RAPID READING AND TRANSLATION
This course, conducted in English, is designed to help graduate students from other departments gain proficiency in reading and translating Spanish texts for scholarly research. The course prepares students to take the Reading Proficiency Exam that most graduate departments demand to fulfill the foreign-language proficiency requirement in that language. Graduate students with any degree of knowledge of Spanish are welcome. A grade of A- or higher in this class will satisfy the GSAS foreign language proficiency requirement in Spanish.
- Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Juan Pablo Cominguez
CULPA: 5
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- 3 points
WOMEN OF COLOR IN SPECULATIVE LITERATURE
WOMEN OF COLOR&SCIENCE FI
"The Future is Female" except in science fiction, where it still looks pretty white and male. What happens when women of color take on such tropes as space exploration, cybernetics, superpowers, and the end of the world? How can women of color change the way we not only think of the future, but think of the present as well? In this class we’ll look at how speculative literature looks at the intersections of race, gender, class, sexuality, technology, and environmental concerns. Readings will include work from such authors as Octavia Butler, Franny Choi, Sam Chanse, G Willow Wilson, and Tananarive Due with potential critical readings from Lisa Yaszek, Charlotte E Howell, and bell hooks.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Quincy Jones
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COMPREHENSIVE BEG CATALAN
An extensive introduction to the Catalan language with an emphasis on oral communication as well as the reading and writing practice that will allow the student to function comfortably in a Catalan environment.
- Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
- TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elsa Ubeda
CULPA: 10
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- 4 points
LIVES IN TRANSLATION
This class focuses on the theme of translation and what happens when texts and people cross national, cultural, linguistic, racial or gendered borders. Through our classroom discussions and essays, we will explore the following questions: Why or how do texts lend themselves to or resist translation? How do encounters with dominant discourses necessitate acts of self-translation or resistance to translation, especially for people of color, immigrants or queer communities? How do literary narratives change when translated across cultures and time periods? What is the role of the translator in these acts of remaking? Drawing on postcolonial, feminist and translation theory, we will consider how writers have pushed back against dominant narratives through texts that cross and complicate linguistic, cultural and national borders. Readings are subject to change but will likely include a selection from following: a novel by Jean Rhys or Virginia Woolf, fiction and poetry by Sappho, Fatimah Asghar, Irena Klepfisz, Marjane Satrapi, as well as various English translations of the 1001 Nights; scholarly texts by Gloria Anzaldúa, Edward Said, bell hooks, Friedrich Schleiermacher and Jorge Luis Borges. Course costs will not exceed $20; access to books can also be made available to students who need them.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Duygu Ula
CULPA: 6
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- 3 points
INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY GREEK
Covers all of Greek grammar and syntax in one term. Prepares the student to enter second-year Greek (GREK UN2101 or GREK UN2102).
- Department: Classics
- MWF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Hanna Golab
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INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY GREEK
Covers all of Greek grammar and syntax in one term. Prepares the student to enter second-year Greek (GREK UN2101 or GREK UN2102).
- Department: Auditing
- MWF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- 0 points
MASTERPIECES OF WESTERN ART
Discussion and analysis of the artistic qualities and significance of selected works of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Parthenon in Athens to works of the 20th century.
- Department: Core (A&S)
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Ioannis Mylonopoulos
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Danny Smith
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Leslie Tait
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Xiaohan Du
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Martina Mims
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Leslie Tait
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Xiaohan Du
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Rachel F Himes
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Sandrine S Larrive-Bass
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Irina T Oryshkevich
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Kent M Minturn
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Sandrine S Larrive-Bass
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Irina T Oryshkevich
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Kent M Minturn
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Page S Knox
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Danny Smith
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Katherine H Gobel
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Eleonora Pistis
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Meredith Gamer
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Noam M Elcott
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Branden W Joseph
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Iheb Guermazi
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Pujan Karambeigi
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Sinclair Spratley
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Kanako Tajima
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Alessandra Di Croce
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Laura S Scherling
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Martina Mims
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INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY ITALIAN
An intensive course that covers two semesters of elementary Italian in one, and prepares students to move into Intermediate Italian. Students will develop their Italian communicative competence through listening, (interactive) speaking, reading and (interactive) writing. The Italian language will be used for real-world purposes and in meaningful contexts to promote intercultural understanding. This course is especially recommended for students who already know another Romance language. May be used toward fulfillment of the language requirement.
