THEORY

An exploration of alternative theoretical approaches to the study of religion as well as other areas of humanistic inquiry. The methods considered include: sociology, anthropology, philosophy, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, structuralism, genealogy, and deconstruction. (Previous title: Juniors Colloquium)

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Beth A Berkowitz
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 6 Info
• 4 points

DANCE IN FILM

Survey of theatrical dance in the 20th century specific to film production. Five kinds of dance films will be examined: musicals, non–musicals, documentaries, film essays and pure dance recording.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Paul A Scolieri
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 3 points

FILM PRODUCTION

Prerequisites: FILM BC3201 or equivalent. Sophomore standing. Priority is given to Film Studies majors/concentrations in order of class seniority. If you are accepted into this course, attending the first day of class is mandatory. If you do not show up, you may be dropped.

This workshop introduces the student to all the cinematic tools necessary to produce their own short narrative work.  Using what the student has learned in film studies, we'll break down shot syntax, mise-en-scene and editing strategies. We'll include scheduling, budgeting, casting, working with actors and expressive camera work in our process as we build toward a final video project.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• R 11 a.m.-1:50 p.m.
• T 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel F Pfeffer
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• Instructor: Julia L Thompson
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• 3 points

ADVANCED TRANSLATION WORKSHOP

• Department: French
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Sophie Queuniet
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

DIRECTING I

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor given at first class meeting. Exploration of the evolution of the director's role in Europe and the US, including the study of important figures. Emphasis on text analysis, and varied schools of acting in relation to directing practice. Students gain a foundation in composing stage pictures and using stage movement to tell a story. All students will direct at least one fully-realized scene.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Alice A Reagan
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SOLID EARTH DYNAMICS

Prerequisites: any 1000-level or 2000-level EESC course; MATH UN1101 Calculus I and PHYS UN1201 General Physics I or their equivalents. Concurrent enrollment in PHYS UN1201 is acceptable with the instructors permission. Properties and processes affecting the evolution and behavior of the solid Earth. This course will focus on the geophysical processes that build mountains and ocean basins, drive plate tectonics, and otherwise lead to a dynamic planet. Topics include heat flow and mantle circulation, earthquakes and seismic waves, gravity, Earths magnetic field, and flow of glaciers and ice sheets.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Meredith Nettles
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 31 Info
• 3 points

Materials Thermodynamics and Phase Diagr

Mat Thermo and Phase Diag

Review of laws of thermodynamics, thermodynamic variables and relations, free energies and equilibrium in thermodynamic systems. Unary, binary, and ternary phase diagrams, compounds and intermediate phases, solid solutions and Hume-Rothery rules, relationship between phase diagrams and metastability, defects in crystals. Thermodynamics of surfaces and interfaces, effect of particle size on phase equilibria, adsorption isotherms, grain boundaries, surface energy, electrochemistry. Note: MSAE E4201 shares lectures and meeting times with E3201 and therefore, may not be taken in other semesters.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Renata M Wentzcovitch
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• 3 points

DIRECTING II

Prerequisites: Students required to have taken THTR UN3200 Directing I or THTR UN3203 Collaboration: Directing and Design, or equivalent. Enrollment limited to 14 students. Permission of instructor given at first class meeting. Course focuses on developing an individual directorial style, placing emphasis on visual research, and the use of different staging environments: end-stage, in the round, environmental. Class is structured around scene-work and critique, and each student will direct at least three fully-realized scenes. Material typically drawn from European avant-garde.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• MW 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jessi Hill
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• 4 points

CERAMICS II

This course will focus on using ceramics as a primary art making machine by breaking out of the constraints wedded to this traditional material. Building on the foundation set in Ceramics I, this course will delve further into the technical and historical aspects of the ceramic process as well as conceptual ideas in art making. Students will use a self-directed working process to facilitate the incorporation of ceramic materials into their existing art making while allowing them room to go in their own conceptual direction. Rigorous group and individual critiques will be held on a regular basis. Content is a priority in this class, and with the further understanding of ceramic processes and materials, the goal is for the student to be fluid in producing their ideas without the obstruction of technical difficulties.

• Department: Visual Arts
• R 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Patrice R Washington
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• 3 points

SENIOR NONFICTION WORKSHOP

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. Please visit 
https://arts.columbia.edu/writing/undergraduate
 for information about registration procedures.

• Department: Writing
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Lars Horn
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• 4 points

ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN II

ADV ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

Prerequisite: ARCH UN3201. Advanced Architectural Design II culminates the required studio sequence in the major. Students are encouraged to consider it as a synthetic studio where they advance concepts, research methodologies and representational skills learned in all previous studios towards a semester-long design project. Field trips, lectures, and discussions are organized in relation to studio exercises.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• MW 9 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• 4.5 points

