ARABIAN NIGHTS INFLUENCES

Prerequisites: Completion of one college-level literature course. Permission of instructor. This course examines the enduring power of The Arabian Nights and some of the wide range of literary authors, genres and variations that it has influenced. The focus is, therefore, on this marvelous work—one of the earliest examples of the short story and the novel—but also on a selection of classical and contemporary works of fiction from around the world that have been informed by it. In this regard, this is a class interested in literary influence, reciprocity and exchange across time and languages.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Hisham Matar
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Philosophical problems within science and about the nature of scientific knowledge in the 17th-20th centuries. Sample problems: causation and scientific explanation; induction and real kinds; verification and falsification; models, analogies and simulations; the historical origins of the modern sciences; scientific revolutions; reductionism and supervenience; differences between physics, biology and the social sciences; the nature of life; cultural evolution; human nature; philosophical issues in cosmology.

• Department: Philosophy
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jenann Ismael
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

The Seven Years War (1754-1763), Glob

THE SEVEN YEARS WAR

Prerequisites: History Majors Preferred This research seminar explores the causes, course, and consequences of the Seven Years’ War, arguably the first world war in modern history. Topics include the origins of the conflict in North America and in Europe, the relationship between imperial rivalry in the American colonies and the contest for supremacy in central Europe, the impact of the war on trade and settlement in South Asia, the West Indies, the Philippines, and West Africa, and the legacies of the conflict for British imperial expansion in India, North America, Senegal, and the southern Caribbean. During the second half of the semester, members of the seminar will devote the majority of their time to the research and writing of a substantial paper.

• Department: History
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher L Brown
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

DRUGS & POLITICS IN AMERICAS

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• MTWR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Eduardo Moncada
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

DANCES OF INDIA

A range of dance genres, from the traditional to the innovative, co-exist as representations of Indianness in India, and beyond. Identities onstage and in films, morph as colonial, national, and global contexts change. This course zooms from micro to macro views of twentieth century staged dances as culturally inflected discourse. We review how Indian classical dance aligns with the oldest of performance texts, and with lively discourses (rasa as a performance aesthetic, Orientalism, nationalism, global recirculations) through the ages, not only in India but also in Europe, Britain and America. Throughout the course, we ask:- How is culture embodied? How do historical texts configure dance today? How might they affect our thinking on mind-body, practice-theory, and traditional-contemporary divides? How does bodily patterning influence the ways that we experience our surroundings and vice versa? Can cultural imaginaries instigate action? How is gender is performed? What are dance discourses?

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Uttara Coorlawala
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

POOR IN AMERICA: THE EXPERIENCE AND IMPA

This course focuses on the life experiences and impact of poverty in the contemporary United States. We will be exploring the consequences of financial and material deprivation on work, housing, health, parenting, children, as well as the limits and opportunities for inter-generational mobility and how each of these intersect with gender, racial and ethnic identities. We will be learning about the experiences of individual persons as well as how these particular experiences reflect the overarching patterns of social, political and economic trends in the United States. The course will incorporate a diverse set of disciplinary perspectives to shed light on the challenges faced by persons living in poverty. In addition, there will be an emphasis on learning about and critically assessing methodological approaches applied in the literature. No prior knowledge of methods is required and any technical references will be explained in class.

• Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Rose Razaghian
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

SR SEM IN BIOLOGY

Required for all majors who do not select the year-long Senior Thesis Research & Seminar (BIOL BC3593 & BC3594) to fulfill their senior capstone requirement. These seminars allow students to explore the primary literature in the Biological Sciences in greater depth than can be achieved in a lecture course. Attention will be focused on both theoretical and empirical work. Seminar periods are devoted to oral reports and discussion of assigned readings and student reports. Students will write one extensive literature review of a topic related to the central theme of the seminar section. 
Topics vary per semester and include, but are not limited to:
 Plant Development
, 
Animal Development & Evolution,
 Molecular Evolution, Microbiology & Global Change, Genomics, Comparative & Reproductive Endocrinology, and Data Intensive Approaches in Biology.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Rishita Shah
  Info
• 4 points

