MOLECULAR & CELLULAR NEUROSCIENCE

MOLECULAR&CELLULAR NEUROSCI

Prerequisites:  BIOL BC1502 + BIOL BC1503, and either BIOL BC1500 + BIOL BC1501 or NSBV BC1001 or permission from the instructor. Structure and function of neural membranes; ionic basis of membrane potential and action potential; synaptic transmission and neurochemistry; sensory transduction and processing; reflexes and spinal cord physiology; muscle structure and function; neuronal circuitry; and nervous system development.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• MTWRF noon-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth P Bauer
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 21 Info
• 3 points

PEDAGOGY HIGHER EDUC:PSYCH

PEDAGOGY HIGHER EDUC: PSYCH

Designed to examine the science of psychology and the complexities of teaching to create an environment conducive to involved and active learning. The seminar, especially designed for current and intended Teaching Assistants, covers ethical concerns, strategies for maintaining boundaries, mastery learning, and approaches for leading discussions. Course uses case methods, videotaping, research projects, and scenario analysis. Enrollment limited to 12.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Susan R Sacks
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

INTRODUCTION TO CONTEXTUAL DESIGN FOR TE

INTRO TO CONTEXTUAL DESIG

Introduces methods and tools used in Contextual Inquiry (CI) specifically the early stages of software design focused on meeting user needs. Key concepts include user research, contextual design, design thinking, ideation, iterative design, prototyping, and design documentation. Projects utilize software tools used in the industry.

• Department: Computer Science @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Sarah Morrison-Smith
  h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

ENERGY LAW

This course concerns the regulation of energy, energy resources, and energy facilities. Among the topics will be the regulation of rates and services; the roles of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the state public utility commissions; and the interaction with environmental law. Attention will be devoted to energy resources (such as oil, natural gas and coal) and to generating, transmission and distribution facilities. The current and future roles of renewable energy, energy efficiency, and nuclear energy will receive special attention, as will the regulation and deregulation of electricity.

• Department: Earth Institute
• WR 6 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Gerrard
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

PSYCHOBIOLOGY OF INFANT DEVELOPMENT

Prerequisites: BC1001 and BC1128/1129 Developmental (lab and lecture taken together) or BC1129 (only lecture). Or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15 students. Analysis of human development during the fetal period and early infancy. Review of effects of environmental factors on perinatal perceptual, cognitive, sensory-motor, and neurobehavioral capacities, with emphasis on critical conditions involved in both normal and abnormal brain development. Other topics include acute and long term effects of toxic exposures (stress, smoking, and alcohol) during pregnancy, and interaction of genes and the environment in shaping the developing brain of high-risk infants, including premature infants and those at risk for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

• Department: Neuroscience & Behavior @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: William P Fifer
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 40 Info
• 4 points

RETHINKING SPANISH TRANSLATION

Through special attention to translation method and practice, this course aims to develop a solid foundation on which to build the full set of competences required to become thoughtful, alert, self-critical translator while extending and improving the students competence of Spanish through complex translation tasks of a wide range of texts presented with a progressive overall structure and thematic organization. With a professional approach, it focuses on translation as a cross-cultural and crosslinguistic communicative activity that integrates areas such as interlanguage pragmatics, discourse analysis and transfer.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Javier Perez Zapatero
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

ADOLESCENT NEUROBEHAVIOR DEVELOPMENT

ADOLESCENT NEUROBEHAV DEV

This seminar will explore neurobehavioral development throughout pubertal and adolescent stages of development.  Specifically, topics will include how neuroendocrine changes induce pubertal onset, structural and functional changes in the adolescent brain, and how these developmental changes influence normal and abnormal psychophysiological processes.

• Department: Neuroscience & Behavior @Barnard
• MW 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Russell D Romeo
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 4 points

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard Hamilton
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN NEUROETHICS

Prerequisites: BC1001 and one of the following: Neurobiology, Behavioral Neuroscience, Fundamentals of Neuropsychology, or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 20 students. Recent advancements in neuroscience raise profound ethical questions. Neuroethics integrates neuroscience, philosophy, and ethics in an attempt to address these issues. Reviews current debated topics relevant to the brain, cognition, and behavior. Bioethical and philosophical principles will be applied allowing students to develop skill in ethical analysis.

• Department: Neuroscience & Behavior @Barnard
• TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: E'Mett McCaskill
  CULPA: 38 Info
• 4 points

GIS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMNT

This course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive overview of theoretical concepts underlying GIS systems and to give students a strong set of practical skills to use GIS for sustainable development research. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are a system of computer software, data and analysis methods used to create, store, manage, digital information that allow us to create maps and dynamic models to analyze the physical and social processes of the world. Through a mixture of lectures, readings, focused discussions, and hands-on exercises, students will acquire an understanding of the variety and structure of spatial data and databases, gain knowledge of the principles behind raster and vector based spatial analysis, and learn basic cartographic principles for producing maps that effectively communicate a message. Student will also learn to use newly emerging web based mapping tools such as Google Earth, Google Maps and similar tools to develop on-line interactive maps and graphics. The use of other geospatial technologies such as the Global Positioning System will also be explored in this class. Case studies examined in class will draw examples from a wide ranges of GIS applications developed to assist in the development, implementation and evaluation of sustainable development projects and programs. On completion of the course, students will: 1. use a variety of GIS software programs to create maps and reports; 2. develop a sound knowledge of methods to search, obtain, and evaluate a wide variety of spatial data resources; 3. develop skills needed to determine best practices for managing spatial data resources; 4. use GIS to analyze the economic, social and environmental processes underlying the concept of building a sustainable world; 5. Gain an understanding of the limits of these technologies and make assessments of uncertainty associated with spatial data and spatial analysis models. Offered in the fall and spring.