Structural Determinants of Health

STRUCTURAL DETERMNTS OF H

The COVID-19 pandemic has made the underlying health disparities that exist in the United States more apparent. The traditional biomedical model places the responsibility of these disparities on the choices that an individual makes. The model assumes that one’s smoking, eating and exercising habits are based on personal choice. Therefore, the prevalence of morbidities such as high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes is the result of an individual’s poor decisions. This course will explore how the conditions under which individuals live, work, play and pray impact their health outcomes. Collectively these conditions are referred to as the Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) and often they reveal the systemic inequalities that disproportionately affect marginalized communities. This course will also call upon the need for a paradigm shift from the “Social” Determinants of Health to the “Structural” Determinants of Health. This shift is in recognition that it is the underlying structures (laws, material infrastructure) that impact health outcomes. The development of the SDoH has challenged health care providers to look beyond the biomedical model that stresses an individual’s behavior as the main predictor of adverse health conditions. Instead the SDoH focuses on an “upstream” approach that examines the underlying systemic and racial inequalities that impact communities of color and their health outcomes. An analysis that focuses upstream reveals that government policies and social structure are at the core of health disparities. Through the lens of New York City and its health systems, this course will cover a wide range of topics related to race and health, including: racial inequalities in housing and homelessness, biases in medical institutions, and the unconscious bias that lead providers to have racialized perception of an individual’s pain tolerance. In addition to exposing these inequalities the course will also provide innovative solutions that seek to mitigate these barriers including: home visiting programs, medical respite programs for homeless patients and food as medicine in health care systems. Students will demonstrate their knowledge through individual writing, and class discussion. The course revolves around important readings, lectures, and podcasts that illustrates how one’s class position and the color of one’s skin can influence the access to healthcare one has as well as their experie

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Maati Momplaisir
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• 3 points

DISCRETE MATHEMATICS

Logic and formal proofs, sequences and summation, mathematical induction, binomial coefficients, elements of finite probability, recurrence relations, equivalence relations and partial orderings, and topics in graph theory (including isomorphism, traversability, planarity, and colorings).

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Tony B Dear
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 4 points

RELIGION IN THE MODERN US

RELIGION IN MODERN US

This course examines the history of religion in the United States from the Civil War to the present through thematic units focused on the legal structures of religious freedom; race, religion, and nationality; healing, aesthetics, and embodiment; and, finally, religion and politics. Over the course of the semester, students will explore various religious communities as well as the ways social, political, and economic factors have shaped those traditions – and how religious communities have in turn shaped US society, politics, and culture. Students will also be introduced to key themes and debates in the field of American religious studies.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Gale L Kenny
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

PUBLIC OPINION AND AMERICAN D

In this course, we will examine the relationship between government and the governed in the United States. To what extent and under what circumstances do elected officials consider public preferences in making policy? To what extent and under what circumstances might we want them to? What kind of power should the public have in American democracy? Thinking about the second and third, more normative questions leads us to other empirical questions. What shapes public preferences? How well can we measure them? How much do people know and care about politics? How do they evaluate their representatives? What constitutes high quality representation? We will examine these kinds of questions broadly, and also consider how they play out in particular policy areas and historical moments. We will also discuss the dynamics of public opinion across population subgroups (e.g. by race, sex, income, party, urbanity, etc.), and questions surrounding representation at the group level. In addition to engaging scholarly literature on public opinion and representation, students will also learn to access, manage, and analyze data measuring the composition of the public (e.g. the U.S. Census) as well as public views on political candidates, officeholders, institutions, and issues (e.g. survey data). These skills will help to prepare students for research projects in other courses and beyond Barnard. To balance the different aims of the course, our class time will be split between lecture, discussion, and hands-on lessons in a computer lab.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Katherine L Krimmel
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

THE 'GLOBAL' NOVEL

"Yes, globalization can produce homogeneity, but globalization is also a threat to homogeneity." --Kwame Anthony Appiah, "The Case for Contamination," New York Times Magazine, 2006

Thinking through the arguments both in favor of and against globalization, particularly in the realm of cultural productions, in this course we will discuss the "global" novel. To that end, we will read essays from
The Global Novel: Writing the World in the 21st Century
about works such as
Americanah, Snow,
and
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
(along with the novels themselves) to investigate what is meant by "global" and what the criteria for including novels in this categorization are. We will also consider whether there is an erasure of cultural difference and nuance in reading novels using a globalizing perspective in order to render them more approachable for a (primarily) US audience.

In order to think through and challenge this category of the global, we will also read novels that can be roughly categorized as postcolonial. We will thus consider how struggles for independence and the desire to locate one’s identity either within freshly liberated nation-states or in the process of immigrating to former metropoles could give rise to cultural and psychological anxieties. We will also consider the manner in which late-stage capitalism could indeed push toward homogenized senses of self that manifest in a category such as the "global novel" and whether arguments could be made in favor of such homogenization. Ultimately, we will think about the politics of globalization and the desire to include in or exclude from the “global” certain locations, cultural products, or peoples.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Atefeh Akbari Shahmirzadi
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• 3 points

MUSIC, RACE & IDENTITY

Analysis of the complex relationship among race, art, organizations, economics, social movements and identity. Emphasis is on shifting conceptions of identity and changing roles of race and racism in the spirituals, gospel music, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, rocknroll, soul music, Hip Hop and contemporary popular music.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Rieder
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

EXPLORATIONS IN PRIM ANATOMY

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jill S Shapiro
  CULPA: 46 Info
• 3 points

JUDICIAL POLITICS

This political science course provides an introduction to the politics of judges, courts, and law in the United States.  We will evaluate law and courts as political institutions and judges as political actors and policy-makers.

The topics we will study include what courts do; how different legal systems function; the operation of legal norms; the U.S. judicial system; the power of courts; constraints on judicial power; judicial review; the origin of judicial institutions; how and why Supreme Court justices make the decisions they do; case selection; conflict between the Court and the other branches of government; decision making and conflict within the judicial hierarchy; the place of courts in American political history; and judicial appointments.

We will explore some common but not necessarily true claims about how judges make decisions and the role of courts.  One set of myths sees judges as unbiased appliers of neutral law, finding law and never making it, with ideology, biography, and politics left at the courthouse door. Another set of myths sees the judiciary as the “least dangerous branch,” making law, not policy, without real power or influence.

Our thematic questions will be:  How much power and discretion do judges have in the U.S?  What drives their decision-making?

