EARTH'S ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS: THE SOLID

The Solid Earth

Prerequisites: high school algebra, chemistry, and physics. Exploration of how the solid Earth works, today and in the past, focusing on Earth in the Solar system, continents and oceans, the Earth's history, mountain systems on land and sea, minerals and rocks, weathering and erosion, glaciers and ice sheets, the hydrological cycle and rivers, geochronology, plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes, energy resources. Laboratory exploration of topics through examination of rock samples, experimentation, computer data analysis, field exercises, and modeling. Columbia and Barnard majors should plan to take W2200 before their senior year to avoid conflicts with the Senior Seminar.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• T 4:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• 4.5 points

INTRODUCTION TO GIS METHODS

Prerequisites: Must attend first class for instructor permission.  Students create maps using ArcGIS software, analyze the physical and social processes presented in the digital model, and use the data to solve specific spatial analysis problems. Note: this course fulfills the C requirement in Urban Studies.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Christian Siener
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

CERAMICS I

(Formerly R3130) This studio course will provide the students with a foundation in the ceramic process, its history, and its relevance to contemporary art making. The course is structured in two parts. The first centers on the fundamental and technical aspects of the material. Students will learn construction techniques, glazing and finishing methods, and particulars about firing procedures. This part of the course will move quickly in order to expose the students to a variety of ceramic processes. Weekly assignments, demonstrations, and lectures will be given. The second centers on the issue of how to integrate ceramics into the students current practice. Asking the question of why we use ceramics as a material and, further, why we choose the materials we do to make art. Rigorous group and individual critiques focusing on the above questions will be held. The goal of this course is to supply the students with the knowledge and skill necessary to work in ceramics and enough proficiency and understanding of the material to enable them to successfully incorporate it into their practice. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• R 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph J Peet
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• 3 points

INTERMEDIATE NONFICTION WRKSHP

Prerequisites: The departments permission required through writing sample. Please go to 609 Kent for submission schedule and registration guidelines or see http://www.arts.columbia.edu/writing/undergraduate. The intermediate workshop in nonfiction is designed for students with some experience in writing literary nonfiction. Intermediate workshops present a higher creative standard than beginning workshops and an expectation that students will produce finished work. Outside readings supplement and inform the exercises and longer written projects. By the end of the semester, students will have produced thirty to forty pages of original work in at least two traditions of literary nonfiction.

• Department: Writing
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: John Vincler
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• 3 points

SECOND YEAR CHINESE N I

Prerequisites: CHNS C1101-1102 or CHNS F1101-1102, or the equivalent. This course is designed to further the student's skills acquired in the elementary course.  This program aims to develop higher level of proficiency through comprehensive oral and written exercises. Cultural aspects in everyday situations are introduced.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
• MTWR 11:40 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
• MTWR 1:10 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
• MTWR 2:40 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
• MTWR 4:10 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• MTWR 6:10 p.m.-7:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Feng Wang
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Jia Xu
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Huijuan Liu
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• Instructor: Tianqi Jiang
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Cheng Ji
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• Instructor: Yike Li
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• 5 points

SECOND YEAR JAPANESE I

Prerequisites: JPNS C1102 or the equivalent. Further practice in the four language skills. Participation in a once a week conversation class is required.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
• MTWR 11:40 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
• MTWR 1:10 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
• MTWR 4:10 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• MTWR 11:40 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Naofumi Tatsumi
  CULPA: 9 Info
• Instructor: Shigeru Eguchi
  CULPA: 9 Info
• Instructor: Miharu Nittono
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Shigeru Eguchi
  CULPA: 9 Info
• Instructor: Naofumi Tatsumi
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 5 points

SECOND YEAR KOREAN I

Prerequisites: KORN W1102 or the equivalent. Consultation with the instructors is required before registration for section assignment. Further practice in reading, writing, listening comprehension, conversation, and grammar.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTWR 11:40 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
• MTWR 1:10 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
• MTWR 2:40 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
• MTWR 4:10 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Seunghee Back
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• Instructor: Beom Lee
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 5 points

