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.
• Instructor: Travis D Fairclough
  Info
• 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
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Lars Horn
  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 Determinants of Health

STRUCTURAL DETERMNTS OF H

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 Determinants 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” Determinants of Health. This shift is in recognition that it is the underlying structures (laws, material infrastructure) that impact 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. An analysis that focuses upstream reveals that government policies and social structure are at the core of health disparities. Through the lens of New York City and its health systems, this course will cover a wide range of topics related to race and health, including: racial inequalities in housing and homelessness, biases in medical institutions, and the unconscious bias that lead providers to have racialized perception of an individual’s pain tolerance. In addition to exposing these inequalities the course will also provide innovative solutions that seek to mitigate these barriers including: home visiting programs, medical respite programs for homeless patients and food as medicine in health care systems. Students will demonstrate their knowledge through individual writing, and class discussion. The course revolves around important readings, lectures, and podcasts that illustrates how one’s class position and the color of one’s skin can influence the access to healthcare one has as well as their experie

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Maati Momplaisir
  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 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ansaf Salleb-Aouissi
  CULPA: 21 h-index: 16 Info
• 4 points

DYNAMICS OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Prerequisites: EEEB UN1010 Human Species/HO&E, ANTH UN1007 Origins of Human Society, or the equivalent. Seminar focusing on recent advances in the study of human evolution. Topics include changing views of human evolution with respect to early hominin behavior, morphology, culture and evolution. Either Dynamics of Human Evolution or Neandertals is taught every other year.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jill S Shapiro
  CULPA: 46 Info
• 4 points

WORLD LITERATURE REVISITED II

(Please note that you do
not
need to take ENGL BC3204 World Literature Revisited I and ENGL BC3205 World Literature Revisited II in sequence; you may take them in any order.)

As a discipline, World Literature dates back to the early 19th century and Goethe’s concept of
weltliteratur
. Yet, despite the fact that Goethe was well-versed in the literature of the “Orient” and he emphasized their centrality in
weltliteratur
, the languages that he spoke of and underlined within the formation of this literature were mostly German and Romance languages. Institutionally speaking, not much has changed over the past couple of centuries. More often than not, studying the literature of locations such as the Middle East, Africa, or East Asia takes place in Area Studies departments, and offerings of these areas’ literatures in Comparative Literature departments are few and far in between.   
 
In World Literature Revisited I, we imagined what a survey of World Literature in a literary studies department could look like, as we dealt with ancient texts until around the 14th century, with a focus on origin stories and epic narratives, lyric poetry, historical narratives, and sacred/religious texts. In World Literature Revisited II, we will continue to investigate and challenge the categories of “Eastern” and “Western” literature and think through the categories of “world” and “literature” in the course title. In this part of the course, we will work on (classical, early modern, and modern) drama, modern poetry, and the novel, with a particular focus on reading in comparison adaptations, appropriations, and literary responses.

What/where/whom constitutes the world in World Literature? How can we read and trace literary influence across these literatures without reducing them to a mere repetition of the same themes and ideas? Finally, we will think about the role that translation plays in the production and politics of World Literature, particularly when it comes to adaptations and appropriations, and how the issue of translation differentiates between the disciplines of Comparative Literature and World Literature.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Atefeh Akbari Shahmirzadi
  Info
• 3 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.
• 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 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Atefeh Akbari Shahmirzadi
  Info
• 3 points

Chopin, Pianos, Revolutions

This seminar offers a survey of the music by Fryderyk Chopin, examining his output in historical, geopolitical, and cultural context. Organized by genre, the study will be accompanied by the discussion of music as performance, using legendary recordings, and live in-class demonstrations. Through guided listening, analysis of the written score, and reading assignments, students will obtain tools to discuss topics related to the piano (the development of which will be an integral part of the course), comparative performance, interpretation, and performance practice. Since student performances will be an important component of the course, members of the Music Performance Program receive registration priority.

• Department: Music
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Magdalena Baczewska
  CULPA: 4 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
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Murat Yilmaz
  Info
• Instructor: Isaac B Bjorke
  Info
• 4 points

INTER MICROECONOMICS-DISC

Required Discussion section for ECON UN3211 intermediate Economics.

• Department: Economics
• 0 points

Psychology of Rewards

How can we harness the power of rewards to improve our mental health and wellbeing? Is there a fine line between rewards that are beneficial and those that are harmful to our lives? This course will examine the complex world of rewards. We will explore different categories of rewards (e.g., social, monetary, natural/primary) and uncover how they can be effectively implemented to enhance wellbeing and mental health. We will also discuss the consequences of unbalanced responses to rewards, such as addiction, binge eating, and substance use disorders. Drawing on research from psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral economics, this course will provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the role rewards play in shaping our lives and our mental health. Throughout the course, we will grapple with the delicate balance between constructive and destructive responses to rewards, and how this balance affects our pursuit of a fulfilling life.

