Prerequisites: two terms of college French or two years of secondary school French. Equivalent to
FREN UN2101
.
$15.00= Language Resource Fee, $15.00 = Materials Fee
Equivalent to
French UN2101
. Prepares students for advanced French language and cultures, focusing on developing correct usage through explanations and practice. Gaining a deeper understanding of the French language through readings of poems and short stories, students practice a variety of communication tasks, as they are engaged in ever more complex forms of discourse. Daily assignments, quizzes, laboratory work, and screening of video materials.
Prerequisites: GERM UN1102 or the equivalent.
Complete grammar review through regular exercises. Wide range of texts are used for close and rapid reading and writing exercises. Practice in conversation aims at enlarging the vocabulary necessary for daily communication.
The aim of this course is to provide students with analytical tools to think critically and historically about the concept of capitalism. By studying how philosophers, economists, and political theorists have defined and described the concept of capitalism throughout its history, students will be provided with a set of terminologies and analytical frameworks that enable them to interrogate the various dimensions of capitalism.
Prerequisites:
ITAL UN1102
or the equivalent. If you did not take Elementary Italian at Columbia in the semester preceding the current one, you must take the placement test, offered by the Italian Department at the beginning of each semester.
A review of grammar, intensive reading, composition, and practice in conversation. Exploration of literary and cultural material. Lab: hours to be arranged.
Prerequisites:
LATN UN1101-UN1102
, or
LATN UN1121
, or the equivalent.
Selections from Catullus and from Cicero or Caesar.
Prerequisites: BCRS UN1102 or the equivalent.
Readings in Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian literature in the original, with emphasis depending upon the needs of individual students. This course number has been changed to BCRS 2102
Prerequisites: (BENG UN1101 and BENG UN1102)
BENG W1101-W1102
or the instructor's permission.
Further develops a student's knowledge of Bengali, a major language of northeast India and Bangladesh.
Prerequisites:
CANT W1101-W1102
or the instructor's permission.
This course further continues the study of the Cantonese language. Emphasis is on linguistic rules to enable students to communicate with more competence. The lessons will not only focus on language, but also incorporate discussions on history, current events, literature, popular culture, and native values. Includes field trips to Chinatown and other Cantonese-speaking neighborhoods.
Note:
This course is part of the language exchange program with New York University (NYU). Classes will be held at NYU.
Prerequisites: CATL UN2101 or equivalent
Catalan 1202 is the second part of Columbia University's intermediate Catalan sequence. Course goals are to enhance student exposure to various aspects of Catalan culture and to consolidate and expand reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills.
Prerequisites: DTCH UN1101-UN1102 or the equivalent.
Continued practice in the four skills (aural comprehension, reading, speaking, and writing); review and refinement of basic grammar; vocabulary building. Readings in Dutch literature.
Prerequisites:
FILI W1101-W1102
or the instructor's permission.
Emphasis is placed on the linguistic rules to enable students to communicate with more competence. The lessons will not only focus on language but also will use a holistic approach and incorporate discussions on history, current events, literature, pop culture, and native values.
Note:
This course is part of the language exchange program with New York University (NYU). Classes will be held at NYU.
Prerequisites: FINN UN1101-UN1102 or the instructor's permission.
Continued practice in aural comprehension, reading, speaking, and writing; review and refinement of grammatical structures; vocabulary building. Readings include Finnish fiction and nonfiction.
Prerequisites: three terms of college French or three years of secondary school French.
$15.00= Language Resource Fee, $15.00 = Materials Fee
Equivalent to
FREN UN2102
. Continues to prepare students for advanced French language and culture with an emphasis on developing highly accurate speaking, reading, and writing skills. Students examine complex topics, using the French language in diverse contexts, and read and actively discuss a wide variety of texts from France and the French speaking world. Daily assignments, quizzes, and screening of video materials.
Prerequisites: GERM UN2101 or the equivalent.
Language study based on texts concerning culture and literature. Assignments include compositions in German and exercises of grammatical forms, both related to the texts. Class discussions in German provide oral and aural practice.
Prerequisites:
GREK UN1101- GREK UN1102
or
GREK UN1121
or the equivalent.
