QUANTUM PHYSICS LABORATORY
Experiments illustrating phenomenological aspects of the early quantum theory: (i) Hydrogenic Spectra: Balmer Series - Bohr-Sommerfeld Model; (ii) Photoelectric Effect: Millikans Determination of h/e; (iii) Franck-Hertz Experiment; and (iv) Electron Diffraction Phenomena. Substantial preparation required, including written and oral presentations, as well as an interest in developing the knack and intuition of an experimental physicist. This course is best taken concurrently with PHYS BC3006 Quantum Physics.
- Department: Physics and Astronomy @Barnard
- W 4 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Reshmi Mukherjee
CULPA: 7
Wikipedia
h-index: 63
Info
- 3 points
CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
Prerequisites: Science majors should have completed one introductory course that covers biology, ecology, evolution or conservation priort to taking this course. Non-science majors should have some exposure to these same topics but are not required to have taken courses in advance of this class.
- Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dustin Partridge
Info - 3 points
ADV ELECTROMAGNETISM LAB
Classical electromagnetic wave phenomena via Maxwells equations, including: (i) Michaelson and Fabry-Perot Interferometry, as well as a thin-film interference and elementary dispersion theory; (ii) Fraunhofer Diffraction (and a bit of Fresnel); (iii) Wireless Telegraphy I: AM Radio Receivers; and (iv) Wireless Telegraphy II: AM Transmitters. Last two labs pay homage to relevant scientific developments in the period 1875-1925, from the discovery of Hertzian waves to the Golden Age of Radio. Complements PHYS W3008 Electromagnetic Waves and Optics.
- Department: Physics and Astronomy @Barnard
- F 10:30 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Stiliana Savin
CULPA: 4 Info - 3 points
Science of Well-Being and Human Potentia
What does it mean to reach your full potential? Can science inform how you can live
your own
best life? The main mission of this seminar is to provide an up-to-date understanding of theoretical, empirical, and applied advances in the science of well-being and human potential. Consideration will be given to conflicting viewpoints and their respective empirical support. The course is grounded in the core principles of humanistic psychology, and will cover essential human needs, including security, growth, mindfulness, connection, self-esteem, love, creativity, character, resiliency, purpose, flow, gratitude, awe, and other forms of transcendence. We will also cover the latest science of human performance, including the development of intelligence, talent, and creativity. Throughout this seminar you will engage in experiential learning and practical exercises to further help you nurture what’s best within you— and become a
whole person
— which will inform our theoretical and empirical understanding of the latest scientific findings. My hope is that in addition to enhancing your appreciation of how the scientific method can increase your understanding of human potential more generally, the exercises and readings in this course will also help you in your own personal journey to realize your greatest strengths and become more fully human— accepting and becoming flexible with the totality of who you are, so that you can become the person you most want to become.
PLEASE NOTE: Students may not get credit for both PSYC BC3008 and PSYC UN3820
- Department: Psychology @Barnard
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Scott B Kaufman
CULPA: 1 h-index: 40 Info - 4 points
INDIVIDUAL SENIOR PROJECTS
Prerequisites: Meets senior requirement. Instructor permission required. The instructor will supervise the writing of long papers involving some form of sociological research and analysis.
- Department: Sociology @Barnard
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Instructor:
Deborah Becher
CULPA: 8
h-index: 4
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Bernstein
CULPA: 27 Info -
Instructor:
Maricarmen Hernandez
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Instructor:
Debra Minkoff
CULPA: 6 h-index: 17 Info -
Instructor:
Mignon R Moore
CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info -
Instructor:
Jonathan Rieder
CULPA: 17
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Instructor:
Angela Simms
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Amy Zhou
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Instructor:
Randa B Serhan
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
Senior Research Seminar: Inquiry
SENIOR RESEARCH SEMINAR I
This is the second semester of a year-long senior capstone experience for Educational Studies majors. Over the course of the year, you will design and carry-out an inquiry project, and you will report on this project through an appropriate medium, for a specific purpose and audience.
- Department: Education @Barnard
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Thea R Abu El-Haj
Info - 4 points
Confined Bodies
Used as punishment since antiquity for the political and social dissidents, exile, penal colonies, concentration camps, and prisons have been produced as conceptual and concrete spaces where constructions of the body politic have been contested. How does the experience of the spatialized body produce social and political subjectivities, especially with the employment of discourses of inclusion and exclusion, of grafting and excising onto and from the body politic? In this seminar we will explore these questions especially as they pertain to the instrumentalities that seek to erect rhetorics and narratives of utopias within the enclosures of specific dystopic spaces: prisons, refugee and concentration camps, schools and other morphing institutions of re-formation.
- Department: Classics
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Neni K Panourgia
CULPA: 27
Info
- 3 points
ARTEMIS RISING SHORT COURSE IN FILMMAKIN
ARTEMIS COURSE IN FILMMAK
The Artemis Rising Short Course in Filmmaking is a two to four-week course offered each semester on a special topic of filmmaking presented by an Artemis Rising Foundation Filmmaker Fellow (ARFF). This series was endowed by the Artemis Rising Foundation to bring world-class filmmakers with hands-on experience and fresh perspectives to Barnard to connect with students interested in filmmaking as a vocation and media literacy.
