PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• 4 points

Approaches to Global Thought

Challenges confronting the world today require multiple perspectives, approaches, and methods to grasp their complexity and devise responses and solutions. Whether addressing the climate crisis, public health threats, global and local inequities, social problems, geopolitical tensions, or any number of other problems, all demand the expertise developed in disciplinary training as well as flexible thinking and the ability to collaborate and solve problems across disciplinary boundaries. This course places students with different majors into conversation with each other to consider the approaches of their own disciplines, learn about the methodological “tool kits” of other fields, investigate examples of transdisciplinary research, and work with their classmates to design their own problem-centered collaborative projects.

• Department: Committee on Global Thought
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Laura L Neitzel
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

THE THEATRE WORKSHOP

This workshop course provides the opportunity for students to work with a faculty member or visiting artist on a short creative project, usually a devised work or rehearsal process. The course involves no more than 12 rehearsals and may also involve a public showing of the work investigated. Auditions may be required at the discretion of the instructor; course is 1 credit, and is taken Pass/Fail.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• MTWRF 7 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Gisela D Cardenas Ojeda
  Info
• 1 points

REHEARSAL & PERFRMNCE IN DANCE

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• 1-3 points

REHEARSAL & PERFRMNCE IN DANCE

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• TR 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Dormeshia Sunbry-Edwards
  Info
• 1-3 points

REHEARSAL & PERFRMNCE IN DANCE

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul A Scolieri
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 1-3 points

INTL LAW & U.N. IN PRACTICE

Prerequisites: POLS UN1601 or HRTS UN3001 An equivalent course to POLS UN1601 or HRTS UN3001 may be used as a pre-requisite, with departmental permission. Examines the development of international law and the United Nations, their evolution in the Twentieth Century, and their role in world affairs today. Concepts and principles are illustrated through their application to contemporary human rights and humanitarian challenges, and with respect to other threats to international peace and security. The course consists primarily of presentation and discussion, drawing heavily on the practical application of theory to actual experiences and situations. For the Barnard Political Science major, this seminar counts as elective credit only. (Cross-listed by the Human Rights Program.)

• Department: Human Rights (HRTB)
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Martin S Flaherty
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

This course can be worth 1 to 4 credits (each credit is equivalent to approximately three hours of work per week), and requires a Barnard faculty as a mentor. The course will be taken for a letter grade, regardless of whether the student chooses 1, 2, 3, or 4 credits. The expectations for each of these options are as follows: 1 credit, 3h/week commitment, 5-10 page "Research Report" at the end of the term; 2 credits, 6h/week commitment, 5-10 page "Research Report" at the end of the term; 3 credits, 9h/week commitment, 15-20 page "Research Report" at the end of the term; 4 credits, 12h/week commitment, 15-20 page "Research Report" at the end of the term. "Research Report" is a document submitted to the person grading the student, the instructor of record for the section in which the student has enrolled. If a student is working off-site, then input from the off-site research mentor will inform the grading. The "Research Report" can take a variety of forms: progress reports on data collected, training received, papers read, skills learned, etc.; or organized notes for lab notebooks, lab meetings, etc.; or manuscript-like papers with Intro, Methods, Results, Discussion; or some combination thereof, depending on the maturity of the project.  Ultimately, this will take different forms for different students/labs.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• Instructor: Peter D Balsam
  CULPA: 25 Info
• Instructor: Robert Brotherton
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Tovah Klein
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Ken Light
  CULPA: 17 h-index: 15 Info
• Instructor: Koleen McCrink
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Jalisha Jennifer
  Info
• Instructor: Robert E Remez
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia h-index: 23 Info
• Instructor: Ann Senghas
  CULPA: 17 Info
• Instructor: Katherine Thorson
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 7 Info
• Instructor: Lisa K Son
  CULPA: 25 Info
• Instructor: Mariel Roberts
  h-index: None Info
• Instructor: Danielle L Sussan
  CULPA: 8 Info
• Instructor: Kathleen M Taylor
  CULPA: 78 Info
• Instructor: Tara Well
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Michael Wheaton
  h-index: 31 Info
• Instructor: Kate M Turetsky
  Info
• Instructor: Alexandra C Horowitz
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 1-4 points

ADVANCED OPTIMIZATION

For undergraduates only. Required for all undergraduate students majoring in IE, OR:EMS, OR:FE, and OR. This is a follow-up to IEOR E3608 and will cover advanced topics in optimization, including integer optimization, convex optimization, and optimization under uncertainty, with a strong focus on modeling, formulations, and applications.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Jay Sethuraman
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

NEW CINEMAS IN LATIN AMERICA

This seminar will analyze the historical similarities and differences between the two major “New Wave” periods of Latin America cinema. The first part of this course will examine the emergence of the 1960s 
nuevos cines
 in Mexico, Brazil, Cuba, Argentina, and Chile through an in-depth analysis of landmark films such as Jomi García Ascot’s and María Luisa Elío’s "On the Empty Balcony" (1962), Glauber Rocha’s "Entranced Earth"
 
(1967), and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s "Memories of Underdevelopment" (1968). Some key concepts in Benedict Anderson’s book
 
"Imagined Communities" will help us to understand why “national identities” played such a primordial role among Latin American film intellectuals in the 1960s and 1970s. Special attention will be paid to the manifestos written by Julio García Espinosa, Fernando Solanas, and Octavio Getino, and to how they confronted Hollywood’s hegemony in order to create an auteurist film tradition in the region. In the second part of the seminar, we will study the global success of the Latin American cinemas of the 2000s from a transnational perspective: features such as Alfonso Cuarón’s "Y tu mamá también" (2001), Lucrecia Martel’s "The Swamp"
 