• Department: Earth Institute
• W 1:10 p.m.-3:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Kytt J Macmanus
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• 3 points

RESEARCH SEMINAR IN HISTORY I

Prerequisites: Open to Barnard College History Senior Majors. Individual guided research and writing in history and the presentation of results in seminar and in the form of the senior essay. See Requirements for the Major for details.

• Department: History @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew C Lipman
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

METACOGNITION

Prerequisites: BC1001, and one psychology laboratory course; final enrollment determined on the first day of class Metacognition is one of the latest psychological buzzwords, but what exactly is metacognition? Metacognition enables us to be successful learners, problem solvers, and decision makers, and as often been used synonymously with words such as language, awareness, and consciousness. In this seminar, we will examine various components of metacognition, including its role in learning and memory, and its existence in various non-human populations. In addition, we will explore the fragility of metacognition, including illusions of confidence and harmful control strategies that people use. Readings will include classic and important recent papers in the field, looking at metacognition as a higher-level cognitive process, and as knowledge individuals use to guide behavior.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa K Son
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 4 points

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING PRACTICE

Design project planning, written and oral technical communication, the origin and role of standards, engineering ethics, and practical aspects of engineering as a profession, such as career development and societal and environmental impact. Generally taken fall of senior year just before ELEN E3390.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• M 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: David G Vallancourt
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 1 points

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING PRACTICE

Design project planning, written and oral technical communication, the origin and role of standards, engineering ethics, and practical aspects of engineering as a profession, such as career development and societal and environmental impact. Generally taken fall of senior year just before ELEN E3390.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• F 6 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: David G Vallancourt
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 1 points

Data Science and Health Equity in New Yo

This course, which has no pre-requisites, teaches students about data science and public health. Students will create and answer public health research questions related to health equity in NYC. The course will use publicly available NYC health data to learn the seven steps of data science: 1) writing a research question; 2) obtaining data to address the question; 3) data cleaning; 4) data exploration; (5) analysis; 6) replication and validity evaluation; and (7) presentation and summary. The course will introduce students to 
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• Department: Public Health
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• 3 points

HUMAN POPULATIONS & SDEV

• Department: Earth Institute
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Susana B Adamo
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• 3 points

SEMINAR IN GLOBAL THOUGHT

This course on global thought will consider the ways in which we think about, debate, and give meaning to the interconnected world in which we live. In thematically focused collaborative teams, students will examine how the flows of people, things and ideas across national borders both connect our world and create uneven consequences within and among communities. We will locate ourselves in these processes, suggesting we need go no further than our closets, tables, and street corners to consider the meanings of globalization and our roles in the world today. This course has been approved to partially satisfy the Global Core requirement.

• Department: Committee on Global Thought
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Laura L Neitzel
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

JAPANESE POP CULTURE

This course examines various aspects of Japanese pop culture including but not limited to manga, anime, pop idols, and otaku (primary consumers of Japanese pop culture). The course will also discuss why Japanese pop culture is popular outside Japan such as the US and how it has been tailored to the local culture.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Naofumi Tatsumi
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 2.5 points

DEMOCRACY & DICTATORSHIP IN EUROPE

This course will examine the development of democracies and dictatorships in Europe from the French Revolution to the present day. It will analyze the nature and dynamics of European political history and use the European experience as a foundation upon which to build a broader understanding of how different types of political regimes emerge, function and are sustained over time. Prior knowledge of European history and comparative politics is welcome, but not presumed.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Sheri Berman
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia h-index: None Info
• 4 points

SOUND DESIGN

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor given at first class meeting. Studies the art and practice of designing sound and scoring music for dramatic performance. Students study the relationship between concert and incidental music, and read plays toward the production of a score for live theatre. Students also read broadly in the fields of sound, music, acoustics, and the cultural analysis of sound as a component of performance. Background in music or composition not essential. . Fulfills one of three courses in performance fields for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors: design.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• MF 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Baker
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• 3 points

ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE

Prerequisites: (biol un2005 and biol un2006) or (biol un2401 and biol un2402) The goal of this seminar is to provide an in-depth analysis of the ongoing threat of antimicrobial resistance. Discussions will include the molecular mechanisms, diverse epidemiology of transmission, the consequences of antimicrobial resistance and efforts to reduce the further emergence and spread of these pathogens both in the community and in healthcare settings. In the process, you learn a fair amount of medical microbiology.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Franklin Lowy
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• 3 points

SCENE DESIGN

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 12 students. Permission of instructor given at first class meeting. Introduction to designing for the theatre. The course will focus on set design, developing skills in script analysis, sketching, model making, storyboarding and design presentation. Some investigation into theatre architecture, scenic techniques and materials, and costume and lighting design. Fulfills one of three courses in performance fields for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors: design.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• MWF 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Sandra Goldmark
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

THIRD-YEAR GRAMMAR & COMP

Prerequisites: FREN UN3405 must be taken before FREN UN3333/4 unless the student has an AP score of 5 or the director of undergraduate studies permission. The goal of FREN UN3405 is to help students improve their grammar and perfect their writing and reading skills, especially as a preparation for taking literature or civilization courses, or spending a semester in a francophone country. Through the study of two full-length works of literature and a number of short texts representative of different genres, periods, and styles, they will become more aware of stylistic nuances, and will be introduced to the vocabulary and methods of literary analysis. Working on the advanced grammar points covered in this course will further strengthen their mastery of French syntax. They will also be practicing writing through a variety of exercises, including pastiches and creative pieces, as well as typically French forms of academic writing such as “résumé,” “explication de texte,” and “dissertation.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Samuel Skippon
  CULPA: 13 Info
• Instructor: Pascale Crepon
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Marie-Helene Koffi-Tessio
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

PROBLEMS IN DESIGN

Prerequisites: Some design experience is helpful, though not required. Enrollment limited to 12 students. Studio-based course explores the main elements of theatrical design: sets, costumes, lighting, and sound through objects, materials, theatrical and non-theatrical environments. Students examine these design elements as both individual and interrelated components within a performance. Fulfills one course in Design requirement for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors. Fulfills one of three courses in performance fields for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors: design.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• MWR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Kara M Feely
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• 3 points

