SENIOR THESIS IN MATHEMATICS II

SENIOR THESIS MATHEMATICS

Majors in Mathematics are offered the opportunity to write an honors senior thesis under the guidance of a faculty member. Interested students should contact a faculty member to determine an appropriate topic, and receive written approval from the faculty advisor and the Director of Undergraduate Studies (faculty sponsorship is limited to full-time instructors on the staff list). Research is conducted primarily during the fall term; the final paper is submitted to the Director of Undergraduate Studies during the subsequent spring term.

MATH UN3994 SENIOR THESIS IN MATHEMATICS I must be taken in the fall term, during which period the student conducts primary research on the agreed topic. An optional continuation course MATH UN3995 SENIOR THESIS IN MATHEMATICS II is available during the spring. The second term of this sequence may not be taken without the first. Registration for the spring continuation course has no impact on the timeline or outcome of the final paper.

Sections of SENIOR THESIS IN MATHEMATICS I and II do NOT count towards the major requirements, with the exception of an advanced written approval by the DUS.

• Department: Mathematics @Barnard
• Instructor: Faculty
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• 2 points

Religion Salon: New Directions

The Religion Salon is a one-point course in the Religion department, designed to offer students an introduction to new areas of the academic study of religion and/or new approaches to the field. The Religion Salon will be offered as a supplement to an existing course offered in the same semester and will be open to (but not required of) the students in that existing course as well as to students who wish to take the Salon as a stand-alone one-point course. The Religion Salon will feature guest scholars whose research and teaching extend into new areas and/or engage in new approaches to the academic study of religion.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• Instructor: Hussein Rashid
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 1 points

NEW DIRECTIONS IN COMPUTING

BUILDING USABLE SECURITY

This is an undergraduate seminar for special topics in computing arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis.  Participation requires permission of the instructor.  Since the content of this course changes each time it is offered, it may be repeated for credit.

• Department: Computer Science @Barnard
• T 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Lucy Simko
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• 1-3 points

NEW DIRECTIONS IN COMPUTING

AI & MEDICAL APPLICATIONS

This is an undergraduate seminar for special topics in computing arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis.  Participation requires permission of the instructor.  Since the content of this course changes each time it is offered, it may be repeated for credit.

• Department: Computer Science @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Murad Megjhani
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• 1-3 points

NEW DIRECTIONS IN COMPUTING

AI & 1921 TULSA MASSACRE

This is an undergraduate seminar for special topics in computing arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis.  Participation requires permission of the instructor.  Since the content of this course changes each time it is offered, it may be repeated for credit.

• Department: Computer Science @Barnard
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Corey Toler-Franklin
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• 1-3 points

SENIOR SEMINAR IN COMP LI

Designed for students writing a senior thesis and doing advanced research on two central literary fields in the students major. The course of study and reading material will be determined by the instructor(s) in consultation with students(s).

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Emily Sun
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• 4 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: the written permission of the faculty member who agrees to act as a supervisor, and the director of undergraduate studies permission. For specially selected mathematics majors, the opportunity to write a senior thesis on a problem in contemporary mathematics under the supervision of a faculty member.

• Department: Mathematics @Barnard
• Instructor: Faculty
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• 1-4 points

SENIOR THESIS IN PERFORMANCE

SR THESIS/PERF: ACTING

Prerequisites: Appropriate coursework and substantial production experience, including a major crew assignment in the junior year. Enrollment limited to senior Theatre majors. Combined and special majors may be considered under exceptional circumstances. Permission of the instructor required. Students register for this course to pursue approved theses in acting, design, directing, dramaturgy, solo performance, or stage and production management.

Students will act in, direct, design, stage manage or dramaturg a play in the Barnard Department of Theatre season, or write a short play or solo performance piece that will be produced (according to departmental guidelines) in the Senior Thesis Festival. Collaboration is expected and students will meet weekly with faculty and other seniors. A written proposal must be submitted in the spring of the junior year and be approved. In addition to the performance, an extensive written Casebook is required: see departmental guidelines.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Crystal Finn
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• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS IN PERFORMANCE

SR THESIS/PERF: DESIGN

Prerequisites: Appropriate coursework and substantial production experience, including a major crew assignment in the junior year. Enrollment limited to senior Theatre majors. Combined and special majors may be considered under exceptional circumstances. Permission of the instructor required. Students register for this course to pursue approved theses in acting, design, directing, dramaturgy, solo performance, or stage and production management.

Students will act in, direct, design, stage manage or dramaturg a play in the Barnard Department of Theatre season, or write a short play or solo performance piece that will be produced (according to departmental guidelines) in the Senior Thesis Festival. Collaboration is expected and students will meet weekly with faculty and other seniors. A written proposal must be submitted in the spring of the junior year and be approved. In addition to the performance, an extensive written Casebook is required: see departmental guidelines.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• F 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Sandra Goldmark
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• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS IN PERFORMANCE

SR THESIS/PERF: STG MGT

Prerequisites: Appropriate coursework and substantial production experience, including a major crew assignment in the junior year. Enrollment limited to senior Theatre majors. Combined and special majors may be considered under exceptional circumstances. Permission of the instructor required. Students register for this course to pursue approved theses in acting, design, directing, dramaturgy, solo performance, or stage and production management.

Students will act in, direct, design, stage manage or dramaturg a play in the Barnard Department of Theatre season, or write a short play or solo performance piece that will be produced (according to departmental guidelines) in the Senior Thesis Festival. Collaboration is expected and students will meet weekly with faculty and other seniors. A written proposal must be submitted in the spring of the junior year and be approved. In addition to the performance, an extensive written Casebook is required: see departmental guidelines.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• F 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Banta
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• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS IN PERFORMANCE

SR THESIS/PERF: DIRECTING

Prerequisites: Appropriate coursework and substantial production experience, including a major crew assignment in the junior year. Enrollment limited to senior Theatre majors. Combined and special majors may be considered under exceptional circumstances. Permission of the instructor required. Students register for this course to pursue approved theses in acting, design, directing, dramaturgy, solo performance, or stage and production management.

