SPATIAL ANALYSIS FOR SDEV

This is an intermediate course in spatial modeling developed specifically for students in the undergraduate Sustainable Development program. This course will provide a foundation for understanding a variety of issues related to spatial analysis and modeling.  Students will explore the concepts, tools, and techniques of GIS modeling and review and critique modeling applications used for environmental planning and policy development. The course will also offer students the opportunity to design, build and evaluate their own spatial analysis models. The course will cover both vector and raster based methods of analysis with a strong focus on raster-based modeling.  We will draw examples from a wide range of applications in such areas as modeling Land Use and Land Cover for biodiversity and conservation, hydrological modeling, and site suitability modeling. The course will consist of lectures, reading assignments, lab assignments, and a final project. Offered in the fall and spring. Students must register for required lab: SDEV W3452.

• Department: Earth Institute
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Giovani H Graziosi
  Info
• 3 points

SPATIAL ANALYSIS-SDEV-LAB

• Department: Earth Institute
• R 7:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Giovani H Graziosi
  Info
• 0 points

FLD WRK&RSRCH; SEM:TODDLR CENTR

Prerequisites: BC1128/BC1129 or just BC1129 lecture (without lab) and permission of the instructor. Permission should be requested in the Spring of the year preceding registration. Enrollment limited to 16 students. This is a two-semester course only.
The Barnard Toddler Center provides the focus for field work and research in applied developmental psychology, an amalgam of developmental, educational, and clinical psychology. Students assist one morning a week at the Center, make individual class presentations, carry out team research projects, and participate in a two-hour weekly seminar which integrates theory, research, and practice.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• T 12:50 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Tovah Klein
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

ROCK MUSIC &LIT; SOUTHERN CONE

Prerequisites: Third-year bridge course (W3300), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350).
In this course we will explore different social and cultural aspects of the shifting and complex interrelations between rock and literature in the Southern Cone.  We will examine some representative novels, short stories, documentaries, secondary bibliography, and songs in the field.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Orlando Bentancor
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

REVOLUTIONARY AMER 1763-1815

How did thirteen diverse British colonies become a single boisterous but fragile new nation? Historians still disagree about the causes, motives, and meanings surrounding the founding of the United States of America. Major themes include the role of ideologies, material interests, global contexts, race, gender, and class.

• Department: Auditing
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• 0 points

REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA 1763-1815

REVOLUTIONARY AMER 1963-1815

How did thirteen diverse British colonies become a single boisterous but fragile new nation? Historians still disagree about the causes, motives, and meanings surrounding the founding of the United States of America. Major themes include the role of ideologies, material interests, global contexts, race, gender, and class.

• Department: History @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew C Lipman
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

POST 9/11 IMMIGRATION POLICIES

Since September 11, 2001, there has been an avalanche of immigration enforcement policies and initiatives proposed or implemented under the guise of national security. This course will analyze the domino effect of the Patriot Act, the Absconder Initiative, Special Registration, the Real I.D. Act, border security including the building of the 700-mile fence along the U.S./Mexico border, Secured Communities Act-that requires the cooperation of state and local authorities in immigration enforcement, the challenge to birthright citizenship, and now the congressional hearings on Islamic radicalization. Have these policies been effective in combating the war on terrorism and promoting national security? Who stands to benefit from these enforcement strategies? Do immigrant communities feel safer in the U.S.? How have states joined the federal bandwagon of immigration enforcement or created solutions to an inflexible, broken immigration system?

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Elizabeth Ouyang
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY LAB I

Prerequisites:
CHEM W1403-CHEM W1404;

CHEM W1500

Corequisites:
CHEM W3443
.
Techniques of experimental organic chemistry, with emphasis on understanding fundamental principles underlying the experiments in methodology of solving laboratory problems involving organic molecules.  Attendance at the first lab lecture and laboratory session is mandatory. Please note that CHEM W3493 is the first part of a full year organic chemistry laboratory course.  Students must register for the lab lecture section (CHEM W3495) which corresponds to their lab section. Students must attend ONE lab lecture and ONE lab section every other week.  Please contact your advisors for further information.

