ORGANIC CHEM. LABORATORY II
- Department: Chemistry
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Talha Siddiqui
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Anna Ghurbanyan
CULPA: 21
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Programming for Scientists
R for Scientists
Learning objectives:
This course will provide a comprehensive foundation in programming methodology for quantitative biology applications that can be readily applied to any programming language. It is recommended for students interested in establishing or expanding their computational biology skillset. After completing this course, students should be able to:
1. Understand and explain the role of numerical and statistical methods in biology
2. Execute numerical computations using a widely-used programming language
3. Recognize common programming motifs that can be readily applied to other widely used languages
4. Design and troubleshoot algorithms to analyze diverse biological data and implement them using functions and scripts
5. Apply statistical programming techniques to model biological systems
6. Generate and interpret diverse plots based on biological datasets
Course overview:
Once a small subfield of biology, computational biology has evolved into a massive field of its own, with computational methods fast becoming a vital toolkit leveraged by biologists across the discipline. As the size and complexity of biological datasets grows, computational methods allow scientists to make sense of these data, scaling quantitative methods to extract meaningful insights that help us better understand ourselves and the living world around us. In this course, we will learn the basics of computer programming in R, a powerful programming language with wide use in the biological sciences. Topics will include a basic introduction to R and the RStudio environment, data types and control structures, reading and writing files in R, data processing and visualization, manipulating common biological datasets; and statistical testing and modeling in R.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
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Instructor:
Vincent D Fitzpatrick
Info - 3 points
ANALYSIS AND OPTIMIZATION
Prerequisites: MATH UN1102 and MATH UN1201 or the equivalent and MATH UN2010. Mathematical methods for economics. Quadratic forms, Hessian, implicit functions. Convex sets, convex functions. Optimization, constrained optimization, Kuhn-Tucker conditions. Elements of the calculus of variations and optimal control. (SC)
- Department: Mathematics
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Instructor:
Myungsin Cho
Info - 3 points
FOUNDATIONS OF DATA SCIENCE
Designed to provide an introduction to data science for sophomore SEAS majors. Combines three perspectives: inferential thinking, computational thinking, and real-world applications. Given data arising from some real-world phenomenon, how does one analyze that data so as to understand that phenomenon? Teaches critical concepts and skills in computer programming, statistical inference, and machine learning, in conjunction with hands-on analysis of real-world datasets such as economic data, document collections, geographical data, and social networks. At least one project will address a problem relevant to New York City.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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Instructor:
Daniel Fernandez
Info - 3 points
CONTEMPORARY BIOLOGY LAB
Prerequisite or corequisite: BIOL UN2005 or BIOL UN2401. Contemporary Biology Lab is designed to provide students with hands-on exploration of fundamental and contemporary biological tools and concepts. Activities include in depth study of mammalian anatomy and physiology through dissection and histology, as well as a series of experiments in genetics and molecular biology, with emphasis on data analysis and experimental technique.
- Department: Biological Sciences
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Instructor:
Ava E Brent
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Joshua M Abrams
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Ava E Brent
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Instructor:
Joshua M Abrams
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BIOMECHANICS FOR THE DANCER
Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of dance techniques in ballet or modern. The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the fundamentals of biomechanics as it relates to various dance forms. As biomechanics is a branch of physics, the course will include basic mathematical concepts, and some knowledge of geometry and trigonometry is recommended. The course will explore applicable functional human anatomy and will cover the application of biomechanical principles to both qualitative and quantitative description of human movement. Additionally, it will provide an understanding of how biomechanics can be applied in terms of physical ability and wellness, giving students the opportunity to apply the knowledge to themselves.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
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Instructor:
Kynaston Schultz
Info - 3 points
2ND YR MODERN HEBREW II
Prerequisites: Second Year Hebrew: Intermediate I or instructor permission. Equal emphasis is given to all language skills. Irregular categories of the Hebrew verb, prepositions and syntax are taught systematically. Vocabulary building. Daily homework includes grammar exercises, short answers, reading, or writing short compositions. Frequent vocabulary and grammar quizzes. (Students completing this course fulfill Columbia College and Barnard language requirement.) No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
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Instructor:
Yael Flusser
Info - 5 points
LAB IN FICTION FILMMAKING
This lab course is limited to declared Film & Media Studies majors. Exercises in the use of video for fiction shorts.
- Department: Film
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Instructor:
Andrew J Howell
Info - 3 points
HEBREW FOR HERITAGE SPEAKERS
Prerequisites: Hebrew for Heritage Speakers I Hebrew for Heritage Speakers II forms the second part of a year-long sequence with Hebrew for Heritage Speakers I. The course is intended for those who have developed basic speaking and listening skills through exposure to Hebrew at home or in day-school programs but do not use Hebrew as their dominant language and have not reached the level required for exemption from the Columbia language requirement. Heritage speakers differ in the degree of their fluency, but their vocabulary is often limited to topics in daily life and many lack skills in reading and writing to match their ability to converse. The course focuses on grammar and vocabulary enrichment, exposing students to a variety of cultural and social topics in daily life and beyond. By the end of the semester students are able to read and discuss simple texts and write about a variety of topics. Successful completion of the year-long sequence prepares students to enroll in third-year modern Hebrew. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
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Instructor:
Yael Flusser
Info - 4 points
LAB IN NONFICTION FILMMAKING
Exercises in the use of video for documentary shorts.
