IND STUDIES-CIVIL ENGIN-JUNIOR

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

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• Instructor: Waiching Sun
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 30 Info
• Instructor: Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou
  h-index: 26 Info
• Instructor: Catherine Gorle
  Info
• Instructor: Julius Chang
  Info
• 1-3 points

IND STUDIES-CIVIL ENGIN-SENIOR

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

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

CENSORSHIP AFTER THE THAW

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Sophie C Pinkham
  Info
• 3 points

COLL:PLTCS OF JUDICIAL INTERP

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Kato
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

MUSLIMS IN DIASPORA

Consideration of controversies surrounding mosque-building, headscarves, honor killing, and other publicized issues that expose tensions surrounding citizenship and belonging for Muslims in North America and Europe. Exploration of film and other media representations of Muslims in the West. There will be additional meeting times for film screenings

• Department: Religion
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Katherine Pratt Ewing
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 22 Info
• 4 points

GENOMICS AND BIOINFORMATICS

Prerequisites: BIOL BC1500, BIOL BC1501, BIOL BC1502, BIOL BC1503 and BIOL BC2100.
Advanced topics in genetics focusing on genome-level features and methods of sequence analysis. The primary emphasis of the course will be on microbial genomic and metagenomic applications but many of the techniques will be applicable to eukaryotic genomics and medical genomics as well. Through this course students will become comfortable with the command line interface, learn basic programming skills, be exposed to a variety of online tools, and become proficient in a number of genomic software packages. This course is an upper-level laboratory.

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

FROM THE MANUSCRIPT TO THE WEB

The main goal of this course is to introduce students to textual scholarship in general and digital scholarly editing in particular. The main outcome of this new course will be to publish a small-scale digital scholarly edition online of one of the most remarkable Spanish literary works, the Lazarillo de Tormes (XVIth century). The course is conceived as a combination between collaborative research and technical skills. At all steps of the process, we will work together toward the completion of our digital edition. Unlike other courses in digital editing taught worldwide, this course will introduce you to a "full stack," giving you the ability to make your own digital editions in the future without the need for funding, a publisher, or a "technical" team. The course will be divided into lectures and recitation sessions, in order to offer a theoretical concepts and to transfer them into practice.

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

SHORT PROSE FORMS

Prerequisites: No Prerequisites. Department approval NOT required.
"Flash fiction," "micro-naratives" and the "short-short" have become exciting areas of exploration for contemporary writers.  This course will examine how these literary fragments have captured the imagination of writers internationally and at home.  The larger question the class seeks to answer, both on a collective and individual level, is: How can we craft a working definition of those elements endemic to "short prose" as a genre?  Does the form exceed classification?  What aspects of both crafts -- prose and poetry -- does this genre inhabit, expand upon, reinvent, reject, subvert? Short Prose Forms incorporates aspects of both literary seminar and the creative workshop.  Class-time will be devoted alternatingly to examinations of published pieces and modified discussions of student work.  Our reading chart the course from the genre's emergence, examining the prose poem in 19th-century France through the works of Mallarme, Baudelaire, Max Jacob and Rimbaud.  We'll examine aspects of poetry -- the attention to the lyrical, the use of compression, musicality, sonic resonances and wit -- and attempt to understand how these writers took, as Russell Edson describes, "experience [and] made it into an artifact with the logic of a dream."  The class will conclude with a portfolio at the end of the term, in which students will submit a compendium of final drafts of three of four short prose pieces, samples of several exercises, selescted responses to readings, and a short personal manifesto on the "short prose form."

• Department: Writing
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Ann E Dewitt
  Info
• 3 points

VIROLOGY

Prerequisites: two semesters of a rigorous, molecularly-oriented introductory biology course (such as
C2005
), or the instructor's permission.
The course will emphasize the common reactions that must be completed by all viruses for successful reproduction within a host cell and survival and spread within a host population. The molecular basis of alternative reproductive cycles, the interactions of viruses with host organisms, and how these lead to disease are presented with examples drawn from a set of representative animal and human viruses, although selected bacterial viruses will be discussed.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Vincent R Racaniello
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SOCIAL PROB IN CONTEMP CHINA

