As registration nears, Bwog worries many of you remain undecided in choosing your fall 2008 classes. To help the undecided and unsure, we’ve compiled a list of some of the most promising-sounding courses. Know of interesting sounding classes? Send them our way (bwog@columbia.edu) and we’ll update the list.
Specificity is a Construct
Fall 2008 Art History G8608
THE ICONIC TURN
Fall 2008 Anthropology W4042
AGENT,PERSON,SUBJECT,SELF
Fall 2008 Anthropology G6207
PROFANE ILLUMINATION II
Fall 2008 French W3628
DISCOVERING EXISTENCE
Spring 2008 Management B9712
PROSEMAINAR
Fall 2008 Anthropology G6650
PSYCHOANALYTIC TRAJECTORIES
Fall 2008 Electrical Engineering E3043
SOLID ST,MICROWAVE,FIBER OPTCS
Fall 2008 Applied Mathematics E6302
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF PDE’S
Fall 2008 Comparative Literature and Society G8050
TECHNOLOGIES OF EMPIRE
Fall 2008 Psychology G4695
PSYCH OF CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS
Rage Against the Machines
Fall 2008 Anesthesiology N02P_
PRECEPTORSHIP IN ANESTHESIOLGY
Fall 2008 Industrial Engineering and Operations Research E4207
HUMAN FACTORS: PERFORMANCE
Fall 2008 Electrical Engineering E1101
THE DIGITAL INFORMATION AGE
Fall 2008 Computer Science W4731
COMPUTER VISION
Fall 2008 Dance BC2501
BIOMECHANICS FOR THE DANCER
This and That
Fall 2008 Materials Science and Engineering E4250
CERAMICS & COMPOSITES
Fall 2008 Electrical Engineering E3801
SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS
Fall 2008 Religion V3798
GIFT AND RELIGION
Fall 2008 Sociology V2230
FOOD & THE SOCIAL ORDER
Fall 2008 Computer Science E0005
VISION & GRAPHICS-TRACK
Fall 2008 Electrical Engineering E6950
WIRELESS & MOBILE NETWORKING I
Fall 2008 Art History W3941
HOUSE/GARDEN-18C GREAT BRITAIN
Fall 2008 Biology W4300
DRUGS AND DISEASE
Fall 2008 Psychology W2460
DRUGS AND BEHAVIOR
Fall 2008 Psychology G4225
CONSCIOUSNESS & ATTENTION
Fall 2008 Computer Science W4115
PROGRAMMING LANG & TRANSLATORS
A Matter of Life and Death
Fall 2008 Biostatistics P8100
APPLIED REGRESSION I
Fall 2008 East Asian W3338 section 001
CULTRL HIST-JAPANESE MONSTERS
Fall 2008 Health Policy and Management P8575
CROSS-NATIONAL HEALTH POLICY
Fall 2008 Health Policy and Management P8510
QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE
Fall 2008 Biostatistics P8108
SURVIVAL ANALYSIS
Fall 2008 Anthropology G8545
THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF AFFLICTION
Fall 2008 Biostatistics P9111
ASYMPTOTIC STATISTICS
Fall 2008 General Public Health P8090
TUTORIAL GENERAL PUBLIC HEALTH
Baby Steps
Fall 2008 Comparative Literature and Society W3920
WORDS AND PICTURES
Fall 2008 Psychology W2235
THINKING AND DECISION MAKING
Fall 2008 Physics G6080
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING
Fall 2008 Industrial Engineering and Operations Research E4404
SIMULATION
Fall 2008 Computer Science W1001
INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS
Fall 2008 Computer Science W3203
DISCRETE MATHEMATICS
Fall 2008 Computer Science W4705
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
Abbreviations, Abbreviated
Fall 2008 Health Policy and Management P6530
ISS-APPROACHES-HLTH POL & MGT
Fall 2008 Nursing N8789
ADV CLIN ASSESS PELVIC/WOMEN
Fall 2008 Health Policy and Management P8517
MGMT CHAL IN EVOLVNG HLTH CARE & INS SYS
Fall 2008 Health Policy and Management P8520
HLTHCRE ETHCS:DEV/MGT-PUB PLCY
Fall 2008 Health Policy and Management P8535
ORG & DEL OF PUB HEALTH IN US
Fall 2008 History W4548
AMER SOC POL FR PROGRSSVE-PRES
First as Tragedy, Then As Farce
Fall 2008 History W4914
THE FUTURE AS HISTORY
Fall 2008 History W4127
VICO’S NEW SCIENCE
Fall 2008 History W4495
THE AGE OF FDR
Fall 2008 Comparative Literature: Slavic W4001
CLIMBING THE TOWER OF BABEL
Fall 2008 Industrial Engineering and Operations Research E4703
MONTE CARLO SIMULATION METHODS
19 Comments
@Also “The European Catastrophe”
@A... They need to bring “Pirates, Boys, and Capitalism” back. I wonder what happens in “Psychoanalytic Trajectories”; a must take, for sure.