- Department: Film
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Instructor:
Jean Chapiro
Info - 3 points
Intermediate Conversation
Prerequisite
: Completion of 1102 or equivalent. If you have prior German outside of Columbia's language sequence, the placement exam is required.
Desire to speak lots of German! Students in Intermediate Conversation should have completed the equivalent of two semester of college German or placed at the Intermediate level at Columbia. This conversation group is designed for students are either taking Intermediate German I or II and would like additional practice or who take only this class because they wish to maintain their spoken German.
The course is designed to improve your ability to speak and understand and manage German in everyday situations; to provide opportunities to participate in conversational situations on any topics you are interested in; to strengthen and acquire skills to understand German spoken at normal conversational speed; to expand active and passive vocabularies speaking skills; and to maintain a certain level of written German through short written activities. This is a 2-point course and does not count towards the language requirement.
INTRODUCTION TO URBAN PLANNING
INTRO TO URBAN PLANNING
This course is a basic introduction to the field and practice of urban planning in the United States. The course will focus on key concepts in planning history, theory, and practice, including the various conflicts and dilemmas planners face, stakeholders involved in urban planning, and the tools and methods that planners use to address challenges in the built environment.
The core questions that this class will return to throughout the semester are: How does planning take place, and whose interest(s) does planning serve? How does planning (re)produce social inequities? Planning is often framed as a technical exercise to rationalize the built environment and create more “livable” cities. However, planning is not value-neutral. As we will examine throughout the course of the semester, power relations fundamentally shape the planning profession, and planning decisions have contributed to racial, economic, and gender inequalities and spatial segregation in cities throughout the United States. We will also explore debates about how to encourage more inclusive cities and engage in more ethical planning practice.
The course is divided into six sections. In Part I, we will explore foundational concepts in urban planning, such as how previous scholars have defined urban planning and urban space. In Part II, we will explore the historical context in which the planning profession emerged and key moments in planning history. In Part III, we will examine normative models of planning, or how the planning profession conceives of itself. In Part IV, we will learn about the different technical tools that planners use to regulate urban development and key debates surrounding these tools. In Part V, we will interrogate the role of the planner, the role of power relations in planning, and how planning decisions have resulted in racial, class, and gender exclusion in the built environment. In Part VI, we will contemplate future directions in planning.
- Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
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Instructor:
Noah Allison
Info - 3 points
Lab in the Video Essay
This media lab is a hands-on exploration of producing video essays as an essential aspect of scholarly discourse in the digital age. The course challenges students to actively engage with a range of media projects, guided by the tenets of critical media practice. Through a mode of scholarship and research through the creation of media, students will acquire both theoretical understanding of critical media and practical skills such as scriptwriting, video editing, audio narration, and publishing. Drawing on case studies from media and film studies, students are invited to review and deconstruct video essays, podcasts, interactive essays, and digital storytelling.
The course aims to encourage students to think beyond traditional written formats, explore new methods of critical analysis and argument, and to create publishable or presentable video essays. It supports the conception and production of new knowledge through media, constructing critical insights that utilize the expressiveness of our contemporary audiovisual networks.
- Department: Film
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Instructor:
Behrang M Garakani
Info - 3 points
HISTORY OF THE SOUTH
A survey of the history of the American South from the colonial era to the present day, with two purposes: first, to afford students an understanding of the special historical characteristics of the South and of southerners; and second, to explore what the experience of the South may teach about America as a nation.
- Department: History
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Instructor:
Barbara J Fields
CULPA: 22
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HISTORY OF THE SOUTH
A survey of the history of the American South from the colonial era to the present day, with two purposes: first, to afford students an understanding of the special historical characteristics of the South and of southerners; and second, to explore what the experience of the South may teach about America as a nation.
