The City & the Archive

How to write the city? What is an archive for writing the city? What liminal and marginal perspectives are available for thinking about writing the city? What is the place of the city in the global south in our historical imagination? Our attempt in this seminar is to look at the global south city from the historical and analytical perspectives of those dispossessed and marginal. Instead of ‘grand’ summations about “the Islamic City” or “Global City,” we will work meticulously to observe annotations on power that constructs cities, archives and their afterlives. The emphasis is on the city in South Asia as a particular referent though we will learn to see Cairo, New York, and Istanbul.

• Department: History
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Manan Ahmed
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• 4 points

GENERATIVE DESIGN

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Danil Nagy
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• 3 points

Brave New World and Its Afterlife

Brave New World and After

This course is an intensive study of Aldous Huxley’s influential novel,
Brave New World
(1932). It aims to introduce students both to the context of Huxley’s world and the extensive reflections it spawned on the reimagining of what Anthony Burgess called “the perfectibility of man” conducted as a “scientific programme.” If
Brave New World
has entered the lexicon as a moniker for totalitarian overreach and mind conditioning, the novel merits closer examination for the unique means by which it achieves its effects, ranging from radical social engineering to the management of desire. Among the many questions the course addresses are the following: What are readers to make of the inversion of norms that identifies the World State with the acme of modernity and the “savage reservation” with a discredited past that includes concepts like the family? Does this inversion obscure the standpoints from which a critique of the World State can be made? How does Huxley unsettle the terms of analysis of the novel’s politics? 

These questions, among others, are posed as learning tools for approaching the novel, the context in which it was written, and the broader influences it exerted. The syllabus assigns several weeks of reading
Brave New World
alongside relevant secondary criticism, with a view to encouraging students to probe different critical perspectives and identify evolving paradigms that amplify the novel’s cross-disciplinary engagements. Examples of the questions that students are encouraged to address are: Can the World State’s project of control through pleasure effectively eliminate feeling while requiring sensation? Is the technocratic manipulation of time (through the organization of workers’ bodies and labor) undone by a necessary recourse to the eternity-promising drug
soma
?

How is
Brave New World
both a futuristic view of a dominant world order, which is carefully produced by social engineering and conditioning, and a depiction of a subversive counterculture, uprooting the norms transmitted across generations?  

The syllabus includes adjacent works, such as Yevgeny Zamyatin’s
We
(1924), viewed as a direct predecessor to
Brave New World
, George Orwell’s
Nineteen Eighty-Four
(1949), and Anthony Burgess’s
A Clockwork Orange
(1962). Students will read
Nineteen Eighty-Four
to determine whether its

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Gauri Viswanathan
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• 4 points

FOOTPRINT: CARBON & DESIGN

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: David E Benjamin
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• 3 points

Synthetic Organogenesis

The goal of synthetic organogenesis is to use stem cells to reconstitute aspects of embryo development and organ formation in vitro. Examines the molecular basis of human embryogenesis. Introduces synthetic organogenesis as an interdisciplinary field. Students learn to recognize generic molecular mechanisms behind signaling and cell lineage specification. Covers recent advances in applying engineering and contemporary biology to creating organoids and organs on chips using human stem cells.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mijo Simunovic
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• 3 points

North Korean History, Culture and Politi

North Korea is widely regarded as a country without a history; as enigmatic as it is isolated. Dispensing with this cliché, this course invites students to engage with North Korean history using a variety of primary and secondary sources. We begin in the medieval period to trace the distinct features of the northern region that made it uniquely receptive to outside ideas. Understanding the north as a frontier zone of experimentation and adaption allows us to examine the attractive power of modernity in the north during the early twentieth century via the influence of Christianity, capitalism and communism. Utilizing texts and materials made in North Korea and internationally, including feature and documentary films, women’s magazines, graphic novels, literary fiction and testimony, the course investigates the conditions within which knowledge about North Korea has been produced, circulated and repressed. Key topics to be explored include the history of Christianity and capitalism in Pyongyang and the northern provinces, communist cadres in the 1930s, the allure of the North in the 1940s, the Korean War and the purges that followed, North Korea’s relations with neighbors and the world, and the high cost its citizens pay for the country’s brutal sanction economy.

