The Barnard Architecture + Design Summer Institute explores how design impacts the
built environment through hands-on design projects, field trips, and opportunities to
meet designers and makers throughout the city.
This program introduces high school students to architecture and related fields that
contribute to the design of our city. This three-week program includes on-campus work
in the architecture design studio, computer lab, and the Barnard Design Center, as well
as field trips throughout the city to see design offices, construction projects, and
exhibitions. Students will design through drawings and models - by hand and digitally.
Summer students will be mentored by current college students majoring in architecture
and will have opportunities to meet design professionals and those who help imagine
and construct the built environment.
Fashion and dress are considered markers of individual and social identities, used to express religious beliefs, group association, class, ceremonial functions, domestic functions, gender dynamics, and sexuality dynamics. This course will explore global fashion and dress— focusing on textiles and body ornaments used in different cultures throughout history. The course will be organized geographically—Asia, Africa, the Americas, etc. — spanning from the early modern period to the contemporary era. The course will encourage students to engage with theoretical frameworks from material culture, anthropology, history, and textile and fashion study.
Barnard’s 2-Week Sustainable Food and the City introduces students to the U.S food system, examining food production, distribution, consumption, and waste management through four key lenses: agriculture; health, policy and justice; food systems and climate change; and soil health.
Each week, students will explore farms all across the city and New York state to learn hands-on from farmers growing our food. The program will invite experts and professionals from each unit to guide student's learning experience. Students will take a deep dive into each of these units to imagine a food system that produces food in an ecologically mindful way while supporting our communities and the planet.
Prerequisites: High school algebra or the instructor's permission. Recommended: high school physics and chemistry. This course is preparation for CHEM UN1403 General Chemistry I Lecture or the equivalent, as well as for other science courses. It is intended for students who have not attended school for sometime or who do not have a firm grasp of high school chemistry. Topics include inorganic nomenclature, chemical reactions, chemical bonding and its relation to molecular structure, stoichiometry, periodic properties of elements, chemical equilibrium, gas laws, acids and bases, and electrochemistry. Please note that students must attend a recitation section.
Extended Residence
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How should those in positions of power use it? What is the role of society, mentorship, education, and individuals in preparing people for leadership roles? This course will take a historical view at the ways in which people in various cultures and societies across different time periods have sought to answer these questions. In approaching this topic, we will consider the role of exemplarity—the idea that someone else’s actions, behaviors, and political ideas might inform our own practice. To this end, we will read texts that use exemplarity to model political and non-political leadership. This class will consist of several readings, brief writing assignments, and a final in-class symposium in which students will present the results of a research project.
How should those in positions of power use it? What is the role of society, mentorship, education, and individuals in preparing people for leadership roles? This course will take a historical view at the ways in which people in various cultures and societies across different time periods have sought to answer these questions. In approaching this topic, we will consider the role of exemplarity—the idea that someone else’s actions, behaviors, and political ideas might inform our own practice. To this end, we will read texts that use exemplarity to model political and non-political leadership. This class will consist of several readings, brief writing assignments, and a final in-class symposium in which students will present the results of a research project.
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This course will introduce students to concepts and methods that allow them to develop their research voice, navigate the virtual research landscape, and develop an online professional presence.
This course will introduce students to concepts and methods that allow them to develop their research voice, navigate the virtual research landscape, and develop an online professional presence.
The idea of gender is a relatively recent formulation, often complicated by the ferocity distinction between the sexes found across history. This course (divided into two parts) uses art objects, literary texts, philosophy, psychology and finally film and digital media to interrogate the ideas of sex and gender, to explore the violent ways in which female sexuality has been denied or constrained, that same sex desire was erased or pathologized, and how the transgender experience, even as it works to deny sexual difference, complicates the relations between both sex and gender.
The idea of gender is a relatively recent formulation, often complicated by the ferocity distinction between the sexes found across history. This course (divided into two parts) uses art objects, literary texts, philosophy, psychology and finally film and digital media to interrogate the ideas of sex and gender, to explore the violent ways in which female sexuality has been denied or constrained, that same sex desire was erased or pathologized, and how the transgender experience, even as it works to deny sexual difference, complicates the relations between both sex and gender.
