INDEPENDENT STUDY

Prerequisites: ECON BC3033 or ECON BC3035 or permission of the instructor. Topic(s), requirements, workload and point value to be determined in consultation with faculty advisor. Forms available at the Office of the Registrar.

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

INDEPENDENT STUDY

• Department: French @Barnard
• Instructor: Brian D O'Keeffe
  CULPA: 28 Info
• Instructor: Severine C Martin
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 1-4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

This course can be worth 1 to 4 credits (each credit is equivalent to approximately three hours of work per week) and requires a Barnard faculty as a mentor who has to provide written approval. The course entails a scholarly component; for this, a research report is required by the end of the term. The research report can take the form that best suits the nature of the project. The course will be taken for a letter grade, regardless of whether the student chooses 1, 2, 3, or 4 credits.

• Department: Neuroscience & Behavior @Barnard
• Instructor: Maria de la Paz Fernandez
  h-index: 11 Info
• Instructor: Rae Silver
  Wikipedia h-index: 69 Info
• Instructor: Peter D Balsam
  CULPA: 25 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth P Bauer
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 21 Info
• Instructor: Russell D Romeo
  CULPA: 9 Info
• Instructor: John Glendinning
  CULPA: 23 h-index: 39 Info
• Instructor: Kara Pham
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 1-4 points

Podcasting in French Workshop

PODCASTING IN FRENCH WORK

In this advanced French conversation class we will use podcasts to generate discussion, debate, and creative work focusing on current events and cultural trends. Participants will use existing podcasts to build listening and speaking skills in French, and to develop the ability to converse and debate on important topics in the world today; these will include questions of identity (gender, race, sexuality), feminism, civil unrest, the U.S. elections, and the French language. Work for the course culminates in the creation by each participant of a short podcast on a topic of their choice; in-class sessions on podcast production and editing, as well as open digital lab hours will be held by IMATS to assist in the final project.  Reflection on the evolution and place of podcasting as a digital medium will also be included in our discussions.

• Department: French @Barnard
• MR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Laurie Postlewate
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO MECHANCIS OF FLUIDS

INTRO TO MECHANICS OF FLUIDS

Prerequisites: (ENME E3105) ENME E3105. Basic continuum concepts. Liquids and gases in static equilibrium. Continuity equation. Two-dimensional kinematics. Equation of motion. Bernoulli's equation and applications. Equations of energy and angular momentum. Dimensional analysis. Two-dimensional laminar flow. Pipe flow, laminar,and turbulent. Elements of compressible flow.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Karen Kasza
  h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO MECHANCIS OF FLUIDS

FLUIDS RECITATION

Prerequisites: (ENME E3105) ENME E3105. Basic continuum concepts. Liquids and gases in static equilibrium. Continuity equation. Two-dimensional kinematics. Equation of motion. Bernoulli's equation and applications. Equations of energy and angular momentum. Dimensional analysis. Two-dimensional laminar flow. Pipe flow, laminar,and turbulent. Elements of compressible flow.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• F 10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• 0 points

FOLKLORE PAST & PRESENT

For the past two centuries, writers, composers, and artists have found inspiration in the stories, songs, and beliefs of their grandparents, their servants (or their slaves), and their neighbors. This class asks what “folklore” means and what purposes – political as well as artistic – it can serve. Our focus will be traditional, oral Slavic folk genres, but we will also look at contemporary American folklore. Folklore is characterized by repetition and variation; the oral texts we find in books have been extracted from their original context and framed as such. Collecting folklore from fellow students or in the communities around campus will allow you to experience how this happens firsthand. The course will cover a variety of genres of oral folklore -- riddles, spells, fairy tales, epics and folksongs. We will also examine the way that Slavic and Eastern European folklore has been readapted in “high” art genres such as literature and ballet. By the end of the semester, students will be able to recognize patterns and interpret meanings of traditional folkloric genres, and to acquire the tools and techniques necessary for collecting, documenting and interpreting contemporary folklore. Assignments will also allow students to improve skills of textual analysis and analytic, and creative writing.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jessica E Merrill
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED FICTION WORKSHOP

Prerequisites: The department's 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. Building on the work of the Intermediate Workshop, Advanced Workshops are reserved for the most accomplished creative writing students. A significant body of writing must be produced and revised. Particular attention will be paid to the components of fiction: voice, perspective, characterization, and form. Students will be expected to finish several short stories, executing a total artistic vision on a piece of writing. The critical focus of the class will include an examination of endings and formal wholeness, sustaining narrative arcs, compelling a reader's interest for the duration of the text, and generating a sense of urgency and drama in the work.

