LITERARY TEXTS&CRIT MTHDS(SEM)

Prerequisites: Students who register for ENGL UN3011 must also register for ENGL UN3001 Literary Texts, Critical Methods lecture. This seminar, led by an advanced graduate student in the English doctoral program, accompanies the faculty lecture ENGL UN3001. The seminar both elaborates upon the topics taken up in the lecture and introduces other theories and methodologies. It also focuses on training students to integrate the terms, techniques, and critical approaches covered in both parts of the course into their own critical writing, building up from brief close readings to longer research papers.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lindsey P Cienfuegos
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• Instructor: Alec L Joyner
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• Instructor: Katrina M Dzyak
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• Instructor: Emily A Foster
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• 0 points

METHODS SOCIAL RESEARCH-DISC

Prerequisites: SOCI UN1000 Section Discussion for SOCI UN3010, METHODS FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH

• Department: Sociology
• T 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• M 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• 0 points

AUGUSTAN POETRY

• Department: Auditing
• Instructor: Gareth Williams
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 0 points

THE ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION

Prerequisites: ECON BC3035 and ECON BC2411 or permission of the instructor. Analyzes education policies and education markets from an economic perspective. Examines challenges that arise when researchers attempt to identify the causal effects of inputs. Other topics: (1) education as an investment, (2) public school finance, (3) teacher labor markets, (4) testing/accountability programs, (5) school choice programs, and (6) urban public school reforms.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• MTWR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Randall Reback
  CULPA: 17 h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

AUGUSTAN POETRY

Prerequisites: LATN UN2102 or the equivalent. Selections from Vergil and Horace. Combines literary analysis with work in grammar and metrics.

• Department: Classics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Gareth Williams
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

LABORATORY IN MATERIALS SCI I

Prerequisites: (MSAE E3010) MSAE E3010. Measurement of electrical, thermal, and magnetic properties of single crystals. Single crystal diffraction analysis, polarized light microscopy, and infrared microscopy in Si single crystals, written and oral reports.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• M 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Ismail C Noyan
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING

Enables students to become informed users of financial information by understanding the language of accounting and financial reporting. Focuses on the three major financial statements that companies prepare for use of management and external parties--the balance sheet, the income statement, and the statement of cash flows. Examines the underlying concepts that go into the preparation of these financial statements as well as specific accounting rules that apply when preparing financial statements. Also looks at approaches to analyze the financial strength and operations of an entity. Uses actual financial statements to understand how financial information is presented and to apply analysis techniques.

• Department: Columbia College
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Urooj Khan
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

FIELD METHODS IN ENVIR SCIENCE

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited. Five required field trips that take a substantial portion of the day. Problem-oriented, hands-on approach emphasizing the tools, techniques, and observational skills necessary for the understanding of forest ecology and deer management. Field and laboratory work as well as data analysis and interpretation. Field Methods utilizes the outdoor resources of the Hudson River Valley, especially the forest environment at Black Rock Forest, a 4,000-acre preserve near Cornwall, N.Y.

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• F 8:40 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Peter M Bower
  CULPA: 56 Info
• 3 points

Advanced Translation

ADV TRANSLATION FOREIGN VOICES

Translation of French texts--both critical and literary, focusing on particular questions or themes.  FREN BC1204: French Intermediate II or the equivalent level is required.

• Department: French @Barnard
• MTWR 2:40 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Anne Boyman
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 3 points

STRUCTURE AND STYLE

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required. This seminar explores fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama as related disciplines. While each genre has its particular opportunities and demands, all can utilize such devices as narrative, dialogue, imagery, and description (scenes, objects, and thought processes). Through a wide variety of readings and writing exercises, we will examine and explore approaches to language, ways of telling a story (linear and nonlinear), and how pieces are constructed. Some student work will be briefly workshopped.

• Department: Writing
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Alan Ziegler
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

INTRO-STAT-ECOLGY/EVOL BIO-LAB

Required Lab for EEEB UN3005. An introduction to the theoretical principles and practical application of statistical methods in ecology and evolutionary biology. The course will cover the conceptual basis for a range of statistical techniques through a series of lectures using examples from the primary literature. The application of these techniques will be taught through the use of statistical software in computer-based laboratory sessions.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• M 7:40 p.m.-8:55 p.m.
• W 7:40 p.m.-8:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Steffen Foerster
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ADVANCED ORAL FRENCH

Prerequisites: At least one French course after completion of FREN BC1204: Intermediate II or permission of the instructor. Oral presentations and discussions of French films aimed at increasing fluency, acquiring vocabulary, and perfecting pronunciation skills.