• Department: Chemistry
• M 1 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
• T 1 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
• T 6 p.m.-9:50 p.m.
• W 1 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
• R 1 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
• F 1 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
• M 1 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
• T 1 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
• T 6 p.m.-9:50 p.m.
• W 1 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
• R 1 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
• F 1 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Danielle F Sedbrook
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 1.5 points

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY LAB I-LAB LEC

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY LAB I-LB LEC

• Department: Chemistry
• W 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• M 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• W 7:35 p.m.-8:50 p.m.
• M 7:35 p.m.-8:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Danielle F Sedbrook
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Anna Ghurbanyan
  CULPA: 21 Info
• Instructor: Danielle F Sedbrook
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Anna Ghurbanyan
  CULPA: 21 Info
• 0 points

FRENCH CULTURAL WORKSHOP

Prerequisites: completion of
FREN W1202
.
Designed (though not exclusively) for students contemplating a stay at Reid Hall, this course will foster a comparison of the French and American cultures with readings from sociological sources and emphasis on in-class discussion in an attempt to comprehend and avoid common causes of cross-cultural communication.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Vincent Aurora
  CULPA: 55 Info
• 3 points

INDEP BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: Concurrent with registering for this course, a student must register with the department and provide a written invitation from a mentor; details of this procedure are available at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/w3500/index.htm.
Corequisites: There will not be a recitation section this semester.
The course involves independent study, faculty-supervised laboratory projects in contemporary biology. Concurrent with registering for this course, a student must register with the department, provide a written invitation from a mentor and submit a research proposal; details of this procedure are available at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/w3500/index.htm. A paper summarizing results of the work is required by the last day of finals for a letter grade; no late papers will be accepted. See the course web site (above) for more details.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• Instructor: Ron M Prywes
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 2-4 points

BIOL TRANSPORT & RATE PROCESS

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
  Wikipedia h-index: 132 Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED READINGS IN PHYSICS

Prerequisites: the written permission of the faculty member who agrees to act as supervisor, and the director of undergraduate studies' permission.
Readings in a selected field of physics under the supervision of a faculty member. Written reports and periodic conferences with the instructor.

• Department: Physics
• Instructor: Jeremy R Dodd
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 3 points

COLL:POLIT ECON:CORRPTN/CONTRL

Comparative Politics
Prerequisites: POLS V1501 or the
equivalent
.
Admission by application
through the Barnard department only. Enrollment limited to 16 students.
Barnard syllabus
.
Comparative political economy course which addresses some important questions concerning corruption and its control: the concept, causes, patterns, consequences, and control of corruption. Introduces students to and engages them in several key social science debates on the causes and effects of political corruption.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Xiaobo Lu
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

HOW TO TELL A WAR STORY

• Department: Auditing
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Liza Knapp
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 0 points

BIOCHEM I-STRUCTURE/METABOLISM

Prerequisites: one year of
BIOL C2005
and
BIOL C2006
and one year of organic chemistry.
Lecture and recitation. Students wishing to cover the full range of modern biochemistry should take both BIOC C3501 and C3512. C3501 covers subject matters in modern biochemistry, including chemical biology and structural biology, discussing the structure and function of both proteins and small molecules in biological systems. Proteins are the primary class of biological macromolecules and serve to carry out most cellular functions. Small organic molecules function in energy production and creating building blocks for the components of cells and can also be used to perturb the functions of proteins directly. The first half of the course covers protein structure, enzyme kinetics and enzyme mechanism. The second half of the course explores how small molecules are used endogenously by living systems in metabolic and catabolic pathways; this part of the course focuses on mechanistic organic chemistry involved in metabolic pathways.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Brent R Stockwell
  CULPA: 14 Wikipedia h-index: 79 Info
• 4 points

