RESEARCH SEMINAR IN HISTORY I

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: Lisa Tiersten
  CULPA: 45 Info
• 4 points

Odd Women in Victorian England

Victorian England remains known for its rigid definitions of femininity, but it also produced a remarkable number of “odd women”: female outlaws, eccentrics, and activists including spinsters, feminists, working women, women who desired other women, and people assigned female at birth who lived as men. This undergraduate seminar will explore the pains and pleasures of gender non-conformity through the lens of nineteenth-century literary works, historical documents, and foundational theories of gender and sexuality. Readings will include the diaries of Anne Lister, a wealthy Yorkshire lesbian libertine; a slander trial involving accusations of lesbianism at a Scottish all-girls school; the diaries of Hannah Munby, a London servant whose upper-class lover fetishized her physical strength; the autobiography of Mary Seacole, a Jamaican nurse who traveled the world; and fiction, including Charlotte Bronte’s novel *Villette; *Margaret Oliphant’s novel *Miss Marjoribanks; *Christina Rossetti’s poem “Goblin Market”; and Sheridan Le Fanu’s vampire tale “Carmilla.” Application instructions: E-mail Professor Marcus (sm2247@columbia.edu) with your name, school, major, year of study, and a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Sharon Marcus
  CULPA: 8 Wikipedia h-index: 19 Info
• 4 points

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING PRACTICE

Design project planning, written and oral technical communication, the origin and role of standards, engineering ethics, and practical aspects of engineering as a profession, such as career development and societal and environmental impact. Generally taken fall of senior year just before ELEN E3390.

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

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING PRACTICE

Design project planning, written and oral technical communication, the origin and role of standards, engineering ethics, and practical aspects of engineering as a profession, such as career development and societal and environmental impact. Generally taken fall of senior year just before ELEN E3390.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• F 6 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: David G Vallancourt
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 1 points

COMPUTATIONAL EARTH SCIENCE

Prerequisites: Required: at least a semester of calculus and physics; any 1000-level or 2000-level EESC course. Recommended: EESC3201 (Solid Earth Dynamics). 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 geochemical diffusion, groundwater flow, glacier growth, ocean currents and more. Simulations will be created by learning to program using a modern user-friendly programming language. 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 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Kerry Key
  h-index: 33 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN MUSIC & SOCIETY

This course seeks to approach the study of music and society by comparatively studying repertories from different parts of the world, how the history of ideas and methods of studying such repertoires shaped them, the practices that constitute them and the ways they are understood and used by different peoples. Central to this course is the interrelationship between the constitution of a repertoire and the history of the construction of knowledge about it.

• Department: Music
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Aaron A Fox
  CULPA: 7 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
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• Department: Public Health
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• 3 points

JUNIOR COLLOQUIUM IN AMERICAN STUDIES

JR COLLOQUIUM IN AMERICAN

Introduction to the theoretical approaches of American Studies, as well as the methods and materials used in the interdisciplinary study of American society. Through close reading of a variety of texts (e.g. novels, films, essays), we will analyze the creation, maintenance, and transmission of cultural meaning within American society.

• Department: American Studies @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennie Kassanoff
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 4 points

DEMOCRACY & DICTATORSHIP IN EUROPE

This course will examine the development of democracies and dictatorships in Europe from the French Revolution to the present day. It will analyze the nature and dynamics of European political history and use the European experience as a foundation upon which to build a broader understanding of how different types of political regimes emerge, function and are sustained over time. Prior knowledge of European history and comparative politics is welcome, but not presumed.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Sheri Berman
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia h-index: None Info
• 4 points

SOUND DESIGN

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor given at first class meeting. Studies the art and practice of designing sound and scoring music for dramatic performance. Students study the relationship between concert and incidental music, and read plays toward the production of a score for live theatre. Students also read broadly in the fields of sound, music, acoustics, and the cultural analysis of sound as a component of performance. Background in music or composition not essential. . Fulfills one of three courses in performance fields for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors: design.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• M 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Baker
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• 3 points

The Global Threat of Antimicrobial Resis

ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE

Antimicrobial resistant bacterial infections were estimated to account for 1.27 million deaths worldwide in 2019. The goal of the seminar is to provide an in-depth analysis of this ongoing threat. Discussions will include the molecular mechanisms, epidemiology of transmission and the consequences of antimicrobial resistant infections. It will also cover current efforts to reduce the spread and emergence of these difficult to treat pathogens, both in the community and the healthcare setting.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Franklin Lowy
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• 3 points

SCENE DESIGN

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 12 students. Permission of instructor given at first class meeting. Introduction to designing for the theatre. The course will focus on set design, developing skills in script analysis, sketching, model making, storyboarding and design presentation. Some investigation into theatre architecture, scenic techniques and materials, and costume and lighting design. Fulfills one of three courses in performance fields for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors: design.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• F 11 a.m.-1:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Sandra Goldmark
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

THIRD-YEAR GRAMMAR & COMP

Prerequisites: FREN UN3405 must be taken before FREN UN3333/4 unless the student has an AP score of 5 or the director of undergraduate studies permission. The goal of FREN UN3405 is to help students improve their grammar and perfect their writing and reading skills, especially as a preparation for taking literature or civilization courses, or spending a semester in a francophone country. Through the study of two full-length works of literature and a number of short texts representative of different genres, periods, and styles, they will become more aware of stylistic nuances, and will be introduced to the vocabulary and methods of literary analysis. Working on the advanced grammar points covered in this course will further strengthen their mastery of French syntax. They will also be practicing writing through a variety of exercises, including pastiches and creative pieces, as well as typically French forms of academic writing such as “résumé,” “explication de texte,” and “dissertation.