• Department: French @Barnard
• MTWR 2:40 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Anne Boyman
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 3 points

WALKING

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required. As Walter Benjamin notes in The Arcades Project: Basic to flanerie, among other things, is the idea that the fruits of idleness are more precious than the fruits of labor. The flaneur, as is well known, makes studies. This course will encourage you to make studies -- poems, essays, stories, or multimedia pieces -- based on your walks. We will read depictions of walking from multiple disciplines, including philosophy, poetry, history, religion, visual art, and urban planning. Occasionally we will walk together. An important point of the course is to develop mobile forms of writing. How can writing emerge from, and document, a walks encounters, observations, and reflections? What advantages does mobility bring to our work? Each week you will write a short piece (1-3 pages) that engages your walks while responding to close readings of the assigned material.

• Department: Writing
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: John D Cotner
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• 3 points

ENVIRONMENTAL DATA ANALYSIS

Prerequisites: One year of college science or EESC V2100 or permission of the instructor. Acquisition, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of environmental data, assessment of spatial and temporal variability. Focus on water quality issues and storm surges. Uses existing and student-generated data sets. Basic principles of statistics and GIS, uses standard software packages including EXCEL and ArcGIS. Includes a half-day field trip on a Saturday or Sunday. General Education Requirement: Quantitative and Deductive Reasoning (QUA).

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• MTWR 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Cook
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

SEXUALITY AND THE CITY

The city has classically been represented as the site of sexual freedom, but also of sexual immorality and danger. This course explores the interrelated histories of sexuality and the city in the twentieth-century United States (especially New York) by exploring how urban conditions and processes shaped sexual practices, identities, communities, and ethics, and how sexual matters shaped urban processes, politics, and representation.

• Department: History
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: George Chauncey
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ECONOMETRICS

Prerequisites: ECON BC3033 or ECON BC3035, and ECON BC2411 or STAT W1111 or STAT W1211, or permission of the instructor. Specification, estimation and evaluation of economic relationships using economic theory, data, and statistical inference; testable implications of economic theories; econometric analysis of topics such as consumption, investment, wages and unemployment, and financial markets.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• MTWR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Hamermesh
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• 4 points

DESPAIR AND APOCALYPSE IN MEDIEVAL LITER

The Middle Ages are perhaps not the first place we look for relief from despair. In popular culture, we tend to imagine them either as an idyllic time of pastoral, Shire-like simplicity, or a barbaric pre-modernity of endless plagues and crusades. But medieval European culture was acutely attuned to the problems of creeping meaninglessness and disaffection. In a society putatively organized around the theological virtues of faith, hope, and love, the opposite of hope —despair, the “noonday demon,” or “wanhope” as it is often called in Middle English—had to be guarded against at any cost. This course will mine the rich anti-despair resources of this earlier age, with special attention to the imaginative literature that gave those resources their most nuanced articulation. How do those works give voice to personal and sociopolitical despair, and how do they attempt—especially in their endings—to return their readers to the world with a recharged sense of its significance? Our study will be divided into three sections: personal despair, sociopolitical despair (apocalypse), and hope. The first will center on isolated depictions of melancholy and mourning, including the dream vision Pearl and excerpts from the Prik of Conscience—the most widely circulated poetical work in Middle English, and yet one which has gone largely unstudied. The second section joins the Canterbury Tales pilgrims at the end of their strangely unravelling pilgrimage, then builds toward an apocalyptic reading of the politically incendiary poem Piers Plowman, where personal and societal collapse blur together in a harrowing vision of the end times. A final section on hope will highlight what is always adumbrated in medieval treatments of despair: the possibility of redemption, and the sacrifices it may demand.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam T Horn
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• 4 points

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING LAB I

MECH ENGINEER LAB I & GRAPHICS

Experiments in instrumentation and measurement: optical, pressure, fluid flow, temperature, stress, and electricity; viscometry, cantilever beam, digital data acquisition. Probability theory: distribution, functions of random variables, tests of significance, correlation, ANOVA, linear regression. A lab fee of $50.00 is collected.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• TR 1:10 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Yevgeniy Yesilevskiy
  h-index: 7 Info
• 3 points

LABOR ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON BC3035, or permission of the instructor. Factors affecting the allocation and remuneration of labor; population structure; unionization and monopsony; education and training, mobility and information; sex and race discrimination; unemployment; and public policy.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• MTWR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Lalith Munasinghe
  CULPA: 33 Info
• 3 points

