ORGANIC CHEMISTRY II-LEC

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3230. Lecture: MWF 10:00-10:50. Extension of concepts from Organic Chemistry I to conjugated systems; chemistry of the carbonyl group; NMR and IR spectroscopy; bioorganic chemistry.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• MWF 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Campbell
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• 3 points

DISRUPTIVE BODIES, DISRUPTIVE TEXTS: TRA

TRANS IMAGININGS

Until the mid-twentieth century, philosophies of embodiment failed to think through the morphology of trans bodies and lives, leaving trans experience, in a sense, “un-worded” in the critical imagination.
Disruptive Bodies, Disruptive Texts: Trans Imaginings
will examine how trans creatives have responded to this silence, rethinking cis-centric theories of embodiment to unearth innovative “vocabulary” for those lives and bodies long erased from archives and linguistic intelligibilities. Indeed, even in its representations of silence and loss for trans experience, the archive demands a certain attention: What is held in the weight of silence? How do such silences, or rather “silencings,” inform trans embodiment? Is transness destined to forever see itself bound up in hauntings, in violence?


The US publishing industry favours trans narratives that operate within traditional memoir or political and activist nonfiction. Yet, transness, in its disruption of supposed bodily norms, powerfully destabilises essayistic conventions. What is trans nonfiction when its written for us and by us? How then do we define trans nonfiction? What is transness at the level of the sentence, the paragraph? What textures, dimensions, or discussions does it bring to nonfiction as form, genre, and critical discourse?
Disruptive Bodies, Disruptive Texts: Trans Imaginings
will explore transness not only as content but as syntax, as form. The course will consider those works of trans creation that remove cis-lenses for approaching, organising, and understanding trans experience and literature. Instead, we will consider how the trans body emerges as rich centre from which to rework ideas of embodiment and essay form. And from that centre we will disrupt.

Each week, students will receive a generative prompt (either to complete in class or after) specific to the themes and concerns of the relevant reading materials. These are opportunities to experiment as the work will not be workshopped or critiqued.

Twice during the semester, students will lead discussions on assigned books, craft essays, and criticism and theory. At the end of the term, students will submit a final portfolio consisting of a project of their own design.

• Department: Writing
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Lars Horn
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• 3 points

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Prerequisites: One introductory course in Sociology suggested. Social movements and the theories social scientists use to explain them, with emphasis on contemporary American activism. Cases include the Southern civil rights movement, Black Lives Matter, contemporary feminist mobilizations, LGBTQ activism, immigrant rights and more recent forms of grassroots politics.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Debra Minkoff
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 17 Info
• 4 points

Undergraduate Composition

Comp for String Quartet

This course provides an immersive experience in music composition, focusing on both practical and theoretical aspects within a given instrumentation. Please refer to the topic for the instrumentation for this semester’s course. This class is open to students with no prior experience in composition. Students of varying music backgrounds are welcome. Permission of the instructor may be required for enrollment. The class will explore a variety of compositional approaches, including traditional, experimental, and interdisciplinary methods. During the semester, students will complete several creative and theoretical exercises ranging from short composition projects to analytical responses to diverse works. Students will also engage in individual and group feedback sessions as well as in-class readings of selected compositional projects by the performers. The final project will be an original work between 5 and 7 minutes, which will be workshopped, rehearsed, performed in a public concert, and recorded by professional musicians towards the end of the term.

• Department: Music
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Zosha Di Castri
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• 3 points

SEEING THE BODY

Seeing the Body: Movement and Physicality in Modern Visual Culture will examine how concepts of
movement, space, and time gained an outsized role in photographic and cinematic experimentation,
typography, interior design and exhibition, contributing a “choreographic voice” to the interwar age.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Marjorie Folkman
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

CHALL/STRAT IN PRIMATE CONSERV

Prerequisites: EEEB UN1010 or EEEB UN1011 or the instructor's permission. Throughout their range, numerous primate species are on the brink of extinction. This course examines the central issues relating to conservation of wild primates and explores strategies and solutions for preserving these endangered populations. Through the analysis of the ecological and social traits linked to vulnerability and the direct and indirect threats from human activities, students will gain a practical understanding of how to develop successful, sustainable, and practical conservation strategies.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Alba Lucia Morales Jimenez
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• 3 points

FREN LANG,SOC,CULTRE THRU FILM

Prerequisites: FREN UN2102 French socio-political issues and language through the prism of film. Especially designed for non-majors wishing to further develop their French language skills and learn about French culture. Each module includes assignments targeting the four language competencies: reading, writing, speaking and oral comprehension, as well as cultural understanding.

• Department: French
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Heidi Holst-Knudsen
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 3 points

LITERATURE OF LIBERATION BEFORE 1900

LIT OF LIBERATION BEFORE

“We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity,” wrote the abolitionist writer Frances Ellen Watkins Harper a few years after the Civil War. This course explores the creative productions, critiques, and political projects of colonized people themselves, specifically focusing on writers in the indigenous, African American, and global anti-imperialist traditions. How did these heterogeneous communities differently diagnose the context of colonialism? What positive horizons of freedom, equality, and democracy did they aspire towards? What do their works tell us about gender, land, and labor? We explore themes of sovereignty against settler colonialism in the work of indigenous writers like Kandiaronk, William Apess, E. Pauline Johnson, Sarah Winnemucca, Zitkala Sa, and Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii. Next, we read the African American abolitionist tradition, beginning with Phillis Wheatley and slave narratives (Frederick Douglass, Mary Prince, Harriet Jacobs) followed by works by Harriet Wilson, Ida B. Wells, and Machado de Assis. The final third of the class will focus on works by those encountering imperialism in Egypt, South Asia, Latin America, the Philippines, and China: Al-Jabarti, Dinabandhu Mitra, José Martí, Jose Rizal, Huang Zunxian, and Qiu Jin.

