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
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- T 4 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nick R Smith
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Faculty
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QUEER HARLEM
This course explores representations of queer Harlem in African American literature, sonic culture, and performance. We will consider the history and making of Harlem, key figures of the Harlem Renaissance, and the aesthetic innovations of writers and artists who defied the racial, sexual, and gendered conventions of their time. We will be guided by an intersectional approach to the study of race, gender, and sexuality and the methods of Black queer studies, African American and African diaspora literary studies, as well as sound and performance scholarship. We will ask when, where, and what was/is gay Harlem; how we might excavate its histories; map its borders; and speculate on its material and imagined futures.
- Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Maleda Belilgne
Info - 4 points
Climate and Global Migrations
This course explores the deep historical roots of climate-related migration. Before the categories of climate and environmental refugees emerged in recent decades, climate variability, environmental disasters, and ecological change have often shaped human mobility. Building on case studies from across the world and a timeline spanning from antiquity to the present, the class will examine the relationship between human migrations, environmental crises, economic transformations, and political conflicts. Since displacement disproportionately affects vulnerable communities that rely on less resilient environments, the class also sheds light on global inequality by looking at the politics of freedom of movement, nativism, and the connection between anti-immigration backlash.
- Department: History @Barnard
- M 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Angelo Caglioti
h-index: 2 Info - 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 noon-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gabri Christa
CULPA: 1 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
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Uttara Coorlawala
CULPA: 4 Info - 3 points
Afro-Indigenous Relations: Coexistence,
This course examines Afro-Indigeneity as an emerging critical field and as a decolonial framework for the historical, cultural, and political analysis of Latin America and the Caribbean. Through the study of literature, history, film, music, and critical theory, the course analyzes the relationships, conflicts, and interdependencies between Afro-descendant and Indigenous peoples from the colonial period to the present.
- Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alex Pereira
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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
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Siobhan F Burke
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
HISTORY OF SOCIAL DANCING
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Seth S Williams
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
This course investigates “Asian American” literature as a nexus of two larger social forces: (1) migration, as a lens to investigate xenophobia, nationalism, settler violence, and working class struggle; and (2) imperialism, often a driving force that unleashes the travelers and refugees that comprise the former category. Adopting a heavily historical emphasis that will use Asian American identity as a lens to examine migration and imperialism, this course seeks to destabilize all three terms in its title: Asian, American, and literature. Students will (1) conduct an oral history with an Asian American or immigrant subject, (2) research Asian American little magazines and create a response on their own; and (3) write a final term paper. We will read many texts that are primary sources such as movement journals and little magazines and oral histories as well as other non-literary sources (e.g., Supreme Court decisions, pamphlets and op-eds for and against Chinese exclusion, letters from the Ghadar party of Sikh and Punjabi anti-colonialists, an audio recording of a South Asian woman who traveled on the Komagata Maru, demands from the Third World Liberation Front).
We will read documents from the Chinese exclusion period alongside Maxine Hong Kingston’s
China Men
and the poems written by migrants detained at Angel Island—a theme of incarceration that we will pick up in reading about Japanese American incarceration. Other texts will explore proletarian power, such as Carlos Bulosan’s
America Is In The Heart
and Sujatha Gidla’s
An Ant Among Elephants
, or the American wars in Asia, such as Richard E. Kim’s
The Martyred
. Some writers will come from the boundaries of a Pan-Asian American identity, such as Arab modernist Ameen Rihani, or not be written by “Asian Americans” at all, such as the memoir of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian man detained at Guantánamo Bay.
Anti-Apartheid Solidarity Movement
This course examines the struggle against South African apartheid with a particular focus on the global solidarity movement in the 20th century. The class will examine key turning points in the movement, its connection with broader anti-colonial and anti-racist struggles, gendered constructs of apartheid and feminist leadership in the movement, and the circulation of theories of racial capitalism. Students will understand how and why apartheid became a global concern. Students will work on a project using the primary source material available on the African Activist Archive Digital Project at Michigan State University.
- Department: History @Barnard
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Premilla Nadasen
CULPA: 10
Wikipedia
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- 4 points
SR SEM IN BIOLOGY
Required for all majors who do not select the year-long Senior Thesis Research & Seminar (BIOL BC3593 & BC3594) to fulfill their senior capstone requirement. These seminars allow students to explore the primary literature in the Biological Sciences in greater depth than can be achieved in a lecture course. Attention will be focused on both theoretical and empirical work. Seminar periods are devoted to oral reports and discussion of assigned readings and student reports. Students will write one extensive literature review of a topic related to the central theme of the seminar section.
Topics vary per semester and include, but are not limited to:
Plant Development
,
Animal Development & Evolution,
Molecular Evolution, Microbiology & Global Change, Genomics, Comparative & Reproductive Endocrinology, and Data Intensive Approaches in Biology.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
- F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rafael Marcondes
Info - 4 points
GUIDED RESEARCH & SEMINAR
This year-long course is open to junior and senior Biology majors and minors. Students will complete an independent research project in Biology under the guidance of a faculty mentor at Barnard or another local institution. Attendance at the weekly seminar is required. By the end of the year, students will write a scientific paper about their project and give a poster presentation about their research at the Barnard Biology Research Symposium.
