GUIDED READING AND RESEARCH

Prerequisites: the instructors permission.

• Department: Religion
• Instructor: Gil Anidjar
  CULPA: 22 Info
• Instructor: Courtney Bender
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Clemence C Boulouque
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Michael Como
  CULPA: 20 Info
• Instructor: Matthew Engelke
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia h-index: 25 Info
• Instructor: Katherine Ewing
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 22 Info
• Instructor: Bernard Faure
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: David R Kittay
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Rachel McDermott
  CULPA: 37 Info
• Instructor: David L Moerman
  CULPA: 18 Info
• Instructor: Josef Sorett
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Mark C Taylor
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Yannik Thiem
  h-index: 1 Info
• Instructor: Zhaohua Yang
  Info
• Instructor: Thomas F Yarnall
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth Castelli
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia Info
• 1-4 points

SENIOR HONORS THESIS LAB

Corequisites: CHEM BC3902 Guided research in Chemistry or Biochemistry, under the sponsorship of a faculty member, leading to the senior thesis. A minimum of 8 hours of research per week, to be arranged.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• Instructor: Christian Rojas
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Marisa C Buzzeo
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Dina C Merrer
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Andrew C Crowther
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Michael Campbell
  Info
• Instructor: Subhasish Chatterjee
  h-index: 16 Info
• Instructor: Rachel Austin
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia h-index: 28 Info
• Instructor: Christina Vizcarra
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 0 points

SENIOR HONORS THESIS LAB

Corequisites: CHEM BC3902 Guided research in Chemistry or Biochemistry, under the sponsorship of a faculty member, leading to the senior thesis. A minimum of 8 hours of research per week, to be arranged.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• 0 points

RUMOR AND RACIAL CONFLICT

This course will take a transnational look at the strange ways that race and mass rumors have interacted. From the judicial and popular riots in the U.S. justified by recurrent rumors of African-American insurrection, to accusations that French Jews were players in the white slave trade, to tales of white fat-stealing monsters among indigenous people of Bolivia and Peru, rumors play a key role in constructing, enforcing, and contesting regimes of racial identity and domination. In order to grasp rumors importance for race, we will need to understand how it works, so our readings will cover both instances of racialized rumor-telling, conspiracy theories and mass panics, and some key approaches to how rumors work as a social phenomenon. The instructor will expect you to post a response to the reading on Courseworks each week and to engage actively in class discussion. There will be an in-class midterm exam, and you will be able to choose between writing an independent research project or doing a take-home exam.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Stuart Rockefeller
  Info
• 4 points

ASIAN AMERICAN & PSYCH OF RACE

ASIAN AMERICAN & PSYC OF RACE

This seminar provides an introduction to mental health issues for Asian Americans. In particular, it focuses on the psychology of Asian Americans as racial/ethnic minorities in the United States by exploring a number of key concepts: immigration, racialization, prejudice, family, identity, pathology, and loss. We will examine the development of identity in relation to self, family, college, and society. Quantitative investigation, qualitative research, psychology theories of multiculturalism, and Asian American literature will also be integrated into the course.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Shinhee Han
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

SR SEM: THE FAMILY IN FICTION & FILM: TH

SR SEM: FAMILY IN FICTION

Enrollment limited to Barnard senior Film Studies majors and Barnard senior English majors concentrating in Film Studies. We will look closely at 20th and 21st-Century stories of family life in novels, memoirs, a few children’s books, and movies in many genres, from melodramas to sitcoms.  Authors include Gaston Bachelard (The Poetics of Space), D.W. Winnicott (On Playing and Reality), Ta-Nehisi Coates, Maggie Nelson, Toni Morrison, Alison Bechdel, Jonathan Franzen, J.D. Salinger, Astrid Lindgren and Vivian Gornick.  Films by Sean Baker, Ingmar Bergman, Wes Anderson, Jennifer Kent, Barry Jenkins, Tamara Jenkins, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Elia Kazan, Richard Linklater, Lance Hammer, Mike Mills, King Vidor, Andrei Zvyagintsev, and others.

