Science and Fascism
SCIENCE AND FASCISM
In 1942, the American sociologist Robert Merton described modern science as an intellectual enterprise that can produce truthful and factual knowledge only if inspired by democratic values. Yet such concept contrasted starkly with the reality of science in the interwar period and World War II, at the peak of the clash between liberal democracies and fascist dictatorships. What was the role of science in the global conflict between liberalism and the fascist ‘New Order’? What did science and technology look like under fascism?
This class examines the relationship between science and fascism in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Franco’s Spain, and Salazar’s Portugal. During the Great War (1914-1918), science and technology were enlisted as critical assets for the war effort and the international scientific community was shattered across national lines. The Great War proved the importance of the scientific organization of society and state-controlled scientific advancement. Fascism developed this lesson in the interwar period to pursue its nationalist and imperialist goal: the creation of a new world order.
Thus, the seminar explores the entanglement between science, technology and fascism by examining a wide range of disciplines, such as physics, medicine, eugenics, statistics, demography, agronomy, and engineering. Focusing in particular on fascism’s central themes of race and empire, the course examines the relationship between state power and scientific expertise, the persecution of Jewish scientists in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, and scientists’ critical competition in World War II ahead of the creation of the atomic bomb, which ushered in the new era of the Cold War.
- Department: History @Barnard
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Angelo Caglioti
h-index: 2 Info - 4 points
PLAYWRITING LAB
Students will develop original dramatic scripts. Students will also read drafts of writers currently produced on New York stages to understand why changes and rewrites were made. Recommended for students undertaking a senior thesis in playwriting.
- Department: Theatre @Barnard
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Andrew Bragen
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SCULPTURE II
Prerequisites: VIAR UN2300 or the instructors permission. (Formerly R3331) Continuation of VIAR UN2300. The objective of the class is to engage in in-depth research and hands on studio projects related to a specific theme to be determined by each student. Each student is expected to complete class with four fully realized and thematically linked works. Wood, metal, and plaster will be provided for this class but video, sound, performance and various mixed media approaches are highly encouraged. In addition, lecture and field trips will be part of the course. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.
- Department: Visual Arts
- T 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sable Smith
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER
Prerequisites: One introductory course in Sociology suggested. Examination of factors in gender identity that are both universal (across time, culture, setting) and specific to a social context. Social construction of gender roles in different settings, including family, work, and politics. Attention to the role of social policies in reinforcing norms or facilitating change.
ADVANCED SWAHILI II
Prerequisites: Advanced Swahili I or the instructor's permission. An introduction to the advanced syntactical, morphological, and grammatical structures of Swahili grammar; detailed analysis of Swahili texts; practice in conversation. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Abdul Nanji
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
SCULPTURE III
Prerequisites: VIAR R2300. (Formerly R3332) Sculpture III is an invitation for immersive sculpting. The class will explore the idea of experiences and construction of contexts as central research topics. The class becomes a laboratory space to explore various techniques to heighten body awareness and spatial sensibility. Through assignments and workshops, the students will practice how to digest these sensory experiences through their studio practice. Historical precedents for art outside the usual mediums and venues will be our reference points to investigate how our own work may take part in a generative process that evolves the definition of sculpture. The assignments in the first half of the semester point the students to performance, site specificity, and sound, that utilize New York Citys odd spots and professionals. While building such common experiential platforms, the class will also build language for a dialogic space, through weekly in-class discussions lead by the instructor, guests, and rotating panels of the students. As the semester progresses, the emphasis will gradually be shifted from experiential learning to intensive studio work on a final project, where the students are asked to pay close attention to how various methods and fields of subjects combine. The resulting project has to be the best work you have ever done. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.
