Available biology course for Fall 2026! ~ BIOL 1009, Plants in Life and Laboratory ("Plant Life")

Hello First-Years!

Please see the flyer down below for an upcoming biology course available this Fall term to incoming First-Year students!--BIOL 1009, Plants in Life and Laboratory ("Plant Life"). We had previously advertised this course earlier this summer back in June and we wanted to give it another push to help encourage more student enrollment, especially if you happened to miss it during your first registration period and may be interested in taking it this fall!

Best,

The First-Year Team

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It is designed to be friendly to incoming first-years, and generally is a lecture+lab option for non-majors. This would be an appropriate option for students connected with HEOP, Access Barnard or others who may want a gradual and more welcoming on-ramp for exploring a variety of STEM majors. It would prepare such students well for the rigor of pre-requisites such as the Fall or Spring halves of our 1500-level sequence.

If you have any questions about the course, please contact Professor Hilary Callahan at hcallaha@barnard.edu

Course Available for Fall 2026! ~ EAAS 2367 (The Modern Girl)

Hello First-Years!

Please take a look at the flyer and information down below for an upcoming course being offered by the Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures Department for the fall term!

Best,

The First-Year Team

Days & Times: Tuesday and Thursdays 1:10pm - 2:25pm

Location: 409 Barnard Hall

Instructor: Tani Barlow, Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures

Description: This course clocks the prehistory and history of the “modern girl,” a physiologically and biologically understood, anatomically correct, commodity-defined, human rights bearing person that revolutionized how we define women. Beginning with the early modern global trade networks that created the material conditions for womens political action, the course moves through imperialism and colonialism, Cold War gender formations, and the contemporary consumer cultures of Asia and their global entanglements. 

Our focus this semester is Asia and beyond and our central questions are (1) how did gendered commodities –machine fabricated, internationally circulated– lay material conditions for womens political action and liberation struggles; (2) how is commodification of the girl figure a blessing and a curse; (3) is the modern girl one subject of feminism and how does socialist feminist theory and political movements historically connect to the modern girl phenomenon? 

In this class we figure out how to analyze 20th century new media e.g., silent films, phonograph records, lithography, commercial brand images, lantern slides, and, of course, the fashion and advertising industries. We will develop historical tools to help us understand how cultural forms deliver material political impacts and results. This is a lecture course with time set aside for your visual presentations and your analysis of the readings, images, and ideas.