PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. 8 hours of laboratory work by arrangement.
Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• Instructor: Marisa C Buzzeo
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Dina C Merrer
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Andrew C Crowther
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Michael Campbell
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• Instructor: Mary Sever
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Rachel Austin
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia h-index: 28 Info
• Instructor: Christina Vizcarra
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. 8 hours of laboratory work by arrangement.
Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• 4 points

INTRO TO FRENCH CIVILIZATION

Prerequisites: FREN UN3333 or UN3334 and UN3405, or the director of undergraduate studies' permission.
Based on readings of short historical sources, the course will provide an overview of French political and cultural history since 1700.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Albes
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

INTL LAW & U.N. IN PRACTICE

Prerequisites: POLS UN1601 or HRTS UN3001 An equivalent course to POLS UN1601 or HRTS UN3001 may be used as a pre-requisite, with departmental permission.
Examines the development of international law and the United Nations, their evolution in the Twentieth Century, and their role in world affairs today. Concepts and principles are illustrated through their application to contemporary human rights and humanitarian challenges, and with respect to other threats to international peace and security.  The course consists primarily of presentation and discussion, drawing heavily on the practical application of theory to actual experiences and situations.
For the Barnard Political Science major, this seminar counts as elective credit only.
(Cross-listed by the Human Rights Program.)

• Department: Human Rights (HRTB)
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Martin S Flaherty
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

STOCKHOLM SYNDROME:TERROR,SYMPATHY,LOVE

Why would the 1973 bank robbery that launched the term “Stockholm Syndrome” be invoked as an antecedent for a 2017 terror attack? How is it that talk about terrorism always seem to incite anxiety over errant sympathies, as per the adage “one person’s terrorist is another person’s freedom fighter”? This course explores how that which is done and said around terrorism over the course of the modern era has regimented our possibility of “feeling with” others, focusing particularly on the notion of sympathy developed by Adam Smith and David Hume in their seminal thinking about modern sociality. If every sentiment has a history, as Michel Foucault holds, what might a reading of terror, through sympathy, tell us about the shifting bounds of politics, kinship and love in the contemporary moment? The course will explore such questions through consideration of primary sources from across a range of historical eras and regions, including Europe, the Middle East, the Subcontinent, Africa, the Caribbean, and the US. We will consider contemporary films, newspaper accounts, novels and historical archival material - alongside weekly readings from anthropology, history, philosophy and literary criticism. Teaching will be case-driven, asking students to respond to events and questions raised in the primary material, and will sustain a number of interlocking themes across the semester. In tackling their readings students will help each other think critically about contemporary issues of global import, while also exploring or re-engaging - in the case of advanced students - longstanding anthropological concerns with selfhood and sociality; the taboo and the queer; violence and law; governance and expertise drawing on canonical as well as contemporary texts. One 1 hour 50 min seminar will be given each week, which will include a lecture, student commentaries, and engaged in-class group discussions.

• Department: Anthropology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter O Lagerqvist
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• 4 points

REHEARSAL&PERFRMNCE; IN DANCE

REHEARSAL& PERFRMNCE IN DANCE

Prerequisites: Audition. Do not register for this course until you have been selected at the audition. Subject to cap on studio credit. Can be taken more than once for credit up to a maximum of 3 credits a semester.
Students are graded and take part in the full production of a dance as performers, choreographers, designers, or stage technicians.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Neta Pulvermacher
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• Instructor: Marjorie Folkman
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 1-3 points

REHEARSAL&PERFRMNCE; IN DANCE

REHEARSAL& PERFRMNCE IN DANCE

Prerequisites: Audition. Do not register for this course until you have been selected at the audition. Subject to cap on studio credit. Can be taken more than once for credit up to a maximum of 3 credits a semester.
Students are graded and take part in the full production of a dance as performers, choreographers, designers, or stage technicians.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 1-3 points

INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Prerequisites: Open to majors and non-majors with written permission of the department member who will supervise the project.
  Research projects planned in consultation with members of the department.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• Instructor: Peter D Balsam
  CULPA: 25 Info
• Instructor: Robert Brotherton
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Tovah Klein
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Colin Leach
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 41 Info
• Instructor: Ken Light
  CULPA: 17 h-index: 15 Info
• Instructor: Koleen McCrink
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Joshua New
  CULPA: 14 Info
• Instructor: Kara Pham
  CULPA: 9 Info
• Instructor: Robert E Remez
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia h-index: 23 Info
• Instructor: Russell D Romeo
  CULPA: 9 Info
• Instructor: Ann Senghas
  CULPA: 17 Info
• Instructor: Rae Silver
  Wikipedia h-index: 69 Info
• Instructor: Lisa K Son
  CULPA: 25 Info
• Instructor: Steven Stroessner
  CULPA: 18 Info
• Instructor: Danielle L Sussan
  CULPA: 8 Info
• Instructor: Kathleen M Taylor
  CULPA: 78 Info
• Instructor: Tara Well
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Michael Wheaton
  h-index: 31 Info
• Instructor: E'Mett McCaskill
  CULPA: 38 Info
• 4 points