- Department: Visual Arts
- T 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sable Smith
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
ADVANCED WOLOF II
Prerequisites: Advanced Wolof I or instructor permission. This course will further your awareness and understanding of the Wolof language and culture, as well as improve your mastery of grammar, writing skills, and oral expression. Course materials will incorporate various types of text including tales, poetry, literature as well as multimedia such as films, and videos, television and radio programs.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mariame S Sy
Info - 4 points
IND STUDIES-CIVIL ENGIN-JUNIOR
A project on civil engineering subjects approved by the chairman of the department.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
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Raimondo Betti
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Adrian Brugger
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Gautam Dasgupta
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George Deodatis
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Xuan Di
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Maria Q Feng
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Jacob Fish
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Marco Giometto
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Shiho Kawashima
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Addis Kidane
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Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou
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Hoe I Ling
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Marianna Maiaru
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Markus Schlaepfer
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Andrew W Smyth
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Waiching Sun
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Haim Waisman
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Huiming Yin
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Zhengbo Zou
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JEWISH CULTURE IN TRANSL IN MED IBERIA
JEWISH CULTURE IN MED IBERIA
The course explores both the practice of translation (the rendering of texts from one language into another) and the idea of translation (as a medium of cultural transmission) in medieval Iberia. Jews were not only the paradigmatic translators of texts from Arabic to Latin and Castilian but were also translators of literary phenomena into the Jewish literary cultures of Iberia. Further, Hebrew texts made their way into Romance languages, rendered by both Jewish and non-Jewish writers. Theoretical materials on translation and historical background on translation practices of the period will accompany readings. All readings are in English, but all texts will be made available in the original language, and students are encouraged to read in the original whenever possible. Sources in bold are primary sources. Students are expected to spend three hours preparing for each class session.
- Department: Institute for Israel & Jewish Studies
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Isabelle C Levy
CULPA: 5
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IND STUDIES-CIVIL ENGIN-SENIOR
A project on civil engineering subjects approved by the chairman of the department.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
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Instructor:
Raimondo Betti
CULPA: 4
h-index: 31
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Adrian Brugger
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Gautam Dasgupta
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George Deodatis
CULPA: 6
h-index: 42
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Xuan Di
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Maria Q Feng
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Jacob Fish
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Marco Giometto
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Shiho Kawashima
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Addis Kidane
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Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou
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Hoe I Ling
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Marianna Maiaru
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Markus Schlaepfer
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Andrew W Smyth
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Waiching Sun
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Haim Waisman
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Huiming Yin
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Instructor:
Zhengbo Zou
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PROJECT LAB MOLECULAR GENETCS
Prerequisites: BIOL BC1500, BIOL BC1501, BIOL BC1502, BIOL BC1503, BIOL BC2100, BIOL BC3305. Enrollment limited to 12. Laboratory course in which students conduct original research projects in molecular genetics. Students interested in getting involved in research, or those looking to deepen research design and lab skills in this area, are encouraged to begin with this course. Students will participate in experimental design, conduct and data analysis, and work with key techniques for studying gene structure, expression and function such as nucleic acid extraction and synthesis, cloning, bioinformatics analysis including RNA-Seq, PCR and quantitative PCR, immunofluorescence and confocal microscopy. Students will present their results orally and in writing. Enrollment in both semesters (BIOL BC3305 and BIOL BC3306) of this full-year course is required for credit, and fulfills two upper-level lab courses for the Barnard Biology major. Must be taken in sequence, beginning in the fall. - J. Mansfield
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
- T 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jennifer H Mansfield
CULPA: 2 h-index: 15 Info - 3 points
GREEK LITERATURE SELECTIONS II
Prerequisites: GREK UN2101 - GREK UN2102 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.
- Department: Classics
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth K Irwin
CULPA: 7
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- 3 points
LATIN LITERATURE SELECTIONS
Prerequisites: LATN UN2102 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.
- Department: Classics
- TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Rosalie Stoner
Info - 3 points
LATIN LITERATURE SELECTIONS
Prerequisites: LATN UN2102 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.
- Department: Auditing
- TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Rosalie Stoner
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RACE. SPACE, URB SCHOOLS
Many people don’t think of themselves as having attended segregated schools. And yet, most of us went to schools attended primarily by people who looked very much like us. In fact, schools have become more segregated over the past 30 years, even as the country becomes increasingly multiracial. In this class, we will use public schools as an example to examine the role race plays in shaping urban spaces and institutions. We will begin by unpacking the concept of racialization, or the process by which a person, place, phenomenon, or characteristic becomes associated with a certain race. Then, we will explore the following questions: What are the connections between city schools and their local contexts? What does it mean to be a “neighborhood school”? How do changes in neighborhoods change schools? We will use ethnographies, narrative non-fiction, and educational research to explore these questions from a variety of perspectives. You will apply what you have learned to your own experiences and to current debates over urban policies and public schools. This course will extend your understanding of key anthropological and sociological perspectives on urban inequality in the United States, as well as introduce you to critical theory.
