SEMINAR

TPCS IN HIST OF PHILOSOPHY

Prerequisites: Required of senior majors, but also open to junior majors and junior and senior concentrators who have taken at least four philosophy courses.
Philosophy of Mind

• Department: Philosophy @Barnard
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Elliot S Paul
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

SEMINAR

POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

Prerequisites: Required of senior majors, but also open to junior majors and junior and senior concentrators who have taken at least four philosophy courses.
Philosophy of Mind

• Department: Philosophy
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Michele Moody-Adams
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SEMINAR

ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY

Prerequisites: Required of senior majors, but also open to junior majors and junior and senior concentrators who have taken at least four philosophy courses.
Philosophy of Mind

• Department: Philosophy
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Haim Gaifman
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 30 Info
• 3 points

SEMINAR

PHILOSOPHY OF MUSIC

Prerequisites: Required of senior majors, but also open to junior majors and junior and senior concentrators who have taken at least four philosophy courses.
Philosophy of Mind

• Department: Philosophy
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lydia Goehr
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SR SEM:EXPLORING 18TH CENTURY

This seminar will explore selected topics in the 18
th
century, including the transformation in print culture and development of new genres such as the novel, biography, and popular journalism; the emergence of women writers; the interplay between canonical authors and newcomers such as working class and Black writers; the literature of slavery and abolition; poetic experimentation; and the turn to Romanticism. Writers include Behn, Defoe, Pope, Johnson, Richardson, Sterne, Wheatley, Blake, Cowper, Equiano, Boswell, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, and Austen. Students will be invited to propose additional writers for our weekly discussions and to include in their projects writers beyond the syllabus.

• Department: English @Barnard
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: James G Basker
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

INEQUALITY, POVERTY & MOBILITY

INEQUALITY, POVERTY AND MOBILI

This is an undergraduate senior seminar in social stratication. The course focuses on the current American experience with socioeconomic inequality and mobility. The goals of the course are to understand how inequality is conceptualized and measured in the social sciences, to understand the structure of inequality in the contemporary U.S., to learn the principal theories and evidence for long term trends in inequality, to understand the persistence of poverty and the impact of social policies on American rates of poverty, and to understand the forces that both produce and inhibit intergenerational social mobility in the U.S. Given the nature of the subject matter, a minority of the readings will sometimes involve quantitative social science material. The course does not presume that students have advanced training in statistics, and any readings sections that contain mathematical or statistical content will be explained in class in nontechnical terms as needed. In these instances, our focus will not be on the methods, but rather on the conclusions reached by the author concerning the research question that is addressed in the text.

• Department: Sociology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Thomas DiPrete
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SR SEM: LATE SHAKESPEARE

Shakespeare’s last plays as both experimental and re-visionary. Topics will include aesthetics, philosophy, politics, sexuality, and gender, as well as post-1950 literary criticism’s reconstruction of these final plays. Probable texts:
Othello,

King Lear
,
Antony and Cleopatra
,
The Winter’s Tale
, and
The Tempest
.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter Platt
  CULPA: 23 Info
• 4 points

GENDER & POWER TRANSNATL PERSP

GENDER & POWER IN GLOBAL PERSP

Prerequisites: Instructor approval required
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, global care chains, sexuality, sex work and trafficking, feminist politics, and human rights. , If it is a small world after all, how do forces of globalization shape and redefine both men’s and women’s positions as as workers and political subjects? And, if power swirls everywhere, how are transnational power dynamics reinscribed in gendered bodies? How is the body represented in discussions of the political economy of globalization? These questions will frame this course by highlighting how gender and power coalesce to impact the lives of individuals in various spaces including workplaces, the home, religious institutions, refugee camps, the government, and civil society, and human rights organizations. We will use specific sociological and anthropological case studies, to look at how various regimes of power operate to constrain individuals as well as give them new spaces for agency.This course will enable us to think transnationally, historically, and dynamically, using gender as a lens through which to critique relations of power and the ways that power informs our everyday lives and identities.