• Department: English @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ken Chen
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• 3 points

ABSENT MOTHERS, WICKED STEPMOTHERS

ABSENT MOTHERS:FOLK&FAIRY

Why are stepmothers and stepdaughters inevitable enemies in folk and fairy tales? Why are fathers blameless and biological mothers absent (and usually dead)? And how do these narratives, so deeply woven into our own media and language, affect our sense of our own lived reality? In this course, we’ll untangle the complicated web of relationships between mothers, daughters, and stepmothers in folk and fairy tales, from ancient Rome to current cinema. We’ll read analytic psychology, feminist literary theory, cultural history, and other critical perspectives to help us analyze the absent mother, virginal daughter, hapless father, and evil stepmother tropes across time and space, so we can defamiliarize these familiar figures and develop a deeper understanding of how and why they dominate the popular imagination. This is an upper-level course, with priority for juniors and seniors.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Wendy C Schor-Haim
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 4 points

Environmental Sociology

ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY

This course examines the social roots and impacts of environmental contamination and disasters, in order to understand how humans relate to nature in the context of global racial capitalism and the possibilities for creating a more sustainable world. We will also explore how racism is foundational to environmental exploitation and consider why global struggles for racial justice are crucial for protecting both people and the earth, paying particular attention to how environmental health inequalities are linked to race, class, gender, and nation. We will consider key theories, debates, and unresolved questions in the subfield of environmental sociology and discuss future directions for the sociological study of human/environment relations.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Maricarmen Hernandez
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• 3 points

AMERICAN TELEVISION DRAMA

Between prestige and streaming, the medium of television has never covered a wider breadth of narratives, voices, and concerns. This course will take a closer look at the format of the American Drama and how it has served as a cultural tool since its inception, reflecting the concerns of the time in one form or another. Through theoretical readings and sociological texts, the course will survey and sharpen our understanding of the power of the medium when placed in conversation with the greater American discourse.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• T 2:40 p.m.-6:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ben Alexander
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• 3 points

JAZZ DANCE III

This class explores Advanced contemporary jazz movement using music from both American and Diasporic pop culture.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ehizoje J Azeke
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• 2 points

THE MARRIAGE PLOT

This upper-level research-oriented seminar will engage with literary expressions of the universally interesting topic of marriage. Tony Tanner in his famous
Adultery in the Novel
characterizes marriage as “the structure which supports all structure.” Contemporary critics have seen marriage as essential to maintaining the “family values” of the bourgeoisie; feminists and Marxists have challenged the economic assumptions of patriarchally-defined marriage. Folklorists have treated marriage as the endpoint of the search for a safe domestic space.

Starting in ancient times with classic fairy tales and the Hebrew Bible, moving on to a famous medieval poem, a medieval memoir, and three nineteenth-century novels, we will encounter cultural expressions which address intimate partnerships with an emphasis on marriage as a defining condition.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Margaret R Ellsberg
  CULPA: 54 Info
• 4 points

Arts in Action

The course is an introduction to the visual arts and art professions in the context of French and

francophone arts and cultural institutions. Students will experience arts through class discussions of artistic production and a familiarization with art history and art criticism in French, presentations, workshops, discussions with art professionals, guest lectures, and visits to art museums and

galleries. Students who take the class can apply for paid internships in an art institution in the

spring following the class. In these internships, students will use some of the French language

skills they have acquired in class.

• Department: French
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Pascale Crepon
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

Social Closure and Inequality

SOCIAL CLOSURE AND INEQUA

This class will examine the social phenomenon of exclusion. Attempts to understand the social behavior of creating insiders and outsiders is a hallmark in Sociology. How does it happen? What purpose does it serve? Who decides who is in and who is out? While some forms of social closure, like segregation, are more well known, there are numerous mechanisms of social exclusion people and groups employ in the social world. Additionally, forms of exclusion do not always come from the top down as a form of domination, but sometimes from the bottom up, with the goal of resource redistribution. We will study these different forms of exclusion along with the theorized aims these forms of closure seek to achieve to get a more comprehensive picture of how social exclusion is used in the social world.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Dominic T Walker
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• 3 points

FLAMENCO

The study of contemporary flamenco dance technique with special emphasis on improvisation and performance. Through video and reading assignments and attendance at live performances, students will also develop a context for understanding flamenco art, pedagogy, and culture.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• F 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Nelida Tirado
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• 2 points

ADAPTATION

In the same way that there can never be a single objective account of an historical event, using one medium to convey a story first told in another is never as straightforward as it might seem. Translating the essence of an existing story to the screen may require making significant changes to the events or characters as they were originally presented. As a screenwriter faced with such an adaptation, you must understand the idiosyncrasies of your craft well enough to recognize what to keep, what to change, and what to leave behind. This course will explore what makes a screen story work, balancing faithfulness and invention.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• R 2:40 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Danielle T Douge
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• 3 points

VOTING & POLITICAL BEHAVIOR

• Department: Political Science
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Yamil R Velez
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

COMPUTATIONAL LINEAR ALGEBRA

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Nakul Verma
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 16 Info
• 4 points

KANT

Explores the connections between theoretical and practical reason in Kants thinking with special attention to the Critique of Pure Reason and the project of transcendental philosophy.

• Department: Philosophy @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Caroline D Bowman
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• 3 points

CONTEMPORARY MEDIA THEORY

Sophomore standing required. Attend first class for instructor permission. Registering for the course only through Student Planning or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment. Explores the transformation of sociality, consciousness and geo-politics by and as media technologies during the long 20th century. Students will read influential works of media analysis written during the past century, analyze audio-visual analog and digital media, and explore political theory and media theory written since the rise of the internet. Final projects on contemporary media forms.

