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
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael Campbell
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. For registration issues contact Cari Shimkus (cshimkus@ei.columbia.edu).
- Department: Earth Institute
- MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jenna M Lawrence
CULPA: 6
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Instructor:
Radley M Horton
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.
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Instructor:
Maria D Hinojosa
Info - 4 points
BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: (CHEM BC3230) and (CHEM BC3231) BIOL BC1502. Introduction to biochemical building blocks, macromolecules, and metabolism. Structures of amino acids, lipids, carbohydrates, nucleic acids. Protein structure and folding. Enzyme mechanisms, kinetics, allostery. Membranes and biosignaling. Catabolism and anabolism with emphasis on chemical intermediates, metabolic energy, catalysis by specific enzymes, regulation.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jonelle White
Info - 3 points
BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY II
Prerequisites: CHEM BC3282 or equivalent. Advanced topics in the field of biochemistry, including enzyme mechanisms, pharmaceutical drug design, and disease therapies. Emphasis will be placed on discussion of current scientific literature.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Christina Vizcarra
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
FREAKS & AESTHETES IN FIFTIES FAMILIES
From the “tomboy” Frankie Adams of Carson McCullers to fragile and tigerish Blanche Du Bois of Tennessee Williams, to the unnervingly mature Esme of J.D. Salinger, to the enraged Jim Stark (
Rebel Without a Cause)
, to the unnervingly calm Maud Martha of Gwendolyn Brooks and the grotesques of Flannery O'Connor, among others, this course examines a galaxy of compellingly eccentric outsiders—the “freak” or “queer” figure, the misfit— and looks at how their status, power, fate is dramatized as they attempt to improvise an alternative family or community within the larger family of which they are part. Race, gender, sexuality, class are all important strands in a web of considerations that will explore the creative self-fashioning of discordant mid-century American presences in crucial texts by important authors.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ross Posnock
CULPA: 14
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ROMANCE
The literary mode we call “romance” has been enormously popular and influential from its origins in Hellenistic antiquity to current science fiction, and at all levels of textual ambition from popular culture to canonical literature. Within this mass of material, one constant element is romance’s encounter with boundaries. This course will explore such boundary moments in texts from the 5th to the 20th centuries: boundaries and transgressions of desire (romances of marriage and adultery), of time (the reimagining of antiquity), of national foundation, of geography (settings in a fantasy east), of gender, and of class, indeed the boundary of the human and the monstrous.
- Department: English @Barnard
- TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Christopher C Baswell
CULPA: 8
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Jazz Fictions
In the prologue to
Invisible Man
, Ralph Ellison famously defines invisibility as a state of being “never quite on the beat.” Ellison frames the novel as a kind of translation of the invisible rhythm the narrator hears in the music of Louis Armstrong, a syncopated rhythm rooted in Black aesthetic and cultural forms. “Could this compulsion to put invisibility down in black and white be thus an urge to make music of invisibility?” James Baldwin shared Ellison’s compulsion: “I think I really helplessly model myself on jazz musicians and try to write the way they sound.” This intensive seminar considers how African American writers from the Harlem Renaissance to the present engaged with the jazz tradition to make music of invisibility. How does fiction address the political issues and aesthetic challenges raised by jazz and jazz musicians? How do writers translate the invisible rhythms of jazz into jazz fiction? Novelists include Rudolph Fisher, Ann Petry, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, and Toni Morrison.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Aidan S Levy
CULPA: 3 Info - 4 points
Topics in Modern Statistics
Apld Prob & Stoc Procsses
Topics in Modern Statistics that provide undergraduate students with an opportunity to study a specialized area of statistics in more depth and to meet the educational needs of a rapidly growing field. Courses listed are reviewed and approved by the Undergraduate Advisory Committee of the Department of Statistics.
- Department: Statistics
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sumit Mukherjee
CULPA: 4 h-index: 13 Info - 3 points
Topics in Modern Statistics
INTERPTBLE MACHN LEARNING
Topics in Modern Statistics that provide undergraduate students with an opportunity to study a specialized area of statistics in more depth and to meet the educational needs of a rapidly growing field. Courses listed are reviewed and approved by the Undergraduate Advisory Committee of the Department of Statistics.
