IND STUDIES-CIVIL ENGIN-SENIOR

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

THEORIES OF HEINRICH SCHENKER

Prerequisites:
MUSI V3322
or the instructor's permission. Fulfills the requirement of either the 3000-level advanced theory elective or the nontonal course.
An examination of Schenker's concepts of the relation between strict counterpoint and free writing; "prolongation"; the "composing-out" of harmonies; the parallels and distinctions between "foreground," "middle ground," and "background"; and the interaction between composing-out and thematic processes to create "form."

• Department: Music
• R 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Joseph P Dubiel
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

THE FIRST PERSON

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required.
Today, in the age of memoir, we don't need to apologize for speaking in the first person, but we still need to find a way to make a first person, fictional narrative forceful and focused.  The logic is different, the danger the same: we must find a form that will shape an "I" account and render it rhetorically compelling, giving it the substance and complexity of literary art.  In this seminar, we will begin by reading critical background about the early uses of first-person in fiction.  We will study how these functioned in the societies they commented on, and chart the changing use of first person in western literature from the eighteenth century to today.  Through reading contemporary novels, stories and novellas, we will analyze first person in its various guises: the "I" as witness (reliable or not), as elegist, outsider, interpreter, diarist, apologist, and portraitist.  Towards the end of the semester we will study more unusual forms: first-person plural, first-person omniscient, first-person rotating. We will supplement our reading with craft-oriented observations by master-writers.  Students will complete four to five fiction pieces of their own in which they will implement specific approaches to first-person.  At least two of these will be complete stories; others may be the beginning of a novel or novella or floating scenes.  Students will conference several times with the instructor to discuss their work.

• Department: Writing
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Alena B Graedon
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

COLL: RACIAL VIOLENCE

American Politics
Prerequisites: POLS 1201 Intro to American Politics or an equivalent American Politics course.
Admission by application
through the Barnard department only. Enrollment limited to 16 students.
This colloquium examines two particular episodes of racial violence, each of which situates the political differently: lynchings and prisons. The goal is to not only explore how to bring the state back in but also examine the differences, similarities and points of intersections across disciplines.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Kato
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

SELECTIONS FROM GREEK LIT

GREEK LIT I: IMPERIAL PROSE

Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.

• Department: Classics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Marcus Folch
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

LATIN LITERATURE SELECTIONS

LATIN LIT SELECTIONS:LUCRETIUS

Prerequisites:
LATN V1202
or the equivalent.
Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.

• Department: Classics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: James E Zetzel
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

PLANET AMERICA

This course is a semester-long engagement with the idea of internationalism from the perspective of U.S. culture, history, and politics. We will consider two forms of internationalism: internationalism from above, “imperialism;” and internationalism from below, “radical democracy.” We will engage long-standing models in the analysis of empire, and focus on cultural, economic, and political dimensions to examine the centrality of imperialism to the United States, and the history of the United States within a context of global histories. On the other hand, radical democratic movements and ideas have long been articulated in relation to the American project. Central to these movements is the necessity of articulating demands for justice not as matters of civil rights, but as human rights. The lectures and readings in this course will engage the body of scholarship known as “transnational American Studies” to think about America, as an idea, a set of institutions, and a way of being, within a larger world.

• Department: American Studies @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Manu M Vimalassery
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

CELL BIOLOGY

Prerequisites: BIOL BC1500, BIOL BC1501 BIOL BC1502, BIOL BC1503, or equivalent, and BIOL BC2100.
This course explores the components, systems, and regulatory mechanisms involved in eukaryotic cellular function. Topics include: signal transduction, translational and protein quality control, organellar and cytoskeletal dynamics, and some coordinated responses such as proliferation and programmed cell death. Throughout the course we will see how general cell biology can be specialized to achieve specific cellular functions through regulation of the basic machinery. We will also explore the cellular and molecular bases for a variety of human pathologies, with an emphasis on cancer. In addition to lecture, we will spend some time discussing the material, including selected articles from the primary literature, and learning through group presentations.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Snow
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 18 Info
• 3 points