(2001), and Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund’s "City of God" (2002) will be examined in relation to the political and aesthetic traditions discussed in part one. We will explore how these contemporary Latin American filmmakers have shifted their interests from national identities to questions of gender, race, class, and sexuality. The critical interpretation of these films will allow us to redefine the idea of "national cinemas" and to reexamine the historical tensions between state control, commercialism, and independent cinema in Latin America.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• T 10:10 a.m.-1:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Breixo Viejo Vinas
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

MATERIALS/PROCESSES IN MANUFAC

Introduction to microstructures and properties of metals, polymers, ceramics and composites; typical manufacturing processes: material removal, shaping, joining, and property alteration; behavior of engineering materials in the manufacturing processes.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Sinisa Vukelic
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

THIRD YEAR MODERN TIBETAN II

For those whose knowledge is equivalent to a student whos completed the Second Year course. The course develops students reading comprehension skills through reading selected modern Tibetan literature. Tibetan is used as the medium of instruction and interaction to develop oral fluency and proficiency.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• W 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Sonam Tsering
  Info
• 4 points

SENIOR RESEARCH THESIS

Discussions of the student's Independent Research project during the fall and spring terms that culminate in a written and oral senior thesis. Each project must be supervised by a scientist working at Barnard or at another local institution.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa K Son
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 1 points

SEM-DEVELOPMNTL PSYCHOPATHOLGY

Prerequisites: at least two of the following courses: (UN1001, UN1010, UN2280, UN2620, UN2680, UN3280) and the instructor's permission. Developmental psychopathology posits that it is development itself that has gone awry when there is psychopathology. As such, it seeks to understand the early and multiple factors contributing to psychopathology emerging in childhood and later in life. We will use several models (e.g. ones dominated by biological, genetic, and psychological foci) to understand the roots of mental illness.

• Department: Psychology
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Hannah E Hoch
  CULPA: 27 Info
• 4 points

Modern East Asian Art in a Global Contex

East Asian art occupies a privileged position with histories of non-Western modern art. The region has encompassed both colonial nation states and colonized territories that recognized institutional modern art as a site for negotiating regional and international power relations. At the same time, artists from the region also recognized modernism as a paradigm to challenge local political realities and cultural essentialisms.

This course introduces the history of Modern and Contemporary Art in China, Japan, and Korea through a comparative, Global Asias lens to investigate the preconceptions of modernity and art history revealed by the East Asian context. Following a largely chronological approach from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, we will consider questions including: What role did art play in the establishment of "modern" nations in East Asia? How did the European concept and institutional forms of "fine art" shift cultural production in the region? What cultural, racial, and gendered hierarchies did "modern art" in the region challenge or reinscribe? How did colonialism, wartime regimes, and Cold War politics influence the dominant forms of local artistic production and the recognition of East Asian artists abroad? How does post-WWII art from the region and from the Asian diaspora confirm or challenge the chronologies of contemporary art's "globalization" that pose 1989 as a point of origin? And how can we rethink the boundaries and expectations of the framework of “Modern East Asian Art” today?

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrea J Horisaki-Christens
  Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

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

• Department: Psychology
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Irit Felsen
  Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

MINDFULNESS-BASD BEHAVRL THRPY

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

• Department: Psychology
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeffrey M Cohen
  h-index: 5 Info
• 4 points

CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY SEM

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

• Department: Psychology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: E'Mett McCaskill
  CULPA: 38 Info
• 3 points

Hippie Physics, Counterculture, Cybercul

The world inside your smartphone may not be all that it seems. Everything from your e-banking app to your TikTok algorithm can be traced back to the Woodstock-going, acid-taking, love (not war)-making attitude that permeated the youth (in spite of the generations before) in counterculture America. Today’s technosphere grew out of the convergence of the post-World War II and Cold War military-industrial complex and the 1960s counterculture.  Resistance to the war in Viet Nam, the Civil Rights movement, and the spread of Buddhist thought created social unrest and political disorder.   (Almost) simultaneously, a counter counterculture emerged – conservative Christians joined forces with right wing and libertarian politicians  to resist sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll, and promote a religiously, politically, and racially “purified” America. Sound familiar?

In the midst of this turmoil, groups of physicists who had dropped out (but not necessarily tuned in) gathered in San Francisco and Palo Alto garages to create a technological revolution that continues to transform the world.  This course will explore this seminal period through a consideration of music, films, and books of this era, as well as the technological and philosophical implications that quantum physics has on our society and culture today.

• Department: Religion
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Mark C Taylor
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

IN AND AROUND ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

IN/AROUND ABSTRACT EXPRSNSM

This course focuses on the history of modern art in the mid-twentieth century. To place mid-twentieth century modernism within its proper historical context, we will explore artistic practices elaborated between the 1920s and the 1960s in a wide range of different locations. We will also survey the major critical and historical accounts of modernism in the arts during these years. 

 

The course will first introduce the development of modernism, anti-modernism and avant-gardism in the period between the two World Wars, exploring the changing relationship between these cultural formations in Europe, the U.S.S.R., Mexico, and North America. The second part of the course will study the vicissitudes of modernism and avant-gardism in Europe, Latin America, and the U.S. during the 1930s and 1940s that led to the formation of Concrete art in Europe and Abstract Expressionism and the New York School in the United States. The third part of the course will examine the challenges to modernism and the reformulation of avant-gardism posed by the neo-avant-garde in North America, South America, Europe and Japan in the 1950s and early 1960s.

