GENERAL PHYSICS I LAB

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.

• Department: Physics
• R 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• R 4:10 p.m.-7:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Giuseppina C Cambareri
  Info
• 1 points

GENERAL PHYSICS I LAB

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.

• Department: Physics
• R 4:10 p.m.-7:10 p.m.
• R 7:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Giuseppina C Cambareri
  Info
• 1 points

GENERAL PHYSICS I LAB

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.

• Department: Physics
• R 7:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
• F 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Giuseppina C Cambareri
  Info
• 1 points

GENERAL PHYSICS I LAB

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.

• Department: Physics
• F 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Giuseppina C Cambareri
  Info
• 1 points

THE HUDSON: AMERICA'S RIVER

THE HUDSON: "AMERICA'S RIVER"

Called "America's River," the Hudson not only runs right behind our campus, but right through American history. Throughout American history the Hudson River has been a complex social and cultural entity, simultaneously a commercial conduit, a historic place at the center of the American Revolution, an industrial resource, and a privileged site for aesthetic experiences and the as birthplace of modern environmentalism. In this course you will explore the Hudson in relationship to the varied historical communities which have made meaning with it, identifying its contributions to discourses of nation and nature, but also race, gender, art and science. Readings will include literary works by Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper as well as essays and poems on subjects from fairies to trees to architecture to railroad travel. Close analysis of works of architecture, landscape design, and the iconic paintings of the Hudson River School will be accompanied by an exploration of the various methods for "reading" these objects and paintings. Visits to Museum collections and to sites along the river will be an important part of the curriculum.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Hutchinson
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 3 points

THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS

The focus on the “middle class” in American politics is not new.  Indeed, the size and (seeming) success of the American middle class has long been treated as a mark of American exceptionalism. Why is the “middle class” so important in American politics? What does its much-reported decline mean? What, for that matter, is the middle class—a subdivision of American income? Personal rank? Status? If the middle class is such an important site of economic, social and political aspiration, why is it also so often a site for scathing criticism and cutting satire about the challenges of modern (suburban) life? What do we think about when we think about the middle class?

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Michelle R Smith
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

ELEMENTARY ARMENIAN I

In Elementary Armenian I, students learn the Armenian script and the basic grammar that will enable them to communicate about topics relating to themselves and their immediate surroundings: family, school, daily occupations, describing people, expressing likes and dislikes, requesting and giving information about themselves and others, proper forms of greetings, etc. They also begin to read signs, advertisements, and develop the skills to read texts like short stories and Armenian fables. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Charry Karamanoukian
  Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED CONVERSATION I

ADV ITALIAN CONVERSATION I

Prerequisites:
ITAL W1222
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.

• Department: Italian
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Patrizia Palumbo
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 2 points

INTERMEDIATE ARMENIAN I

Prerequisites:
MDES W1310-W1311
or the equivalent.
A continuation of the study of reading, writing and speaking of Armenian. In Intermediate Armenian I, 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.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Charry Karamanoukian
  Info
• 4 points

INTRODUCTORY EAR-TRAINING

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.

• Department: Music
• MW 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• TR 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Luke Schwartz
  Info
• Instructor: Richard N Miller
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 1 points

COMP ELEM PORT I/II-SPAN SPKRS

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.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• MW 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jose A Castellanos-Pazos
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 4 points

MODERN I

Open to all beginning dancers.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 9 a.m.-10 a.m.
• TR 9 a.m.-10 a.m.
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Vincent McCloskey
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Jenna Reigel
  Info
• Instructor: Caitlin Trainor
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 0-1 points

WOMEN AND CULTURE I

This course investigates key intellectual moments in the rich literary history that originated in classical Greece and Rome and continues to inspire some the the world's greatest masterpieces. Close readings of works reveal how psychological and ideological paradigms, including the self and civilization, shift over time, while the historical trajectory of the course invites inquiry into the myth of progress at the heart of canonicity. Texts include: Aeschylus, Oresteia; Hymn to Demeter; Ovid, Metamorphoses; Sei Shonagon, The Pillow Book; Marie de France, Lais; Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales; Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, selected poetry; Shakespeare, As You Like It; Aphra Behn, Oroonoko; and Lady Hyegyong, The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel Abramowitz
  Info
• 3 points

MODERN II

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Colleen Thomas
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Jodi Melnick
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 0-1 points

AMERICAN CIVLZTN TO CIVIL WAR

The major theological and social concerns of 17th-century English colonists; the political and ideological process of defining an American; the social and economic forces that shaped a distinctive national identity; the nature of the regional conflicts that culminated in civil war.