SECOND YEAR ARABIC I

Prerequisites: MDES W1210-W1211 or the equivalent. A continuation of the study of the language of contemporary writing. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MTWR 1:10 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Abdelrazzaq Ben Tarif
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 5 points

BUDDHISM: INDO-TIBETAN-DISC

The course introduces the history of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism throughout India, South and Southeast Asia, Tibet, and Central Asia, its essential primary textual source materials translated from Pali, Sanskrit, and Tibetan, and the philosophical insights of some of the traditions’ outstanding individuals.

• Department: Religion
• T 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• W 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• R 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• R 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• F 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Thomas F Yarnall
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 0 points

INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL MUSIC

An introduction to the potential of digital sound synthesis and signal processing. Teaches proficiency in elementary and advanced digital audio techniques. This course aims to challenge some of the tacet assumptions about music that are built into the design of various user interfaces and hardware and fosters a creative approach to using digital audio workstation software and equipment.  Permission of Instructor required to enroll. Music Majors have priority for enrollment.

• Department: Music
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Danielle R Dobkin
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• 3 points

BUDDHISM: INDO-TIBETAN

The course introduces the history of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism throughout India, South and Southeast Asia, Tibet, and Central Asia, its essential primary textual source materials translated from Pali, Sanskrit, and Tibetan, and the philosophical insights of some of the traditions’ outstanding individuals.

• Department: Religion
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Thomas F Yarnall
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

ARABIC FOR HERITAGE SPEAKERS I

Prerequisites: Instructor permission. This is an intensive course that combines the curriculum of both First and Second Year Arabic in two semesters instead of four, and focuses on the productive skills (speaking and writing) in Modern Standard Arabic (Fusha). Students are exposed intensively to grammar and vocabulary of a high register. After successful completion of this course, students will be able to move on to Third Year Arabic. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
• Instructor: Reem Faraj
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 5 points

CULTURE IN AMERICA

The values and meanings that form American pluralism. The three sections explore taste, consumption, and art; moral conflict, religion and secularism; identity, community and ideology. Examples range widely: Individualism, liberalism and conservatism; Obama's "transracial" endeavor; the food revolution; struggles over family and sexuality; multiculturalism; assimilation and immigration.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Rieder
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

GRAMMATIK AKTIV

An intensive study of key features of German grammar, with an emphasis on skill-building exercises and practical solutions to common problems of writing and speaking on the intermediate level; aims at building confidence in using simple and more complex sentence structures.

• Department: German @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Irene Motyl
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 2 points

TRADITIONS IN NONFICTION

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required. The seminar provides exposure to the varieties of nonfiction with readings in its principal genres: reportage, criticism and commentary, biography and history, and memoir and the personal essay. A highly plastic medium, nonfiction allows authors to portray real events and experiences through narrative, analysis, polemic or any combination thereof. Free to invent everything but the facts, great practitioners of nonfiction are faithful to reality while writing with a voice and a vision distinctively their own. To show how nonfiction is conceived and constructed, class discussions will emphasize the relationship of content to form and style, techniques for creating plot and character under the factual constraints imposed by nonfiction, the defining characteristics of each authors voice, the authors subjectivity and presence, the role of imagination and emotion, the uses of humor, and the importance of speculation and attitude. Written assignments will be opportunities to experiment in several nonfiction genres and styles.

• Department: Writing
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Anelise I Chen
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• 3 points

GRAMMATIK ACTIV

An intensive study of key features of German grammar, with an emphasis on skill-building exercises and practical solutions to common problems of writing and speaking on the intermediate level; aims at building confidence in using simple and more complex sentence structures. For an additional point, students will hand in a weekly 150-200 word summary in German in which they highlight what they have learned, explain the rules and applications of the linguistic feature on hand. In the last portion of the summary students will reflect on their learning process during each week to document their progress. Individual meetings with the Professor to clarify and practice student specific grammar issues will be scheduled.

