BODY & WORD

Our writing often appears primarily as a product of cognitive faculties, and we easily overlook the profound influence our bodies exert on our thoughts and, consequently, our writing. Our perception of language itself is tied to how we perceive our physical selves. We can understand our bodies materially, as intricate structures of bone, muscle, and cells, or kinesthetically, through movement, force, and tone, intertwined with a spectrum of sensations like pain and pleasure, which intersect with our psychological and emotional landscapes. Through a series of movement exercises, readings, and writing assignments, this seminar delves into the profound impact a deeper understanding of our bodies and their movement can have on our writing, and conversely, how writing can influence our bodily experiences. Using various artistic mediums such as dance, film, literature, and fine arts, we aim to enhance our ability to articulate and write the body's presence and movement through space and time. Students from all concentrations are encouraged to join.

• Department: Writing
• Instructor: Matty Davis
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• 3 points

INTERNATIONAL MONEY & FINANCE

Prerequisites: ECON BC3033. Introduction to balance of payments and exchange rate theory; capital mobility and expectations; internal and external adjustment under fixed and flexible exchange rates; international financial markets; capital mobility and expectations; international policy coordination and optimum currency areas; history of the international monetary system.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• Instructor: Sarah M Gertler
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• 3 points

ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY

Prerequisites: an introductory course in anthropology. Institutions of social life. Kinship and locality in the structuring of society. Monographs dealing with both literate and nonliterate societies will be discussed in the context of anthropological fieldwork methods. Required of all Anthropology majors (and tracks) within the Barnard Department. As of Fall, 2018, UN 3040 replaces the two semester sequence of 3040/4041 Anthropological Theory I/II). Intended only for Barnard majors and minors.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• Instructor: Nadia Abu El-Haj
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• 4 points

LAB IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

This laboratory course will explore fundamental techniques that are frequently utilized in modern molecular biology laboratories. A combination of experiments will provide broad exposure to several important techniques in molecular biology. Experiments include current approaches to site-directed mutagenesis, cloning by PCR, and mutation analysis. Students will pursue multiple experimental projects and will gain experience with scientific thinking and scientific communication. SPS 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).

Prerequisites: UN2005/UN2401 and UN2006/UN2402, or the equivalent at a different institution, and Contemporary Biology Laboratory (UN2501).

• Department: Biological Sciences
• Instructor: Joshua M Abrams
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• 3 points

CELL BIOLOGY

Prerequisites: one year of biology, normally BIOL UN2005-BIOL UN2006, or the equivalent. Cell Biology 3041/4041 is an upper-division course that covers in depth all organelles of cells, how they make up tissues, secrete substances important for the organism, generate and adapt to their working environment in the body, move throughout development, and signal to each other. Because these topics were introduced in the Intro Course (taught by Mowshowitz and Chasin), this course or its equivalent is a pre-requisite for W3041/4041. Students for whom this course is useful include biology, biochem or biomedical engineering majors, those preparing to apply for medical school or graduate school, and those doing or planning to start doing research in a biology or biomedical lab. 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
• Instructor: Erin L Barnhart
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• 3 points

THEORETICL FOUNDTNS-POLIT ECON

Prerequisites: An introductory course in economics or permission of the instructor. Intellectual origins of the main schools of thought in political economy. Study of the founding texts in classical political economy, Marxian economics, neoclassicism, and Keynesianism.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• Instructor: Malte Dold
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• 3 points

THEORETICL FOUNDTNS-POLIT ECON

Prerequisites: An introductory course in economics or permission of the instructor. Intellectual origins of the main schools of thought in political economy. Study of the founding texts in classical political economy, Marxian economics, neoclassicism, and Keynesianism.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• Instructor: Malte Dold
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• 3 points

Making Change: Activism, Social Movement

Activism and Education

Summer and 
Semester version:

Making Change: Activism, Social Movements and Education will look at the ways people power has pushed for change in the United States educational landscape. We will study historical and current social political education movements to answer questions such as: What does education/teacher activism look like? Who engages in educational social activism, and why? What do different models for organizing look like, past to present? We will learn from the examples of the Freedom Schools, the Chicago Teachers Union, the Tucson Unified School District fight for ethnics studies, BLM at Schools, Teacher Activist Groups and more. We will engage in readings, watch documentaries and hear from education activist guest lecturers.

Learning Outcomes: 


You will explore the historical relationships between and across social movements in education and its social contexts. 

You will reflect on major educational justice movements from across the country and analyze its impact and importance. 

You will evaluate the changing role of education and schools in our society and propose actions that could be taken to improve education and schools in the future.

