HONORS TUTORIAL IN MECH ENGIN

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.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• Instructor: Fred R Stolfi
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• 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
• 3 points

UNDERGRAD RES IN MATERIALS SCI

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: Irving P Herman
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia h-index: 50 Info
• Instructor: James Im
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• Instructor: Chris A Marianetti
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• Instructor: Ismail C Noyan
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Ponisseril Somasundaran
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia h-index: 82 Info
• Instructor: Yuan Yang
  h-index: 49 Info
• 0-4 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
• 3-5 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

BODY IN FRANCOPHONE MIDDLE AGES

In this course, we consider the body both as a site for textual production—the animal skin used to make medieval parchment—and as an object of representation in medieval francophone literature. How does the choice of literary genre inflect the presentation of gender? What characterized the corporeality of the medieval hero? How did writers depict themselves and the objects of their desire? When genitalia “speak for themselves,” as in some the medieval fabliaux we will read, what do they say and whose desire do they express? Which bodies are clearly gendered and why? How does bodily metamorphosis intersect with sexual transgression and other kinds of gender trouble?

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Eliza Zingesser
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 3 Info
• 3 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

SR SEM:ARCHITECTRE 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 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Suzanne Stephens
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• 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: Marisa C Buzzeo
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Michael Campbell
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• 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
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Maire Jaanus
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 4 points

INDEPENDENT RES & RESEARCH I

• Department: Political Science
• Instructor: Gregory Wawro
  CULPA: 32 h-index: 13 Info
• Instructor: Andrew J Nathan
  CULPA: 44 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• 1-6 points

GUIDED READING AND RESEARCH

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.

• Department: Religion
• Instructor: Katharina Ivanyi
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Peter J Awn
  CULPA: 31 Info
• Instructor: Euan Cameron
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• Instructor: Michael Como
  CULPA: 20 Info
• Instructor: Gary Dorrien
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• Instructor: Gil Anidjar
  CULPA: 22 Info
• Instructor: Robert E Somerville
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: John A McGuckin
  Wikipedia h-index: 20 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: Thomas F Yarnall
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Zhaohua Yang
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• 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
• 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

UNDERGRADUATE THESIS

Prerequisites: agreement by a faculty member to serve as thesis adviser.
An independent theoretical or experimental investigation by an undergraduate major of an appropriate problem in computer science carried out under the supervision of a faculty member. A formal written report is mandatory and an oral presentation may also be required. May be taken over more than one term, in which case the grade is deferred until all 6 points have been completed. Consult the department for section assignment.

• Department: Computer Science
• 1-6 points

SR SEM:ADULTERY FICTION/FILM

Prerequisites: Sign up through the "SR Seminar" section of myBarnard. Enrollment limited to Barnard senior Film majors and Barnard senior English majors with Film concentration.
"Rising from the most basic human needs, marriage is essential to our most profound hopes and aspirations."  So writes the United States Supreme Court in
Obergefell v. Hodges
 (2015), finding in marriage the "keystone of our social order" - the means by which individual desire is stably fixed within the family unit and, thereby, linked to civility and law.  This course studies a rich counter-tradition of film and literature interested in adultery.  These works suggest ways in which human desire and identity exceed social bounds; they also examine ways in which private desire is not only limited but formed by social forces.  Works may include: fiction by Flaubert, Goethe, James, Laclos, Proust, Tolstoy; films by Frears, Kieslowski, Renoir, Resnais, Wilder, Wong; criticism and philosophy by Barthes, Beauvoir, Cavell, Cott, Freud, Hegel, Marx.

• Department: English @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew L Lynn
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 4 points

SENIORS HONORS THESIS LAB

Corequisites: CHEM BC3901
Guided research in Chemistry or Biochemistry, under the sponsorship of a faculty member, leading to the senior thesis. A minimum of 8 hours of research per week, to be arranged.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• Instructor: Christian Rojas
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Marisa C Buzzeo
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Dina C Merrer
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Andrew C Crowther
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Michael Campbell
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• Instructor: Mary Sever
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Rachel Austin
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia h-index: 28 Info
• Instructor: Christina Vizcarra
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Benjamin Bostick
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 44 Info
• 0 points

SENIORS HONORS THESIS LAB

Corequisites: CHEM BC3901
Guided research in Chemistry or Biochemistry, under the sponsorship of a faculty member, leading to the senior thesis. A minimum of 8 hours of research per week, to be arranged.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• 0 points

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 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Saskia Hamilton
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 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 include Pickwick Papers, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Bleak House, and selections from his friend John Forster's Life of Charles Dickens, as well as other works to be chosen by the class. Special emphasis will be given to Dickens's literary style and genius for characterization, in the context of Victorian concerns about money, class, gender, and the role of art in an industrializing society. Students will be expected to share in creating the syllabus, presenting new material, and leading class discussion. Be prepared to do a LOT of reading--all of it great!--plus weekly writing on Courseworks.