In this undergraduate course, we will explore problems in contemporary Chinese society through reading and discussion. We will focus primarily on the market reform period in the People's Republic of China following 1979, examining topics such as social inequality, gender and sexuality, class, ethnicity and religion, urbanization and migration, the environment, the Internet, and population challenges. Since society changes so rapidly in China, I will often assign recent news reports or videos in addition to the formal readings so that we can discuss current events related to course themes. We will adopt a social scientific perspective to think critically about how individual lives in contemporary China are shaped by the social structures around them, as well as how individuals can take action to change their environment. This course has no prerequisites, but some background knowledge of Chinese history or society is helpful. If you have never taken a course on China before, please ask me for guidance. The syllabus is preliminary and subject to change based on the needs of the class.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Leta Hong Fincher
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

GREEK LITERATURE SELECTIONS II

HELLENISTIC POETRY

Prerequisites:
GREK V1201-V1202
or the equivalent.
Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.

• Department: Classics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: John T Ma
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

LATIN LITERATURE SELECTIONS

APULEIUS THE SOPHIST

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

• Department: Classics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Joseph A Howley
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

TECHNIQUES OF 20TH CENT MUSIC

Prerequisites:
MUSI V3322
or the instructor's permission.
Materials, styles, and techniques of 20th-century music. Topics include scales, chords, sets, atonality, serialism, neoclassicism, and rhythm.

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

ETHICS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVPT

Aiming to improve human conditions within many diverse environments, sustainable development seeks to create, increase and perpetuate benefit and to cease, rectify and reverse harm. Sustainable development is consequently inextricable from the fabric of ethics, woven with determinations of benefit and harm to the existence and well-being of both humans and nonhumans. Underlying such determinations are those of self- and other-regarding motivation and behavior; and underlying these are still others, of sensitivity and rationality in decision-making, whether individual, social or public. Sustainable development is interlaced with and contingent upon all these determinations, at once prescriptive and judgmental, which can be called the ethics of sustainable development. This course is divided into four main sections, of which two are intended to show the ethical fallacies of unsustainable development, and two, the ethical pathways of sustainable development. The first section focuses upon ethically problematic basic assumptions, including human (species) hegemony, happy (hedonic) materialism, and selective (data) denial. The second focuses upon ethically problematic ensuing rationalizations, including those pertaining to damages, victims, consequences and situations of climatic, chemical, biological and ecological harm. The third section responds to these rationalizations with ethically vital considerations of earth justice, environmental justice, culturally-based ethics, and sector-based ethics (water, food, place and climate ethics). Finally, the fourth section responds to the initial, longstanding problematic assumptions with a newly emergent ethical paradigm, comprising biotic wholeness, environmental integrity and the deliberative zero-goal. Tying all sections together is the central theme: to be sustainable, development must be ethical. Reflecting the collaborative quality of the field of sustainable development, the course extends to readings whose authors have all pursued their work at intersections of science and ethics, environment and ethics, policy and ethics, business and ethics, and sustainable development and ethics.

• Department: Earth Institute
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Adela J Gondek
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

ISLAM IN POST-COLONIAL WORLD

• Department: Auditing
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Hussein Rashid
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 0 points

HEAT TRANSFER

Steady and unsteady heat conduction. Radiative heat transfer. Internal and external forced and free convective heat transfer. Change of phase. Heat exchangers.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• F 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• F 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Arvind Narayanaswamy
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 26 Info
• 3 points

ISLAM IN POST-COLONIAL WORLD

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Hussein Rashid
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

FEMINIST THEORY

Explores the relationship between new feminist theory and feminist practice, both within the academy and in the realm of political organizing.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• T 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Tina M Campt
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

SPECIAL TOPICS

SP TPCS: VIDEO MAKING LAB

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

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• TR 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Madeline K Schwartzman
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 3 points

SPECIAL TOPICS

SP TPCS: TESTING ORIGINALITY

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

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Carrie Norman
  Info
• 3 points

AMERICAN URBAN POLITICS

American Government & Politics
Prerequisites: This course counts as an introductory-level course in American Politics. L-course sign-up through
eBear
. Enrollment is limited to 80, including 20 incoming Barnard first-year students.
Barnard syllabus
.
A study of cities in the US focusing on local government structures and relationships with other levels of government. Themes include power and decision-making; the leadership and administration of cities; and present day problems and strategies to deal with them. Topics include urban political economy, political machines and urban reform, race and ethnicity in urban politics, and urban problems such as fiscal strain, poverty, the burden of growth and attracting economic investment, the costs and consequences of urban terror and disaster, and the global city. (Cross-listed by the American Studies Program.)