• Department: German @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Irene Motyl
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 3 points

EARLY RUSSIAN HISTORY TO 1800

• Department: History
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Catherine Evtuhov
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

EARLY RUSS HIST TO 1800-DISC

• Department: History
• Instructor: Catherine Evtuhov
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 0 points

EARLY RUSS HIST TO 1800-DISC

• Department: History
• Instructor: Catherine Evtuhov
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 0 points

SECOND YEAR CHINESE W

Prerequisites: chns un1112 or the equivalent. See Admission to Language Courses. Continuation of CHNS UN1112, with a focus on reading comprehension and written Chinese. Traditional characters. CC GS EN CE

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MWR 12:10 p.m.-1:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Feng Wang
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 5 points

MELLON MAYS UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP SEN

MMUF SENIOR 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

SODB: THIRD & FOURTH YR SEM

Prerequisites: SODBX1111 Must be enrolled on Scholars of Distinction Program This is the course associated with the Barbara Silver Horowitz Scholars of Distinction program. It is for students in that program. Note at the end of their second year, the students will have developed a project for the summer between their second and third years at Barnard. During their third year, they will develop a robust research project connected to or deriving from that summer’s work.

• Department: Scholars of Distinction @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 1.5 points

Sexuality in Social Context

Despite the ubiquity of sexual imagery in contemporary Western popular culture, most people regard sexuality to be an intimate topic that concerns the drives, experiences and pleasures of individuals. In this course, we will examine the social and pluralistic character of sexual desires, meanings, practices and politics, their variations, cultural locations, institutional determinants and even geopolitical dimensions. We will begin by surveying some of the most influential theoretical works from psychoanalysis, sexology and early sociological writings on sexualities, paying particular attention to how they undergird more contemporary social thought. We then move on to examine the influence of queer theoretical critique on sociological thinking about heterosexuality, whiteness, sexual diversity, and cross-national differences in the interrelationships between gender and sexuality. We will end the course by looking at three discrete topics within the larger sociological subfield of sexuality studies: global sex work, the ethics of participants observation in sexual; communities and contemporary discourses of sexual consent (the last with a particular focus on campus sexual cultures).

• Department: Sociology
• R 2:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Tey Meadow
  h-index: 8 Info
• 4 points

HIP HOP DANCE & CULTURE II

Prerequisites: Intermediate level of dance or permission of the instructor. This Course introduces intermediate level students to urban dance styles, focusing on foundations and origins of hip-hop dance, street dance culture, and the physical vocabularies of hip-hop and freestyle dance. Classes are geared to condition the body for the rigors of hip-hop technique by developing strength, coordination, flexibility, stamina, and rhythmic awareness, while developing an appreciation of choreographic movement and structures. Compositional elements of hip-hop will be introduced and students may compose brief movement sequences. The course meets twice weekly and is held in the dance studio. Prerequisite: Intermediate level of a dance form or permission of the instructor.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MWF 3 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer Archibald
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• 0-1 points

AFRICAN DANCE I

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor. Concentrates on the dances of West Africa, including Senegal, Mali, and Guinea, and a variety of dances performed at various functions and ceremonies. Explanation of the origin and meaning of each dance will be an integral part of the material presented.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Maguette Camara
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 0-1 points

AFRICAN DANCE II

Prerequisites: DNCE BC2252 or permission of instructor.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Maguette Camara
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 0-1 points

AFRO-CUBAN DANCE

Prerequisites: Permission of Instructor. This class will introduce students to the African-based folkloric and popular dances of Cuba, including Orisha, Rumba, and Salsa. In addition to learning rhythms and dances, these forms will be contextualized within the historical and contemporary significance of Afro-Cuban dance performance.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• F 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Rebecca Bliss
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• 0-1 points

ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE

Prerequisites: (ECON UN1105) For undergraduates only. This course is required for all undergraduate students majoring in IE, OR:EMS, OR:FE and OR. This course examines the fundamental concepts of financial accounting and finance, from the perspective of both managers and investors. Key topics covered in this course include principles of accrual accounting; recognizing and recording accounting transactions; preparation and analysis of financial statements, including balance sheets, income statements, cash flow statements, and statements of owners equity; ratio analysis; pro-forma projections; time value of money (present values, future values and interest/discount rates); inflation; discounted-cash-flow (DCF) project evaluation methods; deterministic and probabilistic measures of risk; capital budgeting.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Nadejda Zaets
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

INTRO-DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

Prerequisites: PSYC UN1001 or PSYC UN1010 or the equivalent. Introduction to the scientific study of human development, with an emphasis on psychobiological processes underlying perceptual, cognitive, and emotional development.

• Department: Psychology
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Nim L Tottenham
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• 3 points

LABORATORY IN ANIMAL BEHAVIOR

Prerequisites: (BIOL BC1500) and (BIOL BC1502) and (BIOL BC2280) and (BIOL BC1501) and (BIOL BC1503) This lab provides an introduction to animal behavior research, including current research approaches and practical applications of these findings. Students will complete two main projects. The first is a group project using the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, which will involve observing, recording, and analyzing reproductive behaviors. The second is an independent project that will be designed, conducted, and analyzed by students using publicly available animal behavior resources and/or data. Both projects will incorporate critical thinking, problem solving and experimental design, with an emphasize on scientific writing and oral presentation skills.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• W 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Alison Pischedda
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN WORLD CINEMA:CHINA

The international revelation of Chinese cinema in the 1980s was one of the great events both for film studies and film production in the past fifty years: the depth and richness of the classic cinemas of the PRC, Hong Kong and Taiwan were complemented by the emergence of exciting new films and filmmakers from each of those film cultures. This course will trace the history and development of filmmaking in mainland China and Hong Kong, from the Shanghai cinema of the 1930s to recent examples of digital media production, examining changes in film style and technique within the context of ever-shifting political currents and production models. A special focus will be the ongoing dialogue between Chinese film and international trends ranging from realism to postmodernism.

• Department: Film
• M 6:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard A Pena
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN WORLD CINEMA-DISC

WORLD CINEMA:CHINA-DISC

• Department: Film
• T 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• W 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Ke Liu
  h-index: 78 Info
• Instructor: Jing Peng
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• Instructor: Yi Xu
  h-index: 1 Info
• 0 points

SCULPTURE I

(Formerly R3330) The fundamentals of sculpture are investigated through a series of conceptual and technical projects. Three material processes are introduced, including wood, metal, and paster casting. Issues pertinent to contemporary sculpture are introduced through lectures, group critiques, discussions, and field trips that accompany class assignments. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• F 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jon Kessler
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

INTERMEDIATE POETRY WORKSHOP

Prerequisites: The departments permission required through writing sample. Please go to 609 Kent for submission schedule and registration guidelines or see http://www.arts.columbia.edu/writing/undergraduate. Intermediate poetry workshops are for students with some prior instruction in the rudiments of poetry writing and prior poetry workshop experience. Intermediate poetry workshops pose greater challenges to students and maintain higher critical standards than beginning workshops. Students will be instructed in more complex aspects of the craft, including the poetic persona, the prose poem, the collage, open-field composition, and others. They will also be assigned more challenging verse forms such as the villanelle and also non-European verse forms such as the pantoum. They will read extensively, submit brief critical analyses, and put their instruction into regular practice by composing original work that will be critiqued by their peers. By the end of the semester each student will have assembled a substantial portfolio of finished work.

