Academic Year 2020-21 Course Offerings
We are excited to introduce our department’s new curriculum for the Academic Year 2020-21. Students should note that this curriculum includes courses offered over three-semesters (including Summer A/B), as well as several new immersive classes that will be offered over a 7-week period. Please note that this schedule may be subject to change, and students are encouraged not only to revisit this page but also to confirm the course listings in the online Directory of Classes. Columbia’s revised Computer Science classes for Fall 2020 can also be found in the Directory of Classes.
In addition to full-semester classes, immersive courses cover a semester’s worth of material in a shorter period of time and meet for twice as many hours per week, allowing students to take fewer courses at the same time and a more sustained focus on course content.
Please feel free to contact your major adviser with any questions you may have about your academic schedule.
Academic Year 2020-21 Course Offerings at a Glance
· Full semester courses are held Tuesday, September 8, 2020 – Wednesday, December 23, 2020.
· Fall A courses are held Tuesday, September 8, 2020 – Friday, October 23, 2020.
· Fall B courses are held Monday, October 26, 2020 – Wednesday, December 23, 2020.
· Course descriptions, sections, and times, can be found in the online Directory of Classes.
| Term | Subject Code | Course Number | Course Title | Instructor |
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| COMS | BC3364 | Introduction to Contextual Design for Technology |
Sarah Morrison- Smith |
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| COMS | BC3997 | New Directions in Computing: Applied NLP for Semantic Evaluations |
Adam Poliak |
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| Fall A Courses |
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| COMS | BC3430 | Computational Sound |
Mark Santolucito |
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| Fall B Courses |
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| COMS | BC1016 | Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science |
Adam Poliak |
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| COMS | BC1017 | Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science Lab |
Adam Poliak |
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First-Year Seminar* |
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FYSB |
BC1736 | Tech and Society: Good, Bad, and Other |
Rebecca Wright |
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| *First-Year Seminar is only available to Barnard first-year students. | ||||
· Spring semester courses are held Monday, January 11, 2021 – Monday, April 26, 2021.
· Spring A courses are held Monday, January 11, 2021 – Friday, February 26, 2021.
· Spring B courses are held Monday, March 8, 2021 – Monday, April 26, 2021.
· Course descriptions, sections, and times, will be available in advance of early registration in November 2020.
| Term | Subject Code | Course Number | Course Title | Instructor |
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| COMS | BC3420 | Privacy in a Networked World |
Rebecca Wright |
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| COMS | BC3930 | Creative Embedded Systems |
Mark Santolucito |
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| Spring A Courses |
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| COMS | BC3162 | Developing Accessible User Interfaces |
Sarah Morrison- Smith |
· Summer A courses are held Monday, May 3, 2021 – Friday, June 18, 2021.
· Summer B courses are held Monday, June 28, 2021 – Monday, August 16, 2021.
· Course descriptions, sections, and times, will be available in advance of Summer registration in April 2021.
| Term | Subject Code | Course Number | Course Title | Instructor |
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| COMS | BC1202 | Methods and Problems in Computer Science | Mark Santolucito | |
| COMS | BC2710 | Computational Text Analysis | Adam Poliak |