HOW TO TELL A WAR STORY

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Liza Knapp
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 3 points

BEGINNING VIDEO

Beginning Video is an introductory class on the production and editing of digital video. Designed as an intensive hands-on production/post-production workshop, the apprehension of technical and aesthetic skills in shooting, sound and editing will be emphasized. Assignments are developed to allow students to deepen their familiarity with the language of the moving image medium. Over the course of the term, the class will explore the language and syntax of the moving image, including fiction, documentary and experimental and experimental approaches. Importance will be placed on the decision making behind the production of a work; why it was conceived of, shot, and edited in a certain way. Class time will be divided between technical workshops, viewing and discussing films and videos by independent producers/artists and discussing and critiquing students projects. Readings will be assigned on technical, aesthetic and theoretical issues. Only one section offered per semester. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• T 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Shelly Silver
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

LGBT LITERATURE

LGBT LIT: WRITERS & ATHLETES

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
(Seminar). Often it is said that real writing needs muscle, and the poet Cavafy pays homage to such "champions of pleasure." In the past few decades many players of national-league sports have come out, and penned their memoirs which focus on that cultural metamorphosis. With a gesture toward the early Greek Olympics, we consider the writings of LGBTQ athletes, as well as the athletic turns of phrase of LGBTQ writers. Particular attention to twentieth century writers, and when possible, visits to museums, galleries, and performances of all kinds. Application instructions: E-mail Professor Robinson-Appels (jr2168@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Writers and Athletes seminar". In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course. Admitted students should register for the course; they will automatically be placed on a wait list, from which the instructor will in due course admit them as spaces become available.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• F 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Robinson-Appels
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

LGBT LITERATURE

LGBT LIT: WRITERS & ATHLETES

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
(Seminar). Often it is said that real writing needs muscle, and the poet Cavafy pays homage to such "champions of pleasure." In the past few decades many players of national-league sports have come out, and penned their memoirs which focus on that cultural metamorphosis. With a gesture toward the early Greek Olympics, we consider the writings of LGBTQ athletes, as well as the athletic turns of phrase of LGBTQ writers. Particular attention to twentieth century writers, and when possible, visits to museums, galleries, and performances of all kinds. Application instructions: E-mail Professor Robinson-Appels (jr2168@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Writers and Athletes seminar". In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course. Admitted students should register for the course; they will automatically be placed on a wait list, from which the instructor will in due course admit them as spaces become available.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• F 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Robinson-Appels
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

INDEP BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH - REC

INDEP BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH-REC

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 5:40 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• R 5:40 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Ron M Prywes
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 0 points

BIOCHEM I-STRUCT/METABOLSM-REC

• Department: Biological Sciences
• M 5:40 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• T 5:40 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• W 4:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• F 10 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• R 5:40 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Divya Venkatesh
  h-index: 2 Info
• Instructor: Jonathan T Xu
  Info
• Instructor: Jonnell C Small
  Info
• Instructor: Michael M Gaschler
  Info
• Instructor: Huizhong Feng
  h-index: 5 Info
• 0 points

IMMIGRANTS IN AMER HIST & LIFE

The course surveys patterns of migration and immigrant experience from colonial time to the present. Migration to the US is considered as part of the evolving global labor market and colonial expansion in the modern world. The class considers migration in different historical periods, the relationship of immigration to nation-building, national expansion, war, and the production and reproduction of national identity; the history of the legal regulation of immigration; the experience of immigrants in settling and negotiating life in a new society, and political debates surrounding the role of immigration in American society. Course materials include recent historical literature, fiction, primary-source documents, and film. Group(s): D

• Department: History
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mae M Ngai
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