• Department: Writing
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Dorothea S Lasky
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• 3 points

INTERMEDIATE ARMENIAN I

Prerequisites: MDES UN1301 and MDES UN1302 or the equivalent. A continuation of the study of reading, writing and speaking of Armenian. In Intermediate Armenian I, students learn to communicate about a wide range of topics. Such topics include biographical narration, cooking and recipes, health and well-being, holidays and celebrations, travel and geography, etc. At this level, students continue to develop their skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening while perfecting the grammatical concepts to which they were introduced in the first year. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MTWR 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Charry Karamanoukian
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• 4 points

ISLAM

An introduction to the Islamic religion in its premodern and modern manifestations. The first half of the course concentrates on “classical” Islam, beginning with the life of the Prophet, and extending to ritual, jurisprudence, theology, and mysticism. The second half examines how Muslims have articulated Islam in light of colonization and the rise of a secular modernity. The course ends with a discussion of American and European Muslim attempts at carving out distinct spheres of identity in the larger global Muslim community.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Najam I Haider
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

INTRO TO JUDAISM

A historical overview of Jewish belief and practice as these have crystallized and changed over the centuries. Special attention to ritual and worship, the forms of religious literature, central concepts, religious leadership and institutions, Israel among the nations.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• TR 8:45 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Beth A Berkowitz
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

EARLY MODERN ARCHITECTURE (1550-1799)

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Eleonora Pistis
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• 3 points

TRADITIONS IN POETRY

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required.  “For those, in dark, who find their own way by the light of others’ eyes.” —Lucie Brock-Broido The avenues of poetic tradition open to today’s poets are more numerous, more invigorating, and perhaps even more baffling than ever before. The routes we chose for our writing lead to destinations of our own making, and we take them at our own risk—necessarily so, as the pursuit of poetry asks each of us to light a pilgrim’s candle and follow it into the moors and lowlands, through wastes and prairies, crossing waters as we go. Go after the marshlights, the will-o-wisps who call to you in a voice you’ve longed for your whole life. These routes have been forged by those who came before you, but for that reason, none of them can hope to keep you on it entirely. You must take your steps away, brick by brick, heading confidently into the hinterland of your own distinct achievement.   For the purpose of this class, we will walk these roads together, examining the works of classic and contemporary exemplars of the craft. By companioning poets from a large spread of time, we will be able to more diversely immerse ourselves in what a poetic “tradition” truly means. We will read works by Edmund Spencer, Dante, and Goethe, the Romantics—especially Keats—Dickinson, who is mother to us all, Modernists, and the great sweep of contemporary poetry that is too vast to individuate.   While it is the imperative of this class to equip you with the knowledge necessary to advance in the field of poetry, this task shall be done in a Columbian manner. Consider this class an initiation, of sorts, into the vocabulary which distinguishes the writers who work under our flag, each of us bound by this language that must be passed on, and therefore changed, to you who inherit it. As I have learned the words, I have changed them, and I give them now to you so that you may pave your own way into your own ways, inspired with the first breath that brought you here, which may excite and—hopefully—frighten you. You must be troubled. This is essential

• Department: Writing
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Sofia L Florimbi
  Info
• 3 points

EAR-TRAINING I

Designed to improve the students basic skills in sight-singing, and rhythmic and melodic dictation with an introduction to four-part harmonic dictation.

• Department: Music
• TR 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter M Susser
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 1 points

EAR-TRAINING II

Techniques of sight-singing and dictation of diatonic melodies in simple and compound meter with strong emphasis on harmonic dictation.

• Department: Music
• TR 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Sadie Dawkins
  Info
• 1 points

MUSIC THEORY I

• Department: Auditing
• Instructor: Peter M Susser
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 0 points

MUSIC THEORY I

Elementary analysis and composition in a variety of modal and tonal idioms. A one-hour weekly lab is required, to be scheduled at the beginning of the term.  Course to be taken in conjunction with the Ear-Training sequence, up through Ear-Training IV.

• Department: Music
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Galen P Degraf
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Peter M Susser
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 3 points

MUSIC THEORY II

Elementary analysis and composition in a variety of tonal idioms.  A one-hour weekly lab is required, to be scheduled at the beginning of the term.  Course to be taken in conjunction with the Ear-Training sequence, up through Ear-Training IV.