Students will act in, direct, design, stage manage or dramaturg a play in the Barnard Department of Theatre season, or write a short play or solo performance piece that will be produced (according to departmental guidelines) in the Senior Thesis Festival. Collaboration is expected and students will meet weekly with faculty and other seniors. A written proposal must be submitted in the spring of the junior year and be approved. In addition to the performance, an extensive written Casebook is required: see departmental guidelines.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• F 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Shannon M Sindelar
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• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS IN PERFORMANCE

SR THESIS/PERF: PLAYWRITING

Prerequisites: Appropriate coursework and substantial production experience, including a major crew assignment in the junior year. Enrollment limited to senior Theatre majors. Combined and special majors may be considered under exceptional circumstances. Permission of the instructor required. Students register for this course to pursue approved theses in acting, design, directing, dramaturgy, solo performance, or stage and production management.

Students will act in, direct, design, stage manage or dramaturg a play in the Barnard Department of Theatre season, or write a short play or solo performance piece that will be produced (according to departmental guidelines) in the Senior Thesis Festival. Collaboration is expected and students will meet weekly with faculty and other seniors. A written proposal must be submitted in the spring of the junior year and be approved. In addition to the performance, an extensive written Casebook is required: see departmental guidelines.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew Bragen
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• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS IN PERFORMANCE

SR THESIS/PERF: SOLO PERF

Prerequisites: Appropriate coursework and substantial production experience, including a major crew assignment in the junior year. Enrollment limited to senior Theatre majors. Combined and special majors may be considered under exceptional circumstances. Permission of the instructor required. Students register for this course to pursue approved theses in acting, design, directing, dramaturgy, solo performance, or stage and production management.

Students will act in, direct, design, stage manage or dramaturg a play in the Barnard Department of Theatre season, or write a short play or solo performance piece that will be produced (according to departmental guidelines) in the Senior Thesis Festival. Collaboration is expected and students will meet weekly with faculty and other seniors. A written proposal must be submitted in the spring of the junior year and be approved. In addition to the performance, an extensive written Casebook is required: see departmental guidelines.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Kyle Decamp
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• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS IN PERFORMANCE

SR THESIS/PERF: DRAMATURGY

Prerequisites: Appropriate coursework and substantial production experience, including a major crew assignment in the junior year. Enrollment limited to senior Theatre majors. Combined and special majors may be considered under exceptional circumstances. Permission of the instructor required. Students register for this course to pursue approved theses in acting, design, directing, dramaturgy, solo performance, or stage and production management.

Students will act in, direct, design, stage manage or dramaturg a play in the Barnard Department of Theatre season, or write a short play or solo performance piece that will be produced (according to departmental guidelines) in the Senior Thesis Festival. Collaboration is expected and students will meet weekly with faculty and other seniors. A written proposal must be submitted in the spring of the junior year and be approved. In addition to the performance, an extensive written Casebook is required: see departmental guidelines.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• F 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Alice A Reagan
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• 4 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

• Department: Anthropology
• Instructor: Vanessa L Agard-Jones
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 2-6 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Prerequisites: Permission of program director in the semester prior to that of independent study.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• Instructor: Kadambari Baxi
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• Instructor: Karen Fairbanks
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• Instructor: Ralph Ghoche
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• Instructor: Ignacio Gonzalez Galan
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• Instructor: Anooradha I Siddiqi
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• 1-4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR IN ENGLISH

SR SEM: LABOR,LANGUAGE,AI

Enrollment is limited to Barnard senior English majors. To see the current course description for each section, visit the English Department website:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/senior-seminars

• Department: English @Barnard
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan L Beller
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR IN ENGLISH

SR SEM: PERSIAN&WORLD LIT

Enrollment is limited to Barnard senior English majors. To see the current course description for each section, visit the English Department website:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/senior-seminars

• Department: English @Barnard
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Atefeh Akbari Shahmirzadi
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• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR IN ENGLISH

SR SEM: SINGING IN DARK

Enrollment is limited to Barnard senior English majors. To see the current course description for each section, visit the English Department website:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/senior-seminars

• Department: English @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Ken Chen
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• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR IN ENGLISH

Enrollment is limited to Barnard senior English majors. To see the current course description for each section, visit the English Department website:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/senior-seminars

• Department: English @Barnard
• M 5:40 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Eugene A Petracca
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• 4 points

SENIOR RESEARCH SEMINAR

Working research seminar devoted to helping students produce a substantive piece of writing that will represent the culmination of their work at the College and in the major.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Meghan E Hartman
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• 4 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: the department's permission. Supervised Individual Research

• Department: Slavic Languages @Barnard
• Instructor: John C Wright
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 2-4 points

SENIOR THESIS IN RESEARCH

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to senior Theatre majors. Combined and special majors may be considered under exceptional circumstances. Permission of the instructor required. In-depth research project culminating in a substantial written thesis on any aspect of drama, performance, or theatre research.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• Instructor: William B Worthen
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS SEM IN ANTHROPOL

Prerequisites: The instructors permission. Students must have declared a major in Anthropology prior to registration. Students must have a 3.6 GPA in the major and a preliminary project concept in order to be considered. Interested students must communicate/meet with thesis instructor in the previous spring about the possibility of taking the course during the upcoming academic year. Additionally, expect to discuss with the instructor at the end of the fall term whether your project has progressed far enough to be completed in the spring term. If it has not, you will exit the seminar after one semester, with a grade based on the work completed during the fall term. This two-term course is a combination of a seminar and a workshop that will help you conduct research, write, and present an original senior thesis in anthropology. Students who write theses are eligible to be considered for departmental honors. The first term of this course introduces a variety of approaches used to produce anthropological knowledge and writing; encourages students to think critically about the approaches they take to researching and writing by studying model texts with an eye to the ethics, constraints, and potentials of anthropological research and writing; and gives students practice in the seminar and workshop formats that are key to collegial exchange and refinement of ideas. During the first term, students complete a few short exercises that will culminate in a substantial draft of one discrete section of their senior project (18-20 pages) plus a detailed outline of the expected work that remains to be done (5 pages). The spring sequence of the anthropology thesis seminar is a writing intensive continuation of the fall semester, in which students will have designed the research questions, prepared a full thesis proposal that will serve as a guide for the completion of the thesis and written a draft of one chapter. Only those students who expect to have completed the fall semester portion of the course are allowed to register for the spring; final enrollment is contingent upon successful completion of first semester requirements. In spring semester, weekly meetings will be devoted to the collaborative refinement of drafts, as well as working through issues of writing (evidence, voice, authority etc.). All enrolled students are required to present their project at a symposium in the late spring, and the final grade is based primarily on successful completion of the thesis/ capstone project. Note: The senior thesis seminar is open t