REH & PERF IN DANCE-TECH

Prerequisites: Must be declared Dance Major and junior standing. Subject to cap on studio credit. Can be taken more than once for credit.
This course is supervised by the Dance Technical Director, who will teach basic aspects of theater tech necessary to support dance production.  Areas covered will include hanging and focusing lighting instruments, installing the marley floor, hanging a cyc and scrim, and operating the sound and/or lighting systems. Meetings will be arranged by the Tech Director specific to scheduling of the concert, totaling approximately 20 hours.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• Instructor: Kate A Glasner
  CULPA: 31 Info
• 1 points

ADVANCED OPTIMIZATION

Prerequisites: (IEOR E3608)

For undergraduates only. This course is required for all undergraduate students majoring in IE, OR:EMS, OR:FE, OR:A and OR. 
This course is a follow-up to IEOR E3608 and will cover advanced topics in optimization including integer optimization, convex optimization and optimization under uncertainty with a strong focus on modeling, formulations and applications.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Shipra Agrawal
  h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

NEW CINEMAS IN LATIN AMERICA

NEW CINEMAS LAT AM

This seminar will analyze the historical similarities and differences between the two major “New Wave” periods of Latin America cinema. The first part of this course will examine the emergence of the 1960s nuevos cines in Mexico, Brazil, Cuba, Argentina, and Chile through an in-depth analysis of landmark films such as Jomi García Ascot’s On the Empty Balcony (1962), Glauber Rocha’s Black God, White Devil (1964) and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s Memories of the Underdevelopment (1968). Some key concepts in Benedict Anderson’s book Imagined Communities will help us to understand why “national identities” played such a primordial role among Latin American film intellectuals in the 1960s and 1970s. Special attention will be paid to the manifestos written by Julio García Espinosa, Fernando Solanas, and Octavio Getino, and to how they confronted Hollywood’s hegemony in order to create an auteurist film tradition in the region. In the second part of the seminar, we will study the global success of the Latin American cinemas of the 2000s from a transnational perspective: features such as Alejandro G. Iñárritu's Amores Perros (2000), Lucrecia Martel’s The Swamp (2001), and Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund’s City of God (2002) will be examined in relation to the political and aesthetic traditions discussed in part one. We will explore how these contemporary Latin American filmmakers reflect upon gender, race, class, and sexual orientation rather than national or religious identities. The critical interpretation of these films will allow us to redefine the idea of "national cinemas" and to reexamine the historical tensions between state control, commercialism, and independent cinema in Latin America.

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

PSYCH OF STEROTYPING/PREJUDICE

Prerequisites: two psychology courses and the instructor's permission.
A review of current research on intergroup perceptions, attitudes, and behavior. Emphasis on cognitive processes underlying stereotyping and prejudice.

• Department: Psychology
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Nadav Antebi-Gruszka
  h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

THIRD YEAR MODERN TIBETAN II

For those whose knowledge is equivalent to a student who’s completed the Second Year course. The course develops students’ reading comprehension skills through reading selected modern Tibetan literature. Tibetan is used as the medium of instruction and interaction to develop oral fluency and proficiency.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Sonam Tsering
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• 4 points

NAT'L & CONTEMP WORLD POLITICS

The causes and consequences of nationalism. Nationalism as a cause of conflict in contemporary world politics. Strategies for mitigating nationalist and ethnic conflict.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Jack L Snyder
  CULPA: 27 Info
• 3 points

EMOTIONS AND THE BODY IN THE XVII AND XV

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Laurence Marie
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Prerequisites: PSYC UN1001 or Instructor permission.
A seminar for advanced undergraduate students exploring different areas of clinical psychology. This course will provide you with a broad overview of the endeavors of clinical psychology, as well as discussion of its current social context, goals, and limitations.