• Department: English @Barnard
• R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan L Beller
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

QUANTUM CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites:  2 semesters of calculus-based introductory physics, Calculus II, BC3242 Quantitative Analysis, or permission of instructor. Exact and approximate solutions to the Schrodinger equation. The structure of atoms and molecules. Chemical bonding and spectroscopy. Computer-based molecular modeling.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• R 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Marisa C Buzzeo
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

Colonial Fascism & Revolutionary Violenc

In this course, we will approach Fanon’s question through our understanding of violence as it was
invented and deployed from the heart of empire into the colonies. What is fascism and how was it
linked to colonialism, if at all? In what ways were they dependent on each other to conceive a
certain world order, particularly between World War I and II? In other words, how did fascist
visions and colonial practices from the imperial core import repressive structures of violence into
the colonies, and then export those methods of control back into the metropole as a perpetual
renewable source of power?
This course examines the Mediterranean as a site of violence and a theater of “fire and blood,” in
which the inextricable and dialogical bond between colonialism and fascism are tied through
mythologies, discourses, institutions, and of course, revolution. In so doing, we interrogate
Tunisian writer Albert Memmi’s critical intervention of “colonial fascism” that shapes the
confrontations between metropole and colony as an intricate network shaping the contours of the
Mediterranean and renewing itself through violence. It also focuses on the rhetoric undergirding
colonial and fascist discourses, and the counterinsurgent and resistance strategies that, in turn,
challenge these hegemonies. By situating this particular Mediterranean narrative within the
broader colonial discourse, the course encourages critical reflection on the enduring legacies of
imperial power that informs the region’s historical trajectories

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Maryam Siddiqui
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• 3 points

Victorian Relations

Victorian literature, as one of its leading critics writes, is concerned above all with “
relationships
and their representation.”  Relationships between individuals, groups, or nations are of course central to literature from all periods, but they figure with particular prominence in Victorian British writing, for two reasons.  First, the Victorian period follows an era that often fetishized the solitary individual: if Romantic writers frequently focused on figures in isolation, Victorian writers responded by panning out to consider human beings primarily in their social relations.  Second, the later nineteenth century witnessed revolutions in the conceptualization of relations between different classes, races, sexes, and species.  The new ideas were not limited to philosophers or scientists but permeated public discourse to an unprecedented extent.

In this course we will study a representative sampling of Victorian writing about relationships, possibly including such topics as relations between men and women, Britons and others nationalities, humans and animals, or past and present.  In addition we will consider the relation between different literary genres as we compare the way each topic is represented in fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fictional prose.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Erik Gray
  CULPA: 35 Info
• 4 points

Bilingualism

Many of us know a second language. How we use it varies – some use it occasionally, others routinely. Recent research in cognitive neuroscience has shed light on the mechanisms associated with the various types of bilingualism, and has shown that using two languages affects a variety of cognitive abilities, starting in infancy and continuing until an old age. The primary findings of recent research in cognitive neuroscience are reviewed and discussed in this course. Bilingualism also has a political facet – governments decide what languages are used in public institutions and taught in schools. This course also evaluates scientific findings on bilingualism for their potential implications on informing parents, educators, and policy makers.

• Department: Psychology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Michele Miozzo
  Info
• 4 points

COMPUTER SCIENCE THEORY

Regular languages: deterministic and non-deterministic finite automata, regular expressions. Context-free languages: context-free grammars, push-down automata. Turing machines, the Chomsky hierarchy, and the Church-Turing thesis. Introduction to Complexity Theory and NP-Completeness.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Toniann Pitassi
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• 3 points

Religion and Revolution in Modern China

Religion & Revolution - C

This course explores the negotiation of religion and revolutionary politics in modern China through literature, art, media, and cultural production. Through the course, students will investigate the meaning of “ religion” and its counterparts, such as secularism and superstition, and its relationship to conceptions of modernity in its colonial and anti-colonial registers. The course will tackle the problems religion posed to revolutionary movements while exploring how religion remained an important part of revolutionary culture in China and beyond. Finally, the class addresses the tensions between the religious and the modern in a post-revolutionary moment. The course requires deep engagement with literary, artistic, and cultural materials, such as novels, poetry and films. The course will also introduce political and theoretical writings, both by thinkers in China and other parts of the world. By treating the transformation of China in the twentieth century as an event of global significance, we will examine the implications of these negotiations for our understanding of revolutionary politics worldwide.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Joanna S Lee-Brown
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• 4 points

LATIN AMER LIT (IN TRANSLATN)

Study of contemporary Latin American narrative; its origins and apotheosis. Readings include Machado de Assis, Borges, Garcia Marquez, Puig, and others.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Alfred Mac Adam
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 3 points

Seminar in Catalysis

Seminar in Catalysis is a four-credit seminar course. The course is designed to help students learn the fundamental principles of catalysis and to create opportunities to understand how these principles apply to seemingly different areas of chemistry including enzymatic catalysis, organometallic and inorganic catalysis, and
heterogeneous catalysis.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel Austin
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia h-index: 28 Info
• 4 points

Collapse: The Fall and Afterlife of the

Collapse of Soviet Union

On Christmas Day 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev ended two things: his tenure as President of the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union itself. The following day, Boris Yeltsin entered office as the first president of the Russian Federation, and without delay, began to institute radical economic and social reforms. Under his watch, the country privatized national industry, cut the state budget, and courted foreign multinational businesses. The world most commonly used to describe Russia in the early 1990s is “disappear”: money, jobs, food, and people. The very things that Soviet-style socialism had committed itself to providing for started to vanish as a result of invisible and market forces. At the same time as they were being told to welcome the approaching era of capitalist abundance, ordinary Russians were scrambling to cope with and recover from all that appeared to be suddenly and permanently missing from their pay stubs, kitchen tables, and family photographs.

