VIRGINIA WOOLF

Six novels and some non-fictional prose: 
Jacob's Room, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, The Waves, Between the Acts; A Room of One's Own, Three Guineas.  
Applications on paper only (not e-mail) in Professor Mendelson's mailbox in 602 Philosophy, with your name, e-mail address, class (2017, 2018, etc.), a brief list of relevant courses that you've taken, and one sentence suggesting why you want to take the course. 
Attendance at the first class is absolutely required; no one will be admitted who does not attend the first class.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Edward Mendelson
  CULPA: 64 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ANIMAL MODERNISMS

This course will consider the role of human-animal relations in the emergence of new narrative forms over the course of a long twentieth century—an era of both industrialized alienation from animals and deeply rooted cultural affiliations with them. We will begin with the foundations of evolutionary theory and animal rights philosophy at the end of the nineteenth century, investigating science and literature’s early influences on one another’s efforts to engage ethically with nonhuman beings. From there, the course will examine the role of human-animal affiliation in the narrative and aesthetic innovations that have come to define “the modern” and, later, the postmodern. We will read classic, yet geographically and stylistically diverse, modernist authors (Kafka, Barnes, Hurston, O’Connor) whose work articulates nodes of human-animal connection at the levels of both content and form, alongside later literary and theoretical works (Haraway, Deleuze and Guattari, Coetzee, Butler) whose related concerns and narrative modes complicate ready-made distinctions between modernism and postmodernism. The course will culminate with an exploration of the imaginative possibilities of hybrid genres like prose poetry, sci-fi-noir, and animated sitcoms, situating them in a new millennium where humanity is increasingly defined in relation to its inextricable / irreversable impacts on its majority-nonhuman environment. Throughout all phases of the course, we will investigate how evolutionary narratives and modern representations of animality have shaped discourses of race, gender, ability, sexuality, and imperialism as they have developed in response to a century of cultural and historical shifts. In light of these questions, we will consider what responsibility art and literature can or should have toward the protection of precarious life, both human and nonhuman.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth L Bowen
  Info
• 4 points

ENV. & CITI: CULTRS OF IBERIAN PENINSULA

ENVIRONMENT & CITIZENSHIP

This course examines the role of nature and the environment in both contemporary literature and the arts, and attempts to explore a conceptual framework for the definition of environment as a cultural and material production. Environmental peculiarities and historical discontinuities and continuities have created social and political conjunctures in the Iberian Peninsula in which questions concerning nature, space, landscape, and urban and rural experiences have become central to the cultural and the critical imagination in the 20th & 21st Centuries. From the debate over the privatization and erosion of communal rights and the environmental dispossession (and repossession) of the resources to the history of the constructions of nature(s) in literary and cinematic landscapes, the guiding question is how cultural and social practices interfere in the production of what Rob Nixon has called ‘slow violence’, that is, the incremental dynamics of environmental violence that intensify the vulnerability of populations and natural ecosystems. To address this issue, we will not only read a number of novels, essays, poems, short stories and theoretical production, but also engage in the study of artwork and new Iberian democratic experiences, and the development of the cultural environmental studies and ecocriticism in literature and the arts today. The class will be conducted in Spanish and all written assignments will also be in that language.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ana M Fernandez Cebrian
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

AMER LIT & CORPORATE CULTURE

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
(Seminar). "It is not expected of critics as it is of poets that they should help us to make sense of our lives; they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives." - Frank Kermode This seminar will focus on American literature during the rise of U.S. corporate power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The legal and economic entity of the corporation established new social hierarchies and systems of power, changed the roles of government and families, and wrought new forms of relationships between individuals. American culture demonstrated both an enchantment with the possibilities of a growing economy and a looming anxiety about the systematization of personal relationships. Authors and critics grappled with an American society that seemed to offer unprecedented opportunity for social rise but only within a deeply threatening and impersonal structure. We'll examine the ways that literary and popular culture depicted corporations and the ways that corporate structure influenced literary aesthetics and form.
Application instructions:
E-mail Professor Aaron Ritzenberg (ajr2186@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "American Literature and Corporate Culture seminar". In your message, include basic information: name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course. Admitted students should register for the course; they'll automatically be placed on a wait list, from which the instructor will in due course admit them as spaces become available.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Aaron Ritzenberg
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 4 Info
• 4 points