HIST APPROACHES FEMINIST QUES

This course will provide students with a comparative perspective on gender, race, and sexuality by illuminating historically specific and culturally distinct conditions in which these systems of power have operated across time and space. In particular, the course seeks to show how gender has not always been a binary or primary category system.  Such approach is also useful in understanding the workings of race and sexuality as mechanisms of differentiation.  In making these inquiries, the course will pay attention to the intersectional nature of race, gender, and sexuality and to strategic performances of identity by marginalized groups.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexander Pittman
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

WRITING THE SELF WORKSHOP

Corequisites:
FREN W3333-FREN W3334
or equivalent, or the director of undergraduate studies' permission.
In this course, we will read works spanning the history of French literature from the Renaissance to the present in which the problem of writing the self is posed. We will also engage in various writing exercises (pastiche, translation, personal narrative) and discuss the works on the syllabus in conjunction with our own attempts to write the self. Authors will include Montaigne, Rousseau, Roland, Sand, Colette, Barthes, Modiano, and NDiaye. This course fulfills the pre-1800 requirement.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Joanna R Stalnaker
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED PIANO INSTRUCTION I

Prerequisites:
MUSI W2515-W2516
or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission.

• Department: Music
• Instructor: Niels J Ostbye
  CULPA: 11 Info
• Instructor: Michael Skelly
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Reiko Uchida
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 1 points

ADVANCED PIANO INSTRUCTION I

Prerequisites:
MUSI W2515-W2516
or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission.

• Department: Music
• 1 points

COLLAGE: MIXED MEDIA

Prerequisites:
VIAR R1001
.
This course approaches drawing as an experimental and expressive tool. Students will explore the boundaries between drawing and sculpture and will be encouraged to push the parameters of drawing. Collage, assemblage and photomontage will be used in combination with more traditional approaches to drawing. The class will explore the role of the imagination, improvisation, 3-dimensional forms, observation, memory, language, mapping, and text. Field trips to artists’ studios as well as critiques will play an important role in the course. The course will culminate in a final project in which each student will choose one or more of the themes explored during the semester and create a series of artworks. This course is often taught under the nomenclature Drawing II - Mixed Media.

• Department: Visual Arts
• M 4 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Diana Cooper
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

STUDIES IN U.S. IMPERIALISM

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 20 students.
Historical, comparative study of the cultural effects and social experiences of U.S. Imperialism, with attention to race, gender and sexuality in practices of political, economic, and cultural domination and struggle. Material includes studies of US Imperialism in the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Guam, and Cuba and US foreign involvements in the developing world since World War II.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Neferti Tadiar
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

THE HERE AND NOW

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required.
In this course, we will read a wide variety of short fiction that concerns itself with the clarification and magnification of particular moments of being.  An emphasis will be placed on how these writers notice things that others might overlook-- the small, the peculiar, the unexpected-- and then how they transform these seemingly modest things with the force of their attention.  Our goal will be to proceed through these stories at the level of the sentence.  Why this quiet pulling back?  Much of our discussion will center on why a specific (and at times mysterious-seeming) choice has abeen made by an author.  But we will also from time to time broaden our focus to encompass larger philosophical concerns that are triggered by these questions of craft. We will talk about the science of attention, false and true lyricism, "the discipline of rightness" (as Wallace Stevens once described it) and why it is that feeling so often precedes form.  We will not spend very much time exploring the thematic concerns of these stories.  Nor will we speak in great detail about whether we find contained within them sympathetic or unsympathetic characters.  Instead, the aim of this class will be to analyze the formal elements of fiction with an eye towards refining our own prose styles and towards saying more clearly how it happened that a given text did or did not move us.