• Department: Political Science
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Jeffrey R Lax
  CULPA: 32 h-index: 22 Info
• 3 points

INTERMEDIATE MICROECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON UN1105 and MATH UN1101 and (MATH UN1201 or MATH UN1207) The determination of the relative prices of goods and factors of production and the allocation of resources.

• Department: Economics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Murat Yilmaz
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• Instructor: Isaac B Bjorke
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• 4 points

INTER MICROECONOMICS-DISC

Required Discussion section for ECON UN3211 intermediate Economics.

• Department: Economics
• 0 points

INTERMEDIATE MACROECONOMICS

Prerequisites: (MATH UN1101 or MATH UN1207) and ECON UN1105 or the equivalent. Corequisites: MATH UN1201 This course covers the determination of output, employment, inflation and interest rates. Topics include economic growth, business cycles, monetary and fiscal policy, consumption and savings and national income accounting.

• Department: Economics
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Martin Uribe
  CULPA: 16 Wikipedia h-index: 52 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN URBAN POLITICS

This course examines the pattern of political development in urban America, as the countrys population has grown in urbanized locations. It explores the process by which cities and suburbs are governed, how immigrants and migrants are incorporated, and how people of different races and ethnicities interact in urbanized settings as well as the institutional relations of cities and suburbs with other jurisdictions of government. The course focuses both on the historical as well the theoretical understandings of politics in urban areas.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Carlos Vargas-Ramos
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

INTER MACROECONOMICS-DISC

Discussion section for ECON UN3213 Intermediate Macro. Student must register for a section.

• Department: Economics
• 0 points

SOC OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE

Emphasizes foundations and development of black communities post-1940, and mechanisms in society that create and maintain racial inequality. Explores notions of identity and culture through lenses of gender, class and sexual orientation, and ideologies that form the foundation of black politics. Primarily lecture with some discussion.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Mignon R Moore
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

KOREAN LITERATURE & FILM

This course traces the history of Korean cinema and literature from the 1930s to the early 2000s. Particular attention is given to colonialism, national division, war, gender relations, authoritarianism, urbanization, consumer culture, and diaspora. What kinds of familial, social, economic, and political relations do these films and literary works envision? We will link films and literary texts to their historical context, noting how representations of people, places, and ideas have changed over time—from colonialism, through poverty and malaise in the aftermath of the Korean War, to North Korea’s continuing search for autonomy in the world system and South Korea’s current position as global economic power and maker of the “Korean Wave ”

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Theodore Hughes
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

Piano Literature & Performance: 1900 - P

This course will explore the piano repertoire of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with a focus on performance. The course consists of four modules: European piano music prior to WWII, the American pioneers, multiplicity of directions and cultural identities in piano music 1945-present (prepared piano, indeterminacy, integrated serialism, minimalism), and the piano music of Columbia University composers (including electronic music at the Computer Music Center, spectral piano, Center for United States-China Arts Exchange, microtonal music). We will explore the constantly evolving
musical notation and performance practices. Through lectures, discussions, reading, listening, analysis, and performance projects, students will gain an understanding of the aesthetic of a wide array of keyboard literature, notation, and performance techniques.

• Department: Music
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Magdalena Baczewska
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

Piano Literature & Performance: 1900 - P

This course will explore the piano repertoire of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with a focus on performance. The course consists of four modules: European piano music prior to WWII, the American pioneers, multiplicity of directions and cultural identities in piano music 1945-present (prepared piano, indeterminacy, integrated serialism, minimalism), and the piano music of Columbia University composers (including electronic music at the Computer Music Center, spectral piano, Center for United States-China Arts Exchange, microtonal music). We will explore the constantly evolving
musical notation and performance practices. Through lectures, discussions, reading, listening, analysis, and performance projects, students will gain an understanding of the aesthetic of a wide array of keyboard literature, notation, and performance techniques.

• Department: Auditing
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Magdalena Baczewska
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 0 points

LAW & SOCIETY

LAW AND SOCIETY

Examines how people use law, how law affects people, and how law develops, using social scientific research. Covers law in everyday life; legal and social change; legal subjects such as citizens and corporations, and the legitimacy of law. Recommended for pre-law and social-science majors. No prerequisites or previous knowledge required.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Deborah Becher
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 4 Info
• 3 points

Religion in Modern US- Discussion

RELI IN MOD US- DISC

This course examines the history of religion in the United States from the Civil War to the present through thematic units focused on the legal structures of religious freedom; race, religion, and nationality; healing, aesthetics, and embodiment; and, finally, religion and politics. Over the course of the semester, students will explore various religious communities as well as the ways social, political, and economic factors have shaped those traditions – and how religious communities have in turn shaped US society, politics, and culture. Students will also be introduced to key themes and debates in the field of American religious studies.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• R 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• R 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Jordan Desanto
  Info
• 0 points

THE EVOL OF HUM GROWTH & DEVPT

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Volney K Friedrich
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• 3 points

LIT & REVOLUTION (20TH C LIT)

The revolutionary period (1905-1938) in Russia was not only one of extreme social upheaval but also of exceptional creativity. Established ideas about individuality and collectivity, about how to depict reality, about language, gender, authority, and violence, were all thrown open to radical questioning. Out of this chaos came ideas about literature and film (just for example) which have shaped Western thought on these subjects to this day. In this course we will study a variety of media and genres (poetry, manifestos, film, painting, photomontage, the novel, theoretical essays) in an effort to gain a deep understanding of this complex and fascinating period in Russian cultural history.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jessica E Merrill
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