 

The course will address a wide range of historical and methodological questions and problems.  These include: the challenges to the idea of artistic autonomy, the evolving concept of avant-gardism, the ongoing problematic of abstraction, the formal principles of serialism and the grid, the logic of non-composition, the persistence of figuration, the changing role of cultural institutions, the impact of new technologies on cultural production, and the emergence of new audiences and patrons for art.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexander Alberro
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 17 Info
• 4 points

Hong Kong Martial Arts Cinemas and Beyon

This course will cover the film form and history of the martial arts in Hong Kong and beyond. Taken as a popular genre, martial arts cinemas apparently are separated from art and aesthetics. In this course, martial arts cinema will be understood as a site to connect different filmmakers in Asia who choreograph action into narratives that offer kinesthetic effects. Long shot, montage, slow motion, saturated color tone and wire are used by them to provide action with their historical meanings like nationalism, maintaining law and order, and anti-imperialism. The course will cover films from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, to Indonesia and India. It will examine films, literature, real martial arts like Wing Chun, Hung Fist, and wrestling, Peking opera, film adaptation, and video games. The course will study martial arts films with perspectives of film forms, narrative and genre makeover in different contexts in order to understand the nature of martial arts films in East Asia.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Kin Tak Raymond Tsang
  Info
• 3 points

GREAT SHORT WORKS OF AMERICAN PROSE

The aim of this course is to read closely and slowly short prose masterworks written in the United States between the mid-19th century and the mid-20th century, and to consider them in disciplined discussion. Most of the assigned works are fiction, but some are public addresses or lyrical or polemical essays. We will read with attention to questions of audience and purpose: for whom were they written and with what aim in mind: to promote a cause, make a case for personal or political action, provoke pleasure, or some combination of all of these aims? We will consider the lives and times of the authors but will focus chiefly on the aesthetic and argumentative structure of the works themselves.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew Delbanco
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

OBSERVATIONAL ASTRONOMY

Prerequisites: one year of general astronomy Introduction to the basic techniques used in obtaining and analyzing astronomical data. Focus on ground-based methods at optical, infrared, and radio wavelengths. Regular use of the telescope facilities atop the roof of the Pupin Labs and at Harriman Observatory. The radio-astronomy portion consists mostly of computer labs, In research projects, students also work on the analysis of data obtained at National Observatories.

• Department: Astronomy
• R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: David Schiminovich
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

GOVERNING THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

Who governs the world economy? Why do countries succeed or fail to cooperate in setting their economic policies? When and how do international institutions help countries cooperate? When and why do countries adopt good and bad economic policies? This course examines how domestic and international politics determine how the global economy is governed. We will study the politics of trade, international investment, monetary, immigration, and environmental policies to answer these questions. The course will approach each topic by examining alternative theoretical approaches and evaluate these theories using historical and contemporary evidence. There will be an emphasis on applying concepts through the analysis of policy-relevant case studies designed specifically for this course.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Nikhar Gaikwad
  h-index: 7 Info
• 4 points

GOVERNING GLOBAL ECONOMY-DISC

This is the required discussion section for POLS UN3648

• Department: Political Science
• F 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• F 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• R 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• R 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Marnie A Ginis
  Info
• 0 points

Mental health in Literature from antiqui

This seminar explores the relationship between literature, culture, and mental health. It pays particular emphasis to the
poetics
of emotions structuring them around the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance and the concept of hope. During the course of the semester, we will discuss a variety of content that explores issues of race, socioeconomic status, political beliefs, abilities/disabilities, gender expressions, sexualities, and stages of life as they are connected to mental illness and healing. Emotions are anchored in the physical body through the way in which our bodily sensors help us understand the reality that we live in. By feeling backwards and thinking forwards, we will ask a number of important questions relating to literature and mental health, and will trace how human experiences are first made into language, then into science, and finally into action.

The course surveys texts from Homer, Ovid, Aeschylus and Sophocles to Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, C.P. Cavafy, Dinos Christianopoulos, Margarita Karapanou, Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, Katerina Gogou etc., and the work of artists such as Toshio Matsumoto, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Anohni.

• Department: Classics
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Nikolas Kakkoufa
  Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND PHILOSOP

COG SCI & PHIL: CAUSATION

This course will focus on one topic at the intersection of cognitive science and philosophy. Potential topics include free will, consciousness, modularity, mental representation, probabilistic inference, the language of thought, and the computational theory of mind.

• Department: Philosophy @Barnard
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer McDonald
  Info
• 3 points

Gender and Public Health: Disparities, P

This seminar providea an intensive introduction to critical thinking about gender in relation to public health. We begin with a rapid immersion in social scientific approaches to thinking about gender in relation to health, and then examine diverse areas in which gendered relations of power – primarily between men and women, but also between cis- and queer individuals – shape health behaviors and health outcomes. We engage with multiple examples of how gendered social processes, in combination with other dimensions of social stratification, shape health at the population level. The overarching goal of this class is to provide a context for reading, discussion, and critical analysis to help students learn to think about gender – and, by extension, about any form of social stratification – as a driver of patterns in population health. We also attend consistently to how public health as a field is itself a domain in which gender is reproduced or contested.

