MUSIC THEORY IV

Intermediate analysis and composition in a variety of tonal and extended tonal idioms.

• Department: Music
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Cheng W Lim
  Info
• 3 points

Religion and Medicine in South Asia: Psy

RELI & MED IN SOUTH ASIA

In this course, students will come to see the imbrication of religion, power, and mental illness across South Asia by examining experiences of suffering and its management; the history of psychiatry in the British colonial era and its afterlives; and the relationship of religion to concepts of mental and emotional disorder. Students will identify models for medical structures of care, healing, and treatments in the context of religion, ritual, and quotidian life. Topics include diagnostic processes and the creation of categories, stigma and models of clinical care, hysteria, spirit possession, pharmaceuticals, and the relationship of trauma to political structures. This course has three sections: 1) the first portion undertakes a brief historical survey of medical disciplines and institutions in South Asia (such as the development of Ayurveda, Yunānī Ṭibb, and the rise of the bīmāristān); 2) the second portion of the course focuses on the rise of the asylum (sometimes called the pāgal khāna) in tandem with psychiatry and its twinned consequence: the pathologization of asceticism by British colonial technologies of discipline; 3) the final portion examines the relationship between British colonialism and psychoanalysis with the introduction of this western discipline to the subcontinent. 

This course will take
critical
stock of historical structures throughout South Asia
claiming
to provide care (such as family, caste, healthcare, mental asylums, colonialism, educational systems, pensions, and much more). As a result, students come to consider concepts of social suffering, biopolitics, biosociality, political subjectivity, and postcolonial disorder. 

Primary source material will include the following: śāstra, ethnography, clinical studies, poetry, scripture, ritual texts across Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Meghan E Hartman
  Info
• 4 points

CONSUMER CULTURE IN MOD EUROPE

The development of the modern culture of consumption, with particular attention to the formation of the woman consumer. Topics include commerce and the urban landscape, changing attitudes toward shopping and spending, feminine fashion and conspicuous consumption, and the birth of advertising. Examination of novels, fashion magazines, and advertising images.

• Department: History @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Tiersten
  CULPA: 45 Info
• 4 points

Renaissance Architecture on the Page

Renaiss. Arch on the Page

This seminar examines how architecture was conceived, represented, and disseminated through drawings, prints, and books in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe. Bringing together the study of manuscripts, architectural drawings, printed treatises, and reproductive media such as woodcuts, engravings, and etchings, the course investigates the central role of the page as a critical site of experimentation and the production of architectural knowledge in the Renaissance. By breaking down traditional divisions between media, it seeks to elucidate interconnected graphic and textual practices. It also aims to understand how the mediation of architecture on the page conditioned its reception across a range of contexts. The weekly seminar is structured thematically and roughly chronologically, and will consist of discussion of primary and secondary sources, an examination of visual material, and student presentations. We will also draw on a variety of critical theory while also being grounded in an object-based approach, utilizing especially the rich collections of Avery Library.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Michael J Waters
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 3 Info
• 4 points

INTRO ORGANIC CHEMISTRY-LAB

Prerequisites: (CHEM BC2001) General Chemistry I with lab. Corequisites: CHEM BC3230 Basic techniques of experimental organic chemistry. Principles and methods of separation, purification, and characterization of organic compounds. Selected organic reactions.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• M 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• T 8 a.m.-8:50 a.m.
• T 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• W 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• R 8 a.m.-8:50 a.m.
• R 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• F 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Meenakshi S Rao
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 2.5 points

ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS

Operational amplifier circuits. Diodes and diode circuits. MOS and bipolar junction transistors. Biasing techniques. Small-signal models. Single-stage transistor amplifiers. Analysis and design of CMOS logic gates. A/D and D/A converters.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: David G Vallancourt
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 3 points

QUEER VISIONS IN CONTEMPORARY FILM

QUEER VISIONS IN CONT FIL

In this class, we will focus on recurring themes and questions of contemporary queer cinema by engaging with a number of film genres and forms, and explore how filmmakers create queer visions of the world through their cinematic practices. We will also consider how these queer films are informed by various local, national, cultural and political contexts. Through a comparative, transnational and intersectional approach that takes into consideration the particularities of each filmmaker’s context, we will aim to answer the following questions: How do various cultural, national, linguistic, religious contexts affect the way queer identities are defined and depicted visually? How do these filmmakers create queer narratives that contest, complicate or reify dominant narratives of gender and sexuality? How do they play around with cinematic and genre conventions?

Films, directors and genres studied are subject to change but will likely include directors such as Celine Sciamma, Cheryl Dunye, Pedro Almodovar, Todd Haynes, among others; and various genres such as drama, romance, thriller, mockumentary, thriller and experimental film.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• T 5:40 p.m.-9:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Duygu Ula
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

URBAN SPACE & CONFLICT IN MIDDLE EAST

This course explores how civil war, revolution, militarization, mass violence, refugee crises, and terrorism impact urban spaces, and how city dwellers engage in urban resilience, negotiate and attempt to reclaim their right to the city. Through case studies of Beirut (1975-present), Baghdad (2003-present), Cairo (2011-present), Diyarbakir (1914-present), Aleppo (1914-present), and Jerusalem (1914-present), this course traces how urban life adjusted to destruction (and post-conflict reconstruction), violence, and anarchy; how neighborhoods were reshaped; and how local ethnic, religious, and political dynamics played out in these cities and metropolises. Relying on multi-disciplinary and post-disciplinary scholarship, and employing a wealth of audiovisual material, literary works, and interviews conducted by the instructor, the course scrutinizes how conflicts have impacted urban life in the Middle East, and how civilians react to, confront, and resist militarization in urban spaces.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Khatchig Mouradian
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Ornithology

You saw a bird today.
            You saw a bird yesterday.
            You will surely see a bird tomorrow. Without knowing you, or knowing what you do with your days, I know this for a fact about you.

            Unless they are under absolute confinement, chances are that every human being anywhere on the planet will see at least one bird every day. Birds are everywhere. They are mostly diurnal, they fly and they vocalize. Probably more so than any other kind of animal, this makes birds particularly conspicuous and appealing to humans.

            But when you saw a bird today, did you really
see
it? Did it register at all? Probably not—no more than a passing car or cloud or a stranger in the sidewalk. That’s a shame, because birds have shaped modern biology more than any other group, inspiring discoveries in ecology, evolution, and behavior. They also move billions of dollars each year through birdwatching.

            The overarching goal of this class is for you to start really
seeing
birds for the wondrous animals that they are and all that they have taught us about biology. This will include identifying and naming bird species, having the basic vocabulary to talk about birds, and relating your bird observations in the field to conceptual knowledge about their evolution and ecology.