• Department: English @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Maura L Spiegel
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 4 points

CONTMP PHOTO&RELATED MEDIA:POL EXHIBITNS

An introductory survey of contemporary photography and related media through the framework of current exhibitions in New York City. Exhibitions of photography and video play a particular role in mirroring the present moment, which finds political themes front and center. Prevalent are exhibitions that redress (art) historical erasure, present counter histories, or take direct aim at specific governmental policies. Through group outings to NYC galleries and museums (approximately 8 trips) we will take stock of which artists are showing, in what contexts, and unpack both artistic and curatorial strategies. In addition to class discussion of what we’ve seen, during our time in the classroom we will look back at the select landmark photography exhibitions, to chart evolutions in the medium and their interrelation with politics.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Joanna Lehan
  Info
• 4 points

HONORS SEMINAR

Prerequisites: open to students in the honors program only. Discussion of a variety of topics in psychology, with particular emphasis on recent developments and methodological problems. Students propose and discuss special research topics.

• Department: Psychology
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lila Davachi
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 59 Info
• 1 points

VISITING CRITIC I

Prerequisites: Department approval required. See requirements for a major in visual arts. VIAR UN3910 is the prerequisite for VIAR UN3911. Corequisites: VIAR UN3900 (Formerly R3921) Students are required to enroll in both semesters (VIAR UN3910 and VIAR UN3911). A second opinion is provided to the senior students regarding the development of their senior project. Critics consist of distinguished visitors and faculty. Issues regarding the premise, methodology, or presentation of the students ideas are discussed and evaluated on an ongoing basis.

• Department: Visual Arts
• W 5:15 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Emily C Henretta
  Info
• 2 points

VISITING CRITIC II

Prerequisites: VIAR UN3910 Department approval required. See requirements for a major in visual arts. Corequisites: VIAR UN3901 (Formerly R3922) Students are required to enroll in both semesters (VIAR UN3910 and VIAR UN3911). A second opinion is provided to the senior students regarding the development of their senior project. Critics consist of distinguished visitors and faculty. Issues regarding the premise, methodology, or presentation of the students ideas are discussed and evaluated on an ongoing basis.

• Department: Visual Arts
• W 5:15 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Emily C Henretta
  Info
• 2 points

SENIOR SEMINAR: INTOLERANCE, TOLERANCE,

SR SEM:INTOLERNCE & RESIL

Enrollment limited to Barnard senior English majors. Intolerance seems worse than ever these days, not just in the world but in America, which is more polarized than ever. It comes in so many forms, ever morphing into new forms, though it has a history, one we keep struggling to revise, to make our world and our society inclusive and embracing of difference. This course is an effort to explore the issue of intolerance from a historical and literary emphasis, taking a transhistorical and transnational scope. We begin in seventeenth century England (very brief readings from Donne, Milton, Locke) when the concept and word "toleration" emerged. It initially concerned religion and freedom of "conscience," but later expanded to the issues of women's equality, race, and eventually sexuality (though religion is often never far from these issues). Though we begin with brief selections from the seventeenth century, we quickly move to various texts about resistance, resilience, and attempts to assess the damages and look towards change. We start with Mary Wolstonecraft on 
The Rights of Women,
 and then move to the twentieth and twenty-first century, considering a variety of genres, mainly (but not exclusively) writings by women. We will read a very brief selection from anthropologist Mary Douglas and then Isabel Wilkerson’s 
Caste 
(at least the first three sections, culminating in the "eight pillars of caste"). Wilkerson is particularly important as she triangulates caste in India, anti-Semitism, and racism/slavery in America. Texts: W.G. Sebold’s 
The Emigrants
 (on the effects of the holocaust); Deborah Feldman’s 
Unorthodox 
(a woman’s resistance of Ultra Orthodox Judaism; there’s also a wonderful Netflix series based on this book and a second one); Toni Morrison’s 
Others
; Tayari Jones, 
An American Marriage
 (complex intersection of racism, injustice, and the complexity of love and marriage); Jeanette Winterson, 
Oranges are not the Only Fruit
 (religion, homosexuality, and love between women); (optional) Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things; pehaps Stephanie Land, 
Maid 
(poverty); ending with Tara Westhover’s bestseller, 
Educated
. I know this is too much. I’ve listed Land and Roy as books to consider. One theme of the course is that religion is never far from the issues of intolerance and racism. This is not to attack

• Department: English @Barnard
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Achsah Guibbory
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 4 points

SEMINAR

SEMINAR: ETHICS

Required of senior majors, but also open to junior majors, and junior and senior concentrators who have taken at least four philosophy courses. This exploration will typically involve writing a substantial research paper. Capped at 20 students with preference to philosophy majors.

