Race, Medicine and Literature in 19th-Ce

RACE MED & LIT 19C BRAZIL

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ana P Lee
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 2 Info
• 3 points

PHYSICAL COSMOLOGY

Prerequisites: one year of calculus-based general physics. The standard hot big bang cosmological model and modern observational results that test it. Topics include the Friedmann equations and the expansion of the universe, dark matter, dark energy, inflation, primordial nucleosynthesis, the cosmic microwave background, the formation of large-scale cosmic structures, and modern cosmological observations.

• Department: Astronomy
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Greg Bryan
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 70 Info
• 3 points

PHYSICAL COSMOLOGY

Prerequisites: one year of calculus-based general physics. The standard hot big bang cosmological model and modern observational results that test it. Topics include the Friedmann equations and the expansion of the universe, dark matter, dark energy, inflation, primordial nucleosynthesis, the cosmic microwave background, the formation of large-scale cosmic structures, and modern cosmological observations.

• Department: Auditing
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Greg Bryan
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 70 Info
• 0 points

Against Dystopia

Against Dystopia: climate

Ideas of dystopian futures haunt present-day imaginings of the climate
crisis. Such futures are
typically characterized by worsening inequality, disastrous weather effects, and deeply disrupted
social relations. Apocalyptic imaginaries also tend to invoke an individualist politics oriented
around struggle over scarce resources. But what about those for whom the present is already
post-apocalyptic? What about political configurations that insist on solidarity, mutuality, care, and
justice to create liberatory futures? Just solutions to the climate crisis are only as capacious as
the imagination of what the problems are, how the present came into being, who is most
affected, and who gets to decide what futures are created. This interdisciplinary course engages
ethnographic work alongside theorizations of contemporary life and other world-building genres,
including climate fiction, visual art, and poetry. In doing so, the course offers an argument
against the fatalism of dystopia and seeks to imagine what reparative methods centering climate
justice could look like.

• Department: Anthropology
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Dilshanie Perera
  Info
• 4 points

The Global Politics of Climate Change

GLOBAL PLTCS OF CLIMATE C

Climate change mitigation is the greatest global political challenge of our times. This course uses concepts drawn from the broader political science literature to analyze the recent history and possible future trajectories of interactions between international politics and climate change, including the international political economy of various relevant commercial sectors. It has no prerequisites, and no background knowledge is required.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Kimberly Marten
  CULPA: 71 Wikipedia h-index: 19 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: 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: Robert E Remez
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia h-index: 23 Info
• Instructor: Katherine Thorson
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 7 Info
• Instructor: Lisa K Son
  CULPA: 25 Info
• Instructor: Kate M Turetsky
  Info
• Instructor: Danielle L Sussan
  CULPA: 8 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

REHEARSAL&PERFRMNCE IN DANCE

The course can be taken for 1-3 credits. Students are graded and take part in the full production of a dance as performers, choreographers, designers, or stage technicians.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• 1-3 points

REHEARSAL&PERFRMNCE IN DANCE

The course can be taken for 1-3 credits. Students are graded and take part in the full production of a dance as performers, choreographers, designers, or stage technicians.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• TR 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• 1-3 points

REHEARSAL&PERFRMNCE IN DANCE

The course can be taken for 1-3 credits. Students are graded and take part in the full production of a dance as performers, choreographers, designers, or stage technicians.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• 1-3 points

FOUNDATIONS OF OPTIMIZATION

This first course in optimization focuses on theory and applications of linear optimization, network optimization, and dynamic programming.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Eric Balkanski
  h-index: 13 Info
• 3 points

METAPHYSICS-REC

• Department: Philosophy
• W 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• M 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• 0 points

Seminar on Stigma and Belonging

Stigma and Belonging Semi

Description: This course seeks to (1) illuminate psychological pathways through which stigma
impacts members of devalued social groups, and (2) investigate the mechanisms through which
interventions at different levels of an ecological system either succeed or fail. The course
considers identity devaluation, discrimination, and exclusion as general processes that apply to
an array of social categories and status characteristics, including sexual orientation, obesity,
mental illness, racial and ethnic identity, physical disability, immigration status, and having a
criminal record. Conceptualizing stigma as a multi-level construct, we will focus on both
psychological and structural mechanisms through which stigma harms its targets and contributes
to population-level inequalities. While the course will draw primarily on the literature in social
psychology, we will also consider research and writing from other disciplines, including clinical
psychology, sociology, public health, and law. Over the course of the semester, we will also
consider methodological issues in psychological research, including ways in which stigma, its
impacts, and intervention effects can be measured.

