GANDHI & HIS INTERLOCUTORS-DIS

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• R 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• T 4 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Vivek Yadav
  Info
• 0 points

SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Prerequisites:
PSYC W1001
or
PSYC W1010
, or the equivalent.
This lecture course introduces students to the study of typical human social development with a particular focus on genetic, familial and peer influences on the development of social behaviors during early childhood.

• Department: Psychology
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: James P Curley
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

EXP'TS IN CLASSICL/MOD PHYSICS

Prerequisites:
PHYS W1601
(or
W1401
),
W1602
(or
W1402
), and
W2601
.
Laboratory work associated with the three prerequisite lecture courses. Experiments in mechanics, thermodynamics, electricity, magnetism, optics, wave motion, atomic physics, and nuclear physics.

• Department: Physics
• T 4:10 p.m.-7:10 p.m.
• T 7:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
• W 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-7:10 p.m.
• W 7:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
• R 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• R 4:10 p.m.-7:10 p.m.
• F 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Angelo Esposito
  Info
• 3 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Enrollment in a college level course of instruction not offered by the Barnard or Columbia Physical Education Departments. Department approval required prior to the first day of the Physical Education registration period.

• Department: Physical Education @Barnard
• Instructor: Laura Masone
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 0-1 points

ACCELERATED PHYSICS II

Prerequisites:
PHYS W2801
.
This accelerated two-semester sequence covers the subject matter of PHYS W1601, W1602 and W2601, and is intended for those students who have an exceptionally strong background in both physics and mathematics. The course is preparatory for advanced work in physics and related fields. There is no accompanying laboratory; however, students are encouraged to take the intermediate laboratory, PHYS W3081, in the following year.

• Department: Physics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Brian Cole
  CULPA: 23 Info
• 4.5 points

LABORATORY IN ECOLOGY

Prerequisites: BIOL BC2272 (or corequisite). Enrollment limited to 16.
The definition of ecological problems in experimentally tractable ways; the design of experiments and analysis of ecological data; class projects on population ecology. Students conduct individual projects during last month of term.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• T 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul E Hertz
  CULPA: 22 Info
• 3 points

RESEARCH METHODS SEMINAR

This is the same course as CHEM BC2900y Research Methods Seminar.
Skills to facilitate entry into biology and chemistry research. Students will learn to think and work like scientists and to identify, apply for and gain entry to research lab groups.  Focus on writing and oral presentation skills. Additional readings and discussions on laboratory safety, women in science, and scientific ethics. Prerequisites:  Students must be sophomores with a strong interest in pursuing research in the biological or chemical sciences.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• F 2 p.m.-3 p.m.
• 1 points

TPCS/LIT THRY DIGITAL LIT STDS

NARRATIVE THEORY

• Department: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
• 4 points

THE ART OF STRUCTURAL DESIGN

An introduction to basic scientific and engineering principles used for the design of buildings, bridges, and other parts of the built infrastructure.  Application of these principles to the analysis and design of a number of actual large-scale structures.  Experimental verification of these principles through laboratory experiments.  Coverage of the history of major structural design innovations and of the engineers who introduced them.  Critical examination of the unique aesthetic/artistic perspectives inherent in structural design.  Consideration of management, socioeconomic, and ethical issues involved in the design and construction of large-scale structures.  Introduction to some recent developments in sustainable engineering, including green building design and adaptable structural systems.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: George Deodatis
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 42 Info
• 3 points

FROM PAGE TO DANCE STAGE

Study of dance works which have their origins in the written word. Topics considered include: Is choreography a complete act of creative originality? Which literary genres are most often transformed into dance pieces? Why are some texts privileged with dance interpretation(s) and others are not?

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Mindy Aloff
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO FILM & MEDIA STUDIES

• Department: Film
• R 2 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Jane Gaines
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

BUDDHIST ETHICS

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
An investigation of the main textual sources of the Buddhist ethical tradition, with attention to their historical operation within Buddhist societies, as well as consideration of their continuing influence on comtemporary developments, Western as well as Asian.