- Department: Education @Barnard
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Amelia S Herbert
Info - 3 points
HEAT TRANSFER
Heat Transfer
Steady and unsteady heat conduction. Radiative heat transfer. Internal and external forced and free convective heat transfer. Change of phase. Heat exchangers.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Vijay Vedula
h-index: 17 Info - 3 points
HEAT TRANSFER
RECITATION
Steady and unsteady heat conduction. Radiative heat transfer. Internal and external forced and free convective heat transfer. Change of phase. Heat exchangers.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
- F 1 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Vijay Vedula
h-index: 17 Info - 0 points
SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHITECTURE
SP TPC: URBAN DATASCAPES
See the Barnard and Columbia Architecture Department website for the course description:
https://architecture.barnard.edu/architecture-department-course-descriptions
- Department: Architecture @Barnard
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Leah M Meisterlin
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHITECTURE
See the Barnard and Columbia Architecture Department website for the course description:
https://architecture.barnard.edu/architecture-department-course-descriptions
- Department: Architecture @Barnard
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Marlon Davis
Info - 3 points
QURAN
This course conceives of the Qur’ān as a living text in constant flux through interactions with other religious traditions. It focuses on developing an understanding of the Qur’ān’s form, style, and content through a close reading of comparable religious texts. Major topics covered include the Qur’ānic theory of prophecy, its treatment of the Biblical tradition (both that of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament), and its perspective on pre-Islamic pagan religion. The central goals of the course include the ability to (a) analyze primary religious sources in a critical and objective manner and (b) construct coherent arguments based on concrete evidence. In a class of this nature, class members will naturally hold or develop a wide variety of opinions about the topics covered. The goal is not to adopt a single opinion concerning the interpretation of a particular text, but rather to support personal conclusions in a clear logical manner.
- Department: Religion @Barnard
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Hussein Rashid
CULPA: 3 Info - 4 points
METROPOLITICS OF RACE & PLACE
This class explores how racism and racialized capitalism and politics shape the distribution of material resources among cities and suburbs in metropolitan areas and the racial and ethnic groups residing in them. Readings and discussion focus on the history of metropolitan area expansion and economic development, as well as contemporary social processes shaping racial and ethnic groups’ access to high-quality public goods and private amenities. We address racial and ethnic groups’ evolving political agendas in today’s increasingly market-driven socio-political context, noting the roles of residents; federal, state, and local governments; market institutions and actors; urban planners, activist organizations, foundations, and social scientists, among others. Here is a sample of specific topics: race/ethnicity and who “belongs” in what “place;” inequitable government and market investment across racial and ethnic communities over time and “sedimentation effects” (for example, the “redlining” of Black communities leading to their inability to access loan and credit markets and the resulting wealth gap between Blacks and Whites); gentrification processes; creating sufficient, sustainable tax bases; and suburban sprawl. Assignments will include two short response papers, mid-term and final exams, and another project to be determined.
- Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Angela Simms
Info - 3 points
Empire and Periphery: Narratives of Powe
The Soviet Union was a country of paradoxes. While the Soviet government promoted national self-determination by establishing autonomous territories and fostering the development of national languages and cultures, it simultaneously engaged with practices of domination and control akin to European colonial empires. This course seeks to elucidate the inherent ideological tensions of the Soviet system through the works of authors and filmmakers from the Caucasus and Central Asia, situating them within the broader context of what has come to be known as postcolonial theory.
Beginning with the Soviet Union’s self-championing as the first anti-imperialist state, we will explore how writers and filmmakers from the Soviet metropole imagined and constructed the idea of an internal Other. Moving beyond the metropolitan imagination, we will examine how imperial categorizations were challenged by writers and filmmakers from the so-called Soviet "periphery." How did the non-European part of the population of the Soviet Union negotiate questions of identity, assimilation into the dominant culture, and resistance within the frameworks of Soviet modernization, nationality policy, and the official aesthetic doctrine of the Soviet Union - Socialist Realism? Finally, we will delve into how Soviet-era discourses persist and evolve in the post-Soviet context, influencing contemporary geopolitical and social realities across the Eurasian region. All course materials will be available in English.
