CONSERVATION BIOLOGY-DISC

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• R 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexandria C Moore
  Info
• 0 points

THE MODERN NOVEL

• Department: English @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Mary Gordon
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

POSTMODERNISM

This course considers how Postmodernism's profound distrust of language and narrative transforms the form and function of literature. Writers include Stoppard, Pynchon, Didion, Morrison, Robinson, Coetzee, Ishiguro, Wallace, Ashbery, and Hejinian.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Margaret S Vandenburg
  CULPA: 59 Info
• 3 points

INT'L HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

This course will introduce students to the international law of human rights, and give a basic orientation to fundamental issues and controversies. The course has two principal focal points: first, the "nuts and bolts" of how international law functions in the field of human rights, and second, the value and limitations of legal approaches to a variety of human rights issues. Throughout the course, both theoretical and practical questions will be addressed, including who bears legal duties and who can assert legal claims, how these duties might be enforced, and accountability and remedy for violations. Attention will be given to how international law is made, what sorts of assumptions underlie various legal mechanisms, and how the law works in a variety of contexts.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Dinah R Po Kempner
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

REPUBLICANISM: PLATO TO PETTIT

The course is divided into two main parts. The first half examines features of classical republicanism and its developments from Greece and Rome up to the late eighteenth century. We will analyze the relationship between ethics and politics, the significance of the mixed constitution, the problem of political instability, the role of character in political action, and the relationship between virtuous citizens, good arms and good laws. The second half will be more issue-based, as we will examine the resurgence of republicanism in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, in part as a critique of liberal democracy. We will explore the efforts to define "republican" freedom, the relationship between equality and freedom (and the challenges posed by the market and inequality in resources), the relationship between republicanism and democracy, and the role and nature of civic virtue. The class will end with consideration of recent efforts on the part of some political theorists to redefine patriotism or loyalty to one's particular state in the modern world and to think about what republicanism might require on a global scale.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jessica L Kimpell
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

STEM CELL BIOL & APPLICATIONS

Prerequisites: three semesters of Biology or the instructor's permission.
The course examines current knowledge and potential medical applications of pluripotent stem cells (embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells), direct conversions between cell types and adult, tissue-specific stem cells (concentrating mainly on hematopoietic and gut stem cells as leading paradigms). A basic lecture format will be supplemented by presentations and discussions of research papers. Recent reviews and research papers, together with extensive instructor notes, will be used in place of a textbook. SCE 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
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel D Kalderon
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

CRITICAL WRITING

(Formerly called Literary Criticism & Theory.) Provides experience in the reading and analysis of literary texts and some knowledge of conspicuous works of literary criticism. Frequent short papers. Required of all English majors before the end of the junior year. Sophomores are encouraged to take it in the spring semester even before officially declaring their major. Transfer students should plan to take it in the fall semester.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Timea Szell
  CULPA: 14 Info
• Instructor: Mary E Cregan
  CULPA: 12 Info
• Instructor: Stefan Pedatella
  CULPA: 36 Info
• Instructor: John J Pagano
  CULPA: 27 Info
• 4 points

HARLEM RENAISSANCE LITERATURE

HOME TO HARLEM

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 20 students.
In the spring of 2016, ENGL 3196y will be centered on the relationship between art, activism and social justice as this relationship was developed during the Harlem Renaissance and beyond. Exploring the cultural contexts and aesthetic debates that animated Harlem in 1920s to 1930s, the course will focus on the politics of literary and theatrical production, and explore the fashioning and performance of New Negro identity through fiction, poetry, essays, and artwork, with special attention to theater/performance. This course will partner with Harlem's National Black Theater and work toward an understanding of the relationship between art/literature and socio-political change through the NBT's spring 2016 production of Dominique Morisseau's Blood on the Root, a multi-genre performance piece on racial injustice inspired by the 2006 Jena Six case in Louisiana.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Kristin Carter
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

THE VISUAL AND VERBAL ARTS

Analysis and discussion of the relation of literature to painting, photography, and film. Emphasis on artistic and literary concepts concerning the visual dimension of narrative and poetic texts from Homer to Burroughs. Explores the role of description, illustration, and montage in realist and modern literature.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Erk Grimm
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