• Department: Auditing
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Herbert E Sloan
  CULPA: 29 Info
• 0 points

AMERICAN CIVLZTN TO CIVIL WAR

The major theological and social concerns of 17th-century English colonists; the political and ideological process of defining an American; the social and economic forces that shaped a distinctive national identity; the nature of the regional conflicts that culminated in civil war.

• Department: History @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Herbert E Sloan
  CULPA: 29 Info
• 3 points

ELEMENTARY SANSKRIT I

An introduction to classical Sanskrit. Grammar, and reading of texts. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Guy Leavitt
  Info
• 4 points

INTRO TO MECHANICS & THERMO

Corequisites:
MATH V1101
or the equivalent.
Fundamental laws of mechanics, kinematics and dynamics, work and energy, rotational dynamics, oscillations, gravitation, fluids, temperature and heat, gas laws, the first and second laws of thermodynamics.

• Department: Physics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Charles J Hailey
  CULPA: 42 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: William A Zajc
  CULPA: 16 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO PRINTMAKING

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.

• Department: Visual Arts
• MW 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Seth A Scantlen
  Info
• 3 points

EARTH, MOON, AND PLANETS

EARTH, MOON, AND PLANETS-LECT

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.

• Department: Astronomy
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: James H Applegate
  CULPA: 44 Info
• 3 points

GENERAL CHEMISTRY I-LECTURES

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.

• Department: Chemistry
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Gerard F Parkin
  CULPA: 30 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Jonathan S Owen
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 40 Info
• Instructor: Ruben M Savizky
  CULPA: 22 Info
• Instructor: Robert Beer
  CULPA: 22 Info
• 3.5 points

GENERAL PHYSICS-LECTURES

INTRO-CLASSCL & QUANTUM WAVES

Prerequisites:
PHYS W1402
.
Corequisites:
MATH V1201
or the equivalent.
Classical waves and the wave equation, Fourier series and integrals, normal modes, wave-particle duality, the uncertainty principle, basic principles of quantum mechanics, energy levels, reflection and transmission coefficients, applications to atomic physics.

• Department: Physics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Gustaaf Brooijmans
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 3 points

EMERGING SCHOLARS PROG SEMINAR

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.

• Department: Computer Science
• F 12:15 p.m.-1:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam H Cannon
  CULPA: 81 Info
• 1 points

INTERMEDIATE SANSKRIT I

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.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Guy Leavitt
  Info
• 4 points

INTRO TO MECH & THERMO - REC

• Department: Physics
• R 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• R 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• F 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• F 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• F 10 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• F 11 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• F 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• M 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• M 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• M 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• R 7:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Charles J Hailey
  CULPA: 42 Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

GENERAL CHEMISTRY I - REC

GENERAL CHEMISTRY - REC

• Department: Chemistry
• M 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• M 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• M 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• M 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• M 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• T 9 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Gerard F Parkin
  CULPA: 30 Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

GENERAL CHEMISTRY I - REC

• Department: Chemistry
• W noon-12:50 p.m.
• W 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• W 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Gerard F Parkin
  CULPA: 30 Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

GENERAL CHEMISTRY I - REC

• Department: Chemistry
• T 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• T 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• T 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• T 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• R noon-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan S Owen
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 40 Info
• 0 points

GENERAL CHEMISTRY I - REC

• Department: Chemistry
• R noon-12:50 p.m.
• R 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan S Owen
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 40 Info
• 0 points

GENERAL CHEMISTRY I - REC

• Department: Chemistry
• R 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• R 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan S Owen
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 40 Info
• 0 points

GENERAL CHEMISTRY I - REC

• Department: Chemistry
• T 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• T 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• T 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• T 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• W 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• R 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• R 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ruben M Savizky
  CULPA: 22 Info
• 0 points

GENERAL CHEMISTRY I - REC

• Department: Chemistry
• M 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Beer
  CULPA: 22 Info
• 0 points

GENERAL CHEMISTRY I - REC

• Department: Chemistry
• M 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Beer
  CULPA: 22 Info
• 0 points

GENERAL CHEMISTRY I - REC

• Department: Chemistry
• W 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 8:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Beer
  CULPA: 22 Info
• 0 points

GENERAL CHEMISTRY I - REC

• Department: Chemistry
• W 8:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Beer
  CULPA: 22 Info
• 0 points

GALAXIES AND COSMOLOGY

• Department: Astronomy
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jacqueline Van Gorkom
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

GALAXIES AND COSMOLOGY

Prerequisites: Working knowledge of high school algebra.
The content, structure, and possible evolution of galaxies. The '21-centimeter line': the song of interstellar hydrogen. Distribution mass, seen and unseen, in galaxies and clusters of galaxies. Distribution of clusters over the sky. Quasars and the nuclei of galaxies. The origin of the universe, and the present controversy over its eventual fate.

