CONTEMPORARY BIOLOGY LAB

Prerequisites: Strongly recommended prerequisite or corequisite: BIOL UN2005 or BIOL UN2401.
Experiments focus on genetics and molecular biology, with an emphasis on data analysis and experimental techniques. The class also includes a study of mammalian anatomy and histology. SPS and TC students may register for this course, but they must first obtain the written permission of the instructor, by filling out a paper Registration Adjustment Form (Add/Drop form). The form can be downloaded at the URL below, but must be signed by the instructor and returned to the office of the registrar. 
http://registrar.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/reg-adjustment.pdf

• Department: Biological Sciences
• F 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Claire E Hazen
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 3 points

LAB IN FICTION FILMMAKING

Exercises in the use of video for fiction shorts.

• Department: Film
• W 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Jasmin Freitas Tenucci
  Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED FITNESS

Prerequisites: Requires a pre-test at the beginning of semester.
Participation in fitness activities addressing cardio-respiratory endurance, muscular strength, flexibility, and muscular endurance.
Pre-tests: 1RM Chest Press, 1 RM Leg Press, Crunches/minute

• Department: Physical Education @Barnard
• Instructor: Laura Masone
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 0-1 points

LAB IN NONFICTION FILMMAKING

Exercises in the use of video for documentary shorts.

• Department: Film
• T 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Moara R Passoni
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

INTERMEDIATE CONVERSATION II

• Department: Germanic Languages
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Thomas G Preston
  Info
• 2 points

HISTORY OF THE SOUTH

A survey of the history of the American South from the colonial era to the present day, with two purposes: first, to afford students an understanding of the special historical characteristics of the South and of southerners; and second, to explore what the experience of the South may teach about America as a nation.

• Department: History
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Barbara J Fields
  CULPA: 22 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

HISTORY OF THE SOUTH-DISCUSSION

• Department: History
• Instructor: Barbara J Fields
  CULPA: 22 Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

DANCE COMPOSITION: FORM

An exploration of choreography that employs text, song, vocal work, narrative and principles of artistic direction in solo and group contexts.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Gabri Christa
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

WORLD DANCE HISTORY

Investigates the multicultural perspectives of dance in major areas of culture, including African, Asian, Hispanic, Indian, Middle Eastern, as well as dance history of the Americas through reading, writing, viewing, and discussion of a wide range of resources. These include film, original documents, demonstration, and performance.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul A Scolieri
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 3 points

DANCE IN NEW YORK CITY

Study of the cultural roots and historical contexts of specific communities using New York City's dance scene as a laboratory. Students observe the social environments in which various modes of dance works are created while researching the history of dance in New York City. Course includes attendance at weekly events, lecture-demonstrations, and performances.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Siobhan F Burke
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

MEASURING HISTORY

This course examines big themes in economic and social history-population history and human well-being, inequality and poverty, and gender differences. Using these themes, it adopts a hands-on data-driven approach to introduce tools and concepts of empirical reasoning. Datasets related to each theme create opportunities for learning by doing.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• MW 7:40 p.m.-8:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Alan Dye
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 4 points

ARTS OF JAPAN

THE ARTS OF JAPAN

Introduction to the painting, sculpture, and architecture of Japan from the Neolithic period through the present. Discussion focuses on key monuments within their historical and cultural contexts.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Miriam S Chusid
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

ARTS OF CHINA, JAPAN AND KOREA

ART IN CHINA, JAPAN AND KOREA

Introduces distinctive aesthetic traditions of China, Japan, and Korea--their similarities and differences--through an examination of the visual significance of selected works of painting, sculpture, architecture, and other arts in relation to the history, culture, and religions of East Asia.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ja W Lee
  Info
• Instructor: Daria Melnikova
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

SECOND YEAR MODERN TIBETAN II

For those whose knowledge is equivalent to a student who’s completed the First Year course. The course focuses on the further development of their skills in using the language to engage with practical topics and situations, such as seeing a doctor, reading news, writing letters, and listening to music.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Sonam Tsering
  Info
• 4 points

INTRODUCTION TO MODERN JEWISH THOUGHT

• Department: Institute for Israel & Jewish Studies
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Hershkowitz
  Info
• 4 points

INTRODUCTION TO PERSONALITY

INTRO TO PERSONALITY

• Department: Psychology
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Shigehiro Oishi
  Info
• 3 points

A HISTORY OF CHINA IN 27 OBJECTS

This course introduces twenty-seven significant monuments and objects comprising a selective overview of 4000 years of traditional Chinese culture. Through these twenty-seven objects, we will think about historical currents, consider materials (clay, stone, bronze, lacquer, paper, silk, ink, and wood), how things were made, how these objects were used among the living, and why some of them were buried with the dead. Because analogy and metaphor is fundamental to Chinese language, we will examine visual symbols, auspicious imagery and rhetoric of resistance that had their origins in literature. The goal of the course is to raise awareness of visual clues in Chinese art and to establish basic visual literacy. After successfully completing this course you will be better able to articulate a research question, read more critically, write a visual analysis, and impress friends and family as you name a painting used in restaurant d├ęcor.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Alfreda J Murck
  Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO SOCIAL COGNITION