Completion of this year-long course fulfills two upper-level laboratory requirements for the Biology major or minor. This course must be taken in sequence, beginning with BIOL BC3591 in the Fall and continuing with BIOL BC3592 in the Spring. Acceptance into this course requires confirmation of the research project by the course instructors. A Barnard internal mentor is required if the research project is not supervised by a Barnard faculty member. This course cannot be taken at the same time as BIOL BC3593-BIOL BC3594.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
- M 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
- 4 points
GUIDED RESEARCH & SEMINAR
This year-long course is open to junior and senior Biology majors and minors. Students will complete an independent research project in Biology under the guidance of a faculty mentor at Barnard or another local institution. Attendance at the weekly seminar is required. By the end of the year, students will write a scientific paper about their project and give a poster presentation about their research at the Barnard Biology Research Symposium.
Completion of this year-long course fulfills two upper-level laboratory requirements for the Biology major or minor. This course must be taken in sequence, beginning with BIOL BC3591 in the Fall and continuing with BIOL BC3592 in the Spring. Acceptance into this course requires confirmation of the research project by the course instructors. A Barnard internal mentor is required if the research project is not supervised by a Barnard faculty member. This course cannot be taken at the same time as BIOL BC3593-BIOL BC3594.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
- M 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
- 4 points
SENIOR SEMINAR
Research and scholarly writing in chosen topics relating to dance. Methods of investigation are drawn from prominent archival collections and personal interviews, as well as other resources. Papers are formally presented to the Dance Department upon completion.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Paul A Scolieri
CULPA: 19
Info
- 4 points
NEUROSCIENCE GUIDED RESEARCH
This lab-based course introduces students to advanced methods in cognitive neuroscience, focusing on the application of electroencephalography (EEG) for real-time recording of brain activity. Unlike traditional approaches that study how the brain responds to different external stimuli or task demands, this course centers on spontaneous brain activity that occurs during rest or just before experimental events. Whether or not spontaneous brain activity is just meaningless noise remains an active area of research in cognitive neuroscience. Some researchers believe that spontaneous brain activity may be an important factor shaping our subjective experience of the world. However, the underlying mechanisms remain elusive in part due to the challenges in objectively defining and measuring subjective experience.
In this course, students will address this challenge by developing methods to study the relationship between spontaneous brain activity and subjective experience, with a particular focus on mind-wandering and the sensory phenomena elicited by Ganzflicker and Ganzfeld stimulation. The course culminates in independent research projects where students test their hypotheses by collecting and analyzing behavioral and EEG data. Key questions to address include: can spontaneous fluctuations in brain activity account for why people sometimes zone out while performing a task? Can the same fluctuations explain why people sometimes have different sensory experiences despite constant external stimuli? Do individual variations in spontaneous brain activity help explain why some people are more likely to report such experiences?
Note: The course involves weekly in person meetings as well as asynchronous work on data acquisition, analysis, and primary article readings for approximately 6 additional hours per week (on average).
- Department: Neuroscience & Behavior @Barnard
- R 4 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kara Pham
CULPA: 9
Info
- 4 points
SENIOR THESIS RESEARCH & SEMINAR
SR THESIS RESEARCH & SEMI
This year-long course is open to senior Biology majors. Students will complete an independent research project in Biology under the guidance of a faculty mentor at Barnard or another local institution. Attendance at the weekly seminar is required. By the end of the year, students will write a scientific paper about their project and give an oral presentation about their research at the Barnard Biology Research Symposium.
Completion of this year-long course fulfills the senior capstone requirement for the Biology major. This course must be taken in sequence, beginning with BIOL BC3593 in the Fall and continuing with BIOL BC3594 in the Spring. Acceptance into this course requires confirmation of the research project by the course instructors. A Barnard internal mentor is required if the research project is not supervised by a Barnard faculty member. This course cannot be taken at the same time as BIOL BC3591-BIOL BC3592.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
- M 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
- 4 points
SENIOR THESIS RESEARCH & SEMINAR
SR THESIS RESEARCH & SEMI
This year-long course is open to senior Biology majors. Students will complete an independent research project in Biology under the guidance of a faculty mentor at Barnard or another local institution. Attendance at the weekly seminar is required. By the end of the year, students will write a scientific paper about their project and give an oral presentation about their research at the Barnard Biology Research Symposium.