EDGAR ALLAN POE

The course will examine in detail the poetry and prose of Edgar Allan Poe. We will look at different facets of Poe's brief, remarkable career, from his role as magazine editor and reviewer in Richmond, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York, to his relation to slavery and abolition, and his influence on French poetry and aesthetics in the years following his death. We will proceed more or less chronologically, from his early contributions to the
Southern Literary Messenger
(with some comparison of Poe's work in this magazine with British magazines like
Blackwood's
), to major tales like “The Black Cat,” The Pit and the Pendulum,” “the Fall of the House of Usher,” and the first detective story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue
.”
We will also read a good amount of Poe's practical criticism, from his influential book reviews of Nathaniel Hawthorne, to his attacks on the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to his often scathing incidental pieces on the “New York Literati”. We will also spend time looking closely at Poe's only novel-length work,
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym .
Finally we will turn to Poe's poetry and poetics, and consider in detail his literary theory, as put forth in “The Rationale of Verse” “The Philosophy of Composition” and “The Poetic Principle”, in relation to the metrical innovations of poems like “Annabel Lee” “The Bells” and “The Raven”.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul C Grimstad
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

Six major concepts of political philosophy including authority, rights, equality, justice, liberty and democracy are examined in three different ways. First the conceptual issues are analyzed through contemporary essays on these topics by authors like Peters, Hart, Williams, Berlin, Rawls and Schumpeter. Second the classical sources on these topics are discussed through readings from Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Marx, Plato, Mill and Rousseau. Third some attention is paid to relevant contexts of application of these concepts in political society, including such political movements as anarchism, international human rights, conservative, liberal, and Marxist economic policies as well as competing models of democracy.

• Department: Philosophy
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Axel Honneth
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

PHILOSOPHY OF LAW

This course explores philosophical reflection on the relationship between law, society and morality. We discuss the nature of law, the nature of legal reasoning, the relationship between law and social policy, and central concepts in civil and criminal law. Readings are drawn from such sources as the natural law tradition, legal positivism, legal realism, and Critical Legal Theory. Readings will be supplemented by analysis of classic cases.

• Department: Philosophy
• MW 2:50 p.m.-4:05 p.m.
• Instructor: Michele Moody-Adams
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ISTANBUL:PLACES,PEOPLE,EVERYDAY LIFE

The Seminar will open several perspectives into the Ottoman capital Istanbul, following a cross-disciplinary approach. The premise is that Istanbul’s multi-layered, socially complicated, and culturally rich historic fabric can be understood well in focused episodes. Selected episodes will hence constitute the weekly discussion topics. Ranging from the representation of the city in artistic productions to the construction of the skyline, the impact of modernizing reforms on urban forms, everyday life in public and private spaces, and the decisive role played by new educational and cultural institutions, these fragments will complement each other, coalescing into a complex overall picture. While the chronological frame is defined by the long nineteenth century, critical earlier phases will be covered as well and parallels will be drawn to present-day. The nineteenth century marks a dynamic and radical era of urban transformations, intertwined with key political, economic, social, and cultural turns that redefined the Ottoman Empire in many ways. It also corresponds to an intense period of international communication and transaction, resulting in a “connected world of empires.” Istanbul served as a major stage for these developments.

• Department: History
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Zeynep Celik
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

TRANSCRIBING/WRITING TALES/AFR

TRANSCRIBING/WRITING TALES-AFR

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Souleymane B Diagne
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

AFRICAN FUTURES

The premise of the course is that Africa's collective past - that which has emerged since the ending of the Atlantic slave trade - might usefully be thought of as a sequence of futures that were imperfectly realized.  Those "futures past" represent once-fixed points on the temporal horizon, points toward which African political leaders and intellectuals sought to move, or towards which they were compelled by the external actors who have historically played an outsized role in the continent's affairs.

