THE AFRICANA COLLOQUIUM
CARIBBEAN WOMEN HERSTORIES
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)
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Instructor:
Celia E Naylor
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
PRINCIPLES OF TRANSPORT PHENOMENA
TRANSPORT PHENOMENA I
A mechanistic and mathematical description of the engineering fundamentals of heat and mass transport and fluid mechanics based on mass, momentum and energy balances from the molecular to the continuum to the industrial device scale. Problems and applications will focus on energy, biological and chemical systems and processes.
- Department: Chemical Engineering
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Instructor:
Christopher M Boyce
h-index: 17 Info - 3 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 in poetry designed to explore the resources of language through imitation, allusion, free association, revision, and other techniques. For a more detailed, instructor-specific description, please go to https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A4_gMLVP0EtEv5bUdqaLgJ8aJrW4sN4UC51-dIs5HoM/edit?usp=sharing
If you are a Columbia student, please note that you will need to submit an access request to view the document containing instructor-specific course descriptions. All requests will be approved within 24 business hours.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Brionne Janae
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Instructor:
Farnoosh Fathi
Info - 3 points
UNCERTAIN/RISK-CIVIL INF SYST
Introduction to basic probability; hazard function; reliability function; stochastic models of natural and technological hazards; extreme value distributions; Monte Carlo simulation techniques; fundamentals of integrated risk assessment and risk management; topics in risk-based insurance; case studies involving civil infrastructure systems, environmental systems, mechanical and aerospace systems, construction management. Not open to undergraduate students.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
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Instructor:
Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou
h-index: 26 Info - 3 points
Language and Pop Culture in Contemporary
Language & Pop Culture: F
What are French people
actually
saying to each other? You’ve taken French for 3+ years, have been reading literature, watching films and writing about them in sophisticated analyses. Yet, conversations among native speakers may still elude you. This course is designed to help you bridge that gap, and gain a better understanding of the slang (
argot
) and the pop culture references that contribute to French’s vibrancy. Together we will review a variety of contemporary French popular art forms, from music, film and graphic novels to street art, film, and food culture. We will explore the history of these genres, and the ways in which French identity is continuously (re)-established in its popular culture with and against the influences of decolonization, Americanization and globalization. The course is conducted in French.
- Department: French @Barnard
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Instructor:
Karen Santos da Silva
CULPA: 4
Info
- 3 points
THERMO/KINETIC THRY/STAT MECH
An introduction to the basic thermodynamics of systems, including concepts of equilibrium, entropy, thermodynamic functions, and phase changes. Basic kinetic theory and statistical mechanics, including diffusion processes, concept of phase space, classical and quantum statistics, and applications thereof.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
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Instructor:
Michele Simoncelli
Info - 3 points
GANDHI, KING & POLS OF NONVIOLENCE
Since Gandhi’s experiments in mass
satyagraha
over a century ago, nonviolence has become a staple of protest politics across the globe. From the Occupy movements to the Arab Spring to Movement for Black Lives, it might even be entering a new phase of revitalization. At the same time, what exactly nonviolence is and what it can accomplish in politics is very much under debate. This course aims to understand the politics of nonviolence by examining the political ideas and political careers of its most well-known twentieth-century advocates, M.K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Though still venerated as founding figures of nonviolent protest, Gandhi and King have come to be remembered in ways that can misconstrue how they understood and practiced nonviolent politics. To many, Gandhi is a saintly idealist, who wanted to imbue politics with the spirit of
ahimsa
, truth, and conscience. Likewise, King is taken to be a spokesman for interracial brotherhood and Christian love. While partly true, these images also downplay the political side of their nonviolence – the techniques of organizing and strategies of protest that made their movements successful.
We will examine the evolution of Gandhi’s and King’s political thinking in relation to the movements they led – the Indian independence movement and the civil rights movement in the US. We will consider how the theory and practice of nonviolence evolved and changed as it moved from one context to another. We will be especially focused on understanding the dynamics of nonviolent protest.
- Department: Political Science
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Instructor:
Karuna Mantena
CULPA: 3
Info
- 4 points
PLAYWRITING I
Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here: https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
The class will explore a broad range of approaches to playwriting in a workshop setting. Classes will largely be spent reading and discussing students’ work. Students will also be choosing from a wide selection of plays to read each week.
For a more detailed, instructor-specific description, please go to https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A4_gMLVP0EtEv5bUdqaLgJ8aJrW4sN4UC51-dIs5HoM/edit?usp=sharing
If you are a Columbia student, please note that you will need to submit an access request to view the document containing instructor-specific course descriptions. All requests will be approved within 24 business hours.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Ellen McLaughlin
CULPA: 4
Info
- 3 points
MECHANICS OF SOLIDS
Stress and strain. Mechanical properties of materials. Axial load, bending, shear, and torsion. Stress transformation. Deflection of beams. Buckling of columns. Combined loadings. Thermal stresses.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
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Instructor:
Raimondo Betti
CULPA: 4
h-index: 31
Info
- 3 points
GANDHI, KING&NONVIOLENCE-DISC
This is the required discussion section for
POLS UN3112.
