Corequisites:
PHYS W1201x-W1202y
.
This course is the laboratory for the corequisite lecture course (PHYS W1201x-W1202y) and can be taken only during the same term as the corresponding lecture.
Corequisites:
PHYS W1201x-W1202y
.
This course is the laboratory for the corequisite lecture course (PHYS W1201x-W1202y) and can be taken only during the same term as the corresponding lecture.
Corequisites:
PHYS W1201x-W1202y
.
This course is the laboratory for the corequisite lecture course (PHYS W1201x-W1202y) and can be taken only during the same term as the corresponding lecture.
Corequisites:
PHYS W1201x-W1202y
.
This course is the laboratory for the corequisite lecture course (PHYS W1201x-W1202y) and can be taken only during the same term as the corresponding lecture.
Corequisites:
PHYS W1201x-W1202y
.
This course is the laboratory for the corequisite lecture course (PHYS W1201x-W1202y) and can be taken only during the same term as the corresponding lecture.
Corequisites:
PHYS W1201x-W1202y
.
This course is the laboratory for the corequisite lecture course (PHYS W1201x-W1202y) and can be taken only during the same term as the corresponding lecture.
Corequisites:
PHYS W1201x-W1202y
.
This course is the laboratory for the corequisite lecture course (PHYS W1201x-W1202y) and can be taken only during the same term as the corresponding lecture.
Corequisites:
PHYS W1201x-W1202y
.
This course is the laboratory for the corequisite lecture course (PHYS W1201x-W1202y) and can be taken only during the same term as the corresponding lecture.
Corequisites:
PHYS W1201x-W1202y
.
This course is the laboratory for the corequisite lecture course (PHYS W1201x-W1202y) and can be taken only during the same term as the corresponding lecture.
Sex is the ultimate forbidden public topic and yet from the New England Puritans' sermons to Bill Clinton's (in)famous affair, sex has often been publicly staged in dramatic, literary, religious, political, legal and social forums. In this seminar, we will explore how issues of sex and sexuality have insinuated themselves into the formation of American identity. We will examine texts from the seventeenth century to the present with a particular emphasis on the arts, politics and sex. Texts include Puritan sermons, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Suzan-Lori Parks's Venus, photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe, literature from Margaret Sanger's birth control movement, and theoretical works by Michel Foucault, Laura Mulvey and Judith Butler.
What constitutes equality between the sexes? By studying visions of equality between the sexes offered in law, politics, international development, religion, literature, psychology, anthropology, and the writings of activists, we will explore what such equality must or might look like. Focusing on western authors, we will consider issues such as rights, equality and difference, reproductive roles, violence, and language. Texts will include Elizabeth Cady Stanton, A Woman’s Bible; the U.N.’s “Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women”; Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time; Catherine MacKinnon, Only Words; and Rebecca Walker, “Becoming the Third Wave.”
Emergence of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary mass political movements; European industrialization, nationalism, and imperialism; 20th-century world wars, the Great Depression, and Fascism.
Emergence of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary mass political movements; European industrialization, nationalism, and imperialism; 20th-century world wars, the Great Depression, and Fascism.
Prerequisites:
ITAL W1311
or sufficient fluency to satisfy the instructor.
Corequisites: Recommended:
ITAL V3335x-V3336y
.
Conversation courses may not be used to satisfy the language requirement or fulfill major or concentration requirements. Practice in the spoken language through assigned topics on contemporary Italian culture.
A student may place into a higher level of this course by passing an examination given on the first day of the class. V1312 is an introduction to basic skills in sight reading. Instruction includes reading rhythms in simple meter, solfege recitation, and sight-singing simple melodies.
Prerequisites:
MDES W1310-W1311
or the equivalent.
As of academic year 2016-17, this course is now MDES 2302. A continuation of the study of reading, writing and speaking of Armenian. In Intermediate Armenian II, students learn to communicate about a wide range of topics. Such topics include biographical narration, cooking and recipes, health and well-being, holidays and celebrations, travel and geography, etc. At this level, students continue to develop their skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening while perfecting the grammatical concepts to which they were introduced in the first year. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.
