PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS
Corequisites: ECON UN1155 How a market economy determines the relative prices of goods, factors of production, and the allocation of resources and the circumstances under which it does it efficiently. Why such an economy has fluctuations and how they may becontrolled.
- Department: Economics
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Prajit K Dutta
CULPA: 20 Info - 4 points
Resisting the Single Story
RESISTING THE SINGLE STOR
In her TED Talk "The Danger of a Single Story," novelist Chimamanda Adichie challenges us to confront the power of stories: while centering a "single story" engenders stereotypes and simplistic thinking, acknowledging many stories compels empathy and complex thinking. In this section of First-Year Writing, we will read and write about texts that use unreliable narrators, dramatic irony, and flawed protagonists to engage complex issues of voice, perspective, and narrative. These texts will include literary works by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Herman Melville, Nella Larsen, Jamaica Kincaid, Toni Morrison, and Layli Long Soldier; and critical works by Frantz Fanon, Judith Butler, bell hooks, and others. You’ll need two books for this class: Toni Morrison’s
Jazz
, and Layli Long Soldier’s
Whereas
; costs will not exceed $30.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alexandra P Watson
CULPA: 16 Info - 3 points
HEALTH COACHING
This course is designed to teach students the process of identifying, setting, and achieving a specific health behavior change goal within the Wheel of Health. The course will consist of short lectures, discussions, and individual health coaching sessions. Action steps towards the health goal will be expected each week outside of class meeting times.
- Department: Physical Education @Barnard
- MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
- TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
- MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
- TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lisa K Northrop
CULPA: 8
Info
- 1 points
Seeing, Surveilling, and Performing
SEEING/SURVEILLING/PERFOR
In this course, we will read texts that raise questions about how gender, race, class, and sexuality are performed under the surveillance of culture. We will discuss not only how performance helps to create and stabilize categories that include and exclude, but also how performance can disrupt and destabilize these categories. Literary texts will include
Passing
by Nella Larsen,
Fantomina
by Eliza Haywood, poems by Ovid, and the film
Paris is Burning.
Secondary texts will include Sara Ahmed, Talia Bettcher, Judith Butler, Mary Ann Doane, W.E.B Dubois, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Jack Halberstam, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Laura Mulvey, and James C. Scott.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Vrinda Condillac
CULPA: 28
Info
- 3 points
American Exceptionalism
AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM
In this course we probe the ideology of American "exceptionalism." We treat the literary history of this idea as a transtemporal conversation involving its founding architects, experimental reformers, and ardent critics concerned with the question of what should be valued on the American continent and within American experience. We become cartographers of this conversation and interlocutors within it, as we explore how habits of conceiving truth, power, and the relationship of human beings to the natural world have controlled what counts as exceptional and what ordinary. Where should we direct our awe? We approach our subject through a theoretical lens that combines elements of pragmatism, ordinary language philosophy, and feminism. Core readings will include James Baldwin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Audre Lorde, and Henry David Thoreau. Cost of materials will not exceed $30.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kristi-Lynn Cassaro
Info - 3 points
The Body as Border
THE BODY AS BORDER
In our course, we'll examine the legacy of the body as a boundary that defines and separates categories like self and other, sanctioned and forbidden, and male and female. How and why has the body become the site of difference and distinction? What happens when a body crosses boundaries and collapses categories -- what is threatened, what made possible? Readings will likely include John Milton's
Paradise Lost,
Mary Shelley's
Frankenstein,
Nella Larsen's
Passing,
Akwaeke Emezi's "Who is Like God?", and essays and articles by scholars including Susan Stryker, bell hooks, Judith Butler, and Jeffrey Jerome Cohen.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Wendy C Schor-Haim
CULPA: 11
Info
- 3 points
Wild Tongues
WILD TONGUES
In this course, we’ll examine storytelling and language through the lens of gender. How are constructions of gender used to police what kinds of stories are told, who can tell them, and who is believed? What forms and strategies of narration are available and to whom? Our focus on tongues—both linguistic and anatomical—allows us to ask questions about the forms that language takes and the relationship of narrations and language to the body. How have women engaged and re-deployed existing myths and narratives? How is the self both constructed and policed through narratives of gender, race, class, sexuality, family? In our analyses, we’ll work to challenge fixed or binary understandings of gender and power by asking how these writers engage and challenge the various ways in which the category of "women" is constructed within culture. Readings are subject to change but may include
The Hymn to Demeter,
selections from Ovid’s
Metamorphoses,
selected poems by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Toni Morrison's
The Bluest Eye,
Yvette Christiansë's
Castaway,
and/or selections from Cherrie Moraga's
Loving in the War Years
and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's
Dictee
and critical conversation texts by authors including Gloria Anzaldúa, Sara Ahmed, and Audre Lorde.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Meredith A Benjamin
CULPA: 5 Info - 3 points
HUMAN ORIGINS & EVOLUTION-DISC
- Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
- R 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- R 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
- F 11:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Jill S Shapiro
CULPA: 46
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- 0 points
Women and Comedy
WOMEN AND COMEDY
"What a language it is, the laughter of women,
high-flying and subversive.
