SOLID EARTH DYNAMICS
Prerequisites: any 1000-level or 2000-level EESC course; MATH UN1101 Calculus I and PHYS UN1201 General Physics I or their equivalents. Concurrent enrollment in PHYS UN1201 is acceptable with the instructors permission. Properties and processes affecting the evolution and behavior of the solid Earth. This course will focus on the geophysical processes that build mountains and ocean basins, drive plate tectonics, and otherwise lead to a dynamic planet. Topics include heat flow and mantle circulation, earthquakes and seismic waves, gravity, Earths magnetic field, and flow of glaciers and ice sheets.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Meredith Nettles
CULPA: 3 h-index: 31 Info - 3 points
Materials Thermodynamics and Phase Diagr
Mat Thermo and Phase Diag
Review of laws of thermodynamics, thermodynamic variables and relations, free energies and equilibrium in thermodynamic systems. Unary, binary, and ternary phase diagrams, compounds and intermediate phases, solid solutions and Hume-Rothery rules, relationship between phase diagrams and metastability, defects in crystals. Thermodynamics of surfaces and interfaces, effect of particle size on phase equilibria, adsorption isotherms, grain boundaries, surface energy, electrochemistry. Note: MSAE E4201 shares lectures and meeting times with E3201 and therefore, may not be taken in other semesters.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Renata M Wentzcovitch
Info - 3 points
DIRECTING II
Prerequisites: Students required to have taken THTR UN3200 Directing I or THTR UN3203 Collaboration: Directing and Design, or equivalent. Enrollment limited to 14 students. Permission of instructor given at first class meeting. Course focuses on developing an individual directorial style, placing emphasis on visual research, and the use of different staging environments: end-stage, in the round, environmental. Class is structured around scene-work and critique, and each student will direct at least three fully-realized scenes. Material typically drawn from European avant-garde.
- Department: Theatre @Barnard
- TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Shannon M Sindelar
Info - 4 points
CERAMICS II
This course will focus on using ceramics as a primary art making machine by breaking out of the constraints wedded to this traditional material. Building on the foundation set in Ceramics I, this course will delve further into the technical and historical aspects of the ceramic process as well as conceptual ideas in art making. Students will use a self-directed working process to facilitate the incorporation of ceramic materials into their existing art making while allowing them room to go in their own conceptual direction. Rigorous group and individual critiques will be held on a regular basis. Content is a priority in this class, and with the further understanding of ceramic processes and materials, the goal is for the student to be fluid in producing their ideas without the obstruction of technical difficulties.
- Department: Visual Arts
- R 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
- 3 points
SENIOR NONFICTION 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
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Justin Taylor
Info - 4 points
ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN II
ADV ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
Prerequisite: ARCH UN3201. Advanced Architectural Design II culminates the required studio sequence in the major. Students are encouraged to consider it as a synthetic studio where they advance concepts, research methodologies and representational skills learned in all previous studios towards a semester-long design project. Field trips, lectures, and discussions are organized in relation to studio exercises.
- Department: Architecture @Barnard
- MW 9 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
- 4.5 points
Structural Drivers of Health
STRUCTURAL DRIVERS OF HEA
The COVID-19 pandemic has made the underlying health disparities that exist in the United States more apparent. The traditional biomedical model places the responsibility of these disparities on the choices that an individual makes. The model assumes that one’s smoking, eating and exercising habits are based on personal choice. Therefore, the prevalence of morbidities such as high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes is the result of an individual’s poor decisions. This course will explore how the conditions under which individuals live, work, play and pray impact their health outcomes. Collectively these conditions are referred to as the Social Drivers of Health (SDoH) and often they reveal the systemic inequalities that disproportionately affect marginalized communities. This course will also call upon the need for a paradigm shift from the "Social" "Determinants" of Health to the “Structural” "Drivers" of Health. This shift is in recognition that it is the underlying structures (laws, material infrastructure) that impact and drive health outcomes. The development of the SDoH has challenged health care providers to look beyond the biomedical model that stresses an individual’s behavior as the main predictor of adverse health conditions. Instead the SDoH focuses on an “upstream” approach that examines the underlying systemic and racial inequalities that impact communities of color and their health outcomes.
- Department: Sociology @Barnard
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Domonique M Reed
Info - 3 points
DISCRETE MATHEMATICS
Logic and formal proofs, sequences and summation, mathematical induction, binomial coefficients, elements of finite probability, recurrence relations, equivalence relations and partial orderings, and topics in graph theory (including isomorphism, traversability, planarity, and colorings).
- Department: Computer Science
- TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Adam H Cannon
CULPA: 81
Info
- 4 points
PUBLIC OPINION AND AMERICAN D
In this course, we will examine the relationship between government and the governed in the United States. To what extent and under what circumstances do elected officials consider public preferences in making policy? To what extent and under what circumstances might we want them to? What kind of power should the public have in American democracy? Thinking about the second and third, more normative questions leads us to other empirical questions. What shapes public preferences? How well can we measure them? How much do people know and care about politics? How do they evaluate their representatives? What constitutes high quality representation? We will examine these kinds of questions broadly, and also consider how they play out in particular policy areas and historical moments. We will also discuss the dynamics of public opinion across population subgroups (e.g. by race, sex, income, party, urbanity, etc.), and questions surrounding representation at the group level. In addition to engaging scholarly literature on public opinion and representation, students will also learn to access, manage, and analyze data measuring the composition of the public (e.g. the U.S. Census) as well as public views on political candidates, officeholders, institutions, and issues (e.g. survey data). These skills will help to prepare students for research projects in other courses and beyond Barnard. To balance the different aims of the course, our class time will be split between lecture, discussion, and hands-on lessons in a computer lab.
