MONEY AND BANKING
Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 or the equivalent. Introduction to the principles of money and banking. The intermediary institutions of the American economy and their historical developments, current issues in monetary and financial reform.
- Department: Economics @Barnard
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Martina Jasova
CULPA: 7
h-index: 7
Info
- 3 points
History of Urban Crime and Policing in L
Urban Crime/Policing Lati
This seminar will examine the social construction of criminality and the institutions that developed to impose and enforce the criminal law as reflections of Latin American society throughout the region’s history, with a particular emphasis on the rise of police forces as the principal means of day-to-day urban governance. Topics include policing and urban slavery; policing the urban “underworld”; the changing cultural importance of police in urban popular culture; the growth of scientific policing methods, along with modern criminology and eugenics; policing and the enforcement of gender norms in urban public spaces; the role of urban policing in the rise of military governments in the twentieth century; organized crime; transitional justice and the contemporary question of the rule of law; and the transnational movement of ideas about and innovations in policing practice. In our readings and class discussions over the course of the semester, we will trace how professionalized, modern police forces took shape in cities across the region over time. This course actually begins, however, in the colonial period before there was anything that we would recognize as a modern, uniformed, state-run police force. We will thus have a broad perspective from which to analyze critically the role of police in the development of Latin American urban societies—in other words, to see the police in the contemporary era as contingent on complex historical processes, which we will seek to understand.
- Department: History
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Amy E Chazkel
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
DIGITAL PRODUCTION
Prerequisites:
both
FILM BC3201 (or equivalent)
and
FILM BC3200 (or equivalent). Digital Production offers visual storytellers an incredible medium to connect and build an audience. It is an inexpensive, accessible platform to launch micro-budget concepts. Developing the storytellers voice inexpensively is critical to the evolution of any student, no matter their starting point. The Digital Series course is intended to take students from story ideation through creation of an independent digital series. Emanating from a writers room setting, all steps of the process will be explored and supported by in-class discussion, examples and workshops. This hands-on class revolves around the TV series production model: breaking story, writing pages, preproduction planning, filming and post-production review. We will emphasize the writers voice, construction of series storytelling, and establishing realistic scopes of production.
- Department: Film @Barnard
- T 2:10 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Danielle T Douge
Info - 3 points
UNSEEN MASTERWORKS OF WORLD CINEMA
MASTERWORKS: ARAB CINEMA
This course examines the portrayal of significant themes in international cinema. Through a selection of diverse cinematic works from various countries, students will analyze different cultural, historical, and political perspectives. The course aims to enhance students' understanding of complex topics, their impact on individuals and societies, and the ethical questions they evoke. Through critical analysis and discussion, students will engage with a range of cinematic works that offer alternative narratives and perspectives.
WORKSHOP IN SUSTAINABLE DEVPT
The upper level undergraduate Sustainable Development Workshop will be modeled on client based graduate-level workshops, but with more time devoted to methods of applied policy analysis and issues in Sustainable Development. The heart of the course is the group project on an issue of sustainable development with a faculty advisor providing guidance and ultimately grading student performance. Students would receive instruction on methodology, group work, communication and the context of policy analysis. Much of the reading in the course would be project-specific and identified by the student research teams. Offered in Fall and Spring.
- Department: Earth Institute
- TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jenna M Lawrence
CULPA: 6
Info
- 4 points
BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: (CHEM BC3230) and (CHEM BC3231) BIOL BC1502. Introduction to biochemical building blocks, macromolecules, and metabolism. Structures of amino acids, lipids, carbohydrates, nucleic acids. Protein structure and folding. Enzyme mechanisms, kinetics, allostery. Membranes and biosignaling. Catabolism and anabolism with emphasis on chemical intermediates, metabolic energy, catalysis by specific enzymes, regulation.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- 3 points
CURRENT TOPICS BIOCHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: CHEM BC3282 and CHEM BC3355 or instructor approval. This course is designed to expose students to a range of current research topics in the field of biochemistry and develop their ability to understand and evaluate primary scientific literature. The first half of the course will focus on current research on fundamental biochemistry systems and processes; the second half will addres biomedicinal application and advances.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Christina Vizcarra
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
FREEDOM OF SPEECH & PRESS
Examines the constitutional right of freedom of speech and press in the United States. Examines, in depth, various areas of law, including extremist or seditious speech, obscenity, libel, fighting words, the public forum doctrine, and public access to the mass media. Follows the law school course model, with readings focused on actual judicial decisions.
- Department: Political Science
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lee C Bollinger
CULPA: 27
Wikipedia
Info
- 3 points
ISRAELI SOC & ISR-PLS CONFLICT
The purpose of the course is to acquaint students with Israeli society through the lens of the Israeli- Palestinian conflict. The underlying assumption in this course is that much of the social, economic, political, and cultural processes in contemporary Israel have been shaped by the 100-year Israeli- Arab/Palestinian conflict.
- Department: Sociology
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Yinon Cohen
CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 33 Info - 3 points
Biochemistry
Prerequisites: 1 year of Introductory Biology, 1 year General Chemistry, and 1st semester Organic Chemistry. Biochemistry is the study of the chemical processes within organisms that give rise to the immense complexity of life. This complexity emerges from a highly regulated and coordinated flow of chemical energy from one biomolecule to another. This course serves to familiarize students with the spectrum of biomolecules (carbohydrates, lipids, amino acids, nucleic acids, etc.) as well as the fundamental chemical processes (glycolysis, citric acid cycle, fatty acid metabolism, etc.) that allow life to happen. The course will end with a discussion of diseases that have biochemical etiologies. In particular, this course will employ active learning techniques and critical thinking problem-solving to engage students in answering the question: how is the complexity of life possible? NOTE: While only the 1st semester of Organic Chemistry is listed as a pre-requisite, it is highly recommended that you take all of Organic Chemistry beforehand.
- Department: Biological Sciences
- T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Danny N Ho
CULPA: 7 Info - 3 points
WORKSHOP SUSTAINABLE DEVEL
Students address real-world issues in sustainable development by working in groups for an external client agency. Instruction in communication, collaboration, and management; meetings with and presentations to clients and academic community. Projects vary from year to year. Readings in the course are project-specific and are identified by the student research teams.
- Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
- TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Brian Mailloux
CULPA: 10
h-index: 36
Info
- 4 points
ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT
SEXUALIDADES LGBTT NO BRASIL
Corequisites: PORT UN1220 An intensive exposure to advanced points of Portuguese grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Portuguese. This course is required for the concentration in Portuguese Studies. This course is intended to improve Portuguese language skills in grammar, comprehension, and critical thinking through an archive of texts from literature, film, music, newspapers, critical reception and more. To do so, we will work through Portuguese-speaking communities and cultures from Brazil, to Portugal and Angola, during the twentieth and twenty-first century, to consider the mode in which genre, gender and sexuality materialize and are codified, disoriented, made, unmade and refigured through cultural productions, bodies, nation and resistant vernaculars of aesthetics and performance, always attentive to the intersections of gender with class and racism.
- Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Joao Nemi Neto
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT
SALSA: AFRO-LATIN CUL STORIES
Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score. An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.
- Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Juan P Jimenez-Caicedo
CULPA: 10
Info
- 3 points
ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT
ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTEXT
Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score. An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.
- Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Aaron R Boalick
Info - 3 points
ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT
INTRODUCTION CATALAN CULTURES
Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score. An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.
- Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elsa Ubeda
CULPA: 10
Info
- 3 points
ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT
Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score. An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.
- Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Maria E Lozano
CULPA: 7
Info
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Instructor:
Gabriela Derobles
Info -
Instructor:
Almudena Mar N-Cobos
Info - 3 points
PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor given at first class meeting. Students will create and workshop plays, with a focus on learning new approaches to language and structure. Recommended for students undertaking a senior thesis in playwriting.
- Department: Theatre @Barnard
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- 3 points
OPEN POETRY WORKSHOP
Prerequisite: Student must have taken beginning workshop in any undergraduate creative writing concentration. Open workshops are for students who are acquainted with and have experience in at least one beginning workshop in creative writing. In Open Poetry Workshops, students may be instructed in aspects of craft including the poetic persona, the prose poem, the collage, open-field composition, and others. They may also study verse forms such as the villanelle, sonnet, sestina, ballad, acrostic, free verse and also non-European verse forms such as the pantoum. They may read source texts as examples and/or critical texts as theoretical frameworks, and afterward, submit brief critical analyses. They will put their instruction into regular practice by composing original work that will be critiqued by their peers. Students will be encouraged to develop their strengths and to cultivate a distinctive poetic vision and voice but must also demonstrate a willingness to broaden their range and experiment with new forms and notions of the poem. A portfolio of poems will be written and revised with critical input from the instructor and workshop. Please visit
https://arts.columbia.edu/writing/undergraduate
for information about registration procedures.
- Department: Writing
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alexander Dimitrov
Info -
Instructor:
Thea Matthews
Info - 3 points
THERMODYNAMICS
Classical thermodynamics. Basic properties and concepts, thermodynamic properties of pure substances, equation of state, work, heat, the first and second laws for flow and nonflow processes, energy equations, entropy, and irreversibility. Introduction to power and refrigeration cycles.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
- TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Arvind Narayanaswamy
CULPA: 9
h-index: 26
Info
- 3 points
THERMODYNAMICS
THERMO RECITATION
Classical thermodynamics. Basic properties and concepts, thermodynamic properties of pure substances, equation of state, work, heat, the first and second laws for flow and nonflow processes, energy equations, entropy, and irreversibility. Introduction to power and refrigeration cycles.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
- F 9 a.m.-10 a.m.
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Instructor:
Arvind Narayanaswamy
CULPA: 9
h-index: 26
Info
- 3 points
ADVANCED SWAHILI I
Prerequisites: SWHL UN2101-UN2102 or the instructor's permission. An introduction to the advanced syntactical, morphological, and grammatical structures of Swahili grammar; detailed analysis of Swahili texts; practice in conversation. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Abdul Nanji
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
ADVANCED WOLOF I
Prerequisites: Two years of Wolof or instructor permission. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mariame S Sy
Info - 4 points
SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER
Prerequisites: One introductory course in Sociology suggested. Examination of factors in gender identity that are both universal (across time, culture, setting) and specific to a social context. Social construction of gender roles in different settings, including family, work, and politics. Attention to the role of social policies in reinforcing norms or facilitating change.
LAB IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Introduction to the use of molecular techniques to answer questions about subcellular biological phenomena. Techniques include isolation of genomic and plasmid DNAs, restriction enzyme analysis, DNA and protein electrophoresis, bacterial transformation, and plasmid subcloning.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
- W 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- 3 points
Whiteness, Sentiment and Political Belon
Whiteness, Senti Politica
Scholars of gender, sexuality, ethnicity and race have long been preoccupied with the terms, categories, and processes through which the United States has excluded or qualified the citizenship of particular groups, including women, immigrants, indigenous nations, and descendants of enslaved Africans. Yet it has spent less time interrogating the unqualified content of Americanness, and the work that the imagination of a "default" American identity does in contemporary political life. This seminar introduces students to this problem through an unspoken racial dimension of American political belonging -- the presumed whiteness of ideal American citizens. Readings drawn from several disciplinary traditions, including anthropology, linguistics, sociology, history, and journalism, will ground students in the course's key concepts, including racial markedness, the history of racialization, and public sentiment. Students will mobilize these tools to analyze several cases that rendered white sentiment explicit in politically efficacious ways, including the "panic" incited by the destabilization of race-based residential segregation, the "paranoia" of conspiracy theorists, the "sympathy" associated with natural disasters, and the "resentment" or "rage" associated with the loss of racial privileges
- Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Catherine Fennell
Info - 4 points
TOPICS IN MOLECULAR GENETICS
Selected topics in molecular genetics and gene regulation, with a focus on examples from human evolution, physiology, and disease. The course will be organized into four modules with combined lecture and journal club-style discussion. Module topics include molecular regulation of transcription, epigenetic regulation of the genome, gene regulatory networks, and genome architecture and evolution. We will draw from examples in the current literature and explore current experimental approaches in molecular genetics of humans and model organisms.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
- TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Jennifer H Mansfield
CULPA: 2 h-index: 15 Info - 3 points
INTRO TO URBAN ETHNOGRAPHIES
INTRO/URBAN ETHNOGRAPHIES
What is ethnography and what makes ethnography “urban”? This course explores how social scientists use ethnography to analyze questions and dilemmas often associated with urban settings. We will combine close readings of ethnographies with field-based inquiry, including our own studies of urban public space. Through both our readings and our field exercises, we will focus on the methods at the heart of ethnography: observation and participant-observation.
As we read other scholars’ work, we will ask how the author uses ethnographic tools to explore issues that are suitable for intensive fieldwork. We will assess which kinds of research problems and theoretical perspectives are a good fit with ethnography and the roles that ethnography can play in transdisciplinary research projects. You will apply what you have learned about research to design your own pilot fieldwork. The ethnographies that we read together will examine intersections of housing, race, and class in urban communities. You are welcome to extend this focus to your own fieldwork, but it’s not required to do so. This is a writing-intensive course, and we will devote a considerable portion of class time to workshop your individual projects.
- Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- 3 points
SELECTIONS FROM GREEK LIT
GREEK LITERATURE SELECTIONS
Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.
- Department: Classics
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Seth R Schwartz
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
LATIN LITERATURE SELECTIONS
Prerequisites: LATN UN2102 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.