INTRO TO SOC COGNITION

Prerequisites: an introductory course in psychology or the instructor's permission.
An introduction to basic concepts in social cognition. Topics include attribution theory (how we explain our own and other's behavior), social categories and schema (social perception and stereotyping), the social self (the development and maintenance of a self-concept), attention and consciousness, person memory, affect and cognition, and social inference, among others.

• Department: Psychology
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Larisa A Heiphetz
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO CULT PSYCH

INTRO TO CULTURAL PSYCH

• Department: Auditing
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Valerie J Purdie-Greenaway
  Wikipedia h-index: 29 Info
• 0 points

INTRO TO CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY

• Department: Psychology
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Valerie J Purdie-Greenaway
  Wikipedia h-index: 29 Info
• 3 points

MEDIEVAL JEWISH CULTURES

This course will survey some of the major historical, cultural, intellectual and social developments among Jews from the fourth century CE through the fifteenth. We will study Jewish cultures from the Christianization of the Roman Empire, the age of the Talmuds, the rise of Islam, the world of the Geniza, medieval Spain, to the early modern period. We will look at a rich variety of primary texts and images, including mosaics, poems, prayers, polemics, and personal letters.
Field(s): JEW/MED

• Department: History
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Elisheva Carlebach
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

MEDIEVAL JEWISH CULTURES-DISC

MEDIEVAL JEWISH CULT-DISC

MANDATORY Discussion Section for HIST UN 2657 Medieval Jewish Cultures.  Students must also be registered for HIST UN 2657.

• Department: History
• Instructor: Elisheva Carlebach
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

LATIN AMERICN CIVILIZATION II-DISC

LATIN AMERICN CIV II-DISC

MANDATORY Discussion Section for HIST UN 2661 Modern Latin American History (Latin American Civilization II).  Students must also be registered for HIST UN 2661.

• Department: History
• 0 points

LATIN AMERICN CIVILIZATION II

MODERN LAT AM HIST

• Department: Auditing
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew Ehrinpreis
  Info
• 0 points

LATIN AMERICN CIVILIZATION II

This course is intended to offer a survey of the history of a complex and vast region through two centuries. In order to balance the specificity of particular histories and larger processes common to the region, units will start with a general presentation of the main questions and will be followed by lectures devoted to single countries, regions, or themes. Readings, lectures and discussions will center on politics, society and culture. We will look closely at the formation of class, ethnic and gender identities, the struggle around state formation and the increasing links between Latin America and other regions of the world. We will stress the local dimension of these processes: the specific actors, institutions and experiences that shaped the diversity and commonalities of Latin American societies. The assignments, discussion sections and lectures are intended to introduce students to the key conceptual problems and the most innovative historical research on the region and to encourage their own critical reading of Latin American history.

• Department: History
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew Ehrinpreis
  Info
• 4 points

MAGIC AND MODERNITY

• Department: Religion
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Matthew Engelke
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia h-index: 25 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO PHIL OF LANGUAGE

This course gives students an introduction to various topics in the Philosophy of Language.

• Department: Philosophy @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Karen Lewis
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 7 Info
• 3 points

THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

This course will cover the seven-century long history of the Ottoman Empire, which spanned Europe, Asia, and Africa as well as the medieval, early modern, and modern period. The many levels of continuity and change will be the focus, as will issues of identities and mentalities, confessional diversity, cultural and linguistic pluralism, and imperial governance and political belonging of the empire within larger regional and global perspectives over the centuries. The course also seeks to cultivate appreciation of the human experience through the multifarious experiences culled from the Ottoman past.

• Department: History
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Tunc Sen
  Info
• 4 points

PRE-COLUMBIAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE

The Western Hemisphere was a setting for outstanding accomplishments in the visual arts for millennia before Europeans set foot in the so-called “New World.” This course explores the early indigenous artistic traditions of what is now Latin America, from early monuments of the formative periods (e.g., Olmec and Chavín), through acclaimed eras of aesthetic and technological achievement (e.g., Maya and Moche), to the later Inca and Aztec imperial periods. Our subject will encompass diverse genre including painting and sculpture, textiles and metalwork, architecture and performance. Attention will focus on the two cultural areas that traditionally have received the most attention from researchers: Mesoamerica (including what is today Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, and Honduras) and the Central Andes (including Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia). We will also critically consider the drawing of those boundaries—both spatial and temporal—that have defined “Pre-Columbian” art history to date. More than a survey of periods, styles, and monuments, we will critically assess the varieties of evidence—archaeological, epigraphic, historical, ethnographic, and scientific—available for interpretations of ancient Latin American art and culture.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Trever
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE-DISCUSSION

MANDATORY Discussion Section for HIST UN 2701 Ottoman Empire.  Students must also be registered for HIST UN 2701.

