ISLAMIC LAW

An introductory survey of the history and contents of the Shari'a, combined with a critical review of Orientalist and contemporary scholarship on Islamic law. In addition to models for the ritual life, we will examine a number of social, economic, and political constructs contained in Shari`a doctrine, including the concept of an Islamic state, and we also will consider the structure of litigation in courts. Seminar paper.

• Department: Auditing
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Brinkley Messick
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 0 points

MULTIDISC APPR-HUM DECIS

Prerequisites:
PSYC W1490
or
PSYC W2235
, and the instructor's permission.
Discussion of selected topics and issues in human decision making.

• Department: Psychology
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Elke Weber
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia h-index: 85 Info
• 1-3 points

RUSSIA AT WAR, 1462-1945

This seminar introduces students to the impact of the military and war on Russia’s politics, culture, and society, beginning with the “military revolution” of the 15th-17th century and ending with Russia’s role in the two world wars. The course is organized chronologically to cover the major European and world-wide conflicts in which Russia and the early Soviet Union participated, as well as the “small” wars of imperial conquest. Throughout the course, we will focus on the connections between Russia’s geopolitical situation, technological changes, and the impact of wars and of the military on Russian daily life and on the mentalities and culture of ordinary Russians. All of these events and issues are crucial for understanding today’s Russia. This course will rely on a wealth of exciting new scholarship, as well as several carefully chosen primary sources, including fiction and film.

• Department: History
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sergei A Antonov
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

GREECE AT THE CROSSROADS

Human mobility in the Greek context covers a wide range of practices and historical experiences: labor immigration, diaspora, political exile, mandatory expulsions, repatriation and, more recently, migrations and diasporas from Eastern Europe and non-European countries to and via Greece. In this course, we will study various cases of population movements though the Greek national and other European borders. Our particular points of interest will include: a. the connection between human mobility and notions of Europeaness, b. the impact of human mobility on politics and culture and c. the impact of migrations and diasporas on the historical development of notions of self, nationhood, community and civil and human rights. Students will be invited to approach these issues through the exploration of specific case-studies, the study of bibliography and the use of a variety of primary sources (legal texts, autobiographical narratives, literature, films, artistic creation, performative arts etc.).

• Department: Classics
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Ioanna Laliotou
  Info
• 3 points

STATISTICAL METHODS IN FINANCE

• Department: Statistics
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• S 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Hammou Elbarmi
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Dan Wang
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 13 Info
• 3 points

ADV TOPICS IN QUANTITATIVE RES

• Department: Political Science
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Gregory Wawro
  CULPA: 32 h-index: 13 Info
• 4 points

THE CLASSICAL TRADITION

Overview of Greek and Roman literature. Close analysis of selected texts from the major genres accompanied by lectures on literary history. Topics include the context of which the genres rose. the suitability of various modern critical approaches to the ancient texts, the problem of translation, and the transmission of the classical authors and their influence on modern literature.

• Department: Auditing
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Collomia Charles
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 0 points

HISTORY OF BIOETHICS

HISTORY OF BIOETHICS (ONLINE)

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• T 5:30 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: James K Colgrove
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 3 points

HISTORY OF BIOETHICS

HISTORY OF BIOETHICS (ONLINE)

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• T 5:30 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: James K Colgrove
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 0 points

THE CLASSICAL TRADITION

Overview of Greek and Roman literature. Close analysis of selected texts from the major genres accompanied by lectures on literary history. Topics include the context of which the genres rose. the suitability of various modern critical approaches to the ancient texts, the problem of translation, and the transmission of the classical authors and their influence on modern literature.

• Department: Classics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Collomia Charles
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO CARBON MANAGEMENT

INTRO TO CARBON MANAGEMENt

Prerequisites: Undergraduate level mathematics and science, or instructor's permission.
Introduction to natural and anthropogenic carbon cycle, and carbon & climate. Rationale and need to manage carbon and tools with which to do so (basic science, psychology, economics and policy background, negotiations & society; emphasis on interdisciplinary and inter-dependent approach). Simple carbon emission model to estimate the impacts of a specific intervention with regards to national, per capita and global emissions. Student-led case studies (e.g., reforestation, biofuels, CCS, efficiency, alternative energy) to illustrate necessary systems approach required to tackle global challenges.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter Schlosser
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