• Department: Music
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Katherine E Balch
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• 3 points

ECON & FIN MTHDS FOR SDEV

Prerequisites: Principles of Economics and one semester of calculus. The objective of this course is to introduce students to the skills and methods necessary to understand and evaluate the economic and financial aspects of sustainable development. Throughout the course, students will compare competing objectives and policies through the prism of economic & financial reasoning. Environmental economics and finance are broad areas covering all the multi-faceted and complex interactions between the economic system and the natural environment. Financial markets are the primary source of signals used to direct economic activity in a capitalist global economy. Economic activity is the primary determinant of the quality and sustainability of the natural environment. Students interested in sustainable development who are unfamiliar with economics and who do not develop a facility with economic and financial concepts are severely handicapped in their efforts to increase the level of environmental responsibility embedded in economic activity. This course is intended to provide students with a flying introduction to key analytical concepts required to understand topics in environmental economics and finance and to introduce them to selected topics within the field. The first part of the course (the Analytical Toolbox) is designed to provide a set of portable skills for two sets of students: a) those who will work in fields specifically devoted to sustainable development who, as part of their work, will need to engage with sources of economic & financial information and with discourses where sustainable development is not a focus; and b) students who may end up following careers in organizations where sustainability is not the primary objective. The topics and readings in the second part of the course were chosen to facilitate a critical engagement with the broad intellectual framework underlying sustainable development from the perspective of economics and finance. The topics are intended to create a community of intellectual discourse on sustainable development that will spill over beyond the classroom to the conversations of students and alumni that will far outlive graduation. Offered in the Fall.

• Department: Earth Institute
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Satyajit Bose
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS

Examines the shaping of European cultural identity through encounters with non-European cultures from 1500 to the post-colonial era. Novels, paintings, and films will be among the sources used to examine such topics as exoticism in the Enlightenment, slavery and European capitalism, Orientalism in art, ethnographic writings on the primitive, and tourism.

• Department: History @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Tiersten
  CULPA: 45 Info
• 3 points

SCIENCE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVPT

The course provides students with the natural science basis to appreciate co-dependencies of natural and human systems, which are central to understanding sustainable development.  After completing the course, students should be able to incorporate scientific approaches into their research or policy decisions and be able to use scientific methods of data analysis.  The semester will highlight the climate system and solutions from both physical and ecological perspectives; water resources; food production and the cycling of nutrients; and the role of biodiversity in sustainable development.  The course emphasizes key scientific concepts such as uncertainty, experimental versus observational approaches, prediction and predictability, the use of models and other essential methodological aspects.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• 3 points

MODERN III

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Gabri Christa
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 0-1 points

MODERN IV

HIGH INTERMEDIATE MODERN DANCE

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Caroline Fermin
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• 0-1 points

MYTHOLOGY OF EAST ASIA

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: David B Lurie
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 4 points

INTRO TO INDIAN CIVILIZATION

Introduction to Indian civilization with attention to both its unity and its diversity across the Indian subcontinent. Consideration of its origins, formative development, fundamental social institutions, religious thought and practice (Vedic, Buddhist, Jain, Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh), literary and artistic achievements, and modern challenges.

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel McDermott
  CULPA: 37 Info
• 4 points

TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITAIN

• Department: Auditing
• Instructor: Susan Pedersen
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITAIN

This course surveys the main currents of British history from 1900 to the present, with particular attention to the changing place of Britain in the world and the changing shape of society and politics.  Throughout this course, we will ask:  Where is power located in Britain and its empire?  What held Britain and the empire together, and what tore them apart?  What was life like for Britons – young and old, men and women, rich and poor, Black and white – across the course of this century? When and how did social change happen?  How did people respond?   We will tackle these questions by looking closely at some key periods of political conflict and resolution, by reading key texts from the time, and – for the latter part of the course – by viewing films and speeches.  The course requirements include section participation, including regular posts (20%), a take-home midterm (20%), two short research assignments (20% each) and a take-home final (20%).  
You must complete all assignments and exams to pass the course
.  The research assignments are devised to help familiarize you with historians’ practice, so that you can search for answers to historical questions on your own.  The assignments are integrated into section discussion: due dates are (as a result) not flexible and section attendance is required.  The films are an essential part of the course and will be discussed in section.    
Readings for this course
are drawn mostly from the rich primary materials available.  They are supplemented by select articles chosen to bring out some of the key issues historians find significant about particular periods or events.  My lectures constitute the main “textbook” for the course, but I am also recommending that you read selected chapters from a textbook that is available online:  Stephanie Barczewski et al, 
Britain since 1688
: 
https://www-taylorfrancis-com.ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/books/9781315748610
.       Most material is available online, but five books (asterisked below) will need to be ordered or bought from Book Culture (or, if you are not in the New York area, online).  A timeline, a list of interesting web links, and a list of great British films can be foun

• Department: History
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Susan Pedersen
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

TWENTIETH CENT BRITAIN-DISCUSSION

MANDATORY Discussion Section for HIST UN 2360 20th Century Britain: Between Democracy and Empire. Students must also be registered for HIST 2360.

• Department: History
• R 7:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• F 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• F 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• F 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• M 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Susan Pedersen
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

TWENTIETH CENT BRITAIN-DISCUSSION

MANDATORY Discussion Section for HIST UN 2360 20th Century Britain: Between Democracy and Empire. Students must also be registered for HIST 2360.

• Department: History
• M 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Susan Pedersen
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN LITERATURE

This colloquium is a course on many influential texts of literature from Ancient Near Eastern cultures, including Sumerian, Egyptian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Hittite, Canaanite, and others. The emphasis is on investigating the literary traditions of each culture – the subject matter, form, methods, and symbolism– that distinguish them from one another and from later traditions of the Middle East. The course is not
a “civilization” course, nor is it a history class, although elements of culture and history will be mentioned as necessary. The course is intended to provide a facility with, and an awareness of, the content and context of ancient works of literature in translation from the Ancient Middle East.
Students in this course will gain a familiarity with the major cultures of the Ancient Middle East, the best known and most remarked upon stories, and the legacy of those works on some later traditions. The course is organized thematically in order to facilitate comparison to the materials in similar courses at Barnard and Columbia. The approach will be immediately familiar to students who have previously taken Asian Humanities (AMEC) or Literature-Humanities (Core), but the course does not require any previous experience with literature or the Ancient Near East and is open to everyone.
All assigned readings for the course will be in English. The course meets once a week and sessions are two hours long.

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• W 3:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Nathanael P Shelley
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

CONTEMPORARY BIOLOGY I

• Department: Auditing
• Instructor: Deborah Mowshowitz
  CULPA: 104 Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

CONTEMPORARY BIOLOGY I

• Department: Auditing
• Instructor: Deborah Mowshowitz
  CULPA: 104 Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

CONTEMPORARY BIOLOGY I

BIOCHEMGENETICSMOLECULAR BIO

Prerequisites: a course in college chemistry or the written permission of either the instructor or the premedical adviser. Recommended as the introductory biology course for science majors who have completed a year of college chemistry and premedical students. The fundamental principles of biochemistry, molecular biology, and genetics. Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/c2005/index.html. SPS and TC students may register for this course, but they must first obtain the written permission of the instructor, by filling out a paper Registration Adjustment Form (Add/Drop form). The form can be downloaded at the URL below, but must be signed by the instructor and returned to the office of the registrar. registrar. http://registrar.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/reg-adjustment.pdf

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• 3 points

PLTCS CRIME& POLICING IN U.S.

This course will examine the historical development of crime and the criminal justice system in the United States since the Civil War. The course will give particular focus to the interactions between conceptions of crime, normalcy and deviance, and the broader social and political context of policy making.