The aim of this course is to explore the history and discourses of modern art, modernism, and the
avant-garde via the social and theoretical questions understood to have driven the development
of artistic modernism around the globe from roughly 1789 to 1968. The course will be organized
according to four major lenses of inquiry: “Aesthetic Categories within Social Art Histories,”
“Formalism and Autonomy,” “Perception and Artistic Production,” and “the Role of the Mind,
or, the Beholder’s Share.” Each of these lenses, or themes, will be driven by a set of readings,
images, and key terms that together constitute “conversations,” or orientations toward the history
of modern art. An aim of this course is to enable students to identify and ultimately enter into
focused, art-historical conversations and to understand their positioning within the broader
discourse. However, because there is a fair amount of conceptual overlap among the course’s
themes, the foremost goal is to enable critical analysis of modern, visual artworks from multiple
perspectives, or within multiple frameworks. In considering the many, dynamic engagements of
theory, history, and visual artworks, this course will provide not only a strong knowledge of
modern art, modernism, and the avant-garde, it will also help students develop a sense of the
methods used to study the histories and theories of modern art.
The aim of this course is to explore the history and discourses of modern art, modernism, and the
avant-garde via the social and theoretical questions understood to have driven the development
of artistic modernism around the globe from roughly 1789 to 1968. The course will be organized
according to four major lenses of inquiry: “Aesthetic Categories within Social Art Histories,”
“Formalism and Autonomy,” “Perception and Artistic Production,” and “the Role of the Mind,
or, the Beholder’s Share.” Each of these lenses, or themes, will be driven by a set of readings,
images, and key terms that together constitute “conversations,” or orientations toward the history
of modern art. An aim of this course is to enable students to identify and ultimately enter into
focused, art-historical conversations and to understand their positioning within the broader
discourse. However, because there is a fair amount of conceptual overlap among the course’s
themes, the foremost goal is to enable critical analysis of modern, visual artworks from multiple
perspectives, or within multiple frameworks. In considering the many, dynamic engagements of
theory, history, and visual artworks, this course will provide not only a strong knowledge of
modern art, modernism, and the avant-garde, it will also help students develop a sense of the
methods used to study the histories and theories of modern art.
Residence Unit
This is a "dummy" course for CC and SEAS students studying abroad on a Columbia-Approved program (programs not administered by Columbia) for the semester.
This program examines the interplay of science, medicine, and the experience of health and illness by way of epistemological questions—“How do we know what we know?”—to appreciate not only what becomes defined and recognized as a disease, but the power relationships that produce these effects. This program takes up current and historical examples to interrogate how the benefits of advances in science and medicine remain unequally shared, while exploring critical tools social scientists have offered as possible interventions. Major themes from this session will address biomedicine as a cultural system, the politics of surveillance and care, the performance and rituals of healing, the structure of the US public health system, and others. Students will be engaging with work from a range of scholars, including anthropologists, philosophers, historians, physicians, scientists, and journalists, also with an eye to how these perspectives can inform the health experience of living in New York City.
What is “race”? What is “ethnicity”? How are they related and how do they shape the life chances of people in the United States? In this class, we discuss racism’s origin story, particularly how capitalist interests motivated the creation of racial hierarchy. We focus on how White-controlled institutions and elite actors mediate racial and ethnic groups’ access to material and social resources, leading to Whites disproportionately benefiting from U.S. social processes. We investigate social processes through intersectional—noting relationships between race, class, and gender—and historical lens, highlighting how racism evolves over time in response to resistance. We also examine the consequences of racism across social domains. Our course concludes by grappling with the questions: (1) How effective have social movements, and other forms of social organization, been in resisting and ending racism? (2) What are the implications for current racial justice activism?
The Thought Leaders Series, presented in the Fall, brings to the Journalism School journalists and media leaders who will address current issues and concerns. The series, which takes place most Tuesdays in the fall semester, is designed to complement what students are learning in their classes and provide them the opportunity to meet.
All Lectures are at 6PM in the Jamail Lecture Hall in Pulitzer Hall.
