as a whole and by the smallest group alike.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeffrey R Lax
  CULPA: 32 h-index: 22 Info
• 3 points

LITERATURE & EMPIRE (19C LIT)

Explores the aesthetic and formal developments in Russian prose, especially the rise of the monumental 19th-century novel, as one manifestation of a complex array of national and cultural aspirations, humanistic and imperialist ones alike. Works by Pushkin, Lermonotov, Gogol, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov. Knowledge of Russian not required.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Cathy Popkin
  CULPA: 21 Info
• 3 points

PLEIN AIR PAINTING

Prerequisites:
VIAR R1001
and
VIAR R3201
.
Each class students will set up easels and paint outside in various locations in the city and environs. The class will also include on-site painting in public interior spaces. The world is the painter's studio. Painting "in the open air" was first popularized in Paris in the mid-nineteenth century, when tubed paint became easily available. At the time, this avant garde practice brought to life some of the greatest works of art and histories most cherished paintings. The act of Plein Air painting is a physical one; it challenges and invigorates any painter's practice, resulting in a fine tuned eye, better skilled hands and a deeper awareness of space. The painter, immersed in nature must shift the painting process, in a situation where the subject is no longer fixed, the painter must bend, making the divide between eye and object clear. It is a fascinating process with results unlike any other artistic practice. It brings a single moment into focus with such clarity that one's relationship to time shifts. Portfolio required at end. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• F 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Van M Hanos
  Info
• 3 points

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY II-LEC

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3230. Lecture: MWF 10:00-10:50.
Extension of concepts from Organic Chemistry I to conjugated systems; chemistry of the carbonyl group; NMR and IR spectroscopy; bioorganic chemistry.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• MWF 10 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Dina C Merrer
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 3 points

SOC MOVEMNTS:COLLECTIVE ACTION

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Prerequisites: One introductory course in Sociology suggested.
Social movements and the theories social scientists use to explain them, with emphasis on the American civil rights and women's movements.  Topics include theories of participation, the personal and social consequences of social movements, the rationality of protest, the influence of ideology, organization, and the state on movement success, social movements, and the mass media.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Luke Elliott-Negri
  Info
• 3 points

LATE MEDIEVAL & MODERN PHILOS

Prerequisites: one philosophy course or the instructor's permission.
This intensive survey examines the development of 17th and 18th century epistemology and metaphysics in Europe prior to Kant, a critical formative period in Western philosophy. The course thus discusses the modern origins of a variety of central philosophical problems and controversies - typically ones that remain areas of debate today. Considerable attention is devoted to Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume, with emphasis on the systematic aspects of their philosophical views as well as on individual issues. Topics to be covered include: skepticism about the existence of the material world, theories of perception and of the nature of material objects, idealism, inductive inference, theories of epistemic justification, innate knowledge, the scope and limits of a priori knowledge, necessary and contingent truth, empiricist theories of meaning, God, substance, causation, free will and determinism, the self, the relationship between mind and body, and personal identity. The required reading is in primary philosophical sources. There will be two papers and a final examination.

• Department: Philosophy
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Louis Loeb
  Info
• 3 points

ARCH OF 11/12 CENT-DIGITAL AGE

During the first two centuries of the second millennium, new regional powers developed in Western Europe and the Mediterranean, leading to a regain of exchanges across the Mediterranean Sea. This course ignores traditional art historical borders to investigate how in the 11th and 12th centuries artists and architects developed inventive answers to the diverse needs and desires of their societies. By bringing in materials from the Western and Islamic cultures, original and border-crossing associations are sought.While the course focuses on architecture, different media are included as they provide valuable information on the cultural context of the 11th and 12th centuries. Particular attention is given to new technologies currently addressed for the study of medieval architecture. They serve as a basis for a critical discussion about the changes in method introduced by new media and technologies in the field of architectural history.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Stefaan Van Liefferinge
  Info
• 3 points

CHALL/STRAT IN PRIMATE CONSERV

PRIMATE CONSERVATION

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Alba Lucia Morales Jimenez
  Info
• 3 points

FREN LANG,SOC,CULTRE THRU FILM

Prerequisites:
FREN W1202
Intermediate French II.
French socio-political issues and language through the prism of film. Especially designed for non-majors wishing to further develop their French language skills and learn about French culture. Each module includes assignments targeting the four language competencies: reading, writing, speaking and oral comprehension, as well as cultural understanding. Note: this course does not count toward the French major or concentration.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Heidi Holst-Knudsen
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 3 points

COMPOSITION

Prerequisites:
MUSI V3310
or the instructor's permission.
Composition in more extended forms. Survey of advanced techniques of contemporary composition. (Previously called Advanced Composition.)