• Department: History
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Gregory Mann
  CULPA: 15 h-index: 13 Info
• 4 points

BERL/ISTANBUL:MIGRATN,CLTR,VAL

An intensive seminar analyzing questions of migration, identity, (self-) representation, and values with regard to the Turkish minority living in Germany today. Starting with a historical description of the „guest worker“ program that brought hundreds of thousands of Turkish nationals to Germany in the 1960s and 1970s, the course will focus on the experiences and cultural production of the second and third generations of Turkish Germans, whose presence has profoundly transformed German society and culture. Primary materials include diaries, autobiographies, legal and historical documents, but the course will also analyze poetry, novels, theater plays and films. In German.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Claudia Breger
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

NARRATING RAPE

LITERATURE,GENDER, & VIOLENCE

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.

(Seminar).  Despite the fact that gender-based violence destroys the frameworks of identity and community, testimony and truth, memory and justice, rape has been a fundamental and globally pervasive literary and artistic theme and trope, often the very act that engenders representation, narrative and plot.  This seminar will explore how rape has been imaged, written and told in the face of its unspeakability and the silences surrounding it, and how the act of bearing witness can become an act of resistance, rebuilding voice, subjectivity and community.  Literary texts will be read alongside feminist theoretical work on gender-violence, embodiment, trauma, testimony and law.

Requirements:
class attendance and participation, weekly one-page postings on the readings, two 8-10 page papers. 

Application instructions
:E-mail Professor Marianne Hirsch (mh2349@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Narrating Rape seminar." In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course. Admitted students should register for the course; they will automatically be placed on a wait list from which the instructor will in due course admit them as spaces become available.

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Marianne Hirsch
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

GLOBAL HEALTH IN AFRICA

This course will examine changing ideas of health and disease in Africa as a subject of transnational concern, debate, and cause for action in the 20
th
century.  We will study how global health campaigns and institutions translated in specific African contexts and simultaneously how experiences of disease and medicine in African contexts shaped global concerns.  This course will take both a chronological and thematic approach, providing students with an overview of changing social, political and economic conditions that have impacted understandings of disease burden and health interventions in Africa over time. Topics of study will include colonial medical campaigns, disease eradication programs, international medical research, and postcolonial health systems.  We will use specific regional and national examples, while also connecting these examples to broader developments in African history.  At the same time, students in this course will interrogate how ‘Africa’ has functioned as a category within global health.  The final weeks of the course will consider contemporary health issues in Africa and ask how historical perspectives can inform our analysis.

• Department: History
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sarah C Runcie
  Info
• 4 points

DISCOURSE ANALYSIS IN SPANISH

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Guadalupe Ruiz-Fajardo
  CULPA: 13 h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

ENVIR SCIENCE SENIOR SEMINAR

Guided, independent, in-depth research culminating in the senior thesis in the spring. Includes discussion about scientific presentations and posters, data analysis, library research methods and scientific writing. Students review work in progress and share results through oral reports. Weekly seminar to review work in progress and share results through oral and written reports. Prerequisite to
EESC W3901
.

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Martin Stute
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 52 Info
• 3 points

SEM IN CONTEMP ART PRACTICE

SEM IN CONTEMP ART PRACTIVE

(Formerly R4601)
Offered Spring 2017, Not Fall 2016
. New York City is the most abundant visual arts resource in the world. Visits to museums, galleries, and studios on a weekly basis. Students encounter a broad cross-section of art and are encouraged to develop ideas about what is seen. The seminar is led by a practicing artist and utilizes this perspective. Columbia College and General Studies Visual Arts Majors must take this class during their junior year. If the class is full, please visit
http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program
.

• Department: Visual Arts
• R 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Hauser
  Info
• 3 points

EARTH & ENVIR ENGIN LAB II

Corequisites: EAEE E4003
A continuation of EAEE E3800, with emphasis on the principles underlying water analysis for inorganic, organic, and bacterial contaminants. Lab required.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• MW 4:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Farrauto
  h-index: 52 Info
• 2 points

SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS

Corequisites: MATH UN1201
Modeling, description, and classification of signals and systems. Continuous-time systems. Time domain analysis, convolution. Frequency domain analysis, transfer functions. Fourier series. Fourier and Laplace transforms. Discrete-time systems and the Z transform.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• TR 7:10 p.m.-8:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Xiaodong Wang
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3.5 points

