THEORY

An exploration of alternative theoretical approaches to the study of religion as well as other areas of humanistic inquiry.  The methods considered include: sociology, anthropology, philosophy, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, structuralism, genealogy, and deconstruction.  (Previous title: Juniors Colloquium)

• Department: Religion
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Mark C Taylor
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ENVIR SCIENCE SENIOR SEMINAR

Prerequisites: Senior majors (juniors with permission of instructor). Provides credit for the senior thesis. The Senior Research Seminar can be taken in the Spring/Fall or Fall/Spring sequence.
Guided, independent, in-depth research culminating in the senior thesis. Includes discussions about scientific presentations and posters, data analysis, library research methods, and scientific writing. Students review work in progress and share results through oral and written reports. Fall Semester Course Website.

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Martin Stute
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 52 Info
• 3 points

REALISM AS RHETORIC

From hyperbolic tropes to philosophical ruminations, laudatory evaluations of the power of lifelikeness in art have held a prominent place in art-critical discourses across temporal, historical and cultural divides. Yet definitions of what constitutes a realistic depiction have remained rarely stated and often lacking in consensus and clarity. This course will explore the concept of realism in visual representation: we will study the historiography of critical rhetoric (literary and scholarly) that has informed our assumptions about this category; and we will challenge those assumptions - of optical illusionism and transparency of style - in favor of exploring a variety of strategies of representational realism as rhetoric in themselves. The course investigates the relationship between the cultural codes and biological preconditions of human response to visual representations by looking at realism from a set of multi-disciplinary perspectives and within a cross-culturally comparative context. We begin with an overview of primary sources, move on to contemporary art-historical scholarship and alternative definitions from philosophy and cognitive science, and spend the second half of the semester on case studies of European and Persianate engagements with various strategies of realism in visual culture.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Anastassiia A Botchkareva
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• 4 points

EARTH & ENVIR ENGIN LAB II

Prerequisites: EAEE E3800
Corequisites: EAEE E4003
A continuation of EAEE E3800, with emphasis on the principles underlying water analysis for inorganic, organic, and bacterial contaminants.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• Instructor: Paul F Duby
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 2 points

SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS

Corequisites: MATH V1201.
Modeling, description, and classification of signals and systems. Continuous-time systems. Time domain analysis, convolution. Frequency domain analysis, transfer functions. Fourier series. Fourier and Laplace transforms. Discrete-time systems and the Z transform.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• TR 7:10 p.m.-8:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Taneli Riihonen
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• 3.5 points

ETHIOPIAN ART IN GLOBAL NETWKS

Ethiopia has fired the imagination for centuries as the home of Prester John, Queen of Sheba and the Ark of the Covenant, the Books of Enoch and Jubilees, a special dispensation from Prophet Mohammed in the Hadith and as the one African nation state to escape colonialism through defeat of Italy at the Battle of Adwa in 1896. This course examines the fascinating history and history of representations of Ethiopia in relation to its rich visual culture with special sensitivity to past and present networks of exchange with Byzantium, Jerusalem and Palestine, the Mediterranean, South Arabia, and India. There will be units on the burial complexes of the ancient state of Aksum, rock cut churches of Lalibela, illuminated manuscripts (both Christian and Muslim), and modernism. Students will be encouraged to take advantage of New York collections for their research projects. (Graduate students and students outside of art history are welcome to apply; they should contact the professor directly.)

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Zoe S Strother
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

COLL:INTERNATNL ORGANIZATION

International Relations
Prerequisites: POLS V1601 or the
equivalent
.
Admission by application
through the Barnard department only. Enrollment limited to 16 students.
Barnard syllabus
.
Exploration of the various structures, institutions, and processes that order relations among states and/or actors in the international system. Emphasis will be placed on contemporary issues such as dilemmas of humanitarian intervention, the politics of international institutions, the rise of non-governmental organizations, and globalization.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexander A Cooley
  CULPA: 22 h-index: 33 Info
• 4 points

SCI & SOCIETY IN THE MID EAST

• Department: Anthropology
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Gokce Gunel
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