• Department: Psychology
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Mayron Piccolo
  Info
• 4 points

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 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Emilien Gouin-Bonenfant
  Info
• Instructor: Miles Leahey
  Info
• Instructor: Irasema Alonso
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN URBAN POLITICS

This course examines the pattern of political development in urban America, as the countrys population has grown in urbanized locations. It explores the process by which cities and suburbs are governed, how immigrants and migrants are incorporated, and how people of different races and ethnicities interact in urbanized settings as well as the institutional relations of cities and suburbs with other jurisdictions of government. The course focuses both on the historical as well the theoretical understandings of politics in urban areas.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Carlos Vargas-Ramos
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

INTER MACROECONOMICS-DISC

Discussion section for ECON UN3213 Intermediate Macro. Student must register for a section.

• Department: Economics
• 0 points

SOC OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE

Emphasizes foundations and development of black communities post-1940, and mechanisms in society that create and maintain racial inequality. Explores notions of identity and culture through lenses of gender, class and sexual orientation, and ideologies that form the foundation of black politics. Primarily lecture with some discussion.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mignon R Moore
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

FORENSIC OSTEOLOGY

Prerequisites: no prior experience with skeletal anatomy required. Not appropriate for students who have already taken either EEEB GU4147 or EEEB GU4148. An exploration of the hidden clues in your skeleton. Students learn the techniques of aging, sexing, assessing ancestry, and the effects of disease, trauma and culture on human bone.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• MW 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jill S Shapiro
  CULPA: 46 Info
• 3 points

COLLOQUIUM IN BLUE COLLAR POLITICS

COLL: BLUE COLLAR POLITIC

Since 2016, scholars and journalists alike have been paying more attention to “Working Class
Voters.” While these voters have always been an important bloc within the American political
system, recent events underscore the need to understand the political behavior of a broad swath
of the voting public. Similarly, American political life is increasingly polarized by place, with
Republicans concentrated in rural areas and Democrats in urban ones. Class and place are
therefore essential variables for understanding modern American politics.
In this course—which is taught by an instructor from a rural, working-class background—we
will examine the identity, opinions, behavior and power of the American working class. We will
also consider the role of place in shaping American politics. We will employ sources from
several social sciences, including political science, sociology, and economics. Along the way, we
will consider several important questions about working class politics within the context of
broader topics in these fields: Identity formation, parties, race, elections, and public opinion, to
name a few.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Miller
  CULPA: 18 h-index: 14 Info
• 4 points

THE 'ETHNIC' IN THE LITERARY MARKETPLACE

THE 'ETHNIC' IN AMER LIT

This course proposes to examine the implications of what Trinh T. Minh-Ha has called "specialness," or the distinctiveness of "ethnic" or "third world" experience, as it is represented and consumed in the literary marketplace (including classes like this one). That consumption has a discourse of its own, centered on often conflicting demands for authenticity. The test of authenticity for one reading community might be a book's perceived difference from that community's own experience; for another community (usually the one the author is perceived as coming from), the same book must represent a familiar experience to pass the test. Some questions we will address: How might "ethnic" writing and production both expose itself to and insulate itself from critique via claims to authenticity? How does an author negotiate others' demands for a certain kind of authenticity, and his or her own deeply felt (authentic?) need to consolidate identity by returning to ethnic “origins”? What in a set of publisher’s or reader’s demands for the “real” form or shape what we determine to be “fake”? We will study the primary texts in the context of mainstream literary reviews and other theoretical/polemical statements concerning the “meaning” of ethnic experience. Authors studied may include: Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, Leslie Silko, Louise Erdrich, Sandra Cisneros, Richard Rodriguez, Ishmael Reed, Gloria Anzaldúa, Maxine Hong Kingston, Frank Chin, Jeanine Cummins, and Trinh Minh-Ha.

• Department: English @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Kristin Carter
  CULPA: 2 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
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• 4 points

ABORTION IN CONTEXT DISCUSSION SECTION

N/A

• Department: American Studies @Barnard
• R 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• F 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• R 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• 0-4 points

LIT & REVOLUTION (20TH C LIT)

The revolutionary period (1905-1938) in Russia was not only one of extreme social upheaval but also of exceptional creativity. Established ideas about individuality and collectivity, about how to depict reality, about language, gender, authority, and violence, were all thrown open to radical questioning. Out of this chaos came ideas about literature and film (just for example) which have shaped Western thought on these subjects to this day. In this course we will study a variety of media and genres (poetry, manifestos, film, painting, photomontage, the novel, theoretical essays) in an effort to gain a deep understanding of this complex and fascinating period in Russian cultural history.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jessica E Merrill
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

THE AMERICAN CONGRESS

Prerequisites: POLS W1201 or the equivalent, or the instructors permission. Inquiry into the dynamics, organization, and policy-making processes of the American Congress. Particular emphasis on the relationship of legislators to constituents, lobbyists, bureaucrats, the president, and with one another.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Gregory Wawro
  CULPA: 32 h-index: 13 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.
• Instructor: Liza Knapp
  CULPA: 28 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: Auditing
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Liza Knapp
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 0 points