Prose Poem or Poetic Prose? Defining a

“Prose poem,” “lyrical prose,” “poetry in prose,” “poetic prose,” etc.  Just what do we mean by any of these terms?  What is it to write poetry without the techniques of enjambment and stanza?  What is it to write “in prose” without a linear commitment to narrative?  In short, what is that (perhaps) inexplicable place between verse (whether free or not) and fiction (whether linear in narrative or nonlinear)?  This course will take a close look at literary works that live in the borderlands between verse and fiction.  Through a close analysis of works by Arthur Rimbaud, Gertrude Stein, Claudia Rankine, Italo Calvino, Margaret Atwood, James Wright, Franz Kafka, Lydia Davis, and others, students will develop their own creative approaches to this elusive literary “genre.” Each week, we will study the work of one writer, and students will submit a one-page analytical response to that work.  Our class discussions will focus on narrative tensions; prosodic techniques; imagery; diction; syntax; and historical, social, and political context. There will be a midterm paper (5-7 pages, double spaced) and a final paper (10 pages, double spaced).  At the end of the semester, students will also submit a Portfolio of three creative pieces composed during the semester.  We will have three in-class workshops to discuss those creative pieces.  REQUIRED TEXTS: Arthur Rimbaud,
Illuminations
Gertrude Stein,
Tender Buttons
Italo Calvino,
Invisible Cities
Franz Kafka,
Zurau Aphorisms
Claudia Rankine,
Don’t Let Me Be Lonely
Mark Strand,
Almost Invisible
Margaret Atwood,
Murder in The Dark
  All other materials will be distributed in a source book.

• Department: Writing
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph N Fasano
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

ANALYSIS OF CHEM ENGIN PROBLMS

Prerequisites: vector calculus, ordinary differential equations. Corequisites: CHEE E3010 Computational solutions of chemical engineering problems in thermodynamics, transport phenomena, and reaction design.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexander Urban
  h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

MARKETING MANAGEMENT

Designed to provide students with an understanding of the fundamental marketing concepts and their application by business and non-business organizations. The goal is to expose students to these concepts as they are used in a wide variety of settings, including consumer goods firms, manufacturing and service industries, and small and large businesses. The course gives an overview of marketing strategy issues, elements of a market (company, customers, and competition), as well as the fundamental elements of the marketing mix (product, price, placement/distribution, and promotion).

• Department: Columbia College
• T 4 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Thomas Hafen
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• 3 points

MAJOR FRENCH TEXTS I

An exploration of the early periods of French literary creation (Medieval-17th century) through works of fiction, poetry, and theatre. Special attention is given to texts that use tradition to bring about change, to provoke, to contest social norms, and to test the expected parameters of literary expression.

• Department: French @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Laurie Postlewate
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Prerequisites: BIOL UN2005 and BIOL UN2006 or equivalent. Come discover how the union of egg and sperm triggers the complex cellular interactions that specify the diverse variety of cells present in multicellular organisms. Cellular and molecular aspects of sex determination, gametogenesis, genomic imprinting, X-chromosome inactivation, telomerase as the biological clock, stem cells, cloning, the pill and cell interactions will be explored, with an emphasis on humans. Original research articles will be discussed to further examine current research in developmental biology. 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. http://registrar.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/reg-adjustment.pdf

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Alice Heicklen
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

Mobility and Identity in the Roman World

Mob & Identity in Roman W

This course considers how identity increased, limited, controlled, or otherwise shaped the mobility of individuals and groups in the Roman world, including women, slaves, freedpeople, and diaspora communities. We will identify the structures that produced differences in mobility and consider how such groups understood and represented themselves in a variety of media as possessing a specific, shared identity and community. The course will draw on a range of primary sources, including inscriptions and literary texts (both poetry and prose), and cover the period from the second century BCE to the third century CE.

• Department: History
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sailakshmi Ramgopal
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

Hauntings: Ghosts, Presences & Residues

Hauntings: Ghosts in Lit

“I believe
—
I know that ghosts
have
wandered the earth. Be with me always
—
take any form
—
drive me mad!”