- Department: Auditing
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Instructor:
Barbara J Fields
CULPA: 22
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HISTORY OF THE SOUTH-DISCUSSION
- Department: History
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Instructor:
Destiny J Spruill
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Instructor:
Sophia Scanlan
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Instructor:
Grace L Elicker
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HISTORY OF THE SOUTH-DISCUSSION
- Department: History
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Instructor:
Grace L Elicker
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DANCE COMPOSITION: FORM
An exploration of choreography that employs text, song, vocal work, narrative and principles of artistic direction in solo and group contexts.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
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Instructor:
Jodi Melnick
CULPA: 3
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WORLD DANCE HISTORY
Investigates the multicultural perspectives of dance in major areas of culture, including African, Asian, Hispanic, Indian, Middle Eastern, as well as dance history of the Americas through reading, writing, viewing, and discussion of a wide range of resources. These include film, original documents, demonstration, and performance.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
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Instructor:
Seth S Williams
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
DANCE IN NEW YORK CITY
Study of the cultural roots and historical contexts of specific communities using New York Citys dance scene as a laboratory. Students observe the social environments in which various modes of dance works are created while researching the history of dance in New York City. Course includes attendance at weekly events, lecture-demonstrations, and performances.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
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Instructor:
Siobhan F Burke
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
JAZZ IMPROVISTN:THRY,HIST,PRAC
This course offers an introduction to jazz improvisation for instrumentalists. Through recordings, transcriptions, daily performance and selected readings, students will actively engage the history of jazz through their instruments and intellect. The idea of improvisation will be explored in an historical context, both as a musical phenomenon with its attendant theory and mechanics, and as a trope of American history and aesthetics. This class is for instrumentalists who wish to deepen their understanding of the theory, history and practice of jazz improvisation. The history of jazz will be used as a prism through which to view approaches to improvisation, from the cadences of the early Blues through the abstractions of Free Jazz and beyond. The student will be exposed to the theory and vocabularies of various jazz idioms, which they will also learn to place in their social and historical contexts.
- Department: Music
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Instructor:
Ole Mathisen
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
International Politics
Why do countries go to war? What conditions foster international cooperation? How do alliances between countries function? How are countries affected by global trade and investment, and in turn how does the political economy of individual countries shape international conflict and cooperation? How do ideas and culture (including both positive ideas like human rights and negative ideas like racism) affect international politics? What role do individuals and groups play in shaping international politics? What explains the international response to the COVID-19 pandemic? Why isn’t there significant cooperation on climate change, and can a new global cooperation emerge? What issues have garnered international attention, and how has that shaped the countries’ cooperation? What causes terrorism? Is the proliferation of nuclear (or cyber) weapons a threat to peace, and if so, how should the world response? Does UN peacekeeping work?
In this course we will begin to grapple with these questions. We will use theories developed by philosophers, political scientists and policy analysts, and we will examine the historical roots of today’s problems, in order to explain and predict the patterns of international politics and the possibilities for change. Throughout the course, students will be encouraged to choose and develop their own theories to explain events.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of the semester, students will accomplish the following:
Demonstrate broad factual and causal knowledge of important current and historical issues in international relations.
Apply contending theories from the political science literature and the policy world to analyze, compare, and evaluate events and trends in international relations.
Assess the value of competing theories in explaining events.
Synthesize facts and arguments across cases in order to reason critically and argue creatively, through both oral discussions in section and written essays.
- Department: Political Science
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Instructor:
Jayme R Schlesinger
Info - 4 points
ARTS OF JAPAN
Introduction to the painting, sculpture, and architecture of Japan from the Neolithic period through the present. Discussion focuses on key monuments within their historical and cultural contexts.
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
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Instructor:
Matthew P McKelway
CULPA: 6 Info - 3 points
INTERMEDIATE HINDI-URDU II
This is a second-year (fall and spring semesters) course.
Students practice reading and writing in Devanagari and continue to improve their proficiency in Hindi to:
• Successfully handle most uncomplicated communicative tasks and social situations.
• Initiate, sustain, and close a general conversation.
• Write letters and short compositions and read consistently, fully understanding simple connected texts dealing with personal and social needs.
• Get the main ideas and information from texts, including description and narration.
To achieve these goals, students are introduced to a variety of materials, including literature, newspapers, folk tales, jokes, magazine articles, films, songs, commercials, and other kinds of audiovisual materials. These texts relate to language functions in daily personal and social life situations.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
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Instructor:
Rakesh Ranjan
CULPA: 6
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ARTS OF CHINA, JAPAN AND KOREA
Introduces distinctive aesthetic traditions of China, Japan, and Korea--their similarities and differences--through an examination of the visual significance of selected works of painting, sculpture, architecture, and other arts in relation to the history, culture, and religions of East Asia.