FILM PRODUCTION

Prerequisites: FILM BC3201 or equivalent. Sophomore standing. Interested students MUST attend the first day of class for instructor permission--registering for the course only through myBarnard or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment.
This workshop introduces the student to all the cinematic tools necessary to produce their own short narrative work.  Using what the student has learned in film studies, we'll break down shot syntax, mise-en-scene and editing strategies and master them in weekly video exercises.  We'll include casting, working with actors and expressive camera work in our process as we build toward a final video project.  By the end of the course, the student will have created a DVD containing a collection of their video pieces and their final project.  Priority given to junior and senior film majors.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Sandra Luckow
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED TRANSLATION WORKSHOP

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

SOLID EARTH DYNAMICS

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

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Meredith Nettles
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 31 Info
• 3 points

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN II

Prerequisites: ARCH V3201. Open to architecture majors or with permission of instructor.
Studio workshop continuation of
ARCH V3201
. Emphasis on the manipulation of an architectural vocabulary in relationship to increasingly complex conceptual, social, and theoretical issues. Field trips, lectures, and discussions are organized in relation to studio exercises.

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

DISCRETE MATHEMATICS

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

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ansaf Salleb-Aouissi
  CULPA: 21 h-index: 16 Info
• Instructor: Tony B Dear
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

PUBLIC OPINION AND AMERICAN D

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

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

THE VISUAL CULTURE OF K-POP

In this course, we will explore the total political economy of culture that is K-pop, simultaneously a State-sponsored industry, an agency-generated cultural product, and a fandom-distributed community. In the recent years, scholars in various sectors have been actively demystifying the many social performances entailing K-pop through the frames of globalization and transnationalism. To see K-pop as transnationalism in performance is to construe it not as unidirectional or monolithic, but as a constant interpellation between national export and transnational transaction, each utterance refracted a mile a minute by its "glocal (global and local)" performers through social and web-based media. Paying particular attention to how such identities are negotiated within the portmanteau "K-pop," we will engage with the critical frames of Korean studies, performance studies, and media & visual culture to explore its major topics and defining moments in rigorously discussion-based seminars.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: So-Rim Lee
  h-index: 1 Info
• 4 points

EXPLORATIONS IN PRIM ANATOMY

PRIMATE ANATOMY

Prerequisites: EEEB UN1010 or UN1011 Introductory laboratory course in primate skeletal anatomy. From tarsiers to talapoins, guenons to gibbons, through hands-on expertise students explore the amazing range and diversity of the living members of this order.

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

STATE POLITICS

This course is intended to provide students with a detailed understanding of politics in the American states. The topics covered are divided into four broad sections. The first explores the role of the states in America's federal system of government. Attention is given to the basic features of intergovernmental relations and the historical evolution of American federalism. The second part of the course focuses on state-level political institutions. The organization and processes associated with the legislative, executive, and judicial branches are discussed in depth. The third section examines state elections, political parties, and interest groups. Finally, the course concludes by looking closely at various policy areas. Budgeting, welfare, education, and morality policy are among those considered.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Justin H Phillips
  CULPA: 23 Info
• 3 points

CHEM ENGINEERNG THERMODYNAMICS

Prerequisites: (CHEE E3010) and (CHEN E2100) CHEE E3010 and CHEN E3100.
Corequisites: CHEN E3220.
This course deals with fundamental and applied thermodynamic principles that form the basis of chemical engineering practice. Topics include phase equilibria, methods to treat ideal and non-ideal mixtures, and estimation of properties.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Allie Obermeyer
  h-index: 16 Info
• 3 points

MILLENNIUM: APOCALYPSE AND UTOPIA

MILLENNIUM:APOCALYPSE & UTOPIA

Study of apocalyptic thinking and practice in the western religious tradition, with a focus on American apocalyptic religious movements and their relation to contemporary cultural productions, as well as notions of history and politics.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Castelli
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

INTERMEDIATE MICROECONOMICS

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

• Department: Economics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Dean
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 26 Info
• Instructor: Caterina Musatti
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Wouter R Vergote
  CULPA: 15 Info
• Instructor: Steven Olley
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

INTER MICROECONOMICS-DISC

Required Discussion section for ECON UN3211 intermediate Economics.