 
—Emily Brontë
, Wuthering Heights
  In this course we’ll expand our understanding of how writing is often the site of lingering, numinous, immaterial presences. We’ll begin with the tradition of
the ghost story
— a literary device beloved by writers for centuries across many genres. Beyond the consideration of the supernatural, we’ll also investigate more abstract capacities in which texts—and writers (and sometimes editors!)—are inevitably possessed by an
other
, a presence that lingers persistently, making itself known whether we welcome it or not. Memory and trauma are their own kinds of ghosts. Similarly, we’ll discover how traces of works by writers we admire, our teachers, even a specific text or image, can manifest as spectral forms inhabiting our work. We’ll address the complexities of those vestiges in terms of appropriation and originality—what Harold Bloom calls “the anxiety of influence.” Students will process and explore these ideas in both creative and analytical writings throughout the semester.
Course Books (available at Book Culture):
Eileen Myles
, Afterglow
Diana Khoi Nguyen,
Ghost Of
Lucie Brock Broido,

Trouble in Mind
Mary Reufle
, A Little White Shadow
Max Porter
, Grief is the Thing With Feathers
All other readings will be posted on Courseworks as PDFs.

• Department: Writing
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Samantha Zighelboim
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• 3 points

FINANCIAL ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and STAT UN1201 Institutional nature and economic function of financial markets. Emphasis on both domestic and international markets (debt, stock, foreign exchange, eurobond, eurocurrency, futures, options, and others). Principles of security pricing and portfolio management; the Capital Asset Pricing Model and the Efficient Markets Hypothesis.

• Department: Economics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Tamrat Gashaw
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

INCLUSIVE APPROACHES TO TEACHING LITERAC

LITERACY: THEORY & PRACTI

This seminar engages students in an exploration of how schools prepare students to be literate across multiple subject areas. Engaging students with theory and practice, we will look at how students learn to read and write, considering approaches for literacy instruction from early childhood through adolescence. Understanding that schools are required to meet the needs of diverse learners, we will explore literacy instruction for K-12 students with special needs, multilingual learners, and students from diverse cultural backgrounds.

• Department: Education @Barnard
• TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Edstrom
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

MAKING, BREAKING CODES

Prerequisites: (MATH UN1101 and MATH UN1102 and MATH UN1201) and and MATH UN2010. A concrete introduction to abstract algebra. Topics in abstract algebra used in cryptography and coding theory.

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Dorian Goldfeld
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES

Political parties have evoked widespread scorn in the U.S. since the founding era; and yet, they arose almost immediately and have endured for over two centuries. In this course, we will examine why parties formed despite the Founders’ disdain for them. (In 1789, Thomas Jefferson wrote, “If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go at all.” In 1800, he won the presidency as a candidate of a major party.) We will dig into scholarly debates about what exactly parties are, what purpose they serve, and how and why they have changed over time as organizations, in the electorate, and in government. Topics will include the presidential nomination process from the founding through the much-discussed 2016 primary election season, the life cycle of third parties, and the relationship between political parties and interest groups. Students will learn what is and is not unique about the current historical moment, and how history might shape our expectations of parties moving forward. Throughout the course, we will pay particularly close attention to the roots of contemporary party polarization, and the implications of this phenomenon for representation and governance. In 1950, the American Political Science Association released a report criticizing the two major parties for excessive similarity; today, party polarization evokes widespread concern. Is there an ideal level of party difference? How much is too much? We will address these difficult questions, among others, in this broad survey of American political parties.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Katherine L Krimmel
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

GUN POLITICS IN THE UNITED STATES

GUN POLITICS IN THE U.S.

This course examines the politics of guns from a number of different angles. We will critically assess the multitude of direct and indirect explanations of gun control politics that have been offered by scholars and informed observers, including those related to interest groups, political parties, and mass political behavior.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Matthew Lacombe
  h-index: 6 Info
• 4 points

ORDINARY DIFFERENTL EQUATIONS

• Department: Auditing
• Instructor: Simon Brendle
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

ORDINARY DIFFERENTL EQUATIONS

Prerequisites: MATH UN1102 and MATH UN1201 or the equivalent. Corequisites: MATH UN2010 Equations of order one; systems of linear equations. Second-order equations. Series solutions at regular and singular points. Boundary value problems. Selected applications.

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Simon Brendle
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC

This course focuses on a central question: how do we define “African-American music”? In attempting to answer this question, we will be thinking through concepts such as authenticity, representation, recognition, cultural ownership, appropriation, and origin(s). These concepts have structured the ways in which critics, musicians and audiences have addressed the various social, political and aesthetic contexts in which African-American music has been composed (produced), performed (re-produced) and heard (consumed).