- Department: Political Science @Barnard
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Katherine L Krimmel
CULPA: 6 Info - 3 points
THE 'GLOBAL' NOVEL
"Yes, globalization can produce homogeneity, but globalization is also a threat to homogeneity." --Kwame Anthony Appiah, "The Case for Contamination," New York Times Magazine, 2006
Thinking through the arguments both in favor of and against globalization, particularly in the realm of cultural productions, in this course we will discuss the "global" novel. To that end, we will read essays from
The Global Novel: Writing the World in the 21st Century
about works such as
Americanah, Snow,
and
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
(along with the novels themselves) to investigate what is meant by "global" and what the criteria for including novels in this categorization are. We will also consider whether there is an erasure of cultural difference and nuance in reading novels using a globalizing perspective in order to render them more approachable for a (primarily) US audience.
In order to think through and challenge this category of the global, we will also read novels that can be roughly categorized as postcolonial. We will thus consider how struggles for independence and the desire to locate one’s identity either within freshly liberated nation-states or in the process of immigrating to former metropoles could give rise to cultural and psychological anxieties. We will also consider the manner in which late-stage capitalism could indeed push toward homogenized senses of self that manifest in a category such as the "global novel" and whether arguments could be made in favor of such homogenization. Ultimately, we will think about the politics of globalization and the desire to include in or exclude from the “global” certain locations, cultural products, or peoples.
- Department: English @Barnard
- TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Atefeh Akbari Shahmirzadi
Info - 3 points
MUSIC, RACE & IDENTITY
Analysis of the complex relationship among race, art, organizations, economics, social movements and identity. Emphasis is on shifting conceptions of identity and changing roles of race and racism in the spirituals, gospel music, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, rocknroll, soul music, Hip Hop and contemporary popular music.
- Department: Sociology @Barnard
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jonathan Rieder
CULPA: 17
Info
- 3 points
EXPLORATIONS IN PRIM ANATOMY
- Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jill S Shapiro
CULPA: 46
Info
- 3 points
US Missionaries and Empire
- Department: Religion @Barnard
- F 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Gale L Kenny
CULPA: 5
Info
- 4 points
JUDICIAL POLITICS
This political science course provides an introduction to the politics of judges, courts, and law in the United States. We will evaluate law and courts as political institutions and judges as political actors and policy-makers.
The topics we will study include what courts do; how different legal systems function; the operation of legal norms; the U.S. judicial system; the power of courts; constraints on judicial power; judicial review; the origin of judicial institutions; how and why Supreme Court justices make the decisions they do; case selection; conflict between the Court and the other branches of government; decision making and conflict within the judicial hierarchy; the place of courts in American political history; and judicial appointments.
We will explore some common but not necessarily true claims about how judges make decisions and the role of courts. One set of myths sees judges as unbiased appliers of neutral law, finding law and never making it, with ideology, biography, and politics left at the courthouse door. Another set of myths sees the judiciary as the “least dangerous branch,” making law, not policy, without real power or influence.
Our thematic questions will be: How much power and discretion do judges have in the U.S? What drives their decision-making?
- Department: Political Science
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jeffrey R Lax
CULPA: 32 h-index: 22 Info - 3 points
INTERMEDIATE MICROECONOMICS
Prerequisites: ECON UN1105 and MATH UN1101 and (MATH UN1201 or MATH UN1207) The determination of the relative prices of goods and factors of production and the allocation of resources.
- Department: Economics
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Murat Yilmaz
Info -
Instructor:
Tam Mai
Info -
Instructor:
Caterina Musatti
CULPA: 2 Info -
Instructor:
Ingmar O Nyman
CULPA: 3 Info - 4 points
DISCRETE MATHEMATICS
The study of discrete mathematics provides an important foundation for basic
theoretical principles in computer science. We first build a strong foundation in
logic, formal proofs, and mathematical induction. We then examine the discrete
structure of functions, relations, and graphs, which provide different ways of
representing relationships, connections, and networks. Finally, we move onto
numerical and computational aspects: number theory and modular arithmetic,
counting and combinatorics, and discrete probability. There are no prerequisites
beyond high school mathematics.
INTERMEDIATE MACROECONOMICS
Prerequisites: (MATH UN1101 or MATH UN1207) and ECON UN1105 or the equivalent. Corequisites: MATH UN1201 This course covers the determination of output, employment, inflation and interest rates. Topics include economic growth, business cycles, monetary and fiscal policy, consumption and savings and national income accounting.
- Department: Economics
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Martin Uribe
CULPA: 16 Wikipedia h-index: 52 Info - 4 points
KOREAN LITERATURE & FILM
This course traces the history of Korean cinema and literature from the 1930s to the early 2000s. Particular attention is given to colonialism, national division, war, gender relations, authoritarianism, urbanization, consumer culture, and diaspora. What kinds of familial, social, economic, and political relations do these films and literary works envision? We will link films and literary texts to their historical context, noting how representations of people, places, and ideas have changed over time—from colonialism, through poverty and malaise in the aftermath of the Korean War, to North Korea’s continuing search for autonomy in the world system and South Korea’s current position as global economic power and maker of the “Korean Wave ”
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jenny W Medina
Info - 3 points
ABORTION IN CONTEXT
Abortion access will shape the lives of your generation—and yet the issue of abortion is too often left to misinformation and disconnected from its role in overall reproductive freedom. In this course, we will put abortion into multiple contexts (historical, political, legal, pharmaceutical, religious), drawing interdisciplinary material from scholars, activists, community organizers, lawyers, care providers, and journalists. Each class will feature a guest speaker who has dedicated their career to advocating for abortion as a critical part of overall reproductive healthcare in the United States and internationally. Grounded in the reproductive justice framework, which aims not only to protect the “right to choose” but also to create the economic, social, and environmental conditions in which people can parent with dignity, we will think of abortion as one critical part of a constellation of projects that, together, work toward total reproductive freedom.