• Department: French
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Samuel Skippon
  CULPA: 13 Info
• Instructor: Pascale Crepon
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

PROBLEMS IN DESIGN

Prerequisites: Some design experience is helpful, though not required. Enrollment limited to 12 students. Studio-based course explores the main elements of theatrical design: sets, costumes, lighting, and sound through objects, materials, theatrical and non-theatrical environments. Students examine these design elements as both individual and interrelated components within a performance. Fulfills one course in Design requirement for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors. Fulfills one of three courses in performance fields for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors: design.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• T 11 a.m.-1:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Kara M Feely
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• 3 points

SEM IN CLINICAL PSYCH: PSYCHOTIC DISORDE

PSYCHOSIS & BIPOLAR DISOR

This seminar will focus on the schizophrenia-spectrum disorders and bipolar disorders.  Topics include historical perspectives, diagnoses and symptoms, neural changes associated with the disorders, and research on effective treatments.  Emphasis will be places on the impact of serious mental illness on families and communities as well as cultural differences in diagnosis, treatment and outcomes.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Kathleen M Taylor
  CULPA: 78 Info
• 4 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 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Sinisa Vukelic
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

MACHINE DESIGN

Computer-aided analysis of general loading states and deformation of machine components using singularity functions and energy methods. Theoretical introduction to static failure theories, fracture mechanics, and fatigue failure theories. Introduction to conceptual design and design optimization problems. Design of machine components such as springs, shafts, fasteners, lead screws, rivets, welds. Modeling, analysis, and testing of machine assemblies for prescribed design problems. Problems will be drawn from statics, kinematics, dynamics, solid modeling, stress analysis, and design optimization.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Yevgeniy Yesilevskiy
  h-index: 7 Info
• 3 points

COMPUTERS AND SOCIETY

Broader impact of computers. Social networks and privacy. Employment, intellectual property, and the media. Science and engineering ethics. Suitable for nonmajors.

• Department: Computer Science
• W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Steven M Bellovin
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

The Polycultural Roots of U.S. Popular M

The Multi Roots of U.S Po

This course will explore the rich hybrid development of U.S. popular music genres and vernacular music traditions. Focusing on the contributions of
Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, and African American musicians and musical traditions in addition to European American musicians and musical traditions, in genres as various as country music, hip hop, jazz, reggaeton, and rock, students will enlarge their sense of the multiracial and crosscultural makeup of the music that constitutes “American popular music.”

• Department: Music
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Kevin Fellezs
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

COLLOQUIUM ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN A DIVERSE

COLL:HUMAN RGTS DIVERSE W

Examination of human rights within the context of international migration. The course covers topics such as citizenship, state sovereignty, border control, asylum-seekers, refugees, and undocumented immigrants. (Cross-listed by the Human Rights Program.)

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Ayten Gundogdu
  CULPA: 20 h-index: 8 Info
• 4 points

PRINTMAKING I: PHOTOGRAVURE

Prerequisites: VIAR UN1400 or VIAR UN2420 or VIAR UN1700 (Formerly R3417) The purpose of this course is to incorporate the photomechanical intaglio printmaking process into the student’s own work, and in turn, for them to capitalize on its usage as part of their visual arts language. The students will learn the
polymer plate
process known as
Solar Plate
and structure it to the concepts they are creating and investigating. By integrating it into conventional intaglio techniques and combining them into finished works, the student’s printmaking lexicon will be expanded. This course is a concise study and practice of the process of photoetching, also known as photoengraving, utilizing non-toxic photo-polymer plates, thus reducing the exposure to harmful chemicals used in other photomechanical printmaking processes. This also coincides with the transitioning of the print studio into a
Green
workplace.

• Department: Visual Arts
• R 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Craig Zammiello
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• 3 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
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Tamar A Lando
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

DEMOCRACY & DICTATORSHIP EUR-DIS

DEMOCRACY&DICTATORSHIP EU

REQUIRED DISCUSSION SECTION FOR POLS UN3401

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• W 7:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• R 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 7:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• F 11:10 a.m.-noon
• 0 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.
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Seyhan Erden
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

PRINTMAKING:DRAWING INTO PRINT

Prerequisites: VIAR UN2420 or VIAR UN2430 note that VIAR UN2430 was formerly R3420. The objective of the course is to provide students with an interdisciplinary link between drawing, photography and printmaking through an integrated studio project. Students will use drawing, printmaking and collage to create a body of work to be presented in a folio format. In the course, students develop and refine their drawing sensibility, and are encouraged to experiment with various forms of non-traditional printmaking. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• T 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Tomas Vu Daniel
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

NINETEENTH-CENTURY CRITICISM

Prerequisites: junior or senior standing, and the instructors permission. This course examines a diverse selection of texts that have a crucial bearing on the formation of concepts of modernity and on new aesthetic practices in nineteenth-century Europe and North America. Using works of art theory, fiction, poetry, and social criticism, the seminar will trace the emergence and development of new models of cultural and subjective experience and their relation to social and historical processes. Readings include work by Diderot, Schiller, Shelley, Carlyle, Poe, Baudelaire, Ruskin, Emerson, Huysmans, Pater, Nietzsche and Henry Adams.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan K Crary
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

INTRO TO ECONOMETRICS-DIS

Required discussion section for ECON UN3412: Intro to Econometrics

• Department: Economics
• 0 points

SYMBOLIC LOGIC - REC

Required discussion section for UN3411 Symbolic Logic

• Department: Philosophy
• M 8:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• R 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• F 11:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Samara E Burns
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• Instructor: Anthony J Marsh
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• Instructor: Andrew T Richmond
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• 0 points

Changing Places

Globalization, climate, migration, surveillance, homelessness, and virtualization are changing the places where people live, work, love, pray, struggle, and die.  This course explores the presuppositions and implications of intersecting vectors that are pushing society to the edge of collapse.  The inquiry begins with a consideration of the contemporary status of the four ancient elements – earth, air, water, and fire, and proceeds to explore displacements in cities and the country and replacements in churches, temples, mosques, woods, gardens, and cemeteries. Have we passed the tipping point, or is recovery still possible?