LANGUAGE MATTERS

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth M Green
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

WALKING IN&OUT; OF THE ARCHIVE

The seminar seeks to engage with a set of methodological concerns about the practices and probabilities of archives and history writing. It does so via close readings of key historical texts which engage and rearrange the documentary furniture of the archives, from both within and without. The concerns can be broadly articulated as: How statist is the mainstream archives, and how have historians attempted to mine and undermine it? With what apertures and techniques and disciplinary practices to capture the lives and deaths of those who produce goods and services, not documents? What is meant by ‘Historical Fieldwork’, and what are some of the ways in which historians have practiced it, whether writing about well-archived events, or the longue duree of a single village. What transpires when oral tales are written up from within the same cultural milieu as literary stories? What are the peculiarities of Oral History? And what have some of the best Oral Historians been able to accomplish? These questions will guide us through a set of important historiographic works, writings on archives, community histories. The students will develop a close appreciation of the challenges of doing and thinking historically from the margins and listening to the small voices in history.

• Department: History
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Shahid Amin
  Info
• 4 points

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING LAB I

Fundamental considerations of wave mechanics; design philosophies; reliability and risk concepts; basics of fluid mechanics; design of structures subjected to blast; elements of seismic design; elements of fire design; flood considerations; advanced analysis in support of structural design.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• W 1:10 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Aaron M Kyle
  Info
• 3 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

• Department: Film
• Instructor: Robert King
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 1-3 points

LONDON THEATER FROM 1590-2017

This class will examine changes in London theater culture from the late Elizabethan to the contemporary moment.  We will explore the types of theaters, acting troupes, dramatic genres, and performance conventions that were popular at various periods.  In particular we will examine plays performed in Shakespeare’s London, the Restoration, the turn into the twentieth century, and then at later moments in the twentieth century. Representative dramatists will include Shakespeare and Jonson, Behn and Congreve, Shaw and Wilde, Bond and Pinter, Churchill and Stoppard.  Several plays might change, however, depending on what is playing in London in the fall. As much as possible, we will make use of live performance and theater history research projects to immerse members of the class in the past and present theater culture of London. We will visit The Globe and the Wanamaker theaters, the Inigo Jones Banqueting House, the Royal Court and the National Theaters, with a field trip to the Royal Shakespeare Company theaters in Stratford-upon-Avon.  Students will be introduced to research resources such as the V and A Theater and Performance Archive and to sites such as The National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery where images of actors, actresses, and playwrights can be found.

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Jean E Howard
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 4 points

ARCH ENGAGE: PAST IN PUB EYE

This course provides a panoramic, but intensive, inquiry into the ways that archaeology and its methods for understanding the world have been marshaled for debate in issues of public interest. It is designed to examine claims to knowledge of the past through the lenses of alternative epistemologies and a series of case-based problems that range from the academic to the political, legal, cultural, romantic, and fraudulent.

• Department: Anthropology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Terence N D'Altroy
  CULPA: 37 Info
• 4 points

FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER SYSTS

Prerequisites: an introductory programming course.
Fundamentals of computer organization and digital logic. Boolean algebra, Karnaugh maps, basic gates and components, flipflops and latches, counters and state machines, basics of combinational and sequential digital design. Assembly language, instruction sets, ALU’s, single-cycle and multi-cycle processor design, introduction to pipelined processors, caches, and virtual memory.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Martha A Kim
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 3 points

THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF WAR

In this class, we will think about the various ways in which philosophers, social theorists, historians and anthropologists have thought about war, violence, and responsibility. The course focuses on a set of themes and questions: for example, the nature of violence and the question of responsibility or accountability, shifting technologies of warfare, and the phenomenology and aftermath of warfare, for civilians and for combatants. The reading list incorporates different approaches to such questions—from historical to philosophical to ethnographic accounts.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Nadia Abu El-Haj
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

COLL ON MODERN EAST ASIA TEXTS

Prerequisites:
AHUM V3400
is recommended as background.
Introduction to and exploration of modern East Asian literature through close reading and discussion of selected masterpieces from the 1890s through the 1990s by Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writers such as Mori Ogai, Wu Jianren, Natsume Soseki, Lu Xun, Tanizaki Jun’ichiro, Shen Congwen, Ding Ling, Eileen Chang, Yi Sang, Oe Kenzaburo, O Chong-hui, and others. Emphasis will be on cultural and intellectual issues and on how literary forms manifested, constructed, or responded to rapidly shifting experiences of modernity in East Asia.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Charles E Woolley
  Info
• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS SEMINAR

A year-long course for outstanding senior majors who want to conduct research in primary sources on a topic of their choice in any aspect of history, and to write a senior thesis possibly leading toward departmental honors.