           
Towards that goal, students will participate in a combination of lectures, readings, group discussions, written assignments, and group and solo outings to observe birds in Central Park. Topics addressed will include: evolutionary origins of birds; bird systematics and classification; the biology of feathers; bioacoustics and birdsong; the biology of migration; bird reproductive behavior; and bird conservation.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Rafael Marcondes
  Info
• 3 points

MODERN V

This contemporary technique class invites students into an embodied practice focusing on a daily physical experimentation and challenge. Emphasis will be placed on corporeal ways to explore questions around propelling, listening, connecting, healing, and action. This course offers a chance for students to use their sensatorial experience to reflect on individual pathways/ desires for expression while, challenging the body to take risks and practice as their movement knowledge expands. Emphasis on sensation, initiation, and weight will be introduced in a floor or standing warm-up that will expand to a standing exploration of the transition between form and space. A focus will be to continue our development of a strong-grounded technique with healthy placement that moves with ease in and out of the floor. We will continue to develop our true embodied relationship to environment, people, and time.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Boudreau
  Wikipedia Info
• 2 points

IMPROVISATION

Improvisation is an open level, movement based class in which students will learn collaborative improvisation tools, skills, practices, and mindset through experience, reflection, practice, and generation. Deep play, support for others, and a willingness to experiment and reflect are key in this discovery based course.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Caitlin Trainor
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 2 points

INTRO TO ITALIAN LITERATURE II

Prerequisites: ITAL UN2102 or the equivalent. UN3334-UN3333 is the basic course in Italian literature. UN3334: Authors and works from the Cinquecento to the present. Taught in Italian.

• Department: Italian
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Steven J Baker
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

SCIENCE, STATE POWER, ETHICS

SCIENCE STATE POWER ETHICS

A comparative study of science in the service of the State in the U.S., the former Soviet Union, Fascist Italy, and Nazi Germany during pivotal periods through the first half of the 20th century. Topics to be covered include the political and moral consequences of policies based upon advances in the natural sciences making possible the development of TNT, nerve gas, uranium fission and hydrogen fusion atomic bombs. Considers the tensions involved in balancing scientific imperatives, patriotic commitment to the nation-state, and universal moral principles and tensions faced by Robert Oppenheimer, Andrei Sakharov, Neils Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. Selected readings include: Michael Frayn's play 
Copenhagen,
 
Hitler's Uranium Club 
by Jeremy Bernstein, Brecht's 
Galileo
, John McPhee's 
The Curve of Binding Energy,
 Richard Rhodes' 
The Making of the Atomic Bomb.

• Department: Science and Public Policy @Barnard
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Timothy J Halpin-Healy
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED ITALIAN I

Prerequisites: ITALUN2102 or the equivalent. If you did not take Intermediate Italian at Columbia in the semester preceding the current one, you must take the placement test, offered by the Italian Department at the beginning of each semester. Written and oral self-expression in compositions and oral reports on a variety of topics; grammar review. Required for majors and concentrators.

• Department: Italian
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Federica Franze
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

MODERN VI

This contemporary technique class invites students into an embodied practice focusing on a daily physical experimentation and challenge. Emphasis will be placed on corporeal ways to explore questions around propelling, listening, connecting, healing, and action. This course offers a chance for students to use their sensatorial experience to reflect on individual pathways/ desires for expression while, challenging the body to take risks and practice as their movement knowledge expands. Emphasis on sensation, initiation, and weight will be introduced in a floor or standing warm-up that will expand to a standing exploration of the transition between form and space. A focus will be to continue our development of a strong-grounded technique with healthy placement that moves with ease in and out of the floor. We will continue to develop our true embodied relationship to environment, people, and time.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Francesca Dominguez
  Info
• Instructor: Tamisha Guy
  Info
• 2 points

ITALIAN THROUGH CINEMA

Prerequisites: ITAL V3335. Students will develop advanced language competence while analyzing and discussing Italian film comedies and their reflection of changing Italian culture and society. Films by Monicelli, Germi, Moretti, Wertmuller, Soldini and others.

• Department: Italian
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Patrizia Palumbo
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

ELECTION LAW AND REFORM

Prerequisites: POLS 1210 or an equivalent intro-level course in American Politics. This course blends “election science”—a new and growing subfield in empirical political science—with a close examination of election law. We will examine not only how political scientists study elections, but also the federal court decisions that have shaped the rules of American elections. This course will therefore be particularly useful not only for students interested in data-driven assessment of electoral policies, but also for those considering professional legal education as a next step.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Miller
  CULPA: 18 h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

QUANTITATVE-INSTRMNTL TECH-LAB

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3231 and CHEM BC3333 

Quantitative techniques in volumetric analysis, pH measurement, UV-Visible, absorption, and fluorescence spectroscopy, and chromatographic separations. Data analysis with spreadsheets.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• T 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• W 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Angela L Paoletta
  Info
• 3 points

Science-based evidence in policymaking

Science & Policymaking

In all societies, public policies are developed to solve social problems such as extreme
poverty, inequality, basic sanitation, health and basic care, family planning, food
security, mental health, abuse of illegal substances, education and protection of
vulnerable groups. How can we ensure that these public policies are based on solid
evidence, which would guarantee the greatest probability of effectiveness? And how do
we plan and adapt the implementation of these policies to different realities, respecting
cultural and historical differences?

In order to achieve this, it is useful, if not necessary, to be acquainted with scientific
thinking and the accumulation and use of evidence. It is also necessary to understand
our own limitations and cognitive biases that interfere in the decision-making process,
as well as understand the political and social context where decisions need to be made.
This course aims to provide students with the tools necessary to assess public policies
critically and rationally, as well as to evaluate different types of scientific evidence and
understand how and where it is appropriate to include scientific evidence in building
effective public policy.