QUALITATIVE METHODS & RESEARCH

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• M 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Edgar Rivera Colon
  Info
• 4 points

NUMERICAL METHODS/PDE'S

NUMERICAL METHODS/PDEs

Prerequisites: APMA E4300 and APMA E3102 or APMA E4200 or equivalents.
Numerical solution of differential equations, in particular partial differential equations arising in various fields of application. Presentation emphasizes finitie difference approaches to present theory on stability, accuracy, and convergence with minimal coverage of alternate approaches (left for other courses). Method coverage includes explicit and implicit time-stepping methods, direct and iterative solvers for boundary-value problems.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Kyle Mandli
  h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO PLASMA PHYSICS

Prerequisites: PHYS W3008 or APPH E3300.
Definition of a plasma. Plasmas in laboratories and nature, plasma production. Motion of charged particles in electric and magnetic fields, adiabatic invariants. Heuristic treatment of collisions, diffusion, transport, and resistivity. Plasma as a conducting fluid. Electrostatic and magnetostatic equilibria of plasmas. Waves in cold plasmas. Demonstration of laboratory plasma behavior, measurement of plasma properties. Illustrative problems in fusion, space, and nonneutral or beam plasmas.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Gerald A Navratil
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 46 Info
• 3 points

CARBON STORAGE

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Klaus Lackner
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

INTRO-SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES

Prerequisites: ELEN E3106 or equivalent.
Semiconductor physics. Carrier injection and recombination. P-n junction and diodes: Schottky barrier and heterojunctions, solar cells and light-emitting diodes. Junction and MOS field-effect transistors, bipolar transistors. Tunneling and charge-transfer devices.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Robert B Laibowitz
  Info
• 3 points

MATERIALS SCIENCE LABORATORY

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission.
Materials science laboratory work so conducted as to fulfill particular needs of special students.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: William Bailey
  CULPA: 12 Info
• Instructor: Katayun Barmak
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 49 Info
• Instructor: Simon Billinge
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 75 Info
• Instructor: Siu-Wai Chan
  h-index: 36 Info
• Instructor: Alexander Gaeta
  Wikipedia h-index: 89 Info
• Instructor: Irving P Herman
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia h-index: 50 Info
• Instructor: James Im
  Info
• Instructor: Chris A Marianetti
  Info
• Instructor: Ismail C Noyan
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Yuan Yang
  h-index: 49 Info
• 1-3 points

CREATIVE EXP & CHAN ARCH CAPSTONE

CREATIVE EXPRESSION & CHANNEL

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• S 8 a.m.-6:30 p.m.
• 3 points

SCULPTURE I

• 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

ADVANCED THERMODYNAMICS

Prerequisites: MECE E3301.
Advanced classical thermodynamics. Availability, irreversibility, generalized behavior, equations of state for nonideal gases, mixtures and solutions, phase and chemical behavior, combustion. Thermodynamic properties of ideal gases. Applications to automotive and aircraft engines, refrigeration and air conditioning, and biological systems.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Michael Burke
  h-index: 22 Info
• Instructor: Sinisa Vukelic
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

SCULPTURE II

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

TPCS-AMER CIN: CULT/EXPLOITATION

• Department: Film
• M 2 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert King
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

SCULPTURE III

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

BUSINESS ANALYTICS MANAGEMENT

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• W 8 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeanne G Harris
  Wikipedia h-index: 27 Info
• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO HOUSING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Lance M Freeman
  Info
• 3 points

SEMINAR IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Prerequisites:
BIOL W4300
or the instructor's permission.
A weekly seminar and discussion course focusing on the most recent development in biotechnology. Professionals of the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and related industries will be invited to present and lead discussions.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lili Yamasaki
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

NETWORKS & COLLABORATION

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• R 8 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Katrina Pugh
  h-index: 4 Info
• 3 points

MECH OF PROPULSION

Prerequisites: MECE E3301x Thermodynamics, and MECE E3311y Heat Transfer; MECE E4304x Turbomachinery (or instructor approval).
Principles of propulsion. Thermodynamic cycles of air breathing propulsion systems including ramjet, scramjet, turbojet, and turbofan engine and rocket propulsion system concepts. Turbine engine and rocket performance characteristics. Component and cycle analysis of jet engines and turbomachinery. Advanced propulsion systems.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Pejman Akbari
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