RENAISSANCE WOMEN WRITERS

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
(Seminar). This course examines literary and artistic works by and about women from the 16th and 17th centuries alongside recent historical and theoretical criticism on gender and sexuality in the Renaissance. We will cover a range of literary genres that reflect and produce early modern notions of sex and gender in England, France, Italy and Spain, as well as medical guides, self-portraits, conduct manuals, and scurrilous tracts on females behavior. Topics include Queens (rulers) and Queens (prostitutes); cross-dressing and biological difference; the status of work and school; separatist communities and same-sex eroticism; kinship, patronage and domesticity; the gender and economics of authorship; the sexuality of racial and national identity. Readings in the original language provided and strongly encouraged. Secondary readings or films will be provided each week. Application instructions: E-mail Professor Calabresi (bcalabresi@me.com) with the subject heading "Renaissance Women Writers 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
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Bianca F Calabresi
  Info
• 4 points

NEXT CITY:SPEC,TECH,NOSTALGIA

NEXT CITY:SPEC,TECH, NOSTALGIA

• Department: Anthropology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Gokce Gunel
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

MILLENNIUM:APOCALYPSE & UTOPIA

Study of apocalyptic thinking and practice in the western religious tradition, with a focus on American apocalyptic religious movements and their relation to contemporary cultural productions, as well as notions of history and politics.

• Department: Auditing
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Castelli
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING LAB I

Fundamental considerations of wave mechanics; design philosophies; reliability and risk concepts; basics of fluid mechanics; design of structures subjected to blast; elements of seismic design; elements of fire design; flood considerations; advanced analysis in support of structural design.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• W 1:10 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Aaron M Kyle
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• 3 points

HISTORY OF SOUTH ASIA I

This survey lecture course will provide students with a broad overview of the history of South Asia as a region - focusing on key political, cultural and social developments over more than two millennia. The readings include both primary sources (in translation) and secondary works. Our key concerns will be the political, cultural and theological encounters of varied communities, the growth of cities and urban spaces, networks of trade and migrations and the development of both local and cosmopolitan cultures across Southern Asia. The survey will begin with early dynasties of the classical period and then turn to the subsequent formation of various Perso-Turkic polities, including the development and growth of hybrid political cultures such as those of Vijayanagar and the Mughals. The course also touches on Indic spiritual and literary traditions such as Sufi and Bhakti movements. Near the end of our course, we will look forward towards the establishment of European trading companies and accompanying colonial powers.

• Department: History
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Allison Busch
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 3 points

COLL: AID,POL, VIOLENCE AFRICA

COLL:AID,POL,VIOLENCE AFRICA

International Relations
Prerequisites: POLS V1601 or the
equivalent
.
Admission by application
through the Barnard department only. Enrollment limited to 16 students.
Barnard syllabus
.

Explores the concepts, theoretical traditions and debates around development and humanitarian aid, focusing on the relationships between aid, politics, and violence. It looks at the political and military impacts of aid, the linkage between humanitarian aid and conflict resolution, and aid's contribution to perpetuating subtle forms of domination. (Cross-listed by the Africana Studies and the Human Rights Programs.)

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Severine Autesserre
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia h-index: 14 Info
• 4 points

MILLENNIUM:APOCALYPSE & UTOPIA

MILLENNIUM:APOCALYPSE/UTOPIA

Study of apocalyptic thinking and practice in the western religious tradition, with a focus on American apocalyptic religious movements and their relation to contemporary cultural productions, as well as notions of history and politics.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Castelli
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

HISTORY OF SOUTH ASIA I - DISC

• Department: History
• T 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• T 7:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 0 points

SHANGE & DIGITAL STORYTELLING

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 12 students. Permission of the instructor required. Interested students should complete the application at: http://bit.ly/ShangeWorlds. Students should have taken a course beyond the intro level from ONE of the following areas: American Literature (through the English Department), Africana Studies, American Studies, Theatre or Women's Studies. Please note that this is a yearlong course; students who are accepted into this course will need to take its second half, AFEN BC3816, in the spring semester.
A poet, performance artist, playwright and novelist, Ntozake Shange's stylistic innovations in drama, poetry and fiction and attention to the untold lives of black women have made her an influential figure throughout American arts and in Feminist history. In a unique collaboration between Barnard, the Schomburg Center for Black Culture and the International Center for Photography, and with support by the Mellon funded "Barnard Teaches" grant, this year long seminar provides an in-depth exploration of Shange's work and milieu as well as an introduction to digital tools, public research and archival practice. You can find more information and apply for the course at http://bit.ly/ShangeWorlds. On Twitter @ShangeWorlds.

