FICTION & PERSONAL NARRATIVE

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

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

DYNAMICS AND VIBRATIONS

Prerequisites: (MATH UN1201) MATH V1201. Corequisites: ENME E3105. Kinematics of rigid bodies; momentum and energy methods; vibrations of discrete and continuous systems; eigen-value problems, natural frequencies and modes. Basics of computer simulation of dynamics problems using MATLAB or Mathematica.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Addis Kidane
  Info
• 3 points

APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING

Prerequisites: STAT UN2103. Students without programming experience in R might find STAT UN2102 very helpful. This course is a machine learning class from an application perspective. We will cover topics including data-based prediction, classification, specific classification methods (such as logistic regression and random forests), and basics of neural networks. Programming in homeworks will require R.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Gabriel Young
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

Translating the Animal

TRANSLATING THE ANIMAL

Through readings in language philosophy, translation studies, and critical animal studies,
Translating the Animal
 explores how translation, language, and reason have historically worked together to maintain speciesism, preventing human animals from perceiving their commonalities with, and attunement to, sentient nonhuman beings.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Hana Worthen
  Info
• 4 points

Undergraduate Mentored Research

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

• Department: Statistics
• Instructor: Anne Van Delft
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

Undergraduate Mentored Research

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

• Department: Statistics
• Instructor: Cynthia Rush
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

Nazism in Performance

NAZISM IN PERFORMANCE

Explores the cultivation of national and transnational performances as a significant force of National Socialism, at the same time as challenging the notion of "Nazi Theatre" as monolithic formation. The core of the course inquires into the dialectical analysis of artistic creations in diverse art genres, while working towards an understanding of the social dramaturgy of such events as staging the Führer and the racialized body of the priveleged people. Nazism did not harbor ideologies without benefits for the allied nations. Thus, the dynamic performance of transnationalism among the "brothers in arms" will be included as well, in order to elucidate how works of art crossing into the Third Reich were reimagined, sometimes in ways challenging to the presumed values of the state stage. Permission of instructor given at first class meeting.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Hana Worthen
  Info
• 4 points

INTRODUCTION TO FICTION WRITING

INTRO TO FICTION WRITING

Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here: 
https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
. In this course, we will learn and practice essential concepts and techniques of writing fiction. We’ll break down the elements of the craft—everything from character, setting, and pacing to point of view, syntax, and imagery––and we’ll build an understanding of how stories work. Class time will include exercises and prompts; close reading of a wide range of published stories; discussions of process; and workshops of student stories. Come prepared to work hard, be open, and take risks.

• Department: English @Barnard
• M 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Cleyvis Natera
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• 3 points

CLIMATE PHYSICS

Climate Physics

This is a calculus-based treatment of climate system physics and the mechanisms of anthropogenic climate change. By the end of this course, students will understand: how solar radiation and rotating fluid dynamics determine the basic climate state, mechanisms of natural variability and change in climate, why anthropogenic climate change is occurring, and which scientific uncertainties are most important to estimates of 21st century change.

This course is designed for undergraduate students seeking a quantitative introduction to climate and climate change science. EESC V2100 (Climate Systems) is not a prerequisite, but can also be taken for credit if it is taken before this course.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Adam H Sobel
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

THE AFRICANA COLLOQUIUM

COLL: AFROFUTURISM

The Africana Studies Department offers special topics courses every year as colloquia. These colloquia provide opportunities for students to explore areas of particular interest within African Diasporic Studies in a seminar environment. Students earn 4 credits for these courses. There are multiple colloquia offered by the department every year. Some of the topics for these colloquia have included Critical Race Theory, Indian Ocean Diaspora, The New Black, Caribbean Women, and Black Shakespeare. As the topics change, students should check with the Chair of the Africana Studies Department if they have any questions about the topics for a particular academic year.

• Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Maleda Belilgne
  Info
• 4 points

THE AFRICANA COLLOQUIUM

COLL: CARIBBEAN WOMEN

The Africana Studies Department offers special topics courses every year as colloquia. These colloquia provide opportunities for students to explore areas of particular interest within African Diasporic Studies in a seminar environment. Students earn 4 credits for these courses. There are multiple colloquia offered by the department every year. Some of the topics for these colloquia have included Critical Race Theory, Indian Ocean Diaspora, The New Black, Caribbean Women, and Black Shakespeare. As the topics change, students should check with the Chair of the Africana Studies Department if they have any questions about the topics for a particular academic year.

• Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Celia E Naylor
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

THE AFRICANA COLLOQUIUM

COLL Heading South

The Africana Studies Department offers special topics courses every year as colloquia. These colloquia provide opportunities for students to explore areas of particular interest within African Diasporic Studies in a seminar environment. Students earn 4 credits for these courses. There are multiple colloquia offered by the department every year. Some of the topics for these colloquia have included Critical Race Theory, Indian Ocean Diaspora, The New Black, Caribbean Women, and Black Shakespeare. As the topics change, students should check with the Chair of the Africana Studies Department if they have any questions about the topics for a particular academic year.

• Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Tamara Walker
  Info
• 4 points

INTRODUCTION TO POETRY WRITING

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

Varied assignments designed to confront the difficulties and explore the resources of language through imitation, allusion, free association, revision, and other techniques.

• Department: English @Barnard
• F 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Marissa Davis
  Info
• 3 points

FRENCH NEW WAVE CINEMA

This course traces the emergence and development of “New Wave” cinema in France in the 60s. Through a detailed analysis of some of its most iconic films: 400 Blows, Breathless, Hiroshima mon amour… the course will examine the radical artistic and social innovations of its major “auteurs”; Truffaut, Godard, Resnais et al. FREN BC1204: French Intermediate II or the equivalent level is required.

• Department: French @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Anne Boyman
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 3 points

BEHAVIORAL BIOL-DISC

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• W 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• F 11 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Marina Cords
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 0 points

EXERCISES IN STYLE

TBA

• Department: Writing
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Christine M Smallwood
  Info
• 3 points

Chinese Theater and Drama Traditions

Chinese Theater/Drama

This course explores the world of Chinese theater: where a heroine is resurrected through the power of love, a filial son saves his mother from underworld torment, and stalwart workers fight for revolution. Examining texts in many genres/forms-from the 16th century romantic drama The Peony Pavilion to the 20th century revolutionary opera The Red Lantern - we investigate the versatility of Chinese drama to encompass politics, history, social movements, and human emotions. Connecting texts to stage practice, we explore gender fluidity in performance, theories of theater, "star culture," and cross-cultural work.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Allison E Bernard
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

PLAYWRITING II

Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
. What makes a play alive? Often a playwright is surprised into their strongest work. The practices of experimentation and analysis, curiosity and audacity lead to new possibilities. Students will read and respond to plays, identifying elements and strategies, and each week bring in fragments and scenes written in response to weekly prompts. By the middle of the semester, students will choose the piece that feels the most viable and develop it into what in most cases will be a thirty page play. NOTE: Playwriting I (ENGL BC3113) is NOT a prerequisite, and students need not have written a play before.

• Department: English @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Kathleen Tolan
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

EXPERIMENTAL MECH OF MATERIALS

Prerequisites: (ENME E3113) ENME E3113. Material behavior and constitutive relations. Mechanical properties of metals and cement composites. Structural materials. Modern construction materials. Experimental investigation of material properties and behavior of structural elements including fracture, fatigue, bending, torsion, buckling.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• F 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Adrian Brugger
  h-index: 4 Info
• 4 points

WHY DO BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE?

WHY BAD THINGS GOOD PEOPL

This course is an introduction to the field of inquiry called The Problem of Evil, or Theodicy – that is, the investigation of God in the face of evil and suffering in the world.  How do we justify God? How do we reconcile disaster, pain, and suffering with an all-good, all-knowing, all-compassionate God?   This question arises in all religious traditions, but here we will study only four: the Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Hindu traditions, each of which proposes its own array of answers. Our emphasis will be on primary texts from each tradition, with introductory and interpretive secondary sources brought in as supplementary.  These primary sources will be discussed in class, but especially in required section meetings.  A sub-theme of the course is the “pastoral” dimension of answers to the Problem of Evil: to what extent are the answers we study comforting?  This course has been created with the many crises presently afflicting our world – COVID-19, climate change, and the injustice of racism, to name a few – in mind.

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Rachel McDermott
  CULPA: 37 Info
• 4 points

STORY WRITING II

Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here: 
https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
. Advanced workshop in writing, with emphasis on the short story. Some experience in the writing of fiction required. Conference hours to be arranged.

• Department: English @Barnard
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Nellie G Hermann
  Info
• 3 points

MOD ARCHITECTURE IN THE WORLD

Prerequisites: Designed for but not limited to sophomores; enrollment beyond 60 at the discretion of the instructor. How has architecture been “modern”? This course will introduce students to things, practices, figures, and ideas behind this contentious and contradictory concept, emerging in multiple locations around the world. Students in this course will learn about architecture as it was practiced, taught, thought, and experienced across landscapes of social and cultural difference during the past two centuries. Learning about the past through historical consciousness around architecture and investigating the history of architecture as a discursive field are fundamental to liberal arts thinking generally, and important for students in architecture, the history and theory of architecture, art history, and urban studies. Students in this course will be introduced to:Architecture as enmeshed with other forms of cultural productionCulturally-specific intellectual and public debates around the architectural and urbanMakers, thinkers, and organizers of the designed or built environmentGeographies, territories, and mobilities associated with architecture as an end or means for material extraction, refinement, trade, labor, and constructionSites, institutions, media, events, and practices which have come to hold meaning Modernity, modernism, and modernization in relation to each other, as social, cultural, and technological drivers holding stakes for past events as well their histories. In this course, we will ask questions about ideas and practices within disparate socially-and culturally-constructed worlds, and across other asymmetries. For example, can we draw a coherent historical thread through Lisbon in 1755, Bombay in 1854, Moscow in 1917, the moon in 1969, and al-Za’atari refugee camp in 2016? Are such narratives of coherence themselves the trace of the modernist impulse in architectural history? In this course, we will study modern architecture’s references to an art of building as well the metaphors it gives rise to. Embedded in this examination are social and cultural questions of who made and thought modern architecture, and aesthetic and historical questions around the figure of the architect.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ralph Ghoche
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 2 Info
• 3 points