• Department: History
• Instructor: Tunc Sen
  Info
• 0 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Enrollment in a college level course of instruction not offered by the Barnard or Columbia Physical Education Departments. 
Department approval required prior to the first day of the Physical Education registration period.

• Department: Physical Education @Barnard
• Instructor: Laura Masone
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 0-1 points

ACCELERATED PHYSICS II

Prerequisites: PHYS UN2801
This accelerated two-semester sequence covers the subject matter of 
PHYS UN1601
,
PHYS UN1602
 and
PHYS UN2601
, and is intended for those students who have an exceptionally strong background in both physics and mathematics. The course is preparatory for advanced work in physics and related fields. There is no accompanying laboratory; however, students are encouraged to take the intermediate laboratory, 
PHYS UN3081
, in the following year.

• Department: Physics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Brian Cole
  CULPA: 23 Info
• 4.5 points

ACCELERATED PHYSICS II-REC

Required discussion section for PHYS UN2802 Accelerated Physics II.

• Department: Physics
• W 7:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• R 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Brian Cole
  CULPA: 23 Info
• 0 points

S ASIA II:EMPIRE/ITS AFTR

SOUTH ASIA: EMPIRE&AFTERMATH;

Prerequisites: None.
(No prerequisite.) We begin with the rise and fall of the Mughal Empire, and examine why and how the East India Company came to rule India in the eighteenth century. As the term progresses, we will investigate the objectives of British colonial rule in India and we will explore the nature of colonial modernity. The course then turns to a discussion of anti-colonial sentiment, both in the form of outright revolt, and critiques by early nationalists. This is followed by a discussion of Gandhi, his thought and his leadership of the nationalist movement. Finally, the course explores the partition of British India in 1947, examining the long-term consequences of the process of partition for the states of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. We will focus in particular on the flowing themes: non-Western state formation; debates about whether British rule impoverished India; the structure and ideology of anti-colonial thought; identity formation and its connection to political, economic and cultural structures. The class relies extensively on primary texts, and aims to expose students to multiple historiographical perspectives for understanding South Asia's past.

• Department: History
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Anupama Rao
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 4 points

HIST OF SOUTH ASIA I-DISC

MANDATORY Discussion Section for HSME 2811 South Asia: Empire and Aftermath.  Students must also be registered for HSME 2811.

• Department: History
• 0 points

PLANTS AND PROFITS:THE GLOBAL POWER OF B

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• F noon-3:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Hilary Callahan
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 17 Info
• 4 points

LABORATORY IN ECOLOGY

LAB IN ECOLOGY

Prerequisites: BIOL BC2272 (which can be taken as a pre- or co-requisite). Enrollment is limited to 16; must attend first lab to hold place.
The definition of ecological problems in experimentally tractable ways; the design of experiments and analysis of ecological data; class projects on population ecology. Students conduct individual projects during last month of term.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• W 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points

VIETNAM IN THE WORLD

• Department: Auditing
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Lien-Hang Nguyen
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 0 points

VIETNAM IN THE WORLD

This lecture course examines the history of Vietnam in the World. This course explores how war – ranging from civil, imperial, global, decolonization, and superpower interventions – have shaped the course of modern Vietnamese history and its interaction with the wider world. Participation in weekly discussion sections, which will begin no later than the third week of classes, is mandatory.

• Department: History
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Lien-Hang Nguyen
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

VIETNAM IN THE WORLD-DISC

Required Discussion Section for HIST 2881 Vietnam in the World.  Students must also register for HIST 2881.

• Department: History
• Instructor: Lien-Hang Nguyen
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 0 points

RESEARCH METHODS SEMINAR

Prerequisites: Students must be sophomores with a strong interest in pursuing research in the biological or chemical sciences
Skills to facilitate into biology and chemistry research. Students will learn to think and work like scientists and to identify, apply for and gain entry to research lab groups. Focus on writing and oral presentation skills. Additional readings and discussions on laboratory safety, women in science, and scientific ethics.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Meenakshi S Rao
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 1 points

MASTERPIECES-INDIAN ART & ARCH

MASTERPCES-INDIAN ART & ARCH

Introduction to 2000 years of art on the Indian subcontinent. The course covers the early art of Buddhism, rock-cut architecture of the Buddhists and Hindus, the development of the Hindu temple, Mughal and Rajput painting and architecture, art of the colonial period, and the emergence of the Modern.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Tara Kuruvilla
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