Gender Archaeolxgy

GENDER ARCHAEOLXGY

This seminar critically reexamines the ancient world from the perspective of gender archaeology. Though the seedlings of gender archaeology were first sown by of feminist archaeologists during the 70’s and 80’s, this approach involves far more than simply ‘womanizing’ androcentric narratives of past. Rather, gender archaeology criticizes interpretations of the past that transplant contemporary social roles onto the archaeological past, casting the divisions and inequalities of today as both timeless and natural. This class challenges the idea of a singular past, instead championing a turn towards multiple, rich, messy, intersectional pasts. The ‘x’ in ‘archaeolxgy’ is an explicit signal of our focus on this diversity of pasts and a call for a more inclusive field of practice today.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Camilla Sturm
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

Writing the Sixties

NF Sem: Writing the Sixti

In this seminar, we will target nonfiction from the 1960s—the decade that saw an avalanche of new forms, new awareness, new freedoms, and new conflicts, as well as the beginnings of social movements and cultural preoccupations that continue to frame our lives, as writers and as citizens, in the 21st century: civil rights, feminism, environmentalism, LGBTQ rights, pop culture, and the rise of mass media. We will look back more than a half century to examine the development of modern criticism, memoir, reporting, and profile-writing, and the ways they entwine. Along the way, we will ask questions about these classic nonfiction forms: How do reporters, essayists, and critics make sense of the new? How do they create work as rich as the best novels and short stories? Can criticism rise to the level of art? What roles do voice, point-of-view, character, dialogue, and plot—the traditional elements of fiction—play? As we go, we will witness the unfolding of arguably the most transitional decade in American history—with such events as the Kennedy assassination, the Watts Riots, the Human Be In, and the Vietnam War, along with the rise of Pop art, rock ‘n’ roll, and a new era of moviemaking—as it was documented in real time by writers at
The New Yorker
, New Journalists at
Esquire
, and critics at
Partisan Review
and
Harper
’s, among other publications. Some writers we will consider: James Baldwin, Joan Didion, Susan Sontag, Rachel Carson, Dwight Macdonald, Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote, Pauline Kael, Nik Cohn, Joseph Mitchell, Lillian Ross, Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer, Thomas Pynchon, John Updike, Michael Herr, Martha Gellhorn, John McPhee, and Betty Friedan. We will be joined by guest speakers.

• Department: Writing
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Rozzo
  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.
• Instructor: Robert L Tortoriello
  Info
• 4 points

RELIGION AND CAPITALISM

• Department: Religion
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Andrew E Jungclaus
  Info
• 3 points

SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION

All of us have spent many years in school and understand that schools impact our lives in important ways. But how exactly does formal schooling shape young people? And how do students make sense of their lives in the context of schools and educational systems more broadly? In this class we will examine education as a central institution in modern society, and we will grapple with an important question: What role does education play in reinforcing or challenging broader patterns of social inequality and mobility? Particular emphasis will be placed on higher education as a critical site in which these processes take shape.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jacquelyn N Duran
  Info
• 3 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
• Instructor: Robert L Tortoriello
  Info
• 0 points

NONFICTION-ISH

NF SEM - NONFICTION-ISH

This cross-genre craft seminar aims to uncover daring and unusual approaches to literature informed by nonfiction (and nonfiction-adjacent) practices. In this course we will closely read and analyze a diverse set of works, including Svetlana Alexievich’s oral history of women and war, Lydia Davis’s “found” microfictions, Theresa Hak Cha’s genre-exploding “auto-enthnography,”

Alejandro Zambra’s unabashedly literary narratives, Sigrid Nunez’s memoir “of” Susan Sontag, Emmanuel Carrére’s “nonfiction novel,” John Keene’s bold counternarratives, W. G. Sebald’s saturnine essay-portraits, Saidiya Hartman’s melding of history and literary imagination, Annie Ernaux’s collective autobiography, Sheila Heti’s alphabetized diary, Ben Mauk’s oral history about Xinjiang detention camps, and Edward St. Aubyn’s autobiographical novel about the British aristocracy and childhood trauma, among other texts. We will also examine Sharon Mashihi’s one-woman autofiction podcasts

about Iranian Jewish American family. What we learn in this course we will apply to our own work, which will consist of two creative writing responses and a creative final project. Students will also learn to keep a daily writing journal.

• Department: Writing
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: James C Yeh
  Info
• 3 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
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Maria D Hinojosa
  Info
• 3 points

CLIMATE AND TIME

The goal of this writing seminar is to support the pursuit of topics related to climate change through readings, research, and writing. We will also confront some of the emotional challenges associated with doing work on the environment, especially in these particularly dynamic times. Over the course of the semester, students will create a research portfolio for creative work on a climate-related topic and practice integrating climate-related issues into works that are not explicitly climate focused. One key theme we will explore in concert with climate issues is the concept of time and how it should be framed in our narratives. Time factors into how we recognize the present era, and it also informs our sense of urgency where there is crisis. As the climate crisis continues to unfold, we face new conflicts with time: ice is melting faster than expected, sea levels rising faster than expected, fires happening more frequently than expected, marine level die-offs happening faster than expected, etc. The urgency with which the facts are now being revealed keeps changing the timelines we must confront, and yet, if we do not understand time—beyond our biological relationship to it—we may miss the opportunity to engage in meaningful work. By studying texts engaged in observational practice in the fields of geology, botany, geography, climate studies, animal studies and anthropology alongside literary works, we will forge a creative practice that integrates current research with established arguments and/or new narratives. The final work is a creative writing project based on this research. All literary genres welcome. Some of the texts we will cover may include: Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains by Lucas Bessire; Something New Under the Sun by Alexandra Kleenman; Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Lauren Rush; The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli; The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert; The Yellow House by Sarah Broom; and Fire Weather by John Valliant.