It can only be taken for pass/fail for 1 point.
Students must attend all four class sessions and write a final paper in order to receive credit for this course.
To see the dates/times that the Artemis Rising Short Course will meet this semester, the current course description, and the biography of the visiting filmmaker, please visit the ARFF website:
https://athenacenter.barnard.edu/arff
.
- Department: Film @Barnard
- W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alice A Reagan
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info - 1 points
ARTEMIS RISING SHORT COURSE IN FILM PROD
ARTEMIS COURSE:FILM PRODU
The Artemis Rising Short Course in Film Production is a one-point credit short workshop presented by an Artemis Rising Foundation Filmmaker Fellow (ARFF). It consists of four workshops on a special aspect of film production and one final project. This series was endowed by the Artemis Rising Foundation to bring world-class filmmakers with hands-on experience and fresh perspectives to Barnard to connect with students interested in filmmaking as a vocation and media literacy.
It can only be taken for pass/fail for 1 point.
Students must attend all four class workshops and produce one final project in order to receive credit for this course.
To see the dates/times that the Artemis Rising Short Course will meet this semester, the current course description, and the biography of the visiting filmmaker, please visit the ARFF website:
https://athenacenter.barnard.edu/arff
.
- Department: Film @Barnard
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alice A Reagan
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info - 1 points
SENIOR THESIS
French majors will write their senior thesis under the supervision of the instructor.
- Department: French @Barnard
- T 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Brian D O'Keeffe
CULPA: 28
Info
- 4 points
More than Real: Dreams, Imagination, and
More Than Real
This course is thematic, though a loose history of dreaming, imaginative praxis, and virtual reality environments across South Asia will emerge through the networked conversations across texts. The advantage of a thematic course allows us to cover various genres such as: ritual manuals; epic; poetry; philosophical argument; biographical accounts; prophecies; conversion stories; and medical textbooks to name a handful. At the end of the course, we will see how the texts encountered in the first part have been repurposed to speak to social justice movements around caste - both within South Asia and the diaspora population in the U.S. The thematic of dreaming and imagination also provides flexibility in method: because students will have the opportunity to study conversations between different historical actors across religious traditions about dreams, they will also have the opportunity to revise problematic accounts of religious pluralism and communalism in South Asia. Students will read primary texts from Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, and Sikh traditions to name a handful. Students can look forward to reading about worlds within rocks; falling asleep and waking up as another person only to die in the dream world, wake up and then realize your dream-life family is somehow real and looking for you; how to finally interpret those pesky dreams about teeth falling out; dismembered bodies generating the universe; daydreaming about a cloud that thinks mountain peaks look like nipples; how to build a mind-temple that Shiva prefers to the physical one with fancy rock; and much more!
- Department: Religion @Barnard
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Meghan E Hartman
Info - 4 points
SUPERVISED INDEPENDENT RES
Prerequisites: the instructors permission for entrance, and the departmental representatives permission for aggregate points in excess of 12 or less than 4. This course may be repeated for credit (see major and concentration requirements). Individual research under the supervision of a member of the staff. Research areas include organic, physical, inorganic, analytical, and biological chemistry. Please note that CHEM UN3098 is offered in the fall and spring semesters.
- Department: Chemistry
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Instructor:
Vesna Gasperov
CULPA: 1 h-index: 4 Info - 4 points
GUIDED RESEARCH IN ECONOMICS
Prerequisites: Instructors permission Provides students with the experience of participating in the research process by matching them to a faculty mentor who will put them to work on one of his or her current research projects.
- Department: Economics @Barnard
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Instructor:
Ashley Wong
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Instructor:
Randall Reback
CULPA: 17 h-index: 14 Info -
Instructor:
Sarah M Gertler
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Instructor:
Kurt Semm
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Instructor:
Linda Bell
Wikipedia h-index: 19 Info - 1-2 points
INDEPENDENT STUDY
Independent Study. Instructor permission required.
- Department: Computer Science @Barnard
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Instructor:
Tiffany Tseng
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Instructor:
Corey Toler-Franklin
Info - 1-4 points
INDEPENDENT STUDY
Independent study
- Department: Film @Barnard
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Instructor:
Alice A Reagan
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info -
Instructor:
Margaret J McLagan
Info -
Instructor:
Danielle T Douge
Info - 1-4 points
INDEPENDENT STUDY
- Department: French @Barnard
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Instructor:
Brian D O'Keeffe
CULPA: 28
Info
- 1-4 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 who has to provide written approval. The course entails a scholarly component; for this, a research report is required by the end of the term. The research report can take the form that best suits the nature of the project. The course will be taken for a letter grade, regardless of whether the student chooses 1, 2, 3, or 4 credits.