• Department: Psychology
• R 7:30 p.m.-9:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael J Naft
  Info
• 4 points

THIRD YEAR MOD COLLOQ TIBET I

For those whose knowledge is equivalent to a student who’s completed the Second Year course. The course develops students’ reading comprehension skills through reading selected modern Tibetan literature. Tibetan is used as the medium of instruction and interaction to develop oral fluency and proficiency.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Sonam Tsering
  Info
• 4 points

CHILDREN AT RISK

Prerequisites: PSYC UN1010, PSYC UN2280, PSYC UN2620, or PSYC UN2680, and the instructors permission. Considers contemporary risk factors in childrens lives. The immediate and enduring biological and behavioral impact of risk factors.

• Department: Psychology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 4 points

SENIOR RESEARCH THESIS

Discussions of the student's Independent Research project during the fall and spring terms that culminate in a written and oral senior thesis. Each project must be supervised by a scientist working at Barnard or at another local institution.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Koleen McCrink
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 17 Info
• 1 points

Mass-Mediated Politics in Modern Latin A

Media and Politics in Lat

This advanced undergraduate seminar offers an introduction to the study of mass media and politics in Latin America from the early nineteenth to the late twentieth century. Throughout the course, the students will get acquainted with some of the key concepts, problems, and methods through which historians and, to a lesser extent, 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 mainly on printed media, radio, and television. We will discuss both breaks and continuities between different media technologies, journalistic cultures, and political regimes. Knowledge of Spanish and/or Portuguese is welcome, but not mandatory.

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

Anticolonialism, Constitutionalism, and

Anticolonialism in S Asia

How does anticolonialism shape the political present and future(s) of South Asia? This syllabus explores this question by reflecting on how political and social concepts formulated by anticolonial thought have impacted public life in South Asia in the last century. In particular, it explores how anticolonial concepts gain thicker meanings and implications through the experiences and challenges of constitutionalism and democracy in postcolonial societies.
This course explores themes such as Anticolonial Worldmaking, Anti-Caste Assertion, Founding Moments for Post-Colonial Democracies, Representation and Citizenship in Uneasily Secular Societies, the Everyday Life of the Law, Religious Nationalism, and recent debates on Environmental Rights and Data Privacy and Security. Each of these themes are designed to understand how anticolonialism, constitutionalism and democracy address the dilemmas of deep diversity in South Asia.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Shaunna Rodrigues
  h-index: 0 Info
• 3 points

ENDING WAR & BUILDING PEACE

This course provides an introduction to the politics of war termination and peace consolidation. The course examines the challenges posed by ending wars and the process by which parties to a conflict arrive at victory, ceasefires, and peace negotiations. It explores how peace is sustained, why peace lasts in some cases and breaks down in others and what can be done to make peace more stable, focusing on the role of international interventions, power-sharing arrangements, reconciliation between adversaries, and reconstruction.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Sarah Daly
  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 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeffrey M Cohen
  h-index: 5 Info
• Instructor: Irit Felsen
  Info
• 4 points

Adolescent Mental Health: Causes, Correl

ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH

Prerequisites: PSYC UN1001 and Prior coursework in Abnormal Psychology and Research Methods strongly preferred. Adolescence is a peak period for the onset of mental disorders and suicidal behaviors. The seminar is designed to enhance understanding of topics including, prevalence, etiology, risk factors, mechanisms, prevention and treatment approaches, and ethical considerations related to clinical research.

• Department: Psychology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Randy P Auerbach
  h-index: 50 Info
• 4 points

Mobilities in the Americas: An Urban and

This course will use “mobilities” as a category for historical analysis that captures the social, political, and economic aspects of urban transportation. We will think about mobilities as the social practices that produce the urban space and reproduce inequalities. The course covers different cities of the Americas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It will include conversations on the “right to mobilities”, the role of private interests and the meanings of “public”, suburbanization, displacement, restrictions on movement, the political ecology of energy, and feminist approaches to commuting. We will create public history projects to spark a conversation with communities beyond academia.