GUIDED RESEARCH & SEMINAR

An independent research project in Biology under the guidance of a faculty member and suiting the needs of the individual student. A Barnard research mentor (if your lab is at Barnard) or internal adviser in the Biology Department (if your lab is elsewhere) must approve your planned research before you enroll in this year-long course. A  
Project Approval Form
 must be submitted to the department in the fall.  Attendance at a weekly seminar is required. By the end of the year, students enrolled in BIOL BC3591-BIOL BC3592 will write a scientific paper and give a poster presentation of their work at the Barnard Biology Research Symposium.  Completion of this year-long course fulfills two upper-level laboratory requirements for the major. Must be taken in sequence, beginning in the fall.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• M 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

Research and scholarly writing in chosen topics relating to dance. Methods of investigation are drawn from prominent archival collections and personal interviews, as well as other resources. Papers are formally presented to the Dance Department upon completion.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Seth S Williams
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS RESEARCH & SEMINAR

SR THESIS RESEARCH & SEMI

Same as BIOL BC3591-BIOL BC3592, including attendance at a weekly seminar. By the end of the year, students enrolled in BIOL BC3593-BIOL BC3594 will write a scientific paper and orally present their work at the Barnard Biology Research Symposium. A Barnard research mentor (if your lab is at Barnard) or internal adviser in the Biology Department (if your lab is elsewhere) must approve your planned research before you enroll in this year-long course. A  
Project Approval Form
 must be submitted to the department in the fall. Completion of this year-long course fulfills the senior capstone requirement for the major; it cannot be taken at the same time as BIOL BC3591-BIOL BC3592. Must be taken in sequence, beginning in the fall.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• M 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• 4 points

RSRCH/SEM-NEUROSCNCE&BEHAVIOR

Prerequisites: Open to senior Neuroscience and Behavior majors. Permission of the instructor. This is a year-long course. By the end of the spring semester program planning period during junior year, majors should identify the lab they will be working in during their senior year. Discussion and conferences on a research project culminate in a written and oral senior thesis. Each project must be supervised by a scientist working at Barnard or at another local institution. Successful completion of the seminar substitutes for the major examination.

• Department: Neuroscience & Behavior @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter D Balsam
  CULPA: 25 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth P Bauer
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 21 Info
• Instructor: Maria de la Paz Fernandez
  h-index: 11 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

A research and writing workshop designed to help students plan and execute a major research project, and communicate their ideas in a common scholarly language that crosses disciplinary boundaries. Content is determined by students thesis topics, and includes general sessions on how to formulate a proposal and how to generate a bibliography. Students present the fruits of their research in class discussions, culminating in a full-length seminar presentation and the submission of the written thesis.

• Department: Slavic Languages @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Emma K Lieber
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

INDEPENDENT PROJECT

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• 1-4 points

INDEPENDENT PROJECT

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• Instructor: Christina Vizcarra
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Michael Campbell
  Info
• 1-4 points

GUIDED RESEARCH

Similar to BIOL BC3591-BIOL BC3592, this is a one-semester course that provides students with degree credit for unpaid research 
without 
a seminar component. You may enroll in BIOL BC3597 for between 1-4 credits per semester. As a rule of thumb, you should be spending approximately 3 hours per week per credit on your research project. A 
Project Approval Form
 must be submitted to the department each semester that you enroll in this course. Your Barnard research mentor (if your lab is at Barnard) or internal adviser in the Biology Department (if your lab is elsewhere) must approve your planned research 
before
 you enroll in BIOL BC3597. You should sign up for your mentor's section.  This course does not fulfill any Biology major requirements.  It is open to students beginning in their first year.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• Instructor: Elizabeth P Bauer
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 21 Info
• Instructor: Hilary Callahan
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: John Glendinning
  CULPA: 23 h-index: 39 Info
• Instructor: Paul E Hertz
  CULPA: 22 Info
• Instructor: Allison Lopatkin
  h-index: 15 Info
• Instructor: Jennifer H Mansfield
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 15 Info
• Instructor: Jj L Miranda
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Brian Morton
  CULPA: 21 Info
• Instructor: Alison Pischedda
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 11 Info
• Instructor: Jonathan Snow
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 18 Info
• 1-4 points

PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• Instructor: Christian Rojas
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Marisa C Buzzeo
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Dina C Merrer
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Andrew C Crowther
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Michael Campbell
  Info
• Instructor: Subhasish Chatterjee
  h-index: 16 Info
• Instructor: Rachel Austin
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia h-index: 28 Info
• Instructor: Christina Vizcarra
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 2 points

PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• 2 points

PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• Instructor: Meenakshi S Rao
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 2 points

PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• Instructor: Christian Rojas
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Marisa C Buzzeo
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Dina C Merrer
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Andrew C Crowther
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Michael Campbell
  Info
• Instructor: Subhasish Chatterjee
  h-index: 16 Info
• Instructor: Rachel Austin
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia h-index: 28 Info
• Instructor: Christina Vizcarra
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• None None-None
• 4 points

REMEMBERING SLAVERY: CRITIQUING MODERN R

Mod Representations of Slavery

The enslavement of people of African descent signifies a crucial historical and cultural marker not only for African-Americans but also for Americans in general. We will interrogate how and why images of slavery continue to be invoked within the American sociocultural landscape (e.g., in films, documentaries, historical novels, and science fiction).

• Department: History @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Celia E Naylor
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

REHEARSAL & PERFRMNCE IN DANCE

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MWF 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• TR 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Caroline Fermin
  Info
• Instructor: Colleen Thomas
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 1-3 points

CLASSICAL CONTROL SYSTEMS

Prerequisites: (MATH UN2030) MATH V2030. Analysis and design of feedback control systems. Transfer functions; block diagrams; proportional, rate, and integral controllers; hardware, implementation. Routh stability criterion, root locus, Bode and Nyquist plots, compensation techniques.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard W Longman
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 45 Info
• 3 points

METAPHYSICS

Corequisites: PHIL V3611 Required Discussion Section (0 points). Systematic treatment of some major topics in metaphysics (e.g. modality, causation, identity through time, particulars and universals). Readings from contemporary authors.

• Department: Philosophy
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Justin Clarke-Doane
  h-index: 10 Info
• 4 points

Race, Medicine and Literature in 19th-Ce

RACE MED & LIT 19C BRAZIL

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Ana P Lee
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 2 Info
• 3 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

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. The course will be taken for a letter grade, regardless of whether the student chooses 1, 2, 3, or 4 credits. The expectations for each of these options are as follows: 1 credit, 3h/week commitment, 5-10 page "Research Report" at the end of the term; 2 credits, 6h/week commitment, 5-10 page "Research Report" at the end of the term; 3 credits, 9h/week commitment, 15-20 page "Research Report" at the end of the term; 4 credits, 12h/week commitment, 15-20 page "Research Report" at the end of the term. "Research Report" is a document submitted to the person grading the student, the instructor of record for the section in which the student has enrolled. If a student is working off-site, then input from the off-site research mentor will inform the grading. The "Research Report" can take a variety of forms: progress reports on data collected, training received, papers read, skills learned, etc.; or organized notes for lab notebooks, lab meetings, etc.; or manuscript-like papers with Intro, Methods, Results, Discussion; or some combination thereof, depending on the maturity of the project.  Ultimately, this will take different forms for different students/labs.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• Instructor: Peter D Balsam
  CULPA: 25 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. The course will be taken for a letter grade, regardless of whether the student chooses 1, 2, 3, or 4 credits. The expectations for each of these options are as follows: 1 credit, 3h/week commitment, 5-10 page "Research Report" at the end of the term; 2 credits, 6h/week commitment, 5-10 page "Research Report" at the end of the term; 3 credits, 9h/week commitment, 15-20 page "Research Report" at the end of the term; 4 credits, 12h/week commitment, 15-20 page "Research Report" at the end of the term. "Research Report" is a document submitted to the person grading the student, the instructor of record for the section in which the student has enrolled. If a student is working off-site, then input from the off-site research mentor will inform the grading. The "Research Report" can take a variety of forms: progress reports on data collected, training received, papers read, skills learned, etc.; or organized notes for lab notebooks, lab meetings, etc.; or manuscript-like papers with Intro, Methods, Results, Discussion; or some combination thereof, depending on the maturity of the project.  Ultimately, this will take different forms for different students/labs.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• Instructor: Robert Brotherton
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Tovah Klein
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Colin Leach
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 41 Info
• Instructor: Ken Light
  CULPA: 17 h-index: 15 Info
• Instructor: Koleen McCrink
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Joshua New
  CULPA: 14 Info
• Instructor: Kara Pham
  CULPA: 9 Info
• Instructor: Robert E Remez
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia h-index: 23 Info
• Instructor: Russell D Romeo
  CULPA: 9 Info
• Instructor: Ann Senghas
  CULPA: 17 Info
• Instructor: Lisa K Son
  CULPA: 25 Info
• Instructor: Danielle L Sussan
  CULPA: 8 Info
• Instructor: Kathleen M Taylor
  CULPA: 78 Info
• Instructor: Tara Well
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Michael Wheaton
  h-index: 31 Info
• Instructor: E'Mett McCaskill
  CULPA: 38 Info
• 1-4 points

