EXTERNAL PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor (a Barnard professor who will act as liaison) is required. Mandatory pass/fail grading. 8 hours of laboratory work by arrangement.
Individual research projects at institutions other than Barnard and Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report and oral presentation.

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

PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. 8 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
• 4 points

PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. 8 hours of laboratory work by arrangement.
Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• 4 points

PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. 8 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
• 4 points

INTRO TO FRENCH CIVILIZATION

Prerequisites:
FREN W3333
or
W3334
and
W3405
, or the director of undergraduate studies' permission.
Based on readings of short historical sources, the course will provide an overview of French political and cultural history since 1700.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Anna B Provitola
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• 3 points

INTRO PROBABILITY/STATISTICS

Prerequisites: Calculus, including multiple variable integration.
For undergraduates only. This course is required for undergraduate students majoring in IE, OR:EMS, and OR.  This class must be taken during the fourth semester. This course serves as an introduction to both probability theory and statistics as used in engineering and applied science. In probability the course covers random variables, both continuous and discrete, independence, expected values, variance, conditional distributions, conditional expectation and variance, moment generating functions, the strong law of large numbers and the central limit theorem. In statistics it covers the basics of confidence intervals, hypothesis testing and linear regression. SIEO W3600 must be completed by the fourth term. Only students with special academic circumstances may be allowed to take these courses in alternative semesters with the consultation of CSA and Departmental advisors.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• R 5:50 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Antonius B Dieker
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 19 Info
• 4 points

METAPHYSICS

Systematic treatment of some major metaphysical topics, e.g., necessity, causality, particulars and universals, personal identity. Readings from classical and contemporary authors.

• Department: Philosophy
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Achille Varzi
  CULPA: 30 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• 4 points

INTL LAW & U.N. IN PRACTICE

Prerequisites: Enrollment in the course is open to 18 undergraduates who have completed at least one core course in human rights and /or international law.
Admission by permission from Dr. J.Paul Martin, Director, Human Rights Studies, e-mail: jmartin@barnard.edu. This single-semester seminar does not satisfy either the colloquium or senior essay requirement for Barnard Political Science majors. However, it does count toward the ten-course major and five-course minor requirements.
This course provides a board view of the development of the UN, international law and organizations, their evolution and their role in world affairs today.  Students study the primary concepts and principles governing international law and organizations, while focusing on contemporary human rights and humanitarian challenges. The course will consist primarily of presentations and discussions, drawing heavily on the practical application of theory to actual experiences and situations.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Martin S Flaherty
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ATOMS & EVE: SCI & REL IN AMER

This course will explore central concepts at the intersection of science and religion, including knowledge, practice, community, agency, and the body. The course will begin by asking: What is science? What is religion? How should they be related? Students will then read a range of theoretical, anthropological, and historical texts that present points of contact, tensions, similarities, parallels, and conflicts between science and religion. There will be a special emphasis on case studies from the American context, and a final project will enable students to explore religion and science in New York City.

• Department: Religion
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Cara D Rock-Singer
  Info
• 3 points

PHYSICAL COSMOLOGY

• Department: Astronomy
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Zoltan Haiman
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 83 Info
• 3 points

RELIGION IN AMERICAN II

Survey of American religion from the Civil War to the present, with an emphasis on the ways religion has shaped American history, culture, and identity.

• Department: Auditing
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Shira Kohn
  Info
• 0 points

RELIGION IN AMERICA II

Survey of American religion from the Civil War to the present, with an emphasis on the ways religion has shaped American history, culture, and identity.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Shira Kohn
  Info
• 3 points

VISUAL ARTS IN IMPERIAL SPAIN

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Diane Bodart
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

REHEARSAL&PERFRMNCE; IN DANCE

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew Brookoff
  Info
• 1-3 points

REHEARSAL&PERFRMNCE; IN DANCE

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• TR 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• F 2:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• 1-3 points

MATERIALS/PROCESSES IN MANUFAC

Prerequisites: ENME E3113 or equivalent
Introduction to metals, polymers, ceramics, and composites; their behavior and manufacturing properties; material removal, forming and shaping, joining, property alteration, surface technology, and additive manufacturing

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Y. Lawrence Yao
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 95 Info
• 3 points

