ENDING WAR & BUILDING PEACE

This course provides an introduction to the politics of war termination and peace consolidation. The course examines the challenges posed by ending wars and the process by which parties to a conflict arrive at victory, ceasefires, and peace negotiations. It explores how peace is sustained, why peace lasts in some cases and breaks down in others and what can be done to make peace more stable, focusing on the role of international interventions, power-sharing arrangements, reconciliation between adversaries, and reconstruction.

• TR 9 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Sarah Daly
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• 3 points

TOPICS IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

MINDFULNESS-BASD BEHAVRL THRPY

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

• TR 4:20 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeffrey M Cohen
  h-index: 5 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

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

• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Usha Barahmand
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• 4 points

CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY SEM

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission required; contact emccaski@barnard.edu. An introductory course in neuroscience like PSYC 1001 or PSYC 2450. Analysis of the assessment of physical and psychiatric diseases impacting the central nervous system, with emphasis on the relationship between neuropathology and cognitive and behavioral deficits.

• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: E'Mett McCaskill
  CULPA: 38 Info
• 3 points

RECORDED SOUND

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. Main objective is to gain a familiarity with and understanding of recording, editing, mixing, and mastering of recorded music and sounds using Pro Tools software. Discusses the history of recorded production, microphone technique, and the idea of using the studio as an instrument for the production and manipulation of sound.

• TWR 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: David W Bird
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

MOD JEWISH INTELLECTUAL HIST

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

• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael F Stanislawski
  CULPA: 66 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SOCIOLOGY OF WORK & OCCUPATION

• MTWR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Teresa Sharpe
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 3 points

CHINA'S FOREIGN RELATIONS

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the foreign relations of the People’s Republic of China from 1949 to the present. The course looks at the world from China’s point of view and is organized geographically, moving from China’s homeland to its borderlands and continents and sea lanes beyond Asia.

• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael C Beckley
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• 3 points

PHOTOGRAPHY: PHOTO I

An introductory course in black-and-white photography, Photography I is a prerequisite for advanced photography classes held in the fall and spring. Students are initially instructed in proper camera use and basic film exposure and development. Then the twice weekly meetings are divided into lab days where students learn and master the fundamental tools and techniques of traditional darkroom work used in 8x10 print production and classroom days where students present their work and through the language of photo criticism gain an understanding of photography as a medium of expression. Admitted students must obtain a manually focusing 35mm camera with adjustable f/stops and shutter speeds. No prior photography experience is required.

• MW 6:15 p.m.-9:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Catalina Bestard Rotger
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• Instructor: Jahi Sabater
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• Instructor: Paula L Lycan
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• 3 points

SONNETS AND ELEGIES

• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Erik Gray
  CULPA: 35 Info
• 3 points

RESEARCH DESIGN: SCOPE AND METHODS

RESEARCH DESIGN: SCOPE&ME

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

• MW 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Miller
  CULPA: 18 h-index: 14 Info
• 4 points

SCOPE AND METHODS - DISC

This is the required discussion section for
POLS UN3720.

• T 5 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• T 7 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Julian E Gerez
  h-index: 2 Info
• Instructor: Heewon Yoon
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• 0 points

Politics of Recognition

This course examines the contemporary history of struggles for recognition, reform and revolution as articulated around the politics of recognition. The course is genealogical in spirit, beginning with a set of texts that have provided the touchstone for contemporary theory and practices of politics and then moving to more recent engagements with the same.

• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Povinelli
  CULPA: 14 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

THE 30S: METROPOLE AND COLONY

This course focuses on the tumultuous 1930s, which witnessed the growth of anticolonial movements, the coming to power of totalitarian and fascist regimes, and calls for internationalism and a new world vision. Even as fascism laid down its roots in parts of Europe, the struggle for independence from European colonial rule accelerated in Asia and Africa, and former subjects engaged with ideas and images about the shape of their new nations, in essays, fiction, poetry, and theater. Anti-colonialism also sparked debates about re-visioning gender relations, the place of minorities in the nation, religious difference and secularism, and models of world unity, among other issues. The course aims to consider the intersection of these debates with resistance to 1930s fascism: Did anti-fascist resistance in the metropole draw inspiration from anticolonial struggles? Conversely, did the spectre of fascism and authoritarianism present a cautionary tale to the project of nation-building in former colonies? We will read works from both the metropole and the colonies to track the crisscrossing of ideas, beginning with writers whose works foreshadowed the convulsive events of the 1930s and beyond (H.G. Wells, E.M. Forster, Rabindranath Tagore), then moving on to writers who published some of their greatest work in the 1930s (Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Mulk Raj Anand, M.K. Gandhi, Raja Rao, C.L.R. James), and concluding with an author who reassessed the events of the 1930s from a later perspective (George Lamming).  
Application Instructions:
E-mail Professor Viswanathan (
gv6@columbia.edu
) with the subject heading The Thirties seminar. In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course.

• MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Gauri Viswanathan
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ANCIENT ROME IN THE EARLY MODERN THEATER

This course will investigate the powerful pull of ancient Rome on the artistic and political culture of early modern England. We will concentrate closely on representations of Rome as they appeared in the commercial theater at the opening of the seventeenth century, reading plays by William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, as well as masques (plays performed at court) by Ben Jonson. We will bolster our reading of this drama with an array of texts that grappled with ancient Rome through civic performance, English history, and politics, and we will explore how these ideas and ideals influenced emergent understandings of racial difference, and justifications of British imperial expansion. How, we will ask, did ancient Rome help the early modern English understand themselves: both, that is, who they were and who they weren’t?

• TR 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lauren E Robertson
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

AFRICA AND FRANCE

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

• TR 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Gregory Mann
  CULPA: 15 h-index: 13 Info
• 3 points

AMERICAN NATURE WRITING TO 1900

The course is a survey of canonical texts from the American Literary Canon, with emphasis on how these writers experienced the natural world. Some of them had to deal with extreme cold, others with tropical heat. Some of them encountered abundance, others sparsity and famine. They all encountered new life forms – from marine life to birds, reptiles and animals. They had to cope with frequent earthquakes and hurricanes, and classify newly discovered species of vegetal life. What they saw, however, was read not only through the lenses of natural history, but also theologically and politically. For some, the natural world was rich with signs sent by God for them to interpret, for others it was a political space that they organized according to the a theocratic or plantation logic. The class will therefore also pay special attention to politics, and investigate how the ecological spaces that the colonists encountered shaped their politics and ethics.