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
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Instructor:
Yi-Bang Li
Info - 3 points
SECOND YEAR MODERN TIBETAN II
For those whose knowledge is equivalent to a student whos completed the First Year course. The course focuses on the further development of their skills in using the language to engage with practical topics and situations, such as seeing a doctor, reading news, writing letters, and listening to music.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
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Instructor:
Sonam Tsering
Info - 4 points
JEWS & JUDAISM IN ANTIQUITY
- Department: History
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Instructor:
Seth R Schwartz
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info - 4 points
JEWS & JUDAISM IN ANTIQUITY
- Department: Auditing
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Instructor:
Seth R Schwartz
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info - 0 points
International Politics Discussion
Int'l Politics Discussion
Discussion section for POLS UN2601
- Department: Political Science
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Instructor:
Dany L Niangar
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International Politics Discussion
Int'l Politics Discussion
Discussion section for POLS UN2601
- Department: Political Science
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Instructor:
Dany L Niangar
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Instructor:
Laura Henckes
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International Politics Discussion
Int'l Politics Discussion
Discussion section for POLS UN2601
- Department: Political Science
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Instructor:
Laura Henckes
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Instructor:
Yu Cheng
CULPA: 1 h-index: 3 Info - 0 points
International Politics Discussion
Int'l Politics Discussion
Discussion section for POLS UN2601
- Department: Political Science
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Instructor:
Yu Cheng
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Instructor:
Ana A Torres Gonzalez
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International Politics Discussion
Int'l Politics Discussion
Discussion section for POLS UN2601
- Department: Political Science
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Instructor:
Ana A Torres Gonzalez
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Instructor:
Anna L Garner
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International Politics Discussion
Int'l Politics Discussion
Discussion section for POLS UN2601
- Department: Political Science
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Instructor:
Anna L Garner
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Instructor:
Yingtong Chen
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International Politics Discussion
Int'l Politics Discussion
Discussion section for POLS UN2601
- Department: Political Science
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Instructor:
Yingtong Chen
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Instructor:
Garrett A Hinck
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International Politics Discussion
Int'l Politics Discussion
Discussion section for POLS UN2601
- Department: Political Science
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Instructor:
Garrett A Hinck
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Instructor:
Zhong Li
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International Politics Discussion
Int'l Politics Discussion
Discussion section for POLS UN2601
- Department: Political Science
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Instructor:
Zhong Li
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Instructor:
Meyer A Thalheimer
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International Politics Discussion
Int'l Politics Discussion
Discussion section for POLS UN2601
- Department: Political Science
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Instructor:
Meyer A Thalheimer
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Introduction to East Asian Art: China, J
Intro to East Asian Art
This lecture course, with two weekly lectures and additional section meetings, surveys the broad outlines of the artistic traditions of China, Korea, and Japan, introducing key concepts, such as multiplicity, impermanence, and transmediality, through a diversity of forms of visual expression in painting, sculpture, bronze, ceramics, lacquer, and architecture. The weekly lectures and discussions will explore interregional relations and influence in order to discover not only the features that make each geographical tradition distinct, but also closely interconnected. Among the key themes to be examined are the archaeology of ancient East Asia, the development of Buddhist art, the arts of landscape and narrative painting, woodblock prints, and finally East Asia after modernity.
Intro to East Asian Art Disc. Section
Intro East Asian Art Disc
Required discussion section for students enrolled in AHIS UN2622
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
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Instructor:
Joseph W Millette
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Intro to East Asian Art Disc. Section
Intro East Asian Art Disc
Required discussion section for students enrolled in AHIS UN2622
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
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Instructor:
Joseph W Millette
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Instructor:
Philippe Depairon
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Intro to East Asian Art Disc. Section
Intro East Asian Art Disc
Required discussion section for students enrolled in AHIS UN2622
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
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Instructor:
Philippe Depairon
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Industrial-Organizational Psychology
Study of behavior in organizational and business-related settings. Examination of such topics as employee motivation and satisfaction, communication patterns, effective leadership strategies, and organization development.
- Department: Psychology
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Instructor:
Joshua M Feinberg
Info - 3 points
Moral Psychology
Prerequisite: An introductory psychology course.
An introduction to basic concepts in moral psychology. Topics include controversies around the definition of morality, foundations of moral thought and behavior, and connections between morality and other areas of life, among other subjects.
- Department: Psychology
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Instructor:
Larisa H Solomon
Info - 3 points
COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY
COG SCI AND PHILOSOPHY
This course will survey a number of topics at the intersection of cognitive science and philosophy. Potential topics include free will, consciousness, embodied cognition, artificial intelligence, neural networks, and the language of thought.
- Department: Cognitive Science @Barnard
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Instructor:
Joshua J Kramer
Info - 3 points
WOMEN AND GENDER IN LATIN AMERICA
WOMEN&GENDER IN LATIN AME
Examines the gendered roles of women and men in Latin American society from the colonial period to the present. Explores a number of themes, including the intersection of social class, race, ethnicity, and gender; the nature of patriarchy; masculinity; gender and the state; and the gendered nature of political mobilization.
- Department: History @Barnard
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Instructor:
Nara Milanich
CULPA: 15
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Latin American Civilization II - DIS
Latin American Civi II -
This is the discussion section for HIST BC2699: Latin American Civilization II.
- Department: History @Barnard
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Latin American Civilization II - DIS
Latin American Civi II -
This is the discussion section for HIST BC2699: Latin American Civilization II.
- Department: History @Barnard
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Latin American Civilization II - DIS
Latin American Civi II -
This is the discussion section for HIST BC2699: Latin American Civilization II.
- Department: History @Barnard
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Latin American Civilization II - DIS
Latin American Civi II -
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- Department: History @Barnard
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Latin American Civilization II
This course is intended to offer a survey of the history of a complex and vast region through two centuries. In order to balance the specificity of particular histories and larger processes common to Latin America, units will often start with a general presentation of the main questions and will be followed by lectures devoted to specific countries, regions, or themes. We will look closely at the formation of class and ethnic identities, the struggle around state formation, and the links between Latin America and other regions of the world. We will stress the local dimension of these processes: the specific actors, institutions and experiences that shaped the diversity and commonalities of Latin American societies. The assignments, discussion sections, and lectures are intended to introduce students to the key conceptual problems and the most innovative historical research on the region and to encourage their own critical reading of Latin American history.
