SUPERVISED INDEPENDENT STUDY

Prerequisites: approval prior to registration; see the director of undergraduate studies for details. A creative/scholarly project conducted under faculty supervision.

• Department: Music
• Instructor: Ana Maria Ochoa
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• Instructor: Elaine Sisman
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Benjamin A Steege
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• Instructor: Magdalena Baczewska
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Peter M Susser
  CULPA: 20 Info
• Instructor: Christopher J Washburne
  CULPA: 31 Info
• 2-3 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

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• Department: Philosophy
• Instructor: David Albert
  CULPA: 32 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• Instructor: Akeel Bilgrami
  CULPA: 28 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Taylor Carman
  CULPA: 40 Wikipedia h-index: 19 Info
• Instructor: Justin Clarke-Doane
  h-index: 10 Info
• Instructor: Jessica Collins
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• Instructor: Melissa S Fusco
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Haim Gaifman
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 30 Info
• Instructor: Lydia Goehr
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Robert Gooding-Williams
  Wikipedia h-index: 15 Info
• Instructor: Axel Honneth
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Patricia Kitcher
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Karen Lewis
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 7 Info
• Instructor: Wolfgang R Mann
  CULPA: 36 Info
• Instructor: Michele Moody-Adams
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: John Morrison
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 7 Info
• Instructor: Frederick Neuhouser
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia h-index: 16 Info
• Instructor: Carol Rovane
  CULPA: 13 Info
• Instructor: Francey Russell
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Achille Varzi
  CULPA: 30 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• Instructor: Katja Vogt
  CULPA: 36 Info
• 1-3 points

SENIOR RESEARCH SEMINAR

Working research seminar devoted to helping students produce a substantive piece of writing that will represent the culmination of their work at the College and in the major.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Gale L Kenny
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: the department's permission. Supervised Individual Research

• Department: Slavic Languages
• Instructor: Catherine Evtuhov
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Jessica E Merrill
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 2-4 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

Sustainable development majors and special concentrators must register for this independent study to use internship hours for the practicum credit. Students must consult with their program adviser and department before registering. Offered fall, spring and summer.

• Department: Earth Institute
• 1-3 points

SENIOR THESIS IN RESEARCH

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to senior Theatre majors. Combined and special majors may be considered under exceptional circumstances. Permission of the instructor required. In-depth research project culminating in a substantial written thesis on any aspect of drama, performance, or theatre research.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• Instructor: Hana Worthen
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• Instructor: William B Worthen
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

SUPERVISED READINGS I

• Department: Language Resource Center
• Instructor: Stephane A Charitos
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 1 points

INDEPENDENT RESEARCH

• Department: American Studies @Barnard
• Instructor: Elizabeth Hutchinson
  CULPA: 9 Info
• Instructor: Severin Fowles
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 1-4 points

SENIOR THESIS SEM IN ANTHROPOL

Prerequisites: The instructors permission. Students must have declared a major in Anthropology prior to registration. Students must have a 3.6 GPA in the major and a preliminary project concept in order to be considered. Interested students must communicate/meet with thesis instructor in the previous spring about the possibility of taking the course during the upcoming academic year. Additionally, expect to discuss with the instructor at the end of the fall term whether your project has progressed far enough to be completed in the spring term. If it has not, you will exit the seminar after one semester, with a grade based on the work completed during the fall term. This two-term course is a combination of a seminar and a workshop that will help you conduct research, write, and present an original senior thesis in anthropology. Students who write theses are eligible to be considered for departmental honors. The first term of this course introduces a variety of approaches used to produce anthropological knowledge and writing; encourages students to think critically about the approaches they take to researching and writing by studying model texts with an eye to the ethics, constraints, and potentials of anthropological research and writing; and gives students practice in the seminar and workshop formats that are key to collegial exchange and refinement of ideas. During the first term, students complete a few short exercises that will culminate in a substantial draft of one discrete section of their senior project (18-20 pages) plus a detailed outline of the expected work that remains to be done (5 pages). The spring sequence of the anthropology thesis seminar is a writing intensive continuation of the fall semester, in which students will have designed the research questions, prepared a full thesis proposal that will serve as a guide for the completion of the thesis and written a draft of one chapter. Only those students who expect to have completed the fall semester portion of the course are allowed to register for the spring; final enrollment is contingent upon successful completion of first semester requirements. In spring semester, weekly meetings will be devoted to the collaborative refinement of drafts, as well as working through issues of writing (evidence, voice, authority etc.). All enrolled students are required to present their project at a symposium in the late spring, and the final grade is based primarily on successful completion of the thesis/ capstone project. Note: The senior thesis seminar is open t

• Department: Anthropology
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Zoe Crossland
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info
• 4 points

INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS

Research projects and internships are planned in consultation with members of the department and work is supervised by the major’s adviser.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• Instructor: Paige West
  CULPA: 41 h-index: 23 Info
• Instructor: Severin Fowles
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Brian Larkin
  CULPA: 16 Info
• Instructor: Gretchen Pfeil
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 2 Info
• 3-4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Prerequisites: Open to majors who have fulfilled basic major requirements or written permission of the staff member who will supervise the project. Specialized reading and research projects planned in consultation with members of the Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures teaching staff.