- Department: American Studies @Barnard
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
- 4 points
THE EVOL OF HUM GROWTH & DEVPT
- Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Volney K Friedrich
Info - 3 points
TOLSTOY AND DOSTOEVSKY
Two epic novels, Tolstoys War and Peace and Dostoevskys The Brothers Karamazov, will be read along with selected shorter works. Other works by Tolstoy include his early Sebastopol Sketches, which changed the way war is represented in literature; Confession, which describes his spiritual crisis; the late stories Kreutzer Sonata and Hadji Murad; and essays on capital punishment and a visit to a slaughterhouse. Other works by Dostoevsky include his fictionalized account of life in Siberian prison camp, The House of the Dead; Notes from the Underground, his philosophical novella on free will, determinism, and love; A Gentle Creature, a short story on the same themes; and selected essays from Diary of a Writer. The focus will be on close reading of the texts. Our aim will be to develop strategies for appreciating the structure and form, the powerful ideas, the engaging storylines, and the human interest in the writings of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. No knowledge of Russian is required.
- Department: Slavic Languages
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Liza Knapp
CULPA: 28
Info
- 3 points
AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL HISTOR
This Course is intended to look at key developments of American History through the prism of Supreme Court decisions and their aftermath. In essence, this Course will address three questions: 1. How did the Supreme Court reflect, and affect, historic patterns of U.S. development, and how did it impact the legal and economic framework of the United States? 2. How did the Supreme Court respond to, or worsen, crises in U.S. history? 3. How did the perception of individual and collective rights and liberties, and of the function and role of Governments -- both Federal and State -- evolve over time?
- Department: Political Science
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Robert L Tortoriello
Info - 4 points
AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY-DISC
AMERICAN CONST'L HISTORY-
This is the required discussion section for
POLS UN3225.
- Department: Political Science
- R 11:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Robert L Tortoriello
Info - 0 points
AMERICAN LIVES, AMERICAN STORIES
AMER. LIVES, AMER. STORIE
Writing sample required to apply: https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
In this class we will discuss the narrative of the "American" story, and how stories of immigrants and minority identities redefine and complicate it. The goal of the class is to investigate how writers frame a sense of identity in relation to the "American ideal". We will explore this theme through three creative non-fiction pieces each focusing on a different perspective of place, person, and personal experience. What are your stories, and what makes them "American"?
- Department: English @Barnard
- T 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Maria D Hinojosa
Info - 3 points
ORGANIC CHEMISTRY I-LEC
Prerequisites: CHEM BC2001 or equivalent. Credit will not be given for any course below the 3000 level after completing CHEM BC3230 or its equivalent. Corequisites: With lab, counts towards Lab Science requirement. Atomic and molecular structure; stereochemistry of organic molecules; introduction to organic reactions, reaction mechanisms, and synthesis.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- MWF 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
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Instructor:
Christian Rojas
CULPA: 24
Info
- 3 points
REACTOR KINETICS/REACTOR DESIGN
Reaction kinetics, applications to the design of batch and continuous reactors. Multiple reactions, non-isothermal reactors. Analysis and modeling of reactor behavior.
- Department: Chemical Engineering
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Asher Williams
Info - 3 points
INTERACTIVE MEMOIR
What does it mean to invite readers to play in—and with—your memories? Can memoir writing be…a game? In this seminar, we will explore the basics of interactive narrative design as applied to memoir, essay, and creative non-fiction, investigating how games and interactivity can transform what it means to tell your life story. We will will read, play, and discuss videogames, artgames, interactive (non-)fiction, innovative digital media, and experimental non-fiction, developing an aesthetics of interactive nonfiction writing that informs two open-platform interactive memoir projects over the course of the semester. Tutorials on interactive narrative tools like Twine, Bitsy, and Downpour will accompany playtesting workshops to establish a game-literate creative community committed to pushing the boundaries of the form.
- Department: Writing
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nat Mesnard
Info - 3 points
AT THE NEW YORKER
In this seminar we will consider the history, legacy, and ongoing cultural contribution of
The New Yorker
, a magazine that is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. During the past century, the magazine has been the primary venue for what we might call the “the literature of fact”—nonfiction writing with belletristic flair and high ambition across all genres: profiles, essays, personal histories, reporting, and criticism. We will read across the genres as we ask questions about these various nonfiction forms: Can criticism be the equal of art? How do nonfiction writers establish “authority”? How do they investigate the past and make sense of the new? How do they create work as rich and challenging as the best literary novels and short stories? What roles do voice, point-of-view, character, dialogue, and plot—the traditional elements of fiction—play? How did T
he New Yorker
create a—perhaps even
the
—modern American literary style?
Week to week, since 1925, the magazine has showcased work from a staggering diversity of contributors. We will consider many of them, including James Thurber, Janet Flanner, E.B. White, Wolcott Gibbs, Joseph Mitchell, Lillian Ross, John Hersey, Edmund Wilson, Rachel Carson, James Baldwin, Hannah Arendt, Calvin Tomkins, Renata Adler, Pauline Kael, Kenneth Tynan, Mark Singer, Ian Frazier, Arlene Croce, Janet Malcolm, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Robert Caro, Tony Horowitz, Zadie Smith, and Susan Orlean. In addition, we will be keeping our eye on issues of
The New Yorker
as they roll out each week.
We will welcome guest speakers from the magazine—editors and contributors, from past and present.
- Department: Writing
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mark Rozzo
Info - 3 points
Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry
DESCRIPTIVE INORG. CHEMIS
Prerequisites: CHEM BC2001.
This course explores the periodic table in ways that deepen appreciation of the chemistry of the elements. It extends tools introduced in general chemistry with a particular focus on the rich and varied chemistry of the transition metal elements. Requiring only general chemistry, this course is open to students with interests in the role that metal ions play in biology, biochemistry, neuroscience and environmental science.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Lori Cobani
Info - 3 points
EDITING, REVISING, PITCHING, PUBLISHING
EDIT, REVISE, PITCH, PUBL
What does an editor do? How do writers revise? How do writers pitch and place pieces? This cross-genre seminar aims to demystify the art of editing, and to empower students to edit their own work and that of others with sensitivity, imagination, and skill. Through the close analysis of case studies, essays on craft and American literary history, long-form interviews, letters, and corrected manuscripts and typescripts, we will learn about the decision-making processes of writers and editors such as Lydia Davis, Toni Morrison, Raymond Carver, Gordon Lish, Samuel R. Delany, Jane Bowles, Paul Bowles, Elizabeth Bishop, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Max Perkins, Ursula K. Le Guin, Diane Williams, George Saunders, Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Vladimir Nabokov, as well as editors at publishers like Random House and Scribner’s, major literary publications like the
New Yorker
and the
Paris Review
, and small magazines like
NOON
and
Gigantic.