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer S Hirsch
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

PROBABILITY FOR ENGINEERS

Introductory course to probability theory and does not assume any prior knowledge of subject. Teaches foundations required to use probability in applications, but course itself is theoretical in nature. Basic definitions and axioms of probability and notions of independence and conditional probability introduced. Focus on random variables, both continuous and discrete, and covers topics of expectation, variance, conditional distributions, conditional expectation and variance, and moment generating functions. Also Central Limit Theorem for sums of random variables. Consists of lectures, recitations, weekly homework, and in-class exams.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Karl Sigman
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

MAFIA MOVIES

Examines representations of the mafia in American and Italian film and literature. Special attention to questions of ethnic identity and immigration. Comparison of the different histories and myths of the mafia in the U.S. and Italy. Readings includes novels, historical studies, and film criticism. Limit 35

• Department: Italian @Barnard
• W 6:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Nelson Moe
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

Machiavelli & Renaissance Florence

Machiavelli & Renaiss Flo

What do we envision when we think about Renaissance Florence? A long-standing and influential narrative placing Florence at the heart of the Renaissance prompts us to imagine a civilization defined by the esthetic ideals of beauty, grace, harmony, and balance. On the other hand, there are counter arguments that emphasize darker elements and suggest that the Italian Renaissance was a period marked by violence, immorality, and a cynicism famously attributed to the Florentine Niccolò Machiavelli. Since neither of these contrasting perspectives provides an exhaustive, accurate picture, it is useful––indeed, necessary––to explore the phenomenon that we call Renaissance with an openness to its full range of dimensions. In this process, our very present may both contribute to and complicate our endeavor to shape new paths of inquiry.

     This course will focus on Renaissance Florence from a variety of viewpoints. In the introductory section, we will use a diverse set of sources (including theoretical readings and examples from pop culture) to lay the foundations of our work. Then, building on recent trends in Renaissance scholarship, our exploration will foreground three perspectives in particular: (I) we will look at Renaissance Florence through the lens of queer and gender studies; (II) we will consider the role of orality and performance; and (III) we will focus on cultural and religious diversity. Special attention will be devoted to the figure and works of Niccolò Machiavelli. By looking at Machiavelli from the three perspectives mentioned above, we will be able to investigate neglected sides of his intellectual personality as well as to reappraise some aspects of his political thinking. Throughout the semester, we will interrogate a wide variety of primary sources, including literary texts, letters, paintings, and musical pieces. Moreover, we will read selected secondary sources that will facilitate our dialogue with the primary materials and enable us to take into account additional queries.

     In order to reach the learning objectives set for the course, students will have the possibility to engage in an array of oral, written, and multimodal assignments. There are no prerequisites for this course. Students are welcome to read sources in the original language if they wish to do so; however,
no knowledge of Italian is required.

• Department: Italian
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Claudia Antonini
  Info
• 3 points

The Politics of Care

THE POLITICS OF CARE

What are the consequences of entrenched inequalities in the context of care? How might we (re)imagine associated practices as political projects? Wherein lie the origins of utopic and dystopic visions of daily survival? How might we track associated promises and failures as they travel across social hierarchies, nationalities, and geographies of care? And what do we mean when we speak of “care”? These questions define the scaffolding for this course. Our primary goals throughout this semester are threefold.  First, we begin by interrogating the meaning of “care” and its potential relevance as a political project in medical and other domains. Second, we will track care’s associated meanings and consequences across a range of contents, including urban and rural America, an Amazonia borderland, South Africa, France, and Mexico. Third, we will address temporal dimensions of care, as envisioned and experienced in the here-and-now, historically, and in a futuristic world of science fiction. Finally, and most importantly, we will remain alert to the relevance of domains of difference relevant to care, most notably race, gender, class, and species.

Upper level seminar; 4 points

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Lesley Sharp
  CULPA: 22 Info
• 4 points

SEEKING ASYLUM

Prerequisites: NA This seminar explores the roots of and responses to the contemporary refugee crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. We examine the historical factors that are propelling people, including families and unaccompanied minors, to flee the so-called Northern Triangle of Central America (El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala); the law and politics of asylum that those seeking refuge must negotiate in the U.S.; and the burgeoning system of immigration incarceration that detains ever-greater numbers of non-citizens. The course is organized around a collaboration with the Dilley Pro Bono Project, an organization that provides legal counsel to detainees at the countrys largest immigration detention prison, in Dilley, Texas.

• Department: History @Barnard
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Nara Milanich
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Religion and Human Rights

What is the relationship between religion and human rights? How have different religious traditions conceived of “the human” as a being worthy of inherent dignity and respect, particularly in moments of political, military, economic, and ecological crisis? How and why have modern regimes of human rights privileged some of these ideas and marginalized others? What can these complicated relationships between religion and human rights explain some of the key crises in human rights law and politics today, and what avenues can be charted for moving forward? In this class, we will attempt to answer these questions by first developing a theoretical understanding of some of the key debates about the origins, trajectories, and legacies of modern human rights’ religious entanglements. We will then move on to examine various examples of ideas about and institutions for protecting “humanity” from different regions and histories. Specifically, we will examine how different societies, organizations, and religious traditions have addressed questions of war and violence; freedom of belief and expression; gender and sexual orientation; economic inequality; ecology; and the appropriate ways to punish and remember wrongdoing. In doing so, we will develop a repertoire of theoretical and empirical tools that can help us address both specific crises of human rights in various contexts, as well as the general crisis of faith and and observance of human rights as a universal norm and aspiration for peoples everywhere.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Timothy Vasko
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

FEMINISM/POSTMODERNISM IN ART

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Rosalyn Deutsche
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 3 points

GERMAN LIT-WORLD CONTEXT (ENG)

IDEA-MUSIC-GERM LIT/CULTR(ENG)

This seminar explores the development of German Studies through a transnational lens. Topics may vary by semester. 

