SPATIAL ANALYSIS-SDEV-LAB

• Department: Earth Institute
• R 4 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 0 points

EMPIRE&TECHNLGY; COLONIAL WRLD

Prerequisites: Third-year bridge course (W3300), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350).
Exploration of the scientific and technological practices through which the Spanish Empire established and legitimated itself during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Chronicles and travel literature will show how knowledges such as cartography, metallurgy, and botany grounded technological expansion and its deployment of indigenous peoples and resources.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Orlando Bentancor
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

NATIONAL SECURITY LAW

• Department: Columbia College
• MW 9:10 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Matthew Waxman
  Wikipedia h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

URBAN ECOL & GRAND INFRASTRUCTRE

ECOLOGIES/INFRASTRUCTURE

This lecture course is designed around different issues of metropolitan regions around the worlds that govern and plan urbanized, risky and vulnerable ecological systems and consequently large-scale urban interventions that change the landscapes of the regions. The reality of an age of drastic climate change and increasing number of natural disasters in urbanized regions raises issues of resilience and ecological governance. Metropolitan regions and the planning politics that lie beneath the regional plans and strategic initiatives are critical in the mitigation of some of these risks and in the understanding of regional politics. Historical and contemporary case studies will prepare the students to conduct their own critical analysis and reading of a case where several themes discussed in class will be further explored.

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

FLD WRK&RSRCH; SEM:TODDLR CENTR

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

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• T 12:55 p.m.-2:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Tovah Klein
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

EXCAVATING THE EMPIRE CITY

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Meredith B Linn
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

FIELD WRK-PSYCHOLOGCL SERVICE

FLDWRK/RSRCH SEM:PSYC SERVCES

Prerequisites: Three psychology courses and permission of the instructor required during program planning the semester before the course is offered. Enrollment limited to 12 students; seniors are given priority.
This course introduces students to clinical and counseling work, and to psychodynamic ways of understanding and supporting people in psychological distress.  Students secure a clinical placement for the course, and apply readings on psychodynamic notions of parenting, psychopathology, and therapeutic process to their clinical experiences. The course helps students clarify their professional goals, and provides the clinical experience that strengthens applications to social work programs, and that is required for applications to clinical and counseling doctoral programs.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• 4 points

US INTELLECTUAL HIST 1865-PRES

This course examines major themes in U.S. intellectual history since the Civil War. Among other topics, we will examine the public role of intellectuals; the modern liberal-progressive tradition and its radical and conservative critics; the uneasy status of religion ina secular culture; cultural radicalism and feminism; critiques of corporate capitalism and consumer culture; the response of intellectuals to hot and cold wars, the Great Depression, and the upheavals of the 1960s. Fields(s): US

• Department: History
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Casey Blake
  CULPA: 22 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

MISTAKE, MISCONDUCT, DISASTER

HOW ORGANIZATIONS FAIL

• Department: Sociology
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Diane Vaughan
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

US FOREIGN RELATIONS 1890-1990

The aim is to provide an empirical grasp of U.S. foreign relations and to put in question the historiographical views of the periods and critical events that have come up to make that history. Emphasis will be put on determining how "the United States" has been grasped in relation to the world and how historiography has in turn grasped that retrospectively. Group(s): D Field(s): US

• Department: History
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Anders G Stephanson
  CULPA: 37 Info
• 3 points

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY LABORATORY

Prerequisites:
CHEM W1403-CHEM W1404
;
CHEM W1500
;
CHEM W3493
.
Corequisites:
CHEM W3444
.
As of academic year 2016-17, this course is now CHEM UN2494. Please note that you must complete CHEM W3493 before you register for CHEM W3494. This lab introduces students to experimental design and trains students in the execution and evaluation of scientific data. The technique experiments in the first half of the course (CHEM W3493) teach students to develop and master the required experimental skills to perform the challenging synthesis experiments in the second semester. The learning outcomes for this lab are the knowledge and experimental skills associated with the most important synthetic routes widely used in industrial and research environments. Attendance at the first lab lecture and laboratory session is mandatory. Please note that CHEM W3494 is the second part of a full year organic chemistry laboratory course. Students must register for the lab lecture section (CHEM W3496) which corresponds to their lab section. Students must attend ONE lab lecture and ONE lab section every other week. Please contact your advisors for further information.

• Department: Chemistry
• M 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• T 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• T 6:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• W 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• R 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• F 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• M 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• T 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• T 6:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• W 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• R 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• F 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Danielle F Sedbrook
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 1.5 points

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY LABORATORY

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY LAB I-LB LEC

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

INDEP BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH

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

• Department: Biological Sciences
• 2-4 points

POVERTY, RACE, & GENDER U.S.