• Department: History
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Elizabeth Blackmar
  CULPA: 22 Info
• Instructor: Matthew J Connelly
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Marwa Elshakry
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

HUMAN RIGHTS & PUBLIC HEALTH

Prerequisites: Enrollment in the course is open to 18 undergraduates who have completed at least one core course in human rights and /or international law.
This seminar introduces students to the field of health and human rights.  It examines how to advocate for and implement public health strategies using a human rights framework. It takes note of current international and domestic debates about the utility of a “human rights-based approach” to health, discusses methods and ethics of health-related human rights research, and examines case studies of human rights investigations to explore the role of human rights analysis in promoting public health.

• Department: Human Rights (HRTB)
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Alice W Brown
  Info
• 4 points

NARRATIVES OF CONTAGION

(Seminar) This seminar asks us to consider what a literary history of early America looks like if we pay as close attention to the bodies and pathogens that bound Native American, African, and European communities as we do to their writings. In doing so, we will inquire into the specific relations between immunology and theology, science and exploration, liberty and violence—all with an eye to theorizing the narrative forms and conventions that gave voice to American and Creole identities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The class will necessarily be transatlantic and interdisciplinary in scope, so we will build a critical framework to guide our readings, while attending to the rigors and rewards of such work. We will read a range of texts, including exploration narratives, journals, diaries, pamphlets, poems, and novels focusing on continental North America and the Caribbean.
Application instructions: E-mail Professor Silva (cs2889@columbia.edu  ) with the subject heading "Seminar application." In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Cristobal J Silva
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

RELIGION,SOC JUSTICE,HUM RGTS

• Department: Human Rights (HRTB)
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: J. Paul Martin
  Info
• 4 points

POLITICAL REALISM & SOC INJUSTICE

Rectifying injustice remains a central motivation for social and political thought. The aim of a theory of justice or injustice is often to guide us in dealing with the grave wrongs in our social world. But how should philosophy support the advancement of justice, and what do its moral ideals have to do with the political realities of power and conflict? Do we need an “ideal theory” of a perfectly just society to set the aims of social progress? Can we properly respond to racial and gendered injustices without understanding how they wrong people as members of social groups (e.g. as black Americans, women, etc.)? What limits do our theories face in helping us navigate real political decisions and problems? This course will examine different answers to these questions as well as their substantive consequences for addressing pressing injustices based on race and gender. Our investigations will emphasize the relations between political philosophy, social science, the social construction of identity, and real-world politics.

• Department: Philosophy
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Aaron L Landau
  Info
• 3 points

JANE AUSTEN & MORAL PHILOSOPHY

In the 1790s, when Jane Austen was beginning to write fiction, there was much debate over the value and function of the novel. Some argued that novels were dangerous to their readers, inciting violent emotional responses and corrupting the imagination (
especially
in women and children, who were believed to be more sensitive to such stimuli). Others saw potential in this narrative form, arguing that novels could contribute to the moral and sentimental education of their readers. Adam Smith, for example, claims that “[t]he poets and romance writers, who best paint the refinements and delicacies of love and friendship, and of all other private and domestic affections, Racine and Voltaire; Richardson, Maurivaux, and Riccoboni; are, in such cases, much better instructors than Zeno, Chrysippus, or Epictetus” (
Theory of Moral Sentiments
III.3.14). And David Hume argues that there is a kind of moral philosophy that paints virtue and vice rather than anatomizing it. Such philosopher-painters, he says, “make us
feel
the difference between vice and virtue; they excite and regulate our sentiments” (
Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
1.1).
In this course, we will keep these questions about one possible function of literature in the back of our minds as we read through four of Austen’s novels. With each novel, we will focus on a specific ethical theme treated in and by that novel: with
Sense and Sensibility
we’ll focus on the role of the emotions in morality; with
Mansfield Park
we’ll focus on questions about moral education and virtue; with
Emma
we’ll focus on the difficulties of accurate discernment and judgment in moral matters; and with
Persuasion
we’ll focus on the relation between the individual and society and the complications caused by differences in gender, class, and social status. Each novel will be paired with selections from authors who were near contemporaries of Austen’s, including Samuel Johnson, David Hume, Jane Collier, Hannah More, Adam Smith, and Mary Wollstonecraft.
Two warnings/things to be aware of: first, this course will require a significant amount of reading; and second, in this course, we will be approaching literature with an interest in philosophical themes and questions. We will occasionally discuss formal and stylistic aspects of Austen’s novels (for example, her use of irony and of a technique referred to as “free indirect discourse”), but these sorts of concerns will not be our main