FEMINIST POSTCOLONIAL THEORY

Prerequisites: Critical Approaches and/or permission of instructor. Enrollment limited to 20 students.
Examines important concerns, concepts and methodological approaches of postcolonial theory, with a focus on feminist perspectives on and strategies for the decolonization of Eurocentric knowledge-formations and practices of Western colonialism. Topics for discussion and study include orientalism, colonialism, nationalism and gender, the politics of cultural representations, subjectivity and subalternity, history, religion, and contemporary global relations of domination.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Neferti Tadiar
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

LAW FOR KNOWLDGE INNOVATIONS & PRACTICES

LAW FOR KNWL INNOV & PRAC

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• T 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Anne Kershaw
  Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO AERODYNAMICS

Prerequisites: MECE E3100, or ENME E3161, or the equivalent
Principles of flight, imcompressible flows, compressible regimes.  Inviscid compressible aerodynamic in nozzles (wind tunnels, jet engines), around wings (aircraft, space shuttle) and around blunt bodies (rockets, reentry vehicles). Physics of normal shock waves, oblique shock waves, and explosion waves.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Pejman Akbari
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

APPL STATISTICAL MODELS IN OR

Prerequisites: IEOR 3658 or its equivalent is required.
This course is required for undergraduate students majoring in OR:FE and OR. This class will cover descriptive statistics, central limit theorem, parameter estimation, sufficient statistics, hypothesis testing, regression, logistic regression, goodness of fit tests and its applications to Operations Research models.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Antonius B Dieker
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 19 Info
• 3 points

ALGEBRAIC TOPOLOGY II

Continuation of MATH G4307x (see Fall listing).

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mohammed Abouzaid
  Info
• 4.5 points

VIROLOGY

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

SOLID BIOMECHANICS

Prerequisites: ENME E3105 and E3113.
Offered in Spring 2016 only. For Class of 2016, equivalent to E4300. Applications of continuum mechanics and the understanding of various biological tissues properties. The structure, function, and mechanical properties of various tissues in biolgical systems, such as blood vessels, muscle, skin, brain tissue, bone, tendon, cartilage, ligaments, etc. are examined. The establishment of basic governing mechanical principles and constitutive relations for each tissue. Experimental determination of various tissue properties. Medical and clinical implications of tissue mechanical behavior.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• 3 points

LIFE WRIT/TIBET BUDDHIST LIT

This course engages the genre of life writing in Tibetan Buddhist culture, addressing the permeable and fluid nature of this important sphere of Tibetan literature. Through Tibetan biographies, hagiographies, and autobiographies, the class will consider questions about how life-writing overlaps with religious doctrine, philosophy, and history. For comparative purposes, we will read life writing from Western (and Japanese or Chinese) authors, for instance accounts of the lives of Christian saints, raising questions about the cultural relativity of what makes up a life's story.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexander Gardner
  Info
• 4 points

PRAC-INNOVATV SUSTAIN LEADRSHP

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Georgios Sarrinikolaou
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 1-3 points

SPCL TPCS IN STAGE MANAGEMENT

SPCL TPCS IN SM: TEAMS

• Department: Theatre Arts
• W 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• 3 points

COMMUNICATION CIRCUITS

Prerequisites: ELEN E4312.
Principles of electronic circuits used in the generation, transmission, and reception of signal waveforms, as used in analog and digital communication systems. Nonlinearity and distortion; power amplifiers; tuned amplifiers; oscillators; multipliers and mixers; modulators and demodulators; phase-locked loops. An extensive design project is an integral part of the course.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Yannis P Tsividis
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

READINGS IN ARMENIAN TEXTS

Prerequisites:
MDES W1312
and
MDES W1313
, Intermediate Armenian or equivalent.
Readings in Armenian Texts is the highest-level language course offered by the Armenian Language Program at MEALAC. It is designed for students who have a good foundation of the language or have attained the equivalent of Intermediate level Armenian and wish to perfect their knowledge of grammar while developing their skills in independent reading. The content of the course will change each term. Students will be introduced to a variety of fiction and non-fiction texts in Armenian. Texts will consist of full length short stories and newspaper articles as well as excerpts from lengthier works, all in modern Western Armenian. The emphasis will be on analyzing context, syntax and grammatical structures as clues towards comprehension. In addition to grammar and vocabulary analysis, students will produce translations, brief summaries and commentaries on the texts they read, both orally and in written form. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Charry Karamanoukian
  Info
• 3 points