Long before law and scripture
we heard the laughter, we understood freedom." -Lisel Mueller
"I’m not funny, what I am is brave." - Lucille Ball
This course focuses on the intersection between comedy and gender, race, class and sexuality. We will explore laughter as a subversive act and how the identity of a "funny woman" can be both dangerous and liberating. As Margo Jefferson writes, "Given the history of social restriction and sexual regulation, how many women have been in a position to -- or been willing to -- take these risks?" We will explore how the tools of comedy can be used to make mischief, to transgress the bounds of genre and form and to contest popular ideas about difference and power. How can humor be illuminating? How can humor be feminist? How can humor be intersectional? How can humor help us tell the hard truths? Can we laugh at oppression without laughing it off?
This is not a course on humor writing or one that exclusively focuses on humorists. Rather than "funny," we focus on "fun," explore playfulness as it occurs in myriad ways across a diverse variety of texts. As we do, we will find models, key writerly moves, to adapt into our own writing.
Readings will include work by Tina Fey, Audre Lorde, Patricia Lockwood, among others. We'll also be viewing performances, from stand up to sketches to sitcoms, that speak to themes we are exploring. You need one book for this class: Tina Fey's
Bossypants
. Course costs will not exceed $30.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- TR 7:40 p.m.-8:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nina Sharma
CULPA: 5
Info
- 3 points
REAL TALK / REAL TIME
This course takes as its foundation the words of bell hooks: “When our lived experience of theorizing is fundamentally linked to processes of self-recovery, of collective liberation, no gap exists between theory and practice.” Over the course of this term, students will learn to embrace their responsibility as intellectuals in the largest sense. By recognizing current issues as sites of intersectional analysis, they will learn to merge their scholarly activities with public discussion and organizational activism. Working collaboratively, they will research topics of current import and, on that basis, organize two speaker events, thereby learning how public intellectual organizing engages both theory and practice.
- Department: Consortium for Critical Interdisciplinary Studies @Barnard
- F noon-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Yvette Christianse
Wikipedia Info - 1 points
FIRST YEAR CHINESE W
The course is specially designed for students of Chinese heritage and advanced beginners with good speaking skills. It aims to develop the student's basic skills to read and write modern colloquial Chinese. Pinyin system is introduced; standard Chinese pronunciation, and traditional characters. Classes will be conducted mostly in Chinese. Open to students with Mandarin speaking ability in Chinese only. CC GS EN CE
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- MTR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tianqi Jiang
CULPA: 2 Info -
Instructor:
Hailong Wang
CULPA: 22 Info - 5 points
INTRO TO COMP ETHNIC STDIES DS
- Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
- T 3 p.m.-4 p.m.
- R noon-1 p.m.
- R 1 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Amanda E Lowe
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Nicholas B Mayer
CULPA: 5 Info -
Instructor:
Olivia L Rutigliano
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Imagining Social Justice
IMAGINING SOCIAL JUSTICE
While George Orwell may have been right when he remarked that "history is written by the winners," imaginative literature is almost always preoccupied with the losers. This course investigates how representational writing wrests its central themes and rhetorical strategies from imagining the voices of the disenfranchised. We begin from the premise that such acts of representation substitute as forms of redress, whether a justice of retribution and restoration or simply a caring gesture of bearing witness. Units will feature "fallen women" plots, plots of economic injustice, plots of racial injustice, and vigilantism. Texts may include the "Hymn to Demeter," Sophocles’s
Antigone
, Eliza Haywood’s
Fantomina
, Christina Rossetti’s
Goblin Market
, Elizabeth Gaskell’s
Mary Barton
, Toni Morrison’s
The Bluest Eye
, Emerald Fennell’s
Promising Young Woman
, examples of the American Western, the limited TV series
Watchmen
, and theoretical work by Ahmed, Fricker, Hartman, Ortner, Solnit, Spillers.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Monica F Cohen
CULPA: 8
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- 3 points
MELLON MAYS UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP JUN
MMUF JUNIOR YEAR COLLOQUI
This is a course designed for the students enrolled in the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program. It should be taken fall and spring semesters of a student's third and fourth years at the college (for a total of 6 course credits total over the two years). The goal of this course is to become familiar with academic research and writing, as well as the culture of colleges/ universities in order to prepare students to apply to graduate school and earn the PhD.. The program hones academic writing skills (research papers, project and grant proposals, academic reflections designed to facilitate intentional goal setting and planning), teaches skills related to scholarly presentations (oral and written), as well as familiarizes students with academic culture in particular diversity, equity and inclusion issues and concerns in the academy. Students are expected to attend all the events and meetings associated with the program.