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• Instructor: Rachel McDermott
  CULPA: 37 Info
• Instructor: Jue Guo
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Matthew L Keegan
  CULPA: 8 Info
• Instructor: Nicholas A Bartlett
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Nathanael P Shelley
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: David L Moerman
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 4 points

UNDERGRADUATE FIELDWORK

May be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 total points may be used toward the 128-credit degree requirement. Only for BMEN undergraduate students who include relevant off-campus work experience as part of their approved program of study. Final report and letter of evaluation required. Fieldwork credits may not count toward any major core, technical, elective, and non-technical requirements. May not be taken for pass/fail credit or audited.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• Instructor: Lance Kam
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 38 Info
• 1-2 points

UNDERGRADUATE FIELDWORK

Prerequisites: Restricted to Chemical Engineering undergraduate students. Provides work experience on chemical engineering in relevant intern or fieldwork experience as part of their program of study as determined by the instructor. Written application must be made prior to registration outlining proposed internship/study program. A written report describing the experience and how it relates to the chemical engineering core curriculum is required. Employer feedback on student performance and the quality of the report are the basis of the grade. This course may not be taken for pass/fail or audited. May not be used as a technical or non­technical elective. May be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 points total of CHEN E3999 may be used for degree credit.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• Instructor: Vivian F McNeill
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• 1-2 points

UNDERGRADUATE PROJECT II

Prerequisites: Senior standing. Students must enroll for both 3998x and 3999y during their senior year. Selection of an actual problem in Earth and environmental engineering, and design of an engineering solution including technical, economic, environmental, ethical, health and safety, social issues. Use of software for design, visualization, economic analysis, and report preparation. Students may work in teams. Presentation of results in a formal report and public presentation.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• F 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Farrauto
  h-index: 52 Info
• 2 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Prerequisites: Permission of the chair required. Does not provide major credit. Advanced projects for students who have adequate backgrounds to work independently with guidance from a member of the faculty.

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• Instructor: Brian Mailloux
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 36 Info
• 1-4 points

THE SENIOR ESSAY

Prerequisites: the departments permission. This course is open only to those who have applied and been accepted into the departments senior essay program. For information about the program, including deadline for application, please visit http://english.columbia.edu/undergraduate/senior-essay-program.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• Instructor: Molly Murray
  CULPA: 26 Info
• 4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

INDEPENDENT STUDY: CREAT WRIT

Application required:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/independent-studies
. Senior majors who wish to substitute Independent Study for one of the two required senior seminars should consult the chair. Permission is given rarely and only to students who present a clear and well-defined topic of study, who have a department sponsor, and who submit their proposals well in advance of the semester in which they will register. There is no independent study for screenwriting or film production.

• Department: English @Barnard
• Instructor: Timea Szell
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 1-4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

INDEPENDENT STUDY: ENGLISH

Application required:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/independent-studies
. Senior majors who wish to substitute Independent Study for one of the two required senior seminars should consult the chair. Permission is given rarely and only to students who present a clear and well-defined topic of study, who have a department sponsor, and who submit their proposals well in advance of the semester in which they will register. There is no independent study for screenwriting or film production.

• Department: English @Barnard
• Instructor: Andrew L Lynn
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 1-4 points

FIELDWORK

Prerequisites: Obtained internship and approval from faculty advisor. Only for IEOR undergraduate students who need relevant work experience as part of their program of study. Final reports are required. This course may not be taken for pass/fail credit or audited.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• 1-1.5 points

SENIOR THESIS IN MATHEMATICS

• Department: Mathematics
• Instructor: Duong H Phong
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• 4 points

FIELDWORK

May be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 total points may be used toward the 128-credit degree requirement. Only for MECE undergraduate students who include relevant on-campus and off-campus work experience as part of their approved program of study. Final report and letter of evaluation required. Fieldwork credits may not count toward any major core, technical, elective, and nontechnical requirements. May not be taken for pass/fail credit or audited.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• Instructor: Kristin Myers
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 25 Info
• 1-2 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Prerequisites: approval prior to registration; see the director of undergraduate studies for details. A creative/scholarly project conducted under faculty supervision.