ENERGY DYNAMICS OF GREEN BLDGS

ENERGY DYNAMCS OF GREEN BLDGS

Prerequisites: MECE E3301 and MECE E3311.
Introduction to analysis and design of heating, ventilating and air-conditioning systems. Heating and cooling loads. Humidity control. Solar gain and passive solar design. Global energy implications. Green buildings. Building-integrated photovoltaics. Roof-mounted gardens and greenhouses. Financial assessment tools and case studies.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Mohammad M Naraghi
  Info
• 3 points

REAL ESTATE FINANCE III

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Merrie Frankel
  Info
• 3 points

LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS

• Department: Statistics
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Pawel Polak
  Info
• 3 points

EAR-TRAINING VI

• Department: Music
• MW 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard Miller
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 1 points

FLUID BIOMECHANICS

Prerequisites: APMA E2101, ENME E3105, and MECE E4100.
The principles of continuum mechanics as applied to biological fluid flows and transport. Continuum formulations of basic conservation laws, Navier-Stokes equations, mechanics of arterial and venous blood flow, blood rheology and non-Newtonian properties, flow and transport in the microcirculation, oxygen diffusion, capillary filtration.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• 3 points

NONPROFIT FINANCIAL MGMT

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Terence Cook
  Info
• 3 points

HUMAN RIGHTS & FOREIGN POLICY

Human rights play a distinctive role as "the political utopia" in contemporary international life. Still, human rights violations remain widespread and human rights norms are still the focus of numerous controversies, from their definition to their protection and promotion by various international actors with different moral and strategic agendas. This course will examine the place of human rights in the foreign policies of the US and a number of other countries around the globe. The course explores the social construction of human rights and national interests as well as the context, instruments, and tradeoffs in the formulation and implementation human rights foreign policies. Some of the questions this class will consider include: What are human rights and how is their protection best assessed? How have different states promoted and contributed to the violation of human rights abroad? How does human rights promotion strengthen and undermine other foreign policy goals? What's the role of non-state actors in the promotion and violation of human rights across the globe? When has the impact of the human rights norms and regimes been the greatest and when have the efforts of state and non-state actors to promote human rights at home and abroad made the most difference?

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Tsveta A Petrova
  Info
• 3 points

URBAN DESIGN FOR PLANNERS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 9 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Justin G Moore
  Info
• 3 points

SUSTAINABLE INVESTING & ECONOMIC GROWTH

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Satyajit Bose
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Prerequisites:
ECON W3211
and
W3213
.
Historical comparative examination of the economic development problems of the less developed countries; the roles of social institutions and human resource development; the functions of urbanization, rural development, and international trade.

• Department: Economics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Caterina Musatti
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

HUM NATURE:DNA,RACE & IDENTITY

The course focuses on human identity, beginning with the individual and progressing to communal and global viewpoints using a framework of perspectives from biology, genetics, medicine, psychiatry, religion and the law.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 4 points

PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Gregory J Muth
  Info
• 3 points

GENERALIZED LINEAR MODELS

• Department: Statistics
• MW 7:40 p.m.-8:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Rongning Wu
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

RADIOBIOLOGY FOR MED PHYS

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• M 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Marco Zaider
  Info
• 3 points

URBAN HISTORY I

Urban morphology and city life in Western cities from antiquity through the capital cities of mid-18th-century Europe, showing connecting trends in architecture and urban form; the discourse on cities, civic culture and civic ritual; public and private space; the role of the architect and urban planner; cultural and formal complexity; and adaptation to change.

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel C Sherer
  Info
• 3 points

LAW & BIOETHICS

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: David N Hoffman
  h-index: 2 Info
• 3 points

LAW & BIOETHICS

LAW & BIOETHICS (ONLINE)

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• W 7:30 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: David N Hoffman
  h-index: 2 Info
• 3 points

LAW & BIOETHICS

LAW & BIOETHICS (ONLINE)

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• W 7:30 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: David N Hoffman
  h-index: 2 Info
• 0 points

DISASTER RISK MGMT & SUST URBAN RESLNCE

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Klaus Jacob
  h-index: 35 Info
• 3 points