- Department: Slavic Languages
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alexey Shvyrkov
Info - 3 points
TRAUMA & ITS AFTERMATH: POETIC FORM(S) O
“After a great pain, a formal feeling comes —"
—Emily Dickinson
The history of literature has, in many ways, become inseparable from the history of trauma. Poetry can be an excavation site of memory and the subconscious dreamscape, and inevitably, trauma is what is unearthed there. Poems working with, through, and out of personal and collective trauma can create what Dorothea Lasky calls “the material imagination;” a shared world inhabited by both poet and reader long after the poem has been read—a physical space we are in together that helps us move through, process, and in the best of cases, rewrite trauma into the generative and healing space of metaphor and imagery. In this way, poems are—in both their content and their form (which are often are indivisible)—an invitation to the reader to access the depths and complexities of the human psyche that we are all connected by, perhaps in a way they might not have before. The poem creates a finite terrain that anchors infinite possibility. This class will study texts that stem from, speak to, document and process historical, ecological, collective and personal trauma. How can a poem hold, house, and reconfigure traumatic events for both reader and poet through its formal and thematic architecture?
- Department: Writing
- M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Samantha Zighelboim
Info - 3 points
MUSIC IN EAST ASIA
A topical approach to the concepts and practices of music in relation to other arts in the development of Asian civilizations.
- Department: Music
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Laina Dawes
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Gabriel Lavin
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Nandini R Banerjee-Datta
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George H Murer
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Alessandra M Ciucci
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
MICROBIOLOGY
Prerequisites: BIOL BC1500, BIOL BC1501, BIOL BC1502, BIOL BC1503 or the equivalent, and BIOL BC2100. Survey of the diversity, cellular organization, physiology, and genetics of the major microbial groups. Also includes aspects of applied microbiology and biotechnology, the function of microorganisms in the environment, and the role of microbes in human diseases.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Stephen L Sturley
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
Biological Interactions in a Changing Wo
Bio Interactions-Changing
Coevolutionary processes, where species exert selective pressure on each other, are the outcome of many of the most fascinating relationships in biology, such as predator-prey, host-pathogen, mutualisms, and competitive interactions. In this course, we will walk through the theoretical frameworks and empirical examples that explain how coevolution influences biodiversity, adaptation, and ecosystems. Students will gain a deep understanding of how interactions operate across various scales—from molecular to ecological—and how they influence the evolution of species in response to each other. Key topics include evolutionary arms races, mimicry, symbioses, and the impact of coevolution on community structure. In addition to learning about the various types of interactions, students will learn how we scientifically investigate biotic interactions using modern research methods, like field studies, molecular techniques, and mathematical modeling. Through lectures, readings, case studies, and research-based projects, students will develop the skills to critically assess coevolutionary processes and their role in shaping the natural world. The course will also cover the practical implications of coevolution for conservation, agriculture, and health.
- Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rachel O Cohen
Info - 3 points
Making in Premodern Japan
This course introduces students to the world of artisans and makers in premodern Japan from the seventh to the nineteenth century. Broadly, this course is divided into two sections. The first section situates makers within their historical contexts, from the
ritsuryō
state of ancient Japan to the early modern Tokugawa regime, in order to introduce students to the forms of labor artisans engaged in over the course of premodern history, including corvée labor, guild labor, and free market labor. The second section of the course takes a more thematic approach rooted in fundamental frameworks and ideas in material culture and craft studies. Each week, we will dig into a particular theme or problem, such as embodied knowledge or social marginalization, and think through the ways in which these themes materialized in the specific historical contexts we covered in the first half of the semester.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- M 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nicolle M Bertozzi
Info - 4 points
LABORATORY IN MICROBIOLOGY
Enrollment limited to 16. Provides experience in the isolation, cultivation, and analysis of pure cultures of microorganisms. Methods used for the study of cell structure, growth, physiology, and genetics of microbes will be incorporated into laboratory exercises.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
- R 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gabrielle Corradino
Info - 3 points
Changing Climate, Changing World
Changing Climate and Worl
An interdisciplinary course focused on environmental humanities and based in the English department, “Changing Climate, Changing World” will examine the representation of nature across time and its implications for global warming and biodiversity from multiple perspectives, emphasizing issues of climate change and environmental justice. The course will provide a conceptual framework for reading and critiquing the representation of nature in the context of historical, economic, social, cultural, scientific and political change.