• Department: Economics
• 0 points

WOMEN EARLY CHINA & JAPAN

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Ye Yuan
  h-index: 13 Info
• 4 points

INTERMEDIATE MACROECONOMICS

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

• Department: Economics
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Martin Uribe
  CULPA: 16 Wikipedia h-index: 52 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN URBAN POLITICS

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

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

INTER MACROECONOMICS-DISC

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

• Department: Economics
• 0 points

SOC OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE

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

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mignon R Moore
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

VICTORIAN SCIENCE&SCIFI;

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Rebecca J Hildebrand
  Info
• 3 points

LAW & SOCIETY

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

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Deborah Becher
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 4 Info
• 3 points

NATIVE FOOD SOVEREIGNTY

What is food sovereignty? How do you decolonize your diet? This course takes a comparative approach to understanding how and why food is a central component of contemporary sovereignty discourse. More than just a question of eating, Indigenous foodways offer important critiques of, and interventions to, the settler state: food connects environment, community, public health, colonial histories, and economics. Students will theorize these connections by reading key works from across the fields of Critical Indigenous Studies, Food Studies, Philosophy, History, and Anthropology. In doing so, we will question the potentials, and the limits, of enacting, food sovereignty within the settler state, whether dietary decolonization is possible in the so-called age of the Anthropocene, and the limits of working within and against today’s legacies of the colonial food system.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Hiilei J Hobart
  Info
• 4 points

THE EVOL OF HUM GROWTH & DEVPT

EVOL OF HUMAN GROWTH & DEVELOP

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jessica M Manser
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

LIT & REVOLUTION (20TH C LIT)

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

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

THE AMERICAN CONGRESS

Prerequisites:
POLS W1201
or the equivalent, or the instructor's permission.
Inquiry into the dynamics, organization, and policy-making processes of the American Congress. Particular emphasis on the relationship of legislators to constituents, lobbyists, bureaucrats, the president, and with one another.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Gregory Wawro
  CULPA: 32 h-index: 13 Info
• 3 points

TOLSTOY AND DOSTOEVSKY

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

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

MEDICAL FICTIONS,ROMANTIC TO MODERN

Literature and medicine have always been in dialogue: Apollo was the god of physicians and poetry, while some of the greatest writers, such as John Keats and Anton Chekhov, were trained as doctors. In our time, literature and medicine have become ever more entwined in Susan Sontag’s formulation of “illness as metaphor,” and in the emergent fields of “medical humanities” and “narrative medicine” that bridge the practices of writer and doctor. This course, which is open to students in both medicine and literature, aims to introduce students to how literary fiction—from the 19
th
century to the present day—reveals the historical interplay between physicians and writers. We examine how medical professionalism is portrayed in literature, how writers and doctors negotiate the clinical encounter, and how narrative shapes the physician’s practice. As we move through shifting paradigms in both medical and literary history, we explore how thematic, generic, and ethical concerns transcend the divisions between the disciplines: new fields like epidemiology, pathology, and psychiatry influenced the familiar form of the novel, while the case history and gothic fiction display unexpected commonalities. We consider, too, how problems of gender and sexuality recur across medical fictions, and how medical ways of knowing lend themselves to great artistic movements. As we read, we will strive to answer a broader question: why is medicine so often represented through tropes of the supernatural? Writers include Edgar Allan Poe, Charlotte Brontë, Anton Chekhov, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sylvia Plath, and Kazuo Ishiguro, as well as critical readings by Virginia Woolf, Sigmund Freud, Oliver Sacks, Michel Foucault, and Donna Haraway. 
 
Both literature and medical (or pre-med) students are invited to apply; medical students may take this course for R-credit. 
This seminar will particularly suit students who are interested in British literature, literature post-1800, prose fiction, social justice, and the medical humanities.  To apply, write to the course instructor with a brief statement of interest.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Arden A Hegele
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

GERM TRAVELING CLTRES(IN ENG)

GERMANY'S TRAVELING CULTURES

• Department: German @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Erk Grimm
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

VIRGINIA WOOLF

(Lecture). Six novels and some non-fictional prose:
Jacob's Room, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, The Waves, Between the Acts; A Room of One's Own, Three Guineas.  
Applications on paper only (not e-mail) in Professor Mendelson's mailbox in 602 Philosophy, with your name, e-mail address, class (2017, 2018, etc.), a brief list of relevant courses that you've taken, and one sentence suggesting why you want to take the course.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Edward Mendelson
  CULPA: 64 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ASIATIC RUS:EMPIRE & STATE

The aim of this course is to provide students with a fresh perspective on the concept of Eurasia originating in imperial Russian intellectual history. The course sets out to highlight the impact of nomadic political cultures on shaping the operation of Russian imperial policies and practices and their legacies, a perspective that is typically not represented in Eurasian and Russian history courses as a major idea of analysis. The course’s focus therefore will be on the spread of Russian rule over Eurasia’s steppe regions and Turkestan. Among other things, the course explores how the interplay of the nomadic concepts of sovereignty and territoriality enabled the rise of the Russian empire. Beyond ethnic and cultural history special attention will be devoted to economic and military history, as well as political institutions and diplomacy. We will also look at the ways in which the concept of Eurasia continued to inspire Soviet and post-Soviet politicians and other related groups to construct and reconstruct boundaries between East and West.