• Department: Religion
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Thomas F Yarnall
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

SOCIAL THEORY

Prerequisites: Sophomore standing.
Required for all sociology majors.  Prerequisite: at least one sociology course of the instructor's permission.  Theoretical accounts of the rise and transformations of modern society in the19th and 20th centuries.  Theories studied include those of Adam Smith, Tocqueville, Marx, Durkheim, Max Weber, Roberto Michels.  Selected topics:  individual, society, and polity; economy, class, and status: organization and ideology; religion and society; moral and instrumental action.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Deborah Becher
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 4 Info
• 3 points

THE SAGA OF LIFE

A survey of the origin and end of life on Earth as seen through three different lenses: natural science (physics, chemistry, biology), social science (environmental biology, sustainability science), and the humanities (film, literature, and religion). The primary objective of this course is to come to a fundamental understanding of the significance of Earth's extraordinary diversity of plants, animals, and microoganisms, and its magnificent array of ecosystems, from rainforests and grasslands to the abyssal plains of the oceans, and to do so through synthetic and integrative thinking that transcends the traditional boundaries of scholarship.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Shahid Naeem
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 70 Info
• 4 points

LITERARY TEXTS & CRIT METHODS

Corequisites: students who register for
ENGL W3001
must also register for one of the sections of
ENGL W3011
Literary Texts, Critical Methods.
This course is intended to introduce students to the advanced study of literature. Students will read works from different genres (poetry, drama, and prose fiction), drawn from the medieval period to the present day, learning the different interpretative techniques required by each. The course also introduces students to a variety of critical schools and approaches, with the aim both of familiarizing them with these methodologies in the work of other critics and of encouraging them to make use of different methods in their own critical writing. This course (together with the companion seminar ENGL W3011) is a requirement for the English Major and Concentration. It should be taken as early as possible in a student's career. Fulfillment of this requirement will be a factor in admission to seminars and to some lectures.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jenny M Davidson
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED FICTION WORKSHOP

Prerequisites: The department's permission required through writing sample. Please go to 609 Kent for submission schedule and registration guidelines or see http://www.arts.columbia.edu/writing/undergraduate.
Building on the work of the Intermediate Workshop, Advanced Workshops are reserved for the most accomplished creative writing students. A significant body of writing must be produced and revised.  Particular attention will be paid to the components of fiction: voice, perspective, characterization, and form.  Students will be expected to finish several short stories, executing a total artistic vision on a piece of writing. The critical focus of the class will include an examination of endings and formal wholeness, sustaining narrative arcs, compelling a reader's interest for the duration of the text, and generating a sense of urgency and drama in the work.

• Department: Writing
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Victor D Lavalle
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Marie G Lee
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

HUMANITIES TEXTS, CRIT SKILLS

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 4 points

INTRO-FILM & MEDIA STUDIES-DIS

• Department: Film
• F 1 p.m.-2 p.m.
• M 9 a.m.-10 a.m.
• M 1 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Bittnarie Shin
  Info
• Instructor: Federico Spiazzi
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• Instructor: Nicholas J Bollinger
  Info
• 0 points

ADVANCED GERMAN II

Corequisites: Course either taken before or after GERM V3001.
Intensive practice in oral and written German. Discussions, oral reports, and weekly written assignments, based on material of topical and stylistic variety taken from German press and from literary sources.

• Department: German @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Irene Motyl
  CULPA: 14 Info
• Instructor: Simona C Vaidean
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED READINGS II

Sign up for section in the department.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• 1-6 points

SUPERVISED PROJ PHOTOGRAPHY

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 15 students.
Designed for students to conduct independent projects in photography. Priority for enrollment to the class will be Barnard College students who are enrolling in classes at ICP (International Center of Photography).  The cost of ICP will be covered by Barnard College. All of the other students enrolling in the course (CC, GS SOA) will be responsible for their own ICP course expenses.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: John Miller
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

CINEMA HIST I: BEGIN-1930

• Department: Film
• W 10 a.m.-1:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Vito Adriaensens
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

MECHANICS

Prerequisites: general physics, and differential and integral calculus.
Newtonian mechanics, oscillations and resonance, conservative forces and potential energy, central forces, non-inertial frames of reference, rigid body motion, an introduction to Lagrange's formulation of mechanics, coupled oscillators, and normal modes.