• Department: History @Barnard
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew Vaz
  Info
• 3 points

INTERMEDIATE SANSKRIT I

Prerequisites: Elementary Sanskrit II or instructor permission. This course constitutes the first half of a year-long reading course designed to give students the tools necessary for advanced study in Classical Sanskrit. Readings in epic (itihasa), poetry (kavya), systematic thought (sastra), and commentary (vyakhyana) will introduce students to a variety of important genres and their distinctive conventions. A focus upon the Sanskrit tradition’s own categories of analysis—grammatical, commentarial, and prosodic—will enable students to begin to make sense of original Sanskrit texts as generations of the tradition’s own readers have. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Shiv Subramaniam
  Info
• 4 points

STATISTICS FOR ECONOMICS

Elementary computational methods in statistics. Basic techniques in regression analysis of econometric models. One-hour weekly recitation sessions to complement lectures.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Elham Saeidinezhad
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

SECOND YEAR CLASSICAL TIBETAN I

n/a

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MW 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Kunchog Tseten
  Info
• 4 points

STATS FOR ECONOMICS - REC

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 0 points

STATS FOR ECONOMICS - REC

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 0 points

UNITED STATES 1940-1975

Emphasis on foreign policies as they pertain to the Second World War, the atomic bomb, containment, the Cold War, Korea, and Vietnam. Also considers major social and intellectual trends, including the Civil Rights movement, the counterculture, feminism, Watergate, and the recession of the 1970s.

• Department: History @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark C Carnes
  CULPA: 50 Info
• 3 points

LABORATORY IN SCREENWRITING

This lab is limited to declared Film and Media Studies majors.  Exercises in the writing of film scripts.

• Department: Film
• W 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• M 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Olive I Nwosu
  Info
• Instructor: Ida Modaghegh Yazdi
  Info
• 3 points

TECHNICAL PRODUCTION

Prerequisites: Crew assignment optional. Enrollment limited to 10 students. Introduction to the equipment, terms, and procedures employed in the creation of scenery, lighting, and sound for the stage. Classroom exercises and field visits emphasize approaches to collaborative process and production management.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Gregory Winkler
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

PRACTICUM PROPS & PAINT

Course may be taken for 1-3 points. May be retaken for full credit.  Prerequisites: permission of Theatre Department Production Manager, Michael Banta (
mbanta@barnard.edu
). Training and practical props and/or scenic painting work on Departmental mainstage productions.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Banta
  Info
• 1-3 points

PRACTICUM LIGHTS & SOUND

Course may be taken for 1-3 points. May be retaken for full credit.  Prerequisites: permission of Theatre Department Production Manager, Michael Banta (
mbanta@barnard.edu
). Training and practical lighting and/or sound work on Departmental mainstage productions.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• Instructor: Gregory Winkler
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 1-3 points

PRACTICUM LIGHTS & SOUND

Course may be taken for 1-3 points. May be retaken for full credit.  Prerequisites: permission of Theatre Department Production Manager, Michael Banta (
mbanta@barnard.edu
). Training and practical lighting and/or sound work on Departmental mainstage productions.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• Instructor: Gregory Winkler
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 1-3 points

PRACTICUM WARDROBE

Course may be taken for 1-3 points. May be retaken for full credit.  Prerequisites: permission of Theatre Department Costume Shop Manager Kara Feely (kfeely@barnard.edu). Training and practical costume construction and fitting work on Departmental mainstage productions.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• Instructor: Kara M Feely
  Info
• 1-3 points

PRACTICUM WARDROBE

Course may be taken for 1-3 points. May be retaken for full credit.  Prerequisites: permission of Theatre Department Costume Shop Manager Kara Feely (kfeely@barnard.edu). Training and practical costume construction and fitting work on Departmental mainstage productions.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• Instructor: Kara M Feely
  Info
• 1-3 points