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Selina Makana
  Info
• 4 points

MODES OF INQUIRY

Corequisites:
CSER W3921
Modes of Inquiry-Lab, which takes place on Mondays 2:10-3:10pm (meets five times a semester).
This class, a combination of a seminar and a workshop, will prepare students to conduct, write up, and present original research. It has several aims and goals. First, the course introduces students to a variety of ways of thinking about knowledge as well as to specific ways of knowing and making arguments key to humanistic and social science fields. Second, this seminar asks students to think critically about the approaches they employ in pursuing their research. The course will culminate in a semester project, not a fully executed research project, but rather an 8-10 page proposal for research that will articulate a question, provide basic background on the context that this question is situated in, sketch preliminary directions and plot out a detailed methodological plan for answering this question. Students will be strongly encouraged to think of this proposal as related to their thesis or senior project. Over the course of the semester, students will also produce several short exercises to experiment with research techniques and genres of writing.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Sayantani T Dasgupta
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

TRADING NATURE

This course explores the scientific and theoretical conceptualization of nature as a market commodity, through the lens of conservation biology.  Students will engage in critical analysis of the 'traditional' forms in which biodiversity has been appropriated as inputs into markets such as fisheries, resource extraction, bushmeat and medicine, as well as new market environmentalism.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Mary E Blair
  CULPA: 1 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
• Instructor: Casey Blake
  CULPA: 22 Wikipedia Info
• 1 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

Open to senior chemistry, biochemistry, environmental chemistry, and chemical physics majors; senior chemistry concentrators; and students who have taken or are currently enrolled in
CHEM UN3098
. Senior seminar provides direct access to modern chemical research through selected studies by the students from active fields of chemical research. Topics to be presented and discussed draw from the current scientific literature and/or
UN3098
research.

• Department: Chemistry
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Karen E Phillips
  CULPA: 28 h-index: 9 Info
• 2 points

MEDIEVAL ENGLISH TEXTS (SEM)

CHAUCER

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
(Seminar). 
Application Instructions:
E-mail Professor David Yerkes (dmy1@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Medieval English Texts." In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course. Admitted students should register for the course; they will automatically be placed on a wait list from which the instructor will in due course admit them as spaces become available.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: David M Yerkes
  CULPA: 41 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEM IN SCREENWRITING

A seminar for senior film majors. Students will complete a step outline and minimum of 30 pages of their project, including revisions. Through reading/viewing and analyzing selected scripts/films, as well as lectures, exercises and weekly critiques, students will expand their understanding of dramatic writing and narrative-making for film and TV, including adaptations. They will learn appropriate structure for each specific screen-writing form, and endeavor to apply their understanding of drama, character, theme, and structure to their chosen narrative project.

• Department: Film
• W 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Loren-Paul Caplin
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

NOBILITY/CIVILITY: EAST/WEST I

Prerequisites: one semester of Contemporary Civilization or Literature Humanities, or an equivalent course, and the instructor's permission.
A team-taught multicultural, interdisciplinary course examining traditions of leadership and citizenship as they appear in the key texts of early Indian, Islamic, Far Eastern, and Western civilizations. One goal is to identify and examine common human values and issues evident in these texts while also recognizing key cultural differences.

• Department: Columbia College
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 4 points

CONTEMP CULTURE IN ARAB WORLD

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
This seminar, designed for seniors, aims to acquaint students with the notion and theoretical understanding of culture and to introduce them to a critical method by which they can study and appreciate contemporary culture in the Arab World. The seminar will survey examples of written and cinematic culture (fiction and autobiography), as well as music, dance, and literary criticism in the contemporary Arab world. Students will be reading novels, autobioghraphies and literary criticism, as well as watch films and listen to music as part of the syllabus. All material will be in translation. Films will be subtitled. Songs will be in Arabic.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph A Massad
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 3 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 W3950
and
PSYC W3920
. No more than 12 points of
PSYC W3920
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: Nim L Tottenham
  Info
• 1-4 points

MODES OF INQUIRY - LAB

Corequisites:
CSER W3919
Modes of Inquiry.
This lab session meets 5 times a semester, for an hour.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• 0 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

BILL OF RIGHTS

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

• Department: Political Science
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Martha K Zebrowski
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