Completion of this year-long course fulfills the senior capstone requirement for the Biology major. This course must be taken in sequence, beginning with BIOL BC3593 in the Fall and continuing with BIOL BC3594 in the Spring. Acceptance into this course requires confirmation of the research project by the course instructors. A Barnard internal mentor is required if the research project is not supervised by a Barnard faculty member. This course cannot be taken at the same time as BIOL BC3591-BIOL BC3592.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
- M 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
- 4 points
RSRCH/SEM-NEUROSCNCE&BEHAVIOR
Prerequisites: Open to senior Neuroscience and Behavior majors. Permission of the instructor. This is a year-long course. By the end of the spring semester program planning period during junior year, majors should identify the lab they will be working in during their senior year. Discussion and conferences on a research project culminate in a written and oral senior thesis. Each project must be supervised by a scientist working at Barnard or at another local institution. Successful completion of the seminar substitutes for the major examination.
- Department: Neuroscience & Behavior @Barnard
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Russell D Romeo
CULPA: 9
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Elizabeth P Bauer
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Alex White
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Instructor:
Kevin G Bath
Info - 4 points
GUIDED RESEARCH
Similar to BIOL BC3591-BIOL BC3592, this is a one-semester course that provides students with degree credit for unpaid research
without
a seminar component. You may enroll in BIOL BC3597 for between 1-4 credits per semester. As a rule of thumb, you should be spending approximately 3 hours per week per credit on your research project.
A
Project Approval Form
must be submitted to the department each semester that you enroll in this course. Your Barnard research mentor (if your lab is at Barnard) or internal adviser in the Biology Department (if your lab is elsewhere) must approve your planned research
before
you enroll in BIOL BC3597. You should sign up for your mentor's section.
This course does not fulfill any Biology major requirements. It is open to students beginning in their first year.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
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Instructor:
Rafael Marcondes
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Hilary Callahan
CULPA: 4 h-index: 17 Info -
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John Glendinning
CULPA: 23 h-index: 39 Info -
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Jordan Balaban
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Jj L Miranda
CULPA: 3 Info -
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Alison Pischedda
CULPA: 3
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Jonathan Snow
CULPA: 7 h-index: 18 Info -
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Brian Morton
CULPA: 21 Info -
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Jennifer H Mansfield
CULPA: 2 h-index: 15 Info -
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Gabrielle Corradino
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Jessica Goldstein
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Emlyn J Resetarits
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Instructor:
Rishita Shah
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PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
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Instructor:
Christian Rojas
CULPA: 24
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Instructor:
Marisa C Buzzeo
CULPA: 2 Info -
Instructor:
Dina C Merrer
CULPA: 24
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Andrew C Crowther
CULPA: 1 Info -
Instructor:
Michael Campbell
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Instructor:
Rachel Austin
CULPA: 18
Wikipedia
h-index: 28
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Instructor:
Christina Vizcarra
CULPA: 1 Info -
Instructor:
Rebecca Donegan
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Instructor:
Meenakshi S Rao
CULPA: 24 Info - 2 points
PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- 2 points
PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
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Instructor:
Christian Rojas
CULPA: 24
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Marisa C Buzzeo
CULPA: 2 Info -
Instructor:
Dina C Merrer
CULPA: 24
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Andrew C Crowther
CULPA: 1 Info -
Instructor:
Michael Campbell
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Rachel Austin
CULPA: 18
Wikipedia
h-index: 28
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Instructor:
Christina Vizcarra
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Instructor:
Rebecca Donegan
Info - 4 points
PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- 4 points
GIRLS' SCHOOLS: THE LITERATURE OF WOMEN
From the finishing school to the convent to the women’s college, spaces of female education have long fascinated writers. More than just academic spaces, these are also unique worlds of friendship and exclusion, desire and alienation, community and social fracture, conformity and transgression. In this course, we will explore how women’s education has been imagined in novels, poetry, and film from the early modern period to the present. Beginning with competing visions of women’s education in early feminist and anti-feminist thought, we’ll go on to explore how imaginative writers from the nineteenth century to the present have envisioned the girls’ school as both a literary and a social space. What kinds of cultural fantasies attach to these spaces, and what narratives and social relationships do they enable? How are differences of class, race, sexuality, and religion negotiated within them? Do girls’ schools offer a world apart from society, or do they recreate and intensify outside social dynamics within their walls? Our exploration will take us across genres and media, including the Bildungsroman, the detective novel, the narrative poem, and the horror film. Readings will include works by Charlotte Brontë, Fleur Jaeggy, Jamaica Kincaid, Mary McCarthy, Dorothy Sayers, Muriel Spark, Alfred Tennyson, Mary Wollstonecraft, and others.