• Department: Religion
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Mark C Taylor
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

The Carceral United States

Examination of the development of U.S. carceral systems and logics from the late 18th century through the present.  Through course readings and class discussion, students will explore the changes and continuities in technologies of punishment and captivity over time, interrogating how the purpose and political economy of captivity and policing shifted over time, and analyzing the relationship between carceral institutions and constructions of race, gender, and sexuality.

• Department: History
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Sarah Haley
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• 4 points

INTRO-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES I

Prerequisites: FREN UN3405 Advanced Grammar and Composition or an AP score of 5 or the director of undergraduate studies' permission. Examines conceptions of culture and civilization in France from the Enlightenment to the Exposition Coloniale of 1931, with an emphasis on the historical development and ideological foundations of French colonialism. Authors and texts include: the Encyclopédie; the Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen; the Code noir; Diderot; Chateaubriand; Tocqueville; Claire de Duras; Renan; Gobineau; Gauguin; Drumont.

• Department: French
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Soraya Limare
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• 3 points

ENG DES-CONCPT/DESIGN GENERATN

A preliminary design for an original project is a prerequisite for the capstone design course. Will focus on the steps required for generating a preliminary design concept. Included will be a brainstorming concept generation phase, a literature search, incorporation of multiple constraints, adherence to appropriate engineering codes and standards, and the production of a layout drawing of the proposed capstone design project in a Computer Aided Design (CAD) software package. Note: MECE students only.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Yevgeniy Yesilevskiy
  h-index: 7 Info
• 3 points

INTRO-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES II

Prerequisites: FREN UN3405 Advanced Grammar and Composition or an AP score of 5 or the director of undergraduate studies permission. Universalism vs. exceptionalism, tradition vs. modernity, integration and exclusion, racial, gender, regional, and national identities are considered in this introduction to the contemporary French-speaking world in Europe, the Americas, and Africa. Authors include: Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sedar Senghor, Frantz Fanon, Maryse Condé.

• Department: French
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeanne Devautour
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• 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 2:30 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer Nuss
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• 3 points

Music, Sound and the Law

This course is a historical overview of the relationship between music and the law in which students will employ both critical listening skills and critical thinking to understand how sound came to be understood as property, how the law impacts creativity, identity and labor, and how music has been used as a tool for enforcing and challenging legislative and political processes. We will discuss the origins of copyright law in the Enlightenment, how music has been used as a tool of colonization through formation of archives, examples of Native American conceptions of cultural property and modes of repatriation, the birth of the music industry and its segregationist history, how the law impacts creativity through the study of sampling, infringement and extension of rights, the ways in which musicians and listeners subvert legal strictures, how music can influence policy as protest or as propaganda, musical bans, noise ordinances, the relationship between music and the First Amendment, alternatives to copyright law in the digital age, music piracy, and the recent changes in the music industry to focus on data gathering as the primary model for music distribution. Music is our point of departure, and students will learn ways in which sonic practices shaped and challenged legislative paradigms. Our focus is on American musics such as Native American music, blues, country, jazz, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, experimental music, hip hop, pop, as well as some European classical music, “world” music, and EDM. Students will read and analyze legal primary sources such as the Music Modernization Act, as well as landmark court cases, critical legal literature, and musicological texts. Students will learn debate skills, acquire practical knowledge of the law through concepts such as fair use, the public domain and mechanical and performance rights, and develop listening skills to understand legal concepts such as infringement.  This course is open to students of all majors and will be of particular interest to musicians, students with plans to pursue a law degree in IP or technology law, as well as those interested in working in the music industry. There are no prerequisites and no previous knowledge of music, music theory, or the law is necessary. Masterpieces of Western Music or Asian Music Humanities are recommended.

• Department: Music
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Audrey Amsellem
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 0 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
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Mark Santolucito
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

RUSSIAN FOR HERITAGE SPEAKERS

Prerequisites: RUSS V3430 or the instructor's 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 V3431, 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

PRINTMAKING II: RELIEF

Prerequisites: VIAR UN2430 (Formerly R3412) Printmaking II: Relief continues instruction and demonstration of further techniques in woodcut. 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 9:30 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Nathan N Catlin
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• 3 points

Chinese Revolution, Asian Revolution, Wo

Chinese Revolution: 20th

This course examines the Chinese Revolution as a global event, one that provided new possibilities for understanding the future not only of China, but Asia and the world. In doing so, it refuses any notion of the Chinese Revolution as a merely "Chinese" event and instead marks the ways in which diverse sets of activists and revolutionaries from across Asia not only contributed towards the formation of Chinese revolutionary politics but also responded on their own terms. The Chinese Revolution thereby emerges as a truly global event and one that transformed political imagination. The course focuses largely on the responses and trajectories of Asian revolutionaries, especially from Vietnam and Japan, whose intellectual and political paths intersected with those of Chinese activists. Students can expect to work through the diverse intellectual interventions of pan-Asian diasporic communities in Japan at the beginning of the twentieth century, read interwar proletarian fiction from Chinese and Japanese authors, compare Chinese and Vietnamese conceptualizations of "people's war" as an anti-colonial military strategy. They will emerge with a new understanding of the porousness and complexity of basic categories such as China, Asia and revolution.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Benjamin J Kindler
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• 4 points