MEDIA & US POLITICS

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

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

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

EQUALITY & THE LAW

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

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

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

POLITICS OF INCOME INEQUALITY

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

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

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

BUREAUCRATIC POLITICS

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

• Department: Political Science
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Ting
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

THE MODERN POLITICAL CAMPAIGN

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

• Department: Political Science
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Vanessa M Perez
  Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

ISSUES RACE/ETHN IN AMER POL

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

• Department: Political Science
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Carlos Vargas-Ramos
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

CITIES, GOVT AND POLITICS

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

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

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

TOPICS IN AMERICAN DEMOCRACY

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

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

ASIAN AMERICAN CINEMA

This seminar focuses on the critical analysis of Asian representation and participation in Hollywood by taking a look at how mainstream American cinema continues to essentialize the Asian and how Asian American filmmakers have responded to Hollywood Orientalist stereotypes. We will analyze various issues confronting the Asian American, including yellowface, white patriarchy, male and female stereotypes, the “model minority” myth, depictions of “Chinatowns,” panethnicity, the changing political interpretations of the term "Asian American" throughout American history, gender and sexuality, and cultural hegemonies and privileging within the Asian community.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Eric Gamalinda
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

LATINO & ASIAN AMER MEMOIR

In this class, we will explore Latino and Asian American memoir, focusing on themes of immigration and duality. How do we construct identity and homeland when we are ‘multiple’? How do we define ourselves and how do others define us? By reading some of the most challenging and exciting memoirs by Latino and Asian Americans, we will attempt to answer these questions and/or at least try to understand these transnational and multicultural experiences. This class combines the critical with the creative—students have to read and critic memoirs as well as write a final 10-page nonfiction creative writing piece. Students will also have the opportunity to speak to some Latino and Asian authors in class or via SKYPE. Students will be asked to prepare questions in advance for the author, whose work(s) we will have read and discussed. This usually arises interesting and thought-provoking conversations and debates. This 'Dialogue Series' within the class exposes students to a wide-range of voices and offers them a deeper understanding of the complexity of duality.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Nathalie Handal
  Info
• 4 points

LATIN MUSIC AND IDENTITY

Latin music has had a historically strained relationship with mainstream music tastes, exploding in occasional 'boom' periods, and receding into invisibility in others. What if this were true because it is a space for hybrid construction of identity that directly reflects a mixture of traditions across racial lines in Latin America? This course will investigate Latin music's transgression of binary views of race in Anglo-American society, even as it directly affects the development of pop music in America. From New Orleans jazz to Texas
corridos
, salsa, rock, and reggaeton, Latin music acts as both as a soundtrack and a structural blueprint for the 21st century's multicultural experiment. There will be a strong focus on studying Latin music's political economy, and investigating the story it tells about migration and globalization.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Edward Morales
  Info
• 4 points

ARABIC PRISON WRITING

This course studies the genealogy of the prison in Arab culture as manifested in memoirs, narratives, and poems. These cut across a vast temporal and spatial swathe, covering selections from the Quran, Sufi narratives from al-Halllaj oeuvre, poetry by prisoners of war: classical, medieval, and modern. It   also studies modern narratives by women prisoners and political prisoners, and narratives that engage with these issues. Arabic prison writing is studied against other genealogies of this prism, especially in the West, to map out the birth of prison, its institutionalization, mechanism, and role. All readings for the course are in English translations.

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

COLONIZATION/DECOLONIZATION

Prerequisites: Open to CSER majors/concentrators only. Others may be allowed to register with the instructor's 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
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Natasha J Lightfoot
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE

AFRICAN SPIRITUAL-AMERICA

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

• Department: African-American Studies, Institute for Research in
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: C. Daniel Dawson
  Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE

ADVANCED READINGS IN THIRD WRL

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

• Department: African-American Studies, Institute for Research in
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Gary Okihiro
  CULPA: 25 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE

BALDWIN, ET AL.

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

• Department: African-American Studies, Institute for Research in
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Marcellus Blount
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

AMER LIT&CULTURE;:1850-CIVIL WA

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for the course descriptions for each section.

• Department: American Studies
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew Delbanco
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

SUPREME COURT IN AMERICAN HIST

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for the course descriptions for each section.