The course design asks students to address climate change in the context of the industrial revolution before discussing environmental issues in a pre-industrial and finally a post-industrial context. We will begin in media res by addressing issues of industrialization and colonialism in the mid-18th and 19th century before considering indigenous, medieval, and renaissance representations of nature. In the second half of the course, we return to examine contemporary issues from the early 20th century to the present.
The course will meet twice weekly in Spring 2025. One of these meetings will include a lecture with a guest faculty member from Barnard and Columbia, or occasionally with other experts, artists, and activists from New York and beyond, followed by questions from the audience on the lecture. The second meeting will emphasize student discussion of the lecture and associated readings, with the purpose of integrating each lecture into the total course framework. Since all the participating faculty are teaching full time, we will aim to schedule lectures in the late afternoon or evening to minimize conflicts. We would also like to open some of the lectures to the public, either virtually or in person, so that their impact could be felt beyond the class itself.
- Department: English @Barnard
- MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Linn C Mehta
CULPA: 18
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- 4 points
MUSIC THEORY III
Intermediate analysis and composition in a variety of tonal idioms.
- Department: Music
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Cheng W Lim
Info - 3 points
MUSIC THEORY IV
Intermediate analysis and composition in a variety of tonal and extended tonal idioms.
- Department: Music
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Cheng W Lim
Info - 3 points
Religion and Medicine in South Asia: Psy
RELI & MED IN SOUTH ASIA
In this course, students will come to see the imbrication of religion, power, and mental illness across South Asia by examining experiences of suffering and its management; the history of psychiatry in the British colonial era and its afterlives; and the relationship of religion to concepts of mental and emotional disorder. Students will identify models for medical structures of care, healing, and treatments in the context of religion, ritual, and quotidian life. Topics include diagnostic processes and the creation of categories, stigma and models of clinical care, hysteria, spirit possession, pharmaceuticals, and the relationship of trauma to political structures. This course has three sections: 1) the first portion undertakes a brief historical survey of medical disciplines and institutions in South Asia (such as the development of Ayurveda, Yunānī Ṭibb, and the rise of the bīmāristān); 2) the second portion of the course focuses on the rise of the asylum (sometimes called the pāgal khāna) in tandem with psychiatry and its twinned consequence: the pathologization of asceticism by British colonial technologies of discipline; 3) the final portion examines the relationship between British colonialism and psychoanalysis with the introduction of this western discipline to the subcontinent.
This course will take
critical
stock of historical structures throughout South Asia
claiming
to provide care (such as family, caste, healthcare, mental asylums, colonialism, educational systems, pensions, and much more). As a result, students come to consider concepts of social suffering, biopolitics, biosociality, political subjectivity, and postcolonial disorder.
Primary source material will include the following: śāstra, ethnography, clinical studies, poetry, scripture, ritual texts across Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions.
- Department: Religion @Barnard
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Meghan E Hartman
Info - 4 points
CONSUMER CULTURE IN MOD EUROPE
The development of the modern culture of consumption, with particular attention to the formation of the woman consumer. Topics include commerce and the urban landscape, changing attitudes toward shopping and spending, feminine fashion and conspicuous consumption, and the birth of advertising. Examination of novels, fashion magazines, and advertising images.
- Department: History @Barnard
- M 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Lisa Tiersten
CULPA: 45
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- 4 points
INTRO ORGANIC CHEMISTRY-LAB
Prerequisites: (CHEM BC2001) General Chemistry I with lab. Corequisites: CHEM BC3230 Basic techniques of experimental organic chemistry. Principles and methods of separation, purification, and characterization of organic compounds. Selected organic reactions.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- M 8:10 a.m.-noon
- T 8:10 a.m.-noon
- W 8:10 a.m.-noon
- W 5:40 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
- R 8:10 a.m.-noon
- M 5:40 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
- 2.5 points
LIVING AT THE MOVIES: THE PERSONA POEM I
Inspired by the Jim Carroll book of the same name, this class will examine the persona poem form specifically through the lens of film and television, focusing on how style, atmosphere and character translate from visual media to poetry. We will examine and discuss persona poems based on movie/television characters, writing the self into movies/television, and writing movie/television characters into personal experience. We will generate ideas and/or drafts of our own, centering the following questions, among others:
How do you create, sustain, and complicate tone without sacrificing clarity? How does a character transcend space/time limits to evolve from a first introduction to a cherished and known persona in a constrained space, whether that constraint be a 90-minute film or a 16-line poem? Which tensions accelerate and/or stifle character development, and which tensions permit a persona the most accessible, familiar, or surprising presence for a reader? What differentiates movie stars or actors from literary protagonists? Why are movies “cool,” how has “cool” evolved in film, and how do we render “cool” in poems, for the purpose of deepening the poem? What separates sentimentality from earnestness in film versus poetry?