FICTION WRITING

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

Assignments designed to examine form and structure in fiction.

• Department: English @Barnard
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer F Boylan
  Info
• Instructor: Sarah Wang
  Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED POETRY WRITING

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

• Department: English @Barnard
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Latasha N Diggs
  Info
• 3 points

COLL:PROBLMS IN INTNL SECURITY

Prerequisites: POLS V1501 or POLS V1601 or the equivalent. Admission by application through the Barnard department only. Enrollment limited to 16 students. Barnard syllabus. Examination of causes and consequences of major current problems in international security. Topics will focus on state power dynamics: the rise of China and the reemergence of the Russian military, challenges facing NATO with the rise of populism and authoritarianism in the West, nuclear deterrence and proliferation, cyber conflict and information war, and chemical and biological weapons.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Kimberly Marten
  CULPA: 71 Wikipedia h-index: 19 Info
• 4 points

SCREENWRITING FUNDAMENTALS

SCREENWRITING FUNDMENTALS

Prerequisites: FILM BC3201 or equivalent. Enrollment limited to 12 students. Priority is given to Film Studies majors/concentrations in order of class seniority. Corequisites: (Since this is a Film course, it does not count as a writing course for English majors with a Writing Concentration.)

This course is ideal for writers of their FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD screenplays. The first several weeks will focus on STORY: What it is, what it isn’t, how to recognize the difference. How to find your own individual stories that nobody else in the universe can tell.

From there we will make the transition to the highly individualized techniques, the strengths and limitations, the dynamics of telling a SCREEN STORY; what to leave in, what to leave out. As Michelangelo puts it—starting with a block of marble and chipping away everything that isn’t David.  Through studies of existing screenplays and films in coordination with and hands-on writing exercises which we will share in class, we will develop our skills in all aspects of screenwriting; building fascinating characters, dialogue, story construction (The BIG PICTURE) and scene construction (The Small Picture)

Perfection is not the goal; but rather it is to be able to say truly at the end of each day’s writing, “I did the best I could with what I had at the time. (Phillip Roth quoting heavyweight champion Joe Louis)

• Department: Film @Barnard
• W 12:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter Nickowitz
  Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED SCREENWRITING

Prerequisite: FILM BC3201 or equivalent. First priority enrollment is given to senior Film Studies majors/concentrations. For more information on this semester's visiting instructor from the Artemis Rising Foundation Filmmaker Fellowship Program, visit: https://athenacenter.barnard.edu/arff

This screenwriting seminar provides students an in-depth understanding of the short form which will help them turn their ideas into a short film script (up to 10 pages in length). With a focus on studying contemporary international short films students will learn to write their own short screenplay, as well as learn to give and receive feedback and receive tips on revising their scripts. Homework assignments will include watching films, reading short stories, writing exercises and reading screenplays.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• R 5:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Danielle T Douge
  Info
• 3 points

FIGURE PAINTING

Prerequisites: VIAR R1000 and VIAR R2100. (Formerly R3210) Course provides the experience of employing a wide range of figurative applications that serve as useful tools for the contemporary artist. Non-Western applications, icon painting, and the European/American traditions are presented. 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
• W 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: David A Cruz
  Info
• 3 points

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

Methods of structural analysis. Trusses, arches, cables, frames; influence lines; deflections; force method; displacement method; computer applications.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria Q Feng
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 46 Info
• 3 points

PUBLIC SPEAKING

FIRST-YEAR PUBLIC SPEAKNG

Open only to undergraduates. 


This course will introduce you to principles of effective public speaking and debate, and provide practical opportunities to use these principles in structured speaking situations. You will craft and deliver speeches, engage in debates and panel discussions, analyze historical and contemporary speakers, and reflect on your own speeches and those of your classmates. You will explore and practice different rhetorical strategies with an emphasis on information, persuasion and argumentation. For each speaking assignment, you will go through the speech-making process, from audience analysis, purpose and organization, to considerations of style and delivery. The key criteria in this course are content, organization, and adaptation to the audience and purpose. While this is primarily a performance course, you will be expected to participate extensively as a listener and critic, as well as a speaker.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniela Kempf
  Info
• 3 points

PUBLIC SPEAKING

Open only to undergraduates. 