• Department: Music @Barnard
• Instructor: Peter M Susser
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 2-4 points

HONORS SEMINAR

Prerequisites: admission to the departmental honors program. A two-term seminar for students writing the senior honors thesis.

• Department: Political Science
• M 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Macartan Humphreys
  h-index: 39 Info
• 4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• Instructor: Elizabeth Castelli
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia Info
• 1-4 points

SUPERVISED READINGS II

• Department: Language Resource Center
• Instructor: Stephane A Charitos
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 1 points

INDIVIDUAL STUDY II

Prerequisites: open only to qualified majors in the department; the director of undergraduate studies permission is required. An opportunity for research under the direction of an individual faculty member. Students intending to write a year-long senior thesis should plan to register for C3996 in the spring semester of their senior year and are strongly advised to consult the undergraduate studies as they plan their programs.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• Instructor: Deborah Becher
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 4 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth Bernstein
  CULPA: 27 Info
• Instructor: Debra Minkoff
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Mignon R Moore
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Jonathan Rieder
  CULPA: 17 Info
• Instructor: Angela Simms
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• Instructor: Amy Zhou
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• Instructor: Deborah Becher
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 4 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth Bernstein
  CULPA: 27 Info
• Instructor: Debra Minkoff
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Mignon R Moore
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Jonathan Rieder
  CULPA: 17 Info
• Instructor: Angela Simms
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• Instructor: Amy Zhou
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• Instructor: Sudhir A Venkatesh
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Adam Reich
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Sudhir A Venkatesh
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Thomas DiPrete
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Teresa Sharpe
  CULPA: 14 Info
• Instructor: Adam Reich
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 1-6 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and the chair required. Students submit, before the semester begins, a detailed proposal for independent research to a faculty sponsor.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• Instructor: Hana Worthen
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• 1-4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• Instructor: Mary Rocco
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 1-4 points

Independent Study

INDEPENDENT STUDY

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• Instructor: Rebecca Jordan-Young
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• 1-4 points

SUPERVISED READINGS II

• Department: Language Resource Center
• Instructor: Stephane A Charitos
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 1 points

HARLEM AND MOSCOW

Prerequisites: NA The Russian Revolution of 1917 is widely acknowledged as a watershed moment in the global struggle for worker’s rights, but it also played a considerable role in the fights against racism and colonialism (Lenin considered both tools of capitalist exploitation). In Soviet Russia’s project to make racial equality a central feature of communism, two urban locales featured prominently: its capital city of Moscow and the burgeoning Black cultural center that was Harlem, New York. This course will explore cross-cultural encounters between Moscow and Harlem as a way to ask larger questions about race, class, and solidarity across difference. Students can expect to read novels, memoirs, and cultural reportage from Harlem Renaissance figures (Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Dorothy West) who traveled to Moscow. Students will also learn about the role of race in early Soviet culture, particularly visual culture (films, children’s media, propaganda posters, etc.). This course includes a field trip to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem.

• Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
• M 3:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer L Wilson
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• 3 points

NYP DESIGN WORKSHOP

DESIGN STUDIO

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Danielle S Smoller
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• 3 points

SPECIAL TOPICS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Ethical Choices in Sci & Tech

Current topics in biomedical engineering. Subject matter will vary by year. Instructors may impose prerequisites depending on the topic.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• W 3:30 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: John T Vaughan
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• 3 points

PROF DEVELOPMENT&LEADERSHIP

The PDL course aims to enhance and expand Columbia Engineering graduate students' interpersonal, professional, and leadership skills, through five core sessions, covering (1) in-person communication skills; (2) resume; (3) business writing; (4) social media and the job search; and (5) academic and professional ethics and integrity. ENGI E4000 also requires 5 elective sessions to further students' development based on their personal interests. Students must select at least one life management elective and one interview elective. This course is offered at the Pass/D/Fail grading option.

• Department: Engineering
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• 0 points

PROF DEVELOPMENT&LEADERSHIP

PDL CLEARANCE

The PDL course aims to enhance and expand Columbia Engineering graduate students' interpersonal, professional, and leadership skills, through five core sessions, covering (1) in-person communication skills; (2) resume; (3) business writing; (4) social media and the job search; and (5) academic and professional ethics and integrity. ENGI E4000 also requires 5 elective sessions to further students' development based on their personal interests. Students must select at least one life management elective and one interview elective. This course is offered at the Pass/D/Fail grading option.

• Department: Engineering
• 0 points

GENEALOGIES OF FEMINISM

Decolonization/Feminist Critiq

Genealogies of Feminism:
 
Course focuses on the development of a particular topic or issue in feminist, queer, and/or WGSS scholarship. Open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates, though priority will be given to students completing the ISSG graduate certificate. Topics differ by semester offered, and are reflected in the course subtitle. For a description of the current offering, please visit the link in the Class Notes.