• Department: Physics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew Millis
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 99 Info
• 3 points

URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS

Introduction to: (a) the infrastructure systems that support urban socioeconomic activities, and (b) fundamental system design and analysis methods. Coverage of water resources, vertical, transportation, communications and energy infrastructure. Emphasis upon the purposes that these systems serve, the factors that influence their performance, the basic mechanisms that govern their design and operation, and the impacts that they have regionally and globally. Student teams complete a semester-long design/analysis project with equal emphasis given to water resources / environmental engineering, geotechnical engineering and construction engineering and management topics.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Julius Chang
  Info
• 3 points

CINEMA HIST I:BEGIN-1930-DISC

• Department: Film
• R 1 p.m.-2 p.m.
• R 5 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Nayantara Roy
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• Instructor: Edwin C Ho
  Info
• 0 points

NEUROBIO II: DEVPT & SYSTEMS

Prerequisites:
BIOL W3004
, one year of biology, or the instructor's permission.
This course is the "capstone" course for the Neurobiology and Behavior undergraduate major at Columbia University and will be taught by the faculty of the Kavli Institute of Brain Science: http://www.kavli.columbia.edu/ Science: http://www.kavli.columbia.edu/. It is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Knowledge of Cellular Neuroscience (how an action potential is generated and how a synapse works) will be assumed. It is strongly recommended that students take BIOL W3004 Neurobiology I: Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, or a similar course, before enrolling in BIOL W3005. Students unsure about their backgrounds should check a representative syllabus of BIOL W3004 on the BIOL W3004 website (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/w3004/). Website for BIOL W3005: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/w3005/index.html

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Rafael Yuste
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia h-index: 106 Info
• 4 points

ACTING LAB

ACTING THE SONG

Prerequisites: Enrollment in each section limited to 14 students. Acting classes are open to all Barnard and Columbia undergraduates. Permission of Theatre Department through audition required: auditions for acting classes and for the semester's stage productions held 6pm on the first Tuesday and Wednesday class days of each semester. Acting classes begin meeting after auditions. For required details, consult "Auditions" on the Barnard Theatre Department website in advance: theatre.barnard.edu/auditions
This is an umbrella course whose offerings will change each year. Some are narrow, some broad; all are designed with several objectives in common, including: a. To focus on a particular genre, playwright,  approach to live performance. b. To develop an interrelated set of conceptual, analytical, and embodiment skills and approaches. Courses typically involve  scene preparation, reading, research, and both individual and group projects, as well as active participation in classroom exercises. c. To develop a sense of the purposes and goals of a specific approach to acting. The acting lab courses are intentionally non-sequential; students with little previous background in acting are strongly encouraged to consider the Acting Workshop and Scene Lab courses. No more than six courses can be taken from the Acting Lab/Advanced Acting Lab offerings during a student's career. Auditions are required for all Acting Labs and will take place the first two evenings of each semester. Each course fulfills one course in Acting requirement for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors. Please check with the Theatre Department website for specific offerings and audition information.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Wendy Waterman
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

ACTING LAB

ACTING CHEKHOV

Prerequisites: Enrollment in each section limited to 14 students. Acting classes are open to all Barnard and Columbia undergraduates. Permission of Theatre Department through audition required: auditions for acting classes and for the semester's stage productions held 6pm on the first Tuesday and Wednesday class days of each semester. Acting classes begin meeting after auditions. For required details, consult "Auditions" on the Barnard Theatre Department website in advance: theatre.barnard.edu/auditions
This is an umbrella course whose offerings will change each year. Some are narrow, some broad; all are designed with several objectives in common, including: a. To focus on a particular genre, playwright,  approach to live performance. b. To develop an interrelated set of conceptual, analytical, and embodiment skills and approaches. Courses typically involve  scene preparation, reading, research, and both individual and group projects, as well as active participation in classroom exercises. c. To develop a sense of the purposes and goals of a specific approach to acting. The acting lab courses are intentionally non-sequential; students with little previous background in acting are strongly encouraged to consider the Acting Workshop and Scene Lab courses. No more than six courses can be taken from the Acting Lab/Advanced Acting Lab offerings during a student's career. Auditions are required for all Acting Labs and will take place the first two evenings of each semester. Each course fulfills one course in Acting requirement for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors. Please check with the Theatre Department website for specific offerings and audition information.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: John G Chapman
  Info
• 3 points