This course will introduce you to principles of effective public speaking and debate, and provide practical opportunities to use these principles in structured speaking situations. You will craft and deliver speeches, engage in debates and panel discussions, analyze historical and contemporary speakers, and reflect on your own speeches and those of your classmates. You will explore and practice different rhetorical strategies with an emphasis on information, persuasion and argumentation. For each speaking assignment, you will go through the speech-making process, from audience analysis, purpose and organization, to considerations of style and delivery. The key criteria in this course are content, organization, and adaptation to the audience and purpose. While this is primarily a performance course, you will be expected to participate extensively as a listener and critic, as well as a speaker.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniela Kempf
  Info
• 3 points

AIDS and U.S. Society - Why HIV/AIDS Mat

In this course on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the U.S., we will initially focus on the early years of the AIDS epidemic and explore how public health experts and public officials struggled to understand this mysterious disease and how societal responses were affected by prejudices and stereotypes about stigmatized groups and risks of transmission and acquisition. Do these conditions persist today? How do they affect goals to end the HIV epidemic in the United States? And how do they play out in other aspects of healthcare and the social world (e.g., politics, social relationships, religious institutions)?

• Department: Sociology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Lisa A Rosen-Metsch
  Info
• 3 points

STRUCTURAL DESIGN

Prerequisites: (ENME E3113) Design criteria for varied structural applications, including buildings and bridges; design of elements using steel, concrete, masonry, wood, and other materials.

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

LITERACY:THEORY&PRACT FIELDWORK

• Department: Education @Barnard
• F 8 a.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Edstrom
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 0 points

ADVANCED POETRY WRITING II

Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
. In this workshop, we will explore poetry writing as the pursuit and expression of a liberatory language– the language of our highest attention and freedom– shared between reader and writer, and consider the metaphysics and motivations for making meaning and making it our own. In addition to workshops, we will alternate between classes centered on formal and thematic explorations with others focusing on contemplative practices and our writing process. Readings will range diversely through eras and modes including works, among others, by Sun Buer, Audre Lorde, Hannah Emerson, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, and Mónica de la Torre.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Farnoosh Fathi
  Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO SEXUALITY STUDIES

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

COMPUTER-AIDED STRUCTRL DESIGN

Corequisites: CIEN E3125. Introduction to software for structural analysis and design with lab. Applications to the design of structural elements and connections.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Tom T Panayotidi
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 1 points

Time Moves Both Ways

What is time travel, really? We can use a machine or walk through a secret door. Take a pill or fall asleep and wake up in the future. But when we talk about magic machines and slipstreams and Rip Van Winkle, we are also talking about memory, chronology, and narrative. In this seminar, we will approach time travel as a way of understanding "the Fourth Dimension" in fiction. Readings will range from the speculative to the strange, to the realism of timelines, flashbacks, and shifts in perspective. Coursework will include short, bi-weekly writing assignments, a completed short story, and a timeinflected adaptation.

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

DESIGN PROJECTS

Prerequisites: (CIEN E3125) and (CIEN E3126) CIEN E3125 and CIEN E3126. Capstone design project in civil engineering. This project integrates structural, geotechnical and environmental/water resources design problems with construction management tasks and sustainability, legal and other social issues. Project is completed in teams, and communication skills are stressed. Outside lecturers will address important current issues in engineering practice. Every student in the course will be exposed with equal emphasis to issues related to geotechnical engineering, water resources / environmental engineering, structural engineering, and construction engineering and management.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• R 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Tom T Panayotidi
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

How to Write Funny

"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."   

--Mel Brooks 

"Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the 

End."                                                                                                                --Sid Caesar 

"Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it."                                                                                                                                  --E.B. White 

 

"What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke."                                                                                                                                       --Steve Martin 

"Patty Marx is the best teacher at Columbia University."

--Patty Marx 

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• Department: Writing
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Patricia A Marx
  Info
• 3 points

HIST-WEST MUS:CLASSICAL-20TH CENTURY

Topics in Western music from the Classical era to the present day, focusing on the development of musical style and thought, and on analysis of selected works.

