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: Agostino Capponi
  h-index: 19 Info
• Instructor: Antonius B Dieker
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 19 Info
• Instructor: Emanuel Derman
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 30 Info
• Instructor: Adam N Elmachtoub
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 13 Info
• Instructor: Yuri Faenza
  h-index: 11 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

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: Donald Goldfarb
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 55 Info
• Instructor: Vineet Goyal
  h-index: 21 Info
• Instructor: Garud Iyengar
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 30 Info
• Instructor: Hardeep Johar
  Info
• Instructor: Soulaymane Kachani
  CULPA: 12 Info
• Instructor: Jay Sethuraman
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Karl Sigman
  CULPA: 15 Info
• Instructor: Clifford Stein
  CULPA: 31 Wikipedia h-index: 53 Info
• Instructor: Van Anh Truong
  CULPA: 2 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

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: David D Yao
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Xunyu Zhou
  h-index: 54 Info
• Instructor: Jenny S Mak
  Info
• 1-3 points

HONORS TUTORIAL IN MECH ENGIN

Prerequisites: 3.2 or higher GPA
Individual study; may be selected after the first term of the junior year by students maintaining a 3.2 grade-point average. Normally not to be taken in a student's final semester. Course format may vary from individual tutorial to laboratory work to seminar instruction under faculty supervision. Written application must be made prior to registration outlining proposed study program. Projects requiring machine-shop use must be approved by the laboratory supervisor. Students may count up to 6 points toward degree requirements. Students must submit both a project outline prior to registration and a final project write up at the end of the semester.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• Instructor: Sunil Agrawal
  Wikipedia h-index: 65 Info
• 1-3 points

HONORS TUTORIAL IN MECH ENGIN

Prerequisites: 3.2 or higher GPA
Individual study; may be selected after the first term of the junior year by students maintaining a 3.2 grade-point average. Normally not to be taken in a student's final semester. Course format may vary from individual tutorial to laboratory work to seminar instruction under faculty supervision. Written application must be made prior to registration outlining proposed study program. Projects requiring machine-shop use must be approved by the laboratory supervisor. Students may count up to 6 points toward degree requirements. Students must submit both a project outline prior to registration and a final project write up at the end of the semester.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• 1-3 points

HONORS TUTORIAL IN MECH ENGIN

Prerequisites: 3.2 or higher GPA
Individual study; may be selected after the first term of the junior year by students maintaining a 3.2 grade-point average. Normally not to be taken in a student's final semester. Course format may vary from individual tutorial to laboratory work to seminar instruction under faculty supervision. Written application must be made prior to registration outlining proposed study program. Projects requiring machine-shop use must be approved by the laboratory supervisor. Students may count up to 6 points toward degree requirements. Students must submit both a project outline prior to registration and a final project write up at the end of the semester.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• Instructor: Gerard H Ateshian
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Michael Burke
  h-index: 22 Info
• Instructor: Nicolas W Chbat
  Info
• Instructor: Matei T Ciocarlie
  Info
• Instructor: James Hone
  CULPA: 11 h-index: 124 Info
• Instructor: Jeffrey W Kysar
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 37 Info
• Instructor: Qiao Lin
  h-index: 41 Info
• Instructor: Richard W Longman
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 45 Info
• Instructor: Michael J Massimino
  Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Vijay Modi
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 40 Info
• Instructor: Kristin Myers
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 25 Info
• Instructor: Arvind Narayanaswamy
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 26 Info
• Instructor: Fred R Stolfi
  Info
• Instructor: Sinisa Vukelic
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 11 Info
• Instructor: Y. Lawrence Yao
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 95 Info
• Instructor: Hod Lipson
  Wikipedia h-index: 79 Info
• Instructor: Karen Kasza
  h-index: 17 Info
• 1-3 points

UNDERGRAD RES IN MATERIALS SCI

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 materials science 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: William Bailey
  CULPA: 12 Info
• Instructor: Katayun Barmak
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 49 Info
• Instructor: Simon Billinge
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 75 Info
• Instructor: Siu-Wai Chan
  h-index: 36 Info
• Instructor: Oleg Gang
  h-index: 45 Info
• Instructor: Irving P Herman
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia h-index: 50 Info
• Instructor: James Im
  Info
• Instructor: Chris A Marianetti
  Info
• Instructor: Ismail C Noyan
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Ponisseril Somasundaran
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia h-index: 82 Info
• Instructor: Renata M Wentzcovitch
  Info
• Instructor: Yuan Yang
  h-index: 49 Info
• 0-4 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: the written permission of the faculty member who agrees to act as supervisor, and the director of undergraduate studies' permission.
For specially selected physics majors, the opportunity to do a research project in contemporary physics under the supervision of a faculty member. A detailed report on the research is presented by the student when the project is completed.