• Department: Psychology
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Hannah E Hoch
  CULPA: 27 Info
• 4 points

GREAT SHORT WORKS OF AMERICAN PROSE

The aim of this course is to read closely and slowly short prose masterworks written in the United States between the mid-19
th
century and the mid-20
th
century, and to consider them in disciplined discussion.  Most of the assigned works are fiction, but some are public addresses or lyrical or polemical essays.  We will read with attention to questions of audience and purpose: for whom were they written and with what aim in mind: to promote a cause, make a case for personal or political action, provoke pleasure, or some combination of all of these aims? We will consider the lives and times of the authors but will focus chiefly on the aesthetic and argumentative structure of the works themselves.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew Delbanco
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

THE AMERICAN GRAPHIC NOVEL

The course seeks to combine literary and historical approaches to investigate one of the most rapidly growing and increasingly influential genres of American popular (and, increasingly, critically recognized) literature: the graphic novel. A historical overview of the genre's development, along with analysis of relevant broader institutional and cultural factors illuminating the development of American media culture more generally, will be complemented by study of a series of works that illuminate artistic approaches taken within the genre to the classic themes of the American experience: politics, ethnicity, sexuality, and America's place in the broader world, among other themes. Authors read include Eisner, Crumb, Spiegelman, Bechdel, Sacco, Thompson, and Hernandez.

• Department: American Studies
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• 3 points

THE AMERICAN GRAPHIC NOVEL

• Department: Auditing
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• 0 points

THEATRE AND DEMOCRACY

How does theatre promote democracy, and vice versa: how do concepts and modes of theatre prevent the spectators from assuming civic positions both within and outside a theatrical performance? This class explores both the promotion and the denial of democratic discourse in the practices of dramatic writing and theatrical performance.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Hana Worthen
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• 4 points

LIT & AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
(Seminar). Who is a citizen? How has the notion of citizenship changed in American history? Questions of American citizenship - who can claim it and what it entails -- have been fiercely contested since the founding of the United States. Scholars have articulated various ways of conceptualizing citizenship: as a formal legal status; as a collection of state-protected rights; as political activity; and as a form of identity and solidarity. In this seminar, we'll explore the role that literature and literary criticism have played in both shaping and responding to the narratives and civic myths that determine what it means to be an American citizen.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Aaron Ritzenberg
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 4 Info
• 4 points

COLLECTIONS: CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN SHORT

CONTEMP AMER SHORT STORY

In this course, we will examine short stories as a particularly American form. The short story has been notoriously difficult to define, but one key characteristic of the genre is its presumed compact form alongside its compelling expansiveness. Short stories constantly toggle back and forth between the compressed and the broad. In the United States, the genre of short story has a long history of articulating and imagining an individual or community’s changing and fraught relationship to transnational, national, and local dynamics (represented, for example, nineteenth and early twentieth-century authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Sui Sin Far, Washington Irving, Charles Chestnutt, Mark Twain, Sarah Orne Jewett, Tillie Olsen, José García Villa, and Carlos Bulosan). Today, this catalog of writers can be matched with another list of contemporary North American short story authors featured on our syllabus: Jhumpa Lahiri, Chimamanda Adichie, Daniel Alarcón, Mohsin Hamid, George Saunders, Ted Chiang, Mona Award, Lydia Davis, Vanessa Hua, R. Zamora Linmark, Otesha Moshfegh, and Leanne Simpson. Some of the writers on this list are veterans of the short story form. Others are authors who recently published debut collections. As we work through our reading list, we will attempt to analyze not only individual short stories, but also what marks these books as collections. What might hold these texts together? What disrupts the unifying principles of a collection? And most importantly, what do short stories offer—in terms of representations of American life and culture and its complexity—that other forms do not?

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Denise Cruz
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 6 Info
• 4 points

MODERN JEWISH INTELLECTUAL HIST

This course analyzes Jewish intellectual history from Spinoza to 1939. It tracks the radical transformation that modernity yielded in Jewish life, both in the development of new, self-consciously modern, iterations of Judaism and Jewishness and in the more elusive but equally foundational changes in "traditional" Judaisms. Questions to be addressed include: the development of the modern concept of "religion" and its effect on the Jews; the origin of the notion of "Judaism" parallel to Christianity, Islam, etc.; the rise of Jewish secularism and of secular Jewish ideologies, especially the Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah), modern Jewish nationalism, Zionism, Jewish socialism, and Autonomism; the rise of Reform, Modern Orthodox, and Conservative Judaisms; Jewish neo-Romanticism and neo-Kantianism, and Ultra-Orthodoxy.