- Department: Classics @Barnard
- TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Darcy Krasne
h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
CELL BIOLOGY
This course explores the components, systems, and regulatory mechanisms involved in eukaryotic cellular function. Topics include: signal transduction, translational and protein quality control, organellar and cytoskeletal dynamics, and some coordinated responses such as proliferation and programmed cell death. Throughout the course we will see how general cell biology can be specialized to achieve specific cellular functions through regulation of the basic machinery. We will also explore the cellular and molecular bases for a variety of human pathologies, with an emphasis on cancer. In addition to lecture, we will spend some time discussing the material, including selected articles from the primary literature, and learning through group presentations.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Jonathan Snow
CULPA: 7 h-index: 18 Info - 3 points
SOCIAL PROB IN CONTEMP CHINA
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Leta Hong Fincher
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 6 Info - 3 points
ETHICS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVPT
Aiming to improve human conditions within many diverse environments, sustainable development seeks to create, increase and perpetuate benefit and to cease, rectify and reverse harm. Sustainable development is consequently inextricable from the fabric of ethics, woven with determinations of benefit and harm to the existence and well-being of both humans and nonhumans. Underlying such determinations are those of self- and other-regarding motivation and behavior; and underlying these are still others, of sensitivity and rationality in decision-making, whether individual, social or public. Sustainable development is interlaced with and contingent upon all these determinations, at once prescriptive and judgmental, which can be called the ethics of sustainable development. This course is divided into four main sections, of which two are intended to show the ethical fallacies of unsustainable development, and two, the ethical pathways of sustainable development. The first section focuses upon ethically problematic basic assumptions, including human (species) hegemony, happy (hedonic) materialism, and selective (data) denial. The second focuses upon ethically problematic ensuing rationalizations, including those pertaining to damages, victims, consequences and situations of climatic, chemical, biological and ecological harm. The third section responds to these rationalizations with ethically vital considerations of earth justice, environmental justice, culturally-based ethics, and sector-based ethics (water, food, place and climate ethics). Finally, the fourth section responds to the initial, longstanding problematic assumptions with a newly emergent ethical paradigm, comprising biotic wholeness, environmental integrity and the deliberative zero-goal. Tying all sections together is the central theme: to be sustainable, development must be ethical. Reflecting the collaborative quality of the field of sustainable development, the course extends to readings whose authors have all pursued their work at intersections of science and ethics, environment and ethics, policy and ethics, business and ethics, and sustainable development and ethics.
- Department: Earth Institute
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Adela J Gondek
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
RACE. SPACE, URB SCHOOLS
Many people don’t think of themselves as having attended segregated schools. And yet, most of us went to schools attended primarily by people who looked very much like us. In fact, schools have become more segregated over the past 30 years, even as the country becomes increasingly multiracial. In this class, we will use public schools as an example to examine the role race plays in shaping urban spaces and institutions. We will begin by unpacking the concept of racialization, or the process by which a person, place, phenomenon, or characteristic becomes associated with a certain race. Then, we will explore the following questions: What are the connections between city schools and their local contexts? What does it mean to be a “neighborhood school”? How do changes in neighborhoods change schools? We will use ethnographies, narrative non-fiction, and educational research to explore these questions from a variety of perspectives. You will apply what you have learned to your own experiences and to current debates over urban policies and public schools. This course will extend your understanding of key anthropological and sociological perspectives on urban inequality in the United States, as well as introduce you to critical theory.
- Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Faculty
h-index: 37 Info - 3 points
FEMINIST THEORY
Prerequisites: LIMITED TO 20 BY INSTRUC PERM; ATTEND FIRST CLASS
This course provides a theoretical itinerary to the emergence of contemporary queer theory and engagement with some contemporary legacies of the movement. The goal is not to be exhaustive nor to establish a correct history of queer theory but to engage students in the task of understanding and creating intellectual genealogies.
- Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
- M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Faculty
h-index: 37 Info - 4 points
SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHITECTURE
SP TPC: ABSTR, PROJ, DIST
See the Barnard and Columbia Architecture Department website for the course description:
https://architecture.barnard.edu/architecture-department-course-descriptions
- Department: Architecture @Barnard
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael E Schissel
Info - 3 points
SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHITECTURE
SP TPC: IMMERSIVE ROOM
See the Barnard and Columbia Architecture Department website for the course description:
https://architecture.barnard.edu/architecture-department-course-descriptions
- Department: Architecture @Barnard
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Clara Kraft Isono
Info - 3 points
MUSIC IN EAST ASIA
A topical approach to the concepts and practices of music in relation to other arts in the development of Asian civilizations.
- Department: Music
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Kevin Fellezs
CULPA: 4
Info
- 3 points
Regulation of Behaviors for Survival
Reg of Survival Behaviors
To maximize their survival animals must regulate their behavior in response to external environmental cues and their own internal state. A fundamental goal of neuroscience is to understand how neural circuits in the brain function to influence behavior. The aim of this course is to highlight the neural basis of innate behaviors that are critical for survival and discuss modern approaches to study the neuronal regulation of classically studied aspects of behavior. We will explore motor control (escape responses), sensory systems (vision, taste, and olfaction), and survival behaviors (feeding, drinking, mating, and aggression). Focus will be on recent and current research, the diversity of approaches for studying it, and how this knowledge can be applied to solve scientific questions. Students will read primary scientific literature and a significant portion of the course will be presentation and discussion-based.
- Department: Biological Sciences
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Laura Duvall
Info - 3 points
ECON & FIN MTHDS FOR SDEV
- Department: Earth Institute
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Satyajit Bose
CULPA: 4
Info
- 3 points
MUSICS OF INDIA & WEST ASIA
A topical approach to the concepts and practices of music in relation to other arts in the development of Asian civilizations.
- Department: Music
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
- TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
- 3 points
INFRASTRUCTURES
Infrastructures are the built networks moving goods, commodities, people, energy, waste organizing human action in modern societies. This course critically examines the work of infrastructures globally. It examines issues of urbanism, racial infrastructures, infrastructural breakdown and emergency, postcolonial infrastructures, climate change, and extraction.
- Department: Anthropology @Barnard
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Brian Larkin
CULPA: 16 Info - 4 points
LABORATORY IN MICROBIOLOGY
Enrollment limited to 16. Provides experience in the isolation, cultivation, and analysis of pure cultures of microorganisms. Methods used for the study of cell structure, growth, physiology, and genetics of microbes will be incorporated into laboratory exercises.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
- R 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gabrielle Corradino
Info - 3 points
MUSIC THEORY III
Intermediate analysis and composition in a variety of tonal idioms.
- Department: Music
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Joseph P Dubiel
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
Ecopoetics
Poetry Seminar - Ecopoeti
“There are things / We live among ‘and to see them / Is to know ourselves.’”
George Oppen, “Of Being Numerous”
In this class we will read poetry like writers that inhabit an imperiled planet, understanding our poems as being in direct conversation both with the environment as well as writers past and present with similar concerns and techniques. Given the imminent ecological crises we are facing, the poems we read will center themes of place, ecology, interspecies dependence, the role of humans in the destruction of the planet, and the “necropastoral” (to borrow a term from Joyelle McSweeney), among others. We will read works by poets and writers such as (but not limited to) John Ashbery, Harryette Mullen, Asiya Wadud, Wendy Xu, Ross Gay, Simone Kearney, Kim Hyesoon, Marcella Durand, Arthur Rimbaud, Geoffrey G. O’Brien, Muriel Rukeyser, George Oppen, Terrance Hayes, Juliana Spahr, and W.S. Merwin—reading several full collections as well as individual poems and essays by scholars in the field.
Through close readings, in-class exercises, discussions, and creative/critical writings, we will invest in and investigate facets of the dynamic lyric that is aware of its environs (sound, image, line), while also exploring traditional poetic forms like the Haibun, ode, prose poem, and elegy. Additionally, we will seek inspiration in outside mediums such as film, visual art, and music, as well as, of course, the natural world. As a class, we will explore the highly individual nature of writing processes and talk about building writing practices that are generative as well as sustainable.