ACTING LAB

ACTING SOCIAL COMEDY

Prerequisites: Enrollment in each section limited to 14 students. Acting classes are open to all Barnard and Columbia undergraduates. Permission of Theatre Department through audition required: auditions for acting classes and for the semester's stage productions held 6pm on the first Tuesday and Wednesday class days of each semester. Acting classes begin meeting after auditions. For required details, consult "Auditions" on the Barnard Theatre Department website in advance: theatre.barnard.edu/auditions
This is an umbrella course whose offerings will change each year. Some are narrow, some broad; all are designed with several objectives in common, including: a. To focus on a particular genre, playwright,  approach to live performance. b. To develop an interrelated set of conceptual, analytical, and embodiment skills and approaches. Courses typically involve  scene preparation, reading, research, and both individual and group projects, as well as active participation in classroom exercises. c. To develop a sense of the purposes and goals of a specific approach to acting. The acting lab courses are intentionally non-sequential; students with little previous background in acting are strongly encouraged to consider the Acting Workshop and Scene Lab courses. No more than six courses can be taken from the Acting Lab/Advanced Acting Lab offerings during a student's career. Auditions are required for all Acting Labs and will take place the first two evenings of each semester. Each course fulfills one course in Acting requirement for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors. Please check with the Theatre Department website for specific offerings and audition information.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: James King
  Info
• 3 points

GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY

Prerequisites:
BIOL C2005
&
BIOL C2006
or
BIOL F2401
&
BIOL F2402
, or the instructor's permission.
Major physiological systems of vertebrates (circulatory, digestive, hormonal, etc.) with emphasis on cellular and molecular mechanisms and regulation. Readings include research articles from the scientific literature. SCE and TC students may register for this course, but they must first obtain the written permission of the instructor, by filling out a paper Registration Adjustment Form (Add/Drop form). The form can be downloaded at the URL below, but must be signed by the instructor and returned to the office of the registrar.  http://registrar.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/reg-adjustment.pdf

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mary Ann Price
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

COMPOSITION AND CONVERSATION

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 12 students.
Discussions on contemporary issues and oral presentations. Creative writing assignments designed to improve writing skills and vocabulary development.

• Department: French @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Karen Santos da Silva
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

QUANTUM PHYSICS

Prerequisites: BC3001 or C2601 or the equivalent.
Wave-particle duality and the Uncertainty Principle. The Schrodinger equation. Basic principles of the quantum theory. Energy levels in one-dimensional potential wells. The harmonic oscillator, photons, and phonons. Reflection and transmission by one-dimensional potential barriers. Applications to atomic, molecular, and nuclear physics.

• Department: Physics and Astronomy @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Reshmi Mukherjee
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia h-index: 63 Info
• 3 points

CONCEPTS IN VIAR: PERFORMANCE

CONCEPTS IN VA: PERFORMANCE

This course explores strategies in the production of performance art, using the signifying system of the body as a conceptual framework for a series of workshops that give students tools to develop their own performance projects over the course of the semester. Students will engage with discourses of performance, from theatrical and choreographic models to social and relational practices, and become familiar with strategies for constructing and determining the role of the audience.  With attention to site- and situation-specificity, this course offers instruction in a variety of technical aspects of performance, such as the use of body, architecture, sound, light, costume, prop, sculpture, video, and methods of collaboration. The class includes group critique of performances presented in class, as well as the opportunity to workshop developing works with the support of the group. Students will become familiar with venues for performance, and the artists who are redefining performance in the art world today. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• T 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Liz Laser
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

COMMERCIAL-ECONOMIC FRENCH

Prerequisites: Fourth year French students only; Seniors have priority.
Enrollment limited to 12 students.
The socioeconomic language of contemporary French society. Practice of oral and written communications based on documents from the French press. Students who have completed the course may wish to take the Diplome du Francais des Affaires given by the Chambre de Commerce et d Industrie de Paris.