LABORATORY IN CELL BIOLOGY

Prerequisites: BIOL BC1500, BIOL BC1501, BIOL BC1502, BIOL BC1503 or the equivalent, BIOL BC2100 or permission of instructor. Enrollment limited to 16.
Introduction to cell biological techniques used to investigate structural, molecular, and physiological aspects of eukaryotic cells and their organization into tissues. Techniques include light and electron microscopy, cell culture, isolation of cellular organelles, protein electrophoresis and Western Blot analysis.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• R 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Snow
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 18 Info
• 3 points

SPECIAL TOPICS

SP TPCS: ARCHITECTRE& CAPITAL

Topics vary yearly. Course may be repeated for credit.  Attendance is mandatory at the first class meeting in order to form class registration lists.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• MW 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard T Rouhe
  Info
• 3 points

SPECIAL TOPICS

SP TPC:DATASCAPES&INFRML; CITY

Topics vary yearly. Course may be repeated for credit.  Attendance is mandatory at the first class meeting in order to form class registration lists.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Leah M Meisterlin
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS

Prerequisites:
STAT W3107
(or
STAT W4150
) and
STAT W3103
(or
MATH V1101
,
V1102
, and
V2110
).
Theory and practice of regression analysis. Simple and multiple regression, testing, estimation, prediction, and confidence procedures, modeling, regression diagnostics and plots, polynomial regression, colinearity and confounding, model selection, geometry of least squares. Extensive use of the computer to analyse data. Equivalent to STAT W4315, except that enrollment is limited to undergraduate students.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Tian Zheng
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 25 Info
• 3 points

EAR-TRAINING III

Sight-singing techniques of modulating diatonic melodies in simple, compound, or irregular meters that involve complex rhythmic patterns. Emphasis is placed on four-part harmonic dictation of modulating phrases.

• Department: Music
• MW 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• TR 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard Miller
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Peter M Susser
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 1 points

EAR-TRAINING IV

Techniques of musicianship at the intermediate level, stressing the importance of musical nuances in sight-singing. Emphasis is placed on chromatically inflected four-part harmonic dictation.

• Department: Music
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard Miller
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Ramin Amir Arjomand
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 1 points

MICROBIOLOGY

Prerequisites: BIOL BC1500, BIOL BC1501, BIOL BC1502, BIOL BC1503 or the equivalent, and BIOL BC2100.
Survey of the diversity, cellular organization, physiology, and genetics of the major microbial groups. Also includes aspects of applied microbiology and biotechnology, the function of microorganisms in the environment, and the role of microbes in human diseases.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew Rhodes
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

MUSICS OF INDIA & WEST ASIA

A topical approach to the concepts and practices of music in relation to other arts in the development of Asian civilizations.

• Department: Music
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Alessandra M Ciucci
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Nandini R Banerjee
  Info
• 3 points

COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS

Examines the shaping of European cultural identity through encounters with non-European cultures from 1500 to the post-colonial era. Novels, paintings, and films will be among the sources used to examine such topics as exoticism in the Enlightenment, slavery and European capitalism, Orientalism in art, ethnographic writings on the primitive, and tourism.

• Department: Auditing
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Tiersten
  CULPA: 45 Info
• 0 points

LABORATORY IN MICROBIOLOGY

Prerequisites: BIOL BC3320 (or corequisite). Enrollment limited to 16.
Provides experience in the isolation, cultivation, and analysis of pure cultures of microorganisms. Methods used for study of cell structure, growth, physiology, and genetics of microbes will be incorporated into small independent projects.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew Rhodes
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS

Examines the shaping of European cultural identity through encounters with non-European cultures from 1500 to the post-colonial era. Novels, paintings, and films will be among the sources used to examine such topics as exoticism in the Enlightenment, slavery and European capitalism, Orientalism in art, ethnographic writings on the primitive, and tourism.