- Department: Political Science
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Instructor:
Mayaki Saley T Kimba
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Instructor:
Hedwig Lieback
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Instructor:
Praboda M Perikala
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Instructor:
Robab Vaziri
Info - 0 points
STORY WRITING
Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here: https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
An advanced workshop in prose writing, with emphasis on the short story. Some experience in the writing of fiction is required. Students will share at least two pieces of their own work with the class over the course of the semester. In addition, each week we will read and analyze a variety of published short stories.
For a more detailed, instructor-specific description, please go to https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A4_gMLVP0EtEv5bUdqaLgJ8aJrW4sN4UC51-dIs5HoM/edit?usp=sharing
If you are a Columbia student, please note that you will need to submit an access request to view the document containing instructor-specific course descriptions. All requests will be approved within 24 business hours.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Nellie G Hermann
Info - 3 points
FICTION WRITING
FLASH FICTION
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. For a more detailed, instructor-specific description, please go to https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A4_gMLVP0EtEv5bUdqaLgJ8aJrW4sN4UC51-dIs5HoM/edit?usp=sharing
If you are a Columbia student, please note that you will need to submit an access request to view the document containing instructor-specific course descriptions. All requests will be approved within 24 business hours.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Weike Wang
CULPA: 1 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. For a more detailed, instructor-specific description, please go to https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A4_gMLVP0EtEv5bUdqaLgJ8aJrW4sN4UC51-dIs5HoM/edit?usp=sharing
If you are a Columbia student, please note that you will need to submit an access request to view the document containing instructor-specific course descriptions. All requests will be approved within 24 business hours.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Idra L Novey
CULPA: 2 Wikipedia 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. Readings in traditional and contemporary poetry will be included. For a more detailed, instructor-specific description, please go to https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A4_gMLVP0EtEv5bUdqaLgJ8aJrW4sN4UC51-dIs5HoM/edit?usp=sharing
If you are a Columbia student, please note that you will need to submit an access request to view the document containing instructor-specific course descriptions. All requests will be approved within 24 business hours.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Patricia S Jones
Info - 3 points
VOICES & VISIONS OF CHILDHOOD
Childhood, in some sense, is a universally shared area of expertise: everyone alive was once a kid. At the same time, childhood remains a profound mystery. There’s so much we don’t remember! And the experiences we do retain—did we really understand them, then or now? Even the most ordinary moments of early life can acquire extraordinary significance: they are the touchstones and talismans that we use to make sense of the world, and our place within it. But why? And how?
As we read and write about childhood in this class, we will be asking questions fundamental to the art of fiction: where does a story begin? How is a character formed? Youth, like literature, is filled with symbols. Kids, like writers, are imaginative, metaphorical thinkers, prone to both flights of fancy and glimpses of the truth. The stories of our youth often follow a predictable, prescribed narrative—we are, after all, rarely the authors of our own upbringing—and yet there are a few phases of life with as many plot twists, climactic and often traumatic events that shape who we are. In this way, our line of inquiry in this course will be at once literary and personal. We will be reading and writing about a subject that is nothing short of profound: the origins of life.
- Department: Writing
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Instructor:
Melissa Oliva-Lozada
Info - 3 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
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Instructor:
Peter Nickowitz
Info - 3 points
The Politics of Nature
THE POLITICS OF NATURE
Nature and politics have often been counterposed in political thought: politics is understood to be a distinctly human activity, perhaps even the defining human activity, while nature describes the material world as it operates independently from human action; politics concerns the realm of decisions about how things will and ought to be, while nature names that which simply is and cannot be changed. What, then, does it mean to think about the politics of nature? We will begin by examining the ways that political thinkers have understood nature in general before moving into specifically ecological thought and ending with reflections on the central challenge of nature and politics today: climate change. Themes addressed include the role of science in politics, the challenges of politics on a global or planetary scale, the political and moral status of nonhuman nature, and the relationship between nature and economics.
- Department: Political Science @Barnard
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Instructor:
Alyssa Battistoni
Info - 4 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
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Instructor:
Daniela Kempf
Info - 3 points
RHETORICAL CHOICES: PUBLIC SPEAKING
RHETORICAL CHOICES:PBLC S
Enrollment restricted to Barnard students. Application process and instructor permission required:
https://speaking.barnard.edu/become-speaking-fellow
. Speaking involves a series of rhetorical choices regarding vocal presentation, argument construction, and physical affect that, whether made consciously or by default, project information about the identity of the speaker. In this course students will relate theory to practice: to learn principles of public speaking and speech criticism for the purpose of applying these principles as peer tutors in the Speaking Fellow Program.
Note: This course now counts as an elective for the English major.
- Department: English @Barnard
- 4 points
Animal Tales
"We polish an animal mirror to look for ourselves."
-Donna Haraway
In the last several decades, Animal Studies has emerged as a robust interdisciplinary field that once again seeks to engage with “the question of the animal,” as Derrida puts it. In this course, we will look at works of cultural production that explore the myriad relationships between human and nonhuman animals. We will read stories that dissolve the barrier between the domestic and the wild. We will read stories about human-animal hybrids. We will read stories from an animal’s-eye-view, imagining the world as an animal might: as a worm digging through the dirt toward an imagined utopia, as an elephant seeking vengeance against poachers, as a cultivated monkey exhausted by the cruelty of human society.