METAPHYSICS-REC

• Department: Philosophy
• T 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• R 9 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
• F noon-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael A Nielsen
  Info
• Instructor: Aaron L Landau
  Info
• Instructor: Shivani V Radhakrishnan
  Info
• 0 points

VISUAL ARTS-IMPERIAL SPAIN-DISC

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• R 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• R 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• M 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Raymond E Carlson
  Info
• Instructor: Stephen T Zawodzinski
  Info
• 0 points

THE MODERN CARIBBEAN

This lecture course examines the social, cultural, and political history of the islands of the Caribbean Sea and the coastal regions of Central and South America that collectively form the Caribbean region, from Amerindian settlement, through the era of European imperialism and African enslavement, to the period of socialist revolution and independence. The course will examine historical trajectories of colonialism, slavery, and labor regimes; post-emancipation experiences and migration; radical insurgencies and anti-colonial movements; and intersections of race, culture, and neocolonialism. It will also investigate the production of national, creole, and transborder indentities. Formerly listed as "The Caribbean in the 19th and 20th centuries". Field(s): LAC

• Department: History
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Natasha J Lightfoot
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY

Prerequisites: an introductory course in neuroscience, like
PSYC W1010
or
PSYC W2450
, and the instructor's permission.
Analysis of the assessment of physical and psychiatric diseases impacting the central nervous system, with emphasis on the relationship between neuropathology and cognitive and behavioral deficits.

• Department: Psychology
• W 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: E'Mett McCaskill
  CULPA: 38 Info
• 3 points

IN/AROUND ABSTRACT EXPRSNSM

This course focuses on the history of the artistic phenomenon of abstract expressionism in the United States, Europe, Latin America and Japan. To place abstract expressionism within its proper historical context, we will explore the modern, anti-modern, avant-garde, and neo-avant-garde artistic practices that have been elaborated in various ways in different locations from the 1920s to the 1960s, and the major critical and historical accounts of modernism in the arts during these years.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexander Alberro
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

REL & BLACK POPULAR CULTURES

As an exploration of the relationship between religion, race, and popular culture, the course will begin with theoretical readings that expose students to a variety of definitions of and approaches to each of these categories. After tackling these theoretical concerns, the remainder of the course will entail a cross genre and thematic engagement with the terrain of black popular culture(s) in which students will be challenged to apply new theoretical resources in order to interpret a wide range of "religious" phenomena.

• Department: Auditing
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Josef Sorett
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

RECORDED SOUND

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Main objective is to gain a familiarity with and understanding of recording, editing, mixing, and mastering of recorded music and sounds using Pro Tools software. Discusses the history of recorded production, microphone technique, and the idea of using the studio as an instrument for the production and manipulation of sound.

• Department: Music
• R 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: David Adamcyk
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

REL & BLACK POPULAR CULTURES

As an exploration of the relationship between religion, race, and popular culture, the course will begin with theoretical readings that expose students to a variety of definitions of and approaches to each of these categories. After tackling these theoretical concerns, the remainder of the course will entail a cross genre and thematic engagement with the terrain of black popular culture(s) in which students will be challenged to apply new theoretical resources in order to interpret a wide range of "religious" phenomena.

• Department: Religion
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Josef Sorett
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

AMERICAN NATURALISM 1880-1930

(Seminar). While literary realism was inspired by the work of nineteenth century painters, naturalism was a movement that emerged from the new sciences of biological, economic, and technological determinisms found in the writings of Darwin, Spencer and Marx. Characters in naturalist fiction were no longer the seamlessly depicted individuals who seemed as if they could step off the page, but rather the expressive products of vast networks of biological and economic forces. This course will explore how literature imagined itself as a form of data collection, with stories that catalogued the tiniest details of daily, bodily life and showed how these infinitesimal moments were all integrated into part of much larger aggregate social systems. We will read works by John Dos Passos, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, Mary Wilkins Freeman, et. al.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Grant R Wythoff
  Info
• 4 points