• Department: Music
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Julia Doe
  Info
• 3 points

THE AMERICAN COWBOY AND THE ICONOGRAPHY

AMER COWBOY/ICONOG OF WES

This upper-level research-oriented seminar will study the all-American icon of the cowboy, with its signature embrace of masculinity, stoicism, elegiac music, and love of nature. We will read Cormac McCarthy’s
The Border Trilogy
and other works that emerge from this icon, watch a curated series of cowboy movies, and write critical essays.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Margaret R Ellsberg
  CULPA: 54 Info
• 4 points

Crisis and War in the Horn of Africa

CRISIS AND WAR HORN OF AF

The Horn of Africa is often described as a disaster story, a land of terror, crisis and failure. But is it really a place in crisis? In what ways and for whom? For the people of the region, what constitutes meaningful social and political life? Is it possible to approach politics in the Horn of Africa through lenses other than those of violence and disaster? Are there other methods of understanding the experiences of crisis and recovery? In addition to examining emerging research trends in the region the course examines various approaches to the questions of war, humanitarian intervention, peace building, democratization, and economic reform. It considers how the study of popular culture, religious change, and social movements provide other ways to think about collective life. The seminar is intended for those interested in the study of Africa and the Middle East, and other regions that may seem bleak to outsiders but can provide new ways of understanding politics.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Elleni Zeleke
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ARISTOTLE

• Department: Philosophy
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Wolfgang R Mann
  CULPA: 36 Info
• 3 points

NEW WORLDS IN WRIT & VR

FIC SEM - WRIT & VR

Creating New Worlds in Writing and in VR is a generative, exploratory fiction seminar where we will read, analyze, and experiment with the process of building new worlds. We will ask, What are the narrative possibilities that unfold within these environments? What are the conventions of sci-fi and fantasy and how can they be used to critique and scrutinize our lives on earth, particularly, experiences of violence, environmental degradation, and racial, sexual, and gender-based oppression? We will use VR technology to help us model our own invented spaces. We will examine how to incorporate traditional literary elements, such as character and dialogue, into these dynamic environments.

• Department: Writing
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Joss Lake
  Info
• 3 points

THIRD-YEAR CONVERSATION FR II

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

• Department: French
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexandra Borer
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 2 points

DATA STRUCTURES IN JAVA

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

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul S Blaer
  CULPA: 46 h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

CREATIVE NON-FICTION

CREAT NON-FIC: REAL LIFE

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

Section 3 course description
: Explores how to write essays based on life, with some comics and cartooning thrown in.
Section 4 course description
: In this course we will explore various genres of creative non-fiction, including memoir, profile writing, travel writing, family history, the personal essay, and criticism. We will practice a range of craft techniques, paying special attention to the construction of the writing self and the ethics of writing about real people and events. Each student will write two 5-page essays and one 20-page final essay.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Christine M Smallwood
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• 3 points

SHAKESPEARE IN PERFORMANCE

Shakespeare's plays as theatrical events. Differing performance spaces, acting traditions, directorial frames, theatre practices, performance theories, critical studies, cultural codes, and historical conventions promote differing modes of engagement with drama in performance. We will explore Shakespeare's plays in the context of actual and possible performance from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century.

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

HONORS DATA STRUCTURES & ALGOL

Prerequisites: (COMS W1004) or (COMS W1007) Corequisites: COMS W3203 An honors introduction to data types and structures: arrays, stacks, singly and doubly linked lists, queues, trees, sets, and graphs. Programming techniques for processing such structures: sorting and searching, hashing, garbage collection. Storage management. Design and analysis of algorithms. Taught in Java. Note: Due to significant overlap, students may receive credit for only one of the following three courses: COMS W3134, W3136, or W3137.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Bauer
  CULPA: 17 h-index: 13 Info
• 4 points

AFFECT AND ACTIVISM

From love to anger to disappointment to hope, political activism mobilizes emotions towards certain ends but also generates new affective states and feelings along the way. This advanced seminar will familiarize students with feminist, anti-racist and queer scholarship on affect, feelings and emotion as intrinsic to politics and as crucial for understanding how political thought and action unfold in contingent and often unexpected ways. Mixing theoretical and cultural texts with case studies, we will look at how affect permeates structures of power and domination, embodiment and identity, and collective activist projects concerned with gender and sexual liberation. Students will have an opportunity to read theories of affect as well as to “read” activist movements
for
affect by working with archival documents (such as zines, manifestos, and movement ephemera) and other primary sources (such as memoir, photography and documentary film).

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Manijeh Moradian
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• 4 points

BALLET V

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicole D Robertson
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• Instructor: Vincent McCloskey
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 0-1 points

MODERN AMERICAN DRAMA & PERFORMANCE

MOD AMERCN DRAMA & PERFOR

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

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

INTRODUCTION VOCAL REPERTOIRE

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

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

VOCAL REPERTOIRE, TECHNIQUE

VOCAL REPERTOIRE TECHNIQUE

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

• Department: Music @Barnard
• F 10 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
• Instructor: Jean-Paul Bjorlin
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• 3 points

SOIL MECHANICS

Prerequisites: (ENME E3113) Index properties and classification; compaction; permeability and seepage; effective stress and stress distribution; shear strength of soil; consolidation; slope stability.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Hoe I Ling
  h-index: 45 Info
• 4 points

BALLET VI

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• F 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Antonio Carmena
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• Instructor: Ashley Tuttle
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 0-1 points

CLASSIC VARIATIONS

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ashley Tuttle
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 0-1 points

MAJOR ENGLISH TEXTS II

A chronological view of the variety of English literature through study of selected writers and their works. Spring: Romantic poets through the present.