BRIT POETRY-RESTORATN-ROMANTICSM

BRIT POETRY RESTORATN-ROMANTIC

(Lecture). This course explores 150 years' worth of British poetry that wants to make philosophy sing. Our semester begins in the context of Restoration England, where recent translations of Lucretius' long poem De Rerum Natura made philosophical materialism newly fashionable. And it ends with efforts by early Romantics to write self-aware philosophical poems attuned to the new sciences of life. In between, we will discover how eighteenth-century writers reimagined the philosophical poem as a tool for reflecting on aesthetics and experimentalism, history and politics, metaphysics and theology. We will often ask how forms of this poetry advance or imply different definitions of mind. But here and there we will also read some pointedly unphilosophical verse, reminding ourselves that poets aren't just philosophers who rhyme and that poetry's relationship with philosophy was unstable in the long eighteenth century (It still is in the twenty-first.) Course work consists of short writing assignments and a take-home final examination.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Dustin Stewart
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

MODERN GERMANY, 1900-2000

The development of Germany in the last century has influenced the history of Europe and, indeed, of the world in major and dramatic ways. Most historians agree that the country and its leaders played a crucial role in the outbreak of two world wars which cost some 80 million lives. Germany experienced a revolution in 1918, hyperinflation in 1923, the Great Depression after 1929, and the Nazi dictatorship in 1933. Between 1933 and 1945 there followed the brutal military conquest of most of Continental Europe and, finally, the Holocaust. After 1945, Germany was divided into two halves in which there emerged a communist dictatorship and a Western-style parliamentary-democratic system, respectively. The division of the country ended in 1989 with the collapse of the Honecker regime and the reunification of East and West Germany. No doubt, Germany’s history is confused and confusing and has therefore generated plenty of debate among historians. This course offers a comprehensive analysis of the country’s development in the 20th century. It is not just concerned with political events and military campaigns, but will also examine in considerable detail German society and its changing structures, relations between women and men, trends in both high and popular culture, and the ups and downs of an industrial economy in its global setting. The weekly seminars are designed to introduce you to the country’s conflicted history and the controversies it unleashed in international scholarship. Both M.A. students and advanced undergraduates are welcome.

• Department: History
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Volker Berghahn
  CULPA: 24 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

CLASSICAL AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY

Prerequisites: One course in philosophy or permission of the instructor
This is a course in the central figures, theories, and works of the classic period in American Philosophy. The course focuses on pragmatism and the major pragmatists-Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), William James (1842-1910), and John Dewey (1859-1952). Students will also read Josiah Royce (1855-1916) as the foremost defender of absolute idealism and neo-Hegelianism in the United States and George Santayana (1863-1952) as a representative of American realism. The course will strongly emphasize primary sources.

• Department: Philosophy @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Cheryl Mendelson
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

EUR URB CARTOGRAPHY

EUR URB + CARTOGRAPHY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Victoria Sanger
  Info
• 3 points

SHI'ISM

This course offer a survy of Shīism with a particular focus on the "Twelvers" or "Imāmīs."  It begins by examining the interplay between theology and the core historical narratives of Shīi identity and culminates with an assessment of the jarring impact of modernity on religious institutions/beliefs.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Hussein Rashid
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

CHTENIIA PO RUSSKOI LITERATURE

CHTENIIA PO RUSSKOI LIT:POETRY

The course is devoted to reading and discussing of Tolstoy's masterpiece. Classes are conducted entirely in Russian.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Irina Reyfman
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

REPRODUCTIVE ETHICS

REPRODUCTIVE ETHICS (ONLINE)

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• M 6:30 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Arthur Kuflik
  Info
• 3 points

REPRODUCTIVE ETHICS

REPRODUCTIVE ETHICS (ONLINE)

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• M 6:30 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Arthur Kuflik
  Info
• 0 points

VSNRY MED:RCL,JSTC,HLTH&SCIFIC;