All readings and discussions in English; no German required.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• TR 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark M Anderson
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

Trade and Traffic with Early Modern Engl

TradeTrafficEarlyModernEn

This seminar course explores England’s sense of itself in relation to the rest of the world in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.  It will examine the hopes and fears provoked by the trade and traffic between the English and other peoples, both inside and outside the country’s borders, and raise questions of economics, race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, immigration, and slavery.  The central materials are familiar and unfamiliar English plays, by William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Philip Massinger, John Fletcher, Richard Brome, and others, which we will study alongside economic treatises, acts and proclamations, and travel narratives.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Alan Stewart
  CULPA: 14 h-index: 13 Info
• 4 points

American Literature: Between Natural His

American Lit Between NH &

“Reduce Your Footprint.” “Ditch The Past.” “Leave No Trace.” Calling for coexistent habitats, environmentalist discourses strive to decenter the human, and focus on the future. This class will not dispute the crucial need to reconsider how humans must interact with the Earth through mutually fortifying and thus lasting relationships. Instead, we will take a historicist approach to descriptions and discussions of people and the environment, to explore how nature writing has negotiated the absence or erasure of humans through its varied and vexed phases from 1492 to the nineteenth century.

Through a range of literary forms, we will study how mainly Anglophone writers in the early Americas managed the representation of humans in nature. We will begin with the literature of Natural History from European colonialism in the Caribbean, and ask after the ways in which this archive strives to establish authority at the expense of representing Indigenous and Black guides, informants, and enslaved laborers. We will compare these descriptions then, to those developed in nineteenth century nature writing from U.S. American Transcendentalists, and analyze the ways in which this cohort of writers assesses and often celebrates nature as a place to escape to or lose oneself within. Finally, we will end by reading U.S. American slave narratives that complicate this Transcendentalist injunction to be philosophically absorbed by nature, and that re-envision nature’s role in the arc of fugitivity to freedom. On the one hand, we will map rhetorical or narratological techniques, literary forms, and racialized and gendered voices within these various representations of the natural world. On the other hand, we will consider the natural world as itself a narrative, that is, a produced story dependent on organizing space and situating peoples. In considering the generic variations and evolution of nature writing, our discussions will be framed by questions about where and how nature writing appears, who or what nature writing makes present or absent, who or what this writing cultivates or erases, by what means, and to what ends.

As we wend through these entangled literary representations of nature and people, we will also explore cartographic representations of environments and colonial space, through weekly exercises in ‘reading’ actual maps. We will further attempt to translate the practice of nonlinear reading spurred by cartographic analysis, back to our literary a

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Katrina M Dzyak
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• 4 points

STRATEGY FORMULATION

This class is an introduction to strategic management and the decisions that firms make in their historical context. We look at the growth of the large multi-product firm in almost all countries in the world and the the process by which they internationalized their activities and, very often, were also forced to retreat from their international positions.  We treat strategies as relation to two broad goals of the class: to understand why some companies are financially much more successful than others; and to analyze how managers can devise a set of actions (the strategy) and design processes and structures that allow their company to obtain a competitive advantage. You will learn the analytical tools developed in universities, in consulting and industrial firms, and even in the military.   These tools include what companies do to outperform their rivals; to analyze the competitive moves of rival firms by game-theoretic concepts; and when it makes sense for companies to diversify and globalize their business. Applications will be to Walmart and Apple, European firms and to Asian firms, and developing country firms.

• Department: Columbia College
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Soo Min Cho
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• 3 points

LATINX RACIAL IDENTITY & CULTURAL PRODUC

LATINX RACIAL CULTURAL PR

The course will investigate the impact of racial identity among Latinx in the U.S. on cultural production of Latinos in literature, media, politics and film. The seminar will consider the impact of bilingualism, shifting racial identification, and the viability of monolithic terms like Latinx. We will see how the construction of Latinx racial identity affects acculturation in the U.S., with particular attention to hybrid identities and the centering of black and indigenous cultures. Examples will be drawn from different Latinx ethnicities from the Caribbean, Mexico and the rest of Latin America.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Edward Morales
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• 4 points

INTRO TO COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

A basic course in communication theory, stressing modern digital communication systems. Nyquist sampling, PAM and PCM/DPCM systems, time division multipliexing, high frequency digital (ASK, OOK, FSK, PSK) systems, and AM and FM systems. An introduction to noise processes, detecting signals in the presence of noise, Shannons theorem on channel capacity, and elements of coding theory.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Irving Kalet
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

Climate Change and Colonialism

In 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recognized colonialism’s
contributions to the climate crisis, citing its “historical and ongoing patterns of inequity.” This was
the first time that this group of climate experts had ever formally acknowledged colonialism,
despite activists, writers, artists, and scholars from around the world emphasizing the
devastations of colonial extractions. A sole focus on the present and future of the climate crisis
obscures a deeper understanding of how the crisis came to be. This course asks: How has
colonialism, namely, colonial processes of domination, extraction, control, dispossession,
knowledge-making, and violence, created the climate crisis as well as enduring inequalities?
How does the past intimately structure the possibilities of the present? How can an
understanding of colonialism’s “historical and ongoing” effects deepen calls for climate justice?
This interdisciplinary seminar features an anthropological and historical exploration of the
specificities of colonial regimes’ extractive violence against people, land, and resources. We will
see how climate change is intensified through unequal social, political, and economic
distributions of harm and advantage, and how climate vulnerability is created and maintained.
The goal of the course is to provide students with conceptual tools for historicizing climate
change, and for critically engaging the consequences of colonial relations of power.