• Department: History
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Gulnar T Kendirbai
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL HISTOR

This Course is intended to look at key developments of American History through the prism of Supreme Court decisions and their aftermath. In essence, this Course will address four questions: (1) How did the Supreme Court reflect and/or affect historic patterns of U.S. development? (2) How did the Supreme Court respond to, alleviate and/or exacerbate major crises and political issues in U.S. history? (3) How did the Supreme Court impact the U.S. legal and economic framework? (4) How did the Supreme Court’s perception of individual and collective rights and liberties, and of the function and role of Governments — both Federal and State — evolve over time?

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

SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION

All of us have spent many years in school and understand that schools impact our lives in important ways. But how exactly does formal schooling shape young people? And how do students make sense of their lives in the context of schools and educational systems more broadly? In this class we will examine education as a central institution in modern society, and we will grapple with an important question: What role does education play in reinforcing or challenging broader patterns of social inequality and mobility?   Particular emphasis will be placed on higher education as a critical site in which these processes take shape.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Amy Stuart
  Info
• 3 points

JAMES JOYCE

This seminar explores the endlessly involving oeuvre of James Joyce, including
Dubliners
,
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
,
Ulysses
, and sections of
Finnegans Wake
. We will also examine other Joycean texts, selected writings by other authors, relevant historiography, and critical takes on Joyce from the years in which he published to the present day.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Douglas Mao
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 9 Info
• 4 points

ALDOUS HUXLEY

The course proposes to examine the major works of Aldous Huxley as vital contributions to the emerging 20
th
century canon of modernism, internationalism, pacifism, spiritualism, and the psychology of modern consciousness. Critical studies of Huxley have typically split his work into two phases—social satire and mysticism—that roughly correspond to Huxley’s perceived oscillation between cynicism and religiosity. This course proposes a less disjunctive approach to his writings. Huxley’s starkly dystopian vision in
Brave New World
often overshadowed his earnest endeavors to find a meeting point between mainstream Western thought and the philosophical traditions of the non-Western world, particularly of Hinduism and Buddhism. His early novels, including
Brave New World
, bear traces of his deep-seated spiritual quest, even as his works were steeped in critiques of the ominous trends towards regimentation and authoritarian control of the social body. 
As a novelist of ideas, Huxley gave voice to the most vexing intellectual and moral conflicts of his time, refusing to retreat into the solipsism of experimental writing while at the same time searching for wholeness in Eastern meditative systems. This course probes Huxley’s writings from a multitude of angles, examining his works (both fiction and nonfiction) in the context of evolutionary, secular thought, while also reading them as strivings towards models of world peace inspired, to some extent, by mystical thought. The latter invoked concepts drawn from Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain thought, alongside Christian mysticism and Taoism, in an eclectic practice that Huxley called “the perennial philosophy.” Organized chronologically, course readings include
Point Counter Point
(1928),
Brave New World
(1932),
Eyeless in Gaza
(1936)
, Time Must Have a Stop
(1944)
, The Perennial Philosophy
(1944)
, Ape and Essence
(1948)
, The Devils of Loudun
(1952),
The Doors of Perception
(1954)
, The Genius and the Goddess
(1955),
Island
(1962), and
The Divine Within
(1992). This course will be of importance especially to students interested in the intersections of 20
th
century British modernist literature and non-Western philosophical and religious systems, as well as more generally to students interested in an intensive study of one of the 20
th
century’s most prolific authors.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Gauri Viswanathan
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY I-LEC

Prerequisites: CHEM BC2001 or equivalent. Credit will not be given for any course below the 3000 level after completing CHEM BC3230 or its equivalent. Lecture: MWF: 10:00 - 10:50 AM
Corequisites: With lab, counts towards Lab Science requirement.
Atomic and molecular structure; stereochemistry of organic molecules; introduction to organic reactions, reaction mechanisms, and synthesis.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• MWF 10 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Dina C Merrer
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 3 points

CLASSICS AND FILM

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

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

LABOR AND LOVE IN CHINA

LABOR & LOVE IN CHINA

This course offers an introduction to life in Reform era China. We will employ anthropological analysis to examine how Maoist legacies and recent state liberalization efforts shape everyday experiences of labor, romance, and consumption. Scholarly texts will be supplemented with primary materials including political speeches, testimonies, and documentaries.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Nicholas A Bartlett
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