• Department: American Studies
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Benjamin Rosenberg
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

GNDR HISTORY&AMERICAN; FILM

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for the course descriptions for each section.

• Department: American Studies
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Hilary-Anne Hallett
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

FREEDOM & CITIZENSHIP IN US

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for the course descriptions for each section.

• Department: American Studies
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Roosevelt Montas
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

NEW YORK INTELLECTUALS

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for the course descriptions for each section.

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

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

LIFE AT THE END OF LIFE

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for the course descriptions for each section.

• Department: American Studies
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 4 points

SEMINAR IN INTERNATIONAL FILM

SEM IN INT'L FILM

• Department: Film
• W 2 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Edward Turk
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

E MEDIT IN THE LATE BRONZE AGE

This course presents a comparative study of the histories of Egypt, the Near East, Anatolia and the Aegean world in the period from c. 1500-1100 BC, when several of the states provide a rich set of textual and archaeological data. It will focus on the region as a system with numerous participants whose histories will be studied in an international context. The course is a seminar: students are asked to investigate a topic (e.g., diplomacy, kingship, aspects of the economy, etc.) in several of the states involved and present their research in class and as a paper.

• Department: History
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Marc Van de Mieroop
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
This seminar explores major features of U.S. constitutional law through close examination of selected decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court. Through student discussion and some lecturing, the seminar addresses issues arising from the Constitution's allocation of power among the three branches of government; the allocation of powers between the National and State governments, including, in particular, the scope of Congress' regulatory powers; and the protection of the individual from arbitrary and discriminatory government conduct, including the protections of the Fifth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments against unequal treatment based on race, gender and sexual orientation, the evolution of the concept of liberty from its protection of economic interests before the New Deal to its current role in protecting individual autonomy and privacy, and some aspects of the First Amendment's protection of freedom of speech and press. More generally the seminar aims to enhance understanding of some main aspects of our constitutional tradition and the judicial process by which it is elaborated.

• Department: Political Science
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sidney Rosdeitcher
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

THE BODY IN MEDIEVAL ART

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph S Ackley
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 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
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: John Salyer
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Prerequisites: the department chair's permission.
(Formerly R3932)

• Department: Visual Arts
• Instructor: Matthew E Buckingham
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• Instructor: Aliza Nisenbaum
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• Instructor: Jon Kessler
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Gregory Amenoff
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Tomas Vu Daniel
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Shelly Silver
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Joseph J Peet
  Info
• Instructor: Rirkrit Tiravanija
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• Instructor: Thomas Roma
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Elizaveta Meksin
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• Instructor: Nicola G Lopez
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 1-3 points

ARABIA IMAGINED

This course explores Arabia as a global phenomenon. It is organized around primary texts read in English translation. The site of the revelation of the Quran and the location of the sacred precincts of Islam, Arabia is the destination of pilgrimage and the direction of prayer for Muslims worldwide. It also is the locus of cultural expression ranging from the literature of the 1001 Nights to the broadcasts of Al Jazeera. We begin with themes of contemporary youth culture and political movements associated with the Arab Spring. Seminar paper.

• Department: Anthropology
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Brinkley Messick
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 4 points

STUDIES IN THE NOVEL

JANE AUSTEN

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
(Seminar). An intensive study of the career of Jane Austen, including important recent criticism. We’ll be especially interested in the relations between narrative form and the social dynamics represented in her fiction. We’ll try to cover all six novels, but we can adjust our pace in response to the interests of seminar members. ,
Application instructions:
E-mail Prof. Adams (jea2139@columbia.edu) with your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course. Admitted students should register for the course; they will automatically be placed on a wait list from which the instructor will in due course admit them as spaces become available.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: James E Adams
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 4 points

GLOBAL ACTIVISM

This seminar explores social movements and political protest on the global stage. We will bring together the literatures on social movements and the sociology of globalization and transnationalism to explore the emergence, development, dynamics and consequences of global activism.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Heather M Hurwitz
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

HELLENISM&THE; TOPOGRAPHICAL IMAGINATION

HELLENISM&THE; TOPOGRAPHIC IMAG

This course examines the way particular spaces—cultural, urban, literary—serve as sites for the production and reproduction of cultural and political imaginaries. It places particular emphasis on the themes of the polis, the city, and the nation-state as well as on spatial representations of and responses to notions of the Hellenic across time. Students will consider a wide range of texts as spaces—complex sites constituted and complicated by a multiplicity of languages—and ask: To what extent is meaning and cultural identity, sitespecific? How central is the classical past in Western imagination? How have great metropolises such as Paris, Istanbul, and New York fashioned themselves in response to the allure of the classical and the advent of modern Greece? How has Greece as a specific site shaped the study of the Cold War, dictatorships, and crisis?