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

COMPLEX VARIABLES

Prerequisites:
MATH V1202
. An elementary course in functions of a complex variable.
Fundamental properties of the complex numbers, differentiability, Cauchy-Riemann equations. Cauchy integral theorem. Taylor and Laurent series, poles, and essential singularities. Residue theorem and conformal mapping.(SC)

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Bogwang Jeon
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES & OPTICS

Prerequisites:
PHYS W3007
.
Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic potentials, the wave equation, propagation of plane waves, reflection and refraction, geometrical optics, transmission lines, wave guides, resonant cavities, radiation, interference of waves, and diffraction.

• Department: Physics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Bradley R Johnson
  Info
• 3 points

CONTEMP SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY

This is a survey class that will familiarize students with the most important theoretical developments in post-war sociology.

• Department: Sociology
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Andreas Wimmer
  Wikipedia h-index: 41 Info
• 3 points

CINEMA HISTORY IV: AFTER 1990

Course content changes yearly.

• Department: Film
• R 10 a.m.-1:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Jerome Game
  Info
• 3 points

METHODS FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites:
SOCI W1000
The Social World or the instructor's permission.
Required for all Sociology majors: introductory course in social scientific research methods. Provides a general overview of the ways sociologists collect information about social phenomena, focusing on how to collect data that are reliable and applicable to our research questions.

• Department: Sociology
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jacob Boersema
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

BEHAVIOR BIOL-LIVING PRIMATES

Prerequisites: introductory biology course in organismal biology and the instructor's permission.
Corequisites:
EEEB W3111
.
Survey of non-human primate behavior from the perspective of phylogeny, adaptation, physiology and anatomy, and life history. Focus on the four main problems primates face: finding appropriate food, avoid being eaten themselves, reproducing in the face of competition, and dealing with social partners.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Marina Cords
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 3 points

LITERARY TEXTS&CRIT; MTHDS(SEM)

Corequisites: students who register for
ENGL W3011
must also register for
ENGL W3001
Literary Texts, Critical Methods lecture.
This seminar, led by an advanced graduate student in the English doctoral program, accompanies the faculty lecture ENGL W3001. The seminar both elaborates upon the topics taken up in the lecture and introduces other theories and methodologies. It also focuses on training students to integrate the terms, techniques, and critical approaches covered in both parts of the course into their own critical writing, building up from brief close readings to longer research papers.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Sarah H Arkebauer
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Valerio Amoretti
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Samuel A Mitchell
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Gabriel Z Bloomfield
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 0 points

LITERARY TEXTS&CRIT; MTHDS(SEM)

LITERARY TEXT&CRIT; MTHDS (SEM)

Corequisites: students who register for
ENGL W3011
must also register for
ENGL W3001
Literary Texts, Critical Methods lecture.
This seminar, led by an advanced graduate student in the English doctoral program, accompanies the faculty lecture ENGL W3001. The seminar both elaborates upon the topics taken up in the lecture and introduces other theories and methodologies. It also focuses on training students to integrate the terms, techniques, and critical approaches covered in both parts of the course into their own critical writing, building up from brief close readings to longer research papers.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Atefeh Akbari Shahmirzadi
  Info
• 0 points

HISTORY OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE

Transformation and evolution of the French languages from the early Middle Ages to the present are studied from a socio-historical perspective. Primary texts include literary, legal, political, scientific, administrative, liturgical, and epistolary documents. Includes consideration of French outside of France and variations on the continent in the 20th century.

• Department: French @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Laurie Postlewate
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO MATERIALS SCIENCE II

Prerequisites: MSAE E3010.
Introduction to polycrystals and disordered materials; noncrystalline and amorphous structures; grain boundary structures, diffusion; phase transformations; phase diagrams, timetemperature- transformation diagrams; properties of polycrystalline and amorphous materials: mechanical properties and failure, the Drude model of electrical properties, thermal properties; corrosion; materials selection for engineering design.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• 3 points

CINEMA HIST IV:AFTER 1990-DISC

• Department: Film
• R 5 p.m.-6 p.m.
• F 9 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Andrew S Lee
  Info
• Instructor: Frank J Graziano
  Info
• Instructor: Alexandra L Peace
  Info
• Instructor: Dorian M Cambi
  Info
• 0 points

ADV COMP & GRAMMAR REVIEW

• Department: French @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Isabelle Jouanneau-Fertig
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 3 points

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING

Enables students to become informed users of financial information by understanding the language of accounting and financial reporting. Focuses on the three major financial statements that companies prepare for use of management and external parties—the balance sheet, the income statement, and the statement of cash flows. Examines the underlying concepts that go into the preparation of these financial statements as well as specific accounting rules that apply when preparing financial statements. Also looks at approaches to analyze the financial strength and operations of an entity. Uses actual financial statements to understand how financial information is presented and to apply analysis techniques.