• Department: English @Barnard
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Margaret R Ellsberg
  CULPA: 54 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS COMPARATIVE LIT

LITERATURE AND HORROR

The objective of this class is to examine a given topic and relate it to a number of literary texts. Students will examine a variety of literary genres and to an equally wide variety of cultural, linguistic, and historical contexts.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Monica F Cohen
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

EARLY AMERCN DRAMA & PERFRMNC

Competing constructions of American identity in the United States date back to the early republic when a newly emerging nation struggled with the questions: What makes an American American? What makes America America? From colonial times forward, the stage has served as a forum to air differing beliefs as well as medium to construct new beliefs about Nation, self and other. The texts we will read, from colonial times through WWI, explore diverse topics such as politics, Native American rights, slavery, labor unrest, gender roles, and a growing immigrant population.

• Department: English @Barnard
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Pamela Cobrin
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

WORLDMUSE ENSEMBLE

Worldmuse Ensemble delves into compelling music from many genres such as world music, gospel, classical--old and new. We perform without a conductor, increasing awareness and interaction among ourselves and our audience. We collaboratively integrate music, dance, and theatre traditions (masks etc.). For experienced singers, and instrumentalists and dancers who sing.

• Department: Music @Barnard
• F 12:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Jean-Paul Bjorlin
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• 3 points

German-Jewish Writing: At the Heel

Paul Celan, a German-language survivor poet, speaks of “co- / writing” at the “heel,” playing with an idiom that evokes tenacious pursuit and intimate clinging. This course will trace Jewish literature from a variety of German-speaking territories from the 18th century to the present, with a particular focus on the hyphen that bridges and divides “German–Jew.” Does German-Jewish writing evince the counterculture of a persecuted minority, or does it strive to inhabit (or even define) ‘Germanness’? Who is clinging to whom, and what kind of writing emerges ‘at the heel’? We will pay attention to writers’ unconventional relationship to genre; their oscillation between autobiography, storytelling, philosophy, cultural criticism, and religion. Moving across different political formations in Central Europe, the course will explore writers’ conflictual attitudes towards their Jewish and German identities. A key question will be how writing strategies transform in the aftermath of the Shoah, and in response to evolving European memory culture. Readings will include works by Mendelssohn, Maimon, Varnhagen, Kafka, Rosenzweig, Benjamin, Scholem, Celan, Sachs, and Klüger. We will conclude with a consideration of what it means to write in German as a Jew today, and how this tradition bears on contemporary debates about ‘identity politics.’

No prerequisite courses are required. Course Readings and discussion will be in English.
Required Texts

• Department: Germanic Languages
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Evan Parks
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

INVENTION, REVISION, AND IMAGINATION

INVENTION AND REVISION

Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
. A creative writing workshop in fiction, devoted to the imaginative process, and most specifically, to the arts of invention and revision. In addition to considering the wellspring of creative ideas themselves, students will write stories in a variety of lengths—moderate, long, and as short-shorts. Through this process, apprentice writers will become intimate with the most essential aspect of creating imaginative work: the dedication to seeing one’s ideas morph and grow over time.

• Department: English @Barnard
• M 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer F Boylan
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• 3 points

CRITICAL HISTORIES OF DRAMA, THEATRE, AN

WESTRN THTR TRAD: MODERN

This course undertakes a dialectical approach to reading and thinking about the history of dramatic theatre, interrogating the ways writing inflects, and is inflected by, the material dynamics of performance in the modern era. Course undertakes careful study of the practices of performance, and of the sociocultural, economic, political, and aesthetic conditions animating representative performances in theatres globally; course will also emphasize development of important critical concepts for the analysis of drama, theatre, and performance. Topics include the sociology of theatre, the impact of print on conceptions of performance, representing gender and race, the politics of intercultural performance, and the dynamics of emerging forms and critical practices of performance analysis. Writing: 2-3 papers; Reading: 1-2 plays, critical and historical reading per week; final examination. Fulfills one (of two) lecture requirements for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Anne M Potter
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• 3 points

MATH & THE CITY FIELDWORK LAB

• Department: Education @Barnard
• W 2:30 p.m.-6 p.m.
• F 8:30 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Maria S Rivera Maulucci
  h-index: 10 Info
• 0 points

ARTS&HUMANITIES IN CITY FIELDWORK LAB

ARTS&HUMANITIES IN CITY L

• Department: Education @Barnard
• R 2:30 p.m.-6 p.m.
• F 8:30 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Drew Chambers
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• 0 points

TRADITIONAL INDIAN PERFORMNCE

Course provides a perspective on traditional forms of Indian performance from classical theory to contemporary traditional practices. Course covers Sanskrit drama, Kathakali, Ramlila, and Chhau; extensive video of performances and guest practitioners.  Course fulfills lecture/seminar "studies" course requirement for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts major.