The class is structured as a hybrid seminar/workshop: we will spend our time in class discussing assigned texts, visual media, and the connections and divergences between the two, as well as crafting our own poetic responses and interpretations and sharing them in a workshop format. Source material will include poetry that is persona-based in perspective or subject, film and television prompts, and field trips to meaningful NYC literary and/or filmic landmarks. We will explore possibilities in poetry to evoke and render common filmic techniques such as the tracking shot, the closeup, the montage, and others.
- Department: Writing
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Soren Stockman
Info - 3 points
ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
Operational amplifier circuits. Diodes and diode circuits. MOS and bipolar junction transistors. Biasing techniques. Small-signal models. Single-stage transistor amplifiers. Analysis and design of CMOS logic gates. A/D and D/A converters.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
David G Vallancourt
CULPA: 28
Info
- 3 points
QUEER VISIONS IN CONTEMPORARY FILM
QUEER VISIONS IN CONT FIL
In this class, we will focus on recurring themes and questions of contemporary queer cinema by engaging with a number of film genres and forms, and explore how filmmakers create queer visions of the world through their cinematic practices. We will also consider how these queer films are informed by various local, national, cultural and political contexts. Through a comparative, transnational and intersectional approach that takes into consideration the particularities of each filmmaker’s context, we will aim to answer the following questions: How do various cultural, national, linguistic, religious contexts affect the way queer identities are defined and depicted visually? How do these filmmakers create queer narratives that contest, complicate or reify dominant narratives of gender and sexuality? How do they play around with cinematic and genre conventions?
Films, directors and genres studied are subject to change but will likely include directors such as Celine Sciamma, Cheryl Dunye, Pedro Almodovar, Todd Haynes, among others; and various genres such as drama, romance, thriller, mockumentary, thriller and experimental film.
URBAN SPACE & CONFLICT IN MIDDLE EAST
This course explores how civil war, revolution, militarization, mass violence, refugee crises, and terrorism impact urban spaces, and how city dwellers engage in urban resilience, negotiate and attempt to reclaim their right to the city. Through case studies of Beirut (1975-present), Baghdad (2003-present), Cairo (2011-present), Diyarbakir (1914-present), Aleppo (1914-present), and Jerusalem (1914-present), this course traces how urban life adjusted to destruction (and post-conflict reconstruction), violence, and anarchy; how neighborhoods were reshaped; and how local ethnic, religious, and political dynamics played out in these cities and metropolises. Relying on multi-disciplinary and post-disciplinary scholarship, and employing a wealth of audiovisual material, literary works, and interviews conducted by the instructor, the course scrutinizes how conflicts have impacted urban life in the Middle East, and how civilians react to, confront, and resist militarization in urban spaces.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Khatchig Mouradian
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Ornithology
You saw a bird today.
You saw a bird yesterday.
You will surely see a bird tomorrow. Without knowing you, or knowing what you do with your days, I know this for a fact about you.
Unless they are under absolute confinement, chances are that every human being anywhere on the planet will see at least one bird every day. Birds are everywhere. They are mostly diurnal, they fly and they vocalize. Probably more so than any other kind of animal, this makes birds particularly conspicuous and appealing to humans.
But when you saw a bird today, did you really
see
it? Did it register at all? Probably not—no more than a passing car or cloud or a stranger in the sidewalk. That’s a shame, because birds have shaped modern biology more than any other group, inspiring discoveries in ecology, evolution, and behavior. They also move billions of dollars each year through birdwatching.
The overarching goal of this class is for you to start really
seeing
birds for the wondrous animals that they are and all that they have taught us about biology. This will include identifying and naming bird species, having the basic vocabulary to talk about birds, and relating your bird observations in the field to conceptual knowledge about their evolution and ecology.
