Graffiti & Politics

Public art and graffiti have long shaped the visual and political landscape of New York City. Students will trace the history of mural making locally and globally, with special attention to the rise of Hip Hop culture, the evolution of graffiti as an artistic language, and the emergence of spray paint as a defining medium. We will study how a practice once criminalized has become widely accepted and even federally funded, and how policies continue to influence who gets to create public art and where it can appear. Class discussions will center on the social impact of murals, the power of public art to engage communities, and the political messages embedded in the city’s walls. Fieldwork will be an essential component, including visits to major public art sites across NYC and, when possible, observing a mural in the process of being installed.

• Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
• TWR 9 a.m.-noon
• 0 points

Welcome to New York: A Literary Introduc

What makes New York City both impossible and irresistible? This course explores how writers have captured the city’s contradictions, its energy, diversity, and constant reinvention across more than a century of literature. From Walt Whitman and Emma Lazarus to Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, June Jordan, and Colson Whitehead, students will encounter New York as both subject and muse. Through close reading, discussion, and creative writing, you will develop your own voice in dialogue with the city’s literary past and present. Visits to the Museum of the City of New York, the Tenement Museum, literary Harlem, and the Nuyorican Poets Café will bring these works off the page and into the streets of the city they celebrate.

• Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
• TWR 1:30 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 0 points

Feminist Ethics in the Age of Algorithms

Feminist Ethics & Algorit

This course examines how social media platforms, healthcare apps, and other digital technologies shape women’s lives, with particular attention to issues of surveillance, privacy, and power. Through readings, discussion, case studies, and guest speakers, students will explore how algorithms and data systems can reproduce and amplify social biases, especially those affecting women of color. Throughout the session, students will engage in critical analysis and creative problem-solving, developing thoughtful responses to ethical challenges in digital spaces. The course also considers how digital tools can be reimagined to support gender equity, strengthen women’s health and well-being, and open pathways for civic engagement, advocacy, and interdisciplinary careers.

• Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
• TWR 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
• 0 points

Plate + Planet Lab

Plate and Planet Lab

Barnard’s 3-Week Plate and Planet Lab 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.

• Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
• Instructor: Leslie S Raucher
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• 0 points

Interpreting Literature: Reading Careful

What does it mean to “close read”? Does an author’s life, or the time and place of writing, change how we understand a text? This course introduces students to reading habits, writing practices, and interpretive approaches that deepen how we engage with novels, poems, and other cultural works. Together we will experiment with ways of developing a written voice—identifying what moves us in a text, crafting an argument, and responding to other interpretations. Our main reading, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, will anchor our explorations at the intersection of creativity and science, nature and technology, and personal ambition and societal responsibility. Students will participate in additional readings, films, and hands-on experiences and will also take part in a writing workshop at Tom’s Restaurant, visit the Shelley archives at the New York Public Library, and work with zines and diaries from Barnard’s Special Collections to connect literature, place, and creative process.

• Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
• Instructor: Tara Needham
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• 0 points

The Politics of Evil

This course examines how individual leaders have shaped history through acts of political evil. Over three weeks, students will explore how thinkers such as Augustine, Machiavelli, Arendt, Freud, Buber, and others have grappled with questions of morality, power, and responsibility. We will analyze how figures from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries embodied or resisted these ideas, and what their choices reveal about human nature and the political imagination. Readings, films, and case studies will ground discussions of leadership, ideology, and the capacity for harm within systems of power. Visits to the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum, the Museum of Jewish Heritage, and the Tenement Museum will bring these questions into real-world context, connecting theory to lived history.

• Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
• 0 points

Refugees: Real Lives, Real StoriesRefuge

Refugees: Real Lives & St

Refugees have experienced mass displacement due to wars, genocides, racial, ethnic, and political conflict, climate change, several forms of inequality, and more. This course offers a global understanding and stories of the causes and consequences of displacement as a global issue historically and today. Throughout history, refugees have shared memories and transnational ties across borders shaping diasporas and influencing cultures in cities around the world. Today, we continue to see people displaced and seeking refuge carrying their heavy stories while building new lives. In this class, you will learn and be able to differentiate between refugees, asylum seekers, irregular migrants, displacement, diaspora, immigration & migration, resettlement, humanitarianism, and forms of exile. Using an anthropological lens, students will learn how to use abstract data into human-centered narratives and social realities. We will examine a series of texts and films that illuminate these experiences. Students will also engage in hands-on anthropological research, field visits, and immersive excursions.

• Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
• TWR 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
• 0 points

The Social Mind

Why do people think, feel, and act the way they do in social settings? This lecture-based course introduces contemporary theory and research on social thought and behavior, with a focus on how individuals perceive, influence, and relate to one another. We will explore core topics in social psychology, including person perception, attitudes, attraction, aggression, stereotyping, group dynamics, and social exchange, and consider how these processes shape real-world issues such as prejudice, conflict, and cooperation. Throughout the session, students will apply theory to lived experience through explorations of New York City, including visits to a courthouse and a local police precinct to observe social behavior in institutional contexts. The class will also visit social psychology labs on the Columbia and Barnard campuses to see how researchers investigate the social mind in action.

• Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
• Instructor: Joshua M Feinberg
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• 0 points

DESIGN FUTURES: NEW YORK CITY

How does design operate in our lives? What is our design culture? In this course, we explore the many scales of design in contemporary culture -- from graphic design to architecture to urban design to global, interactive, and digital design. The format of this course moves between lectures, discussions, collaborative design work and field trips in order to engage in the topic through texts and experiences.

• Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael E Schissel
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• 3 points

DESIGN FUTURES: NEW YORK CITY

How does design operate in our lives? What is our design culture? In this course, we explore the many scales of design in contemporary culture -- from graphic design to architecture to urban design to global, interactive, and digital design. The format of this course moves between lectures, discussions, collaborative design work and field trips in order to engage in the topic through texts and experiences.

• Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael E Schissel
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• 3 points

UNIVERSITY WRITING

Prerequisites: Non-native English speakers must reach Level 10 in the American Language Program prior to registering for ENGL S1010. University Writing: Contemporary Essays helps undergraduates engage in the conversations that form our intellectual community. By reading and writing about scholarly and popular essays, students learn that writing is a process of continual refinement of ideas. Rather than approaching writing as an innate talent, this course teaches writing as a learned skill. We give special attention to textual analysis, research, and revision practices.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 1 p.m.-2:35 p.m.
• TR 10 a.m.-11:35 a.m.
• MW 1 p.m.-2:35 p.m.
• Instructor: Joey de Jesus
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• Instructor: Austin L Mantele
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Allison T Fowler
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• Instructor: Kaagni Harekal
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• Instructor: Sarah L Wingerter
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• Instructor: Ali Yalgin
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• Instructor: Elizabeth C Cargile
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• Instructor: Erag Ramizi
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• Instructor: Andy Jo
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• Instructor: Austin L Mantele
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

Detectives of the Living World

This course examines the central dogma of biology as both a molecular system and a scientific legacy. Rooted in the seminal works of Dr. Marie Maynard Daly, the first African American woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in Chemistry, students will explore DNA, how it is read and regulated, and how it shapes the structure and function of every organism. Students will explore how changes to DNA lead to disease, or how, in the case of genetic engineering, errors are intentionally made to discover. From extracting DNA from fruits to visiting a NYC-based community biology laboratory, students will be fully immersed in the scientific process as Detectives of the Living World.

• Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
• TWR 9 a.m.-noon
• 0 points

Reading NYC: A Century in Fiction

Read NYC: A Century in Fi

This course tours the great history of a great metropolis through the reading of three novels that represent different times and places in New York City, while exploring the real streets, landmarks, and communities that shaped them. First, we will visit the Fifth Avenue mansions of the late nineteenth-century Gilded Age through Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth. Next, we will participate in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s through Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem. Finally, we will cross the Brooklyn Bridge and think about gentrification in the late twentieth century through Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude. Along the way, we will discuss the evolution of the American novel and the intersections of class, gender, and racial experiences in urban life. These visits throughout New York will connect literature to lived experience, bringing the city’s fictional worlds into dialogue with the vibrant, changing city outside the classroom.

• Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
• TWR 1:30 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 0 points

Women Coming of Age in Literature

What does it mean for a young woman to come of age on the page? This course explores how women writers have redefined the bildungsroman—the “novel of formation”—to center female experience, creativity, and struggle. Reading works from the mid-twentieth century to today, we will trace how authors depict growth, ambition, friendship, and independence against the pressures of family, culture, and society. Texts may include Jamaica Kincaid, Simone de Beauvoir, Elena Ferrante, Mary McCarthy, Sia Figiel, Toni Morrison, Doris Lessing, and Barnard’s own June Jordan, Edwidge Danticat, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Zora Neale Hurston. Alongside close reading and discussion, students will write their own coming-of-age narratives—personal or imagined—and experiment with how literature captures the moment when a voice becomes its own.

• Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
• Instructor: Tara Needham
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• 0 points

Business Foundations

Business Foundations is a MasterScholar (KSE Global) course that is in collaboration with Barnard Pre-College Programs and taught by a Barnard-affiliated professor.

• Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
• TWR 9:30 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Gabriel Amor
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• 0 points

NEW YORK CITY IN FILM

This course will explore the representation of New York City in film. We will examine the way that film portrays social problems and either creates or responds to “social panics.” We will also examine the way in which film actively creates an idea of “New York” through cinematography, directing, acting and other aspects of filmmaking.  Some topics to be considered are utopia/dystopia, race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, art, immigration, houselessness, and gentrification. The course follows three main themes: 1. How the filmmaking process (camera movements, lighting, dialogue, acting, etc.) is used as a method to describe space (filmmaking as a geographic method). 2. How various genres of film have been used to portray the social geography of New York City (the geography of film). 3. The relationship between the viewer’s “place” and the places portrayed in the film (communication geography). Finally, we will also consider how our personal sense of place towards New York City has altered throughout the course.

• Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
• MW 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Ross T Hamilton
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 3 points

NEW YORK CITY IN FILM

This course will explore the representation of New York City in film. We will examine the way that film portrays social problems and either creates or responds to “social panics.” We will also examine the way in which film actively creates an idea of “New York” through cinematography, directing, acting and other aspects of filmmaking.  Some topics to be considered are utopia/dystopia, race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, art, immigration, houselessness, and gentrification. The course follows three main themes: 1. How the filmmaking process (camera movements, lighting, dialogue, acting, etc.) is used as a method to describe space (filmmaking as a geographic method). 2. How various genres of film have been used to portray the social geography of New York City (the geography of film). 3. The relationship between the viewer’s “place” and the places portrayed in the film (communication geography). Finally, we will also consider how our personal sense of place towards New York City has altered throughout the course.

• Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
• MW 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Ross T Hamilton
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 3 points

BAD LOVE

This seminar reads stories of love gone bad, of romances that end catastrophically, that damage lovers or leave victims along the way.   We will illuminate the consuming fantasy of the romance genre in its quest for “true love,” as well as a range of emotions – rage and revenge, narcissism and self-protection, obsession and oblivion – that surface in its wake.  We will also look at shifting interpretations of “bad love,” from Plato, to the Galenic theory of the humors, to the sociology of court-culture, to Freudian and finally contemporary neurobiological explanations of feelings.  Students are welcome to propose texts of their own interests to open this course to the widest range of interests.  In addition to seminar discussion, there will be weekly individual tutorials with Professor Hamilton as well as zoom interviews with a neurobiologist and a psychologist if it can be arranged.

• Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Ross T Hamilton
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 3 points

BAD LOVE

This seminar reads stories of love gone bad, of romances that end catastrophically, that damage lovers or leave victims along the way.   We will illuminate the consuming fantasy of the romance genre in its quest for “true love,” as well as a range of emotions – rage and revenge, narcissism and self-protection, obsession and oblivion – that surface in its wake.  We will also look at shifting interpretations of “bad love,” from Plato, to the Galenic theory of the humors, to the sociology of court-culture, to Freudian and finally contemporary neurobiological explanations of feelings.  Students are welcome to propose texts of their own interests to open this course to the widest range of interests.  In addition to seminar discussion, there will be weekly individual tutorials with Professor Hamilton as well as zoom interviews with a neurobiologist and a psychologist if it can be arranged.

• Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Ross T Hamilton
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 3 points

THE JAZZ OF CHEMISTRY

The contribution of chemistry to everyday life is immense. The applications of chemistry in medicine, petrochemicals, cosmetics, and fertilizers are readily apparent. However, the knowledge and applications of chemistry come in handy in many other fascinating fields, some of which may be less than obvious. Examples of areas in which chemistry plays a key role include forensic science; art restoration and forgery detection; and flavors and fragrances in food, beverages and other consumer products. The goal of this course is to provide insights and spur discussion of several areas and applications of chemistry, while gaining hands-on experience in techniques used in these fields.

• Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
• MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Meenakshi S Rao
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 3 points

THE JAZZ OF CHEMISTRY

The contribution of chemistry to everyday life is immense. The applications of chemistry in medicine, petrochemicals, cosmetics, and fertilizers are readily apparent. However, the knowledge and applications of chemistry come in handy in many other fascinating fields, some of which may be less than obvious. Examples of areas in which chemistry plays a key role include forensic science; art restoration and forgery detection; and flavors and fragrances in food, beverages and other consumer products. The goal of this course is to provide insights and spur discussion of several areas and applications of chemistry, while gaining hands-on experience in techniques used in these fields.

• Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
• MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Meenakshi S Rao
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 3 points

True Crime

Over the centuries, readers have been drawn to accounts of “true” crime—violent narratives involving real people and real events. And yet, as with any literary object, the notion of “truth” is always unstable—stories and their tellings are always shaped by the motivations, values, and choices of those who tell them, often with an eye toward the audience that will consume them. Whether constructed in order to moralize, to enforce or critique social or political ideologies, or purely to sell copies, “true
crime” is a literary genre that reveals attitudes about gender, race, and class; that illustrates—and sometimes calls into question—cultural norms and mores; that calls on readers to reflect on their own morbid curiosity and assumptions and fears. In this class we will engage with a diverse selection of literary texts—spanning from the Middle Ages to the present day and from a range of genres, including pamphlets, plays, novels, and more—as well as contemporary films, a tv series, and a
podcast. Through close reading and critical analysis, we will examine the evolution of the “true crime” genre and the cultural and societal contexts that shape the portrayal of crime for popular consumption. We will explore the ways in which texts and authors sensationalize, moralize, and convey the complexities of crime. We will analyze point of view: who’s telling the story, whom we sympathize with, and what insights we get into the minds of those committing crimes as well as those who fall prey to them. We will consider justice and policing— the role played by the law and its enforcers in shaping narratives about crime and punishment, right and wrong. Finally, we will reflect on the ethical implications of representing real-life crimes in literature, and how “true crime” narratives shape social perceptions, fears, prejudices, and notions of justice and morality.

• Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
• MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Penelope Usher
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• 3 points

True Crime

Over the centuries, readers have been drawn to accounts of “true” crime—violent narratives involving real people and real events. And yet, as with any literary object, the notion of “truth” is always unstable—stories and their tellings are always shaped by the motivations, values, and choices of those who tell them, often with an eye toward the audience that will consume them. Whether constructed in order to moralize, to enforce or critique social or political ideologies, or purely to sell copies, “true
crime” is a literary genre that reveals attitudes about gender, race, and class; that illustrates—and sometimes calls into question—cultural norms and mores; that calls on readers to reflect on their own morbid curiosity and assumptions and fears. In this class we will engage with a diverse selection of literary texts—spanning from the Middle Ages to the present day and from a range of genres, including pamphlets, plays, novels, and more—as well as contemporary films, a tv series, and a
podcast. Through close reading and critical analysis, we will examine the evolution of the “true crime” genre and the cultural and societal contexts that shape the portrayal of crime for popular consumption. We will explore the ways in which texts and authors sensationalize, moralize, and convey the complexities of crime. We will analyze point of view: who’s telling the story, whom we sympathize with, and what insights we get into the minds of those committing crimes as well as those who fall prey to them. We will consider justice and policing— the role played by the law and its enforcers in shaping narratives about crime and punishment, right and wrong. Finally, we will reflect on the ethical implications of representing real-life crimes in literature, and how “true crime” narratives shape social perceptions, fears, prejudices, and notions of justice and morality.

• Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
• MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Penelope Usher
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• 3 points

ELEMENTARY FRENCH I

Equivalent to FREN UN1101. Designed to help students understand, speak, read, and write French, and to recognize cultural features of French-speaking communities, now with the help of a newly digitized audio program. Students learn to provide information in French about their feelings, environment, families, and daily activities. Daily assignments, quizzes, laboratory work, and screening of video material.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWR 10 a.m.-12:05 p.m.
• Instructor: Pascale Crepon
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

CALCULUS I

Prerequisites: high school mathematics through trigonometry or MATH S1003, or the equivalent. Functions, limits, derivatives, introduction to integrals.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• TR 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Penka Marinova
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• Instructor: Tomasz Owsiak
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• 3 points

STATISTICS LECTURE AND RECITATION

STATISTICS LECTURE &RECIT

Prerequisite (or co-requisite): PSYC BC1001. Lecture course and associated recitation section introducing students to statistics and its applications to psychological research. The course covers basic theory, conceptual underpinnings, and common statistics. The following Columbia University courses are considered overlapping and a student cannot receive credit for both the BC course and the equivalent CU course: STAT UN1001 Introduction to Statistical Reasoning; STAT UN1101 Introduction to Statistics; STAT UN1201 Introduction to Statistics.

• Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
• MW 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Mariel Roberts
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• 4 points

STATISTICS LECTURE AND RECITATION

STATISTICS LECTURE &RECIT

Prerequisite (or co-requisite): PSYC BC1001. Lecture course and associated recitation section introducing students to statistics and its applications to psychological research. The course covers basic theory, conceptual underpinnings, and common statistics. The following Columbia University courses are considered overlapping and a student cannot receive credit for both the BC course and the equivalent CU course: STAT UN1001 Introduction to Statistical Reasoning; STAT UN1101 Introduction to Statistics; STAT UN1201 Introduction to Statistics.

• Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
• MW 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Mariel Roberts
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• 4 points

BEGINNING RUSSIAN I

$15.00= Language Resource Fee, $15.00 = Materials Fee , Designed to develop all four skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Taken with RUSS S1102R, equivalent to full-year elementary course.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWR 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Alla Smyslova
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 4 points

ELEMENTARY SPANISH I

Elementary course, equivalent to SPAN V1101 or F1101. Fundamental principles of grammar; practice in pronunciation. Reading and conversation are introduced from the beginning. Use of the language laboratory is required.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWR 9 a.m.-11:05 a.m.
• Instructor: Irene Alonso-Aparicio
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• Instructor: Monica Cerda Campero
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• 4 points

INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS

Prerequisites: some high school algebra. Designed for students in fields that emphasize quantitative methods. This course satisfies the statistics requirements of all majors except statistics, economics, and engineering. Graphical and numerical summaries, probability, theory of sampling distributions, linear regression, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing are taught as aids to quantitative reasoning and data analysis. Use of statistical software required. Illustrations are taken from a variety of fields. Data-collection/analysis project with emphasis on study designs is part of the coursework requirement.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWR 6:15 p.m.-7:50 p.m.
• MTWR 10:45 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Ji Meng Loh
  CULPA: 19 Info
• Instructor: Anthony Donoghue
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

ELEMENTARY FRENCH II

Prerequisites: one term of college French or one year of secondary school French. $15.00= Language Resource Fee, $15.00 = Materials Fee , Equivalent to FREN UN1102. Continues the work of French S1101D and completes the study of elementary French. Students continue to develop communicative skills, narrating recent events (past, present, and future), describing daily life activities, and learning about cultural features of France and of the wider Francophone world. Following the communicative approach, students, with the help of the instructor, learn to solve problems using the language, to communicate their feelings and opinions, and to obtain information from others. Daily assignments, quizzes, laboratory work, and screening of video materials.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWR 10 a.m.-12:05 p.m.
• Instructor: Samuel Skippon
  CULPA: 13 Info
• Instructor: Eric T Matheis
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