- Department: Writing
- M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Samantha Zighelboim
Info - 3 points
POETRY AND THE POLITICS OF DECOLONIZATIO
POETRY AND DECOLONIZATION
The course looks at poets, writing in the twentieth century and after, whose work is concerned with liberation from colonial rule and, subsequently, with the formation of a post-colonial literary voice. Poetry in the period of decolonization deals with issues of national, racial, class and gender identity, place and displacement, and freedom from linguistic and political oppression. We will read, among others, poets from the Indian Subcontinent and Middle East such as Tagore, Iqbal, Faiz and Darwish; two leading poets of négritude, Aimé Césaire and Léopold Senghor, in relation to movements in Caribbean, African, and American literature from the Harlem Renaissance to the present (Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Kamau Brathwaite, Derek Walcott, and Nicolas Guillén); Latin American poets including Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, and Nicanor Parra; and English-language poets including W.B. Yeats, William Carlos Williams, and voices of more contemporary movements in poetry including the Beat, feminist, LGBTQ, indigenous, and "Black Lives Matter" movements. Using theory and historical background, we will look at the work of each poet comparatively in the context of international development and political change. The course offers a critical approach to globalization through literature; since decolonization has touched so much of the world, we are open to works from other literatures that students propose. Though class discussions will be in English, students are encouraged, to the greatest extent possible, to read the poetry in the original language. Please email me as needed for further information.
- Department: English @Barnard
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Linn C Mehta
CULPA: 18
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- 4 points
MUSIC THEORY IV
Intermediate analysis and composition in a variety of tonal and extended tonal idioms.
- Department: Music
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- 3 points
Fashion, Dress, and Cultural Futures in
Fashion in Oceania
This upper-level seminar examines fashion and dress as historical forces and contemporary practices in Oceania and the Pacific diaspora. Clothing is treated not as decoration, but as a domain where colonialism and missionization were enacted, where gender and class hierarchies are negotiated, where Indigenous political and cultural projects take material form, and where creative economies and transnational networks are built.
Students read ethnographic and historical scholarship that centers Pacific perspectives and interrogates how garments, materials, bodies, markets, institutions, and media shape everyday life. Topics include mission clothing and morality, gender and respectability, heritage and tradition, diaspora and migration, fashion platforms and mediation, hybridity and experimentation, intellectual property and Indigenous sovereignty, museums and cultural governance, ecological knowledge, and climate change.
Assignments emphasize analytical writing, discussion leadership, annotated bibliographies, object-based case studies, and a substantial final research project. Students develop skills in evidence-based argumentation, ethical interpretation across difference, and connecting local case studies to global processes without erasing Indigenous histories and lived experience.
- Department: Anthropology @Barnard
- M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Paige West
CULPA: 41
h-index: 23
Info
- 4 points
Old New York
What was New York City like before the skyscrapers and yellow cabs with which we associate it today? This class explores the long history of New York City and its surroundings through the literatures of the many peoples who have called it home over the centuries. We will read Lenape creation stories, eyewitness accounts of Henry Hudson’s voyage, colonial pamphlets about the earliest slave revolts in North America, and literary fiction and poetry by lifelong New Yorkers including Walt Whitman and Herman Melville. We will follow Dutch explorers and traders in Manahatta, investigate the seedy underworld of blackmail and brothels in the Bowery, survey the financial revolution that turned Wall Street into a center of global capitalism, and get a glimpse of the Gilded Age in the opulent novels of manners that take us from Grand Central to Greenwich Village. To make good use of our city, students will write dispatches from various locations in New York City, from Brooklyn to the Bronx, that look for traces of the past in the present.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ethan A Plaue
Info - 4 points
CONSUMER CULTURE IN MOD EUROPE
The development of the modern culture of consumption, with particular attention to the formation of the woman consumer. Topics include commerce and the urban landscape, changing attitudes toward shopping and spending, feminine fashion and conspicuous consumption, and the birth of advertising. Examination of novels, fashion magazines, and advertising images.
- Department: History @Barnard
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lisa Tiersten
CULPA: 45
Info
- 4 points
What Shakespeare Read
In this course we will read a selection of Shakespeare’s plays alongside the sources he used to compose them. We will take a deliberately wide generic perspective when it comes to these sources, reading biographies, histories, prose fiction, and poetry. Our basic aim will be to immerse ourselves in the texts Shakespeare read and responded to as he wrote his plays. Our more ambitious aim will be to gain a more precise understanding of how Shakespeare honed the nature and function of his drama in relation to and against his largely non-dramatic sources of inspiration. Questions we will consider include: What is a source? What is an adaptation? What is a play? What is a play by Shakespeare?
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Lauren E Robertson
CULPA: 5
Info
- 4 points
NOW. Moving in the Moment: An Introducti
Intro to Dance Improvisat
There are as many reasons to improvise as there are cultures. People from all over the world have turned to improvised dance for personal, social, and political reasons. Improvisation is equally as useful in developing self-expression as it is in forming community and mutual understanding. It can be a vehicle for discovering more about our world by heightening our senses and awareness. It can be a mind-puzzle, as practitioners devise creative constraints for the purposes of producing structure and clarity. Whatever the reason for improvising, all practitioners share a sense of questioning and curiosity. This course will cover five units of study, each one aimed at exploring a different function of improvisation: self- expression; music and space; our bodies and environment; structure and cognition; and community-building. Learning in the classroom will rely on reading texts and viewing images and videos, written work, peer-to-peer learning and self-directed inquiry. In the studio, students will be given different exercises and prompts to explore and refine. By the end of the semester students will understand how improvisation occurs and how it differs from codified or prescriptive work, and why different people choose to improvise. They will also be able to develop and perform their own improvisatory work, drawing from the skills learned over the semester.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- W 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Caroline Fermin
Info - 3 points
MODERN V
This contemporary technique class invites students into an embodied practice focusing on a daily physical experimentation and challenge. Emphasis will be placed on corporeal ways to explore questions around propelling, listening, connecting, healing, and action. This course offers a chance for students to use their sensatorial experience to reflect on individual pathways/ desires for expression while, challenging the body to take risks and practice as their movement knowledge expands. Emphasis on sensation, initiation, and weight will be introduced in a floor or standing warm-up that will expand to a standing exploration of the transition between form and space. A focus will be to continue our development of a strong-grounded technique with healthy placement that moves with ease in and out of the floor. We will continue to develop our true embodied relationship to environment, people, and time.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Francesca Dominguez
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Instructor:
Colleen Thomas
CULPA: 6
Info
- 2 points
MODERN TECH-ORGANIC CHEM LAB
Prerequisites: (CHEM BC3328) or (CHEM BC3230) CHEM BC3328 with a grade of C- or better and CHEM BC3230. Corequisites: CHEM BC3231,CHEM BC3334 Advanced experimental organic techniques and introduction to qualitative and quantitative organic analysis. Emphasis on instrumental and chromatographic methods. Selected reactions. Students enrolling in this course must register for CHEM BC3334x.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- M 8:10 a.m.-noon
- W 8:10 a.m.-noon
- 3 points
INTRO TO GERMAN LIT (GERMAN)
Prerequisites: GERM UN2102 or the equivalent. Examines short literary texts and various methodological approaches to interpreting such texts in order to establish a basic familiarity with the study of German literature and culture.