In Fall 2014, medical students across the U.S. staged die-ins as part of the nationwide #blacklivesmatter protests. The intention was to create a shocking visual spectacle, laying on the line “white coats for black lives.” The images were all over social media: students of all colors, dressed in lab coats, lying prone against eerily clean tile floors, stethoscopes in pockets, hands and around necks. One prone student held a sign reading, “Racism is Real.” These medical students’ collective protests not only created visual spectacle, but produced a dynamic speculative fiction. What would it mean if instead of Michael Brown or Eric Garner or Freddie Gray, these other, more seemingly elite bodies were subjected to police violence? In another viral image, a group of African American male medical students from Harvard posed wearing hoodies beneath their white coats, making clear that the bodies of some future doctors could perhaps be more easily targeted for state-sanctioned brutality. “They tried to bury us,” read a sign held by one of the students, “they didn’t realize we were seeds.” Both medicine and racial justice are acts of speculation; their practices are inextricable from the practice of imagining. By imagining new cures, new discoveries and new futures for human beings in the face of illness, medicine is necessarily always committing acts of speculation. By imagining ourselves into a more racially just future, by simply imagining ourselves any sort of future in the face of racist erasure, social justice activists are similarly involved in creating speculative fictions. This course begins with the premise that racial justice is the bioethical imperative of our time. It will explore the space of science fiction as a methodology of imagining such just futures, embracing the work of Asian- and Afroturism, Cosmos Latinos and Indigenous Imaginaries. We will explore issues including Biocolonialism, Alien/nation, Transnational Labor and Reproduction, the Borderlands and Other Diasporic Spaces. This course will be seminar-style and will make central learner participation and presentation. The seminar will be inter-disciplinary, drawing from science and speculative fictions, cultural studies, gender studies, narrative medicine, disability studies, and bioethics. Ultimately, the course aims to connect the work of science and speculative fiction with on the ground action and organizing.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Sayantani T Dasgupta
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

HUMAN ADAPTATION

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jessica M Manser
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

FOURTH-YEAR RUSSIAN II

FOURTH-YEAR RUSSIAN Ii

• Department: Slavic Languages @Barnard
• MWF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria Doubrovskaia
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

LIE GROUPS & REPRESENTATIONS

Continuation of MATH G4343x (see Fall listing).

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter G Woit
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4.5 points

CHTENIIA PO RUSSKOI KUL'TURE

ADV RUSSIAN THROUGH HISTORY

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Vasily Lvov
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• 3 points

EUR/ISLAM-MOD PERIOD,1798-PRES

EUR/ISLAM-MOD PERIOD,1789-PRES

Though the relationship between Europe and Islam has a centuries-long and complex history, this course looks closely at the unfolding of this relationship in the modern period. Following Edward Said, we start with Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt in 1798, then cover a series of topics including: migration and travel writing on the eve of conquest; colonial aggression in the Middle East and North Africa; colonial governance of Islam; race, gender, and religious difference; Islamic modernity; and Islamic veiling ‘controversies.’ The object of this course is to historicize contemporary debates on immigration, pluralism, and the management of difference by examining cases of discursive and institutional continuity from the colonial into the postcolonial periods. Instructor's permission required: http://www.history.columbia.edu/undergraduate/seminars/index.html

• Department: History
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Sarah Ghabrial
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• 4 points

HIST OF ARCHITECTURE II

HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE II

Developments in architectural history during the modern period. Emphasis on moments of significant change in architecture (theoretical, economic, technological, and institutional). Themes include positive versus arbitrary beauty, enlightenment urban planning, historicism, structural rationalism, the housing reform movement, iron and glass technology, changes generated by developments external or internal to architecture itself and transformations in Western architecture.

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Kenneth Frampton
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• 3 points

NEUROSCIENCE & ETHICS

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Carl Erik Fisher
  h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

CINEMA OF SUBVERSION

Russian filmmaker Andre Tarkovsky said that “the artist has no right to an idea in which he is not socially committed.” Argentine filmmaker Fernando Solanas and Spanish-born Octavio Getino postulated an alternative cinema that would spur spectators to political action. In this course we will ask the question: How do authoritarian governments influence the arts, and how do artists respond? We will study how socially committed filmmakers have subverted and redefined cinema aesthetics to challenge authoritarianism and repression. In addition, we will look at how some filmmakers respond to institutional oppression, such as poverty and corruption, even within so-called “free” societies. The focus is on contemporary filmmakers but will also include earlier classics of world cinema to provide historical perspective. The course will discuss these topics, among others: What is authoritarianism, what is totalitarianism, and what are the tools of repression within authoritarian/totalitarian societies? What is Third Cinema, and how does it represent and challenge authoritarianism? How does film navigate the opposition of censorship, propaganda and truth? How do filmmakers respond to repressive laws concerning gender and sexual orientation? How do they deal with violence and trauma? How are memories of repressive regimes reflected in the psyche of modern cinema? And finally, what do we learn about authority, artistic vision, and about ourselves when we watch these films?