SHRINKING CITIES

While some cities thrive and struggle to house the global majority, others struggle with the effects of urban shrinkage—population loss, disinvestment  and abandonment. The path to urban decline is paved by social, economic and spatial forces that result in shrinking cities. This class explores how to understand and engage with urban decline. It includes a consideration of sundry efforts to reverse, live with, and rethink urban decline in a variety of locales. The hope is that this exercise will shed light not only on iconic declining places like Detroit, but also on the nature of uneven development and how it is the rule rather than the anomalous exception within capitalist urbanization. Course materials draw on disciplines such as planning, economics, architecture, history and sociology to help understand urban decline and its outcomes from a variety of perspectives. Over the course of the semester, we will investigate larger processes—globalization, deindustrialization and socioeconomic change—to understand how cities and communities responded to the consequences of these forces.  We will engage with the global literature on shrinking cities but will be focused primarily on exploring the dynamics of shrinkage in US cities. To that end, following a wide-reaching examination of nation-wide phenomena, we will study in-depth a sample of cities to understand local and regional variations and responses. How do we treat cities that do not grow? Given the constrained or complete lack of resources in these places, to what extent should some cities be allowed to “die”? What is the impact on the residents that remain in these places?

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mary Rocco
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

FEMALE IDENTITY 19TH C SPAIN

• 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

SURVEY OF GERMAN LIT:20C (GER)

. This course examines modernist literature, art, and music in the early twentieth century. In close readings, students will focus on the essential works from this period and learn to situate them in their historical contexts and the urban settings in which they were conceived: Munich, Prague, Vienna, and Berlin. The analysis of modernist works will be framed with introductions to questions of language, gender and sexuality, anti-Semitism, and the emergence of fascism. Authors include Arthur Schnitzler, Frank Wedekind, Robert Musil, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Irmgard Keun, Bertolt Brecht, Alfred Döblin, and Walter Benjamin; musical works by Berg, Schoenberg, and Weill. The course is taught in German.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Oliver Simons
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

SURVEY OF GERMAN LIT:20C (GER)

. This course examines modernist literature, art, and music in the early twentieth century. In close readings, students will focus on the essential works from this period and learn to situate them in their historical contexts and the urban settings in which they were conceived: Munich, Prague, Vienna, and Berlin. The analysis of modernist works will be framed with introductions to questions of language, gender and sexuality, anti-Semitism, and the emergence of fascism. Authors include Arthur Schnitzler, Frank Wedekind, Robert Musil, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Irmgard Keun, Bertolt Brecht, Alfred Döblin, and Walter Benjamin; musical works by Berg, Schoenberg, and Weill. The course is taught in German.

• Department: Auditing
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Oliver Simons
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 0 points

THE BRAIN AND MEMORY

Prerequisites: (PSYC UN1010) or Equivalent introductory course in neuroscience or cognitive psychology and the instructors permission This seminar will give a comprehensive overview of episodic memory research: what neuroimaging studies, patient studies, and animal models have taught us about how the brain creates, stores, and retrieves memories.

• Department: Psychology
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Mariam Aly
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 15 Info
• 4 points

VENEZUELA: ROBBERY & NATURE

Prerequisites: Third-year bridge course (W3300), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350). This course will read Venezuela backwards in films, poems, novels and essays, from the present-tense struggle over the legacy of chavismo to the early days of independence. The constant thread will be the conflict between development and nature with special attention to natural resources and eco-critical approaches.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ronald D Briggs
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

TAP III

Prerequisites: DNCE BC2447, BC2448, or permission of instructor.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Dormeshia Sunbry-Edwards
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• 0-1 points

Evolution of Intelligence, Animal Commun

EVOL-INTELLIGENC/CONSCIOU

Prerequisites: PSYC UN1001, and the instructors permission. A systematic review of the evolution language covering the theory of evolution, conditioning theory, animal communication, ape language experiments, infant cognition, preverbal antecedents of language and contemporary theories of language.

• Department: Psychology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Herbert S Terrace
  CULPA: 29 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SHORT FICTION IN SPA AMERICA

SHORT FICTION IN LAT AMERICA

In this course we will discuss the theory and practice of short fiction by the leading exponents of the genre in Spanish America. Authors to be discussed may include: Horacio Quiroga, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Juan Rulfo, Jose Donoso, Rosario Castellanos, Augusto Monterroso, Rosario Ferre, Gabriel García Márquez, Angelica Gorodischer, Roberto Bolaño, and Andrea Maturana.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Gustavo Perez-Firmat
  CULPA: 8 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

LITERATURE OF EMPIRE

IMPERIALSM & CRYPTOGRAPHC IMAG

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. (Seminar). This course focuses on plots of empire in the British novel of the 19th and early 20th centuries. It examines not only how empire was represented but also how the novel form gave visibility to the strategies of empire and also showed the tacit purposes, contradictions, and anxieties of British imperialism. The seminar is structured around the themes of: the culture of secrecy; criminality and detection; insurgency, surveillance, and colonial control; circulation and exchange of commodities; messianism and political violence. Specifically, the course will focus on how the culture of secrecy that accompanied imperial expansion defined the tools of literary imagination in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While most studies of culture and imperialism examine the impact of colonial expansion on the geography of narrative forms, this seminar looks more closely at the language of indirection in English novels and traces metaphors and symbols to imperialisms culture of secrecy. It begins with the simple observation that both colonizers and colonized felt the need to transmit their communications without having their messages intercepted or decoded. Translated into elusive Masonic designs and prophecy (as in Kim), codes of collective action (as in Sign of Four), or extended dream references (as in The Moonstone), the English novel underscores the exchange of information as one of the key activities of British imperialism. Forcing hidden information into the open also affects the ways that colonial ‘otherness is defined (as in The Beetle). How espionage and detection correlate with impenetrability and interpretation will be one among many themes we will examine in this course. The seminar will supplement courses in the nineteenth-century English novel, imperialism and culture, and race, gender, and empire, as well as provide a broad basis for studies of modernism and symbolism. Readings include Rudyard Kipling, Kim and Short Stories; Arthur Conan Doyles Sign of Four; Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone; Richard Marsh, The Beetle; RL Stevenson, Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Rider Haggard, She; Haggard, King Solomons Mines; Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent. Course requirements: One oral presentation; two short papers, each 4-5 pages (double-spaced); and a final paper, 7-10 pages (double-spaced). Application instructions: E-mail Professor Viswanathan (gv6@columbia.edu) with the subject heading Imperialism and Cryptography seminar. In your message, include basic information: you