Regularly we will apply what we’ve learned to edits and revisions on our own texts as well as assigned texts drawn from the instructor’s experience as an editor at
McSweeney’s Quarterly
, the
Believer
, VICE, and
Gigantic
. Students will also work to revise a piece of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry, and develop a nonfiction story idea, so that they will have a revised work to submit—and a polished story idea to pitch—by the end of the semester.
- Department: Writing
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
James C Yeh
Info - 3 points
Undergraduate Composition
This course provides an immersive experience in music composition, focusing on both practical and theoretical aspects within a given instrumentation. Please refer to the topic for the instrumentation for this semester’s course. This class is open to students with no prior experience in composition. Students of varying music backgrounds are welcome. Permission of the instructor may be required for enrollment. The class will explore a variety of compositional approaches, including traditional, experimental, and interdisciplinary methods. During the semester, students will complete several creative and theoretical exercises ranging from short composition projects to analytical responses to diverse works. Students will also engage in individual and group feedback sessions as well as in-class readings of selected compositional projects by the performers. The final project will be an original work between 5 and 7 minutes, which will be workshopped, rehearsed, performed in a public concert, and recorded by professional musicians towards the end of the term.
- Department: Music
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Suzanne Farrin
Info - 3 points
Transnationalism, Citizenship, and Belon
TRANSNTNL, CITIZEN, BELON
Transnationalism, Citizenship, and Belonging covers the myriad ways that transnationalism is experienced in both South to North and South to South migrations. Transnationalism and its contenders, globalization and nationalism, will be placed within a broader discussion of belonging based on sociological theories of citizenship, politics of exclusion, and boundary-making.
- Department: Sociology @Barnard
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Randa B Serhan
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS
Prerequisites: CHEM BC3231, MATH UN1101, and permission of instructor.
Survey of topics appropriate for a student majoring in chemistry or biochemistry, including examinations of uncertainty analysis and data processing, use of basic laboratory equipment, complex equilibria (pH, solubility, etc.), advanced solution chemistry and chemical activity, and the theoretical foundations of modern techniques in electrochemistry, chromatography and analytical experimental techniques.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Angela L Paoletta
Info - 3 points
ABSENT MOTHERS, WICKED STEPMOTHERS
ABSENT MOTHERS:FOLK&FAIRY
Why are stepmothers and stepdaughters inevitable enemies in folk and fairy tales? Why are fathers blameless and biological mothers absent (and usually dead)? And how do these narratives, so deeply woven into our own media and language, affect our sense of our own lived reality? In this course, we’ll untangle the complicated web of relationships between mothers, daughters, and stepmothers in folk and fairy tales, from ancient Rome to current cinema. We’ll read analytic psychology, feminist literary theory, cultural history, and other critical perspectives to help us analyze the absent mother, virginal daughter, hapless father, and evil stepmother tropes across time and space, so we can defamiliarize these familiar figures and develop a deeper understanding of how and why they dominate the popular imagination. This is an upper-level course, with priority for juniors and seniors.
- Department: English @Barnard
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Wendy C Schor-Haim
CULPA: 11
Info
- 4 points
FRENCH THRU CURRENT EVENTS
The course will offer students an understanding of fundamental underlying concepts that structure French society and that are necessary to grasp if one wants to follow current events in France. This course could be of interest not only to CC students but also to students enrolled at SIPA or Teacher’s College.
Moreover, this course would allow for a comparative approach to how same events are covered in US, or other foreign media, and in France.
Given that this course will deal with current events, the readings will depend entirely on how the news unfolds. Students will be given an introduction to the various media outlets available to them: the press, television and online sources. As the course unfolds, I will adapt the choice of sources that best follow events as they happen. 2022 for example, will be the year France assumes the presidency of the European Union. It will also be the year of the presidential elections. For such events, I will propose specific institutional sources. On the other hand, events that could not be anticipated will require some form of guidance in terms of sources.
In spite of the obvious unpredictability of the specific content of this course, certain key concepts necessary to understand current events in France will be presented. These may vary slightly from one semester to another, but would include, without being limited to: the structure of government and public institutions, political parties, unions and “associations”, social benefits and “the welfare state”, public vs. private sector, “Paris is France”, universalism, secularism and “
laïcité
”, cultural exceptionalism, the figure of the intellectual, national identity, immigration, geography of France and demographics, relation to Europe, geopolitics, globalization and sovereignty. Of course, the choice of themes and concepts in a given semester would be influenced by dominant topics in the French news.
- Department: French
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Samuel Skippon
CULPA: 13
Info
- 3 points
JAZZ DANCE III
In This JAZZ llI Level Course,
You will develop a solid understanding within your body that demonstrates advanced fundamentals, rhythm, technique, connectivity and phrasing necessary to communicate each movement. You will learn new phrases and dynamic material while continuously applying technical information. We will delve deeper into technique preparing your body to perform more efficiently and effectively at a higher rate while reducing the risk of injury.