• Department: Political Science
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Carlos Vargas-Ramos
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

N.Y. AS THEA OF SPAN MODERNITY

From the beginning of the XXth Century some of the key figures of Spanish contemporary culture, writers, filmmakers or architects, had a very close relationship to New York, sometimes as travelers, sometimes living in the city for long periods of time. That transatlantic contact, far from anecdotal, turned into an essential element of the self-understanding of those authors and a crucial presence in their work. The contact with New York modernity would be an unavoidable component in their own versions of modernity but their presence would also leave an important trace in the city. As yet more Spanish cultural travelers got in contact with the city a different phenomenon developed: from the 1950’s, New York would be used as a privileged stage to project a certain institutional idea of Spain, to sell a refurbished image of the nation as sophisticated and modern after decades of international marginalization under Francoism. This course will develop a comparative study of both processes as seen in literary sources, film and architecture (García Lorca, Camba, Dalí, Tápies, Buñuel, Loriga, Sert, Calatrava…)

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Alberto Medina
  Info
• 3 points

METROPOLITICS OF RACE & PLACE

METROPOLITICS RACE & PLACE

Prerequisites: Students must attend first class.
Course explores how the central cities and suburbs that make up American metropolitan areas are increasingly shaped by race/ethnicity. Class discussion and readings will trace the role of social scientists, foundations, urban planners, government actors, and private economic interests in this transformation of metropolitan American. The current consequences of the conflation of race/ethnicity and space on the regional landscape, such as gentrification, suburban sprawl, the mortgage foreclosure crisis, etc. will be the focus of student research and class projects.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Kimberley S Johnson
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 3 points

EAR-TRAINING III

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

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

EAR-TRAINING IV

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

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

MUSIC-EAST ASIA-SOUTHEAST ASIA

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

• Department: Music
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Shannon J Garland
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Emily H Clark
  Info
• 3 points

MUSIC THEORY III

• Department: Music
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: David E Cohen
  CULPA: 14 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

GLOBAL IN HIST PERSP 19-20TH C

This course is about the evolution the international economy since the first half of the 19th century, envisaged primarily from the perspective of its governance, i.e. the market rules and public institutions that governed it. Lectures and discussion sections thus focus successively on the First, pre-1914 Global era, then on the Interwar period and its many experiments, and lastly on the classic, post-1945 multilateralism, leading to the current Second global era. We shall thus look, for instance, at how the capital markets worked before World War I and how they were gradually reopened from the 1970s onwards; or at how the League of Nations and the IMF have addressed sovereign debt crisis and envisaged conditionality. But a strong accent is also put on the private, transnational dimension of economic governance, like international banking, market platforms, or commercial arbitration. Relations between Western and non-Western regions are also discussed though they are not at the core of this course.

• Department: History
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jerome Sgard
  Info
• 4 points

MUSIC THEORY IV

Prerequisites:
MUSI V3321
.
Corequisites: one course from Ear-Training I-IV (
V2314
,
V2315
,
V3316
, or
V3317
, as determined by placement exam.)
Intermediate analysis and composition in a variety of tonal and extended tonal idioms. (Through Spring 2014, this course was entitled Chromatic Harmony and Counterpoint II.) A one-hour weekly lab is required, to be scheduled at the beginning of the term.

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

WRITING THE VISUAL

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required.
It was through seriously meditating on the paintings and sculptures of Cezanne and Rodin that Rilke learned to see (as he phrased it) and radicalized his literary vision.  In this seminar, we will look seriously at the object, and think through the forms, processes, and lives of artists as models and inspiration for our own nonfiction pieces.  The writers we will be reading play with genre, style, form, and voice in innovative ways, like the art and artists they are writing to, occasionally using images in their texts or turning their own books and essays into art objects and playful experiments.  An indefinite list of these writers: W.G. Sebald, Claudia Rankine, Janet Malcolm, Douglas Martin, Roland Barthes, Hervé Guibert, Anne Carson, Sophie Calle, T. Fleischmann, Chris Kraus, Tisa Bryant, Bruce Hainley, Susan Sontag, Bhanu Kapil, Lisa Robertson, Ariana Reines, Wayne Koestenbaum, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and others.  The class aims to stimulate and inspire your own practice through reading and seeing, critically and ecstatically.  You will write midterm and final critical responses, as well as submit creative texts every week that respond to the reading, culminating in a final literary work that will be an extension of one of your shorter imitative pieces.