DATA:PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

DATA: PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE

Data-empowered algorithms are reshaping our professional, personal, and political realities, for good--and for bad. "Data: Past, Present, and Future" moves from the birth of statistics in the 18th century to the surveillance capitalism of the present day, covering racist eugenics, World War II cryptography, and creepy personalized advertising along the way. Rather than looking at ethics and history as separate from the science and engineering, the course integrates the teaching of algorithms and data manipulation with the political whirlwinds and ethical controversies from which those techniques emerged. We pair the introduction of technical developments with the shifting political and economic powers that encouraged and benefited from new capabilities. We couple primary and secondary readings on the history and ethics of data with computational work done largely with user-friendly Jupyter notebooks in Python.

• Department: History
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• 3 points

SOCIAL HIST OF AMER PUB HEALTH

The purpose of this course is to provide students with an historical understanding of the role public health has played in American history. The underlying assumptions are that disease, and the ways we define disease, are simultaneously reflections of social and cultural values, as well as important factors in shaping those values. Also, it is maintained that the environments that we build determine the ways we live and die. The dread infectious and acute diseases in the nineteenth century, the chronic, degenerative conditions of the twentieth and the new, vaguely understood conditions rooted in a changing chemical and human-made environment are emblematic of the societies we created. Among the questions that will be addressed are: How does the health status of Americans reflect and shape our history? How do ideas about health reflect broader attitudes and values in American history and culture? How does the American experience with pain, disability, and disease affect our actions and lives? What are the responsibilities of the state and of the individual in preserving health? How have American institutions--from hospitals to unions to insurance companies--been shaped by changing longevity, experience with disability and death?

• Department: History
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: James K Colgrove
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 4 points

SOCIAL HIST OF AMER PUB HEALTH-DIS

SOCIAL HIST OF AMER PUB HE-DIS

Required Discussion Section for HSPB 2950 Social History of American Public Health.  Students must also register for HSPB 2950.

• Department: History
• Instructor: James K Colgrove
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 0 points

INTRO LIT/METHODS OF ART HIST

Prerequisites: Not open to Barnard or Continuing Education students. Majors must receive instructor's permission. Students must sign-up online: http://goo.gl/forms/otfh8x5hqk
Introduction to different methodological approaches to the study of art and visual culture. Majors are encouraged to take the colloquium during their junior year.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Meredith Gamer
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

SOCIAL THEORY

• Department: Auditing
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Deborah Becher
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 4 Info
• 0 points

THE ART OF STRUCTURAL DESIGN

An introduction to basic scientific and engineering principles used for the design of buildings, bridges, and other parts of the built infrastructure.  Application of these principles to the analysis and design of a number of actual large-scale structures.  Experimental verification of these principles through laboratory experiments.  Coverage of the history of major structural design innovations and of the engineers who introduced them.  Critical examination of the unique aesthetic/artistic perspectives inherent in structural design.  Consideration of management, socioeconomic, and ethical issues involved in the design and construction of large-scale structures.  Introduction to some recent developments in sustainable engineering, including green building design and adaptable structural systems.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: George Deodatis
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 42 Info
• 3 points

FROM PAGE TO DANCE STAGE

A survey of how dance and embodied performance adapt textual sources and even generate text. How do moving bodies enhance or subvert words in order to tell a story, and whose story do they tell? Includes the study of plays, poems, and political speech; and of ballet, experimental dance, dance-theater, silent film, physical theater, and puppetry

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Seth S Williams
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

TUTORIAL IN EARTH SCIENCE

Prerequisites: declared major in Earth and environmental sciences and the department's permission.
Students with particular interest in one of the many components of the Earth and environmental sciences should approach a director of undergraduate studies during the registration period so that tutorial-level exposure to the subject can be arranged. Each point requires two hours each week of readings, discussion, and research work under the close supervision of a member of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, American Museum of Natural History, or Goddard Institute for Space Studies. In consultation with the supervisor, the student selects a topic for intensive study and the time and place of the tutorial discussion sessions. May be repeated for credit up to a maximum of 12 points, with a maximum of 6 points with each staff member.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• 1-4 points

SOCIAL THEORY

Prerequisites: Sophomore standing.
Required for all sociology majors.  Prerequisite: at least one sociology course of the instructor's permission.  Theoretical accounts of the rise and transformations of modern society in the19th and 20th centuries.  Theories studied include those of Adam Smith, Tocqueville, Marx, Durkheim, Max Weber, Roberto Michels.  Selected topics:  individual, society, and polity; economy, class, and status: organization and ideology; religion and society; moral and instrumental action.