• Department: History
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Andrei Guadarrama Dominguez
  Info
• 4 points

THEATRE AND DEMOCRACY

What links concepts of theatre and concepts of democracy? How does theatre promote democracy, spectators’ civic participation, and vice versa, how do concepts and modes of theatre prevent the spectators from assuming civic positions both within and outside a theatrical performance? Arranged in three sections—“Tragedies and Democracies,” “Theatrical Propriety and Liberal Democracy,” and “Rhapsody for Theatre”—this class explores both the promotion and the denial of democratic discourse in the practices of dramatic writing and theatrical performance.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Hana Worthen
  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
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• 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
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Leake
  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: Auditing
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Leake
  Info
• 0 points

PHILOSOPHY OF MIND

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

PHILOSOPHY OF MIND

• Department: Auditing
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Melissa S Fusco
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 0 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: Daniel Lacker
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 13 Info
• 3 points

The Ancient Table: Archaeology of Cookin

ANCT TBL: ARCH COOKING &

Prerequisites: None Humans don’t just eat to live. The ways we prepare, eat, and share our food is a complex reflection of our histories, environments, and ideologies. Whether we prefer coffee or tea, cornbread or challah, chicken breast or chicken feet, our tastes are expressive of social ties and social boundaries, and are linked to ideas of family and of foreignness. How did eating become such a profoundly cultural experience? This seminar takes an archaeological approach to two broad issues central to eating: First, what drives human food choices both today and in the past? Second, how have social forces shaped practices of food acquisition, preparation, and consumption (and how, in turn, has food shaped society)? We will explore these questions from various evolutionary, physiological, and cultural viewpoints, highlighted by information from the best archaeological and historic case studies. Topics that will be covered include the nature of the first cooking, beer-brewing and feasting, writing of the early recipes, gender roles and ‘domestic’ life, and how a national cuisine takes shape. Through the course of the semester we will explore food practices from Pleistocene Spain to historic Monticello, with particular emphasis on the earliest cuisines of China, Mesoamerica, and the Mediterranean.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Camilla Sturm
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

CLOTHING

Human beings create second, social, skins for themselves. Across history and around the world, everyone designs interfaces between their bodies and the world around them. From pre-historic ornaments to global industry, clothing has been a crucial feature of people’s survival, desires, and identity. This course studies theories of clothing from the perspectives of art history, anthropology, psychology, economics, sociology, design, and sustainability. Issues to be studied include gender roles, craft traditions, global textile trade, royal sumptuary law, the history of European fashion, dissident or disruptive styles, blockbuster museum costume exhibitions, and the environmental consequences of what we wear today. Required 1 hour a week TA led section to be arranged.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Anne Higonnet
  CULPA: 31 Wikipedia 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

ORGANIZING INNOVATION

This course examines major innovations in organizations and asks whether innovation itself can be organized. We study a range of forms of organizing (e.g. bureaucratic, post-bureaucratic, and open architecture network forms) in a broad variety of settings: from fast food franchises to the military-entertainment complex, from airline cockpits to Wall Street trading rooms, from engineering firms to mega-churches, from scientific management at the turn of the twentieth century to collaborative filtering and open source programming at the beginning of the twenty-first. Special attention will be paid to the relationship between organizational forms and new digital technologies.

• Department: Sociology
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: David Stark
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info
• 4 points

ORGANIZING INNOVATION-DISC

• Department: Sociology
• R 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• R 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• F 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Taylor B Alarcon
  Info
• Instructor: Ari Galper
  Info
• Instructor: Flavien Ganter
  h-index: 2 Info
• 0 points

ANARCHISM: A GLOBAL HISTORY

Explores the historical development of anarchism as a working-class, youth, and artistic movement in Europe, North and Latin America, the Middle East, India, Japan, and China from the 1850s to the present. Examines anarchism both as an ideology and as a set of cultural and political practices.