CHEMISTRY IV

Prerequisites: Organic Chemistry I. Optional parallel laboratory work: CHEM BC3338. CHEM C1404 is not an acceptable equivalent for CHEM BC3232; students who have taken even a single semester of organic chemistry will not receive subsequent credit for C1404. Lecture: MWF 11:00-11:50.
Selected aspects of general chemistry, primarily for pre-health professions and biological science students who have taken Organic Chemistry. Thermodynamics, equilibrium, kinetics, complex ions and coordination compounds, and radiochemistry, with applications to analytical chemistry and biochemistry.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• MWF 11 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Jacob S Alexander
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 3 points

MVMNT MDRN VISUAL CULTURE

SEEING THE BODY

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Marjorie Folkman
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

FREN LANG,SOC,CULTRE THRU FILM

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

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Heidi Holst-Knudsen
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 3 points

POLITICAL LIFE IN FRANCE

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Enyi Koene
  Info
• 3 points

FREN LANG,SOC,CULTRE THRU THEA

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

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

QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3231, MATH V1101, and permission of instructor.
Corequisites: CHEM BC3338
Survey of topics appropriate for a student majoring in chemistry or biochemistry, including examinations of uncertainty analysis and data processing, use of basic laboratory equipment, complex equilibria (pH, solubility, etc.), advanced solution chemistry and chemical activity, and the theoretical foundations of modern techniques in electrochemistry, chromatography and analytical experimental techniques.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• MWF 11 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Marisa C Buzzeo
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

JAZZ DANCE III

ADVANCED JAZZ DANCE

Prerequisites: DNCE BC2248 or permission of instructor.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Katiti King
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 0-1 points

HYDROSYSTEMS ENGINEERING

Prerequisites: (CHEN E3110) or (ENME E3161) or CHEN E3110 or ENME E3161 or equiv, or instructor's permission.
A quantitative introduction to hydrologic and hydraulic systems, with a focus on integrated modeling and analysis of the water cycle and associated mass transport for water resources and environmental engineering. Coverage of unit hydrologic processes such as precipitation, evaporation, infiltration, runoff generation, open channel and pipe flow, subsurface flow and well hydraulics in the context of example watersheds and specific integrative problems such as risk-based design for flood control, provision of water, and assessment of environmental impact or potential for non-point source pollution. Spatial hydrologic analysis using GIS and watershed models.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Pierre Gentine
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 43 Info
• 3 points

FLAMENCO & CLASSCL SP DANCE I

FLAMENCO:TRAD TECH/CONTEMP AP

Prerequisites: DNCE BC1137, BC1138, BC1332, BC1333, or Permission of instructor. Intermediate level in modern or ballet technique is required.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• F noon-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Melinda S Bronson
  Info
• 0-1 points

INTRO LATINX LITERATURE

This course introduces students to a growing body of work by Latina and Latino writers in the United States, and engages with the critical tools necessary for analyzing a field of inquiry and practice that continues to reframe itself, right down to the label “Latinx.”  What does that name include, and what does it exclude, in cultural productions born of conflicts of origin, language, race, gender, sexuality, and nationality? For some understanding of context, we will turn to the history and pressures of transnational migration, exile, assimilation, bilingualism and queerness as these variously affect the means and modes of the literary productions with which we're concerned. At the same time, the course will emphasize the invented and hybrid nature of Latinx literary and cultural traditions, and it will investigate the place of those inventions in the larger framework of American intellectual and literary traditions. Readings will be drawn from work written primarily in English, but we will also consider graphic novels, Latinx performance, and works in translation. Authors studied may include Rudolfo Anaya, Americo Paredes, Piri Thomas, Cherríe Moraga, Richard Rodriguez, Cristina García, Ana Castillo, Victor Hernández Cruz, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Junot Díaz, Coco Fusco, Yuri Herrera, and Juana María Rodriguez.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Kristin Carter
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

ADAPTATION

In the same way that there can never be a single objective account of an historical event, using one medium to convey a story first told in another is never as straightforward as it might seem. Translating the essence of an existing story to the screen may require making significant changes to the events or characters as they were originally presented.
    As a screenwriter faced with such an adaptation, you must understand the idiosyncrasies of your craft well enough to recognize what to keep, what to change, and what to leave behind.
This course will explore what makes a screen story work, balancing faithfulness and invention.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Rubeintz Philippe
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