LIT & AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
(Seminar). Who is a citizen? How has the notion of citizenship changed in American history? Questions of American citizenship - who can claim it and what it entails -- have been fiercely contested since the founding of the United States. Scholars have articulated various ways of conceptualizing citizenship: as a formal legal status; as a collection of state-protected rights; as political activity; and as a form of identity and solidarity. In this seminar, we'll explore the role that literature and literary criticism have played in both shaping and responding to the narratives and civic myths that determine what it means to be an American citizen. Application instructions: E-mail the instructor (ajr2186@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. Readings will include novels, poems, and political tracts from throughout American history; likely authors include Mary Rowlandson, Benjamin Franklin, Herman Melville, Willa Cather, Tony Kushner, and Claudia Rankine

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Aaron Ritzenberg
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 4 Info
• 4 points

HIST OF MUSIC PRODUCTION TECH

As music moves into the 21st century, we find ourselves surrounded by an ever-evolving landscape of technological capability. The world of music, and the music industry itself, is changing rapidly, and with that change comes the opening – and closing – of doorways of possibility. What does this shift mean for today’s practicing artist or composer? With big label recording studios signing and nurturing fewer and fewer artists, it seems certain that, today, musicians who want to record and distribute their music need to be able to do much of the recording and production work on their own. How does one learn to understand what they hear, re-create what they like and develop their own style? This class, “The History and Techniques of Music Production,” aims to be the answer. It’s goal is to teach artists how to listen critically to music from across history and genres in order to identify the production techniques that they hear, and reproduce those elements using modern technology so they can be incorporated into the artist’s own musical works.

• Department: Music
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Terence Pender
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

MODERN JEWISH AGRARIANISM

MODERN JEWISH AGARIANISM

This is an introductory course for students with an interest in, but no significant prior knowledge, about modern Jewish and Israeli history. The goal of the course is to introduce students to trends in the development of practical ideologies in the Jewish world from the late-nineteenth century onward and also the actual manifestations of these ideologies “on the ground” on four continents. Throughout this period Zionism in its many forms preached the development of the Land of Israel. But other adjacent, and competitive, ideologies sought answers to the “Jewish question” in other places and by other means.  Our main subject will be the relatively unknown history of organized farming in the modern Jewish world that sprouted from these ideologies in the Americas, Europe and, of course, in Palestine/Israel starting in the last decades of the nineteenth century.  Agricultural settlement in the modern Jewish world lies at the intersection of history, national narratives, memory, historiography, economy and politics. We shall explore all of these through the lens of the ideas and practices of these hundreds of thousands of Jewish farmers and their urban supporters. One cannot fully understand the contours of contemporary Israel, or Jewish communities throughout the diaspora, without taking into account the role of these agricultural endeavors.

• Department: History
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Dekel-Chen
  Info
• 3 points

NORTH AMERICAN ART AND CULTURE

NORTH AMERICAN ART AND CULTRE

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Hutchinson
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 3 points

20TH CENT ARCH/CITY PLANNING

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Patricio del Real
  Info
• 3 points

20TH CENT ARCH/CITY PLAN-DISC

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• R 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• F 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Ani S Kodzhabasheva
  Info
• 0 points

TWENTIETH CENTURY ART

Major developments in 20th-century art, with emphasis on modernist and avant-garde practices and their relevance for art up to the present.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Rosalind Krauss
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Rosalyn Deutsche
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 3 points

TWENTIETH CENTURY ART-DISC

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• R 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• R 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• W 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• W 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• W 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• R 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• R 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• M 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• M 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicholas R Croggon
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 0 points

QUANT MTHDS-BIODIVERSITY/CONS

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• R 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Megan E Cattau
  Info
• 3 points

MAFIA MOVIES

Examines representations of the mafia in American and Italian film and literature.  Special attention to questions of ethnic identity and immigration.  Comparison of the different histories and myths of the mafia in the U.S. and Italy.  Readings include novels, historical studies, and film criticism.

• Department: Italian @Barnard
• W 6:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Ariella Lang
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

LATIN AMERICAN CIVILIZATION II

Latin American economy, society, and culture from 1810 to present. Group(s): D Field(s): LA

• Department: History @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Nara Milanich
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

MEXICO FROM REVOL TO DEMOCRACY

Twentieth-Century Mexican History from the revolution to transition  to democracy. The Course review politics, society, culture, foreign relations, and urbanization. Group(s): D Field(s): LA

• Department: History
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Pablo Piccato
  CULPA: 22 h-index: 20 Info
• 3 points

LATIN AMER CIVILIZATION I-DISC

• Department: History @Barnard
• R 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• T 9 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
• T 10 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• M 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• M 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• F 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• F 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 0 points