• Department: History @Barnard
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jose Moya
  CULPA: 19 h-index: 18 Info
• 4 points

DRAMA, THEATRE AND THEORY

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission. (Seminar). Theatre typically exceeds the claims of theory. What does this tell us about both theatre and theory? We will consider why theatre practitioners often provide the most influential theoretical perspectives, how the drama inquires into (among other things) the possibilities of theatre, and the various ways in which the social, spiritual, performative, political, and aesthetic elements of drama and theatre interact. Two papers, weekly responses, and a class presentation are required. Readings include Aristotle, Artaud, Bharata, Boal, Brecht, Brook, Castelvetro, Craig, Genet, Grotowski, Ibsen, Littlewood, Marlowe, Parks, Schechner, Shakespeare, Sowerby, Weiss, and Zeami. Application Instructions: E-mail Professor Austin Quigley (aeq1@columbia.edu) with the subject heading Drama, Theatre, Theory seminar. In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course. Admitted students should register for the course; they will automatically be placed on a wait list, from which the instructor will in due course admit them as spaces become available.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Austin E Quigley
  Info
• 4 points

VENTURING TO CHANGE THE WORLD

How do founders and their new ventures change the world? Changes in technology and society are increasing the power of small teams to impact everything. Startups, large corporations, social groups and governments are increasingly focused on the power of innovation to solve the world’s hardest problems. The ideas and patterns driving this recent form of change-making build on frameworks defining the development of modern civilizations since the Renaissance. Venturing to Change the World introduces the intellectual foundations and practical aspects of founding a new venture. We explore the entrepreneurial mindset, team formation, idea selection, how ideas become products with markets, and the key steps in building a venture. Our scope is commercial as well as social ventures, and the course is appropriate not only for prospective founders but anyone who will operate in a society increasingly animated by entrepreneurial activity.

• Department: Columbia College
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Liza Gutina
  Info
• 3 points

Memory and Monuments in the U.S. West

Memory and Monuments US W

This class explores the relationships among memory, monuments, place, and political power in

the United States West. The course begins with an introduction to the theory of collective

memory and then delves into case studies in New Mexico, California, and Texas. We will

expand our perspective at the end of the course to compare what we have learned with the

recent debates over monuments to the Confederacy. We will consider both physical

manifestations of collective memory such as monuments and architecture as well as intangible

expressions like performance, oral history and folklore.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Brian Luna Lucero
  Info
• 4 points

LEADERSHIP IN ORGANIZATION

Initially, the emphasis is on understanding the challenges confronting leaders and developing skills to effectively deal with these obstacles. Beyond intelligence and technical know-how, what separates effective leaders from other team members is a set of social skills (e.g. impression management, self-awareness). This course identifies these critical leadership skills and provides ideas and tools for improving them. Then, the course considers how social intelligence skills fit the needs of managers at different stages of their careers. In early stages, managers need to achieve a good person-job fit, find mentors, and build an effective social network. At the mid-career stage, managers need to lead an effective unit with increasing complexity and responsibilities. Finally, the course examines challenges managers face at later career stages as they become partners, CFOs, CEOs, etc.

• Department: Columbia College
• W 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel I McDonald
  h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

RESEARCH DESIGN: DATA ANALYSIS

This course examines the basic methods data analysis and statistics that political scientists use in quantitative research that attempts to make causal inferences about how the political world works. The same methods apply to other kinds of problems about cause and effect relationships more generally. The course will provide students with extensive experience in analyzing data and in writing (and thus reading) research papers about testable theories and hypotheses. It will cover basic data analysis and statistical methods, from univariate and bivariate descriptive and inferential statistics through multivariate regression analysis. Computer applications will be emphasized. The course will focus largely on observational data used in cross-sectional statistical analysis, but it will consider issues of research design more broadly as well. It will assume that students have no mathematical background beyond high school algebra and no experience using computers for data analysis.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Shigeo Hirano
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

Surveillance

SURVEILLANCE

Surveillance has become a ubiquitous term that either conjures images of George Orwell’s
1984
, the popular series
Black Mirror,
or is dismissed as an inconvenience and a concern of only those who engage in criminal activity or have something to hide. Using sociological theories of power, biopower, racialization, and identity formation,
Surveillance
explores the various ways we are monitored by state authorities and corporations and our role in perpetuating the system (un)wittingly.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Randa B Serhan
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