• Department: Education @Barnard
• Instructor: Fawziah Qadir
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• 4 points

SOLID ST,MICROWAVE,FBR OPT LAB

Optical electronics and communications. Microwave circuits. Physical electronics.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• Instructor: Wen I Wang
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

EDUCATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN COMPARATI

EDU SOCIAL CHANGE CONTEXT

This course will examine the relationship between education and social change in different regions of the world, with a focus on vulnerable populations (e.g., indigenous
groups, street and working children, immigrants, women and girls; refugees).

• Department: Education @Barnard
• Instructor: Fawziah Qadir
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• 4 points

Introduction to Behavioral Economics

INTRO TO BEHAVIORAL ECON

This course reviews the assumption of rationality in microeconomic theory and presents evidence (primarily from experimental psychology and economics) of how judgement and decision-making systematically deviate from what rationality predicts.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• Instructor: John Park
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

MARKETIZATION & PRIVATIZATION IN EDUCATI

MARKETIZATION_IN EDUCATIO

It has become commonplace for governments to partner with the private sector to deliver public goods and services; this is seen as a way to increase efficiency and decrease costs. Often, this privatization goes hand in hand with an adoption of market values. Nowhere are these trends more evident – or important – than public education. Arguments for educational privatization are often thought of in terms of economics – does it save money? – or limited measures of student achievement - does it raise test scores? In this course, we acknowledge these questions, but we also go beyond them to explore the political and social dimensions of privatization. We ask: Who wins and who loses when public schools privatize? What happens when market values are normalized and prioritized in our schools?

The following questions frame our explorations:

·How does privatization in education differ from privatization in other sectors? 

·What are the implications of educational privatization and marketization for democracy and the public good?

·Who profits from privatization and how does this support or interfere with educative goals?

·How are philanthropy, venture capital, and corporate partnerships reshaping the way schools serve students?

·Does privatization expand opportunities for marginalized students, deepen existing inequalities, or both?

·How does privatization affect the teacher workforce? How does it affect the nature of teachers’ work and student learning?

·How is privatization proceeding globally? How is privatization linked with global policy spread?

·What forms do resistance to privatization take? What ethical considerations should we take up around privatization?

 

This course includes an empirical research component which provides scaffolding and support for students who eventually plan to write a senior thesis.

• Department: Education @Barnard
• Instructor: Rachel Throop
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• 4 points

COLL: CAPITALISM AND ITS CRITICS

COLL: CAPITALISM & ITS CR

Capitalism is usually thought of as an economic system, but what does it have to do with politics? This course examines how thinkers of contrasting perspectives have understood capitalism politically. Some have celebrated the market as an escape from coercion, while others criticize it as a source of disguised domination; some see capitalism as leveling social hierarchies, while others point to its creation of class and racial hierarchy; some see capitalism as an engine of wealth creation and heightened living standards, while others emphasize its destruction of existing ways of life and production of inequality; some see capitalism as an engine of peace, while others emphasize its reliance on violence. In particular, we will consider the relationship between state and market, moral critiques of markets and exchange, analyses of the role of force and violence in accumulation, and theories of freedom and domination.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• Instructor: Alyssa Battistoni
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• 4 points

WRITING YOUR WORLD WITH LYDIA DAVIS

“Take notes regularly,” Lydia Davis advises in Essays One. “Observe your own activity. . .Observe your own feelings (but not at tiresome length). . .Observe the behavior of others, both animal and human. . .Observe the weather, and be specific.”

This cross-genre seminar—fiction and nonfiction, with forays into translation—aims to uncover radical, imaginative, and accessible approaches to generating and refining creative work drawn from the world around us, using the good examples of Davis and writers she is in conversation with. Readings will include Davis’s The End of the Story, Essays One, Essays Two, Collected Stories, Our Strangers, and In the Weeds; her translations of Flaubert’s Madame Bovary and Proust’s In Search of Lost Time; as well as the works of writers such as Franz Kafka, Marguerite Duras, Elizabeth Hardwick, Osama Alomar, Eliot Weinberger, Thomas Bernhard, and Italo Calvino, whose models she cites or follows (or whose works I find complementary to Davis). These readings will be supplemented by the occasional complementary craft essay by writers like Samuel R. Delany, George Saunders, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Ben Mauk. Using these models and guidance, students will be emboldened to apply these techniques to their own work, which will consist of brief weekly writing assignments (many of which will be creative) and generative in-class creative writing prompts. Students will also do short presentations drawn from independent visit to Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library, where Davis’s illuminating notebooks, revised manuscripts, and other papers are housed. Students will also learn to keep a daily writing journal, from which selections will serve as the midterm and final.