• Department: Writing
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Samuel Lipsyte
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

PUB MONUMENT IN ANC NEAR EAST

This seminar will focus on the invention of the public monument as a commemorative genre, and the related concepts of time, memory and history in the ancient Near East and Egypt. Public monuments will be studied in conjunction with readings from ancient texts (in translation), as well as historical criticism, archaeological and art historical theories.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Zainab Bahrani
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

APPLIED MATH I: LINEAR ALGEBRA

Matrix algebra, elementary matrices, inverses, rank, determinants. Computational aspects of solving systems of linear equations: existence-uniqueness of solutions, Gaussian elimination, scaling, ill-conditioned systems, iterative techniques. Vector spaces, bases, dimension. Eigenvalue problems, diagonalization, inner products, unitary matrices.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Yuan He
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

MODERN STELLAR ASTROPHYSICS

• Department: Astronomy
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Marcel A Agueros
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED BENGALI I

• Department: Language Resource Center
• Instructor: Stephane A Charitos
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED DUTCH I

This advanced course is a content-based language course, and is centered around the history of the Low Countries. Each week focuses on a specific era, such as the counts of Holland in the 13th century and the Reformation in the 16th century. Students will read texts about history and literature of the historical periods. Students will read texts at home and discuss them in class, explore history-related websites and watch short video clips. Attention will be paid to advanced grammar issues and vocabulary.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• MW 1:15 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Wijnie de Groot
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 3 points

GEOCHEM FOR A HABITABLE PLANET

Prerequisites: Any 1000-level or 2000-level EESC course; MATH UN1101 Calculus I and CHEM UN1403 General Chemistry I or their equivalents. The origin, evolution, and future of our planet, based on the book How to Build a Habitable Planet by Wallace S. Broecker. This course will focus on the geochemical processes that built Earth from solar material, led to its differentiation into continents and ocean, and have maintained its surface at a comfortable temperature. Students will participate in a hands-on geochemistry project at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Terry A Plank
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

THE WRITER'S PROCESS

Prerequisites: Application process and permission of instructor. Exploration of theory and practice in the teaching of writing, designed for students who plan to become Writing Fellows at Barnard. Students will read current theory and consider current research in the writing process and engage in practical applications in the classroom or in tutoring. Writer’s Process is only open to those who applied to and were accepted into the Writing Fellows Program. Note: This course now counts as an elective for the English major.

• Department: English @Barnard
• T 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Pamela Cobrin
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Cecelia B Lie-Spahn
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

LOVE & LITERATURE

LOVE AND LITERATURE

This course offers an in-depth study of love as it has been treated in a variety of French literary texts. These texts will be related to a number of important philosophical and theological approaches to love, particularly in respect of certain ideas concerning ethical love, erotic love, and religious faith as an act of loving God. The first objective of this class is to show how one can relate literature to philosophy and theology; the second is to gain a broad, but thematically focused familiarity with French literature, and with some literary works beyond the French tradition. FREN BC1204: French Intermediate II or the equivalent level is required.

• Department: French @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Brian D O'Keeffe
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED INDONESIAN I

This course offers students the opportunity to practice advanced structures of Bahasa Indonesia, a major language of Indonesia and South East Asia. This course is offered by videoconferencing from Cornell as part of the Shared Course Initiative.

• Department: Language Resource Center
• 3 points

THIRD YEAR JAPANESE I

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTWR 8:50 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Fumiko Nazikian
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 5 points

CONVERS ABOUT LUSOPHONE WORLD

Prerequisites: PORT W1220. This conversation class will help students develop their oral proficiency in Portuguese. We will discuss current events, participate in challenging pronunciation exercises, improve understanding of Portuguese idioms, develop conversation strengths, confront weaknesses, and increase fluency in spoken Portuguese.

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

THIRD-YEAR RUSSIAN I

Prerequisites: RUSS UN2102 or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission. Recommended for students who wish to improve their active command of Russian. Emphasis on conversation and composition. Reading and discussion of selected texts and videotapes. Lectures. Papers and oral reports required. Conducted entirely in Russian.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Alla Smyslova
  CULPA: 20 Info
• Instructor: Vera Senina
  Info
• 4 points

PAINTING II

Prerequisites: (VIAR UN1000) and (VIAR UN2100) (Formerly R3202) Painting II: Extension of VIAR UN2100 This course explores the transition of representational form towards abstraction in the early 20th century (Cubism) with full consideration to recent movements such as geometric abstraction, organic abstraction, gestural abstraction, color field and pattern painting. Students will be encouraged to find dynamic approaches to these classic tropes of 20th and 21st century abstraction.

• Department: Visual Arts
• W 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Susanna Coffey
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

THIRD YEAR VIETNAMESE I

This course is designed for students who have completed fourth semester Vietnamese or have equivalent background of intermediate Vietnamese. The course is aimed at enhancing students' competence in reading and listening comprehension as well as the ability to present or show their knowledge of the language and various aspects of Vietnamese with the use of more advanced Vietnamese.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Chung Nguyen
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

SENIOR FICTION WORKSHOP

Prerequisites: The department's 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. Seniors who are majors in creative writing are given priority for this course. Enrollment is limited, and is by permission of the professor. The senior workshop offers students the opportunity to work exclusively with classmates who are at the same high level of accomplishment in the major. Students in the senior workshops will produce and revise a new and substantial body of work. In-class critiques and conferences with the professor will be tailored to needs of each student.