• Department: Philosophy
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• 3 points

SENIOR THESIS SEMINAR I

Prerequisites: Limited to Barnard Anthropology Seniors.
Offered every Fall. Discussion of research methods and planning and writing of a Senior Essay in Anthropology will accompany research on problems of interest to students, culminating in the writing of individual Senior Essays. The advisory system requires periodic consultation and discussion between the student and her adviser as well as the meeting of specific deadlines set by the department each semester.  Limited to Barnard Senior Anthropology Majors.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Severin Fowles
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 4 points

THE MEDICAL IMAGINARY

How might we speak of an imaginary within biomedicine? This course interrogates the ideological underpinnings of technocratic medicine in contexts that extend from the art of surgery to patient participation in experimental drug trials. Issues of scale will prove especially important in our efforts to track the medical imaginary from the whole, fleshy body to the molecular level. Key themes include everyday ethics; ways of seeing and knowing; suffering and hope; and subjectivity in a range of medical and sociomedical contexts. Open to anthropology majors; non-majors require instructor’s permission.  Enrollment limit is 15.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Lesley Sharp
  CULPA: 22 Info
• 4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY-NON AFAM

• Department: African-American Studies, Institute for Research in
• Instructor: Josef Sorett
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 1-4 points

UNDERGRAD RES IN APPLIED MATH

Prerequisites: Written permission from instructor and approval from adviser.
This course may be repeated for credit, but no more than 6 points of this course may be counted toward the satisfaction of the B.S. degree requirements. Candidates for the B.S. degree may conduct an investigation in applied mathematics or carry out a special project under the supervision of the staff. Credit for the course is contingent upon the submission of an acceptable thesis or final report.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Guillaume Bal
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Daniel Bienstock
  h-index: 38 Info
• Instructor: Mark A Cane
  Wikipedia h-index: 99 Info
• Instructor: Qiang Du
  Wikipedia h-index: 67 Info
• Instructor: Eitan Grinspun
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Kyle Mandli
  h-index: 14 Info
• Instructor: Lorenzo M Polvani
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 69 Info
• Instructor: Adam H Sobel
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Marc W Spiegelman
  CULPA: 15 Info
• Instructor: Michael K Tippett
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 43 Info
• Instructor: Michael I Weinstein
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 47 Info
• Instructor: chris wiggins
  CULPA: 12 Wikipedia h-index: 34 Info
• 0-4 points

UNDERGRAD RESRCH-APPLD PHYSICS

Prerequisites: Written permission from instructor and approval from adviser.
This course may be repeated for credit, but no more than 6 points of this course may be counted toward the satisfaction of the B.S. degree requirements. Candidates for the B.S. degree may conduct an investigation in applied physics or carry out a special project under the supervision of the staff. Credit for the course is contingent upon the submission of an acceptable thesis or final report.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Allen H Boozer
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Andrew Cole
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Alexander Gaeta
  Wikipedia h-index: 89 Info
• Instructor: Oleg Gang
  h-index: 45 Info
• Instructor: Irving P Herman
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia h-index: 50 Info
• Instructor: Michael E Mauel
  CULPA: 9 Info
• Instructor: Gerald A Navratil
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 46 Info
• Instructor: Richard M Jr. Osgood
  Wikipedia h-index: 85 Info
• Instructor: Aron Pinczuk
  Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Amiya K Sen
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Latha Venkataraman
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 55 Info
• Instructor: Renata M Wentzcovitch
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• Instructor: Nanfang Yu
  h-index: 48 Info
• Instructor: Yuan Yang
  h-index: 49 Info
• 0-4 points