- Department: English @Barnard
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jayne Hildebrand
CULPA: 3
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- 4 points
THE POLITICS OF FOOD
- Department: Women's and Gender Studies
- F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Janet Jakobsen
CULPA: 6
Wikipedia
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- 4 points
Introduction to Continuous Control Syste
Intr to Continuous Contro
Introduction to continuous systems with the treatment of classical and state-space formulations. Mathematical concepts, complex variables, integral transforms and their inverses, differential equations, and relevant linear algebra. Classical feedback control, time/frequency domain design, stability analysis, Laplace transform formulation and solutions, block diagram simplification and manipulation, signal flow graphs, modeling physical systems and linearization. state-space formulation and modeling, in parallel with classical single-input single-output formulation, connections between the two formulations. Transient and steady state analysis, methods of stability analysis, such as root locus methods, Nyquist stability criterion, Routh Hurwitz criterion, pole/zero placement, Bode plot analysis, Nichols chart analysis, phase lead and lag compensators, controllability, observability, realization of canonical forms, state estimation in multivariable systems, time-variant systems. Introduction to advanced stability analysis such as Lyapunov stability and simple optimal control formulation. May not take for credit if already received credit for EEME E4600.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
- W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Homayoon Beigi
Info - 3 points
REHEARSAL&PERFRMNCE IN DANCE
The course can be taken for 1-3 credits. Students are graded and take part in the full production of a dance as performers, choreographers, designers, or stage technicians.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- MW 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Instructor:
Francesca Dominguez
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Candace Brown
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Instructor:
Antonio Carmena
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REHEARSAL&PERFRMNCE IN DANCE
The course can be taken for 1-3 credits. Students are graded and take part in the full production of a dance as performers, choreographers, designers, or stage technicians.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- TR 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
- 1-3 points
THIRD YEAR MOD COLLOQ TIBET I
For those whose knowledge is equivalent to a student who’s completed the Second Year course. The course develops students’ reading comprehension skills through reading selected modern Tibetan literature. Tibetan is used as the medium of instruction and interaction to develop oral fluency and proficiency.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Sonam Tsering
Info - 4 points
CHILDREN AT RISK
Prerequisites: PSYC UN1010, PSYC UN2280, PSYC UN2620, or PSYC UN2680, and the instructors permission. Considers contemporary risk factors in childrens lives. The immediate and enduring biological and behavioral impact of risk factors.
- Department: Psychology
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- 4 points
SENIOR RESEARCH THESIS
Discussions of the student's Independent Research project during the fall and spring terms that culminate in a written and oral senior thesis. Each project must be supervised by a scientist working at Barnard or at another local institution.
- Department: Psychology @Barnard
- M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lisa K Son
CULPA: 25 Info - 1 points
TOPICS IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Prerequisites: (PSYC UN1001) Instructor permission required. A seminar for advanced undergraduate students exploring different areas of clinical psychology. This course will provide you with a broad overview of the endeavors of clinical psychology, as well as discussion of its current social context, goals, and limitations.
- Department: Psychology
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Hannah E Hoch
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Instructor:
Irit Felsen
Info - 4 points
Why do people hurt themselves?: improvin
Presently, suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) are on the rise, particularly among racially and
ethnically minoritized youth. The seminar is designed to enhance understanding of: (a)
prevalence, (b) etiology, (c) risk factors (d) mechanisms (e.g., phenotypes and biological
markers), (e) prevention and treatment approaches, and (f) ethical considerations
- Department: Psychology
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Randy P Auerbach
h-index: 50 Info - 4 points
Social Stratification: Past, Present, an
Social Strat: Past, Pres,
This is an undergraduate seminar in social inequality and mobility. Social inequality is broadly defined as the unequal distribution of scarce resources and of the processes by which these resources are allocated to individuals, groups, and populations. The study of inequality en-compasses income and wealth inequality, socioeconomic hierarchies and privileges, poverty and unemployment, social mobility over the life course and across generations, inequality in the educational system, race-ethnic and gender inequality, globalization and the future of work, beliefs, attitudes, and perceptions of inequality and opportunity, neighborhood segregation, and the consequences of inequality and policy interventions. Over this semester, we will investigate such questions as: How likely are individuals to end up in the same social stratum as their par-ents? Will globalization and automation exacerbate or reduce inequality in workplace? Is there growing inequality in the U.S. and around the globe and, if so, why? In this class, we cover the concepts, theories, facts, and methods of analysis used by sociologists to understand social inequality and mobility. This course takes most of its examples from the contemporary U.S., but we will place U.S. in historical and comparative perspectives as well.
A Literary History of Marriage
From its origins, and to the present, marriage has been transactional, arranged, and rarely concerned with the desires or interests of the wife. In the eighteenth-century, and especially through the genre of the novel, women began to insist on right to choose their spouse, and the possibility of marrying for love. Perversely, it is at this point that the descriptions of some of the most disastrous and repressive marriages enter literature, and in the twentieth century film. If “the course of true love never did run smooth” this seminar follows its path, investigating the shifts and transformations of marriage. While the focus of the seminar will be on women, we will also consider men, same-sex marriage, questions of marriage and race in the United States, and marriage in China.