This course will explore what emerged in the spaces left empty after Soviet-style socialism’s demise. The course will be divided into three parts. The first part of the semester will examine the origins of the Soviet Union’s collapse and its breakup into fifteen successor states. Who was Mikhail Gorbachev, and why did the reforms instituted as part of
glasnost
and
perestroika
fail to revitalize the Soviet system? How did citizens - elites and average people alike - from Russia, the Soviet republics, and satellite states witness the collapse, and how did they manage the immediate transition to capitalism? The second part of the semester will survey the political, economic, and social processes that followed the collapse. How did former Soviet citizens reintegrate themselves in the new economies, political movements, and social structures that emerged in the Russian Federation under Yeltsin? In what ways did privatization and the arrival of foreign capital shape labor practices, consumer habits, the natural and built environment, and forms of cultural expression? What forms did nationalist movements in the former republics and and Warsaw Pact countries take? Finally, the third part of the course will focus on Putin’s ascendancy to the presidency and its consequences for Russian citizens at home and Russia’s image abroad. We will consider the role that memory and myth play in the formation of a “United Russian” consciousness, the costs and benefits of life in Putin’s Russia, and the

• Department: History
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Yana Skorobogatov
  Info
• 4 points

NONFIC DIGTL VIDEO PRODCTN

Nonfiction Digital Video Production: Enrollment limited to 12 students. Registering for the course only through myBarnard or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment. Attend first class for instructor permission. Lab section required. This workshop course is designed to familiarize students with digital video technologies while they investigate various aesthetic and theoretical concepts related to nonfiction cinema and its engagement with the real. Through weekly readings, discussions, screenings, critiques, and practical exercises, students will develop a solid understanding of how to use digital video as an expressive tool. The course will culminate in the completion of a short video work by each student. Students should be both self-directed and interested in developing a support system for each others work.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• M 12:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 3 points

DIGITAL PRODUCTION

Prerequisites:
both
FILM BC3201 (or equivalent)
and
FILM BC3200 (or equivalent). Digital Production offers visual storytellers an incredible medium to connect and build an audience. It is an inexpensive, accessible platform to launch micro-budget concepts. Developing the storytellers voice  inexpensively is critical to the evolution of any student, no matter their starting point. The Digital Series course is intended to take students from story ideation through creation of an independent digital series. Emanating from a writers room setting, all steps of the process will be explored and supported by in-class discussion, examples and workshops. This hands-on class revolves around the TV series production model: breaking story, writing pages, preproduction planning, filming and post-production review. We will emphasize the writers voice, construction of series storytelling, and establishing realistic scopes of production.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Danielle T Douge
  Info
• 3 points

UNSEEN MASTERWORKS OF WORLD CINEMA

MASTERWORKS: ARAB CINEMA

This course examines the portrayal of significant themes in international cinema. Through a selection of diverse cinematic works from various countries, students will analyze different cultural, historical, and political perspectives. The course aims to enhance students' understanding of complex topics, their impact on individuals and societies, and the ethical questions they evoke. Through critical analysis and discussion, students will engage with a range of cinematic works that offer alternative narratives and perspectives.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-7:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Sam Abbas
  Info
• 3 points

WORKSHOP IN SUSTAINABLE DEVPT

The upper level undergraduate Sustainable Development Workshop will be modeled on client based graduate-level workshops, but with more time devoted to methods of applied policy analysis and issues in Sustainable Development. The heart of the course is the group project on an issue of sustainable development with a faculty advisor providing guidance and ultimately grading student performance. Students would receive instruction on methodology, group work, communication and the context of policy analysis. Much of the reading in the course would be project-specific and identified by the student research teams. Offered in Fall and Spring.

• Department: Earth Institute
• MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jenna M Lawrence
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Sharon S Mathews
  Info
• 4 points

BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: (CHEM BC3230) and (CHEM BC3231) BIOL BC1502. Introduction to biochemical building blocks, macromolecules, and metabolism. Structures of amino acids, lipids, carbohydrates, nucleic acids. Protein structure and folding. Enzyme mechanisms, kinetics, allostery. Membranes and biosignaling. Catabolism and anabolism with emphasis on chemical intermediates, metabolic energy, catalysis by specific enzymes, regulation.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Rebecca Donegan
  Info
• 3 points

FREEDOM OF SPEECH & PRESS

Examines the constitutional right of freedom of speech and press in the United States. Examines, in depth, various areas of law, including extremist or seditious speech, obscenity, libel, fighting words, the public forum doctrine, and public access to the mass media. Follows the law school course model, with readings focused on actual judicial decisions.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Lee C Bollinger
  CULPA: 27 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Immigration and Ethnicity in Israel / Pa

Imm & Ethn in Israel/Pale

This seminar will focus on migration patterns, both voluntary and forced, of Jews and Palestinians to and from Israel/Palestine from the late 19th century until the present. These migration patterns of different national and ethnic groups have been informing the social, political and economic dynamics in the State of Israel, as well as the protracted Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 

We first discuss Jewish immigration in the pre-state period (before 1948), Palestinian forced migration in the 1948 and 1967 wars, Jewish immigration to Israel until the 1967 war, and migration of Jews and non-Jews (including labor migrants and refugees) during the post-1967 period. In this context, we will analyze the ethnic/racial and national cleavages – between Mizrahi and Ashkenazi Jews and between Palestinian and Jewish citizens of Israel –that have been developing in Israel since 1948 and before. 

In addition, we will discuss Israel’s ‘migration’ into the West Bank, occupied by Israel since 1967 and the ramifications of such population movement on the Palestinian and Israeli societies. Finally, we will discuss Jewish emigration from Israel,focusing on the number of emigrants and the question of the brain drain from contemporary Israel.