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

ADVANCED PROGRAMMING

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134) or (COMS W3137) C programming language and Unix systems programming. Also covers Git, Make, TCP/IP networking basics, C++ fundamentals.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Brian Borowski
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• 4 points

DESIGN PROJECT

E3156: a design problem in materials science or metallurgical engineering selected jointly by the student and a professor in the department. The project requires research by the student, directed reading, and regular conferences with the professor in charge. E3157: completion of the research, directed reading, and conferences, culminating in a written report and an oral presentation to the department.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Yuan Yang
  h-index: 49 Info
• 3 points

POSTCOLONIAL DRAMA:THE CANON & ITS OTHER

This class is a close reading of postcolonial plays, both as they form a recognizable canon, and as counters to it. Through a grounding in postcolonial theory, students will explore how the colonial encounter leaves a lasting impact on language and performance. How do these playwrights tackle questions of authenticity, influence, inspiration and agency? What stories do they adapt, translate or reimagine? Also, we read in equal measure male and female playwrights, attending to the ways in which power and authority are negotiated by them. This class looks both at plays that are seminal to postcolonial writing and also newer ones that unsettle the position of the greats. Do we then understand postcolonialism as a historically bound literary trend or an ongoing process of exploration? Fundamentally we ask, in our efforts to decolonize the theatre, how do we find new ways or reading?  Course fulfills lecture/seminar in drama studies, theatre studies, performance studies requirement for Theatre major.

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

Parallel Optimization for Robotics

Parallel Optimization Rob

Many stages of state-of-the-art robotics pipelines rely on the solutions of underlying optimization algorithms. Unfortunately, many of these approaches rely on simplifications and conservative approximations in order to reduce their computational complexity and support online operation. At the same time, parallelism has been used to significantly increase the throughput of computationally expensive algorithms across the field of computer science. And, with the widespread adoption of parallel computing platforms such as GPUs, it is natural to consider whether these architectures can benefit robotics researchers interested in solving computationally constrained problems online. This course will provide students with an introduction to both parallel programming on CPUs and GPUs as well as optimization algorithms for robotics applications. It will then dive into the intersection of those fields through case studies of recent state-of-the-art research and culminate in a team-based final project.

• Department: Computer Science @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Brian K Plancher
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• 3 points

THE ENGLISH COLLOQUIUM

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to Barnard English majors. In the Enlightenment colloquium we will look at English and European imaginative and intellectual life during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. During this period, writers tried in new ways to reconcile the tensions between reason and religion. Categories of thought that underlie our world today were taking shape: secularity, progress, the public and the private, individual rights, religious tolerance. Writers articulated principles of equality in an era of slavery. Literary forms like the novel, which emerges into prominence during this period, express in irreducibly complex ways these and other changes. In this intensive course, we will study from multiple angles a variety of authors that may include Hobbes, Dryden, Locke, Spinoza, Lafayette, Defoe, Swift, Pope, Richardson, Voltaire, Fielding, Johnson, Diderot, Sterne, and Wollstonecraft, among others.

• Department: English @Barnard
• R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: James G Basker
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Nathan Gorelick
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• Instructor: Andrew L Lynn
  CULPA: 17 Info
• Instructor: Eugene A Petracca
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• 4 points

DEVELOPING ACCESSIBLE USER INTERFACES

DEVELOP ACCESSIBLE INTERF

Course Number 3223 – Introduction to Developing Accessible User Interfaces– Points: 3

Introduction to access technology and the development of accessible systems. In this course, students build and evaluate various access technologies. Topics include: text-to-speech, speech recognition, screen readers, screen magnification, alternative input, tactile displays, and web transformation. This course teaches students the deep inner workings of today’s user interface technology and serve as a guide for building the user interfaces of the future.

• Department: Computer Science @Barnard
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Antonio K Moretti
  h-index: 7 Info
• 3 points

Trees of Knowledge: Ecocriticism and Wor

ECOCRITICISM & WORLD LIT

This survey of modern and contemporary world literature deals explicitly with environmental issues as a main theme. The course is supposed to serve as an introduction to the new field of “ecocriticism” in the Humanities and to a wide range of literary responses to current ecological concerns and transformations of natural habitat. All texts are available in English, though students will have the opportunity to read them in the original if they desire to do so.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Erk Grimm
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

SHAKESPEARE II

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 60 students. Critical and historical introduction to selected comedies, histories, tragedies, and romances by Shakespeare. Please note that you do not need to take ENGL BC3163: Shakespeare I and ENGL BC3164: Shakespeare II in sequence; you may take them in any order.