As the popular post-humanist scholar Donna Haraway puts it: We polish an animal mirror to look at ourselves. What can animals teach us about ourselves, and more importantly, what can animals teach us about how to survive our own nature? In the midst of this sixth extinction, animals are disappearing at a rapid rate due to human activity. Will it still be possible to cohabit peacefully, ecologically, with one another? By imagining the private lives of animals and writing stories from their perspective, can we still intervene and cultivate the necessary cross-species connections that will carry us into a more just and entwined future?
- Department: Writing
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Instructor:
Anelise I Chen
Info - 3 points
STRUCTURAL DESIGN PROJECTS
Design of steel members in accordance with AISC 360: moment redistribution in beams; plastic analysis; bearing plates; beam-columns: exact and approximate second-order analysis; design by the Effective Length method and the Direct Analysis method. Design of concrete members in accordance with ACI 318: bar anchorage and development length, bar splices, design for shear, short columns, slender columns. AISC/ASCE NSSBC design project: design of a steel bridge in accordance with National Student Steel Bridge Competition rules; computer simulation and design by using SAP2000.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
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Instructor:
Tom T Panayotidi
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
ZORA NEALE HURSTON & BLACK PERFORMANCE
ZORA NEALE HURSTON & BLK
This course begins with focused attention on select plays of Zora Neale Hurston and her critical writing on performance, then takes ZNH’s aesthetics, politics, and provocations as a lens to study Black performance, broadly defined. We will consider the contexts in which Hurston pursued a career as playwright and theatremaker, and the influences that found their way into her plays including spiritual narratives and voodoo. We will turn our attention to key writers of the Harlem Renaissance to learn where ZNH first made her mark, and the milieu to which she ultimately turned her back. Each week’s reading/viewing will include primary sources (ZNH’s plays and dramaturgical statements) as well as scholarly criticism of those works or genre. The final weeks of the course will take up Black performance in the realms of dance and song from the early 20th century, and finish with more recent plays and visual art. In addition to short weekly response papers, students will complete a long-form research paper that may, if they choose, include a creative element.
- Department: Theatre @Barnard
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Instructor:
Alice A Reagan
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info - 4 points
History of Western Music: Middle Ages to
Hist of West Mus: Mid Age
Topics in western music from Antiquity through Bach and Handel, focusing on the development of musical style and thought, and analysis of selected works. Pre-req: Music Theory II or permission of instructor.
- Department: Music
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Instructor:
Russell J O'Rourke
Info - 3 points
PROJECT MGMT FOR CONSTRUCTION
Introduction to Project Management for design and construction processes. Elements of planning, estimating, scheduling, bidding, and contractual relationships. Computer scheduling and cost control. Critical path method. Design and construction activities. Field supervision.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
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Instructor:
Julius Chang
Info - 3 points
THE AMERICAN COWBOY AND THE ICONOGRAPHY
AMER COWBOY/ICONOG OF WES
This entertaining and edifying lecture-not-unmixed-with conversation course will
consider the icon of the American cowboy, with its signature embrace of
masculinity, stoicism, elegiac music, and identification with nature. We will read
Cormac McCarthy’s dazzling Border Trilogy and other works that emerge from
this icon, watch a curated series of cowboy movies, and write critical essays.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Margaret R Ellsberg
CULPA: 54 Info - 3 points
THIRD-YEAR CONVERSATION FR I
Prerequisites: completion of the language requirement in French or the equivalent. Conversation on contemporary French subjects based on readings in current popular French periodicals.
- Department: French
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Instructor:
Laurence Marie
CULPA: 3 Info - 2 points
THIRD-YEAR CONVERSATION FR I
Prerequisites: completion of the language requirement in French or the equivalent. Conversation on contemporary French subjects based on readings in current popular French periodicals.
- Department: French
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Instructor:
Laurence Marie
CULPA: 3 Info - 2 points
THE ECSTASY OF INFLUENCE
Ecstasy of Influence
What does it mean to be original? How do we differentiate plagiarism from pastiche, appropriation from homage? And how do we build on pre-existing traditions while simultaneously creating work that reflects our own unique experiences of the world?
In a 2007 essay for
Harper
’
s
magazine, Jonathan Lethem countered critic Harold Bloom’s theory of “the anxiety of influence” by proposing, instead, an “ecstasy of influence”; Lethem suggested that writers embrace rather than reject the unavoidable imprints of their literary forbearers. Beginning with Lethem’s essay—which, itself, is composed entirely of borrowed (or “sampled”) text—this class will consider the nature of literary influence, and its role in the development of voice.
Each week, students will read from pairings of older stories and novel excerpts with contemporary work that falls within the same artistic lineage. In doing so, we’ll track the movement of stylistic, structural, and thematic approaches to fiction across time, and think about the different ways that stories and novels can converse with one another. We will also consider the influence of other artistic mediums—music, visual art, film and television—on various texts. Students will then write their own original short pieces modeled after the readings. Just as musicians cover songs, we will “cover” texts, adding our own interpretive imprints.
- Department: Writing
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Instructor:
Adam Z Wilson
Info - 3 points
INTERMEDIATE MACRO-DISC/RECIT
Required Discussion/Recitation section for ECON BC3033.
- Department: Economics @Barnard
- 0 points
INTERMEDIATE MACRO-DISC/RECIT
Required Discussion/Recitation section for ECON BC3033.