- Department: Neuroscience & Behavior @Barnard
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Instructor:
Peter D Balsam
CULPA: 25 Info -
Instructor:
Elizabeth P Bauer
CULPA: 3 h-index: 21 Info -
Instructor:
Bj Casey
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John Glendinning
CULPA: 23 h-index: 39 Info -
Instructor:
Gabrielle J Gutierrez
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Instructor:
E'Mett McCaskill
CULPA: 38
Info
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Instructor:
Kara Pham
CULPA: 9
Info
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Instructor:
Russell D Romeo
CULPA: 9
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Instructor:
Rae Silver
Wikipedia h-index: 69 Info -
Instructor:
Alex White
h-index: 13 Info -
Instructor:
Alexis S Hill
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Instructor:
Kevin G Bath
Info - 1-4 points
HAMLET
In this course, we will spend a semester reading, thinking about, seeing, and writing about one play, Shakespeare’s
Hamlet.
We will begin by reading
Hamlet
slowly, using various critical perspectives to attend to some of the historical and contemporary problematics of the play. In addition to glancing at sources (Saxo Grammaticus’ narrative of Amleth’s revenge in
Historia Danica
) and contemporaries (Thomas Kyd,
The Spanish Tragedy
), we’ll consider the relationship between the two media of
Hamlet
’s production, the book and the stage, taking the opportunity to consider what the three texts of
Hamlet
s—the 1603 quarto, the 1604 quarto, and the folio version—have to say to us about our preconceptions of theatre and print. Then we will turn to two problems. The first is
Hamlet
as a conceptual challenge, focusing on Hamlet in modernism, notably as framed by Mallarmé, Eliot, Freud, and Joyce; as part of this consideration we’ll take up some modern dramatic encounters with
Hamlet,
notably Tom Stoppard’s
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dea
(1966),
Heiner Müller’s
Hamletmachine
(1977) and Magda Romanska’s
Opheliamachine
(2013)
,
Samuel Beckett’s
Endgame
(1957)
.
We will conclude the semester by thinking about mediated performance, beginning with Laurence Olivier’s controversial (and award-winning) 1948 film, and tracing through Michael Almereyda’s 2000 media allegory, concluding with two productions that move
Hamlet
into the sphere of digital performance, The Wooster Group
Hamlet
(2007) and Annie Dorsen’s
A Piece of Work
(2013)
.
- Department: Theatre @Barnard
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
William B Worthen
CULPA: 10
Info
- 4 points
JOURNALISM & PUBLIC LIFE
An introduction to the conventions, traditions, values, assumptions, and arguments that have shaped the institution of journalism and its central role in public life. Through close readings/viewings of current and classic works of journalism as well as secondary sources, we explore some of the Big Questions: What is journalism for? What is its role in public life, and how has that changed over time? Is objectivity dead--or should it be? How have new technologies affected our expectations? Is sensationalism bad for you? Can anything be done about "fake news"? What is the future of journalism? The focus is on the American experience from the colonial era to the present day, though it will be placed in a global context.
- Department: Journalism
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Andie Tucher
Info - 3 points
FUNDAMENTALS OF GLOBAL HEALTH
Many of the greatest challenges in public health are global. This course uses a multidisciplinary approach to discuss the major underlying determinants of poor health and the relationship between health and political, social and economic development. Drawing upon the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, students will be introduced to the evolution of modern approaches to the setting of global health priorities, the functions and roles of health systems, an overview of current global health practices, and the major institutional players in global health. The first unit of the class will focus on establishing the foundations for a public health approach to understanding the challenges of global health. This will involve exploration of the factors shaping the global distribution of disease and their connection with issues of social, economic, and political development, as reflected in the Millennium Development Goals. The second unit will explore in further detail a number of major health priorities. A significant goal of the class will be to identify common sources of vulnerability and challenge across health risks, and the consequent need for a systemic approach to their being addressed. The third and final unit builds upon this analysis to demonstrate the multi-disciplinary, multi-level approach required to effectively address global health priorities, and the political and organizational cooperation required to achieve this. The class concludes with an analysis of the major challenges and threats to global coordination regarding such threats as pandemic influenza and emerging health threats related to climate change. Offered in the spring.
- Department: Columbia College
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rachel Moresky
CULPA: 4
Info
- 3 points
OPEN FICTION WORKSHOP
Prerequisite: Student must have taken beginning workshop in any undergraduate creative writing concentration. Open workshops are for students who are acquainted with and have experience in at least one beginning workshop in creative writing. In Open Fiction Workshops, particular attention will be paid to the components of fiction: voice, perspective, characterization, and form. Students will be expected to finish several short stories, executing a total artistic vision on a piece of writing. The critical focus of the class will include an examination of endings and formal wholeness, sustaining narrative arcs, compelling a reader's interest for the duration of the text, and generating a sense of urgency and drama in the work. A portfolio of fiction will be written and revised with critical input from the instructor and workshop. Outside readings may be used to supplement and inform the exercises and written projects. Please visit
https://arts.columbia.edu/writing/undergraduate
for information about registration procedures.