• Department: English @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Kim F Hall
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

FRANCOPHONE NOIR

France has a long and influential history of crime/detective writing, as the use of  ‘noir' as a loan word in other languages attests. Though noir literature and film waned in importance after its heyday in the 1950s, it has lately made a comeback, not only in France but also in former French colonies in Africa and the Caribbean where French remains an important language of cultural production. In these contexts, crime writing often explores the terrain of social and political injustice and inequality, particularly postcolonial, racial and transnational dynamics. Enquiries into the repressed memory of state-sponsored violence, notably the memory of the Holocaust and colonial brutality, these narratives harness the familiar mood, characters and structure of the crime genre, while giving it a local inscription. In this course we read contemporary crime fiction from France and Africa/the Middle East, considering how texts respond to local social and political circumstances and play with the conventions of the genre. We devote particular attention to Algeria, where crime writing has emerged as a preeminent genre in the wake of the acute yet still murky violence of the 1990s, a conflict aptly, if rather crudely, described by Adam Schatz as "one big murder mystery." We also explore some of the principal critical debates associated with detective fiction, including theories about genre and about high and low culture, and readings that situate crime writing in light of questions of international justice, punishment and human rights.  The course is taught in English. Readings can be done in French or English (all of the novels included on the syllabus are available in translation), and papers may also be submitted in either language.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Madeleine Dobie
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 3 points

LAB IN WRITING FILM CRITICISM

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. Non-majors must also submit a writing sample, approximately 3 pages long, to cj2374@columbia.edu.
This course will focus on writing fresh, original, lively criticism, and on creating strong arguments for your ideas. We will screen films from classics to some currently in theaters. We will read, analyze and evaluate critical responses to them considering some crucial questions: How do you approach a new film? How do you approach one that has been written about for decades? Students will write short reviews and longer essays, including first-day reviews of new films and a final paper taking a longer look at a director’s career. Screenings in and outside class will be followed by discussion of critical approaches to the films, and by in-class writing exercises. This course assumes there is no right or wrong in criticism, no single best approach, just stronger or weaker arguments.

• Department: Film
• M 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Caryn James
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

THE BODY IN MEDIEVAL ART

Medieval concepts of the human body differed significantly from today's definitions and theorizations. Additionally, the "medieval body" was not a stable, monolithic entity, but rather a shifting constellation of ideas and practices that waxed, waned, and coexisted throughout the Middle Ages. Such diverse attitudes helped inform the representation of the body in art, a representation that simultaneously depended upon conventions of style, craft, medium, artistry, and preciousness. "Body" signals not only earthly bodies-sexed, fleshly, corruptible, and soon to decay-but also the soul (equally fragile), as well as heavenly, angelic, and divine bodies, including that of Christ. This course attends both to medieval strategies of representing these bodies and the corresponding intellectual contexts, within Western Europe from Late Antiquity through the Middle Ages. The bodies to be examined include, and are not limited to, saintly, gendered, racialized, clerical, monstrous, virginal, heretical, sickly, healthy, courtly, resurrected, and uncircumscribable bodies. Late Antique, medieval, and early-modern primary-source material will be complemented by recent work by Caroline Walker Bynum, Michael Camille, Judith Butler, C. Stephen Jaeger, and others; our study of the medieval body will be cognizant of gender-, sexuality-, race-, and performance-critical methods.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Joseph S Ackley
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

ARCH ENGAGE: PAST IN PUB EYE

This course provides a panoramic, but intensive, inquiry into the ways that archaeology and its methods for understanding the world have been marshaled for debate in issues of public interest. It is designed to examine claims to knowledge of the past through the lenses of alternative epistemologies and a series of case-based problems that range from the academic to the political, legal, cultural, romantic, and fraudulent.