- Department: Statistics
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Joyce T Robbins
CULPA: 5
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- 3 points
BIOCHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: one year each of Introductory Biology and General Chemistry. Corequisites: Organic Chemistry. Biochemistry is the study of the chemical processes within organisms that give rise to the immense complexity of life. This complexity emerges from a highly regulated and coordinated flow of chemical energy from one biomolecule to another. This course serves to familiarize students with the spectrum of biomolecules (carbohydrates, lipids, amino acids, nucleic acids, etc.) as well as the fundamental chemical processes (glycolysis, citric acid cycle, fatty acid metabolism, etc.) that allow life to happen. In particular, this course will employ active learning techniques and critical thinking problem-solving to engage students in answering the question: how is the complexity of life possible? NOTE: While Organic Chemistry is listed as a corequisite, it is highly recommended that you take Organic Chemistry beforehand.
- Department: Biological Sciences
- T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Danny N Ho
CULPA: 7 Info - 3 points
ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT
BILINGUAL IDENTITIES
Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score. An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.
- Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Francisca Aguilo Mora
CULPA: 5
Info
- 3 points
ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT
Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score. An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.
- Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Leyre Alejaldre Biel
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Instructor:
Juan Pablo Cominguez
CULPA: 5
Info
- 3 points
ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT
UNDERGROUND IBERIA
Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score. An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.
- Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Almudena Mar N-Cobos
Info - 3 points
ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT
Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score. An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.
- Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Elga Castro
Info - 3 points
PLAYWRITING LAB
Students will develop original dramatic scripts. Students will also read drafts of writers currently produced on New York stages to understand why changes and rewrites were made. Recommended for students undertaking a senior thesis in playwriting.
- Department: Theatre @Barnard
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Andrew Bragen
Info - 3 points
SCULPTURE II
Prerequisites: VIAR UN2300 or the instructors permission. (Formerly R3331) Continuation of VIAR UN2300. The objective of the class is to engage in in-depth research and hands on studio projects related to a specific theme to be determined by each student. Each student is expected to complete class with four fully realized and thematically linked works. Wood, metal, and plaster will be provided for this class but video, sound, performance and various mixed media approaches are highly encouraged. In addition, lecture and field trips will be part of the course. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.
- Department: Visual Arts
- T 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sable Smith
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
SENIOR POETRY WORKSHOP
Prerequisites: The departments 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
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alexander Dimitrov
Info - 4 points
ADVANCED SWAHILI II
Prerequisites: Advanced Swahili I or the instructor's permission. An introduction to the advanced syntactical, morphological, and grammatical structures of Swahili grammar; detailed analysis of Swahili texts; practice in conversation. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Abdul Nanji
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
SCULPTURE III
Prerequisites: VIAR R2300. (Formerly R3332) Sculpture III is an invitation for immersive sculpting. The class will explore the idea of experiences and construction of contexts as central research topics. The class becomes a laboratory space to explore various techniques to heighten body awareness and spatial sensibility. Through assignments and workshops, the students will practice how to digest these sensory experiences through their studio practice. Historical precedents for art outside the usual mediums and venues will be our reference points to investigate how our own work may take part in a generative process that evolves the definition of sculpture. The assignments in the first half of the semester point the students to performance, site specificity, and sound, that utilize New York Citys odd spots and professionals. While building such common experiential platforms, the class will also build language for a dialogic space, through weekly in-class discussions lead by the instructor, guests, and rotating panels of the students. As the semester progresses, the emphasis will gradually be shifted from experiential learning to intensive studio work on a final project, where the students are asked to pay close attention to how various methods and fields of subjects combine. The resulting project has to be the best work you have ever done. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.