• Department: Writing
• Instructor: James C Yeh
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• 3 points

APPROACHES TO INTERIORITY

We read in order not to be confined to the self nature has assigned us; we read to make prolonged and intimate contact with other inner lives. Day to day we are largely opaque to each other; in literature, by contrast, there are no secrets. What life hides, writing announces. Novels, stories, memoirs, biographies, personal essays, poems and plays exist to reveal what’s really going on in the deep recesses. Our course will focus, across a range of genres and styles, on the endless varieties of inner experience and how outer life disguises, but also intimates, the fortress of secrets within. You will be asked to relate the following readings to other books you’ve read, as well as to what is personal and idiosyncratic to yourself. Your written assignments should reflect the inner changes that reading has wrought -- as well as the core of originality that each of us possesses, just on account of being human.

• Department: Writing
• Instructor: Benjamin Taylor
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SCIENCE IN THE CITY

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. In partnership with the American Museum of Natural History students investigate science, science pedagogical methods, and ways to use New York City as a resource for science teaching and learning. Sessions will be held at Barnard and the museum. Field trips and fieldwork required. Non-science majors pre-service elementary students and first year students, welcome. Note: Students in the Childhood Urban Teaching Program may use this course as a pedagogical elective.

• Department: Education @Barnard
• Instructor: Althea B Hoard
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• 4 points

BIG DATA WITH PYTHON

Big Data is changing how we interact with and understand the environment. Yet analyzing Big Data requires new tools and methods. Students will learn to use Python programming to analyze and visualize large environmental and earths systems data sets in ways that Excel is not equipped to do. This will include both time series and spatial analyses with programming occurring interactively during class and assignments designed to strengthen methods and results. Students will learn to write code in Python, plot, map, sub-select, clean, organize, and perform statistical analyses on large global scale data sets, using the data in analysis, and take any data set no matter how large or complicated.

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• Instructor: Brian Mailloux
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 36 Info
• 3 points

MULTICULTURAL ELEMENTARY PEDA

This seminar will engage prospective teachers in developing effective strategies for teaching at the elementary school level in ways that draw upon five specific domains of knowledge: knowledge of self, content, pedagogy, context and students. Students will be introduced to a variety of teaching approaches and develop ways to adapt them to teach various subjects to students in urban public school settings, understanding the intellectual, social and emotional needs of elementary school students. Students will learn to write lesson plans, develop assessments and practice teaching in “microteaching” sessions taught to peers. We will explore state standards, approaches to classroom management, and Universal Design for Learning as we develop approaches to create caring, democratic learning communities.

• Department: Education @Barnard
• Instructor: Lisa Edstrom
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• 4 points

MULTICULTURAL SECONDARY PEDAG

What does it mean to be an excellent teacher? The Seminar in Secondary Multicultural Pedagogy will engage this question as you work to develop methods for teaching your subject(s) in ways that draw upon five specific domains of knowledge: knowledge of self, content, pedagogical methods, context, and students. You will be introduced to a variety of multicultural teaching approaches and develop ways to adapt them to your particular subject area and to the intellectual, social, and emotional needs of adolescent learners. Throughout the course, we will consider how to effectively differentiate instruction for and support ELL students and students with special needs. Seminar sessions will include discussions, presentations of lessons, group activities, and problem-solving issues teachers encounter in the classroom. We will explore culturally responsive approaches to: learning; learning standards; instruction and assessment; creating caring, democratic learning communities; selecting curriculum content, and engaging all students in learning. Assignments will ask you to reflect on the teaching/learning process in general, and on the particulars of teaching your academic discipline. We will accomplish this through lesson planning, practice teaching two mini-lessons, observing your peers teaching and offering feedback, and exploring stances and strategies for multicultural pedagogy in your content area.

• Department: Education @Barnard
• Instructor: Madeleine Neufeld
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• 4 points

ARTS AND HUMANITIES IN THE CITY:CRITICAL

ARTS & HUMANITIES IN THE CITY

Using the theme of “Arts and Humanities in the City”, this seminar will build participants’ knowledge of critical literacy, digital storytelling methods, and ways to use New York City as a resource for teaching the Arts (Dance, Theatre, Music, and Visual Arts), Social Studies, and English Language Arts in grades K-12. Critical literacy is an approach to teaching and learning that focuses on developing students’ abilities to read, analyze, understand, question, and critique hidden perspectives and socially-constructed power relations embedded in what it means to be literate in a content area.