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

SUPERVISED READINGS IN PHYSICS

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

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

COLL: URBAN VIOLENCE

Prerequisites: V 1501 or equivalent
One of the key contemporary challenges for democracy and development across both the developing and developed worlds is urban violence. From urban gangs to paramilitaries to vigilantes to citizen defense committees, the city is increasing a key setting for a range of armed actors that engage in equally diverse forms of criminality and the exercise of coercive force. Major cities throughout the world thus lead two lives: as control and command centers in a globalized (and urbanized) economy, and as the stages where the monopoly over the legitimate use of violence that Max Weber identified as a defining attribute of the state is contested on a daily basis. This course has two overarching objectives. The first objective is to examine and critically assess existing theories of the drivers, functions, and consequences of urban crime and violence.  The second objective is to situate existing research within a broader range of classic and emerging political science research on state building, institutions, democracy,  development, and conflict. The methodological emphasis of the course is comparative analysis, and therefore empirical material will largely draw on analyses of crime and violence in Latin America and Africa, and the United States. This course will introduce students to the key theories, debates, and empirical studies of urban crime and violence. Students who successfully complete the class will: 1.      Acquire a broad knowledge of the theories and concepts used to analyze urban crime and violence. 2.      Develop a theoretically informed and empirically grounded understanding of both historical and contemporary trends in crime and violence in major cities across Latin America, Africa, and the United States. 3.      Draw linkages between news coverage of urban crime and violence and political science theories on a range of broader issues regarding state building, institutions, democracy, and development. 4.      Use existing theories to analyze, assess, and present empirical data, both written and verbal.   5.      Produce a major, original research paper that advances existing knowledge of the origins, dynamics, and/or consequences of urban crime and violence.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Eduardo Moncada
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 12 Info
• 4 points

BEGINNING VIDEO

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

• Department: Visual Arts
• F 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Cecilia Dougherty
  Info
• 3 points

LGBT LITERATURE

LGBT LIT: LESB&GAY; PLAYWRIGHTS

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
(Seminar). Application instructions: E-mail the instructor (jr2168@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
• F 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Robinson-Appels
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

COLL: MAKING DEMOCRACY WORK

Comparative Politics
Prerequisites: POLS V1501 or the
equivalent
.
Admission by application
through the Barnard department only. Enrollment limited to 16 students.
Barnard syllabus
.
Examination of democratic consolidation and promotion. What makes democracy work and what, if anything, can outside actors do to help this process along? Topics include the theoretical literature on democratic consolidation, historical cases of intervention, debates about America’s role in promoting democracy, and examination of some of the research on democracy promotion. (Cross-listed by the Europen Studies and Human Rights Programs.)

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

GNDR KNOWL SCI MOD EUR HIST

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Deborah R Coen
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED WORKSHOP TRANSLATION

Prerequisites: CPLT BC 3110 - Introduction to Translation Studies is a recommended prerequisite.
A deep immersion in the theory and practice of translation with a focus on translating into English. The first half of the course is devoted to discussing readings in the history of translation theory while translating brief practical exercises; in the second half, translation projects are submitted to the class for critical discussion. The foreign texts for these projects, chosen in consultation with the instructor, will be humanistic, not only literature as conventionally defined (prose fiction and poetry, memoir and travel writing), but also the gamut of text types in the human sciences, including philosophy, history, and ethnography. The aim is not just to translate, but to think deeply about translating, to develop writing practices by drawing on the resources of theory, past and present, and by examining translations written by professionals.  In the spring of 2016, the workshop will be offered in two sections by Professor Peter Connor and Professor Emily Sun. The sections will share most of the common readings in the history of translation theory, but Professor Sun's section will emphasize issues specific to translating East Asia. Enrollment in each workshop is limited to 12 students. Admission into the class is by permission of the instructor. CPLT BC 3011 "Introduction to Translation Studies" is a recommended prerequisite, plus, normally, two advanced courses beyond the language requirement in the language from which you intend to translate. Preference will be given to seniors and to comparative literature majors.  Please Email pconnor@barnard.edu by 1 December 2015 with the following information: Name, year of graduation, major, college (BC, CU, etc.); a list of courses you have taken in the language from which you intend to translate; any other pertinent courses you have taken; a brief (max 300 word) statement explaining why you wish to take the workshop (this statement is not required if you have taken or are taking CPLT BC3110 Intro to Translation Studies).