MAD LOVE

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Alfred Mac Adam
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 3 points

TPCS IN INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

This course explores how and why states and non-state actors use violent and non-violent strategies in international politics. While not all topics in international security can be covered thoroughly in one semester, this course will give a sampling of many of the topics, including military doctrines and strategies, diplomatic policies, social forces, civil wars, and roles of individuals. Though historical and current events will be used as examples to illustrate how various theories work, students should keep in mind that this is not a course on current events.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Zachary C Shirkey
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

INTERNATIONAL LAW

What is public international law, and what does it influence the behavior of states, corporations, and individuals in the international system? This introductory course engages these questions as well as the politics of applying and enforcing public international law in various contexts and issue areas. An understanding of basic international legal principles, institutions, and processes is developed through exploration of foundational cases, and by means of (required) participation in a multi-week group simulation of an international legal dispute.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Tonya L Putnam
  CULPA: 29 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR 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.
Seniors who are majors in creative writing are given priority for this course.  Enrollment is limited, and is by permission of the professor.  The senior workshop offers students the opportunity to work exclusively with classmates who are at the same high level of accomplishment in the major.  Students in the senior workshops will produce and revise a new and substantial body of work.  In-class critiques and conferences with the professor will be tailored to needs of each student.

• Department: Writing
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Heidi S Julavits
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL LAW-DISC

• Department: Political Science
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Eliazar M Chacha
  Info
• Instructor: Tonya L Putnam
  CULPA: 29 Info
• 0 points

INDEPENDENT CLINICAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: 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.
BIOL 3700 will provide an opportunity for students interested in independent research work in a hospital or hospice setting. In these settings, where patients and their needs are paramount, and where IRB rules and basic medical ethics make “wet-lab biology research” inappropriate, undergraduates may well find a way nevertheless, to assist and participate in ongoing clinical research. Such students, once they have identified a mentor willing to provide support, participation, and advising, may apply to the faculty member in charge of the course for 2-4 points/semester in BIOL W3700. This course will closely follow procedures already in place for BIOL 3500, but will ask potential mentors to provide evidence that students will gain hands-on experience in a clinical setting, while participating in a hospital- or hospice-based research agenda. 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.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• Instructor: Robert E Pollack
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia Info
• 2-4 points

STRATEGY FORMULATION

Provides an introduction to strategic management with two broad goals: to understand why some companies are financially much more successful than others; and to analyze how managers can devise a set of actions ("the strategy") and design processes that allow their company to obtain a financial advantage. Allows students to gain a better understanding of strategic issues and begin to master the analytic tools the strategists use, by studying the strategic decisions of companies in many different industries and countries, ranging from U.S. technology firms to a Swiss bank and a Chinese white-goods manufacturer. Topics include what companies can do to outperform their rivals; analysis of the competitive moves of rival firms relying heavily on game-theoretic concepts; and when it makes sense for companies to diversify and globalize their business.

• Department: Columbia College
• T 9 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Ernesto Reuben
  Info
• 3 points

US-LATINO CULTURAL PRODUCTION

The course will investigate the possibility that hybrid constructions of identity among Latinos in the U.S. are the principal driving force behind the cultural production of Latinos in literature and film. There will be readings on the linguistic implications of “Spanglish” and the construction of Latino racial identity, followed by examples of literature, film, music, and other cultural production that provide evidence for bilingual/bicultural identity as a form of adaptation to the U.S. Examples will be drawn from different Latino ethnicities from the Caribbean, Mexico, and the rest of Latin America.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Edward Morales
  Info
• 4 points

INTRO TO COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

Prerequisites: ELEN E3801.
Corequisites: IEOR E3658.
A basic course in communication theory, stressing modern digital communication systems. Nyquist sampling, PAM and PCM/DPCM systems, time division multipliexing, high frequency digital (ASK, OOK, FSK, PSK) systems, and AM and FM systems. An introduction to noise processes, detecting signals in the presence of noise, Shannon's theorem on channel capacity, and elements of coding theory.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Irving Kalet
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

ETHICS

Prerequisites: one course in philosophy.
Corequisites:
PHIL V3711
Required Discussion Section (0 points).
This course is mainly an introduction to three influential approaches to normative ethics: utilitarianism, deontological views, and virtue ethics. We also consider the ethics of care, and selected topics in meta-ethics.