• Department: Writing
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexandra G Kleeman
  Info
• 3 points

MAGIC & MONSTERS IN YIDD LIT

A Serious Man, the 2009 movie by the Coen Brothers opens with a Yiddish folk tale featuring a dybbuk. Dybbuks, golems, magicians, and monsters haunt not only Yiddish literature but also the contemporary cinema, as illustrated by such recent films as The Unborn and The Possession. Why are we so attracted to dybbuks, spirit possession, magic, and monsters in the twenty-first century? This course will focus on magic, monsters, dybbuks, demons, and golems in Yiddish literature and beyond, including film and popular culture. We will approach the supernatural motif from the perspective of gender, body, and performance studies, and will explore the questions of memory, trauma, and identity. The aim of the course is to encourage students to discuss and critically engage with the various texts and film adaptations listed on the syllabus in an attempt to answer the following questions: In what ways do these works explore, interrogate with, and reflect on human experience? What do they tell us about the powers of good and evil? How relevant are they in the twenty-first century? The course puts emphasis on developing the skills of critical, analytical, and abstract thinking in relation to the discussed works, as well as the ability to express that critical thinking in writing. No knowledge of Yiddish required.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Agnieszka Legutko
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

CIVIL RIGHTS &CIVIL; LIBERTIES

American Government & Politics
Prerequisites: POLS W1201 or the
equivalent
.
Not an introductory-level course.
Not open to students who have taken the colloquium POLS BC3326. Enrollment limited to 25 students; L-course sign-up through
eBear
.
Barnard syllabus
.
Explores seminal caselaw to inform contemporary civil rights and civil liberties jurisprudence and policy.  Specifically, the readings examine historical and contemporary first amendment values, including freedom of speech and the press, economic liberties, takings law, discrimination based on race, gender, class and sexual preference, affirmative action, the right to privacy, reproductive freedom, the right to die, criminal procedure and adjudication, the rights of the criminally accused post-9/11 and the death penalty. (Cross-listed by the American Studies and Human Rights Programs.)

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Paula A Franzese
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SENIOR SEMINAR I

The Senior Seminar in Women's Studies offers you the opportunity to develop a capstone research paper by the end of the first semester of your senior year. Senior seminar essays take the form of a 25-page paper based on original research and characterized by an interdisciplinary approach to the study of women, sexuality, and/or gender. You must work with an individual advisor who has expertise in the area of your thesis and who can advise you on the specifics of method and content. Your grade for the semester with be determined by IRWGS's Director of Undergraduate Studies in consultation with your advisor. Students receiving a grade of "B+" of higher in Senior Seminar I will be invited to complete Senior Seminar II in Spring 2015. Senior Seminar II students will complete a senior thesis of 40-60 pages in a course facilitated by the IRWGS Director.

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Katherine L Biers
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

HEALTH INEQUALITY: MODERN US

Through assigned readings and a group research project, students will gain familiarity with a range of historical and social science problems at the intersection of ethnic/racial/sexual formations, technological networks, and health politics since the turn of the twentieth century. Topics to be examined will include, but will not be limited to, black women's health organization and care; HIV/AIDS politics, policy, and community response; "benign neglect"; urban renewal and gentrification; medical abuses and the legacy of Tuskegee; tuberculosis control; and environmental justice. There are no required qualifications for enrollment, although students will find the material more accessible if they have had previous coursework experience in United States history, pre-health professional (pre-med, pre-nursing, or pre-public health), African-American Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Ethnic Studies, or American Studies.

• Department: History
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Samuel K Jr Roberts
  Info
• 3 points

SEN SEM:KNWLDG PRCTCE POWER

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor. Enrollment limited to senior majors.
The Senior Seminar in WGSS offers you the opportunity to develop a capstone research project during the first semester of your senior year. The capstone project may be freestanding, or, with permission of the instructor, may be continued during the spring semester as a Senior Thesis.  The capstone project must be based on original research and involve an interdisciplinary approach to the study of women, sexuality, and/or gender. You must work with an individual advisor who has expertise in the area of your project and who can advise you on the specifics of method and content. Your grade for the semester with be determined by the Senior Seminar instructor in consultation with your advisor.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Rebecca M Young
  CULPA: 22 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

HIST CULT POLIT ECON HARLEM

Drawing on social histories, primary sources, fiction, and popular culture this course will explore the postwar history of Harlem. We will place Harlem in the broader context of New York City and explore how domestic and transnational migration patterns have shaped its history. Specific topics include: urbanization, migration and settlement patterns; racial liberalism and political incorporation; critical engagement with East Harlem as research cite for "culture of poverty" theorists; state criminalization of youth; underground, illegal and illicit economy from the 1960s to the 1990s; struggles over property and gentrification; and perhaps most importantly, exploring Harlem as cultural and political center of the Black World throughout the twentieth century.

• Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
• T 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Michael A Ralph
  Info
• 4 points

HIST CULT POLIT ECON HARLEM

• Department: Auditing
• T 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: C. Daniel Dawson
  Info
• 0 points

ADVANCED STUDIO

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 15 students. Permission of the instructor.
An interpretive study of the theoretical and critical issues in visual art. Projects that are modeled after major movements in contemporary art will be executed in the studio. Each student develops an original body of artwork and participates in group discussions of the assigned readings.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Joan Snitzer
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

PROCESS WRITING & WRITING PROC

Prerequisites: Prerequisites not required. Departmental approval NOT required.
The act of writing is often mythologized, romanticized, or dismissed as peripheral to the text itself. This course will address the process as a primary lens for looking at art, focusing on literature that explicitly investigates the experience of its creation. Readings will include writings by visual artists who produce documents of performances, surrealists who use "automatic" methods to reveal the unconscious, poets who seek to capture states of enlightenment or intoxication, and novelists who employ extreme conditions to achieve unexpected results. For the class, students will experiement with their environment, lifestyle, and methods to increase their awareness of how everything they do can affect what appears on the page.

• Department: Writing
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Ross Simonini
  Info
• 3 points

COLL:CONSTRUCTNG STATES NATIONS

COLL:CONSTRUCTNG STATES NATNS

Comparative Politics
Prerequisites: POLS V1501 or the equivalent.
Admission by application
through the Barnard department only. Enrollment limited to 16 students.
The course will examine the development of, and relationship among, the three constituent features of the modern political world: states, nations and democracy. The course will analyze both historical and contemporary cases, tracing how causal processes unfold over time and space and what past conditions and experiences lie behind today's political dynamics and problems.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sheri Berman
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia h-index: None Info
• 4 points

ZIONISM:A CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE

The course, based on Zionist texts of various kinds, will offer a view of Zionism as a cultural revolution aimed at redefining Judaism and the Jewish Identity.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Dan Miron
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

INTENSIVE ORGANIC CHEM LAB

Prerequisites:
CHEM W3045
and
CHEM W3046
and
CHEM W2507
.
The course covers the same material as CHEM W3493-CHEM W3494, but is intended for those students who have taken Intensive Organic Chemistry, CHEM W3045-CHEM W3046, and for students who intend to major in Chemistry, Biochemistry, Chemical Physics, or Environmental Chemistry.

• Department: Chemistry
• M 1 p.m.-6 p.m.
• T 1 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Fay W Ng
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

JUNIOR COLLOQ IN URBAN STUDIES

Prerequisites: Non-majors admitted by permission of instructor. Students must attend first class. Enrollment limited to 16 students per section. General Education Requirement: Historical Studies.
Introduction to the historical process and social consequences of urban growth, from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Meredith B Linn
  CULPA: 8 Info
• Instructor: Aaron Passell
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 3 Info
• Instructor: Erika Kitzmiller
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 3 Info
• Instructor: Kimberley S Johnson
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 4 points

JUNIOR COLLOQ IN URBAN STUDIES

Prerequisites: Non-majors admitted by permission of instructor. Students must attend first class. Enrollment limited to 16 students per section.
Evaluation of current political, economic, social, cultural and physical forces that are shaping urban areas.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Kathryn B Yatrakis
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

COMMUNITY BUILDING

Prerequisites: Must attend first class for instructor permission. Preference to Urban Studies majors.
Community building has emerged as an important approach to creating an economic base, reducing poverty and improving the quality of life in urban neighborhoods. In this course, students examine the methods, strategies, and impact of community building on the economic, social, and political development of urban neighborhoods.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Liz Abzug
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 4 points