• Department: English @Barnard
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Peter Platt
  CULPA: 23 Info
• 3 points

PERCEPTION AND LANGUAGE

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert E Remez
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia h-index: 23 Info
• 4 points

THEORIES OF PERFORMANCE STUDIES

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 16 students.

Course surveys the wide range of genres and categories addressed by the practice of modern "performance studies"; it introduces a number of performance practices, as well as relevant interdisciplinary methodologies. Students consider live performances as well as a number of mediated works, learning to think critically and creatively about the relation between text, technology, and the body. Course may fill
either
the Theory requirement,
or
one (of two) required courses in dramatic literature/theatre studies/performance studies for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts major, but not both.

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

20TH CENTURY MUSIC

• Department: Music
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: George Lewis
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia h-index: 18 Info
• 3 points

RELIGIOUS CONVERSION IN HIST

Boundary crossers have always challenged the way societies imagined themselves. This course explores the intersection between personal identity, narrative, and the historical-political, religious, economic, and social aspects of religious conversion. While the course will focus on Western (Christian and Jewish) models in the medieval and early modern periods, we will also look at antiquity, the role of conversion in the spread of Islam, and the complexities of religious conversion through the prism of colonial relations.

• Department: History
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Elisheva Carlebach
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Between Science Fiction and Climate Fict

LATN-AME SCI & CLIMATE FI

This course explores the entanglement between traditional science fiction and the emerging genre of climate change fiction (popularly known as “cli-fi”) in Latin American literature. Traditionally, while science fiction imagines future scientific or technological advances and significant social or environmental changes, climate fiction deals more specifically with climate change and global warming. By focusing on the ideological and aesthetic implications of the human/non-human binary, this course will explore how the history of colonialism makes Latin America a unique laboratory of experimentation that combines these two genres. We will ask questions such as: How are phenomena such as climate change, post-humanism, animal, machine, artificial intelligence regionalized in Latin American fiction? How is the relationship between colonization and the extraction of natural resources fictionalized in twentieth-century literature? What are the different ways in which Latin American authors negotiate issues such as “development,” “progress,” and technological and capitalist expansion in their fiction? How do they imagine a future after climate change? How do climate change and technological development affect gender, racial, and class relations in Latin America? We will examine how specific literary fiction varies in response to the long-term history of capitalism, patriarchal domination, and the technological domination of nature in Latin America.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Orlando Bentancor
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

AMERICAN LITERATURE 1871-1945

This interdisciplinary course situates late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature within the context of historical and cultural change. Students read works by Whitman, Twain, James, Griggs, Wharton, Faulkner, and Hurston alongside political and cultural materials including Supreme Court decisions, geometric treatises, composite photography and taxidermy.

• Department: English @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Kristi-Lynn Cassaro
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• 3 points

CONSERVATION BIOLOGY-DISC

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• W 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• R 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Dustin Partridge
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• 0 points

INT'L HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

This course will introduce students to the international law of human rights, and give a basic orientation to fundamental issues and controversies. The course has two principal focal points: first, the nuts and bolts of how international law functions in the field of human rights, and second, the value and limitations of legal approaches to a variety of human rights issues. Throughout the course, both theoretical and practical questions will be addressed, including who bears legal duties and who can assert legal claims, how these duties might be enforced, and accountability and remedy for violations. Attention will be given to how international law is made, what sorts of assumptions underlie various legal mechanisms, and how the law works in a variety of contexts.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Christian M de Vos
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• 3 points

STEM CELL BIOL & APPLICATIONS

Prerequisites: three semesters of Biology or the instructors permission. The course examines current knowledge and potential medical applications of pluripotent stem cells (embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells), direct conversions between cell types and adult, tissue-specific stem cells (concentrating mainly on hematopoietic and gut stem cells as leading paradigms). A basic lecture format will be supplemented by presentations and discussions of research papers. Recent reviews and research papers, together with extensive instructor notes, will be used in place of a textbook. SCE and TC students may register for this course, but they must first obtain the written permission of the instructor, by filling out a paper Registration Adjustment Form (Add/Drop form). The form can be downloaded at the URL below, but must be signed by the instructor and returned to the office of the registrar. http://registrar.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/reg-adjustment.pdf

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel D Kalderon
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

CRITICAL WRITING

(Formerly called Literary Criticism - Theory.) Provides experience in the reading and analysis of literary texts and some knowledge of conspicuous works of literary criticism. Frequent short papers. Required of all English majors before the end of the junior year. Sophomores are encouraged to take it in the spring semester even before officially declaring their major. Transfer students should plan to take it in the fall semester.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Atefeh Akbari Shahmirzadi
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• Instructor: Meredith A Benjamin
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points