- Department: Writing
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Marie G Lee
CULPA: 3 Info -
Instructor:
Samuel Lipsyte
CULPA: 5
Info
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Instructor:
Sophie F Kemp
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Instructor:
Anika J Levy
Info - 3 points
INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS
An introduction to the study of language from a scientific perspective. The course is divided into three units: language as a system (sounds, morphology, syntax, and semantics), language in context (in space, time, and community), and language of the individual (psycholinguistics, errors, aphasia, neurology of language, and acquisition). Workload: lecture, weekly homework, and final examination.
- Department: Cognitive Science @Barnard
- TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Maya Barzilai
Info - 3 points
WOMEN WRITERS OF E EUR: BELARUS,UKR,&RUS
WOMEN WRITERS OF EASTRN E
The course addresses the works of women writers of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia from the 19th century to the present. All assigned readings will be in English. The purpose of the course is to become familiar with the struggles and concerns of these authors, as well as the general features of their lives and cultural contexts. Most readings assigned are primary texts. These will be supplemented during course meetings: the instructor will bring in various materials that would be obscure if assigned to students outside of class, but with live explanations in-class, will enrich their understanding of the primary readings.
- Department: Slavic Languages @Barnard
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
John C Wright
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
SENIOR FICTION WORKSHOP
Prerequisites: The department's permission required through writing sample. Please go to 609 Kent for submission schedule and registration guidelines or see http://www.arts.columbia.edu/writing/undergraduate. Seniors who are majors in creative writing are given priority for this course. Enrollment is limited, and is by permission of the professor. The senior workshop offers students the opportunity to work exclusively with classmates who are at the same high level of accomplishment in the major. Students in the senior workshops will produce and revise a new and substantial body of work. In-class critiques and conferences with the professor will be tailored to needs of each student.
- Department: Writing
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Hilary J Leichter
Info - 4 points
APPLIED MATHEMATICS II: PDE'S
Introduction to partial differential equations; integral theorems of vector calculus. Partial differential equations of engineering in rectangular, cylindrical, and spherical coordinates. Separation of the variables. Characteristic-value problems. Bessel functions, Legendre polynomials, other orthogonal functions; their use in boundary value problems. Illustrative examples from the fields of electromagnetic theory, vibrations, heat flow, and fluid mechanics.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael K Tippett
CULPA: 8 h-index: 43 Info - 3 points
Advanced Burmese II
This course is a continuation of the previous level, focusing on further development of all four Burmese language skills. All materials used in the course consist of authentic Burmese short stories, news articles, digital media content, and other original resources from Myanmar. Students will enhance their presentational skills through regular discussions, formal presentations, and cultural analysis of these authentic materials. The particular materials used in any given year may vary depending on the proficiency level of the students. For students who are involved in Burma/Myanmar related research, their projects may also become part of the course.
- Department: Language Resource Center
- MW 1 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
- 3 points
ADVANCED DUTCH II
see department for details
- Department: Germanic Languages
- TR 1:15 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Wijnie de Groot
CULPA: 11
Info
- 3 points
ACADEMIC WRITING INTENSIVE
Academic Writing Intensive is a small, intensive writing course for Barnard students in their second or third year who would benefit from extra writing support. Students attend a weekly seminar, work closely with the instructor on each writing assignment, and meet with an attached Writing Fellow every other week. Readings and assignments focus on transferable writing, revision, and critical thinking skills students can apply to any discipline. Students from across the disciplines are welcome. This course is only offered P/D/F. To be considered for the course, please send a recent writing sample to
vcondill@barnard.edu
, ideally from your First-Year Writing or First-Year Seminar course, or any other writing-intensive humanities or social sciences course at Barnard (no lab reports please).
- Department: English @Barnard
- T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Meredith A Benjamin
CULPA: 5 Info - 4 points
ADVANCED INDONESIAN II
This course offers students the opportunity to practice advanced structures of Bahasa Indonesia, a major language of Indonesia and South East Asia. This course is offered by videoconferencing from Cornell as part of the Shared Course Initiative.
- Department: Language Resource Center
- 3 points
THIRD-YEAR RUSSIAN II
Prerequisites: RUSS UN2102 or the equivalent and the instructors permission. Enrollment limited. Recommended for students who wish to improve their active command of Russian. Emphasis on conversation and composition. Reading and discussion of selected texts and videotapes. Lectures. Papers and oral reports required. Conducted entirely in Russian.
- Department: Slavic Languages
- MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Tatiana Mikhailova
Info - 4 points
Literary Sinhala II
This one-semester course further develops students' comprehension of written Literary Sinhala, using sample materials from a variety of genres prepared by the instructor, as well as excerpts from texts relevant to graduate student research (when appropriate).
- Department: Language Resource Center
- W 11:40 a.m.-1 p.m.
- 3 points
PAINTING III: Advanced Painting
PAINTING III: Adv Paintin
Prerequisites: (VIAR UN1000) and (VIAR UN2100) Painting III: Advanced study in painting will be a material inquiry into the consequential concepts, histories, and critical language embedded in making painting’s historical past and its’ present. Is painting now a singular “medium”? How do facture, scale, form and a multitude of image-making options, regardless of “style”, accrue as to create meaning? Participants are expected to present work weekly, as Individual studio or group critiques. These will be augmented by readings of selected historical essays and contemporaneous writings, as well as visual presentations on a rotating basis.