• Department: Science and Public Policy @Barnard
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Natalia Pasternak Taschner
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

JAPANESE CONTEMPORARY CINEMA & MEDIA CUL

JAPANESE CONTMP CINEMA &

The course will closely examine 1) the various traits of postmodern Japanese cinemas in the 1980s and the 1990s after the phase of global cinematic modernism, 2) contemporary media phenomena such as media convergence and the media ecologies of anime, 3) media activism after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, and beyond. We will proceed through careful analysis of films, anime, and digital media, while also addressing larger questions of historiography in general.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Takuya Tsunoda
  Info
• 4 points

ADV SPECTROS CHEMISTRY - LECT

Corequisites: CHEM BC3348 This course combines chemical synthesis, inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry, and nanoscience into experiments with an emphasis using spectroscopy to determine chemical structure and reactivity. you will gain experience with a range of instruments, techniques, calculations, and theories. Instrumentation will include UV-Visible, infrared, near-infrared, fluorescence, and Raman spectroscopy.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• M 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• 0 points

Advanced Spectroscopy, Measurement, and

Adv Spectroscopy Lab

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3333 or 3338 and CHEM BC3253 Corequisites: CHEM BC3271 This course combines chemical synthesis, inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry, and nanoscience into experiments with an emphasis using spectroscopy to determine chemical structure and reactivity. You will gain experience with a range of instruments, techniques, calculations, and theories. Instrumentation will include UV-Visible, infrared, near-infrared, fluorescence, and Raman spectroscopy.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 3 points

HISPANIC CULTURES I (SP)

Prerequisites: L course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion of language requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300). Provides students with an overview of the cultural history of the Hispanic world, from eighth-century Islamic and Christian Spain and the pre-Hispanic Americas through the late Middle Ages and Early Modern period until about 1700, covering texts and cultural artifacts from both Spain and the Americas.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• Instructor: Almudena Mar N-Cobos
  Info
• 3 points

HISPANIC CULTURES I (SP)

Prerequisites: L course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion of language requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300). Provides students with an overview of the cultural history of the Hispanic world, from eighth-century Islamic and Christian Spain and the pre-Hispanic Americas through the late Middle Ages and Early Modern period until about 1700, covering texts and cultural artifacts from both Spain and the Americas.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Arnau Sala Sallent
  Info
• 3 points

COLL: THE PROMISES AND PERILS OF IDENTIT

COLL: PROMISES&PERILS ID

In the course, we will engage the decades-long debates around what it means to organize politics around identity in the United States, particularly from the lens of marginalized groups. In the age of American politics where the term “identity politics” is often used as a dismissal or derogation of the experiences of marginalized groups, what exactly is identity politics? What do the contemporary anxieties around identity politics tell us about political life? What are the political possibilities that arise from organizing identity-based movements? Does focusing too much on identity politics overshadow concerns around material redistribution? We will trace the notion of identity politics back to its origins in Black queer feminism in the 1970s, and seek to understand its evolutions to today. We will bridge the work of critical theorists with the empirical study of identity-based politics, focusing on those who have sought to negotiate differences across race, gender, and sexuality.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sonya G Chen
  Info
• 4 points

LUSOPHONE AFR/AFRO-BRAZ CULTRS

This course focuses on Lusophone African and African Brazilian cultures and the relations, continuities, ruptures and influences between them. Brazil is the result of the miscegenation of Ameridians, African and Europeans, and this means that is also a cultural mélange of these groups. The African cultural contribution to Brazilian culture and grand-narrative is the primary focus of this course, however, to understand Brazil one needs to understand the cultural diversity found in Lusophone Africa, with which Brazil has had a long relationship. The readings for this course include texts from different disciplines and genres. We will study texts, movies and other forms of visual arts from the following authors: José Eduardo Agualusa, Pepetela, Mia Couto, Jorge Amado, Achille, Mbembe, Hilton Costa, Jocélio Teles dos Santos, Livio Sansone, José Luis Cabaço, Benedita da Silva and Solano Trindade.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Joao Nemi Neto
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

HISPANIC CULTURES II (SP)

This course surveys cultural production of Spain and Spanish America from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Students will acquire the knowledge needed for the study of the cultural manifestations of the Hispanic world in the context of modernity. Among the issues and events studied will be the Enlightenment as ideology and practice, the Napoleonic invasion of Spain, the wars of Spanish American independence, the fin-de-siecle and the cultural avant-gardes, the wars and revolutions of the twentieth century (Spanish Civil War, the Mexican and Cuban revolutions), neoliberalism, globalization, and the Hispanic presence in the United States. The goal of the course is to study some key moments of this trajectory through the analysis of representative texts, documents, and works of art. Class discussions will seek to situate the works studied within the political and cultural currents and debates of the time. All primary materials, class discussion, and assignments are in Spanish. This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Wadda Rios-Font
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

HISPANIC CULTURES II (SP)

ENLIGHTENMENT THROUGH PRESENT

This course surveys cultural production of Spain and Spanish America from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Students will acquire the knowledge needed for the study of the cultural manifestations of the Hispanic world in the context of modernity. Among the issues and events studied will be the Enlightenment as ideology and practice, the Napoleonic invasion of Spain, the wars of Spanish American independence, the fin-de-siecle and the cultural avant-gardes, the wars and revolutions of the twentieth century (Spanish Civil War, the Mexican and Cuban revolutions), neoliberalism, globalization, and the Hispanic presence in the United States. The goal of the course is to study some key moments of this trajectory through the analysis of representative texts, documents, and works of art. Class discussions will seek to situate the works studied within the political and cultural currents and debates of the time. All primary materials, class discussion, and assignments are in Spanish. This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Nefer Munoz
  Info
• 3 points

PHENOMENOLOGY & EXISTENTIALISM

• Department: Philosophy @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Taylor Carman
  CULPA: 40 Wikipedia h-index: 19 Info
• 3 points

URBAN ELSEWHERES: EXPLORING A WORLD OF C

We live in an increasingly urbanized world. But what does it mean to be “urban”? As urbanization reaches more corners of the globe, its forms and processes become increasingly diverse.
Urban Elsewheres
is dedicated to investigating this diversity and to exploring the implications that unfamiliar urban phenomena might have for how we understand urbanization—both elsewhere in the world and in our own backyards. Through a comparative engagement with case studies drawn from around the world, this course will challenge some of our most deeply held, common sense assumptions about urbanization. Students will be asked to stretch the conceptual limits of urbanization and explore the social and political possibilities of an expanded urbanism. In doing so, the course will engage with the many of the most heated theoretical debates about urbanization, equipping students with a set of comparative analytical tools with which to explore the wider field of urban studies.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• F 11:10 a.m.-12:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Nick R Smith
  h-index: None Info
• 4 points

URBAN ELSEWHERES - DISCUSSION

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• 0 points

URBAN ELSEWHERES - DISCUSSION

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• 0 points

URBAN ELSEWHERES - DISCUSSION

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• 0 points

LABORATORY IN EMBRYOLOGY

This lab course will explore the foundational methods of vertebrate embryology. Using both classical and modern experimental approaches, we will identify and manipulate developmental processes such as gastrulation, neurulation, and organogenesis. Students will investigate molecular regulation of patterning and the importance of tissue-tissue interactions during early development. Utilizing modern genetic tools and imaging techiniques, such as digital microscopy, students will have the opportunity to visualize embyrogenesis in real-time. 