• Department: Sociology
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• 3 points

LITERARY TEXTS & CRIT METHODS

Prerequisites: Students who register for ENGL UN3001 must also register for one of the sections of ENGL UN3011 Literary Texts, Critical Methods.
This course is intended to introduce students to the advanced study of literature. Students will read works from different genres (poetry, drama, and prose fiction), drawn from the medieval period to the present day, learning the different interpretative techniques required by each. The course also introduces students to a variety of critical schools and approaches, with the aim both of familiarizing them with these methodologies in the work of other critics and of encouraging them to make use of different methods in their own critical writing. This course (together with the companion seminar
ENGL UN3011
) is a requirement for the English Major and Concentration. It should be taken as early as possible in a student's career. Fulfillment of this requirement will be a factor in admission to seminars and to some lectures.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• F 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Erik Gray
  CULPA: 35 Info
• 4 points

TRANSATLANTIC TRANSLATION

Prerequisites: Application through Professor Laurie Postlewate. Previous translation course or experience required.
A workshop in which students from the BC/CU community collaborate with a team of students from the École Normale Supérieure-Lyon on two translation projects. In addition to video-conferenced group sessions, students will work virtually with their translation partner in France, and consult in-person with their Barnard instructor.

• Department: French @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Laurie Postlewate
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

SENIOR THESIS

Prerequisites: the department's permission.
Required for all thesis writers.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Barry G Bergdoll
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

CHOREOGRAPHING RACE

This course tells the history of race in 20th- and 21st-century America, indeed queries the very concept of race, by focusing on contributions by artists of color to a range of dance forms, including ballet, movie musicals, music videos, and experimental dance. How does dance express everything from “yellow peril,” to red power, to black joy? How do specific choreographies help produce racial and ethnic identities? In exploring these questions, the course treats “choreography” as a broad conceptual category illuminating the role of moving bodies in histories of immigration and segregation, empowerment and civil rights, and shows what new vantages the study of choreography can contribute to critical race theory.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Seth S Williams
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED GERMAN II

Corequisites: Course either taken before or after GERM V3001.
Intensive practice in oral and written German. Discussions, oral reports, and weekly written assignments, based on material of topical and stylistic variety taken from German press and from literary sources.

• Department: German @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Irene Motyl
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED PROJ PHOTOGRAPHY

SUPERVISED PHOTO PROJECTS

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 15 students.
Designed for students to conduct independent projects in photography. Priority for enrollment to the class will be Barnard College students who are enrolling in classes at ICP (International Center of Photography).  The cost of ICP will be covered by Barnard College. All of the other students enrolling in the course (CC, GS SOA) will be responsible for their own ICP course expenses.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: John Miller
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

MECHANICS

Prerequisites: general physics, and differential and integral calculus.
Newtonian mechanics, oscillations and resonance, conservative forces and potential energy, central forces, non-inertial frames of reference, rigid body motion, an introduction to Lagrange's formulation of mechanics, coupled oscillators, and normal modes.

• Department: Physics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: John Parsons
  CULPA: 31 Info
• 3 points

THIRD YEAR CHINESE N II

Prerequisites:
CHNS W4003
or the equivalent. See Admission to Language Courses.
This course fulfills the language requirement for east Asian studies majors. Prepares for more advanced study of Chinese through rigorous vocabulary expansion, more sophisticated language usage patterns, and introduction to basics of formal and literary styles. Materials are designed to advance the student's fluency for everyday communicative tasks as well as reading skills. Simplified characters are introduced. CC GS EN CE

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTWR 8:50 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
• MTWR 1:10 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
• MTWR 11:40 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Zhirong Wang
  CULPA: 11 Info
• Instructor: Yunda Li
  Info
• Instructor: Lingjun Hu
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Zhong Qi Shi
  Info
• 5 points

NEUROBIO II: DEVPT & SYSTEMS

Prerequisites: BIOL UN3004, one year of biology, or the instructor's permission.
This course is the "capstone" course for the Neurobiology and Behavior undergraduate major at Columbia University and will be taught by the faculty of the Kavli Institute of Brain Science: http://www.kavli.columbia.edu/ Science: http://www.kavli.columbia.edu/. It is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Knowledge of Cellular Neuroscience (how an action potential is generated and how a synapse works) will be assumed. It is strongly recommended that students take
BIOL UN3004
Neurobiology I: Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, or a similar course, before enrolling in
BIOL UN3005
. Students unsure about their backgrounds should check a representative syllabus of
BIOL UN3004
on the
BIOL UN3004
website (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/w3004/). Website for
BIOL UN3005
: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/w3005/index.html

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Rafael Yuste
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia h-index: 106 Info
• 4 points

DICTATORSHIPS&THEIR; AFTERLIVES

What does the investigation of a dictatorship entail and what are the challenges in such an endeavor? Why (and when) do particular societies turn to an examination of their non-democratic pasts? What does it mean for those who never experienced an authoritarian regime first-hand to remember it through television footage, popular culture, and family stories? This seminar examines dictatorships and the ways in which they are remembered, discussed, examined, and give rise to conflicting narratives in post-dictatorial environments. It takes as its point of departure the Greek military regime of 1967-1974, which is considered in relation to other dictatorships in South America, Asia, Africa, and Europe. We will be drawing on primary materials including Amnesty International reports, film, performance art, and architectural drawings as well as the works of Hannah Arendt and G√ľnter Grass to engage in an interdisciplinary examination of the ways in which military dictatorships live on as ghosts, traumatic memories, urban warfare, litigation, and debates on the politics of comparison and the ethics of contemporary art.