Prerequisites: DNCE BC2248 DNCD BC 2249 or permission of instructor.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ehizoje J Azeke
Info - 2 points
FLAMENCO
The study of contemporary flamenco dance technique with special emphasis on improvisation and performance. Through video and reading assignments and attendance at live performances, students will also develop a context for understanding flamenco art, pedagogy, and culture.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- F 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nelida Tirado
Info - 2 points
Hydrosystems Engineering
A quantitative introduction to hydrologic and hydraulic systems, with a focus on integrated modeling and analysis of the water cycle and associated mass transport for water resources and environmental engineering. Coverage of unit hydrologic processes such as precipitation, evaporation, infiltration, runoff generation, open channel and pipe flow, subsurface flow and well hydraulics in the context of example watersheds and specific integrative problems such as risk-based design for flood control, provision of water, and assessment of environmental impact or potential for non-point source pollution. Spatial hydrologic analysis using GIS and watershed models.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- 3 points
THERMODYNAMICS-KINETICS
Prerequisites: CHEM BC3231, PHYS BC2001, PHYS BC 2002, MATH UN1102 or MATH UN1201. Introduction to the laws of thermodynamics; application primarily to ideal systems. Free energy and equilibrium. Kinetics: rate laws and mechanisms, experimental techniques.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- MWF 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
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Instructor:
Andrew C Crowther
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
URBAN LATIN/X AMERICA: ETHNOGRAPHIC APPR
URBAN LATINX AMERICA: ETH
This seminar examines the social, economic, and political landscapes of Latin American cities through ethnographic literature. It explores key themes such as migration, urban poverty, marginality, violence, informality, urban segregation, grassroots movements, urban citizenship and neoliberal urban governance. Students will read both classic and contemporary ethnographies to gain an in-depth understanding of how cities are lived and experienced. The course also unsettles the category of Latin America, to introduce a discussion of the “Latinization” of U.S. cities. We will interrogate ethnographic and audiovisual materials (included to complement the readings) from a postcolonial perspective. We will discuss the politics of knowledge production and representation in ethnographic studies and popular culture, the impact of colonialism in transnational flows of knowledge and labor, as well as the contributions to urban theory from the perspective of cities located in the Global South.
- Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Andreina Torres Angarita
Info - 4 points
FIRST AMENDMENT VALUES
Prerequisites: POLS W1201 or an equivalent. Not an introductory course. Not open to students who have taken the colloquium POLS BC3302. Examines the first amendment rights of speech, press, religion and assembly. In-depth analysis of landmark Supreme Court rulings provides the basis for exploring theoretical antecedents as well as contemporary applications of such doctrines as freedom of association, libel, symbolic speech, obscenity, hate speech, political speech, commercial speech, freedom of the press and religion. (Cross-listed by the American Studies Program.)
- Department: Political Science @Barnard
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Paula A Franzese
CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL AND POLLUTION REDU
ENVIR CONTR/POLLUTN REDUC
Sources of solid/gaseous air pollution and the technologies used for modern methods of abatement. Air pollution and its abatement from combustion of coal, oil, and natural gas and the thermodynamics of heat engines in power generation. Catalytic emission control is contrasted to thermal processes for abating carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, oxides of nitrogen and sulfur from vehicles and stationary sources. Processing of petroleum for generating fuels. Technological challenges of controlling greenhouse gas emissions. Biomass and the hydrogen economy coupled with fuel cells as future sources of energy.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Robert Farrauto
h-index: 52 Info - 3 points
LATINO POLITICAL EXPERIENCE
This course focuses on the political incorporation of Latinos into the American polity. Among the topics to be discussed are patterns of historical exclusion, the impact of the Voting Rights Act, organizational and electoral behavior, and the effects of immigration on the Latino national political agenda.
- Department: Political Science
- TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Carlos Vargas-Ramos
CULPA: 4 Info - 3 points
COMPUTER SCIENCE THEORY
Regular languages: deterministic and non-deterministic finite automata, regular expressions. Context-free languages: context-free grammars, push-down automata. Turing machines, the Chomsky hierarchy, and the Church-Turing thesis. Introduction to Complexity Theory and NP-Completeness.
- Department: Computer Science
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Josh Alman
Info - 3 points
MONEY AND BANKING
Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 or the equivalent. Introduction to the principles of money and banking. The intermediary institutions of the American economy and their historical developments, current issues in monetary and financial reform.
- Department: Economics
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tri Vi Dang
CULPA: 9
h-index: 10
Info
- 3 points
Sociology of Disability
SOCIOLOGY OF DISABILITY
Drawing on sociological theory and disability studies scholarship, this course explores how societies construct meanings of disability, normalcy, and difference, and how these constructions influence social institutions, policies, and everyday interactions. Through critical analysis of key institutions—e.g. education, work, and the criminal justice system—students will examine how ableism operates at structural levels while also exploring disability rights movements and forms of resistance and agency. Many of these issues will be examined through an intersectional lens, analyzing how disability intersects with race, gender, class, and other identities to create complex experiences of privilege and marginalization.
INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: CHEM BC3231 or Permission of Instructor. Structure, bonding and spectroscopy in inorganic compounds: applications of group theory to chemistry; ligand field theory; vibrational and electronic spectroscopy of transition metal complexes; selected topics from coordination chemistry, organometallics, bioinorganic chemistry, solid state and materials chemistry, mineralogy, and biogeochemistry.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael Campbell
Info - 3 points
Marine Ecology Lab
This laboratory-intensive course introduces students to the biological and ecological processes that shape marine ecosystems. Even in the heart of New York City, marine ecology can be discovered and studied firsthand through experiments, data analysis and field sampling in the Hudson River and coastal environments. Students will explore marine biodiversity, physiology, and ecological interactions and there is an emphasis on experimental design, microscopy, and quantitative methods. Students will prepare lab reports, engage in group projects, and develop skills in scientific communication. One field excursion outside of New York City will be available for participation, but not required.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
- R 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gabrielle Corradino
Info - 3 points
Nonhuman Intelligence
What does it mean to be intelligent? Recent years have seen rapid advances in artificial intelligence technology that enables computers and machines to simulate human learning, comprehension, problem solving, creativity and autonomy. At the same time, we have become more aware of other forms of intelligence—some which have been with us all along. Through a selection of fiction and nonfiction texts and films, students will deepen their understanding of the multifaceted nature of intelligence and the fascinating, uncanny, and multiple ways of existing on, off, and in the earth.