- Department: English @Barnard
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Daphne Miriam Merkin
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Jews in Early Modern Europe, 1492-1750
Jews Early Mod Euro 1492-
A seminar on the historical, political, and cultural developments in the Jewish communities of early-modern Western Europe (1492-1789) with particular emphasis on the transition from medieval to modern patterns. We will study the resettlement of Jews in Western Europe, Jews in the Reformation-era German lands, Italian Jews during the late Renaissance, the rise of Kabbalah, and the beginnings of the quest for civil Emancipation. Field(s): JWS/EME
- Department: History
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Elisheva Carlebach
CULPA: 6
Wikipedia
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- 4 points
TOPICS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND PHILOSOP
TOPICS IN COG SCI & PHILO
This course will focus on one topic at the intersection of cognitive science and philosophy. Potential topics include free will, consciousness, modularity, mental representation, probabilistic inference, the language of thought, and the computational theory of mind.
- Department: Cognitive Science @Barnard
- 3 points
The Politics of Care
THE POLITICS OF CARE
Semester:
What are the consequences of entrenched inequalities in the context of care? How might we (re)imagine associated practices as political projects? Wherein lie the origins of utopic and dystopic visions of daily survival? How might we track associated promises and failures as they travel across social hierarchies, nationalities, and geographies of care? And what do we mean when we speak of “care”? These questions define the scaffolding for this course. Our primary goals throughout this semester are threefold. First, we begin by interrogating the meaning of “care” and its potential relevance as a political project in medical and other domains. Second, we will track care’s associated meanings and consequences across a range of contents, including urban and rural America, an Amazonia borderland, South Africa, France, and Mexico. Third, we will address temporal dimensions of care, as envisioned and experienced in the here-and-now, historically, and in a futuristic world of science fiction. Finally, and most importantly, we will remain alert to the relevance of domains of difference relevant to care, most notably race, gender, class, and species.
Upper level seminar; 4 points
Summer:
What do we mean when we speak of “care”? How might we (re)imagine practices of care as political and moral projects? What promises, paradoxes, or failures surface amid entrenched inequalities? And what hopes, desires, and fears inform associated utopic and dystopic visions of daily survival? These questions will serve as a scaffolding of sorts for this course, and our primary goals are fourfold.
First,
we will begin by interrogating the meaning of “care” and its potential relevance as a political project in medical and other domains.
Second,
we will track care’s associated meanings and consequences across a range of contents, communities, and geographies of care.
Third
, we will remain alert to the temporal dimensions of care, as envisioned and experienced historically, in the here-and-now, and in the futuristic world of science fiction.
Finally,
we will consider the moral underpinnings of intra-human alongside interspecies care.
Enrollment limited to 10; 4 points
- Department: Anthropology @Barnard
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gina A Jae
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
CLOTHING
Human beings create second, social, skins for themselves. Everyone designs interfaces between their bodies and the world around them. From pre-historic ornaments to global industry, clothing has always been a crucial feature of people’s survival, desires, and identity. This course studies clothing from the perspectives of anthropology, architecture, art, craft, economics, labor, law, psychology, semiotics, sociology, and sustainability. Issues include gender roles, local traditions, world-wide trade patterns, dress codes, the history of European fashion, dissident or disruptive styles, and the environmental consequences of what we wear today.
- Department: Art History @Barnard
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Anne Higonnet
CULPA: 31 Wikipedia Info - 4 points
Transpacific Personalities: The Personal
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Chris Kelly
Info - 4 points
EARLY MODERNISM AND THE CRISIS OF REPRES
EARLY MDRNISM & CRISIS RE
Prerequisites: 20th Century Art recommended. The artistic phenomenon that came to be called Modernism is generally considered one of the most pivotal in the history of late nineteenth and twentieth century art. This course studies the emergence and development of Modernism in all of its complexity. Particular attention will be paid to the ways in which Modern artists responded to the dramatically changing notions of space, time and dimension in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. What impact did these dramatic changes have on existing concepts of representation? What challenges did they pose for artists? To what extent did Modernism contribute to an understanding of the full consequences of these new ideas of time and space? These concerns will lead us to examine some of the major critical and historical accounts of modernism in the arts as they were developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The course will focus specifically on the interrelationships between modernism and the expanding mass cultural formations of the industrial societies in Europe to address a wide range of historical and methodological questions. These include the emergence of modernism in the arts, the collapse of previous modes of representation, the development of new technologies of cultural production, the elaboration of the utopian projects of the avant-gardes, the unfolding of abstract art, the materialization of the readymade, as well as the transformation of concepts of artistic autonomy and cultural institutions. We will first investigate key modernist concepts developed in the late nineteenth century, as well as the crucial work of some of the artists of that moment. This will lead to an examination of the unfolding and consolidation of Cubism in the first decade of the twentieth century, followed by the development of Synthetic Cubism early in the 1910s. The third part of the course will study the impact of Cubism on artistic production in the following decade, focusing primarily on the Italian artists of Futurism, the German avant-garde in the context of Weimar culture, Dadaism, and the Russian and Soviet avant-gardes in the 1910s and 1920’s
- Department: Art History @Barnard
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alexander Alberro
CULPA: 12
h-index: 17
Info
- 4 points
Race and Ethnic Politics
Race has served as an enduring organizing principle of American politics. This course will
survey how race shapes politics and how politics shapes race in the United States. In the first of
the semester, we focus on the political processes and institutions that “make” race and
interrogate what we mean exactly when we say race is socially constructed. In the second half of
the semester, we turn to looking at how racialized groups engage in politics on multiple fronts,
paying particular attention to electoral politics and social movements. Throughout the course,
we grapple with both the challenges to and possibilities of diversity and racial justice in the
contemporary America. Topics include but are not limited to political representation, voting,
intersectionality, citizenship, immigration, community activisms, and solidarity.
