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AMST BC 3300x Topics in American Studies: Pedagogy of the Dispossessed
Not offered in 2009-2010.
4 points

AMST BC 3401x Colloquium in American Studies: Cultural Approaches to the American Past

Introduction to the theoretical approaches of American Studies, as well as the methods and materials used in the interdisciplinary study of American society. Through close reading of a variety of texts (e.g., novels, films, essays), we will analyze the creation, maintenance, and transmission of cultural meaning within American society.
General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC).
4 points

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Call Number/
Section
Days & Times/
Location
Instructor Enrollment
Autumn 2009 :: AMST BC3401
AMST
3401
01003
001
W 2:10p - 4:00p
22 Lehman Hall
E. Esch 17 [ More Info ]

AMST BC 3703x-BC3704y Senior Seminar

Individual research on topic related to major thematic concentration and preparation of senior thesis.
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to senior majors.
4 points

Course
Number
Call Number/
Section
Days & Times/
Location
Instructor Enrollment
Autumn 2009 :: AMST BC3703
AMST
3703
02181
001
W 4:10p - 6:00p
201 Lehman Hall
R. Rosenberg 6 [ More Info ]
AMST
3703
00373
002
W 4:10p - 6:00p
306 Milbank Hall
E. Esch 7 [ More Info ]
Spring 2010 :: AMST BC3704
AMST
3704
01096
001
W 4:10p - 6:00p
TBA
R. Rosenberg 0 [ More Info ]
AMST
3704
00373
002
W 4:10p - 6:00p
TBA
E. Esch 1 [ More Info ]

AMST BC 3999x and y Independent Research
3-4 points.


Cross-Listed Courses

Athena Center on Leadership Center

BC3450 Women and Leadership

Africana Studies (Barnard)

BC3006 Introduction to Africana Studies: The African Diaspora

BC3109 Junior Colloquium: Critical Race Theory

BC3120 History of African-American Music

BC3122 Ethnography of Black Americans In the United States

BC3148 Literature of the Great Migration

BC3590 The Middle Passage

Anthropology (Barnard)

V2005 Ethnographic Imagination

V3040 Anthropological Theory I

V3041 Anthropological Theory II

V3044 Symbolic Anthropology

V3300 Pre-Columbian Histories of Native America

BC3868 Ethnographic Field Research in New York City

V3903 The Ethnoarchaeology of Cities

V3904 Native Americans and Europeans

V3907 Posthumanism

V3918 Asian-American Communities

W3945 The Ethnographic Problem in Ethnic Studies

V3950 Anthropology of Consumption

V3954 Bodies and Machines

V3960 The Culture of Public Art and Display in NYC

V3962 History and Memory

V3966 Culture, Mental Health and Clinical Practice

V3969 Specters of Culture

V3972 Reproduction as Ideology: Conception and the Fetus Cross-Culturally

V3974 Lost Worlds, Secret Spaces: Modernity and the Child

V3975 Anthropology of Media

V3976 Anthropology of Science

V3980 Nationalism: History and Theory

W4009 Class and Culture in the United States

W4225 Black Movements in the United States

Architecture (Barnard)

V3114 Making the Metropolis: Urban Design and Theories of the City since 1850

V3920 Critical Analysis of Architectural Representation

Art History (Barnard)

BC3642 North American Art and Culture

BC3651 Native American Art II

BC3674 Art since 1945

BC3948 The Visual Culture of the Harlem Renaissance

BC3951 Contemporary Art and the Public Sphere

BC3952 Art and Mass/Popular/Everyday Culture: 1850 to the Present

W4626 Tourism and the North American Landscape

Comparative Literature (Barnard)

V3660 Mafia Movies: From Sicily to The Sopranos

V3950 Colloquium in Literary Theory

Dance (Barnard)

BC2565 World Dance History

BC2570 Dance in New York City

BC2575 Choreography for the American Musical

BC2580 Tap as an American Art Form

BC3001 Western Theatrical Dance from the Renaissance to the 1960s

BC3570 Latin American and Caribbean Dance: Identities in Motion

BC3574 Seminar on Contemporary Choreographers and Their Works

BC3575 George Balanchine and the Reinvention of Modern Ballet

BC3577 Performing the Political: Embodying Change in American Performance

BC3578 Traditions of African-American Dance

BC3583 Gender and Historical Memory in American Dance of the 1930's to the Early 1960's

Economics (Barnard)