• Department: Writing
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Hilary J Leichter
  Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED YORUBA I

• Department: Language Resource Center
• Instructor: Stephane A Charitos
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED ZULU I

Prerequisites: ZULU W1201-W1202 or the instructor's permission. This course allows students to practice adanced structures of the Zulu language. Please note this course is offered by videoconference from Yale through the Shared Course Initiative.

• Department: Language Resource Center
• 3 points

DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGY

DEV TECH - JAVA LAB

Prerequisites: Fluency in at least one programming language. Introduction to software development tools and environments. Each section devoted to a specific tool or environment. One-point sections meet for two hours each week for half a semester, and two point sections include an additional two-hour lab.

• Department: Computer Science
• Instructor: Paul S Blaer
  CULPA: 46 h-index: 8 Info
• 1 points

ACADEMIC WRITING INTENSIVE

Academic Writing Intensive is a small, intensive writing course for Barnard students in their second or third year who would benefit from extra writing support. Students attend a weekly seminar, work closely with the instructor on each writing assignment, and meet with an attached Writing Fellow every other week. Readings and assignments focus on transferable writing, revision, and critical thinking skills students can apply to any discipline. Students from across the disciplines are welcome. This course is only offered P/D/F. To be considered for the course, please send a recent writing sample to 
wschorha@barnard.edu
, ideally from your First-Year Writing or First-Year Seminar course, or any other writing-intensive humanities or social sciences course at Barnard (no lab reports please).

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

WOMEN OF THE LEFT BANK

This course will group together the women who shaped and epitomized Left Bank culture in Paris from the Belle Époque to the mid-twentieth century; it will also situate these women in relation to their male peers whose works went on to establish the canons of Symbolism, Dadaism, Surrealism, and Existentialism. We will focus primarily on the realms of literature, philosophy, and art, but we will also examine how some of these women advanced cultural production more broadly—by starting publishing presses, opening bookshops, holding salons, etc. Readings will be primarily in French (Colette, Anna de Noailles, Renée Vivien, Simone de Beauvoir; Breton, Valéry, Aragon, Sartre) but will also include some English-language authors (Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes, Anaïs Nin). All discussions, coursework, and examinations will be in French.

• Department: French @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Hadley T Suter
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

ENERGY,MINERALS,MATERIALS SYST

Prerequisites: (MSAE E3111) or (MECE E3301) and (ENME E3161) or (MECE E3100) or MSAE E3111 or MECE E3301 and ENME E3161 or MECE E3100 or equiv Corequisites: MSAE E3111,MECE E3301,ENME E3161,MECE E3100 Overview of energy resources, resource management from extraction and processing to recycling and final disposal of wastes. Resources availability and resource processing in the context of the global natural and anthropogenic material cycles; thermodynamic and chemical conditions including nonequilibrium effects that shape the resource base; extractive technologies and their impact on the environment and the biogeochemical cycles; chemical extraction from mineral ores, and metallurgical processes for extraction of metals. In analogy to metallurgical processing, power generation and the refining of fuels are treated as extraction and refining processes. Large scale of power generation and a discussion of its impact on the global biogeochemical cycles.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ah-Hyung Alissa Park
  Info
• 3 points

THE ART OF THE ESSAY

Prerequisites: Students who are on the electronic waiting list or who are interested in the class but are not yet registered MUST attend the first day of class. (Formerly called Essay Writing.) Essay writing above the first-year level. Reading and writing various types of essays to develop ones natural writing voice and craft thoughtful, sophisticated and personal essays. This course is not offered to first-years.

• Department: English @Barnard
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• TR 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Nina Sharma
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Wendy C Schor-Haim
  CULPA: 11 Info
• Instructor: Vrinda Condillac
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 3 points

Language, Brain and Mind

The ability to speak distinguishes humans from all other animals, including our closest relatives, the chimpanzees. Why is this so? What makes this possible? This course seeks to answer these questions. We will look at the neurological and psychological foundations of the human faculty of language. How did our brains change to allow language to evolve? Where in our brains are the components of language found? Are our minds specialized for learning language or is it part of our general cognitive abilities to learn? How are words and sentences produced and their meanings recognized? The structure of languages around the world varies greatly; does this have psychological effects for their speakers?

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: William Foley
  h-index: 0 Info
• 3 points

Painting III: Advanced Painting

This advanced painting class will consider contemporary painting in the context of traditional genres, exploring both continuity and discontinuity between contemporary painting and the tradition out of which it arose.  Questions considered will include:  Do traditional genres such as the history painting, the still-life, the nude, the portrait, the landscape painting have any relevance to contemporary painting?  If not, where have these genres migrated to in our contemporary culture?  Does contemporary painting exist solely as a cliché of art production, a hand-made status symbol and luxury commodity or can an argument be made for painting as an individual revolt against mass culture?  Is painting’s appeal simply due to nostalgia for a now-obsolete technology of representation or does its enduring popularity result from a desire for the physical/personal in a screen-based world?  How are contemporary artists using painting today and what critical strategies are available to painters today? Students will be expected to present artwork weekly for individual and group critiques.  The course will use an expanded definition of painting so students should feel free to experiment with other media as desired.  Students will be required to research historical and contemporary (both art and mass culture) examples of the various genres and to create visual presentations of their research.  Supplemental readings will be assigned weekly.  Students will spend the last month working on a project of their choice.