• Department: English @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 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
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Joel Kaye
  CULPA: 30 Info
• 4 points

WHAT IS ART FOR?

MODERNISM & AUTONOMY

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew Hart
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

SR SEM: ANTISLAVERY LIT

Prerequisites: Sign up through the "SR Seminar" section of myBarnard. Enrollment limited to senior Barnard English majors.
Drawing on poems, plays, slave narratives, fiction and other genres, by both famous and non-canonical writers from 1660 to 1865, this seminar explores the ways that writers helped end slavery. Authors include Defoe, Johnson, Wheatley, Equiano, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Longfellow, Alcott, Stowe, Douglass, Melville, and Harriet Jacobs, among others. Final projects may take the form of extended critical essays or original anthologies.

• Department: English @Barnard
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: James G Basker
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SR SEM: BLACK LITERATURE NOW

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.) Examines contemporary African American literature, in particular the ways in which recent authors are reconceiving literary notions of blackness. Beginning in the 1980s with the emergence of "post-soul" literature, this class explores the ways in which authors one or two generations after the Civil Rights Movement reconfigure their sense of racial "belonging" and notions of how to write "blackness" into a text. Authors may include Ellis, Whitehead, Southgate, Everett, Senna, Sapphire, Beatty, Toure, Packer, Johnson and Morrison.

• Department: English @Barnard
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Monica L Miller
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

SR SEM: SHORT FICT AMER WOMEN

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.) We will explore the rich variety of fiction in shorter forms--short stories and novellas--written by American women. Writers to be studied will include Porter, Stafford, Welty, O'Connor, Olsen, Paley.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Mary Gordon
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia 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
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• 4 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
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• 2 points

POLITICAL THEORY SEMINAR

INDIVIDUAL AUTONOMY IN 21CENT

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 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Luise Papcke
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

POLITICAL THEORY SEMINAR

MARX

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

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: Sociology @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: John Salyer
  CULPA: 3 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

SEMINAR

CRITICAL THEORY

Prerequisites: required of senior majors, but also open to junior majors and junior and senior concentrators who have taken at least four philosophy courses.
This seminar will read some major works in Political Philosophy and link them to some central issues in Ethics, Meta Ethics, Moral Psychology, and Philosophy of Mind. Texts will include among others: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Locke's Second Treatise on Government, Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, Marx's Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844, Mill's On Liberty, Isaiah Berlin's "Two Concepts of Liberty", Rawls's A Theory of Justice and Political Liberalism, Garret Hardin's "Tragedy of the Commons" , Brian Barry's Culture and Equality, Charles Taylor's "A Radical Redefinition of Secularism", Gandhi's Hind Swaraj, among others. Requirements: Strictly regular attendance and a term paper at the end of the semester. Possibly also a class presentation (though we will decide that on the first day of class when we decide what format to adopt for each week).

• Department: Philosophy
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Axel Honneth
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SEMINAR

RETHINKING DESCARTES MEDITATIO

Prerequisites: required of senior majors, but also open to junior majors and junior and senior concentrators who have taken at least four philosophy courses.
This seminar will read some major works in Political Philosophy and link them to some central issues in Ethics, Meta Ethics, Moral Psychology, and Philosophy of Mind. Texts will include among others: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Locke's Second Treatise on Government, Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, Marx's Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844, Mill's On Liberty, Isaiah Berlin's "Two Concepts of Liberty", Rawls's A Theory of Justice and Political Liberalism, Garret Hardin's "Tragedy of the Commons" , Brian Barry's Culture and Equality, Charles Taylor's "A Radical Redefinition of Secularism", Gandhi's Hind Swaraj, among others. Requirements: Strictly regular attendance and a term paper at the end of the semester. Possibly also a class presentation (though we will decide that on the first day of class when we decide what format to adopt for each week).