ELEMENTARY ITALIAN II

Prerequisites: ITAL S1101, or the equivalent. Continues the work of ITAL 1101 and completes the study of elementary Italian. Students continue to develop communicative skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills). Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to provide basic information in Italian about wants and needs, personal opinions and wishes, personal experiences, past activities, and daily routines; read simple texts on familiar matters of high frequency everyday or job-related language; draw on a repertoire of vocabulary and syntax sufficient for dealing with everyday situations.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWR 11:30 a.m.-1:35 p.m.
• Instructor: Patrizia Palumbo
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 4 points

CALCULUS II

Prerequisites: MATH S1101 Calculus I, or the equivalent. Methods of integration, applications of the integral, Taylor's theorem, infinite series.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• 3 points

BEGINNING RUSSIAN II

Prerequisites: RUSS UN1101 or placement test $15.00= Language Resource Fee, $15.00 = Materials Fee , Continuation of RUSS S1101H.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWR 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Alla Smyslova
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 4 points

ELEMENTARY SPANISH II

Prerequisites: SPAN S1101, or the equivalent. Equivalent to SPAN F1102 or V1102. Grammar exercises, prose readings, and practice in the spoken language.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWR 9 a.m.-11:05 a.m.
• Instructor: Juan P Jimenez-Caicedo
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Aaron R Boalick
  Info
• 4 points

First-Year Chinese I

This course aims to introduce students to the Chinese language and cultivate their basic communicative competence by providing a comprehensive training in listening, speaking, reading and writing in Chinese. In addition, the course will bring real life tasks into classroom and prepare students to use Chinese language to function in an immersive environment.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWRF 10 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Shaoyan Qi
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 5 points

PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS

Equivalent to ECON UN1105, the first course for the major in economics. How a market economy determines the relative prices of goods, factors of production, and the allocation of resources; the circumstances under which it does these things efficiently. Why such an economy has fluctuations and how they may be controlled.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 10:20 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Nikita Raheja
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• 4 points

First-Year Chinese II

In this course students will continue to develop basic communicative competence in Chinese. More emphasis will be given to reading and writing Chinese characters than First Year Chinese (I). In addition to bringing real life tasks into classroom and preparing students to use Chinese language to function in an immersive environment, the course also aims to cultivate inter-cultural communication awareness among students.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWRF 10 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Shaoyan Qi
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 5 points

A BARNARD EDUCATION AT WORK

Per its mission statement, “Barnard College aims to provide the highest-quality liberal arts education to promising and high-achieving young women… They graduate prepared to lead 
lives that are professionally satisfying and successful, personally fulfilling, and enriched by a love of learning.” This course finds its roots in the connection posited here, between undergraduate study and professional life. Students will be asked to revisit a foundational text they have encountered in their major, and use it as a mode of exploration and reflection on an internship. They will consider how the text’s themes and ideas can be reinterpreted and recontextualized in the working world, and think about what practical, moral, political, aesthetic and personal 
insights it affords. More broadly, students will be prompted to consider the relationship of the 
liberal arts degree and, in particular, their major to their chosen career path. This course will further hone the critical thinking and writing skills that are translatable to any profession, and enables a Barnard student to put into practice the complexities they have learned in the classroom, by encouraging them to analyze the professional world from different perspectives, and in the context of other ideas and traditions.The foundational text will be selected in consultation with the course instructor to ensure focus connections between the student’s major, the internship and the reading chosen. . 
On a weekly basis, in this discussion-based class, the student shares their ideas about their text
and how it relates to their internship. They respond to and engage with their classmates. They
are required to spend about two hours with their text per week. They are also required to
create a presentation, to be shared with the full group. The group is also
responsible for providing feedback on the presentation. The presentation ultimately evolves
into a final paper that explores the line of inquiry from their text as it is
instantiated in their work experience. Students are graded on their discussion (40%),
presentation (25%), and final paper (35%).