COMPUTER GRAPHICS & DESIGN

Introduction to drafting, engineering graphics, computer graphics, solid modeling, and mechanical engineering design. Interactive computer graphics and numerical methods applied to the solution of mechanical engineering design problems. A laboratory fee of $175 is collected.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Sinisa Vukelic
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

SEMINAR IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Clin Psy:Depressive Disorders

This course offers an in-depth examination of depressive disorders, including major depressive disorder, persistant depressive disorder, post-partum depression, premenstrual dysmorphic disorder, and pediatric depression.   Topics include historical perspectives, current understanding of diagnoses and symptoms, neural changes associated with the disorders, and research on effective treatments.  Emphasis will be placed on the impact of depressive disorders on families and communities, as well as gender and cultural differences in diagnosis, treatment and outcomes.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• MF 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Kathleen M Taylor
  CULPA: 78 Info
• 4 points

MACHINE DESIGN

Prerequisites: (MECE E3408) MECE E3408 Computer-aided analysis of general loading states and deformation of machine components using singularity functions and energy methods. Theoretical introduction to static failure theories, fractre mechanics, and fatigue failure theories. Introduction to conceptual design and design optimization problems. Design of machine components such as springs, shafts, fasteners, lead screws, rivets, welds. Modeling, analysis, and testing of machine assemblies for prescribed design problems. Problems will be drawn from statics, kinematics, dynamics, solid modeling, stress analysis, and design optimization.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Yevgeniy Yesilevskiy
  h-index: 7 Info
• 3 points

COMPUTERS AND SOCIETY

Broader impact of computers. Social networks and privacy. Employment, intellectual property, and the media. Science and engineering ethics. Suitable for nonmajors.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ronald Baecker
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• 3 points

COLLOQUIUM ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN A DIVERSE

COLL:HUMAN RGTS DIVERSE W

Examination of human rights within the context of international migration. The course covers topics such as citizenship, state sovereignty, border control, asylum-seekers, refugees, and undocumented immigrants. (Cross-listed by the Human Rights Program.)

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Ayten Gundogdu
  CULPA: 20 h-index: 8 Info
• 4 points

SYMBOLIC LOGIC

Corequisites: PHILV3413 Required Discussion Section (0 points). Advanced introduction to classical sentential and predicate logic. No previous acquaintance with logic is required; nonetheless a willingness to master technicalities and to work at a certain level of abstraction is desirable.

• Department: Philosophy
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Tamar A Lando
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

DEMOCRACY & DICTATORSHIP EUR-DIS

DEMOCRACY&DICTATORSHIP EU

REQUIRED DISCUSSION SECTION FOR POLS UN3401

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• W 2 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
• W 3 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• R 4 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
• R 5 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
• R 8 a.m.-8:50 a.m.
• F 8 a.m.-8:50 a.m.
• 0 points

COLL: BUILDING PEACE

How can we build peace in the aftermath of extensive violence? How can international actors help in this process? This colloquium focuses on international peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding efforts in recent conflicts. It covers general concepts, theories, and debates, as well as specific cases of peacebuilding successes and failures. Cross-listed with Human Rights.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Severine Autesserre
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia h-index: 14 Info
• 4 points

INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMETRICS

Prerequisites: (ECON UN3211 or ECON UN3213) and (MATH UN1201 or MATH UN1207) and STAT UN1201 Modern econometric methods; the general linear statistical model and its extensions; simultaneous equations and the identification problem; time series problems; forecasting methods; extensive practice with the analysis of different types of data.

• Department: Economics
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Seyhan Erden
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Michael C Best
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 8 Info
• 4 points

PRINTMAKING:DRAWING INTO PRINT

Prerequisites: VIAR UN2420 or VIAR UN2430 note that VIAR UN2430 was formerly R3420. The objective of the course is to provide students with an interdisciplinary link between drawing, photography and printmaking through an integrated studio project. Students will use drawing, printmaking and collage to create a body of work to be presented in a folio format. In the course, students develop and refine their drawing sensibility, and are encouraged to experiment with various forms of non-traditional printmaking. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• T 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Ivan L Forde
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• 3 points

NINETEENTH-CENTURY CRITICISM

Prerequisites: junior or senior standing, and the instructors permission. This course examines a diverse selection of texts that have a crucial bearing on the formation of concepts of modernity and on new aesthetic practices in nineteenth-century Europe and North America. Using works of art theory, fiction, poetry, and social criticism, the seminar will trace the emergence and development of new models of cultural and subjective experience and their relation to social and historical processes. Readings include work by Diderot, Schiller, Shelley, Carlyle, Poe, Baudelaire, Ruskin, Emerson, Huysmans, Pater, Nietzsche and Henry Adams.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan K Crary
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

INTRO TO ECONOMETRICS-DIS

Required discussion section for ECON UN3412: Intro to Econometrics

• Department: Economics
• 0 points

SYMBOLIC LOGIC - REC

Required discussion section for UN3411 Symbolic Logic

• Department: Philosophy
• F 11:10 a.m.-noon
• T 7:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• R 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Christian A Jensen
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• Instructor: Ching Hei Yau
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• Instructor: Samara E Burns
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• 0 points

Medieval Revival: Collecting, Copying, a

MEDIEVAL REVIVAL

From the mid-eighteenth century through the early twentieth century, a fascination with the medieval world and its aesthetics would influence architecture, art collecting, and art movements like the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain and the United States. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this course explores works of art and architecture inspired by the vogue for medieval revival, theorizing them in relation to Romanticism, nationalism, and anti-modernism. This course will simultaneously explore the way that the discipline of medieval art history and the history of collecting has been shaped by these narratives.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Olivia E Clemens
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• 4 points