• Department: Philosophy
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Michele Moody-Adams
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

PHOTOGRAPHY: PHOTO I

An introductory course in black-and-white photography, Photography I is required for admission to all other photo classes. Students are initially instructed in proper camera use and basic film exposure and development. Then the twice weekly meetings are divided into lab days where students learn and master the fundamental tools and techniques of traditional darkroom work used in 8x10 print production and classroom days where students present their work and through the language of photo criticism gain an understanding of photography as a medium of expression. Admitted students must obtain a manually focusing 35mm camera with adjustable f/stops and shutter speeds. No prior photography experience is required. Due to the necessity of placing a cap on the number of students who can register for our photography courses, the department provides a wait list to identify and give priority to students interested in openings that become available on the first day of class. If the class is full, sign up for the wait list at http://arts.columbia.edu/photolist.

• Department: Visual Arts
• MW 9:30 a.m.-noon
• MW 2:30 p.m.-5 p.m.
• TR 9:30 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Laura L Mircik-Sellers
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Inbal Abergil
  Info
• Instructor: Emile Askey
  Info
• 3 points

VENTURING TO CHANGE THE WORLD

Interest in entrepreneurship has skyrocketed. Much of the growth in our modern economy is driven by scalable startups. The availability of cheaper building blocks has led to increase in startups, which have become exciting opportunities for potential founders and early employees. Beyond startups, established companies seek out new opportunities to sustain growth and competitive advantage. Social entrepreneurs are also employing entrepreneurial thinking to address major social and environmental issues. In short, entrepreneurial thinking is sought across industries and sectors. The goal of the course is to expose students to the intellectual foundations and practical aspects of entrepreneurship. We strive to sharpen students’ understanding of the entrepreneurial mindset, develop skills in generating ideas, identify and evaluate ideas, and understand the key steps and competencies required to launch a new venture. The course is appropriate for anyone with an interest in new ventures (e.g. tech ventures, social ventures). This includes not only potential entrepreneurs, but also those interested in the financing of new ventures, working in new ventures, or in broader general management of new or small organizations.

• Department: Columbia College
• F 9 a.m.-noon
• 3 points

SENIOR RESEARCH ESSAY SEMINAR

SENIOR SEMINAR II

• Department: American Studies @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Hutchinson
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 4 points

DATA ANALYSIS & STATS-POL RES

This course examines the basic methods data analysis and statistics that political scientists use in quantitative research that attempts to make causal inferences about how the political world works. The same methods apply to other kinds of problems about cause and effect relationships more generally.  The course will provide students with extensive experience in analyzing data and in writing (and thus reading) research papers about testable theories and hypotheses.  It will cover basic data analysis and statistical methods, from univariate and bivariate descriptive and inferential statistics through multivariate regression analysis. Computer applications will be emphasized.   The course will focus largely on observational data used in cross-sectional statistical analysis, but it will consider issues of research design more broadly as well.  It will assume that students have no mathematical background beyond high school algebra and no experience using computers for data analysis.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Benjamin K Goodrich
  Info
• 3 points

AMERICAN LITERATURE & CULTURE

THE BEAT GENERATION

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
(Seminar). Surveys the work of the Beats and other artists connected to the Beat movement. Readings include works by Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Amiri Baraka, and Joyce Johnson, as well as background material in the post-World War II era, films with James Dean and Marlon Brando, and the music of Charlie Parker and Thelonius Monk. Application instructions: E-mail Professor Ann Douglas (ad34@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "The Beat Generation". In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course. Admitted students should register for the course; they will automatically be placed on a wait list, from which the instructor will in due course admit them as spaces become available.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Ann Douglas
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

ETHICS - REC

ETHICS-REC

• Department: Philosophy
• T noon-12:50 p.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Lars T Heisenberg
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• Instructor: Jacob M McNulty
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• 0 points

ZOOARCHAEOLOGY METHOD & THEORY

• Department: Anthropology
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam Watson
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• 4 points

HISTORY OF ISLAMIC SOCIETY

Focus on religions, conversion, ethnic relations, development of social institutions, and the relationship between government and religion. Field(d): ME