Memes, Metaphors, and Performances

Memes, Metaphors, Perform

From millenary ritual songs to deep fried Wojaks, memes have always been an integral part of how we transfer cultural information. Since their mainstream widespread in 2008, memes have shifted from being mere online entertainment to a tool for disseminating worldviews and modes of understanding. In recent years, memes have shown to have the capacity to affect political elections. Understanding these cultural objects has become a pressing task, allowing the development of the research field of memetics. By outsourcing their reproducibility to the user, memes provide us with an opportunity to question our own social structures. In this course we’ll take a deep dive into the liminal world of memes, using metaphor and performance theory. We’ll explore their conceptual origins, discuss cultural memetic examples throughout history, and apply that understanding to our current political landscape. Since current memes are designed to take advantage of the different social media algorithms, new formats emerge all the time. In each class we’ll discuss a text or a movie alongside a meme format, and use the assigned theoretical framework to close-read memes and their cultural consequences. How can we use them as an effective tool in today’s realist capitalism? How does our role as users affect the social media algorithm and its tightly controlled echo chambers? Each participant will engage with these questions via weekly discussions and writing explorations. By the end of the semester, everybody will develop a personal project, exploring the ideas we’ve seen.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Eduardo Pavez Goye
  Info
• 4 points

BEYOND EL DORADO

In this seminar, we will investigate ancient and indigenous art, materials, and aesthetics from areas of what is today Latin America. Taking advantage of New York’s unrivaled museum collections, we will research Pre-Columbian gold and silver work, as well as equally precious stone, shell, textile, and feather works created by artists of ancient Mexico, Central America, and Andean South America. We will also study latter-day histories of collecting, reception, display, appropriation, and activism that shape contemporary understandings of Pre-Columbian art.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Trever
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN ETHICS

• Department: Philosophy
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Carol Rovane
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 3 points

RESEARCH DESIGN: SCOPE AND METHODS

RESEARCH DESIGN: SCOPE&ME

This class aims to provide students with the tools to conduct social science research and analyze data. We will talk about how to summarize and present data, analyze experiments and quasi- 
experimental designs, conduct public opinion surveys, and discuss other related topics.  This is a course in political science, so there will be greater emphasis on examples in politics.  
However,    our primary goal is to learn how to use methods to answer a broad variety of interesting research questions in the social sciences and engage with different research designs.

Many of the required readings will be technical in  nature,  using  mathematical  and  statistical methods to present and discuss data. However, this class does not assume any background in 
statistics or advanced math.  When we discuss readings with technical material, the focus will be on extracting the “big takeaways" and using statistical methods in a practical  setting.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Daniel M Corstange
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

SCOPE AND METHODS - DISC

This is the required discussion section for
POLS UN3720.

• Department: Political Science
• M 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• R 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• T 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• W 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• W 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• M 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• W 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Julian E Gerez
  h-index: 2 Info
• 0 points

Gender and Sexuality in Modern African H

Gender Sexuality Modern A

This seminar explores the history of gender, sexuality and family in African contexts in the 19th to 21st century. It probes the ways gender and sexuality have shaped and been shaped by historical processes, by unpacking the concepts of “gender” and “sexuality” and their relevance to African contexts. The course first investigates these changes by looking at gender and sexuality in African states of the early 19th century. It then analyzes the ways that colonial conquest and consolidation of colonial rule affected gender norms. Finally, it examines the debates about gender and sexuality in the postcolonial period and their legacies in the present. This seminar raises key questions about the transformation of gender roles and sexualities through the slave trade, colonial conquest and decolonization.

• Department: History
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Thomas B Zuber
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• 4 points

The Thirties: Metropole and Colony

The Thirties: Metropole/C

This course focuses on the tumultuous 1930s, which witnessed the growth of anticolonial movements, the coming to power of totalitarian and fascist regimes, and calls for internationalism and a new world vision, among other major developments. Even as fascism laid down its roots in parts of Europe, the struggle for independence from European colonial rule accelerated in Asia and Africa, and former subjects engaged with ideas and images about the shape of their new nations, in essays, fiction, poetry, and theater. Supporters and critics of nationalism existed on both sides of the metropole-colony divide, as calls for internationalism sought to stem the rising tide of ethnocentric thinking and racial particularism in parts of Europe as well as the colonies. Ostensibly a gesture of resistance against imperial control, anti-colonialism also sparked debates about re-visioning gender relations, the place of minorities in the nation, religious difference and secularism, and models of world unity, among other issues. The course aims to consider the intersection of these debates with resistance to 1930s fascism: Did anti- fascist resistance in the metropole draw inspiration from anticolonial struggles? Conversely, did the spectre of fascism and authoritarianism present a cautionary tale to the project of nation-building in former colonies?