Detailed grammatical and literary study of several books of the Iliad and introduction to the techniques or oral poetry, to the Homeric hexameter, and to the historical background of Homer.
Prerequisites:
GRKM UN2101
or the equivalent.
Continuation of
GRKM UN2101
. Students complete their knowledge of the fundamentals of Greek grammar and syntax while continuing to enrich their vocabulary.
Prerequisites:
HNGR UN1101-UN1102
or the equivalent.
Further develops a student's knowledge of the Hungarian language. With the instructor's permission the second term of this course may be taken without the first. Students with a schedule conflict should consult the instructor about the possibility of adjusting hours.
Prerequisites:
INDO W1101-W1102
or the instructor's permission.
This course further develops a student's knowledge of Bahasa Indonesia, a major language of Indonesia and South East Asia.
Prerequisites: (IRSH UN1101 and IRSH UN1102)
IRSH UN1101-UN1102
or the instructor's permission.
For the more advanced student of Irish, this course focuses on improving conversational fluency and on expanding vocabulary through reading complex literature in Irish, and writing in the Irish language, further encouraging students to strengthen their pronunciation and command of spoken Irish.
Prerequisites:
ITAL V1201
or
W1201
, or the equivalent. If you did not take Elementary Italian at Columbia in the semester preceding the current one, you must take the placement test, offered by the Italian Department at the beginning of each semester.
A review of grammar, intensive reading, composition, and practice in conversation. Exploration of literary and cultural material. Lab: hours to be arranged. ITAL V1202 fulfils the basic foreign language requirement and prepares students for advanced study in Italian language and literature.
Prerequisites:
LATN UN2101
or the equivalent.
Selections from Ovid's
Metamorphoses
and from Sallust, Livy, Seneca, or Pliny.
Prerequisites: RUSS UN2101 or the equivalent.
Drill practice in small groups. Reading, composition, and grammar review.
The goal of this course is to further develop your speaking, reading, writing, and listening skills and broaden your knowledge about the Swedish culture, history and literature. Topics emphasize contemporary Swedish life and cross-cultural awareness. Topics to be covered include Sweden's regions, the party and political system, major historical and cultural figures, and the Swedish welfare state. In addition to the main text we will use a selection of short stories, newspaper articles, films and audio resources available on the internet. Class will be conducted almost exclusively in Swedish. To succeed in this course, you must actively participate. You will be expected to attend class regularly, prepare for class daily, and speak as much Swedish as possible. Methodology The class will be taught in a communicative way. It will be conducted primarily in Swedish. In-class activities and homework assignments will focus on improving and developing speaking, reading, writing, listening skills, and deepening the students' understanding of Swedish culture through interaction and exposure to a broad range of authentic materials.
Prerequisites:
VIET W1101-W1102
or the instructor's permission.
This course further develops students' familiarity with the linguistic and grammatical structures of Vietnamese, a major language of South East Asia.
Primarily for graduate students in other departments who have some background in French and who wish to meet the French reading requirement for the Ph.D. degree, or for scholars whose research involves references in the French language. Intensive reading and translation, both prepared and at sight, in works drawn from literature, criticism, philosophy, and history. Brief review of grammar; vocabulary exercises.
The architecture, sculpture, and painting of ancient Rome from the 2nd century B.C. to the end of the Empire in the West.
Required discussion section for ASCM UN2008: Contemporary Islamic Civilization
Required discussion section for ASCM UN2008: Contemporary Islamic Civilization
We will be working on pronunciation, vocabulary acquisition, listening comprehension, and oral expression. Activities will include listening comprehension exercises, skits, debates, and oral presentations, as well as discussions of films, songs, short films, plays, news, articles, short stories or other short written documents. Although
grammar
will not be the focus of the course, some exercises will occasionally aim at
reviewing
particular points.
The themes and topics covered will be chosen according to students’ interests.
Prerequisites: ITAL UN1102 or the equivalent, with a grade of B+ or higher.
An intensive course that covers two semesters of Intermediate Italian in one, and prepares students for advanced language and literature study. grammar, reading, writing, and conversation. Exploration of literary and cultural materials. This course may be used to fulfill the basic foreign language requirement.