• Department: Writing
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Wendy Walters
  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 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Christian Rojas
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 3 points

LABOR AND LOVE IN CHINA

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• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Nicholas A Bartlett
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

Tricksters in World Culture: Mockery, Su

Trickster in World Cultur

Tricksters constitute one of the universal themes or tropes in mythology and folklore of many cultures. Through the discussions of ancient Greek, Native-American, African, Paleo-Asiatic, Scandinavian, African-American, Muslim and Jewish myths and folklore about tricksters, the course will telescope the cultural functions of the comedic transgression as a form of social critique; it will also highlight cynicism, its productive and dangerous aspects. Then we’ll introduce different historical subtypes of tricksters, such as a fool, jester, holy fool, kynik, picaro, con artist, female and queer tricksters, thus  moving through premodern and early modern periods. Each type of the trickster is illustrated by literary examples from different world cultures (European and non-European alike) as well as theoretical works of Mikhail Bakhtin, Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, and Peter Sloterdijk. Finally, the role of the trickster in modernity will be discussed through the case of Soviet tricksters, who had become true superstars manifesting the resistance to repressive political ideology by the means of “cynical reason”.  

FORMAT

The class consists of lectures and group discussions. On a typical week, the first class will be a lecture for all students; for the second class of the week, you will be divided into 3 sections and have separate sessions (all three at the same time in different rooms)  led by Teaching Assistants. Assignments for group discussions are listed on the syllabus along with others.
We will not break the class in discussion sections before Week 3.

 
The distribution of students between discussion sections will be announced in class after the beginning of the semester. This course is a co-requisite of RUSS UN3232.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Lipovetsky
  Wikipedia 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.
• Instructor: Rachel Austin
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia h-index: 28 Info
• 3 points

Arab New York

ARAB NEW YORK

Arab New York introduces students to a little-known community with a long history in New York City dating back to the late 1800s. Students will explore where Arab American communities thrive in New York and learn about the history of these neighborhoods. Applying sociological theories of assimilation, we will assess how immigrants from the Arab world have fared over time in New York City.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Randa B Serhan
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO COMPOSITION I

Composition in shorter forms. Students will compose new works for the cello, with a focus on diverse approaches to the instrument. Student pieces will be workshopped, rehearsed, and performed (and/or recorded).

• Department: Music
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Marcos Balter
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

POLITICAL LIFE IN FRANCE

• Department: Global Programs
• 3 points

FRENCH LANGUAGE THRU THEATER

FREN. LANG. THRU THEATER

The course is taught in French and focuses on learning the French language via the study of theatre (through plays, scenes, theories, lecture/workshops by guests, as well as performing a series of activities). The course offers students the opportunity to have a better grasp of the variety of French theatres within the culture; and to perform the language through the body and mind. Its goal is to both introduce students to theatre and to explore how it challenges us physically and emotionally, as well as in intellectual, moral, and aesthetic ways. No previous acting experience is necessary but a desire to “get up and move” and possibly even go see plays as a class project is encouraged.

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

Revolutionary Ukraine 1917-2017

Global Urban Hist of Hous

Shelter is one of our most basic human needs. Yet
housing
, and its legal, social and political meanings and struggles around its distribution, possession and safety, is a concept that can only be fully understood as a historical phenomenon. In the industrializing and urbanizing world, the concept of “housing” emerged at the intersection of questions of property rights, the study of urban problems, and the legal and cultural distinctions between public and private spheres. Throughout the world, the provision of shelter for urban populations has been at the center of urban crises and conflicts, as well as their solutions. This course will examine the deep history of urban segregation, fights for healthy and safe housing, and scholarly and policy debates about the “planet of slums.” The course’s geographic scope is global, using both comparative and transnational approaches, and we will explore the connections between local and global movements and historical processes. Through a historically-oriented but interdisciplinary set of readings, students in this class will become familiar with the terms of debates about the right to shelter as a social, political and legal problem in the modern (nineteenth- and twentieth-century) world. We will explore how history provides a unique view on how the question of housing is a social justice issue connected to other ones like mass incarceration and the destruction wrought by wars, famines, and intergenerational racial, ethnic and class inequalities. There are no pre- or co-requisites for this class.