• Department: History @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Tiersten
  CULPA: 45 Info
• 3 points

MUSIC THEORY III

Prerequisites:
MUSI V2319
.
Corequisites: one course from Ear-training I-IV (
V2314
,
V2315
,
V3316
, or
V3317
, as determined by placement exam.)
Intermediate analysis and composition in a variety of tonal idioms. (Through Spring 2014, this course was entitled Chromatic Harmony and Counterpoint I.)

• Department: Music
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard Porterfield
  Info
• Instructor: Ellie Hisama
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

MUSIC THEORY IV

• Department: Music
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter M Susser
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 3 points

THE AMERICAN CONGRESS

Prerequisites:
POLS W1201
or the equivalent, or the instructor's permission.
Inquiry into the dynamics, organization, and policy-making processes of the American Congress. Particular emphasis on the relationship of legislators to constituents, lobbyists, bureaucrats, the president, and with one another.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Gregory Wawro
  CULPA: 32 h-index: 13 Info
• 3 points

GLOBAL URBANISM

Using classical texts about cities (do they still work for us?) and on the diverse new literatures on cities and larger subjects with direct urban implications, we will use a variety of data sets to get at detailed empirical information, and draw on two large ongoing research projects involving major and minor global cities around the world (a total of over 60 cities are covered in detail as of 2008).

• Department: Sociology
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Saskia J Sassen
  CULPA: 16 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO CATALAN CULTURES

This is a content course covering topics regarding Catalan history, society, literature and visual arts. The objective of the course is to examine the main socio-cultural manifestations in the Catalan-speaking territories. Topics to be discussed include: bilingualism and language as the marker of "authentic" national identity; the influx of immigration and the constant redefinition of all things Catalan; the very locally rooted and at the same time very international outlook of the Catalan avant-garde from Foix to Tàpies; the protest song and the cultural manifestations during the Franco repression, and the crucial role of the city of Barcelona as a cultural focus and its impact on literature, film, and arts. By the end of the semester students will be familiar with the main social and cultural issues of the Catalan-speaking territories. The course will be taught in Spanish and counts as an elective towards the major in Hispanic Cultures. No previous knowledge of the Catalan language is required.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Elsa Ubeda
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

ECOL & SOC SYSTEMS FOR SDEV

Prerequisites:
SDEV W2300
Challenges of Sustainable Development;
EESC W2330
Science for Sustainable Development.
The course provides an overview of the complex relationships between ecological and social systems. The course focuses on basic principles in understanding these relationships. After the students are introduced to these basic concepts, the course will focus on three current topics central to Sustainable Development for in-depth study. The emphasis is on the multiple perspectives - environmental, social and economic - required to understand and develop solutions to problems in sustainable development. The three topics are: conservation of biodiversity, payments for ecosystem services, and the ecology of food production. We expect these topics to vary from year to year to keep pace with current topics. The following areas will be covered.: -What is an ecosystem? How are social and ecological systems linked through the flow of energy and materials? -What are the characteristics of coupled human-natural systems? How do these systems function? -What are the current topics in sustainable development that require understanding of social and ecological systems? -For each topic (protection of biodiversity, ecosystem services, ecology of food production), what are the environmental, economic, and social perspectives important for sustainable solutions? How can critical thinking be applied to balance these perspectives to derive sustainable solution? -Data analysis and approaches to analyze ecosystems and options for sustainable development. Offered in the Fall.

• Department: Earth Institute
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Ruth Defries
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 114 Info
• 3 points

SCULPTURE I

The fundamentals of sculpture are investigated through a series of conceptual and technical projects. Three material processes are introduced, including wood, metal, and paster casting. Issues pertinent to contemporary sculpture are introduced through lectures, group critiques, discussions, and field trips that accompany class assignments. 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.
• T 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jon Kessler
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Sanford Biggers
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

