Art Humanities

Discussion and analysis of the artistic qualities and significance of selected works of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Parthenon in Athens to works of the 20th century.

• Department: Core (A&S)
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Aaron Slodounik
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• Instructor: Luisa Valle
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• Instructor: Alessandra Di Croce
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• 3 points

INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY ITALIAN

An intensive course that covers two semesters of elementary Italian in one, and prepares students to move into Intermediate Italian.  Students will develop their Italian communicative competence through listening, (interactive) speaking, reading and (interactive) writing. The Italian language will be used for real-world purposes and in meaningful contexts to promote intercultural understanding. This course is especially recommended for students who already know another Romance language.  May be used toward fulfillment of the language requirement.

• Department: Italian
• TRF 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Barbara Spinelli
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 6 points

INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY COURSE

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• Department: Classics @Barnard
• MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Darcy Krasne
  h-index: 5 Info
• 4 points

Music Humanities

Analysis and discussion of representative works from the Middle Ages to the present.

• Department: Core (A&S)
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Mariusz Kozak
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 5 Info
• Instructor: Kristy K Barbacane
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Virginia L Dellenbaugh
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• Instructor: Gabrielle E Ferrari
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• Instructor: Ruth Opara
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• Instructor: Rebecca Y Kim
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• Instructor: Gabrielle E Ferrari
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• Instructor: Justin T Gregg
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Magdalena Baczewska
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Knar Abrahamyan
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• Instructor: Justin T Gregg
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Manuel Garcia Orozco
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• Instructor: Ashley S Nail
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Samuel F Yulsman
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Manuel Garcia Orozco
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• Instructor: Ralph R Whyte
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 0 Info
• Instructor: Grant M Woods
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• Instructor: Luca Sala
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• Instructor: Virginia L Dellenbaugh
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• Instructor: Nandini R Banerjee-Datta
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• Instructor: Benjamin A Steege
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• Instructor: Joshua Navon
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Nina Fukuoka
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• Instructor: Saad N Haddad
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• 3 points

BALLET I

This course is designed for the absolute beginner or the student returning to ballet class after a lengthy hiatus and is intended to familiarize the student with the classical ballet terminology, to foster independence in this particular vocabulary, to introduce the historical context of the Western art form and conventions of a ballet class. Learning the physical practice of this centuries-old craft will give the student basic classical ballet terminology as well as gaining an anatomical understanding of the body.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 9 a.m.-10 a.m.
• TR 9 a.m.-10 a.m.
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Kate A Glasner
  CULPA: 31 Info
• Instructor: Marjorie Folkman
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Vincent McCloskey
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 2 points

BALLET II

Ballet II

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• F 1 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Kate A Glasner
  CULPA: 31 Info
• Instructor: Marjorie Folkman
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Juan Rodriguez
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• 2 points

Origins and Meaning: Independent Study

Origins and Meaning: Ind.

The proposed independent study is a one-semester course that is in dialogue with the Origins
and Meaning, Physics UN1111. Students in the independent study will further explore various
issues raised in Origins and Meaning by (a) meeting once per week with the instructor, (b)
completing a selection of readings and viewings, and (c) completing an end-of-term writing
assignment.

• Department: Physics
• Instructor: Brian Greene
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• 1 points

PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS-DISC

Required Discussion section for ECON UN1105 Principles of Economics

• Department: Economics
• 0 points

BEGINNING NONFICTION WORKSHOP

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required. The beginning workshop in nonfiction is designed for students with little or no experience in writing literary nonfiction. Students are introduced to a range of technical and imaginative concerns through exercises and discussions, and they eventually submit their own writing for the critical analysis of the class. Outside readings supplement and inform the exercises and longer written projects.

• Department: Writing
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Miranda Mazariegos
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• Instructor: Mariam Syed
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• Instructor: Sofia Rodrigues Bolina
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• 3 points

INTRO-ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Basic concepts of electrical engineering. Exploration of selected topics and their application. Electrical variables, circuit laws, nonlinear and linear elements, ideal and real sources, transducers, operational amplifiers in simple circuits, external behavior of diodes and transistors, first order RC and RL circuits. Digital representation of a signal, digital logic gates, flipflops. A lab is an integral part of the course. Required of electrical engineering and computer engineering majors.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: David G Vallancourt
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 3.5 points

CALCULUS III

Prerequisites: MATH UN1101 or the equivalent Vectors in dimensions 2 and 3, complex numbers and the complex exponential function with applications to differential equations, Cramers rule, vector-valued functions of one variable, scalar-valued functions of several variables, partial derivatives, gradients, surfaces, optimization, the method of Lagrange multipliers. (SC)

• Department: Mathematics @Barnard
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniela de Silva
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Lindsay C Piechnik
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

GENERAL PHYSICS I

Prerequisites: some basic background in calculus or be concurrently taking MATH UN1101 Calculus I. The accompanying laboratory is PHYS UN1291-UN1292 The course will use elementary concepts from calculus. The accompanying laboratory is PHYS UN1291 - UN1292. Basic introduction to the study of mechanics, fluids, thermodynamics, electricity, magnetism, optics, special relativity, quantum mechanics, atomic physics, and nuclear physics.