• Department: Education @Barnard
• Instructor: Madeleine Neufeld
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• 4 points

US Poetry of the 1960s

Arguably the most consequential decade of the postwar era, the 1960s saw American poetry become a site of radical experiment and political contestation, as longstanding assumptions of white male-dominated culture were placed under unprecedented pressure. This course traces that upheaval across movements—Beat, Black Mountain, Black Arts, New York School, San Francisco Renaissance. Poets to be studied include Allen Ginsberg, Russell Atkins, Gwendolyn Brooks, Amiri Baraka, Frank O'Hara, Jack Spicer, Charles Olson, N.H. Pritchard, Robert Creeley, Larry Eigner, John Ashbery, Diane di Prima, and Jayne Cortez. We will attend to questions of form—breath, the page, sound, performance, and the boundary between poetry and music—within the historical contexts of the Civil Rights, Black Power, feminist, gay liberation, and environmental movements.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• Instructor: Paul Stephens
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• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS I

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and the completion of all courses (except for the senior requirement) required for the economics department majors. Exceptions to these prerequisites may be granted by the chair of the department only.  Tutorials and conferences on the research for and writing of the senior thesis. This is the 1st semester of a two-semester course sequence.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• Instructor: Linda Bell
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• Instructor: Randall Reback
  CULPA: 17 h-index: 14 Info
• Instructor: Sharon Harrison
  CULPA: 38 h-index: 13 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

SR SEM: ECON OF HIGHER ED

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and the completion of all courses (except for the senior requirement) required for the economics department majors.  Exceptions to these prerequisites may be granted by the chair of the department only. Seminar sections are limited to 16 students. A topic in economic theory or policy of the instructors choice. See department for current topics and for senior requirement preference forms.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• Instructor: Linda Bell
  Wikipedia h-index: 19 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

SR SEM:UNINTENDED CONSEQS

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and the completion of all courses (except for the senior requirement) required for the economics department majors.  Exceptions to these prerequisites may be granted by the chair of the department only. Seminar sections are limited to 16 students. A topic in economic theory or policy of the instructors choice. See department for current topics and for senior requirement preference forms.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• Instructor: Sharon Harrison
  CULPA: 38 h-index: 13 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

SR SEM: INTRPRET OF SGNLS

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and the completion of all courses (except for the senior requirement) required for the economics department majors.  Exceptions to these prerequisites may be granted by the chair of the department only. Seminar sections are limited to 16 students. A topic in economic theory or policy of the instructors choice. See department for current topics and for senior requirement preference forms.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• Instructor: Rajiv Sethi
  CULPA: 24 h-index: 33 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

SR SEM:DISCRM & PBLC PLCY

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and the completion of all courses (except for the senior requirement) required for the economics department majors.  Exceptions to these prerequisites may be granted by the chair of the department only. Seminar sections are limited to 16 students. A topic in economic theory or policy of the instructors choice. See department for current topics and for senior requirement preference forms.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• Instructor: Morgan C Jr. Williams
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• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

SR SEM: HUMAN FREEDOM

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and the completion of all courses (except for the senior requirement) required for the economics department majors.  Exceptions to these prerequisites may be granted by the chair of the department only. Seminar sections are limited to 16 students. A topic in economic theory or policy of the instructors choice. See department for current topics and for senior requirement preference forms.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• Instructor: Lalith Munasinghe
  CULPA: 33 Info
• 4 points

SEM: ISSUES URBAN TEACHING

CRITICAL INQUIRY URBAN TCHNG

Enrollment limited to student teachers enrolled in the Education Program. Designed to help student teachers develop as reflective practitioners who can think critically about issues facing urban schools, particularly how race, class and gender influence schooling; and to examine the challenges and possibilities for providing intellectually engaging, meaningful curriculum to all students in urban classrooms.

• Department: Education @Barnard
• Instructor: Rachel Throop
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

RESEARCH SEM ECONOMIC HISTRY I

Must be supervised by a faculty member approved by the program adviser. This is the 1st semester of a two-semester course sequence.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• Instructor: Alan Dye
  CULPA: 19 Info
• Instructor: David Weiman
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 4 points

Growing Up Palestinian

This course explores broad questions about how sociopolitical contexts shape the development of children and youth, by focusing on the experiences of young Palestinians growing up across multiple geographies. We will read a variety of texts—primarily those narrated by Palestinians—including, memoir, film, and social science research to address the following questions: How do the various social, cultural, political, and legal contexts in which Palestinians grow up affect the experiences of growing up Palestinian? How (and why) do young people forge a sense of national identity across diverse territories, both within and outside of the borders of their historic homeland? How do socio-political contexts shape young people’s rights, including the right to education? How do children and youth shape their environments?  How does a close examination of the Palestinian case challenge normative ideas about childhood and youth, while also supporting us to articulate universal conditions that would support the well-being of all young humans?