• Department: History
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael F Stanislawski
  CULPA: 66 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

OBSERVATIONAL ASTRONOMY

Prerequisites: one year of general astronomy
Introduction to the basic techniques used in obtaining and analyzing astronomical data. Focus on 'ground-based' methods at optical, infrared, and radio wavelengths. Regular use of the telescope facilities atop the roof of the Pupin Labs and at Harriman Observatory. The radio-astronomy portion consists mostly of computer labs, In research projects, students also work on the analysis of data obtained at National Observatories.

• Department: Astronomy
• R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: David Schiminovich
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

GOVERNING THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

Who governs the world economy? Why do countries succeed or fail to cooperate in setting their economic policies? When and how do international institutions help countries cooperate? When and why do countries adopt good and bad economic policies? This course examines how domestic and international politics determine how the global economy is governed. We will study the politics of trade, international investment, monetary, immigration, and environmental policies to answer these questions. The course will approach each topic by examining alternative theoretical approaches and evaluate these theories using historical and contemporary evidence. There will be an emphasis on applying concepts through the analysis of policy-relevant case studies designed specifically for this course.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Nikhar Gaikwad
  h-index: 7 Info
• 3 points

MAFIA MOVIES

Examines representations of the mafia in American and Italian film and literature. Special attention to questions of ethnic identity and immigration. Comparison of the different histories and myths of the mafia in the U.S. and Italy. Readings includes novels, historical studies, and film criticism. Limit 35

• Department: Italian @Barnard
• W 6:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Ariella Lang
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

SEEKING ASYLUM

Prerequisites: NA
This seminar explores the roots of and responses to the contemporary refugee "crisis" at the U.S.-Mexico border. We examine the historical factors that are propelling people, including families and unaccompanied minors, to flee the so-called Northern Triangle of Central America (El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala); the law and politics of asylum that those seeking refuge must negotiate in the U.S.; and the burgeoning system of immigration incarceration that detains ever-greater numbers of non-citizens. The course is organized around a collaboration with the Dilley Pro Bono Project, an organization that provides legal counsel to detainees at the country's largest immigration detention prison, in Dilley, Texas.

• Department: History @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Nara Milanich
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL LAW

What is public international law, and what does it influence the behavior of states, corporations, and individuals in the international system? This introductory course engages these questions as well as the politics of applying and enforcing public international law in various contexts and issue areas. An understanding of basic international legal principles, institutions, and processes is developed through exploration of foundational cases, and by means of (required) participation in a multi-week group simulation of an international legal dispute.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Tonya L Putnam
  CULPA: 29 Info
• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL LAW-DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

INTERNATIONAL LAW-DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

INTERNATIONAL LAW-DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

INTERNATIONAL LAW-DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

INTERPERSONAL COGNITION SEMINAR

Prerequisites: PSYC UN2630 or PSYC UN2640 Instructor permission.1 course in research methods
What makes people ‘click’? How does interpersonal closeness develop? How do close relationships influence our thought processes, behaviors, and identities? How do our conversations with relationship partners change our memories of events and our perceptions of reality? And finally, what are the implicit and explicit cognitive mechanisms underlying these processes?
The primary objective of this course will be to provide you with the relevant literature, theoretical background, methodological proficiency, and critical thinking and communication skills to articulate your own answers to these questions, and to propose future studies in the field.

• Department: Psychology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Maya Z Rossignac-Milon
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• 4 points

AMERICAN MONUMENT CULTURES

The nation is currently caught up in a vital debate about how historical figures and events should be recorded in the public square.  Cities, institutions and impassioned individuals are pulling down and removing statues of Confederate leaders and other individuals implicated in the history of slavery even as objections are raised to these actions from both the left and the right.  This activism led to the formation of a commission to study New York City’s built environment and to commit to both taking down and putting up monuments here.
Why are Monuments so important?  How have they been used historically to assert political and social power?  This course introduces the history of monument culture in the United States, focusing on monuments related to three controversial subjects:  the Vietnam War, the Confederacy, and the “discovery” of America.  We will study when, why, and in what form these monuments were erected and how artists and audiences of the past and present have responded to them.  The assignments will mirror this structure: through an essay and two multimedia projects, students will both present an analysis of existing monuments and make a proposal for new ones.
Class meetings will combine lecture and discussion.  In addition, students must attend two two-hour digital workshop.  We will take two field trips and assignments will involve visits to offsite locations in New York City.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Hutchinson
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 4 points

INDEPENDENT CLINICAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: concurrent with registering for this course, a student must register with the department, provide a written invitation from a mentor, and submit a research proposal.