• Department: Classics
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Dimitrios Antoniou
  h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

AMER & THE NAT WORLD-1800-PRES

Prerequisites: seminar application required. SEE UNDERGRADUATE SEMINAR SECTION OF THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT'S WEBSITE.
This seminar deals with how Americans have treated and understood the natural world, connected or failed to connect to it, since 1800. It focuses on changing context over time, from the agrarian period to industrialization, followed by the rise of the suburban and hyper-technological landscape. We will trace the shift from natural history to evolutionary biology, give special attention to the American interest in entomology, ornithology, and botany, examine the quest to save pristine spaces, and read from the works of Buffon, Humboldt, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Darwin, Aldo Leopold, Nabokov, among others. Perspectives on naming, classifying, ordering, and most especially, collecting, will come under scrutiny.  Throughout the semester we will assess the strengths and weaknesses of the environmentalist movement, confront those who thought they could defy nature, transcend it, and even live without it.
Field(s): US

• Department: History
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: William R Leach
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

ANIME EFFECT: JAPANESE MEDIA

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission
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.

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

CUR CONTROV-PRIMATE BEHAV&ECOL;

Prerequisites: EEEB UN1011 or the equivalent.
Critical in-depth evaluation of selected issues in primate socioecology, including adaptationism, sociality, sexual competition, communication, kinship, dominance, cognition, and politics. Emphasizes readings from original literature.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Marina Cords
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 4 points

AFRICAN POPULAR CULTURE

AFRICAN CULTURAL PRODUCTION

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor required.
This course examines the political aesthetics of African cultural production and how that production provides sites from which African experiences of colonial and postcolonial life are articulated.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Brian Larkin
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 4 points

MOVEMENT&FEELING; IN THE 18TH C

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Literature, we like to say, moves us. We also say that it makes us feel for others, moved on their behalf. This seminar asks what it means to think of literary experience as both
feeling for
someone (but whom?) and
traveling to
someplace (but where?). We will trace the history of this connection between motion and emotion back to the Restoration and eighteenth century, an age of remarkable expansion for the British Empire. Though travel and sentiment are often kept separate in studies of this exuberant period, we will find that British writers working across a range of genres—novels, plays, poems, sermons, journals, and philosophical treatises—frequently drew the two together. Their works raise questions about empire and relocation even as they contribute to a new psychological and textual emphasis on the sympathetic heart. Slaves, prisoners, servants, and political or religious outliers test this emphasis, and we’ll discuss how our authors by turns facilitate and foreclose emotional identification with them.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Dustin Stewart
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

MODERN AFRICAN DRAMA

This seminar is an introduction to writing for the theater by African dramatists, from the mid 20th Century to the present. Assigned readings are mainly major plays by canonical Anglophone writers. Primary texts are read in conversation with secondary readings which introduce major critical debates in the study of African literature and provide cultural and political context. Surveys of African literature typically center the novel. This course instead takes drama as the starting point for engaging key questions about modern African literary production. The major theme of the class is the relationship between work by African dramatists and oppressive social structures. Students are encouraged to reflect on different theories of theater as articulated by African writers.  Readings are organized more or less chronologically around a series of topics. These include the lived experience of colonialism, anti-colonial thought, the emergence of new nation states, neo-colonialism, gender and sexuality, the problem of apartheid, the antiapartheid struggle, transitional justice, human rights and humanitarianism. No specific prior training or expertise in these areas is required.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Elliot H Ross
  Info
• 4 points