• Department: Anthropology
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Lila Abu-Lughod
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info
• 4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Prerequisites: Open to majors who have fulfilled basic major requirements or written permission of the staff member who will supervise the project. Specialized reading and research projects planned in consultation with members of the Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures teaching staff.

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• Instructor: Rachel McDermott
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• Instructor: David L Moerman
  CULPA: 18 Info
• Instructor: Nicholas A Bartlett
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Matthew L Keegan
  CULPA: 8 Info
• Instructor: Lili Xia
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• Instructor: Nathanael P Shelley
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 1-4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required. Examines the theory and practice of transnational feminist activism. We will explore the ways in which race, class, culture and nationality facilitate alliances among women, reproduce hierarchical power relations, and help reconstruct gender. The course covers a number of topics: the African Diaspora, suffrage, labor, development policy, colonialism, trafficking, consumerism, Islam, and the criminal justice system.

• Department: History @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Matthew Delvaux
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• Instructor: Dale Booth
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• 1-4 points

INDIVIDUAL STUDY II

Prerequisites: open only to qualified majors in the department; the director of undergraduate studies permission is required. An opportunity for research under the direction of an individual faculty member. Students intending to write a year-long senior thesis should plan to register for C3996 in the spring semester of their senior year and are strongly advised to consult the undergraduate studies as they plan their programs.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• Instructor: Deborah Becher
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 4 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth Bernstein
  CULPA: 27 Info
• Instructor: Maricarmen Hernandez
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• Instructor: Debra Minkoff
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Mignon R Moore
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Jonathan Rieder
  CULPA: 17 Info
• Instructor: Angela Simms
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• Instructor: Amy Zhou
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• Instructor: Randa B Serhan
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 1-6 points

ADVANCED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS

ADV GEOGRAPHIC INFO SYSTE

Prerequisite: Successful completion of URBS UN2200 Introduction to GIS Methods, or equivalent with instructor permission.

With the veritable explosion of urban data alongside the continued proliferation of new tools for its consideration, this course allows students to develop specialized approaches to spatial analysis while introducing a series of common advanced techniques and nuanced methodological questions. Aimed at covering a variety of topics with immediate relevance to urbanism in practice and in research, the course operates with a two-fold mission: (1) to critically discuss the theories, concepts, and research methods involved in spatial analysis and (2) to learn the techniques necessary for engaging those theories and deploying those methods. The class will work to meet this mission with a dedicated focus on the urban environment and the spatial particularities and relationships that arise from the urban context.

Among others, this course takes as a foundational premise that spatial analysis within geographic information systems is an incredibly powerful and double-edged weapon: it provides both the methods for answering complex spatial questions and the means for effectively communicating the results. Like any other weapon it can serve many ends, and as such an advanced course in spatial analysis must frame its use within the developing discourse on professional practice and responsibility.

The course is designed with a combination format. Early weeks are predominantly lecture-style presentations supplemented with discussion and technical demonstration and exercises. Students are expected to complete these exercises outside of class (as homework), bringing their questions to our discussion. The latter half of the course is a project-based seminar. Seminar-style presentation and discussion will rely heavily on student participation and preparation to consider the variety of spatial methods available and their implications on urban research and intervention. Woven throughout the semester is the development of a self-driven research project, through which students will engage and compare the methodological advantages and disadvantages of several assumptions, approaches, analyses, and datasets.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Leah M Meisterlin
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• 3 points

ADVANCED GENETIC ANALYSIS

Prerequisites: for undergraduates: Introductory Genetics (W3031) and the instructors permission. This seminar course provides a detailed presentation of areas in classical and molecular genetics for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students. Topics include transmission genetics, gain and loss of function mutations, genetic redundancy, suppressors, enhancers, epistasis, expression patterns, using transposons, and genome analysis. The course is a mixture of lectures, student presentations, seminar discussions, and readings from the original literature.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• M 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Martin Chalfie
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Advanced Ukrainian Through Literature, M

ADVANCED UKRAINIAN

This course is organized around a number of thematic centers or modules. Each is focused on stylistic peculiarities typical of a given functional style of the Ukrainian language. Each is designed to assist the student in acquiring an active command of lexical, grammatical, discourse, and stylistic traits that distinguish one style from the others and actively using them in real-life communicative settings in contemporary Ukraine. The styles include literary fiction, scholarly prose, and journalism, both printed and broadcast

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Yuri Shevchuk
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

Holocaust Literature: Critical Thinking

Holocaust Lit: Critical T

How do you write literature in the midst of catastrophe? To whom do you write if you don’t know whether your readership will survive? Or that you yourself will survive? How do you theorize society when the social fabric is tearing apart? How do you develop a concept of human rights at a time when mass extermination is deemed legal? How do you write Jewish history when Jewish future seems uncertain?

This course offers a survey of the literature and intellectual history written during World War II (1939-1945) both in Nazi occupied Europe and in the free world, written primarily, but not exclusively, by Jews. We will read novels, poems, science fiction, historical fiction, legal theory and social theory and explore how intellectuals around the world responded to the extermination of European Jewry as it happened and how they changed their understanding of what it means to be a public intellectual, what it means to be Jewish, and what it means to be human.