TOLSTOY AND DOSTOEVSKY

Two epic novels, Tolstoys War and Peace and Dostoevskys The Brothers Karamazov, will be read along with selected shorter works. Other works by Tolstoy include his early Sebastopol Sketches, which changed the way war is represented in literature; Confession, which describes his spiritual crisis; the late stories Kreutzer Sonata and Hadji Murad; and essays on capital punishment and a visit to a slaughterhouse. Other works by Dostoevsky include his fictionalized account of life in Siberian prison camp, The House of the Dead; Notes from the Underground, his philosophical novella on free will, determinism, and love; A Gentle Creature, a short story on the same themes; and selected essays from Diary of a Writer. The focus will be on close reading of the texts. Our aim will be to develop strategies for appreciating the structure and form, the powerful ideas, the engaging storylines, and the human interest in the writings of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. No knowledge of Russian is required.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Liza Knapp
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 3 points

Gender Archaeolxgy

GENDER ARCHAEOLXGY

This seminar critically reexamines the ancient world from the perspective of gender archaeology. Though the seedlings of gender archaeology were first sown by of feminist archaeologists during the 70’s and 80’s, this approach involves far more than simply ‘womanizing’ androcentric narratives of past. Rather, gender archaeology criticizes interpretations of the past that transplant contemporary social roles onto the archaeological past, casting the divisions and inequalities of today as both timeless and natural. This class challenges the idea of a singular past, instead championing a turn towards multiple, rich, messy, intersectional pasts. The ‘x’ in ‘archaeolxgy’ is an explicit signal of our focus on this diversity of pasts and a call for a more inclusive field of practice today.

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

AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL HISTOR

This Course is intended to look at key developments of American History through the prism of Supreme Court decisions and their aftermath.  In essence, this Course will address three questions: 1. How did the Supreme Court reflect, and affect, historic patterns of U.S. development, and how did it impact the legal and economic framework of the United States? 2. How did the Supreme Court respond to, or worsen, crises in U.S. history? 3. How did the perception of individual and collective rights and liberties, and of the function and role of Governments -- both Federal and State -- evolve over time?

• Department: Political Science
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert L Tortoriello
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• 4 points

AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY-DISC

AMERICAN CONST'L HISTORY-

This is the required discussion section for 
POLS UN3225.

• Department: Political Science
• R 11:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Robert L Tortoriello
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• 0 points

AMERICAN LIVES, AMERICAN STORIES

AMER. LIVES, AMER. STORIE

Writing sample required to apply: https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses

In this class we will discuss the narrative of the "American" story, and how stories of immigrants and minority identities redefine and complicate it. The goal of the class is to investigate how writers frame a sense of identity in relation to the "American ideal". We will explore this theme through three creative non-fiction pieces each focusing on a different perspective of place, person, and personal experience. What are your stories, and what makes them "American"?

• Department: English @Barnard
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Maria D Hinojosa
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• 3 points

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY I-LEC

Prerequisites: CHEM BC2001 or equivalent. Credit will not be given for any course below the 3000 level after completing CHEM BC3230 or its equivalent. Corequisites: With lab, counts towards Lab Science requirement. Atomic and molecular structure; stereochemistry of organic molecules; introduction to organic reactions, reaction mechanisms, and synthesis.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• MWF 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Dina C Merrer
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 3 points

REACTOR KINETICS/REACTOR DESIGN

Reaction kinetics, applications to the design of batch and continuous reactors. Multiple reactions, non-isothermal reactors. Analysis and modeling of reactor behavior.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Asher Williams
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• 3 points

CLASSICS AND FILM

Considers cinematic representations of the ancient Mediterranean world, from early silent films to movies from the present day. Explores films that purport to represent historical events (such as Gladiator) and cinematic versions of ancient texts (Pasolinis Medea). Readings include ancient literature and modern criticism.

• Department: Classics @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Kristina Milnor
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia h-index: 10 Info
• 3 points

LABOR AND LOVE IN CHINA

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• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Nicholas A Bartlett
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

INTERACTIVE MEMOIR

What does it mean to invite readers to play in—and with—your memories? Can memoir writing be…a game? In this seminar, we will explore the basics of interactive narrative design as applied to memoir, essay, and creative non-fiction, investigating how games and interactivity can transform what it means to tell your life story. We will will read, play, and discuss videogames, artgames, interactive (non-)fiction, innovative digital media, and experimental non-fiction, developing an aesthetics of interactive nonfiction writing that informs two open-platform interactive memoir projects over the course of the semester. Tutorials on interactive narrative tools like Twine, Bitsy, and Downpour will accompany playtesting workshops to establish a game-literate creative community committed to pushing the boundaries of the form.

• Department: Writing
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Nat Mesnard
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• 3 points

AT THE NEW YORKER

In this seminar we will consider the history, legacy, and ongoing cultural contribution of
The New Yorker
, a magazine that is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. During the past century, the magazine has been the primary venue for what we might call the “the literature of fact”—nonfiction writing with belletristic flair and high ambition across all genres: profiles, essays, personal histories, reporting, and criticism. We will read across the genres as we ask questions about these various nonfiction forms: Can criticism be the equal of art? How do nonfiction writers establish “authority”? How do they investigate the past and make sense of the new? How do they create work as rich and challenging as the best literary novels and short stories? What roles do voice, point-of-view, character, dialogue, and plot—the traditional elements of fiction—play? How did T
he New Yorker
create a—perhaps even
the
—modern American literary style?