• Department: Physics
• Instructor: Jeremy R Dodd
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 1-5 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: Permission of the departmental representative required.
For specially selected students, the opportunity to do a research problem in contemporary physics under the supervision of a faculty member. Each year several juniors are chosen in the spring to carry out such a project beginning in the autumn term. A detailed report on the research is presented by the student when the project is complete.

• Department: Physics and Astronomy @Barnard
• Instructor: Reshmi Mukherjee
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia h-index: 63 Info
• 1-5 points

SOCIETAL ADAPT TO TERRORISM

Prerequisites: Junior or Senior standing
Examines how countries have adjusted to the threat of terrorism. How the adaptation reflects the pattern of terrorist attacks, as well as structural and cultural features of the society. Adaptations by individuals, families, and organizational actors.

• Department: Sociology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Seymour Spilerman
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 31 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS I

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. See requirements for a major in visual arts.
VIAR R3900
is the prerequisite for
VIAR Q3901
.
Corequisites:
VIAR R3910
.
(Formerly R3901) Students must enroll in both semesters of the course (
VIAR R3900
and
VIAR Q3901
). The student is required to produce a significant body of work in which the ideas, method of investigation, and execution are determined by the student. A plan is developed in consultation with the faculty. Seminars; presentations. At the end, an exhibition or other public venue is presented for evaluation. Studio space is provided.

• Department: Visual Arts
• W 5 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicola G Lopez
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 2 points

INDEPENDENT STDY-UNDERGRADUATE

INDEPENDENT STUDY-UNDERGRAD

• Department: African-American Studies, Institute for Research in
• Instructor: Josef Sorett
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: C. Daniel Dawson
  Info
• Instructor: Carla L Shedd
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Steven Gregory
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Kevin Fellezs
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 1-4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

SR SEM: ARCHITECTRL CRITICISM

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 16 students per section. Open to architecture majors only unless space permits.
Readings, individual class presentations, and written reports. Attendance is mandatory at the first class meeting in order to form class registration lists.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Suzanne Stephens
  Info
• 4 points

SENIOR HONORS THESIS

SENIOR HONORS THESIS SEMINAR

Weekly seminar to accompany Senior Honors Thesis Lab (CHEM BC3903). Focus is on scientific presentation and writing skills and research conduct.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Christina Vizcarra
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

SR SEM:FIELD OF THE EMOTIONS

Prerequisites: Sign up through the "SR Seminar" section of myBarnard. Enrollment limited to senior Barnard English majors.
An interdisciplinary examination of human feelings, emotions, and passions, with a focus on the romantic era (the poetry of Keats & Shelley, Beethoven's 9th symphony, Turner's paintings), in coordination with more scientific approaches to these phenomena in affective neuroscience (Jaak Panksepp), psychoanalysis (selected Lacan, references to Freud) and philosophy (excerpts and references to Aristotle, Hume, Hegel, & Schiller). A feeling, an emotion, an affect is something that comes into existence or happens or that shows itself (Greek Phainein=to show) without our knowing exactly what it is, what caused it, or what it is "showing" or "saying." How have these phenomena and their function been interpreted? What do we at this point know, how does this compare to earlier speculations, and what should or can we try to do with our emotions and passions?

• Department: English @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Maire Jaanus
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 4 points

INDEPENDENT RES & RESEARCH I

• Department: Political Science
• 1-6 points

INDEPENDENT RES & RESEARCH I

• Department: Political Science
• Instructor: Bernard Harcourt
  Wikipedia h-index: 37 Info
• Instructor: Robert Y Shapiro
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Paula A Franzese
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 1-6 points

GUIDED READING AND RESEARCH

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.

• Department: Religion
• Instructor: Euan Cameron
  Info
• Instructor: Michael Como
  CULPA: 20 Info
• Instructor: Gary Dorrien
  Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Gil Anidjar
  CULPA: 22 Info
• Instructor: Mark C Taylor
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Josef Sorett
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Courtney Bender
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Clemence C Boulouque
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Katherine Pratt Ewing
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 22 Info
• Instructor: Bernard Faure
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Robert A Thurman
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth Castelli
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Gale L Kenny
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Rachel McDermott
  CULPA: 37 Info
• Instructor: Najam I Haider
  CULPA: 8 Info
• Instructor: Beth A Berkowitz
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 6 Info
• Instructor: John S Hawley
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 1-4 points

SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE

Prerequisites: SOCI BC1003 or equivalent social science course and permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15 students.
Drawing examples from popular music, religion, politics, race, and gender, explores the interpretation, production, and reception of cultural texts and meanings. Topics include aesthetic distinction and taste communities, ideology, power, and resistance; the structure and functions of subcultures; popular culture and high culture; and ethnography and interpretation.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Rieder
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS II

Prerequisites:
VIAR R3900
and the instructor's permission. See requirements for a major in visual arts.
Corequisites:
VIAR R3911
.
(Formerly R3902) Students must enroll in both semesters of the course (
VIAR R3900
and 
VIAR Q3901
). The student is required to produce a significant body of work in which the ideas, method of investigation, and execution are determined by the student. A plan is developed in consultation with the faculty. Seminars; presentations. At the end, an exhibition or other public venue is presented for evaluation. Studio space is provided.