• Department: Music
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Sophia C Di Castri
  Info
• 3 points

GLOBAL HISTORIES OF THE BOOK

This course introduces students to the material and cultural circumstances of the creation, transmission, circulation and consumption of written literature in cultures around the world from antiquity to the twenty-first century.  Students will consider the following questions: What is a book? What role does it play in connecting cultures' pasts with their futures, and cultures with each other?  Is it possible to tell a global history of the book?  How does the material form of a book relate to its status as a "classic"?

• Department: Classics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph A Howley
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

RUSS INTERVENTIONS 1939-2015

The lecture course by Csaba BÉKÉS, a leading scholar on the Cold War, will analyze the patterns of Soviet interventions from the invasion of Poland at the onset of the Second World War and the Winter War against Finland up to the recent military conflict between Russia and Georgia in 2008 as well as the present crisis in Ukraine. The evolution of Soviet crisis management and conflict resolution will be analyzed by presenting the numerous internal crises of the Soviet Bloc: the uprising in East Germany in 1953, the Polish October in 1956, the 1956 Hungarian revolution, the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, the invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, the Solidarity crisis in Poland in 1980-81 as well as the peaceful dissolution of the Soviet Bloc and the end of the Cold War.

• Department: Auditing
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Csaba Bekes
  Info
• 0 points

RUSS INTERVENTIONS 1939-2015

The lecture course by Csaba BÉKÉS, a leading scholar on the Cold War, will analyze the patterns of Soviet interventions from the invasion of Poland at the onset of the Second World War and the Winter War against Finland up to the recent military conflict between Russia and Georgia in 2008 as well as the present crisis in Ukraine. The evolution of Soviet crisis management and conflict resolution will be analyzed by presenting the numerous internal crises of the Soviet Bloc: the uprising in East Germany in 1953, the Polish October in 1956, the 1956 Hungarian revolution, the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, the invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, the Solidarity crisis in Poland in 1980-81 as well as the peaceful dissolution of the Soviet Bloc and the end of the Cold War.

• Department: History
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Csaba Bekes
  Info
• 3 points

GREEK ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Introduction to the art and architecture of the Greek world during the archaic, classical, and Hellenistic periods (11th - 1st centuries B.C.E.).

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ioannis Mylonopoulos
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 3 points

FLAMENCO & CLASSCL SP DANCE I

Prerequisites: DNCE BC1137x, BC1138y, BC1332x, BC1333y, or Permission of instructor. Intermediate level in modern or ballet technique is required.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• F noon-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Melinda S Bronson
  Info
• 0-1 points

SOC & POL THOUGHT IN MOD E EUR

This lecture course will focus on key political ideas and intellectual currents that shaped Eastern European societies in the late 19th and 20th century. We will study a relationship between empires and nationalism, the triumph of self-determination that followed the collapse of Habsburg, Russian and German empires, population policies such as emigration and inner colonization, politics of conquest and occupation during the First and the Second World War, communism as lived ideology and everyday experience. The lecture will introduce political ideas that formed a turbulent history of the region: Marxism/socialism, living space/Lebensraum, race, genocide, peasantism and socialist modernization. Finally, we will consider how Eastern Europe fits into broader narratives of civilization and modern culture through the lens of literary works (Bohumil Hrabal, Herta Müller), films and a wide range of sources reflecting lived experiences of multi-ethnic Eastern European populations, including Jews and German-speaking communities.

