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
• Instructor: Jessica Goldstein
  CULPA: 14 Info
• Instructor: Jennifer H Mansfield
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 15 Info
• Instructor: Jj L Miranda
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Brian Morton
  CULPA: 21 Info
• Instructor: Alison Pischedda
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 11 Info
• Instructor: Jonathan Snow
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 18 Info
• Instructor: Gabrielle Corradino
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• Instructor: Jordan Balaban
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• Instructor: Emlyn J Resetarits
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• 1-4 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
• Instructor: Christian Rojas
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Marisa C Buzzeo
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Dina C Merrer
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Andrew C Crowther
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Michael Campbell
  Info
• Instructor: Rachel Austin
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia h-index: 28 Info
• Instructor: Christina Vizcarra
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Rebecca Donegan
  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
• Instructor: Christian Rojas
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Marisa C Buzzeo
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Dina C Merrer
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Andrew C Crowther
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Michael Campbell
  Info
• Instructor: Rachel Austin
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia h-index: 28 Info
• Instructor: Christina Vizcarra
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 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

Approaches to Global Thought

Challenges confronting the world today require multiple perspectives, approaches, and methods to grasp their complexity and devise responses and solutions. Whether addressing the climate crisis, public health threats, global and local inequities, social problems, geopolitical tensions, or any number of other problems, all demand the expertise developed in disciplinary training as well as flexible thinking and the ability to collaborate and solve problems across disciplinary boundaries. This course places students with different majors into conversation with each other to consider the approaches of their own disciplines, learn about the methodological “tool kits” of other fields, investigate examples of transdisciplinary research, and work with their classmates to design their own problem-centered collaborative projects.

• Department: Committee on Global Thought
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Laura L Neitzel
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

Introduction to Continuous Control Syste

CLASSICAL CONTROL SYSTEMS

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
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Homayoon Beigi
  Info
• 3 points

INTL LAW & U.N. IN PRACTICE

Prerequisites: POLS UN1601 or HRTS UN3001 An equivalent course to POLS UN1601 or HRTS UN3001 may be used as a pre-requisite, with departmental permission. Examines the development of international law and the United Nations, their evolution in the Twentieth Century, and their role in world affairs today. Concepts and principles are illustrated through their application to contemporary human rights and humanitarian challenges, and with respect to other threats to international peace and security. The course consists primarily of presentation and discussion, drawing heavily on the practical application of theory to actual experiences and situations. For the Barnard Political Science major, this seminar counts as elective credit only. (Cross-listed by the Human Rights Program.)

• Department: Human Rights (HRTB)
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Martin S Flaherty
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

REHEARSAL&PERFRMNCE IN DANCE

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• F 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• TR 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Jodi Melnick
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Maguette Camara
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Tamisha Guy
  Info
• Instructor: Antonio Carmena
  Info
• 1-3 points

As If: Anthropologies of the Future

This seminar engages--through science fiction and speculative fiction, film, and companion readings in anthropology and beyond—a range of approaches to the notion of the “future” and to the imagination of multiple futures to come.  We will work through virtual and fictive constructions of future worlds, ecologies, and social orders “as If” they present alternative possibilites for pragmatic yet utopian thinking and dreaming in the present (and as we’ll also consider dystopian and “heterotopian” possibilities as well).

• Department: Anthropology
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Marilyn Ivy
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