Prerequisite: Two terms of introductory biology (BIOL BC1500,BC1502 or equivalent) AND one term of Genetics (BIOL BC2100 or equivalent) AND at least one upper level lab course at the cell and molecular level. OR permission from the instructor.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• W 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Rishita Shah
  Info
• 3 points

BIOCHEMISTRY LAB TECHNIQUES

Prerequisites: Organic II lab (CHEM BC3333, BC3335, or equivalent); Quantitative analysis lab (BC3338, BC3340, or equivalent); Biochemistry (CHEM BC3282y, CHEM C3501, or equivalent).

Theory and application of fundamental techniques for the isolation, synthesis and characterization of biological macromolecules including proteins, lipids, nucleotides and carbohydrates. Techniques include spectroscopic analysis, gel electrophoresis, chromatography, enzyme kinetics, immunoblotting, PCR, molecular cloning and cell culture, as well as modern laboratory instrumentation, such as UV-Vis, GC-MS and HPLC.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• T 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• 5 points

CLIMATE CHANGE AND LAW

The purpose of this course is to provide students with a broad introduction to the field of climate law in the United States and at the international level. The course begins with an overview of the causes and effects of global climate change and the methods available to control and adapt to it. We then examine the negotiation, implementation and current status of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol, and the Copenhagen Accord. The focus then turns to the past and proposed actions of the U.S. Congress, the executive branch and the courts, as well as regional, state and municipal efforts. The Clean Air Act, the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act will receive special attention. We evaluate the various legal tools that are available to address climate change, including cap-and-trade schemes; carbon taxation; command-and-control regulation; litigation; securities disclosures; and voluntary action. The roles of energy efficiency, renewable energy sources, carbon capture and sequestration, and forestry and agriculture each receive close attention. Implications for international human rights, international trade, environmental justice, and international and intergenerational equity are discussed. The course concludes with examination of the special challenges posed by China; proposals for adaptation and geoengineering; and business opportunities and the role of lawyers. Offered in the Spring.

• Department: Earth Institute
• MW 3 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
• M 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Gerrard
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Sheila Foster
  Info
• 3 points

PHYSIOLOGY

Prerequisites: BIOL BC1500, BIOL BC1501, BIOL BC1502, BIOL BC1503 or the equivalent. This course examines how mammals carry out basic functions like manipulating objects, sensing the external world, oxygenating tissues, and processing food. Emphasis is placed on (a) how the body regulates itself through the integrated action of multiple organ systems and (b) what goes awry in disease.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: John Glendinning
  CULPA: 23 h-index: 39 Info
• 3 points

LABORATORY IN PHYSIOLOGY

Prerequisites: Pre- (or co-) requisite is a physiology lecture class (e.g. BIOL BC3360). Enrollment limited to 16. Provides a hands-on introduction to the different physiological systems in vertebrates and invertebrates. Emphasizes the operation of a variety of physiological monitoring devices and the collection and analysis of physiological data.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• W 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: John Glendinning
  CULPA: 23 h-index: 39 Info
• 3 points

CELLULAR & MOLECULAR NEUROSCIENCE

This upper-level lecture course provides an in-depth analysis of neuroscience at the molecular and cellular levels. Topics include: the structure and function of neuronal membranes, the ionic basis of the membrane potential and action potential, synaptic transmission, synaptic plasticity, and sensory transduction.

• Department: Neuroscience & Behavior @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexis S Hill
  Info
• 3 points

PSYCHOLOGY OF LEADERSHIP

Prerequisites: Students must have one of the following pre-requisites for this course: PSYC BC1125 Personality Psychology, PSYC BC1138 Social Psychology, or PSYC BC2151 Organizational Psychology, and permission by the instructor. An in-depth examination of the concept of leadership in psychology with an emphasis on womens leadership. Topics include the role of gender, culture, and emotional intelligence as well as an examination of transactional and transformational models. Topics will be discussed with an equal emphasis on theory, research, and application. Students must have prerequisites and permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Tara Well
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

Documents and Evidence in Contemporary L

Documents & Evidence Latn

This course focuses on the ways in which contemporary Latin American culture constructs fiction from documents and archival materials. It examines the new ways of constructing fiction in contemporary Latin America. The course begins by questioning the ideas of author, authority, and authorship. “Documentality” is an approach to the complex web of techniques and procedures that place the “I” at the center of a new documentary fiction that questions the values of the real and the fictional. We will discuss literary texts, movies, and art exploring the value of the documents and the processes of fictionalization. Through works by authors from Mexico, Argentina and Chile we will question the relationships between life, history, politics, and aesthetics. We will focus on gender, race, memory, and political approaches.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Graciela Montaldo
  Info
• 3 points

HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY

Prerequisites: BC1001 and two more psychology courses, and permission of the instructor required. Consideration of research on the interaction of biological, psychological, and social factors related to physical health and illness. Topics include the relationship of stress to illness, primary prevention, mind-body methods of coping with stress and chronic illness (such as meditation), and the relationship between psychological factors and recovery from illness. Enrollment limited to 15.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Tara Well
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

Neuroscience Frontiers

This course introduces students to a bold, high-risk, high-reward framework for thinking about neuroscience, tracing the field's most transformative discoveries from the action potential through the present day. Each week, students will examine landmark breakthroughs drawn from the last century of neuroscience through the lens of unconventional thinking that prioritizes ambitious questions over incremental research. Students will engage in guided discussions analyzing how risk-tolerant scientific culture has historically driven paradigm shifts, and how those lessons can be applied to today’s unanswered questions. Additionally, scientific discussions will be had about unconventional ideas of memory, consciousness, bioelectricity, brain organoids, and neural regeneration. By the end of the course, students are expected to not only understand the history of modern neuroscience and exciting discoveries in the field today, but to articulate and defend their own vision for what a high-risk, high-reward research agenda in the field might look like. Students are expected to contribute actively to the discussion.