• Department: African American and African Diaspora
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Kevin Fellezs
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

This course explores the role of the presidency in U.S. politics. Presidents have long been at the center of politics, yet the nature of the presidency has changed dramatically over time. The first part of the course will examine these long-run changes. It begins with debates over the form of the presidency at the U.S.’s founding and examines how the institution has been altered – and with what effects – at key historical moments. Having gained foundational historical knowledge during the first part of the course, the course’s second part will focus on various theories of the presidency. These theories primarily address, in various ways, one primary question: which factors best explain presidential “success”? By the end of the course, students should be able to systematically assess contemporary presidential politics using various scholarly theories and by putting the president’s actions into a broader historical context. The course, occurring during the 2020 presidential primaries, will also include “sidebars” in which we will discuss the election.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• MTWR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew Lacombe
  h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

INVESTIGATING THE PURPOSES AND AIMS OF E

PURPOSES & AIMS EDUC POLI

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Course enrollment will be determined after the first class meeting. Open to all students; preference given to Urban Teaching, Education Studies, and Urban Studies students. This course explores a broad continuum of educational policies, with a critical eye toward the impact these policies have on promoting equity and justice. Because no one course can do everything, our focus will be on educational policy in the United States. However, a major research assignment will be for you to do a critical analysis of one of these policies in the context of another country.

• Department: Education @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Erika Kitzmiller
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 3 Info
• 4 points

Pope

We focus on—but do not limit ourselves to—the first book of Pope’s translation of the
Iliad
(there are 24 books).

We try to determine the source(s) of Pope’s translation: i.e., what was before him when he translated? a Greek text? if so, which one? another translation or translations? if so, in what language(s), and which edition(s) of those translations did he use?—the first four weeks of class will be spent doing this.

We compare Pope’s
Iliad
with many other English translations—translations from both before and after Pope’s time—the second four weeks pf the class will be spent doing this.

We compare Pope’s
Iliad
with many other of Pope’s poems—the last weeks of the class will be spent doing this.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: David M Yerkes
  CULPA: 41 Info
• 4 points

MEDIEVAL LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

• Department: Auditing
• Instructor: Carmela V Franklin
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 0 points

INTERMEDTE MACROECONOMC THEORY

Prerequisites: An introductory course in economics and a functioning knowledge of high school algebra and analytical geometry or permission of the instructor. Systematic exposition of current macroeconomic theories of unemployment, inflation, and international financial adjustments.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• MTWR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Martina Jasova
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 7 Info
• 4 points

THE EARLY CHAUCER

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Christopher C Baswell
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

MEDIEVAL LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Prerequisites: four semesters of college Latin or the instructors permission. This course offers an introduction to medieval Latin literature in conversation with its two most important traditions, classical literature and early Christian culture.  Illustrative passages from the principal authors and genres of the Latin Middle Ages will be read, including Augustine and biblical exegesis; Ambrose and poetry; Bede and history and hagiography; Abelard and Heloise and the 12th century Renaissance. The course is suitable both for students of Latin and of the Middle Ages.

• Department: Classics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Carmela V Franklin
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

INTERMEDTE MICROECONOMC THEORY

Prerequisites: An introductory course in microeconomics or a combined macro/micro principles course (ECON BC1003 or ECON W1105, or the equivalent) and one semester of calculus or ECON BC1007, or permission of the instructor. Preferences and demand; production, cost, and supply; behavior of markets in partial equilibrium; resource allocation in general equilibrium; pricing of goods and services under alternative market structures; implications of individual decision-making for labor supply; income distribution, welfare, and public policy. Emphasis on problem solving.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• MTWR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: John Park
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Lalith Munasinghe
  CULPA: 33 Info
• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL MONEY & FINANCE

Prerequisites: ECON BC3033. Introduction to balance of payments and exchange rate theory; capital mobility and expectations; internal and external adjustment under fixed and flexible exchange rates; international financial markets; capital mobility and expectations; international policy coordination and optimum currency areas; history of the international monetary system.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Andre Burgstaller
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 3 points

ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY

Prerequisites: an introductory course in anthropology. Institutions of social life. Kinship and locality in the structuring of society. Monographs dealing with both literate and nonliterate societies will be discussed in the context of anthropological fieldwork methods. Required of all Anthropology majors (and tracks) within the Barnard Department. As of Fall, 2018, UN 3040 replaces the two semester sequence of 3040/4041 Anthropological Theory I/II). Intended only for Barnard majors and minors.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• MR 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Brian Larkin
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 4 points

MIGRATION, GLOBALIZATION, AND EDUCATION

Globalization and mass migration are reconfiguring the modern world and reshaping the contours of nation-states. New technologies that facilitate the movement of information, goods, and people across borders have made it easier for people to remain culturally, politically, economically and socially connected to the places from which they migrated. This seminar focuses on the experiences of the youngest members of these global migration patterns—children and youth—and asks: What do these global flows mean for educating young people to be members of the multiple communities to which they belong?