Week to week, since 1925, the magazine has showcased work from a staggering diversity of contributors. We will consider many of them, including James Thurber, Janet Flanner, E.B. White, Wolcott Gibbs, Joseph Mitchell, Lillian Ross, John Hersey, Edmund Wilson, Rachel Carson, James Baldwin, Hannah Arendt, Calvin Tomkins, Renata Adler, Pauline Kael, Kenneth Tynan, Mark Singer, Ian Frazier, Arlene Croce, Janet Malcolm, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Robert Caro, Tony Horowitz, Zadie Smith, and Susan Orlean. In addition, we will be keeping our eye on issues of
The New Yorker
as they roll out each week.

We will welcome guest speakers from the magazine—editors and contributors, from past and present.

• Department: Writing
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Rozzo
  Info
• 3 points

Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry

DESCRIPTIVE INORG. CHEMIS

Prerequisites: CHEM BC2001.

This course explores the periodic table in ways that deepen appreciation of the chemistry of the elements. It extends tools introduced in general chemistry with a particular focus on the rich and varied chemistry of the transition metal elements. Requiring only general chemistry, this course is open to students with interests in the role that metal ions play in biology, biochemistry, neuroscience and environmental science.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Rachel Austin
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia h-index: 28 Info
• 3 points

Museums and Sacred Things

This course invites students to consider how museums create, curate, collect, and engage with sacred things, including things that are recognizably religious, things that become “sacred” through the processes of museum collection and display, visitors to museums, and even museum spaces themselves. This course focuses on the American context, and American museums. We will first consider the particular social and political contexts in which museums and museum practices developed and responded to sacred things, and the contexts in which “religion” serves as a valuable if often implicit classification structure.  We will then focus on the ways in which things deemed sacred are engaged by museums and encountered by museumgoers, with particular attention to the ways that museumgoers, museum architecture, and religious communities all interact in relation so object. In this class, students will learn to thoughtfully ask question and evaluate the role that museums as public institutions play in shaping public and private understandings and experiences of religion, the sacred, and spirituality.

• Department: Religion
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Courtney Bender
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

EDITING, REVISING, PITCHING, PUBLISHING

EDIT, REVISE, PITCH, PUBL

What does an editor do? How do writers revise? How do writers pitch and place pieces? This cross-genre seminar aims to demystify the art of editing, and to empower students to edit their own work and that of others with sensitivity, imagination, and skill. Through the close analysis of case studies, essays on craft and American literary history, long-form interviews, letters, and corrected manuscripts and typescripts, we will learn about the decision-making processes of writers and editors such as Lydia Davis, Toni Morrison, Raymond Carver, Gordon Lish, Samuel R. Delany, Jane Bowles, Paul Bowles, Elizabeth Bishop, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Max Perkins, Ursula K. Le Guin, Diane Williams, George Saunders, Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Vladimir Nabokov, as well as editors at publishers like Random House and Scribner’s, major literary publications like the
New Yorker
and the
Paris Review
, and small magazines like
NOON
and
Gigantic.
Regularly we will apply what we’ve learned to edits and revisions on our own texts as well as assigned texts drawn from the instructor’s experience as an editor at
McSweeney’s Quarterly
, the
Believer
, VICE, and
Gigantic
. Students will also work to revise a piece of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry, and develop a nonfiction story idea, so that they will have a revised work to submit—and a polished story idea to pitch—by the end of the semester.

• Department: Writing
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: James C Yeh
  Info
• 3 points

Museums and Sacred Things - Discussion

This course invites students to consider how museums create, curate, collect, and engage with sacred things, including things that are recognizably religious, things that become “sacred” through the processes of museum collection and display, visitors to museums, and even museum spaces themselves. This course focuses on the American context, and American museums. We will first consider the particular social and political contexts in which museums and museum practices developed and responded to sacred things, and the contexts in which “religion” serves as a valuable if often implicit classification structure.  We will then focus on the ways in which things deemed sacred are engaged by museums and encountered by museumgoers, with particular attention to the ways that museumgoers, museum architecture, and religious communities all interact in relation so object. In this class, students will learn to thoughtfully ask question and evaluate the role that museums as public institutions play in shaping public and private understandings and experiences of religion, the sacred, and spirituality.

• Department: Religion
• F 11 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• M 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Cella Masso-Rivetti
  Info
• 0 points

Undergraduate Composition

INTRODUCTION TO COMPOSITI

This course provides an immersive experience in music composition, focusing on both practical and theoretical aspects within a given instrumentation. Please refer to the topic for the instrumentation for this semester’s course. This class is open to students with no prior experience in composition. Students of varying music backgrounds are welcome. Permission of the instructor may be required for enrollment. The class will explore a variety of compositional approaches, including traditional, experimental, and interdisciplinary methods. During the semester, students will complete several creative and theoretical exercises ranging from short composition projects to analytical responses to diverse works. Students will also engage in individual and group feedback sessions as well as in-class readings of selected compositional projects by the performers. The final project will be an original work between 5 and 7 minutes, which will be workshopped, rehearsed, performed in a public concert, and recorded by professional musicians towards the end of the term.

• Department: Music
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Marcos Balter
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

FREN LANG,SOC,CULTRE THRU FILM

Prerequisites: FREN UN2102 French socio-political issues and language through the prism of film. Especially designed for non-majors wishing to further develop their French language skills and learn about French culture. Each module includes assignments targeting the four language competencies: reading, writing, speaking and oral comprehension, as well as cultural understanding.

• Department: French
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Heidi Holst-Knudsen
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 3 points

POLITICAL LIFE IN FRANCE

• Department: Global Programs
• 3 points

FRENCH LANGUAGE THRU THEATER

FREN LANGSOCCULTRE THRU THEA

The course is taught in French and focuses on learning the French language via the study of theatre (through plays, scenes, theories, lecture/workshops by guests, as well as performing a series of activities). The course offers students the opportunity to have a better grasp of the variety of French theatres within the culture; and to perform the language through the body and mind. Its goal is to both introduce students to theatre and to explore how it challenges us physically and emotionally, as well as in intellectual, moral, and aesthetic ways. No previous acting experience is necessary but a desire to “get up and move” and possibly even go see plays as a class project is encouraged.