• Department: Neuroscience & Behavior @Barnard
• T 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Emily R Sherman
  Info
• 4 points

SOCIOLING ASPECTS U.S.SPANISH

Prerequisites: Third-year bridge course (W3300), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350). Sociolinguistics studies the connections between language and social categories such as class, gender, and ethnicity. This course will address how social, geographic, cultural, and economic factors affect the different usages of Spanish among its millions of speakers. Through theory and practice of various research tools including Ethnography of Communication and Discourse Analysis, students with explore topics such as English-Spanish contact in the US, code-switching, and Spanglish, as well as issues of identity, bilingualism, and endangered languages.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria E Lozano
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN NEUROETHICS

Prerequisites: BC1001 and one of the following: Neurobiology, Behavioral Neuroscience, Fundamentals of Neuropsychology, or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 20 students. Recent advancements in neuroscience raise profound ethical questions. Neuroethics integrates neuroscience, philosophy, and ethics in an attempt to address these issues. Reviews current debated topics relevant to the brain, cognition, and behavior. Bioethical and philosophical principles will be applied allowing students to develop skill in ethical analysis.

• Department: Neuroscience & Behavior @Barnard
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: E'Mett McCaskill
  CULPA: 38 Info
• 4 points

EE SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT

Students work in teams to specify, design, implement and test an engineering prototype. Involves technical as well as non-technical considerations, such as manufacturability, impact on the environment, economics, adherence to engineering standards, and other real-world constraints. Projects are presented publicly by each design team in a school-wide expo.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: David G Vallancourt
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 3 points

GIS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMNT

This course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive overview of theoretical concepts underlying GIS systems and to give students a strong set of practical skills to use GIS for sustainable development research. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are a system of computer software, data and analysis methods used to create, store, manage, digital information that allow us to create maps and dynamic models to analyze the physical and social processes of the world. Through a mixture of lectures, readings, focused discussions, and hands-on exercises, students will acquire an understanding of the variety and structure of spatial data and databases, gain knowledge of the principles behind raster and vector based spatial analysis, and learn basic cartographic principles for producing maps that effectively communicate a message. Student will also learn to use newly emerging web based mapping tools such as Google Earth, Google Maps and similar tools to develop on-line interactive maps and graphics. The use of other geospatial technologies such as the Global Positioning System will also be explored in this class. Case studies examined in class will draw examples from a wide ranges of GIS applications developed to assist in the development, implementation and evaluation of sustainable development projects and programs. On completion of the course, students will: 1. use a variety of GIS software programs to create maps and reports; 2. develop a sound knowledge of methods to search, obtain, and evaluate a wide variety of spatial data resources; 3. develop skills needed to determine best practices for managing spatial data resources; 4. use GIS to analyze the economic, social and environmental processes underlying the concept of building a sustainable world; 5. Gain an understanding of the limits of these technologies and make assessments of uncertainty associated with spatial data and spatial analysis models. Offered in the fall and spring.

• Department: Earth Institute
• T 2:10 p.m.-3:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Linda I Pistolesi
  Info
• 3 points

RESRCH SEMINAR IN HISTORY II

Prerequisites: Open to Barnard College History Senior Majors. Individual guided research and writing in history and the presentation of results in seminar and in the form of the senior essay. See Requirements for the Major for details.

• Department: History @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Angelo Caglioti
  h-index: 2 Info
• 4 points

HOW WRITERS THINK

The spell cast by a captivating novel or elegant research can lead us to imagine that great writing is a product of the author's innate genius. In reality, the best writing is a product of certain not-very-intuitive practices. This course lifts the veil that obscures what happens in the minds of the best writers. We will examine models of writing development from research in composition studies, cognitive psychology, genre studies, linguistics, ESL studies, and educational psychology. Our classroom will operate as a laboratory for experimenting with the practices that the research identifies. Students will test out strategies that prepare them for advanced undergraduate research, graduate school writing, teaching, editing, and collaborative writing in professional settings. The course is one way to prepare for applying for a job as a peer writing fellow in Columbia’s Writing Center.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Susan Mendelsohn
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 3 Info
• 4 points

PSYCHOBIOLOGY OF SLEEP

This seminar will explore sleep and circadian rhythms, emphasizing how these factors and their disruption influence human health, disease, function, and well-being. Topics will include the physiologic and neurobiological generation of sleep and circadian rhythms, and the interaction between these systems with cognitive, behavioral, endocrine, metabolic, and mood/psychiatric variables in humans, as well as sleep disorders and their treatment.

NOTE: The course description is the same for the fall/spring course and the summer course.

• Department: Neuroscience & Behavior @Barnard
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Ari Shechter
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 23 Info
• 4 points

COMPUTATIONAL EARTH SCIENCE

Prerequisites: Required: at least a semester of calculus and physics; any 1000-level or 2000-level EESC course. Computer models are essential for understanding the behavior of complex natural systems in geosciences. This course is an introduction to writing computer models to simulate Earth processes. Students will learn methods for numerical modeling of a variety of geoscience topics, such as nonlinear systems of air chemistry, ocean currents, atmospheric dispersion, and more. Simulations will be created by learning to program with a user-friendly language (Python). Student learning will be facilitated through a combination of lectures, in-class exercises, homework assignments and a final project on a student-selected topic.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: William H Menke
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 3 points

Data Science and Health Equity in New Yo

This course, which has no pre-requisites, teaches students about data science and public health. Students will create and answer public health research questions related to health equity in NYC. The course will use publicly available NYC health data to learn the seven steps of data science: 1) writing a research question; 2) obtaining data to address the question; 3) data cleaning; 4) data exploration; (5) analysis; 6) replication and validity evaluation; and (7) presentation and summary. The course will introduce students to 
R
.

• Department: Columbia College
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• 3 points

ELECTROMAGNETICS

Basic field concepts. Interaction of time-varying electromagnetic fields. Field calculation of lumped circuit parameters. Transition from electrostatic to quasistatic and electromagnetic regimes. Transmission lines. Energy transfer, dissipation, and storage. Waveguides. Radiation.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• F noon-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Keren Bergman
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 69 Info
• 4 points

Introduction to Design History

Intro to Design History

This course offers an introduction to the history of design from the eighteenth century through the twenty-first century, with emphasis placed on the twentieth century. Attention will be paid to a wide range of design specializations, including industrial design and product design, fashion and textile design, automotive design, and graphic design. Proceeding in roughly chronological order, it will explore key themes in the history of design, including matters of taste and etiquette, social reform, the production of value, design education, branding and marketing, and recent trends in sustainable, speculative, and digital design. The course also considers the relationship between design and other modes of material production, including architecture, fine art, and craft.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Hannah R Pivo
  Info
• 4 points