• Department: History
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ruth Barraclough
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• 4 points

MAKING SENSES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: James Nanasca
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• 3 points

ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS FOR SCIENCE AND EN

Many materials properties and chemical processes are governed by atomic-scale phenomena such as phase transformations, atomic/ionic transport, and chemical reactions. Thanks to progress in computer technology and methodological development, now there exist atomistic simulation approaches for the realistic modeling and quantitative prediction of such properties. Atomistic simulations are therefore becoming increasingly important as a complement for experimental characterization, to provide parameters for meso- and macroscale models, and for the in-silico discovery of entirely new materials. This course aims at providing a comprehensive overview of cutting-edge atomistic modeling techniques that are frequently used both in academic and industrial research and engineering. Participants will develop the ability to interpret results from atomistic simulations and to judge whether a problem can be reliably addressed with simulations. The students will also obtain basic working knowledge in standard simulation software.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexander Urban
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• 3 points

ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS FOR SCIENCE AND EN

Many materials properties and chemical processes are governed by atomic-scale phenomena such as phase transformations, atomic/ionic transport, and chemical reactions. Thanks to progress in computer technology and methodological development, now there exist atomistic simulation approaches for the realistic modeling and quantitative prediction of such properties. Atomistic simulations are therefore becoming increasingly important as a complement for experimental characterization, to provide parameters for meso- and macroscale models, and for the in-silico discovery of entirely new materials. This course aims at providing a comprehensive overview of cutting-edge atomistic modeling techniques that are frequently used both in academic and industrial research and engineering. Participants will develop the ability to interpret results from atomistic simulations and to judge whether a problem can be reliably addressed with simulations. The students will also obtain basic working knowledge in standard simulation software.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Alexander Urban
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• 3 points

HISTORY OF MODERN CHINA II

HIST OF MODERN CHINA II

China's search for a new order in the long twentieth century with a focus on political, social and cultural change.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Cameron K Foltz
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• 3 points

ARCHITECTURES OF AND FOR THE MORE-THAN-H

ARCH FOR MORE-THAN-HUMAN

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Mireia Luzarraga
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• 3 points

CHEMISTRY OF CONTINENTL WATERS

Prerequisites: Recommended preparation: a solid background in basic chemistry. Introduction to geochemical cycles involving the atmosphere, land, and biosphere; chemistry of precipitation, weathering reactions, rivers, lakes, estuaries, and groundwaters; students are introduced to the use of major and minor ions as tracers of chemical reactions and biological processes that regulate the chemical composition of continental waters.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Anderson
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• 3 points

Philanthropy & Just Societies

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Philanthropy & Just Societies
will enable Columbia undergraduate students to learn about the history of philanthropy, to understand best practices and ethical underpinnings, to debate its potential in making more just societies, and to consider what it means to give and receive aid at different scales. Students will have the opportunity to participate directly in philanthropic work.

• Department: Psychology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• 3 points

WOMEN & GENDER IN KOREAN HIST

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jungwon Kim
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• 4 points

DESIGNING AFFORDABILITY: HOUSING, DESIGN

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Galia Solomonoff
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Research Training