• Department: Anthropology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Terence N D'Altroy
  CULPA: 37 Info
• 4 points

BRAIN SCIENCE:A SOCIAL HISTORY

In light of the current ascendance of neuroscience, including new federally funded initiatives to map the human brain, this course explores the social history of brain science from the mid-19th century to the present. This period saw the invention of an array of cerebral technologies designed to explain the brain's operations, measure its capacities, manipulate its contents, calm its agitations, and better its performance. In this course, we will examine the historical and political contexts in which such technologies, including psychoanalysis, psychosurgery, brainwashing, and psychopharmaceuticals, were created. At the same time, we will consider the medical doctors, psychologists, and military personnel who endorsed and deployed them to achieve various social, political, and therapeutic ends. Through readings of period scientific texts, contemporary scientific research, personal memoirs, and novels, we will analyze the connections between emergent cerebral technologies and dominant philosophies of consciousness, notions of mind and soul, and theories of intelligence. In addition, we will look at the constructon of the neurological patient through the lenses of culture, race, and gender. Finally, we will consider recent cerebral technologies that produce mages of the brain. Throughout the course, we investigate persisting and urgent interests in knowing the mind, enhancing mental functioning, and managing problem brains.

• Department: Anthropology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Karen Seeley
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 4 points

FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER SYSTS

Prerequisites: an introductory programming course.
Fundamentals of computer organization and digital logic. Boolean algebra, Karnaugh maps, basic gates and components, flipflops and latches, counters and state machines, basics of combinational and sequential digital design. Assembly language, instruction sets, ALU’s, single-cycle and multi-cycle processor design, introduction to pipelined processors, caches, and virtual memory.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Martha A Kim
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 3 points

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING LAB III

Experimental design. Cell adhesion, membrane transport, osmosis, ultrasound, design of cell encapsulation and drug delivery system, respiratory impedance. Selected clinical demonstrations: body compositions, magnetic resonance imaging, echocardiography, blood pressure.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• M 1:10 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Aaron M Kyle
  Info
• 3 points

CULTURES & ECONOMIES

This class explores the intersection of economy, culture, and society from a comparative, anthropological perspective. What have anthropologists learned about the different economic systems of the societies they study? How do economic practices and processes interact with the broader sociocultural worlds in which they are pursued and elaborated? What kind of concepts and methods do anthropologists draw on in their ethnographic (and archeological) researches into the diversity of human economic life? By reading classic and contemporary works in the field of economic anthropology, this class introduce students to longstanding discussions and debates about: economic rationality as a social form; the application of economic principles and methods to non-marketized societies; the nature of exchange and value; the sociocultural dimensions of monetarization and marketization; the role of gender and class in economic production; and the paradoxes of private property in everyday lives. Anthropology and economics have maintained a long and productive, if often combative, relationship with one another, and one of the aims of the course is to explore that relationship from a number of critical perspectives.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Stephen Scott
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

LABORATORY IN SCREENWRITING

Exercises in the writing of film scripts.

• Department: Film
• W 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• R 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Mounia Akl
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• Instructor: Michael J Craft
  Info
• 3 points

LAB IN FICTION FILMMAKING

Exercises in the use of video for fiction shorts.

• Department: Film
• R 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• W 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Cyril Aris
  Info
• Instructor: George Sikharulidze
  Info
• 3 points

NYC: POLITICS & GOVERNING

NYC POLITICS/GOVERNING

This course will examine through readings, class discussions, and in class debate, the complex politics and governing of New York City- the key political institutions, and who holds urban political power, voting and elections, and the changing roles of the electorate will be covered.  We will examine the structure or New York City government and how the New York City Budget is developed and adopted; the interplay between Mayoral and City council powers, the city charter, the process of governing and the role of political parties, special interest groups, lobbyists and labor unions. We will look back in the City’s political history and consider that time in the mid 1970’s when New York City suffered a major fiscal crisis and was close to financial bankruptcy.  In this context, New York City’s relationships with the state and federal governments will also be covered.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Liz Abzug
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR IN FILMMAKING

Prerequisites:
FILM W3831
or
FILM W3832
.
An advanced directing workshop for senior film majors who have already completed FILM W3831 or FILM W3832.

• Department: Film
• W 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Sandra Luckow
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

SENIOR SEM IN SCREENWRITING

A seminar for senior film majors. Students will complete a step outline and minimum of 30 pages of their project, including revisions. Through reading/viewing and analyzing selected scripts/films, as well as lectures, exercises and weekly critiques, students will expand their understanding of dramatic writing and narrative-making for film and TV, including adaptations. They will learn appropriate structure for each specific screen-writing form, and endeavor to apply their understanding of drama, character, theme, and structure to their chosen narrative project.