• Department: Visual Arts
• R 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Ellen Harvey
  Info
• 3 points

EXTRASOLAR PLANETS & ASTROBIOL

• Department: Astronomy
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Caleb Scharf
  CULPA: 8 Wikipedia h-index: 36 Info
• 3 points

FICTION & PERSONAL NARRATIVE

Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here: 
https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
. Short stories and other imaginative and personal writing.

• Department: English @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Timea Szell
  CULPA: 14 Info
• Instructor: Malena Watrous
  Info
• 3 points

MECHANICS

Prerequisites: (PHYS UN1401) and (MATH UN1101) and (MATH UN1102) and (MATH UN1201) PHYS C1401 and MATH V1101-V1102 and V1201. Elements of statics; dynamics of a particle and systems of particles; dynamics of rigid bodies.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• F 11:40 a.m.-2:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou
  h-index: 26 Info
• 4 points

REAL WORLD RUSSIAN

Prerequisites: (RUSS UN2102) (department placement test) This content-based course has three focal points: 1) communicative skills 1) idiomatic language; 3) cross-cultural awareness. The course is designed to help students further develop all of their language skills with particular focus on communicative and information processing skills, as well as natural student collaboration in the target language. The materials and assignments that will be used in class allow to explore a broad range of social, cultural, and behavioral contexts and familiarize students with idiomatic language, popular phrases and internet memes, developments of the colloquial language, and the use of slang in everyday life. On each class students will be offered a variety of content-based activities and assignments, including, information gap filling, role-play and creative skits, internet search, making presentations, and problem-solving discussions. Listening comprehension assignments will help students expand their active and passive vocabulary and develop confidence using natural syntactic models and idiomatic structures. Students will be exposed to cultural texts of different registers, which will help them enhance their stylistic competence. Students will learn appropriate ways to handle linguo-social situations, routines, and challenges similar to those they come across when traveling to Russia. They will explore various speech acts of daily communication, such as agreement/disagreement, getting and giving help, asking for a favor, expressing emotions, and so forth. Part of class time will be devoted to nonverbal communication, the language of gestures, emotional phonetics and intonation.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Nataliya Kun
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

APPLIED STATISTICAL METHODS

Prerequisites: At least one, and preferably both, of STAT UN2103 and UN2104 are strongly recommended. Students without programming experience in R might find STAT UN2102 very helpful. This course is intended to give students practical experience with statistical methods beyond linear regression and categorical data analysis. The focus will be on understanding the uses and limitations of models, not the mathematical foundations for the methods. Topics that may be covered include random and mixed-effects models, classical non-parametric techniques, the statistical theory causality, sample survey design, multi-level models, generalized linear regression, generalized estimating equations and over-dispersion, survival analysis including the Kaplan-Meier estimator, log-rank statistics, and the Cox proportional hazards regression model. Power calculations and proposal and report writing will be discussed.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Wayne Lee
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

SOLID STATE DEVICES-MATERIALS

Prerequisites: (MATH UN1201) or (APMA E2000) or equivalent. Corequisites: PHYS UN1403,PHYS UN2601 Crystal structure and energy band theory of solids. Carrier concentration and transport in semiconductors. P-n junction and junction transistors. Semiconductor surface and MOS transistors. Optical effects and optoelectronic devices. Fabrication of devices and the effect of process variation and distribution statistics on device and circuit performance.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ioannis Kymissis
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 48 Info
• 3.5 points

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS

Prerequisites: (IEOR E3658) and For undergraduates only. This course is required for all undergraduate students majoring in IE, OR:EMS, OR:FE and OR. This class must be taken during (or before) the fifth semester. Some of the main stochastic models used in engineering and operations research applications: discrete-time Markov chains, Poisson processes, birth-and-death processes, and other continuous Markov chains, renewal-reward processes, Applications: queuing, reliability, inventory, and finance. IEOR E3106 must be completed by the fifth term. Only students with special academic circumstances may be allowed to take these courses in alternative semesters with the consultation of CSA and Departmental advisors.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Antonius B Dieker
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 19 Info
• 3 points

Clean Object-Oriented Design

A course in designing, documenting, coding, and testing robust computer software, according to object-oriented design patterns and clean coding practices. Taught in Java.Object-oriented design principles include: use cases; CRC; UML; javadoc; patterns (adapter, builder, command, composite, decorator, facade, factory, iterator, lazy evaluation, observer, singleton, strategy, template, visitor); design by contract; loop invariants; interfaces and inheritance hierarchies; anonymous classes and null objects; graphical widgets; events and listeners; Java's Object class; generic types; reflection; timers, threads, and locks.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: John R Kender
  CULPA: 20 h-index: 34 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO FICTION WRITING

Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
. Practice in writing short stories and autobiographical narrative with discussion and close analysis in a workshop setting.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexandra P Watson
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 3 points

Undergraduate Mentored Research

Prerequisites: the project mentors permission. This course provides a mechanism for students who undertake research with a faculty member from the Department of Statistics to receive academic credit. Students seeking research opportunities should be proactive and entrepreneurial: identify congenial faculty whose research is appealing, let them know of your interest and your background and skills.