• Department: Education @Barnard
• MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Thea R Abu El-Haj
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• 4 points

THEORETICL FOUNDTNS-POLIT ECON

THEORETICL FOUNDTNS-PLTCL ECON

Prerequisites: An introductory course in economics or permission of the instructor. Intellectual origins of the main schools of thought in political economy. Study of the founding texts in classical political economy, Marxian economics, neoclassicism, and Keynesianism.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Andre Burgstaller
  CULPA: 40 Info
• Instructor: David Weiman
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 3 points

SOLID ST,MICROWAVE,FBR OPT LAB

Prerequisites: (ELEN E3106) and (ELEN E3401) Optical electronics and communications. Microwave circuits. Physical electronics.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Wen I Wang
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

COMPLICATING CLASS: EDUCATION AND THE L

EDUCATION & LIMITS EQUITY

In this course, we start from the premise that a failure to understand what social class is and how social class matters in daily life stops us from having conversations about the possibilities and limitations of schooling and, as such, prevents us from doing what we can to improve the schooling experiences of poor and working-class students. Throughout the semester, we will work to “complicate class”, reconsidering what class is, why class matters, and how we can best think about the relationship between social class and schooling. You will develop a language for talking about class, considering the affordances and constraints of various conceptions of class. You will also leave with critical questions about the possibilities and limitations of relying on schools as a solution to social problems. Recognizing restraints, we will conclude by reflecting on how we might work toward creating more equitable learning environments for poor and working-class students.

• Department: Education @Barnard
• TR 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel Throop
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

SCIENCE IN THE CITY

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. In partnership with the American Museum of Natural History students investigate science, science pedagogical methods, and ways to use New York City as a resource for science teaching and learning. Sessions will be held at Barnard and the museum. Field trips and fieldwork required. Non-science majors pre-service elementary students and first year students, welcome. Note: Students in the Childhood Urban Teaching Program may use this course as a pedagogical elective.

• Department: Education @Barnard
• TF 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Althea B Hoard
  Info
• 4 points

BIG DATA WITH PYTHON

Big Data is changing how we interact with and understand the environment. Yet analyzing Big Data requires new tools and methods. Students will learn to use Python programming to analyze and visualize large environmental and earths systems data sets in ways that Excel is not equipped to do. This will include both time series and spatial analyses with programming occurring interactively during class and assignments designed to strengthen methods and results. Students will learn to write code in Python, plot, map, sub-select, clean, organize, and perform statistical analyses on large global scale data sets, using the data in analysis, and take any data set no matter how large or complicated.

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Brian Mailloux
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 36 Info
• 3 points

SEMINAR URBAN EDUCATION

This seminar serves as the capstone course for students pursuing the Education Studies minor/special concentration or the Urban Studies major/concentration with an Urban Education Specialization. The Seminar in Urban Education explores the historical, political and socio-cultural dynamics of urban education in the U.S. context. Over time, a range of social actors have intervened in the “problem” of urban education, attempting to reshape and reform urban schools. Others have disputed this “problem” focused approach, arguing that policy makers, teachers, and researchers should start from the strengths and capacities located in urban communities. Despite decades of wide ranging reform efforts, however, many urban schools still fail to provide their students with an adequate, equitable education. Seminar in Urban Education investigates this paradox by pursuing three central course questions: 1) How have various social actors tried to achieve equity in urban schools over time? 2) What are the range and variation of assets and challenges found in urban schools? and 3) Considering this history and context, what would effective reform in a global city like NYC look like? Students will engage these questions not only through course readings and seminar discussions, but through a 40-hour field placement in a New York City public school classroom, extra-curricular program, or other education based site.

• Department: Education @Barnard
• TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel Throop
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

ARTS AND HUMANITIES IN THE CITY:CRITICAL

Using the theme of “Arts and Humanities in the City”, this seminar will build participants’ knowledge of critical literacy, digital storytelling methods, and ways to use New York City as a resource for teaching the Arts (Dance, Theatre, Music, and Visual Arts), Social Studies, and English Language Arts in grades K-12. Critical literacy is an approach to teaching and learning that focuses on developing students’ abilities to read, analyze, understand, question, and critique hidden perspectives and socially-constructed power relations embedded in what it means to be literate in a content area.