• Department: Sociology
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Yinon Cohen
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 33 Info
• 4 points

Topics in Modern Statistics

Stat Analysis/Neural Data

Topics in Modern Statistics that provide undergraduate students with an opportunity to study a specialized area of statistics in more depth and to meet the educational needs of a rapidly growing field. Courses listed are reviewed and approved by the Undergraduate Advisory Committee of the Department of Statistics. A good working knowledge of basic statistical concepts (likelihood,
Bayes' rule, Poisson processes, Markov chains, Gaussian random vectors), including especially linear-algebraic concepts related to regression and principal components analysis, is necessary. No previous experience with neural data is required.

• Department: Statistics
• F 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Liam M Paninski
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

Biochemistry

Prerequisites: 1 year of Introductory Biology, 1 year General Chemistry, and 1st semester Organic Chemistry.  Biochemistry is the study of the chemical processes within organisms that give rise to the immense complexity of life. This complexity emerges from a highly regulated and coordinated flow of chemical energy from one biomolecule to another. This course serves to familiarize students with the spectrum of biomolecules (carbohydrates, lipids, amino acids, nucleic acids, etc.) as well as the fundamental chemical processes (glycolysis, citric acid cycle, fatty acid metabolism, etc.) that allow life to happen. The course will end with a discussion of diseases that have biochemical etiologies. In particular, this course will employ active learning techniques and critical thinking problem-solving to engage students in answering the question: how is the complexity of life possible? NOTE: While only the 1st semester of Organic Chemistry is listed as a pre-requisite, it is highly recommended that you take all of Organic Chemistry beforehand.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Danny N Ho
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

WORKSHOP SUSTAINABLE DEVEL

Students address real-world issues in sustainable development by working in groups for an external client agency. Instruction in communication, collaboration, and management; meetings with and presentations to clients and academic community. Projects vary from year to year. Readings in the course are project-specific and are identified by the student research teams.

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• MW 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Brian Mailloux
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 36 Info
• 4 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

Art and Activism in Brazil

Corequisites: PORT UN1220 An intensive exposure to advanced points of Portuguese grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Portuguese. This course is required for the concentration in Portuguese Studies. This course is intended to improve Portuguese language skills in grammar, comprehension, and critical thinking through an archive of texts from literature, film, music, newspapers, critical reception and more. To do so, we will work through Portuguese-speaking communities and cultures from Brazil, to Portugal and Angola, during the twentieth and twenty-first century, to consider the mode in which genre, gender and sexuality materialize and are codified, disoriented, made, unmade and refigured through cultural productions, bodies, nation and resistant vernaculars of aesthetics and performance, always attentive to the intersections of gender with class and racism.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ana Luiza D Claudio
  Info
• 3 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

SALSA: AFRO-LATIN CUL STORIES

Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score. An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Juan P Jimenez-Caicedo
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

ADVANCED LANG THROUGH CONTENT

Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score. An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Lola Barbazan Capeans
  Info
• 3 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

LGBT + CONTEXTS IN SPAIN

Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score. An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Francisco Rosales-Varo
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 3 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

Salud Latina

Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score. An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Juan Pablo Cominguez
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

HISPANICS & MIGRATION

Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score. An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria E Lozano
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

SPORTS,POLITICS,&IDENTITY

Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score. An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Elga Castro
  Info
• 3 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

EL MUNDO DE BAD BUNNY

Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score. An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Elga Castro
  Info
• 3 points

PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor given at first class meeting. Students will create and workshop plays, with a focus on learning new approaches to language and structure. Recommended for students undertaking a senior thesis in playwriting.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew Bragen
  Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED POETRY WORKSHOP

This poetry workshop is reserved for accomplished poetry writers and maintains the highest level of creative and critical expectations. Students will be encouraged to develop their strengths and to cultivate a distinctive poetic vision and voice but must also demonstrate a willingness to broaden their range and experiment with new forms and notions of the poem. A portfolio of poetry will be written and revised with the critical input of the instructor and the workshop. Please visit
https://arts.columbia.edu/writing/undergraduate
 for information about registration procedures.

• Department: Writing
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Timothy B Donnelly
  Info
• 3 points

THERMODYNAMICS

Classical thermodynamics. Basic properties and concepts, thermodynamic properties of pure substances, equation of state, work, heat, the first and second laws for flow and nonflow processes, energy equations, entropy, and irreversibility. Introduction to power and refrigeration cycles.

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

THERMODYNAMICS

THERMO RECITATION

Classical thermodynamics. Basic properties and concepts, thermodynamic properties of pure substances, equation of state, work, heat, the first and second laws for flow and nonflow processes, energy equations, entropy, and irreversibility. Introduction to power and refrigeration cycles.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• F 9 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Arvind Narayanaswamy
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 26 Info
• 0 points

ADV WRITING/COMP IN PORTUGUESE

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Joao Nemi Neto
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED SWAHILI I

Prerequisites: SWHL UN2101-UN2102 or the instructor's permission. An introduction to the advanced syntactical, morphological, and grammatical structures of Swahili grammar; detailed analysis of Swahili texts; practice in conversation. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Abdul Nanji
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED WOLOF I

Prerequisites: Two years of Wolof or instructor permission. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Mariame S Sy
  Info
• 4 points

SENIOR POETRY WORKSHOP

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. Please visit 
https://arts.columbia.edu/writing/undergraduate
 for information about registration procedures.