BIOL 3700
will provide an opportunity for students interested in independent research work in a hospital or hospice setting. In these settings, where patients and their needs are paramount, and where IRB rules and basic medical ethics make “wet-lab biology research” inappropriate, undergraduates may well find a way nevertheless, to assist and participate in ongoing clinical research. Such students, once they have identified a mentor willing to provide support, participation, and advising, may apply to the faculty member in charge of the course for 2-4 points/semester in
BIOL W3700
. This course will closely follow procedures already in place for
BIOL 3500
, but will ask potential mentors to provide evidence that students will gain hands-on experience in a clinical setting, while participating in a hospital- or hospice-based research agenda. A paper summarizing results of the work is required by the last day of finals for a letter grade; no late papers will be accepted.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• 2-4 points

ETHICS

• Department: Auditing
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Michele Moody-Adams
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

STRATEGY FORMULATION

Provides an introduction to strategic management with two broad goals: to understand why some companies are financially much more successful than others; and to analyze how managers can devise a set of actions ("the strategy") and design processes that allow their company to obtain a financial advantage. Allows students to gain a better understanding of strategic issues and begin to master the analytic tools the strategists use, by studying the strategic decisions of companies in many different industries and countries, ranging from U.S. technology firms to a Swiss bank and a Chinese white-goods manufacturer. Topics include what companies can do to outperform their rivals; analysis of the competitive moves of rival firms relying heavily on game-theoretic concepts; and when it makes sense for companies to diversify and globalize their business.

• Department: Columbia College
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Bradford L Cowgill
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• 3 points

US-LATINO CULTURAL PRODUCTION

The course will investigate the possibility that hybrid constructions of identity among Latinos in the U.S. are the principal driving force behind the cultural production of Latinos in literature and film. There will be readings on the linguistic implications of “Spanglish” and the construction of Latino racial identity, followed by examples of literature, film, music, and other cultural production that provide evidence for bilingual/bicultural identity as a form of adaptation to the U.S. Examples will be drawn from different Latino ethnicities from the Caribbean, Mexico, and the rest of Latin America.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Edward Morales
  Info
• 4 points

INTRO TO COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

Prerequisites: (ELEN E3801) ELEN E3801.
Corequisites: IEOR E3658.
A basic course in communication theory, stressing modern digital communication systems. Nyquist sampling, PAM and PCM/DPCM systems, time division multipliexing, high frequency digital (ASK, OOK, FSK, PSK) systems, and AM and FM systems. An introduction to noise processes, detecting signals in the presence of noise, Shannon's theorem on channel capacity, and elements of coding theory.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Irving Kalet
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

ETHICS

Prerequisites: one course in philosophy.
Corequisites:
PHIL V3711
Required Discussion Section (0 points).
This course is mainly an introduction to three influential approaches to normative ethics: utilitarianism, deontological views, and virtue ethics. We also consider the ethics of care, and selected topics in meta-ethics.

• Department: Philosophy
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Michele Moody-Adams
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Major Women Filmmakers

MAJOR WOMEN FILMMAKERS

This course offers an in-depth examination on masterworks directed by women filmmakers in different geographies of the world, from the 1920s to the present day. We analyse films by directors such as Germaine Dulac, Leni Riefenstahl, Maya Deren, Jill Craigie, Lorenza Mazetti, Agnes Varda, Mai Zetterling, Marguerite Duras, Vera Chytilova, Forough Farrokhzad, Lina Wertmuller, Liliana Cavani, Sara Gomez, Chantal Ackerman, and Lucrecia Martel. Special attention is paid to the way women filmmakers have radically challenged institutional modes of representation. Readings include seminal texts on feminist film theory.

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

SENIOR RESEARCH ESSAY SEMINAR

• Department: American Studies @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jordan Camp
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

DATA ANALYSIS & STATS-POLS RES

DATA ANALYSIS & STATS-POL RES

• Department: Auditing
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Parrott
  Info
• 0 points

MAKING HISTORY THROUGH VENTURING

MAKING HIST THROUGH VENTURING

Prerequisites: BUSI UN3702 BUSI UN3702 or equivalent
This course is about making history. Advanced topics in creating successful organizations. In the age of accelerating change, innovation is moving from an accidental, artisanal process to a large-scale societal machinery. Building on Venturing to Change the World’s overview, this course delves into the philosophy, economics, history, sociology, engineering, finance and management topics that animate powerful commercial and social ventures. Technology​ ​trends:​ ​Deep consideration of two major forces in technology for the next decade (synthetic biology, artificial intelligence). Management​ ​strategies​ for building and leading, as well as personal productivity and conduct. Accessing and managing financial markets and resources. Product​ ​creation:​ ​Conceptualizing and delivering innovation and products through design and engineering teams. Finance​ ​and​ ​fundraising:​ Designing the business model, understanding the economics, and the social science of the financing markets. Keywords: science, technology, innovation, management, finance, fundraising, operations research, organizational behavior, ethics, social impact, leadership, philosophy.

