22 CommentsWe asked and you answered. Below, read the list, compiled from all of your comments, of classes to take before you graduate. The classes are separated by department, then professor, with a separate section for Global Core. Bolded classes are being offered this semester. Today was the first day of registration for freshmen, but registration opens for everyone tomorrow. Snag spots in these before they get taken!
American Studies: Andrew Delbanco, Foundations of American Literature
Anthropology: Rosalind Morris, Mythology
Art History: Rosalyn Deutsche
Astronomy and Physics: Jacqueline Van Gorkom, Beyond the Solar System
Biology: Solomon Mowshowitz, Immunology
Biology: Nataliya Galafiankis, General Physiology
Chemistry: James Leighton, Organic Chemistry
Civil Engineering: Jose Sanchez, Engineering Graphics
Classics: Gareth Williams, Selections From Latin Literature: Horace
Core: Mark Lilla, Lit Hum; CC
Core: Richard Sacks, Lit Hum; CC
E3B: Jill Shapiro, Explorations in Primate Anatomy
Economics: Xavier Sala-I-Martin, Intermediate Macroeconomics
Economics: Sunil Gulati, Principles of Economics
Electrical Engineering: David Vallancourt, Intro to Electrical Engineering; Digital Information Era
English: James Shapiro, Shakespeare II, Shakespearean Poetry
English: Erik Gray, Victorian Poetry, Romantic Poetry
English: Nicholas Dames, The Victorian Novel
English: Edward Mendelson, Critical Reading, Critical Writing
English: Brent Edwards, Jazz and the Literary Imagination
English: Stephen Massimilla, Modernist British Fiction
History: Alan Brinkley, America since 1945
History: David Rosner, Social History of American Public Health
History: Kenneth Jackson, History of the City of New York
History: Samuel Roberts, Race, Technology and Health in US History
History: Eric Foner, United States in the Era of Civil War and Reconstruction
Linguistics: John McWhorter, Intro to Linguistics
Mathematics: Mu-Tao Wang, Differentiable Manifolds
Mathematics: Dave Bayer, Linear Algebra
Philosophy: Christia Mercer
Physics: Brian Cole, From Quarks to the Cosmos
Political Science: Andrew Nathan, Chinese Foreign Policy
Psychology: Catherine Monk, Abnormal Psychology
Religion: Peter Awn, Islam
Sociology: Shamus Khan, The Social World
Spanish: Francisco Rosales-Varo, Intermediate Spanish I; Spanish Pragmatics
Visual Arts: Thomas Roma, Photo I
Visual Arts: Jon Kessler, Sculpture II
Visual Arts: Rirkrit Tiravanija
Women’s and Gender Studies: Lila Abu-Lughod, Women and Gender Politics in the Muslim World
Women’s and Gender Studies: Beck Young
Global Core
Anthropology: The Rise of Civilization
Anthropology: Mahmood Mamdani, Major Debates in the Study of Africa
Center for Ethnicity and Race: Intro to Comparative Ethnic Studies
EALAC: Gregory Pflugfelder, Cultural History of Japanese Monsters
Religion: Michael Como, Intro to East Asian Buddhism
Think we missed a course? Let us know in the comments below!
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22 Comments
@Anonymous another class to add: US History 1940-1975 with Mark Carnes
@Anonymous Rebecca Bauman – Beg. Italian.
It’s a great way to pick up 4 credits with the nicest person in the entire school’s faculty.
@Italian Major Not even just Rebecca – it’s like their entire department is made of Awesome People.
@Anonymous Barbara Spinelli, Savannah Cooper Ramsay, Elizabeth Leake, all AMAZING. love love love the Ital. dept.
@ugh van gorkum is a BITCH and her accent is completely unintelligible. skip it
@Some Barnard Love Mona el-Ghobashy in Poli Sci, Reacting to the Past with Mark Carnes, Kim Marten in Poli Sci, Rosalind Rosenberg in History, and Philip Usher in French or Comp Lit. All superb experiences.
@Anonymous AFRICAN DANCE WITH MAGUETTE
@Anonymous I took Shapiro’s Shakespeare courses in 1993, and loved them–glad he’s still going strong.
@dickens thackeray and eliot Nicholas Dames FTW.
@bio nerd racaniello’s virology is fantastic! next semester, though.
@other bio nerd I know who you are, racaniello fan boy
@Yes Also, he’s taught Horace last semester. This semester is Ovid.
@Yes he*
Also, Dave Bayer is teaching Combinatorics this semester, and Mu-Tao Wang is on sabbatical.
@Engineer Mechanics – 1
Instructor – Jim Hone.
Nice guy makes engineering fun and the class is entertaining…..
@Its great satire Classics: Gareth Williams, Selections From Latin Literature: Horace
but be prepared to get a B+ in discernment and learn the importance of smiling to yourself instead of laughing out loud
@PHYSICS YEAH BRIAN COLE FANS UNITE!!!!!
@Anonymous hey look, we’re bwog and we look at CULPA
@John McWhorter Is the bamfest thing on campus.
@rachel Deutsche is FANTASTIC. highly rec.
@cici shamus khan isn’t teaching this year.
@Anonymous False. Foner is teaching a grad seminar on civil war and reconstruction this semester, but not the standard lecture “US in the Era of Civil War and Reconstruction” that’s open to undergrads. Way to give us false hope, bwog.
@First Sala-i-Martin’s blazers FTW
He once had a quote like: “Body-builders have an obsession with making their arms, legs, and shoulders bigger, with hopes that it will makes EVERYTHING seem bigger. Unfortunately, when they take someone home with them… it’s not bigger. It actually seems smaller by comparison.” This was analogous to the importance of tech in a country’s economic development.