• Department: History
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Malgorzata Mazurek
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

CONTEMPORARY MEDIA THEORY

Prerequisites: Sophomore standing. Enrollment limited to 18 students. Attend first class for instructor permission. Registering for the course only through myBarnard or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment.
Explores the transformation of sociality, consciousness and geo-politics by and as media technologies during the long 20th century. Students will read influential works of media analysis written during the past century, analyze audio-visual analog and digital media, and explore political theory and media theory written since the rise of the internet. Final projects on contemporary media forms.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan L Beller
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

QUANTUM CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: Physics and Calculus II or III or permission of instructor. Lecture: MWF 11:00-11:50.
Exact and approximate solutions to the Schrodinger equation. The structure of atoms and molecules. Chemical bonding and spectroscopy. Computer-based molecular modeling.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• MWF 11 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Benjamin Bostick
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 44 Info
• 3 points

METHODS, APPLCTNS PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY

METHODS,APPLCTNS PHYSICL CHEM

Prerequisites: One semester of physical chemistry (CHEM BC3252, CHEM BC3253, or the equivalent). Lecture: MWF 10:00-10:50.
Advanced topics in physical chemistry, including statistical mechanics, reaction dynamics, surface science, spectroscopy, microscopy, and nanotechnology.  Particular emphasis will be placed on current applications in related fields such as biomedicine, engineering, and environmental science.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• MWF 10 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Marisa C Buzzeo
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

INSIDE THE TV WRITERS' ROOM

Prerequisites: FILM BC3201 or equivalent. Enrollment limited to 12 students. Priority is given to Film Studies majors/concentrations in order of class seniority. Sign-up with the English Department is required. Registering for the course only through myBarnard or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment. The date, time, and location that Film sign-up sheets go up is listed here: http://film.barnard.edu/sign-ups
Corequisites: Please note that since this is a Film course, it does not count as a writing course for English majors with a Writing Concentration.
This course will focus on the primary part of television production: it will enable the students to have concrete experiences of collaborative writing-producing through the simulation of a TV writers' room, aiming to create the pilot and bible of either a web series or a web anthology of short films with a common theme. Through a number of creative exercises specifically catered to the brainstorming process and to project development in a collaborative manner, students learn how to run and be part of a room, how to achieve the right form and structure for each part of the storytelling process, and how to treat each element in its own right while not losing focus of the big picture.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• R 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Christina Kalogeropoulou
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

LATINO POLITICAL EXPERIENCE

This course focuses on the political incorporation of Latinos into the American polity. Among the topics to be discussed are patterns of historical exclusion, the impact of the Voting Rights Act, organizational and electoral behavior, and the effects of immigration on the Latino national political agenda.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Rodolfo de la Garza
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

COMPUTER SCIENCE THEORY

Prerequisites:
COMS W3203
.
Corequisites:
COMS W3134
,
W3136
, or
W3137
.
Regular languages: deterministic and non-deterministic finite automata, regular expressions. Context-free languages: context-free grammars, push-down automata. Turing machines, the Chomsky hierarchy, and the Church-Turing thesis. Introduction to Complexity Theory and NP-Completeness.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Alfred Aho
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia h-index: 67 Info
• 3 points

ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1600

(Lecture). This course aims to introduce you to a selection of sixteenth-century English verse and prose, from major works such as More's Utopia, Spenser's Faerie Queene and Sidney 's Defense of Poesie, to more occasional but illuminating excerpts. Although the classes will range widely across social, political and historical concerns, the focus will be on close reading of the texts. [NB This course fulfills the poetry requirement]

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Kathy H Eden
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

MONEY AND BANKING

ECONOMICS OF MONEY AND BANKING

Prerequisites: ECON BC3033 and ECON BC3035 or the equivalent.
Introduction to the principles of money and banking. The intermediary institutions of the American economy and their historical developments, current issues in monetary and financial reform.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Perry G Mehrling
  CULPA: 25 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

BRITISH LITERATURE 1900-1950

(Lecture). Hardy, Wilde, Yeats, Conrad, Joyce, Shaw, Eliot, Woolf, Auden.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Edward Mendelson
  CULPA: 64 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

COMPUT APPROACHES-HUMAN VISION

Prerequisites: some background in psychology and/or neurophysiology (e.g.,
PSYC W1001
,
PSYC W1010
,
PSYC W2230
,
PSYC W2450
;
BIOL W3004
or
BIOL W3005
) is desirable. See instructor if you have questions about your background. Some background in mathematics and computer science (e.g., calculus or linear algebra, a programming language) is highly recommended.
Study of human vision--both behavioral and physiological data--within a framework of computational and mathematical descriptions. Please contact Prof. Graham by e-mail (nvg1@columbia.edu) if you are interested in this course.