ANCIENT SCIENCES-MDVL ISLAMIC WORLD

“ʿUlūm al-awāʾil”, or the “Science of the Ancients” was one of the many names given to the body of knowledge that the Islamic civilization inherited from the Ancient Greek nature-knowledge system. By the end of the 10
th
century CE the Islamic civilization had appropriated many branches of the Greek knowledge, including cosmological philosophy, mathematics, astronomy, alchemy, music, and medicine among other disciplines. While some of these disciplines, such as cosmological philosophy, were heavily opposed by proponents of traditional sciences (Qur’anic exegesis, Hadith scholarship, Arabic grammar, etc.), many of them became legitimate fields of knowledge for Muslim intellectuals and scholars for many centuries until the dawn of modern science. With the advent of modern science, some of these disciplines, such as mathematics and astronomy, were absorbed in the new scientific paradigm as “exact sciences”; many others were relegated to the domain of “occult sciences”. This course aims at surveying the “Ancient sciences” in medieval Islam by studying several of these disciplines, both “exact” and “occult”.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Mohammad Sadegh Ansari
  Info
• 3 points

KANT

Explores the connections between theoretical and practical reason in Kant's thinking with special attention to the Critique of Pure Reason and the project of "transcendental" philosophy.

• Department: Philosophy
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Patricia Kitcher
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

THERMODYNAMICS-KINETICS

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3231, PHYS BC2001, PHYS BC 2002, MATH V1102 or MATH V1201. Lecture: MWF 10:00-10:50.
Introduction to the laws of thermodynamics; application primarily to ideal systems. Free energy and equilibrium. Kinetics: rate laws and mechanisms, experimental techniques.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• MWF 10 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Marisa C Buzzeo
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

AFTER NATURE

VICTORIAN LIT & THE ENVIROMNT

Prerequisites: Sophomore standing. Enrollment limited to 18 students. Attend first class for instructor permission. Registering for the course only through myBarnard or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment.
Explores the transformation of sociality, consciousness and geo-politics by and as media technologies during the long 20th century. Students will read influential works of media analysis written during the past century, analyze audio-visual analog and digital media, and explore political theory and media theory written since the rise of the internet. Final projects on contemporary media forms.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Williams
  Info
• 4 points

BAD RESEARCH & THE VICTORIAN NOVEL

BAD RESEARCH & VICTORIAN NOVEL

Today we tend to think of research--the stuff of labs, libraries, and data--as something quite separate from what a novel is or does. But during the mid-to late nineteenth century, the concept of research loomed large over the period's signature literary form. Novelists, as well as investigative journalists and scientists, sought new techniques to gather the phenomena of the external world into prose: they conducted fieldwork, kept writer's journals, consulted libraries and record offices, and experimented with the print infrastructures for producing, consuming, and circulating knowledge. Taking "research" and "the novel" as our organizing principles, this course will examine how new conceptions of knowledge––imagined as storable, exchangeable, sortable, and concealable––shaped the narrative forms of British fiction during the 1830s-1900s as writer sought ways to narrate the period's increasingly expansive scales of social and scientific inquiry. We'll focus on the particular kinds of research that fascinated Victorian novelists––"bad," deviant, minor, pathological, everyday––and the relation of this research to the construction of evidence, the scientific self, labor, and gender as social, historic, and economic processes. Over the course of the semester, we will consider how the conceptual crises and contradictions in the production of knowledge spurred on literary forms (blackmail plots, "omniscient" narrators, melodrama, realism), and how novelists conceptualized their own work as research (in the form of notebooks, personal archives, fieldwork), as we read fiction by Brontë, Gaskell, Dickens, Eliot, Stevenson, social theory by foundational thinkers of the nineteenth-century (Marx, Simmel, Martineau) and our own (Foucault, Barthes, Said, Steedman). As a part of the course, we will also extend the conceptual questions raised by research to our own work, as we explore a range of scholarly tools and methods––from special collections archives to digital databases–in reflecting on the practices and infrastructures of research.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Sierra C Eckert
  Info
• 4 points

FIRST AMENDMENT VALUES

Prerequisites: POLS W1201 or an equivalent. Not an introductory course. Not open to students who have taken the colloquium POLS BC3302. Enrollment limited to 25 students; L-course sign-up.
Examines the first amendment rights of speech, press, religion and assembly. In-depth analysis of landmark Supreme Court rulings provides the basis for exploring theoretical antecedents as well as contemporary applications of such doctrines as freedom of association, libel, symbolic speech, obscenity, hate speech, political speech, commercial speech, freedom of the press and religion. (Cross-listed by the American Studies Program.)