• Department: Columbia College
• F 9 a.m.-noon
• 3 points

DATA ANALYSIS & STATS-POL RES

This course examines the basic methods data analysis and statistics that political scientists use in quantitative research that attempts to make causal inferences about how the political world works. The same methods apply to other kinds of problems about cause and effect relationships more generally.  The course will provide students with extensive experience in analyzing data and in writing (and thus reading) research papers about testable theories and hypotheses.  It will cover basic data analysis and statistical methods, from univariate and bivariate descriptive and inferential statistics through multivariate regression analysis. Computer applications will be emphasized.   The course will focus largely on observational data used in cross-sectional statistical analysis, but it will consider issues of research design more broadly as well.  It will assume that students have no mathematical background beyond high school algebra and no experience using computers for data analysis.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Parrott
  Info
• 3 points

FICTION, FILM, AND MODERN VIETNAM

FICTION, FILM, & MOD VIETNAM

This course examines film, tv, and a variety of short fiction as vehicles for the production of Vietnamese cultural identities in the modern era.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: John D Phan
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

ETHICS - REC

ETHICS-REC

Required discussion section for PHIL UN3701 Ethics

• Department: Philosophy
• F 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• R 7:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Yarran D Hominh
  Info
• Instructor: Helen Zhao
  Info
• 0 points

VIOLENCE BY AND AGAINST WOMEN

VIOLENCE BY/AGAINST WOMEN

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

PLATO THE RHETORICIAN

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission
(Seminar). Although Socrates takes a notoriously dim view of persuasion and the art that produces it, the Platonic dialogues featuring him both theorize and practice a range of rhetorical strategies that become the nuts and bolts of persuasive argumentation. This seminar will read a number of these dialogues, including
Apology
,
Protagoras
,
Ion
,
Gorgias
,
Phaedrus
,
Menexenus
and
Republic
, followed by Aristole's
Rhetoric
, the rhetorical manual of Plato's student that provides our earliest full treatment of the art. Application instructions: E-mail Prof. Eden (khe1@columbia.edu) with 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. Admitted students should register for the course; they will automatically be placed on a wait list from which the instructor will in due course admit them as spaces become available.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Kathy H Eden
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SCOPE AND METHODS

This class aims to introduce students to the logic of social scientific inquiry and research design. Although it is a course in political science, our emphasis will be on the science part rather than the political part — we’ll be reading about interesting substantive topics, but only insofar as they can teach us something about ways we can do systematic research. This class will introduce students to a medley of different methods to conduct social scientific research.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Daniel M Corstange
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

SCOPE AND METHODS - DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

SCOPE AND METHODS - DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

SCOPE AND METHODS - DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

SCOPE AND METHODS - DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

SCOPE AND METHODS - DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

SCOPE AND METHODS - DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

ETHNOGRAPHIES OF BLACK LIFE

This course explores themes that have shaped Anthropology’s (often fraught) engagement with Black life. We will critically examine texts that reveal the ways that the discipline and its practitioners have sought to interface with people and populations of African descent—and have sought to define the constitution of Blackness itself—in the Americas. Plumbing the dynamic relationship between historical and ethnographic inquiry, we will ask pressing questions not only about conditions of Black life (and Black death), but also about the production of knowledge about the people who live under Blackness’ sign. Finally, we will turn our collective attention to key issues in the practice, ethics, and politics of ethnography, while also immersing ourselves in the archives produced through ethnographic and auto-ethnographic practice, including those found in various NYC collections.