- Department: Visual Arts
- T 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sable Smith
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
ADVANCED WOLOF II
Prerequisites: Advanced Wolof I or instructor permission. This course will further your awareness and understanding of the Wolof language and culture, as well as improve your mastery of grammar, writing skills, and oral expression. Course materials will incorporate various types of text including tales, poetry, literature as well as multimedia such as films, and videos, television and radio programs.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mariame S Sy
Info - 4 points
LAB IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Introduction to the use of molecular techniques to answer questions about subcellular biological phenomena. Techniques include isolation of genomic and plasmid DNAs, restriction enzyme analysis, DNA and protein electrophoresis, bacterial transformation, and plasmid subcloning.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
- W 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Stephen L Sturley
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
IND STUDIES-CIVIL ENGIN-JUNIOR
A project on civil engineering subjects approved by the chairman of the department.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
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Instructor:
Raimondo Betti
CULPA: 4
h-index: 31
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Adrian Brugger
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Gautam Dasgupta
CULPA: 3 h-index: 19 Info -
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George Deodatis
CULPA: 6
h-index: 42
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Xuan Di
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Maria Q Feng
CULPA: 3 h-index: 46 Info -
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Jacob Fish
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Marco Giometto
h-index: 9 Info -
Instructor:
Shiho Kawashima
h-index: 24 Info -
Instructor:
Addis Kidane
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Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou
h-index: 26 Info -
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Hoe I Ling
h-index: 45 Info -
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Ibrahim Odeh
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Feniosky Pena-Mora
Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info -
Instructor:
Markus Schlaepfer
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Andrew W Smyth
CULPA: 3 Info -
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Waiching Sun
CULPA: 1 h-index: 30 Info -
Instructor:
Haim Waisman
CULPA: 3
h-index: 29
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Instructor:
Huiming Yin
CULPA: 1 h-index: 25 Info - 1-3 points
JEWISH CULTURE IN TRANSL IN MED IBERIA
JEWISH CULTURE IN MED IBERIA
The course explores both the practice of translation (the rendering of texts from one language into another) and the idea of translation (as a medium of cultural transmission) in medieval Iberia. Jews were not only the paradigmatic translators of texts from Arabic to Latin and Castilian but were also translators of literary phenomena into the Jewish literary cultures of Iberia. Further, Hebrew texts made their way into Romance languages, rendered by both Jewish and non-Jewish writers. Theoretical materials on translation and historical background on translation practices of the period will accompany readings. All readings are in English, but all texts will be made available in the original language, and students are encouraged to read in the original whenever possible. Sources in bold are primary sources. Students are expected to spend three hours preparing for each class session.
- Department: Institute for Israel & Jewish Studies
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Isabelle C Levy
CULPA: 5
Info
- 3 points
IND STUDIES-CIVIL ENGIN-SENIOR
A project on civil engineering subjects approved by the chairman of the department.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
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Instructor:
Raimondo Betti
CULPA: 4
h-index: 31
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Adrian Brugger
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Instructor:
Gautam Dasgupta
CULPA: 3 h-index: 19 Info -
Instructor:
George Deodatis
CULPA: 6
h-index: 42
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Xuan Di
h-index: 15 Info -
Instructor:
Maria Q Feng
CULPA: 3 h-index: 46 Info -
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Jacob Fish
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 54 Info -
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Marco Giometto
h-index: 9 Info -
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Shiho Kawashima
h-index: 24 Info -
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Addis Kidane
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Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou
h-index: 26 Info -
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Hoe I Ling
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Ibrahim Odeh
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Feniosky Pena-Mora
Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info -
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Markus Schlaepfer
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Andrew W Smyth
CULPA: 3 Info -
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Waiching Sun
CULPA: 1 h-index: 30 Info -
Instructor:
Haim Waisman
CULPA: 3
h-index: 29
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Instructor:
Huiming Yin
CULPA: 1 h-index: 25 Info - 1-3 points
INDIGENEITY OF THE SOUTH
This course is designed to examine the politics and conditions of indigeneity in the South, specifically Latin America and the Caribbean. We begin with conquest and indigenous erasure in the Caribbean, tracing initial stances to the indigenous Other that inform nationalist ideologies of mestizaje, state-indigenous relations, including the politics of recognition. Engaging core theorists across diverse contexts, we trace the ongoing legacies of dispossession and its shaping forces on indigenous political subjectivities, while also tending to the collective and everyday forms of indigenous resistance, reclamation, and resurgence. As such, students in this course will a) Demonstrate knowledge of key theoretical perspectives at the following levels: (1) its analytical and explanatory importance for understanding indigeneity as site of political and structural conditions produced by the project of conquest, its colonial ideologies, and the nation-building project (2) their potential contributions to current social and political dialogues and debates around political conditions and practices of indigeneity in Latin America and the Caribbean; b) provide students with an understanding of the ways in which the colonial encounter undergirds the relations between states and indigenous peoples, and how these foundational antagonisms remain central to territorial conflicts, extractive development, and the politics of recognition; c) provide students with an understanding of indigenous representation (and erasure), collective and everyday forms of resistance.
- Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Shanya Cordis
Info - 4 points
INTRODUCTION TO MICROBIAL GENOMICS
INTRO TO MICROBIAL GENOMI
This course will focus on understanding, implementing, and using basic bioinformatic algorithms and tools to analyze microbial genomes and genomic information. Topics cover a history of genome sequencing methods, local and global alignment methods, sequence annotation tools,
de novo
genome assembly, multiple sequence alignments, and simple molecular phylogeny. Theoretical lectures will be taught in parallel with labs focused on hands-on analysis of real-world data so that students create tangible and applicable skills.
Knowledge of a programming language is required to take this course
. Class notes are intended to be self-contained for these topics.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
- T 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Philippe A Chlenski
Info - 3 points
INTRO TO URBAN ETHNOGRAPHIES
INTRO/URBAN ETHNOGRAPHIES
What is ethnography and what makes ethnography “urban”? This course explores how social scientists use ethnography to analyze questions and dilemmas often associated with urban settings. We will combine close readings of ethnographies with field-based inquiry, including our own studies of urban public space. Through both our readings and our field exercises, we will focus on the methods at the heart of ethnography: observation and participant-observation.
As we read other scholars’ work, we will ask how the author uses ethnographic tools to explore issues that are suitable for intensive fieldwork. We will assess which kinds of research problems and theoretical perspectives are a good fit with ethnography and the roles that ethnography can play in transdisciplinary research projects. You will apply what you have learned about research to design your own pilot fieldwork. The ethnographies that we read together will examine intersections of housing, race, and class in urban communities. You are welcome to extend this focus to your own fieldwork, but it’s not required to do so. This is a writing-intensive course, and we will devote a considerable portion of class time to workshop your individual projects.
- Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Fawziah Qadir
Info - 3 points
GREEK LITERATURE SELECTIONS II
SELECTIONS GREEK LIT: PROSE
Prerequisites: GREK UN2101 - GREK UN2102 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.
- Department: Classics
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth K Irwin
CULPA: 7
Info
- 3 points
LATIN LITERATURE SELECTIONS
Prerequisites: LATN UN2102 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.
- Department: Classics
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Darcy Krasne
h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
TECHNIQUES OF 20TH CENTURY MUSIC
TECHNIQUES OF 20TH CENT M
Materials, styles, and techniques of 20th and 21st century music. Musical concepts and compositional techniques related to serialism and atonality, timbre, orchestration, indeterminacy, rhythm and temporality, electronic and electro-acoustic music, site-specific composition, graphic notation, recomposition, minimalism, and spectralism.
- Department: Music
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Joseph P Dubiel
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
ETHICS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVPT
Aiming to improve human conditions within many diverse environments, sustainable development seeks to create, increase and perpetuate benefit and to cease, rectify and reverse harm. Sustainable development is consequently inextricable from the fabric of ethics, woven with determinations of benefit and harm to the existence and well-being of both humans and nonhumans. Underlying such determinations are those of self- and other-regarding motivation and behavior; and underlying these are still others, of sensitivity and rationality in decision-making, whether individual, social or public. Sustainable development is interlaced with and contingent upon all these determinations, at once prescriptive and judgmental, which can be called the ethics of sustainable development. This course is divided into four main sections, of which two are intended to show the ethical fallacies of unsustainable development, and two, the ethical pathways of sustainable development. The first section focuses upon ethically problematic basic assumptions, including human (species) hegemony, happy (hedonic) materialism, and selective (data) denial. The second focuses upon ethically problematic ensuing rationalizations, including those pertaining to damages, victims, consequences and situations of climatic, chemical, biological and ecological harm. The third section responds to these rationalizations with ethically vital considerations of earth justice, environmental justice, culturally-based ethics, and sector-based ethics (water, food, place and climate ethics). Finally, the fourth section responds to the initial, longstanding problematic assumptions with a newly emergent ethical paradigm, comprising biotic wholeness, environmental integrity and the deliberative zero-goal. Tying all sections together is the central theme: to be sustainable, development must be ethical. Reflecting the collaborative quality of the field of sustainable development, the course extends to readings whose authors have all pursued their work at intersections of science and ethics, environment and ethics, policy and ethics, business and ethics, and sustainable development and ethics.