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

ENVIR CONTR/POLLUTN REDUCT SYS

Prerequisites: (EAEE E3200) or (ENME E3161) or (MECE E3100) EAEE E3200 or ENME E3161 or MECE E3100
Sources of solid/gaseous air pollution and the technologies used for modern methods of abatement. Air pollution and its abatement from combustion of coal, oil, and natural gas and the thermodynamics of heat engines in power generation. Catalytic emission control is contrasted to thermal processes for abating carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, oxides of nitrogen and sulfur from vehicles and stationary sources. Processing of petroleum for generating fuels. Technological challenges of controlling greenhouse gas emissions. Biomass and the hydrogen economy coupled with fuel cells as future sources of energy.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Farrauto
  h-index: 52 Info
• 3 points

ENGINEER FOR DEVP COMMUNITIES

Introduction to engineering problems faced by developing communities and exploration of design solutions in the context of real project with a community client.  Emphasis is on the design of sustainable suolutions that take account of social, economical, and governance issues, and that can be implemented now or in the near futre.  The course is open to all undergraduate engineering students.  Multidisciplinary teamwork and approaches are stressed.  Outside lecturers are used to address issues specific to developing communities and the particular project under consideration.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• 3 points

RETHINKING MIDDLE EAST POLITCS

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

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

COMPUTER SCIENCE THEORY

Prerequisites: (COMS W3203)
Corequisites: COMS W3134,COMS W3136,COMS W3137
Regular languages: deterministic and non-deterministic finite automata, regular expressions. Context-free languages: context-free grammars, push-down automata. Turing machines, the Chomsky hierarchy, and the Church-Turing thesis. Introduction to Complexity Theory and NP-Completeness.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• MW 7:10 p.m.-8:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Allison Bishop
  Info
• 3 points

SOCIOLOGY OF WORK & GENDER

• Department: Auditing
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Teresa Sharpe
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 0 points

MONEY AND BANKING

Prerequisites: ECON BC3033 and ECON BC3035 or the equivalent.
Introduction to the principles of money and banking. The intermediary institutions of the American economy and their historical developments, current issues in monetary and financial reform.

• Department: Economics
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Tri Vi Dang
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 10 Info
• 3 points

THE PRODUCER'S ROLE

• Department: Film @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Chiz Schultz
  Info
• 3 points

SOCIOLOGY OF WORK & GENDER

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

• Department: Sociology
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Teresa Sharpe
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 3 points

INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3231x or Permission of Instructor. Lecture: TuTh 8:40-9:55.
Structure, bonding and spectroscopy in inorganic compounds: applications of group theory to chemistry; ligand field theory; vibrational and electronic spectroscopy of transition metal complexes; selected topics from coordination chemistry, organometallics, bioinorganic chemistry, solid state and materials chemistry, mineralogy, and biogeochemistry.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Michael Campbell
  Info
• 3 points

AMERICAN LIT AND CULTURE II

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• Instructor: Achsah Guibbory
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

NONFIC DIGTL VIDEO PRODCTN

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 12 students. Registering for the course only through myBarnard or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment. Attend first class for instructor permission. Lab section required.
This workshop course is designed to familiarize students with digital video technologies while they investigate various aesthetic and theoretical concepts related to nonfiction cinema and its engagement with the real. Through weekly readings, discussions, screenings, critiques, and practical exercises, students will develop a solid understanding of how to use digital video as an expressive tool. The course will culminate in the completion of a five-minute video work by each student. Students should be both self-directed and interested in developing a support system for each other's work.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• F 3 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Margaret J McLagan
  Info
• 3 points

DIGITAL SERIES

Digital Series offers visual storytellers an incredible medium to connect and build an audience. It is an inexpensive, accessible platform to launch micro-budget concepts. Developing the visual storyteller's voice consistently and inexpensively is critical to the evolution of any student, no matter their starting point. The Digital Series course is intended to take students from story ideation through distribution of a digital series. Emanating from a writer's room setting, all steps of the process will be explored and supported by in-class discussion, examples and prepared readings. This hands-on class revolves around the TV series production model: breaking story, writing episodes, preproduction planning, filming and post-production analysis. We will emphasize the writer's voice, construction of series storytelling and micro-budget producing.  Student teams are each assigned an episode to "break", draft, produce and finish in order to complete the series of episodes for distribution on our digital series distribution platform.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• R 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Rubeintz Philippe
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