• Department: Philosophy
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Aminah Hasan
  Info
• 3 points

SEMINAR

Required of senior majors, but also open to junior majors, and junior and senior concentrators who have taken at least four philosophy courses. This exploration will typically involve writing a substantial research paper. Capped at 20 students with preference to philosophy majors.

• Department: Philosophy
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Patricia Kitcher
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SEMINAR

ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY

Required of senior majors, but also open to junior majors, and junior and senior concentrators who have taken at least four philosophy courses. This exploration will typically involve writing a substantial research paper. Capped at 20 students with preference to philosophy majors.

• Department: Philosophy
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Achille Varzi
  CULPA: 30 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• 3 points

SEMINAR: METAPHYSICS

SEMINAR: ANALYTIC PHILOSO

Required of senior majors, but also open to junior majors, and junior and senior concentrators who have taken at least four philosophy courses. This exploration will typically involve writing a substantial research paper. Capped at 20 students with preference to philosophy majors.

• Department: Philosophy
• MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lydia Goehr
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SEMINAR IN POLITICAL THEORY

TOCQUEVILLE IN AMERICA

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Seminar in Political Theory. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

• Department: Political Science
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jon Elster
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 108 Info
• 4 points

SEMINAR IN POLITICAL THEORY

POPULISM, DEMOCRACY & RIGHTS

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Seminar in Political Theory. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

• Department: Political Science
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jean L Cohen
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia h-index: 63 Info
• 4 points

VIDEO AS INQUIRY

The goal of this course is to familiarize students with visual production, particularly video production, as a mode of inquiry to explore questions related to race, ethnicity, indigeneity, and other forms of social hierarchy and difference. The class will include readings in visual production as a mode of inquiry and on the basic craft of video production in various genres (fiction, documentary, and experimental). As part of the course, students will produce a video short and complete it by semester's end.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Frances Negron-Muntaner
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

A HISTORY OF AFRICAN CITIES

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Mamadou Diouf
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

GENDER & POWER IN GLOBAL PERSP

This seminar considers formations of gender, sexuality, and power as they circulate transnationally, as well as transnational feminist movements that have emerged to address contemporary gendered inequalities. Topics include political economy, colonialism/postcoloniality, war, refugees, global care chains, sexuality, sex and care work. Required for the major in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS), but open to non-majors, space permitting. Prerequisite:
Either
one introductory WGSS course
or
Critical Approaches to Social and Cultural Theory
or
Permission of the Instructor.

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Nimmi Gowrinathan
  Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR: BLACK ECOLITERATURE

SR SEM: BLACK ECOLITERATU

Questions of sustainability, ecology, and environmental justice have begun to garner much attention within the field of contemporary Black literary studies. This course investigates the various ways that notions of blackness and ecology converge. Throughout the semester we will become familiar with various textual representations of ecology and Blackness from across the African diaspora. We will explore the ways in which categories such as race, gender, nature, place, and technology cohere and become complicated within a contemporary catalog of texts that we might call Black ecoliterature. Central questions guiding the course include "How do our notions of blackness and gender inform our ideas of ecology?" and "In what ways does centering blackness and/or black subjects shift our extant understandings of environmentalism writ large?" Guiding authors will include Octavia Butler, Wangari Maathai, Nnedi Okorafor, Julie Dash, Wangari Maathai, Zora Neale Hurston, and Alice Walker among others.