• Department: Classics
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Dimitrios Antoniou
  h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

INTRO-STAT-ECOLOGY & EVOL BIOL

INTROD TO STATISTICS

Prerequisites: some background in ecology, evolutionary biology, and/or statistics is recommended.
An introduction to the theoretical principles and practical application of statistical methods in ecology and evolutionary biology. The course will cover the conceptual basis for a range of statistical techniques through a series of lectures using examples from the primary literature. The application of these techniques will be taught through the use of statistical software in computer-based laboratory sessions.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• M 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Evan Eskew
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• 3 points

ACTING LAB

ACTING LAB: ACTING COMEDY

This is an umbrella course whose offerings will change each year. Some are narrow, some broad; all are designed with several objectives in common, including: a. To focus on a particular genre, playwright,  approach to live performance. b. To develop an interrelated set of conceptual, analytical, and embodiment skills and approaches. Courses typically involve  scene preparation, reading, research, and both individual and group projects, as well as active participation in classroom exercises. c. To develop a sense of the purposes and goals of a specific approach to acting. The acting lab courses are intentionally non-sequential; students with little previous background in acting are strongly encouraged to consider the Acting Workshop and Scene Lab courses. No more than six courses can be taken from the Acting Lab/Advanced Acting Lab offerings during a student's career. Auditions are required for all Acting Labs and will take place the first two evenings of each semester. Each course fulfills one course in Acting requirement for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors. Please check with the Theatre Department website for specific offerings and audition information.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Crystal Finn
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• 3 points

THIRD YEAR CHINESE W II

Prerequisites:
CHNS W4005
or the equivalent.
Admission after Chinese placement exam and an oral proficiency interview with the instructor. Especially designed for students who possess good speaking ability and who wish to acquire practical writing skills as well as business-related vocabulary and speech patterns. Introduction to semiformal and formal Chinese used in everyday writing and social or business-related occasions. Simplified characters are introduced.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Hailong Wang
  CULPA: 22 Info
• 5 points

COMPOSITION AND CONVERSATION

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 12 students.
Discussions on contemporary issues and oral presentations. Creative writing assignments designed to improve writing skills and vocabulary development. FREN BC1204: French Intermediate II or the equivalent level is required.

• Department: French @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Isabelle Jouanneau-Fertig
  CULPA: 19 Info
• Instructor: Karen Santos da Silva
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Brian S Kilgo-Kelly
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

THIRD YEAR JAPANESE II

Prerequisites:
JPNS W4005
or the equivalent.
Readings in authentic/semi-authentic texts, videos, and class discussions.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTWR 11:40 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
• MTWR 2:40 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Keiko Okamoto
  CULPA: 13 Info
• Instructor: Kyoko M Loetscher
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 5 points

THIRD YEAR KOREAN II

THIRD YEAR KOREAN N II

Prerequisites:
KORN W1202
or the equivalent and consultation with instructor. (See Entrance to Language Courses Beyond the Elementary Level in the main bulletin under Department of Instruction -- East Asian Languages and Cultures.)
Readings in modern Korean. Selections from modern Korean writings in literature, history, social sciences, culture, and videos and class discussions.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTWR 11:40 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Hyunkyu Yi
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 5 points

THIRD YEAR KOREAN II

Prerequisites:
KORN W1202
or the equivalent and consultation with instructor. (See Entrance to Language Courses Beyond the Elementary Level in the main bulletin under Department of Instruction -- East Asian Languages and Cultures.)
Readings in modern Korean. Selections from modern Korean writings in literature, history, social sciences, culture, and videos and class discussions.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
• Instructor: Ji-Young Jung
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• 5 points

QUANTUM PHYSICS

Prerequisites: BC3001 or C2601 or the equivalent.
Wave-particle duality and the Uncertainty Principle. The Schrodinger equation. Basic principles of the quantum theory. Energy levels in one-dimensional potential wells. The harmonic oscillator, photons, and phonons. Reflection and transmission by one-dimensional potential barriers. Applications to atomic, molecular, and nuclear physics.