- Department: Italian
- TRF 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Barbara Spinelli
CULPA: 9
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- 6 points
INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY COURSE
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- Department: Classics
- MW 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Geoffrey Harmsworth
Info - 4 points
WRITING AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Beginning with the Popol Vuh, the Mayan myth of creation, which records the first contact with the Spanish conquistadors about 1555, we will explore the history of American nature writing up to the present, with particular attention to problems of environmental justice. Description and interpretation of nature has shaped artistic representation from the very beginning of human history, and we will read both texts and images from the Americas in relation to selected European texts: from Crevecoeur’s “Letters from an American Farmer” (1765) to excerpts from Wordsworth’s “Prelude” in England (1798), which in turn influenced Emerson’s essay “Nature” (1836) and Thoreau’s writing in
Walden
and “Civil Disobedience” (1851). We will also consider both texts and contexts from John Steinbeck’s
The Grapes of Wrath
(1939); Rachel Carson’s
Silent Spring
(1962); John McPhee’s
Encounters with the Archdruid
(1971); and international reports and organizations including the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and COP28. Engaging with activist organizations, we will both write and analyze the impact of contemporary environmental journalism such as Bill McKibben’s
The End of Nature
, Liz Kolbert’s
The Sixth Extinction
, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs,
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals
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- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Linn C Mehta
CULPA: 18
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- 3 points
MASTERPIECES OF WESTERN MUSIC
Analysis and discussion of representative works from the Middle Ages to the present.
- Department: Core (A&S)
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Ashkan Behzadi
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Finola Merivale
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Demetrius Shahmehri
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Knar Abrahamyan
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Thomas T Wetmore
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Mariusz Kozak
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Thomas T Wetmore
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Magdalena Baczewska
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Kristy K Barbacane
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Ryan H Pratt
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Galen P Degraf
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Ashley S Nail
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Dongmyung Ahn
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Velia Ivanova
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Callum J Blackmore
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Lucy Turner
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Velia Ivanova
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Scott Douglass
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Lucy Turner
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Sonja G Wermager
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Ruth Opara
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Saad N Haddad
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Sonja G Wermager
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Joshua A Mastel
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Saad N Haddad
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Manuel Garcia Orozco
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Joshua Navon
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Marilyn McCoy
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Ashkan Behzadi
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Anya B Wilkening
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Ralph R Whyte
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Lauren P Bernard
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READING THE FUTURE
How do we think about the future? Why do we develop the hopes and fears that we do? How do present conditions and discourses inform, influence, or limit our senses of personal and political possibility? In this section of First-Year Writing, we will explore conceptions of the future in 19th through 21st-century literary fiction. We will begin by close reading 20th-century short stories that evoke hopes and fears for the future on individual, social, and global scales. We will then turn to H.G. Wells’ classic novella
The Time Machine
and place its portrayal of the future in the context of late Victorian science and socioeconomics. Finally, we will consider how contemporary literature reflects and responds to the accelerating climate crisis, and explore fiction’s role in helping us apprehend the potential for radical environmental disruption.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
- MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael Shelichach
Info - 3 points
MUSIC IN NARRATIVE