• Department: Writing
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Katie M Zambreno
  Info
• 3 points

CREATIVE LICENSE IN NONFICTION

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required.
As writers of literary nonfiction, we seek to articulate the truth about people, personal experiences, and events.  But how do those pesky facts figure in?  Demarcating the boundaries of reasonable artistic license is an ongoing debate among writers, editors, fact-checkers, and audiences.  Can changing chronologies and identifying details help the writer arrive at a deeper truth about her subject?  Or are the facts intractable?  Where do we draw the line between fabrication and artistry?  Is there any merit to what Werner Herzog deems "the ecstatic truth?"  Do different rules apply for writing memoir versus writing reported essays and articles?  How can we work responsibly with quotes while making dialogue readable?  Just how experimental can we be while earning the mantle of nonfiction?  In this class we will read works that take different approaches at mining toward the truth and unpack various distinct points of view on the debate.  Our classes will consist mainly of discussion, with occasional in-class writing exercises and presentations.  Students will write reflection papers on the asigned texts throughout the course and compose their own code of nonfiction ethics by the term's end, and examine their own work under this rubric.

• Department: Writing
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth L Greenwood
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

INTRO ORG CHEM - LAB LECTURE

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

INTRO ORGANIC CHEMISTRY-LAB

Prerequisites: General Chemistry I with lab.
Corequisites: CHEM BC3230 or equivalent (can also be prerequisite). Lecture and laboratory one afternoon: MTWRF: 1:10-5:30. Lab only Th: 8:30 am - 12:00 pm
Basic techniques of experimental organic chemistry. Principles and methods of separation, purification, and characterization of organic compounds. Selected organic reactions.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• T 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• W 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• F 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• R 8:30 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Meenakshi S Rao
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 2.5 points

COLL: HARLEM IN THEORY

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Michelle R Smith
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

COLL: WOMEN IN AMER POLITICS

Prerequisites: V 1201 or equivalent
A well-functioning democracy should certainly reflect the intent of its citizens, but it is worthwhile to consider whether this goal is achievable when the legislative assembly does not take on the characteristics of the population. In Congress, membership is comprised of fewer than 20% of women. Women constitute a somewhat greater proportion of the various state assemblies, but still not at levels that approach their share of the population. In this class, we will discuss the electoral experiences of women who run for office. We will also consider whether the women who are elected to public office behave differently, and what, if any, implications such a difference might have for public policy. We will also study how gender intersects with race and socio-economics in American political life. This course will introduce students to the concepts, major themes, and debates in the study of gender in American politics. Students who complete the class will learn how to: 1. Identify the key concepts, trends, and debates in the empirical study of women in American politics. 2. Draw linkages between theoretical political science and practical politics in describing how gender affects political outcomes. 3. Critically engage media coverage of women in politics. 4. Assess the theoretical and/or empirical quality of academic arguments about women in politics. 5. Use empirical evidence to present an effective argument, both written and verbal. 6. Produce a high-quality, original research paper that contributes to our understanding of gender in American political life.

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

INTRO TO PORTUGUESE STUDIES

This course presents the students with the information and basic tools needed to interpret a broad range of topics and cultural production from the Portuguese-speaking world: literary, filmic, artisitic, architectural, urban, etc. We will use a continuing cross-disciplinary dialogue to study everyday acts as a location of culture. This course will center on interpretation as an activity and as the principal operation though which culturally sited meaning is created and analyzed. Among the categories and topics discussed will be history, national and popular cultures, literature (high/low), cultural institutions, migration, and globalization. Students will also acquire the fundamental vocabulary for the analysis of cultural objects. This course is required for the concentration in Portuguese Studies.