The aim of the course is threefold. First, it offers a survey of the Jewish experience during WWII, in France, Russia, Poland, Latvia, Romania, Greece, Palestine, Morocco, Iraq, the USSR, Argentina, and the United States. Second, it introduces some of the major contemporary debates in holocaust studies. Finally, it provides a space for a methodological reflection on how literary analysis, cultural studies, and historical research intersect.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Offer Dynes
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• 3 points

MOLECULR/CELL BIO OF NUTRIENTS

Second Term. Explores molecular and cellular mechanisms of nutrient action. Six major foci of modern nutritional science. These include the actions of nutrients in transcriptional regulation, in signaling pathways, on intra- and extracellular trafficking, in assuring normal development, in the maintance of antioxidant defences and nutrient/gene interations.

• Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
• R 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Lori M Zeltser
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• 3 points

Semantics

This course provides an introduction to semantics, the study of meaning in language. We will explore a range of semantic phenomena, and students will learn the tools and techniques of formal semantic analysis as well as core concepts, goals, and findings of the field.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Meredith Landman
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

Bible, Literature, Theory

This class aims to introduce the students to the field of Bible and Literature, with special attention to the Hebrew Bible and to Literary Theory. We will read portions of
Genesis, Numbers, Jonah, Hosea, Ezekiel, Esther, Mark,
and
Revelations
, and discuss it in tandem with literary theory as well as 20th Century literary texts. Literary theory, this class will argue, is central for our understanding of the Bible, and, at the same time, the Biblical text is essential for the manner in which we theorize literature. Our discussion will be guided by four loosely interconnected questions: What insights can we gain about the theology of the Biblical text from a literary analysis? What happens to theological ideas once they are dramatized and narrativized? In what way can modern literary adaptations of the Bible contribute to our understanding of the Biblical text? How does the Bible challenge and trouble some of the perceived ideas of literary theory?

The syllabus is divided into three units. The first unit —
Bible and Literature in Theory,
offers a survey of some of the scholarly approaches to the intersection of literature and theology. We will read theory that interrogates the intersection of theological and literary concepts, focusing on omniscience, authorship, temporality, characterization, and plot. The second unit —
Literature as Biblical Exegesis,
shifts the focus to a reading of Biblical texts in tandem with their modern literary and cinematic interpretations, focusing on
Job
and
Esther
.  What, we will ask, happen to the Biblical world once it is being refracted through a modern sensibility? How can we take literature seriously as Biblical hermeneutics? The third unit —
Recent Directions,
introduces some of the recent directions in the field, focusing on how literature imagines the relationship between Bible, archeology, and modernity, as well as on the intersection of Biblical literature, fantasy, and science fiction.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Offer Dynes
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• 3 points

SOV UKRAINIAN MODERNISM: REV, REB, EXPER

SOVIET UKRAINIAN MODERNIS

This course studies the renaissance in Ukrainian culture of the 1920s - a period of revolution, experimentation, vibrant expression and polemics. Focusing on the most important developments in literature, as well as on the intellectual debates they inspired, the course will also examine the major achievements in Ukrainian theater, visual art and film as integral components of the cultural spirit that defined the era. Additionally, the course also looks at the subsequent implementation of the socialist realism and its impact on Ukrainian culture and on the cultural leaders of the renaissance. The course treats one of the most important periods of Ukrainian culture and examines it lasting impact on today's Ukraine. This period produced several world-renowned cultural figures, whose connections with the 1920s Ukraine have only recently begun to be discussed. The course will be complemented by film screenings, presentations of visual art and rare publications from this period. Entirely in English with a parallel reading list for those who read Ukrainian.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Andryczyk
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• 3 points

Chekhov and Others

We will explore Anton Chekhov’s work on its own terms, in its cultural context, and in relation to the work of others, especially Anglophone writers who responded, directly or indirectly, to Chekhov and his work. Readings by Chekhov include selected stories (short and long), his four major plays, and
Sakhalin Island,
his study of the Russian penal colony.

There are no prerequisites.  Knowledge of Russian is not required; all readings in English.

Students who know Russian are encouraged to read Chekhov’s work in Russian.

The course will be comparative as it addresses Chekhov on his own and in relation to anglophone writers.

The course is open to undergraduates (CC, GS, BC) and graduates in GSAS and other schools. The attention to
how
Chekhov writes may interest students in the School of the Arts.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Liza Knapp
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 3 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

Intensive study of a philosophical issue or topic, or of a philosopher, group of philosophers, or philosophical school or movement. Open only to Barnard senior philosophy majors.

• Department: Philosophy @Barnard
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Karen Lewis
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• 4 points

Effective Global Leadership for Economic

Effective Global Leadership II

These two-part mid-career global leadership development courses (1.5 credit course in the summer and spring) provide intensive, collaborative, and highly interactive hands-on instruction, constructive evaluation, and ample opportunities to transform theory into practice.  It utilizes cutting-edge, research-based methodologies and customized case studies to build the next generation of leaders that turn differences into opportunities, ideas into solutions, and knowledge into action.  Students will acquire a variety of leadership skills in global contexts, including cross-cultural negotiation strategies, consensus building, collaborative facilitation, persuasion, inclusionary leadership, design-thinking-based problem-solving techniques, and public speaking in knowledge-intensive industries.  They will gain a competitive edge in their professional careers by participating in a variety of simulation games, role-playing exercises, and mock public policy panels to apply the skills they have learned and receive valuable feedback.

• Department: MPA IN ECON POLICY MANAGEMENT
• 1.5 points

SENIOR ESSAY

A substantial paper, developing from an Autumn workshop and continuing into the Spring under the direction of an individual adviser. Open only to Barnard senior philosophy majors.

• Department: Philosophy @Barnard
• Instructor: Francey Russell
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• 3 points

AESTHETICS:EXPER & EXPRESSION

• Department: Philosophy @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher P Prodoehl
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• 3 points

INTRO MODERN ANALYSIS I

Prerequisites: MATH UN1202 or the equivalent, and MATH UN2010. The second term of this course may not be taken without the first. Real numbers, metric spaces, elements of general topology, sequences and series, continuity, differentiation, integration, uniform convergence, Ascoli-Arzela theorem, Stone-Weierstrass theorem.