• Department: English @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Chelsea Frazier
  Info
• 4 points

SENIOR PROJECT COLLOQUIUM

This course is for American studies majors planning to complete senior projects in the spring. The course is designed to help students clarify their research agenda, sharpen their questions, and locate their primary and secondary sources. Through class discussions and a workshop peer review process, each member of the course will enter spring semester with a completed bibliography that will provide an excellent foundation for the work of actually writing the senior essay. The colloquium will meet every other week and is required for everyone planning to do a senior research project. Application due June 15. See American Studies website.

• Department: American Studies
• 1 points

BIOMEDICAL ENGIN DESIGN II

A two-semester design sequence to be taken in the senior year. Elements of the design process, with specific applications to biomedical engineering: concept formulation, systems synthesis, design analysis, optimization, biocompatibility, impact on patient health and comfort, health care costs, regulatory issues, and medical ethics. Selection and execution of a project involving the design of an actual engineering device or system. Introduction to entrepreneurship, biomedical start-ups, and venture capital. Semester I: statistical analysis of detection/classification systems (receiver operation characteristic analysis, logistic regression), development of design prototype, need, approach, benefits and competition analysis. Semester II: spiral develop process and testing, iteration and refinement of the initial design/prototype and business plan development. A lab fee of $100 each is collected.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Aaron M Kyle
  Info
• 4 points

HONORS RESEARCH

Prerequisites: open to students in the honors program only. Except by special permission of the director of undergraduate studies, no more than 4 points of individual research may be taken in any one term. This includes both PSYC UN3950 and PSYC UN3920. No more than 12 points of PSYC UN3920 may be applied toward the honors program in psychology. Special research topics arranged with the instructors of the department leading toward a senior honors paper.

• Department: Psychology
• Instructor: Lila Davachi
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 59 Info
• 1-4 points

Witches, Fairies and Female Vampires in

Witches, Fairies and Vamp

A French inquisitor said in the 17 th century: “To one wizard, ten thousand witches.” The
witches were seen, not only as “female wizards,” but as qualitatively different from
wizards and warlocks. There was something fundamentally female about their magic. At
first sight, witches, fairies and female vampires differ greatly. Yet they all embody a
certain female (supernatural or natural) power, that fearful men tried to restrain and
stigmatize over the centuries. Daughters of both Eros and Thanatos, they share features
that were frowned upon by political and religious institutions. Moreover, female vampires
may be former witches, while witches are often given names actually referring to fairies:
the borders between those categories, whether it is in medieval or romantic literature,
are definitely not as rigid as they might initially seem. The struggle against or for female
magic occurred within literature and art. This class aims at showing how the artistic and
literary representation of those creatures evolved from medieval times until our own,
oscillating between condemnation, ambiguous fascination, and mere rehabilitation. It
questions the role of gender politics in the literary construction of witchcraft and other
supernatural phenomena. An important place is given to female French writers, who, for
obvious reasons, envisioned those topics in a peculiar way, frequently turning
negative stereotypes into sources of empowerment. The final two weeks will be devoted
to a comparative, French-American approach to the Salem trials. We will discuss literary
excerpts, short stories and poems (mostly in French though a vast majority are
accessible in translation) as well as paintings and movies. The class is taught in French.
It is principally designed for French and Comparative Literature majors, or advances
undergraduates with a good knowledge of French.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: David Haziza
  Info
• 3 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

CONTEMPORARY ELECTORAL POLITIC

Prerequisites: POLS UN1201 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Seminar in American Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

• Department: Political Science
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Robert Erikson
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia h-index: 59 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

TERRORISM AND COUNTERTERRORISM

Prerequisites: POLS UN1201 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Seminar in American Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

• Department: Political Science
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Brigitte Nacos
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

EQUALITY AND THE LAW

Prerequisites: POLS UN1201 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Seminar in American Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

• Department: Political Science
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert L Amdur
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

POLICYMAKING

Prerequisites: POLS UN1201 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Seminar in American Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

• Department: Political Science
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Judith Russell
  CULPA: 49 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

POLITICS&POLICY:STATELOCAL GO

Prerequisites: POLS UN1201 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Seminar in American Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

• Department: Political Science
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Gerrard P Bushell
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

POLIT PARTIES IN U.S. POLITICS

Prerequisites: POLS UN1201 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Seminar in American Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

• Department: Political Science
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Lincoln A Mitchell
  Info
• 4 points

NARRATIVE STRAT-SCREENWRITING

Prerequisites: FILM W2420. This workshop is primarily a continuation of Senior Seminar in Screenwriting. Students will either continue developing the scripts they began in Senior Seminar in Screenwriting, or create new ones including a step outline and a minimum of 30 pages. Emphasis will be placed on character work, structure, theme, and employing dramatic devices. Weekly outlining and script writing, concurrent with script/story presentation and class critiques, will ensure that each student will be guided toward the completion of his or her narrative script project.