- Department: Visual Arts
- T 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kenny Rivero
Info - 3 points
ADVANCED ZULU II
Prerequisites: ZULU W1201-W1202 or the instructors permission. This course allows students to practice adanced structures of the Zulu language. Please note this course is offered by videoconference from Yale through the Shared Course Initiative.
- Department: Language Resource Center
- MW 1 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
- 3 points
Power, Politics & Society-DISC
POWER, POLITICS & SOCIETY
Discussion section for SOCI UN3203: Power, Politics, and Society
- Department: Sociology @Barnard
- R 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
- F 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
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Instructor:
Jose B Castiblanco Montalvo
Info - 0 points
THE ART OF THE ESSAY
Essay writing above the first-year level. Reading and writing various types of essays to develop one's natural writing voice and craft thoughtful, sophisticated and personal essays.
- Department: English @Barnard
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Shelly Fredman
CULPA: 3
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Instructor:
Margaret R Ellsberg
CULPA: 54 Info -
Instructor:
Vrinda Condillac
CULPA: 28
Info
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Instructor:
Monica F Cohen
CULPA: 8
Info
- 3 points
The Indigenous Languages of North Americ
The Indigenous Lang of N.
Humans arrived in the Americas no earlier than 30 thousand years ago and perhaps as recently as
13 thousand years ago, yet since that time Native Americans have developed an incredible richness
and diversity of cultures and languages, with well over a thousand distinct indigenous languages.
In this course we will focus on the indigenous languages of the United States and Canada. At the
time of European contact in the sixteenth century, there were around 400 languages spoken across
the territories of these two countries, yet today only around half of these are still spoken, and of
these about 150 are only spoken by elders and in grave danger of not being passed onto younger
generations. It is estimated that only between 20 or so indigenous languages in the United States
and Canada have good prospects of being spoken natively into the twenty second century. In this
course we will survey the variety and diversity of indigenous languages and the cultural values
tied to them in the pre-contact era, and then look into the causes of their current decline in use and
what steps are being taken to reverse this and revitalize them, even languages which no longer
have any first language speakers. We will investigate the amazing diversity in the basic structures
of these languages and the meanings they can express, highlighting the difference between them
and the more familiar patterns of English. We will study how they are used in indigenous contexts,
both traditional and modern, to communicate valued sociocultural and aesthetic ends. Finally, we
will explore three indigenous languages in greater depth, two from New York State, and appreciate
some of the native oral traditions in the original languages. This course will be of interest to any
undergraduate student curious about the prehistory and subsequent Native history and ethnography
of North America.
- Department: Slavic Languages
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
William Foley
h-index: 0 Info - 3 points
WHAT WAS NAZISM?
How did political theory explain the rise of Nazism in Germany? What models did it develop to understand the structure of the Nazi state, politics and the economy? What can we learn from this for dealing with the crises of democracy and the emergence of authoritarian politics today? This course in political theory and the history of political thought will explore contemporary answers to these questions. It will explore the thought of crucial thinkers on the problems and pitfalls of modern parliamentary democracy such as Max Weber and Hans Kelsen, as well as some of the most influential theoretical voices associated with ideas of Fascism, Totalitarianism and Anti-Semitism such as Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Ernst Fraenkel and Hannah Arendt.
The course will be structured around texts mainly from the 1920s to the 1960s which still have relevance for political theory today. A strong emphasis will be laid on originally German thinkers who fled to the US in the time of Nazi rule and who contributed decisively to American political science and its particular outlook in the post-war era.
This course aims to contextualise the discussed texts within the intellectual world of their own time. Students with an interest in twentieth century political, intellectual and social history will, therefore, be particularly welcome. However, the questions raised in the set texts also demand a theoretical and creative engagement with questions of good democratic rule, the challenges of mass society and participation, political in- and exclusion, minority rights and the emergence of terror and authoritarian rule. Additionally there will be a midterm and a final exam which will examine both students’ understanding of the set texts as well as their own thinking on the political theoretical problems raised in this course.
- Department: Political Science
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Clara Maier
Info - 3 points
MECHANICS
MECHANICS I
Elements of statics; dynamics of a particle and systems of particles.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
- F 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jeffrey W Kysar
CULPA: 9
h-index: 37
Info
- 4 points
Structure of Writing Systems
Why is Turkish spelling easy while English looks chaotic? Why do Japanese, Hebrew, and Armenian carve
language up so differently on the page? And why are game developers and conlang fans obsessed with scripts?
This course is a hands-on tour of how writing systems work. We treat orthography as grammar: principled
mappings from sounds and morphemes to visible forms. You will learn the core toolkit (units of writing,
allography, script typology, depth and transparency, morphographemics), test it on real languages, and run
design-studio labs that evaluate or improve actual orthographies. Labs welcome creative builds: prototype an ingame
script or a conlang orthography, justify its rules, and test its usability. Light formal modeling keeps things
precise without heavy math. By the end you will be able to analyze a script, argue for design choices, and ship a
small reform or a polished worldbuilding system. Although writing systems have traditionally been sidelined in
theoretical linguistics, learning how scripts encode phonology and morphology sharpens core theory and supports
real applications, including teaching children to read and write, designing accessible orthographies, and building
effective NLP architectures. Open to undergraduates of all levels; Intro to Linguistics is a prerequisite.