• Department: Psychology
• Instructor: Norma V Graham
  CULPA: 29 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

NONFIC DIGTL VIDEO PRODCTN

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 12 students. Registering for the course only through myBarnard or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment. Attend first class for instructor permission. Lab section required.
This workshop course is designed to familiarize students with digital video technologies while they investigate various aesthetic and theoretical concepts related to nonfiction cinema and its engagement with the real. Through weekly readings, discussions, screenings, critiques, and practical exercises, students will develop a solid understanding of how to use digital video as an expressive tool. The course will culminate in the completion of a two-minute video work by each student. Students should be both self-directed and interested in developing a support system for each other's work.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Margaret J McLagan
  Info
• 3 points

WORKSHOP IN SUSTAINABLE DEVPT

The upper level undergraduate Sustainable Development Workshop will be modeled on client based graduate-level workshops, but with more time devoted to methods of applied policy analysis and issues in Sustainable Development.  The heart of the course is the group project on an issue of sustainable development with a faculty advisor providing guidance and ultimately grading student performance. Students would receive instruction on methodology, group work, communication and the context of policy analysis. Much of the reading in the course would be project-specific and identified by the student research teams. Offered in Fall and Spring. For registration issues contact Jessica Sotomayor (jsotomayor@ei.columbia.edu).

• Department: Earth Institute
• TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• MW 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Stuart R Gaffin
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Radley M Horton
  Info
• 4 points

BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: One year of Organic Chemistry, BIOL BC1502. Lecture: MWF 9:00-9:50.
Introduction to biochemical building blocks, macromolecules, and metabolism. Structures of amino acids, lipids, carbohydrates, nucleic acids. Protein structure and folding. Enzyme mechanisms, kinetics, allostery. Membranes and biosignaling. Catabolism and anabolism with emphasis on chemical intermediates, metabolic energy, catalysis by specific enzymes, regulation.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• MWF 9 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Mary Sever
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

POST 1945 AMERICAN LIT

POST-1945 AMERICAN LIT

(Lecture). This course in American post-war literature examines a range of literary forms (poetry, short fiction, drama) and such themes as the existential misfit, racial and "queer" identity, spiritual aspiration, including Eastern mysticism, and the relation of madness and genius.  Texts: Dorothy Baker, Cassandra at the Wedding; Robert Lowell, Life Studies; Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding; Flannery O'Connor, Stories; Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire; J. D. Salinger, Nine Stories, Franny & Zooey, Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ross Posnock
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 3 points

FREEDOM OF SPEECH & PRESS

Examines the constitutional right of freedom of speech and press in the United States. Examines, in depth, various areas of law, including extremist or seditious speech, obscenity, libel, fighting words, the public forum doctrine, and public access to the mass media. Follows the law school course model, with readings focused on actual judicial decisions.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Lee C Bollinger
  CULPA: 27 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

PSYC OF DISASTER PREPAREDNESS

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

ISRAELI SOC & ISR-PLS CONFLICT

The purpose of the course is to acquaint students with Israeli society through the lens of the Israeli- Palestinian conflict. The underlying assumption in this course is that much of the social, economic, political, and cultural processes in contemporary Israel have been shaped by the 100-year Israeli- Arab/Palestinian conflict.