• Department: Education @Barnard
• Instructor: Thea R Abu El-Haj
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• 4 points

SEM IN CURRENT RES. PROBLEMS

A detailed study of a selected field of active research in physics. The motivation, techniques, and results obtained to the present, as well as the difficulties and unsolved problems. For Physics majors only. Priority given to seniors; juniors by permission of the instructor.

• Department: Physics
• Instructor: Kerstin M Perez
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• 2 points

PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY I-LECTURES

Prerequisites: (CHEM UN1403 and CHEM UN1404) or (CHEM UN1604) or (CHEM UN2045 and CHEM UN2046) and (MATH UN1101 and MATH UN1102) or (MATH UN1207 and MATH UN1208) and (PHYS UN1401 and PHYS UN1402) PHYS UN1201 - PHYS UN1202 is acceptable; PHYS UN1401 - PHYS UN1402 or the equivalent is HIGHLY recommended. Corequisites: CHEM UN3085 Elementary, but comprehensive, treatment of the fundamental laws governing the behavior of individual atoms and molecules and collections of them. CHEM UN3079 covers the thermodynamics of chemical systems at equilibrium and the chemical kinetics of nonequilibrium systems. Although CHEM UN3079 and CHEM UN3080 are separate courses, students are expected to take both terms sequentially. A recitation section is required. Please check the Directory of Classes for details and also speak with the TA for the course.

• Department: Chemistry
• Instructor: Xiaoyang Zhu
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 85 Info
• 4 points

CIRCUIT ANALYSIS LABORATORY

Companion lab course for ELEN E3201. Experiments cover such topics as: use of measurement instruments; HSPICE simulation; basic network theorems; linearization of nonlinear circuits using negative feedback; op-amp circuits; integrators; second order RLC circuits. The lab generally meets on alternate weeks.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• Instructor: David G Vallancourt
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 1 points

CIRCUIT ANALYSIS LABORATORY

Companion lab course for ELEN E3201. Experiments cover such topics as: use of measurement instruments; HSPICE simulation; basic network theorems; linearization of nonlinear circuits using negative feedback; op-amp circuits; integrators; second order RLC circuits. The lab generally meets on alternate weeks.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• Instructor: David G Vallancourt
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 1 points

CIRCUIT ANALYSIS LABORATORY

Companion lab course for ELEN E3201. Experiments cover such topics as: use of measurement instruments; HSPICE simulation; basic network theorems; linearization of nonlinear circuits using negative feedback; op-amp circuits; integrators; second order RLC circuits. The lab generally meets on alternate weeks.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• Instructor: David G Vallancourt
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 1 points

INTERMEDIATE LABORATORY WORK

Prerequisites: phys UN2601 or phys un2802 Primarily for junior and senior physics majors; other majors must obtain the instructors permission. Each experiment is chosen by the student in consultation with the instructor. Each section meets one afternoon per week, with registration in each section limited by the laboratory capacity. Experiments (classical and modern) cover topics in electricity, magnetism, optics, atomic physics, and nuclear physics.

• Department: Physics
• Instructor: Elena Aprile
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia Info
• 2 points

INTERMEDIATE LABORATORY WORK

Prerequisites: phys UN2601 or phys un2802 Primarily for junior and senior physics majors; other majors must obtain the instructors permission. Each experiment is chosen by the student in consultation with the instructor. Each section meets one afternoon per week, with registration in each section limited by the laboratory capacity. Experiments (classical and modern) cover topics in electricity, magnetism, optics, atomic physics, and nuclear physics.

• Department: Physics
• Instructor: Elena Aprile
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Morgan May
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 2 points

ELECTRONICS LABORATORY

Prerequisites: PHYS UN3003 or PHYS UN3007 May be taken before or concurrently with this course. A sequence of experiments in solid-state electronics, with introductory lectures.