• Department: Statistics
• Instructor: Tian Zheng
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 25 Info
• 1 points

Undergraduate Mentored Research

Prerequisites: the project mentors permission. This course provides a mechanism for students who undertake research with a faculty member from the Department of Statistics to receive academic credit. Students seeking research opportunities should be proactive and entrepreneurial: identify congenial faculty whose research is appealing, let them know of your interest and your background and skills.

• Department: Statistics
• Instructor: Wayne Lee
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Liam M Paninski
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: John P Cunningham
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

TRANSPORT PHENOMENA I

Prerequisites: mechanics, vector calculus, ordinary differential equations. Corequisites: CHEN E3020 Analysis of momentum and energy transport processes at molecular, continuum and system scales for systems of simple fluids (gases and low molecular-weight liquids). Molecular-level origins of fluid viscosity, continuum fluid mechanics analysis of laminar lfows, and the resulting dimensionless correlations of kinematic and mechanical characteristics of a system needed for engineering design (e.g. friction factor vs. Reynolds number correlations). Molecular origins of fluid conductivity, continuum heat transfer analysis, and the resulting correlations of a systems thermal characteristics useful in engineering design (e.g. Nusselt number correlations). Examples are reviewed of analyses typical in chemical engineering technologies. Essential mathematical methods are reviewed or introduced in context.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Christopher M Boyce
  h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO TRANSLATION STUDIES

Introduction to the major theories and methods of translation in the Western tradition, along with practical work in translating. Topics include translation in the context of postcolonialism, globalization and immigration, the role of translators in war and zones of conflict, gender and translation, the importance of translation to contemporary writers. Completion of Intermediate II or equivalent in any foreign language.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter T Connor
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO POETRY WRITING

Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
. Varied assignments designed to confront the difficulties and explore the resources of language through imitation, allusion, free association, revision, and other techniques.

• Department: English @Barnard
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Brionne Janae
  Info
• 3 points

UNCERTAIN/RISK-CIVIL INF SYST

Prerequisites: Working knowledge of calculus. Introduction to basic probability; hazard function; reliability function; stochastic models of natural and technological hazards; extreme value distributions; statistical inference methods; Monte Carlo simulation techniques; fundamentals of integrated risk assessment and risk management; topics in risk-based insurance; case studies involving civil infrastructure systems, environmental systems, mechanical and aerospace systems, construction management.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: George Deodatis
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 42 Info
• 3.5 points

THERMO/KINETIC THRY/STAT MECH

An introduction to the basic thermodynamics of systems, including concepts of equilibrium, entropy, thermodynamic functions, and phase changes. Basic kinetic theory and statistical mechanics, including diffusion processes, concept of phase space, classical and quantum statistics, and applications thereof.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Irving P Herman
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia h-index: 50 Info
• 3 points

PLAYWRITING I

Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
. The class will explore a broad range of approaches to playwriting in a workshop setting. Each week, students will write in response to prompts that are designed to explicate different elements and principles of the form. The work will culminate at the end of the semester with the writing of a one act play. Classes will largely be spent reading and discussing students’ work but students will also be choosing from a wide selection of plays to read two each week.

• Department: English @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ellen McLaughlin
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

MECHANICS OF SOLIDS

Prerequisites: (ENME E3105) or ENME E3105 or equivalent (can be taken as corequisite). Stress and strain. Mechanical properties of materials. Axial load, bending, shear and torsion. Stress transformation. Deflection of beams. Buckling of columns. Combined loadings. Thermal stresses.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Raimondo Betti
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 31 Info
• 3 points

ECCENTRICS AND OUTSIDERS

TBA

• Department: Writing
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: David S Wallace
  Info
• 3 points

STORY WRITING

Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
.
 
