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
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Instructor:
Maria Q Feng
CULPA: 3 h-index: 46 Info -
Instructor:
Hoe I Ling
h-index: 45 Info -
Instructor:
Andrew W Smyth
CULPA: 3 Info -
Instructor:
Upmanu Lall
CULPA: 13
Wikipedia
h-index: 68
Info
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Instructor:
Huiming Yin
CULPA: 1 h-index: 25 Info -
Instructor:
Haim Waisman
CULPA: 3
h-index: 29
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Instructor:
Jacob Fish
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 54 Info -
Instructor:
Shiho Kawashima
h-index: 24 Info -
Instructor:
Waiching Sun
CULPA: 1 h-index: 30 Info -
Instructor:
Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou
h-index: 26 Info -
Instructor:
Xuan Di
h-index: 15 Info -
Instructor:
Julius Chang
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Instructor:
Marco Giometto
h-index: 9 Info -
Instructor:
Adrian Brugger
h-index: 4 Info - 1-3 points
IND STUDIES-CIVIL ENGIN-SENIOR
A project on civil engineering subjects approved by the chairman of the department. Lab fee: $200.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
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Instructor:
Raimondo Betti
CULPA: 4
h-index: 31
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Instructor:
Gautam Dasgupta
CULPA: 3 h-index: 19 Info -
Instructor:
George Deodatis
CULPA: 6
h-index: 42
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Instructor:
Patricia J Culligan
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info -
Instructor:
Maria Q Feng
CULPA: 3 h-index: 46 Info -
Instructor:
Hoe I Ling
h-index: 45 Info -
Instructor:
Andrew W Smyth
CULPA: 3 Info -
Instructor:
Upmanu Lall
CULPA: 13
Wikipedia
h-index: 68
Info
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Instructor:
Huiming Yin
CULPA: 1 h-index: 25 Info -
Instructor:
Haim Waisman
CULPA: 3
h-index: 29
Info
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Instructor:
Jacob Fish
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 54 Info -
Instructor:
Shiho Kawashima
h-index: 24 Info -
Instructor:
Waiching Sun
CULPA: 1 h-index: 30 Info -
Instructor:
Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou
h-index: 26 Info -
Instructor:
Xuan Di
h-index: 15 Info -
Instructor:
Julius Chang
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Instructor:
Marco Giometto
h-index: 9 Info -
Instructor:
Adrian Brugger
h-index: 4 Info -
Instructor:
Ibrahim Odeh
Info - 1-3 points
RED PLANT: SCI FICTION
This syllabus is designed as a counterweight to mitigate the marginalization of Science Fiction (and genre literature in general) not only within the Slavic department’s course offerings, but throughout the academy at large. I have conceived this course in response to the prevailing pedagogical deference to a canon that excludes most “mass market” cultural production. In recent decades, what has historically been critically dismissed as a lowbrow literary form has enjoyed some spirited rehabilitation in critical circles. This shift owes much credit to theorists such as Darko Suvin, Fredric Jameson and Donna Haraway. It also reflects contemporary culture’s intensifying urgency for a critical apparatus adequate to tackle dilemmas of technology as a force that has profoundly infiltrated social forms. In my experience, this shift in popular consciousness has not yet been reflected in tangible departmental course offerings.
- Department: Slavic Languages
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Eliza C Rose
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
PROJECT LAB MOLECULAR GENETCS
PROJECT LAB IN MLCLR GENETICS
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
- W 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- 3 points
VIROLOGY
Prerequisites: two semesters of a rigorous, molecularly-oriented introductory biology course (such as BIOL UN2005), or the instructor's permission.
The course will emphasize the common reactions that must be completed by all viruses for successful reproduction within a host cell and survival and spread within a host population. The molecular basis of alternative reproductive cycles, the interactions of viruses with host organisms, and how these lead to disease are presented with examples drawn from a set of representative animal and human viruses.
- Department: Biological Sciences
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Vincent R Racaniello
CULPA: 11
Wikipedia
Info
- 3 points
GREEK LITERATURE SELECTIONS II
POETRY (HESIOD)
Prerequisites:
GREK UN2101 - GREK UN2102
or the equivalent.
Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.
- Department: Classics
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Darcy Krasne
h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
LATIN LITERATURE SELECTIONS
SATIRE
Prerequisites:
LATN UN2102
or the equivalent.
Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.
- Department: Classics
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Joseph A Howley
CULPA: 7
Info
- 3 points
RACE. SPACE, URB SCHOOLS
Many people don’t think of themselves as having attended segregated schools. And yet, most of us went to schools attended primarily by people who looked very much like us. In fact, schools have become more segregated over the past 30 years, even as the country becomes increasingly multiracial. In this class, we will use public schools as an example to examine the role race plays in shaping urban spaces and institutions.
We will begin by unpacking the concept of racialization, or the process by which a person, place, phenomenon, or characteristic becomes associated with a certain race. Then, we will explore the following questions: What are the connections between city schools and their local contexts? What does it mean to be a “neighborhood school”? How do changes in neighborhoods change schools? We will use ethnographies, narrative non-fiction, and educational research to explore these questions from a variety of perspectives. You will apply what you have learned to your own experiences and to current debates over urban policies and public schools.
This course will extend your understanding of key anthropological and sociological perspectives on urban inequality in the United States, as well as introduce you to critical theory.
- Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Alexandra Freidus
Info - 3 points
FEMINIST THEORY
Prerequisites: LIMITED TO 20 BY INSTRUC PERM; ATTEND FIRST CLASS
An exploration of the relationship between new feminist theory and feminist practice, both within the academy and in the realm of political organizing.
- Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alexander Pittman
CULPA: 10
Info
- 4 points
SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCH: DYNAMIC DESIGN
SPECIAL TOPICS:DYNAMIC DESIGN
Prerequisites: Prerequisite is the completion of one architecture studio or similar. Must apply for placement in course.
Topics vary yearly. Course may be repeated for credit.
- Department: Architecture @Barnard
- MW 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alicia Tam Wei
Info - 3 points
THE ARCHITECT'S LIBRARY-LABORATORY
This seminar challenges the interpretation of architect's libraries as static repositories of information, and it shows how they were in fact sorts of laboratories, in which architects experimented in both the creation of knowledge and the production of designs.
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
- R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Eleonora Pistis
Info - 4 points
MUSIC-EAST ASIA-SOUTHEAST ASIA
A topical approach to the concepts and practices of music in relation to other arts in the development of Asian civilizations.
- Department: Music
- MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rachel Chung
CULPA: 15
Info
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Instructor:
Yun E Wang
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Instructor:
Jesse A Chevan
Info - 3 points
LABORATORY IN MICROBIOLOGY
LAB IN MICROBIOLOGY
Prerequisites: BIOL BC3320 (which can be taken as a pre- or co-requisite). Enrollment is limited to 16; must attend first lab to hold place.
Provides experience in the isolation, cultivation, and analysis of pure cultures of microorganisms. Methods used for the study of cell structure, growth, physiology, and genetics of microbes will be incorporated into laboratory exercises.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
- R 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jj L Miranda
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
EAST ASIAN CINEMA
This course introduces students to major works, genres and waves of East Asian cinema from the Silent era to the present, including films from Japan, Korea, Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. How has cinema participated in East Asian societies’ distinct and shared experiences of industrial modernity, imperialism and (post)colonialism? How has cinema engaged with questions of class, gender, ethnic and language politics? In what ways has cinema facilitated transnational circulations and mobilizations of peoples and ideas, and how has it interacted with other art forms, such as theatre, painting, photography and music? In this class, we answer these questions by studying cinemas across the region sideby- side, understanding cinema as deeply embedded in the region’s intertwining political, social and cultural histories and circulations of people and ideas. We cover a variety of genres such as melodrama, comedy, historical epic, sci-fi, martial arts and action, and prominent film auteurs such as Yasujirō Ozu, Akira Kurosawa, Yu Hyŏnmok, Chen Kaige, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Ann Hui. As cinema is, among other things, a creative practice, in this course, students will be given opportunities to respond to films analytically and creatively, through writing as well as creative visual projects. As a global core course, this class does not assume prior knowledge of East Asian culture or of film studies.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Takuya Tsunoda
Info - 4 points
COLL:PLTCS OF BAD BEHAVIOR
This course explores the politics of what happens when people, institutions, or states deviate from expected behavior. The course will span all subfields of political science, engaging issues such as lies, scandal, money laundering, corruption, campaign finance, election fraud, racism, and incarceration.