- Department: Earth Institute
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Adela J Gondek
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
RACE. SPACE, URB SCHOOLS
Many people don’t think of themselves as having attended segregated schools. And yet, most of us went to schools attended primarily by people who looked very much like us. In fact, schools have become more segregated over the past 30 years, even as the country becomes increasingly multiracial. In this class, we will use public schools as an example to examine the role race plays in shaping urban spaces and institutions. We will begin by unpacking the concept of racialization, or the process by which a person, place, phenomenon, or characteristic becomes associated with a certain race. Then, we will explore the following questions: What are the connections between city schools and their local contexts? What does it mean to be a “neighborhood school”? How do changes in neighborhoods change schools? We will use ethnographies, narrative non-fiction, and educational research to explore these questions from a variety of perspectives. You will apply what you have learned to your own experiences and to current debates over urban policies and public schools. This course will extend your understanding of key anthropological and sociological perspectives on urban inequality in the United States, as well as introduce you to critical theory.
- Department: Education @Barnard
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Fawziah Qadir
Info - 3 points
HEAT TRANSFER
Heat Transfer
Steady and unsteady heat conduction. Radiative heat transfer. Internal and external forced and free convective heat transfer. Change of phase. Heat exchangers.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
- TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Yevgeniy Yesilevskiy
h-index: 7 Info - 3 points
FEMINIST THEORY
Prerequisites: LIMITED TO 20 BY INSTRUC PERM; ATTEND FIRST CLASS
This course provides a theoretical itinerary to the emergence of contemporary queer theory and engagement with some contemporary legacies of the movement. The goal is not to be exhaustive nor to establish a correct history of queer theory but to engage students in the task of understanding and creating intellectual genealogies.
- Department: Women's and Gender Studies
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rachel Aumiller
Info - 4 points
SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHITECTURE
SP TPC: LOUD OBJECTS
See the Barnard and Columbia Architecture Department website for a description of this semester's topic.
architecture.barnard.edu/workshops
- Department: Architecture @Barnard
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Katharine M Shima
Info - 3 points
The Story, She Told: Women's Autofiction
In her 1975 essay
The Laughter of Medusa
, Hélène Cixous compared women’s writing—in French, “écriture féminine”—to the unexplored African continent. To date, literary criticism has been grappling with the distinct qualities of literary works, crafted by women. This course offers a survey of main autofictional works and memoirs, written originally in the Russian language within the last 100 years. We will start our journey with the tumults of the WW1 and the Bolshevik Revolution, the Civil War, through the WW2, the Soviet dissident movement, the emigration waves into Israel and the United States, the advent of a post-socialist Russia in 1991—in order to arrive at the two plus decades of Vladimir Putin’s presidency. We will consider the ways in which each author transposes and conveys her own—and others’ memories—through the medium of autofiction, defined by Serge Doubrovsky, who coined the term in French, as “the adventure of the language, outside of wisdom and the syntax of the novel.” All selected works, with very few exceptions, are available in English; no reading knowledge of Russian is required. No prerequisites.