• Department: Writing
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Lynn Xu
  Info
• 4 points

SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER

Prerequisites: One introductory course in Sociology suggested. Examination of factors in gender identity that are both universal (across time, culture, setting) and specific to a social context. Social construction of gender roles in different settings, including family, work, and politics. Attention to the role of social policies in reinforcing norms or facilitating change.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 3 points

LAB IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Introduction to the use of molecular techniques to answer questions about subcellular biological phenomena. Techniques include isolation of genomic and plasmid DNAs, restriction enzyme analysis, DNA and protein electrophoresis, bacterial transformation, and plasmid subcloning.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• R 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Stephen L Sturley
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

PROJECT LAB IN MOLECULAR GENETICS

PRJCT LAB IN MOLECULR GEN

Prerequisites: BIOL BC1500, BIOL BC1501, BIOL BC1502, BIOL BC1503.  Co-requisite: BIOL BC2100. Enrollment limited to 12. Laboratory course in which students conduct original research projects in molecular genetics. Students interested in getting involved in research, or those looking to deepen research design and lab skills in this area, are encouraged to begin with this course. Students will participate in experimental design, conduct and data analysis, and work with key techniques for studying gene structure, expression and function such as nucleic acid extraction and synthesis, cloning, bioinformatics analysis including RNA-Seq, PCR and quantitative PCR,  immunofluorescence and confocal microscopy. Students will present their results orally and in writing. Enrollment in both semesters (BIOL BC3305 and BIOL BC3306) of this full-year course is required for credit, and fulfills two upper-level lab courses for the Barnard Biology major. Must be taken in sequence, beginning in the fall. - J. Mansfield

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• T 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer H Mansfield
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 15 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO URBAN ETHNOGRAPHIES

INTRO/URBAN ETHNOGRAPHIES

What is ethnography and what makes ethnography “urban”? This course explores how social scientists use ethnography to analyze questions and dilemmas often associated with urban settings. We will combine close readings of ethnographies with field-based inquiry, including our own studies of urban public space. Through both our readings and our field exercises, we will focus on the methods at the heart of ethnography: observation and participant-observation.

As we read other scholars’ work, we will ask how the author uses ethnographic tools to explore issues that are suitable for intensive fieldwork. We will assess which kinds of research problems and theoretical perspectives are a good fit with ethnography and the roles that ethnography can play in transdisciplinary research projects. You will apply what you have learned about research to design your own pilot fieldwork. The ethnographies that we read together will examine intersections of housing, race, and class in urban communities. You are welcome to extend this focus to your own fieldwork, but it’s not required to do so. This is a writing-intensive course, and we will devote a considerable portion of class time to workshop your individual projects.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Amelia S Herbert
  Info
• 3 points

SELECTIONS FROM GREEK LIT

Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.

• Department: Classics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth K Irwin
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

LATIN LITERATURE SELECTIONS

LIT SELECTIONS: ELEGY

Prerequisites: LATN UN2102 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.

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

CELL BIOLOGY

This course explores the components, systems, and regulatory mechanisms involved in eukaryotic cellular function. Topics include: signal transduction, translational and protein quality control, organellar and cytoskeletal dynamics, and some coordinated responses such as proliferation and programmed cell death. Throughout the course we will see how general cell biology can be specialized to achieve specific cellular functions through regulation of the basic machinery. We will also explore the cellular and molecular bases for a variety of human pathologies, with an emphasis on cancer. In addition to lecture, we will spend some time discussing the material, including selected articles from the primary literature, and learning through group presentations.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Snow
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 18 Info
• 3 points

ETHICS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVPT

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

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

RACE. SPACE, URB SCHOOLS

RACE. SPACE URB SCHOOLS

Many people don’t think of themselves as having attended segregated schools. And yet, most of us went to schools attended primarily by people who looked very much like us. In fact, schools have become more segregated over the past 30 years, even as the country becomes increasingly multiracial. In this class, we will use public schools as an example to examine the role race plays in shaping urban spaces and institutions. We will begin by unpacking the concept of racialization, or the process by which a person, place, phenomenon, or characteristic becomes associated with a certain race. Then, we will explore the following questions: What are the connections between city schools and their local contexts? What does it mean to be a “neighborhood school”? How do changes in neighborhoods change schools? We will use ethnographies, narrative non-fiction, and educational research to explore these questions from a variety of perspectives. You will apply what you have learned to your own experiences and to current debates over urban policies and public schools. This course will extend your understanding of key anthropological and sociological perspectives on urban inequality in the United States, as well as introduce you to critical theory.

• Department: Education @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Amelia S Herbert
  Info
• 3 points

LABORATORY IN CELL BIOLOGY

Introduction to cell biological techniques used to investigate structural, molecular, and physiological aspects of eukaryotic cells and their organization into tissues. Techniques include light and electron microscopy, cell culture, isolation of cellular organelles, protein electrophoresis, and Western Blot analysis.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• W 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Rishita Shah
  Info
• 3 points

FEMINIST THEORY

Prerequisites: LIMITED TO 20 BY INSTRUC PERM; ATTEND FIRST CLASS

This course provides a theoretical itinerary to the emergence of contemporary queer theory and engagement with some contemporary legacies of the movement. The goal is not to be exhaustive nor to establish a correct history of queer theory but to engage students in the task of understanding and creating intellectual genealogies.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Marisa Solomon
  Info
• 4 points

SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHITECTURE

SP TPC: ABSTR, PROJ, DIST

See the Barnard and Columbia Architecture Department website for the course description: 
https://architecture.barnard.edu/architecture-department-course-descriptions

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael E Schissel
  Info
• 3 points

SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHITECTURE

SP TPC: IMMERSIVE ROOM

See the Barnard and Columbia Architecture Department website for the course description: 
https://architecture.barnard.edu/architecture-department-course-descriptions

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Clara Kraft Isono
  Info
• 3 points

Shaping Renaissance Rome

This year the eyes of the Catholic world will once again turn to Rome as the city celebrates the Jubilee—a tradition that has occurred every twenty-five years since the fifteenth century. In this seminar, we will investigate the architectural and urban history of Rome, stressing projects (both realized and ideal) conceived during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The city will be analyzed as the product of successive interventions that have created a deeply layered topography. How Rome has continued to build upon its past, both literally through physical reuse and figuratively through symbolic appropriation, from the time of Pope Martin V to Pope Sixtus V, will thus serve as a key theme. Working within this overarching framework, each class session focuses on a thematic group of projects that will be studied in relationship to one another rather than as independent monuments. We will examine churches, palaces, villas, public amenities, streets, and piazzas through the functional demands that shaped them and the life that went on in and around them. Topics under discussion include architectural and urban palimpsest; the resurgence of interest in antiquity; building typologies; self-aggrandizement by means of architectural patronage; the reverberations of the Counter-Reformation in architecture; the role of urban rituals and spectacles; and the representation of the city and its buildings in drawings, maps, and prints.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael J Waters
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 3 Info
• 4 points