• Department: Film
• M 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Loren-Paul Caplin
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

HUMAN RIGHTS & PUBLIC HEALTH

Prerequisites: Enrollment in the course is open to 18 undergraduates who have completed at least one core course in human rights and /or international law.
This seminar introduces students to the field of health and human rights.  It examines how to advocate for and implement public health strategies using a human rights framework. It takes note of current international and domestic debates about the utility of a “human rights-based approach” to health, discusses methods and ethics of health-related human rights research, and examines case studies of human rights investigations to explore the role of human rights analysis in promoting public health.

• Department: Human Rights (HRTB)
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 4 points

PHILOSOPHY OF LITERATURE

The course reviews and analyzes topics including meaning, interpretation, authorship, fiction, morality, and the historicity of literary genres. Texts to be covered will be historical and contemporary, analytical and continental. We will read texts by Adorno, Borges, Cavell, Danto, Foucault, Goodman, Ingarden, Sartre, and others. Comparative readings will also be offered regarding the relation of literature to the others arts.

• Department: Philosophy
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Lydia Goehr
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

EPISTEMOLGY:INVEST,EXPER,VALUE

Since the rise of the experimental sciences in the early modern period, a tradition of philosophical investigation has attempted both to provide epistemological underpinnings for scientific knowledge, and to apply experimental and empirical models of knowledge to other areas of philosophy, such as ethics. This course charts the history of this tradition, with a focus on the epistemology and moral epistemology British Empiricists, in particular Locke, Berkeley, Smith, Hume and Mill, and the American Pragmatists, Peirce, James and Dewey. The final third of the course will focus on contemporary debates that cut across issues in epistemology, philosophy of science and moral epistemology, in particular the role of values in investigation, the ethics of belief, the significance of disagreement, and the nature of testimony. This course can be used for the Epistemology requirement.

• Department: Philosophy
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Max Hayward
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 4 Info
• 3 points

SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION

Gives students tools and concepts with which to understand the social organization of religion in society. We will focus on classical emerging themes in the field, and analyze case studies that relate to them.

• Department: Religion
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Courtney Bender
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

ANTHROP OF THE ANTHROPOCENE

ANTHRO OF THE ANTHROPOCENE

This course focuses on the political ecology of the anthropocene. As multiple publics become increasingly aware of the extensive and accelerated rate of current global environmental change, and the presence of anthropogenesis in ever expanding circumstances, we need to critically analyze the categories of thought and action being developed in order to carefully approach this change. Our concern is thus not so much the Anthropocene as an immutable fact, inevitable event, or definitive period of time {significant though these are) but rather for the political, social, and intellectual consequences of this important idea. Thus we seek to understand the creativity of "The Anthropocene" as a political, rhetorical, and social category. We also aim to examine the networks of capital and power that have given rise to the current state of planetary change, the strategies for ameliorating those changes, and how these are simultaneously implicated in the rhetorical creation of "The Anthropocene" Priority given to Majors in Anthropology.  Enrollment limit is 15.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Paige West
  CULPA: 41 h-index: 23 Info
• 4 points

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

This seminar will focus on the development of Frank Lloyd Wright's built public architecture through an examination of key projects and their critical reception not only in the United States but abroad. The aim is to develop not only a knowledge of Wright's career, work, and influence, but also to develop critical skills in understanding the relationship between the study of built architecture and it's design history. Equally we will develop an understanding of the role of the study of reception in architectural history. The structure of the seminar will be an alternation between sessions in the drawings collection of Avery Library to study at close hand materials from the Frank Lloyd Wright archive (drawings, photographs, books) and sessions to read primary and secondary literature on Wright's work, emphasizing the evolution of critical reception from commentary contemporary with the projects to the evolution of the project in the vast literature on Wright that has developed since his death in 1959. At midpoint of the class our attention will focus for a week on Wright's work exhibiting his own work, to work with the hypothesis that Wright was as much involved in designing buildings and he was in designing his reputation and reception.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Barry G Bergdoll
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