- Department: Economics @Barnard
- 0 points
DATA STRUCTURES IN 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
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Instructor:
Brian Borowski
Info - 3 points
DATA STRUCTURES IN 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
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Instructor:
Brian Borowski
Info - 3 points
CREATIVE NON-FICTION
Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here: https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
In this course we will explore various genres of creative non-fiction and 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. For a more detailed, instructor-specific description, please go to https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A4_gMLVP0EtEv5bUdqaLgJ8aJrW4sN4UC51-dIs5HoM/edit?usp=sharing
If you are a Columbia student, please note that you will need to submit an access request to view the document containing instructor-specific course descriptions. All requests will be approved within 24 business hours.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Nina Sharma
CULPA: 5
Info
- 3 points
INTERMEDIATE MICRO THEORY RECITATION
INT MICRO THEORY RECITATI
- Department: Economics @Barnard
- 0 points
INTERMEDIATE MICRO THEORY RECITATION
INT MICRO THEORY RECITATI
- Department: Economics @Barnard
- 0 points
INTERMEDIATE MICRO THEORY RECITATION
INT MICRO THEORY RECITATI
- Department: Economics @Barnard
- 0 points
INTERMEDIATE MICRO THEORY RECITATION
INT MICRO THEORY RECITATI
- Department: Economics @Barnard
- 0 points
Medieval to Contemporary Painting Techni
Medieval to Contemporary Painting Techniques explores the fundamental properties of paint materials by studying the paint-making techniques used by old masters of the late Medieval and Renaissance periods up through the contemporary era. Through hands-on work and experimentation, including preparing paint materials themselves, students will gain experience making and working with egg tempera, oil paint, and synthetic materials such as acrylics. They will develop a stronger understanding of how these materials function and how their uses fit into historical traditions and cultural contexts.
Students will participate in weekly material and technique-building workshops. They will be given select open-ended assignments for which they can choose a particular approach to explore. Students will learn how to handle traditional and contemporary materials in compliance with high material safety standards.
- Department: Visual Arts
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Instructor:
Naomi Safran-Hon
Info - 3 points
ART OF THE PARAGRAPH
The paragraph is the organizational principal which defines all prose. In this class, we will examine the techniques by which paragraphs are developed, created, and shaped.
Elements of composition will be analyzed in depth. Techniques discussed include: rhythm, cadence, movement (and the illusion of life), sentence and syntax, grammar as poetic intent, the taut relationship of tone and voice, the orchestration of suspense and action, openings and endings, the veneer of authority, tension, subtext, the delivery of information, and the element of surprise.
Oh—and you can expect a heavy emphasis on self-editing.
This is a practical class oriented around craft and technique for students who are serious about developing their sense of control. Each week we will focus on the micro in order to understand the broader act of creation. This is a comprehensive seminar on prose composition for students who truly love language, as such this class is genre-agnostic and is open to poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers alike.
- Department: Writing
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Instructor:
Molly L McGhee
Info - 3 points
BALLET V
Ballet V, a technique course for the high-intermediate, advanced-level dancer, continues to refine and strengthen advanced-level technical skills, with a particular focus on alignment, musical phrasing, and the dancer's artistic voice in both practice and performance. Movement exercises at the barre, connecting to center work, will continue to build the dancer’s progression toward fluency in their craft. Ballet V will also explore longer movement phrases in the center, which may be practiced in solo or group form. Taking barre or center en pointe may be an option for those with advanced or professional experience in pointework, with the instructor's permission.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
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Instructor:
Cynthia Anderson
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Instructor:
Unity Phelan
Info - 2 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
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Instructor:
Jean-Paul Bjorlin
Info - 3 points
BALLET VI
This course is for the intermediate advanced dancer. Material presented will focus on healthy anatomical alignment in barre work, extended combinations in the center, fostering personal artistic expression, and integrating improvisation in combinations with the ballet vocabulary. Clarification, analysis and repetition are fundamental elements for a sound technique of any dancer and are the foundation of this course. Center work will include attention to shaping adagio work, multiple turns in the large poses, batterie, and extended grand allegro. You may be assigned the construction and presentation of exercises, which will be explained in detail further into the semester. You will be assigned a grading exercise at the end of the shopping period and will get written observations from me
- Department: Dance @Barnard
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Instructor:
Antonio Carmena
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Instructor:
Ashley Tuttle
CULPA: 1 Info - 2 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
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Instructor:
Coralie Gallet
Info - 3 points
PERFORMING WOMEN
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 16 students. This course examines the category of "woman" as it is mobilized in performance, considering both a variety of contemporary performances chosen from a wide range of genres and a diversity of critical/theoretical perspectives. Course fulfills lecture/seminar "studies" requirement for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts major.