• Department: History
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Amy E Chazkel
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 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
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• 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.
• Instructor: Rachel Austin
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia h-index: 28 Info
• 3 points

ANTI-COLONIAL LITERATURE BEFORE 1900

ANTI-COLONIAL LIT BEFORE

“We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity,” wrote the abolitionist writer Frances Ellen Watkins Harper a few years after the Civil War. This course explores the creative productions, critiques, and political projects of colonized people themselves, specifically focusing on writers in the indigenous, African American, and global anti-imperialist traditions. How did these heterogeneous communities differently diagnose the context of colonialism? What positive horizons of freedom, equality, and democracy did they aspire towards? What do their works tell us about gender, land, and labor? We explore themes of sovereignty against settler colonialism in the work of indigenous writers like Kandiaronk, William Apess, E. Pauline Johnson, Sarah Winnemucca, Zitkala Sa, and Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii. Next, we read the African American abolitionist tradition, beginning with Phillis Wheatley and slave narratives (Frederick Douglass, Mary Prince, Harriet Jacobs) followed by works by Harriet Wilson, Ida B. Wells, and Machado de Assis. The final third of the class will focus on works by those encountering imperialism in Egypt, South Asia, Latin America, the Philippines, and China: Al-Jabarti, Dinabandhu Mitra, José Martí, Jose Rizal, Huang Zunxian, and Qiu Jin.

• Department: English @Barnard
• R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Ken Chen
  Info
• 4 points

FREN LANG,SOC,CULTRE THRU PARIS

Prerequisites: 2 years of college French Paris may be referred to as the capital of modernity, as the city of romance and pleasure, as the center of social and political powers, or as a privileged stage for crises and revolutions. Analyzing and researching the meanings of these diverse representations would expose students to key aspects of French and Francophone political, social, and cultural history. This is a proposal for a course intended for students who, having completed their language requirement in French, would like to better their knowledge of French language and society. It would offer students the opportunity to study representations of Paris over the centuries as a way to practice writing, reading, and conversation in French and as a way to deepen their understanding of French and Francophone cultures. Materials for the course would include major literary texts as well as paintings, movies and popular songs, but also museum websites, local newspapers and local ads, brochures from retail and food malls, restaurant menus, postcards... such variety can be utilitarian and intellectually compelling at the same time. It would allow students not only to study language registers and vocabulary contextualization but also work on finding patterns and making connections.

• Department: French
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Alexandra Borer
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

Sociology of Art

SOCIOLOGY OF ART

This course challenges students to read broadly and across disciplines to develop a robust understanding of the social world of the arts, engaging literatures across sub-fields of sociology, art history, cultural studies, law, policy, and economics to develop analytical strategies for understanding the complex landscape of art, artistic practice, and artistic engagement in the social universe.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Gillian Gualtieri
  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
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Wendy C Schor-Haim
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 4 points

Environmental Sociology

ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY

This course examines the social roots and impacts of environmental contamination and disasters, in order to understand how humans relate to nature in the context of global racial capitalism and the possibilities for creating a more sustainable world. We will also explore how racism is foundational to environmental exploitation and consider why global struggles for racial justice are crucial for protecting both people and the earth, paying particular attention to how environmental health inequalities are linked to race, class, gender, and nation. We will consider key theories, debates, and unresolved questions in the subfield of environmental sociology and discuss future directions for the sociological study of human/environment relations.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Maricarmen Hernandez
  Info
• 3 points

French Fiction Into Film

An archivist in the French National Library once opined that the average French filmmaker is above all a bookworm and that this is what makes French cinema unique. How does fiction enable filmmaking? And how has film reinvented literature? This interdisciplinary course invites students to learn more about the widespread cultural process of film adaptation that has animated French culture for more than a century now. Students proceed chronologically through novels, novellas, and short stories by major authors such as Diderot, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant, Mauriac, Duras, and Sembène, while watching a range of film adaptations based on these works. Directors include Clément, Franju, Ophüls, Renoir, Rivette, and Sembène. These encounters between literature and film are then used as an opportunity to discuss various topics related to the screen adaptation in its social, political, economic, and aesthetic dimensions. Attention will be paid to both French literary history and French film history, and we will be particularly interested in the ways in which they can shed light on each other. The aim of the course is to enhance students’ comparative close reading skills and, more broadly, to reboot their relationship to both literature and film, enticing them to ask new questions about each of the two media.

This is a bi-weekly course consisting of lectures on Mondays and, depending on enrollment, seminar-style discussions on Wednesdays. The class is taught in English, but students will have the option to read and write in French. Films are in French with English subtitles.

• Department: French
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Tadas Bugnevicius
  Info
• 3 points

MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY

Examines the ways sociologists have studied the field of medicine and experiences of health and illness. We cannot understand topics of health and illness by only looking at biological phenomena; we must consider a variety of social, political, economic, and cultural forces. Uses sociological perspectives and methods to understand topics such as: unequal patterns in health and illness; how people make sense of and manage illness; the ways doctors and patients interact with each other; changes in the medical profession, health policies and institutions; social movements around health; and how some behaviors but not others become understood as medical problems. Course is geared towards pre-med students as well as those with general interests in medicine, health and society.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Amy Zhou
  Info
• 3 points

THE MARRIAGE PLOT

This upper-level research-oriented seminar will engage with literary expressions of the universally interesting topic of marriage. Tony Tanner in his famous
Adultery in the Novel
characterizes marriage as “the structure which supports all structure.” Contemporary critics have seen marriage as essential to maintaining the “family values” of the bourgeoisie; feminists and Marxists have challenged the economic assumptions of patriarchally-defined marriage. Folklorists have treated marriage as the endpoint of the search for a safe domestic space.