A workshop in writing, with emphasis on the short story.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Nellie G Hermann
  Info
• 3 points

STORY COLLECTION AS ART FORM

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required. How do story collections happen? Are they just anthologies of the best (or the only) stories a writer has produced in a given time period? How do you decide what goes in it, and how do you organize it, and how many do you need? In this class we're going to read a bunch of short story collections, in a variety of genres and modes. Rigorous literary, aesthetic, and critical analysis of individual stories will here be linked to macro-level questions such as: What makes a linked collection different from a novel? What are some of the ways that a linked collection forges its links-- character, theme, place, narrative strategy, mood, etc.? How does a writer handle her recurring themes without falling into repetition? How does the story collection compare with (or relate to) self-anthologizing forms in other disciplines: the poetry collection, the record album, the solo exhibition? Books include: The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville; Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel (Peter Constantine trans.); Super Flat Times by Matthew Derby; Normal People Don't Live Like This by Dylan Landis; The Train to Lo Wu by Jess Row; Don't Let Me Be Lonely by Claudia Rankine; Birds of America by Lorrie Moore; The Emigrants by W. G. Sebald; Criers and Kibbitzers, Kibbitzers and Criers by Stanley Elkin; The Actual Adventures of michael Missing by Michael Hickins; and A Personal Anthology by Jorge Luis Borges.

• Department: Writing
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Rumaan Alam
  Info
• 3 points

FICTION WRITING

Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
.  Assignments designed to examine form and structure in fiction.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Hisham Matar
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ECONOMETRICS LAB/RECITATION

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Dean He
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• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 0 points

ADVANCED POETRY WRITING

Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
. Weekly workshops designed to generate and critique new poetry. Each participant works toward the development of a cohesive collection of poems. Readings in traditional and contemporary poetry will also be included.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Catherine Barnett
  Info
• 3 points

Trust and Mistrust in Science and Expert

Trust/Mistrust in Sci&Exp

Skepticism about science and expertise is evident today in multiple arenas and clearly can no longer be considered a passing phenomenon. From climate change to vaccines; from mammograms to Coronavirus testing; from opposition to rules regulating acceptable levels of carcinogens to AI algorithms purporting to yield better decisions than human experts; the challenges to the authority of experts come from both sides of the political spectrum and take multiple forms. Most discussions of the challenges to expertise start from the question of mistrust. They ask why do people mistrust science and experts given their obvious and well-documented successes and their contribution to immense improvements in collective well-being? This way of posing the question inevitably leads to the conclusion that people mistrusting experts are irrational, uninformed or duped. This, however, may not be the most productive way to pose the question. For the social scientist, mistrust is not the puzzle, trust is. It is not surprising that people would tend to mistrust decisions taken in locales far removed from their daily lives, that are supported by forms of knowledge and technical arrangements that can be relatively opaque and difficult to grasp. It is not surprising especially since these decisions impact some individuals and groups adversely, while benefitting others. Finally, every now and then, but predictably so, it becomes obvious in hindsight that the wrong decisions were taken. Under these circumstances it is far more puzzling, counter-intuitive and difficult to understand why, how, and under what conditions people do trust science and experts. If we want to understand mistrust, and ultimately arrive at a more balanced arrangement of the relations between experts and laypeople, we need to begin by asking what is trust? How is it typically organized and secured? What sustains trust in experts and scientists? Only after we have some grasp of the mechanisms by which trust is cultivated, can we hope to have an explanation of the contemporary atmosphere of mistrust, that does not deteriorate into mere name- calling (“climate denial,” “anti-vaxxers,” etc.) This course will be organized, accordingly, in two parts. In the first part, we will consider different approaches to trust, and specifically for how trust in science and experts is elicited and secured. The second half of the course will be dedicated to examining contemporary case studies of mistrust in science and experts, while exploring different “engi

• Department: Sociology
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Gil Eyal
  CULPA: 15 h-index: 26 Info
• 4 points

THE CRAFT OF WRITING DIALOGUE

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Departmental approval NOT required. Whether texting, chatting, conversing, speechifying, recounting, confiding, gossiping, tweeting, praying, interviewing, exhorting, pitching, scheming, lecturing, nagging or begging, humans love to talk, and readers love narratives that contain dialogue. Good dialogue makes characters and scenes feel real and alive. Great dialogue reveals characters fears, desires and quirks, forwards the narratives plot and dramatic tension, and often contains subtext. In this course, well read different kinds of novels and stories -- from noir to horror to sci-fi to realistice drama to comic romp -- that implement various types of dialogue effectively, and well study how to do it. Well read essays by masters that explain techniques for writing great dialogue, and well practice writing different styles of dialogue ourselves. Coursework will consist of reading, in-class exercises, and two short creative assignments.

• Department: Writing
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel A Magariel
  Info
• 3 points

PUBLIC SPEAKING

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 14 students. Open only to undergraduates, preference to seniors and juniors. Attend first class for instructor permission. Registering for the course only through myBarnard or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment. This course will introduce you to principles of effective public speaking and debate, and provide practical opportunities to use these principles in structured speaking situations. You will craft and deliver speeches, engage in debates and panel discussions, analyze historical and contemporary speakers, and reflect on your own speeches and those of your classmates. You will explore and practice different rhetorical strategies with an emphasis on information, persuasion and argumentation. For each speaking assignment, you will go through the speech-making process, from audience analysis, purpose and organization, to considerations of style and delivery. The key criteria in this course are content, organization, and adaptation to the audience and purpose. While this is primarily a performance course, you will be expected to participate extensively as a listener and critic, as well as a speaker.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniela Kempf
  Info
• 3 points