• MW noon-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Branka Arsic
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

FILM AND LAW

From its beginnings, film has been preoccupied with law: in cops and robbers silent films, courtroom drama, police procedural, judge reality show, or all the scenes that fill our media-saturated world. What do films and other audio-visual media tell us about what it’s like to come before the law, or about such substantive issues as what counts as murder, war crimes, torture, sexual abuse? How do films model the techniques that lawyers use to sway the passions of their audiences? How do they model the symbolism of their gestures, icons, images? If films and other audio-visual media rewrite legal events, what is their effect: on law? on legal audiences? How is the experience of being a film spectator both like and unlike the experience of being a legal subject? This course investigates such questions by looking at representations of law in film and other audio-visual media. We will seek to understand, first, how film represents law, and, second,how film attempts to shape law (influencing legal norms, intervening in legal regimes). The seminar’s principal texts will be the films themselves, but we will also read relevant legal cases and film theory in order to deepen our understanding of both legal and film regimes. *Students should email Professor Peters (peters@columbia.edu
) the following: school, year, major, a short description of why you would like to take the class, and previous relevant classes taken.*

• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Julie S Peters
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

19th-CENTURY TRUE CRIME, DETECTIVE

The nineteenth century saw the emergence of a modern police force, the birth of detective fiction, the appearance of dastardly criminals in the boulevard theatre, and the rise of tabloid “true crime” journalism. It is also the era that scholars often identify with “modernity” and the emergence of “mass culture.” This course will explore the convergence of these phenomena in England, France, the U.S., and the Australian subcontinent. We will examine accounts and images of nineteenth-century “true” crime, ranging from purportedly true representations to openly fictionalized ones. In addition to reading popular fiction, we will read trial reports, police memoirs, the autobiographies of those who embraced the underworld of crime, and narratives of prison life by those who saw its violence and dehumanization first-hand. We will examine a variety of nineteenth-century genres and visual media, including flip-book photographs, magic lantern shows, the “fantasmagorie,” the diorama and panorama, and early film. Throughout the course, our principal focus will be on primary sources: their relationship to the history they represent; their rhetorical, narrative, and visual choices and meanings; their significance for the history of crime and law. Application instructions: to apply, please email Professor Peters (
peters@columbia.edu
) the following: name, year, school, major, a few sentences on why you want to take the course, and a list of any relevant courses you’ve taken

• MW 9 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Julie S Peters
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

Blackness in French: From Harlem to Pari

What distinctions must be made between US-black American fantasies of Paris and realities for Blacks in Paris? What are the historical linkages between black Americans and Paris? Between black Americans and black French women and men? How is this relationship different from and contingent on the relationship between the “French” and their colonial “others?” How is “blackness” a category into which all non-white racial others are conscripted? (e.g. Arab and Roma communities)? Using an internationalist (specifically transatlantic) approach and covering the 20th and 21st centuries, this course explores these and other questions over the course of the semester through a close consideration of the literature, arts, culture, history and politics emanating from or dealing with Black France. The texts and artifacts examined in this course will consider “race” as both fact and fantasy in the unique, long-historical relationship between the United States, Paris, and the wider French empire.

• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Kaiama L Glover
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 3 points

Jane Austen and the Poets

Jane Austen relished contemporary verse as did her readers. Studying her perfectly structured novels together with, for example, Alexander Pope’s satiric epistles; Anne Finch’s complex and witty odes; James Thomson’s sublime neo-georgics; Samuel Johnson’s monumental imitations of Juvenal; William Cowper’s rambling loco-descriptive meditations; Samuel Coleridge’s delicate blank-verse ruminations on nature, spirit, and domestic tranquility; George Crabbe’s biting couplets about miserable village life, and many others, shall enrich our appreciation of the atmosphere in which Austen cultivated her sensibility, anticipated the taste and moral tenor of her readers, and exercised artistic control.  We will read at least three of her novels —
Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Persuasion
—alongside the poets she and her readers loved and whose poems they enjoyed hearing recited by characters in her novels.  Our poets include the above mentioned, in addition to Robert Lloyd, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Ann Yearsley, Charlotte Smith, William Wordsworth, among others.

• MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Marianne Giordani
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

PRODUCING THE LOW BUDGET FILM

This practical lab focuses on the fundamental aspects of development, planning and preparation for low budget films. While using a short film script as their own case study – students will learn pitching, development, script breakdown, scheduling, budgeting and fundraising. Discussion of legal issues, location scouting, deliverables, marketing, distribution and film festival strategy will allow students to move forward with their own projects after completing the class. Using weekly assignments, in-class presentations and textbook readings to reinforce each class discussion topic, students will complete the class having created a final prep/production binder for their project, which includes the script breakdown, production schedule, line item budget, financing/fundraising plan and film festival strategy for their chosen script.

• MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Sarah Seulki Oh
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• 3 points

PARADISE LOST

This class will focus on John Milton’s 1667 epic poem about the creation of the world and the fall of humanity; Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel about a scientist’s creation of life; and Toni Morrison’s 1997 novel about a small, rural, all-black town in Oklahoma. In addition to the explicit echoes between these books, each work is interested in the relationship between the natural world and human beings; gender difference, relations between the sexes, and the reproduction of human life; and the bases of, and threats to, an ideal society. By reading these three works of art in sequence, we will thus look at how authors engage similar issues in different ways, paying particular attention to the role of of history, nation, genre, politics, literary tradition, and authorial identity. Finally, we will consider the ways in which authors’ revising, refuting, and re-envisioning of “source” texts affects our readings of the “source” texts as much as the new.

• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Julie Crawford
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 3 points

INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. (Seminar). As the great imperial powers of Britain, France, and Belgium, among others, ceded self-rule to the colonies they once controlled, formerly colonized subjects engaged in passionate discussion about the shape of their new nations not only in essays and pamphlets but also in fiction, poetry, and theatre. Despite the common goal of independence, the heated debates showed that the postcolonial future was still up for grabs, as the boundary lines between and within nations were once again redrawn. Even such cherished notions as nationalism were disputed, and thinkers like the Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore sounded the alarm about the pitfalls of narrow ethnocentric thinking. Their call for a philosophy of internationalism went against the grain of ethnic and racial particularism, which had begun to take on the character of national myth. The conflict of perspectives showed how deep were the divisions among the various groups vying to define the goals of the postcolonial nation, even as they all sought common cause in liberation from colonial rule. Nowhere was this truer than in India. The land that the British rulers viewed as a test case for the implementation of new social philosophies took it upon itself to probe their implications for the future citizenry of a free, democratic republic. We will read works by Indian writers responding to decolonization and, later, globalization as an invitation to rethink the shape of their societies. Beginning as a movement against imperial control, anti-colonialism also generated new discussions about gender relations, secularism and religious difference, the place of minorities in the nation, the effects of partition on national identity, among other issues. With the help of literary works and historical accounts, this course will explore the challenges of imagining a post-imperial society in a globalized era without reproducing the structures and subjectivities of the colonial state. Writers on the syllabus include Rabindranath Tagore, M.K. Gandhi, B.R. Ambedkar, Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, Mahasweta Devi, Bapsi Sidwa, Rohinton Mistry, Amitav Ghosh, and Arundhati Roy. Application Instructions: E-mail Professor Viswanathan (gv6@columbia.edu ) with the subject heading Indian Writing in English seminar. In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course.

• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Gauri Viswanathan
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

GODS, GHOSTS, AND ANCESTORS: RELIGION IN

Examines the social and cultural place of Chinese religions through time, focusing on Chinese ideas of the relation between humans and spirits, and the expression of those ideas in practice. Problems will include the long-term displacement of ancestors by gods in Chinese history; the varying and changing social functions of rituals, and the different views of the same ritual taken by different participants; the growth of religious
commerce from early modern times on. Topics will be organized roughly chronologically but the emphasis is on broad change rather than historical coverage.

• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert P Hymes
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

WARS OF INDOCHINA

Saigon and Hanoi served as competing capitals of the Republic of Vietnam (RVN) in the south and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) in the north (1954-1975). They were symbols of warring states, one home to a fledgling republic, the other the seat of communist power. Since the late 19th century, they have also been sites of Vietnam’s most dramatic transformations. As such, they occupy an important place in the historiography of modern Vietnam, not least in ongoing debates over the Indochina wars, Vietnamese nationalism, and regional difference.   This course examines Saigon and Hanoi as social, political, and cultural spaces, and as representations of their respective states during the war. We first consider the significance of regionalism in fashioning “new ways of being Vietnamese” and examine how colonial rule reinforced those distinctions. We devote the rest of the semester to reading an array of works on the history of these cities. For the colonial period, we examine colonial urbanism, the lives of the poor, intellectuals and their ideas, as well as currents of political agitation and cultural iconoclasm. For the post-World War II period, we will focus on the distinct political cultures that took shape in the RVN and DRV. Finally, we end by looking at Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) and Hanoi in the post-war era, particularly after the Socialist Republic of Vietnam instituted sweeping economic reforms in the 1980s. Each week, we will discuss works social, cultural, and political history of Saigon and Hanoi, all the while keeping in mind their divergent trajectories in the three decades following World War II.

• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Lien-Hang Nguyen
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

FR EXPRESSV DANCE-NYC & PARIS

Cross-Atlantic influences from both French ballet and French modern dance as seen on the stages of New York City. The course examines not only French dancers and choreographers, but also French conceptions of the expressive body seen in other urban art forms. We study the New York School of Poetry, Painting, Theatre, Dance and Music; French influences on the repertory of American Ballet Theatre and New York City Ballet; the Paris Opera Ballet; the contributions of American choreographers such as Merce Cunningham and Trisha Brown on French dance; and the theatrical impulse in recent French contemporary dance. We will make use of French critical theory ( Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Barthes, Proust, and the work of recent French feminists) to understand how distinct cultures create differing notions of the expressive body. These texts will also help us to see how individual and social movement patterns are created on the stages and in the streets of metropolitan Paris and New York City. The course will include virtual viewings of selected performances. The course will be conducted in English. No prerequisites.

• MW 6:15 p.m.-9:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Robinson-Appels
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO ICLS

Introduction to concepts and methods of comparative literature in cross-disciplinary and global context. Topics may include: oral, print, and visual culture; epic, novel, and nation; literature of travel, exile, and diaspora; sex and gender transformation; the human/inhuman; writing trauma; urban imaginaries; world literature; medical humanities. Open only to students who have applied for and declared a major in Comparative Literature and Society or Medical Humanities.

• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Tommaso Manfredini
  Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: Permission of the departmental representative required. For specially selected students, the opportunity to do a research problem in contemporary physics under the supervision of a faculty member. Each year several juniors are chosen in the spring to carry out such a project beginning in the autumn term. A detailed report on the research is presented by the student when the project is complete.

• Instructor: Jeremy R Dodd
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 1-5 points

SUPERVISED READINGS I

Prerequisites: The written permission of the faculty member who agrees to act as sponsor (sponsorship limited to full-time instructors on the staff list), as well as the permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies. The written permission must be deposited with the Director of Undergraduate Studies before registration is completed. Guided reading and study in mathematics. A student who wishes to undertake individual study under this program must present a specific project to a member of the staff and secure his or her willingness to act as sponsor. Written reports and periodic conferences with the instructor. Supervising Readings do NOT count towards major requirements, with the exception of an advanced written approval by the DUS.

• Instructor: Ivan Corwin
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 34 Info
• 2-3 points

SUPERVISED READINGS I

Prerequisites: The written permission of the faculty member who agrees to act as sponsor (sponsorship limited to full-time instructors on the staff list), as well as the permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies. The written permission must be deposited with the Director of Undergraduate Studies before registration is completed. Guided reading and study in mathematics. A student who wishes to undertake individual study under this program must present a specific project to a member of the staff and secure his or her willingness to act as sponsor. Written reports and periodic conferences with the instructor. Supervising Readings do NOT count towards major requirements, with the exception of an advanced written approval by the DUS.

• Instructor: Ivan Corwin
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 34 Info
• 2-3 points

INDEPENDENT RESEARCH II

• Instructor: Robert L Amdur
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 1-6 points

THE FUTURE AS HISTORY

This course explores how people have thought about their future and tried to change it. It examines the philosophical aspects of studying history and the future, and how they are related. It begins with the origins of future thinking in eschatology and millenarian movements, the enlightenment challenge to revelation and religious authority, and utopias and dystopias. Classic texts and scholarly studies will illuminate modern approaches to shaping the future, such as socialism, imperialism, risk analysis, and “modernization” theory, and areas where they have had a particular impact, including urban planning and eugenics.

• MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew J Connelly
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

THE ART OF THE ESSAY

“Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.”― Michel de Montaigne “There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain. It is hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin. You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment.” Annie Dillard, The Writing Life “Find a subject you care about and which in your heart you feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.” Kurt Vonnegut What makes the essay of personal experience an essay rather than a journal entry? How can one's specific experience transcend the limits of narrative and transmit a deeper meaning to any reader? How can a writer transmit the wisdom gained from personal experience without lecturing her reader? In The Art of the Essay, we explore the answers to these questions by reading personal essays in a variety of different forms. We begin with Michel de Montaigne, the 16th-century philosopher who popularized the personal essay as we know it and famously asked, “What do I know?,” and follow the development of the form as a locus of rigorous self-examination, doubt, persuasion, and provocation. Through close reading of a range of essays from writers including Annie Dillard, Salman Rushdie, Jamaica Kincaid, and June Jordan, we analyze how voice, form, and evidence work together to create a world of meaning around an author's experience, one that invites readers into conversations that are at once deeply personal and universal in their consequences and implications.

• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Wendy C Schor-Haim
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 3 points

ANTI-COLONIALISM

The age of colonialism, so it seems, is long over. Decolonization has resulted in the emergence of postcolonial polities and societies that are now, in many instances, two generations old. But is it clear that the problem of colonialism has disappeared? Almost everywhere in the postcolonial world the project of building independent polities, economies and societies have faltered, sometimes run aground. Indeed, one might say that the anti-colonial dream of emancipation has evaporated. Through a careful exploration of the conceptual argument and rhetorical style of five central anti-colonial texts—C.L.R. James’ The Black Jacobins, Mahatma Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj, Aimé Cesairé’s Discourse on Colonialism, Albert Memmi’s Colonizer and Colonized, and Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth—this course aims to inquire into the image of colonialism as a structure of dominant power, and the image of its anticipated aftermaths: What were the perceived ill-effects of colonial power? What did colonialism do to the colonized that required rectification? In what ways did the critique of colonial power (the identification of what was wrong with it) shape the longing for its anti-colonial overcoming?

• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: David Scott
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 72 Info
• 3 points

NOBILITY AND CIVILITY II

Prerequisites: one semester of Contemporary Civilization or Literature Humanities, or an equivalent course, and the instructors permission. A team-taught multicultural, interdisciplinary course examining traditions of leadership and citizenship as they appear in the key texts of early Indian, Islamic, Far Eastern, and Western civilizations. One goal is to identify and examine common human values and issues evident in these texts while also recognizing key cultural differences

• TR 4 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel Chung
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

US PRESIDENTIAL POWER

Prerequisites: POLS UN1201 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Seminar in American Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

• TR 2 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: John J Sivolella
  Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

POLIT PARTIES IN U.S. POLITICS

Prerequisites: POLS UN1201 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Seminar in American Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

• MW 9 a.m.-11:10 a.m.
• Instructor: Shigeo Hirano
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

THE FIRST AMENDMENT

Prerequisites: POLS UN1201 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Seminar in American Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

• TR 4 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert L Amdur
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 4 points

Race, Place, and the United States

Race, Place, and the US

The course analyzes the relationship between race/ethnicity and spatial inequality, emphasizing the institutions, processes, and mechanisms that shape the lives of urban dwellers. It surveys major theoretical approaches and empirical investigations of racial and ethnic stratification in several urban cities, and their concomitant policy considerations.

• TR 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Kristin L Murphy
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• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

FREEDOM & CITIZENSHIP IN U.S.

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for section descriptions

• MW 1 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Roosevelt Montas
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 4 points

William James s Varieties of Religious

W James Varieties of Rel

William James’s
Varieties of Religious Experience
is a classic in two fields: the history of religious thought and American studies.  This course will be devoted to a careful reading of this work (and several short ones) in order to pose the question: is there a typical American approach to religious psychology?  And, if so, what relation might it bear to larger currents in American thought?

• TR 1 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Lilla
  CULPA: 57 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

HELLENISM AND THE TOPOGRAPHICA

Course Overview: This course examines the way particular spaces—cultural, urban, literary—serve as sites for the production and reproduction of cultural and political imaginaries. It places particular emphasis on the themes of the polis, the city, and the nation-state as well as on spatial representations of and responses to notions of the Hellenic across time. Students will consider a wide range of texts as spaces—complex sites constituted and complicated by a multiplicity of languages—and ask: To what extent is meaning and cultural identity, site-specific? How central is the classical past in Western imagination? How have great metropolises such as Paris, Istanbul, and New York fashioned themselves in response to the allure of the classical and the advent of modern Greece? How has Greece as a specific site shaped the study of the Cold War, dictatorships, and crisis?

• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Dimitris Antoniou
  h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

Sociology of Human Rights

SOCIOLOGY OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Sociology came to the study of human rights much later than law, philosophy, or political science. In this course, you’ll learn (1) what constitutes a sociology of human rights and (2) what sociology, its classics, and its diverse methods bring to the empirical study and theory of human rights. We’ll explore the history, social institutions and laws, ideas, practices, and theories of human rights. We’ll become familiar with the social actors, social structures, and relationships involved in practices such as violation, claims-making, advocacy, and protection. We’ll consider how social, cultural, political, and economic forces affect human rights issues. We’ll learn about the questions sociologists ask, starting with the most basic (but far from simple) question, “what is a human right?” We’ll tackle key debates in the field, considering – for instance – whether human rights are universal and how human rights relate to cultural norms/values, national sovereignty, and national security. Finally, we’ll apply the concepts we’ve learned to a wide range of issues (ex: how racial, ethnic, gender, and other social inequalities relate to human rights), rights (ex: LGBTQ rights, the rights of laborers, the rights of refugees), and cases (ex: enslavement, the separation of children from their families, circumcision, sterilization, the use of torture). We’ll consider human rights cases in the United States and across the globe, and how events and actions in one place relate to human rights violations in another.

• MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Rosemary McGunnigle-Gonzales
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• 4 points

Indigenous Theater, Performance & Politi

Indigenous Theater Perf/P

After being marginalized for decades, Indigenous theater and performance studies is now a burgeoning field that draws together attention to the body, the senses, ontology, affect, structural violence, trauma, agency, political life, cultural embodied memory, and sociocultural revitalization.  In this course, we will engage with current theory-building about Indigenous theater and performance and its political implications.  We will explore what attention to performance and embodiment reveals about competing sovereignties, the colonial present, and decolonization; settler colonial ideologies, racism, and gendered structural violences; sensory performativity and the production of imaginaries to resist coloniality; and Indigenous treatment of affect, emotion, embodied intergenerational trauma, vital materiality, and more-than-human relationality.  We will study interpretive approaches; artists’ creative process; Indigenous performance cultures spanning dance, soundscapes, storytelling, and dramatic forms; and critical theoretical frameworks for understanding Indigenous theater and performance.  We will read works by Indigenous scholars and artist-authors and bring into dialogue performances and texts traversing Canada, the U.S., and Latin America.

• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Czarina F Thelen
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• 4 points

Transpacific Media Cultures

Transpacific Media Cultures underscores the flows and movements of culture, media, ideas, and
communities in, around, and along the Pacific, including Asia, the Americas, and Oceania. This
course is designed to introduce students to a diverse set of contemporary media productions that
are attuned to social, political, and cultural issues across the transpacific. Some of the topics
discussed include race, gender, and sexuality in a networked world; migrant labor; indigenous
rights; the ethics of new media; and, the intersections of media and social justice. Because this
course takes on the study of media from a transpacific and global lens, it necessarily must
contend with and consider seriously various literacies and uneven forms of knowledge creations
in different locales. To that end, we will be studying different forms of cultural productions
(including film, video, multimedia, transmedia storytelling, and poetry) that reveal the
multiplicities, differences, and nuances of worldmaking.

• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Viola Lasmana
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• 4 points

Indigenous Language Revitalization in La

Why do Indigenous language matter? According to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, two Indigenous languages die every two months. Although Indigenous peoples make up less than 6% of the global population, they speak more than 4,000 of the world’s approximately 6,700 languages. This statistic indicates that the vast majority of the Indigenous languages are seriously endangered due to colonial practices, requiring urgent action for their maintenance and dissemination. This seminar examines the history and current state of Indigenous language revitalization in Latin America, focusing on Quechua in the Andes and the diversity of languages in the Amazon and Mesoamerica. It will approach the official and Indigenous grassroots language planning and policy initiatives. Indigenous languages are not limited to the way Indigenous people communicate; they are an extensive and complex system of knowledge, history, memory, and identity. Therefore, this seminar will focus on how Indigenous people are reclaiming their languages, identities, and conveying their cultures through various methods and activities in rural and urban centers. These include oral traditions, educational pedagogies, music, art performances, and many other innovative efforts, for instance, using media and technological opportunities. The seminar will draw on a variety of academic literature and documentation materials produced by Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars and activists. Students will also have the opportunity to meet with Indigenous language speakers and teachers of the region. Select short films and Indigenous songs will be shown and discussed in class. This course is open to students from all departments interested in Indigenous language, culture, politics, literature, history, media, ethnomusicology, and anyone interested in expanding their critical sociocultural approach to Latin America.

• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Renzo Aroni
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• 4 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

1-4 points. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Except by special permission of the director of undergraduate studies, no more than 4 points of individual research may be taken in any one term. This includes both PSYC UN3950 and PSYC UN3920. No more than 8 points ofPSYC UN3950 may be applied toward the psychology major, and no more than 4 points toward the concentration. Readings, special laboratory projects, reports, and special seminars on contemporary issues in psychological research and theory.

• Instructor: Patricia G Lindemann
  CULPA: 64 Info
• 1-4 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

1-4 points. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Except by special permission of the director of undergraduate studies, no more than 4 points of individual research may be taken in any one term. This includes both PSYC UN3950 and PSYC UN3920. No more than 8 points ofPSYC UN3950 may be applied toward the psychology major, and no more than 4 points toward the concentration. Readings, special laboratory projects, reports, and special seminars on contemporary issues in psychological research and theory.

• Instructor: Patricia G Lindemann
  CULPA: 64 Info
• 1-4 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

CONTEMPORARY DIPLOMACY

Prerequisites: POLS UN1601 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Seminar in International Relations. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

• MW 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Rebecca S Murphy
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

GLOB ENERGY SECURTY & GEOPLTCS

Prerequisites: POLS UN1601 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Seminar in International Relations. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

• TR 9 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Albert Bininachvili
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

Biological Basis of Human Variation

Bio Basis Human Variation

This is a seminar highlighting current topics in human biological variation.  Student presentations and directed discussions will explore the evidence for human variation at the molecular, phenotypic, and behavioral levels, how that diversity is distributed geographically, and the factors responsible.

• TR 9 a.m.-11:10 a.m.
• Instructor: Jessica M Manser
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

MAJOR 20TH CENTURY PLAYWRIGHTS

IBSEN AND PINTER

The course will trace the pattern of the evolving theatrical careers of Henrik Ibsen and Harold Pinter, exploring the nature of and relationships among key features of their emerging aesthetics. Thematic and theatrical exploration involve positioning the plays in the context of the trajectories of modernism and postmodernism and examining, in that context, the emblematic use of stage sets and tableaux; the intense scrutiny of families, friendships, and disruptive intruders; the experiments with temporality, multi-linearity, and split staging; the issues raised by performance and the implied playhouse; and the plays' potential as instruments of cultural intervention. Two papers are required, 5-7 pages and 10-12 pages, with weekly brief responses, and a class presentation. Readings include major plays of both writers and key statements on modernism and postmodernism.
  Application Instructions: 
E-mail Professor Austin Quigley (aeq1@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Ibsen and Pinter seminar." In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course. 
Admitted students should register for the course; they will automatically be placed on a wait list from which the instructor will in due course admit them as spaces become available.

• TR 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Austin E Quigley
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• 3 points

FILM NARRATIVE (SEMINAR)

FILM NOIR

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. This course will consider Hollywood’s noir films of the 1940s and 1950s as urban narratives that simultaneously resisted and enabled the U.S.’s post-WWII superpower status and its internal ethnic and gender norms; examples of French film noir and film criticism will be used as a comparative model. Readings will include original documents, histories, and urban, gender, and film theory; films will include Double Indemnity, Gilda, The Big Heat, Cause of Alarm, The Sweet Smell of Success, In a Lonely Place, Pickup on Main Street, Panique, A Bout de Souffle (Breathless), and On the Waterfront.

• MW 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Ann Douglas
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY

This seminar is an introduction to the theory and methods that have been developed by anthropologists to study contemporary cities and urban cultures. Although anthropology has historically focused on the study of non-Western and largely rural societies, since the 1960s, anthropologists have increasingly directed attention to cities and urban cultures. During the course of the semester, we will examine such topics as: the politics of urban planning, development and land use; race, class, gender and urban inequality; urban migration and transnational communities; the symbolic economies of urban space; and street life. Readings will include the works of Jane Jacobs, Sharon Zukin, and Henri Lefebvre.