- Department: Theatre @Barnard
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Instructor:
Shayoni Mitra
CULPA: 5
Info
- 4 points
Advanced R in Biology
This course serves as a continuation of BIOL2500 R for Scientists. The course will meet weekly. Students will explore a range of methods and resources used by contemporary computational biologists. These include advanced statistical modeling approaches, manipulating genomic and spatial data, and working in R outside of the RStudio environment (including git, bash, Shiny and high-performance computing). Students will have opportunities to explore diverse biological and statistical R packages in the context of homework assignments, and will analyze a dataset of their own choosing for a semester project.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
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Instructor:
Vincent D Fitzpatrick
Info - 3 points
SOIL MECHANICS
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
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Instructor:
Hoe I Ling
h-index: 45 Info - 4 points
CLASSIC VARIATIONS
Variations
class is a course for the intermediate to advanced dancer. As in all other ballet classes, there will be a focus on correct physical alignment, proper technique and musicality. The added challenges in this course will be the pointe shoe technique, creative choreographic choices, and musical phrasing. The class will include variations based on works ranging from Petipa to Balanchine to today’s choreographers. Dancers will explore personalizing already known works, pushing the boundaries of the pointe shoe, examining how choreography has evolved and developing the stamina required to execute a full variation. Learning material rapidly while paying attention to the stylistic demands of each choreographer’s works and being able to shift from one stylistic choice to another is simply expected.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
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Instructor:
Ashley Tuttle
CULPA: 1 Info - 2 points
Stories and Storytelling: Attending to N
STORIES & STORYTELLING: N
What is it to attend to narrative? Attending has its etymological roots in Latin,
attendere
, to stretch (one’s mind)
towards
, to get closer, which implies a gap between one’s mind and whatever it is one is attending to.
Attendre
in French means to wait, to expect, another gesture towards space between one’s mind and whatever one is waiting for or expecting. What happens in that space? What is it to attend? Is it to slow down and mind the gap? Or is it to
pay
or
lend
attention, as the phrase appears in multiple languages, as though the space is a debt that we or our minds owe? What does it look like to pay attention to narrative and stories?
This course offers an introduction to forms and functions of narrative with focus on three modes: perception, reflection, and memory. What distinguishes the texts we will study is how they themselves foreground and reflect on how stories are told and so perform the task of teaching us how to analyze them. Topics include the writing of the self; the nature of memory; the experience of time; the relationship between fact, fantasy, and fiction; and the search for truth. While we will cover a range of scripture, poetry, novels, essays, plays, comics, and hybrid literary forms, the demand of you as readers will be the same: lend your close attention to these works and give yourself time to reflect on them.
- Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
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Instructor:
Daniella Gitlin
Info - 3 points
Black Women s Histories in the United
Black Women's Histories
In this course you will be examining paper tracings and other sources related to the lived experiences of Black women. You will be required to review and interrogate materials on triggering subjects; some of these items include violent descriptions, images, and acts. In order to join in our collective engagement with the history of Black women, within the context of the U.S., you will critically analyze items that have not been sanitized for popular consumption. Thus, we will not be “erasing history” in this course by avoiding the deployment of white supremacy and its vast, related violence(s) against Black women’s bodies and lives, as well as the various manifestations of resistance of Black women throughout the history of the United States.
- Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
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Instructor:
Celia E Naylor
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
Environmental Humanities in Action
Environ Humanities in Ac
Some of the central questions in the study of environmental humanities focus on human action, its context, and its effects. Thus, one major contribution of the environmental humanities is to study and consider how we conceptualize action, relations (both between humans and environments and among humans), and even the meaning of human being. The environmental humanities places these conceptual questions in the context of value and values, as well as questions of how values are materialized in practice. This course considers all of these questions through the study both theories of action in the context of environmental humanities and research into existing projects that are informed by and can inform the study of environmental humanities.
- Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
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Instructor:
Janet Jakobsen
CULPA: 6
Wikipedia
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SCIENCE IN THE CITY FIELDWORK LAB
SCIENCE IN CITY FIELDWORK
- Department: Education @Barnard
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Instructor:
Althea B Hoard
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SCIENCE IN THE CITY FIELDWORK LAB
SCIENCE IN CITY FIELDWORK
- Department: Education @Barnard
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Instructor:
Althea B Hoard
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SCIENCE IN THE CITY FIELDWORK LAB
SCIENCE IN CITY FIELDWORK
- Department: Education @Barnard
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Instructor:
Althea B Hoard
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CRITICAL HISTORIES OF DRAMA, THEATRE, AN
CRIT HIST DRAMA, THTR & P
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. Course undertakes careful study of the practices of performance, and of the sociocultural, economic, political, and aesthetic conditions animating representative performance in “classical” 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 court performance. 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
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Instructor:
William B Worthen
CULPA: 10
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LIVING WITH ANIMALS: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PER
This course examines how humans and animals shape each other’s lives, using the tools and perspectives of anthropology. We’ll explore the astounding diversity of human-animal relationships in time and space, tracing the ways animals have made their impact on human societies (and vice-versa). Using contemporary ethnographic, historical, and archaeological examples from a variety of geographical regions and chronological periods, this class will consider how humans and animals live and work together, and the ways in which humans have found animals “good to think with”. In this course, we will also discuss how knowledge about human-animal relationships in the past might change contemporary and future approaches to living with animals. Through the reading and thinking that this course requires, you will explore what an anthropological perspective on living with animals looks like and how thinking about animals might change anthropology.