• Department: Education @Barnard
• MW 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexis Riley
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS I

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and completion of all courses (except for the senior requirement) required for the economics track, political economy track, or economics and mathematics majors. Exceptions to these prerequisites may be granted by the chair of the department only. Tutorials and conferences on the research for and writing of the senior thesis. This is the 1st semester of a two-semester course sequence.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Randall Reback
  CULPA: 17 h-index: 14 Info
• Instructor: Sharon Harrison
  CULPA: 38 h-index: 13 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth O Ananat
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 18 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

SR SEM:WMN IN DEVLOPMNT ECON

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and the completion of all courses (except for the senior requirement) required for the economics track, political economy track, or economics and mathematics majors. Exceptions to these prerequisites may be granted by the chair of the department only. Seminar sections are limited to 15 students. A topic in economic theory or policy of the instructors choice. See department for current topics and for senior requirement preference forms.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Anja Tolonen
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 8 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

SR SEM:LOGIC LIMITS ECON JSTC

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and the completion of all courses (except for the senior requirement) required for the economics track, political economy track, or economics and mathematics majors. Exceptions to these prerequisites may be granted by the chair of the department only. Seminar sections are limited to 15 students. A topic in economic theory or policy of the instructors choice. See department for current topics and for senior requirement preference forms.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Belinda Archibong
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 7 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

EMPIRICAL MACRO FINANCE

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and the completion of all courses (except for the senior requirement) required for the economics track, political economy track, or economics and mathematics majors. Exceptions to these prerequisites may be granted by the chair of the department only. Seminar sections are limited to 15 students. A topic in economic theory or policy of the instructors choice. See department for current topics and for senior requirement preference forms.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• W 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Martina Jasova
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 7 Info
• 4 points

SEM: ISSUES URBAN TEACHING

CRITICAL INQUIRY URBAN TCHNG

Corequisites: EDUC BC3063 or EDUC BC3065. Enrollment limited to student teachers enrolled in the Education Program. Designed to help student teachers develop as reflective practictioners who can think critically about issues facing urban schools, particularly how race, class and gender influence schooling; and to examine the challenges and possibilities for providing intellectually engaging, meaningful curriculum to all students in urban classrooms.

• Department: Education @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Thea R Abu El-Haj
  Info
• 4 points

RESEARCH SEM ECONOMIC HISTRY I

Must be supervised by a faculty member approved by the program adviser. This is the 1st semester of a two-semester course sequence.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Alan Dye
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 4 points

RESEARCH SEM ECONOMIC HISTRY I

Must be supervised by a faculty member approved by the program adviser. This is the 1st semester of a two-semester course sequence.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: David Weiman
  CULPA: 40 Info
• Instructor: Gergely Baics
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

FRANCOPHONE FICTION:SPEC TPCS

Looks at the portrayal of women as unsettling figures in the Francophone Caribbean literary universe. Examining the uncanny heroines in the novels of both male and female writers, students will identify the thematic commonalities and specific configurative strategies that emerge in the fictional representation of women in the region. The symbolic import of zombies, schizophrenics, and other disordering characters will be analyzed as indicators of and reflections on broader social realities. FREN BC1204: French Intermediate II or the equivalent level is required.

• Department: French @Barnard
• MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Kaiama L Glover
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 4 points

CELLULAR/MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY

Prerequisites: two semesters of a rigorous, molecularly-oriented introductory biology course (such as UN2005 and UN2006), or the instructors permission. This course will cover the basic concepts underlying the mechanisms of innate and adaptive immunity, as well as key experimental methods currently used in the field. To keep it real, the course will include clinical correlates in such areas as infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases, cancer immunotherapy and transplantation. Taking this course wont turn you into an immunologist, but it may make you want to become one, as was the case for several students last year. After taking the course, you should be able to read the literature intelligently in this rapidly advancing field. SCE 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. http://registrar.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/reg-adjustment.pdf

• Department: Biological Sciences
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Christian W Schindler
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY I-LECTURES

Prerequisites: (CHEM UN1403 and CHEM UN1404) or (CHEM UN1604) or (CHEM UN2045 and CHEM UN2046) and (MATH UN1101 and MATH UN1102) or (MATH UN1207 and MATH UN1208) and (PHYS UN1401 and PHYS UN1402) PHYS UN1201 - PHYS UN1202 is acceptable; PHYS UN1401 - PHYS UN1402 or the equivalent is HIGHLY recommended. Corequisites: CHEM UN3085 Elementary, but comprehensive, treatment of the fundamental laws governing the behavior of individual atoms and molecules and collections of them. CHEM UN3079 covers the thermodynamics of chemical systems at equilibrium and the chemical kinetics of nonequilibrium systems. Although CHEM UN3079 and CHEM UN3080 are separate courses, students are expected to take both terms sequentially. A recitation section is required. Please check the Directory of Classes for details and also speak with the TA for the course.