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Gauri Viswanathan
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

PUERTO RICO: COLONIAL EXPRNCE

Prerequisites: Third-year bridge course (W3300), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350). This course analyzes how political conflicts and cultural attitudes emerged in Puerto Rico throughout colonial Spanish rule (1492-1898) reappear or influence developing thought after the transfer of sovereignty to the United States and through the 1952 creation of the Commonwealth, as manifested in legal, journalistic, literary, and other cultural works.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Wadda Rios-Font
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

Field Work & Research Seminar: Toddler C

FLDWRK-RSRCH SEM-BAR TOD CNTR

PSYC BC1129/2129 (with or without lab) as well as permission of the instructor. The Barnard Toddler Center provides the focus for this seminar and research in applied developmental psychology, an amalgam of developmental, educational, and clinical psychology. The seminar integrates theory and research and for AY 20-21 will use daily recordings of the toddler sessions as the centerpiece for understanding early development. The unique context of Covid19 will be used to understand risks in development, especially for vulnerable children and families. Second term students will also conduct research on parenting during the pandemic.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Tovah Klein
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

Oral History Methods & Praxis in America

ORAL HISTORY METHODS & PR

This course introduces students to the philosophy, ethics, and practice of oral history with specific emphasis on interview and transcription techniques and the use of oral history in interdisciplinary research and analysis. This course will also include instruction on the archival collection, preservation, description, and digitization of oral history interviews. Course themes include: 

Introduction to Oral History

Foundations of Oral History

Ethical and Legal Considerations (IRB, vulnerable populations, shared authority)

Oral History Best Practices

Oral History and Memory

Interviewing

Transcription and Metadata as Political Acts

Oral History as Primary Sources in Research and Writing

Community Oral History

Oral History as Public History

Oral History and Social Justice

Oral History Online

Oral History and Exhibitions/Programming

• Department: American Studies @Barnard
• MW 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Kimberly Springer
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 13 Info
• 3 points

POST 9/11 IMMIGRATION POLICIES

Since September 11, 2001, there has been an avalanche of immigration enforcement policies and initiatives proposed or implemented under the guise of national security. This course will analyze the domino effect of the Patriot Act, the Absconder Initiative, Special Registration, the Real I.D. Act, border security including the building of the 700-mile fence along the U.S./Mexico border, Secured Communities Act-that requires the cooperation of state and local authorities in immigration enforcement, the challenge to birthright citizenship, and now the congressional hearings on Islamic radicalization. Have these policies been effective in combating the war on terrorism and promoting national security? Who stands to benefit from these enforcement strategies? Do immigrant communities feel safer in the U.S.? How have states joined the federal bandwagon of immigration enforcement or created solutions to an inflexible, broken immigration system?

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Elizabeth Ouyang
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

BRAZILIAN SOCIETY & CIV (ENG)

Each week, a historical period is studied in connection to a particular theme of ongoing cultural expression. While diverse elements of popular culture are included, fiction is privileged as a source of cultural commentary. Students are expected to assimilate the background information but are also encouraged to develop their own perspective and interest, whether in the social sciences, the humanities (including the fine arts), or other areas.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Tulio H Bucchioni
  Info
• 3 points

MAKING BARNARD HISTORY

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required. Introduction to historical research through a range of the historical sources and methods available for a comprehensive history of Barnard College. Will include a review of the secondary literature, the compiling and analysis of qualitative and quantitative data through archival research, the conduct of an oral history interview, and the construction of a historical narrative.

• Department: History @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert A McCaughey
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 4 points

CHARLES DICKENS

This seminar offers an intensive study of the later career of Charles Dickens, the most important of all English novelists.  We’ll focus on three of his long, multi-plot novels:
David Copperfield
,
Bleak House
, and
Our Mutual Friend
.  Although Dickens is best known as a comic novelist, in these later works the comedy is energized by somber and searching scrutiny of a wide social world, which Dickens engages through a host of innovative narrative techniques.  We’ll be asking why and how Dickens (like so many Victorian novelists) grounded his understanding of society in representations of domestic life and romantic desire, and how in those representations gender and sexuality become an especially powerful means of capturing social dynamics within structures of individual character. For nearly a century these works have been a provocation to new modes and frames of reading: most recently, New Historicism, the politics of the family, queer theory, performance and theatricality, postcolonial criticism, the rise of “surface” reading, the history of affect, and ecocriticism.  We’ll draw on examples of these approaches (among others) in thinking through Dickensian configurations of domesticity and desire, as well as the distinctive formal structures of Dickensian character.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: James E Adams
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 4 points

NEUROSCIENCE AND SOCIETY

Prerequisites: Science of Psychology (PSYC 1001) or Mind, Brain, & Behavior (PSYC 1010), or equivalent introductory psychology course. Students who have not taken one of these courses may also be admitted with instructor permission. This course investigates the ways in which research in human neuroscience both reflects and informs societal issues. Topics include how neuroscience research is interpreted and applied in areas such as healthcare, education, law, consumer behavior, and public policy.