Regulation of Behaviors for Survival

Reg of Survival Behaviors

To maximize their survival animals must regulate their behavior in response to external environmental cues and their own internal state. A fundamental goal of neuroscience is to understand how neural circuits in the brain function to influence behavior. The aim of this course is to highlight the neural basis of neuropeptide regulation of innate behaviors that are critical for survival and discuss modern approaches to study the neuronal control of classically studied aspects of behavior. We will explore motor control (escape responses), sensory systems (vision, taste, and olfaction), and survival behaviors (feeding, drinking, mating, and aggression). Focus will be on recent and current research, the diversity of approaches for studying it, and how this knowledge can be applied to solve scientific questions. Students will read primary scientific literature and a significant portion of the course will be presentation and discussion-based.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Laura Duvall
  Info
• 4 points

MICROBIOLOGY

Prerequisites: BIOL BC1500, BIOL BC1501, BIOL BC1502, BIOL BC1503 or the equivalent, and BIOL BC2100. Survey of the diversity, cellular organization, physiology, and genetics of the major microbial groups. Also includes aspects of applied microbiology and biotechnology, the function of microorganisms in the environment, and the role of microbes in human diseases.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Stephen L Sturley
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

ECON & FIN MTHDS FOR SDEV

• Department: Earth Institute
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Satyajit Bose
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

MUSICS OF INDIA & WEST ASIA

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

• Department: Music
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Thomas T Wetmore
  Info
• 3 points

MUSIC THEORY III

Intermediate analysis and composition in a variety of tonal idioms.

• Department: Music
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Cheng W Lim
  Info
• 3 points

EAST ASIAN CINEMA

This course introduces students to major works, genres and waves of East Asian cinema from the Silent era to the present, including films from Japan, Korea, Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. How has cinema participated in East Asian societies’ distinct and shared experiences of industrial modernity, imperialism and (post)colonialism? How has cinema engaged with questions of class, gender, ethnic and language politics? In what ways has cinema facilitated transnational circulations and mobilizations of peoples and ideas, and how has it interacted with other art forms, such as theatre, painting, photography and music? In this class, we answer these questions by studying cinemas across the region sideby- side, understanding cinema as deeply embedded in the region’s intertwining political, social and cultural histories and circulations of people and ideas. We cover a variety of genres such as melodrama, comedy, historical epic, sci-fi, martial arts and action, and prominent film auteurs such as Yasujir? Ozu, Akira Kurosawa, Yu Hy?nmok, Chen Kaige, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Ann Hui. As cinema is, among other things, a creative practice, in this course, students will be given opportunities to respond to films analytically and creatively, through writing as well as creative visual projects. As a global core course, this class does not assume prior knowledge of East Asian culture or of film studies.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ying Qian
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

MUSIC THEORY IV

Intermediate analysis and composition in a variety of tonal and extended tonal idioms.

• Department: Music
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Cheng W Lim
  Info
• 3 points

CONSUMER CULTURE IN MOD EUROPE

The development of the modern culture of consumption, with particular attention to the formation of the woman consumer. Topics include commerce and the urban landscape, changing attitudes toward shopping and spending, feminine fashion and conspicuous consumption, and the birth of advertising. Examination of novels, fashion magazines, and advertising images.

• Department: History @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Tiersten
  CULPA: 45 Info
• 3-4 points

INTRO ORGANIC CHEMISTRY-LAB

Prerequisites: (CHEM BC2001) General Chemistry I with lab. Corequisites: CHEM BC3230 Basic techniques of experimental organic chemistry. Principles and methods of separation, purification, and characterization of organic compounds. Selected organic reactions.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• W 6:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Meenakshi S Rao
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 2.5 points

NOW. Moving in the Moment: An Introducti

Intro to Dance Improvisat

There are as many reasons to improvise as there are cultures. People from all over the world have turned to improvised dance for personal, social, and political reasons. Improvisation is equally as useful in developing self-expression as it is in forming community and mutual understanding. It can be a vehicle for discovering more about our world by heightening our senses and awareness. It can be a mind-puzzle, as practitioners devise creative constraints for the purposes of producing structure and clarity. Whatever the reason for improvising, all practitioners share a sense of questioning and curiosity. This course will cover five units of study, each one aimed at exploring a different function of improvisation: self- expression; music and space; our bodies and environment; structure and cognition; and community-building. Learning in the classroom will rely on reading texts and viewing images and videos, written work, peer-to-peer learning and self-directed inquiry. In the studio, students will be given different exercises and prompts to explore and refine. By the end of the semester students will understand how improvisation occurs and how it differs from codified or prescriptive work, and why different people choose to improvise. They will also be able to develop and perform their own improvisatory work, drawing from the skills learned over the semester.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Caroline Fermin
  Info
• 3 points

MODERN V

This contemporary technique class invites students into an embodied practice focusing on a daily physical experimentation and challenge. Emphasis will be placed on corporeal ways to explore questions around propelling, listening, connecting, healing, and action. This course offers a chance for students to use their sensatorial experience to reflect on individual pathways/ desires for expression while, challenging the body to take risks and practice as their movement knowledge expands. Emphasis on sensation, initiation, and weight will be introduced in a floor or standing warm-up that will expand to a standing exploration of the transition between form and space. A focus will be to continue our development of a strong-grounded technique with healthy placement that moves with ease in and out of the floor. We will continue to develop our true embodied relationship to environment, people, and time.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Francesca Dominguez
  Info
• Instructor: Colleen Thomas
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 2 points