• TR 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Steven Gregory
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS IN COMP LIT/SOC

This year-long, three-credit course is mandatory for students who will be writing their Senior Thesis in Comparative Literature and Society or in Medical Humanities. Students who wish to be considered for Departmental honors are required to submit a Senior Thesis. The thesis is a rigorous research work of approximately 40 pages, and it will include citations and a bibliographical apparatus. It may be written in English or, with the permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies, in another language relevant to the students scholarly interests. Although modeled after an independent study, in which core elements of the structure, direction, and pace of the work are decided together by the student and their faculty thesis supervisor, students are nonetheless expected to complete certain major steps in the research and writing process according to the timeline outlined by the ICLS DUS.

• Instructor: Tommaso Manfredini
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• 3 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

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

• Instructor: Elizabeth Povinelli
  CULPA: 14 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Paige West
  CULPA: 41 h-index: 23 Info
• 2-6 points

SUPERVISED INDEPENDENT STUDY

Prerequisites: approval prior to registration; see the director of undergraduate studies for details. A creative/scholarly project conducted under faculty supervision.

• Instructor: Christopher J Washburne
  CULPA: 31 Info
• 3 points

Independent Research

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. For an independent research project or independent study, a brief description of the proposed project or reading, with the supervising faculty member's endorsement, is required for registration. A variety of research projects conducted under the supervision of members of the faculty. Observational, theoretical, and experimental work in galactic and extragalactic astronomy and cosmology. The topic and scope of the work must be arranged with a faculty member in advance; a written paper describing the results of the project is required at its completion.

• Instructor: Frederik Paerels
  CULPA: 21 Info
• 3 points

Independent Research

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. For an independent research project or independent study, a brief description of the proposed project or reading, with the supervising faculty member's endorsement, is required for registration. A variety of research projects conducted under the supervision of members of the faculty. Observational, theoretical, and experimental work in galactic and extragalactic astronomy and cosmology. The topic and scope of the work must be arranged with a faculty member in advance; a written paper describing the results of the project is required at its completion.

• Instructor: Frederik Paerels
  CULPA: 21 Info
• 3 points

Gospel Music in Modern America

This is an undergraduate course introducing students to the study of religion, African American culture, and black popular music. The course will engage theoretical and historical questions about the emergence and evolution of gospel music as aesthetic performance, commercial product, cultural politics, musical genre, racial performance, and theological terrain across the twentieth century up to the present moment. There are no prerequisites for the course, but prior coursework in African American history, popular music or religious studies is helpful.

• MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Josef Sorett
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY AND STATISTI

Probability and Statistics

Prerequisites: A good working knowledge of calculus, including derivatives, single and double, limits, sums and series. Life is a gamble and with some knowledge of probability / statistics is easier evaluate the risks and rewards involved. Probability theory allows us take a known underlying model and estimate how likely will we be able to see future events. Statistical Inference allows us to take data we have seen and estimate the missing parts of an unknown model. The first part of the course focus on the former and the second part the latter.

• MTWR 6:05 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Tat Sang Fung
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• 3 points

PARTICLE ASTROPHYS & COSMOLOGY

Prerequisites: (PHYS UN1403 or PHYS UN2601 or PHYS UN2802) and (MATH UN1202 or MATH UN1208) students are recommended but not required to have taken PHYS UN3003 and PHYS UN3007. An introduction to the basics of particle astrophysics and cosmology. Particle physics - introduction to the Standard Model and supersymmetry/higher dimension theories; Cosmology – Friedmann-Robertson-Walker line element and equation for expansion of universe; time evolution of energy/matter density from the Big Bang; inflationary cosmology; microwave background theory and observation; structure formation; dark energy; observational tests of geometry of universe and expansion; observational evidence for dark matter; motivation for existence of dark matter from particle physics; experimental searches of dark matter; evaporating and primordial black holes; ultra-high energy phenomena (gamma-rays and cosmic-rays).

• TR 4:30 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
• Instructor: Charles J Hailey
  CULPA: 42 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

BUSINESS CHINESE I

The Business Chinese I course is designed to prepare students to use Chinese in a present or future work situation. Students will develop skills in the practical principles of grammar, vocabulary, and cross-cultural understanding needed in today’s business world.

• MTWR 9 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Zhong Qi Shi
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• 4 points

STRING THEORY

• MW 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Frederik Denef
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 36 Info
• 3 points

HISTORY OF CHINESE LANGUAGE

The evolution of the Chinese language. Topics include historical phonology, the Chinese script, the classical and literary languages, the standard language and major dialects, language and society, etc.

• TR 9 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Zhirong Wang
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN RIGHTS

This course will provide a wide-ranging survey of conceptual foundations and issues in contemporary human rights. The class will examine the philosophical origins of human rights, contemporary debates, the evolution of human rights, key human rights documents, and the questions of human rights enforcement. This course will examine specific civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights and various thematic topics in human rights.

• MW 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Sandra L Sirota
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• 3 points

SOUND:THE SACRED, THE SECULAR

• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Ana Maria Ochoa
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• 3 points

FOURIER ANALYSIS

Prerequisites: three terms of calculus and linear algebra or four terms of calculus. Prerequisite: three terms of calculus and linear algebra or four terms of calculus. Fourier series and integrals, discrete analogues, inversion and Poisson summation formulae, convolution. Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Stress on the application of Fourier analysis to a wide range of disciplines.

• MTWR 2:45 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Yash A Jhaveri
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

FIN DE SIECLE UKRAINIAN LIT

The course focuses on the emergence of modernism in Ukrainian literature in the late 19th century and early 20th century, a period marked by a vigorous, often biting, polemic between the populist Ukrainian literary establishment and young Ukrainian writers who were inspired by their European counterparts. Students will read prose, poetry, and drama written by Ivan Franko, the writers of the Moloda Muza, Olha Kobylianska, Lesia Ukrainka, and Volodymyr Vynnychenko among others. The course will trace the introduction of feminism, urban motifs and settings, as well as decadence, into Ukrainian literature and will analyze the conflict that ensued among Ukrainian intellectuals as they shaped the identity of the Ukrainian people. The course will be supplemented by audio and visual materials reflecting this period in Ukrainian culture. Entirely in English with a parallel reading list for those who read Ukrainian.

• MTWR 1 p.m.-2:35 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Andryczyk
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• 3 points

THE WRITERS OF PRAGUE

After providing an overview of the history of Prague and the Czech lands from earliest times, the course will focus on works by Prague writers from the years 1895-1938, when the city was a truly multicultural urban center. Special attention will be given to each of the groups that contributed to Prague’s cultural diversity in this period: the Austro-German minority, which held disproportionate social, political and economic influence until 1918; the Czech majority, which made Prague the capital of the democratic First Czechoslovak Republic (1918-1938); the German- and Czech-speaking Jewish communities, which were almost entirely wiped out between 1938 and 1945; and the Russian and Ukrainian émigré community, which—thanks in large part to support from the Czechoslovak government—maintained a robust, independent cultural presence through the 1920s and early 1930s. Through close reading and analysis of works of poetry, drama, prose fiction, reportage, literary correspondence and essays, the course will trace common themes that preoccupied more than one Prague writer of this period. In compiling and comparing different versions of cultural myth, it will consider the applicability of various possible definitions of the literary genius loci of Prague.

• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher W Harwood
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

Poets, Rebels, Exiles: 100 Years of Russ

POETS, REBELS, EXILES

Poets, Rebels, Exiles examines the successive generations of the most provocative and influential Russian and Russian Jewish writers and artists who brought the cataclysm of the Soviet and post-Soviet century to North America. From Joseph Brodsky—the bad boy bard of Soviet Russia and a protégé of Anna Akhmatova, who served 18 months of hard labor near the North Pole for social parasitism before being exiled—to the most recent artistic descendants, this course will interrogate diaspora, memory, and nostalgia in the cultural production of immigrants and exiles.

• MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Anna Katsnelson
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• 3 points

SCREENWRITING I: INTRO

Modern feature-length screenplays demand a specific architecture. In this class students will enter with an idea for a film, and during the first eight sessions build a coherent treatment; that is, a summary of the events and major emotional arcs of the film's three acts. In the final four sessions students will begin and complete the first act of their feature-length screenplay.

• TR 10 a.m.-1:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Loren-Paul Caplin
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

CLT HERITAGE: A GEOR CASE STUDY

This seminar brings anthropological perspectives to bear on the practices and ideologies of cultural heritage in the Republic of Georgia today, whee culture has proven a key political and economic pawn in a context of ongoing postsocialist struggle.......

• MTWR 1 p.m.-2:35 p.m.
• Instructor: Lauren E Ninoshvili
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

ALGEBRAIC CURVES

Prerequisites: (MATH GU4041 and MATH GU4042) and MATH UN3007 Plane curves, affine and projective varieties, singularities, normalization, Riemann surfaces, divisors, linear systems, Riemann-Roch theorem.

• MTWR 10:45 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Akash Sengupta
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 4 Info
• 3 points

MEDIEVAL SOCIETY,POL&ETHICS

This seminar examines major texts in social and political theory and ethics written in Europe and the Mediterranean region between the fifth and the fifteenth centuries CE.  Students will be assigned background readings to establish historical context, but class discussion will be grounded in close reading and analysis of the medieval sources themselves.  The course is modeled on the Columbia College core course Contemporary Civilization and attempts to fill in the gap on that syllabus between Augustine and Machiavelli.  CC is not a prerequisite, but familiarity with the authors and themes of that course will provide useful preparation for this one.

• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam Kosto
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO MODERN ANALYSIS I

Prerequisites: MATH S1202, MATH S2010, or the equivalent. Students must have a current and solid background in the prerequisites for the course: multivariable calculus and linear algebra. Elements of set theory and general topology. Metric spaces. Euclidian space. Continuous and differentiable functions. Riemann integral. Uniform convergence.

• MTWR 9 a.m.-10:35 a.m.
• TR 6:15 p.m.-7:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Dobrin Marchev
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• Instructor: Fabio Nironi
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO MODERN ANALYSIS II

Prerequisites: MATH S4061, or the equivalent with the instructor's permission. Equicontinuity. Contraction maps with applications to existence theorems in analysis. Lebesgue measure and integral. Fourier series and Fourier transform

• MTWR 9 a.m.-10:35 a.m.
• Instructor: Dobrin Marchev
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• 3 points

BIOLOGY AT PHYSICAL EXTREMES

Prerequisites: one year each of biology and physics, or the instructor's permission. This is a combined lecture/seminar course designed for graduate students and advanced undergraduates. The course will cover a series of cases where biological systems take advantage of physical phenomena in counter intuitive and surprising ways to accomplish their functions. In each of these cases, we will discuss different physical mechanisms at work. We will limit our discussions to simple, qualitative arguments. We will also discuss experimental methods enabling the study of these biological systems. Overall, the course will expose students to a wide range of physical concepts involved in biological processes.

• TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Ozgur Sahin
  h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

ORAL HISTORY INTERNSHIP

• R 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Amy A Starecheski
  h-index: 5 Info
• 2-4 points

TOPICS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE

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

• TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Tonya Foster
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• 4 points

BEOWULF

• MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: David M Yerkes
  CULPA: 41 Info
• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO MINERALOGY I

Prerequisites: introductory geology or the equivalent, elementary college physics and chemistry, or the instructors permission. Minerals come in dazzling colors, amazing shapes and with interesting optical effects. But mineralogy is also an essential tool for the understanding of Earth evolution. Minerals represent fundamental building blocks of the Earth system and planetary bodies. Minerals form through geological and biological processes such as igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary from high to low temperatures, from the deep interior to the Earth’s surface and related to volcanism, tectonics, weathering, climate and life. Minerals are one of our most important sources of information on such processes through Earth’s history. Minerals also represent important natural resources and are fundamental to the global economy and modern technology as we know it. The goal of this class is to (1) understand the physical and chemical properties of minerals, (2) learn techniques of mineral identification with an emphasis on optical mineralogy, (3) understand the relationship between minerals and the broader geological context.

• TR 2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Yves Moussallam
  h-index: 18 Info
• 4 points

Topics in Israeli Cinema

Israel has a unique and constantly-evolving national cinema, the product of its diverse immigrant population, influences from neighboring nations, and dramatic national history. Beginning with artistic influences from abroad and culminating with native self-examinations, this course will provide a survey of Israeli film history, recurring foci of Israeli cinema, and introductions to influential filmmakers from early director and impresario Menahem Golan to Orthodox writer/director Rama Burshtein. Each class meeting will include a complete screening of an Israeli feature film, as well as clips of related works. Readings will include critical essays and histories 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 films, and independent research beyond the materials presented in class. All readings are in English. All feature films and film clips are in Hebrew (some include Arabic), and will be presented with English subtitles. Students fluent in Hebrew and Arabic are encouraged to interpret the dialogue for additional meaning that may not be translated in the subtitles.