This course can be worth 1 to 4 credits (each credit is equivalent to approximately three hours of work per week), and requires a Barnard faculty as a mentor. The course will be taken for a letter grade, regardless of whether the student chooses 1, 2, 3, or 4 credits. The expectations for each of these options are as follows: 1 credit, 3h/week commitment, 5-10 page "Research Report" at the end of the term; 2 credits, 6h/week commitment, 5-10 page "Research Report" at the end of the term; 3 credits, 9h/week commitment, 15-20 page "Research Report" at the end of the term; 4 credits, 12h/week commitment, 15-20 page "Research Report" at the end of the term. "Research Report" is a document submitted to the person grading the student, the instructor of record for the section in which the student has enrolled. If a student is working off-site, then input from the off-site research mentor will inform the grading. The "Research Report" can take a variety of forms: progress reports on data collected, training received, papers read, skills learned, etc.; or organized notes for lab notebooks, lab meetings, etc.; or manuscript-like papers with Intro, Methods, Results, Discussion; or some combination thereof, depending on the maturity of the project.  Ultimately, this will take different forms for different students/labs.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• Instructor: Peter D Balsam
  CULPA: 25 Info
• Instructor: Robert Brotherton
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Colin Leach
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 41 Info
• Instructor: Ken Light
  CULPA: 17 h-index: 15 Info
• Instructor: Koleen McCrink
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Michelle Greene
  Info
• Instructor: Robert E Remez
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia h-index: 23 Info
• Instructor: Susan R Sacks
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Ann Senghas
  CULPA: 17 Info
• Instructor: Katherine Thorson
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 7 Info
• Instructor: Lisa K Son
  CULPA: 25 Info
• Instructor: Kathleen M Taylor
  CULPA: 78 Info
• Instructor: Tara Well
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Michael Wheaton
  h-index: 31 Info
• Instructor: E'Mett McCaskill
  CULPA: 38 Info
• Instructor: Alexandra C Horowitz
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 1-4 points

INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• Instructor: Erica Musser
  Info
• 3-4 points

Women and Gender in Latin America and th

Women & Gender-Latin Amer

This course examines women’s experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean from colonial times to current days. We will investigate debates on class, race, religion and ethnicity while looking at major historical events. We will rely on several primary and secondary sources such as archival documents, oral histories, arts and visual resources that will help us understand how gender shaped the political, social, and economic structures of Latin America and the Caribbean.

We will also learn about important women, such as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Chica da Silva, examine the role of women warriors and spies in the Wars of Independence and the Haitian Revolution, and discuss how multiple gender-based issues are deeply tied to the history of Latin America and the Caribbean, such as indigenous gender systems, Catholicism and education, female suffrage, feminism and populism, conservatism, the ideology of separate spheres, the politicization of motherhood, among others.

• Department: History
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Daniela M Traldi
  Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED OPTIMIZATION

For undergraduates only. Required for all undergraduate students majoring in IE, OR:EMS, OR:FE, and OR. This is a follow-up to IEOR E3608 and will cover advanced topics in optimization, including integer optimization, convex optimization, and optimization under uncertainty, with a strong focus on modeling, formulations, and applications.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Bento Natura
  Info
• 3 points

MATERIALS/PROCESSES IN MANUFAC

Introduction to microstructures and properties of metals, polymers, ceramics and composites; typical manufacturing processes: material removal, shaping, joining, and property alteration; behavior of engineering materials in the manufacturing processes.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Sinisa Vukelic
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

THIRD YEAR MODERN TIBETAN II

For those whose knowledge is equivalent to a student whos 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.
• Instructor: Sonam Tsering
  Info
• 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.
• Instructor: Lisa K Son
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 1 points

NAT'L & CONTEMP WORLD POLITICS

The causes and consequences of nationalism. Nationalism as a cause of conflict in contemporary world politics. Strategies for mitigating nationalist and ethnic conflict.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Jack L Snyder
  CULPA: 27 Info
• 3 points

INTRO CONTEMP CHINESE POLITICS

This undergraduate course is designed to introduce to students who have limited knowledge of China some basic aspects of political institutions and processes as well as major events in Chinese political life under the communists since 1949, focusing on the post-Mao reform period since 1978. It examines economic and political development in China--their causes, patterns, consequences, and implications--in a broader context of transition from authoritarianism and state socialism. In this class, we will apply some concepts and theories in comparative politics in analyzing Chinese politics. By taking this class, students are expected to gain substantial knowledge about contemporary Chinese politics and acquire some basic ability to apply such knowledge to relate to and analyze current affairs concerning China.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Xiaobo Lu
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

SEM-DEVELOPMNTL PSYCHOPATHOLGY

Prerequisites: at least two of the following courses: (UN1001, UN1010, UN2280, UN2620, UN2680, UN3280) and the instructor's permission. Developmental psychopathology posits that it is development itself that has gone awry when there is psychopathology. As such, it seeks to understand the early and multiple factors contributing to psychopathology emerging in childhood and later in life. We will use several models (e.g. ones dominated by biological, genetic, and psychological foci) to understand the roots of mental illness.