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROJECT

Candidates for the B.S. degree may conduct an investigation of some problem in chemical engineering or applied chemistry or carry out a special project under the supervision of the staff.  Credit for the course is contingent upon the submission of an acceptable thesis or final report.  No more than 6 points in this course may be counted toward the satisfaction of the B.S. degree requirements.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• Instructor: Scott Banta
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 36 Info
• Instructor: Kyle Bishop
  h-index: 42 Info
• Instructor: Jingguang Chen
  Wikipedia h-index: 89 Info
• Instructor: Christopher J Durning
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Oleg Gang
  h-index: 45 Info
• Instructor: Daniel Esposito
  h-index: 22 Info
• Instructor: Jingyue Ju
  h-index: 77 Info
• Instructor: Sanat Kumar
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 79 Info
• Instructor: Edward F Leonard
  CULPA: 9 Info
• Instructor: V. Faye McNeill
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 33 Info
• Instructor: Allie Obermeyer
  h-index: 16 Info
• Instructor: Ben O'Shaughnessy
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Venkat Venkatasubramanian
  h-index: 58 Info
• Instructor: Alan West
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 48 Info
• Instructor: Ah-Hyung Alissa Park
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• 0-6 points

INDENPDENT RSCH NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION

NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION STUDS

Prerequisites: The written permission of the faculty member is required. Points: 1-4
The opportunity to conduct an independent research project in nuclear nonproliferation studies is open to all majors. A product and detailed report is presented by the student when the project is completed.
Section 1: Emlyn Hughes Section 2: Ivana N. Hughes Section 3: Monica Rouco-Molina

• Department: Columbia College
• Instructor: Emlyn W Hughes
  CULPA: 18 Info
• Instructor: Ivana N Hughes
  CULPA: 18 Info
• Instructor: Monica Rouco Molina
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 1-4 points

UNDERGRAD RES-ENVIRONMTL ENGIN

This course may be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 points of this course may be counted towards the satisfaction of the B. S. degree requirements. Candidates for the B.S. degree may conduct an investigation in Earth and Environmental Engineering, or carry out a special project under the supervision of EAEE faculty. Credit for the course is contingent on the submission of an acceptable thesis or final report. This course cannot substitute for the Undergraduate design project (EAEE E3999x or EAEE E3999y)

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• Instructor: Kartik Chandran
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 51 Info
• Instructor: Xi Chen
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia h-index: 64 Info
• Instructor: Paul F Duby
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Robert Farrauto
  h-index: 52 Info
• Instructor: Vasilis Fthenakis
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 55 Info
• Instructor: Pierre Gentine
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 43 Info
• Instructor: Alan West
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 48 Info
• Instructor: Upmanu Lall
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 68 Info
• Instructor: Ah-Hyung Alissa Park
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• Instructor: Peter Schlosser
  Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Ponisseril Somasundaran
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia h-index: 82 Info
• Instructor: Nickolas Themelis
  h-index: 44 Info
• Instructor: Yin Yip Ngai
  h-index: 26 Info
• 0-3 points

SENIOR SEMINAR IN FILM STUDIES

A seminar for senior film majors planning to write a research paper in film history/theory/culture. Course content changes yearly.

• Department: Film
• W 2 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Annette Insdorf
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

UNDERGRAD RESEARCH OR PROJECT

Prerequisites: Approval by a faculty member who agrees to supervise the work.
Independent work involving experiments, computer programming, analytical investigation, or engineering design.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Instructor: Shipra Agrawal
  h-index: 24 Info
• Instructor: Daniel Bienstock
  h-index: 38 Info
• 1-3 points

UNDERGRAD RESEARCH OR PROJECT

Prerequisites: Approval by a faculty member who agrees to supervise the work.
Independent work involving experiments, computer programming, analytical investigation, or engineering design.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• 1-3 points