INTRO-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES I

Prerequisites: FREN UN3405 Advanced Grammar and Composition or an AP score of 5 or the director of undergraduate studies' permission. Examines conceptions of culture and civilization in France from the Enlightenment to the Exposition Coloniale of 1931, with an emphasis on the historical development and ideological foundations of French colonialism. Authors and texts include: the Encyclopédie; the Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen; the Code noir; Diderot; Chateaubriand; Tocqueville; Claire de Duras; Renan; Gobineau; Gauguin; Drumont.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Tommaso Manfredini
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• 3 points

ENG DES-CONCPT/DESIGN GENERATN

Prerequisites: Senior standing. Corequisites: MECE E3409 A preliminary design for an original project is a pre-requisite for the Capstone Design course. This course will focus on the steps required for generating a preliminary design concept. Included will be a brainstorming concept generation phase, a literature search, incorporation of multiple constraints, adherence to appropriate engineering codes and standards, and the production of a layout drawing of the proposed capstone design project in a Computer Aided Design (CAD) software package.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• MW 1:30 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Yevgeniy Yesilevskiy
  h-index: 7 Info
• 3 points

Discovering Everyday Life in Modern Chin

This course introduces students to the everyday experiences of individuals, families, and communities in rural and urban China from the late Qing to the contemporary era. Based on extensive reading and discussion on academic literature, selected primary sources, and contemporary visual materials, the course will equip the students with the knowledge and skill to appreciate the dynamics and craft of history from the perspective of the everyday. There are no prerequisites to the course. All course materials are in English. Knowledge of Mandarin is useful but not required.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Yanjie Huang
  h-index: 7 Info
• 4 points

Computational Sound

COMPUTATIONAL SOUND

In this course, we explore the variety of roles that computation can play in the analysis, creation, and performance of music. We start with the fundamentals of sound in the digital domain, covering issues of representation and audio synthesis. We then move through various synthesis techniques including the additive, subtractive, frequency modulation (FM), and amplitude modulation (AM) synthesis. After covering some core DSP techniques, we put these concepts into performative practice by exploring “live coding”. In the space of live coding, we examine various programming language designs to understand how various domain specific languages (DSLs) support live coding. For the third module, we turn our focus to automated composition and analysis, addressing challenges in music information retrieval, generative art, and autonomous improvisation systems. All the while, we continue to develop our fluency in live coding by putting new topics to practice.

• Department: Computer Science @Barnard
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Santolucito
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

RUSSIAN FOR HERITAGE SPEAKERS

Prerequisites: RUSS V3430 or the instructor's permission. This course is designed to help students who speak Russian at home, but have no or limited reading and writing skills to develop literary skills in Russian. THIS COURSE, TAKEN WITH RUSS V3431, MEET A TWO YEAR FOREIGN LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT. Conducted in Russian.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Alla Smyslova
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 3 points

PRINTMAKING II: RELIEF

Prerequisites: VIAR UN2430 (Formerly R3412) Printmaking II: Relief continues instruction and demonstration of further techniques in woodcut. Encourages students to think visually more in the character of the medium, and personal development is stressed. Individual and group critiques. Portfolio required at end. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• MW 9:30 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Nathan N Catlin
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• 3 points

Chinese Revolution, Asian Revolution, Wo

Chinese Revolution: 20th

This course examines the Chinese Revolution as a global event, one that provided new possibilities for understanding the future not only of China, but Asia and the world. In doing so, it refuses any notion of the Chinese Revolution as a merely "Chinese" event and instead marks the ways in which diverse sets of activists and revolutionaries from across Asia not only contributed towards the formation of Chinese revolutionary politics but also responded on their own terms. The Chinese Revolution thereby emerges as a truly global event and one that transformed political imagination. The course focuses largely on the responses and trajectories of Asian revolutionaries, especially from Vietnam and Japan, whose intellectual and political paths intersected with those of Chinese activists. Students can expect to work through the diverse intellectual interventions of pan-Asian diasporic communities in Japan at the beginning of the twentieth century, read interwar proletarian fiction from Chinese and Japanese authors, compare Chinese and Vietnamese conceptualizations of "people's war" as an anti-colonial military strategy. They will emerge with a new understanding of the porousness and complexity of basic categories such as China, Asia and revolution.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Benjamin J Kindler
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• 4 points

LANGUAGE & REVOLUTION

Prerequisites: Third-year bridge course (W3300), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350). Kants Enlightenment motto, sapere aude, took on political significance for Spanish American revolutionaries who made their case in prose, pushing against the constraints of the essay. This course traces the genres evolution from the transatlantic debate over political independence to the exuberant declarations of intellectual independence that would follow.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• MTWR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ronald D Briggs
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

SHRINKING CITIES

While some cities thrive and struggle to house the global majority, others struggle with the effects of urban shrinkage—population loss, disinvestment  and abandonment. The path to urban decline is paved by social, economic and spatial forces that result in shrinking cities. This class explores how to understand and engage with urban decline. It includes a consideration of sundry efforts to reverse, live with, and rethink urban decline in a variety of locales. The hope is that this exercise will shed light not only on iconic declining places like Detroit, but also on the nature of uneven development and how it is the rule rather than the anomalous exception within capitalist urbanization. Course materials draw on disciplines such as planning, economics, architecture, history and sociology to help understand urban decline and its outcomes from a variety of perspectives. Over the course of the semester, we will investigate larger processes—globalization, deindustrialization and socioeconomic change—to understand how cities and communities responded to the consequences of these forces.  We will engage with the global literature on shrinking cities but will be focused primarily on exploring the dynamics of shrinkage in US cities. To that end, following a wide-reaching examination of nation-wide phenomena, we will study in-depth a sample of cities to understand local and regional variations and responses. How do we treat cities that do not grow? Given the constrained or complete lack of resources in these places, to what extent should some cities be allowed to “die”? What is the impact on the residents that remain in these places?