BC2010 The Economics of Gender

BC3011 Inequality and Poverty

BC3012 Economics of Education

BC3013 Economic History of the United States

BC3014 Entrepreneurship

BC3017 Economics of Business Organization

BC3019 Labor Economics

BC3039 Environmental and Natural Resource Economics

BC3045 Business Cycles

V3265 The Economics of Money and Banking

BC3270 Topics in Money and Finance

BC3275 Financing Democracy: Problems and Proposals

Education (Barnard)

BC2032 Contemporary Issues in Education

BC3050 Science in the City

English (Barnard)

BC3139 Modern American Drama and Performance

BC3140 Seminars on Special Themes: Explorations of Black Literature: Early African-American Lit. 1760-1890

BC3140 Seminars on Special Themes (SPRING '09): Enchanted Imagination

BC3140 Seminars on Special Themes: Reading Barnard Writing

BC3140 Women and Theatre

BC3144 Black Theatre

BC3144 Minority Women Writers in the United States

BC3145 Early American Drama and Performance: Staging a Nation

BC3179 American Literature to 1800

BC3180 American Literature, 1800-1870

BC3181 American Literature, 1871-1945

BC3183 American Literature since 1945

BC3184 House and Home in American Culture

BC3185 Modern British and American Poetry

BC3196 Home to Harlem: Literature of the Harlem Renaissance

BC3992 Senior Postcolonial Literature Seminar: The Literature of the Middle Passage

BC3997 Senior Seminars: Reading and Writing Women in Colonial America

BC3998 Senior Seminars: Film: The Man in the Crowd/The Woman of the Streets

BC3998 Senior Seminars: Studies in Literature: Sense and Disability

W4670 Film Studies: American Film Genres

Environmental Science (Barnard)

BC3040 Environmental Law

Human Rights Studies (Barnard)

BC1025 Human Rights in Theory and Practice

V3001 Introduction to Human Rights

History (Barnard)

BC1402 Survey of American Civilization Since the Civil War

BC3413 The United States, 1940-1975

BC3414 The United States in the World

BC3423 The Constitution in Historical Perspective

BC3424 Approached by Sea: Early American Maritime Culture

BC3457 A Social History of Columbia University

BC3466 American Intellectual History Since 1865

BC3494 Era of Independence in the Americas

BC3525 20th Century Urbanization in Comparative Perspective

BC3567 American Women in the 20th Century

BC3570 Alma Mater: A Social History of American Universities and Colleges

BC4402 Selected Topics in American Women’s History

BC4411 Race in the Making of the US

BC4468 American Women in the 1920s

BC4542 Education in American History

BC4543 Higher Learning in America

BC4546 The Fourteenth Amendment and Its Uses

BC4592 Maritime History Since the Civil War

Music

V2010 Rock

V2014 Popular Music of the Americas: Country

V2015 Music In the United States

V2016 Jazz

V2020 Salsa, Soca, and Reggae: Popular Musics of the Caribbean

V2140 Music and Musical Life In Soviet Russia

V3132 John Cage and the New York School

V3158 Music, Race and Nation

V3163 Sonic texts of the Black Atlantic

V3165 Jazz and improvised music after 1950

V3168 The American musical

V3395 Listening to Hip-Hop

V3420 The Social Science of Music

W4420 Music and Property

W4507 "The New Thing": Jazz 1955-1980

W4540 Histories of Post-1960's Jazz

Philosophy (Barnard)

V2100 Philosophy of Education

V2110 Philosophy and Feminism

V3720 Ethics and Medicine

Political Science (Barnard)

BC1001 Dynamics of American Politics

W1201 Introduction to American Government & Politics

BC3055 * Colloquium on Political Violence and Terrorism

V3212 Environmental Politics

BC3300 * Colloquium on Political Participation and Democracy

BC3302 * Colloquium on First Amendment Values

BC3303 * Colloquium on Race, Gender and American Political Development

V3313 American Urban Politics

BC3326 * Colloquium on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

BC3331 * Colloquium on American Political Decisionmaking

BC3332 * Colloquium on Exploring Political Leadership in the U.S.