- Department: Political Science @Barnard
- R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael Miller
CULPA: 18 h-index: 14 Info - 4 points
INTRO ORGANIC CHEMISTRY-LAB
Prerequisites: (CHEM BC2001) General Chemistry I with lab.
Corequisites: CHEM BC3230
Basic techniques of experimental organic chemistry. Principles and methods of separation, purification, and characterization of organic compounds. Selected organic reactions.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- M 1:10 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
- T 1:10 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
- W 1:10 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
- R 1:10 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
- F 1:10 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
- R 8 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
- 2.5 points
COLL: HARLEM IN THEORY
Prerequisites:
Admission by application
through the Barnard department only. Enrollment limited to 16 students.
Harlem in Theory is an advanced political theory colloquium. Its focus is both thematic and methodological. Joining a two-thousand year tradition of doing philosophy in and for the city, we theorize Harlem as urbs and civitas (place and socio-political association) and bring Harlem to bear on philosophy. We explore the political theorist's craft by engaging different theoretical approaches and methodologies used by political, social and critical theorists. Our readings include political philosophy, critical frameworks for interpretation and historical, social scientific and literary works about Harlem - supplemented by film, music and of course periodic trips to various Harlem venues. General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC).
- Department: Political Science @Barnard
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michelle R Smith
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
Prerequisites: (ELEN E3201) ELEN E3201.
Operational amplifier circuits. Diodes and diode circuits. MOS and bipolar junction transistors. Biasing techniques. Small-signal models. Single-stage transistor amplifiers. Analysis and design of CMOS logic gates. A/D and D/A converters.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
David G Vallancourt
CULPA: 28
Info
- 3 points
URBAN SPACE & CONFLICT IN MIDDLE EAST
URBAN SPACE-CONFLICT MID EAST
This course explores how civil war, revolution, militarization, mass violence, refugee crises, and terrorism impact urban spaces, and how city dwellers engage in urban resilience, negotiate and attempt to reclaim their right to the city. Through case studies of Beirut (1975-present), Baghdad (2003-present), Cairo (2011-present), Diyarbakir (1914-present), Aleppo (1914-present), and Jerusalem (1914-present), this course traces how urban life adjusted to destruction (and post-conflict reconstruction), violence, and anarchy; how neighborhoods were reshaped; and how local ethnic, religious, and political dynamics played out in these cities and metropolises. Relying on multi-disciplinary and post-disciplinary scholarship, and employing a wealth of audiovisual material, literary works, and interviews conducted by the instructor, the course scrutinizes how conflicts have impacted urban life in the Middle East, and how civilians react to, confront, and resist militarization in urban spaces.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Khatchig Mouradian
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
EAST/WEST FRAMETALE NARRATIVES
A study of frame tale collections from India, Persia, the Middle East, and Western Europe from the 5
th
century C.E. through the 17
th
century. We will trace the development of short story/novella from their oral traditions and written reworkings, studying such texts as
1001 Nights
,
Kalila wa-Dimnah
,
Scholar’s Guide
, and the works of Boccaccio, Marguerite de Navarre, Cervantes, and María de Zayas. This is a Global Core course. Application Instructions: E-mail Professor Patricia E. Grieve (peg1@columbia.edu) no later than November 17, with the subject heading "Application: E/W Frametale Narratives." In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course. Applicants will be notified of decisions within a week.
- Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Patricia E Grieve
CULPA: 15 Info - 4 points
MODERN V
Intermediate Advanced.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Andrea Weber
Info - 0-1 points
INTRO TO LITERARY STUDIES I
Prerequisites:
FREN UN3405
Advanced Grammar and Composition or an AP score of 5 or the instructor's permission.