• Department: Mathematics @Barnard
• Instructor: Faculty
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• 3 points

TOPICS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE

Please refer to Institute for African American and African Diaspora Studies Department for section-by-section course descriptions.

• Department: African American and African Diaspora
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Johanna F Almiron
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• Instructor: Vivaldi Jean-Marie
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• 4 points

ANCIENT AND MODERN RNA WORLDS

Ancient and Modern RNA Wo

RNA has recently taken center stage with the discovery that RNA molecules sculpt the landscape and information contained within our genomes. Furthermore, some ancient RNA molecules combine the roles of both genotype and phenotype into a single molecule. These multi-tasking RNAs offering a possible solution to the paradox of which came first: DNA or proteins. This seminar explores the link between modern RNA, metabolism, and insights into a prebiotic RNA world that existed some 3.8 billion years ago. Topics include the origin of life, replication, and the origin of the genetic code; conventional, new, and bizarre forms of RNA processing; structure, function and evolution of key RNA molecules, including the ribosome, and RNA therapeutics including vaccines. The format will be weekly seminar discussions with presentations. Readings will be taken from the primary literature, emphasizing seminal and recent literature. Requirements will be student presentations, class participation, and a final paper.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Laura Landweber
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• 3 points

Survey of Latin Literature

This course provides a survey of Latin literature.  It aims to improve students’ reading skills, familiarize them with some of the most canonical works of Latin literature, afford them a sense of Latin literary history, and introduce them to modern methodological approaches.  Readings are drawn from the Classics Ph.D. reading list.

• Department: Classics
• MW 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Katharina Volk
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

(Y)OUR LONGER LIFE

People are living 30 years longer than we did 100 years ago. We have created a whole new stage of life. How do we prepare to benefit from our longer lives? What can you do in your own life? This course explores the personal, population, community, and societal dimensions of our now-longer lives, of aging itself, and the role of health and societal design in the experience of aging. The course examines the meaning of aging and the attendant expectations, myths, fears, and realities. The course examines an aging society as a public health success, the potential for building health futures, the health plan you want to be healthy in old age, and the potential for longer lives and how we unlock it. It addresses the roles public health currently plays and can play in shaping a society for an aging population. The course explores how a public health system—indeed, a society—optimized for an aging population stands to benefit all. The course also examines the physical, cognitive, and psychological aspects of aging, the exposures across our lives that affect these, the attributes and challenges of aging, keys to successful aging, and aging around the globe. The culminating project will design elements of our society that are needed to support the opportunity of having longer lives. This course comprises lectures, class discussions, individual assignments, in-class case activities, and a group project in which students shall take an active role. You will be responsible for regular preparatory assignments, writing assignments, one group project, and attending course sessions. Please note: GSAS students must receive permission from their department before registering for this course.

• Department: Columbia College
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Dana March
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

ELEMENTARY UGARITIC I

• Department: Language Resource Center
• Instructor: Stephane A Charitos
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

GENDER IN ANC CHRISTIANITY

This seminar considers the difference gender makes in interpreting ancient Christian texts, ideas, and practices. Topics will include gender hierarchy and homoeroticism, prophecy and authority, outsiders’ views of Christianity, bodily pieties such as martyrdom and asceticism, and gender politics in the establishment of church offices. Emphasis will be placed on close readings of primary sources and selected scholarly framings of these sources.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Castelli
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

LIT THRY:NIETZSCHE-AGAMBEN(ENG)

LIT THRY:NIETZSCHE-AGAMBEN-ENG

A survey of the most influential literary theories of the twentieth century, this seminar will discuss seminal contributions to hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, structuralism, deconstruction, discourse analysis, and gender theory. Each section will juxtapose two representative authors whose texts either complement or contradict one another. Based on close readings of exemplary texts, we will explore basic concepts of these theories and examine their intersections and differences. A second focal point of the seminar will be on applications of theory to literature. We will analyze their reformulation as methodologies in literary studies and discuss how they influenced different approaches to literature. The aim of the seminar will ultimately be to scrutinize critically these “applications” of theory to literature. Readings and discussions in English. No prior knowledge of literary theories required.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Oliver Simons
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

Auteur Study: Steven Spielberg

The world’s most influential living film director and the most impactful creator of

popular culture in the last quarter of the Twentieth Century is a Jewish-American. Steven

Spielberg’s uncanny grasp of visual storytelling and his auteurist signature can be found

on every film he has directed, as well as many he has produced. This course will analyze

the content and formal construction of Spielberg’s films by following their thematic

through-lines – family ties (strained and healthy), the implacable threat, humanity at war,

man vs. the natural world, the child’s perspective, Jewish identity and others – in films as

disparate as Jaws and The Color Purple.

Each class meeting will include a complete screening of a feature film directed by Steven

Spielberg, as well as clips of related films by Spielberg. Readings will include critical

essays, histories, and interviews which elaborate on in-class screenings and cover

additional topics and films. Written assignments will be three analytical essays which

will encourage critical thinking, close analysis of film texts, and independent research

beyond the materials presented in class.