YOUTH-INTERCONNECTED WRLD

What does it mean to be 20 years old in our rapidly changing, interconnected world? There are more youth (aged 15-25) in the world today than at any other time in history, with the majority living in the developing world. They approach adulthood as the world confronts seismic shifts in the geopolitical order, in the nature and future of work, and in the ways we connect with each other, express identity, engage politically, and create communities of meaning. What unique challenges and opportunities confront young people after decades of neoliberal globalization? What issues are most pressing in developing nations experiencing a “youth bulge” and how do they compare to developed nations with rapidly aging populations? How do young people envision their futures and the future of the world they are inheriting? This course will examine recent scholarship while engaging the young people in the class to define the agenda and questions of the course, and to conduct their own research. This course is part of the Global Core curriculum. “Global 20” complements a new research project of the Committee on Global Thought, “Youth in a Changing World,” which investigates from the perspective of diverse participants and of young people themselves, the most pressing issues confronting young people in the changing world today. The course will serve as an undergraduate “lab” for the project, and among other involvements, students in the course will help conceive, plan, and take part in a NYC-wide “Youth Think-In” sponsored by the CGT during the Spring 2018 semester. Within the course, students will become “regional experts” and examine the primary themes of the class through the prism of specific areas or nations of their choosing. A final class project includes a “design session” that will consider how universities might better train and empower youth to confront the challenges and embrace the opportunities of our interconnected world of the 21stcentury.

• Department: Committee on Global Thought
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Laura L Neitzel
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

PRODUCTN-INVENTORY PLAN-CONTRL

For undergraduates only. Required for all undergraduate students majoring in IE, OR:EMS, OR:FE, and OR. Must be taken during (or before) the sixth semester. Inventory management and production planning. Continuous and periodic review models: optimal policies and heuristic solutions, deterministic and probabilistic demands. Material requirements planning. Aggregate planning of production, inventory, and work force. Multi-echelon integrated production-inventory systems. Production scheduling. Term project. Recitation section required.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ali Sadighian
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 3 Info
• 4 points

COSTUME DESIGN

Studio course exploring designing costumes for the stage. Students become familiar with textual and character analysis, research, sketching and rendering, swatching and introductory costume history. 

Application Instructions for full semester fall and spring courses: E-mail the instructor with the title of the course in the subject line. In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course. Admitted students should register for the course; they will automatically be placed on a wait list, from which the instructor will admit them as spaces become available.

For summer courses:  Application not required.  Register directly for the course.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• F 11 a.m.-1:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Soule Golden
  Info
• 3 points

MYSTERIES

Mystery once referred primarily to religious ideas: divine revelations, unknown rites, or the secret counsel of God. In the 20th century, the word began to be used in reference to more prosaic things, like whodunits. But what is coming to be known in a story? Why and what is a reader tempted to try to know, and what, today, can she possibly think is going to be revealed? When do the ‘tricks’ of withholding information annoy, and when do they compel? What are clues? What are solutions? In what ways can and do stories not straightforwardly written as mysteries use the tropes of mystery? And to what mechanisms of meaning-making do these tropes point?

In this course we will read with the intention of noticing how writers have borrowed, avoided, warped, translated, or disguised the structures of mystery. In this way, we will think about what techniques of mystery we might integrate into our own work. There will also be four five to seven page creative writing assignments, based around: the Clue, the Crime, the Search and the Detective.

In addition to the creative writing assignments, each student will be responsible for one presentation on a reading. The guidelines for presentations are appended after the sample syllabus below.

• Department: Writing
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Rivka R Galchen
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

LIGHTING DESIGN

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 12 students. Focuses on both the technical and creative aspects of theatrical lighting design. Students will learn the role of lighting within the larger design and performance collaboration through individual and group projects, readings, hands-on workshops, and critique of actual designs. 

Application Instructions: E-mail the instructor (
acasey@barnard.edu
) with the title of the course in the subject line. In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course. Admitted students should register for the course; they will automatically be placed on a wait list, from which the instructor will admit them as spaces become available.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• T 9:35 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Autum Casey
  Info
• 3 points

Religion and Secularism in the Modern Me

From the rise of Italian Fascism to the Siege of Sarajevo to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, politicians, media figures, and other public voices have framed the Mediterranean as a place of senseless religiosity and an inability to embrace secular rationality — often to argue for the inevitability or necessity of violent intervention. This course tells a different story. Through primary sources and close secondary commentary, we trace how the categories of religion and secularism took shape in the region, and how those who live with these categories think, reflect, inhabit, and struggle over them — not as a simple conflict between tradition and modernity, but as part of larger, shared questions about what it means to be human. Each week poses a foundational question and offers responses through both primary sources and foundational texts in anthropology, history, and religious studies.

Although the course draws on specialized scholarship, no previous coursework in anthropology, religious studies, or the languages of the region is required or presumed; all readings are in English or English translation, and necessary background will be provided in class.

• Department: Anthropology
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jacob A Bessen
  Info
• 4 points

SIMULATION MODELING AND ANALYSIS

It is strongly advised that Stochastic modeling (IEOR E3106 or IEOR E4106) be taken before this course. This is an introductory course to simulation, a statistical sampling technique that uses the power of computers to study complex stochastic systems when analytical or numerical techniques do not suffice. The course focuses on discrete-event simulation, a general technique used to analyze a model over time and determine the relevant quantities of interest. Topics covered in the course include the generation of random numbers, sampling from given distributions, simulation of discrete-event systems, output analysis, variance reduction techniques, goodness of fit tests, and the selection of input distributions. The first half of the course is oriented toward the design and implementation of algorithms, while the second half is more theoretical in nature and relies heavily on material covered in prior probability courses. The teaching methodology consists of lectures, recitations, weekly homework, and both in-class and take-home exams. Homework almost always includes a programming component for which students are encouraged to work in teams.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Yi Zhang
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

Read, Think, Write in French

UN3405 enables students to hone and perfect their reading and writing skills while improving their ability to express and organize thoughts in French. In this engaging advanced language class, students are exposed to major texts in fields as diverse as journalism, sociology, anthropology, politics, literature, philosophy and history. Stimulating class discussions, targeted reviews of key grammatical points in context, and an array of diverse writing exercises all contribute to strengthen students’ mastery of the French language. This course also works as a bridge class between Intermediate French II and courses that focus on French and Francophone cultures, history and literature (such as 3409 and 3410). Students who take this class will be fully prepared to take advanced content classes or spend a semester in a Francophone country. This class is required for the French major and minor.

• Department: French
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Pascale Crepon
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Alexandra Borer
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

NEUROSCIENCE OF TRAUMA

This course is a comprehensive review of the neural basis of the emotional, cognitive and behavioral responses to traumatic events.  The
acute
experience of trauma and the
memory
of the trauma may influence neural processes influencing social relatedness, attachment, emotional regulation, physiological homeostasis and the stress response.  Neuroscientific research provides insight into these processes and informs pharmacological and psychotherapeutic interventions for individual survivors.