HYBRID NONFICTION FORMS

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required.
Creative nonfiction is a frustratingly vague term. How do we give it real literary meaning; examine its compositional aims and techniques, its achievements and especially its aspirations? This course will focus on works that we might call visionary - works that combine art forms, genres and styles in striking ways. Works in which image and text combine to create a third interactive language for the reader. Works still termed "fiction" "history" or "journalism" that join fact and fiction to interrogate their uses and implications. Certain memoirs that are deliberately anti-autobiographical, turning from personal narrative to the sounds, sight, impressions and ideas of the writer's milieu. Certain essays that join personal reflection to arts and cultural criticism, drawing on research and imagination, the vernacular and the formal, even prose and poetry. The assemblage or collage that, created from notebook entries, lists, quotations, footnotes and indexes achieves its coherence through fragments and associations, found and original texts.

• Department: Writing
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Margo L Jefferson
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED WOLOF I

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• Instructor: Mariame S Sy
  Info
• 4 points

MODERN V

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Stacy Spence
  Info
• 0-1 points

A FIRST CRSE/FINITE ELEMENTS

Prerequisites: Senior standing or by instructor permission
(Students taking ENME E3332 cannot take ENME E4332)
Corequisites: (Recommended): differential equations
Focus on formulation and application of the finite element method to engineering problems such as stress analysis, heat transfer, fluid flow and electromagnetics. Topics include: finite element formulation for one-dimensional problems, such as trusses, electrical and hydraulic systems, scalar field problems in two dimensions, such as heat transfer, and vector field problems such as elasticity and finally usage of the commercial finite element program.  Detailed course description: Focus on formulation and application of the finite element method to engineering problems such as stress analysis, heat transfer, fluid flow and electromagnetics. The course material is organized in three chronological units one month each:  (1) the finite element formulation for one-dimensional problems, such as trusses, electrical and hydraulic systems, (2) the finite element formulation for scalar field problems in two dimensions, such as heat transfer and (3) the finite element formulation for vector field problems such as elasticity, and (4) finite element programming and usage of commercial finite element program.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Jacob Fish
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 54 Info
• 3 points

SCULPTURE III

Prerequisites:
VIAR R3330
.
Spring Semester SCULPTURE III: This course explores multi-media installation art methodologies, including digital and analog solutions for creating sound, light and mechanical components. We will use technology as a common theme as we explore contemporary and historical multi-media artworks and learn the tools and techniques needed to integrate the strategies into our own work. The projects are expected to have an engagement with technology that is physical, not purely virtual. We will cover theoretical and historical materials as well as practical, hands-on topics. If the class is full, please visit: arts.columbia.edu/registration_info

• Department: Visual Arts
• M 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Rirkrit Tiravanija
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

MODERN TECH-ORGANIC CHEM LAB

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 with a grade of C- or better and CHEM BC3230.
Corequisites: CHEM BC3231. CHEM BC3334 Lecture: M 1:10-2:00; Laboratory one afternoon: M 2:10-6:00; W or F 1:10-5:00.
Advanced experimental organic techniques and introduction to qualitative and quantitative organic analysis. Emphasis on instrumental and chromatographic methods. Selected reactions. Students enrolling in this course must register for CHEM BC3334x.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• F 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 3 points

INTRO TO LITERARY STUDIES I

MAJOR LITERARY WORKS TO 1800

Prerequisites:
FREN W3405
Advanced Grammar and Composition or an AP score of 5 or the instructor's permission.
Reading and discussion of major works from the Middle Ages to 1750.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Eliza Zingesser
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 3 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO GERMAN LIT (GERMAN)

Prerequisites:
GERM V1202
or the equivalent.
Examines short literary texts and various methodological approaches to interpreting such texts in order to establish a basic familiarity with the study of German literature and culture.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Dorothea von Muecke
  Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO ITALIAN LITERATURE I

Prerequisites:
ITAL V1202 or W1202
or the equivalent.
V3334x-V3333y is the basic course in Italian literature. V3333: Authors and works from the Duecento to the Cinquecento. Taught in Italian.