- Department: Slavic Languages
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alex Pekov
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Laughing Through Tears: A History of the
While Russians have been doomed to gloom in the Western imagination, this course challenges that idea with a brief history of the comic in Russia and the USSR. Our cultural history of the comic will challenge you to analyze the social dimension of comedy and think about its effect and purpose in a society, especially in one undergoing social and political upheaval. We will consider the structures of power that inform the effect of the comic—what, or whom, are we laughing at?—and the complex interrelationships between its producers and its audiences: the Russian literary elite, the reading public and movie-going audiences, the regime (whether imperial or Soviet, both rather fond of censorship), and those on the fringes of society, political outcasts and dissidents. Our course will focus on the cultural specificity of comedic works by non-Russians in the Russian or Soviet spheres, such as Ukrainian and Jewish writers, and their celebration of difference or, conversely, their attempts at assimilation via their comedy. Our primary texts will be paired with short theoretical and analytical texts on laughter and the comic.
Counts as an elective ("additional course") for the relevant majors and concentrations in Slavic/Russian.
There are no prerequisites for this course. No knowledge of Russian is required.
- Department: Slavic Languages
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Tomi Haxhi
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POETIC METER AND FORM
Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required. This course will investigate the uses of rhythmic order and disorder in English-language poetry, with a particular emphasis on formal elements in free verse. Through a close analysis of poems, well examine the possibilities of qualitative meter, and students will write original creative work within (and in response to) various formal traditions. Analytical texts and poetic manifestos will accompany our reading of exemplary poems. Each week, well study interesting examples of metrical writing, and Ill ask you to write in reponse to those examples. Our topics will include stress meter, syllable-stress meter, double and triple meter, rising and falling rhythms, promotion, demotion, inversion, elision, and foot scansion. Our study will include a greate range of pre-modern and modern writers, from Keats to W.D. Snodgrass, Shakespeare to Denise Levertov, Blake to James Dickey, Whitman to Louise Gluck etc. As writers, well always be thinking about how the formal choices of a poem are appropriate or inappropriate for the poems content. Well also read prose by poets describing their metrical craft.
- Department: Writing
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Brionne Janae
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EAR-TRAINING III
Sight-singing techniques of modulating diatonic melodies in simple, compound, or irregular meters that involve complex rhythmic patterns. Emphasis is placed on four-part harmonic dictation of modulating phrases.
- Department: Music
- MW 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Peter M Susser
CULPA: 20
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EAR-TRAINING IV
Techniques of musicianship at the intermediate level, stressing the importance of musical nuances in sight-singing. Emphasis is placed on chromatically inflected four-part harmonic dictation.
- Department: Music
- TR 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Peter M Susser
CULPA: 20
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MUSIC IN EAST ASIA
A topical approach to the concepts and practices of music in relation to other arts in the development of Asian civilizations.
- Department: Music
- MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jessie L Rubin
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Jessica Perez-Gutierrez
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Laina Dawes
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Instructor:
Noah D Rosen
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Provocations in Twentieth-Century Poetic
Provocations in 20th C Po
This is a class about poetry and revolt. In a century of wars, unchecked proliferation of industrial and market systems in the continued legacy of settler-colonialism and the consolidation of state powers, does language still conduct with revolutionary possibilities? In this class, we will read manifestos, philosophical treatises, political tracts, literary polemics, poems, scores, and so on, as we consider poetry’s long-standing commitment to visionary practices that seek to liberate consciousness from the many and various structures of oppression. The term “poetry” is not limited to itself but becomes, in our readings, an open invitation to all adjacent experiments with and in the language arts. As such, we will look at the emergence of the international avant-gardes as well as a few student movements that populate and complicate the explorations of radical politics in the twentieth-century. In addition to our readings, students will be asked to produce creative responses for class discussion. Final projects will be provocations of their own design.
Required Texts:
Friedrich Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morality
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: The Communist Manifesto
Aimé Césaire: Notebook of A Return to the Native Land
Hilda Hilst: The Obscene Madame D
Marguerite Duras: Hiroshima Mon Amour
Guy Debord: Society of the Spectacle
LABORATORY IN MICROBIOLOGY
Enrollment limited to 16. Provides experience in the isolation, cultivation, and analysis of pure cultures of microorganisms. Methods used for the study of cell structure, growth, physiology, and genetics of microbes will be incorporated into laboratory exercises.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
- R 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gabrielle Corradino
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MUSIC THEORY III
Intermediate analysis and composition in a variety of tonal idioms. A one-hour weekly lab is required, to be scheduled at the beginning of the term. Course to be taken in conjunction with the Ear-Training sequence, up through Ear-Training IV.