• Department: Psychology
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Trenton Jerde
  h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

INDEP BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: Concurrent with registering for this course, a student must register with the department and provide a written invitation from a mentor; details of this procedure are available at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/w3500/index.htm. Students must register for recitations UN3510 or consult the instructor. Corequisites: BIOL UN3510 The course involves independent study, faculty-supervised laboratory projects in contemporary biology. Concurrent with registering for this course, a student must register with the department, provide a written invitation from a mentor and submit a research proposal; details of this procedure are available at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/w3500/index.htm. A paper summarizing results of the work is required by the last day of finals for a letter grade; no late papers will be accepted. See the course web site (above) for more details. Students can take anywhere from 2-4 points for this course.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• Instructor: Ron M Prywes
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 2-4 points

READINGS IN JEWISH LITERATURE: American

This year has been designated the three hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Jewish life in America. In examining the work of some of the greatest Jewish writers to live in America – writers in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish, some well known, some less so – this course hopes to answer several related questions. How are the changing fortunes of American Jews reflected in their literary creativity? How does Jewish multilingualism – not only seen in different works, but within the same work – affect modes and styles of Jewish writing? And, perhaps most importantly, how does one define American Jewish writing in an age of increasingly complex affiliations and identifications among American Jews?

• Department: Germanic Languages
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jeremy Dauber
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED READINGS IN PHYSICS

Prerequisites: the written permission of the faculty member who agrees to act as supervisor, and the director of undergraduate studies permission. Readings in a selected field of physics under the supervision of a faculty member. Written reports and periodic conferences with the instructor.

• Department: Physics
• Instructor: Jeremy R Dodd
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 3 points

COLL:POLIT ECON:CORRPTN/CONTRL

Prerequisites: POLS V1501 or the equivalent. Admission by application through the Barnard department only. Enrollment limited to 16 students. Barnard syllabus. Comparative political economy course which addresses some important questions concerning corruption and its control: the concept, causes, patterns, consequences, and control of corruption. Introduces students to and engages them in several key social science debates on the causes and effects of political corruption.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Xiaobo Lu
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

BEGINNING VIDEO

Beginning Video is an introductory class on the production and editing of digital video. Designed as an intensive hands-on production/post-production workshop, the apprehension of technical and aesthetic skills in shooting, sound and editing will be emphasized. Assignments are developed to allow students to deepen their familiarity with the language of the moving image medium. Over the course of the term, the class will explore the language and syntax of the moving image, including fiction, documentary and experimental approaches. Importance will be placed on the decision making behind the production of a work; why it was conceived of, shot, and edited in a certain way. Class time will be divided between technical workshops, viewing and discussing films and videos by independent producers/artists and discussing and critiquing students projects. Readings will be assigned on technical, aesthetic and theoretical issues. Only one section offered per semester. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• W 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Shelly Silver
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

URBANIZING CHINA

This course investigates the dramatic urban transformation that has taken place in mainland China over the last four decades. The speed and scale of this transformation have produced emergent new lifeways, settlement patterns, and land uses that increasingly blur the distinction between urban and rural areas. At the same time, Chinese society is still characterized by rigid, administrative divisions between the nation’s urban and rural sectors, with profound consequences for people’s lives and livelihoods. The course therefore examines the intersection between the rapid transformation of China’s built environment and the glacial transformation of its administrative categories. We will take an interdisciplinary approach to this investigation, using perspectives from architecture, history, geography, political science, anthropology, urban planning, and cultural studies, among other disciplines. The course is divided into two parts: Over the first five weeks, we will consider the historical context of China’s urbanization and its urban-rural relations, including the imperial, colonial, and socialist periods, as well as the current period of reform. In the remainder of the semester, we will turn our focus to contemporary processes of urbanization, with a particular emphasis on the complex interrelationship between urban and rural China. This portion of the semester is organized into three two-week units on land and planning, housing and demolition, and citizenship and personhood.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Nick R Smith
  h-index: None Info
• 4 points

INDEP BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH - REC

• Department: Biological Sciences
• T 5:40 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• W 5:40 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Ron M Prywes
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 0 points

BIOCHEM I-STRUCT/METABOLSM-REC

How does life work on a molecular level? Why do we succumb to disease, and how can we create new cures? This course will explore the biochemistry of life and how this knowledge can be harnessed to create new medicines. You will learn how cells convert environmental resources into energy through metabolism, how cellular molecules function, and how to use this biochemical knowledge for drug discovery related to neurodegeneration, cancer, and the current SARS-CoV-2 COVID19 pandemic. At the conclusion of the course, you will be able to diagram the major metabolic pathways and compare how these pathways are dysregulated in normal tissues in and disease states, and to design your own drug discovery program to create therapeutic for diseases such as COVID-19. In addition, you will know what techniques are used to uncover biochemical knowledge and how to design and interpret relevant experiments. You will be capable of collaborating with other people in the analysis and interpretation of biochemical data, and be able to communicate, defend and refute interpretations of data. You will learn how to create an original research proposal in the form of a research grant application. Having completed one year of college-level biology and one year of organic chemistry will be helpful to maximally benefit from this course. This course satisfies the requirement of most medical schools for introductory biochemistry, and is suitable for advanced undergraduates, and beginning graduate students; this replaces the previous UN3501 course.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• M 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• T 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• W 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Jerson D Estrella
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• Instructor: Joleen M Csuka
  Info
• Instructor: Jeana Chun
  Info
• 0 points