PHOTOGRAPHY & VIDEO IN ASIA

East Asia is now perhaps the world’s most dynamic region, and its dramatic social and economic transformation has been mirrored in the work of a host of startlingly original and innovative visual artists. The class will explore the ideas and visual idioms that inform the leading contemporary photo artists in China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. We will begin with a historical survey of the development of photography in East Asia since the mid-19th century, but we will concentrate on the period from 1960 to the present.  Figures whose work will be explored include such Japanese artists and photographers as Eikoh Hosoe, Daido Moriyama, Tomatsu Shomei, Miyako Ishiuchi, Nobuyoshi Araki, Yasumasa Morimura, Moriko Mori, Naoya Hatakeyema, and Tomoko Sawada. From China, we will examine the work of artists like Zhang Huan, Hong Hao, Yang Fudong, Lin Tianmiao, and Xing Danwen, while Korean artists to be covered include Atta Kim andYeondoo Jung. Since many of these artists work regularly in video as well as photography, there will be regular video screenings throughout the semester.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher Phillips
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• 4 points

POETICS OF THE WARRIOR

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission.
Prerequisites: Instructor's permission. (Seminar). This course of distinguished poetry about warriors and warfare goes to the intersection of disciplines, where warrior and poet together compete and excel--ingeniously, formally, passionately, consequentially--as allies in dire contest against annihilation and despair. Homer's 
Iliad
 heads our list of exemplary titles selected from ancient and classical, mediaeval and early modern sources, including, among others, Sophocles' 
Ajax
, and 
Philoctetes
; 
Beowulf
; 
Song of Roland
; 
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
; 
The Tale of the Heike
; Shakespeare's 
Henry V
; and Milton's 
Paradise Lost
. We also will read histories, memoirs, oratory, and guidebooks, from Yuzan's 
Budoshoshinshu
 to General Patton's "The Secret of Victory," from Vegetius' 
De Re Militari
 to U.S. Army Field Manual (FM) 6-22. Our reading is historically broad enough to prove the range of virtues, precepts, codes and rules of martial character and action. Yet our poetry also excels in vision and in virtuosity quite apart from how it might cultivate the norms of aristeĆ­a, chivalry, or bushido, so that certain of our questions about form and style or imaginative effects might differ in kind from other questions about the closeness or disparity of the practical warrior and the poetic warrior, and the extent to which the latter elevates and inspires the former's conception of himself in times of war and peace. We shall consider how battle narratives which excel as poetry and ring true for the warrior, appealing to his wit and outlook, might replenish the aggrieved and battle-weary mind; how a war poem's beautifully formed and lucidly rendered chaos remembers and regains for him the field of action. Toward my interest in the range of possibilities for military literature as a discipline of study, I welcome not only the novice whose interest is avid but the student knowledgeable about military topics in literature, history, political and social philosophy, and especially the student, who, having served in the Armed Forces, can bring to the seminar table a contemporary military perspective and the fruits of practical wisdom. 
Application instructions
: E-mail Professor Giordani (mg2644@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Poetics of Warrior seminar." In your message, include your name, school,

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Marianne Giordani
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

SEMINAR IN MEDIA: SERIALITY

From streaming to binge-viewing, 
Serial
 to 
Breaking Bad
, seriality is a preeminent framework for the orchestration of contemporary media production and consumption. This course explores histories and theories of seriality as a recurrent trope of media cultures over the last century and more. To this end, the course adopts a comparative media perspective, exploring seriality in its varied textual manifestations across diverse media forms (the penny press, early cinema, television, podcasts, and social media). It also focuses on the range of functions that seriality has performed, as, e.g., a mode for the systematization of mass cultural reproduction, as a framework for the integration of fan networks and media systems, even as a vehicle for the creation of national and political communities.