Starting in ancient times with classic fairy tales and the Hebrew Bible, moving on to a famous medieval poem, a medieval memoir, and three nineteenth-century novels, we will encounter cultural expressions which address intimate partnerships with an emphasis on marriage as a defining condition.

• Department: English @Barnard
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Margaret R Ellsberg
  CULPA: 54 Info
• 4 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.
• Instructor: Nelida Tirado
  Info
• 0-1 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 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Shaina Kelly
  Info
• 3 points

EDUCATION IN A POLARIZED AND UNEQUAL SOC

EDU IN POLARIZED/UNEQUAL

The rise in political polarization and social inequality over the past few decades has challenged the ideals that public schools were founded on nearly two centuries ago. In the past few years, we have witnessed a surge in homophobic, racist, misogynist, and xenophobic rhetoric in our society and our schools. At the same time, teachers in classrooms across this country have been engaged in the difficult work of challenging oppression and injustice in their schools, communities, and nation. These teachers know that the future of our democracy is at stake. Using a historical and sociological framework, this course examines the past and present conditions that have led to political polarization, escalating inequality, and persistent injustice. It seeks to examine the lineage of racism, sexism, nativism, and imperialism on our nation and its schools and to consider the extent to which these challenges are uniquely American or part of a more global phenomenon. It offers an introduction to the deep current of American social, political, and economic culture that many argue has produced the challenges that our nation faces today: personal and political gain marred by intolerance, derived from wealth, and rooted in the history of segregation, sexism, and exploitation. Instead of seeing these challenges as separate entities, the course acknowledges the intersectional nature of power and politics. Students will consider how these conditions affect their roles as educators and the lives of the youth and families in their schools and communities. They will leave the course with a deeper appreciation and understanding of the historical and sociological antecedents that have contributed to polarization, inequity, and injustice around the globe.

• Department: Education @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Erika Kitzmiller
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 3 Info
• 4 points

VOTING & POLITICAL BEHAVIOR

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Michael Miller
  CULPA: 18 h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

HERITAGE AND THE CITY

Dialogue and debate about cultural and architectural “heritage” permeate our lives today, suggesting that the material traces of the past continue to shape the way we negotiate and make sense of the present.  This course asks students to consider how this negotiation of heritage manifests in urban contexts: How do urban residents navigate heritage spaces in their daily lives?  How are these spaces embedded in surrounding urban communities—and what sociospatial and political conflicts do they engender among community members?  How do different forms of heritage articulate with broader urban processes such as gentrification and re-development?  To tackle these questions, this course takes a global and interdisciplinary approach, drawing on sources from history, memory and museum studies, anthropology, geography, archaeology, architecture, and urban planning.  Through their engagement with this material–as well as a semester-long fieldwork project in New York City, students will become familiar with the dominant concerns of scholars and professionals working on–and with–urban heritage.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Claire D Panetta
  Info
• 3 points

NINETEENTH-CENTURY THRILLERS

This class will investigate the ways in which the nineteenth-century novel is shaped by the forces of horror, sensation, suspense and the supernatural. We will ask how the melodramatic imagination, the rhetoric of monstrosity, and the procedures of detection mark high narrative realism with the signs of cultural anxieties building up around nineteenth-century revolution, industrialization, capitalism, bigamy, Catholicism and immigration. Looking at representative samples of the Romantic neo-gothic novel, mid-century ghost stories, the highly popular and controversial sensation novels of the 1860’s along with their spectacular iterations on the Victorian stage, we will come away with a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the intersection between the novel and popular entertainment. Readings will probably include Austen’s
Northanger Abbey,
Brontë’s
Villette,
Braddon’s
Lady Audley’s Secret,
Collins’s
The Woman in White,
Dickens’s
Bleak House,
Stoker’s
Dracula,
plays by Boucicault, Hazelwood, Lewis, and Wood, and ghost stories by Edwards, Gaskell, Hood, and Mulock.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Monica F Cohen
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

KANT

Explores the connections between theoretical and practical reason in Kants thinking with special attention to the Critique of Pure Reason and the project of transcendental philosophy.