FOUNDATIONS OF OPTIMIZATION

Prerequisites: (MATH UN2010) Corequisites: COMS W3134,COMS W3137 This first course in optimization focuses on theory and applications of linear optimization, network optimization and dynamic programming.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Vineet Goyal
  h-index: 21 Info
• 3 points

PSYCH OF STEROTYPING/PREJUDICE

Prerequisites: two psychology courses and the instructors permission. A review of current research on intergroup perceptions, attitudes, and behavior. Emphasis on cognitive processes underlying stereotyping and prejudice.

• Department: Psychology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Nadav Antebi-Gruszka
  h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

METAPHYSICS-REC

• Department: Philosophy
• R 7:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• T 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Shuai Liu
  Info
• Instructor: Yitu Hu
  Info
• 0 points

THIRD YEAR MOD COLLOQ TIBET I

For those whose knowledge is equivalent to a student who’s completed the Second Year course. The course develops students’ reading comprehension skills through reading selected modern Tibetan literature. Tibetan is used as the medium of instruction and interaction to develop oral fluency and proficiency.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Sonam Tsering
  Info
• 4 points

Introduction to Computational Literary A

Computational Lit Analysi

Computational literary analysis is a new subfield of literary studies, which applies techniques of data science, computer science, and traditional close reading to the study of literature. This course is a practical introduction to computational literary methods which presumes no background in programming or computer science. It is well-suited to humanities students who are interested in experimental methods, and to students in STEM fields who are interested in literary studies. We will cover many of the topics of an introductory course in natural language processing or computational linguistics, but center our inquiries around literary critical questions. We will attempt to answer questions such as: • Did Shakespeare really write the plays in the Shakespeare apocrypha?
• How can we measure sexual attraction among characters in literary romances?
• Are weapons in detective novels typically introduced early or late in the novel?
• What words are most frequently used to describe female characters in nineteenth century novels?
• Who had a richer vocabulary, Charles Dickens or Jane Austen?
• What was James Joyce’s favorite color?

The course will teach techniques of text analysis using the Python programming language. Special topics to be covered include authorship detection (stylometry), dependency parsing, and lexical analysis. Texts to be read and analyzed include Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone, often considered the first detective novel, along with short stories works by James Joyce and Katherine Mansfield.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan P Reeve
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR RESEARCH THESIS

Discussions of the student's Independent Research project during the fall and spring terms that culminate in a written and oral senior thesis. Each project must be supervised by a scientist working at Barnard or at another local institution.

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

SEM-DEVELOPMNTL PSYCHOPATHOLGY

Prerequisites: at least two of the following courses: (UN1001, UN1010, UN2280, UN2620, UN2680, UN3280) and the instructor's permission. Developmental psychopathology posits that it is development itself that has gone awry when there is psychopathology. As such, it seeks to understand the early and multiple factors contributing to psychopathology emerging in childhood and later in life. We will use several models (e.g. ones dominated by biological, genetic, and psychological foci) to understand the roots of mental illness.