Towards that goal, students will participate in a combination of lectures, readings, group discussions, written assignments, and group and solo outings to observe birds in Central Park. Topics addressed will include: evolutionary origins of birds; bird systematics and classification; the biology of feathers; bioacoustics and birdsong; the biology of migration; bird reproductive behavior; and bird conservation.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
- MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rafael Marcondes
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MODERN V
This contemporary technique class invites students into an embodied practice focusing on a daily physical experimentation and challenge. Emphasis will be placed on corporeal ways to explore questions around propelling, listening, connecting, healing, and action. This course offers a chance for students to use their sensatorial experience to reflect on individual pathways/ desires for expression while, challenging the body to take risks and practice as their movement knowledge expands. Emphasis on sensation, initiation, and weight will be introduced in a floor or standing warm-up that will expand to a standing exploration of the transition between form and space. A focus will be to continue our development of a strong-grounded technique with healthy placement that moves with ease in and out of the floor. We will continue to develop our true embodied relationship to environment, people, and time.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lisa Boudreau
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IMPROVISATION
Improvisation is an open level, movement based class in which students will learn collaborative improvisation tools, skills, practices, and mindset through experience, reflection, practice, and generation. Deep play, support for others, and a willingness to experiment and reflect are key in this discovery based course.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Caitlin Trainor
CULPA: 11
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- 2 points
INTRO TO ITALIAN LITERATURE II
Prerequisites: ITAL UN2102 or the equivalent. UN3334-UN3333 is the basic course in Italian literature. UN3334: Authors and works from the Cinquecento to the present. Taught in Italian.
- Department: Italian
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Steven J Baker
CULPA: 3
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- 3 points
ADVANCED ITALIAN I
Prerequisites: ITALUN2102 or the equivalent. If you did not take Intermediate Italian at Columbia in the semester preceding the current one, you must take the placement test, offered by the Italian Department at the beginning of each semester. Written and oral self-expression in compositions and oral reports on a variety of topics; grammar review. Required for majors and concentrators.
- Department: Italian
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Felice Beneduce
CULPA: 7
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- 3 points
MODERN VI
This contemporary technique class invites students into an embodied practice focusing on a daily physical experimentation and challenge. Emphasis will be placed on corporeal ways to explore questions around propelling, listening, connecting, healing, and action. This course offers a chance for students to use their sensatorial experience to reflect on individual pathways/ desires for expression while, challenging the body to take risks and practice as their movement knowledge expands. Emphasis on sensation, initiation, and weight will be introduced in a floor or standing warm-up that will expand to a standing exploration of the transition between form and space. A focus will be to continue our development of a strong-grounded technique with healthy placement that moves with ease in and out of the floor. We will continue to develop our true embodied relationship to environment, people, and time.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Francesca Dominguez
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Instructor:
Tamisha Guy
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ITALIAN THROUGH CINEMA
Prerequisites: ITAL V3335. Students will develop advanced language competence while analyzing and discussing Italian film comedies and their reflection of changing Italian culture and society. Films by Monicelli, Germi, Moretti, Wertmuller, Soldini and others.
- Department: Italian
- TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Patrizia Palumbo
CULPA: 15
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- 3 points
QUANTITATVE-INSTRMNTL TECH-LAB
Prerequisites: CHEM BC3231 and CHEM BC3333
Quantitative techniques in volumetric analysis, pH measurement, UV-Visible, absorption, and fluorescence spectroscopy, and chromatographic separations. Data analysis with spreadsheets.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- M 8:10 a.m.-noon
- T 8:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Angela L Paoletta
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CONTACT IMPROVISATION
Prerequisites: Limited to twenty people. Examination of the gender-neutral partnering technique that is now common in contemporary dance. Focus is placed on recent improvisatory forms, sensation building, center connection and risk. Emphasis is placed on listening and sensing rather than controlling or leading.
This course will introduce the exploration of a partnering technique that is enriching for the mind and body. Contact Improvisation is not only an important tool for the dancer as it informs the body how to move with weight and connection and is required by most contemporary styles – it is also a technique that informs the artist in us all as it emphasizes listening, trust, and spontaneous creativity. In this course, students will use contact to support the creation of most duets, trios, and larger group dance. Focus is placed on recent improvisatory forms, sensation building, center connection, and finding the safe edges of risk as well as applying these studies to creation and expression. Students in this course will explore their own weight and how it relates to other bodies by listening as well as employing emotional, psychological, and cultural structures to their improvisation. Emphasis is placed on listening and sensation rather than controlling or leading. Students will explore the dynamic ride and risk taking of improvisation and trusting another body by giving and taking weight. Contact Improvisation is open to all students.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- TR 9 a.m.-10 a.m.