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter T Connor
  CULPA: 13 Info
• Instructor: Emily Sun
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

PROBLEMS IN DESIGN

Prerequisites: Some design experience is helpful, though not required. Enrollment limited to 12 students.
Studio-based course explores the main elements of theatrical design: sets, costumes, lighting, and sound. Students examine these design elements as both individual and interrelated components of a production. A series of guest artists contribute to understanding the design process, collaboration, and making a design idea a reality on stage. Fulfills one course in Design requirement for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• F 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Sandra Goldmark
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Prerequisites: one year of biology. Recommended but not required:
BIOC C3501
.
This is a lecture course designed for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. The focus is on understanding at the molecular level how genetic information is stored within the cell and how it is regulated. Topics covered include genome organization, DNA replication, transcription, RNA processing, and translation. This course will also emphasize the critical analysis of the scientific literature and help students understand how to identify important biological problems and how to address them experimentally. 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
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• 3 points

ART/WORK: SEX,AESTH,CAPTLISM

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

HIST APPROACHES TO FEM QUESTNS

Historical Approaches to Feminist Questions examines issues of gender and sexuality across time and space. We explore how feminist analyses may reorient how we think about the past. We also ask how historical perspectives can bring the contingent and contextual nature of ideas about gender and sexuality into relief. We will consult both primary and secondary historical sources as well as key theoretical texts on the politics of women’s history and the history of sexuality in intersection with other forms of identity and inequality.

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Saidiya Hartman
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED PIANO INSTRUCTION II

Prerequisites: Instructor permission.
$500 MUSIC LESSON FEE FOR NON-MAJORS/CONCENTRATORS. All freshmen and sophomore students wishing to major/minor/concentrate in music, and thereby get their lesson fees waived, are required to make an appointment with Prof. Brad Garton ( *Special j azz concentrators will meet with Prof. Chris Washburne), Dean of Undergraduate Studies, EVERY SEMESTER during the registration period , in order to register for appropriate courses . Fees will not be waived without meeting this requirement. All accepted MPP students must register for lessons and ensembles by the change-of-program deadline in order to be allowed to attend lessons that semester. Petitioning students must notify MPP staff prior to this deadline.

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

SENIOR SEMINAR II

Individual research in Women's Studies conducted in consultation with the instructor. The result of each research project is submitted in the form of the senior essay and presented to the seminar.

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Marianne Hirsch
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR II

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor. Enrollment limited to senior majors.
Individual research in Women's Studies conducted in consulation with the instructor. The result of each research project is submitted in the form of the senior essay and presented to the seminar.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Bernstein
  CULPA: 27 Info
• 4 points

THE RADICAL TRADITION IN AMER

Major expressions of American radicalism, ranging from early labor and communitarian movements to the origins of feminism, the abolitionist movement, and on to Populism, Socialism, and the "Old" and "New" lefts. Field(s): US

• Department: History
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Eric Foner
  CULPA: 24 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

JAMES BALDWIN'S HARLEM

Considering James Baldwin’s fiction and non-fiction, and illuminating details of his biography, this seminar charts a critical geography of religion, sexuality, and race in mid-century Harlem. As part of Africana Studies ‘Harlem Semester’, students will engage and analyze a work-in-progress production of “The Gospel of James Baldwin” by MeShell Ndegeocello.

• Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard A Blint
  Info
• 4 points

FEMINIST MEDIA THEORY

The integration of contemporary media and social practices of all types is intensifying. This seminar examines media theory and various media platforms including Language, Photography, Film, Television, Radio, Digital Video, and Computing as treated by feminists, critical race and queer theorists, and other scholars and artists working from the margins.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan L Beller
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

HISTORY OF THE SOUTH

A survey of the history of the American South from the colonial era to the present day, with two purposes: first, to afford students an understanding of the special historical characteristics of the South and of southerners; and second, to explore what the experience of the South may teach about America as a nation. Group(s): D Field(s): US

• Department: History
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Barbara J Fields
  CULPA: 22 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED ORGANIC CHEMISTRY LAB

Prerequisites:
CHEM W3543
or
CHEM W3545.

Corequisites:
CHEM W3444
or
CHEM W3444
.
A project laboratory with emphasis on complex synthesis and advanced techniques including qualitative organic analysis and instrumentation.