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Neferti Tadiar
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED GENETIC ANALYSIS

Prerequisites: for undergraduates: Introductory Genetics (W3031) and the instructors permission. This seminar course provides a detailed presentation of areas in classical and molecular genetics for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students. Topics include transmission genetics, gain and loss of function mutations, genetic redundancy, suppressors, enhancers, epistasis, expression patterns, using transposons, and genome analysis. The course is a mixture of lectures, student presentations, seminar discussions, and readings from the original literature.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• M 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Martin Chalfie
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

MEDIEVAL CULTURES OF THE BOOK

Our encounter with the modern print text is a relatively impoverished event, compared to the multi-layered sensory experience of the medieval book.  Medieval manuscripts display individualized scripts, rubrication and marginalia, decoration and illustration, sometimes indications for performance (like musical notation).  They negotiate between sight and sound; as Chaucer tells his 
listeners
, paradoxically, if they don’t want to 
hear
 the Miller’s Tale they can turn the 
page
.  Manuscripts even smell and feel distinctive, depending on the source and preparation of their parchment, or the material of their bindings.   In this course, we will attempt to re-conceive and re-embed some literary “texts” of the Middle Ages, within their original sites in the physical culture of the past: in manuscripts or inscriptions, and in the settings of cultural creation and consumption those objects intimately reflect.  We will learn about some of the major arenas of book production—including books of private devotion such as Psalters and Books of Hours; classroom anthologies and related collections; annals and chronicles; herbals and bestiaries; romances and lives of saints.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher C Baswell
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

DATA JOURNALISM

DATA ANALYSIS STUDIO

• Department: Journalism
• F 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeremia Kimelman
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• 3 points

DATA JOURNALISM

ALGORITHMS

• Department: Journalism
• T noon-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Soma
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• 3 points

CELLULAR TISSUE & ARCHITECTURE

• Department: Pathology
• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY AND STATISTI

INTRODUCTION TO PROB & ST

Prerequisites: Calculus through multiple integration and infinite sums. A calculus-based tour of the fundamentals of probability theory and statistical inference. Probability models, random variables, useful distributions, conditioning, expectations, law of large numbers, central limit theorem, point and confidence interval estimation, hypothesis tests, linear regression. This course replaces SIEO 4150.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Rabinowitz
  CULPA: 19 h-index: 34 Info
• 3 points

CORE ARCHITECTURE STUDIO II

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Erica Goetz
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• 9 points

METHODS II:COMPUTATIONL METHOD

Prerequisites: Medical Informatics G4001, Computer Science W3139. Survey of the methods underlying the field of medical informatics. Explores techniques in mathematics, logic, decision science, computer science, engineering, cognitive science, management science and epidemiology, and demonstrates the application to health care and biomedicine.

• Department: Biomedical Informatics
• F 10:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
• Instructor: Adler J Perotte
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• 3 points

Macromolecular Structure & Interactions

Macromol Structure & Inte

This course has three interrelated goals:
(i)
to develop an intuitive understanding of the thermodynamic forces that control the structure of biological macromolecules and the evolution of life,
(ii)
to learn how to apply that understanding to experimental analyses of macromolecular interactions, and
(iii)
to master the use of molecular graphics software for understanding and interpreting macromolecular structures and interactions. The lectures develop the essential thermodynamic theory from the ground up, starting from a review of the relevant physical forces (Newton's and Coulomb's Laws) and culminating with an intuitive explanation of how complex biological organisms can evolve spontaneously, in a universe in which all natural processes are driven by increasing randomness or entropy, as specified by the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. Subsequent lectures elaborate how these thermodynamic principles govern the formation and interaction of macromolecular structures, which represent the physical foundation for the evolution of life, and how the same principles are applied to analyze related experimental data. The problem sets for the course focus on practical applications of these principles to the analysis of data from common experiments used by molecular biologists to characterize macromolecular interactions. Extensive use is made of molecular graphics software throughout the semester, including in the problem sets, based on instruction provided in both the lectures and recitation sections. The course is designed to develop a deep understanding of the physical mechanisms controlling macromolecular interactions while simultaneously empowering students to critically read related literature and rigorously design and analyze related experiments themselves.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: John Hunt
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

QUANT PHYSIOLOGY II:ORGAN SYST

Students are introduced to a quantitative, engineering approach to cellular biology and mammalian physiology. Beginning with biological issues related to the cell, the course progresses to considerations of the major physiological systems of the human body (nervous, circulatory, respiratory, renal).

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Barclay Morrison
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 42 Info
• 3 points