Reading and discussion of major works from the Middle Ages to 1750.
- Department: French and Romance Philology
- MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
William M Burton
h-index: 2 Info - 3 points
INTRO TO LITERARY STUDIES II
Prerequisites:
FREN UN3405
Advanced Grammar and Composition or an AP score of 5 or the instructor's permission.
Reading and discussion of major works from 1750 to the present.
- Department: French and Romance Philology
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rose E Gardner
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
INTRO TO ITALIAN LITERATURE II
Prerequisites: ITAL UN2102 or the equivalent.
UN3334-UN3333
is the basic course in Italian literature. UN
3334
: Authors and works from the Cinquecento to the present. Taught in Italian.
- Department: Italian
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Steven J Baker
CULPA: 3
Info
- 3 points
ADVANCD CONVERSTN & COMPOSTN I
ADVANCD CONVERSTN & COMPOS II
- Department: Germanic Languages
- MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alexander J Holt
Info - 2 points
ADVANCED ITALIAN I
Prerequisites:
ITALUN2102 or the equivalent. If you did not take Intermediate Italian at Columbia in the semester preceding the current one, you must take the placement test, offered by the Italian Department at the beginning of each semester.
Written and oral self-expression in compositions and oral reports on a variety of topics; grammar review. Required for majors and concentrators.
- Department: Italian
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Felice Beneduce
CULPA: 7
Info
- 3 points
MODERN VI
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Colleen Thomas
CULPA: 6
Info
- 0-1 points
SHAKESPEARE II
(Lecture). Shakespeare II examines plays from the second half of Shakespeare’s dramatic career, primarily a selection of his major tragedies and his later comedies (or “romances”).
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Alan Stewart
CULPA: 14 h-index: 13 Info - 3 points
ADVANCED ITALIAN II
Prerequisites: ITAL V3335
Advanced reading, writing, speaking with emphasis on authentic cultural materials. Topic and semester theme varies.
- Department: Italian
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Federica Franze
CULPA: 4
Info
- 3 points
EARLY MODERN SEMINAR
SHAKESPEARE'S POETRY
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
James Shapiro
CULPA: 25
Wikipedia
Info
- 4 points
REFORMNG AMERICAN ELECTNS
REFORMING AMERICAN ELECTIONS
Prerequisites: POLS 1201 or an equivalent intro-level course in American Politics.
The purpose of this course is to examine problems in American democracy, and to critically evaluate proposals for reform. We will examine the manner in which political science has engaged "real-world" problems in election systems and administration, campaign finance, and fraud.
- Department: Political Science @Barnard
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Michael Miller
CULPA: 18 h-index: 14 Info - 3 points
QUANTITATVE-INSTRMNTL TECH-LAB
Prerequisites: (CHEM BC3231 and CHEM BC3333) Co-requisite for students not majoring in chemistry or biochemistry: CHEM BC3232. For students majoring in chemistry or biochemistry, CHEM BC3242.
Corequisites: CHEM BC3232,CHEM BC3242
Quantitative techniques in volumetric analysis, radiochemistry, spectrophotometry, and pH measurement. Data analysis with spreadsheets.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- T 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
- R 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rachel Austin
CULPA: 18
Wikipedia
h-index: 28
Info
- 3 points
ADVANCED CONTACT IMPROVISATN
Prerequisites: DNCE BC3338 Contact Improvisation. Sophomore standing or permission of instructor required.