• Department: Institute for Israel & Jewish Studies
• M 10 a.m.-1:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Stuart Weinstock
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• 3 points

ETHICS IN BIOPHARM PAT/REG LAW

This course – the first of its kind at Columbia – introduces students to a vital subfield of ethics focusing on patent and regulatory law in the biotech and pharmaceutical sectors.  The course combines lectures, structured debate, and research to best present this fascinating and nuanced subject.  Properly exploring this branch of bioethics requires an in-depth understanding of biotech and pharmaceutical patent and regulatory law.  Students can gain this understanding by first completing Biotechnology Law (BIOT GU4160), formerly the prerequisite for this course.  Now, they can also gain it by reading the appropriate chapters of 
Biotechnology Law: A Primer for Scientists
 (the textbook for BIOT GU4160 published earlier this year) prior to each class.  A number of students in the biotechnology fields (such as those in biotechnology, biomedical engineering, and bioethics programs) have shown a keen interest over the years in taking this course, yet were unable to do so because they hadn’t taken BIOT GU4160.  Given the recent publication of 
Biotechnology Law
 and the desirability of making BIOT GU4161 accessible to more students having the appropriate science background, BIOT GU4160 has been removed as a prerequisite.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Alan J Morrison
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• 3 points

Transnational Feminisms-China and Beyond

Transntl Feminism-China/B

This is an interdisciplinary seminar for graduate students and advanced undergraduates to explore transnational feminisms, gender politics in China, and the movement of feminist (and anti-feminist) ideas across borders. We will read some translations of primary works by Chinese writers, as well as feminist scholarship in English to gain insight into the following areas: social movements; gender, race, ethnicity and class; global capitalism and inequalities; sexualities; identities; digital activism; nationalisms; marriage and families; and the politics of reproduction. Although the course has no formal prerequisites, it assumes some basic knowledge about Chinese history and intersectional approaches to gender. If you have never taken a course on China before,please ask me for guidance on whether or not the course is suitable for you.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Leta Hong Fincher
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

BASIC CONCEPTS-POST-FREUD THGT

This course examines psychoanalytic movements that are viewed either as post-Freudian in theory or as emerging after Freuds time. The course begins by considering the ways Freuds cultural and historical surround, as well as the wartime diaspora of the European psychoanalytic community, shaped Freudian and post-Freudian thought. It then focuses on significant schools and theories of psychoanalysis that were developed from the mid 20th century to the present. Through readings of key texts and selected case studies, it explores theorists challenges to classical thought and technique, and their reconfigurations, modernizations, and total rejections of central Freudian ideas. The course concludes by looking at contemporary theorists moves to integrate notions of culture, concepts of trauma, and findings from neuroscience and attachment research into the psychoanalytic frame.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Adele Tutter
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• 4 points

Du Bois Seminar

This seminar engages the life and work of W.E.B. Du Bois, widely understood to be the greatest intellectual in U.S. history. Students will read and discuss Du Bois’s autobiography, and major works across his long and prolific career. Major themes include pan-Africanism, socialism, and peace.

• Department: American Studies @Barnard
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Manu Karuka
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• 4 points

AESTHETC THRY-FRANKFURT SCHOOL

AESTHETC THRY-FRANKFUST SCHOOL

Critical theory was the central practice of the Frankfurt School. Founded in Frankfurt in 1923 and later based at Columbia University, this interdisciplinary institute influenced fields like sociology, political science, film, cultural studies, media theory, and comparative literature. The course begins by examining the genealogy of the Frankfurt School in Marxism and its critique of fascism and traces its afterlife in aesthetic theory, deconstruction, and gender studies, as well as the specter of “Cultural Marxism” recently floating around right-wing circles. We read texts by key figures of the Frankfurt School such as Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse and Jürgen Habermas as well as works by adjacent figures like Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Siegfried Kracauer.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Annie Pfeifer
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

BLACK GEOGRAPHIES

Far from obvious renderings of place, maps are spatial arguments about who belongs where and how living should be defined. This course approaches place as something that is contested daily in the U.S. through the struggle of who gets to lay claim to a way of life. From the landscapes of dispossession to the alternative ways marginalized people work with and against traditional geographies, this course centers Black place-making practices as political struggle. This class will look at how power and domination become a landed project. We will critically examine how ideas about “nature” are bound up with notions of race, and the way “race” naturalizes the proper place for humans and non-human others. We will interrogate settler colonialism’s relationships to mapping who is and isn’t human, the transatlantic slave trade as a project of terraforming environments for capital, and land use as a science for determining who “owns” the earth. Centered on Black feminist, queer and trans thinkers, we will encounter space not as a something given by maps, but as a struggle over definitions of the human, geography, sovereignty, and alternative worlds. To this end, we will read from a variety of disciplines, such as Critical Black Studies, Feminist and Intersectional Science Studies, Black Geographies and Ecologies, Urban Studies and Afrofuturist literature. (Note: this class will count as an elective for the CCIS minors/concentrations in F/ISTS, ICORE/MORE, and Environmental Humanities.)

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Marisa Solomon
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• 4 points

The Just City: Global Debates in Urban P

THE JUST CITY

Urbanization is inherently unequal, inscribing social, economic, environmental, and political unevenness into the spatial fabric of the city. But the distribution of such inequality is not inevitable. Urbanization is a product of the collective decisions we make (or choose not to make) in response to the shared challenges we face in our cities. And, thus, the patterns of urbanization can be changed. This is the task of urban planning and the starting point for this advanced seminar, which asks how we can reshape our cities to be more just—to alleviate inequality rather than compound it. In embarking on this effort, we face numerous “wicked” problems without clear-cut solutions. The approaches one takes in addressing urban inequality are therefore fundamentally normative—they are shaped by one’s place in the world and one’s view of it. The central challenge in addressing inequality is thus establishing a basis for collective action amongst diverse actors with differing—and sometimes conflicting—values and views. In other words, planning the just city a matter of both empathy and debate. In this course, we will endeavor to develop informed positions that can help us engage with others as a basis for taking collective action.