• Department: Italian
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniela Castelli
  Info
• 3 points

VVEDENIE V RUSSKUIU LITERATURU

POOR LIZA, POOR ME

Prerequisites: two years of college Russian or the instructor's permission.
The course is devoted to the reading, analysis, and discussion of a number of Russian prose fiction works from the eighteenth to twentieth century. Its purpose is to give students an opportunity to apply their language skills to literature. It will teach students to read Russian literary texts as well as to talk and write about them. Its goal is, thus, twofold: to improve the students’ linguistic skills and to introduce them to Russian literature and literary history. In 2007-2008: A close study in the original of the “fallen woman” plot in Russian literature from the late eighteenth century. Conducted in Russian.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Irina Reyfman
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

GENETICS,BIODIVERSITY &SOCIETY;

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission required. Students should contact B. Morton.
Module I: Development and Valuation of Plant Genetic Resources. Science and consequences of plant breeding, biotechnology, and genetic engineering; costs and benefits of maintaining biodiversity; public policy issues and options. Module II: Genetic Technology and Society. Human genome project, scientific basis and interpretation of genetic screening; individual choice, social implications, and ethical issues.

• Department: Science and Public Policy @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 4 points

TRADITIONS IN NONFICTION

• Department: Writing
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Rozzo
  Info
• 3 points

MODERN TECH-ORGANIC CHEM REC

Corequisites: CHEM BC3333
Theoretical aspects of the reactions and experiments done in BC3333, with an emphasis on spectral analysis, including IR and  NMR spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry. Students must enroll in one of the 3333 lab sections to be in this class.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• M 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• 0 points

INTRO TO LITERARY STUDIES II

MAJOR LITERARY WORKS SINC 1800

Prerequisites:
FREN W3405
Advanced Grammar and Composition or an AP score of 5 or the instructor's permission.
Reading and discussion of major works from 1750 to the present.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Sarah E Myers
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

COLL: AMERICAN ELECTIONS

American Politics
Prerequisites: POLS V 1201 or equivalent American Politics course.
Admission by application
through the Barnard department only. Enrollment limited to 16 students.
The purpose of this course is to examine how political science can inform the real-world campaign environment, improving our understanding of strategy and outcomes in American elections.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Miller
  CULPA: 18 h-index: 14 Info
• 4 points

MODERN VI

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jodi Melnick
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Colleen Thomas
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 0-1 points

SHAKESPEARE I

(Lecture). Shakespeare's early comedies, histories, tragedies, and poetry from Titus Andronicus to Hamlet.  Note: No auditors or LLL.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: James Shapiro
  CULPA: 25 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED INDONESIAN I

This course offers students the opportunity to practice advanced structures of Bahasa Indonesia, a major language of Indonesia and South East Asia. This course is offered by videoconferencing from Cornell as part of the Shared Course Initiative.

• Department: Language Resource Center
• 3 points

ADVANCED ITALIAN I

Prerequisites:
ITAL V1202 or W1202
or the equivalent. If you did not take Intermediate Italian at Columbia in the semester preceding the current one, you must take the placement test, offered by the Italian Department at the beginning of each semester.
Written and oral self-expression in compositions and oral reports on a variety of topics; grammar review.  Required for majors and concentrators.

• Department: Italian
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Felice Beneduce
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED SWAHILI I

Prerequisites:
SWHL W1201-W1202
or the instructor's permission.
An introduction to the advanced syntactical, morphological, and grammatical structures of Swahili grammar; detailed analysis of Swahili texts; practice in conversation. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Abdul Nanji
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED ZULU I

Prerequisites:
ZULU W1201-W1202
or the instructor's permission.
This course allows students to practice adanced structures of the Zulu language. Please note this course is offered by videoconference from Yale through the Shared Course Initiative.

• Department: Language Resource Center
• Instructor: Stephane A Charitos
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED ITALIAN II

ITAL LANG/CULT THROUGH CINEMA

Prerequisites:
ITAL V3335
.
Advanced reading, writing, speaking with emphasis on authentic cultural materials. Topic and semester theme varies.