HIST APPROACHES FEMINIST QUES

Comparative study of gender, race, and sexuality through specific historical, socio-cultural contexts in which these systems of power have operated. With a focus on social contexts of slavery, colonialism, and modern capitalism for the elaboration of sex-gender categories and systems across historical time.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Neferti Tadiar
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Queer Theory, Religion, and Their Discon

QUEER THEORY AND RELIGION

For the most part queer studies and religious studies have met each other with great suspicion and little interest in the conceptual resources of the respectively other field. Our guiding questions will be: What does religion have to do with queerness? What does queerness have to do with religion? Queer theory and activists, unless they already identify as religious, often have little or little good to say about religion. Conversely, many religious traditions intensively regulate gender, sex, sexuality, and especially queerness. this course will explore how religious studies can enrich queer theory and how queer theory can reshape our thinking about religious studies. But beyond the mutual disinterest, anxieties, and animosities, queer studies and religious studies share actually a whole range of core interests and questions, such as embodiment, sexuality, gender-variability, coloniality, race appearing as religious identity and religious identity as gendered, as well as the role of catastrophe, utopia, and redemption in our experience of the world. We will examine questions about religion come to the fore when we paying especially attention to queerness, gender, sexuality, pleasure, pain, and desire. Equally, we will examine how queer discourses mobilize religious and theological images and ideas, especially where these images and ideas are no longer clearly recognizable as having religious origins. Rather than trying to settle on definitive answers, this course will cultivate a process of open-ended collective inquiry in which students will be encouraged to think autonomously and challenge facile solutions. Students should come away from the course with an expanded sense of how we grapple with issues related to gender, sexuality, desire, and embodiment in our everyday lives and how religion and religious formations are entangled with these issues well beyond religious communities. Ideally, students should experience this course as enlarging the set of critical tools at their hands for creative and rigorous thinking.

• Department: Religion
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Yannik Thiem
  h-index: 1 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO ASIAN AMERICAN LIT & CULTURE

This course is a survey of Asian North American literature and its contexts. To focus our discussion, the course centers on examining recurring cycles of love and fear in Asian North American relations from the late nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. We will first turn to what became known as “yellow peril,” one effect of exclusion laws that monitored the entrance of Asians into the United States and Canada during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the corresponding phenomenon of Orientalism, the fascination with a binary of Asia and the West. The second section of the course will focus on how Asian North American authors respond to later cycles of love and fear, ranging from the forgetting of Japanese internment in North America and the occupation of the Philippines; to the development of the model minority mythology during the Cold War. The final section will examine intimacies and exclusions in contemporary forms of migration, diaspora, and community communities.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Denise Cruz
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

CIVIL RIGHTS &CIVIL LIBERTIES

Prerequisites: POLS W1201 or the equivalent. Not an introductory-level course. Not open to students who have taken the colloquium POLS BC3326. Enrollment limited to 25 students; L-course sign-up through eBear. Barnard syllabus. Explores seminal caselaw to inform contemporary civil rights and civil liberties jurisprudence and policy. Specifically, the readings examine historical and contemporary first amendment values, including freedom of speech and the press, economic liberties, takings law, discrimination based on race, gender, class and sexual preference, affirmative action, the right to privacy, reproductive freedom, the right to die, criminal procedure and adjudication, the rights of the criminally accused post-9/11 and the death penalty. (Cross-listed by the American Studies and Human Rights Programs.)

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Paula A Franzese
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SENIOR SEMINAR I

The Senior Seminar in Women's Studies offers you the opportunity to develop a capstone research paper by the end of the first semester of your senior year. Senior seminar essays take the form of a 25-page paper based on original research and characterized by an interdisciplinary approach to the study of women, sexuality, and/or gender. You must work with an individual advisor who has expertise in the area of your thesis and who can advise you on the specifics of method and content. Your grade for the semester will be determined by the instructor and the advisor. Students receiving a grade of B+ or higher in Senior Seminar I will be invited to register for Senior Seminar II by the Instructor and the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Senior Seminar II students will complete a senior thesis of 40-60 pages. Please note, the seminar is restricted to Columbia College and GS senior majors.

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lila Abu-Lughod
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info
• 4 points

Senior Seminar I (Barnard)

SEN SEM:KNWLDG PRCTCE POW

Student-designed capstone research projects offer practical lessons about how knowledge is produced, the relationship between knowledge and power, and the application of interdisciplinary feminist methodologies.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• W 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Rebecca Jordan-Young
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED SENIOR STUDIO I

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 15 students. Permission of the instructor. An interpretive study of the theoretical and critical issues in visual art. Projects that are modeled after major movements in contemporary art will be executed in the studio. Each student develops an original body of artwork and participates in group discussions of the assigned readings. For further info visit: 
https://arthistory.barnard.edu/senior-thesis-project-art-history-and-visual-arts-majors

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Joan Snitzer
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

AUTOCRACY AND DEMOCRACY

With longstanding democracies in Europe and the US faltering, autocratic regimes in Russia and China consolidating, and hybrid regimes that mix elements of democracy and autocracy on the rise, scholars, policymakers, and citizens are re-evaluating the causes and consequences of different forms of government.  This course is designed to give students the tools to understand these trends in global politics. Among other topics, we will explore: How do democracies and autocracies differ in theory and in practice?  Why are some countries autocratic? Why are some democratic? What are the roots of democratic erosion?  How does economic inequality influence a country’s form of government? Is the current period of institutional foment different past periods of global instability?  This course will help students keep up with rapidly unfolding events, but is designed primarily to help them develop tools for interpreting and understanding the current condition of democracy and autocracy in the world.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Timothy M Frye
  CULPA: 8 Wikipedia h-index: 31 Info
• 3 points