• Department: Physics
• Instructor: John Parsons
  CULPA: 31 Info
• 3 points

SIGNALS & SYSTEMS LABORATORY

Companion lab course for ELEN E3801. Experiments cover topics such as: introduction and use of MATLAB for numerical and symbolic calculations; linearity and time invariance; continuous-time convolution; Fourier-series expansion and signal reconstruction; impulse response and transfer function; forced response. The lab generally meets on alternate weeks.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• Instructor: Xiaodong Wang
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 1 points

SIGNALS & SYSTEMS LABORATORY

Companion lab course for ELEN E3801. Experiments cover topics such as: introduction and use of MATLAB for numerical and symbolic calculations; linearity and time invariance; continuous-time convolution; Fourier-series expansion and signal reconstruction; impulse response and transfer function; forced response. The lab generally meets on alternate weeks.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• Instructor: Xiaodong Wang
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 1 points

SIGNALS & SYSTEMS LABORATORY

Companion lab course for ELEN E3801. Experiments cover topics such as: introduction and use of MATLAB for numerical and symbolic calculations; linearity and time invariance; continuous-time convolution; Fourier-series expansion and signal reconstruction; impulse response and transfer function; forced response. The lab generally meets on alternate weeks.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• Instructor: Xiaodong Wang
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 1 points

SIGNALS & SYSTEMS LABORATORY

Companion lab course for ELEN E3801. Experiments cover topics such as: introduction and use of MATLAB for numerical and symbolic calculations; linearity and time invariance; continuous-time convolution; Fourier-series expansion and signal reconstruction; impulse response and transfer function; forced response. The lab generally meets on alternate weeks.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• Instructor: Xiaodong Wang
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 1 points

PHYSICL-ANALYTICL LABORATORY I

Corequisites: CHEM UN3079 A student-centered experimental course intended for students who are co-registered or have completed CHEM UN3079 and CHEM UN3080. The course emphasizes techniques of experimental physical chemistry and instrumental analysis, including vibrational, electronic, and laser spectroscopy; electroanalytical methods; calorimetry; reaction kinetics; hydrodynamic methods; scanning probe microscopy; applications of computers to reduce experimental data; and computational chemistry. Students must also attend the compulsory Mentoring Session. Please check the Directory of Classes for details.

• Department: Chemistry
• Instructor: Luis A Avila
  CULPA: 22 Info
• 4 points

INDIVIDUAL SENIOR PROJECTS

Prerequisites: Meets senior requirement. Instructor permission required. The instructor will supervise the writing of long papers involving some form of sociological research and analysis.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• Instructor: Deborah Becher
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 4 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth Bernstein
  CULPA: 27 Info
• Instructor: Maricarmen Hernandez
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• Instructor: Debra Minkoff
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Mignon R Moore
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Jonathan Rieder
  CULPA: 17 Info
• Instructor: Angela Simms
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• Instructor: Amy Zhou
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• Instructor: Randa B Serhan
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

Senior Research Seminar: Methods of Inqu

SENIOR RESEARCH SEMINAR I

This course is the first semester of a year-long senior capstone experience for the Educational Studies major. Over the course of the year, students will design and carry-out an inquiry project, and they will report on this project through an appropriate medium, for a specific purpose and audience. To this end, we will address the following: the relationship between theory, experience, and the development of a research question; the research methods that are appropriate for our research; the purposes of our research; the consequences our research might have and for whom; how we analyze data; and how we communicate with the audience of our research.

• Department: Education @Barnard
• Instructor: Nora M Gross
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• 4 points

ADV ELECTROMAGNETISM LAB

Classical electromagnetic wave phenomena via Maxwells equations, including: (i) Michaelson and Fabry-Perot Interferometry, as well as a thin-film interference and elementary dispersion theory; (ii) Fraunhofer Diffraction (and a bit of Fresnel); (iii) Wireless Telegraphy I: AM Radio Receivers; and (iv) Wireless Telegraphy II: AM Transmitters. Last two labs pay homage to relevant scientific developments in the period 1875-1925, from the discovery of Hertzian waves to the Golden Age of Radio. Complements PHYS W3008 Electromagnetic Waves and Optics.

• Department: Physics and Astronomy @Barnard
• Instructor: Stiliana Savin
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

NATIVE AMERICA

This course is designed to: a) provide students with an overview of Native American issues and representational practices; b) provide students with an understanding of the ways in which land expropriation and concomitant military and legal struggle have formed the core of Native-State relations and are themselves central to American and Native American history and culture; and c) provide students with an understanding of Native representational practices, political subjectivities, and aspirations.