We will read works from both the metropole and the colonies to track the crisscrossing of ideas, beginning with writers whose works foreshadowed the convulsive events of the 1930s and beyond (H.G. Wells, E.M. Forster, Rabindranath Tagore), then moving on to writers who published some of their greatest work in the 1930s (Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Mulk Raj Anand, M.K. Gandhi, Raja Rao, C.L.R. James), and concluding with an author who reassessed the events of the 1930s from a later perspective (George Lamming).

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Gauri Viswanathan
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

HOW RACE GETS UNDER OUR SKIN: THE SOCIOL

RACE, HEALTH, AND BIOMEDI

One of the glaring forms of inequalities that persists today is the race-based gap in access to health care, quality of care, and health outcomes. This course examines how institutionalized racism and the structure of health care contributes to the neglect and sometimes abuse of racial and ethnic minorities. Quite literally, how does race affect one’s life chances? This course covers a wide range of topics related to race and health, including: racial inequalities in health outcomes, biases in medical institutions, immigration status and health, racial profiling in medicine, and race in the genomic era.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Domonique M Reed
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• 4 points

Experimental Research

Randomized experimentation is an important methodology in political science. In this course, we will discuss the logic of experimentation, its strengths and weaknesses compared to other methodologies, and the ways in which experimentation has been -- and could be -- used to investigate political phenomena. Students will learn how to interpret, design, and execute experiments.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Yamil R Velez
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 8 Info
• 4 points

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH-DISC

This is the required discussion section for POLS UN3768.

• Department: Political Science
• R 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• R 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Zara Riaz
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• Instructor: Giulia Leila Travaglini
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• 0 points

The Rich are Different from Us : We

Wealth in American Litera

To say “wealth” is to say “class,” which is also to say “manners” and “snobbery,” and, especially in America, is to say vaulting “ambition.” This course examines how the amassing of wealth --individual & corporate-- creates class tensions and social manners over the course of a century. And we will conduct this examination aware that to make these matters explicit disturbs some basic American habits of mind that prefer fictions of egalitarianism.
As Lionel Trilling observed in 1950:
“Americans appear to believe that to touch accurately on the matter of class, to take full note of snobbery, is somehow to demean themselves…We don’t deny that we have classes and snobbery, but we seem to hold it indelicate to take precise cognizance of these phenomena. As if we felt that one cannot touch pitch without being defiled.”   

Among the topics/figures to be studied: the “New Woman” divorcee (Wharton), the social climbing arriviste (Fitzgerald), the pathologies of wealth (Chesnutt, Fitzgerald), the Black elite (Chesnutt, West), corporate capitalism as it colonizes the human body (Powers), wealth and post modernism (Diaz).

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Ross Posnock
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 4 points

Trees

Trees shadow the human in faceless fashion. They mark of a form of deep-time AN record and respond to ecological devastation and abundance. Symbolic of the strange proximity of the divine in numerous different religious and literary traditions, trees figure as alter-egos or doubles for human lives and after-lives (in figures like the trees of life and salvation, trees of wisdom and knowledge, genealogical trees). As prostheses of thought and knowledge, they become synonymous with structure and form, supports for linguistic and other genres of mapping, and markers of organization and reading. As key sources of energy, trees –as we know them today -- are direct correlates with the rise of the Anthropocene. Trees are thus both shadows and shade: that is, they are coerced doubles of the human and as entry ways to an other-world that figure at the limits of our ways of defining thought and language.

By foregrounding how deeply embedded trees are in world-wide forms of self-definition and cultural expression, this course proposes a deeper understanding of the way in which the environment is a limit-figure in the humanities’ relation to its “natural” others. This course assumes that the “real” and the “literary” are not opposed to one another, but are intimately co-substantial. To think “climate” or “environment” is not merely a matter of the sciences, rather, it is through looking at how the humanities situates “the tree” as a means of self-definition that we can have a more thorough understanding of our current ecological, political, and social climate.

Foregrounding an interdisciplinary approach to literary studies, this course includes material from eco-criticism, philosophy, religion, art history, indigenous and cultural and post-colonial studies. It will begin by coupling medieval literary texts with theoretical works, but will expand (and contract) to other time periods and geographic locales.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Patricia Dailey
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR ESSAY RESEARCH METHODS

SENIOR ESSAY SEMINAR

The senior essay research methods seminar, offered in several sections in the fall semester, lays out the basic building blocks of literary and cultural studies. What kinds of questions do literary and cultural critics ask, and what kinds of evidence do they invoke to support their arguments? What formal properties characterize pieces of criticism that we find especially interesting and/or successful? How do critics balance the desire to say something fresh vis-a-vis the desire to say something sensible and true? What mix of traditional and innovative tools will best serve you as a critical writer? Voice, narrative, form, language, history, theory and the practice known as “close reading” will be considered in a selection of exemplary critical readings. Readings will also include “how-to” selections from recent guides including Amitava Kumar’s Every Day I Write the Book, Eric Hayot’s The Elements of Academic Style and Aaron Ritzenberg and Sue Mendelsohn’s How Scholars Write.