Prerequisites: knowledge of Spanish or another Romance language.
An intensive beginning language course in Brazilian Portuguese with emphasis on Brazilian culture through multimedia materials related to culture and society in contemporary Brazil. Recommended for students who have studied Spanish or another Romance language. The course is the equivalent of two full semesters of elementary Portuguese with stress on reading and conversing, and may be taken in place of PORT W1101-W1102. For students unable to dedicate the time needed cover two semesters in one, the regularly paced sequence PORT W1101-W1102 is preferable.
Prerequisites: knowledge of Spanish or another Romance language.
An intensive beginning language course in Brazilian Portuguese with emphasis on Brazilian culture through multimedia materials related to culture and society in contemporary Brazil. Recommended for students who have studied Spanish or another Romance language. The course is the equivalent of two full semesters of elementary Portuguese with stress on reading and conversing, and may be taken in place of PORT W1101-W1102. For students unable to dedicate the time needed cover two semesters in one, the regularly paced sequence PORT W1101-W1102 is preferable.
Open to all beginning dancers.
This course examines constraints on canonicity, especially as they pertain to the portrayal of women in literature and culture. The curriculum explores a diverse range of intellectual and experiential possibilities for women, and it challenges traditional dichotomies--culture/nature, logos/pathos, mind/body--that cast gender as an essential attribute rather than a cultural construction. Readings include Milton, Paradise Lost; The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong; Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights; Emily Dickinson, selected poetry; Sigmund Freud, selected essays; Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway; Gertrude Stein, Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights; Luisa Valenzuela, selected stories; Yvette Christiansë, Castaway.
Explicit criteria for recognizing valid and fallacious arguments, together with various methods for schematizing discourse for the purpose of logical analysis. Illustrative material taken from science and everyday life.
Explicit criteria for recognizing valid and fallacious arguments, together with various methods for schematizing discourse for the purpose of logical analysis. Illustrative material taken from science and everyday life.
Fundamentals of printmaking techniques introduced to individuals who have little or no prior experience. Individual and group critiques; portfolio required at end. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.
Examines the major intellectual and social accommodations made by Americans to industrialization and urbanization; patterns of political thought from Reconstruction to the New Deal; selected topics on post-World War II developments.
An introduction to classical Sanskrit. Grammar, and reading of texts. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.
Prerequisites:
PHYS W1401
.
Corequisites:
MATH V1102
or the equivalent.
Electric fields, direct currents, magnetic fields, alternating currents, electromagnetic waves, polarization, geometrical optics, interference, and diffraction.
Prerequisites: recommended preparation: a working knowledge of high school algebra.
The overall architecture of the solar system. Motions of the celestial sphere. Time and the calendar. Major planets, the earth-moon system, minor planets, comets. Life in the solar system and beyond. This course is similar to ASTR BC 1753. You cannot enroll in both courses and receive credit for both.
Corequisites:
MATH V1101
, unless students have taken AP Calculus.
Preparation equivalent to one year of high school chemistry is assumed. Students lacking such preparation should plan independent study of chemistry over the summer or take CHEM W0001 before taking CHEM W1403. Topics include stoichiometry, states of matter, nuclear properties, electronic structures of atoms, periodic properties, chemical bonding, molecular geometry, introduction to quantum mechanics and atomic theory, introduction to organic and biological chemistry, solid state and materials science, polymer science and macromolecular structures and coordination chemistry. Although CHEM W1403 and CHEM W1404 are separate courses, students are expected to take both terms sequentially. The order of presentation of topics may differ from the order presented here, and from year to year. Students must ensure they register for the recitation that corresponds to the lecture section. Please check the Directory of Classes for details.
Prerequisites:
CHEM W1403
.
Corequisites:
MATH V1101
.