- Department: Barnard College
- F noon-2 p.m.
- 1.5 points
ORIGINS AND MEANING
This course is a one-semester journey across cosmological history, from the beginning of time to something akin to its end. We will explore the origin of inanimate physical structures (the cosmos as a whole, as well as that of galaxies, stars, planets, particles, atoms and complex molecules), the origin of life (replicating molecules, the first cells, as well as more complex life forms), the origin of mind (self-reflective conscious awareness) and the origin of culture (language, myth, religion, art, and science). We will then consider what science in particular tells us about the very far future, where we will encounter the likely demise of all complex matter, all life and all consciousness. In the face of such disintegration we will examine the nature of value and purpose. We will recognize that the deepest understanding of reality emerges from blending all of the accounts we discuss—from the reductionist to the humanist to the cosmological—and only through such amalgamation can we fully grasp the long-standing human search for meaning.
- Department: Physics
- F 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Brian Greene
CULPA: 9
Wikipedia
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- 3 points
SODB:FIRST AND SECOND YR SEM
This is a course designed for the students enrolled in the Barbara Silver Horowitz ’55 Scholars of Distinction program. It should be taken fall and spring semesters of a students first and second years at the college (for a total of 4 course credits total over the two years). Each month is organized around an outing (or several outings) with readings and guest speakers to complement the outing. Students are expected to attend all the events and meetings. Each student will also produce a blog post connected to or inspired by each event. These posts will appear on the Barnard College website dedicated to the program. Blog posts do not have to cover the event per se, they might, for example, attend to ancillary issues raised by the event or topics raised by the accompanying readings.
- Department: Scholars of Distinction @Barnard
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- 1 points
Identity on the Move
IDENTITY ON THE MOVE
In this course we encounter characters who undergo a profound change of identity. For some, this change is punishing; for others, their new identity sets them free. Our task will be to analyze the ways in which identity is constructed; gain a deeper understanding of the role of race, class, and gender in its construction; and investigate the boundaries of community. We will accomplish this through close reading of the texts and critical conversation. Readings may include literary works by Franz Kafka
,
Mariana Enriquez, Edwidge Danticat, Virginia Woolf
,
and Danzy Senna
.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Francesca E Austin Ochoa
Info - 3 points
EUR HIST 1500-1789 DISC
- Department: History @Barnard
- M 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- W 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
- R 9:40 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
- F 11 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Amanda E Faulkner
Info - 0 points
ELEM INTENSIVE READ COURSE I
Primarily for graduate students and others who need to acquire a reading knowledge of German. This course does not fulfill any part of the language requirement for the bachelor's degree. A comprehensive introduction to German grammar accompanied by reading of appropriate texts.
- Department: Germanic Languages
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Silja Weber
Info - 3 points
INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY COURSE
- Department: Auditing
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Instructor:
Gareth Williams
CULPA: 7
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- 0 points
INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY GREEK
Covers all of Greek grammar and syntax in one term. Prepares the student to enter second-year Greek (GREK UN2101 or GREK UN2102).
- Department: Classics
- TRF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
John D Izzo
Info - 4 points
MASTERPIECES OF WESTERN ART
Discussion and analysis of the artistic qualities and significance of selected works of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Parthenon in Athens to works of the 20th century.
- Department: Core (A&S)
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Barthelemy Glama
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Instructor:
Catherine J Damman
Info - 3 points
INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY ITALIAN
An intensive course that covers two semesters of elementary Italian in one, and prepares students to move into Intermediate Italian. Students will develop their Italian communicative competence through listening, (interactive) speaking, reading and (interactive) writing. The Italian language will be used for real-world purposes and in meaningful contexts to promote intercultural understanding. This course is especially recommended for students who already know another Romance language. May be used toward fulfillment of the language requirement.
- Department: Italian
- TRF 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alessandra Saggin
CULPA: 4
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- 6 points
INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY COURSE
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- Department: Classics
- TRF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gareth Williams
CULPA: 7
Info
- 4 points
MASTERPIECES OF WESTERN MUSIC
Analysis and discussion of representative works from the Middle Ages to the present.
- Department: Core (A&S)
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Saad N Haddad
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Bethany J Younge
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Suzanne Thorpe
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Justin T Gregg
CULPA: 1 Info -
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Benjamin A Steege
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Mary I Kouyoumdjian
CULPA: 1 Info -
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Julia Doe
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Thomas Fogg
CULPA: 5
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Taylor M Brook
CULPA: 2 Info -
Instructor:
Thomas Fogg
CULPA: 5
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Instructor:
Ralph R Whyte
CULPA: 2 h-index: 0 Info - 3 points