- Department: Film @Barnard
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Instructor:
Margaret J McLagan
Info - 4 points
UNSEEN MASTERWORKS OF WORLD CINEMA
UNSEEN MASTERWORKS: WAR
This course examines the portrayal of significant themes in international cinema. Through a selection of diverse cinematic works from various countries, students will analyze different cultural, historical, and political perspectives. The course aims to enhance students' understanding of complex topics, their impact on individuals and societies, and the ethical questions they evoke. Through critical analysis and discussion, students will engage with a range of cinematic works that offer alternative narratives and perspectives.
WORKSHOP IN SUSTAINABLE DEVPT
The upper level undergraduate Sustainable Development Workshop will be modeled on client based graduate-level workshops, but with more time devoted to methods of applied policy analysis and issues in Sustainable Development. The heart of the course is the group project on an issue of sustainable development with a faculty advisor providing guidance and ultimately grading student performance. Students would receive instruction on methodology, group work, communication and the context of policy analysis. Much of the reading in the course would be project-specific and identified by the student research teams. Offered in Fall and Spring.
- Department: Earth Institute
- MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jesse L McCormick
Info - 4 points
Cognitive Development in Context
This course will provide an overview of theories, methods, and research findings in the area of cognitive development with focus on individual differences in various domains, including language, memory, and social cognition. The course is designed around in-class discussion and critical analysis of core controversies within the field. The course is heavily discussion-based, with the aim of creating a dynamic class context for active learning. The three main emphases around which the course is structured include: (1) theoretical foundations and methodological approaches to cognition; (2) the course and process of cognitive development; and (3) contextual influences on cognitive processes (specifically, family, school, neighborhood, culture).
- Department: Psychology
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Natalie Brito
Info - 4 points
BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: (CHEM BC3230) and (CHEM BC3231) BIOL BC1502. Introduction to biochemical building blocks, macromolecules, and metabolism. Structures of amino acids, lipids, carbohydrates, nucleic acids. Protein structure and folding. Enzyme mechanisms, kinetics, allostery. Membranes and biosignaling. Catabolism and anabolism with emphasis on chemical intermediates, metabolic energy, catalysis by specific enzymes, regulation.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
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Instructor:
Lori Cobani
Info - 3 points
BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY II
Prerequisites: CHEM BC3282 or equivalent. Advanced topics in the field of biochemistry, including enzyme mechanisms, pharmaceutical drug design, and disease therapies. Emphasis will be placed on discussion of current scientific literature.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Christina Vizcarra
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
APPLIED ELECTROMAGNETISM
Vector analysis, electrostatic fields, Laplaces equation, multipole expansions, electric fields in matter: dielectrics, magnetostatic fields, magnetic materials, and superconductors. Applications of electromagnetism to devices and research areas in applied physics.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Sherry Zhang
Info - 3 points
Biochemistry
Prerequisites: 1 year of Introductory Biology, 1 year General Chemistry, and 1st semester Organic Chemistry. Biochemistry is the study of the chemical processes within organisms that give rise to the immense complexity of life. This complexity emerges from a highly regulated and coordinated flow of chemical energy from one biomolecule to another. This course serves to familiarize students with the spectrum of biomolecules (carbohydrates, lipids, amino acids, nucleic acids, etc.) as well as the fundamental chemical processes (glycolysis, citric acid cycle, fatty acid metabolism, etc.) that allow life to happen. The course will end with a discussion of diseases that have biochemical etiologies. In particular, this course will employ active learning techniques and critical thinking problem-solving to engage students in answering the question: how is the complexity of life possible? NOTE: While only the 1st semester of Organic Chemistry is listed as a pre-requisite, it is highly recommended that you take all of Organic Chemistry beforehand.
- Department: Biological Sciences
- T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Danny N Ho
CULPA: 7 Info - 3 points
ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT
AFRO-LATINAS EN EEUU
Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score. An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.
- Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Leyre Alejaldre Biel
CULPA: 1 h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT
SPAIN THROUGH ART
Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score. An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.
- Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Angelina Craig-Florez
CULPA: 14
Info
- 3 points
ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT
Salud Latina
Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score. An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.
- Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
- MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Juan Pablo Cominguez
CULPA: 5
Info
- 3 points
ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT
Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score. An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.
- Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gabriela Derobles
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Instructor:
Antoni Fernandez Parera
CULPA: 1 h-index: 1 Info - 3 points
OPEN POETRY 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 Poetry Workshops, students may be instructed in aspects of craft including the poetic persona, the prose poem, the collage, open-field composition, and others. They may also study verse forms such as the villanelle, sonnet, sestina, ballad, acrostic, free verse and also non-European verse forms such as the pantoum. They may read source texts as examples and/or critical texts as theoretical frameworks, and afterward, submit brief critical analyses. They will put their instruction into regular practice by composing original work that will be critiqued by their peers. Students will be encouraged to develop their strengths and to cultivate a distinctive poetic vision and voice but must also demonstrate a willingness to broaden their range and experiment with new forms and notions of the poem. A portfolio of poems will be written and revised with critical input from the instructor and workshop. Please visit
https://arts.columbia.edu/writing/undergraduate
for information about registration procedures.
- Department: Writing
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alexander Dimitrov
Info - 3 points
PLAYWRITING LAB
Students will develop original dramatic scripts. Students will also read drafts of writers currently produced on New York stages to understand why changes and rewrites were made. Recommended for students undertaking a senior thesis in playwriting.
- Department: Theatre @Barnard
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ro Reddick
Info - 3 points
SCULPTURE II
Prerequisites: VIAR UN2300 or the instructors permission. (Formerly R3331) Continuation of VIAR UN2300. The objective of the class is to engage in in-depth research and hands on studio projects related to a specific theme to be determined by each student. Each student is expected to complete class with four fully realized and thematically linked works. Wood, metal, and plaster will be provided for this class but video, sound, performance and various mixed media approaches are highly encouraged. In addition, lecture and field trips will be part of the course. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.
- Department: Visual Arts
- T 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sable Smith
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
SENIOR POETRY 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.