• Department: Film
• R 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Loren-Paul Caplin
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

Race, Place, and the United States

Race, Place, and the US

The course analyzes the relationship between race/ethnicity and spatial inequality, emphasizing the institutions, processes, and mechanisms that shape the lives of urban dwellers. It surveys major theoretical approaches and empirical investigations of racial and ethnic stratification in several urban cities, and their concomitant policy considerations.

• Department: Sociology
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Kristin L Murphy
  Info
• 4 points

Dutch Seventeenth Century Art

LOOKING AT THE DUTCH GOLD

This course is devoted to a close examination of Dutch art of the seventeenth century, one of the most celebrated chapters in the history of art. Students will be exposed to seminal art historical texts on the period, at the same time as they receive exposure to connoisseurship, conservation, and technical art history.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Adam S Eaker
  Info
• 4 points

COLONIZATION/DECOLONIZATION

Prerequisites: Open to CSER majors/concentrators only. Others may be allowed to register with the instructors permission. This course explores the centrality of colonialism in the making of the modern world, emphasizing cross-cultural and social contact, exchange, and relations of power; dynamics of conquest and resistance; and discourses of civilization, empire, freedom, nationalism, and human rights, from 1500 to 2000. Topics include pre-modern empires; European exploration, contact, and conquest in the new world; Atlantic-world slavery and emancipation; and European and Japanese colonialism in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The course ends with a section on decolonization and post-colonialism in the period after World War II. Intensive reading and discussion of primary documents.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Claudio Lomnitz
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE

MAROON SOCIETIES IN THE AMERIC

Please refer to Institute for Research in African American Studies for section course descriptions: http://iraas.columbia.edu/

• Department: African American and African Diaspora
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: C. Daniel Dawson
  Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE

Please refer to Institute for Research in African American Studies for section course descriptions: http://iraas.columbia.edu/

• Department: African American and African Diaspora
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Tyrone Palmer
  Info
• 4 points

Creative Embedded Systems

CREATIVE EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

Ubiquitous computing is creating new canvases and opportunities for creative ideas.
This class explores the use of microprocessors, distributed sensor networks, IoT,
and intermedia systems for the purposes of creative expression. The course is delivered
in a mixed lecture and lab format that introduces the fundamental concepts
and theory behind embedded systems as well as issues particular to their creative
employment. The key objective of the course is for students to conceive of and
implement creative uses of computation.

• Department: Computer Science @Barnard
• F 10 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Mark Santolucito
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

Iraq: War, Love, and Exile

Iraq: War, Love and, Exil

This course studies and  explores a  number of Iraqi narratives that have appeared since 2003 and that have a distinctive stylistic and thematic richness with great bearing on social, economic, cultural, and political life in Iraq. Seen against a history of the country and the region, and in conversation with some Afro-Asian and Latin American narratives of war and displacement, these writings assume  global  significance in our reading of  such thematic issues  like war, love, exile, and loss. While always using the past as a background, a source and repository of recollections, the challenge of the 2003 Anglo-America invasion and its institutionalization of segregation and   rupture to keep Iraq in perpetual chaos, is present in the texts. Every narrative sheds light on a number of issues, especially war, horror, loss, trauma, passion and dislocation. This richness in detail is brought up through a number of stylistic innovations that put this writing at the forefront of world cultures and human concerns. An introductory lecture builds up a genealogy for trauma since the Epic of Gilgamesh (2700 BC.) and the lamentations of Astarte.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Muhsin Al-Musawi
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED TOPICS RACE & ETHNICITY