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Instructor:
Colleen Thomas
CULPA: 6
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- 2 points
Science-based evidence in policymaking
Science & Policymaking
In all societies, public policies are developed to solve social problems such as extreme
poverty, inequality, basic sanitation, health and basic care, family planning, food
security, mental health, abuse of illegal substances, education and protection of
vulnerable groups. How can we ensure that these public policies are based on solid
evidence, which would guarantee the greatest probability of effectiveness? And how do
we plan and adapt the implementation of these policies to different realities, respecting
cultural and historical differences?
In order to achieve this, it is useful, if not necessary, to be acquainted with scientific
thinking and the accumulation and use of evidence. It is also necessary to understand
our own limitations and cognitive biases that interfere in the decision-making process,
as well as understand the political and social context where decisions need to be made.
This course aims to provide students with the tools necessary to assess public policies
critically and rationally, as well as to evaluate different types of scientific evidence and
understand how and where it is appropriate to include scientific evidence in building
effective public policy.
- Department: Science and Public Policy @Barnard
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Natalia Pasternak Taschner
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Faiths, Feelings, Communities Nation
Nations & Religions in EC
The aim of the course is to introduce students to the highly heterogeneous ethnic and religious relations of Central and Eastern Europe and the interrelationship between them. By Central and Eastern Europe, I mean primarily the territory of the former Habsburg Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and its neighbors. The end of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century were, for all ethnic groups, a time of both the birth of modern nations and the general secularization. Religions and churches played different roles in the birth of each nationalism. During the semester, students will learn about the most important religions and denominations, their history, spread, structure, teachings, role in the organization of societies: Roman Catholic Church, Greek Catholic Church, Greek Orthodox Church; Protestantism (Calvinist, Lutheran, Unitarian Churches); Judaism and Neo-Protestant denominations. Students will learn how the role of Catholicism in Polish or Croatian nationalism, Greek Orthodoxy in Serbian nationalism, and the presence of several dominant denominations in the Hungarian, Romanian or Slovakian nations became decisive. Conflicts between denominations often expressed conflicts of an ethnic, social or political nature. The laws enacted by the state made several attempts to ensure the coexistence of the denominations. Until 1918, all this took place within the framework of the Habsburg Empire, hence the importance of the relationship of the Empire and the Churches (especially the Catholic Church) to the state, and the phenomenon of Josephinism.
- Department: History
- M 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Csaba Fazekas
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THEORETICL FOUNTNS-POLIT ECON-REC
THEORETICAL FOUNTNS PE-RE
Disscussion/Recitation session for Econ BC3041 Theoretical Foundations of Political Economy.
- Department: Economics @Barnard
- W 2 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Faculty
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ADVANCED READINGS IN HUNGARIAN
- Department: Italian
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Carol H Rounds
CULPA: 5
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- 3 points
JAPANESE CONTEMPORARY CINEMA & MEDIA CUL
JAPANESE CONTMP CINEMA &
The course will closely examine 1) the various traits of postmodern Japanese cinemas in the 1980s and the 1990s after the phase of global cinematic modernism, 2) contemporary media phenomena such as media convergence and the media ecologies of anime, 3) media activism after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, and beyond. We will proceed through careful analysis of films, anime, and digital media, while also addressing larger questions of historiography in general.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Takuya Tsunoda
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Unruly Women in Early Modern Drama
Unruly Women in EarlyMod
Concentrating on the drama of early modern England, this course will focus on women who behave badly. Some of these characters cheat, lie, and murder, while others perfect the guise of seeming compliance; some brazenly flout the structures that aim to contain them, while others are subtler in their subversion. We will use these plays to investigate what is by turns exciting, threatening, and frightening about these unruly women, paying attention to the ways that they are punished and sometimes rewarded. We will also attend to the resources of theatrical form, especially the early modern use of boy actors to play women’s parts, to ask how the conditions of staging uphold or undercut the plays’ ideological messages. Finally, we will supplement our reading of this drama with other historical and cultural texts from this period—pamphlets, advice literature, poems, court cases, and ballads—in order to get a better sense of the plays in relation to early modern gender, sexual, and political norms, many of which were crucially different from our own.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lauren E Robertson
CULPA: 5
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- 4 points