• Department: Visual Arts
• W 5 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicola G Lopez
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 2 points

SR SEM:POETS IN CORRESPONDNCE

Prerequisites: Sign up through the "SR Seminar" section of myBarnard. Enrollment limited to senior Barnard English majors.
(Formerly ENGL BC3997; this course has been renumbered but has not changed in content.) How do poets' letters inform our understanding of their poetry? From the eighteenth to the twentieth century, poets have used their intimate correspondence to "baffle absence," as Coleridge remarked. This course will examine the ways several masters of the letter (including Cowper, Keats, Dickinson, Eliot, Bishop, and Lowell, among others) shaped their prose to convey spontaneity in paradoxically artful ways, illuminating their major work as poets and making the private letter a literary form in its own right.

• Department: English @Barnard
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Saskia Hamilton
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 4 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 rumor's 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
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Stuart Rockefeller
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• 4 points

SR SEM: DICKENS

Prerequisites: Sign up through the "SR Seminar" section of myBarnard. Enrollment limited to senior Barnard English majors.
(Formerly ENGL BC3997; this course has been renumbered but has not changed in content.) Charles Dickens: the life, the works, the legend, in as much detail as we can manage in one semester. Reading will be selected by the class, and may include Pickwick Papers, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Bleak House, and selections from his friend John Forster's Life of Charles Dickens.. Special emphasis will be given to the question of what "Dickensian" means, in the context of Dickens's literary style, his genius for characterization, his love of conviviality, and Victorian extremes of wealth and poverty. . Students will be expected to share in creating the syllabus, presenting new material, and leading class discussion.

• Department: English @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: William C Sharpe
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 11 Info
• 4 points

INTRO HISTRCAL THEORY& METHOD

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required. Preference to JUNIOR and SOPHOMORE Majors. Fulfills General Education Requirement (GER); Historical Studies (HIS); Reason and Value
Confronts a set of problems and questions attached to the writing of good history by examining the theories and methods historians have devised to address these problems. Its practical focus: to prepare students to tackle the senior thesis and other major research projects. The reading matter for this course crosses cultures, time periods, and historical genres. Fulfills all concentrations within the history major.

• Department: History @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Joel Kaye
  CULPA: 30 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

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING DESIGN

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

SENIOR SEMINAR IN FILMMAKING

Prerequisites:
FILM W2420
or
FILM W2510
.
An advanced directing workshop for senior film majors who have already completed
FILM W2420
or
FILM W2510
.

• Department: Film
• Instructor: Sandra Luckow
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 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: Nim L Tottenham
  Info
• 1 points

VISITING CRITIC I

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. See requirements for a major in visual arts.
VIAR R3910
is the prerequisite for
VIAR R3911
.
Corequisites:
VIAR R3900
.
(Formerly R3921) Students are required to enroll in both semesters (
VIAR R3910
and
VIAR R3911
). 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 student's ideas are discussed and evaluated on an ongoing basis.

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

SOCIAL CONTEXTS IMMIGRATN LAW

Examines the historical and contemporary social, economic, and political factors that shape immigration law and policy along with the social consequences of those laws and policies.  Addresses the development and function of immigration law and aspects of the immigration debate including unauthorized immigration, anti-immigration sentiments, and critiques of immigration policy.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: John Salyer
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

SR SEM: WRITE TO VOTE

This seminar investigates the literary antecedents and cultural aftermath of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, with special attention to gendered and racial narratives of the ballot. Authors include Walt Whitman, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Thomas Dixon, Jr., William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, Fannie Lou Hamer and Alice Walker.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jennie Kassanoff
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 4 points

MEDICINE & WESTRN CIVILIZATION

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
This seminar seeks to analyze the ways by which medicine and culture combine to shape our values and traditions. To this end, it will examine notable literary, medical, and social texts from classical antiquity to the present.

• Department: History
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 4 points

POLITICAL THEORY SEMINAR

TOCQUEVILLES DEMOCRACY

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. Pre-registration is not permitted.
Seminar in Political Theory. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.

• Department: Political Science
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jon Elster
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 108 Info
• 4 points

POLITICAL THEORY SEMINAR

REASON AND POLITICS

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. Pre-registration is not permitted.
Seminar in Political Theory. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.

• Department: Political Science
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Luke S Macinnis
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

VISITING CRITIC II

Prerequisites:
VIAR R3910
and the instructor's permission. See requirements for a major in visual arts.
Corequisites:
VIAR Q3901
.
(Formerly R3922) Students are required to enroll in both semesters (
VIAR R3910
and 
VIAR R3911
). 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 student's ideas are discussed and evaluated on an ongoing basis.

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