• Department: Sociology
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Yinon Cohen
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 33 Info
• 3 points

CURATING ARCHITECTURE

This class will examine curating practices in relation to architectural exhibitions and publications. We will look at exhibitions, pavilions, installations, magazines, journals, boogazines, websites, and blogs (among other platforms) not only as mechanisms for presenting and distributing information but also as sites that serve as an integral part of architectural theory and practice.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• TR 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Irina C Verona
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

VOTING AND AMERICAN POLITICS

Elections and public opinion; history of U.S. electoral politics; the problem of voter participation; partisanship and voting; accounting for voting decisions; explaining and forecasting election outcomes; elections and divided government; money and elections; electoral politics and representative democracy.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Robert Erikson
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia h-index: 59 Info
• 3 points

FIRST NOVELS: HOW THEY WORK

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required.
First Novels exist as a distinct category, in part, because all novelists must write one.  They may never write a second, but in order to be called novelists there always has to be a first.  As a result the first novel is a very special animal.  Every kind of writer must attempt one and despite vast differences in genre or style there are often many similarities between them.  In fact, one of the surest similarities are the flaws in each book.  Before each writer becomes an expert at his or her method, his or her style, there is room for experimentation and unsuccessful attempts. These "failures" are often much more illuminating for students than the successes of later books.  First novels contain the energy of youth, but often lack the precision that comes with maturity.  By examining a series of first novels students will learn to identify common craft elements of first novels and how to employ them to great effect in their own writing.

• Department: Writing
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Victor D Lavalle
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

APPROACH TO PLOT/DRAM STRUCTRS

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required.
Typically the word "plot" produces either anxiety in writers or a sense of overconfidence.  Must a story or a novel have one?  When is a plot a plot and not just a series of random events, connected by too much willfulness on the part of the author?  How much should coincidence come to bear when designing a plot?  Should an overreliance on plot deem a work to be classified as "genre writing" rather than a work of literature?  And how, within this context, does one understand F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous claim that "character is plot, plot is character"?  This class will attempt to answer these questions by examining the mechanics of plot, and how a machine can become an art form.  The syllabus will include a variety of fictional works ranging from the murder mystery to the so-called plotless novel.  In-class discussions and writing assignments will focus on the strategies these different novels and stories deploy as a way to understand structure, sustain dramatic irony, and make use of dramatic tension.  Readings may also include essays on plot by writers such as E.M. Forster, Elizabeth Bowen, Milan Kundera, and Charles Baxter, among others.

• Department: Writing
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexander Chee
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

RUSSIAN FIN DE SIECLE

This course introduces students to the artistic movements, everyday life, and socio-cultural upheavals of urban Russia in the fin-de-siecle (1880 to 1917). The fast-paces, consumer-oriented modern city, with its celebrities, fashions, and technological wonders, gripped the imagination of imperial Russia's urban denizens. The inhabitants of St. Petersburg and Moscow, conscious of living in a new era, embraced and grappled with the Modern Age as journalists, impresarios, and artists narrated and interpreted it. We will explore the ways revolution and war, industrialization, the commercialization of culture, and new sensibilities about the self and identity were reflected in modernist art and thought, literature, and autobiographical writings. We also will look closely at the realms of elite entertainment and popular amusement in an attempt to relate consumer culture notions of gender and sexuality, the redefinition of status and privilege, and concepts of leisure. Historians have offered competing explanations of how and why the rapid social, economic, and cultural changes of this period contributed to the fall of the Russian monarchy and the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Our primary goals are to analyze and critique various historical texts, assess historians' arguments, and make our own. This course will introduce students to a wide array of primary and secondary sources, and help them to develop skills of critical reading, writing, and oral discussion.

• Department: History
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Anna Fishzon
  Info
• 3 points

BIOCHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: one year each of Introductory Biology and General Chemistry.
Corequisites: Organic Chemistry. Primarily aimed at nontraditional students and undergraduates who have course conflicts with
BIOC C3501
.
Biochemistry is the study of the chemical processes within organisms that give rise to the immense complexity of life. This complexity emerges from a highly regulated and coordinated flow of chemical energy from one biomolecule to another. This course serves to familiarize students with the spectrum of biomolecules (carbohydrates, lipids, amino acids, nucleic acids, etc.) as well as the fundamental chemical processes (glycolysis, citric acid cycle, fatty acid metabolism, etc.) that allow life to happen. In particular, this course will employ active learning techniques and critical thinking problem-solving to engage students in answering the question: how is the complexity of life possible? NOTE: While Organic Chemistry is listed as a corequisite, it is highly recommended that you take Organic Chemistry beforehand.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• T 7:10 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Danny N Ho
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

WORKSHOP SUSTAINABLE DEVEL

Students address real-world issues in sustainable development by working in groups for an external client agency.  Instruction in communication, collaboration, and management; meetings with and presentations to clients and academic community.  Projects vary from year to year.  Readings in the course are project-specific and are identified by the student research teams.