Discusses theories of race and ethnicity, distinctions between prejudice, discrimination, and racism, and the intersectionality paradigm. Under instructors guidance students design a research proposal, conduct their own fieldwork and write a research paper on a sociological question relating to race and/or ethnicity.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Angela Simms
  Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

AMERICAN CULTURAL CRITICISM

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for section descriptions

• Department: American Studies
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Casey Blake
  CULPA: 22 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

DOUGLASS, LINCOLN, AMERICA

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for section descriptions

• Department: American Studies
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Roosevelt Montas
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

LANGUAGES IN AMERICA

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for section descriptions

• Department: American Studies
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: John H McWhorter
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

EQUITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for section descriptions

• Department: American Studies
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

RACE; POVERTY & AMER CRIM JUST

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for section descriptions

• Department: American Studies
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Cathleen I Price
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for section descriptions

• Department: American Studies
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Hindus
  Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

PBLM CLASS/AMER LIT & CULTURE

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for section descriptions

• Department: American Studies
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Ross Posnock
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 4 points

SOC JUSTICE & HUM RIGHTS

Corequisites: Students must have an internship related to social justice or human rights during This class is intended to complement and enhance the internship experience for students working in internships that relate to social justice and human rights during the Spring 2016 semester. This course will meet bi-weekly to provide an academic framing of the issues that students are working on and to provide an opportunity for students to analyze their internship experience.

• Department: Human Rights (HRTB)
• T 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Widney Brown
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

CLIM CHNG/GLOBAL MIGR/HUM RGT

While the existence of processes of anthropogenic climate change is well established, predictions regarding the future consequences of these processes are far less certain. In no area is the uncertainty regarding near and long term effects as pronounced as in the question of how climate change will affect global migration. This course will address the issue of climate migration in four ways. First, the course will examine the theoretical and empirical literatures that have elucidated the nature of international migration in general. Second, the course will consider the phenomena of anthropogenic climate change as it relates to migration. Third, the course will consider how human rights and other legal regimes do or do not address the humanitarian issues created by anthropogenic climate change. Fourth, the course will synthesize these topics by considering how migration and climate change has arisen as a humanitarian, political, and economic issue in the Pacific. Human Rights elective.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: J.C. Salyer
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Prerequisites: the department chairs permission. (Formerly R3932)

• Department: Visual Arts
• Instructor: Matthew E Buckingham
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• Instructor: Gregory Amenoff
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Susanna Coffey
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• Instructor: Delphine A Fawundu
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• Instructor: Jon Kessler
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Justine Kurland
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• Instructor: Nicola G Lopez
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• Instructor: Elizaveta Meksin
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• Instructor: Joseph J Peet
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• Instructor: Shelly Silver
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• Instructor: Sable Smith
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• Instructor: Rirkrit Tiravanija
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• Instructor: Sara Vanderbeek
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• 1-3 points

BUOYANCY

“Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.”,Michael Caine , We do not live our own desires. Pressing ourselves into heavy molds not made for our bodies compresses us, tears our skin, and bruises our features. It is hard to breathe. We sink. Weight harbors the downward pull. It attaches itself in many ways but there are countless ways to set it down, to be free. This takes practice and skill. The common task of this visual arts seminar is to distinguish ourselves from the weight we carry. Through a variety or reading, writing, and making activities we shall seek out and contact levity: that gravity that changes our bodies, make us light of touch, aerates and propels us toward the state of buoyancy. Not for the faint of heart.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Irena Haiduk
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• 4 points

The American Graphic Novel

The course seeks to combine literary and historical approaches to investigate one of the most rapidly growing, increasingly influential, and, increasingly, critically recognized forms of American popular literature: the graphic novel. A historical overview of the medium’s development, complete with analysis of relevant broader institutional and cultural factors illuminating the development of American media culture more generally, will be complemented by study of a series of recent works illuminating the medium’s explosive maturation. Authors read include Eisner, Crumb, Spiegelman, Bechdel, Thompson, and Hernandez.