• Department: Italian
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Federica Franze
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

CONTACT IMPROVISATION

Prerequisites: Limited to twenty people.
Examination of the gender-neutral partnering technique that is now common in contemporary dance. Focus is placed on recent improvisatory forms, sensation building, center connection and risk. Emphasis is placed on listening and sensing rather than controlling or leading.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Colleen Thomas
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 0-1 points

CULTRL HIST-JAPANESE MONSTERS

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Gregory Pflugfelder
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 3 points

ART IN CHINA, JAPAN AND KOREA

Introduces distinctive aesthetic traditions of China, Japan, and Korea--their similarities and differences--through an examination of the visual significance of selected works of painting, sculpture, architecture, and other arts in relation to the history, culture, and religions of East Asia.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Dawn H Delbanco
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED HUNGARIAN GRAMMAR

Prerequisites:
HNGR W1201
or the equivalent.
Advanced Hungarian Grammar focuses on the more complex syntactic/semantic constructions of Hungarian in addition to vocabulary enrichment. Readings in literature, oral presentations, translations, and essays serve to enhance the grammatical material.

• Department: Italian
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Carol H Rounds
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

ART-CHINA,JAPAN,KOREA-DISC

ART IN CHINA,JAPAN,KOREA-DISC

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• R 11:10 a.m.-noon
• R 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• R 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• F 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Jeewon M Kim
  Info
• 0 points

MASTERPIECES-INDIAN ART & ARCH

Introduction to 2000 years of art on the Indian subcontinent. The course covers the early art of Buddhism, rock-cut architecture of the Buddhists and Hindus, the development of the Hindu temple, Mughal and Rajput painting and architecture, art of the colonial period, and the emergence of the Modern.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Vidya Dehejia
  CULPA: 16 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

MYTHOLOGY OF EAST ASIA

Through close readings of major myths of China, Japan, and Korea, this course provides a survey of significant themes of East Asian culture. Inclusion of selected comparative readings also leads students to reconsider the nature of ‘world mythology,’ a field often constituted by juxtaposing Greek and Latin classics with oral texts collected during anthropological fieldwork. The core materials for this class are from ancient written traditions, but they speak with force and clarity to modern readers, as is underlined by our attention to latter-day reception and reconceptualization of these narratives. This is an introductory, discussion-based class intended for undergraduates. No prior knowledge of East Asian history or culture is required, and all course readings are in English. Counts towards the Global Core requirement.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: David B Lurie
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 4 points

MASTERPCES-INDIAN ART/ARCH-DIS

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• W 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Siddhartha V Shah
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• Instructor: Seher Agarwala
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• Instructor: Mikael B Muehlbauer
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HISPANIC CULTURES I (SP)

This course provides an overview of the cultural history of the Hispanic world, from Roman Iberia to about 1700. It will address Islamic al-Andalus, Christian Spain and the late Middle Ages, the conquest of the "New World", the pre-Columbian cultures of the Americas, the colonial age and the decline of empire. Students will become familiar with major events and significant political, social and cultural trends of the various periods through the study of oral vs. manuscript vs. print culture, elite vs. popular culture, conquest and resistance, transculturation, and the links between cultural production and ideology. Students will also develop beginning skills in reading older forms of Spanish. Class discussions will seek to situate the works studied within the political and cultural currents and debates of the time. Emphasis will be placed on the historical context and on the development of close reading skills. All primary materials, class discussion, and assignments are in Spanish. 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.
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ibai Atutxa
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• Instructor: Patricia E Grieve
  CULPA: 15 Info
• Instructor: Rachel S Stein
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• Instructor: Noel Blanco Mourelle
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• Instructor: Orlando Bentancor
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

HISPANIC CULTURES II (SP)