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

JUNIOR COLLOQ IN URBAN STUDIES

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

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Erika Kitzmiller
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 3 Info
• Instructor: Sevin Yildiz
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Deborah Becher
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 4 Info
• 4 points

GAY HARLEM

Prerequisites: This course is limited to 20 students and by permission only.
This course explores Harlem's role in the production of sexual modernity and in particular as a space of queer encounter. While much of our investigation will be devoted to the intersection of race and sexuality in African American life, we also consider Harlem's history as a communal space for Italian, Puerto Rican, and more recent immigrants. Students will be encouraged to distinguish and connect contemporary sites of sexual culture in Harlem to the historical articulations of race and sexuality examined in the course.

• Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Tyler T Schmidt
  Info
• 4 points

COMMUNITY BUILDING

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

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

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Prerequisites: one philosophy course or the instructor's permission.
Philosophical problems within science and about the nature of scientific knowledge in the 17th-20th centuries. Sample problems: causation and scientific explanation; induction and real kinds; verification and falsification; models, analogies and simulations; the historical origins of the modern sciences; scientific revolutions; reductionism and supervenience; differences between physics, biology and the social sciences; the nature of life; cultural evolution; human nature; philosophical issues in cosmology.

• Department: Philosophy
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Cloud
  Info
• 3 points

AMERICA IN DEPRESSION & WAR

This lecture examines the transforming effect of two cataclysmic events in the twentieth century.  We will study the ways in which both the Great Depression and World War II led to a major reordering of American politics and society.  By focusing on how the government and the country dealt with these national crises, we will explore a significant moment in the evolution of American political culture. Throughout the semester, we will examine how ordinary people experienced depression and war and how those experiences changed their outlook on politics and the world around them. Topics include unemployment and economic decline, the rise of organized labor, New Deal politics, women in the war effort, the Japanese internment, the development of atomic science, and America as a world superpower.

• Department: History
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Meg Jacobs
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

CARIBBEAN SEXUALITIES

The seminar offers an interdisciplinary study of sexualities in the Caribbean from the conquest to the contemporary moment. The principal focus will be on how sexualities intersect with questions of gender, race, nation, and diaspora in the Anglophone, Francophone and Spanish-speaking Caribbean. We will approach the study of Caribbean sexualities from various disciplines and areas of study, including history, anthropology, sociology, ethnomusicology, performance studies, literary studies, gender studies, cultural studies, and postcolonial theory. The first part of the seminar addresses Caribbean sexuality in the context of conquest, colonization and slavery, and then national independence. The remainder of the course addresses areas that have drawn particularly intense scholarly debates, including Caribbean family formation, masculinity, and same-sex desire, as well as sex tourism, and the gender and sexual politics of Caribbean popular music and dance.

• Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Maja Horn
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

COMPOS: COLLAB & CREATIVE PROC

COMPOS:COLLAB & CREATIVE PROC

Prerequisites: Dance Composition: Form (DNCE BC 2563) or Dance Composition: Content (DNCE BC 2564), or permission of the instructor.
This course is a study in dance composition with a focus on collaboration.  Whether creating a solo or larger group piece, students are encouraged to collaborate with other artists. Methods employed by contemporary choreographers will be explored.  Peer feedback and creative dialogue will be a component of every class.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Colleen Thomas
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

DRUGS & POLITICS IN AMERICAS

One of the major challenges for democracy in much of the developing world is the complex links between illegal drug markets and politics. These linkages span multiple levels, from the micro-dynamics of everyday politics in territories controlled by drug gangs to interdependence between drug trafficking and civil conflict to the contentious politics of global drug regimes. This course will examine these dynamics theoretically and empirically with a focus on the Western Hemisphere (North, Central, and South America as well as the Caribbean). The first section of the course is designed to bring all class participants onto a level playing field through a historical overview of the illicit drug trade. As part of this first section we will examine the history of specific drugs, consumption patterns, and the factors that facilitate the transport of drugs across the Americas. The second portion of the course shifts to a focus on the points of linkage between the drug trade and politics. This section examines theories to account for patterns of drug-related violence, the drug trafficker and drug gang as political actors, and analyses of participation in the drug trade (specifically the point of sale portion of the production chain). The final section builds on the first two sections by introducing and critically analyzing several of the key debates regarding the "war on drugs." LEARNING OBJECTIVES This course will introduce students to the key theories, debates, and empirical studies of the intersection between the drug trade and politics. Students who successfully complete the course will: 1. Acquire a broad knowledge of the theories and concepts used to analyze the illicit drug trade. 2. Develop a theoretically informed and empirically grounded understanding of both historical and contemporary trends in drug trafficking. 3. Enhance understanding of the ways in which illicit markets and politics are mutually constitutive. 4. Draw linkages between widespread media coverage of the drug trade and a range of analytic and theoretical frameworks to critically assess this information. 5. Use existing theories to analyze, assess, and present empirical data, both written and verbal.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Eduardo Moncada
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

