<p>How do I find where the students evaluated the teachers and the courses for Barnard and Columbia?</p>
<p>[CULPA</a> - Columbia Underground Listing of Professor Ability](<a href=“http://www.culpa.info/]CULPA”>http://www.culpa.info/)</p>
<p>CULPA= Columbia underground listing of professor’s abilities, I believe…</p>
<p>Edited to say: well, duh, the link shows up with the name of the site! :)</p>
<p>Thank you - your advice has been great</p>
<p>This seems to show only Columbia teachers - are there evaluations for Barnard teachers?</p>
<p>See, that’s the thing. They are ALL Columbia University faculty.</p>
<p>The only way to tell for sure if they are Barnard is, for example, all the dance faculty will be Barnard because that is where all dance classes are taught. Assume the same with architecture. </p>
<p>As a Barnard student, you are just as likely to take many classes with Columbia College instructors as with Barnard.</p>
<p>The 2015 had to submit the courses they think they want. For example, the Columbia German teachers are listed but none of the ones at Barnard - and yet, as you said, the ballet teachers are listed. It could also be who took the time to post. She’ll figure it out. It is a helpful site and we would not have found it without your input.</p>
<p>The German faculty at Barnard is listed on CULPA – compare: [Faculty</a> | German](<a href=“http://german.barnard.edu/faculty]Faculty”>http://german.barnard.edu/faculty) to [CULPA</a> - Germanic Languages and Literature](<a href=“http://www.culpa.info/departments/30]CULPA”>http://www.culpa.info/departments/30)</p>
<p>The only one of the 4 Barnard faculty listed on the Barnard web site who does not show up in CULPA is Maria Grewe – but the other three have reviews and all have silver blobs by their name, whatever that signifies. </p>
<p>ALL of the German language classes appear to be inter-faculty – that is, they all are designated with the letter “V” – the only Barnard specific courses (“BC”) showing up for fall on [CU</a> Directory of Classes](<a href=“http://www.columbia.edu/cu/bulletin/uwb/]CU”>CU Directory of Classes) are two sections of the course “Germany’s Traveling Cultures”, one taught in English, the other in German. </p>
<p>I think the point of confusion is that most of the language sections are taught by grad students. One section is taught by a Columbia lecturer. See: [Graduate</a> Students of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Columbia University](<a href=“Department of Germanic Languages”>Department of Germanic Languages)</p>
<p>Its fairly unusual to get much in the way of grad student / TA reviews in CULPA, but very common practice for foreign language sections to be taught that way.</p>
<p>So the names that you or your friends are seeing as instructors for the German sections are not Barnard faculty, but rather are Columbia grad students. It may be difficult to see that with the forms or internet interface that is provided to entering first years, so I can see why there may be confusion. </p>
<p>Obviously with grad students teaching courses it’s kind of the luck of the draw – you aren’t going to get much advance info – but that doesn’t mean its a bad thing.</p>
<p>Though CULPA is a great resource, please note that not all Columbia and Barnard faculty appear here, even if they are talented professors. Also, reviews can be lop-sided. Thousands of students do NOT post reviews. The few that are on there for each professor are just a tiny sampling of people’s opinions. Again, it’s a great resource that I use myself, but I urge you to have this in the back of your mind before making any final decisions about course selection. Then again, there ARE no real final decisions because you can usually rearrange your schedule if you really need to.</p>