The methods seminar is designed to prepare those students who choose to write a senior essay to complete a substantial independent project in the subsequent semester. Individual assignments will help you discover, define and refine a topic; design and pursue a realistic yet thrilling research program or set of protocols; practice “close reading” an object (not necessarily verbal or textual) of interest; work with critical sources to develop your skills of description and argument; outline your project; build out several sections of the project in more detail; and come up with a timeline for your spring semester work. In keeping with the iterative nature of scholarly research and writing, the emphasis is more on process than on product, but you will end the semester with a clear plan for your essay itself as well as for the tasks you will execute to achieve that vision the following semester.

The methods seminar is required of all students who wish to write a senior essay in their final semester.  Students who enroll in the methods seminar and decide not to pursue a senior essay in the spring will still receive credit for the fall course.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Jenny M Davidson
  CULPA: 19 Info
• Instructor: Julie S Peters
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Rebecca C Pawel
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• 3 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

• Department: Education @Barnard
• Instructor: Erika Kitzmiller
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 3 Info
• Instructor: Thea R Abu El-Haj
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• Instructor: Lisa Edstrom
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Maria S Rivera Maulucci
  h-index: 10 Info
• 1-4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Students who wish to do an independent study project (I.S.P.), should speak with a Political Science faculty member willing to serve as sponsor, then fill out a Request for Approval of Credit for Independent Study (see Registrars link below) and obtain signatures from the sponsor and from our Department Chair. File this form with the Committee on Programs and Academic Standing, which must approve all requests. (It must be filed with the C.P.A.S. well before the Registrars program-filing deadline for the semester of the I.S.P.) Note that no credit is given for an internship or job experience in or by itself, but credit is given for an academic research paper written in conjunction with an internship, subject to the procedures outlined above. The internship and the I.S.P. can be in the same semester, or you may do the I.S.P. in the semester following the internship. A project approved for three or four points counts as an elective course for the purpose of the ten-course major or five-course minor requirement. No more than two such three- or four-point projects may be used for the major, and no more than one for the minor. An independent study project may not be used to satisfy either the colloquium or senior seminar requirement. Each instructor is limited to sponsoring one independent study project per semester. The Registrar will assign a POLS BC 3799 section and call number unique to the faculty sponsor. The Registrars ISP form: http://www.barnard.edu/sites/default/files/inline/indstudy.pdf. The Political Science faculty: http://polisci.barnard.edu/faculty-directory.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• Instructor: Xiaobo Lu
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Michael Miller
  CULPA: 18 h-index: 14 Info
• Instructor: Eduardo Moncada
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 12 Info
• Instructor: Kimberly Marten
  CULPA: 71 Wikipedia h-index: 19 Info
• 1-4 points

Justice Now

This lecture course, accompanied by its weekly recitation, examines the meaning of justice by exploring theoretical questions, ideas, and debates associated with contemporary movements that have shaped political discourse in the United States over the past decade.

The course begins with John Rawls’s seminal work
A Theory of Justice
and a set of critiques from feminist and communitarian philosophers that direct our attention to specific contexts and identities that are relevant to any attempt to envision a just society. From there, the course turns to a study of social justice in three areas: economics, the environment, and race, with a corresponding focus on such contemporary movements as democratic socialism, environmentalism, and Black Lives Matter. Each of these units offers competing perspectives from liberal, communitarian, and post-Marxist philosophers, as well as critical theorists, which will enable students to consider the philosophical dimensions of these issues, their connections with one another, and the approaches of movements that are now working to address them. A final unit on praxis explores strategies that movements use to build solidarity and achieve change, ranging from voting to literature and the arts. Throughout each unit, students will have the opportunity to explore not only philosophical ideas, but also stories, images, sounds, and other cultural works that are being created by activists. The course will include guest speakers from the movements being studied, and will also feature class outings.