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-2:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mary Rocco
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

The Decolonial Appeal: Desiring Decoloni

Contemporary sites of representation - museums and institutions - operating in a readymade terrain of settler colonial
public secrets, have increasingly been called upon, from within and without, to reckon with their own entanglements, to
decolonize. Responses to this appeal reveal the difficulties of navigating in the wake of contradictions left by partial past
attempts. As institutional moves risk recurrent denials of contemporaneity and slippages into neo-primitivism, manifesting
as symptoms of the creation of museums as sites with a dependence on racialized territorial dispossession and
foundational displacement, with the inheritance of collections, sites of containment, and conditions of display as legacies
to uphold, how can we escape entrapment? In this course, through comparative analysis of texts, film screenings, and events of currency, augmented by site visits and
interactions with visiting art world practitioners and cultural informants, we will create space to examine strategies in the
age of contested progressivisms, to confront and evaluate risks and rewards of variant approaches, of art practice,
advocacy and activism. This class offers an opportunity to address the tenability of methodologies and strategies arising
from this appeal, to increase our ability to propose and enact speculative and effective models for engagement.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jackson Polys
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• 4 points

COLL: GENDER & PUBLIC POLICY

In this course, we will examine how notions of sex and gender have shaped public policies, and how public policies have affected the social, economic, and political citizenship of men and women in the United States over time.

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

WOMEN AND LEADERSHIP

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor. Limited to 15. Examination of the social conditions and linguistic practices that have shaped the historical and contemporary gendering of leadership, power, and authority in the United States and around the world. Through examples drawn from the social, political, and economic worlds, we will explore leadership in varying racial, class, and regional contexts.

• Department: Athena Center for Leadership Studies @Barnard
• MF 10:10 a.m.-noon
• 4 points

EVOL-INTELLIGENC/CONSCIOUSNESS

Prerequisites: PSYC UN1001, and the instructors permission. A systematic review of the evolution language covering the theory of evolution, conditioning theory, animal communication, ape language experiments, infant cognition, preverbal antecedents of language and contemporary theories of language.

• Department: Psychology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Herbert S Terrace
  CULPA: 29 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

TPCS IN SEXUALITY AND GENDER LAW

TPCS IN SEXUALITY & GENDER LAW

As society shifts in its views about sexuality and gender, so too does the law. Indeed, legal developments in this area have been among the most dynamic of the past couple of decades. Yet law does not map easily or perfectly onto lived experience, and legal arguments do not necessarily track the arguments made in public debate. In this seminar, we will explore the evolving jurisprudence of sexuality and gender law in a variety of areas. Our goal throughout the semester will be to understand and think about these issues as lawyers do - with our primary focus on understanding and evaluating the arguments that can be made on both (or all) sides of any particular case, with some attention to the factors outside of the courtroom that might shape how courts approach their work. Related to this, we will also seek to understand how and why some of the jurisprudence has changed over time.

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Suzanne Goldberg
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• 3 points

Women Artists in Eighteenth-Century Euro

Women Artists in 18th-C E

This seminar will examine the career and artistic production of women artists in the long eighteenth century in Europe, with a specific focus on Italy, France and Britain. Recent research has shown that many women managed to become professional artists during this period. But how successful were they? And what did their work consist of? To date, the historical recovery of data about their career and oeuvre remains a work in progress. In contrast, the few women artists who reached international fame in the eighteenth-century – in part because they were members of otherwise overwhelmingly male art academies – have received significant scholarly attention by art historians that include Angela Rosenthal and Mary Sheriff, among others, and have been the subject of important monographic exhibitions in the past two decades. In light of this state of the research, we will study the cases of canonical artists, such as Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807), as well as the cases of still understudied (yet sufficiently documented) artists, such as Marie Geneviève Bouliar (1763-1825). Our primary task will be to examine the different ways in which women who became artists navigated the eighteenth-century social order – an order where the terms “woman” and “professional artist” were commonly understood as contradictory – and analyze their art with a critical understanding of the expectations, aesthetic and otherwise, that they were held to. Topics of discussion will include: training; the hierarchy of genres; women artists and media, including miniature, engraving and sculpture; self-portraiture and gender expectations; women artists and art criticism; and emulation and authorship.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Frederique Baumgartner
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

VICE AND VIRTUE

When Colombian novelist and literary critic Soledad Acosta de Samper declared in 1895 that the cause of “moralizing” Spanish American society was a task that female writers shared with the rest of the continent’s women, she was, in effect, placing a gender claim on a very old notion of the purpose of literature. A hundred years before the Peruvian-born Pablo de Olavide had begun his long epistolary novel (
El evangelio en triunfo
) by lamenting that the publishing industry of his era had not yet managed to harness its resources into a single volume that would make Christian doctrine and morality palatable to enlightened readers. What both writers shared was a sense of the imperceptible ability of narrative to transmit moral sensibility. This power—U.S. educational reformer Charles Brooks would call it “moral electricity”—served at once as a justification and a social charge for writers and publishers. Believers in the book as the media force capable of shifting social consciousness, the writers and critics of nineteenth-century Latin America peppered their works with equal parts optimism and dread, as the same art that renders virtue desirable could be turned over to the service of vice. Their new or at least newly distributed art conjured a notion of the American hemisphere on the one hand as a new moral Paradise and on the other as a place where the battle against moral chaos could still go disastrously wrong.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• MTWR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ronald D Briggs
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

Field Work & Research Seminar: Toddler C

FLDWRK-RSRCH SEM-BAR TOD CNTR

PSYC BC1129/2129 (with or without lab) as well as permission of the instructor. The Barnard Toddler Center provides the focus for this seminar and research in applied developmental psychology, an amalgam of developmental, educational, and clinical psychology. The seminar integrates theory and research and for AY 20-21 will use daily recordings of the toddler sessions as the centerpiece for understanding early development. The unique context of Covid19 will be used to understand risks in development, especially for vulnerable children and families. Second term students will also conduct research on parenting during the pandemic.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• T 12:50 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Tovah Klein
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