• Department: Anthropology
• Instructor: Audra Simpson
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

More than Real: Dreams, Imagination, and

More Than Real

This course is thematic, though a loose history of dreaming, imaginative praxis, and virtual reality environments across South Asia will emerge through the networked conversations across texts. The advantage of a thematic course allows us to cover various genres such as: ritual manuals; epic; poetry; philosophical argument; biographical accounts; prophecies; conversion stories; and medical textbooks to name a handful. At the end of the course, we will see how the texts encountered in the first part have been repurposed to speak to social justice movements around caste - both within South Asia and the diaspora population in the U.S. The thematic of dreaming and imagination also provides flexibility in method: because students will have the opportunity to study conversations between different historical actors across religious traditions about dreams, they will also have the opportunity to revise problematic accounts of religious pluralism and communalism in South Asia. Students will read primary texts from Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, and Sikh traditions to name a handful. Students can look forward to reading about worlds within rocks; falling asleep and waking up as another person only to die in the dream world, wake up and then realize your dream-life family is somehow real and looking for you; how to finally interpret those pesky dreams about teeth falling out; dismembered bodies generating the universe; daydreaming about a cloud that thinks mountain peaks look like nipples; how to build a mind-temple that Shiva prefers to the physical one with fancy rock; and much more!

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• Instructor: Meghan E Hartman
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• 4 points

SUPERVISED INDEPENDENT RES

Prerequisites: the instructors permission for entrance, and the departmental representatives permission for aggregate points in excess of 12 or less than 4. This course may be repeated for credit (see major and concentration requirements). Individual research under the supervision of a member of the staff. Research areas include organic, physical, inorganic, analytical, and biological chemistry. Please note that CHEM UN3098 is offered in the fall and spring semesters.

• Department: Chemistry
• Instructor: Vesna Gasperov
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 4 Info
• 4 points

THE ENGLISH CONFERENCE

The English Conference: The Lucyle Hook Guest Lectureship is a two to four-week course each semester on a special topic presented by a visiting scholar. The series was endowed by a gift from Professor Emerita of English Lucyle Hook to bring our students and faculty the perspective of scholars of literature in English working outside the College community. It can only be taken for pass/fail for 1 point.
Students must attend all four class sessions and write a final paper in order to receive credit for this course
.To see the dates/times that The English Conference will meet this semester, the current course description, and the biography of the visiting scholar, please visit the English Department website:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/english-conference
.

• Department: English @Barnard
• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 1 points

Margins of the Middle Ages

This seminar course examines how people during the early Middle Ages defined their existence through negotiated boundaries of gender, class, ethnicity, race, religion, and other aspects of the human condition. Our work will curate the contributions of marginalized groups to decenter traditional narratives. Students will leave this course with a broad understanding of early medieval history, an appreciation of historical work done by people often omitted from our histories, and a mastery of historical and interdisciplinary tools for promoting our awareness and understanding of marginalized groups. Work will include two research papers, including one focused on a manuscript selected from the Columbia collections.

• Department: History @Barnard
• Instructor: Matthew Delvaux
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• 4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

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

• Department: Neuroscience & Behavior @Barnard
• Instructor: Peter D Balsam
  CULPA: 25 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth P Bauer
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 21 Info
• Instructor: Bj Casey
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• Instructor: John Glendinning
  CULPA: 23 h-index: 39 Info
• Instructor: Russell D Romeo
  CULPA: 9 Info
• Instructor: Alex White
  h-index: 13 Info
• Instructor: E'Mett McCaskill
  CULPA: 38 Info
• Instructor: Kara Pham
  CULPA: 9 Info
• Instructor: Gabrielle J Gutierrez
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• Instructor: Kevin G Bath
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• Instructor: Alexis S Hill
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• 1-4 points

INTRO TO QUANTUM MECHANICS

Basic concepts and assumptions of quantum mechanics, Schrodinger's equation, solutions for one-dimensional problems including square wells, barriers and the harmonic oscillator, introduction to the hydrogen atom, atomic physics and X-rays, electron spin.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Aravind Devarakonda
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• 3 points

INTRO TO MECHANCIS OF FLUIDS

INTRO TO MECHANICS OF FLUIDS

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

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• Instructor: Karen Kasza
  h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO MECHANCIS OF FLUIDS

FLUIDS RECITATION

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

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• Instructor: Karen Kasza
  h-index: 17 Info
• 0 points

Crystallography

A first course in crystallography, crystal symmetry, Bravais lattices, point groups and space groups.  Diffraction and diffracted intensities. Exposition of typical crystal structures in engineering materials, including metals, ceramics and semiconductors. Crystalline anisotropy.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: William Bailey
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 3 points

Contemporary Topics in Neuroscience

Contemp Topics in Neurosc

This seminar course examines emerging and debated topics in contemporary neuroscience, with an emphasis on mechanisms relevant to learning and memory and neuropsychiatric disorders. Students will read and critique primary research articles and reviews spanning neural ensembles and memory, fear learning and generalization, stress and trauma, sex differences, circuit tools for causal inference and connectivity, neuroimmune mechanisms, aging-related cognitive decline, single-cell and spatial genomics, brain–body interactions, and emerging therapeutics. The course also introduces AI-enabled approaches for analyzing and interpreting neuroscience data. The course emphasizes experimental logic, figure interpretation, scientific communication, and responsible translation from animal models to human conditions.