- Department: Slavic Languages
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nikita Bezrukov
Info - 3 points
FICTION & PERSONAL NARRATIVE
Writing sample required to apply for this course. For the application form and full instructions, please go to https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
Spring 2026: Fiction and Personal Narrative: Crafting the Narrative "I"
In this workshop, we will practice taking creative risks, writing fiction and nonfiction. We will examine four key craft areas: voice, characterization, imagery, and arrangement, both in contemporary published writing and in the writing of the people in this class. In small and large group workshops, we will consider each writer’s work with care and attention to the writer’s vision. By discussing each work-in-progress on its own terms, we will help our fellow writers deepen the meaning and impact of their work. Through risk-taking, and building a creative community, we will also grow and deepen our personal relationships to craft. Model readings will be contemporary short stories or personal essays, mostly written in the first person, including work by Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Tony Tulathimutte, K-Ming Chang, Cleyvis Natera, Melissa Febos, Ling Ma, and Deesha Philyaw.
- Department: English @Barnard
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alexandra P Watson
CULPA: 16 Info - 3 points
DYNAMICS AND VIBRATIONS
Kinematics of rigid bodies; momentum and energy methods; vibrations of discrete and continuous systems; eigen-value problems, natural frequencies and modes. Basics of computer simulation of dynamics problems using MATLAB or Mathematica.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Andrew W Smyth
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
Transatlantic Translation
TRANSATLANTIC TRANSLATION
A workshop in which students from the BC/CU community collaborate with a team of students from the École Normale Supérieure-Lyon on two translation projects. In addition to video-conferenced group sessions, students will work virtually with their translation partner in France, and consult in-person with their Barnard instructor. Prerequisite: completion of at least Intermediate II level of French.
- Department: French @Barnard
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Laurie Postlewate
CULPA: 17
Info
- 3 points
APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING
Prerequisites: STAT UN2103. Students without programming experience in R might find STAT UN2102 very helpful. This course is a machine learning class from an application perspective. We will cover topics including data-based prediction, classification, specific classification methods (such as logistic regression and random forests), and basics of neural networks. Programming in homeworks will require R.
- Department: Statistics
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Bianca Dumitrascu
Info - 3 points
Translating the Animal
TRANSLATING THE ANIMAL
Through readings in language philosophy, translation studies, and critical animal studies,
Translating the Animal
explores how translation, language, and reason have historically worked together to maintain speciesism, preventing human animals from perceiving their commonalities with, and attunement to, sentient nonhuman beings.
- Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Hana Worthen
Info - 4 points
Russian Through Theater
Russian Through Theater is a content-based language course designed for students who already have the equivalent of two semesters of college-level Russian and want to continue exploring their path as Russian language learners. This course is experimental in that it combines elements of traditional language learning with theatricality and creativity. A stress-free learning environment will stimulate language skills and fluency. Staging skits, theatrical pieces, short at first and longer by the end of the semester, will encourage students to focus on phonetics, intonation contour, and idiomatic expressions. In addition to performing skits and short plays, the course includes various forms of improvisation. Reading, listening and speaking - these three essential skills of language learning are constantly practiced. Incorporating theater into language learning not only makes the process enjoyable but also creates a rich, immersive environment that supports language development holistically. Various performative and ludic models, offered by the theater productions -- rehearsed and improvised alike – will help students with shaping a language persona, a skill that students may use in life situations. This skill adds confidence to their conduct of language and allows to communicate effectively with limited linguistic knowledge.
Classes will be conducted primarily in Russian, with sporadic instruction in English when necessary for clarification of assignments or for better understanding of terminology used during mini-lectures.
- Department: Slavic Languages
- W 5 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tatiana Mikhailova
Info - 2 points
Undergraduate Mentored Research
Prerequisites: the project mentors permission. This course provides a mechanism for students who undertake research with a faculty member from the Department of Statistics to receive academic credit. Students seeking research opportunities should be proactive and entrepreneurial: identify congenial faculty whose research is appealing, let them know of your interest and your background and skills.
- Department: Statistics
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Instructor:
Daniel Rabinowitz
CULPA: 19 h-index: 34 Info - 3 points
INTRODUCTION TO FICTION WRITING
INTRO TO FICTION WRITING
Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
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The most exciting, and the most terrifying, aspect of writing fiction is that there are no rules that cannot, under certain conditions, be broken. Good fiction makes and lives by its own rules. In this course, we will discuss common tenets of fiction writing—regarding character, plot, point-of-view, and more—and also examine cases in which writers break rules for the better. This course involves attentive reading of stories by various authors, discussions of craft, in-class writing, and workshops of student fiction. Readings may include Shirley Hazzard, Elias Khoury, James Wood, Elena Ferrante, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Sylvia Townsend Warner, among others.