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Martin Stute
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 52 Info
• 4 points

WORKSHOP SUSTAINABLE DEVEL

Students address real-world issues in sustainable development by working in groups for an external client agency.  Instruction in communication, collaboration, and management; meetings with and presentations to clients and academic community.  Projects vary from year to year.  Readings in the course are project-specific and are identified by the student research teams.

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Martin Stute
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 52 Info
• 4 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

Advanced Language Through Content: Dissident Folk - Music, Performance and Protest in the Lusophone World. This course will take as its primary texts dissident music and performance – artists, genres and performances representative of a cultural countercurrent of change and resistance that contested against or negotiated within dominant discourses shaping the social and political space. We will be focused primarily in the second half of the twentieth century, and within the Lusophone world, but just as these cultures disrupted clear divisions of time and space, we will also necessarily move among different times and locations to inform our understanding of the contemporary moment.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Daniel da Silva
  CULPA: 21 Info
• 3 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

LATIN AMERICA IN REVOLT

Prerequisites:
fulfillment of the
language requirement
.
Corequisites:
formerly
SPAN W3200
and
SPAN BC3004
. If you have taken either of these courses before you can not take
SPAN W3300
.

An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Santiago Acosta
  Info
• 3 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

UNDERGROUND IBERIA

Prerequisites:
fulfillment of the
language requirement
.
Corequisites:
formerly
SPAN W3200
and
SPAN BC3004
. If you have taken either of these courses before you can not take
SPAN W3300
.

An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Almudena Marin-Cobos
  Info
• 3 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

DISOBEDIENT POLI IN MDRN SPAIN

Prerequisites:
fulfillment of the
language requirement
.
Corequisites:
formerly
SPAN W3200
and
SPAN BC3004
. If you have taken either of these courses before you can not take
SPAN W3300
.

An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Marta Ferrer
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

MYTHS & HEROES OF INDEPENDENCE

Prerequisites:
fulfillment of the
language requirement
.
Corequisites:
formerly
SPAN W3200
and
SPAN BC3004
. If you have taken either of these courses before you can not take
SPAN W3300
.

An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Alejandro Quintero
  h-index: 0 Info
• 3 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

STORY OF DIFF IN LATIN AMERICA

Prerequisites:
fulfillment of the
language requirement
.
Corequisites:
formerly
SPAN W3200
and
SPAN BC3004
. If you have taken either of these courses before you can not take
SPAN W3300
.

An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Roberto Valdovinos
  Info
• 3 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

GAY IDENTITIES IN SPAIN

Prerequisites:
fulfillment of the
language requirement
.
Corequisites:
formerly
SPAN W3200
and
SPAN BC3004
. If you have taken either of these courses before you can not take
SPAN W3300
.

An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Francisco Rosales-Varo
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 3 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

SALSA: AFRO-LATN AMER HISTORY

Prerequisites:
fulfillment of the
language requirement
.
Corequisites:
formerly
SPAN W3200
and
SPAN BC3004
. If you have taken either of these courses before you can not take
SPAN W3300
.

An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Juan P Jimenez-Caicedo
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

SPAIN IN ITS ART

Prerequisites:
fulfillment of the
language requirement
.
Corequisites:
formerly
SPAN W3200
and
SPAN BC3004
. If you have taken either of these courses before you can not take
SPAN W3300
.