- Department: History @Barnard
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Instructor:
Alfonso Salgado
Info - 4 points
INTERMEDIATE PERSIAN II
Prerequisites: MDES W1701-MDES W1702 or the equivalent. A general review of the essentials of grammar; practice in spoken and written Persian; Arabic elements in Persian; selected readings emphasizing Iranian life and culture; materials from Tajikistan and Afghanistan, Indari. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
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Instructor:
Saeed Honarmand
Info - 4 points
Advanced Darkroom Photography
Advanced analog photography & darkroom printing. Students will work with analog cameras and learn how to refine black-and-white printing techniques, produce larger prints, etc. Emphasis will be placed on the editing, sequencing, and display of images while cultivating a theoretical and historical context to situate the work. Students will engage with an array of photographic practices through presentations, critiques, guest artist lectures and printing assignments. This course will explore critical issues in contemporary photography and advanced camera and production techniques through regular shooting assignments, demonstrations, critique, lectures, readings, and field trips. Prerequisites:
Intro Darkroom Photography
(Columbia) or equivalent experience
- Department: Visual Arts
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Instructor:
Delphine A Fawundu
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
Medieval Middle East
This course is an introduction to the medieval Middle East, starting from the Abbasid caliphate at its peak and ending with the establishment of the Timurid empire. It explores political, social, and intellectual trends that configured the region’s later history, emphasizing both its complexity and interconnectedness. The course will feature not only on the Middle East and North Africa, but also other regions such as North India and Andalusia, considering the role of the Islamicate world in global history. Special attention will be given to political formations, intellectual and social diversity, and Islam as a cultural system. Students will be introduced to a large number of primary sources from different regions, languages, and religious communities, including objects, art, and music. Students will learn to analyze these materials and understand how history is written and made. This course does not presume any foreknowledge of the topic.
- Department: History
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Instructor:
Ali Karjoo-Ravary
Info - 4 points
Medieval Middle East - DISC
Required zero-point/ungraded discussion section for “Medieval Middle East” lecture (HIST 2709)
- Department: History
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ADVANCED LITERARY TIBETAN II
This course will focus on helping students gain greater profiency in reading Tibetan Buddhist philosophical and religious historical texts.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
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Instructor:
Sonam Tsering Ngulphu
Info - 4 points
The Ottoman Empire and the West in the 1
“The Ottoman Empire and the West” is a course designed to familiarize undergraduate students with the major developments concerning the Ottoman Empire’s relations with the West throughout the ‘long’ nineteenth century, roughly from the end of the eighteenth century to the outbreak of World War I. The course will adopt a predominantly chronological structure but will address a wide range of themes, from politics and ideology to economics and diplomacy, and from religion and culture to gender and orientalism.
- Department: History
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Instructor:
Edhem Eldem
Info - 4 points
The Ottoman Empire and the West in the 1
“The Ottoman Empire and the West” is a course designed to familiarize undergraduate students with the major developments concerning the Ottoman Empire’s relations with the West throughout the ‘long’ nineteenth century, roughly from the end of the eighteenth century to the outbreak of World War I. The course will adopt a predominantly chronological structure but will address a wide range of themes, from politics and ideology to economics and diplomacy, and from religion and culture to gender and orientalism.
- Department: Auditing
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Instructor:
Edhem Eldem
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Ottoman Empire and the West - DISC
Ottoman Emp & the West -
Required zero-point/ungraded discussion section for “The Ottoman Empire and the West in the 19th Century” lecture (HIST 2717)
- Department: History
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INTRODUCTION TO NATIVE AMERICAN RELIGIOU
INTRO NAT AMER RELIGIOUS
There are over 800 distinct Native American nations currently within the borders of the United States. This course offers a broad introduction to the diversity of American Indian religious systems and their larger functions in communities and in history. We will explore general themes in the study of Native American religious traditions as well as look at some specific examples of practices, ideas, and beliefs. Of particular importance are the history and effects of colonialism and missionization on Native peoples, their continuing struggles for religious freedom and cultural and linguistic survival, and the ways in which American Indians engage with religion and spirituality, both past and present, to respond to social, cultural, political, and geographical change.
- Department: Religion @Barnard
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Instructor:
Nathan Blackwell
Info - 3 points
ACCELERATED PHYSICS II
Prerequisites: PHYS UN2801 This accelerated two-semester sequence covers the subject matter of PHYS UN1601, PHYS UN1602 and PHYS UN2601, and is intended for those students who have an exceptionally strong background in both physics and mathematics. The course is preparatory for advanced work in physics and related fields. There is no accompanying laboratory; however, students are encouraged to take the intermediate laboratory, PHYS UN3081, in the following year.
- Department: Physics
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Instructor:
Yury Levin
h-index: 91 Info - 4.5 points
GENDER AND EMPIRE
This course examines gender and sexuality as an important lens for understanding the social and political processes of empire, anti-colonialism, and the publics and politics of the present. Students will explore the relationship between ideological and material structures of power as these have produced categories of distinction, e.g., race, caste, class, religion, and sexuality in global contexts with specific focus on the importance of issues such as: debates about sexuality and identity; the formation of creole societies; indenture and plantation slavery; anticolonialism; war and violence, economic injustice.