- Department: Political Science @Barnard
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sonya G Chen
Info - 3 points
GLOBAL AUTHORITARIANISM
Welcome to "Global Authoritarianism." Over the past two decades, scholars and policymakers have grown increasingly alarmed about the state of democracy worldwide. Freedom House, V-Dem, and other monitoring organizations have documented what many call a "democratic recession" in which authoritarian governance is expanding globally while the number of democracies shrinks and democratic institutions within liberal democracies weaken. This purely domestic framing, however, misses how authoritarian states now cooperate with and learn from one another, project power across borders into democracies, exploit the openness of democratic societies, and actively reshape international institutions and norms to serve their interests. Authoritarianism has gone global.
In this course, we will analyze the mechanisms, tools, and strategies that authoritarian states use to extend their reach beyond their borders and push back against the liberal international order. We also confront an uncomfortable reality: many of the networks, institutions, and professional services that enable authoritarian power are actually embedded within democracies themselves, including law firms, lobbyists, financial centers, think tanks, global media outlets and sports leagues based in New York, London and other democratic locations.
- Department: Political Science @Barnard
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Alexander A Cooley
CULPA: 22
h-index: 33
Info
- 3 points
Modern Library Resources for Scientific
Library Science Research
Guided exploration of chemistry research using modern library resources. Topics include: organization and evaluation of information, information ethics, the history of citation, and use of databases. Culminates in the creation of an online research guide on a specific chemistry topic, using a variety of carefully considered and annotated sources.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- 1 points
DRAMA, THEATRE AND THEORY
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Austin E Quigley
Info - 4 points
Black/Life/Science
What is the relationship of the production of scientific knowledge to Black life in the Americas? What can thinking that arises out of the intellectual traditions of Black Studies contribute to our understandings of the many genres of science (social, physical, earth, life) and their relationship to justice? Building from these essential questions, this course offers a framework for considering the ways that canonical sciences have constrained, categorized, and delimited Black lives, exploring such themes as: technoscientific constructions of race difference, epigenetic theories about the heritability of trauma, histories of biomedical experimentation, the long durée of eugenicist thinking, and the relationship of racialized (and gendered) bodies to their environments. We will also explore scientific scripts emergent from “below,” like: folk healing, speculative fictions, and Black nationalist origin stories, that have and continue to be sources of imaginative and emancipatory promise. In addition to developing the capacity to read widely across genres of science and critical studies thereof, students will develop skills in the deconstruction and speculative refiguring of scientific discourse.
- Department: Anthropology
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Vanessa L Agard-Jones
CULPA: 3 Info - 4 points
Memory and Monuments in the U.S. West
Memory and Monuments US W
This class explores the relationships among memory, monuments, place, and political power in
the United States West. The course begins with an introduction to the theory of collective
memory and then delves into case studies in New Mexico, California, and Texas. We will
expand our perspective at the end of the course to compare what we have learned with the
recent debates over monuments to the Confederacy. We will consider both physical
manifestations of collective memory such as monuments and architecture as well as intangible
expressions like performance, oral history and folklore.
- Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
- M 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Brian Luna Lucero
Info - 4 points
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
This course provides an introduction to the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) at an undergraduate level. We will discuss properties of human language at different levels of representation (morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics), and will learn how to create systems that can analyze, understand, and generate natural language. We will study machine learning methods used in NLP such as various forms of Neural networks and will focus particularly on conceptual and technical advances of frontier Large Language Models based NLP technologies (think ChatGPT) that are revolutionizing classical computational linguistics and NLP fields. We will also discuss applications such as question answering, summarization, language generation and as well as data, benchmarks and evaluation frameworks. We will discuss ethical aspects of NLP research and applications. Homework assignments will consist of programming projects in Python as well as written interpretation and analysis of the results. Class will also have a midterm and a mini final project instead of a final exam. Prerequisite(s): COMS W3134 or W3136 or W3137 (or equivalent). Background in probability/statistics and linear algebra is also required and experience with Python programming is strongly encouraged. Some previous or concurrent exposure to AI and machine learning is beneficial, but not required.
Please note: Due to significant overlap in content, only one of COMS BC3705 or COMS W4705 may be taken for credit.