• Department: Columbia College
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Julian Yeo
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

ECONOMIC HISTORY-UNITED STATES

Prerequisites: ECON BC3035 or ECON BC3033, or permission of the instructor.
Economic transformation of the United States from a small, open agrarian society in the late colonial era to the leading industrial economy of the 20th century. Emphasis is given to the quantitative, institutional, and spatial dimensions of economic growth, and the relationship between the changing structures of the economy and state.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: David Weiman
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 3 points

SHORELINES AND STREAMS

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited. Four required field trips that take a substantial portion of the day.
An interdisciplinary study of shoreline processes, the larger ecosystems of which they are a part, and the geologic events and human impacts that have brought them through time to their current state. A problem-oriented, field-methods course, providing hands-on experience with tools and observational methods in a variety of outdoor environments. Involves sampling and measurement techniques for rocks and minerals, fossils, water, soil, flora, and fauna, as well as field and laboratory work, data interpretation and analysis, and the creation of a sample collection. Emphasis on the writing process through the reading of Rachel Carson's The Edge of the Sea, a daylong field trip to Montauk Point, and the writing of a term essay on the natural history and origin of a grain of garnet found at the top of the dune at Napeague Bay.

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• F 9 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Peter M Bower
  CULPA: 56 Info
• 3 points

CLASSICAL LATIN PROSE

Prerequisites: LATN W1202 or equivalent
This course is intended to complement Latin V3012: Augustan Poetry in providing students I a transition between the elementary, grammatical study of Latin texts to a more fluent understanding of complex literary style.  Latin V3013 will largely concentrate on different styles of writing, particularly narrative, invective, and argument.  Text will be drawn primarily from Cicero’s orations, with some readings form his rhetorical works.

• Department: Classics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: James E Zetzel
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

LABORATORY IN MATERIALS SCI II

Prerequisites: MSAE E3011.
Metallographic sample preparation, optical microscopy, quantitative metallography, hardness and tensile testing, plastic deformation, annealing, phase diagrams, brittle fracture of glass, temperature and strain-rate dependent deformation of polymers; written and oral reports. This is the second of a two-semester sequence materials laboratory course. MSAE E3103x Elements of materials

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• M 12:30 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Hande Ozturk
  h-index: 7 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED ORAL FRENCH

Prerequisites: At least one French course after completion of the language requirement and permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 12 students.
Oral presentations and discussions of French films aimed at increasing fluency, acquiring vocabulary, and perfecting pronunciation skills.

• Department: French @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Anne Boyman
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 3 points

ECONOMETRICS

Prerequisites: ECON BC3033 or ECON BC3035, and ECON BC2411 or STAT W1111 or STAT W1211, or permission of the instructor.
Specification, estimation and evaluation of economic relationships using economic theory, data, and statistical inference; testable implications of economic theories; econometric analysis of topics such as consumption, investment, wages and unemployment, and financial markets.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• T 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Aboozar Hadavand
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• 4 points

WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION

Prerequisites: high school science and math.
A review of the history and environmental consequences of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons of mass destruction (WMD); of how these weapons work, what they cost, how they have spread, how they might be used, how they are currently controlled by international treaties and domestic legislation, and what issues of policy and technology arise in current debates on WMD. What aspects of the manufacture of WMD are easily addressed, and what aspects are technically challenging? It may be expected that current events/headlines will be discussed in class.