- Department: Anthropology
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Instructor:
Hannah Chazin
Info - 4 points
How the Ancients Argued: The Global Rhet
Long before Aristotle’s Rhetoric and far from Athens and Rome, rhetoricians were teaching people how to communicate powerfully in politics, the law, and the street. This course surveys the ancient rhetorics of Egypt, China, the Americas, and the Arab world. We will examine a body of primary texts from 2,300 B.C.E. to 1,500 C.E. that teach people to wield language effectively.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
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Instructor:
Susan Mendelsohn
CULPA: 5
h-index: 3
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THEATRE TRAD GLOBAL CONTEXT
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 50 students.
Provides a broad introduction to several traditions of nonwestern drama and theatrical practice, often placing recent and contemporary writing in relation to established conventions. Taking up plays and performance traditions from Asia, South Asia, and various African traditions, it may also consider the relation between elite and popular culture (adaptations of Shakespeare, for example), and between drama, theatre, and film. Course fulfills lecture/seminar "studies" requirement for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts major.
- Department: Theatre @Barnard
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Instructor:
Shayoni Mitra
CULPA: 5
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ARTS&HUMANITIES IN CITY FIELDWORK LAB
ARTS&HUMANITIES IN CITY L
- Department: Education @Barnard
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Instructor:
Drew W Chambers
Info - 0 points
ARTS&HUMANITIES IN CITY FIELDWORK LAB
ARTS&HUMANITIES IN CITY L
- Department: Education @Barnard
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Instructor:
Drew W Chambers
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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
- 3 points
ADVANCED PROGRAMMING
C programming language and Unix systems programming. Also covers Git, Make, TCP/IP networking basics, C++ fundamentals.
ADVANCED PROGRAMMING
C programming language and Unix systems programming. Also covers Git, Make, TCP/IP networking basics, C++ fundamentals.
DANTE AND CHAUCER
Geoffrey Chaucer, “the father of English literature,” was also the first known English reader of Dante – generally regarded as the greatest poet in a modern European language – and the question of how to respond to the legacy of his powerful predecessor left its mark on many of Chaucer’s works. Was “Chaucer,” the self-identified hero of The Canterbury Tales, based on “Dante,” the poet pilgrim who, in the Commedia, claims to have personally visited Hell, Purgatory and Paradise? And if so, as seems likely, what do we make of Chaucer’s rejection of Dante’s “beautiful style,” and his comparative emphasis on irony, incompleteness, and bodily humor? Reading these foundational authors side-by-side sheds unexpected light on each. Could it be that Chaucer was Dante’s canniest reader? In this
seminar we will read generous extracts from Chaucer in the original Middle English, as well as the Commedia of Dante, and additional short texts, in modern English translation.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Eugene A Petracca
Info - 4 points
THE ENGLISH COLLOQUIUM
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to Barnard English majors. In the Renaissance colloquium we will examine English and European imaginative and intellectual life from the sixteenth to mid-seventeenth centuries. Defined by humanism, the Protestant Reformation, and revolution, this was a period of ideological struggle on many levels. Long-held ways of ordering the world came under increasing strain-and sometimes ruptured irreparably. Writers discussed and debated the aims of human knowledge, retooled old literary forms for new purposes, scrambled to take account of an expanded awareness of the globe, and probed the tension between belief and doubt. Throughout this process, they experimented with new literary styles to express their rapidly changing worldviews. This is an intensive course in which we will take multiple approaches to a variety of authors that may include Petrarch, Erasmus, Machiavelli, Castiglione, More, Rabelais, Luther, Calvin, Montaigne, Spenser, Bacon, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Milton, and Behn, among others.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Ross T Hamilton
CULPA: 25
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Instructor:
Atefeh Akbari Shahmirzadi
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Instructor:
Eugene A Petracca
Info - 4 points
Fanon s Psychology of the Oppressed
Frantz Fanon’s ideas have been influential for decades among theorists, practitioners, and activists alike. This seminar is focused on understanding Fanon’s particular perspective on the psychology of the oppressed and its relevance for examining the experience of past and present racialized inequality and its effects in society. The course is divided into four sections, which build cumulatively.
I). An introductory section introduces Fanon’s central ideas (e.g., dialecticism, existentialism, post-colonialism) in their intellectual and socio-historical context (e.g., the Algerian revolution, African decolonization, South African Apartheid, the US civil rights and women’s rights movements).
II). A second section locates Fanon in psychological theory and therapeutic theory and practice. The cultural and political (Eurocentric?) roots of psychological theory and practice are examined as are notions of oppression causing psychological and physical violence as well as psychopathology / psychological disorder.
III). A third section examines Fanon and others psychological approaches to identity with particular attention to the presumed “inferiority complex” of oppressed peoples, nationalist and other reconstructions of identity in opposition to oppression, sociological psychological conceptualizations of stigma, and Dubois’s influential ideas regarding double consciousness.
IV). A fourth and final section focuses on resistance and rebellion. The focus here is on the psycho-moral implications of (violent, peaceful, non-disruptive) action against oppression with reference to the distinct perspectives of Fanon in comparison to influential figures like Gandhi and M.L.K Jr. These issues are linked to a post-Fanon approach to the psychology of the oppressed called Liberation Psychology.
- Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
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Instructor:
Colin Leach
CULPA: 4 h-index: 41 Info - 4 points
COMPUTER GRAPHICS
This undergraduate course introduces students to algorithms, data structures and mathematical principles used in computer graphics. Students will gain experience with OpenGL and graphics processing unit (GPU) programming and develop an understanding of the graphics pipeline. The topics covered include shading and illumination, sampling and reconstruction, ray tracing, graphics hardware, geometric and viewing transformations, rendering, modeling curves and surfaces and image-based methods. Near the end of the course, students will be introduced to topics in animation, global illumination and reflectance and modern concepts like neural rendering. Pre-Requisites: COMS W3157 Advanced Programming, Linear Algebra (COMS W3251, APMA E3101, APMA E2101, MATH UN2010, or MATH UN2015), and Calculus I or higher.
Please note:
Due to significant overlap in content, only one of COMS BC3160 or COMS W4160 may be taken for credit.
- Department: Computer Science @Barnard
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Instructor:
Corey Toler-Franklin
Info - 3 points
FLUID MECHANICS
Fluid statics. Fundamental principles and concepts of flow analysis. Differential and finite control volume approach to flow analysis. Dimensional analysis. Application of flow analysis: flow in pipes, external flow, flow in open channels.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
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Instructor:
Marco Giometto
h-index: 9 Info - 4 points
SHAKESPEARE I
A critical and historical introduction to Shakespeares comedies, histories, tragedies, and romances. 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
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Instructor:
Peter Platt
CULPA: 23
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
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Instructor:
Erk Grimm
CULPA: 10
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MILTON
How and why might we read Milton now? And how do his writings and thinking intersect with issues in our present moment? We will read his influential epic
Paradise Lost
after reading selections of Milton's earlier poetry and prose (attack against censorship, defenses of divorce, individual conscience, toleration, complicated issues of political and religious liberty). He wrote about these matters as he was involved in the English Civil war, an advocate of liberty (we will consider what kind, for whom?) and revolution, which Americans would embrace as inspiration and to justify the American Revolution. We will critically read Milton’s literary and political texts within the contexts of religious, political, and cultural history of early modern England and Europe but also colonial and revolutionary America—asking difficult questions, and with a sense of how Milton’s writing connects to present issues of our time.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Achsah Guibbory
CULPA: 17
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Moral Psychology: Ancient Wisdom and Mod
This seminar is designed to introduce you to the psychological foundations of morality, examining how moral judgment and behavior develop across cultures and throughout human history. Drawing from ancient wisdom traditions, contemporary psychology, philosophy, and emerging fields like AI ethics, you will gain a nuanced understanding of moral psychology and its applications.
- Department: Psychology @Barnard
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Instructor:
Angelika Seidel
Info - 4 points
THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY NOVEL
In the seventeenth century, a new genre appears across Europe: the novel. Why does it appear? What accounts for its increasing popularity across the eighteenth century? What role does it play, in personal psychology as well as society? To puzzle these questions, we will place the development of the novel within the history of art, philosophy and science, as well as psychology and literary theory. Readings may include novels by Mme. de La Fayette, Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, John Cleland, the Marquis de Sade, William Godwin, and Jane Austen, as well as essays by Benjamin, Adorno, Foucault, Elias, Moretti, and others.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Monica F Cohen
CULPA: 8
Info
- 3 points
VICTORIAN AGE IN LITERATURE
“We have become a novel-reading people,” wrote Anthony Trollope in 1870. “Novels are in the hands of us all; from the Prime Minister down to the last-appointed scullery maid.” This course will consider why the novel was so important to Victorian culture and society. What made the Victorian novel such a fertile form for grappling with the unprecedented cultural changes of the nineteenth century? To address this question, we will explore how Victorian novels both responded to, and participated in, major social and cultural shifts of the period, including industrialism and urbanization; colonialism and empire; the changing status of women, sexuality, and marriage; the emergence of Darwinism; class conflict and social reform; and the expansion of education and literacy. This course will also consider more broadly what novels are for, and what the Victorians thought they were for. Do novels represent the world as it really is, or do they imagine it as it ought to be? What kinds of solutions to social and political problems can novels offer? Can novels ethically improve (or corrupt) their readers? We will consider these issues in the context of realism, Victorian literature’s trademark genre, but we’ll also explore an array of other genres, such as the industrial novel, the Bildungsroman, the sensation novel, detective fiction, and gothic fiction. Authors include Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, and others.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Jayne Hildebrand
CULPA: 3
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AMERICAN LITERATURE TO 1800
This course surveys American literature written before 1800. While we will devote some attention to the literary traditions that preceded British colonization, most of our readings will be of texts written in English between 1620 and 1800. These texts--histories, autobiographies, poems, plays, and novels--illuminate the complexity of this period of American culture. They tell stories of pilgrimage, colonization, and genocide; private piety and public life; manuscript and print publication; the growth of national identity (political, cultural, and literary); Puritanism, Quakerism, and Deism; race and gender; slavery and the beginnings of a movement towards its abolition. We will consider, as we read, the ways that these stories overlap and interconnect, and the ways that they shape texts of different periods and genres.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Lisa Gordis
CULPA: 15 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
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Instructor:
Elisheva Carlebach
CULPA: 6
Wikipedia
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AMERICAN LITERATURE SINCE 1945
In the wake of World War II, the so-called American Century rises out of the ashes of fascism, haunted by the specter of bombs blurring the boundary between victory and defeat. An ideological civil war ensues, punctuated by literary resistance to grand narratives and their discontents. Authors include Ellison, O’Connor, Ginsberg, Bishop, Pynchon, Robinson, Merrill, Morrison, Didion, and Wallace.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Maura L Spiegel
CULPA: 40 Info - 3 points
MODRN BRITISH & AMERCAN POETRY
Poetry written in English during the past century, discussed in the context of modernism, postmodernism, literary theory, and changing social and technological developments. Students will participate in shaping the syllabus and leading class discussion. Authors may include Yeats, Williams, Eliot, Moore, Bishop, Rich, Ginsberg, Stevens, O Hara, Plath, Brooks, Jordan, Walcott, Alexie, and many others.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Michael C Dickman
Info - 3 points
MODRN BRITISH & AMERCAN POETRY
Poetry written in English during the past century, discussed in the context of modernism, postmodernism, literary theory, and changing social and technological developments. Students will participate in shaping the syllabus and leading class discussion. Authors may include Yeats, Williams, Eliot, Moore, Bishop, Rich, Ginsberg, Stevens, O Hara, Plath, Brooks, Jordan, Walcott, Alexie, and many others.