How and to what ends does literature represent musical form or the feeling of musical encounter? In this course, we will discuss narratives in which music plays a significant role, whether through musical allusion or its sustained thematic presence, or through principles of musical composition and gesture that play in the background, informing a text’s structural flow. We will consider complex resonances between literary narratives and histories of music culture and aesthetics, asking how writers use music to world-build, to characterize, and to situate a text culturally and politically. Throughout the semester, we will pay particular attention to narratives that showcase the musical lives of characters belonging to historically marginalized groups. In doing so, we will question how race, gender, and sexuality intersect with musical histories of aesthetic power. Literary readings may include works by Jane Austen, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and James Joyce. Secondary readings in performance studies and musical aesthetics may include selections by Jennifer Lynn Stoever, Judith Butler, Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer, Maria Edgeworth, and others.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Weybright
Info - 3 points
SPECULATING THE PAST
Recent works as diverse as The New York Times’s
Overlooked Project
and Netflix’s
Bridgerton
raise questions about what records we keep, how we narrate history, and the factors that determine what stories we can tell. In this class, we will probe these questions by reading literary works that turn to a speculative mode to make sense of history, past and present. As we enter the critical conversation about the historical record, we will explore how authority and value are assigned to different texts and accounts. In so doing, we will also develop our ability to read texts' and documents' own theorizations of truth and fact. Readings may include work by Virginia Woolf, Marlene NourbeSe Philip, Carmen Maria Machado, Adrienne Rich, and N.K. Jemisin alongside critical texts by Saidiya Hartman, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, and others. Course costs will not exceed $15.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sarah Schwartz
Info - 3 points
TALKING BACK
Inspired by bell hooks's assertion that “moving from silence to speech is for the oppressed…a gesture of defiance that heals,” we read and write with attention to the power dynamics of speech and silence, of talking and talking back. Our literary and critical texts demand attention to the ways in which power shapes narrative, and narrative shapes power. We will think especially about how the oppressed, the colonized, the exploited, speak to and against erasure; and also how the marginalized create community by talking and talking back. The readings include literary works by Nella Larsen, Jamaica Kincaid, Toni Morrison, and Layli Long Soldier; and critical works by Frantz Fanon, Judith Butler, bell hooks, and others. The only book length work you will need is Toni Morrison’s Jazz (around $15 new).
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alexandra P Watson
CULPA: 16 Info - 3 points
ATTENTION!
Attention is the foundation of investigation, action, and intention. It means concentration and deliberation. It can also mean distraction and confusion. Quietly reading a difficult work of literature, puzzling over a math problem, revising a paper for class, or cooking an elaborate meal are forms of attention. So is endlessly scrolling through social media, binge-watching a television series, or strolling aimlessly through the city. Where and how we use our attention is the foundation, the bedrock, of nearly everything we think and do. It is therefore unsurprising that gathering and directing our attention is also an enormous, lucrative industry. In this course we will study the science and philosophy of attention alongside the history of the "attention economy" and evolving techniques and technologies of attention harvesting. We will explore these subjects while reflecting upon and writing about our own habits of paying attention. By paying attention to attention, we will nurture a brighter awareness of the many interests vying for our time, mental engagement, money, our very lives, and of our abilities to scrutinize, critically examine, or resist our entrapment within the modern attention industry.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nathan Gorelick
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BALLET I
This course is designed for the absolute beginner or the student returning to ballet class after a lengthy hiatus and is intended to familiarize the student with the classical ballet terminology, to foster independence in this particular vocabulary, to introduce the historical context of the Western art form and conventions of a ballet class. Learning the physical practice of this centuries-old craft will give the student basic classical ballet terminology as well as gaining an anatomical understanding of the body.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- MW 9 a.m.-10 a.m.
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- F 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Kate A Glasner
CULPA: 31
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Vincent McCloskey
CULPA: 2 Info - 0-1 points
CONTESTED TRUTHS: MEMORY, AUTHORITY AND
This class examines the ways that a historical event can be remembered and described differently by direct participants, and how personal biases, such as race, gender and class, affect the process of recollection and narration. Some of the texts that will be read and discussed include Sara Collins’
The Confessions of Frannie Langton
, Ian McEwan’s
Atonement
, and Alison Bechdel's
Fun Home
, among others. Our analysis of these texts will be augmented by theoretical works drawn from sociology and literary studies.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Benjamin M Breyer
CULPA: 13
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- 3 points
BALLET II
Ballet II
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Kate A Glasner
CULPA: 31
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- 0-1 points