WOMEN & SOCIETY IN FRANCE

SEX-TRADE ECONOMY

• Department: Reid Hall Paris Programs
• Instructor: Laurence Gallu
  Info
• 3 points

HUM RGTS SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor.
Examines the evolution of the ideas, institutions and practices associated with social justice in Africa and their relationship to contemporary international human rights movement and focuses on the role of human rights in social change. A number of themes will re-occur throughout the course, notably tensions between norms and reality, cultural diversity, economic and political asymmetries, the role of external actors, and women as rights providers. Countries of special interest include Liberia, Senegal, South African and Tanzania.

• Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
• T 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: J. Paul Martin
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• 4 points

EVOL IN THE AGE OF GENOMICS

Prerequisites: introductory genetics or the instructor's permission.
This course introduces basic concepts in evolutionary biology, from speciation to natural selection. While the lectures incorporate a historical perspective, the main goal of the class is to familiarize students with topics and tools of evolutionary genetics as practiced today, in the era of genomics. Thus, the focus will be on evidence from molecular evolution and genetics and exercises will assume a basic background in genetics. Examples will be drawn from across the tree of life, but with a primary focus on humans.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• 4 points

PLCS URBAN DEV LATIN AMERICA

PLTCS URBAN DEV LATIN AMERICA

Prerequisites: POLS V1501 Introduction to Comparative Politics
Analyzes historical and contemporary dimensions of urban development within Latin America as a lens on the broader political challenges of local governance in an urbanized world. Uses theories from political science and other disciplines to critically analyze specific aspects of urban development, including social mobilization, political participation, and urban violence.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Eduardo Moncada
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

CITIES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

CITIES IN DEVELOPNG COUNTRIES

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Sevin Yildiz
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

HIST OF AMER POP CULT MUSIC

This course examines the history of American popular culture through music and radio, beginning in the 1830s with minstrelsy, the first distinctively "American" popular culture, and ending in the 1960s with Motown.  The course acquaints students with key concepts that aim to "read" cultural production and to explore what's unique about culture primarily experienced through the ears.  It examines debates over culture's qualifiers, from popular to mass, high to low. Field(s): US

• Department: Auditing
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Hilary-Anne Hallett
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 0 points

HIST OF AMER POP CULT MUSIC

This course examines the history of American popular culture through music and radio, beginning in the 1830s with minstrelsy, the first distinctively "American" popular culture, and ending in the 1960s with Motown.  The course acquaints students with key concepts that aim to "read" cultural production and to explore what's unique about culture primarily experienced through the ears.  It examines debates over culture's qualifiers, from popular to mass, high to low. Field(s): US

• Department: History
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Hilary-Anne Hallett
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE 20TH C

A consideration of women's changing place in modern America; the "family claim"; women in the workplace; educational expansion; the battle for suffrage; social reformers; the sexual revolution; women in the professions; the crisis of depression and war; the feminine mystique; and the new feminism.

• Department: History @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Premilla Nadasen
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SKETCHING MODERNITY

THROUGH THE EYES OF GOYA

This course traces the ambiguous beginnings of Spanish Modernity through the eyes of a privileged witness, Francisco de Goya (1746-1828), considered one of the most innovative and influential painters at the threshold of modern Art. The study of his paintings will be simultaneous to a dialogue with contemporary cultural texts such as popular theatre, literature, essays, novels, almanacs, architecture and the work of other painters.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Alberto Medina
  Info
• 3 points

DANCE CRITICISM

Intensive practice in writing about dance. Readings drawn from 19th- and 20th-century criticism.  Observation includes weekly performances and classroom videotape sessions.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Siobhan F Burke
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

PERFORMING THE POLITICAL

Exploration into the politics of performance and the performance of politics.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Victoria Phillips
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• 3 points