Trust and Mistrust in Science and Expert

Trust/Mistrust Sci&Exp DI

Discussion Section for SOCI 3120UN - TRUST AND MISTRUST IN SCIENCE AND EXPERTISE.  Skepticism about science and expertise is evident today in multiple arenas and clearly can no longer be considered a passing phenomenon. From climate change to vaccines; from mammograms to Coronavirus testing; from opposition to rules regulating acceptable levels of carcinogens to AI algorithms purporting to yield better decisions than human experts; the challenges to the authority of experts come from both sides of the political spectrum and take multiple forms. Most discussions of the challenges to expertise start from the question of 
mistrust
. They ask why do people mistrust science and experts given their obvious and well-documented successes and their contribution to immense improvements in collective well-being? This way of posing the question inevitably leads to the conclusion that people mistrusting experts are irrational, uninformed or duped. This, however, may not be the most productive way to pose the question. For the social scientist, mistrust is not the puzzle, 
trust 
is. It is not surprising that people would tend to mistrust decisions taken in locales far removed from their daily lives, that are supported by forms of knowledge and technical arrangements that can be relatively opaque and difficult to grasp. It is not surprising especially since these decisions impact some individuals and groups adversely, while benefitting others. Finally, every now and then, but predictably so, it becomes obvious in hindsight that the wrong decisions were taken. Under these circumstances it is far more puzzling, counter-intuitive and difficult to understand why, how, and under what conditions people 
do trust 
science and experts

• Department: Sociology
• M 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• F 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Julian C Jurgenmeyer
  Info
• Instructor: Daria Franklin
  Info
• 0 points

RHETORICAL CHOICES: PUBLIC SPEAKING

RHETORICAL CHOICES:PBLC S

Prerequisites: Application process and permission of instructor. Enrollment restricted to Barnard students. Speaking involves a series of rhetorical choices regarding vocal presentation, argument construction, and physical affect that, whether made consciously or by default, project information about the identity of the speaker. In this course students will relate theory to practice: to learn principles of public speaking and speech criticism for the purpose of applying these principles as peer tutors in the Speaking Fellow Program. Note: This course now counts as an elective for the English major.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• 4 points

INTRO TO SEXUALITY STUDIES

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jack Halberstam
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

STRUCTURAL DESIGN PROJECTS

Prerequisites: (CIEN E3125) and (CIEN E3126) or CIEN E3125 and E3126 or instructors permission Design projects with various structural systems and materials.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Tom T Panayotidi
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

HIST-WEST MUS: MID AGE-BAROQUE

Prerequisites: MUSI UN2318 - MUSI UN2319. May be taken before or concurrently with this course. Topics in Western music from Antiquity through Bach and Handel, focusing on the development of musical style and thought, and analysis of selected works.

• Department: Music
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Giuseppe Gerbino
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 3 points

PROJECT MGMT FOR CONSTRUCTION

Prerequisites: Senior standing in Civil Engineering or instructors permission. Introduction to Project Management for design and construction processes. Elements of planning, estimating, scheduling, bidding, and contractual relationships. Computer scheduling and cost control. Critical path method. Design and construction activities. Field supervision.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Julius Chang
  Info
• 3 points

THIRD-YEAR CONVERSATION FR I

Prerequisites: completion of the language requirement in French or the equivalent. Conversation on contemporary French subjects based on readings in current popular French periodicals.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Eric T Matheis
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 2 points

CLASSICAL MYTH

Survey of major myths from the ancient Near East to the advent of Christianity, with emphasis upon the content and treatment of myths in classical authors (Homer, Hesiod, Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles, Vergil, Livy, Ovid).

• Department: Classics @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Helene P Foley
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

INTERMEDIATE MACRO-DIS

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

INTERMEDIATE MACRO-DIS

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

DATA STRUCTURES IN JAVA

Prerequisites: (COMS W1004) or knowledge of Java. Data types and structures: arrays, stacks, singly and doubly linked lists, queues, trees, sets, and graphs. Programming techniques for processing such structures: sorting and searching, hashing, garbage collection. Storage management. Rudiments of the analysis of algorithms. Taught in Java. Note: Due to significant overlap, students may receive credit for only one of the following three courses: COMS W3134, COMS W3136, COMS W3137.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul S Blaer
  CULPA: 46 h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

CREATIVE NON-FICTION

Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
. In this course, we will explore identity through writing, creating personas on the page that reflect the ways in which the various selves that we each embody overlap and intersect, and often contradict themselves. We will read authors who explore identity on the basis of ethnicity, cultural heritage, gender, sexual orientation, and race. Much of what we read will fall outside the traditional literary canon of Western literature. We will also explore diverse settings and communities via our reading and writing to further explore the question of writing about identity.