• Department: Barnard College
• W 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Mary Laurita
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• 1 points

THE LIFE AQUATIC

Water covers the majority of the earth’s surface but what of the life in these waters? Rivers, wetlands, lakes, estuaries and oceans provide habitat for an extraordinary diversity of animals. This course explores the amazing array of aquatic animals that occupy both freshwater and marine ecosystems as well as the natural and human activities that impact their survival. No previous knowledge of science is assumed. Fulfills the science requirement for most Columbia and GS undergraduates.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Mercer R Brugler
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• 3 points

ACCELERATED ELEMENTARY TRANSL & READING

ACCELERAT ELEM TRANSL REA

Prerequisites: no previous knowledge of German required, but some background is strongly recommended. This accelerated survey of German grammar, reading techniques, and dictionary skills is designed primarily for graduate students preparing for reading proficiency exams or wishing to do research in German-language literature. In addition to translation, the course focuses on strategies for extracting general and specific information from German texts (skimming and scanning) and judging their relevance for a specific research purpose. Reading texts take students' fields of study into consideration. Although this course does not satisfy any part of the foreign language requirement for degree candidates, successful completion of the translation on the final exam fulfills the German reading proficiency requirement in most graduate programs. Students are advised that this course is a full-time commitment. Students should expect to study 2 hours every day for every hour spent in the classroom and additional time on weekends. Students who would like to gain speaking and listening skills are advised to enroll in the Intensive Elementary German I and II, or another appropriate German course. The Department of Germanic Languages will assist in selecting the appropriate course.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWR 10 a.m.-12:05 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher T Hoffman
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• Instructor: Simona C Vaidean
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

Art Humanities

Discussion and analysis of the artistic qualities and significance of selected works of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Parthenon in Athens to works of the 20th century.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Holger A Klein
  CULPA: 13 Info
• Instructor: Alessandra Di Croce
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• Instructor: John M Beeson
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• Instructor: Alex Marko
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• Instructor: Janina P Marshall
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• Instructor: Valerie J Zinner
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• Instructor: Denise M Budd
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Pujan Karambeigi
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• Instructor: Martina Mims
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Leslie Tait
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• Instructor: Michael J Waters
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 3 Info
• Instructor: Anna R Hetherington
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: David Sledge
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• Instructor: Sophia D'Addio
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Laura Tibi
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• Instructor: Kasiet Toktomusheva
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• Instructor: Sinclair Spratley
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• Instructor: Matthew N Peebles
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• 3 points

ART HUMANITIES

ART HUMANITIES-PARIS

HUMA1121OC. Art Humanities (Paris). 3 points.

Art Humanities teaches students how to look at, think about, and engage in critical discussion of the visual arts. The course focuses on the formal structure of works of architecture, painting, and other media, as well as the historical context in which these works were made and understood. In addition to discussion-based classes like those held in New York, Art Humanities in Paris and in Berlin will make extensive use of the city through field trips to museums, buildings, and monuments. 
Please note that attendance at all class meetings, concerts, and excursions, unless otherwise indicated, is mandatory.

To enroll in this course in Paris
, you can apply to the
Columbia Summer Core In Paris: Art Humanities and Music Humanities
 through Undergraduate Global Engagement (UGE). Participants are required to take Music Humanities (HUMA1123OC) for 3 points alongside Art Humanities.  If you apply to the 
Columbia Summer in Paris: English Track
, you must take this course plus an additional 3-point course within the program.
 
Global Learning Scholarships
available. Tuition charges apply.

Please note the program dates are different from the Summer Sessions Terms. Visit the
UGE
website for the start and end dates for these programs. Email
uge@columbia.edu
with any questions you may have.

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Irina T Oryshkevich
  CULPA: 11 Info
• Instructor: Ioannis Mylonopoulos
  CULPA: 13 Info
• Instructor: Barry G Bergdoll
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

Intensive Elem Italian:Venice

Italian In Venice, ITAL1121. Intensive Elementary Italian. 6 points

Instructor: TBD

Syllabus - Intensive Elementary

The equivalent of Italian 1101/1102 at Columbia. This intensive first year course, open to students with no previous training in Italian, prepares students to move into intermediate Italian.

The course provides students with a foundation in the four language skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. Students are encouraged to participate actively in class discussions and activities and to interact with teacher and classmates. We will learn Italian not only thanks to exercises and conversation, but also through songs, clips, pictures, food, and games. Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to:


provide basic information in Italian about themselves, their interests, their daily activities;

participate in a conversation on everyday topics using the major time frames of present and past;read short edited texts, understand the main ideas, and pick out important information from authentic texts (e.g. menus, signs, train schedules, etc.)

write short compositions on familiar topics;

identify basic cultural rituals and practices in the context of their occurrence.