The course is organized into four 3-week modules, each of which addresses a dimension of the just city: equity, democracy, diversity, and sustainability. In the first week of each module, we will discuss how the issue has been understood in history and theory (with an emphasis on tradeoffs between different priorities and values); in the second week, we will apply this discussion to a global case study prepared and presented by a team of students; and in the third week, we will hold an in-class debate to determine what should be done. Specific case studies vary each year.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Nick R Smith
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• 4 points

CONTEM AMER JEWISH WOMEN'S LIT

CONTEM AMER JEWSH WOMEN'S LIT

The seminar will focus on trends that have emerged over the past three decades in Jewish American women's writing in the fields of memoirs, fiction and Jewish history: the representation and exploration through fictive narratives of women's experiences in American Jewish orthodox communities; reinterpretation of Jewish history through gender analysis; the recording of migration and exile by Jewish women immigrants from the former Soviet Union, Morocco, Iran, and Egypt; and gender transformations. Texts will be analyzed in terms of genre structures, narrative strategies, the role of gender in shaping content and Jewish identity, and the political, cultural and social contexts in which the works were created. The course aims for students to discuss and critically engage with texts in order to develop the skills of analytical and abstract thinking, as well as the ability to express that critical thinking in writing. Prerequisites:
Both
one introductory WGSS course
and
Critical Approaches to Social and Cultural Theory,
or
Permission of the Instructor.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Agnieszka Legutko
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED TOPICS

AFRICA-ASIA-AMERICA

This course explores transcontinental connections across Africa, Asia, and the Americas as
forged in the practices and movements of peoples, in the context of global colonial and
postcolonial orders. We will consider the intersections, crossings, and collaborations of
different communities of the global South across these continents in the course of their social,
cultural, and political struggles to shape and transform the worlds they live in. We will ask, how
might different narratives of these global South connections contribute to our imagination and
practice of global resistance and transformation? Topics include: colonialism, capitalism,
imperialism, Third Worldism, feminism.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• W 11:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Neferti Tadiar
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

EMBODIMENT AND BODILY DIFFERENCE

EMBODIMENT & BODILY DIFFE

At once material and symbolic, our bodies exist at the intersection of multiple competing discourses, including the juridical, the techno-scientific, and the biopolitical. In this course, we will draw upon a variety of critical interdisciplinary literatures—including feminist and queer studies, science and technology studies, and disability studies—to consider some of the ways in which the body is constituted by such discourses, and itself serves as the substratum for social relations. Among the key questions we will consider are the following: What is natural about the body? How are distinctions made between presumptively normal and pathological bodies, and between psychic and somatic experiences?  How do historical and political-economic forces shape the perception and meaning of bodily difference? And most crucially: how do bodies that are multiply constituted by competing logics of gender, race, nation, and ability offer up resistance to these and other categorizations?

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Rebecca Jordan-Young
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• 4 points

SWANA Diasporas: Culture, Politics and I

In this class we will study South-West Asian and North African (SWANA) diasporic populations, social movements and cultural production that have responded to the multi-faceted ramifications of the 21st century war on terror. We will focus on diverse Arab, Iranian, and Afghan diasporas in the United States, where 19th and 20th century legacies of racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia and Orientalism combined in new ways to target these groups after the September 11th, 2001 attacks. Drawing on an interdisciplinary array of texts, including ethnography, fiction, feminist and queer theory, social movement theory, and visual and performance art, we will look at how the “war on terror” has shaped the subjectivities and self-representation of SWANA communities. Crucially, we will examine the gender and sexual politics of Islamophobia and racism and study how scholars, activists and artists have sought to intervene in dominant narratives of deviance, threat, and backwardness attributed to Muslim and other SWANA populations. This course takes up the politics of naming, situating the formation of “SWANA” as part of an anti-colonial genealogy that rejects imperial geographies such as “Middle East.” We will ask how new geographies and affiliations come into being in the context of open-ended war, and what new political identities and forms of cultural production then become possible.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Manijeh Moradian
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• 4 points

ADV BOSNIAN/CROATIAN/SERBIAN

Prerequisites: BCRS UN2102 Further develops skills in speaking, reading, and writing, using essays, short stories, films, and fragments of larger works. Reinforces basic grammar and introduces more complete structures.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Aleksandar Boskovic
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

CHTENIIA PO RUSSKOI LITERATURE

CHTENIIA PO RUSS LIT: PUSHKIN

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Irina Reyfman
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

FOURTH-YEAR RUSSIAN II

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MWF 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Tatiana Mikhailova
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• 4 points

Crime, Sex, Race and the Politics of Pur

The Politics of Purity

The politics of what and who counts as worthy, good, or pure mediates possibilities for political and legal life. This course takes as its central question: how do certain ideas around purity and innocence come to appear natural? By considering a wide range of topics including carceral studies, immigration, race-making, settler colonialism, gender and sexuality and cultural studies, we will uncover the ways that cultural objects circulate and do political work. How are notions of race, crime, and purity produced, policed, and lived? And finally, how might we live otherwise—against innocence?

• Department: American Studies @Barnard
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Daria Reaven
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• 4 points

EGYPT IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD

This class traces Egypt's evolving integration into the Classical World from the Saite Dynasty (c. 685 BCE) to the suppression of paganism by the Coptic church. We'll pay close attention to the flashpoints that created conflicts between pagan Egyptians, Greeks, Jews, and Christians and also to integrative aspects of society.

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

PRACTICAL STYLISTICS-RUSS LANG

Prerequisites: RUSS W4334 or the equivalent or the instructor's permission. Prerequisite: four years of college Russian or instructor's permission. The course will focus on theoretical matters of language and style and on the practical aspect of improving students' writing skills. Theoretical aspects of Russian style and specific Russian stylistic conventions will be combined with the analysis of student papers and translation assignments, as well as exercises focusing on reviewing certain specific difficulties in mastering written Russian.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Irina Reyfman
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

HEALTH PHYSICS

Fundamental principles and objectives of health physics (radiation protection), the quantities of radiation dosimetry (the absorbed dose, equivalent dose, and effective dose) used to evaluate human radiation risks, elementary shielding calculations and protection measures for clinical environments, characterization and proper use of health physics instrumentation, and regulatory and administrative requirements of health physics programs in general and as applied to clinical activities.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• M 5:30 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter Caracappa
  h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

Molecular Biology

Prerequisites: one year of biology. This is a lecture course designed for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. The focus is on understanding at the molecular/biochemical level how genetic information is stored within the cell, how it is replicated and expressed, and how it is regulated. Topics covered include genome organization, DNA replication and repair, transcription, RNA processing, and translation. This course will also emphasize the critical analysis of the scientific literature and help students understand how to identify important biological problems and how to address them experimentally. SPS and TC students may register for this course, but they must first obtain the written permission of the instructor, by filling out a paper Registration Adjustment Form (Add/Drop form). The form can be downloaded at the URL below, but must be signed by the instructor and returned to the office of the registrar.
http://registrar.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/reg-adjustment.pdf