• Department: Philosophy @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Frederick Neuhouser
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia h-index: 16 Info
• 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
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Marisa C Buzzeo
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 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 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 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 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Farrauto
  h-index: 52 Info
• 3 points

RACE AND THE US CARCERAL SYSTEM

Race & the US Carceral Sy

This course will introduce students to research on the institutions of the US carceral system, including the police, courts, prisons, and immigration control. We will focus on two questions: how race relates to experiences with the institutions of the carceral state, and how those institutions in turn influence racial politics. The main objective is not the accumulation of factual knowledge about this system, but familiarity with theoretical frameworks with which to make and critically assess arguments about the functioning of carceral institutions as they relate to racialized people and the functioning of democracy.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew J McCall
  Info
• 3 points

MILTON (SEMINAR)

• Department: School of Professional Studies (DVSP)
• T 6 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Julie Crawford
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 4 points

ENGINEERING FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

ENGINEER FOR COMM DEVELOP

Introduction to the challenges and realities of implementing design solutions with high-risk, low-resource communities in urban and rural settings in both developed and developing countries. History and theory of international development towards preparing globally responsible and informed professionals. Real-world examples of development work across technical sectors including water, sanitation, energy, health, communication technology, shelter, food systems, and environment. Role of engineering in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Course projects follow a Design for Impact process resulting in an engineering design, an action plan, and the identification of indicators for impact evaluation.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• 3 points

WRITING FOR TELEVISION: SHORT FORM

Prerequisite: FILM BC3201 or equivalent. Please note that since this is a Film Studies course, it does not count as a creative writing course for English majors with a creative writing concentration. This course will focus on the primary pillar of television production: the teleplay. Through a number of creative exercises, students will learn the intricacies of the unique screenwriting formats that are the half-hour and hour-long teleplays. Together we will cover the differences between an episode arc and a seasonal one, the requirements of A/B/C story plotting, and how to write an effective show bible. We will survey the existing pantheon of great television writing in order to help students narrow in on their individual sensibilities. By the end of the course, students will have a written original pilot and a mini series bible.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Dafina Roberts
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• 3 points

RETHINKING MIDDLE EAST POLITCS

This course examines a set of questions that have shaped the study of the politics of the modern Middle East. It looks at the main ways those questions have been answered, exploring debates both in Western academic scholarship and among scholars and intellectuals in the region itself. For each question, the course offers new ways of thinking about the issue or ways of framing it in different terms. The topics covered in the course include: the kinds of modern state that emerged in the Middle East and the ways its forms of power and authority were shaped; the birth of economic development as a way of describing the function and measuring the success of the state, and the changing metrics of this success; the influence of oil on the politics of the region; the nature and role of Islamic political movements; the transformation of the countryside and the city and the role of rural populations and of urban protest in modern politics; and the politics of armed force and political violence in the region, and the ways in which this has been understood. The focus of the course will be on the politics of the twentieth century, but many topics will be traced back into developments that occurred in earlier periods, and several will be explored up to the present. The course is divided into four parts, each ending with a paper or exam in which participants are asked to analyze the material covered. Each part of the course has a geographical focus on a country or group of countries and a thematic focus on a particular set of questions of historical and political analysis.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Timothy Mitchell
  Wikipedia h-index: 34 Info
• 4 points

Bilingualism

Many of us know a second language. How we use it varies – some use it occasionally, others routinely. Recent research in cognitive neuroscience has shed light on the mechanisms associated with the various types of bilingualism, and has shown that using two languages affects a variety of cognitive abilities, starting in infancy and continuing until an old age. The primary findings of recent research in cognitive neuroscience are reviewed and discussed in this course. Bilingualism also has a political facet – governments decide what languages are used in public institutions and taught in schools. This course also evaluates scientific findings on bilingualism for their potential implications on informing parents, educators, and policy makers.

• Department: Psychology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Michele Miozzo
  Info
• 4 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 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Josh Alman
  Info
• Instructor: Mihalis Yannakakis
  CULPA: 14 Wikipedia h-index: 93 Info
• 3 points

RETHINKING MIDDLE EAST POL-DIS

Required discussion section for MDES UN3260 Rethinking Middle East Politics

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• R 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• R 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• W 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 11:10 a.m.-noon
• W 7:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Amir Mohammad Izadpanahi
  Info
• Instructor: Yosra A Hussein
  Info
• Instructor: Furkan Senturk
  Info
• 0 points

INTRO CONTEMP CHINESE POLITICS - DISC

INTRO CONT CHINESE POLTCS

Discussion Section for POLS-UN3620 Introduction to Contemporary Chinese Politics

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• T noon-12:50 p.m.
• R 1 p.m.-1:50 p.m.
• F 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Yu Cheng
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 3 Info
• 0 points

ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1600

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Kathy H Eden
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

East Central Europe in the Twentieth Cen

ECE INT AND CULT HIST 20t

This course analyses the intellectual and cultural history of East Central Europe in the ‘long twentieth century.’ Approaching East Central Europe as a ‘suburb of Europe’ (Jerzy Jedlicki) where some of the most contested questions of modern and contemporary times have been repeatedly raised with great urgency, the course places special emphases on political thinking and history writing while also drawing on examples from literary and visual cultures. Dissecting key achievements in these areas from across the twentieth century, we shall explore intellectual and cultural contributions from East Central Europe to discussions of wider relevance. We shall also consider how the specific forms of creativity in this diverse region may be connected to and embedded in broader European and global trends.