• Department: French
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Pascale Crepon
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

Transnationalism, Citizenship, and Belon

TRANSNTNL, CITIZEN, BELON

Transnationalism, Citizenship, and Belonging covers the myriad ways that transnationalism is experienced in both South to North and South to South migrations. Transnationalism and its contenders, globalization and nationalism, will be placed within a broader discussion of belonging based on sociological theories of citizenship, politics of exclusion, and boundary-making.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Randa B Serhan
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3231, MATH UN1101, and permission of instructor.

Survey of topics appropriate for a student majoring in chemistry or biochemistry, including examinations of uncertainty analysis and data processing, use of basic laboratory equipment, complex equilibria (pH, solubility, etc.), advanced solution chemistry and chemical activity, and the theoretical foundations of modern techniques in electrochemistry, chromatography and analytical experimental techniques.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Angela L Paoletta
  Info
• 3 points

MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY

Examines the ways sociologists have studied the field of medicine and experiences of health and illness. We cannot understand topics of health and illness by only looking at biological phenomena; we must consider a variety of social, political, economic, and cultural forces. Uses sociological perspectives and methods to understand topics such as: unequal patterns in health and illness; how people make sense of and manage illness; the ways doctors and patients interact with each other; changes in the medical profession, health policies and institutions; social movements around health; and how some behaviors but not others become understood as medical problems. Course is geared towards pre-med students as well as those with general interests in medicine, health and society.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Amy Zhou
  Info
• 3 points

Race, Ethnicity, and Education in the US

RACE ETHNICITY EDUCATION

This course explores the sociology and history of race and racism, ethnicity and ethnocentrism, and unequal access to education in the United States through readings, films, audio, and multimedia. Experiences of students in public and private K-12 schools, colleges and universities, and alternative and informal educational settings will be considered. Movements by students and communities to fight discrimination and injustice, demand equal opportunities and resources, and to realize the promise of education as a means of achieving personal and collective liberation will also be examined. Case studies may include: boarding schools for Indigenous children; Reconstruction-era public schools; the settlement house movement; Freedom Schools of the Civil Rights Movement; the Black Panther Party’s educational initiatives; community-controlled schools; Black, Mexican American, Puerto Rican, and Ethnic Studies programs; urban educational reform, public school closures, and charter schools; the school-to-prison pipeline; standardized testing and advanced placement courses; and more.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Dominic T Walker
  Info
• 4 points

JAZZ DANCE III

In This JAZZ llI Level Course,
You will develop a solid understanding within your body that demonstrates advanced  fundamentals, rhythm, technique, connectivity and phrasing necessary to communicate each movement. You will  learn new phrases and dynamic material while continuously applying technical information. We will delve deeper into  technique preparing your body to perform more efficiently and effectively at a higher rate while reducing the risk of  injury.

Prerequisites: DNCE BC2248 DNCD BC 2249 or permission of instructor.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ehizoje J Azeke
  Info
• 2 points

Social Closure and Inequality

SOCIAL CLOSURE AND INEQUA

This class will examine the social phenomenon of exclusion. Attempts to understand the social behavior of creating insiders and outsiders is a hallmark in Sociology. How does it happen? What purpose does it serve? Who decides who is in and who is out? While some forms of social closure, like segregation, are more well known, there are numerous mechanisms of social exclusion people and groups employ in the social world. Additionally, forms of exclusion do not always come from the top down as a form of domination, but sometimes from the bottom up, with the goal of resource redistribution. We will study these different forms of exclusion along with the theorized aims these forms of closure seek to achieve to get a more comprehensive picture of how social exclusion is used in the social world.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Dominic T Walker
  Info
• 3 points

FLAMENCO

The study of contemporary flamenco dance technique with special emphasis on improvisation and performance. Through video and reading assignments and attendance at live performances, students will also develop a context for understanding flamenco art, pedagogy, and culture.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• F 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Nelida Tirado
  Info
• 2 points

Hydrosystems Engineering

A quantitative introduction to hydrologic and hydraulic systems, with a focus on integrated modeling and analysis of the water cycle and associated mass transport for water resources and environmental engineering. Coverage of unit hydrologic processes such as precipitation, evaporation, infiltration, runoff generation, open channel and pipe flow, subsurface flow and well hydraulics in the context of example watersheds and specific integrative problems such as risk-based design for flood control, provision of water, and assessment of environmental impact or potential for non-point source pollution. Spatial hydrologic analysis using GIS and watershed models.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Shaina Kelly
  Info
• 3 points

VOTING & POLITICAL BEHAVIOR

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Miller
  CULPA: 18 h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

NINETEENTH-CENTURY THRILLERS

This class will investigate the ways in which the nineteenth-century novel is shaped by the forces of horror, sensation, suspense and the supernatural. We will ask how the melodramatic imagination, the rhetoric of monstrosity, and the procedures of detection mark high narrative realism with the signs of cultural anxieties building up around nineteenth-century revolution, industrialization, capitalism, bigamy, Catholicism and immigration. Looking at representative samples of the Romantic neo-gothic novel, mid-century ghost stories, the highly popular and controversial sensation novels of the 1860’s along with their spectacular iterations on the Victorian stage, we will come away with a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the intersection between the novel and popular entertainment. Readings will probably include Austen’s
Northanger Abbey,
Brontë’s
Villette,
Braddon’s
Lady Audley’s Secret,
Collins’s
The Woman in White,
Dickens’s
Bleak House,
Stoker’s
Dracula,
plays by Boucicault, Hazelwood, Lewis, and Wood, and ghost stories by Edwards, Gaskell, Hood, and Mulock.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Monica F Cohen
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