• Department: Physics and Astronomy @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Reshmi Mukherjee
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia h-index: 63 Info
• 3 points

MAJ COLLOQ:LIT/MTHDS ARCH HIST

METHODS OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTO

This course, on the one hand, examines the intertwined histories of art history and architectural history from the late nineteenth century onwards and, on the other, focuses on questions that have been central to architectural history since the field’s beginnings. It combines theoretical inquiry with practical training in historical research. Students will be asked to carry out research projects in various archives in New York City and complete a single writing assignment in stages.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Zeynep Celik
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• 4 points

COMPLEX VARIABLES

Prerequisites: MATH UN1202 An elementary course in functions of a complex variable.
Fundamental properties of the complex numbers, differentiability, Cauchy-Riemann equations. Cauchy integral theorem. Taylor and Laurent series, poles, and essential singularities. Residue theorem and conformal mapping.(SC)

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Yihang Zhu
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• 3 points

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES & OPTICS

Prerequisites: PHYS UN3008
Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic potentials, the wave equation, propagation of plane waves, reflection and refraction, geometrical optics, transmission lines, wave guides, resonant cavities, radiation, interference of waves, and diffraction.

• Department: Physics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Yury Levin
  h-index: 91 Info
• 3 points

CONTEMP SOCIAL THEORY

CONTEMP SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY

• Department: Auditing
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Andreas Wimmer
  Wikipedia h-index: 41 Info
• 0 points

CITIES AND SLAVERY IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD

Although African slavery in the Americas is most often associated with rural life and agricultural production, cities were crucial sites in the history of slavery. This undergraduate seminar explores the intertwined histories of urbanization and slavery in the Atlantic world from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries.
Readings and discussions will touch on slavery’s impact on such European centers as Nantes, Liverpool, London, and Seville and on African cities but will concentrate on the “New World,” eventually coming to focus on the places where slavery lasted long enough to intersect with the beginnings of urban modernity and industrialization: Cuba and especially Brazil. We will end the semester reading and reflecting on the lasting legacies of African slavery in the cities of the Atlantic world after abolition, considering both slavery’s memorialization on and erasure from the urban landscape.

• Department: History
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Amy E Chazkel
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

AUTEUR STUDY

• Department: Auditing
• W 2 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Annette Insdorf
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

AMERICAN WELLBEING

Prerequisites: (ECON BC 2411 or STAT W1111 or PSYCH BC1101 or BUSI G6014 or STAT W1211 or SIEO W3600 or SIEO W4150) and (ECON BC1003 or ECON W1105) Students using this course for an economics major must have also previously completed either Intermediate Microeconomic Theory (ECON BC3035) or Intermediate Microeconomics (ECON UN3211).
This course takes a novel approach to examining public policy concepts. The class mission is to construct a “U.S. Wellbeing Index,” a measure of people’s wellbeing in the United States. The process of constructing such an index and debating its shortcomings will provide students with a better understanding of the factors that should guide public policy decisions.  Students successfully completing this course will: (1) develop skills for conducting and interpreting cost-benefit analyses, (2) search the web for relevant economic data and write efficient, well-documented code to download and format those data, (3) interpret time trends for data concerning the economy, human health, and environmental conditions, (4) develop an understanding of how various types of risks affect both individual and societal wellbeing, and (5) understand multiple perspectives in debates over the importance of equity considerations when considering the wellbeing of a society.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Randall Reback
  CULPA: 17 h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

FIELD GEOLOGY

SEVIER FORELAND AND OROGEN

This course may be repeated for up to 9 points of credit if taken in different areas. Field study in various geologic settings. Plans for the courses are announced at the beginning of each term. Class size will depend on available space. Priority is given to majors in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia College and School of General Studies. Barnard Environmental Science majors may enroll with the permission of the Barnard Environmental Science department chair. All others require the instructor's permission.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• Instructor: Nicholas Christie-Blick
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 45 Info
• 2 points

FIELD GEOLOGY

ITALY

This course may be repeated for up to 9 points of credit if taken in different areas. Field study in various geologic settings. Plans for the courses are announced at the beginning of each term. Class size will depend on available space. Priority is given to majors in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia College and School of General Studies. Barnard Environmental Science majors may enroll with the permission of the Barnard Environmental Science department chair. All others require the instructor's permission.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• T 7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• 2 points

AUTEUR STUDY

KIESLOWSKI AND HAS

Section 2 Kieslowski and Has Spring 2019
This seminar in Auteur Study explores the cinematic work of two renowned Polish artists. While Krzysztof Kieslowski is the more famous filmmaker--best known for such classics as Three Colors: Blue, White, Red and Decalogue--the motion pictures of Wojciech Has are ripe for rediscovery. His stylistically audacious adaptations include The Hourglass Sanatorium and The Saragossa Manuscript. Through in-class screenings, discussions, and readings, we will focus on the formal, political and thematic richness of these films. Requirements include weekly attendance, punctuality, classroom participation, a midterm paper (5 - 7 pages), and a final paper (10 - 12 pages).
Section 1 Spring 2018 LUBITSCH AND WILDER
The course focuses on romantic comedy, censorship, and the representation of sexual modernity in the Hollywood films of the directors Ernst Lubitsch and Billy Wilder. Additionally, the course explores the tensions between the Hollywood industry’s censorship code and Austrian/German Jewish emigre filmmakers' strategies to subvert it.