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Eric Gamalinda
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

CONT CHINESE CITY

CONTEMPORARY CHINESE CITY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeffrey Johnson
  Wikipedia h-index: 3 Info
• 3 points

OTTOMAN ARMENIAN WOMEN

OTTOMAN ARMENIAN WOMEDN

The objective of this course is to discuss Ottoman Armenian women’s intellectual history in relation to the gender and sexuality discourses of the late Ottoman society. This course also aims to familiarize the students with the debates that have been shaping the Ottoman feminist historiography for the last two decades. The first part of the course has a specific focus on the beginnings of the feminist thought and feminist activism in Europe and the US. It introduces primary texts by feminist writers around the world and offers a historical/theoretical background to understand the main issues of women’s liberation movement(s) in the Ottoman Empire. The second part of the course invites students to develop a critical understanding of Ottoman Armenian modernity from a gendered perspective. It aims to grasp the ways in which Armenian women took part in shaping the gender order of modern Armenian society. It situates this discussion within the transformation of the communal/inter- communal/state-community relationships in the Ottoman Empire and the re-organization of the political sphere. The last part of the class focuses on women’s activism during and in the aftermath of the Genocide.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Melissa Bilal
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• 3 points

HISTORY OF THE SELF: ROUSSEAU

This course is one of a series on the history of the modern self.  After examining Montaigne and Pascal in previous semesters we now focus on Rousseau, and in particular Emile,  his treatise on education and psychology.   We then examine two of his autobiographical works, the Confessions and the Reveries of a Solitary Walker, to see how this theory of the self shapes and is shaped by his understanding of himself.  Seminar application required: http://www.history.columbia.edu/undergraduate/seminars/index.html

• Department: History
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Lilla
  CULPA: 57 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

AMER DIVA:RACE,GDNDR&PERFMNC;

AMER DIVA:RACE,GENDR&PERFORMNC;

What makes a diva a diva? How have divas shaped and challenged our ideas about American culture, performance, race, space, and capital during the last century? This seminar explores the central role of the diva—the celebrated, iconic, and supremely skilled female performer—in the fashioning and re-imagining of racial, gendered, sexual, national, temporal, and aesthetic categories in American culture. Students in this course will theorize the cultural function and constitutive aspects of the diva and will analyze particular performances of a range of American divas from the 20th and 21st centuries and their respective roles in (re)defining American popular culture.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Deborah Paredez
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

GRANTS

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• S 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Jane Geever
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• Instructor: John Hicks
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• 3 points

ANALYSIS OF TONAL MUSIC

Prerequisites:
MUSI V3321
or the equivalent.
Fulfills the requirement of the 3000-level advanced theory elective. This course was previously offered as V3360, Pre-Tonal and Tonal Analysis. Detailed analysis of selected tonal compositions. This course, for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduates, is intended to develop understanding of tonal compositions and of theoretical concepts that apply to them, through study of specific works in various forms and styles.

• Department: Music
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Benjamin A Steege
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• 3 points

EMBODIED BORDERLANDS

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Sayantani T Dasgupta
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

SPORT ACCOUNTING & FINANCE

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

POWER ELECTRONICS

Prerequisites: ELEN E3801 & ELEN E3331.
Introduction to power electronics; power semiconductor devices: power diodes, thyristors, commutation techniques, power transistors, power MOSFETs, Triac, IGBTs, etc. and switch selection; non-sinusoidal power definitions and computations, modeling, and simulation; half-wave rectifiers; single-phase, full-wave rectifiers; three-phase rectifiers; AC voltage controllers; DC/DC buck, boost, and buck-boost converters; discontinuous conduction mode of operation; DC power supplies: Flyback, Forward converter; DC/AC inverters, PWM techniques; three-phase inverters.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthias Preindl
  h-index: 26 Info
• 3 points

MULTISCALE COMP SCI & ENGIN

Prerequisites: ENME E4332, elementary computer programming, linear algebra.
Introduction to multiscale analysis. Informationpassing bridging techniques: among them, generalized mathematical homogenization theory, the heterogeneous multiscale method, variational multiscale method, the discontinuous Galerkin method and the kinetic Monte Carlo–based methods. Concurrent multiscale techniques: domain bridging, local enrichment, and multigrid-based concurrent multiscale methods. Analysis of multiscale systems.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Jacob Fish
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 54 Info
• 3 points