- Department: Germanic Languages
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Claudia Breger
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
INTRO TO ITALIAN LITERATURE I
Prerequisites: Intermediate Italian II ITAL UN2102 or the equivalent. UN3334x-UN3333y is the basic course in Italian literature. UN3333: This course, entirely taught in Italian, introduces you to Medieval and early modern Italian literature. It will give you the opportunity to test your ability as a close-reader and discover unusual and fascinating texts that tell us about the polycentric richness of the Italian peninsula. We will read poems, tales, letters, fiction and non-fiction, travel writings and political pamphlets. The great “Three Crowns” - Dante, Petrarca and Boccaccio - as well as renowned Renaissance authors such as Ludovico Ariosto and Niccolò Machiavelli, will show us the main path to discover Italian masterpieces and understand the European Renaissance. But we will also explore China with Marco Polo and the secrets of the Medieval soul diving into the mystical poems by Jacopone da Todi. We will study parody and laughter through the “poesia giocosa” (parodic poetry) by Cecco Angiolieri and the legacy of Humanism through the letters of Poggio Bracciolini. This first overview will allow you to explore Italian literature from its complex and multicultural beginnings to its diffusion across Europe during the Renaissance.
- Department: Italian
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Steven J Baker
CULPA: 3
Info
- 3 points
ADVANCED YIDDISH
Course Description and Goals:
This course focuses predominantly on developing reading comprehension skills, as well as on listening, writing, speaking, and some more advanced grammar. It explores literary and scholarly texts examining the modern Jewish experience in the context of the twentieth-century history and culture of the Ashkenazi Jews. Supplementary texts will be selected based on students’ interests and may include historical pedagogical materials, past and present newspaper articles, polemic, poetry, historical and scholarly articles. We will also venture outside the classroom to explore the Yiddish world today: through field trips to Yiddish theater, Yiddish-speaking neighborhoods, Yiddish organizations, such as YIVO, and so on. We will apply our reading and translating skills to contribute to the Mapping Yiddish New York online project, and will also have Yiddish-speaking guests. At the end of the semester, you will be able to converse in Yiddish on a variety of everyday topics and read authentic Yiddish literary and non-literary texts. Welcome back to Yiddishland!
- Department: Germanic Languages
- TR 2:10 p.m.-3:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Agnieszka Legutko
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
IMPROVISATION
Improvisation is an open level, movement based class in which students will learn collaborative improvisation tools, skills, practices, and mindset through experience, reflection, practice, and generation. Deep play, support for others, and a willingness to experiment and reflect are key in this discovery based course.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- F 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Caroline Fermin
Info - 2 points
MODERN VI
This contemporary technique class invites students into an embodied practice focusing on a daily physical experimentation and challenge. Emphasis will be placed on corporeal ways to explore questions around propelling, listening, connecting, healing, and action. This course offers a chance for students to use their sensatorial experience to reflect on individual pathways/ desires for expression while, challenging the body to take risks and practice as their movement knowledge expands. Emphasis on sensation, initiation, and weight will be introduced in a floor or standing warm-up that will expand to a standing exploration of the transition between form and space. A focus will be to continue our development of a strong-grounded technique with healthy placement that moves with ease in and out of the floor. We will continue to develop our true embodied relationship to environment, people, and time.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
- TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Lisa Boudreau
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Instructor:
Tamisha Guy
Info - 2 points
ADVANCED ITALIAN I
Prerequisites: ITALUN2102 or the equivalent. If you did not take Intermediate Italian at Columbia in the semester preceding the current one, you must take the placement test, offered by the Italian Department at the beginning of each semester. Written and oral self-expression in compositions and oral reports on a variety of topics; grammar review. Required for majors and concentrators.
- Department: Italian
- TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Patrizia Palumbo
CULPA: 15
Info
- 3 points
Introduction to Armenian Studies
Intro to Armenian Studies
Historians frequently situate Armenia between two powers: between Rome and Persia, then Byzantium and Islam. This class will shake up the usual “between-two-worlds” paradigm, which places Armenia and Armenians in the crosshairs of world powers. Instead, we will study Armenians as active participants in world dramas, at the center of global developments. Our main goal will be to draw upon a variety of sources to tell the story of Armenia and Armenians: histories, poems, art, coins, buildings, etc.
Goals
Critically assess what it means to study history. Why are we learning this?
Analyze primary sources, whether written or material. How can we study this?
Engage with modern scholarship on Armenian experiences. How have other people studied this?
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Alison Vacca
Info - 3 points
CONTACT IMPROVISATION
Prerequisites: Limited to twenty people. Examination of the gender-neutral partnering technique that is now common in contemporary dance. Focus is placed on recent improvisatory forms, sensation building, center connection and risk. Emphasis is placed on listening and sensing rather than controlling or leading.
This course will introduce the exploration of a partnering technique that is enriching for the mind and body. Contact Improvisation is not only an important tool for the dancer as it informs the body how to move with weight and connection and is required by most contemporary styles – it is also a technique that informs the artist in us all as it emphasizes listening, trust, and spontaneous creativity. In this course, students will use contact to support the creation of most duets, trios, and larger group dance. Focus is placed on recent improvisatory forms, sensation building, center connection, and finding the safe edges of risk as well as applying these studies to creation and expression. Students in this course will explore their own weight and how it relates to other bodies by listening as well as employing emotional, psychological, and cultural structures to their improvisation. Emphasis is placed on listening and sensation rather than controlling or leading. Students will explore the dynamic ride and risk taking of improvisation and trusting another body by giving and taking weight. Contact Improvisation is open to all students.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- TR 9 a.m.-10 a.m.
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Instructor:
Colleen Thomas
CULPA: 6
Info
- 2 points
Pop Cultures: The Art of the Ordinary
POP CULTURES
Explores facets of modern Pop Culture by discussing historical developments, international range, literary and audiovisual representation of an aesthetics of the ordinary in the 20th/21st centuries. Emphasis on questions of public appreciation, pleasure, taste, consumption, and impact in examinations of prose, poetry, film, music, and the arts. Course taught in German.
COLL: GRASSROOTS ACTIVISMS AND SOCIAL CH
COLL: GRASSRTS ACT & SOC
How do ordinary people come together to enact social change in society? Focusing on the United States, this course explores how everyday people engage in collective action from the ground up, through social movements, community organizing, and other forms of advocacy and activisms. In particular, we will consider the role of grassroots movements and organizations as agents of democratic representation and catalysts for political transformation for marginalized communities. We will engage key questions about why groups choose to make political demands outside of formal institutional spaces, what kinds of visions for social change they put forward, how they seek to achieve their ideals, and how successful they are. The course will focus on contemporary activisms around racial justice, immigrant rights, LGBTQ+ rights, feminism, and labor.