• Department: American Studies
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 4 points

ARABIA IMAGINED

As the site of the 7th century revelation of the Quran and the present day location of the sacred precincts of Islam, Arabia is the direction of prayer for Muslims worldwide and the main destination for pilgrimage. Arabia also provides a frame for diverse modes of thought and practice and for cultural expression ranging from the venerable literature of the 1001 Nights to the academic disciplines of Islam and contemporary social media, such as Twitter. We thus will approach Arabia as a global phenomenon, as a matter of both geographic relations and the imagination. While offering an introduction to contemporary anthropological research, the course will engage in a critical review of related western conceptions, starting with an opening discussion of racism and Islamophobia. In the format of a Global Core course, the weekly assignments are organized around English translations of Arabic texts, read in conjunction with recent studies by anthropologists.

• Department: Anthropology
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Brinkley Messick
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 4 points

SOCIOLOGY OF THE BODY

This seminar examines the ways in which the body is discursively constituted, and itself serves as the substratum for social life. Key questions include: How are distinctions made between normal and pathological bodies, and between the psychic and somatic realms? How do historical forces shape bodily experience? How do bodies that are racialized, gendered, and classed offer resistance to social categorization?

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Bernstein
  CULPA: 27 Info
• 4 points

Black/Brown History of Rock and Roll

Blk/Brn History Rock Roll

This course is designed to get students to think more deeply about the ethno-racial roots—and
routes
—of rock and roll music as a national, historical phenomenon. In this class, we’ll conceive rock and roll broadly to include peripheral genres which are related to or derived from its origins, including rhythm and blues, jazz, soul, funk, boogaloo, salsa, disco, and hip-hop, to thread together and discuss the relationships between music, identity, and race in the United States. Latinxs and African Americans have played significant, if underrecognized, roles in shaping American popular music; the cultural connections and musical interactivity between these communities are lesser understood in popular narratives of postwar American music. To this end, this course will uncover a broad social, racial, national, and transnational history of rock and roll to understand how musicians of color innovated long-standing musical traditions in their communities; maintained cultural and political links within the diaspora; and navigated regional racial schemas in the United States and Latin America.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Alex Larotta
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• 4 points

GLOBAL BESTSELLERS

Students in this course will join millions of readers around the world who have made the texts on the syllabus into bestsellers. Why have travelers found Khalid Hosseini's novel
The Kite Runner
featured prominently in airport bookshops in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa? Such
popularity
on a global scale offers an occasion for
critical reflection
about the transnational economic forces and cultural politics that shape literary supply and demand. Our specific focus will be on novels and memoirs whose authors come from places outside of the publishing centers of New York and London (e.g. Afghanistan, Haiti, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa), yet find massive audiences in the US, UK and worldwide. We will do some reading in literary and cultural theory, and we will attend to the material networks of publishing and distribution, in order to understand how these bestsellers emerge, what kinds of conventional narratives or images of otherness they reinforce, and what new narratives and images they might generate. How can we understand the relationship between these texts' popularity and their literary value? What frameworks of evaluation and interpretation are appropriate for such texts? What do these texts tell us about contemporary globalization?

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer Wenzel
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 15 Info
• 4 points

Sociology of Human Rights

SOCIOLOGY OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Sociology came to the study of human rights much later than law, philosophy, or political science. In this course, you’ll learn (1) what constitutes a sociology of human rights and (2) what sociology, its classics, and its diverse methods bring to the empirical study and theory of human rights. We’ll explore the history, social institutions and laws, ideas, practices, and theories of human rights. We’ll become familiar with the social actors, social structures, and relationships involved in practices such as violation, claims-making, advocacy, and protection. We’ll consider how social, cultural, political, and economic forces affect human rights issues. We’ll learn about the questions sociologists ask, starting with the most basic (but far from simple) question, “what is a human right?” We’ll tackle key debates in the field, considering – for instance – whether human rights are universal and how human rights relate to cultural norms/values, national sovereignty, and national security. Finally, we’ll apply the concepts we’ve learned to a wide range of issues (ex: how racial, ethnic, gender, and other social inequalities relate to human rights), rights (ex: LGBTQ rights, the rights of laborers, the rights of refugees), and cases (ex: enslavement, the separation of children from their families, circumcision, sterilization, the use of torture). We’ll consider human rights cases in the United States and across the globe, and how events and actions in one place relate to human rights violations in another.