Students will review neuroscientific theoretical models and research relevant to the neurobiology, neurophysiology, neuroanatomy and neurodevelopmental processes underlying the traumatic response. The neuroendocrine system and its relevance will also be reviewed.   The course will begin with a critical review of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) diagnosis of Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders, to acquire an understanding of the symptoms and diagnosis.  Next, students will review theory and research relevant to trauma and neurobiology, neuroanatomy and neurophysiology.  Finally, students will critique the application of these research findings to the design of current “neuro-informed” therapeutic interventions.  Throughout the course, individual case studies will provide insight into the brain’s influence on symptomatology and foster greater understanding and sensitivity to the personal post-traumatic experience.

• Department: Neuroscience & Behavior @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: E'Mett McCaskill
  CULPA: 38 Info
• 3 points

COMPUTER GRAPHICS & DESIGN

Introduction to drafting, engineering graphics, computer graphics, solid modeling, and mechanical engineering design. Interactive computer graphics and numerical methods applied to the solution of mechanical engineering design problems.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Sinisa Vukelic
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO FRENCH & FRANCOPHONE HISTORY

INTRO FREN FRANCOPHONE HI

Who were the Gauls and when was Paris the "capital of modernity"? What caused the French and Haitian Revolutions? Why do the French care so much about religion, nation, empire or, for that matter, food and fashion? This class surveys the history of France and the Francophone world from the Middle Ages to the present. It provides an introduction to major events and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions of people in France and across the world, in its former colonies. From feudalism and absolutism to imperialism, capitalism, and republicanism, we explore how questions of identity and difference play out in politics, culture and society. The class is based in lecture and discussion and relies on close readings of primary sources. The course is taught entirely in French and is one of two core courses for the major and minor in French. Students are encouraged to take FREN 3405 prior to this course.

• Department: French
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Eleanor L Grabowski
  Info
• 3 points

Intro French & Francophone Literature

Intro French Francophone

This class offers students an introduction to major works that have marked the history of literature in French from the Middle Ages to the present. Our focus will be on close reading and discussion, but works will also be placed in historical context. We will look at a variety of literary genres (sonnet, short story, comedy, autobiography, narrative poetry, novel), and our readings will be complemented by visual materials such as paintings and films. The course is taught entirely in French and is one of two core courses for the major and minor in French. Students are encouraged to take FREN 3405 prior to this course.

• Department: French
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Aubrey A Gabel
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

Cities & Sustainability

In an increasingly urban world, sustainable development is not possible without achieving sustainability in cities. This course explores the challenges and opportunities of sustainable development policy-making at the urban level through the study of local efforts to address climate change, provide access to clean water, and develop renewable energy resources, among other topics. Students will gain a more detailed understanding of how cities’ histories, land use patterns, and economies influence urban resource use, and how cities have attempted to change those impacts. Using case studies of local sustainability initiatives, students examine how a city’s governance structure, political dynamics, and administrative capacity affect policy outcomes. Consideration of the equity implications of urban sustainability efforts is integral to the course.

• Department: Earth Institute
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Deborah Morris
  Info
• 3 points

HUMAN-CENTERED SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS

HUMAN-CNTRD SOC NTWK ANAL

Social media platforms enable millions of people to contribute their own information to web-enabled systems. This course prepares students to grapple with and analyze this information as they explore questions at the intersection of computational systems and social behavior. Student projects focus on studying real-world challenges and opportunities in current social media platforms by analyzing the vast amounts of data people leave behind, applying both computational and qualitative techniques. Readings and discussions guide students in reasoning about the ethics of working with this kind of data and approaching it from a human-centered perspective. Students must be comfortable with programming in python.

• Department: Computer Science @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ahmer Arif
  Info
• 4 points

SYMBOLIC LOGIC

Corequisites: PHILV3413 Required Discussion Section (0 points). Advanced introduction to classical sentential and predicate logic. No previous acquaintance with logic is required; nonetheless a willingness to master technicalities and to work at a certain level of abstraction is desirable.

• Department: Philosophy
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Achille Varzi
  CULPA: 30 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• 4 points

INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMETRICS

Prerequisites: (ECON UN3211 or ECON UN3213) and (MATH UN1201 or MATH UN1207) and STAT UN1201 Modern econometric methods; the general linear statistical model and its extensions; simultaneous equations and the identification problem; time series problems; forecasting methods; extensive practice with the analysis of different types of data.

• Department: Economics
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Seyhan Erden
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Michael C Best
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 8 Info
• Instructor: Haoge Chang
  Info
• 4 points

INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMETRICS

Prerequisites: (ECON UN3211 or ECON UN3213) and (MATH UN1201 or MATH UN1207) and STAT UN1201 Modern econometric methods; the general linear statistical model and its extensions; simultaneous equations and the identification problem; time series problems; forecasting methods; extensive practice with the analysis of different types of data.

• Department: Economics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Simon Lee
  h-index: 28 Info
• 4 points

Contemporary French and Francophone Lite

US Goncourt Prize Selecti

This contemporary French and Francophone literature course designed for undergraduate students is part of the “
Choix Goncourt USA
” (US Goncourt Prize Selection), an initiative led by the Goncourt Academy in France and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy (Villa Albertine) in the United States.

The course provides students with the unique opportunity to read the latest French contemporary fiction through the lens of critical literary tools, to experience being part of a selecting literary committee, to interview outstanding contemporary writers, and to practice writing book reviews, in addition to the more traditional essays and close readings. This course is entirely conducted in French (readings, discussions, and writing).

• Department: French
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Laurence Marie
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

SERIAL HORROR

Cannibals! Orphans! Strikes! Vampires! This course asks how do horror stories

employ suspense and disgust to unsettle political, social, and ethical complacency in the hearts and minds of readers and audiences? We will consider the pan-media global adaptations, translations, reiterations, and afterlives of several powerful horror stories—maritime, domestic, industrial, and supernatural-- as they serially repeat across national borders, languages, historical periods, and delivery platforms, from novels, plays, and film to an underwater sculpture, photographs, paintings, advertisements, a graphic novel, and other aesthetic forms. We will read each adaptation in synchronic dialogue with its companions, in diachronic perspective, and through relevant theoretical lenses, comparing the priorities of aesthetic form in the context of the national, cultural, and the historical contingencies of class and race difference. Texts may include the
Raft of the Medusa, Jane Eyre, Mary Barton, Germinal, Dracula
and the
Dybbuk.
Familiarity with French, Yiddish, Russian, Wolof (
Atlantique
), Korean (
Parasite
) and Persian (
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
) welcome but not required. All majors welcome!