- Department: Political Science @Barnard
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sonya G Chen
Info - 4 points
Business Italian and the Made in Italy E
Everywhere in the world, the expression ‘
Made in Italy’
evokes the idea of quality, elegance and unique taste. From food to wine, from artisanal craftmanship to fashion, from the automobile industry to the design, ‘
Made in Italy’
means creativity, durability, and a guarantee of excellence. Today, Italy is the fourth largest economic power in Europe and many countries like the USA have long established economic relationships and partnership with it. While the English language has been increasingly used during these economic exchanges, a basic knowledge of Italian terminology within a context of commerce and trade is an important asset and a useful resource. Developing a strong understanding of the Italian business environment and its culture offers useful advantages for all those who want to create ties with or plan to work in the Italian business world in the future.
The course is open to all students who have completed the Italian intermediate level and would like to have an introduction to Italian language used for work and business. The course will be conducted as an intensive practice in the spoken and written language through assigned topics focusing on Italian business and related cultural themes. It will provide an overview of the job market world and the business environment in Italy, giving students the main tools to explore and interact appropriately in a professional environment. During the second half of the semester, the course will introduce students to the
Made in Italy
excellence and the history responsible for Italian Style’s world-renowned fame and high-demand. Students will learn how the concept of
Made in Italy
originated, look at the history of Italian style and its international value. The lessons in the second half of the semester will be integrated with interviews of people in Italy and in New York City working in businesses that sell or advertise Italian products. The interviews (one per week) will provide a direct look into the areas that are being discussed in class, so that students will have the opportunity to learn firsthand what it means to work in a business in Italy or with Italy, and with Italian products.
- Department: Italian
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Federica Franze
CULPA: 4
Info
- 3 points
HISPANIC CULTURES I (SP)
Prerequisites: L course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion of language requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300). Provides students with an overview of the cultural history of the Hispanic world, from eighth-century Islamic and Christian Spain and the pre-Hispanic Americas through the late Middle Ages and Early Modern period until about 1700, covering texts and cultural artifacts from both Spain and the Americas.
- Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- 3 points
HISPANIC CULTURES I (SP)
ISLAMIC SPAIN-COLONIAL PERIOD
Prerequisites: L course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion of language requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300). Provides students with an overview of the cultural history of the Hispanic world, from eighth-century Islamic and Christian Spain and the pre-Hispanic Americas through the late Middle Ages and Early Modern period until about 1700, covering texts and cultural artifacts from both Spain and the Americas.
- Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
- 3 points
IN OTHER WORDS: WORLD POETRY & COSMOPOLI
WORLD POETRY & COSMOPOLIT
What is “world poetry”? This course will try to give an answer to this vexing question. You are being introduced to a number of influential poets who have entered a dialogue about what it means to write, read, translate and appreciate poetry in a global context. The impact of globalization is most visible in a number of anthologies which made considerable efforts to move beyond the existing range of national representatives and to make an English-speaking audience familiar with the names and works of poets who are bilingual or who write in their native language. Throughout the semester, we will read English translations of these poems (but feel free to read the original if you know the language). Secondly, the global context is of great importance for understanding each poet’s vision of the world since poets are involved in processes of “world-making” as well as reacting to the world’s past and present. s the semester progresses you will see that the poets are part of a larger conversation; some themes, forms and issues we discovered at the beginning will return in the middle or toward the end of the term. The selection of poets is based on considerations of gender, race, age and religious affiliation; many of the poets whose works we are going to discuss are iconic figures; in studying other cases, you will be exposed to new voices (for example, young South African poets) whose significance will emerge in a critical discussion of the anthologists’ rationale and criteria for selecting poets and marginalizing others.
- Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Erk Grimm
CULPA: 10
Info
- 3 points
HISPANIC CULTURES II (SP)
This course surveys cultural production of Spain and Spanish America from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Students will acquire the knowledge needed for the study of the cultural manifestations of the Hispanic world in the context of modernity. Among the issues and events studied will be the Enlightenment as ideology and practice, the Napoleonic invasion of Spain, the wars of Spanish American independence, the fin-de-siecle and the cultural avant-gardes, the wars and revolutions of the twentieth century (Spanish Civil War, the Mexican and Cuban revolutions), neoliberalism, globalization, and the Hispanic presence in the United States. The goal of the course is to study some key moments of this trajectory through the analysis of representative texts, documents, and works of art. Class discussions will seek to situate the works studied within the political and cultural currents and debates of the time. All primary materials, class discussion, and assignments are in Spanish. This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies.
- Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ronald D Briggs
CULPA: 4 Info - 3 points
HISPANIC CULTURES II (SP)
ENLIGHTENMENT THROUGH PRESENT
This course surveys cultural production of Spain and Spanish America from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Students will acquire the knowledge needed for the study of the cultural manifestations of the Hispanic world in the context of modernity. Among the issues and events studied will be the Enlightenment as ideology and practice, the Napoleonic invasion of Spain, the wars of Spanish American independence, the fin-de-siecle and the cultural avant-gardes, the wars and revolutions of the twentieth century (Spanish Civil War, the Mexican and Cuban revolutions), neoliberalism, globalization, and the Hispanic presence in the United States. The goal of the course is to study some key moments of this trajectory through the analysis of representative texts, documents, and works of art. Class discussions will seek to situate the works studied within the political and cultural currents and debates of the time. All primary materials, class discussion, and assignments are in Spanish. This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies.
- Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Graciela Montaldo
Info - 3 points
The Family in Film and Memoir
This course will examine films and a few memoirs that center on family narratives, family cultures, cultural legacies and customs inherited through generations, generational dynamics, childhood memory, and ideas of
home
as a utopian/dystopian and oneiric space. Explorations of memory, imagination and childhood make-believe will interface with readings in psychoanalysis, attachment theory, phenomenology and in the social history of this polymorphous institution.
Authors will include Gaston Bachelard, Alison Bechdel, Jessica Benjamin, Mark Doty, Vivian Gornick, Lorraine Hansberry, Maggie Nelson and D.W. Winnicott; and films by Sean Baker, Alfonso Cuaron, Greta Gerwig, Lance Hammer, Barry Jenkins, Jennifer Kent, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinart, Lucretia Martel, Mike Mills, Sarah Polley, Charlotte Wells, Andrei Zvyagintsev and others.
Seminar application instructions: Email Professor Spiegel (mls37@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Family in Film & Memoir Seminar." In your message, include your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken. All students are automatically placed on a waitlist, from which the instructor will in due course admit students as spaces become available.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Maura L Spiegel
CULPA: 40 Info - 4 points
DEVELOPMENT
Introduction to animal developmental biology and its applications. This course will examine the basic mechanisms through which animal bodies organize themselves, from an integrative perspective at the levels of genes and gene networks, cell properties and behaviors, coordinated interactions of cells in developing tissues, organs and organ systems, and the role of developmental processes in morphological evolution. Topics include: fertilization, cleavage and gastrulation, establishment of body axes, neural development, organ formation, tissue and organ regeneration, stem cells and medical applications, evolution of developmental programs, and teratogenesis.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Rishita Shah
Info - 3 points
BIOCHEMISTRY LAB TECHNIQUES
BIOCHEMISTRY LAB TECHNIQUES -
Prerequisites: Organic II lab (CHEM BC3333, BC3335, or equivalent); Quantitative analysis lab (BC3338, BC3340, or equivalent); Biochemistry (CHEM BC3282y, CHEM C3501, or equivalent).