• MW 6:15 p.m.-9:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Stuart Weinstock
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• 3 points

ART STRIKE: MUSEUM DISSIDENTS & DISSONAN

In the aftermath of World War II, rebuilt (Axis) and surviving (Allied) museums presented themselves as havens from a violent world– places for quiet introspection and appreciation of modern art. As the world moved through peak decolonization of former empires in the 1970s, this concept of museums was challenged by artists who asked that the contemporary art wings of the museum be a space for active discourse about current events. In the last forty years, these trends have accelerated as community organizations focused on the contemporary museum as sites for their struggles around migrant labor (Guggenheim Abu Dhabi), reparations (British Museum), state violence (moCA Cleveland), decolonization (Brooklyn Museum), surveillance (M+ Hong Kong), arms trade (Whitney Museum), etc. On the other side, museums have also expanded staff diversity, education departments, non-profit activities, and the idea of the museum as an investor in communities. This seminar begins from the hypothesis that this change in museums comes from tectonic shifts in the ecosystem for contemporary art in each city: museums (staff, unionized labor, curators, education departments), audiences (students, general public), organizations (community boards, local organizations, artist collectives), funders (galleries, collectors, donors, grant agencies), and media (newspapers, blogs, tiktok, twitter, instagram). We will build an ethnography of contemporary art, concluding with a case study (museum, art project, artist collective, etc) researched by each student as their final project. We will read accounts from anthropology, art history, and museum studies, interspersed with documentations of art installations.

• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Naeem Mohaiemen
  Wikipedia h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

NY A-GARDES:MUSI,PERF SNC 1950

• TR 6:15 p.m.-9:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Anne Gosfield
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• 3 points

PAN AFRICANISM

“Pan Africanist” ideologies were very diverse from Garveyism, Negritude to the various African America, Caribbean and African discourses of “neo-pharaohnism” and “Ethiopianism.” This seminar explores how Black leaders, intellectuals, and artists chose to imagine Black (Africans and people of African descent) as a global community from the late 19th century to the present. It examines their attempts to chart a course of race, modernity, and emancipation in unstable and changing geographies of empire, nation, and state. Particular attention will be given to manifestations identified as their common history and destiny and how such a distinctive historical experience has created a unique body of reflections on and cultural productions about modernity, religion, class, gender, and sexuality, in a context of domination and oppression.

• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Mamadou Diouf
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Elementary Forms of Populism: Authority,

This course ethnographically and theoretically investigates the phenomenon of populism by zeroing in on the political constellations employed in the name of “people:" religion, ethnicity, gender, affect, power, and knowledge. Taking our departure from empirical and scholarly examples from Turkey, the course also resorts to a wide range of examples, from Latin American countries to the contemporary US. We will explicitly refrain from subscribing to a classical position about populist politics, aiming to go beyond discourse analysis in order to ethnographically examine how populist practices gain legitimacy and efficacy on the ground. We will be discussing the ways in which political, social, economic relations entangle with each other, specifically focusing on the Turkish case. Are the supporters of populist movements mistaken in their perception? What is the role of “alternative facts” in establishing political legitimacy? Can experts and scientists be alternatives to populist politicians? Are the right-wing arguments embedded in the constitution of social and material worlds that liberal, progressive movements fail to question in radical ways? Ultimately, we aim to achieve an ethnographically sensitive understanding of mass politics in our contemporary moment.

• WR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Firat Kurt
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• 3 points

HUM RIGHTS/GLOBAL ECON JUSTICE

The world economy is a patchwork of competing and complementary interests among and between governments, corporations, and civil society. These stakeholders at times cooperate and also conflict over issues of global poverty, inequality, and sustainability. What role do human rights play in coordinating the different interests that drive global economic governance? This seminar will introduce students to different structures of global governance for development, trade, labor, finance, the environment, migration, and intellectual property and investigate their relationship with human rights. Students will learn about public, private, and mixed forms of governance, analyze the ethical and strategic perspectives of the various stakeholders and relate them to existing human rights norms. The course will examine the work of multilateral organizations such as the United Nations and the International Financial Institutions, as well as international corporate and non-governmental initiatives.

• TR 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Rainer Braun
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• 3 points

The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Rev

Slavery in Age of Revolut

The history of conflicts within and over slavery during the American Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, the Wars for Latin American Independence, and the campaigns to abolish slavery in the British Empire.  The seminar gives special emphasis to the evolution of antislavery and proslavery arguments, the role of war in destabilizing practices of human bondage, and choices made by enslaved men and women in moments of rapid political change.

• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher L Brown
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Prerequisites: LING UN3101 How discourse works; how language is used: oral vs. written modes of language; the structure of discourse; speech acts and speech genres; the expression of power; authenticity; and solidarity in discourse, dialogicity, pragmatics, and mimesis.

• MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: John C Wright
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

Free/Unfree Labor: East Central Europe

HIST OF MOD EAST & CENTRL

The emancipation of serfs in Prussia, Habsburg monarchy and tsarist Russia (1780s to 1860s) coincided with the abolition of slavery in trans-Atlantic world. All over the globe, the acts of emancipation spurred political resistance, social movements, state actions, and economic policies that targeted former serf/slaves and generations of their descendants. What to do with the newly granted freedom animated social movements and ruling elites, entrepreneurs and peasants, national leaders and women activists. The abolition of serfdom and its historical significance in the particular context of eastern and central Europe is the keynote of the seminar. We will focus on pivotal issues of the post-emancipation modernity: unfree/free labor, industrial and agrarian development; mass emigration vs. access to ethnic nationalism. We will analyze politics of class, race and ethnicity from the Enlightement to the establishment of the Communist rule. The seminar asks: what happened to people and lands they inhabited in the wake of enserfed labor? How can we historically relate the emancipation of Eastern and Central European serfs to post-emancipation societies in other parts of the modern world? The seminar welcomes students of European history and anyone, who is interested in historical studies on bondage, labor, empire, nationalism, migrations, and social and economic policies.

• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Malgorzata Mazurek
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

PROBABILITY THEORY

Prerequisites: MATH V1101 Calculus I and MATH V1102 Calculus II, or the equivalent, and STAT W1111 or STAT W1211 (Introduction to Statistics). Corequisites: MATH V1201 Calculus III, or the equivalent, or the instructor's permission. This course can be taken as a single course for students requiring knowledge of probability or as a foundation for more advanced courses. It is open to both undergraduate and master students. This course satisfies the prerequisite for STAT W3107 and W4107. Topics covered include combinatorics, conditional probability, random variables and common distributions, expectation, independence, Bayes' rule, joint distributions, conditional expectations, moment generating functions, central limit theorem, laws of large numbers, characteristic functions.

• MTWR 4:30 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
• MTWR 10:45 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• MW 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Young S Kim
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Shaw-Hwa Lo
  CULPA: 14 Info
• Instructor: Michael Sobel
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia h-index: 35 Info
• 3 points