(To count this course for the English major, all writing must focus on works originally published in English.)

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Monica F Cohen
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

INTRODUCTION URBAN SOCIOLOGY

Prerequisites: Students must attend first class. Examines the diverse ways in which sociology has defined and studied cities, focusing on the people who live and work in the city, and the transformations U.S. cities are undergoing today. Sociological methods, including ethnography, survey research, quantitative studies, and participant observation will provide perspectives on key urban questions such as street life, race, immigration, globalization, conflict, and redevelopment.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Aaron Passell
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 3 Info
• 3 points

PRINTMAKING II: INTAGLIO

Prerequisites: VIAR UN2420 (Formerly R3402) Continues instruction and demonstration of further techniques in intaglio. Encourages students to think visually more in the character of the medium, and personal development is stressed. Individual and group critiques. Portfolio required at end. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• MW 1:30 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer Nuss
  Info
• 3 points

Printmaking on, through, & below the mat

Print on, through, & belo

This course offers to the student who may find an examination of printmaking an asset to their art practice.
The course will cover several printmaking processes like relief, intaglio, silkscreen, and monotype. In addition, we will discuss printmaking concepts such as repetition, matrix, original/translation, reproducibility, and multiple considering the works produced in class.
We will involve a separate in-depth study of each process by alternating studio time, demonstrations, field trips, individual and group critiques.
Through the printmaking processes, students will explore assignments and projects and be encouraged to incorporate them into their own body of work.

• Department: Visual Arts
• F 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Craig Zammiello
  Info
• 3 points

Computational Sound

COMPUTATIONAL SOUND

In this course, we explore the variety of roles that computation can play in the analysis, creation, and performance of music. We start with the fundamentals of sound in the digital domain, covering issues of representation and audio synthesis. We then move through various synthesis techniques including the additive, subtractive, frequency modulation (FM), and amplitude modulation (AM) synthesis. After covering some core DSP techniques, we put these concepts into performative practice by exploring “live coding”. In the space of live coding, we examine various programming language designs to understand how various domain specific languages (DSLs) support live coding. For the third module, we turn our focus to automated composition and analysis, addressing challenges in music information retrieval, generative art, and autonomous improvisation systems. All the while, we continue to develop our fluency in live coding by putting new topics to practice.

• Department: Computer Science @Barnard
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Santolucito
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

ENGINEERING DESIGN

Building on the preliminary design concept, the detailed elements of the design process are completed: systems synthesis, design analysis optimization, incorporation of multiple constraints, compliance with appropriate engineering codes and standards, and Computer Aided Design (CAD) component part drawings. Execution of a project involving the design, fabrication, and performance testing of an actual engineering device or system.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• T 9:10 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
• Instructor: Yevgeniy Yesilevskiy
  h-index: 7 Info
• Instructor: Dimitrios Fafalis
  Info
• Instructor: Evan Lerner
  Info
• 3 points

RUSSIAN FOR HERITAGE SPKRS II

Prerequisites: RUSS V3430 or the instructors permission. This course is designed to help students who speak Russian at home, but have no or limited reading and writing skills to develop literary skills in Russian. THIS COURSE, TAKEN WITH RUSS V3430, MEET A TWO YEAR FOREIGN LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT. Conducted in Russian.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Alla Smyslova
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 3 points

COLL: LAW AND VIOLENCE

Prerequisites: Admission by application through the Barnard Political Science Department only. Enrollment limited to 16 students. Requires POLS 1011 (Political Theory) or equivalent. This colloquium examines how the law can participate in the justification of various forms of violence, exclusion, and inequality. It focuses on the power of law to determine which subjects get recognized as persons entitled to rights. Possible topics include slavery, migration, gender, sexual orientation, disability, homelessness, and nonhuman animals.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ayten Gundogdu
  CULPA: 20 h-index: 8 Info
• 4 points

COLL: DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS

Beginning in the mid-1970s a democratic wave swept the globe. Before it began there were more than twice as many dictatorships as democracies in existence. By the wave’s highpoint around 2008, that relationship had flipped and the number of democracies had reached an all-time high. Moreover, with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989-90, democracy faced no ideological competitors for the first time since the modern struggle for democracy began in 1789 with the French Revolution. Francis Fukuyama’s concept of the “end of history”— the world had reached “the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government”—captured the euphoric, even triumphalist zeitgeist of the era. Today, of course, this euphoria and triumphalism has vanished, replaced by dramatic democratic backsliding and profound pessimism about democracy’s future. By 2024 the world had fewer democracies than autocracies for the first time in over 20 years and 45 countries were “autocratizing”: moving away from democracy and towards authoritarianism. This autocratic undertow has not only claimed many new democracies; older, established democracies long considered consolidated and secure have experienced significant problems as well. This colloquium will exam the literature on democratic consolidation and backsliding, providing students with an overview of the most important theories about what makes democracy work—or not. It will also focus on several crucial and illustrative cases of backsliding in the contemporary era, in order to better understand what is distinctive about the nature and causes of democratic decay in the twenty-first century.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sheri Berman
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• 4 points

PRINTMAKING II:SILKSCREEN

Prerequisites: VIAR R2440. (Formerly R3414) Printmaking II: Silkscreen continues instruction and demonstration of further techniques in silkscreen. Encourages students to think visually more in the character of the medium, and personal development is stressed. Individual and group critiques. Portfolio required at end. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• R 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Alejo Contreras
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• 3 points

Literature in the 18th and 19th Centurie

Lit in the 18th & 19th Ce

Prerequisite OR Corequisite: GERMUN3333

This class will provide an introduction to the rich and varied forms of literary production between 1750 and 1900 by focusing on the culture of Sensibility, the Enlightenment, Storm and Stress, Romanticism, the “Vormärz” and Realism. We will situate major literary innovations of the 18th century in the context of changing reading and theater cultures and focus primarily on Lessing’s innovative domestic tragedy, and on poems and an epistolary novel by Goethe. Then we will discuss the literary production of the 19th century by analyzing changing concepts of art, music and literature during those times of great social and political change. We will study (and translate) poems, and read pamphlets and novellas by Tieck, Kleist, Hölderlin, Novalis, Brentano, Eichendorff, Günderrode, Droste-Hülshoff, Heine, Büchner, Mörike, Keller and Fontane.

**This course is taught entirely in German.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Dorothea von Muecke
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• 3 points