• Department: Neuroscience & Behavior @Barnard
• Instructor: Bj Casey
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• 4 points

OPEN FICTION WORKSHOP

Prerequisite: Student must have taken beginning workshop in any undergraduate creative writing concentration. Open workshops are for students who are acquainted with and have experience in at least one beginning workshop in creative writing. In Open Fiction Workshops, particular attention will be paid to the components of fiction: voice, perspective, characterization, and form. Students will be expected to finish several short stories, executing a total artistic vision on a piece of writing. The critical focus of the class will include an examination of endings and formal wholeness, sustaining narrative arcs, compelling a reader's interest for the duration of the text, and generating a sense of urgency and drama in the work. A portfolio of fiction will be written and revised with critical input from the instructor and workshop. Outside readings may be used to supplement and inform the exercises and written projects. Please visit
https://arts.columbia.edu/writing/undergraduate
for information about registration procedures.

• Department: Writing
• Instructor: Sophie F Kemp
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• Instructor: Samuel Lipsyte
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Heidi S Julavits
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Giada Scodellaro
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• 3 points

APPLIED MATH I: LINEAR ALGEBRA

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

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Yuan He
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED BENGALI I

• Department: Language Resource Center
• 3 points

ADVANCED BURMESE

• Department: Language Resource Center
• 3 points

ADVANCED DUTCH I

This advanced course is a content-based language course, and is centered around the history of the Low Countries. Each week focuses on a specific era, such as the counts of Holland in the 13th century and the Reformation in the 16th century. Students will read texts about history and literature of the historical periods.

Students will read texts at home and discuss them in class, explore history-related websites and watch short video clips.

Attention will be paid to advanced grammar issues and vocabulary.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• Instructor: Nicolette Dekens
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• 3 points

GEOCHEM FOR A HABITABLE PLANET

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

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• Instructor: Terry A Plank
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ADV ANCIENT EGYPTIAN I

• Department: Language Resource Center
• 4 points

THE WRITER'S PROCESS

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

• Department: English @Barnard
• Instructor: Alexandra P Watson
  CULPA: 16 Info
• Instructor: Pamela Cobrin
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

LOVE & LITERATURE

LOVE AND LITERATURE

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

• Department: French @Barnard
• Instructor: Brian D O'Keeffe
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED INDONESIAN I

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

• Department: Language Resource Center
• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS

An introduction to the study of language from a scientific perspective. The course is divided into three units: language as a system (sounds, morphology, syntax, and semantics), language in context (in space, time, and community), and language of the individual (psycholinguistics, errors, aphasia, neurology of language, and acquisition). Workload: lecture, weekly homework, and final examination.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• Instructor: John H McWhorter
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

THIRD-YEAR RUSSIAN I

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

• Department: Slavic Languages
• Instructor: Tatiana Mikhailova
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• 4 points

Literary Sinhala I

This one-semester course introduces the distinctive grammatical forms and vocabulary used in Literary Sinhala. While focused particularly on the development of reading skills, the course also introduces students to Literary Sinhala composition, builds students’ listening comprehension of semi-literary Sinhala forms (such as those used in radio and TV news), and guides students in incorporating elements of the literary register of Sinhala in their spoken production.

• Department: Language Resource Center
• 3 points

PAINTING II

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

• Department: Visual Arts
• 3 points

THIRD YEAR VIETNAMESE I

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

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• Instructor: Chung Nguyen
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

SENIOR FICTION WORKSHOP

Seniors who are majors in creative writing are given priority for this course. Enrollment is limited, and is by permission of the professor. The senior workshop offers students the opportunity to work exclusively with classmates who are at the same high level of accomplishment in the major. Students in the senior workshops will produce and revise a new and substantial body of work. In-class critiques and conferences with the professor will be tailored to needs of each student. Please visit
https://arts.columbia.edu/writing/undergraduate
for information about registration procedures.

• Department: Writing
• Instructor: Rivka R Galchen
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED ZULU I

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

• Department: Language Resource Center
• Instructor: Nandipa Sipengane
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• 3 points