An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Angelina Craig-Florez
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 3 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

HISPANICS & MIGRATION

Prerequisites: Completion of the language requirement. "L" course; enrollment limited to 15 students. IMPORTANT: This course replaces the former W3200 and BC3004. If you have taken those courses, do not enroll for W3300. Although section topics vary, you may only take 3300 ONCE.
Content-based advanced study of selected aspects of grammar and vocabulary, aimed at increasing proficiency in speaking, listening comprehension, and reading comprehension, with a special emphasis on writing. Topic varies according to instructor. Sections and topics taught at the Department of Spanish and Latin American Cultures include: Hispanic Cultures in the Age of Globalization; Translating Cultures - Advanced Spanish for Native Speakers; Cultura - An Online Cross-Cultural Dialogue; Reading and Interpreting Narrative; Theatre & Society in Contemporary Spain; Short Stories in Latin America; and Immigration and U. S. Educational Policies.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria E Lozano
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor given at first class meeting.
Students will create and workshop plays, with a focus on learning new approaches to language and structure. Recommended for students undertaking a senior thesis in playwriting.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew Bragen
  Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO CLASSICAL CHINESE

Prerequisites: completion of three years of modern Chinese at least, or four years of Japanese or Korean.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MWF 11 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Lening Liu
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 3 points

THERMODYNAMICS

Classical thermodynamics. Basic properties and concepts, thermodynamic properties of pure substances, equation of state, work, heat, the first and second laws for flow and nonflow processes, energy equations, entropy, and irreversibility. Introduction to power and refrigeration cycles.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Sinisa Vukelic
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

THERMODYNAMICS

THERMO RECITATION

Classical thermodynamics. Basic properties and concepts, thermodynamic properties of pure substances, equation of state, work, heat, the first and second laws for flow and nonflow processes, energy equations, entropy, and irreversibility. Introduction to power and refrigeration cycles.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• F 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• 0 points

SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER

Prerequisites: One introductory course in Sociology suggested.
Examination of factors in gender identity that are both universal (across time, culture, setting) and specific to a social context. Social construction of gender roles in different settings, including family, work, and politics. Attention to the role of social policies in reinforcing norms or facilitating change.

• Department: Auditing
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Mignon R Moore
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info
• 0 points

IND STUDIES-CIVIL ENGIN-SOPH

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• Instructor: Raimondo Betti
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 31 Info
• Instructor: Gautam Dasgupta
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 19 Info
• Instructor: George Deodatis
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 42 Info
• Instructor: Patricia J Culligan
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Maria Q Feng
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 46 Info
• Instructor: Hoe I Ling
  h-index: 45 Info
• Instructor: Andrew W Smyth
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Upmanu Lall
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 68 Info
• Instructor: Huiming Yin
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 25 Info
• Instructor: Haim Waisman
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 29 Info
• Instructor: Jacob Fish
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 54 Info
• Instructor: Shiho Kawashima
  h-index: 24 Info
• Instructor: Waiching Sun
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 30 Info
• Instructor: Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou
  h-index: 26 Info
• Instructor: Catherine Gorle
  Info
• 1-3 points

SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER

Prerequisites: One introductory course in Sociology suggested.
Examination of factors in gender identity that are both universal (across time, culture, setting) and specific to a social context. Social construction of gender roles in different settings, including family, work, and politics. Attention to the role of social policies in reinforcing norms or facilitating change.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Mignon R Moore
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

IND STUDIES-CIVIL ENGIN-JUNIOR

A project on civil engineering subjects approved by the chairman of the department. Lab fee: $200.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• Instructor: Raimondo Betti
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 31 Info
• Instructor: Gautam Dasgupta
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 19 Info
• Instructor: George Deodatis
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 42 Info
• Instructor: Patricia J Culligan
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Maria Q Feng
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 46 Info
• Instructor: Hoe I Ling
  h-index: 45 Info
• Instructor: Andrew W Smyth
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Upmanu Lall
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 68 Info
• Instructor: Huiming Yin
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 25 Info
• Instructor: Haim Waisman
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 29 Info
• Instructor: Jacob Fish
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 54 Info
• Instructor: Shiho Kawashima
  h-index: 24 Info
• Instructor: Waiching Sun
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 30 Info
• Instructor: Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou
  h-index: 26 Info
• Instructor: Catherine Gorle
  Info
• Instructor: Julius Chang
  Info
• 1-3 points