• Department: Psychology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Hannah E Hoch
  CULPA: 27 Info
• 4 points

Ethnic Conflict

This course explores the origins and dynamics of ethnic conflict through the lens of several different theoretical approaches. How and where does ethnic conflict emerge and why does it endure? Is it greed or grievance, identity or interest? Why do some cases of ethnic tension and racial hatred boil over into bloodshed and carnage, while other conflict situations simmer well below the level of violence? Why are some inter-group conflicts so explosive and intractable while others yield to compromise and resolution? How is ethnic conflict influenced by factors such as religious nationalism, regime type, economic inequality, demographic shifts, and climate change? Leveraging a range of theoretical frameworks, students will engage with historical case studies and grapple with contemporary issues to understand the causes and conditions involved in conflict emergence, continuation, and resolution.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Tenzin Dorjee
  Info
• 3 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
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Usha Barahmand
  Info
• Instructor: Irit Felsen
  Info
• 4 points

CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY

Prerequisites: an introductory course in neuroscience, like PSYC UN1010 or PSYC UN2450, and the instructor's permission. Analysis of the assessment of physical and psychiatric diseases impacting the central nervous system, with emphasis on the relationship between neuropathology and cognitive and behavioral deficits.

• Department: Psychology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: E'Mett McCaskill
  CULPA: 38 Info
• 3 points

GREAT SHORT WORKS OF AMERICAN PROSE

The aim of this course is to read closely and slowly short prose masterworks written in the United States between the mid-19th century and the mid-20th century, and to consider them in disciplined discussion. Most of the assigned works are fiction, but some are public addresses or lyrical or polemical essays. We will read with attention to questions of audience and purpose: for whom were they written and with what aim in mind: to promote a cause, make a case for personal or political action, provoke pleasure, or some combination of all of these aims? We will consider the lives and times of the authors but will focus chiefly on the aesthetic and argumentative structure of the works themselves.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew Delbanco
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Introduction to Twentieth-Century South

Intro 20th C South Asian

This class offers a survey of major works of twentieth-century South Asian literature. We will read
Raja Rao, Rokeya Hossain, Ismat Chughtai, Viswanadha Satyanarayana, Amrita Pritam, and
Romesh Gunesekera. Emphasis will be placed on studying the thematic, formal, and stylistic
elements of works and developing critical skills necessary for literary analysis. Works will engage
with questions of nation & nationalism, gender & sexuality, caste, environment, and literary history.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Sourav Chatterjee
  Info
• 3 points

History of Italian Cinema

This course explores the evolution of Italian Cinema from the pre-Fascist era to the millenium, and examines how films construct an image of Italy and the Italians.  Special focus will be on the cinematic representations of gender.  Films by major directors (Fellini, De Sica, Visconti) as well as by leading contemporaries (Moretti, Garrone, Rohrwacher) will be discussed.

• Department: Italian
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Leake
  Info
• 3 points

DEPRESSION

Depression has existed for all time.  But our explanations of it has shifted, from sin, to an imbalance of the humours, and a poetic inspiration; from the eighteenth-century mechanistic understanding of the self, to the Freudian family romance that generates trauma, and to our current neuro-genetic understanding of the mind as a machine that can achieve happiness with pharmaceutical intervention.    We will follow these permutations, even as we read novels, poems, plays, and view film (and art) for their diagnostic awareness of mental suffering.   And we will also ask the question: what if depression comes not from within but without, the intelligent response of aware minds to a world that has become undone.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Daphne Miriam Merkin
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

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
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Elisheva Carlebach
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

OBSERVATIONAL ASTRONOMY

Prerequisites: one year of general astronomy Introduction to the basic techniques used in obtaining and analyzing astronomical data. Focus on ground-based methods at optical, infrared, and radio wavelengths. Regular use of the telescope facilities atop the roof of the Pupin Labs and at Harriman Observatory. The radio-astronomy portion consists mostly of computer labs, In research projects, students also work on the analysis of data obtained at National Observatories.