Examination of this gender-neutral partnering technique further exploring compositional forms as they arise from the practice. Students will also investigate a variety of set repertory dance texts that have originated from contact improvised material.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Colleen Thomas
CULPA: 6
Info
- 0-1 points
NARRATIVES OF LAW
In this course, we will examine accounts and images of historical legal events, ranging from “true” representations to openly fictionalized ones. The course is divided into four sections, each focusing on a set of related events or institutions in a particular historical moment: witch trials in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; colonial trials in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centuries; the work of police detectives in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries; and mass media representations of trials, prisons, and policing in the late twentieth- and twenty-first-centuries. In addition to looking at archives of images, we will read pamphlet narratives, journalistic accounts, legal reports and opinions, biographies and autobiographies, and (in the latter portion of the course) we will watch film and video representations. Throughout the course, our principal focus will be on primary sources: their relationship to the history they represent; their rhetorical, narrative, and visual choices and meanings (both text and subtext). While introducing you to four different moments in the cultural history of law, the course will also introduce you to research methods in the interdisciplinary field of law and humanities, offering you opportunities to do original research in primary sources and to develop substantial research projects of your own. The work we will do together is interdisciplinary, drawing on interpretive methods from Literature, History, Art History, Anthropology, and more. But we will pay special attention to performance: the ways in which legal actors and subjects use law not merely instrumentally but also demonstratively, producing legal meaning by enacting it before spectators. There are no prerequisites, but the course is demanding, intended for students serious about diving into unfamiliar historical texts and engaging in challenging research.
Application instructions
: To apply, please email Prof Peters
<peters@columbia.edu>
the following: school, year, and major; a brief description of why you are interested in taking the class; a brief description of the most substantial research projects you’ve undertaken previously (a few sentences describing each project); and a list of the 3-4 most relevant courses you’ve taken.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Julie S Peters
CULPA: 5
Info
- 4 points
BEYOND BOUNDARIES: RADICAL BLACK EXP MUS
This discussion seminar focuses on African American composer/improvisers in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries whose work rejects and critiques simplistic compartmentalization in terms of improvisation, composition, genre, gender, race, and place. On the contrary, these musicians embody Duke Ellington’s famous dictum regarding great music being “beyond category.” Students will critically discuss some of the common threads in this network—musicians’ means of creating and performing their original music, its distribution in the marketplace and surrounding critical discourse, their engagement with issues of race, gender, and class within and outside of their communities, and interdisciplinary and community-based collaboration. Musical communities such encompassed in this course include the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), Sun Ra’s Arkestra, and the Jazz Composers Guild and extends up to the current day to include contemporary artists such as Nicole Mitchell, Matana Roberts, and Tyshawn Sorey. The incredibly rich multifarious pieces and performances that we will listen to and discuss reference and incorporate elements of improvisation, theatre, twelve-tone serialism, aleatoric composition, bebop, electro-acoustic and computer music,conduction, popular music, the voice, free jazz, Afrofuturism, the blues, orchestral music, opera, and graphic notation.
- Department: Music
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Marc E Hannaford
Info - 3 points
DESCRIPTIVE GRAMMAR-HUNGARIAN
This course is designed for those curious about the structure of Hungarian - an unusual language with a complex grammar quite different from English, or, indeed, any Indo -European language. The study of Hungarian, a language of the Finno-Ugric family, offers the opportunity to learn about the phonology of vowel harmony, the syntax of topic-comment discourse, verb agreement with subjects and objects, highly developed case systems and possessive nominal paradigms. In addition to its inflectional profile, Hungarian derivation possibilities are vast, combinatory, and playful. During the semester we will touch upon all the important grammatical aspects of Hungarian and discuss them in relation to general linguistic principles and discourse, and finally, through some text analysis, see them in action. Although the primary discussion will center on Hungarian, we will draw on comparisons to other Finno-Ugric languages, most notably Finnish and Komi; students are encouraged to draw on comparisons with their own languages of interest. No prerequisite. Counts as Core Linguistics.