• Department: Film
• W 10 a.m.-1:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert King
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: the instructor's 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 W3950
and
PSYC W3920
. No more than 8 points of
PSYC W3950
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
• Instructor: Niall Bolger
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 55 Info
• Instructor: Geraldine Downey
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Katherine T Fox-Glassman
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 4 Info
• Instructor: Norma V Graham
  CULPA: 29 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Carl Hart
  CULPA: 43 Wikipedia h-index: 54 Info
• Instructor: Larisa A Heiphetz
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Tory Higgins
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia h-index: 134 Info
• Instructor: Donald C Hood
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 81 Info
• Instructor: Sheena Iyengar
  Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Caroline B Marvin
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Janet Metcalfe
  CULPA: 31 h-index: 70 Info
• Instructor: Michael W Morris
  h-index: 68 Info
• Instructor: Kevin Ochsner
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 86 Info
• Instructor: Valerie J Purdie-Vaughns
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Daphna Shohamy
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 47 Info
• Instructor: Rae Silver
  Wikipedia h-index: 69 Info
• Instructor: Ursula Staudinger
  Wikipedia h-index: 63 Info
• Instructor: Yaakov Stern
  Wikipedia h-index: 160 Info
• Instructor: Kathleen M Taylor
  CULPA: 78 Info
• Instructor: Herbert S Terrace
  CULPA: 29 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Nim L Tottenham
  Info
• Instructor: Sarah Woolley
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 31 Info
• 1-4 points

UNDERGRADUATE SEMINARS I

Prerequisites: Two years of calculus, at least one year of additional mathematics courses, and the director of undergraduate studies' permission.
The subject matter is announced at the start of registration and is different in each section. Each student prepares talks to be given to the seminar, under the supervision of a faculty member or senior teaching fellow.

• Department: Mathematics @Barnard
• Instructor: Daniela de Silva
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

COMPARATIVE POLITICS SEMINAR

COMP GOVT & INSTITUTIONS

Prerequisites:
POLS V1501
or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Please see here for detailed seminar registration guidelines: http://polisci.columbia.edu/undergraduate-programs/seminar-registration-guidelines.
Seminar in Comparative Politics. For most seminars, interested students must attend the first class meeting, after which the instructor will decide whom to admit.

• Department: Political Science
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Hande Mutlu-Eren
  Info
• 4 points

COMPARATIVE POLITICS SEMINAR

STATE MAKING IN SOUTH ASIA

Prerequisites:
POLS V1501
or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Please see here for detailed seminar registration guidelines: http://polisci.columbia.edu/undergraduate-programs/seminar-registration-guidelines.
Seminar in Comparative Politics. For most seminars, interested students must attend the first class meeting, after which the instructor will decide whom to admit.

• Department: Political Science
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Rumela Sen
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE EVERYDAY

The ‘Ethnography of the Everyday’ offers students an opportunity to engage the discipline’s methods and genres, and the ethico-philosophical questions about representativeness and exemplarity that subtend them.The course will consider the everyday as an alternative concept to ‘culture’ and habitus,’ while looking at the ethnographic works that were informed by those ideas. Students will undertake weekly writing assignments as part of an investigation not only of method, but of aesthetics, expression, and representation in general.

• Department: Anthropology
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Rosalind Morris
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SENIOR RESEARCH SEMINAR

Prerequisites: Course open to Barnard Art History majors only.
Independent research for the senior thesis. Students develop and write their senior thesis in consultation with an individual faculty adviser in art history and participate in group meetings scheduled throughout the senior year.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Rosalyn Deutsche
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 3 points

PAN-AFRICANISM&POSTCOLONIALISM;

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

HONORS THESIS SEMINAR

Prerequisites: minimum GPA of 3.5 in MESAAS courses.
The MESAAS honors seminar offers students the opportunity to undertake a sustained research project under close faculty supervision. The DUS advises on general issues of project design, format, approach, general research methodologies, and timetable. In addition, students work with an individual advisor who has expertise in the area of the thesis and can advise on the specifics of method and content. The thesis will be jointly evaluated by the adviser, the DUS, and the honors thesis TA. The DUS will lead students through a variety of exercises that are directly geared to facilitating the thesis. Students build their research, interpretive, and writing skills; discuss methodological approaches; write an annotated bibliography; learn to give constructive feedback to peers and respond to feedback effectively. The final product is a polished research paper in the range of 40-60 pages. Please note: This is a one-year course that begins in the fall semester (1 point) and continues through the spring semester (3 points). Only students who have completed both semesters will receive the full 4 points of credit.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Kai Kresse
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• 1 points