• Department: Physics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Szabolcs Marka
  CULPA: 25 h-index: 127 Info
• 3 points

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING II

Prerequisites: BIOL C2005 and BIOL C2006 or with instructor's permission.
Corequisites: BMEN E3820, E4002
Various concepts within the field of biomedical engineering, foundational knowledge of engineering methodology applied to biological and/or medical problems through modules in biomechanics, bioinstrumentation, and biomedical Imaging.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Clark T Hung
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 65 Info
• 3 points

NUMBER THEORY AND CRYPTOGRAPHY

Prerequisites: one year of calculus.
Congruences. Primitive roots. Quadratic residues. Contemporary applications.

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: David Hansen
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 3 points

MARKETING MANAGEMENT

Designed to provide students with an understanding of the fundamental marketing concepts and their application by business and non-business organizations. The goal is to expose students to these concepts as they are used in a wide variety of settings, including consumer goods firms, manufacturing and service industries, and small and large businesses. The course gives an overview of marketing strategy issues, elements of a market (company, customers, and competition), as well as the fundamental elements of the marketing mix (product, price, placement/distribution, and promotion).

• Department: Columbia College
• M 9 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Silvia Bellezza
  h-index: 7 Info
• 3 points

FIGURE DRAWING I

Prerequisites:
VIAR R1001
.
An exploration of a wide range of drawing experiences. Moves sequentially, engaging problems of line and mass; volume; chiaroscuro; figure/ground; one, two, and axonometric perspective in pictorial observation and improvisation. Classes focus on specific drawing issues engaging art-historical and contemporary methods and techniques. Individual and group critiques. Portfolio required at the end. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• F 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Aliza Nisenbaum
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

MAJOR FRENCH TEXTS II

Prerequisites: Satisfaction of the language requirement or the equivalent. FREN BC3021 may be taken for credit without completion of FREN BC3022.
The Age of Enlightenment, Romanticism, Realism, and Symbolism.

• Department: French @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Brian D O'Keeffe
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 3 points

FINANCIAL ECONOMICS

Prerequisites:
ECON W3211, W3213
and
STAT 1201
.
Institutional nature and economic function of financial markets. Emphasis on both domestic and international markets (debt, stock, foreign exchange, eurobond, eurocurrency, futures, options, and others). Principles of security pricing and portfolio management; the Capital Asset Pricing Model and the Efficient Markets Hypothesis.

• Department: Economics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Sally M Davidson
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

THEATER OF THE CLASSICAL AGE

• Department: French @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Caroline Weber
  CULPA: 8 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

APPLIED DATA MINING

Applied DATA Mining

• Department: Statistics
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Birol Emir
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 3 points

PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

Prerequisites:
MATH V3027
and
MATH V2010
or the equivalent
Introduction to partial differential equations. First-order equations. Linear second-order equations; separation of variables, solution by series expansions. Boundary value problems.

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Simon Brendle
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING LAB II

Experiments in engineering and physical phenomena: aerofoil lift and drag in wind tunnels, laser doppler anemometry in immersed fluidic channels, supersonic flow and shock waves, Rankine thermodynamical cycle for power generation, and structural truss mechanics and analysis.. A lab fee of $50.00 is collected.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• MWMWMW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Qiao Lin
  h-index: 41 Info
• 3 points

IMAGERY AND FORM IN THE ARTS

Operation of imagery and form in dance, music, theater, visual arts and writing; students are expected to do original work in one of these arts. Concepts in contemporary art will be explored.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• M 5 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Joan Snitzer
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

GENETICS

Prerequisites:
BIOL C2005-C2006
or the equivalent.
General course in genetics and genomics dealing with principles of gene structure, function, regulation, and transmission. Historical development, experimental basis of current knowledge, and roles of model organisms are stressed. Includes a thorough understanding of disease gene discovery, and an introduction to topics in developmental, cancer, and population genetics. SCE and TC students may register for this course, but they must first obtain the written permission of the instructor, by filling out a paper Registration Adjustment Form (Add/Drop form). The form can be downloaded at the URL below, but must be signed by the instructor and returned to the office of the registrar.  http://registrar.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/reg-adjustment.pdf

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Ava E Brent
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• 3 points

INTERMEDTE MACROECONOMC THEORY

Prerequisites: An introductory course in economics and a functioning knowledge of high school algebra and analytical geometry or permission of the instructor.
Systematic exposition of current macroeconomic theories of unemployment, inflation, and international financial adjustments.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Nuria Quella
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