NATION, CITY, & INEQUALITY

NATION, CITY & INEQUALITY

This course explores how power structures comprising nations and cities shape people's experiences worldwide. Students will be introduced to theories and empirical situations that broadly unpack various dimensions of inequality, such as wealth, housing, infrastructure, labor, public places, mobility. To understand the multitude of ways that inequality is experienced in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, this course insists that social based oppression at all scales cannot be made sense of without attentiveness to people's multiple identity markers such as gender, race, citizenship, class, sexuality, age, ethnicity, language, religion, caste, ability, education, and diet. By focusing on the relationship between nations, urban processes, and inequality, by the end of this course, students will understand how states wield power, who benefits from it, who falls victim to it, and why.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• M 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Noah Allison
  Info
• 4 points

THERMODYNAMICS-KINETICS

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3231, PHYS BC2001, PHYS BC 2002, MATH UN1102 or MATH UN1201. Introduction to the laws of thermodynamics; application primarily to ideal systems. Free energy and equilibrium. Kinetics: rate laws and mechanisms, experimental techniques.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Marisa C Buzzeo
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

URBAN LATIN/X AMERICA: ETHNOGRAPHIC APPR

URBAN LATINX AMERICA: ETH

This seminar examines the social, economic, and political landscapes of Latin American cities through ethnographic literature. It explores key themes such as migration, urban poverty, marginality, violence, informality, urban segregation, grassroots movements, urban citizenship and neoliberal urban governance. Students will read both classic and contemporary ethnographies to gain an in-depth understanding of how cities are lived and experienced. The course also unsettles the category of Latin America, to introduce a discussion of the “Latinization” of U.S. cities. We will interrogate ethnographic and audiovisual materials (included to complement the readings) from a postcolonial perspective.  We will discuss the politics of knowledge production and representation in ethnographic studies and popular culture, the impact of colonialism in transnational flows of knowledge and labor, as well as the contributions to urban theory from the perspective of cities located in the Global South.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Andreina Torres Angarita
  Info
• 4 points

FIRST AMENDMENT VALUES

Prerequisites: POLS W1201 or an equivalent. Not an introductory course. Not open to students who have taken the colloquium POLS BC3302. Examines the first amendment rights of speech, press, religion and assembly. In-depth analysis of landmark Supreme Court rulings provides the basis for exploring theoretical antecedents as well as contemporary applications of such doctrines as freedom of association, libel, symbolic speech, obscenity, hate speech, political speech, commercial speech, freedom of the press and religion. (Cross-listed by the American Studies Program.)

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Paula A Franzese
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL AND POLLUTION REDU

ENVIR CONTR/POLLUTN REDUC

Sources of solid/gaseous air pollution and the technologies used for modern methods of abatement. Air pollution and its abatement from combustion of coal, oil, and natural gas and the thermodynamics of heat engines in power generation. Catalytic emission control is contrasted to thermal processes for abating carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, oxides of nitrogen and sulfur from vehicles and stationary sources. Processing of petroleum for generating fuels. Technological challenges of controlling greenhouse gas emissions. Biomass and the hydrogen economy coupled with fuel cells as future sources of energy.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Robert Farrauto
  h-index: 52 Info
• 3 points

WRITING FOR TELEVISION: SHORT FORM

Prerequisite: FILM BC3201 or equivalent. Please note that since this is a Film Studies course, it does not count as a creative writing course for English majors with a creative writing concentration. This course will focus on the primary pillar of television production: the teleplay. Through a number of creative exercises, students will learn the intricacies of the unique screenwriting formats that are the half-hour and hour-long teleplays. Together we will cover the differences between an episode arc and a seasonal one, the requirements of A/B/C story plotting, and how to write an effective show bible. We will survey the existing pantheon of great television writing in order to help students narrow in on their individual sensibilities. By the end of the course, students will have a written original pilot and a mini series bible.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Dafina Roberts
  Info
• 3 points

RETHINKING MIDDLE EAST POLITCS

This course examines a set of questions that have shaped the study of the politics of the modern Middle East. It looks at the main ways those questions have been answered, exploring debates both in Western academic scholarship and among scholars and intellectuals in the region itself. For each question, the course offers new ways of thinking about the issue or ways of framing it in different terms. The topics covered in the course include: the kinds of modern state that emerged in the Middle East and the ways its forms of power and authority were shaped; the birth of economic development as a way of describing the function and measuring the success of the state, and the changing metrics of this success; the influence of oil on the politics of the region; the nature and role of Islamic political movements; the transformation of the countryside and the city and the role of rural populations and of urban protest in modern politics; and the politics of armed force and political violence in the region, and the ways in which this has been understood. The focus of the course will be on the politics of the twentieth century, but many topics will be traced back into developments that occurred in earlier periods, and several will be explored up to the present. The course is divided into four parts, each ending with a paper or exam in which participants are asked to analyze the material covered. Each part of the course has a geographical focus on a country or group of countries and a thematic focus on a particular set of questions of historical and political analysis.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Timothy Mitchell
  Wikipedia h-index: 34 Info
• 4 points

Bilingualism

Many of us know a second language. How we use it varies – some use it occasionally, others routinely. Recent research in cognitive neuroscience has shed light on the mechanisms associated with the various types of bilingualism, and has shown that using two languages affects a variety of cognitive abilities, starting in infancy and continuing until an old age. The primary findings of recent research in cognitive neuroscience are reviewed and discussed in this course. Bilingualism also has a political facet – governments decide what languages are used in public institutions and taught in schools. This course also evaluates scientific findings on bilingualism for their potential implications on informing parents, educators, and policy makers.