• Department: History
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Ferenc Laczo
  Info
• 4 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.
• Instructor: Tri Vi Dang
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 10 Info
• 3 points

SOCIOLOGY OF WORK & GENDER

This course examines gender as a flexible but persistent boundary that continues to organize our work lives and our home lives, as well as the relationship between the two spheres. We will explore the ways in which gender affects how work is structured; the relationship between work and home; the household as a place of paid (and unpaid) labor; and how changes in the global economy affect gender and work identities.

• Department: Sociology
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Teresa Sharpe
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 3 points

The Critique of Curiosity

“All persons desire to know,” Aristotle declared in his
Metaphysics
.  But given that not all desires are good ones, the question naturally arises whether curiosity is.  In the era of modern science and education, we tend to take this for granted.  But for centuries – also well before Aristotle – people have concluded just the opposite. Their reasons have been various: religious, psychological, philosophical, pragmatic.  In this junior seminar we will examine select thinkers in the stream of Western thought that has questioned the value of curiosity and, more fundamentally, of knowledge itself.

• Department: History
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Mark Lilla
  CULPA: 57 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

BRITISH LITERATURE 1900-1950

Brit Lit 1900-1950

This is a survey course on great works of British literature from around 1900 through around 1950, starting with the late-Victorian world of Thomas Hardy, extending through the
fin-de-siècle
worlds of Oscar Wilde and W. B. Yeats, then into the modernist landscape of Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, and T. S. Eliot, and ending with the late-modernist vision of Virginia Woolf and W. H. Auden. The course includes a wide range of social, political, psychological, and literary concerns, and delves deeply into political and moral questions that are always urgent but which took specific forms during this period.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Edward Mendelson
  CULPA: 64 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

BRITISH LITERATURE 1900-1950

This is a survey course on great works of British literature from around 1900 through around 1950, starting with the late-Victorian world of Thomas Hardy, extending through the
fin-de-siècle
worlds of Oscar Wilde and W. B. Yeats, then into the modernist landscape of Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, and T. S. Eliot, and ending with the late-modernist vision of Virginia Woolf and W. H. Auden. The course includes a wide range of social, political, psychological, and literary concerns, and delves deeply into political and moral questions that are always urgent but which took specific forms during this period.

• Department: Auditing
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Edward Mendelson
  CULPA: 64 Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

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.
• Instructor: Michael Campbell
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• 3 points

Collapse: The Fall and Afterlife of the

Collapse of Soviet Union

On Christmas Day 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev ended two things: his tenure as President of the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union itself. The following day, Boris Yeltsin entered office as the first president of the Russian Federation, and without delay, began to institute radical economic and social reforms. Under his watch, the country privatized national industry, cut the state budget, and courted foreign multinational businesses. The world most commonly used to describe Russia in the early 1990s is “disappear”: money, jobs, food, and people. The very things that Soviet-style socialism had committed itself to providing for started to vanish as a result of invisible and market forces. At the same time as they were being told to welcome the approaching era of capitalist abundance, ordinary Russians were scrambling to cope with and recover from all that appeared to be suddenly and permanently missing from their pay stubs, kitchen tables, and family photographs.

This course will explore what emerged in the spaces left empty after Soviet-style socialism’s demise. The course will be divided into three parts. The first part of the semester will examine the origins of the Soviet Union’s collapse and its breakup into fifteen successor states. Who was Mikhail Gorbachev, and why did the reforms instituted as part of
glasnost
and
perestroika
fail to revitalize the Soviet system? How did citizens - elites and average people alike - from Russia, the Soviet republics, and satellite states witness the collapse, and how did they manage the immediate transition to capitalism? The second part of the semester will survey the political, economic, and social processes that followed the collapse. How did former Soviet citizens reintegrate themselves in the new economies, political movements, and social structures that emerged in the Russian Federation under Yeltsin? In what ways did privatization and the arrival of foreign capital shape labor practices, consumer habits, the natural and built environment, and forms of cultural expression? What forms did nationalist movements in the former republics and and Warsaw Pact countries take? Finally, the third part of the course will focus on Putin’s ascendancy to the presidency and its consequences for Russian citizens at home and Russia’s image abroad. We will consider the role that memory and myth play in the formation of a “United Russian” consciousness, the costs and benefits of life in Putin’s Russia, and the

• Department: History
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Yana Skorobogatov
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• 4 points

NONFIC DIGTL VIDEO PRODCTN

Nonfiction Digital Video Production: Enrollment limited to 12 students. Registering for the course only through myBarnard or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment. Attend first class for instructor permission. Lab section required. This workshop course is designed to familiarize students with digital video technologies while they investigate various aesthetic and theoretical concepts related to nonfiction cinema and its engagement with the real. Through weekly readings, discussions, screenings, critiques, and practical exercises, students will develop a solid understanding of how to use digital video as an expressive tool. The course will culminate in the completion of a short video work by each student. Students should be both self-directed and interested in developing a support system for each others work.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• F 3 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Margaret J McLagan
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• 3 points