• Department: Physics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: P. Michael Tuts
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• Instructor: Jeremy R Dodd
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 3 points

CALC-BASED INTRO TO STATISTICS

Prerequisites: one semester of calculus. Designed for students who desire a strong grounding in statistical concepts with a greater degree of mathematical rigor than in STAT W1111. Random variables, probability distributions, pdf, cdf, mean, variance, correlation, conditional distribution, conditional mean and conditional variance, law of iterated expectations, normal, chi-square, F and t distributions, law of large numbers, central limit theorem, parameter estimation, unbiasedness, consistency, efficiency, hypothesis testing, p-value, confidence intervals, maximum likelihood estimation. Serves as the pre-requisite for ECON W3412.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Chenyang Zhong
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• Instructor: Banu Baydil
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

CALC-BASED INTRO TO STATISTICS

CALC BASED INTRO TO STAT

Prerequisites: one semester of calculus. Designed for students who desire a strong grounding in statistical concepts with a greater degree of mathematical rigor than in STAT W1111. Random variables, probability distributions, pdf, cdf, mean, variance, correlation, conditional distribution, conditional mean and conditional variance, law of iterated expectations, normal, chi-square, F and t distributions, law of large numbers, central limit theorem, parameter estimation, unbiasedness, consistency, efficiency, hypothesis testing, p-value, confidence intervals, maximum likelihood estimation. Serves as the pre-requisite for ECON W3412.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Banu Baydil
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

INTERMEDIATE TELUGU I

• Department: Language Resource Center
• MTWRF 3:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Shiva Sai Ram Urella
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• 4 points

CALCULUS IV

Prerequisites: MATH UN1102 and MATH UN1201 or the equivalent Multiple integrals, Taylor's formula in several variables, line and surface integrals, calculus of vector fields, Fourier series. (SC)

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Mikhail Smirnov
  CULPA: 16 Info
• Instructor: Ovidiu Savin
  CULPA: 22 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

UNDERGRADUATE SEM/STATISTICS

Prerequisites: Previous or concurrent enrollment in a course in statistics would make the talks more accessible. Prepared with undergraduates majoring in quantitative disciplines in mind, the presentations in this colloquium focus on the interface between data analysis, computation, and theory in interdisciplinary research. Meetings are open to all undergraduates, whether registered or not. Presenters are drawn from the faculty of department in Arts and Sciences, Engineering, Public Health and Medicine.

• Department: Statistics
• F 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Rabinowitz
  CULPA: 19 h-index: 34 Info
• 1 points

INTERMEDIATE FRENCH I

Prerequisites: FREN BC1001, BC1002, BC1102, C1101 and C1102, or an appropriate score on the placement test. Further development of oral and written communication skills. Readings in French literature.

• Department: French @Barnard
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Niamh Duggan
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• Instructor: Karen Santos da Silva
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Melanie Heydari
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• 3 points

GENERAL PHYSICS I - REC

• Department: Physics
• M 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• M 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• M 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• T 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• T 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• T 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• M 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• M 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• T 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• T 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• W 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• T 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: P. Michael Tuts
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• 0 points

The Social Animal in the Digital Age

SOCIAL ANIMAL DIGITAL AGE

This course re-examines central theories and perspectives in the social sciences from the standpoint of digital technologies. Who are we in the digital age? Is the guiding question for the course. We consider the impact of modern technology on society including, forms of interaction and communication, possibilities for problem solving, and re-configurations of social relationships and forms of authority. The course integrates traditional social science readings with contemporary perspectives emerging from scholars who looking at modern social life. The course is an introductory Sociology offering.

• Department: Sociology
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Sudhir A Venkatesh
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

INTERMEDIATE FRENCH II

Advanced work in language skills. Readings in French literature. Prerequisites: FREN BC1203 or an appropriate score on the placement test.

NOTE: This course
does not
fulfill the Columbia College and GS language requirement.

• Department: French @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Brian D O'Keeffe
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 3 points

ACCELERATED MULTIVARIABLE CALC

Prerequisites: (MATH UN1101 and MATH UN1102). Vectors in dimensions 2 and 3, vector-valued functions of one variable, scalar-valued functions of several variables, partial derivatives, gradients, optimization, Lagrange multipliers, double and triple integrals, line and surface integrals, vector calculus. This course is an accelerated version of MATH UN1201 - MATH UN1202. Students taking this course may not receive credit for MATH UN1201 and MATH UN1202.

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Mu-Tao Wang
  CULPA: 27 Wikipedia h-index: 25 Info
• 4 points

HONORS MATHEMATICS A

Prerequisites: (see "Guidance for First-Year Students" in the Bulletin). The second term of this course may not be taken without the first. Multivariable calculus and linear algebra from a rigorous point of view. Recommended for mathematics majors. Fulfills the linear algebra requirement for the major. (SC)

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: George Dragomir
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

FIRST YEAR ARABIC I

An introduction to the language of classical and modern Arabic literature. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
• MTWR 11:40 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
• MTWR 4:10 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• MTWR 2:40 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Nasr Abdo
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• Instructor: Rym Bettaieb
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Reem Faraj
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: May Ahmar
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 5 points