SEMINAR IN INTERNATIONAL FILM

SEM IN INT'L FILM

SEMINAR IN INTERNATIONAL FILM – Spanish and Mexican Cinema  The Mexican and Spanish film industries, the two largest of the Spanish-speaking world, have had a long and intertwined history that started with the establishment of the First Hispano-American Film Conference held in Madrid in 1931. This seminar will analyze the multiple historical connections between the cinemas of Mexico and Spain from a transnational perspective and through the study of different forms of economic and cultural exchange (indifference, competition, collaboration) beyond national boundaries. The first part of the course will examine how a group of Spanish exiles working within the Mexican studio system in the 1950s tried to subvert its conventional narrative and genres in order to create a new auteurist tradition in Latin American cinema. We will study some key "Mexican" features of Luis Buñuel –Los olvidados (1950), The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955), Nazarín (1959), and The Exterminating Angel (1962)– as well as films by other Spanish expatriates, such as Carlos Velo, Jomí García Ascot, and Luis Alcoriza. Special attention will be paid to the troubled co-production of Buñuel's masterwork Viridiana (1961) and the importance of the short-lived journal Nuestro cine (Mexico City, 1961-62). In the second part of the seminar, we will study the global success of the New Mexican Cinema of the 1990s and 2000s, with an emphasis on the role played by Spanish producers, technicians and actors. We will evaluate the co-financing system of historical films, such as Nicolás Echevarría's Cabeza de Vaca (1991) and Arturo Ripstein's Deep Crimson (1996), as well as three of the most representative features of the Nuevo Cine Mexicano: Alfonso Cuarón's Y tu mamá también (2001), Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth (2006), and Alejandro González Iñárritu's Biutiful (2010). The critical interpretation of these films will allow us to redefine the idea of the so-called "national cinemas" and to reexamine the historical tensions between state control, commercialism, and independent cinema in both Mexico and Spain.

• Department: Film
• T 2 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Edward Turk
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

SENIOR THESIS SEMINAR I

Prerequisites: Limited to Barnard Anthropology Seniors.
Offered every Fall. Discussion of research methods and planning and writing of a Senior Essay in Anthropology will accompany research on problems of interest to students, culminating in the writing of individual Senior Essays. The advisory system requires periodic consultation and discussion between the student and her adviser as well as the meeting of specific deadlines set by the department each semester.  Limited to Barnard Senior Anthropology Majors.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 4 points

MODERN JAPAN: IMAGES & WORDS

This course relies primarily on visual materials to familiarize students with the history of Japan from the beginning of the nineteenth century through the present. It follows a chronological order, introducing students to various realms of Japanese visual culture—from woodblock prints to film, anime, and manga—along with the historical contexts that they were shaped by, and in turn helped shape. Special attention will paid to the visual technologies of nation-building, war, and empire; to historical interactions between Japanese and Euro-American visual culture; to the operations of still versus moving images; and to the mass production of visual commodities for the global marketplace. Students who take the course will emerge not only with a better understanding of Japan’s modern historical experience, but also with a more discerning eye for the ways that images convey meaning and offer access to the past.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Gregory Pflugfelder
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 3 points

HISTORY OF MODERN CHINA I

China’s transformation under its last imperial rulers, with special emphasis on economic, legal, political, and cultural change.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Madeleine H Zelin
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

APPROACHES TO CONTEMPORARY ART

This course examines the critical approaches to contemporary art from the 1970s to the present. It will address a range of historical and theoretical issues around the notion of "the contemporary" (e.g. globalization, participation, relational art, ambivalence, immaterial labor) as it has developed in the era after the postmodernism of the 1970s and 1980s.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Branden W Joseph
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

INTRO LIT/METHODS OF ART HIST

Prerequisites: Not open to Barnard or Continuing Education students. Majors must receive instructor's permission. Students must sign-up online: http://goo.gl/forms/otfh8x5hqk
Introduction to different methodological approaches to the study of art and visual culture. Majors are encouraged to take the colloquium during their junior year.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Zainab Bahrani
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

UNDERGRAD RES IN APPLIED MATH

Prerequisites: Written permission from instructor and approval from adviser.
This course may be repeated for credit, but no more than 6 points of this course may be counted toward the satisfaction of the B.S. degree requirements. Candidates for the B.S. degree may conduct an investigation in applied mathematics or carry out a special project under the supervision of the staff. Credit for the course is contingent upon the submission of an acceptable thesis or final report.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Guillaume Bal
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Daniel Bienstock
  h-index: 38 Info
• Instructor: Mark A Cane
  Wikipedia h-index: 99 Info
• Instructor: Qiang Du
  Wikipedia h-index: 67 Info
• Instructor: Kyle Mandli
  h-index: 14 Info
• Instructor: Lorenzo M Polvani
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 69 Info
• Instructor: Adam H Sobel
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Marc W Spiegelman
  CULPA: 15 Info
• Instructor: Michael I Weinstein
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 47 Info
• Instructor: chris wiggins
  CULPA: 12 Wikipedia h-index: 34 Info
• Instructor: Michael K Tippett
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 43 Info
• 0-4 points