• Department: Anthropology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Vanessa L Agard-Jones
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

POL. ANIMALS: MODERN EUR

• Department: History
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Alma Igra
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• 4 points

AFRICA AND FRANCE

Prerequisites: reading knowledge of French is highly encouraged.
This course endeavors to understand the development of the peculiar and historically conflictual relationship that exists between France, the nation-states that are its former African colonies, and other contemporary African states. It covers the period from the 19th century colonial expansion through the current ‘memory wars’ in French politics and debates over migration and colonial history in Africa. Historical episodes include French participation in and eventual withdrawal from the Atlantic Slave Trade, emancipation in the French possessions, colonial conquest, African participation in the world wars, the wars of decolonization, and French-African relations in the contexts of immigration and the construction of the European Union. Readings will be drawn extensively from primary accounts by African and French intellectuals, dissidents, and colonial administrators. However, the course offers
neither
a collective biography of the compelling intellectuals who have emerged from this relationship
nor
a survey of French-African literary or cultural production
nor
a course in international relations. Indeed, the course avoids the common emphasis in francophone studies on literary production and the experiences of elites and the common focus of international relations on states and bureaucrats. The focus throughout the course is on the historical development of fields of political possibility and the emphasis is on sub-Saharan Africa.
Group(s): B, C
 
Field(s): AFR, MEU

• Department: History
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Gregory Mann
  CULPA: 15 h-index: 13 Info
• 4 points

BERL/ISTANBUL:MIGRATN,CLTR,VAL

BERLIN/ISTANBUL (GER)

An intensive seminar analyzing questions of migration, identity, (self-) representation, and values with regard to the Turkish minority living in Germany today. Starting with a historical description of the „guest worker“ program that brought hundreds of thousands of Turkish nationals to Germany in the 1960s and 1970s, the course will focus on the experiences and cultural production of the second and third generations of Turkish Germans, whose presence has profoundly transformed German society and culture. Primary materials include diaries, autobiographies, legal and historical documents, but the course will also analyze poetry, novels, theater plays and films. In German.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Claudia Breger
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS

This course will explore plays by women written on both sides of the Atlantic in the second half of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries. We will ask what we learn if we study women dramatists as a group or if the differences among women, the instability of the very category of “women,” and the discernible influence of male dramatists on women playwrights mean that there is nothing distinctive, in subject matter or dramaturgy, about plays by women. Keeping these broad questions in mind, we will look at a range of plays and performance pieces with an eye to their themes, stagecraft, performance potential, and relationship to the historical moment when they were first written, as well as their possible links to one another. Are some of these plays influenced by others on the syllabus? How do race, class, and sexuality complicate the idea of a women’s theatrical tradition? Are some of these playwrights affiliated along lines other than gender? Do British and American women playwrights show different preoccupations or styles? We will also investigate the number of women playwrights who have had a play produced on Broadway or West End London and consider barriers to women’s access to certain venues and funding sources.
In addition to our classes, we will see three shows together. These will include Lynn Nottage’s
Meet Vera Stark
at the Signature Theater, a new play by Suzan-Lori Parks at the Public Theater, and if possible a new play by Anna Deavere Smith at New York Theatre Workshop in late spring.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Jean E Howard
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

• Department: Education @Barnard
• 1-4 points

EARTH & ENVIR ENGIN LAB I

Prerequisites: (CHEE E3010) CHEE E3010.
Corequisites: EAEE E3255
Experiments on fundamental aspects of Earth and environmental engineering with emphasis on the applications of chemistry, biology and thermodynamics to environmental processes: energy generation, analysis and purification of water, environmental biology, and biochemical treatment of wastes. Students will learn the laboratory procedures and use analytical equipment firsthand, hence demonstrating experimentally the theoretical concepts learned in class.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• Instructor: Robert Farrauto
  h-index: 52 Info
• 2 points

ENVIR SCIENCE SENIOR SEM II

Guided, independent, in-depth research culminating in the senior thesis in the spring. Includes discussion about scientific presentations and posters, data analysis, library research methods and scientific writing. Students review work in progress and share results through oral reports. Weekly seminar to review work in progress and share results through oral and written reports. Prerequisite to
EESC W3901
.

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points

CHEM ENG & APPLIED CHEM LAB

Prerequisites: (CHEN E3110) and (CHEN E3120) and (CHEN E4230) and (CHEN E2100) and (CHEE E3010) and (CHEN E3210) and (CHEN E4140) and (CHEN E4500) or Completion of core chemical engineering curricula through the fall semester of senior year (includes: CHEN E3110, E3120, E4230, E3100, E3010, E3210, E4140, E4500), OR instructor's permission.
The course emphasizes active, experiment-based resolution of open-ended problems involving use, design, and optimization of equipment, products, or materials. Under faculty guidance students formulate, carry out, validate, and refine experimental procedures, and present results in oral and written form. The course develops analytical, communications, and cooperative problem-solving skills in the context of problems that span from traditional, large scale separations and processing operations to molecular level design of materials or products. Sample projects include: scale up of apparatus, process control, chemical separations, microfluidics, surface engineering, molecular sensing, and alternative energy sources. Safety awareness is integrated throughout the course.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Jingyue Ju
  h-index: 77 Info
• 3 points

LITERARY APPROACHES TO BIBLE

Interpretive strategies for reading the Bible as a work with literary dimensions. Considerations of poetic and rhetorical structures, narrative techniques, and feminist exegesis will be included. Topics for investigation include the influence of the Bible on literature.