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

SCULPTURE I

The fundamentals of sculpture are investigated through a series of conceptual and technical projects. Three material processes are introduced, including wood, metal, and paster casting. Issues pertinent to contemporary sculpture are introduced through lectures, group critiques, discussions, and field trips that accompany class assignments. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• F 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• M 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jon Kessler
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Patrice R Washington
  Info
• 3 points

ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS

Prerequisites: ELEN E3201.
Operational amplifier circuits. Diodes and diode circuits. MOS and bipolar junction transistors. Biasing techniques. Small-signal models. Single-stage transistor amplifiers. Analysis and design of CMOS logic gates. A/D and D/A converters.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Zoran Kostic
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

SCULPTURE II

Prerequisites:
VIAR R3330
or the department's permission.
Continuation of VIAR R3330. The objective of the class is to engage in in-depth research and hands on studio projects related to a specific theme to be determined by each student. Each student is expected to complete class with four fully realized and thematically linked works. Wood, metal, and plaster will be provided for this class but video, sound, performance and various mixed media approaches are highly encouraged. In addition, lecture and field trips will be part of the course. 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: Sanford Biggers
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SCULPTURE III

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

• Department: Visual Arts
• T 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sanford Biggers
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED WOLOF II

• Department: African Studies, Institute of
• Instructor: Mariame S Sy
  Info
• 3 points

MODERN V

MODERN V: TRISHA BROWN

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

INTRO TO LITERARY STUDIES I

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

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Nicolae A Virastau
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 1 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO LITERARY STUDIES II

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

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Max S McGuinness
  Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO ITALIAN LITERATURE II

Prerequisites:
ITAL V1202
or
W1202
or the equivalent.
V3334x-V3333y is the basic course in Italian literature. V3334: Authors and works from the Cinquecento to the present. Taught in Italian.

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

ADVANCED ITALIAN I

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

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

ANALYSIS OF ALTERNATIVE MUSIC

Corequisites: MUSI V3321 or equivalent.
In this highly participatory music theory seminar, we will analyze in depth some unusal patterns of harmony and melody across a range of alternative music: tracks by the alt-rock bands Radiohead and Portishead, the singer-songwriters Bjork and Sufjan Stevens, the "alt-classical" composer Max Richetr, and the alternative electronic artists Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, and Autechre. Student work will include weekly model compositions, and a final presentation and paper.

• Department: Music
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Marlon Feld
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 3 points

ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Diane K Dittrick
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• 4 points

THE LYRIC ESSAY

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT needed.
While nonfiction is perhaps known for its allegiance to facts and logic in the stalwart essay form, the genre conducts its own experiments, often grouped under the term "lyric essays."  Lyric essays are sometimes fragmentary, suggestive, meditative, inconclusive; they may glance only sidelong at their subject, employ the compression of poetry, and perform magic tricks in which stories slip down blind alleys, discursive arguments dissolve into ellipses, and narrators disappear altogether.  Lyric essayists blend a passion for the actual with innovative forms, listening deeply to the demands of each new subject.  In this course, students will map the terrain of the lyric essay, work in which writers revise nonfiction traditions such as: coherent narrative or rhetorical arcs; an identifiable, transparent, or stable narrator; and the familiar categories of memoir, personal essay, travel writing, and argument.  Students will read work that challenges these familiar contours, including selections from Halls of Fame by John D'Agata, Don't Let Me Be Lonely by Claudia Rankine, Plainwater by Anne Carson, Letters to Wendy by Joe Wenderoth, The Body and One Love Affair by Jenny Boully, Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes, Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje, Neck Deep and Other Predicaments by Ander Monson.  They can expect to read essays selected from The Next American Essay edited by John D'Agata and In Short: A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction edited by Judith Kitchen and Mary Paumier Jones, as well as essays by Paul Metcalf, David Foster Wallace, Sherman Alexie, Michael Martone, and Sei Shonagon.  The course will be conducted seminar style, with close reading, lecture, and classroom discussion.  The students will be expected to prepare a written study and comments for class on a particular book/author/issue.  They will also complete writing exercises and their own lyric essay(s), one of which we will discuss as a class.  Their final project will be a collection of their creative work accompanied by an essay discussing their choices.

• Department: Writing
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer Percy
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• 3 points

QUANT INSTRMNTL TECH-LAB LECT

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• T 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Jacob S Alexander
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 0 points

MODERN VI

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Colleen Thomas
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Jodi Melnick
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 0-1 points

SHAKESPEARE II

(Lecture).