- Department: Italian
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Carol H Rounds
CULPA: 5
Info
- 3 points
ADV SPECTROS CHEMISTRY - LECT
ADV SPECTROS LAB - LECT
Corequisites: CHEM BC3348
This course combines chemical synthesis, inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry, and nanoscience into experiments with an emphasis using spectroscopy to determine chemical structure and reactivity. you will gain experience with a range of instruments, techniques, calculations, and theories. Instrumentation will include UV-Visible, infrared, near-infrared, fluorescence, and Raman spectroscopy.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- M 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
- 0 points
ADVANCED SPECTROSCOPY - LAB
Prerequisites: CHEM BC3333 and CHEM BC3253
Corequisites: CHEM BC3271
This course combines chemical synthesis, inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry, and nanoscience into experiments with an emphasis using spectroscopy to determine chemical structure and reactivity. You will gain experience with a range of instruments, techniques, calculations, and theories. Instrumentation will include UV-Visible, infrared, near-infrared, fluorescence, and Raman spectroscopy.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- M 2:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- W 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
- 3 points
SYMPATHY AND THE RHETORIC OF BRITISH ABO
RHET OF BRITISH ABOLITION
This class focuses on texts written by and about people of African descent in the British Atlantic world of the long eighteenth century. As we read fiction and nonfiction, prose and poetry, autobiography and polemic, we will examine the literary and rhetorical techniques that authors use to influence their readers’
feelings
about slavery and the slave trade, and we will think more broadly about how literature can manipulate feelings for political ends. While we’ll pay especially close attention to the sentiments of sympathy, empathy, and fellow-feeling, we’ll also consider other feelings that these texts express or provoke—feelings like anger, fear, or even apathy. Finally, we’ll ask how the experience of Blackness and enslavement in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century—and literary representations of that experience—might inform our understanding of contemporary racial justice movements.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Candace G Cunard
Info - 4 points
20TH CENTURY EUROPEAN PHILOSO
Prerequisites: one prior philosophy course.
Reading and discussion of selected texts by central figures in phenomenology, existentialism, hermeneutics, critical theory, and recent Continental philosophy. Authors may include Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer, Horkheimer, Adorno, Foucault, Bourdieu.
- Department: Philosophy @Barnard
- TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Taylor Carman
CULPA: 40
Wikipedia
h-index: 19
Info
- 3 points
BIOCHEMISTRY LAB TECHNIQUES
BIOCHEMISTRY LAB TECHNIQUES -
Prerequisites: Organic II lab (CHEM BC3333, BC3335, or equivalent); Quantitative analysis lab (BC3338, BC3340, or equivalent); Biochemistry (CHEM BC3282y, CHEM C3501, or equivalent). Lecture: T 1:10-12:50; Laboratory two afternoons: T 2:10-6:00 / TH 1:10-5:00.
Theory and application of fundamental techniques for the isolation, synthesis and characterization of biological macromolecules including proteins, lipids, nucleotides and carbohydrates. Techniques include spectroscopic analysis, gel electrophoresis, chromatography, enzyme kinetics, immunoblotting, PCR, molecular cloning and cell culture, as well as modern laboratory instrumentation, such as UV-Vis, GC-MS and HPLC.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- R 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
- 5 points
HISTORY OF THE SELF
This course is one of a series on the history of the modern self. The works of Montaigne, Pascal, Rousseau, Tocqueville, or another Enlightenment thinker are critically examined in a seminar setting.
Fall 2017 the topic is Tocqueville.
- Department: History
- M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mark Lilla
CULPA: 57
Wikipedia
Info
- 4 points
PHYSIOLOGY
Prerequisites: BIOL BC1500, BIOL BC1501, BIOL BC1502, and BIOL BC1503 or the equivalent.
This course examines how mammals carry out basic functions like manipulating objects, sensing the external world, oxygenating tissues, and processing food. Emphasis is placed on (a) how the body regulates itself through the integrated action of multiple organ systems and (b) what goes awry in disease.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
John Glendinning
CULPA: 23 h-index: 39 Info - 3 points
LABORATORY IN PHYSIOLOGY
Prerequisites: BIOL BC3360 (or equivalent, which can be taken as a pre- or co-requisite). Enrollment is limited to 16; must attend first lab to hold place.
Provides a hands-on introduction to the different physiological systems in vertebrates and invertebrates. Emphasizes the operation of a variety of physiological monitoring devices and the collection and analysis of physiological data.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
- W 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
John Glendinning
CULPA: 23 h-index: 39 Info - 3 points
ARTISTIC HUMANITY
Prerequisites: Language requirement, SPAN3300 and either SPAN3349 or 3350
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- Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alessandra Russo
CULPA: 5
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- 3 points
LAB IN MOLEC & CELL NEUROSCI
Prerequisites: BIOL BC3362 (which can be taken as a pre- or co-requisite). Enrollment is limited to 16; must attend first lab to hold place.