• Department: Psychology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Hannah E Hoch
  CULPA: 27 Info
• 4 points

IN AND AROUND ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

IN/AROUND ABSTRACT EXPRSNSM

This course focuses on the history of modern art in the mid-twentieth century. To place mid-twentieth century modernism within its proper historical context, we will explore artistic practices elaborated between the 1920s and the 1960s in a wide range of different locations. We will also survey the major critical and historical accounts of modernism in the arts during these years.    The course will first introduce the development of modernism, anti-modernism and avant-gardism in the period between the two World Wars, exploring the changing relationship between these cultural formations in Europe, the U.S.S.R., Mexico, and North America. The second part of the course will study the vicissitudes of modernism and avant-gardism in Europe, Latin America, and the U.S. during the 1930s and 1940s that led to the formation of Concrete art in Europe and Abstract Expressionism and the New York School in the United States. The third part of the course will examine the challenges to modernism and the reformulation of avant-gardism posed by the neo-avant-garde in North America, South America, Europe and Japan in the 1950s and early 1960s.   The course will address a wide range of historical and methodological questions and problems.  These include: the challenges to the idea of artistic autonomy, the evolving concept of avant-gardism, the ongoing problematic of abstraction, the formal principles of serialism and the grid, the logic of non-composition, the persistence of figuration, the changing role of cultural institutions, the impact of new technologies on cultural production, and the emergence of new audiences and patrons for art.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexander Alberro
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 17 Info
• 4 points

IN AND AROUND ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

• Department: Auditing
• Instructor: Alexander Alberro
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 17 Info
• 0 points

AHIS-BC3626 DISCUSSION

AHIS-BC3636 DISCUSSION

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• M 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• T 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• T 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• W 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• W 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• R 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• R 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: John M Beeson
  Info
• 0 points

AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY

This course is concerned with what policy the American government should adopt toward several foreign policy issues in the next decade or so, using materials from contradictory viewpoints. Students will be required to state fairly alternative positions and to use policy analysis (goals, alternatives, consequences, and choice) to reach conclusions.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Roy Licklider
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY-DISC

Corequisites: POLS UN3631 This is the required discussion section for POLS UN3631.

• Department: Political Science
• T 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• T 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• W 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• W 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• R 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• R 11:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Sinead J Carolan
  Info
• 0 points

ROAD TRIPS:TRAVEL IN ITAL CIN

• Department: Italian @Barnard
• W 6:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Nelson Moe
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

Comics, Health, and Embodiment

Deformed, grotesque, super/transhuman and otherwise extraordinary bodies have always been a central feature of comics.  However, the past ten years have seen a surge of graphic narratives that deal directly with experiences of health and illness, and that are recognized as having significant literary value.  This course will focus on graphic narratives about healthcare, illness, and disability with particular attention to questions of embodied identities such as gender, sexuality, race, and age.  Primary texts will include the work of Alison Bechdel, Roz Chast, CeCe Bell, David Small, Allie Brosch, and Ellen Fourney.  We will study the vocabulary, conventions, and formal properties of graphic literature, asking how images and text work together to create narrative.  We will consider whether graphic narrative might be especially well suited to representations of bodily difference; how illness/disability can disrupt conventional ideas about gender and sexuality; how experiences of the body as a source of pain, stigmatization, and shame intersect with the sexualized body; and how illness and disability queer conventional sexual arrangements, identities, and attachments.  While studying the construction of character, narrative, framing, color, and relationship between visual and print material on the page, students will also produce their own graphic narratives.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel Adams
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 4 points

GOVERNING THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

Who governs the world economy? Why do countries succeed or fail to cooperate in setting their economic policies? When and how do international institutions help countries cooperate? When and why do countries adopt good and bad economic policies? This course examines how domestic and international politics determine how the global economy is governed. We will study the politics of trade, international investment, monetary, immigration, and environmental policies to answer these questions. The course will approach each topic by examining alternative theoretical approaches and evaluate these theories using historical and contemporary evidence. There will be an emphasis on applying concepts through the analysis of policy-relevant case studies designed specifically for this course.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Nikhar Gaikwad
  h-index: 7 Info
• 4 points

GOVERNING GLOBAL ECONOMY-DISC

This is the required discussion section for POLS UN3648

• Department: Political Science
• F 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Noah Zucker
  h-index: 3 Info
• 0 points