• Department: Biological Sciences
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Alice Heicklen
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

Wittgenstein in the Machine

This seminar explores the intersections between Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy and key developments in artificial intelligence. We will examine how Wittgenstein’s later philosophy challenges contemporary debates about the capabilities and limitations of machine intelligence. We will also learn how AI practitioners actively engage with Wittgenstein’s ideas, developing innovative methods in machine translation, semantic networks, or natural language processing (NLP) in general.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lydia Liu
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

MEDICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR

Required for all graduate students in the Medical Physics Program. Practicing professionals and faculty in the field present selected topics in medical physics.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• M 9 a.m.-10:15 a.m.
• Instructor: Cheng S Wuu
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 0 points

A Structural View of Biology

The course covers a general introduction to the theory and experimental techniques of structural biology (protein expression and purification, protein crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance) and then how to use the structural information to understand biochemical and biological processes. The first part of the course will cover the general introduction to structural biology. The second part of the course will involve discussions and explorations of various structures, led by the instructor but with substantial participation from the students, to understand the molecular mechanisms of selected biochemical and biological processes. In the final part of the course, each student will select and lead discussions on a primary structural biology paper. The overall goal of the course is to increase the understanding of how protein structures are determined, what protein structures look like, and how to use the structures to understand biology.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Liang Tong
  CULPA: 8 Wikipedia h-index: 85 Info
• 3 points

Topics in Moral Psychology

Intensive study of a particular topic in Moral Psychology.

• Department: Philosophy @Barnard
• Instructor: Francey Russell
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

Technologies of Modern Drama

TECHNOLOGIES OF MOD DRAMA

This seminar will consider theatre intermedially, taking up its use of dramatic writing as one, only one, of its determining technologies. In the first half of the semester we will use a series of philosophical questions—tools vs. technologies, techne vs. medium—to consider several dimensions of modern theatricality as technologies: of gender and genre, of space and place, of the body and its performance. After spring break, we will use the terms generated to consider a series of topics specifically inflected by the design and practice of modern theatricality. Students will each write one longer essay, and will have the opportunity to receive feedback on a draft, if desired.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: William B Worthen
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

From Curiosity to Cure Case Studies

Case Studies in Cool Bioc

Course overview: The goal of this course is to engage upper-level undergraduates and beginning graduate students in an immersive intellectual experience at the intersection of rigorous scientific inquiry and the history of innovation in molecular biology. The central theme will be curiosity and critical thinking as the twin drivers of both technological innovation and scientific discovery. The course will be divided into a series of modules focused on analysis and presentation of original research papers related to one important breakthrough in molecular biology that occurred during the past century. A prominent theme of the course will be the persistently unpredictable trajectory linking technical research and methodological developments to breakthrough science. Approximately six-to-eight original research papers will be covered in each module, spanning topics from the development of the methods that made the breakthrough possible through practical application of the resulting knowledge.

Three or four of the following breakthroughs will likely be covered in 2023:


Discovery and clinical application of insulin by Banting & Best.

Development of the Trikafta triple drug treatment for cystic fibrosis.

Development of CRISPR for human genetic engineering.

Genetics and pharmacological treatment of human hyperlipidemia.

Development of the Gleevec tyrosine kinase inhibitor to cure Ph+ leukemias.

Development of “next-generation” nucleic acid sequencing methods.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• MW 9:45 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: John Hunt
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

LANGUAGE & SOCIETY

How language structure and usage varies according to societal factors such as social history and socioeconomic factors, illustrated with study modules on language contact, language standardization and literacy, quantitative sociolinguistic theory, language allegiance, language, and power.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: John H McWhorter
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Contradictions of Care: From Intimacy to

CONTRADICTIONS OF CARE

Care is central to the interpersonal claim that is made by the other. It is a response that recognizes and satisfies a need. Care can be motivated by pain and sorrow, but also by desire and the desire for recognition. But while care is a fundamental aspect of healing, it can also be a demand that extracts obligations and liabilities. Care is an ambiguous concept that always already contains or is determined by its oppositions; we will begin by analyzing the concept of care itself, drawing on resources from the history and philosophy of medicine as well as literary sources. Ideals of care that many of us have for our loved ones are difficult to render at scale, and are often in tension with the for-profit motivations behind the development of medications, the administration of healthcare services, and the distribution of goods. We will consider the sorts of compromises that are made every day through readings in literature, history, political science and philosophy and also through first-person experience in the form of a practicum that that will run parallel to the course.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Arden A Hegele
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

SYNTAX

Prerequisites: LING UN3101 Syntax - the combination of words - has been at the center of the Chomskyan revolution in Linguistics. This is a technical course which examines modern formal theories of syntax, focusing on later versions of generative syntax (Government and Binding) with secondary attention to alternative models (HPSG, Categorial Grammar).

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Meredith Landman
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

Labor and Life: Critiques of Capitalism

LABOR AND LIFE

This advanced seminar examines materialist conceptions of labor and life as approached through feminist, black, anti-racist, indigenous, queer, postcolonial, and Marxist perspectives. We will trace the ways that labor and life as well as their constitutive relations have been understood in historical and contemporary radical critiques of capitalism, with a focus on gender, race and sexuality as analytical categories for understanding their shifting roles in structures and practices of social reproduction, the production and expropriation of value, the logic and exercise of violence, the organization of sociality and culture, and the practice and imagination of freedom, justice, and new forms and potentials of collective existence. Finally, we will consider the limits and possibilities of different conceptions of “material life” for understanding politics today.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• R noon-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Neferti Tadiar
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY-GRADUATE

• Department: African American and African Diaspora
• Instructor: Brandi Summers
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• Instructor: Jafari S Allen
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• Instructor: Farah Griffin
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 1-4 points