• Department: Auditing
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jacqueline Van Gorkom
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

TAP I

Prerequisites: BC1137, BC1138, BC1332, or BC1333, or permission of the Dance Department. Intermediate level in modern or ballet technique is required.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Margaret J Morrison
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 0-1 points

EXP PSYCH-SOC COG & EMOTION

Prerequisites:
PSYC W1001
or
PSYC W1010
, and a statistics course (
PSYC W1610
or the equivalent), or the instructor's permission.
Corequisites:
PSYC W1451
.
An introduction to research methods employed in the study of human social cognition and emotion. Students gain experience in the design and conduct of research, including ethical issues, observation and measurement techniques, interpretation of data, and preparation of written and oral reports.

• Department: Psychology
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Kevin Ochsner
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 86 Info
• 4 points

EXP PSYCH-SOC COG & EMOT-LAB

EXP PSYCH-SOC COG & EMOT LAB

Corequisites:
PSYC W1450
.
Required Lab for PSYC W1450.

• Department: Psychology
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• M 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Kevin Ochsner
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 86 Info
• 0 points

LITERATURE AND JUSTICE

In this seminar, we will examine a series of texts from the Western literary tradition--along with a few seminal works of classic and contemporary cinema--to consider how and why they thematize characters' quests for justice. From the ties of kinship to the bonds of citizenship, from the articulation to the deconstruction of transcendental moral codes, from the traumatic demands of law to the (often equally traumatic) exigencies of revenge, we will explore the many intricacies of "justice" as both an ubiquitous literary topos and an abiding ethical issue. Authors studied will include Aeschylus, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Molière, the Marquis de Sade, Heinrich von Kleist, Franz Kafka, Jean Anouilh, Jean-Paul Sartre, W.H. Auden and Martin Amis. Secondary readings will be drawn primarily from philosophical and psychoanalytic sources, such as G.W.F. Hegel, Heinz Kohut, and Jacques Lacan. Along with filmed adaptations of our primary literary works, we will view and discuss the movies Claude Lanzmann's "Shoah" and Joel Schumacher's "Falling Down."

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Caroline Weber
  CULPA: 8 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

THE BEAUTIFUL SEA

Consideration of mostly American texts that--and writers who--share a central engagement with the sea, seafaring and coastal life. Particular attention to the sea as workplace and as escape. Texts include Homer, The Odyssey; the Book of Jonah; St. Brendan, Navigations; Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation; Mather, "Surprising Sea Deliverances"; Franklin, "Maritime Observations"; Dana, Two Years Before the Mast; Melville, Moby-Dick, or The Whale; Thoreau, Cape Cod; Twain, Life on the Mississippi; Chopin, The Awakening; Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs; Slocum, Sailing Alone Around the World; Beston, The Outermost House; Carson, Under the Sea Wind; Rich, "Diving into the Wreck"; Casey, Spartina.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Robert A McCaughey
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 3 points

ON DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES

In the dead of night it is not uncommon for even the most socially staid of individuals to fly, to ride an elephant at breakneck speed, to visit with the dead, or to expose themselves in public. Ancient Egyptians struggled to understand how and why we dream, as have countless individuals in other times and cultures. Some thinkers, ancient and modern, have dismissed dreams as essentially meaningless byproducts of natural processes. Others have taken dreams seriously as a primary means of access to an ordinarily imperceivable world in which one can commune with spirits and deities and receive from them valuable information about future events or even one's own health. The implications of this belief have led to vigorous theological debates as to whose dreams may be trusted (and, alternatively, whose need to be actively suppressed). From Freud onward, many have felt that dreams offer the key not to other worlds but to the complicated realm of the psyche. Over the course of our semester we'll look at how scientists, philosophers, hypochondriacs, pious pagans and monotheists, opium addicts, psychologists, playwrights, novelists, artists, and film directors have understood dreams and been inspired by them. Authors whose works we'll read include Aristotle, Cicero, Chung Tzu, Freud, Carl Jung, Andre Breton, H.P. Lovecraft, Jorge Borges, Ursula Le Guin, Neil Gaimon, and many others. Special attention will likewise be paid to the phenomenon of lucid dreaming and to the immense influence this practice has had on the creative output of both writers and filmmakers.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ellen Morris
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO EXPERIMENTAL PHYS-LAB

Prerequisites:
PHYS W1401
and
W1402
.
Laboratory work associated with the two prerequisite lecture courses. Experiments in mechanics, thermodynamics, electricity, magnetism, optics, wave motion, atomic physics, and nuclear physics. Note: Students cannot receive credit for both PHYS W1493 and W1494.

• Department: Physics
• T 4:10 p.m.-7:10 p.m.
• T 7:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
• W 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-7:10 p.m.
• W 7:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
• R 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points