• Department: Anthropology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Dilshanie Perera
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• 4 points

LEADERSHIP IN ORGANIZATION

Initially, the emphasis is on understanding the challenges confronting leaders and developing skills to effectively deal with these obstacles. Beyond intelligence and technical know-how, what separates effective leaders from other team members is a set of social skills (e.g. impression management, self-awareness). This course identifies these critical leadership skills and provides ideas and tools for improving them. Then, the course considers how social intelligence skills fit the needs of managers at different stages of their careers. In early stages, managers need to achieve a good person-job fit, find mentors, and build an effective social network. At the mid-career stage, managers need to lead an effective unit with increasing complexity and responsibilities. Finally, the course examines challenges managers face at later career stages as they become partners, CFOs, CEOs, etc.

• Department: Columbia College
• W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel I McDonald
  h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

SENIOR RESEARCH ESSAY SEMINAR

• Department: American Studies @Barnard
• M 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Kimberly Springer
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 13 Info
• 4 points

EMPIRICAL RESEARCH METHODS IN POLITICAL

EMPIRCL RSRCH METHODS POL

Prerequisites: At least sophomore standing recommended. 
Corequisites: Computer Lab: TBD (50 minutes per week). Enrollment limited to 40 students: "L" sign-up through 
eBear
. 
Not an introductory-level course.
 
Barnard syllabus.

The course introduces students to the systematic study of political phenomena. Students will learn how to develop research questions and executable research designs. Then, taking an applied approach, students learn basic statistical and case study techniques for evaluating evidence and making empirical claims. No prior experience with statistics is assumed.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Miller
  CULPA: 18 h-index: 14 Info
• 4 points

African Climate and History

This course examines how Africa’s climate has changed in the past and with what consequences for the people living on the continent. It looks at the scope, duration and intensity of past climate events and their impacts, while using these historical climate events to teach fundamental climate concepts.  Central to the course is the human experience of these events and the diversity of their responses. The major question underpinning this course is, therefore, how have people responded to past climate events, whether short-term, decadal or longer in scope? This question is predicated on the complexity of human society and moves away from the binary of collapse vs. resilience that dominates much thinking about the impact of climate changes on past societies. This framing recognizes the significance of climate for food production and collection, as well as trade and cosmologies. It does not take climate to be the determining factor in history. Rather it foregrounds the myriad ways people acted in the face of, for example, multi-decadal below average rainfall or long periods of more reliable precipitation.

• Department: History
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 4 points

MAJOR AMERICAN AUTHORS II

BELLOW ELLISON & ROTH

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. (Seminar). These three major post-war American novelists are each challenging and transgressive in their own way; they comprise a natural grouping given their common preoccupations that grew out of high personal regard. Bellow and Ellison were close friends and Roth was a friend of Bellow's and a great admirer of Ellison. Indeed, Roth's The Human Stain is a sustained meditation upon and homage to Ellison's Invisible Man. These shared concerns include a resistance to the pressure to be representative of one's racial or ethnic group, skepticism of the political and ideological uses of art, and fascination with how an ethnic or racial outsider makes his way into WASP American high culture. One does so by a process of initiation that proceeds less by the sacrifice demanded by assimilation and more by playing the game of appropriation in which culture is conceived as public, open and accessible to anyone, and culture goods are available to be enjoyed and re-worked for one's own creative purposes. Application Instructions: E-mail Professor Ross Posnock (rp2045@columbia.edu) with the subject heading Bellow, Ellison, and Roth seminar. In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Ross Posnock
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 4 points

EMPIRCL RSRCH METHODS POL - DISC

EMPIRCL RSRCH METHDS POL

This is the required discussion section for POLS-UN3706

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• M 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• M 7:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 0 points

RESEARCH DESIGN: SCOPE AND METHODS

RESEARCH DESIGN: SCOPE&ME

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

• Department: Political Science
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Daniel M Corstange
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

Social Justice: Connecting Academics to

SOC JUST:CONNEX ACAD TO A

This course will create an opportunity for active engagement between students doing sociology and a local organization working for social change by organizing immigrant communities, Make the Road New York. Students will be expected to actively study and/or participate in a project designed by the instructor and organization leaders. The action/research will primarily take the form of interviews (conducting interviews with members and leaders from an organization or campaign) and participant observation (taking part in the activities of the organization/campaign) and analysis of those interviews and observations. To accomplish this collaborative research project, students will take on different roles throughout the course, including that of fieldworker, project coordinator, analysis coordinator, and context researcher. Students will also read, discuss, and write about literature on scholarly-community partnerships and community organizing. Admittance by application and interview only. Preference to Sociology majors. Spanish speakers and writers, juniors, and seniors.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Deborah Becher
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 4 Info
• 4 points

SCOPE AND METHODS - DISC

This is the required discussion section for
POLS UN3720.

• Department: Political Science
• R 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• T 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• W 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• T 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Jaclyn K Davis
  Info
• Instructor: Samuel D Frederick
  Info
• Instructor: Manu Singh
  h-index: 2 Info
• Instructor: Norashiqin Toh
  h-index: 0 Info
• 0 points

Jewish Identities in France

Jewish identities in Fran

France is seen as both a haven for the Jews, celebrated as the first Western European nation to grant them equal rights, and as a uniquely dangerous place, infamous for a latent antisemitism that periodically explodes in violent ways. Today, the country is home to the largest Jewish population in Europe and the third largest in the world. It has also become internationally known for its concept of laïcité, a form of secularism perceived as hostile toward the public expression of religion. These seeming contradictions spark questions about the experience of Jews in France that are the central subject of this course. After a brief historical survey of key moments in the history of French Jewry, we will explore questions of French and Jewish identities. Questions under consideration include: what does it mean to be French and Jewish at the same time? How do Jews relate to dominant French culture and to other minorities? How does France’s dual status as a republic and an empire complicate these questions? What is particular about the Jewish experience in France compared to other Western European and North American countries with significant Jewish populations? We will approach these questions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including history, philosophy, sociology, literature and film. Our discussions will draw on the rich tradition of French literary and philosophical works about Jewish identity as well as recent texts and films.