• Department: English @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Margaret R Ellsberg
  CULPA: 54 Info
• 4 points

BLACK PARIS

This undergraduate course aims to unveil a lesser known face of Paris linked to its colonial past in order to reread the present social, political and cultural landscape of France's capital city.  By visiting hotspots of a forgotten Parisian black history, students will learn about the legacy of a colonial past often unknown and neglected.  Sites will include the Latin Quarter which saw the birth of Negritude movement in the 1930s with the encounter of African and Caribbean intellectuals (Cesaire, Senghor, Damas) and the foundation of the editions Presence Africaine with Alioune Diop; Saint Germain des Pres and Pigalle which celebrated jazz music in cabarets; the Museum of the history of immigration in Porte Doree and the Musee des Arts Premiers at the Quai Branly.  This itinerant historical approach of Paris will be complemented by an exploration of the contemporary cultural and artistic politics of the Black stage.  by Attending theater plays, dance shows, and concerts, and meeting African and Caribbean artists living in Paris (playwrights, directors, actors, choreographers, dancers, musicians), students will enjoy the opportunity to explore Black Parisian culture from an insider's point of view and find out what it means to be a Black artist today in France.

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

ART IN FRANCE 1960-PRES

Prerequisites: FREN UN3333 and FREN UN3334 OR permission of the director of undergraduate studies.
In this course, we will explore the formal, political, and social innovations of avant-gardes and literary groups. If Benjamin lamented the effects of industrialization and capitalism on art, artists in literary groups and avant-gardes investigated everything that made art “mechanical” or “reproducible,” beginning with form itself. From exquisite corpses to blank screens or texts written without the letter ‘e,’ French literature of the 20th century re-invents and re-forms the most basic units of art. This re-production of form went hand-in-hand with a more general consideration of what it meant to be an artist or an intellectual, especially one working in/for a group/movement/community. The predominance of the collective manifesto speaks to the importance of collective practice not only to artistic experimentation, but to political commitment. If surrealists thought that altering form could alter our perception of reality, writers outside of France, such as those of the négritude, played with formal techniques to challenge the political and aesthetic values of hexagonal France.
These collective experiments force us to ask important questions about group artistic practice: what units a group of individuals? A certain form? A mode of sociability? How does collective practice “work” or “happen”? Do these groups write collective texts, use a collective synonym, or share a political project? Is there a gap between a group’s stated goals and its actual practice? And perhaps most importantly, can changing literary form really alter reality or history?
These questions will oblige us to interrogate the relationship between art, collective practice, and political commitment. We will consider how art is integrated into the political sphere at different points in time and how the reception of art affected prevailing notions of collective artistic identity. We will also interrogate the kinds of language that literary criticism has developed to describe collective practice: how do we historicize terms like “formal innovation” or “political commitment”? Does political engagement require formal innovation or vice versa? Can an avant-garde be “apolitical”? And what differentiates avant-gardes, from literary journals, or movements from loosely formed groups, etc.? We will consider precursors to avant-gardes in the 16th-century, the development and blossoming of the avant-garde in the

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

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING LAB II

Biomedical experimental design and hypothesis testing. Statistical analysis of experimental measurements. Analysis of experimental measurements. Analysis of variance, post hoc testing. Fluid shear and cell adhesion, neuro-electrophysiology, soft tissue biomechanics, biomecial imaging and ultrasound, characterization of excitable tissues, microfluidics.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Aaron M Kyle
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• 3 points

FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER SYSTS

Prerequisites: an introductory programming course.
Fundamentals of computer organization and digital logic. Boolean algebra, Karnaugh maps, basic gates and components, flipflops and latches, counters and state machines, basics of combinational and sequential digital design. Assembly language, instruction sets, ALU’s, single-cycle and multi-cycle processor design, introduction to pipelined processors, caches, and virtual memory.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Daniel S Rubenstein
  CULPA: 29 Info
• 3 points