• Department: Astronomy
• R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: David Schiminovich
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

Comics, Health, and Embodiment

Deformed, grotesque, super/transhuman and otherwise extraordinary bodies have always been a central feature of comics.  However, the past ten years have seen a surge of graphic narratives that deal directly with experiences of health and illness, and that are recognized as having significant literary value.  This course will focus on graphic narratives about healthcare, illness, and disability with particular attention to questions of embodied identities such as gender, sexuality, race, and age.  Primary texts will include the work of Alison Bechdel, Roz Chast, CeCe Bell, David Small, Allie Brosch, and Ellen Fourney.  We will study the vocabulary, conventions, and formal properties of graphic literature, asking how images and text work together to create narrative.  We will consider whether graphic narrative might be especially well suited to representations of bodily difference; how illness/disability can disrupt conventional ideas about gender and sexuality; how experiences of the body as a source of pain, stigmatization, and shame intersect with the sexualized body; and how illness and disability queer conventional sexual arrangements, identities, and attachments.  While studying the construction of character, narrative, framing, color, and relationship between visual and print material on the page, students will also produce their own graphic narratives.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel Adams
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 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: Philosophy
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Brendan I Fleig-Goldstein
  Info
• 3 points

PROBABILITY FOR ENGINEERS

Introductory course to probability theory and does not assume any prior knowledge of subject. Teaches foundations required to use probability in applications, but course itself is theoretical in nature. Basic definitions and axioms of probability and notions of independence and conditional probability introduced. Focus on random variables, both continuous and discrete, and covers topics of expectation, variance, conditional distributions, conditional expectation and variance, and moment generating functions. Also Central Limit Theorem for sums of random variables. Consists of lectures, recitations, weekly homework, and in-class exams.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Kaizheng Wang
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

MAFIA MOVIES

Examines representations of the mafia in American and Italian film and literature. Special attention to questions of ethnic identity and immigration. Comparison of the different histories and myths of the mafia in the U.S. and Italy. Readings includes novels, historical studies, and film criticism. Limit 25

• Department: Italian @Barnard
• W 6:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Nelson Moe
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

The Politics of Work

In this class we will examine the politics, organization, and experience of work. In the first three weeks we will get our bearings and consider some basic (but difficult!) questions about work, including: What counts as work and who counts as a worker? How important are our jobs to our survival in the world, and what makes for a good or bad job? In this section you will start thinking about and analyzing your own work experiences. In weeks four and five we will read what sociology’s founders had to say about work, and consider some of the important shifts to work that accompanied industrialization. Then we will turn to 20th century transformations, including the rise of the service economy and worker-customer relations, changes in forms of managerial control and worker responses to these changes, globalization, and the proliferation of precarious work. Finally, we will turn to examining gender, class and race in labor markets and on the job, paid and unpaid reproductive labor, the construction of selves at work, and the job of fashion modeling. Throughout the course we will examine how the sociology of work is bound up with other key institutions including gender, race, class, and the family.

• Department: Sociology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Teresa Sharpe
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 4 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
• F 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Gina A Jae
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

Religion and Human Rights

What is the relationship between religion and human rights? How have different religious traditions conceived of “the human” as a being worthy of inherent dignity and respect, particularly in moments of political, military, economic, and ecological crisis? How and why have modern regimes of human rights privileged some of these ideas and marginalized others? What can these complicated relationships between religion and human rights explain some of the key crises in human rights law and politics today, and what avenues can be charted for moving forward? In this class, we will attempt to answer these questions by first developing a theoretical understanding of some of the key debates about the origins, trajectories, and legacies of modern human rights’ religious entanglements. We will then move on to examine various examples of ideas about and institutions for protecting “humanity” from different regions and histories. Specifically, we will examine how different societies, organizations, and religious traditions have addressed questions of war and violence; freedom of belief and expression; gender and sexual orientation; economic inequality; ecology; and the appropriate ways to punish and remember wrongdoing. In doing so, we will develop a repertoire of theoretical and empirical tools that can help us address both specific crises of human rights in various contexts, as well as the general crisis of faith and and observance of human rights as a universal norm and aspiration for peoples everywhere.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Timothy Vasko
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