- Department: History @Barnard
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Instructor:
Anupama Rao
CULPA: 28
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A History of the Indian Ocean, 19th Cent
This lecture course explores the Indian Ocean worlds of the nineteenth century and twentieth century by tracing networks of trade, labor, capital, pilgrimage and science. It offers an overview of how these networks were forged and who formed them, mapping their ebbs and flows across Mauritius, Madagascar, Kenya, Zanzibar, Oman, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Fiji, Indonesia, and Australia. It begins with a brief overview of the premodern Indian Ocean and the seaborne empires of sixteenth centuries and the first encounters with Portuguese, Dutch, French and British colonization and then looks at a range of different topics from the spice trade and caravan routes in the age of sail to the abolition of slavery and establishment of indenture as steamships began to take over oceanic journeys. We look at the travels of botanical specimens scrounged from tropical forests in the nineteenth century to the surveying of the ocean floor in the twentieth. At the end of the lectures, which will also feature active learning components using primary sources, we will learn how to reframe regional histories through the lens of oceanic mobilities.
- Department: History
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Instructor:
Kalyani Ramnath
Info - 4 points
A History of the Indian Ocean - DISC
Hist of the Indian Ocean-
Required zero-point/ungraded discussion section for “A History of the Indian Ocean, 19th Century to the Present” lecture (HIST 2820)
- Department: History
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Instructor:
Ifadha Sifar
Info - 0 points
A History of the Indian Ocean - DISC
Hist of the Indian Ocean-
Required zero-point/ungraded discussion section for “A History of the Indian Ocean, 19th Century to the Present” lecture (HIST 2820)
- Department: History
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Instructor:
Ifadha Sifar
Info - 0 points
American Modernism
This course approaches modernism as the varied literary responses to the cultural, technological, and political conditions of modernity in the United States. The historical period from the turn of the century to the onset of World War II forms a backdrop for consideration of such authors as Getrude Stein, Willa Cather, Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Djuna Barnes. Assigned readings will cover a range of genres, including novels, poetry, short stories, and contemporary essays.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
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Instructor:
Rachel Adams
CULPA: 16 Info - 3 points
American Modernism
This course approaches modernism as the varied literary responses to the cultural, technological, and political conditions of modernity in the United States. The historical period from the turn of the century to the onset of World War II forms a backdrop for consideration of such authors as Getrude Stein, Willa Cather, Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Djuna Barnes. Assigned readings will cover a range of genres, including novels, poetry, short stories, and contemporary essays.
- Department: Auditing
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Instructor:
Rachel Adams
CULPA: 16 Info - 0 points
LAB-PLANT EVOLUTION & DIVERSITY
LAB-PLANT EVOLUTION&DIVERSITY
Prerequisites: () Enrollment is limited to 16; must attend first lab to hold place. Studies of the structure, ecology, and evolution of plants. Laboratory exercises include field problems, laboratory experiments, plant collections and identification, and examination of the morphology of plant groups.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
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Instructor:
Hilary Callahan
CULPA: 4 h-index: 17 Info - 3 points
CULTURE, MENTAL HEALTH, AND HEALING IN E
CULTURE,MENTAL HEALTH,E A
Why do certain mental illnesses only appear in specific regions of the world? What processes of translation, adaption, and “indigenization” take place when psychiatric diagnostic categories, pharmaceutical regimens, and psychodynamic treatments developed in the West travel to China, Japan and South Korea? How do contemporary East Asian therapeutic modalities destabilize biomedical assumptions about the origins and treatment of mental illness?
This course employs anthropological analysis to explore the paradoxes of “culture-bound syndromes”, examine how biomedical psychiatric practices have been received and transformed, and discuss the ways in which shamanistic rituals and Traditional Chinese Medicine clinical encounters understand their objects of intervention. Focusing on East Asia with a particular emphasis on China, we will employ interpretive and political economic anthropological analyses to explore experiences of people struggling with illness, the practices of health practitioners who treat them, and the broader social and historical contexts that shape these interactions.
- Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
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Instructor:
Nicholas A Bartlett
CULPA: 5
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BILDUNGSROMAN: THE COMING-OF-AGE NOVEL
The bildungsroman is the modern, realist version of the hero’s quest. Instead of slaying dragons and weaving spells, the protagonist of the bildungsroman struggles with what it means to become an adult – or to refuse to. Also known as the novel of development or coming-of-age novel, the bildungsroman typically focuses on growth and development, the cultivation of the self, marriage and vocation. It is a form marked by conflicts and tensions: between the individual and society, between idealism and realism, rebellion and compromise, dreamy inertia and future-oriented action.
The reading list spans works from Europe and the United States, from the 1790s through the 2010s. Lectures will focus on the novel as a literary form in dialogue with other literary works, with historical events, and with ideas drawn from philosophy, psychology, and sociology.