• Department: Chemistry
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Timothy C Berkelbach
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

CIRCUIT ANALYSIS LABORATORY

Prerequisites: (ELEN E1201) or equivalent. Corequisites: ELEN E3201 Companion lab course for ELEN E3201. Experiments cover such topics as: use of measurement instruments; HSPICE simulation; basic network theorems; linearization of nonlinear circuits using negative feedback; op-amp circuits; integrators; second order RLC circuits. The lab generally meets on alternate weeks.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• M 2:40 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
• R 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Charles A Zukowski
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• 1 points

SIGNALS & SYSTEMS LABORATORY

Corequisites: ELEN E3801 Companion lab course for ELEN E3801. Experiments cover topics such as: introduction and use of MATLAB for numerical and symbolic calculations; linearity and time invariance; continuous-time convolution; Fourier-series expansion and signal reconstruction; impulse response and transfer function; forced response. The lab generally meets on alternate weeks.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• M 6:10 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• F 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Xiaodong Wang
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 1 points

PHYSICL-ANALYTICL LABORATORY I

Corequisites: CHEM UN3079 A student-centered experimental course intended for students who are co-registered or have completed CHEM UN3079 and CHEM UN3080. The course emphasizes techniques of experimental physical chemistry and instrumental analysis, including vibrational, electronic, and laser spectroscopy; electroanalytical methods; calorimetry; reaction kinetics; hydrodynamic methods; scanning probe microscopy; applications of computers to reduce experimental data; and computational chemistry. Students must also attend the compulsory Mentoring Session. Please check the Directory of Classes for details.

• Department: Chemistry
• T noon-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Luis A Avila
  CULPA: 22 Info
• 4 points

INDIVIDUAL SENIOR PROJECTS

Prerequisites: Meets senior requirement. Instructor permission required. The instructor will supervise the writing of long papers involving some form of sociological research and analysis.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• Instructor: Deborah Becher
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 4 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth Bernstein
  CULPA: 27 Info
• Instructor: Angela Simms
  Info
• Instructor: Debra Minkoff
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Mignon R Moore
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Jonathan Rieder
  CULPA: 17 Info
• Instructor: Amy Zhou
  Info
• 4 points

SUPERVISED INDEPENDENT RES

Prerequisites: the instructors permission for entrance, and the departmental representatives permission for aggregate points in excess of 12 or less than 4. This course may be repeated for credit (see major and concentration requirements). Individual research under the supervision of a member of the staff. Research areas include organic, physical, inorganic, analytical, and biological chemistry. Please note that CHEM UN3098 is offered in the fall and spring semesters.

• Department: Chemistry
• Instructor: Vesna Gasperov
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 4 Info
• 4 points

GUIDED RESEARCH IN ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: Instructors permission Provides students with the experience of participating in the research process by matching them to a faculty mentor who will put them to work on one of his or her current research projects.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• Instructor: Anja Tolonen
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 8 Info
• Instructor: Martina Jasova
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 7 Info
• 1-2 points

GUIDED RESEARCH IN ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: Instructors permission Provides students with the experience of participating in the research process by matching them to a faculty mentor who will put them to work on one of his or her current research projects.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• Instructor: Elizabeth O Ananat
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 18 Info
• 1-2 points

GUIDED RESEARCH IN ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: Instructors permission Provides students with the experience of participating in the research process by matching them to a faculty mentor who will put them to work on one of his or her current research projects.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• Instructor: Randall Reback
  CULPA: 17 h-index: 14 Info
• Instructor: Belinda Archibong
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 7 Info
• Instructor: Alan Dye
  CULPA: 19 Info
• Instructor: David Weiman
  CULPA: 40 Info
• Instructor: Lalith Munasinghe
  CULPA: 33 Info
• Instructor: Sharon Harrison
  CULPA: 38 h-index: 13 Info
• Instructor: Homa S Zarghamee
  CULPA: 17 Info
• Instructor: Andre Burgstaller
  CULPA: 40 Info
• Instructor: Rajiv Sethi
  CULPA: 24 h-index: 33 Info
• 1-2 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• Instructor: Colleen Thomas
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 1-4 points