INTRO HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY

This course will survey selected social, cultural and aesthetic or technical developments in the history of photography, from the emergence of the medium in the 1820s and 30s through to the present day. Rather than attempt comprehensively to review every aspect of photography and its legacies in the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the course will instead trace significant developments through a series of case studies. Some of the latter will focus on individuals, genres or movements, and others on various discourses of the photographic image.  Particular attention will be placed on methodological and theoretical concerns pertaining to the medium.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexander Alberro
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 17 Info
• 4 points

MAD LOVE

The history of irrational love as embodied in literary and non-literary texts throughout the Western tradition. Readings include the Bible, Greek, Roman, Medieval, and modern texts.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Alfred Mac Adam
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 3 points

ISSUES IN 19TH C FRENCH P

19TH CENT FR PAINTNG

AHIS3682OC. Issues in Nineteenth Century Art.
3 points. 
Taught in English.

Instructor Nicolas Baudouin, Instructor in Art History. 

We will  focus on a key artistic period that is full of upheavals. We will particularly consider the affirmation of the individuality of the artist in relation to the institutions and great pictorial movements that have marked the history of French painting of that time.

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

Please note the program dates are different from the Summer Session Terms. Visit the 
UGE
 website for the start and end dates for the Columbia in Summer in Paris program.

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

• Department: Global Programs
• 3 points

ISSUES IN 19TH C FRENCH P

19TH CENT FR PAINTNG

AHIS3682OC. Issues in Nineteenth Century Art.
3 points. 
Taught in English.

Instructor Nicolas Baudouin, Instructor in Art History. 

We will  focus on a key artistic period that is full of upheavals. We will particularly consider the affirmation of the individuality of the artist in relation to the institutions and great pictorial movements that have marked the history of French painting of that time.

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

Please note the program dates are different from the Summer Session Terms. Visit the 
UGE
 website for the start and end dates for the Columbia in Summer in Paris program.

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

• Department: Global Programs
• 3 points

PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE

PHILOSOPHY AND LANGUAGE

This course is a survey of analytic philosophy of language. It addresses central issues about the nature of meaning, including: sense and reference, speech acts, pragmatics, and the relationship between meaning and use, meaning and context, and meaning and truth.

• Department: Philosophy
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Melissa S Fusco
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

Business & Politics in Globalized World

Business & Politics Globa

Companies (or, as we’ll mostly refer to them, firms) play a number of important roles in both domestic and international politics; among other activities, they create jobs, engage in trade and in-vestment, create social responsibility programs, lobby governments, and create much of the world’s pollution. How should we think about firms as political actors? Why, when, and how do firms attempt to influence policymaking? And when do they succeed? In this course, we will study strategic collaboration, competition, and collusion between firms and governments in a range of settings and policy areas. To do so, we will draw on insights from international relations, economics, and business scholars, and we will frequently engage with current real-world examples of business-government relations. Topics will include (among others) lobbying, corporate social responsibility, taxation and tax avoidance, public-private governance, and corporate influence in foreign policy.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Calvin N Thrall
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• 3 points

Disability Narratives in Latin America

Disability Narratives Lat

This course surveys Latin American literary texts that have deeply engaged with disability in the
20 th and 21 st century. Against the tendency to treat disability merely as a useful metaphor or to
simply import Global Northern vocabulary and methodologies of disability studies to other
locations, this course turns to Latin American literary texts by authors that have been directly
“touched” by disability to foreground the concerns, vocabularies, and commitments that their
texts reveal. This includes authors who either through their personal experience with disability
or as caretakers—as parents, siblings, or close friends of people with disabilities—have closely
grappled with the experience of non-normative bodies and minds in the Latin American
context. In this course we ask how are subjects with disabilities represented in a variety of
genres (novel, essay, poem, graphic novel) and what constraints and possibilities circumscribe
these subjectivities and their lives. Ultimately, we will ask what vision of disability justice
emerges from these localized experiences and creative interventions beyond now globalized
disability discourses of inclusion/access and independence/autonomy.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Maja Horn
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