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Mario M Di Gangi
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED INDONESIAN II

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

• Department: Language Resource Center
• Instructor: Jolanda M Pandin
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• 3 points

ADVANCED SWAHILI II

Prerequisites:
SWHL W1201-W1202
or the instructor's permission.
As of academic year 2016-17, this course is now SWHL 3302. An introduction to the advanced syntactical, morphological, and grammatical structures of Swahili grammar; detailed analysis of Swahili texts; practice in conversation. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR noon-1:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Abdul Nanji
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED ZULU II

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

• Department: Language Resource Center
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Sandra Sanneh
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• 3 points

EARLY MODERN SEMINAR

SHAKESPEARE'S POETRY

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
(Seminar). Application instructions: E-mail Prof. Shapiro (js73@columbia.edu) with 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
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: James Shapiro
  CULPA: 25 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ITALIAN THROUGH CINEMA

Prerequisites:
ITAL V3335
.
Students will develop advanced language competence while analyzing and discussing Italian film comedies and their reflection of changing Italian culture and society. Films by Monicelli, Germi, Moretti, Wertmuller, Soldini and others.

• Department: Italian
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Patrizia Palumbo
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

QUANTITATVE-INSTRMNTL TECH-LAB

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3231, CHEM BC3333
Corequisites: For students not majoring in chemistry or biochemistry: CHEM BC3232 For students majoring in chemistry biochemistry, CHEM BC3242. Lab Lecture: Tu 1:10-2:00; Laboratory one afternoon: Tu, W, or Th.
Quantitative techniques in volumetric analysis, radiochemistry, spectrophotometry, and pH measurement. Data analysis with spreadsheets.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• R 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Jacob S Alexander
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED CONTACT IMPROVISATN

Prerequisites: DNCE BC3338 Contact Improvisation. Sophomore standing or permission of instructor required.
Examination of this gender-neutral partnering technique further exploring compositional forms as they arise from the practice. Students will also investigate a variety of set repertory dance texts that have originated from contact improvised material.

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

DESCRIPTIVE GRAMMAR-HUNGARIAN

This course is designed for those curious about the structure of Hungarian - an unusual language with a complex grammar quite different from English, or, indeed, any Indo -European language. The study of Hungarian, a language of the Finno-Ugric family, offers the opportunity to learn about the phonology of vowel harmony, the syntax of topic-comment discourse, verb agreement with subjects and objects, highly developed case systems and possessive nominal paradigms. In addition to its inflectional profile, Hungarian derivation possibilities are vast, combinatory, and playful. During the semester we will touch upon all the important grammatical aspects of Hungarian and discuss them in relation to general linguistic principles and discourse, and finally, through some text analysis, see them in action. Although the primary discussion will center on Hungarian, we will draw on comparisons to other Finno-Ugric languages, most notably Finnish and Komi; students are encouraged to draw on comparisons with their own languages of interest. No prerequisite. Counts as Core Linguistics.

• Department: Italian
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Carol H Rounds
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED SPECTROSCOPY - LAB

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3333 and CHEM BC3253
Corequisites: CHEM BC3271
This course combines chemical synthesis, inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry, and nanoscience into experiments with an emphasis using spectroscopy to determine chemical structure and reactivity. You will gain experience with a range of instruments, techniques, calculations, and theories. Instrumentation will include UV-Visible, infrared, near-infrared, fluorescence, and Raman spectroscopy.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• W 2 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points

HISPANIC CULTURES I (SP)

This course provides an overview of the cultural history of the Hispanic world, from Roman Iberia to about 1700. It will address Islamic al-Andalus, Christian Spain and the late Middle Ages, the conquest of the "New World", the pre-Columbian cultures of the Americas, the colonial age and the decline of empire. Students will become familiar with major events and significant political, social and cultural trends of the various periods through the study of oral vs. manuscript vs. print culture, elite vs. popular culture, conquest and resistance, transculturation, and the links between cultural production and ideology. Students will also develop beginning skills in reading older forms of Spanish. Class discussions will seek to situate the works studied within the political and cultural currents and debates of the time. Emphasis will be placed on the historical context and on the development of close reading skills. All primary materials, class discussion, and assignments are in Spanish. This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ibai Atutxa
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• 3 points