W4316 The American Presidency

W4321 The Constitutional Law of Presidential-Congressional Relations

W4414 Making Democracy Work

Religion (Barnard)

V2505 Judaism

V2645 Religion in Black America: An Introduction

V3602 Religion and American Culture I

V3603 Religion and American Culture II

V3604 Religion in the City

V3610 Religion and American Film

V3650 Religion and the Civil Rights Movement

V3651 Evangelicalism

W4610 Science, Nature, and Religion in 20th Century America

W4620 Religious Worlds of New York

W4630 African-American Religion

W4640 Religion in the American Public Sphere

W4645 American Protestant Thought

W4650 Religion and Region in North America

W4660 Religious History of New York

W4670 Native American Religions

W4720 Religion and Pragmatism

W4721 Religion and Social Justice

W4803 Religion versus the Academy

Religion

W4670 Native American Religions

W4720 Religion & Pragmatism

Science and Public Policy (Barnard)

BC3334 Science, State Power & Ethics

Sociology (Barnard)

BC1003 Introductory Sociology

BC2208 Culture in America

V3200 Social Inequalities: Gender, Class and Race

BC3204 Social Theory and Cultural Diversity

V3206 Race, Culture, and Identity in the Contemporary United States

V3208 Unity and Division in the Contemporary United States: A Sociological View

V3220 Masculinity: A Sociological View

V3227 The Sociology of U.S. Economic Life

V3235 Social Movements

V3247 The Immigrant Experience, Old and New

W3264 The Changing American Family

W3302 Sociology of Gender

V3318 The Sociology of Sexuality

V3324 Poverty, Inequality, and Policy: A Sociological Perspective

V3901 The Sociology of Culture

V3902 Institutional Analysis in Organizations

BC3903 Work and Culture

BC3905 Funding Social Change: A Research Practicum

B3906 Conservatisms

BC3907 Communities and Social Change

BC3908 Transnational Social Movements

BC3909 Ethnic Conflict and Unrest

W3936 Sociology and the Public

Sociology

V3225 Sociology of Education

V3247 The Immigrant Experience, Old and New

V3270 Sociology of Mass Media and Popular Culture

V3330 Asian American Gender and Sexuality

Spanish and Latin American Cultures (Barnard)

BC3120 Twentieth-Century Puerto Rican Literature

BC3143 Literature of the Spanish Caribbean

BC3205 Hispanic Gay and Lesbian Representations in the Literatures of the Americas

W3350 Hispanic Cultures II: Enlightenment to the Present

BC3455 Empire and Technology in the Colonial World

Drama and Theatre Arts (Barnard)

V2002 New York Theatre

BC3139 Modern American Drama and Performance

BC3140 Women and Theatre

BC3144 Black Theatre

V3151 Theatre History II

V3737 Modernism and 20th Century Theatre

V3750 The History Play

Urban Studies

V3310 Science and Technology in Urban Environments

V3410 Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration in Urban America

V3420 Introduction to Urban Sociology

V3460 Race, Gender, and Urban Violence

V3545 Junior Colloquium: the Shaping of the Modern City

V3546 Junior Colloquium: Contemporary Urban Issues

V3550 Community Building and Economic Development

V3560 The Urban Planning Process: Land-Use Planning in the U.S.

BC3590 Theorizing Civic Engagement

V3810 Production, Consumption, and Control of Public Space

V3820 Suburbs: Race, Class, Conflict

V3920 Social Entrepreneurship

Women's Studies (Barnard)

V1001 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies

V3111 Feminist Texts I

BC3120 Litany for Survival: Lesbian Texts

BC3121 Black Women in America

BC3125 Pleasures and Power: An Introduction to Sexuality Studies

BC3130 Discourses of Desire: Introduction to Gay and Lesbian Studies

BC3131 Women and Science

BC3136 Asian American Women

BC3144 Minority Women Writers in the United States

V3311 Colloquium in Feminist Theory

V3312 Theorizing Women's Activism

BC3518 Studies in U.S. Imperialism

BC3902 Gender, Education, and Development

W4300 Advanced Topics in Women's and Gender Studies: Gender and War

W4301 Advanced Topics in Women's and Gender Studies: The Search for Self - 20th Century U.S. Jewish Women Writers, Part I: 1900-1939

W4302 Advanced Topics in Women's and Gender Studies: The Search for Self - 20th Century U.S. Jewish Women Writers, Part II: 1939 - Present

W4303 Gender, Globalization, and Empire

W4304 Advanced Topics in Women's and Gender Studies: Gender and HIV/AIDS

W4307 Advanced Topics in Women's and Gender Studies: Sexuality and the Law

W4308 Advanced Topics in Women's and Gender Studies: Sexuality and Science

W4309 Advanced Topics in Women's and Gender Studies: Sex, Gender and Transgender Queries

W4320 Queer Theories and Histories


Barnard Catalogue 2009-2010