Mass-Mediated Politics in Modern Latin A

Mass-Med Politics Mod Lat

This undergraduate seminar offers an introduction to the study of mass media and politics in Latin America from the early 19th to the early 21st century. Throughout the course, the students will get acquainted with some of the key concepts, problems, and methods through which historians and communication scholars have probed the relationship between mass media and political power in the region. We will define and understand media broadly, but we will focus largely on printed media and, to a lesser extent, radio, cinema, and television. We will discuss both breaks and continuities between different media technologies, journalistic cultures, and political regimes. Knowledge of Spanish is welcome, but not mandatory.

• Department: History @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Alfonso Salgado
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• 4 points

Research Immersion in OR and Data Analyt

An overview of active research areas in Operations Research and Data Analytics, and an introduction to the essential components of research studies. This course helps students develop fundamental research skills, including paper reading, problem formulation, problem-solving, scientific writing, and research presentation. Classes are in seminar format, with students analyzing research papers, developing research projects, and presenting research findings.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Eric Balkanski
  h-index: 13 Info
• 3 points

STRATEGY FORMULATION

This class is an introduction to strategic management and the decisions that firms make in their historical context. We look at the growth of the large multi-product firm in almost all countries in the world and the the process by which they internationalized their activities and, very often, were also forced to retreat from their international positions.  We treat strategies as relation to two broad goals of the class: to understand why some companies are financially much more successful than others; and to analyze how managers can devise a set of actions (the strategy) and design processes and structures that allow their company to obtain a competitive advantage. You will learn the analytical tools developed in universities, in consulting and industrial firms, and even in the military.   These tools include what companies do to outperform their rivals; to analyze the competitive moves of rival firms by game-theoretic concepts; and when it makes sense for companies to diversify and globalize their business. Applications will be to Walmart and Apple, European firms and to Asian firms, and developing country firms.

• Department: Columbia College
• R 10:25 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Len Sherman
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• 3 points

LATINX RACIAL IDENTITY & CULTURAL PRODUC

LATINX RACIAL CULTURAL PR

The course will investigate the impact of racial identity among Latinx in the U.S. on cultural production of Latinos in literature, media, politics and film. The seminar will consider the impact of bilingualism, shifting racial identification, and the viability of monolithic terms like Latinx. We will see how the construction of Latinx racial identity affects acculturation in the U.S., with particular attention to hybrid identities and the centering of black and indigenous cultures. Examples will be drawn from different Latinx ethnicities from the Caribbean, Mexico and the rest of Latin America.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Edward Morales
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• 4 points

INTRO TO COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

A basic course in communication theory, stressing modern digital communication systems. Nyquist sampling, PAM and PCM/DPCM systems, time division multipliexing, high frequency digital (ASK, OOK, FSK, PSK) systems, and AM and FM systems. An introduction to noise processes, detecting signals in the presence of noise, Shannons theorem on channel capacity, and elements of coding theory.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Irving Kalet
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

ETHICS

Prerequisites: one course in philosophy. Corequisites: PHIL V3711 Required Discussion Section (0 points). This course is mainly an introduction to three influential approaches to normative ethics: utilitarianism, deontological views, and virtue ethics. We also consider the ethics of care, and selected topics in meta-ethics.