• Department: English @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Liana Finck
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

INTERMEDIATE MICRO THEORY RECITATION

INT MICRO THEORY RECITATI

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• 0 points

INTERMEDIATE MICRO THEORY RECITATION

INT MICRO THEORY RECITATI

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• 0 points

BALLET V

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Cynthia Anderson
  Info
• Instructor: Antonio Carmena
  Info
• 0-1 points

MODERN AMERICAN DRAMA & PERFORMANCE

MOD AMERCN DRAMA & PERFOR

Modern American Drama and Performance in an era of cultural contestation.  What is united about the United States? How are the important claims of cultural difference related to the intercultural claims of shared community?  Is there a place for historical continuity in the modernist pursuit of change?  How have these issues been addressed in the emergence and development of modern drama and performance in America?  Questions such as these will be addressed in the context of theatrical exploration, performance history, and social change.  Canonical and experimental playwrights include Rachel Crothers, Susan Glaspell, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Eugene O’Neill, Clifford Odets, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Lorraine Hansberry, Edward Albee, Suzan-Lori Parks, Sarah Ruhl, and Dominique Morisseau.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Patricia D Denison
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

INTRODUCTION VOCAL REPERTOIRE

This course is designed for developing singers. Group vocalizing, learning of songs and individual workshop performances are aimed at improving the students technical skill and the elements necessary to create a meaningful musical and dramatic experience. Attention to text, subtext, emotional and psychological aspects of a piece and the performers relationship to the audience are included in the work. Repertoire is predominantly in English and comes from both classical and popular traditions Individual coaching sessions are available with the class accompanist and help strengthen the students confidence and skill. The class culminates with an in-class performance.

• Department: Music @Barnard
• F 12:10 p.m.-1:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jean-Paul Bjorlin
  Info
• 3 points

BALLET VI

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• F 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Ashley Tuttle
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 0-1 points

VOCAL REPERTOIRE, TECHNIQUE

Vocal exercises and exploration of wide-ranging repertoires, styles, and languages of the Western European song tradition. The rich variety of English, French, Italian and German poetry and music from the Baroque period through the Twentieth Century allows the student to experience both the music and the cultural environment of each of these styles. Attention is given both to meaning oftext and musical interpretation. Individual coaching sessions are available with the class accompanist and help strengthen the students confidence and skill. The class culminates with an in-class performance.

• Department: Music @Barnard
• F 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Coralie Gallet
  Info
• 3 points

PERFORMING WOMEN

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 16 students. This course examines the category of "woman" as it is mobilized in performance, considering both a variety of contemporary performances chosen from a wide range of genres and a diversity of critical/theoretical perspectives. Course may fill
either
the Theory requirement,
or
one (of two) required courses in dramatic literature/theatre studies/performance studies for Theatre/Drama and Theatre  Arts major, but not both.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Shayoni Mitra
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

BERTOLT BRECHT:MAKING OF THTR

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 16; permission of instructor given at first class meeting. Course is conducted in English and readings are in English; German majors and German-speaking students may do readings and papers in German. This class provides a comprehensive overview of the drama, theatre, and theory of Bertolt Brecht, the most influential European playwright and theorist of the twentieth century, in the context of their original historical contexts and subsequent legacies.  Fulfills one (of two) required courses in dramatic literature/theatre studies/performance studies for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts major.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Hana Worthen
  Info
• 4 points

INTRODUCTION TO NARRATIVE

An introduction to narrative through texts that themselves foreground acts of storytelling and thus teach us how to read them. Readings range across periods and cultures - from fifth-century BCE Athens to late twentieth-century Brazil - and include short stories, novellas, novels, a ballad, film and a psychoanalytic case history. Texts by Conan Doyle, Sophocles, Melville, Hitchcock, Augustine, Coleridge, Freud, McEwan, the tellers and compilers of the The Arabian Nights, Diderot, Flaubert, and Lispector. Emphasis on close reading and hands-on experience in analyzing texts.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Emily Sun
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

WESTERN THEATRE TRADITIONS: CLASSIC TO R

Dialectical approach to reading and thinking about the history of dramatic theatre in the west, interrogating the ways poetry inflects, and is inflected by, the material dynamics of performance. Course undertakes careful study of the practices of performance, and of the sociocultural, economic, political, and aesthetic conditions animating representative plays of the Western tradition from the classical theatre through the early modern period to early romanticism; course will also emphasize development of important critical concepts for the analysis of drama, theatre, and performance. Specific attention will be given to classical Athens, medieval cycle drama, the professional theatre of early modern England, the rival theatres of seventeenth century France and Spain, and eighteenth-century theatre in England and Germany; topics include the sociology of theatre, the impact of print on conceptions of performance, representing gender and race, and the dynamics of court performance. Writing: 2-3 papers; Reading: 1-2 plays, critical and historical reading per week; final examination. Fulfills one (of two) Theatre History requirements for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: William B Worthen
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

LIVING WITH ANIMALS: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PER

• Department: Anthropology
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Hannah Chazin
  Info
• 4 points