Readings and discussion will be in French.

• Department: French
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Katherine Raichlen
  Info
• 3 points

Modern Western Drama and the History of

In the professional theatre, the actor’s craft offers a serious methodology for textual interpretation. This course brings acting theory and practical acting exercises into the English literature classroom as tools to aid in the analysis of modern drama. Because innovations in playwriting and acting often arise in tandem, the semester will take us on a tour of landmark 20 th -century plays and developments in western theatre history. We will devote the first twenty minutes of each class session to practical work on a performance exercise from the week’s readings. Acting’s investments in imagination,
embodiment, and experimentation will enrich our seminar discussion in the remaining three-quarters of the class. In addition to offering a new methodology for close-reading and enlivening new avenues of interpretation, acting’s traditional focus on the “character” or “role” will raise large questions about the human: What are the nature and limits of identification and empathy? Which acting styles encourage practitioners to seek something universal in human emotion or experience? Conversely, which propose to investigate the historical and cultural specificity of human behavior? Can the process of constructing a character shed light on the social construction of gender and race? How do these plays, from different decades and national contexts, represent changing conceptions of these social categories? Are some acting styles inherently political or more political than others? Each participant will engage these questions in an embodied as well as a theoretical way by rehearsing a scene and performing it in-class. However, no performance experience is required to enroll in this course, and students will not be graded on their acting abilities.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Catherine J Suffern
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• 4 points

SUPERVISED FAC-STUDENT RSRCH

Prerequisites: None formally; instructor may recommend introductory or advanced course in their subfield For joint Faculty-Student research on a deisgnated topic of the instructor's choice. Students will critically engage with scholarly debates, formulate research designs, analyze or interpret data, and learn to summarize and present findings. Apply directly to the instructor. Can be taken once for elective credit toward the major.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• Instructor: Severine Autesserre
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

Experimental Research

Randomized experimentation is an important methodology in political science. In this course, we will discuss the logic of experimentation, its strengths and weaknesses compared to other methodologies, and the ways in which experimentation has been -- and could be -- used to investigate political phenomena. Students will learn how to interpret, design, and execute experiments.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Donald P Green
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 87 Info
• 4 points

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH-DISC

This is the required discussion section for POLS UN3768.

• Department: Political Science
• R 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• F 11:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Kylan J Rutherford
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• Instructor: Linan Yao
  Info
• 0 points

African Communities in New York, 1900 to

AFRICAN COMMUNITIES IN NY

This class explores the history of voluntary migrations from Africa to the United States over the course of the 20th century. This course is designed as a historical research seminar that is open to students with prior coursework in African Studies, Africana Studies, Race and Ethnic Studies, or History. Thematically the course dwells at a point of intersection between African history, Black History, and Immigration History. 

As part of the Barnard Engages curriculum, this class is collaboratively designed with the Harlem-based non-profit organization, African Communities Together.  The aim of this course is to support the mission of ACT by producing a historically grounded digital advocacy project. The mission of ACT is to empower immigrants from Africa and their families to integrate socially, advance economically, and engage civically.  To advance this mission, ACT must confront the reality that in the current political moment new legal, political, and social barriers are being erected to the integration, advancement, and engagement of African immigrants on a daily basis. As immigrants, as Black people, as Africans, and often as women, low-income people, LGBT+ people, and Muslims, African immigrants experience multiple intersecting forms of marginalization. Now more than ever, it is critical that African immigrants be empowered to tell their own stories—not just of persecution and suffering, but of resilience and resistance.

• Department: History @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Abosede A George
  CULPA: 14 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Music in Premodern China

What did “music” (yue, 樂) mean in premodern China, and what was it like? What socio-cultural functions did it serve, and what values and priorities were reflected in different musical traditions? Seeking answers to these and other questions, this course surveys the history of music and its makers in premodern China, drawing from primary source texts (in translation), extant music scores, secondary scholarship, and hands-on demonstrations, to better understand and appreciate historically and culturally significant musical traditions of premodern China, and their enduring influence on traditional Chinese music in the modern world.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Zachary S Berge-Becker
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• 3 points

BERL/ISTANBUL:MIGRATN,CLTR,VAL

An intensive seminar analyzing questions of migration, identity, (self-) representation, and values with regard to the Turkish minority living in Germany today. Starting with a historical description of the „guest worker“ program that brought hundreds of thousands of Turkish nationals to Germany in the 1960s and 1970s, the course will focus on the experiences and cultural production of the second and third generations of Turkish Germans, whose presence has profoundly transformed German society and culture. Primary materials include diaries, autobiographies, legal and historical documents, but the course will also analyze poetry, novels, theater plays and films. In German.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Claudia Breger
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

AMERICAN NATURE WRITING TO 1900

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

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Branka Arsic
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Epic India: The Rama Story in Visual Art