Although CHEM W1403 and CHEM W1404 are separate courses, students are expected to take both terms sequentially. Topics include gases, kinetic theory of gases, states of matter: liquids and solids, chemical equilibria, applications of equilibria, acids and bases, chemical thermodynamics, energy, enthalpy, entropy, free energy, periodic properties, chemical kinetics, and electrochemistry. The order of presentation of topics may differ from the order presented here, and from year to year. Students must ensure they register for the recitation that corresponds to the lecture section. Please check the Directory of Classes for details.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Corequisites:
COMS W1004
/
COMS W1007
or
ENGI E1006
.
Peer-led weekly seminar intended for first and second year undergraduates considering a major in Computer Science. Pass/fail only. May not be used towards satisfying the major or SEAS credit requirements.
As of academic year 2016-17, this course is now MDES 2402. Reading and grammatical analysis of a literary text, chosen from the dramatic and narrative tradition. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.
Prerequisites:
PSYC W1001
or
PSYC W1010
, and a statistics course (
PSYC W1610
or the equivalent), or the instructor's permission.
Corequisites:
PSYC W1421
.
Introduction to the techniques of research employed in the study of human behavior. Students gain experience in the conduct of research, including design of simple experiments, observation and measurement techniques, and the analysis of behavioral data.
Corequisites:
PSYC W1420
.
Required lab section for PSYC W1420.
Corequisites:
PSYC W1420
.
Required lab section for PSYC W1420.
When do people have what Jane Austen called proper pride, and when are they suffering from the difficult personality problems, the self-love gone wrong, that psychologists refer to as narcissism? What is the difference between healthy self-esteem and the kind of egoism and selfishness that people generally dislike and disapprove of? Is genuine altruism part of human nature? The narcissist appeared in ancient Greek mythology and political philosophy, and has since been depicted in poems, fiction, dramas, and operas, and in philosophical, scientific, psychoanalytic, and social scientific research. Narcissists are familiar targets of everyday moralizing, stock figures of misbehavior in sitcoms, archetypal bad choices for friend or spouse. In the abstract, they are disapproved of; in practice they are often admired, rising to the top of corporate and political hierarchies and winning love from the most desirable people around them. How? Why? What creates such people? Texts will include Ovid, Echo and Narcissus; Plato, The Republic; Sigmund Freud, On Narcissism; Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene; Otto Kernberg, Factors in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Narcissism; Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism; and George Eliot, Middlemarch.
Memory is arguably the most important faculty that we possess. Not surprisingly, memory has been a ubiquitous topic in poetry, science, fiction, and in the media. Ironically, memory's value is perhaps best understood when it ceases to exist. Indeed, it isn't hard to imagine the devastation that comes with memory loss. In this course, we will survey various components of memory, including its role in writing and history, and its existence in various non-human populations. In addition, we will explore the fragility of memory, including distortions, unusual memories, and basic forgetting. Readings will include poems, theoretical essays, scientific articles, and fiction. Assignments will consist of essays, opinion pieces, and creative stories. Students will also participate in a final in-class debate. Readings will include works from William Blake, James Joyce, Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, Emily Dickinson, Ben Jonson, Mary Carruthers, Francis Yates, Aristotle, William James, Elizabeth Loftus, Spinoza, Luria, J.L. Borges, S. Freud, Oliver Sacks, Truman Capote
Frederick Douglass famously stated, ‘if there is no struggle, there is no progress.’ This quote captures the essence of activism, which is the struggle between that which is and that which ought to be. This course will trace the many ways in which activism has been defined over time, situating them within different historical social movements. We will also explore contemporary debates about the re-conceptualization of activism in the age of social media and the internet. Readings include texts from such canonical authors as Plato, Mary Wollstonecraft and Martin Luther King, as well as more contemporary works by Clay Shirky, Malcolm Gladwell and Alissa Quart. Questions that this class will examine include: what are the different ways in which activism has been defined, practiced and justified? To what degree do new forms of activism expand on or refute more traditional forms of activism? How do social movements define, shape and challenge activists? What are some inherent problems within activist groups, and what are some of the challenges facing activists today?