Introduction to techniques commonly used in current neurobiological research, including intracellular and extracellular recording of action potentials, neuroanatomical methods, and computer simulation of the action potential.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
- R 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- F 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth P Bauer
CULPA: 3 h-index: 21 Info - 3 points
PSYCHOLOGY OF LEADERSHIP
Prerequisites: Students must have one of the following pre-requisites for this course: PSYC BC1125 Personality Psychology, PSYC BC1138 Social Psychology, or PSYC BC2151 Organizational Psychology, and permission by the instructor.
An in-depth examination of the concept of leadership in psychology with an emphasis on women’s leadership. Topics include the role of gender, culture, and emotional intelligence as well as an examination of transactional and transformational models. Topics will be discussed with an equal emphasis on theory, research, and application. Students must have prerequisites and permission of the instructor.
Enrollment limited to 15.
PSYCHOLOGY OF CREATIVITY
Prerequisites: BC1001 and permission of the instructor.
Consideration of classic Psychodynamic (the unconscious/incubation), Psychometric (testing/training), and Personaility (train/motivation) models of creativity. Application of contemporary Process (cognitive/problem-solving) models to art, literature, and independently selected areas of expertise. Process models are involving constraint selection within well-established domains are emphasized.
- Department: Psychology @Barnard
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Patricia D Stokes
CULPA: 48
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- 4 points
HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
Prerequisites: BC1001 and two more psychology courses, and permission of the instructor required.
Consideration of research on the interaction of biological, psychological, and social factors related to physical health and illness. Topics include the relationship of stress to illness, primary prevention, mind-body methods of coping with stress and chronic illness (such as meditation), and the relationship between psychological factors and recovery from illness.
Enrollment limited to 15.
ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY
Prerequisites: BC1001 and BC1129 Developmental Psychology or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 20 senior majors. Barnard students receive priority.
Examines adolescent development in theory and reality. Focuses on individual physiological, sexual, cognitive, and affective development and adolescent experiences in their social context of family, peers, school, and community. Critical perspectives of gender, race and ethnicity, sexuality, and "teen culture" explored.
- Department: Psychology @Barnard
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Susan R Sacks
CULPA: 10 Info - 4 points
SOCIOLING ASPECTS U.S.SPANISH
Prerequisites: Third-year bridge course (W3300), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350).
Sociolinguistics studies the connections between language and social categories such as class, gender, and ethnicity. This course will address how social, geographic, cultural, and economic factors affect the different usages of Spanish among its millions of speakers. Through theory and practice of various research tools including Ethnography of Communication and Discourse Analysis, students with explore topics such as English-Spanish contact in the US, code-switching, and Spanglish, as well as issues of identity, bilingualism, and endangered languages.
- Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Maria E Lozano
CULPA: 7
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- 3 points
NEUROPHARMACOLOGY & BEHAVIOR
NEUROPHARM & BEHAVIOR
Prerequisites: BC1001 and one of the following: BC1115, BC1119, or BIOL BC3280. Permission of the instructor is required. Enrollment limited to 20 students.
Basic principles of the study of drugs that influence the neural systems and induce changes in behavior. Molecular, biochemical and behavioral characterization of psychotropic drugs: stimulants, sedative-hypnotics, anxiolytics, alcohol, hallucinogens, and opiates. Etiology and treatment of psychological and neurological disorders.
- Department: Psychology @Barnard
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Kathleen M Taylor
CULPA: 78 Info - 4 points
EE SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT
Prerequisites: (ELEN E3399) and completion of most other required EE courses.
Students work in teams to specify, design, implement and test an engineering prototype. Involves technical as well as non-technical considerations, such as manufacturability, impact on the environment, economics, adherence to engineering standards, and other real-world constraints. Projects are presented publicly by each design team in a school-wide Expo.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
David G Vallancourt
CULPA: 28
Info
- 3 points
CANINE COGNITION
Prerequisites: BC1001 and one other Psychology course. Enrollment limited to 15 students. Permission of the instructor is required.