• Department: Philosophy @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Francey Russell
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

MAJOR WOMEN FILMMAKERS

Traditional film history has consigned a multitude of cinema practices to an inferior position. By accepting Hollywood’s narrative model as central, film scholars have often relegated non-male, non-white, non-Western films to a secondary role. Often described as “marginal” or “peripheral” cinemas, the outcomes of these film practices have been systematically excluded from the canon. Yet… are these motion pictures really “secondary”? In relation to what? And according to whom? This course looks at major films by women filmmakers of the 20th Century within a tradition of political cinema that 1) directly confronts the hegemonic masculinity of the Hollywood film industry, and 2) relocates the so-called “alternative women’s cinema” at the core of film history. Unlike conventional feminist film courses, which tend to be contemporary and anglocentric, this class adopts a historical and worldwide perspective; rather than focusing on female directors working in America today, we trace the origins of women’s cinema in different cities of the world (Berlin, Paris, New York) during the silent period, and, from there, we move forward to study major works by international radical directors such as Lorenza Mazzetti, Agnès Varda, Forough Farrokhzad, Věra Chytilová, Chantal Akerman, Lina Wertmüller, Barbara Loden, Julie Dash, and Mira Nair. We analyse how these filmmakers have explored womanhood not only as a source of oppresion (critique of patriarchal phallocentrism, challenge to heteronormativity, etc) but, most importantly, as a source of empowerment (defense of matriarchy, equal rights, lesbian love, inter- and transexuality...). Required readings include seminal texts of feminist film theory by Claire Johnston, Laura Mulvey, Ann Kaplan, bell hooks, and Judith Butler. Among the films screened in the classroom are silent movies –
Suspense
(Lois Weber, 1913),
The Seashell and the Clergyman
(Germaine Dulac, 1928)—, early independent and experimental cinema –
Girls in Uniform
(Leontine Sagan, 1931),
Ritual in Transfigured Time
(Maya Deren, 1946)—, “new wave” films of the 1950s and 1960s –
Cléo from 5 to 7
(Varda, 1962),
Daisies
(Chytilová, 1966)–,
auteur
cinema of the 1970s –
Seven Beauties
(Wertmüller, 1974),
Jeanne Dielman
(Akerman, 1975)–, and documentary films –

• Department: Film @Barnard
• F 4:10 p.m.-7:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Sophia de Baun
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• 3 points

SENIOR RESEARCH ESSAY SEMINAR

• Department: American Studies @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennie Kassanoff
  CULPA: 20 Info
• Instructor: Vrinda Condillac
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 4 points

Persuasion at scale: causal inference, m

Persuasion at Scale

By employing statistical and computational methods, including randomized controlled trials, natural experiments, and machine learning techniques, students will engage directly with real-world data to uncover the intricacies of persuasion across different sectors, including but not limited to quantifying the effects of partisan media, social media, and political campaigns. The course will also delve into the historical evolution of these persuasive techniques, providing students with a rich contextual background to better understand current trends and anticipate future developments.

This course fulfills the quantitative methods requirement for the Political Science major.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• 3 points

ETHICS - REC

Required discussion section for PHIL UN3701 Ethics

• Department: Philosophy @Barnard
• M 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• M 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• R 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Louis B Finegan
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• Instructor: Ry Smith
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• 0 points

TOPICS IN ETHICS

ETHICS OF NONVIOLENCE

This course examines influential theories of nonviolence.  It also considers how nonviolence can be defensible in an often violent world, and asks whether it is always clear how to distinguish violence from nonviolence.

• Department: Philosophy
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Michele Moody-Adams
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Women in Vietnamese society, history and

Women in Vietnam soc&hist

This course explores the roles and representations of women in Vietnamese society, history and literature from premodern to contemporary times through folklore, poetry, prose and films. From different angles, in different contexts and through different approaches we will critically engage and situate literary and visual texts within larger historical processes of antiquity, folkore, religious beliefs and practice, sexual politics, feminism, monarchy, colonialism, war, modernity, nation-building and globalization that have impacted the roles and identities of Vietnamese women through the ages.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Vinh Nguyen
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• 4 points

RESEARCH DESIGN: SCOPE AND METHODS

RESEARCH DESIGN: SCOPE&ME

This class aims to introduce students to the logic of social scientific inquiry and research design. Although it is a course in political science, our emphasis will be on the science part rather than the political part — we’ll be reading about interesting substantive topics, but only insofar as they can teach us something about ways we can do systematic research. This class will introduce students to a medley of different methods to conduct social scientific research.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Abdullah Aydogan
  h-index: 4 Info
• 4 points