Unseen Masterworks of World Cinema

UNSEEN MASTERWORKS OF WORLD CINEMA

In 1952, the British Film Institute’s prestigious journal 
Sight & Sound 
polled the world’s leading film critics to compile a list of the best motion pictures of all time. It was one of the first attempts to establish an authoritative film canon at an international scale. Since then, dozens of magazines, cinematheques, and festivals around the globe publish their “best movies” lists every year. These polls tend to reproduce a canonical selection of “classics” that includes
Citizen Kane
(Welles, 1941),
Vertigo
(Hitchcock, 1958),
The Godfather
(Coppola, 1972), and other familiar titles among contemporary film audiences.
The canon itself would not be worth bothering with if it hadn’t been so influential in academic circles. University film programs often integrate this selection without questioning the ideological motivations behind it. In this class, we study “unseen masterworks” of world cinema that have been usually marginalized in conventional analysis of film. We challenge the standard, anglo-centric, sexist, heteronormative, and racist-by-omission film history in order to articulate a critique of cultural hegemony – and its tendency to depoliticize film as a medium. For that purpose, we look at a series of paradigmatic features in terms of their 1) explorative approach to film style, and 2) politically subversive narrative.
In-class screenings include
The World of Apu
(Ray, 1959),
The Exterminating Angel
(Buñuel, 1962),
Woman in the Dunes
(Teshigahara, 1964),
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
(Paradjanov, 1965),
The Red and the White
(Jancsó, 1967),
Mandabi
(Sembene, 1968),
Johnny Got His Gun
(Trumbo, 1971),
Oh Lucky Man!
(Anderson, 1973),
Seven Beauties
(Wertmüller, 1975), and
...but the clouds...
(Beckett, 1977). Required readings include Amos Vogel’s
Film as a Subversive Art
(1974), seminal texts by film directors, and excerpts from Gilles Deleuze’s
The Movement Image
(1983),
The Time-Image
(1985), and “The Exhausted” (1992).

• Department: Film @Barnard
• T 1:10 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Breixo Viejo Vinas
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

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

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• MWF 11 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Christian Rojas
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 3 points

BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: (CHEM BC3230) and (CHEM BC3231) BIOL BC1502. Lecture: MWF 9:00-9:50.
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
• MWF 10 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Mary Sever
  CULPA: 4 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
• MWF 9 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Subhasish Chatterjee
  h-index: 16 Info
• 3 points

HAUNTINGS:AMERICAN POETRY IN THE 1980s

HAUNTINGS: AMERICAN POETRY IN

This seminar explores the relationship between history and poetry. Focusing on the 1980s, also known as the Reagan era, we will privilege poetic production as a vantage point to think about this tumultuous period in the U.S. What is the relationship between this historical conception of the Reagan era and the poetic sensibility fostered in and against those social political conditions? By focusing on reading poetry books published in the 1980s, we will think through post-NY school, language, eco-, improvisational, confessional, avant-garde, feminist, visual, and performance poetry. What the political stakes of formal poetic concerns?

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Tiana A Reid
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

SELF: A COGNITIVE EXPLORATION

• Department: Psychology
• F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Karen J Kelly
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

APPLIED ELECTROMAGNETISM

Corequisites: APMA E3102
Vector analysis, electrostatic fields, Laplace's equation, multipole expansions, electric fields in matter: dielectrics, magnetostatic fields, magnetic materials, and superconductors. Applications of electromagnetism to devices and research areas in applied physics.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Gerald A Navratil
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 46 Info
• 3 points

BIOCHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: one year each of Introductory Biology and General Chemistry. Corequisites: Organic Chemistry. Primarily aimed at nontraditional students and undergraduates who have course conflicts with BIOC UN3501.
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 7:10 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Danny N Ho
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

DRAWING WRITING LATIN AMERICA

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 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Felipe I Becerra
  Info
• 3 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

STRANGE VOICES LATIN AMERICA

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.
• Instructor: Bego A Alberdi
  CULPA: 2 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.
• Instructor: Andrew Bragen
  Info
• 3 points

LAB IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Prerequisites: BIOL BC2100 (which can be taken as a pre- or co-requisite). Enrollment is limited to 16; must attend first lab to hold place.
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.
• 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. Lab fee: $200.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• Instructor: Raimondo Betti
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 31 Info
• Instructor: Gautam Dasgupta
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 19 Info
• Instructor: George Deodatis
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 42 Info
• Instructor: Patricia J Culligan
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 1-3 points