Please note:  If you have completed Elementary 1, you are welcome to enroll in the Intensive Elementary course. You will be expected to enroll in the full 6 point course. While there will be some overlap in the coursework that you already completed at Columbia, it will benefit you to be in Venice to reinforce and enhance your language studies before continuing on to new material. Upon successful completion of the course, you will be awarded 4 points for the Intensive course.

To enroll in this course, you must apply to the
 
Columbia in Venice
 
program through the Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement (UGE).
 
Global Learning Scholarships 
available. 
Tuition
 charges apply.

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Matteo Heilbrun
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• 6 points

MUSIC HUMANITIES

MUSIC HUMANITIES: PARIS

HUMA1123OC. Music Humanities (Paris). 3 points.

The focus of Music Humanities is the masterpieces of Western art music in their historical and cultural contexts. The specific goals of the course are to awaken and encourage an appreciation of Western music, to help the student learn to respond intelligently to a variety of musical idioms, and to engage the student in the issues of various debates about the character and purposes of music that have occupied composers and musical thinkers since ancient times. Students become actively involved in the process of critical listening both in the classroom and in the live performances that are as central to the course in Berlin and in Paris as in New York. Using a “great works” approach, the course will look at the changing genres and styles of music, examining composers’ choices and assumptions, as well as those of their patrons and audiences, as it moves chronologically from the Middle Ages to the present. 
Please note that attendance at all class meetings, concerts, and excursions, unless otherwise indicated, is mandatory.

To enroll in this course in Paris
, you can apply to the 
Columbia Summer Core In Paris: Art Humanities and Music Humanities
 through Undergraduate Global Engagement (UGE). Participants are required to take Art Humanities (HUMA1121OC) for 3 points alongside Music Humanities.  If you apply to the 
Columbia Summer in Paris: English Track
, you must take this course plus an additional 3-point course within the program.
 
Global Learning Scholarships 
available. Tuition charges apply.

Please note the program dates are different from the Summer Sessions Terms. Visit the 
UGE
 website for the start and end dates for these programs. Email 
uge@columbia.edu
 with any questions you may have.

Please email 
uge@columbia.edu
 with any questions you may have.

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Walter M Frisch
  CULPA: 17 Info
• Instructor: Mariusz Kozak
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 5 Info
• Instructor: Magdalena Baczewska
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

Music Humanities

Analysis and discussion of representative works from the Middle Ages to the present.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• MW 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• TR 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• MW 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter M Susser
  CULPA: 20 Info
• Instructor: Joshua A Mastel
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• Instructor: Ruth Opara
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• Instructor: Benjamin A Steege
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• Instructor: Sasha Doster
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• Instructor: Unnur F Evans
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• Instructor: Amanda L Morrill
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• Instructor: Shirley Chikukwa
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• Instructor: Phoenix E Collins-Sadriyoun
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• Instructor: Ruth Opara
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• Instructor: Cristina Gonzalez Rojo
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• Instructor: David A Farrow
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• Instructor: Knar Abrahamyan
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• Instructor: Jonathon S Crompton
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• 3 points

PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS-DISC

Required Discussion section for ECON UN1105 Principles of Economics

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• 0 points

INTERMEDIATE FRENCH I

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWR 10 a.m.-12:05 p.m.
• Instructor: Sophie Queuniet
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN I

Prerequisites: ITAL V1102 or W1102, or the equivalent. If you did not take Elementary 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. Same course as ITAL V1201-V1202.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWR 11:30 a.m.-1:35 p.m.
• Instructor: Alessandra Saggin
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

CALCULUS III

Prerequisites: MATH S1102, or the equivalent. Columbia College students who aim at an economics major AND have at least the grade of B in Calculus I may take Calculus III directly after Calculus I. However, all students majoring in engineering, science, or mathematics should follow Calculus I with Calculus II. Vectors in dimensions 2 and 3, complex numbers and the complex exponential function with applications to differential equations, Cramer's rule, vector-valued functions of one variable, scalar-valued functions of several variables, partial derivatives, gradients, surfaces, optimization, the method of Lagrange multipliers.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• 3 points