@CS '09 Fall 2008 Computer Science E0005
VISION & GRAPHICS-TRACK
This isn’t a class… In cs you choose what area to specialize in, these are called tracks (signing up for one changes your DAR).
@oldman Japanese Monsters is actually a phenomenal way to fulfill your major cultures credit. Pflug is actually a fucking great prof and the class really delves into many more things than you’d expect from the title alone. Don’t Judge a book….and all that jazz
@ahh, monsters! Fall 2008 EAAS W3338 A Cultural History of Japanese Monsters
@Anonymous I don’t know if any of these are better than the classic “Pirates, Boys, and Capitalism”
@shira Fall 2008 Comparative Literature and Society V3675
MAD LOVE
@bizarrobulletin not to mention:
Fall 2008 First-Year Seminar BC1137
THE SUMMONS TO ADVENTURE
Fall 2008 First-Year Seminar BC1157
LOVE
Fall 2008 First-Year Seminar BC1166
THE ART OF BEING ONESELF
Fall 2008 First-Year Seminar BC1457
THE BEAUTIFUL SEA
@bizarrobulletin tip to whomever does this next time: you get the best results mining as thoroughly as possible all the anthro and barnard nine ways of knowing courses. what you could have put in by doing this alone:
Fall 2008 Anthropology V2090
THE ROAD
Fall 2008 Anthropology V3064
DEATH AND THE BODY
Fall 2008 Anthropology G4078
CLUES,SIGN,TRACE:ARCH-SEMIOTCS
Fall 2008 Anthropology G4143
CULTURES OF ACCUSATION
Fall 2008 Anthropology G4380
DANGEROUS CITIZENS
Fall 2008 Anthropology G4470
CRIT PERSP-HUMAN-ANIMAL RELAT
Fall 2008 Anthropology G6118
THE STRUCTURALIST GAZE
Fall 2008 Anthropology G6155
TRAUMA,MEMORY&POLIT OF REPAIR
@um hi WHERE THE HELL IS CULPA.
please bring it back soon.
@whoa it’s back! do you think i magically brought it back by complaining?
@ehh this one is weaker than ones in the past. too many in each category. choose a few really good ones!
@yep seconded. and the sad thing is i bet this one took much more work.
@Appalachian Northrop “Biomechanics for the Dancer” taught me the value of always doing a pirouette to the left, so to optimize joint rotation and lessen blubber resistance.
@Why is “directed research Russian Lit I” non-specific?
@Juli It’s not. It accidentally sneaked in there from an earlier version of the list.
Has been removed now. Thanks!
@Hawk Hawkmadinejad likes to sing songs in his free time. And by “sing”, I mean “devour”, and by “songs”, I mean “pet dogs”.
@hi dane cook X does Y. By X I mean A and by Y I mean B. I am so clever.
@i took SOLID ST,MICROWAVE,FIBER OPTCS last fall and let me say that not only does one lab consist of playing with a remote control car, professor wang tells you such stories as how great discoveries came from a bird shitting on an antenna (his words). but everything else about the lab really blows.