• Department: Auditing
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Hossein Kamaly
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 0 points

HISTORY OF ISLAMIC SOCIETY

Focus on religions, conversion, ethnic relations, development of social institutions, and the relationship between government and religion. Field(d): ME

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Hossein Kamaly
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 3 points

STUDIES IN AFRICAN-AMER LIT

THE NOVELS OF TONI MORRISON

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Farah Griffin
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

FREUD AND DERRIDA

From sexual difference to the difference writing makes, psychoanalysis and deconstruction have affected the way we think about reading, writing, learning. Both have become parts of cultural discourse in the form of catch phrases, categories of understanding, and political indictments. Psychoanalysis and deconstruction are also markers of a long conversation in which the meaning of subjectivity, authorship, agency, literature, culture and tradition is spelled out in detailed readings that intervene in and as dialogue and interruption. In this reading intensive class, we will attend to the basic texts and terms of psychoanalysis and deconstruction: the unconscious and sexuality, culture and religion, and more.

• Department: Religion
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Gil Anidjar
  CULPA: 22 Info
• 3 points

POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

Six major concepts of political philosophy including authority, rights, equality, justice, liberty and democracy are examined in three different ways. First the conceptual issues are analyzed through contemporary essays on these topics by authors like Peters, Hart, Williams, Berlin, Rawls and Schumpeter. Second the classical sources on these topics are discussed through readings from Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Marx, Plato, Mill and Rousseau. Third some attention is paid to relevant contexts of application of these concepts in political society, including such political movements as anarchism, international human rights, conservative, liberal, and Marxist economic policies as well as competing models of democracy.

• Department: Auditing
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Frederick Neuhouser
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia h-index: 16 Info
• 0 points

POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

This course examines major concepts of political philosophy including authority, rights, equality, justice, liberty and democracy.

• Department: Philosophy @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Frederick Neuhouser
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia h-index: 16 Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED FAC-STUDENT RSRCH

Prerequisites: None formally; instructor may recommend introductory or advanced course in their subfield
For joint Faculty-Student research on a deisgnated topic of the instructor's choice.  Students will critically engage with scholarly debates, formulate research designs, analyze or interpret data, and learn to summarize and present findings.  Apply directly to the instructor.  Can be taken once for elective credit toward the major.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• Instructor: Michael Miller
  CULPA: 18 h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

EURO DRAMA,SPECTACLE,VIS CULTR

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
(Seminar). European Drama, Spectacle, and Visual Culture of the 18th and 19th Centuries: Enlightenment, Revolution, Romanticism, and the Modern Self. The invention of the modern self and the modern culture of spectacle in relation to (and in agonistic struggle with) the political and social upheavals of the 18th and 19th centuries. European drama, performance, and visual culture (revolutionary street theatre, the fairground, boulevard, and puppet show, the birth of the circus and the zoo, the rise of celebrity culture, the rise of advertising, automatons, panoramas, and other forms of proto-cinema, opera, commedia dell'arte, melodrama, romantic spectacle, the social problem play, etc.) as the backdrop for thinking about revolution as performance, the human and the animal, acting and being, nature and nurture, passion and reason, the body and disembodied imagination, the real an the virtual, the commodity and the inalienable self (etc.), from the Enlightenment and the age of revolution, through the industrial revolution, to the brink of modernism. Texts include visual images, contemporary documents, and films, as well as English, French, Italian, and German plays and operas; those that were the most influential for modern drama; and those that best capture the culture of popular spectacle during the period. Application instructions: Please e-mail Prof. Peters (peters@columbia.edu) by Wed Nov 25th with your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement of why you are interested in taking the course. You will receive an email letting you know whether or not you have been admitted. (Feel free to register, but there is no relationship between registration and admission.) If you have not been officially admitted but are still interested in taking the course, please come to the first session (which you must attend if you wish to take the course.)

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Julie S Peters
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR NONFICTION 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.
Seniors who are majors in creative writing are given priority for this course. Enrollment is limited, and is by permission of the professor. The senior workshop offers students the opportunity to work exclusively with classmates who are at the same high level of accomplishment in the major. Students in the senior workshops will produce and revise a new and substantial body of work. In-class critiques and conferences with the professor will be tailored to needs of each student.

• Department: Writing
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Michelle Orange
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• 4 points