UNDERGRAD RESRCH-APPLD PHYSICS

Prerequisites: Written permission from instructor and approval from adviser.
This course may be repeated for credit, but no more than 6 points of this course may be counted toward the satisfaction of the B.S. degree requirements. Candidates for the B.S. degree may conduct an investigation in applied physics or carry out a special project under the supervision of the staff. Credit for the course is contingent upon the submission of an acceptable thesis or final report.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Allen H Boozer
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Andrew Cole
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Irving P Herman
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia h-index: 50 Info
• Instructor: Michael E Mauel
  CULPA: 9 Info
• Instructor: Gerald A Navratil
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 46 Info
• Instructor: Richard M Jr. Osgood
  Wikipedia h-index: 85 Info
• Instructor: Aron Pinczuk
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• Instructor: Amiya K Sen
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Latha Venkataraman
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 55 Info
• Instructor: Francesco Volpe
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• Instructor: Nanfang Yu
  h-index: 48 Info
• Instructor: Yuan Yang
  h-index: 49 Info
• 0-4 points

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROJECT

Candidates for the B.S. degree may conduct an investigation of some problem in chemical engineering or applied chemistry or carry out a special project under the supervision of the staff.  Credit for the course is contingent upon the submission of an acceptable thesis or final report.  No more than 6 points in this course may be counted toward the satisfaction of the B.S. degree requirements.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• Instructor: Scott Banta
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 36 Info
• Instructor: Jingguang Chen
  Wikipedia h-index: 89 Info
• Instructor: Christopher J Durning
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Jingyue Ju
  h-index: 77 Info
• Instructor: Jeffrey T Koberstein
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Sanat Kumar
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 79 Info
• Instructor: Edward F Leonard
  CULPA: 9 Info
• Instructor: V. Faye McNeill
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 33 Info
• Instructor: Ben O'Shaughnessy
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Vanessa Ortiz
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• Instructor: Venkat Venkatasubramanian
  h-index: 58 Info
• Instructor: Alan West
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 48 Info
• Instructor: Daniel Esposito
  h-index: 22 Info
• Instructor: Ah-Hyung Alissa Park
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• 0-6 points

UNDERGRAD RES-ENVIRONMTL ENGIN

This course may be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 points of this course may be counted towards the satisfaction of the B. S. degree requirements. Candidates for the B.S. degree may conduct an investigation in Earth and Environmental Engineering, or carry out a special project under the supervision of EAEE faculty. Credit for the course is contingent on the submission of an acceptable thesis or final report. This course cannot substitute for the Undergraduate design project (EAEE E3999x or EAEE E3999y)

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• Instructor: Kartik Chandran
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 51 Info
• Instructor: Xi Chen
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia h-index: 64 Info
• Instructor: Paul F Duby
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Robert Farrauto
  h-index: 52 Info
• Instructor: Vasilis Fthenakis
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 55 Info
• Instructor: Pierre Gentine
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 43 Info
• Instructor: Upmanu Lall
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 68 Info
• Instructor: Peter Schlosser
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• Instructor: Ponisseril Somasundaran
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia h-index: 82 Info
• Instructor: Nickolas Themelis
  h-index: 44 Info
• 0-3 points

SENIOR SEMINAR IN FILM STUDIES

A seminar for senior film majors planning to write a research paper in film history/theory/culture. Course content changes yearly.

• Department: Film
• M 2 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Annette Insdorf
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

UNDERGRAD RESEARCH OR PROJECT

Prerequisites:
approval by a faculty member who agrees to supervise the work.

Independent work involving experiments, computer programming, analytical investigation, or engineering design.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Instructor: Daniel Bienstock
  h-index: 38 Info
• Instructor: Jose Blanchet
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Agostino Capponi
  h-index: 19 Info
• Instructor: Antonius B Dieker
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 19 Info
• Instructor: Adam N Elmachtoub
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 13 Info
• 1-3 points