Research training course. Recommended in preparation for laboratory related research.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• Instructor: Gerard A Ateshian
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• Instructor: Tal Danino
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• Instructor: X. Edward Guo
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• Instructor: Henry Hess
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• Instructor: Clark T Hung
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 65 Info
• Instructor: Lance Kam
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 38 Info
• Instructor: Elisa Konofagou
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• Instructor: Andrew Laine
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• Instructor: Kam W Leong
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• Instructor: Helen Lu
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• Instructor: Barclay Morrison
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• Instructor: Elizabeth Olson
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• Instructor: Paul Sajda
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• Instructor: Kenneth Shepard
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• Instructor: Shunichi Homma
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• Instructor: Samuel Sia
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• Instructor: Milan N Stojanovic
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• Instructor: Stavros Thomopoulos
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• Instructor: John T Vaughan
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• Instructor: Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
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• Instructor: Qi Wang
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• Instructor: Nandan L Nerurkar
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• Instructor: Stephen H Tsang
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• Instructor: Elham Azizi
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• Instructor: Jose McFaline-Figueroa
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• Instructor: Treena L Arinzeh
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• Instructor: Sanja Vickovic
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• Instructor: Santiago Correa
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• Instructor: Kaveri A Thakoor
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• Instructor: Yvon Woappi
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• Instructor: Yasmine El-Shamayleh
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• Instructor: Parisa Yousefpour
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• 0 points

Research Training

Research training course. Recommended in preparation for laboratory related research.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• Instructor: Xuan Di
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• 0 points

Research Training

Research training course. Recommended in preparation for laboratory related research.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• Instructor: Scott Banta
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 36 Info
• Instructor: Daniel Esposito
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• 0 points

Research Training

Research training course. Recommended in preparation for laboratory related research.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• Instructor: Matei T Ciocarlie
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• Instructor: Michael Burke
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• Instructor: Chaoqun Dong
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• Instructor: Homayoon Beigi
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• Instructor: P J Schuck
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• 0 points

TOPICS IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Sanat Kumar
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 79 Info
• Instructor: Jingguang Chen
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• Instructor: Lauren E Marbella
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• 3 points

MASTERS RESEARCH OR PROJECT

Prerequisite(s): Approval by a faculty member who agrees to supervise the work. Independent work involving experiments, computer programming, analytical investigation, or engineering design.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Instructor: Anish Agarwal
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• Instructor: Shipra Agrawal
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• Instructor: Eric Balkanski
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• Instructor: Daniel Bienstock
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• Instructor: Agostino Capponi
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• Instructor: Rachel Cummings
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• Instructor: Antonius B Dieker
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 19 Info
• Instructor: Adam N Elmachtoub
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 13 Info
• Instructor: Yuri Faenza
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• Instructor: Vineet Goyal
  h-index: 21 Info
• Instructor: Ali Hirsa
  h-index: 8 Info
• Instructor: Anran Hu
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• Instructor: Garud Iyengar
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 30 Info
• Instructor: Hardeep Johar
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• Instructor: Cedric Josz
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• Instructor: Soulaymane Kachani
  CULPA: 12 Info
• Instructor: Yaren Kaya
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• Instructor: Christian Kroer
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• Instructor: Daniel Lacker
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 13 Info
• Instructor: Henry Lam
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• Instructor: Fabrizio Lecci
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• Instructor: Tianyi Lin
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• Instructor: Uday Menon
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• Instructor: Bento Natura
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• Instructor: Jay Sethuraman
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• Instructor: Karl Sigman
  CULPA: 15 Info
• Instructor: Eric Stratman
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• Instructor: Clifford Stein
  CULPA: 31 Wikipedia h-index: 53 Info
• Instructor: Wenpin Tang
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• Instructor: Kaizheng Wang
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 8 Info
• Instructor: Lily Xu
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• Instructor: David D Yao
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• Instructor: Yi Zhang
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Xunyu Zhou
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• Instructor: Christine Chan
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• Instructor: Chris Lee
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• 1-3 points

DIRECTED READINGS

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Topics chosen in consultation between members of the staff and students.

• Department: Classics
• Instructor: Elizabeth K Irwin
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• Instructor: Nancy Worman
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• Instructor: Darcy Krasne
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• 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
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Meredith Landman
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN EE & CE

Stat Learning Quant Tradi

Selected topics in electrical and computer engineering. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 4900 to 4909.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Hui Jin
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• 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 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Neferti Tadiar
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points