- Department: English @Barnard
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elisa Gonzalez
Info - 3 points
CLIMATE PHYSICS
Climate Physics
This is a calculus-based treatment of climate system physics and the mechanisms of anthropogenic climate change. By the end of this course, students will understand: how solar radiation and rotating fluid dynamics determine the basic climate state, mechanisms of natural variability and change in climate, why anthropogenic climate change is occurring, and which scientific uncertainties are most important to estimates of 21st century change.
This course is designed for undergraduate students seeking a quantitative introduction to climate and climate change science. EESC V2100 (Climate Systems) is not a prerequisite, but can also be taken for credit if it is taken before this course.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Adam H Sobel
CULPA: 6
Wikipedia
Info
- 3 points
THE OTTOMAN PAST IN THE GREEK PRESENT
Almost a century after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, the Ottoman past lives on in contemporary Greece, often in unexpected sites. In the built environment it appears as mosques, baths, covered markets, and fountains adorned with Arabic inscriptions. It also manifests itself in music, food, and language. Yet Ottoman legacies also shape the European present in less obvious ways and generate vehement debates about identity, nation-building, human rights, and interstate relations. In this course, we will be drawing on history, politics, anthropology, and comparative literature as well as a broad range of primary materials to view the Ottoman past through the lens of the Greek present. What understandings of nation-building emerge as more Ottoman archives became accessible to scholars? How does Islamic Family Law—still in effect in Greece—confront the European legal system? How are Ottoman administrative structures re-assessed in the context of acute socio-economic crisis and migration?
- Department: Classics
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dimitris Antoniou
h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
INTRODUCTION TO POETRY WRITING
Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
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Spring 2026:
Section 1, taught by Angel Nafis: Poetry Belongs With Us
As legend Lucille Clifton said, “poetry began when somebody walked out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said, “Ahhh.” That was the first poem.” In this class we will be demystifying the fundamentals of writing poetry by sharpening our most natural sonic and narrative instincts. We will use these instincts to guide our insights as we explore and practice specific craft elements and structural gestures—from the Ode, Elegy, and Sonnet, to Ekphrasis and Erasure. We’ll study the work of contemporary luminaries like Gwendolyn Brooks, Kaveh Akbar, Sharon Olds, Jenny Xie, June Jordan, Ocean Vuong, and more; using their example to inspire us on how best to understand and command the poetic line. Class time will include weekly writing prompts and share-outs. Come prepared to take risks and foster curiosity.
Section 2, taught by Miranda Field:
This class approaches poetry as a practice energized as much by playful provocation as by engagement with urgent issues of the day. In-class writing and weekly prompts designed to provoke creative ingenuity will keep you writing, ensuring everyone has new poems to workshop regularly. A list of quotes headed “
What is This Thing Called Poetry?
” starts the class off with a discussion intended to open our minds and challenge pre-conceived notions on the topic. This will be followed by other, more focused questions and propositions, providing discussion topics for each class: How do artifice and raw reality intertwine in a poem’s making? In what ways can poems deepen our understanding of ourselves, each other, and the world we share? How do we, as poets, unlock the full potential of our chosen medium, language? What do we mean by “voice” in a poem, and when and how does “voice” emerge? Required readings are central to our work together, and specified titles and volumes must be acquired by the third week of the semester. Supplemental material will be provided as handouts and distributed in class.
- Department: English @Barnard
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Angel Nafis
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Instructor:
Miranda Field
Info - 3 points
FRENCH NEW WAVE CINEMA
This course traces the emergence and development of “New Wave” cinema in France in the 60s. Through a detailed analysis of some of its most iconic films: 400 Blows, Breathless, Hiroshima mon amour… the course will examine the radical artistic and social innovations of its major “auteurs”; Truffaut, Godard, Resnais et al. FREN BC1204: French Intermediate II or the equivalent level is required.
- Department: French @Barnard
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Anne Boyman
CULPA: 16
Info
- 3 points
PLAYWRITING II
Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
. What makes a play alive? Often a playwright is surprised into their strongest work. The practices of experimentation and analysis, curiosity and audacity lead to new possibilities. Students will read and respond to plays, identifying elements and strategies, and each week bring in fragments and scenes written in response to weekly prompts. By the middle of the semester, students will choose the piece that feels the most viable and develop it into what in most cases will be a thirty page play. NOTE: Playwriting I (ENGL BC3113) is NOT a prerequisite, and students need not have written a play before.
- Department: English @Barnard
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kathleen Tolan
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
EXPERIMENTAL MECH OF MATERIALS
Material behavior and constitutive relations. Mechanical properties of metals and cement composites. Structural materials. Modern construction materials. Experimental investigation of material properties and behavior of structural elements including fracture, fatigue, bending, torsion, buckling.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
- W 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Shiho Kawashima
h-index: 24 Info - 4 points
WHY DO BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE?