All M.S. students are expected to attend. #
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This program examines the interplay of science, medicine, and the experience of health and illness by way of epistemological questions—“How do we know what we know?”—to appreciate not only what becomes defined and recognized as a disease, but the power relationships that produce these effects. This program takes up current and historical examples to interrogate how the benefits of advances in science and medicine remain unequally shared, while exploring critical tools social scientists have offered as possible interventions. Major themes from this session will address biomedicine as a cultural system, the politics of surveillance and care, the performance and rituals of healing, the structure of the US public health system, and others. Students will be engaging with work from a range of scholars, including anthropologists, philosophers, historians, physicians, scientists, and journalists, also with an eye to how these perspectives can inform the health experience of living in New York City.
Students will also take a concurrent course on understanding the lived experiences of health and wellness through qualitative research techniques.
What do Diet Coke, solar panels, and synthetic organs have in common? They are all things that a chemical engineer can work on improving! Whether it's making batteries more efficient to electrify the nation, designing instruments for space exploration, or creating new, vegan products for skin care, chemical engineers are influential in all aspects of society. Ever wonder what's inside a vanadium flow battery? Have you heard of using gene therapy to cure cancer? Do you wish you knew a little more about microrobots that are used for water purification?
This course gives you a taste of everyday science in your life and shows you how chemical engineers are working towards solving the prevalent issues of the world. You'll become more knowledgeable about what goes into objects and processes you might normally overlook. We will show you what engineering hurdles the world faces today along with how you can get involved. Hopefully, you'll finish this course marveling at the recent advances of engineering and inspired to become an engineer!
What do Diet Coke, solar panels, and synthetic organs have in common? They are all things that a chemical engineer can work on improving! Whether it's making batteries more efficient to electrify the nation, designing instruments for space exploration, or creating new, vegan products for skin care, chemical engineers are influential in all aspects of society. Ever wonder what's inside a vanadium flow battery? Have you heard of using gene therapy to cure cancer? Do you wish you knew a little more about microrobots that are used for water purification?
This course gives you a taste of everyday science in your life and shows you how chemical engineers are working towards solving the prevalent issues of the world. You'll become more knowledgeable about what goes into objects and processes you might normally overlook. We will show you what engineering hurdles the world faces today along with how you can get involved. Hopefully, you'll finish this course marveling at the recent advances of engineering and inspired to become an engineer!
The Child Abuse Reporting Education (CARE) Project is an online resource designed to teach graduate students in the Columbia University School of Social Work and the College of Dental Medicine how to recognize the symptoms of child abuse and how to report abuse when acting in their professional capacities.
The Child Abuse Reporting Education (CARE) online training. CARE is a mandatory requirement to graduate. It will take you approximately 60 minutes. Social Workers have the responsibility as mandated reporters of child abuse.
DATA SCIENCE: Decoding the Secrets of Data
How (not) to bet: Demystifying probability
This course will explore the vibrant history of activism and social organizing among African diasporic women in the Americas. It will begin by introducing essential concepts in Gender and African Diaspora history. Then, the course will discuss vignettes of African-descended women’s organizing during slavery in different areas of the Americas. Thus, it explores methods ranging from cultural and intellectual production to participation in legal culture, the cultural arts and dress, religious, spiritual, military warfare, and other forms of intersectional political activism. The course will also explore critical aspects of hemispheric American slavery and racial identity from a transnational, local, and regional perspective. After quickly reviewing the transatlantic slave trade, the course will reflect on how Black women intellectuals have organized to discuss the history and memory of slavery from the period through emancipation and the interwar period up until contemporary times. The second half of the course will reflect on how slavery has been remembered in the transatlantic world.
Math in Action: Operations Research for Social Good
Product Studio: From Idea to Prototype
Sustainable Engineering
Sustainable Engineering
1/4 RU tuition for Climate School Students
Extended Residence enrollment category for Climate School students.
Program components include experience in working on genuine engineering research projects, research skills and college prep workshops, science communications workshops, and additional supplemental seminars and opportunities.
Prerequisites: high school mathematics, but not calculus. Basic Physics serves as preparation for General Physics 1201-1202 and is intended for those students who do not have a solid foundation in high school physics or who have been away from school for several years. The course will provide an introduction to the basic concepts and fundamental laws of physics, focusing on mechanics, together with a review of the mathematical techniques needed for problem-solving.