- Department: Music
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Galen P Degraf
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EAST ASIAN CINEMA
This course introduces students to major works, genres and waves of East Asian cinema from the Silent era to the present, including films from Japan, Korea, Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. How has cinema participated in East Asian societies’ distinct and shared experiences of industrial modernity, imperialism and (post)colonialism? How has cinema engaged with questions of class, gender, ethnic and language politics? In what ways has cinema facilitated transnational circulations and mobilizations of peoples and ideas, and how has it interacted with other art forms, such as theatre, painting, photography and music? In this class, we answer these questions by studying cinemas across the region sideby- side, understanding cinema as deeply embedded in the region’s intertwining political, social and cultural histories and circulations of people and ideas. We cover a variety of genres such as melodrama, comedy, historical epic, sci-fi, martial arts and action, and prominent film auteurs such as Yasujir? Ozu, Akira Kurosawa, Yu Hy?nmok, Chen Kaige, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Ann Hui. As cinema is, among other things, a creative practice, in this course, students will be given opportunities to respond to films analytically and creatively, through writing as well as creative visual projects. As a global core course, this class does not assume prior knowledge of East Asian culture or of film studies.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Takuya Tsunoda
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MUSIC THEORY IV
Intermediate analysis and composition in a variety of tonal and extended tonal idioms. A one-hour weekly lab is required, to be scheduled at the beginning of the term. Course to be taken in conjunction with the Ear-Training sequence, up through Ear-Training IV.
- Department: Music
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Joseph P Dubiel
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INTRO ORGANIC CHEMISTRY-LAB
Prerequisites: (CHEM BC2001) General Chemistry I with lab. Corequisites: CHEM BC3230 Basic techniques of experimental organic chemistry. Principles and methods of separation, purification, and characterization of organic compounds. Selected organic reactions.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- M 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
- T 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
- W 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
- R 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
- F 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
- T 9:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
- R 9:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
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INTRO TO PORTUGUESE STUDIES
INTRO TO PORTUGUESE CULTURES
This course presents the students with the information and basic tools needed to interpret a broad range of topics and cultural production from the Portuguese-speaking world: literary, filmic, artisitic, architectural, urban, etc. We will use a continuing cross-disciplinary dialogue to study everyday acts as a location of culture. This course will center on interpretation as an activity and as the principal operation though which culturally sited meaning is created and analyzed. Among the categories and topics discussed will be history, national and popular cultures, literature (high/low), cultural institutions, migration, and globalization. Students will also acquire the fundamental vocabulary for the analysis of cultural objects. This course is required for the concentration in Portuguese Studies.
- Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tulio H Bucchioni
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ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
Operational amplifier circuits. Diodes and diode circuits. MOS and bipolar junction transistors. Biasing techniques. Small-signal models. Single-stage transistor amplifiers. Analysis and design of CMOS logic gates. A/D and D/A converters.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Charles A Zukowski
CULPA: 5
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URBAN SPACE & CONFLICT IN MIDDLE EAST
URBAN SPACE&CONFLICT MID EAST
This course explores how civil war, revolution, militarization, mass violence, refugee crises, and terrorism impact urban spaces, and how city dwellers engage in urban resilience, negotiate and attempt to reclaim their right to the city. Through case studies of Beirut (1975-present), Baghdad (2003-present), Cairo (2011-present), Diyarbakir (1914-present), Aleppo (1914-present), and Jerusalem (1914-present), this course traces how urban life adjusted to destruction (and post-conflict reconstruction), violence, and anarchy; how neighborhoods were reshaped; and how local ethnic, religious, and political dynamics played out in these cities and metropolises. Relying on multi-disciplinary and post-disciplinary scholarship, and employing a wealth of audiovisual material, literary works, and interviews conducted by the instructor, the course scrutinizes how conflicts have impacted urban life in the Middle East, and how civilians react to, confront, and resist militarization in urban spaces.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Khatchig Mouradian
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MODERN V
Intermediate Advanced.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Caroline Fermin
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