Lectures will address: What fosters human development and what thwarts it? What is a self and what is a life course? How do coming-of-age novels engage with social norms concerning love, work, personhood, and maturity? And how has this literary genre itself changed and developed over time?
This is a 3-point lecture course. In accordance with university guidelines, you should expect to spend about six hours per week outside of class doing the course reading, which will consist entirely of novels and vary from ~150 to ~200 pages per week, and doing the assignments.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
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Instructor:
Sharon Marcus
CULPA: 8
Wikipedia
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BILDUNGSROMAN: THE COMING-OF-AGE NOVEL
The bildungsroman is the modern, realist version of the hero’s quest. Instead of slaying dragons and weaving spells, the protagonist of the bildungsroman struggles with what it means to become an adult – or to refuse to. Also known as the novel of development or coming-of-age novel, the bildungsroman typically focuses on growth and development, the cultivation of the self, marriage and vocation. It is a form marked by conflicts and tensions: between the individual and society, between idealism and realism, rebellion and compromise, dreamy inertia and future-oriented action.
The reading list spans works from Europe and the United States, from the 1790s through the 2010s. Lectures will focus on the novel as a literary form in dialogue with other literary works, with historical events, and with ideas drawn from philosophy, psychology, and sociology.
Lectures will address: What fosters human development and what thwarts it? What is a self and what is a life course? How do coming-of-age novels engage with social norms concerning love, work, personhood, and maturity? And how has this literary genre itself changed and developed over time?
This is a 3-point lecture course. In accordance with university guidelines, you should expect to spend about six hours per week outside of class doing the course reading, which will consist entirely of novels and vary from ~150 to ~200 pages per week, and doing the assignments.
- Department: Auditing
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Instructor:
Sharon Marcus
CULPA: 8
Wikipedia
h-index: 19
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Contemporary Latin American Art
Contemp Latin American Ar
Focusing on South America, this course examines contemporary art produced in the region known as Latin America and its diasporas, roughly since mid-1940s to the present. The first half of the class attends to two tendencies of the 1940s–1970s, abstraction and conceptualism, lionized through a slew of acclaimed group and solo exhibitions organized across the hemisphere in the last twenty years. We will analyze these two tendencies in the distinct social, political, and economic contexts of their emergence in various “centers” of the continent paying special attention to the ideologies of modernization, progress, and economic development; political upheavals including violent dictatorships and other crises; artists’ relationship to Western European and U.S. cultural centers, and transnational circulation networks; and the role of art institutions. To this end, we will pay special attention to how these trends have been historicized to date, and to what ends. The second half of the class will examine practices since the mid-1970s to the present in a comparative perspective: one, through the lens of identity politics and, two, analyzing the dynamics of the increased global dissemination of works from Latin America and by Latin-American descendants. Several visits to art institutions in NYC will be required as a part of the course.
- Department: Art History @Barnard
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Instructor:
Madeline M Turner
Info - 3 points
INTERMEDIATE MODERN TURKISH II
A continuation of the study of the written and spoken language of Turkey, with readings of literary, historical, and other texts. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
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Instructor:
Zuleyha M Fikret
Info - 4 points
Unsettling Science: An Introduction to S
This course is an introduction to the interplay between science, technology, and society. Unsettling Science invites students to: ask big questions about science and technology, interrupt preconceived ideas about what sicience is and who does it, and engage deeply with troubling social implications. By offering historical and contemporary perspectives, this course equips students with critical and methodological skills essential to exploring not only longstanding questions about the world but also urgent issues of our time. To do so, the course focuses on a series of fundamental and foundational questions (e.g., what is knowledge? what is prog that underpin the study of science, technology, and society from a variety of interdisicplinary perspectives.
- Department: Anthropology
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Instructor:
Madisson Whitman
Info - 3 points
History of Global Economic Inequality
Hist of Global Econ Inequ
Economic inequality characterizes virtually every human society, informing deep social dynamics. And yet scholars and lay people alike hold vastly differing opinions about the effects that inequality has on the social fabric, and the need to combat it. The question of how wealth and income are distributed among the members of a national community as well as among nations has acquired center stage in analyses about fundamental issues such as the causes of the progress and decline of societies and the dynamics of globalization. Inequality issues are at the heart of discussions about international economic relations, transnational phenomena such as migrations and the domestic economic platforms of political parties.
This course will provide students with the critical instruments with which to analyze the main interpretations of economic inequality from the eighteenth century to the present. We will read and discuss authors who have addressed the question of inequality and distribution: how did they frame the issue? What visions of society emerged from their analyses? We will see how the concept of inequality has changed historically, how different dimensions (e.g., national and international) have appeared and disappeared, and how visions of national, international and global inequality inform debates about the foundational elements of the social compact.
- Department: History @Barnard
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Instructor:
Michele Alacevich
Info - 3 points
INTRO LIT/METHODS OF ART HIST
Required course for department majors. Not open to Barnard or Continuing Education students. Students must receive instructors permission. Introduction to different methodological approaches to the study of art and visual culture. Majors are encouraged to take the colloquium during their junior year.