• Department: Film
• W 2 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Annette Insdorf
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

METHODS FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: SOCI UN1000 The Social World or Instructor Permission
Required for all Sociology majors.  Introductory course in social scientific research methods. Provides a general overview of the ways sociologists collect information about social phenomena, focusing on how to collect data that are reliable and applicable to our research questions.

• Department: Sociology
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• 4 points

SHORT PROSE FORMS

Prerequisites: No Prerequisites. Department approval NOT required.
"Flash fiction," "micro-naratives" and the "short-short" have become exciting areas of exploration for contemporary writers.  This course will examine how these literary fragments have captured the imagination of writers internationally and at home.  The larger question the class seeks to answer, both on a collective and individual level, is: How can we craft a working definition of those elements endemic to "short prose" as a genre?  Does the form exceed classification?  What aspects of both crafts -- prose and poetry -- does this genre inhabit, expand upon, reinvent, reject, subvert? Short Prose Forms incorporates aspects of both literary seminar and the creative workshop.  Class-time will be devoted alternatingly to examinations of published pieces and modified discussions of student work.  Our reading chart the course from the genre's emergence, examining the prose poem in 19th-century France through the works of Mallarme, Baudelaire, Max Jacob and Rimbaud.  We'll examine aspects of poetry -- the attention to the lyrical, the use of compression, musicality, sonic resonances and wit -- and attempt to understand how these writers took, as Russell Edson describes, "experience [and] made it into an artifact with the logic of a dream."  The class will conclude with a portfolio at the end of the term, in which students will submit a compendium of final drafts of three of four short prose pieces, samples of several exercises, selescted responses to readings, and a short personal manifesto on the "short prose form.

• Department: Writing
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Dawn Raffel
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• 3 points

BEHAVIOR BIOL-LIVING PRIMATES

Prerequisites: introductory biology course in organismal biology and the instructor's permission. Corequisite EEEB UN3111
Survey of non-human primate behavior from the perspective of phylogeny, adaptation, physiology and anatomy, and life history. Focus on the four main problems primates face: finding appropriate food, avoid being eaten themselves, reproducing in the face of competition, and dealing with social partners.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Marina Cords
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 3 points

LITERARY TEXTS&CRIT; MTHDS(SEM)

Prerequisites: Students who register for ENGL UN3011 must also register for ENGL UN3001 Literary Texts, Critical Methods lecture.
This seminar, led by an advanced graduate student in the English doctoral program, accompanies the faculty lecture
ENGL UN3001
. The seminar both elaborates upon the topics taken up in the lecture and introduces other theories and methodologies. It also focuses on training students to integrate the terms, techniques, and critical approaches covered in both parts of the course into their own critical writing, building up from brief close readings to longer research papers.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Meadhbh McHugh
  Info
• Instructor: Kevin J Windhauser
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Chelsea R Spata
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Alexis M Fabrizio
  Info
• Instructor: Olivia L Rutigliano
  Info
• 0 points

THE SECOND WORLD WAR

This course surveys some of the major historiographical debates surrounding the Second World War. It aims to provide student with an international perspective of the conflict that challenges conventional understandings of the war. In particular, we will examine the ideological, imperial, and strategic dimensions of the war in a global context. Students will also design, research, and write a substantial essay of 15-18 pages in length that makes use of both primary and secondary sources.

• Department: History
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul T Chamberlin
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

INTRO TO MATERIALS SCIENCE II

Prerequisites: (MSAE E3010)
Introduction to polycrystals and disordered materials; noncrystalline and amorphous structures; grain boundary structures, diffusion; phase transformations; phase diagrams, time-temperature- transformation diagrams; properties of polycrystalline and amorphous materials: mechanical properties and failure, the Drude model of electrical properties, thermal properties; corrosion; materials selection for engineering design.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Renata M Wentzcovitch
  Info
• 3 points

METHODS SOCIAL RESEARCH-DISC

METHODS FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH-DI

Prerequisites: SOCI UN1000
Section Discussion for SOCI UN1030, METHODS FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH

• Department: Sociology
• 0 points

METHODS SOCIAL RESEARCH-DISC

METHODS FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH-DI

Prerequisites: SOCI UN1000
Section Discussion for SOCI UN1030, METHODS FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH

• Department: Sociology
• 0 points