We will be working on pronunciation, vocabulary, listening comprehension, and oral expression. Activities will include listening comprehension exercises, skits, debates, and oral presentations, as well as discussions of films, songs, short films, news, articles, short stories or other short written documents. Although grammar will not be the focus of the course, some exercises will occasionally aim at reviewing particular points.
Prerequisites: GERM UN1102 Elementary II
Accelerated language study as preparation for Study Abroad in Berlin.
Prerequisites: BC1001 or permission of the instructor. Enrollment strictly limited to 45 students; decided upon and finalized first week of classes.
Introduction to behavior of individuals and small groups in work organizations. Recent theory and research emphasizing both content and research methodology. Motivation and performance, attitudes and job satisfaction, power, influence, authority, leadership, cooperation and conflict, decision making, and communications.
Enrollment limited to 45; and only seniors.
Corequisites: PSYC BC2156
This is a laboratory course designed to accompany the Introduction to Clinical Psychology lecture (BC2156). The purpose of the lab is to teach students the research methods involved in creating clinical psychological science. Students gain hands-on practice with clinical psychology research methods. In the first half of the lab students conduct classroom exercises demonstrating concepts such as reliability and validity and research methodologies such as randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and treatment fidelity. In the second half of the class students design and run a research study. Basic methodological issues will be explored in depth, including research ethics, conducting literature reviews and writing up a scientific report in APA style.
Prerequisites: Both BC1001 and BC2141, as well as one of the following: BC1125 Personality, BC1107 Psychology of Learning, BC1119 Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience or BC1129 Developmental Psychology. Or BC1001 and permission of the instructor.Enrollment limited to 35 students.,\n3 points.
An introduction to the field of clinical psychology aimed at 1) becoming familiar with professional issues in the field and 2) comparing therapeutic approaches for their utility and efficacy. Therapeutic approaches covered include psychodynamic therapies, cognitive behavior therapies, family/child therapies. The course will critically examine a variety of professional issues including ethical dilemmas, clinical assessment and diagnosis, and use of technology in therapy.
Prerequisites: PSYC BC1001 or PSYC UN1001 or BIOL BC1001 or BIOL BC1002 or BIOL BC1500 or BIOL BC1502
This class will explore the topic of addiction at multiple levels, from how drugs affect neurons to how drugs affect society. The course will also cover addictive behaviors that do not appear to have a pharmacological foundation, including pathological gambling, compulsive buying, hypersexual behavior, food addiction, and internet addiction.
Prerequisites: BC1001 or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 75 students.
Examines the biological, psychological, and social factors that lead to drug use and abuse. A biopsychosocial model will be used to examine the behavioral effects of prescription, over the counter, and street drugs. Treatments, therapies, and theories of addictive behaviors will be explored.
Film Noir: , This course surveys the American film genre known as film noir, focusing primarily on the genre’s heyday in the 1940s and early 1950s, taking into account some of its antecedents in the hard-boiled detective novel, German Expressionism, and the gangster film, among other sources. We will consider a number of critical and theoretical approaches to the genre, and will also study a number of film noir adaptations and their literary sources. , Comedy: , This course will explore the history of American film comedy from the origins of cinema to the present. In its various forms, comedy has always been a staple of American film production; but it has also always been a site of heterogeneity and nonconformity in the development of American cinema, with neither its form nor its content fitting normative models of film practice. This course accounts for that nonconformity by exploring comedy’s close and essential links to “popular” cultural sources (in particular, vaudeville, variety, stand-up); it looks at how different comic filmmakers have responded to and reshaped those sources; and it examines the relation between comedy and social change. Rather than engage the entire spectrum of comic styles (animation, mockumentary, etc.), this course is primarily focused on a single tradition bridging the silent and sound eras: the performance-centered, “comedian comedy” format associated with performers as diverse as Charlie Chaplin, Mae West, the Marx Brothers, and, into the present, Sacha Baron Cohen, Dave Chappelle, Amy Schumer, and others. “Laughter and its forms,” writes theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, “represent the least scrutinized sphere of the people's creation.” This course will restore film comedy to the scrutiny it deserves, examining both its inward formal development and its external relation to other modes of social expression. , Western: , This course surveys the first century of the American Western film genre, and its relation to American imaginings and ideologies of the “frontier,” with in-depth readings of key precursor texts, including memoirs, histories, novels, and other forms. We will consider the evolution of the genre and its changing place within the film industry, and study exemplary films that established and challenged the genre’s narrative, aesthetic, and ideological conventions. We will explore how films engage with the history and myth of the American West in various historical circumstances. We will also be analyzing the politics of the Western, in particular how
Prerequisites: high school algebra and chemistry. Recommended preparation: high school physics.