CUBA INSIDE AND OUT

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Gustavo Perez-Firmat
  CULPA: 8 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

THESSALONIKI DOWN THE AGES

This course will explore the fascinatingly layered and multicultural history of Thessaloniki, the great city of Northern Greece and the Balkans.  We will examine texts, archaeological evidence, literature, songs, and movies and in general the materialities of the city.  We will examine this material from the 6th century BCE down to the the 21st cent. CE.  We will notably think about the problems of history, identity, and cultural interaction in reaction to recent work such as Mark Mazower’s well know Salonica, City of Ghosts [2004].

• Department: Classics
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Paraskevi Martzavou
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

DANCES OF INDIA

A range of dance genres, from the traditional to the innovative, co-exist as  representations of  "Indianness" in India,  and beyond. Identities onstage and in films, morph as colonial, national, and global contexts change.  This course zooms from micro to macro views of twentieth century staged dances as culturally inflected discourse. We review how Indian classical dance aligns with the oldest of performance texts, and with lively discourses (rasa as a performance aesthetic, Orientalism, nationalism,  global recirculations) through the ages, not only in India but also in Europe, Britain and America. Throughout the course, we ask:-  How is culture embodied? How do historical texts configure dance today? How might they affect our thinking on mind-body, practice-theory, and traditional-contemporary divides?  How does bodily patterning influence the ways that we experience our surroundings and vice versa?  Can cultural imaginaries  instigate action? How is gender is performed?  What are dance discourses?

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Uttara Coorlawala
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

SOLO REPERTORY: PERF STYLES

Prerequisites: Advanced or intermediate advanced level ballet technique or permission of the instructor. This Solo Repertory mini-course will explore the composition of solos anchored in the ballet vocabulary, with specific focus on creating work for a single dancer.

20 students maximum
The study of solo excerpts from classical ballet and/or modern dance repertory and the presentation of individual research in both written and performance format. Emphasis will be placed on the role that the dancer must play to facilitate the realization of the choreographer’s concept.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• SU noon-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Wendy Whelan
  Info
• 1 points

JUDAISM,JEWISHNESS,MODERNITY

Exploration of some of the major statements of Jewish thought and identity from the 19th century into the 21st.

• Department: Religion
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Emily Sigalow
  Info
• 3 points

INVENTING THE CONTEMPORARY

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Lynn Garafola
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

PHYSICS AND PHILOSOPHY

Philosophical problems at the foundations of quantum theory, especially those having to do with the uncertainty of relations and nature of quantum mechanical indeterminacy. Exploration of a variety of interpretation and hidden variable theory.

• Department: Auditing
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: David Albert
  CULPA: 32 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• 0 points

PHYSICS AND PHILOSOPHY

PHILOSOPHY OF PHYSICS

• Department: Philosophy
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: David Albert
  CULPA: 32 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• 3 points

SR SEM IN BIOLOGY

SR SEM: HUMAN MICROBIOME

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

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• M 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew Rhodes
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

GUIDED RESEARCH & SEMINAR

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

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

SR PROJECT: RESEARCH FOR DANCE

SR PROJECT:RESEARCH FOR DANCE

Independent study for research and writing (35 to 50-page thesis required).

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• Instructor: Lynn Garafola
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SR PROJECT:REPERTORY FOR DANCE

Independent study for preparing and performing repertory works in production to be presented in concert.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• W 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Kate A Glasner
  CULPA: 31 Info
• 3 points

SENIOR THESIS RESEARCH

SENIOR THESIS RSRCH & SEMINAR

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

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

RSRCH/SEM-NEUROSCNC&BEHAVIOR;

RSRCH/SEM-NEUROSCNCE&BEHAVIOR;

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

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

SOC PROTECTN AROUND THE WORLD

• Department: Political Science
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Isabela Mares
  Info
• 3 points

GUIDED RESEARCH

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

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

PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. 4 hours of laboratory work by arrangement.
Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• Instructor: Christian Rojas
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Marisa C Buzzeo
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Dina C Merrer
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Andrew C Crowther
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: John S Magyar
  CULPA: 12 Info
• Instructor: Mary Sever
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Rachel Austin
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia h-index: 28 Info
• Instructor: Christina Vizcarra
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 2 points

PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. 4 hours of laboratory work by arrangement.
Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• 2 points

PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. 4 hours of laboratory work by arrangement.
Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• Instructor: Dina C Merrer
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 2 points