- Department: Auditing
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Instructor:
Michael C Dickman
Info - 0 points
THE MODERN NOVEL
This course will pay close attention to the novel form through the transition from nineteenth-century realism to modernist innovations in narrative voice and perspective, representation of consciousness, etc. Important social and historical contexts include World War I, urbanization, sexuality and the family, empire and colonialism. Authors may include Gustave Flaubert, Henry James, E. M. Forster, Ford Madox Ford, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce..
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Mary E Cregan
CULPA: 12
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COMPOSNG THE SELF-ERLY MOD EUR
This course explores manners of conceiving and being a self in early modern Europe (ca. 1400-1800). Through the analysis of a range of sources, from autobiographical writings to a selection of theological, philosophical, artistic, and literary works, we will approach the concept of personhood as a lens through which to study topics such as the valorization of interiority, humanist scholarly practices, the rising professional status of artists, the spirituality of Christian mysticism, mechanist and sensationalist philosophies of selfhood, and, more generally, the human person’s relationship with material and existential goods. This approach is intended to deepen our understanding of the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, and other movements around which histories of the early modern period have typically been narrated.
- Department: History
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Instructor:
Charly J Coleman
CULPA: 7
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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
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Instructor:
Belinda Cooper
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
CRITICAL WRITING
Open to all students.This course teaches clear writing and provides exposure to a range of interpretative strategies. 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
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Instructor:
Kristi-Lynn Cassaro
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Instructor:
Andrew L Lynn
CULPA: 17
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Instructor:
Eugene A Petracca
Info - 4 points
MODERNISM
A deeply ambivalent, transatlantic movement, Modernism grapples with revolutionary forces that defy traditional structures: the 19th-century Darwinian inversion to the old idea of order, the advent of psychoanalysis, the crisis of world war, and the anxiety and exuberance of shifting gender paradigms. The ensuing cultural upheaval dis-orders not only the content but also the literary forms of Modernism, giving rise to abstraction, fragmented narrative structures, stream-of-consciousness prose and the extreme erudition T.S. Eliot “shored against the ruins” of so-called civilization in “The Waste Land.” Special attention will be devoted to how seminal manifestos, most notably "Tradition and the Individual Talent" and
A Room of One's Own,
frame the movement's embattled aesthetics. Works by Djuna Barnes, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Muriel Rukeyser, Jean Toomer, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Virginia Woolf, and W.B. Yeats.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Kristi-Lynn Cassaro
Info - 3 points
THEORY
An exploration of alternative theoretical approaches to the study of religion as well as other areas of humanistic inquiry. The methods considered include: sociology, anthropology, philosophy, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, structuralism, genealogy, and deconstruction. (Previous title: Juniors Colloquium)
- Department: Religion
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Instructor:
Courtney Bender
CULPA: 10
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Feminist Ethnography
This course offers an overview of classic and contemporary examples of feminist ethnography. Over
the course of the semester, we will trace the development of, and debates around, feminist
ethnography from the 1970s to the contemporary period, highlighting the key questions and
dominant paradigms of the field. We will examine how feminist approaches shape the questions we
ask, how we present our research and the ethics of research. We will explore how to incorporate
collaborative and activist methods and analysis in our scholarly projects, asking: How can feminist
ethnography intensify efforts towards social justice in the current political and economic climate?
How do feminist ethnographers link their findings to broader publics through activism, advocacy, and
public policy?
MECHANICS:FUND & APPLICATIONS
Basic non-Euclidean coordinate systems, Newtonian Mechanics, oscillations, Greens functions, Newtonian graviation, Lagrangian mechanics, central force motion, two-body collisions, noninertial reference frames, rigid body dynamics. Applications, including GPS and feedback control systems, are emphasized throughout.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Paul
Info - 3 points
TRANSPORT/CHEM RATE PHENOMENA
Fluid statics. Basics of flow analysis. Dimensional analysis. Pipe flow. Fluid dynamics, heat and mass transfer. Effects of velocity, temperature, and concentration gradients 130 ENGINEERING 2021–2022 and material properties on fluid flow, heat and mass transfer. Applications to environmental engineering problems.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
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Instructor:
Yin Yip Ngai
h-index: 26 Info - 3 points