Aestheticism: Art and Life

A host of developments in the art cultures of nineteenth-century Europe and America prompted a widespread, manifold debate about the nature and function of art and aesthetic experience.  Expanding access to art in great public collections and exhibitions, which offered newly immediate and arresting contact with artworks, left many viewers in a puritanical culture grappling with the sheer power of these works.  What sort of satisfactions did these images afford?  Were the pleasures they aroused in some way dangerous, at odds with conventional morality and belief, even with the values ostensibly inherent in the images they presented?  How might those provocations by received by different portions of an increasingly large and variegated audience?  Might their challenges to convention be a stimulus to new modes of organizing life and experience, both personal and social?   Or was their cultivation a symptom of social decadence or decline? These challenges were taken up in a wide and varied array of literature and art that has become known as “aestheticism.”  This seminar focuses on the development of aestheticism in England, with glances at France and America, over the period of roughly 1830-1900.  We’ll begin with early poetic musings on the moral burdens of art and the artist’s relations to society, particularly in the works of Tennyson and Browning.  These works also introduce a recurrent preoccupation of the course, the power of art and aesthetic pleasure to unsettle conventional norms of gender and sexuality.  We’ll then move to an array of critical reflection prompted by the new prominence of visual art in England, most notably John Ruskin—the single most influential of all English art critics—and Walter Pater, whose 1873 volume,
The Renaissance
, became the most important text of English aestheticism (Oscar Wilde called it “the Golden Book”; George Eliot pronounced it “poisonous”).  We’ll see these concerns further developed in mid-century painting, most notably the aesthetic movement known as “Pre-Raphaelitism,” and a host of poetry associated with the movement (D.G. Rossetti was a major figure as both a painted and a poet).  The work of Ruskin and William Morris directed aesthetic reflection towards reflection on labor and social reform, which flourished in the ideals attached to the “Arts & Crafts” movement near the end of the century.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: James E Adams
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 4 points

Covid-19 and Care Work: An Oral History

COVID AND CARE WORK: ORAL

In this seminar students will conduct oral histories of essential service and care workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis, develop a conceptual and theoretical framework for service and care work, and be trained in the art of oral history. They will interrogate the archive, discuss oral history as a methodological approach and historical source and will be trained in the technical skills of preparing a consent form, formulating questions, using recording equipment, and transcribing interviews.  We will be collaborating with the Columbia Oral History Archive, the Columbia M.A. Oral History Program and IMATS. This course builds upon the instructor’s research and writing about care and domestic work. Students will examine the gendered and racialized history of the expanding service sector in the 20th century, interrogating the language of “care work” and what Arlie Hochschild called the emotional labor that is central to it. Students will analyze how the notion of care has become a form of coercion making it difficult for workers to establish boundaries or make demands.

• Department: History @Barnard
• TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Premilla Nadasen
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

CRITICAL PERIODS IN BRAIN

• Department: Psychology
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Sarah E Canetta
  Info
• 4 points

POST 9/11 IMMIGRATION POLICIES

Since September 11, 2001, there has been an avalanche of immigration enforcement policies and initiatives proposed or implemented under the guise of national security. This course will analyze the domino effect of the Patriot Act, the Absconder Initiative, Special Registration, the Real I.D. Act, border security including the building of the 700-mile fence along the U.S./Mexico border, Secured Communities Act-that requires the cooperation of state and local authorities in immigration enforcement, the challenge to birthright citizenship, and now the congressional hearings on Islamic radicalization. Have these policies been effective in combating the war on terrorism and promoting national security? Who stands to benefit from these enforcement strategies? Do immigrant communities feel safer in the U.S.? How have states joined the federal bandwagon of immigration enforcement or created solutions to an inflexible, broken immigration system?

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Elizabeth Ouyang
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

THE GLOBAL COLD WAR

• Department: History
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul T Chamberlin
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

BRAZILIAN SOCIETY & CIV (ENG)

Each week, a historical period is studied in connection to a particular theme of ongoing cultural expression. While diverse elements of popular culture are included, fiction is privileged as a source of cultural commentary. Students are expected to assimilate the background information but are also encouraged to develop their own perspective and interest, whether in the social sciences, the humanities (including the fine arts), or other areas.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Iuri Bauler Pereira
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

NEUROSCIENCE AND SOCIETY

Prerequisites: Science of Psychology (PSYC 1001) or Mind, Brain, & Behavior (PSYC 1010), or equivalent introductory psychology course. Students who have not taken one of these courses may also be admitted with instructor permission. This course investigates the ways in which research in human neuroscience both reflects and informs societal issues. Topics include how neuroscience research is interpreted and applied in areas such as healthcare, education, law, consumer behavior, and public policy.

• Department: Psychology
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Jenna M Reinen
  Info
• 3 points

INDEP BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: Concurrent with registering for this course, a student must register with the department and provide a written invitation from a mentor; details of this procedure are available at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/w3500/index.htm. Students must register for recitations UN3510 or consult the instructor. Corequisites: BIOL UN3510 The course involves independent study, faculty-supervised laboratory projects in contemporary biology. Concurrent with registering for this course, a student must register with the department, provide a written invitation from a mentor and submit a research proposal; details of this procedure are available at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/w3500/index.htm. A paper summarizing results of the work is required by the last day of finals for a letter grade; no late papers will be accepted. See the course web site (above) for more details. Students can take anywhere from 2-4 points for this course.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• Instructor: Ron M Prywes
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 2-4 points

READINGS IN JEWISH LITERATURE: American

READ:HUMOR-MOD JEWISH LIT(ENG)

This year has been designated the three hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Jewish life in America. In examining the work of some of the greatest Jewish writers to live in America – writers in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish, some well known, some less so – this course hopes to answer several related questions. How are the changing fortunes of American Jews reflected in their literary creativity? How does Jewish multilingualism – not only seen in different works, but within the same work – affect modes and styles of Jewish writing? And, perhaps most importantly, how does one define American Jewish writing in an age of increasingly complex affiliations and identifications among American Jews?