Justice Now serves as a bridge from the Columbia Core Curriculum to contemporary social justice issues and the work of the Eric H. Holder Jr. Initiative for Civil and Political Rights. As such, the course builds on the texts and ideas that students encounter in Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilization, and will also include some analysis of music and visual art. Prior completion of Core courses is not necessary, as students will be provided with relevant background material in lectures and recitation meetings.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Larry Jackson
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

ENVIR SCIENCE SENIOR SEMINAR

Guided, independent, in-depth research culminating in the senior thesis in the spring. Includes discussion about scientific presentations and posters, data analysis, library research methods and scientific writing. Students review work in progress and share results through oral reports. Weekly seminar to review work in progress and share results through oral and written reports.

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points

ENVIR SCIENCE SENIOR SEMINAR

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 4 points

SEM IN CONTEMP ART PRACTICE

(Formerly R4601) New York City is the most abundant visual arts resource in the world. Visits to museums, galleries, and studios on a weekly basis. Students encounter a broad cross-section of art and are encouraged to develop ideas about what is seen. The seminar is led by a practicing artist and utilizes this perspective. Columbia College and General Studies Visual Arts Majors must take this class during their junior year. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• T 4 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Keli Safia Maksud
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• 3 points

SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS

Modeling, description, and classification of signals and systems. Continuous-time systems. Time domain analysis, convolution. Frequency domain analysis, transfer functions. Fourier series. Fourier and Laplace transforms. Discrete-time systems and the Z transform.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• TR 7:10 p.m.-8:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Xiaodong Wang
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3.5 points

THE MUGHAL MEMOIRS

The early sixteenth century rise of the Mughal authority in North India coincided with the arrival of the Portuguese in South India, the emergence of Safavid empire, and the dominance of the Ottoman empire. Within the first hundred years, even more claimants to imperial power in India – the British, the French, the Rajput, the Maratha – were engaged in political negotiations, resistance and accommodation with the Mughal. We will follow the course of the development of Mughal political thought, economic and environmental impact and courtly culture through to their official demise in 1857.

The first four emperors of Mughal India left various accounts for us. Babur (r. 1525–1530), the founder of the dynasty, wrote an autobiography. Memoirs of the second, Humayun (r. 1530–1556), were written by his sister, and others in his army. The third, Akbar (r. 1556–1605) was the subject of the most amazing regnal history-- written by his minister and aide Abu'l Fazl. His son Jahangir (r. 1605–1627), recorded his daily activities and thoughts in his own journal that was published by him. 

To best engage with this complex universe, we will use the semantic vocabulary of ‘seeing’. This course will delve into how Mughal emperors saw their world and how they narrated it. This course is almost exclusively focused on primary readings. We will read large portions of the texts written by the Mughal elite. We will read them to examine their treatment of sacral landscape, nature and environment, gender, social networks, power and violence, agency and interiority, performativity, usage of history and memory.

This focus on memoir and autobiographical writing would allow us to delve far deeply into the socio-cultural worlds of the Mughal then is possible via a perfunctory reading of secondary sources.

• Department: History
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Manan Ahmed
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 6 Info
• 4 points

Punishment Culture

What is punishment, and what might attention to punitive practices teach us about the cultures in which they are used? Modern American culture is so saturated with punishment that it is difficult to know where to begin such an investigation. From childhood education to mass incarceration and from the crafting of financial futures to the training of horses and dogs, punishment is ubiquitous and often unquestioned. In many cases, punishment is the thread that connects allegedly disparate institutions and produces allegedly unforeseen forms of violence. In this course we will question both the practice and its prevalence, combining a genealogy of the concept with case studies in its modern use.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Kaya N Williams
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• 4 points

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING LAB I

Fundamental considerations of wave mechanics; design philosophies; reliability and risk concepts; basics of fluid mechanics; design of structures subjected to blast; elements of seismic design; elements of fire design; flood considerations; advanced analysis in support of structural design.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• W 1:10 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• 3 points

LITERARY APPROACHES TO BIBLE

Interpretive strategies for reading the Bible as a work with literary dimensions. Considerations of poetic and rhetorical structures, narrative techniques, and feminist exegesis will be included. Topics for investigation include the influence of the Bible on literature.

• Department: English @Barnard
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Margaret R Ellsberg
  CULPA: 54 Info
• 4 points