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
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Instructor:
Michael Cole
CULPA: 4
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Instructor:
Avinoam Shalem
CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info - 4 points
Biological Chemistry
BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
The goal of this course is to gain an understanding of the chemical principles that govern biological systems. We will look at the structure and function of biomolecules (proteins, carbohydrates, nucleic acids, and lipids), with an emphasis on interactions between them, enzyme kinetics, and metabolic pathways. Key topics will include protein folding and function, enzyme mechanisms, bioenergetics, and the regulation of key metabolic cycles. In addition to lecture we will spend time examining case studies and selected articles from primary literature, and engaging in group discussions.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
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Instructor:
Kristin Presnell
Info - 3 points
THE ART OF STRUCTURAL DESIGN
Basic scientific and engineering principles used for the design of buildings, bridges, and other parts of the built infrastructure. Application of principles to analysis and design of actual large-scale structures. Coverage of the history of major structural design innovations and of the engineers who introduced them. Critical examination of the unique aesthetic/artistic perspectives inherent in structural design. Consideration of management, socioeconomic, and ethical issues involved in design and construction of large-scale structures. Introduction to recent developments in sustainable engineering, including green building design and adaptable structural systems.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
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Instructor:
George Deodatis
CULPA: 6
h-index: 42
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ETHNICITY, RACE, &POWER IN ANCT MEDITERR
ETHNCTY,RACE&POWR:ANC MED
This course explores the intersections of identity and power in the ancient Mediterranean, with a focus on how race and ethnicity were constructed in the art, literature, and material culture of Greece and Rome. We will consider a broad range of texts including epic, ethnographies, medical texts, dramas, novels, and material evidence to examine how ancient Mediterranean peoples articulated and conceived of foreignness and difference. In our considerations of these texts we will discuss ancient theories of ethnic and racial superiority, narratives of belonging and exclusion and how these intersected with political and social control, as well as linguistic, religious and cultural differentiation as a basis for ethnic differentiation. We will also analyze ancient racism through the prism of a variety of social processes in antiquity, such as slavery, trade and colonization, migrations, imperialism, assimilation, and native revolts. By the end of the course, students will have gained a richer understanding of the intellectual and cultural history of the ancient Mediterranean world and will be able to engage in discussions of identity construction in a comparative manner.
- Department: Classics @Barnard
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Instructor:
Rosa M Andujar
Info - 4 points
GLOBAL LONG-FORM PHOTOGRAPHY: HISTORY AN
HISTORY AND MEMORY
This course explores the photographic essay as a distinct visual language. We will examine how photographic artists and photojournalists use sequences of images to construct narratives that communicate complex ideas about the past. In an age when nearly everyone carries a camera to capture the present, many photographers have turned their lenses toward the past to illuminate personal histories and collective memories. Through weekly seminars, we will explore how contemporary photographers around the world challenge national narratives and reimagine history. We will consider how photography—often seen as the medium most bound to the present—can evoke what is absent or lost. Focusing on artists from Asia, Africa, Latin America, North America, and the Middle East, we will explore how their work engages collective memory in relation to dictatorship, state violence, and contested histories. Finally, we will investigate how artists have used re-enactment, commemoration, re-imaging, and inclusive archiving to engage with history and memory through visual practice.
- Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
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Instructor:
Diana Matar
Info - 4 points
FROM PAGE TO STAGE: DANCE & LITERATURE
This course explores how dance and other forms of embodied performance adapt literature, as well as how dance serves as inspiration for the written word. What is retained, what is lost, and what is enhanced when moving bodies enliven literature, or when literature seeks to capture the motions of dance? How does choreography transform the constituent parts of literature, from characters and plot to the rhythms of language? How do words and movement collaborate to tell the stories of such disparate figures as lovers, monsters, migrants, and robots, and in modes that range from the pastoral to the autobiographical to the comic? To answer these and other questions, we will read short fiction, plays, and poems, focused largely on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and watch numerous genres of dance, including ballet, experimental dance, dance-theater, musical theater, hip hop, silent film, and puppetry. To explore the conceptual relationship of body and text, students will gain introductory exposure to theories of narrative, performance, adaptation, and more. "Page to Stage" welcomes, and is geared toward, students from any disciplinary background.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
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Instructor:
Seth S Williams
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
TUTORIAL IN EARTH SCIENCE
Prerequisites: declared major in Earth and environmental sciences and the departments permission. Students with particular interest in one of the many components of the Earth and environmental sciences should approach a director of undergraduate studies during the registration period so that tutorial-level exposure to the subject can be arranged. Each point requires two hours each week of readings, discussion, and research work under the close supervision of a member of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, American Museum of Natural History, or Goddard Institute for Space Studies. In consultation with the supervisor, the student selects a topic for intensive study and the time and place of the tutorial discussion sessions. May be repeated for credit up to a maximum of 12 points, with a maximum of 6 points with each staff member.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
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Instructor:
Galen A McKinley
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Instructor:
Austin Chadwick
Info - 1-3 points