The epic story of Rama (
Ramayana
) is one of the most influential tales of the Indian subcontinent. It has been told and experienced in a stunning range of media across time and space: from epic verse and lyric poetry to painting, narrative sculpture, film, graphic novels, and puppet theater. While Valmiki’s Sanskrit Ramayana of ca. 500 BCE is acknowledged as the first, writers have recounted the tale in the polyglot array of Indic languages, from Kashmiri to Telugu, and infused it with the values and interests of their own time and place. The story’s flexibility and capaciousness has encouraged social contestation and given voice to the concerns of disenfranchised social groups, including women and Dalits. This seminar will examine a generous array of South Asia’s visual Ramayana traditions from the ancient to the modern, encompassing temple relief sculpture, painted courtly manuscripts, and comic book and film Ramayanas. Reading a selection of primary texts alongside we consider this tale’s immense capacity to represent the gamut of human experience, both private and public, and its continued resonance for artists, writers, performers, and their publics.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Subhashini Kaligotla
  Info
• 4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

• Department: Education @Barnard
• Instructor: Maria S Rivera Maulucci
  h-index: 10 Info
• Instructor: Erika Kitzmiller
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 3 Info
• Instructor: Lisa Edstrom
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 1-4 points

EARTH & ENVIR ENGIN LAB

EARTH & ENVIR ENGIN LAB I

Experiments on fundamental aspects of Earth and environmental engineering with emphasis on the applications of chemistry, biology and thermodynamics to environmental processes: energy generation, analysis and purification of water, environmental biology, and biochemical treatment of wastes. Students will learn the laboratory procedures and use analytical equipment firsthand, hence demonstrating experimentally the theoretical concepts learned in class.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• TR 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Athanasios Bourtsalas
  Info
• 4 points

SEM IN CONTEMP ART PRACTICE

(Formerly R4601) New York City is the most abundant visual arts resource in the world. Visits to museums, galleries, and studios on a weekly basis. Students encounter a broad cross-section of art and are encouraged to develop ideas about what is seen. The seminar is led by a practicing artist and utilizes this perspective. Columbia College and General Studies Visual Arts Majors must take this class during their junior year. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• M 4 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Yasaman Alipour Fetrati
  Info
• 3 points

ENVIR SCIENCE SENIOR SEM II

Guided, independent, in-depth research culminating in the senior thesis in the spring. Includes discussion about scientific presentations and posters, data analysis, library research methods and scientific writing. Students review work in progress and share results through oral reports. Weekly seminar to review work in progress and share results through oral and written reports. Prerequisite to EESC W3901.

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points

Punishment Culture

What is punishment, and what might attention to punitive practices teach us about the cultures in which they are used? Modern American culture is so saturated with punishment that it is difficult to know where to begin such an investigation. From childhood education to mass incarceration and from the crafting of financial futures to the training of horses and dogs, punishment is ubiquitous and often unquestioned. In many cases, punishment is the thread that connects allegedly disparate institutions and produces allegedly unforeseen forms of violence. In this course we will question both the practice and its prevalence, combining a genealogy of the concept with case studies in its modern use.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Kaya N Williams
  Info
• 4 points

CHEM ENG & APPLIED CHEM LAB

Emphasizes active, experiment-based resolution of open-ended problems involving use, design, and optimization of equipment, products, or materials. Under faculty guidance students formulate, carry out, validate, and refine experimental procedures, and present results in oral and written form. Develops analytical, communications, and cooperative problem-solving skills in the context of problems that span from traditional, large scale separations and processing operations to molecular level design of materials or products. Sample projects include: scale up of apparatus, process control, chemical separations, microfluidics, surface engineering, molecular sensing, and alternative energy sources. Safety awareness is integrated.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Jingyue Ju
  h-index: 77 Info
• 3 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Faculty supervised independent study for undergraduate Film & Media Studies majors.  Must have faculty approval prior to registration.

• Department: Film
• Instructor: Robert King
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Richard A Pena
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 1-3 points

Knowledge, Practice, Power

Knowledge, Practice, Power is a practical and multi-disciplinary exploration of research methods and interpretive strategies used in feminist scholarship, focusing on larger questions about how we know what we know, and who and what knowledge is for. Open to non-majors, but sophomore and junior majors in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) are encouraged to enroll in this course as preparation for Senior Seminar I. This course is required for students pursuing the concentration or minor in Feminist/Intersectional Science and Technology Studies. Prerequisite: 
Either
 one introductory WGSS course 
or
 Critical Approaches to Social and Cultural Theory 
or
 Permission of the Instructor.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Talha Issevenler
  Info
• 4 points

Law s Stories: A Creative Nonfiction W

Law's Stories: Creative N

In this class, we will examine nonfiction accounts of legal events that draw on techniques often associated with literature to convey their meaning. Such “creative” or “literary” nonfiction offers a view of law very different from that to be found in statutes, judicial opinions, or legal doctrines: a view based in face-to-face encounters (in the streets, in police precincts, in courtrooms, in prisons); and in the lived experience of those who come before the law. Practitioners often describe creative nonfiction as “true stories, well told.” We will ask what we learn about law from such stories and how it differs from what we learn from other kinds of legal writing. At the same time, we will read these texts closely to understand
how
they represent what they represent: how they use narrative form, characterization, sentence structure, rhetorical devices, diction (and more) to convey meaning, generate emotion, and generally achieve their effects. We will ask why writers might choose to use literary techniques to write nonfiction, and discuss the ethical issues the genre raises, particularly when it treats legal subjects. At the same time, the course will serve as a workshop for developing your own writing about law: engaging in research; writing daily; and generally honing your craft as a writer in a supportive and thoughtful community.

Application instructions
: Please email Professor Peters
the following: name, school, year, major; a few sentences about why you’d like to take the course; and a list of the most relevant courses you’ve taken. Feel free to note any first-hand experience with law you’ve had (not required!) Please also attach a short piece representing your writing at its best: a piece whose first few sentences show the quality of your writing (fiction or nonfiction on any topic, no minimum or maximum length)!

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Julie S Peters
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points