SR SEM IN BIOLOGY

SEN SEM:GENTCS OF DOMESTCATN

Prerequisites: BIOL BC1500, BIOL BC1501, BIOL BC1502, BIOL BC1503, and BIOL BC2100.
Required of all majors who do not select Senior Thesis (BIOL BC3593x / BC3594y) to fulfill the senior requirement, these seminars allow students to explore the primary literature in the Biological Sciences in greater depth than can be achieved in a lecture course. Attention will be focused on both theoretical and empirical work. Seminar periods are devoted to oral reports and discussion of assigned readings and student reports. Students will write one extensive literature review of a topic related to the central theme of the seminar section. Topics vary per semester and include: 1. Plant Development  2. Animal Development and Evolution  3. Molecular Evolution 4. Microbiology and Global Change 5. Genomics 6. Comparative and Reproductive Endocrinology.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• M 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Hilary Callahan
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 17 Info
• 4 points

GUIDED RESEARCH & SEMINAR

Prerequisites: Permission of a faculty sponsor and the department. Cannot be taken concurrently with BIOL BC3593 or BIOL BC3594.
An independent research project in Biology under the guidance of a faculty member and suiting the needs of the individual student. Projects conducted outside of the Barnard Biology Department must have a member of the Department acting as a sponsor. Attendance at a weekly seminar is required. By the end of the year, students write a scientific paper and orally present their results to the Barnard Biology Department. Completion of both BIO BC3591x and BIOL BC3592y fulfills one upper-level laboratory requirement in the major. Must be taken in sequence, beginning in the fall.

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

SENIOR SEMINAR

Research and scholarly writing in chosen topics relating to dance. Methods of investigation are drawn from prominent archival collections and personal interviews, as well as other resources. Papers are formally presented to the Dance Department upon completion.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lynn Garafola
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS RESEARCH

Prerequisites: Permission of a faculty sponsor and the department. Cannot be taken concurrently with BIOL BC3591 or BIOL BC3592.
Same as BIOL BC3591x-BC3592y, including the weekly seminar. Completion of both BIOL BC3593x and BC3594y fulfills the senior requirement in the major. Must be taken in sequence, beginning in the fall.

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

RSRCH/SEM-NEUROSCNCE&BEHAVIOR;

Prerequisites: Open to senior Neuroscience and Behavior majors. Permission of the instructor. This is a year-long course. By the end of the spring semester program planning period during junior year, majors should identify the lab they will be working in during their senior year.
Discussion and conferences on a research project culminate in a written and oral senior thesis. Each project must be supervised by a scientist working at Barnard or at another local institution. Successful completion of the seminar substitutes for the major examination.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Russell D Romeo
  CULPA: 9 Info
• Instructor: Holly Moore
  Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth P Bauer
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 21 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

A research and writing workshop designed to help students plan and execute a major research project, and communicate their ideas in a common scholarly language that crosses disciplinary boundaries.  Content is determined by students' thesis topics, and includes general sessions on how to formulate a proposal and how to generate a bibliography.  Students present the fruits of their research in class discussions, culminating in a full-length seminar presentation and the submission of the written thesis.

• Department: Slavic Languages @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Edward J Tyerman
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

GUIDED RESEARCH

Prerequisites: Permission of a faculty sponsor.
Similar to BIOL BC3591x/ BC3592y but a variable point course without seminar or an oral presentation. Does not fulfill Biology major requirements.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• Instructor: Elizabeth P Bauer
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 21 Info
• Instructor: Hilary Callahan
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Rebecca Calisi-Rodriguez
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: John Glendinning
  CULPA: 23 h-index: 39 Info
• Instructor: Paul E Hertz
  CULPA: 22 Info
• Instructor: Jennifer H Mansfield
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 15 Info
• Instructor: Krista McGuire
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Brian Morton
  CULPA: 21 Info
• Instructor: Jonathan Snow
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 18 Info
• 1-4 points