Exploration of how the solid Earth works, today and in the past, focusing on Earth in the Solar system, continents and oceans, the Earth's history, mountain systems on land and sea, minerals and rocks, weathering and erosion, hydrological cycle and rivers, geochronology, plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes, fossil fuels. Laboratory exploration of topics through examination of rock samples, experimentation, computer data analysis, field exercises, and modeling. Columbia and Barnard majors should plan to take
W2200
before their senior year to avoid conflicts with the Senior Seminar.
PHIL UN2101 is not a prerequisite for this course. Exposition and analysis of central philosophical problems as discussed by innovative thinkers from Aquinas through Kant. Authors include figures like Descartes, Elisabeth of Bohemia, Spinoza, Anne Conway, Leibniz, Berkeley, Hume, Émilie du Châtelet, and Kant. ,
,
Prerequisites:
CHNS C1101-1102
or
CHNS F1101-1102
, or the equivalent. See Admission to Language Courses.
Designed to further the student's four skills acquired in the elementary course, this program aims to develop higher level of proficiency through comprehensive oral and written exercises. Cultural aspects in everyday situations are introduced. Traditional characters. Section subject to cancellation if under-enrolled. CC GS EN CE
Prerequisites:
JPNS C1201
or the equivalent.
Further practice in the four language skills. Participation in a once a week conversation class is required.
Prerequisites:
KORN W1102
or the equivalent. Consultation with the instructors is required before registration for section assignment.
Further practice in reading, writing, listening comprehension, conversation, and grammar.
Prerequisites:
KORN W1102
or the equivalent. Consultation with the instructors is required before registration for section assignment.
Further practice in reading, writing, listening comprehension, conversation, and grammar.
Prerequisites:
CHNS C1112
or
F1112,
or the equivalent. See Admission to Language Courses.
Continuation of
CHNS C1112,
with a focus on reading comprehension and written Chinese. Traditional characters. CC GS EN CE
Prerequisites: (ECON BC1003 or ECON UN1105)
Students will learn how to write computer programs that can be used to solve assignment problems, including matching buyers with sellers in electronic financial markets, as well as assignment problems that don't involve prices: matching organ donors with recipients, residents with hospitals, and students with high schools for example. The programming language used will be MATLAB. Suitable for students with little or no programming background.
Prerequisites: an introductory course in psychology.
Models of judgment and decision making in both certain and uncertain or risky situations, illustrating the interplay of top-down (theory-driven) and bottom-up (data-driven) processes in creating knowledge. Focuses on how individuals do and should make decisions, with some extensions to group decision making and social dilemmas.
Prerequisites: DNCE BC1247, BC1248 or permission of instructor.
Prerequisites: Intermediate level of dance or permission of the instructor.
This Course introduces intermediate level students to urban dance styles, focusing on foundations and origins of hip-hop dance, street dance culture, and the physical vocabularies of hip-hop and freestyle dance. Classes are geared to condition the body for the rigors of hip-hop technique by developing strength, coordination, flexibility, stamina, and rhythmic awareness, while developing an appreciation of choreographic movement and structures. Compositional elements of hip-hop will be introduced and students may compose brief movement sequences. The course meets twice weekly and is held in the dance studio. Prerequisite: Intermediate level of a dance form or permission of the instructor.
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
Concentrates on the dances of West Africa, including Senegal, Mali, and Guinea, and a variety of dances performed at various functions and ceremonies. Explanation of the origin and meaning of each dance will be an integral part of the material presented.
Prerequisites: DNCE BC2252 or permission of instructor.