INTERMEDTE MICROECONOMC THEORY

Prerequisites: An introductory course in microeconomics or a combined macro/micro principles course (ECON BC1003 or ECON W1105, or the equivalent) and one semester of calculus or ECON BC1007, or permission of the instructor.
Preferences and demand; production, cost, and supply; behavior of markets in partial equilibrium; resource allocation in general equilibrium; pricing of goods and services under alternative market structures; implications of individual decision-making for labor supply; income distribution, welfare, and public policy. Emphasis on problem solving.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Lalith Munasinghe
  CULPA: 33 Info
• 4 points

ENVRNMTL & NTRL RESOURCE ECONS

Prerequisites: ECON BC1003 or ECON W1105. Prerequisite for Economics majors: ECON BC3035.
Link between economic behavior and environmental quality: valuation of non-market benefits of pollution abatement; emissions standards; taxes; and transferable discharge permits. Specific problems of hazardous waste; the distribution of hazardous pollutants across different sub-groups of the U.S. population; the exploitation of commonly owned natural resources; and the links between the environment, income distribution, and economic development.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Belinda Archibong
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 7 Info
• 3 points

LAB IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Prerequisites: one year of biology (
C2005
-
C2006
) and Contemporary Biology Laboratory (
C2501
).
This lab will explore various molecular biology techniques frequently utilized in modern molecular biology laboratories. The lab will consist of three modules: 1) Molecular verification of genetically modified organisms (GMOs); 2) Site-directed mutagenesis; and 3) PCR isolation, cloning, and analysis of the GAPDH gene. SCE and TC students may register for this course, but they must first obtain the written permission of the instructor, by filling out a paper Registration Adjustment Form (Add/Drop form). The form can be downloaded at the URL below, but must be signed by the instructor and returned to the office of the registrar.  http://registrar.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/reg-adjustment.pdf

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Alice Heicklen
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

Process-oriented introduction to the law and its use in environmental policy and decision-making. Origins and structure of the U.S. legal system. Emphasis on litigation process and specific cases that elucidate the common law and toxic torts, environmental administrative law, and environmental regulation through application and testing of statutory law in the courts. Emphasis also on the development of legal literacy, research skills, and writing.

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• 3 points

ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY II

Prerequisites: Required of all Barnard Anthropology majors; open to other students with instructor's permission only.
The second of a two semester sequence intended to introduce departmental majors to key readings in social theory that have been constitutive of the rise and contemporary practice of modern anthropology. The goal is to understand historical and current intellectual debates within the discipline. To be taken in conjunction with ANTH V3040, preferably in sequence.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Stephen Scott
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

THEORETICL FOUNDTNS-POLIT ECON

Prerequisites: An introductory course in economics or permission of the instructor.
Intellectual origins of the main schools of thought in political economy. Study of the founding texts in classical political economy, Marxian economics, neoclassicism, and Keynesianism.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Andre Burgstaller
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 3 points

PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI POLIT/SOC

The History of the Jewish Enlightenment (Haskala) in 19th century Europe and the development of Zionism through the current "peace process" between the state of Israel and the Arab states and the Palestinian national movement. Provides a historical overview of the Zionist-Palestinian conflict to familiarize undergraduates with the background of the current situation. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph A Massad
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI POL/SOC DS

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• T 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• R 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph A Massad
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

INTENSVE ORG CHEM-FOR 1ST YEAR

Prerequisites:
CHEM W3045

As of academic year 2016-17, this course is now CHEM UN3046. Premedical students may take CHEM W3045, CHEM W3046, and CHEM W3545 to meet the minimum requirements for admission to medical school. This course covers the same material as CHEM W3443-CHEM  W3444, but is intended for students who have learned the principles of general chemistry in high school OR have completed CHEM W1604 in their first year at Columbia. First year students enrolled in CHEM W3045-CHEM W3046 are expected to enroll concurrently in CHEM W2507. Although CHEM W3045 and CHEM W3046 are separate courses, students are expected to take both terms sequentially. A recitation section is required.  Please check the Directory of Classes for details and also speak with the TA for the course.

• Department: Chemistry
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• 3.5 points