ADVANCED SWAHILI II
Prerequisites: Advanced Swahili I or the instructor's permission. An introduction to the advanced syntactical, morphological, and grammatical structures of Swahili grammar; detailed analysis of Swahili texts; practice in conversation. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Abdul Nanji
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
SCULPTURE III
Prerequisites: VIAR R2300. (Formerly R3332) Sculpture III is an invitation for immersive sculpting. The class will explore the idea of experiences and construction of contexts as central research topics. The class becomes a laboratory space to explore various techniques to heighten body awareness and spatial sensibility. Through assignments and workshops, the students will practice how to digest these sensory experiences through their studio practice. Historical precedents for art outside the usual mediums and venues will be our reference points to investigate how our own work may take part in a generative process that evolves the definition of sculpture. The assignments in the first half of the semester point the students to performance, site specificity, and sound, that utilize New York Citys odd spots and professionals. While building such common experiential platforms, the class will also build language for a dialogic space, through weekly in-class discussions lead by the instructor, guests, and rotating panels of the students. As the semester progresses, the emphasis will gradually be shifted from experiential learning to intensive studio work on a final project, where the students are asked to pay close attention to how various methods and fields of subjects combine. The resulting project has to be the best work you have ever done. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.
- Department: Visual Arts
- T 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sable Smith
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
ADVANCED WOLOF II
Prerequisites: Advanced Wolof I or instructor permission. This course will further your awareness and understanding of the Wolof language and culture, as well as improve your mastery of grammar, writing skills, and oral expression. Course materials will incorporate various types of text including tales, poetry, literature as well as multimedia such as films, and videos, television and radio programs.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mariame S Sy
Info - 4 points
Neuroscience of Language
- Department: Neuroscience & Behavior @Barnard
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michele Miozzo
Info - 4 points
The Naturalist: Origins, Ethics & Modern
Discover the foundations and contemporary significance of natural history research—from early cabinets of curiosity to museum repositories today. How do these physical—and now digital—spaces help us answer questions around ecology and evolution, especially those on theory, systematics, biodiversity, and conservation? Read the primary literature, analyze and interpret open-source data from platforms such as GBIF and iNaturalist, and visit collections around New York City to answer this line of inquiry and deliver your findings through transferable science skills via conference-style presentations and publication-style writing.
- Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Kaleigh B Matthews
Info - 3 points
GREEK LITERATURE SELECTIONS II
Prerequisites: GREK UN2101 - GREK UN2102 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.
- Department: Classics @Barnard
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rosa M Andujar
Info - 3 points
LATIN LITERATURE SELECTIONS
Prerequisites: LATN UN2102 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.
- Department: Classics @Barnard
- TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Darcy Krasne
h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
RACE. SPACE, URB SCHOOLS
Many people don’t think of themselves as having attended segregated schools. And yet, most of us went to schools attended primarily by people who looked very much like us. In fact, schools have become more segregated over the past 30 years, even as the country becomes increasingly multiracial. In this class, we will use public schools as an example to examine the role race plays in shaping urban spaces and institutions. We will begin by unpacking the concept of racialization, or the process by which a person, place, phenomenon, or characteristic becomes associated with a certain race. Then, we will explore the following questions: What are the connections between city schools and their local contexts? What does it mean to be a “neighborhood school”? How do changes in neighborhoods change schools? We will use ethnographies, narrative non-fiction, and educational research to explore these questions from a variety of perspectives. You will apply what you have learned to your own experiences and to current debates over urban policies and public schools. This course will extend your understanding of key anthropological and sociological perspectives on urban inequality in the United States, as well as introduce you to critical theory.
- Department: Education @Barnard
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Fawziah Qadir
Info - 3 points
HEAT TRANSFER
Heat Transfer
Steady and unsteady heat conduction. Radiative heat transfer. Internal and external forced and free convective heat transfer. Change of phase. Heat exchangers.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Vijay Vedula
h-index: 17 Info - 3 points
HEAT TRANSFER
RECITATION
Steady and unsteady heat conduction. Radiative heat transfer. Internal and external forced and free convective heat transfer. Change of phase. Heat exchangers.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
- F 1 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Vijay Vedula
h-index: 17 Info - 3 points
SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHITECTURE
SP TPC: URBAN DATASCAPES
See the Barnard and Columbia Architecture Department website for the course description:
https://architecture.barnard.edu/architecture-department-course-descriptions
- Department: Architecture @Barnard
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Leah M Meisterlin
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHITECTURE
SP TPC: MUSIC, ARCH, BODY
See the Barnard and Columbia Architecture Department website for the course description:
https://architecture.barnard.edu/architecture-department-course-descriptions
- Department: Architecture @Barnard
- TR 7:40 p.m.-8:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Marlon Davis
Info - 3 points
Quran- Discussion
This is the discussion section for RELI UN3314: QURAN
- Department: Religion @Barnard
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Quran- Discussion
This is the discussion section for RELI UN3314: QURAN
- Department: Religion @Barnard
- 0 points
QURAN
This course conceives of the Qur’ān as a living text in constant flux through interactions with other religious traditions. It focuses on developing an understanding of the Qur’ān’s form, style, and content through a close reading of comparable religious texts. Major topics covered include the Qur’ānic theory of prophecy, its treatment of the Biblical tradition (both that of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament), and its perspective on pre-Islamic pagan religion. The central goals of the course include the ability to (a) analyze primary religious sources in a critical and objective manner and (b) construct coherent arguments based on concrete evidence. In a class of this nature, class members will naturally hold or develop a wide variety of opinions about the topics covered. The goal is not to adopt a single opinion concerning the interpretation of a particular text, but rather to support personal conclusions in a clear logical manner.