This course surveys cultural production of Spain and Spanish America from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Students will acquire the knowledge needed for the study of the cultural manifestations of the Hispanic world in the context of modernity. Among the issues and events studied will be the Enlightenment as ideology and practice, the Napoleonic invasion of Spain, the wars of Spanish American independence, the fin-de-siècle and the cultural avant-gardes, the wars and revolutions of the twentieth century (Spanish Civil War, the Mexican and Cuban revolutions), neoliberalism, globalization, and the Hispanic presence in the United States. The goal of the course is to study some key moments of this trajectory through the analysis of representative texts, documents, and works of art. Class discussions will seek to situate the works studied within the political and cultural currents and debates of the time. All primary materials, class discussion, and assignments are in Spanish. 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.
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ana P Lee
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 2 Info
• Instructor: Cristina C Perez Jimenez
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• Instructor: Daniella Wurst
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• Instructor: Wendy Muniz
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• Instructor: Ronald D Briggs
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

MUSIC AND THE BRAIN

Prerequisites: no prerequisites required.
This undergraduate seminar offers historical and critical perspectives on music and the brain between approximately 1660 and 1870. Through engaging with scholarship and primary sources from disciplines including musicology, philosophy, and the history of science and medicine, we will focus on the role of music in shifting understandings of mental states, aesthetic ideals, methods of treatment, and questions of sensation, attention, and cognition. We will examine the role of resonance and vibration in various models of mental activity, conceptualizations of music as a healing or destabilizing medium, as well as the role of musical instruments and sounds in different philosophical and physiological theories of the body. Based on our readings and investigations, students will develop new strategies for engaging with music from analytical, historical, and scientific perspectives. The course is intended to foster interdisciplinary engagement between musicology, the history of science and medicine, and disability studies, providing students with critical tools to examine constructions of music and the brain in various contexts.

• Department: Music
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Carmel A Raz
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• 3 points

BIOCHEMISTRY LAB TECHNIQUES

Prerequisites: Organic II lab (CHEM BC3333, BC3335, or equivalent); Quantitative analysis lab (BC3338, BC3340, or equivalent); Biochemistry (CHEM BC3282y, CHEM C3501, or equivalent). Lecture: M 1:10-12:50; Laboratory two afternoons: M 2:10-6:00 / W 1:10-5:00.
Theory and application of fundamental techniques for the isolation, synthesis and characterization of biological macromolecules including proteins, lipids, nucleotides and carbohydrates.  Techniques include spectroscopic analysis, gel electrophoresis, chromatography, enzyme kinetics, immunoblotting, PCR, molecular cloning and cell culture, as well as modern laboratory instrumentation, such as UV-Vis, GC-MS and HPLC.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• W 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 5 points

ADV CHEM SYNTHESIS LAB

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3333, CHEM BC3271, and CHEM BC3338
Corequisites: CHEM BC3253
Multistep and multi-day experiments in organic and inorganic synthesis via advanced synthetic methods. Experiments include solution phase, solid state, and photochemical syntheses. Products will be analyzed and characterized by a variety of methods, including: IR, NMR, and UV-Vis spectroscopy, and also by polarimetry, chiral GC, and GC/MS.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• R 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Christian Rojas
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 5 points

BRITISH HISTORY 1870-2000

BRITISH HIST FR 1867:DEM & EMP

This course surveys the main currents of British history from 1867 to the present, with particular attention to the changing place of Britain in the world and the changing shape of politics. Group(s): B Field(s): MWE

• Department: History
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Susan Pedersen
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

BORGES IN CONTEXT

Prerequisites: Language requirement, SPAN3300 and either SPAN3349 or 3350
This course locates the life and writing of the seminal Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges in national and international historical and literary contexts.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Alfred Mac Adam
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 3 points

MOLECULAR&CELLULAR; NEUROSCI

Prerequisites: BIOL BC1500, BIOL BC1501, BIOL BC1502, BIOL BC1503 or the equivalent, and one term of organic chemistry.
Structure and function of neural membranes; ionic basis of membrane potential and action potential; synaptic transmission and neurochemistry; sensory transduction and processing; reflexes and spinal cord physiology; muscle structure and function; neuronal circuitry; nervous system development.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Leora Yetnikoff
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• 3 points