A FIRST CRSE/FINITE ELEMENTS

Focus on formulation and application of the finite element to engineering problems such as stress analysis, heat transfer, fluid flow, and electromagnetics. Topics include finite ele?ment formulation for one-dimensional problems, such as trusses, electrical and hydraulic systems; scalar field problems in two dimensions, such as heat transfer; and vector field problems, such as elasticity and finally usage of the commercial finite element program. Students taking ENME E3332 cannot take ENME E4332.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• M 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Haim Waisman
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 29 Info
• 3 points

VVEDENIE V RUSSKUIU LITERATURU

STRASHNYE ISTORII

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

MODERN TECH-ORGANIC CHEM LAB

Prerequisites: (CHEM BC3328) or (CHEM BC3230) CHEM BC3328 with a grade of C- or better and CHEM BC3230. Corequisites: CHEM BC3231,CHEM BC3334 Advanced experimental organic techniques and introduction to qualitative and quantitative organic analysis. Emphasis on instrumental and chromatographic methods. Selected reactions. Students enrolling in this course must register for CHEM BC3334x.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• M 8:10 a.m.-noon
• W 8:10 a.m.-noon
• 3 points

INTRO TO GERMAN LIT (GERMAN)

Prerequisites: GERM UN2102 or the equivalent. Examines short literary texts and various methodological approaches to interpreting such texts in order to establish a basic familiarity with the study of German literature and culture.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Dorothea von Muecke
  Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO ITALIAN LITERATURE I

Prerequisites: Intermediate Italian II ITAL UN2102 or the equivalent. UN3334x-UN3333y is the basic course in Italian literature. UN3333: This course, entirely taught in Italian, introduces you to Medieval and early modern Italian literature. It will give you the opportunity to test your ability as a close-reader and discover unusual and fascinating texts that tell us about the polycentric richness of the Italian peninsula. We will read poems, tales, letters, fiction and non-fiction, travel writings and political pamphlets. The great “Three Crowns” - Dante, Petrarca and Boccaccio - as well as renowned Renaissance authors such as Ludovico Ariosto and Niccolò Machiavelli, will show us the main path to discover Italian masterpieces and understand the European Renaissance. But we will also explore China with Marco Polo and the secrets of the Medieval soul diving into the mystical poems by Jacopone da Todi. We will study parody and laughter through the “poesia giocosa” (parodic poetry) by Cecco Angiolieri and the legacy of Humanism through the letters of Poggio Bracciolini. This first overview will allow you to explore Italian literature from its complex and multicultural beginnings to its diffusion across Europe during the Renaissance.

• Department: Italian
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Steven J Baker
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED YIDDISH

Course Description and Goals:

This course focuses predominantly on developing reading comprehension skills, as well as on listening,  writing, speaking, and some more advanced grammar. It explores literary and scholarly texts examining the  modern Jewish experience in the context of the twentieth-century history and culture of the Ashkenazi Jews.  Supplementary texts will be selected based on students’ interests and may include historical pedagogical  materials, past and present newspaper articles, polemic, poetry, historical and scholarly articles. We will  also venture outside the classroom to explore the Yiddish world today: through field trips to Yiddish theater,  Yiddish-speaking neighborhoods, Yiddish organizations, such as YIVO, and so on. We will apply our reading  and translating skills to contribute to the Mapping Yiddish New York online project, and will also have  Yiddish-speaking guests. At the end of the semester, you will be able to converse in Yiddish on a variety of  everyday topics and read authentic Yiddish literary and non-literary texts. Welcome back to Yiddishland!

• Department: Germanic Languages
• TR 2:10 p.m.-3:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Agnieszka Legutko
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

IMPROVISATION

Improvisation is an open level, movement based class in which students will learn collaborative improvisation tools, skills, practices, and mindset through experience, reflection, practice, and generation. Deep play, support for others, and a willingness to experiment and reflect are key in this discovery based course.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Caroline Fermin
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• 2 points

MODERN VI

This contemporary technique class invites students into an embodied practice focusing on a daily physical experimentation and challenge. Emphasis will be placed on corporeal ways to explore questions around propelling, listening, connecting, healing, and action. This course offers a chance for students to use their sensatorial experience to reflect on individual pathways/ desires for expression while, challenging the body to take risks and practice as their movement knowledge expands. Emphasis on sensation, initiation, and weight will be introduced in a floor or standing warm-up that will expand to a standing exploration of the transition between form and space. A focus will be to continue our development of a strong-grounded technique with healthy placement that moves with ease in and out of the floor. We will continue to develop our true embodied relationship to environment, people, and time.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Boudreau
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• Instructor: Tamisha Guy
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• 2 points

ADVANCED ITALIAN I

Prerequisites: ITALUN2102 or the equivalent. If you did not take Intermediate Italian at Columbia in the semester preceding the current one, you must take the placement test, offered by the Italian Department at the beginning of each semester. Written and oral self-expression in compositions and oral reports on a variety of topics; grammar review. Required for majors and concentrators.

• Department: Italian
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Patrizia Palumbo
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

Introduction to Armenian Studies

Intro to Armenian Studies

Historians frequently situate Armenia between two powers: between Rome and Persia, then Byzantium and Islam. This class will shake up the usual “between-two-worlds” paradigm, which places Armenia and Armenians in the crosshairs of world powers. Instead, we will study Armenians as active participants in world dramas, at the center of global developments. Our main goal will be to draw upon a variety of sources to tell the story of Armenia and Armenians: histories, poems, art, coins, buildings, etc.  

Goals


Critically assess what it means to study history. Why are we learning this?

Analyze primary sources, whether written or material. How can we study this?

Engage with modern scholarship on Armenian experiences. How have other people studied this?

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Alison Vacca
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• 3 points