WHY BAD THINGS GOOD PEOPL
This course is an introduction to the field of inquiry called The Problem of Evil, or Theodicy – that is, the investigation of God in the face of evil and suffering in the world. How do we justify God? How do we reconcile disaster, pain, and suffering with an all-good, all-knowing, all-compassionate God? This question arises in all religious traditions, but here we will study only four: the Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Hindu traditions, each of which proposes its own array of answers. Our emphasis will be on primary texts from each tradition, with introductory and interpretive secondary sources brought in as supplementary. These primary sources will be discussed in class, but especially in required section meetings. A sub-theme of the course is the “pastoral” dimension of answers to the Problem of Evil: to what extent are the answers we study comforting? This course has been created with the many crises presently afflicting our world – COVID-19, climate change, and the injustice of racism, to name a few – in mind.
- Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Rachel McDermott
CULPA: 37
Info
- 4 points
WHY DO BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE-
WHY DO BAD THINGS HAPPEN-
Required discussion section for ASRL BC3115: WHY DO BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE?
- Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
- M 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
- M 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- T 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
- T 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
- 0 points
STORY WRITING II
Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
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Spring 2026
Story Writing II is an advanced workshop in writing, with emphasis on the short story. Some experience in the writing of fiction is required. Each week we will read and analyze a variety of published short stories with an eye for craft and authorial decisions that might be applied to our own work. Writers we will read may include: Jean Stafford, Yiyun Li, Bryan Washington, Garth Greenwell, Lorrie Moore, Jamel Brinkley, Ling Ma, Cesar Aira, Mavis Gallant, and more. Exercises and in-depth workshop letters will push students to think more deeply about their own choices and the many layers that make up each work. Conference hours to be arranged.
- Department: English @Barnard
- R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nellie G Hermann
Info - 3 points
MOD ARCHITECTURE IN THE WORLD
Note: Designed for but not limited to sophomores; enrollment beyond 60 is at the discretion of the instructor. Co-requisite: ARCH UN3118.
How has architecture been “modern”? This course will introduce students to this contentious and contradictory concept emerging across the world during a time in which ideas and tools similar to ours were used for seeing and ordering constructed environments and architectural thinking. It introduces students to the history of modern architecture as an art of building as well as a discursive field, whose historical consciousness played a part in its historical development.
The course is structured chronologically and encourages experiential learning around episodes that informed the development of the built environment and the architecturally “modern.” Students will gain hands-on practice in researching and writing architectural history, theory, and criticism: skills that lie at the basis of conceptual architectural practices. While a one-semester course will not provide a full survey of buildings, events, and people associated with modern architecture, students will develop the critical tools to identify, approach, and comprehend such histories. The following areas of focus anchor the course, and students learn about each by understanding the establishment and institution of structures nourishing and supporting them, which have persisted into the present:
Architecture as made, thought, and taught—enmeshed with power and ideas, social concerns, intellectual and public debates, and diverse forms of cultural production
Makers, thinkers, and organizers of the designed or built environment
Designed constructions as the material ends and means of extraction, refinement, trade, and the labor associated with each
Sites, institutions, media, events, and practices that have come to hold meaning in architectural discourse
Concerns with both the past and the future as a basis for architectural theory
Modernization, modernism, and modernity as drivers for events, their historical narration, and the dissemination of these architectural narratives
The conceptual writing practices of history, theory, and criticism
The course is designed to accommodate multiple styles of learning. Course components include weekly lectures and discussions of assigned readings; re
- Department: Architecture @Barnard
- M 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Anooradha I Siddiqi
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
FICTION WRITING
Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
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Section 1 (taught by Sarah Wang in Spring 2026)
Narrative Strategies:
This course will explore the different ways that stories can be told. How a story is written is as important as what a story is about. Is there a turn at the end that changes everything you thought you knew? Is the narrator speaking from inside experience, reportage from the front lines of another world? How can the epistolary form be utilized to effect? Students will workshop their own stories, participate in four in-class generative writing sessions, and read weekly short stories demonstrating various strategies for style, voice, setting, dialogue, form, and point of view. Particular focus will be placed on writing from the margins and writing as an act of bearing witness.
Section 2 (taught by Gina Apostol in Spring 2026):
This course will focus particularly on crafting the literary technique of point of view in fiction. Students will craft work with this question in mind: in what ways are art and ethics combined in the crafting of point of view? Students will practice writing from different narration modes: third person limited and omniscient, free indirect discourse, first person, and so on. They will consider the ethics of point of view by reading short stories, among them stories from Borges’s
Labyrinths
, John Keene’s
Counternarratives
, and Angela Carter’s
Saints and Strangers.
Some theoretical matters will include: postcoloniality in narration; identity in narration; ‘queering’ history; and critical race thought. Students will write three different pieces with the crafting of point of view in mind. Students will workshop each other’s pieces as well as discuss the texts in relation to their practice of the art of fiction.
- Department: English @Barnard
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sarah Wang
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Instructor:
Gina Apostol
Info - 3 points
MODERN ARCHITECTURE IN THE WORLD - DISC
MODERN ARCH IN WORLD - DI
N/A
- Department: Architecture @Barnard
- W 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- W 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Anooradha I Siddiqi
CULPA: 1 Info - 0 points