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  • ENGL W4603: Henry James

    3.00 Credits
    Columbia University in the City of New York

    Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. (Lecture). "It all comes back to my and your 'fun'-- if we but allow that word its full extension," Henry James wrote to his readers. He also asked us to savor "bewilderment"--"as long as there is plenty of slashing out" against it. The pleasures and perversities and the varieties of Jamesian "fun"--including the zigzaging adventures of Jamesian syntax and sentences and social texts and streams of consciousness--will concern us as we explore a number of his works: The Europeans, Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, What Maisie Knew, The Turn of the Screw, The Beast in the Jungle, The Ambassadors, and The American Scene (selections). And to gain understanding of the Jamesian aesthetic, especially its demand of intimacy between reader and text, an intimacy that renders formal problems as simultaneously ethical problems, we will read some of his essays and prefaces. The hope is that you come away from the course with a sharpened sense of the intricate "fun" that great literature affords. Requirements: steady attendance, participation, weekly short response papers and a 10-12 pp final essay.
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  • ENGL W4623: Modernism: Poetry & Poetics

    3.00 Credits
    Columbia University in the City of New York

    Modernism: Poetry & Poetics (Lecture). Survey of American poetry and poetics from 1900-1945. Poets to be discussed include Stein, Pound, Williams, H.D., Loy, Hughes, Toomer, Zukofsky, Oppen, Crane and Stevens.
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  • ENGL W4632: Asian-American Literature & Culture

    3.00 Credits
    Columbia University in the City of New York

    Asian-American Literature & Culture (Lecture). This course provides an introduction to Asian American literature since the mid-nineteenth century, with a focus on the most recent few decades. What does it mean to be Asian or partly Asian in America? Are there historical experiences, cultural expressions, or political positions that give Asian Americans a collective identity, as it is often assumed to be the case? How does the knowledge of their experiences and perspectives enrich our understandings of American culture and U.S.-Asian relations? We will examine these questions through the lens of literature, prose narratives and poetry in particular. In other words, we will discuss a selected group of literary works so as to uncover the ways in which some the most interesting minds among Asian Americans comment on the meanings of race, ethnicity, and culture, as well as their relations to other social issues, in both American and transnational contexts. Readings: Kingston, China Men; Yamamoto, Seventeen Syllables; Cha, Dictee; Hagedorn, Dogeaters; Ondaatje, Cat's Table; Yamashita, Tropic of Orange; Monique Truong, The Book of Salt; H.M. Naqvi, Home Boy; Greg Pak and David Henry Hwang, Robot Stories: And More Screen Plays.
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  • ENGL W4791: Visionary Dramas and Dramatic Visions in the Late Middle Ages

    3.00 Credits
    Columbia University in the City of New York

    This class is designed to interrogate the genre-boundary that has traditionally separated visionary writings from dramatic ones in the study of English medieval literature. Although this separation has long existed in scholarship, it is deeply problematic, and produces an understanding of the relationship between private devotion and publically performed religious ritual that is untenable, and does considerable violence to our understanding of the medieval imagination. As we will see, notionally "private" visionary writings and notionally "public" dramatic writings have a great deal in common, not just in terms of their overt content, but also in terms of their formal construction, their poetic devices, their favorite rhetorical maneuvers, and their articulated relationship with history and English literature. The works we will read this term are all phenomenally strange, many of them extremely difficult because of their unfamiliarity. For this reason, we will divide the semester into three sections: the first will deal with the famous medieval cycle dramas, which narrate events from the New Testament. The second section will transition to examine three important visionary texts that were written between 1370 and 1430, contemporaneous with the efflorescence of dramatic composition and performance in England. The final section of class will turn to examine the so-called "morality plays," which emerge just slightly after the cycle dramas and after the visionary works we will have read. Since these works are linguistically challenging, we will sometimes-but not always-be working with translations.
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  • ENGL W4801: History of the English Novel I

    3.00 Credits
    Columbia University in the City of New York

    Undergraduates: There will be a take-home midterm, in-class final exam, and two papers (1 three-page assignment explicating a specific passage and a longer 6- to 7-page final paper) as well as sporadic quizzes.SYLLABUS.
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  • ENGL W4810: On Style

    3.00 Credits
    Columbia University in the City of New York

    No course description available.
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  • ENGL W4901: History of the English Language

    3.00 Credits
    Columbia University in the City of New York

    Officially this is a "lecture" course, so everyone is welcome to come -- freshmen through seniors, as well as graduate students -- and there are no prerequisites whatsoever. But unlike many "lecture" courses, this course will have constant class discussion, so ATTENDANCE IS MANDATORY. Also, if you miss the first class, you cannot get into the course. This course applies knowledge of the English language and its history to issues of literature, law, and other things as well. There are no required books, but there will be plenty of handouts -- all of them supplied gratis. There will be about half a dozen graded written assignments, most of them only about two pages long, but at least one of them rather extensive; and there may be in-class exams. Class participation is a BIG part of the grade.
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  • ENME E3161: Fluid mechanics

    4.00 Credits
    Columbia University in the City of New York

    Prerequisites: ENME E3105 and ordinary differential equations. Fluid statics. Fundamental principles and concepts of flow analysis. Differential and finite control volume approach to flow analysis. Dimensional analysis. Application of flow analysis: flow in pipes, external flow, flow in open channels.
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  • ENME E4113: Advanced mechanics of solids

    3.00 Credits
    Columbia University in the City of New York

    Stress and deformation formulation in two-and three-dimensional solids; viscoelastic and plastic material in one and two dimensions energy methods.
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  • ENME E4363: Multiscale Computational Science and Engineering

    3.00 Credits
    Columbia University in the City of New York

    Prerequisites: ENME 4332, Elementary computer programming, linear algebra Introduction to multiscale analysis. Information-passing bridging techniques: among them, Generalized Mathematical Homogenization theory, the Heterogeneous Multiscale Method, Variational Multiscale Method, the Discontinuous Galerkin Method and the Kinetic Monte Carlo-based methods. Concurrent Multiscale techniques: Domain Bridging, Local Enrichment and Multigrid based concurrent multiscale methods. Analysis of multiscale systems.
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