- Department: Computer Science @Barnard
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Smaranda Muresan
h-index: 22 Info - 3 points
African Climate and History
This course examines how Africa’s climate has changed in the past and with what consequences for the people living on the continent. It looks at the scope, duration and intensity of past climate events and their impacts, while using these historical climate events to teach fundamental climate concepts. Central to the course is the human experience of these events and the diversity of their responses. The major question underpinning this course is, therefore, how have people responded to past climate events, whether short-term, decadal or longer in scope? This question is predicated on the complexity of human society and moves away from the binary of collapse vs. resilience that dominates much thinking about the impact of climate changes on past societies. This framing recognizes the significance of climate for food production and collection, as well as trade and cosmologies. It does not take climate to be the determining factor in history. Rather it foregrounds the myriad ways people acted in the face of, for example, multi-decadal below average rainfall or long periods of more reliable precipitation.
- Department: History
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- 4 points
PLATO THE RHETORICIAN
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kathy H Eden
CULPA: 19
Wikipedia
Info
- 4 points
DATA SCIENCE FOR POLITICS
This course explores techniques to harness the power of “big data” to answer questions related to political science and/or American politics. We will teach students how to use R—a popular open-source programming language—to obtain, clean, analyze, and visualize data. We will focus on applied problems using real data wherever possible, with a particular focus on R’s “Tidyverse.” In total, in this course we will cover concepts such as reading data in various formats (including “cracking” atypical government data sources and pdf documents); web scraping; data joins; data manipulation and cleaning (including string variables and regular expressions); data mining; making effective data visualizations; using data to make informed prediction, and basic text analysis. We will also cover programming basics including writing functions and loops in R. Finally, we will discuss how to use R Markdown to communicate our results effectively to outside audiences. No previous knowledge of R is required.
- Department: Political Science @Barnard
- TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael Miller
CULPA: 18 h-index: 14 Info - 3 points
SENIOR ESSAY RESEARCH METHODS
SENIOR ESSAY SEMINAR
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Sharon Marcus
CULPA: 8
Wikipedia
h-index: 19
Info
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Instructor:
Aaron Ritzenberg
CULPA: 4
h-index: 4
Info
- 3 points
INDEPENDENT STUDY
Students who wish to do an independent study project (I.S.P.), should speak with a Political Science faculty member willing to serve as sponsor, then fill out a Request for Approval of Credit for Independent Study (see Registrars link below) and obtain signatures from the sponsor and from our Department Chair. File this form with the Committee on Programs and Academic Standing, which must approve all requests. (It must be filed with the C.P.A.S. well before the Registrars program-filing deadline for the semester of the I.S.P.) Note that no credit is given for an internship or job experience in or by itself, but credit is given for an academic research paper written in conjunction with an internship, subject to the procedures outlined above. The internship and the I.S.P. can be in the same semester, or you may do the I.S.P. in the semester following the internship. A project approved for three or four points counts as an elective course for the purpose of the ten-course major or five-course minor requirement. No more than two such three- or four-point projects may be used for the major, and no more than one for the minor. An independent study project may not be used to satisfy either the colloquium or senior seminar requirement. Each instructor is limited to sponsoring one independent study project per semester. The Registrar will assign a POLS BC 3799 section and call number unique to the faculty sponsor. The Registrars ISP form: http://www.barnard.edu/sites/default/files/inline/indstudy.pdf. The Political Science faculty: http://polisci.barnard.edu/faculty-directory.
- Department: Political Science @Barnard
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Instructor:
Faculty
h-index: 37 Info - 1-4 points
INDEPENDENT STUDY
Students who wish to do an independent study project (I.S.P.), should speak with a Political Science faculty member willing to serve as sponsor, then fill out a Request for Approval of Credit for Independent Study (see Registrars link below) and obtain signatures from the sponsor and from our Department Chair. File this form with the Committee on Programs and Academic Standing, which must approve all requests. (It must be filed with the C.P.A.S. well before the Registrars program-filing deadline for the semester of the I.S.P.) Note that no credit is given for an internship or job experience in or by itself, but credit is given for an academic research paper written in conjunction with an internship, subject to the procedures outlined above. The internship and the I.S.P. can be in the same semester, or you may do the I.S.P. in the semester following the internship. A project approved for three or four points counts as an elective course for the purpose of the ten-course major or five-course minor requirement. No more than two such three- or four-point projects may be used for the major, and no more than one for the minor. An independent study project may not be used to satisfy either the colloquium or senior seminar requirement. Each instructor is limited to sponsoring one independent study project per semester. The Registrar will assign a POLS BC 3799 section and call number unique to the faculty sponsor. The Registrars ISP form: http://www.barnard.edu/sites/default/files/inline/indstudy.pdf. The Political Science faculty: http://polisci.barnard.edu/faculty-directory.
- Department: Political Science @Barnard
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Instructor:
Faculty
h-index: 37 Info - 1-4 points
ENVIR SCIENCE SENIOR SEMINAR
Guided, independent, in-depth research culminating in the senior thesis in the spring. Includes discussion about scientific presentations and posters, data analysis, library research methods and scientific writing. Students review work in progress and share results through oral reports. Weekly seminar to review work in progress and share results through oral and written reports.
- Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- 3 points
SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS
Modeling, description, and classification of signals and systems. Continuous-time systems. Time domain analysis, convolution. Frequency domain analysis, transfer functions. Fourier series. Fourier and Laplace transforms. Discrete-time systems and the Z transform.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- TR 7:10 p.m.-8:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Xiaodong Wang
CULPA: 15 Info - 3.5 points
Punishment Culture
What is punishment, and what might attention to punitive practices teach us about the cultures in which they are used? Modern American culture is so saturated with punishment that it is difficult to know where to begin such an investigation. From childhood education to mass incarceration and from the crafting of financial futures to the training of horses and dogs, punishment is ubiquitous and often unquestioned. In many cases, punishment is the thread that connects allegedly disparate institutions and produces allegedly unforeseen forms of violence. In this course we will question both the practice and its prevalence, combining a genealogy of the concept with case studies in its modern use.
- Department: Anthropology @Barnard
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kaya N Williams
Info - 4 points
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING LAB I
Fundamental considerations of wave mechanics; design philosophies; reliability and risk concepts; basics of fluid mechanics; design of structures subjected to blast; elements of seismic design; elements of fire design; flood considerations; advanced analysis in support of structural design.
- Department: Biomedical Engineering
- W 1:10 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- R 1:10 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- 3 points
SHANGE & DIGITAL STORYTELLING
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 12 students. Permission of the instructor required. Interested students should complete the application at:
https://bit.ly/AFEN3815
. A poet, performance artist, playwright and novelist, Shange’s stylistic innovations in drama, poetry and fiction and attention to the untold lives of black women have made her an influential figure throughout American arts and in feminist history. We will examine Shange’s works through the dual lenses of “embodied knowledge” and historical context. In conjunction with our multidisciplinary analysis of primary texts, students will be introduced to archival research in Ntozake Shange’s personal archive at Barnard College. Thus the seminar provides an in-depth exploration of Shange's work and milieu as well as an introduction to digital tools, public research and archival practice. Students should have taken a course beyond the intro level from ONE of the following areas: American Literature (through the English Department), Africana Studies, American Studies, Theatre or Women's Studies. You can find more information and apply for the course at
https://bit.ly/AFEN3815
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- Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kim F Hall
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
ARCH ENGAGE: PAST IN PUB EYE
This course provides a panoramic, but intensive, inquiry into the ways that archaeology and its methods for understanding the world have been marshaled for debate in issues of public interest. It is designed to examine claims to knowledge of the past through the lenses of alternative epistemologies and a series of case-based problems that range from the academic to the political, legal, cultural, romantic, and fraudulent.
- Department: Anthropology
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Terence N D'Altroy
CULPA: 37 Info - 4 points
ABSENCE/PRESENCE
Prerequisites: Open to undergrad majors; others with the instructors permission. Across a range of cultural and historic contexts, one encounters traces of bodies - and persons - rendered absent, invisible, or erased. Knowledge of the ghostly presence nevertheless prevails, revealing an inextricable relationship between presence and absence. This course addresses the theme of absent bodies in such contexts as war and other memorials, clinical practices, and industrialization, with interdisciplinary readings drawn from anthropology, war and labor histories, and dystopic science fiction.
- Department: Anthropology @Barnard
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Nicholas A Bartlett
CULPA: 5
Info
- 4 points
COLL ON MODERN EAST ASIA TEXTS
Prerequisites: AHUM UN3400 is recommended as background. Introduction to and exploration of modern East Asian literature through close reading and discussion of selected masterpieces from the 1890s through the 1990s by Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writers such as Mori Ogai, Wu Jianren, Natsume Soseki, Lu Xun, Tanizaki Jun’ichiro, Shen Congwen, Ding Ling, Eileen Chang, Yi Sang, Oe Kenzaburo, O Chong-hui, and others. Emphasis will be on cultural and intellectual issues and on how literary forms manifested, constructed, or responded to rapidly shifting experiences of modernity in East Asia.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- 4 points
Law and Society in Colonial India
Law & Society / Colonial
This course explores the relationship between law and society in colonial India. It features cases relating to marriage and divorce, property and inheritance, sedition and criminal conspiracy woven through the lives of ordinary people in nineteenth and twentieth century India. Through a range of materials, we will explore how British colonial officials reformulated what “law” was and how it was to be interpreted. We will also explore how these interpretations were understood and challenged. We will encounter judges, lawyers, and notaries that mediated the relationship between law and society, courts, and litigants, while catching a fascinating glimpse of what arguments, evidence, and sentencing looked like in these courts. As we go through our readings and attend classes, we might ask: how does this perspective from India shape our understanding of the relationship between law and colonialism, and what are its contemporary implications?
- Department: History
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kalyani Ramnath
Info - 4 points