Theory and application of fundamental techniques for the isolation, synthesis and characterization of biological macromolecules including proteins, lipids, nucleotides and carbohydrates. Techniques include spectroscopic analysis, gel electrophoresis, chromatography, enzyme kinetics, immunoblotting, PCR, molecular cloning and cell culture, as well as modern laboratory instrumentation, such as UV-Vis, GC-MS and HPLC.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- MF noon-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lori Cobani
Info - 5 points
Reproductive Biology
Seminar - Reproductive Bi
This course will explore developing topics in mammalian reproductive biology. Using textbooks and primary literature sources we will explore the molecular and physiological nature of reproduction, including fertilization, assisted reproductive technologies, and physiological changes to the reproductive system during and after birth. These topics will be further discussed in the context of medicine and society, with a particular focus on healthcare disparities in local communities.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rishita Shah
Info - 3 points
Adv Chemical Synthesis & Reactivity Lab
ADV CHEM SYNTHESIS LAB
Prerequisites: CHEM BC3333, CHEM BC3271, and CHEM BC3338 Corequisites: CHEM BC3253 Multistep and multi-day experiments in organic and inorganic synthesis via advanced synthetic methods. Experiments include solution phase, solid state, and photochemical syntheses. Products will be analyzed and characterized by a variety of methods, including: IR, NMR, and UV-Vis spectroscopy, and also by polarimetry, chiral GC, and GC/MS.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- TR 8:10 a.m.-noon
- 5 points
Global Kafka: The Writer's dialogue with
GLOBAL KAFKA
Emines the writer’s view of foreign cultures and animals, his response to empires and states, reflections on bureaucracy or personal relationships, with an emphasis on Kafka’s international legacy and influence. Discussions of his followers in American or world literature. Major novels such as The Trial, The Castle and Amerika as well as short stories are covered and rediscovered in this course.
- Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Erk Grimm
CULPA: 10
Info
- 3 points
DISASTERS AND DEVELOPMENT
Prerequisites: EESC 2330; SDEV W2300. Human welfare status is very unevenly distributed throughout the globe - some of us live very comfortable lives, others remain in desperate poverty showing little progress away from their condition. Between are countries that are rapidly developing and converging toward the welfare of the richest. At all levels of economic development human activities place significant pressure on the environment and threatens all of Earth’s vital functions and support systems for human life. This challenge requires timely responses based on solid understanding of the human/environment interface, technological and economic approaches to mitigate adverse effects on the environment, and routes to understanding the complex dynamics of the coupled human/natural systems that can chart a pathway to improvement in the lives of the poorest and continued well-being for those who have achieved prosperity without forcing natural systems into decline or massive fluctuation. This course offers undergraduate students, for the first time, a comprehensive course on the link between natural disaster events and human development at all levels of welfare. It explores the role that natural disasters might have and have had in modulating development prospects. Any student seriously interested in sustainable development, especially in light of climate change, must study the nature of extreme events - their causes, global distribution and likelihood of future change. This course will cover not only the nature of extreme events, including earthquakes, hurricanes, floods and droughts but also their transformation into disaster through social processes. It will ultimately help students to understand the link between such extreme events, the economic/social shock they represent and development outcomes. The course will combine careful analysis of the natural and social systems dynamics that give rise to disasters and examine through group learning case studies from the many disasters that have occurred in the first decade of the 21st century. Offered in the Spring (odd years only).
- Department: Earth Institute
- MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
- 3 points
Death and Dignity: Forensic Science and
Forensic scientific investigations of mass political violence have proliferated in recent decades. As a form of “science in the service of human rights,” forensic methods are used to locate and identify the remains of people killed in mass political violence and, more broadly, to corroborate witness testimonies of rights abuses and contribute evidence for potential use in war crimes trials. Yet forensic investigations of mass violence are not only scientific endeavors, but also highly social and political ones. Families of the dead and disappeared have long been at the forefront of demanding state action to locate, exhume, and return the remains of their loved ones. What drives states, on the one hand, and families of the dead and disappeared, on the other, to turn to forensic exhumations of the dead? What social and political work does forensic science—and the dead bodies it unveils—do to mediate restorative transformation in the wake of mass political violence?
This course explores how the forensic sciences—in particular, forensic anthropology, archaeology, and genetics—are mobilized after atrocity to make rights claims to postmortem dignity, postwar memory, and transformative justice. It approaches forensic science from a holistic (or, in anthropological terms, “four-field”) perspective, in which the scientific cannot be separated from the social or political, given the profound social transformations brought about by war. Practices in biological and forensic science cannot be separated from the social and political contexts of the political violence and human rights violations they investigate. What would it look like to conceive of forensic science from a multi-focal, interdisciplinary perspective?
This discussion-based seminar explores the complex social and scientific worlds that come into being over the course of postwar forensic exhumations, bringing the living and the dead into new forms of relation. We situate forensic investigations within broader struggles over historical and collective memory, narratives of past violence, and accountability for state violence. Drawing primarily on ethnographic and sociocultural anthropological perspectives from Latin America and other global regions, the course engages debates on international humanitarianism, necropolitics, and human rights in death. We critically assess the promises and limits of forensic science as a tool for human rights intervention, while remaining attentive to its af
- Department: Human Rights (HRTB)
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jennifer Trowbridge
Info - 4 points
CELLULAR & MOLECULAR NEUROSCIENCE
This upper-level lecture course provides an in-depth analysis of neuroscience at the molecular and cellular levels. Topics include: the structure and function of neuronal membranes, the ionic basis of the membrane potential and action potential, synaptic transmission, synaptic plasticity, and sensory transduction.
- Department: Neuroscience & Behavior @Barnard
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alexis S Hill
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Instructor:
Elizabeth P Bauer
CULPA: 3 h-index: 21 Info - 3 points
ANXIETY, OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE, AND RELAT
ANXIETY AND OCD
- Department: Psychology @Barnard
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Instructor:
Michael Wheaton
h-index: 31 Info - 4 points
Colloquium: Transnational Kleptocracy
COLL: TRANSNTNL KLEPTOCRA
The term “kleptocracy” literally means “rule by thieves” and refers to the extensive grand corruption that elite rulers, allies and their family members engage in to privately enrich themselves at the expense of their populations. Traditionally, kleptocracy has been viewed as a scourge on developing countries, associated with greedy authoritarian rulers in conflict-prone, resource rich and/or aid dependent states. However, in recent years scholars and policymakers have increasingly become aware of the critical role played by international actors, institutions, legal structures and professional service providers that facilitate kleptocracy at a global level. Unlike other transnational illicit sectors such as narcotics trafficking or terrorism, many aspects of kleptocracy networks are publicly visible and perfectly legal. Overall, these networks function to enable the domestic plundering of these elites, the whitewashing of their reputations, and the exacerbation of vast inequality, both within the countries that kleptocrats systemically plunder and between the Global South and the West which receives and benefits from many of the proceeds of these corrupt activities.