• Department: Germanic Languages
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeremy Dauber
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED READINGS IN PHYSICS

Prerequisites: the written permission of the faculty member who agrees to act as supervisor, and the director of undergraduate studies permission. Readings in a selected field of physics under the supervision of a faculty member. Written reports and periodic conferences with the instructor.

• Department: Physics
• Instructor: Jeremy R Dodd
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 3 points

COLL:POLIT ECON:CORRPTN/CONTRL

Prerequisites: POLS V1501 or the equivalent. Admission by application through the Barnard department only. Enrollment limited to 16 students. Barnard syllabus. Comparative political economy course which addresses some important questions concerning corruption and its control: the concept, causes, patterns, consequences, and control of corruption. Introduces students to and engages them in several key social science debates on the causes and effects of political corruption.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Xiaobo Lu
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

BEGINNING VIDEO

Beginning Video is an introductory class on the production and editing of digital video. Designed as an intensive hands-on production/post-production workshop, the apprehension of technical and aesthetic skills in shooting, sound and editing will be emphasized. Assignments are developed to allow students to deepen their familiarity with the language of the moving image medium. Over the course of the term, the class will explore the language and syntax of the moving image, including fiction, documentary and experimental approaches. Importance will be placed on the decision making behind the production of a work; why it was conceived of, shot, and edited in a certain way. Class time will be divided between technical workshops, viewing and discussing films and videos by independent producers/artists and discussing and critiquing students projects. Readings will be assigned on technical, aesthetic and theoretical issues. Only one section offered per semester. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• T 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Shelly Silver
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

URBANIZING CHINA

This course investigates the dramatic urban transformation that has taken place in mainland China over the last four decades. The speed and scale of this transformation have produced emergent new lifeways, settlement patterns, and land uses that increasingly blur the distinction between urban and rural areas. At the same time, Chinese society is still characterized by rigid, administrative divisions between the nation’s urban and rural sectors, with profound consequences for people’s lives and livelihoods. The course therefore examines the intersection between the rapid transformation of China’s built environment and the glacial transformation of its administrative categories. We will take an interdisciplinary approach to this investigation, using perspectives from architecture, history, geography, political science, anthropology, urban planning, and cultural studies, among other disciplines. The course is divided into two parts: Over the first five weeks, we will consider the historical context of China’s urbanization and its urban-rural relations, including the imperial, colonial, and socialist periods, as well as the current period of reform. In the remainder of the semester, we will turn our focus to contemporary processes of urbanization, with a particular emphasis on the complex interrelationship between urban and rural China. This portion of the semester is organized into three two-week units on land and planning, housing and demolition, and citizenship and personhood.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• MTWR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Nick R Smith
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• 3 points

Contemporary Arts of Africa

This course takes up a question posed by Terry Smith and applies it to Africa: "Who gets to say what counts as contemporary art?" It will investigate the impact of modernity, modernism, and increasing globalism on artistic practices with a special focus on three of the major centers for contemporary art in sub-Saharan Africa: Senegal, South Africa, Nigeria.
Some of the topics covered will be: the emergence of new media (such as photography or cinema), the creation of "national" cultures, experiments in Pan-Africanism, diasporic consciousness, and the rise of curators as international culture-brokers. The course will examine the enthusiastic embrace by African artists of the biennial platform as a site for the production of contemporary art. What differential impact has French vs. British colonialism left on the arts? How are contemporary artists responding to calls for restitution on African cultural heritage?

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Zoe S Strother
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

COLL: MAKING DEMOCRACY WORK

Prerequisites: POLS V1501 or the equivalent. Admission by application through the Barnard department only. Enrollment limited to 16 students. Barnard syllabus. Examination of democratic consolidation and promotion. What makes democracy work and what, if anything, can outside actors do to help this process along? Topics include the theoretical literature on democratic consolidation, historical cases of intervention, debates about Americas role in promoting democracy, and examination of some of the research on democracy promotion. (Cross-listed by the Europen Studies and Human Rights Programs.)

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sheri Berman
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia h-index: None Info
• 4 points

INDEP BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH - REC

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 5:40 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• R 5:40 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Ron M Prywes
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 0 points

BIOCHEM I-STRUCT/METABOLSM-REC

How does life work on a molecular level? Why do we succumb to disease, and how can we create new cures? This course will explore the biochemistry of life and how this knowledge can be harnessed to create new medicines. You will learn how cells convert environmental resources into energy through metabolism, how cellular molecules function, and how to use this biochemical knowledge for drug discovery related to neurodegeneration, cancer, and the current SARS-CoV-2 COVID19 pandemic. At the conclusion of the course, you will be able to diagram the major metabolic pathways and compare how these pathways are dysregulated in normal tissues in and disease states, and to design your own drug discovery program to create therapeutic for diseases such as COVID-19. In addition, you will know what techniques are used to uncover biochemical knowledge and how to design and interpret relevant experiments. You will be capable of collaborating with other people in the analysis and interpretation of biochemical data, and be able to communicate, defend and refute interpretations of data. You will learn how to create an original research proposal in the form of a research grant application. Having completed one year of college-level biology and one year of organic chemistry will be helpful to maximally benefit from this course. This course satisfies the requirement of most medical schools for introductory biochemistry, and is suitable for advanced undergraduates, and beginning graduate students; this replaces the previous UN3501 course.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• M 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• M 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
• T 4:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• T 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• W 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Brent R Stockwell
  CULPA: 14 Wikipedia h-index: 79 Info
• 0 points