• Department: Sociology
• F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Rosemary McGunnigle-Gonzales
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• 4 points

ANIME EFFECT: JAPANESE MEDIA

Culture, technology, and media in contemporary Japan. Theoretical and ethnographic engagements with forms of mass mediation, including anime, manga, video, and cell-phone novels. Considers larger global economic and political contexts, including post-Fukushima transformations. Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.

• Department: Anthropology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Marilyn Ivy
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS SEMINAR

The Senior Seminar will afford thesis writers the chance to workshop their idea, conduct research and/or interviews, work with the IRB protocols (if necessary), learn to work with archival materials, and perform other research activities prior to writing the thesis. Students who choose to write a capstone paper or conduct a capstone project can choose an elective course the following semester. The Thesis Seminar, conducted in the spring semester, is a workshop-oriented course for Senior Thesis writers organized around honing their writing skills while providing guidance to students in their field/disciplinary-specific projects. For example, a student may choose to write a historical biography of an artist while another may pursue a sociological study of the effects of mass incarceration on voting rights. The instructor of the Thesis Seminar, working with a faculty adviser (dependent on the specific field of inquiry in the thesis), will provide feedback and supervise the writing schedule of the students.

• Department: African American and African Diaspora
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Marsha B Jean-Charles
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• 4 points

COMP STUDY OF CONSTITUTNL CHAL

This course will examine how the American legal system decided constitutional challenges affecting the empowerment of African, Latino, and Asian American communities from the 19th century to the present. Focus will be on the role that race, citizenship, capitalism/labor, property, and ownership played in the court decision in the context of the historical, social, and political conditions existing at the time. Topics include the denial of citizenship and naturalization to slaves and immigrants, government sanctioned segregation, the struggle for reparations for descendants of slavery, and Japanese Americans during World War II.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Elizabeth Ouyang
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

RACE AND RACISMS

In this class we will approach race and racism from a variety of disciplinary and intellectual perspectives, including: critical race theory/philosophy, anthropology, history and history of science and medicine. We will focus on the development and deployment of the race concept since the mid-19th century. Students will come to understand the many ways in which race has been conceptualized, substantiated, classified, managed and observed in the (social) sciences, medicine, and public health. We will also explore the practices and effects of race (and race-making) in familiar and less familiar social and political worlds. In addition to the courses intellectual content, students will gain critical practice in the seminar format -- that is, a collegial, discussion-driven exchange of ideas.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Catherine Fennell
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• 4 points

ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF THE BIBLE

English translations of the Bible from Tyndale to the present.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• R 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: David M Yerkes
  CULPA: 41 Info
• 4 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

1-4 points. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Except by special permission of the director of undergraduate studies, no more than 4 points of individual research may be taken in any one term. This includes both PSYC UN3950 and PSYC UN3920. No more than 8 points ofPSYC UN3950 may be applied toward the psychology major, and no more than 4 points toward the concentration. Readings, special laboratory projects, reports, and special seminars on contemporary issues in psychological research and theory.

• Department: Psychology
• Instructor: Mariam Aly
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 15 Info
• 1-4 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

1-4 points. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Except by special permission of the director of undergraduate studies, no more than 4 points of individual research may be taken in any one term. This includes both PSYC UN3950 and PSYC UN3920. No more than 8 points ofPSYC UN3950 may be applied toward the psychology major, and no more than 4 points toward the concentration. Readings, special laboratory projects, reports, and special seminars on contemporary issues in psychological research and theory.

• Department: Psychology
• 1-4 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

1-4 points. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Except by special permission of the director of undergraduate studies, no more than 4 points of individual research may be taken in any one term. This includes both PSYC UN3950 and PSYC UN3920. No more than 8 points ofPSYC UN3950 may be applied toward the psychology major, and no more than 4 points toward the concentration. Readings, special laboratory projects, reports, and special seminars on contemporary issues in psychological research and theory.

• Department: Psychology
• Instructor: Christopher Baldassano
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• Instructor: Niall Bolger
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 55 Info
• 1-4 points