The first part of the course (Weeks 2-5) examines the transnational actors, service professionals and institutions that facilitate money laundering by kleptocrats. The second part (Weeks 6-7) concentrates on how kleptocrats launder their reputations, by presenting themselves as global philanthropists or business professionals and by acquiring residency in other jurisdictions through the growing market for citizenship. The final part of the course (Weeks 8-10) examines recent developments in international policy efforts to counter kleptocracy, including incorporating such efforts into national security strategies, enacting extraterritorial legislation to punish corporate bribery, sanctioning individual kleptocrats and oligarchs, and amending libel laws in countries like the UK that are routinely used by kleptocrats to intimidate journalists and deter investigations into their dealings.
Finally, throughout the course we will grapple with the methodological challenges posed by trying to study and detect illegal and secretive patterns of behavior. What are the tools, resources and research techniques available to researchers and policy makers interested in making more evidence-based assessments about kleptocracy and grand corruption?
- Department: Political Science @Barnard
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Alexander A Cooley
CULPA: 22
h-index: 33
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- 4 points
RETHINKING SPANISH TRANSLATION
Through special attention to translation method and practice, this course aims to develop a solid foundation on which to build the full set of competences required to become thoughtful, alert, self-critical translator while extending and improving the students competence of Spanish through complex translation tasks of a wide range of texts presented with a progressive overall structure and thematic organization. With a professional approach, it focuses on translation as a cross-cultural and crosslinguistic communicative activity that integrates areas such as interlanguage pragmatics, discourse analysis and transfer.
- Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Javier Perez Zapatero
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy
Vertebrates have been around for millions of years. In that time, they have evolved morphological attributes to live in the sea, on land, and in the air; hunt or scavenge food; escape from predation; and more. Yet despite the vast differences that have evolved, vertebrates (including humans) share many common traits. In this course, we will explore the evolution of the vertebrate body plan, focusing specifically on the evolution of form and function in many body systems. We will examine the evolution of homologous structures and identify how vertebrates have evolved a wide array of adaptations within the constraints of evolution. Though anatomy courses necessitate memorization of some key structures, we will focus more on the function of those structure, the broad principles of evolution, and the research techniques used in the related field of functional morphology rather than memorizing large lists of terms.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jordan Balaban
Info - 3 points
Visual Neuroscience: From the Eyeball to
VISUAL NEUROSCIENCE
By absorbing electromagnetic radiation through their eyes, people are able to catch frisbees, recognize faces, and judge the beauty of art. For most of us, seeing feels effortless. That feeling is misleading. Seeing requires not only precise optics to focus images on the retina, but also the concerted action of millions of nerve cells in the brain. This intricate circuitry infers the likely causes of incoming patterns of light and transforms that information into feelings, thoughts, and actions. In this course we will study how light evokes electrical activity in a hierarchy of specialized neural networks that accomplish many unique aspects of seeing. Students will have the opportunity to focus their study on particular aspects, such as color, motion, object recognition, learning, attention, awareness, and how sight can be lost and recovered. Throughout the course we will discuss principles of neural information coding (e.g., receptive field tuning, adaptation, normalization, etc.) that are relevant to other areas of neuroscience, as well as medicine, engineering, art and design.
- Department: Neuroscience & Behavior @Barnard
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alex White
h-index: 13 Info - 4 points
Neuroscience Frontiers
NEUROSCIENCE FRONTIERS
This course exposes students interested in neuroscience to some of the topics of the field, through talks illustrating the state of the art of neuroscience hosted by various institutes and departments at Barnard College and Columbia University. Each week students will virtually attend a talk and later participate in a guided discussion on the research presented in the talk. Students are expected to contribute actively to the discussion.
- Department: Neuroscience & Behavior @Barnard
- T 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
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ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY
Prerequisites: BC1001 and BC1129 Developmental Psychology or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 20 senior majors. Barnard students receive priority. Examines adolescent development in theory and reality. Focuses on individual physiological, sexual, cognitive, and affective development and adolescent experiences in their social context of family, peers, school, and community. Critical perspectives of gender, race and ethnicity, sexuality, and teen culture explored.
- Department: Psychology @Barnard
- T 9 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Erica Musser
Info - 4 points
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY
- Department: Mathematics
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mu-Tao Wang
CULPA: 27
Wikipedia
h-index: 25
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- 3 points
TOPICS IN NEUROETHICS
Prerequisites: BC1001 and one of the following: Neurobiology, Behavioral Neuroscience, Fundamentals of Neuropsychology, or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 20 students. Recent advancements in neuroscience raise profound ethical questions. Neuroethics integrates neuroscience, philosophy, and ethics in an attempt to address these issues. Reviews current debated topics relevant to the brain, cognition, and behavior. Bioethical and philosophical principles will be applied allowing students to develop skill in ethical analysis.
- Department: Neuroscience & Behavior @Barnard
- R 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
E'Mett McCaskill
CULPA: 38
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- 4 points
MODELS OF NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS
MODELS NEUROPSYCHIATRIC D
This course is a seminar designed to enhance students understanding of the methods used in primary research to inform how we study and understand the neural basis of both normative and pathological behavior in humans through the use of model systems. Through this course students will read and discuss primary research papers, debate the merits, limitations, and applicability of various approaches for advancing our understanding of the human condition, gain skills in presentation of scientific data, and a richer understanding of the scientific process. Topics covered will include the study of depression, anxiety, aging, memory, evolution, developmental disorders, and genetics (among others).
- Department: Neuroscience & Behavior @Barnard
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kevin G Bath
Info - 4 points
CANINE COGNITION
Prerequisites: PSYC BC1001 and one other Psychology course. Enrollment limited to 15 students. Permission of the instructor is required. An examination of the scientific study of the domestic dog. Emphasis will be on the evolutionary history of the species; the dogs social cognitive skills; canid perceptual and sensory capacities; dog-primate comparative studies; and dog-human interaction.
- Department: Psychology @Barnard
- T 9:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
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Instructor:
Alexandra C Horowitz
CULPA: 23
Wikipedia
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- 4 points
GIS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMNT
This course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive overview of theoretical concepts underlying GIS systems and to give students a strong set of practical skills to use GIS for sustainable development research. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are a system of computer software, data and analysis methods used to create, store, manage, digital information that allow us to create maps and dynamic models to analyze the physical and social processes of the world. Through a mixture of lectures, readings, focused discussions, and hands-on exercises, students will acquire an understanding of the variety and structure of spatial data and databases, gain knowledge of the principles behind raster and vector based spatial analysis, and learn basic cartographic principles for producing maps that effectively communicate a message. Student will also learn to use newly emerging web based mapping tools such as Google Earth, Google Maps and similar tools to develop on-line interactive maps and graphics. The use of other geospatial technologies such as the Global Positioning System will also be explored in this class. Case studies examined in class will draw examples from a wide ranges of GIS applications developed to assist in the development, implementation and evaluation of sustainable development projects and programs. On completion of the course, students will: 1. use a variety of GIS software programs to create maps and reports; 2. develop a sound knowledge of methods to search, obtain, and evaluate a wide variety of spatial data resources; 3. develop skills needed to determine best practices for managing spatial data resources; 4. use GIS to analyze the economic, social and environmental processes underlying the concept of building a sustainable world; 5. Gain an understanding of the limits of these technologies and make assessments of uncertainty associated with spatial data and spatial analysis models. Offered in the fall and spring.
- Department: Earth Institute
- R 2:10 p.m.-4:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Linda I Pistolesi
Info - 3 points