• Department: Psychology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Michele Miozzo
  Info
• 4 points

COMPUTER SCIENCE THEORY

Regular languages: deterministic and non-deterministic finite automata, regular expressions. Context-free languages: context-free grammars, push-down automata. Turing machines, the Chomsky hierarchy, and the Church-Turing thesis. Introduction to Complexity Theory and NP-Completeness.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Josh Alman
  Info
• 3 points

RETHINKING MIDDLE EAST POL-DIS

Required discussion section for MDES UN3260 Rethinking Middle East Politics

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• R 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• R 11:10 a.m.-noon
• W 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• W 7:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• R 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• R 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• W 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Mahmood Almahmood
  Info
• 0 points

INTRO CONTEMP CHINESE POLITICS - DISC

INTRO CONT CHINESE POLTCS

Discussion Section for POLS-UN3620 Introduction to Contemporary Chinese Politics

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• T 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• W noon-12:50 p.m.
• F 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Yihang Sun
  Info
• 0 points

MONEY AND BANKING

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 or the equivalent. Introduction to the principles of money and banking. The intermediary institutions of the American economy and their historical developments, current issues in monetary and financial reform.

• Department: Economics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Tri Vi Dang
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 10 Info
• 3 points

SOCIOLOGY OF WORK & GENDER

This course examines gender as a flexible but persistent boundary that continues to organize our work lives and our home lives, as well as the relationship between the two spheres. We will explore the ways in which gender affects how work is structured; the relationship between work and home; the household as a place of paid (and unpaid) labor; and how changes in the global economy affect gender and work identities.

• Department: Sociology
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Teresa Sharpe
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 3 points

INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3231 or Permission of Instructor. Structure, bonding and spectroscopy in inorganic compounds: applications of group theory to chemistry; ligand field theory; vibrational and electronic spectroscopy of transition metal complexes; selected topics from coordination chemistry, organometallics, bioinorganic chemistry, solid state and materials chemistry, mineralogy, and biogeochemistry.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel Austin
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia h-index: 28 Info
• 3 points

Nonhuman Intelligence

What does it mean to be intelligent? Recent years have seen rapid advances in artificial  intelligence technology that enables computers and machines to simulate human learning,  comprehension, problem solving, creativity and autonomy. At the same time, we have  become more aware of other forms of intelligence—some which have been with us all along.  Through a selection of fiction and nonfiction texts and films, students will deepen their  understanding of the multifaceted nature of intelligence and the fascinating, uncanny, and  multiple ways of existing on, off, and in the earth.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Margaret J McLagan
  Info
• 4 points

DIGITAL PRODUCTION

Prerequisites:
both
FILM BC3201 (or equivalent)
and
FILM BC3200 (or equivalent). Digital Production offers visual storytellers an incredible medium to connect and build an audience. It is an inexpensive, accessible platform to launch micro-budget concepts. Developing the storytellers voice  inexpensively is critical to the evolution of any student, no matter their starting point. The Digital Series course is intended to take students from story ideation through creation of an independent digital series. Emanating from a writers room setting, all steps of the process will be explored and supported by in-class discussion, examples and workshops. This hands-on class revolves around the TV series production model: breaking story, writing pages, preproduction planning, filming and post-production review. We will emphasize the writers voice, construction of series storytelling, and establishing realistic scopes of production.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Danielle T Douge
  Info
• 3 points

UNSEEN MASTERWORKS OF WORLD CINEMA

UNSEEN MASTERWORKS: WAR

This course examines the portrayal of significant themes in international cinema. Through a selection of diverse cinematic works from various countries, students will analyze different cultural, historical, and political perspectives. The course aims to enhance students' understanding of complex topics, their impact on individuals and societies, and the ethical questions they evoke. Through critical analysis and discussion, students will engage with a range of cinematic works that offer alternative narratives and perspectives.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-7:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Sam Abbas
  Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: One year of organic chemistry. Survey of topics in structural, mechanistic, and synthetic organic chemistry, including molecular orbital treatment of structure, bonding, and chemical reactivity; elucidation of organic reaction mechanisms; pericyclic reactions; stereoelectronic effects; reactive intermediates; asymmetric reactions; and natural product total synthesis.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Christian Rojas
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 3 points

WORKSHOP IN SUSTAINABLE DEVPT

The upper level undergraduate Sustainable Development Workshop will be modeled on client based graduate-level workshops, but with more time devoted to methods of applied policy analysis and issues in Sustainable Development. The heart of the course is the group project on an issue of sustainable development with a faculty advisor providing guidance and ultimately grading student performance. Students would receive instruction on methodology, group work, communication and the context of policy analysis. Much of the reading in the course would be project-specific and identified by the student research teams. Offered in Fall and Spring.

• Department: Earth Institute
• MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jenna M Lawrence
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Sharon S Mathews
  Info
• 4 points

ILLEGAL IS NOT A NOUN: DISRUPTING NARRAT

This course engages with narratives about detention and deportation in the modern United States, with special attention to the stories of Latinx people. We will analyze how journalistic writing, documentaries, and personal narratives shape public policy and American attitudes about the "the immigrant experience." What are these narratives, how are they told, and what are their implications? How do writers disrupt these narratives? We will develop four scholarly essays over the course of the semester to investigate these questions.

• Department: English @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria D Hinojosa
  Info
• 4 points