An examination of the scientific study of the domestic dog. Emphasis will be on the evolutionary history of the species; the dog's social cognitive skills; canid perceptual and sensory capacities; dog-primate comparative studies; and dog-human interaction.
- Department: Psychology @Barnard
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Alexandra C Horowitz
CULPA: 23
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- 4 points
RESRCH SEMINAR IN HISTORY II
Prerequisites: Open to Barnard College History Senior Majors.
Individual guided research and writing in history and the presentation of results in seminar and in the form of the senior essay. See Requirements for the Major for details.
- Department: History @Barnard
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Robert A McCaughey
CULPA: 20
Info
- 4 points
INTERVNTNS DEVELPMNTL DISABIL
INTERVENTIONS DEVELOP DISABIL
Prerequisites: BC1001, BC1127/1129, BC2156, or permission of the instructor. Seniors are given priority.
This course provides an overview of psychological intervention processes in the field of developmental disabilities. Course content includes discussions of clinical and ethical issues related to diagnosis and treatment, and in-depth review of procedures used to teach appropriate behavior repertoires to individuals with developmental disabilities such as Autism Spectrum Disorders.
- Department: Psychology @Barnard
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Hannah E Hoch
CULPA: 27 Info - 4 points
HOW WRITERS THINK
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
(Seminar). This course uses contemporary philosophies of research and writing to train students to become writing center and library consultants. Readings will highlight major voices in rhetoric and composition research, with an emphasis on collaborative learning theory. We will ground our study in hands-on teaching experiences: students will shadow Columbia Writing Center consultants and research librarians and then practice strategies they learn in consultation with other students. Those who successfully complete this course will be eligible to apply for a peer writing consultant job in the Columbia Writing Center. This course is co-taught by the director of the Writing Center and the undergraduate services librarian.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- F 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Susan Mendelsohn
CULPA: 5
h-index: 3
Info
- 4 points
TOPICS IN SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENC
Prerequisites: (Psyc BC1119) or (Biol BC3362)
How should we think about the brain? How can we simplify and interpret its dizzying complexities? And specifically, what conceptual frameworks are useful in constraining our interpretations of neuronal activity? This seminar – Topics in Systems Neuroscience – is aimed at defining and dissecting the ideas and models that guide our thinking about the brain. This semester the focus will be on the concept of the receptive field. We will examine how this idea has been applied across brain regions and sensory modalities and has been examined with experimental/computational approaches. Attention will be paid to both the historical background and contemporary views. The receptive field has provided a useful conceptual framework since the early 20
th
century. After developing the traditional concept of a sensory receptive field, we will critically examine the limits of this concept. This potentially simplifying concept underlying brain function also contains open questions regarding perception, cognition and behavior. By the end of the course we will develop a richer understanding of how conceptual frameworks, in general, can help (and hurt!) but ultimately hone our thinking.
- Department: Psychology @Barnard
- M 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Faculty
h-index: 37 Info - 4 points
THE ATHLETE IN THE AMERICAN IMAGINATION
THE ATHLETE IN AMER IMGNTN
In the 21
st
century, the lines continue to blur between people who engage in physical activities and sporting events and “athletes”—those people whose public and private identities are shaped by commitment to their sports. The figure of the star athlete, the character of professional and amateur athletes, and questions about the roles that athletes play in American culture and politics have preoccupied American artists across media since at least the Gilded Age. This course will explore how writers and filmmakers have imagined the figure of the athlete and the significance of sports in the 20
th
and 21
st
century. We will study American works of fiction, nonfiction, film, and graphic novels centered on the figure of the athlete. How do writers and filmmakers represent the figure of the athlete and the forces that shape their experiences both when involved in their sports and in other aspects of their lives? How do athletes represent themselves in works of nonfiction (in both writing and film) when they tell their own stories? How do writers and film-makers explore questions about gender, race, class, sexual orientation, and political ideology through their depictions of American athletes?
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nicole Wallack
CULPA: 7 Info - 4 points