- Department: Religion @Barnard
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Najam I Haider
CULPA: 8
Info
- 4 points
METROPOLITICS OF RACE & PLACE
This class explores how racism and racialized capitalism and politics shape the distribution of material resources among cities and suburbs in metropolitan areas and the racial and ethnic groups residing in them. Readings and discussion focus on the history of metropolitan area expansion and economic development, as well as contemporary social processes shaping racial and ethnic groups’ access to high-quality public goods and private amenities. We address racial and ethnic groups’ evolving political agendas in today’s increasingly market-driven socio-political context, noting the roles of residents; federal, state, and local governments; market institutions and actors; urban planners, activist organizations, foundations, and social scientists, among others. Here is a sample of specific topics: race/ethnicity and who “belongs” in what “place;” inequitable government and market investment across racial and ethnic communities over time and “sedimentation effects” (for example, the “redlining” of Black communities leading to their inability to access loan and credit markets and the resulting wealth gap between Blacks and Whites); gentrification processes; creating sufficient, sustainable tax bases; and suburban sprawl. Assignments will include two short response papers, mid-term and final exams, and another project to be determined.
- Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Angela Simms
Info - 3 points
Persona, Performance, and High Society L
Persona, Performance, 19t
For the nobility of the Russian Empire, daily life for the better part of the 19th century resembled
a carefully choreographed performance. One’s time in public was delicately scripted according
to a stifling web of unspoken expectations, obligatory social ceremony, and mannered
pageantry—all under the watchful, surveilling eyes of the Autocracy (to say nothing of one’s
vicious peers in high society!). The cheap glamours and shameless inauthenticity of high society
life were a common complaint among Russian writers of the 1800s, who bemoaned the falsity
and vanity of their milieu at large. But this pervasive sense of deceit, theatricality, and artifice
was tremendously productive to the Russian literature of the period—as writers developed
devices and vocabulary for interrogating hidden motivations, used new forms and genres to
create and maintain intriguing public personae through their texts, and cleverly deployed their
talents to manipulate the codes that restricted them in order to perform new literary identities
more effectively. An attentive history of Russian literature in the 1800s, then, is in no small part
a history of the ways that Russian writers sought to turn their daily lives into pieces of legible
artistic text, bound by the same constructive principles that their verses and stories often were.
- Department: Slavic Languages
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Zachary J Deming
Info - 3 points
MUSIC IN EAST ASIA
A topical approach to the concepts and practices of music in relation to other arts in the development of Asian civilizations.
- Department: Music
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Laina Dawes
Info - 3 points
MICROBIOLOGY
Prerequisites: BIOL BC1500, BIOL BC1501, BIOL BC1502, BIOL BC1503 or the equivalent, and BIOL BC2100. Survey of the diversity, cellular organization, physiology, and genetics of the major microbial groups. Also includes aspects of applied microbiology and biotechnology, the function of microorganisms in the environment, and the role of microbes in human diseases.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Stephen L Sturley
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
MUSICS OF INDIA & WEST ASIA
A topical approach to the concepts and practices of music in relation to other arts in the development of Asian civilizations.
- Department: Music
- MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
- TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Alessandra M Ciucci
CULPA: 1 Info -
Instructor:
Ali Raj
Info - 3 points
Changing Climate, Changing World
Changing Climate and Worl
An interdisciplinary course focused on environmental humanities and based in the English department, “Changing Climate, Changing World” will examine the representation of nature across time and its implications for global warming and biodiversity from multiple perspectives, emphasizing issues of climate change and environmental justice. The course will provide a conceptual framework for reading and critiquing the representation of nature in the context of historical, economic, social, cultural, scientific and political change.
The course design asks students to address climate change in the context of the industrial revolution before discussing environmental issues in a pre-industrial and finally a post-industrial context. We will begin in media res by addressing issues of industrialization and colonialism in the mid-18th and 19th century before considering indigenous, medieval, and renaissance representations of nature. In the second half of the course, we return to examine contemporary issues from the early 20th century to the present.
The course will meet twice weekly in Spring 2025. One of these meetings will include a lecture with a guest faculty member from Barnard and Columbia, or occasionally with other experts, artists, and activists from New York and beyond, followed by questions from the audience on the lecture. The second meeting will emphasize student discussion of the lecture and associated readings, with the purpose of integrating each lecture into the total course framework. Since all the participating faculty are teaching full time, we will aim to schedule lectures in the late afternoon or evening to minimize conflicts. We would also like to open some of the lectures to the public, either virtually or in person, so that their impact could be felt beyond the class itself.
- Department: English @Barnard
- MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Linn C Mehta
CULPA: 18
Info
- 4 points
MUSIC THEORY III
Intermediate analysis and composition in a variety of tonal idioms.
- Department: Music
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Cheng W Lim
Info - 3 points
Seminar in Public Health Virology
Public Health Virology Se
This is an advanced seminar course focusing on primary literature studying viruses and their impact on public health. Selected topics will emphasize evolution, transmission, surveillance, and treatment. The intellectual framework will progress from the cellular and molecular levels to the organismal and ecological. Host-pathogen interactions between viruses and humans will be a particular focus. The course is organized around presentation and critique of both current research as well as landmark discoveries in the field. Discussions will also integrate the interplay of laboratory science with ethics and policy.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
- M 9:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
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Instructor:
Jj L Miranda
CULPA: 3 Info - 4 points
EAST ASIAN CINEMA
This course introduces students to major works, genres and waves of East Asian cinema from the Silent era to the present, including films from Japan, Korea, Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. How has cinema participated in East Asian societies’ distinct and shared experiences of industrial modernity, imperialism and (post)colonialism? How has cinema engaged with questions of class, gender, ethnic and language politics? In what ways has cinema facilitated transnational circulations and mobilizations of peoples and ideas, and how has it interacted with other art forms, such as theatre, painting, photography and music? In this class, we answer these questions by studying cinemas across the region sideby- side, understanding cinema as deeply embedded in the region’s intertwining political, social and cultural histories and circulations of people and ideas. We cover a variety of genres such as melodrama, comedy, historical epic, sci-fi, martial arts and action, and prominent film auteurs such as Yasujir? Ozu, Akira Kurosawa, Yu Hy?nmok, Chen Kaige, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Ann Hui. As cinema is, among other things, a creative practice, in this course, students will be given opportunities to respond to films analytically and creatively, through writing as well as creative visual projects. As a global core course, this class does not assume prior knowledge of East Asian culture or of film studies.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ying Qian
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points