Exiles, enclosures, dystopias. COVID-19

EXILES ENCLOSURES DYST -

Used as punishment since antiquity for the political and social dissidents, exile, penal colonies, concentration camps, asylums, and prisons have been produced as conceptual and concrete spaces where constructions of the body politic have been contested. How does the experience of the spatialized body produce social and political subjectivities, especially with the employment of discourses of inclusion and exclusion, of grafting and excising onto and from the body politic?  And how does this body politic get re-produced through the double experience of incarceration and a deadly pandemic that can be survived only through radical isolation? This course explores the concepts of isolation and incarceration along the axis of discourses of health—the health of the citizen and the health of society, as it unfolds in two phases: first an introduction to ethnographic methodology in order to produce ethnographic material on the experience of double segregation: incarceration through the criminal justice system and then isolation through the public health system. Students will be asked to read short texts on ethnographic methods in order to be able to write self-ethnographies on their own experience. In the second phase the students will be asked to conduct short, salvage fieldwork with friends, and family about the effects of this double isolation on their social realities. Students will then be asked to prepare texts that present as richly as possible the current landscape of their lives.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Neni K Panourgia
  CULPA: 27 Info
• 3 points

HIST APPROACHES FEMINIST QUES

Comparative study of gender, race, and sexuality through specific historical, socio-cultural contexts in which these systems of power have operated. With a focus on social contexts of slavery, colonialism, and modern capitalism for the elaboration of sex-gender categories and systems across historical time.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Neferti Tadiar
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

STUDIES IN U.S. IMPERIALISM

Historical, comparative study of the cultural effects and social experiences of U.S. imperialism, with attention to race, gender and sexuality in practices of domination and struggle.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Neferti Tadiar
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

INTRO TO ASIAN AMERICAN LIT & CULTURE

This course is a survey of Asian North American literature and its contexts. To focus our discussion, the course centers on examining recurring cycles of love and fear in Asian North American relations from the late nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. We will first turn to what became known as “yellow peril,” one effect of exclusion laws that monitored the entrance of Asians into the United States and Canada during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the corresponding phenomenon of Orientalism, the fascination with a binary of Asia and the West. The second section of the course will focus on how Asian North American authors respond to later cycles of love and fear, ranging from the forgetting of Japanese internment in North America and the occupation of the Philippines; to the development of the model minority mythology during the Cold War. The final section will examine intimacies and exclusions in contemporary forms of migration, diaspora, and community communities.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Denise Cruz
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

CIVIL RIGHTS &CIVIL LIBERTIES

Prerequisites: POLS W1201 or the equivalent. Not an introductory-level course. Not open to students who have taken the colloquium POLS BC3326. Enrollment limited to 25 students; L-course sign-up through eBear. Barnard syllabus. Explores seminal caselaw to inform contemporary civil rights and civil liberties jurisprudence and policy. Specifically, the readings examine historical and contemporary first amendment values, including freedom of speech and the press, economic liberties, takings law, discrimination based on race, gender, class and sexual preference, affirmative action, the right to privacy, reproductive freedom, the right to die, criminal procedure and adjudication, the rights of the criminally accused post-9/11 and the death penalty. (Cross-listed by the American Studies and Human Rights Programs.)

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Paula A Franzese
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SENIOR SEMINAR I

The Senior Seminar in Women's Studies offers you the opportunity to develop a capstone research paper by the end of the first semester of your senior year. Senior seminar essays take the form of a 25-page paper based on original research and characterized by an interdisciplinary approach to the study of women, sexuality, and/or gender. You must work with an individual advisor who has expertise in the area of your thesis and who can advise you on the specifics of method and content. Your grade for the semester will be determined by the instructor and the advisor. Students receiving a grade of B+ or higher in Senior Seminar I will be invited to register for Senior Seminar II by the Instructor and the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Senior Seminar II students will complete a senior thesis of 40-60 pages. Please note, the seminar is restricted to Columbia College and GS senior majors.

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Vanessa L Agard-Jones
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

SEN SEM:KNWLDG PRCTCE POWER

Student-designed capstone research projects offer practical lessons about how knowledge is produced, the relationship between knowledge and power, and the application of interdisciplinary feminist methodologies.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Manijeh Moradian
  Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED SENIOR STUDIO I

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 15 students. Permission of the instructor. An interpretive study of the theoretical and critical issues in visual art. Projects that are modeled after major movements in contemporary art will be executed in the studio. Each student develops an original body of artwork and participates in group discussions of the assigned readings. For further info visit: 
https://arthistory.barnard.edu/senior-thesis-project-art-history-and-visual-arts-majors

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Irena Haiduk
  Info
• 4 points

AUTOCRACY AND DEMOCRACY

With longstanding democracies in Europe and the US faltering, autocratic regimes in Russia and China consolidating, and hybrid regimes that mix elements of democracy and autocracy on the rise, scholars, policymakers, and citizens are re-evaluating the causes and consequences of different forms of government.  This course is designed to give students the tools to understand these trends in global politics. Among other topics, we will explore: How do democracies and autocracies differ in theory and in practice?  Why are some countries autocratic? Why are some democratic? What are the roots of democratic erosion?  How does economic inequality influence a country’s form of government? Is the current period of institutional foment different past periods of global instability?  This course will help students keep up with rapidly unfolding events, but is designed primarily to help them develop tools for interpreting and understanding the current condition of democracy and autocracy in the world.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Timothy M Frye
  CULPA: 8 Wikipedia h-index: 31 Info
• 3 points

JUNIOR SEMINAR IN URBAN STUDIES

JUNIOR SEM IN URBAN STUDIES

Prerequisites: Non-majors admitted by permission of instructor. Students must attend first class. Enrollment limited to 16 students per section. Introduction to the historical process and social consequences of urban growth, from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Mary Rocco
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Nick R Smith
  h-index: None Info
• 4 points

JUNIOR SEMINAR IN URBAN STUDIES

JUNIOR SEMINAR URBAN STUD

Prerequisites: Non-majors admitted by permission of instructor. Students must attend first class. Enrollment limited to 16 students per section. Introduction to the historical process and social consequences of urban growth, from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• MW 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Deborah Becher
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 4 Info
• 4 points