COLL:NON-STATE GOV CRIME/WAR

Prerequisites: (POLS UN1501) The conventional wisdom is that crime and civil war are linked to disorder. But these are far from disorderly and ungoverned spaces. Unpacking these settings reveals complex forms of non-state governance constructed by a range of actors, including rebel and guerillas, gangs, vigilantes, and protection rackets – sometimes facilitated by the state.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Eduardo Moncada
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 12 Info
• 4 points

JUNIOR SEMINAR IN URBAN STUDIES

JUNIOR SEMINAR URBAN STUD

Prerequisites: Non-majors admitted by permission of instructor. Students must attend first class. Enrollment limited to 16 students per section. Introduction to the historical process and social consequences of urban growth, from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Nick R Smith
  h-index: None Info
• Instructor: Angela Simms
  Info
• Instructor: Mary Rocco
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Philosophical problems within science and about the nature of scientific knowledge in the 17th-20th centuries. Sample problems: causation and scientific explanation; induction and real kinds; verification and falsification; models, analogies and simulations; the historical origins of the modern sciences; scientific revolutions; reductionism and supervenience; differences between physics, biology and the social sciences; the nature of life; cultural evolution; human nature; philosophical issues in cosmology.

• Department: Philosophy
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jenann Ismael
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Philosophical problems within science and about the nature of scientific knowledge in the 17th-20th centuries. Sample problems: causation and scientific explanation; induction and real kinds; verification and falsification; models, analogies and simulations; the historical origins of the modern sciences; scientific revolutions; reductionism and supervenience; differences between physics, biology and the social sciences; the nature of life; cultural evolution; human nature; philosophical issues in cosmology.

• Department: Auditing
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jenann Ismael
  Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

POLITICAL BEHAVIOR

This course explores how and why people take action in the political sphere. We will pay particular attention to questions such as why people vote, form interest groups, and/or contribute money to candidates. We will also study the origins of partisanship, polarization, opinion, and political ideology. Finally, we will cover topics in "elite" behavior, examining candidates, lawmakers, and party officials.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Miller
  CULPA: 18 h-index: 14 Info
• 4 points

EVOL IN THE AGE OF GENOMICS

Prerequisites: Introductory Biology I and II, or the instructors permission. This course introduces basic concepts in evolutionary biology, from speciation to natural selection. While the lectures incorporate a historical perspective, the main goal of the class is to familiarize students with topics and tools of evolutionary genetics as practiced today, in the era of genomics. Thus, the focus will be on evidence from molecular evolution and genetics and exercises will assume a basic background in genetics. Examples will be drawn from across the tree of life, but with a primary focus on humans.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 9 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
• 4 points

SCREENDANCE:COMPOSITION

Prerequisites: Must have taken a Dance Department Composition course, have some dance training. This experiential, hands-on course requires all students to choreograph, dance, and film. Focusing on single-shot film-making, the duet of the camera and the dance will create an understanding of the interaction between the two, enabling students to create a final short film.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Gabri Christa
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

DRUGS & POLITICS IN AMERICAS

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Eduardo Moncada
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

THESSALONIKI DOWN THE AGES

This course will explore the fascinatingly layered and multicultural history of Thessaloniki, the great city of Northern Greece and the Balkans. We will examine texts, archaeological evidence, literature, songs, and movies and in general the materialities of the city. We will examine this material from the 6th century BCE down to the the 21st cent. CE. We will notably think about the problems of history, identity, and cultural interaction in reaction to recent work such as Mark Mazower’s well know Salonica, City of Ghosts 2004.

• Department: Classics
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Paraskevi Martzavou
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

DANCES OF INDIA

A range of dance genres, from the traditional to the innovative, co-exist as representations of Indianness in India, and beyond. Identities onstage and in films, morph as colonial, national, and global contexts change. This course zooms from micro to macro views of twentieth century staged dances as culturally inflected discourse. We review how Indian classical dance aligns with the oldest of performance texts, and with lively discourses (rasa as a performance aesthetic, Orientalism, nationalism, global recirculations) through the ages, not only in India but also in Europe, Britain and America. Throughout the course, we ask:- How is culture embodied? How do historical texts configure dance today? How might they affect our thinking on mind-body, practice-theory, and traditional-contemporary divides? How does bodily patterning influence the ways that we experience our surroundings and vice versa? Can cultural imaginaries instigate action? How is gender is performed? What are dance discourses?

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Uttara Coorlawala
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

SKETCHING MODERNITY

THROUGH THE EYES OF GOYA

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Alberto Medina
  Info
• 3 points

DANCE CRITICISM

This course offers intensive practice in writing on dance and explores a range of
approaches to dance criticism from the 1940s through today. Starting from the premise
that criticism can be an art form in itself, we ask: What are the roles and responsibilities
of a critic? How do our own identities and experiences inform how we see and write?
With the proliferation of dance in digital spaces, what new possibilities arise for dance
criticism? Class meetings include discussion, writing exercises, and peer workshops.
Assignments involve viewing performances outside of class.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Siobhan F Burke
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

POOR IN AMERICA: THE EXPERIENCE AND IMPA

This course focuses on the life experiences and impact of poverty in the contemporary United States. We will be exploring the consequences of financial and material deprivation on work, housing, health, parenting, children, as well as the limits and opportunities for inter-generational mobility and how each of these intersect with gender, racial and ethnic identities. We will be learning about the experiences of individual persons as well as how these particular experiences reflect the overarching patterns of social, political and economic trends in the United States. The course will incorporate a diverse set of disciplinary perspectives to shed light on the challenges faced by persons living in poverty. In addition, there will be an emphasis on learning about and critically assessing methodological approaches applied in the literature. No prior knowledge of methods is required and any technical references will be explained in class.

• Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Rose Razaghian
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points