• Department: Philosophy
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Christia Mercer
  CULPA: 56 Wikipedia 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.
This seminar will read some major works in Political Philosophy and link them to some central issues in Ethics, Meta Ethics, Moral Psychology, and Philosophy of Mind. Texts will include among others: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Locke's Second Treatise on Government, Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, Marx's Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844, Mill's On Liberty, Isaiah Berlin's "Two Concepts of Liberty", Rawls's A Theory of Justice and Political Liberalism, Garret Hardin's "Tragedy of the Commons" , Brian Barry's Culture and Equality, Charles Taylor's "A Radical Redefinition of Secularism", Gandhi's Hind Swaraj, among others. Requirements: Strictly regular attendance and a term paper at the end of the semester. Possibly also a class presentation (though we will decide that on the first day of class when we decide what format to adopt for each week).

• Department: Philosophy
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Akeel Bilgrami
  CULPA: 28 Wikipedia Info
• 3 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

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 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 4 points

ADV TOPICS GENDER & SEXUALITY

This research and writing-intensive seminar is designed for senior majors with a background and interest in the sociology of gender and sexuality. The goal of the seminar is to facilitate completion of the senior requirement (a 25-30 page paper) based on “hands on” research with original qualitative data. Since the seminar will be restricted to students with prior academic training in the subfield, students will be able to receive intensive research training and guidance through every step of the research process, from choosing a research question to conducting original ethnographic and interview-based research, to analyzing and interpreting one’s findings. The final goal of the course will be the production of an original paper of standard journal-article length. Students who choose to pursue their projects over the course of a  second semester will have the option of revisiting their articles further for submission and publications.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Bernstein
  CULPA: 27 Info
• 4 points

SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Prerequisites: Must attend first class for instructor permission. Preference to Urban Studies majors. General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC). Only 16 admitted.
Introduction to the main concepts and processes associated with the creation of new social enterprises, policies, programs, and organizations; criteria for assessing business ventures sponsored by non-profits and socially responsible initiatives undertaken by corporations; specific case studies using New York City as a laboratory. To be offered Fall 2011.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Thomas Kamber
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

POLIT PARTIES IN 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 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Shigeo Hirano
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 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
• W 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

SEXUALITY & CITIZENSHIP IN US

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: Justin H Phillips
  CULPA: 23 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

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

ADOLESCENT SOCIETY

This seminar will explore the social and cultural construction of adolescence in contemporary American society.  Adolescence is an important life-stage where experiences and decision-making have both individual and group consequences.  Major themes will include: cultural and legal socialization of youth, crime and deviance, health and sexuality, employment and educational outcomes, and political behavior/civic engagement.

• Department: Sociology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Carla L Shedd
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

CHINA IN THE MODERN WORLD

The rise of China has impacted world politics and economy in significant ways. How did it happen? This course introduces some unique angles of self-understanding as suggested by Chinese writers, intellectuals, and artists who have participated in the making of modern China and provided illuminating and critical analyses of their own culture, history, and the world. Readings cover a wide selection of modern Chinese fiction and poetry, autobiographical writing, photography, documentary film, artworks, and music with emphasis on the interplays of art/literature, history, and politics. Close attention is paid to the role of storytelling, the mediating powers of technology, new forms of visuality and sense experience, and the emergence of critical consciousness in response to global modernity. In the course of the semester, a number of contemporary Chinese artists, filmmakers, and writers are invited to answer students’ questions.   This course draws on cross-disciplinary methods from art history, film studies, anthropology, and history in approaching texts and other works. The goal is to develop critical reading skills and gain in-depth understanding of modern China and its engagement with the modern world beyond the cold war rhetoric. Our topics of discussion include historical rupture, loss and melancholy, exile, freedom, migration, social bonding and identity, capitalism, nationalism, and the world revolution. All works are read in English translation.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lydia Liu
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 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

WAR AND MEMORY

This course provides an overview on the remembering of wars and conflicts, at a global scale, in the 20th and 21th centuries. It intends to present how and why this issue became a central one in contemporary politics, culture, and society. It is based on my own research and a large experience as an expert for many French and European private and public institutions. It offers first a general framework, presenting the theories and methods used in the field of “Memory Studies” through the writings of major authors like Maurice Halbwachs and the invention of the concept of “collective memory”, or Pierre Nora and the invention of the “history of memory”. It addresses than a series of examples throughout contemporary history: the memory of WWI and WWII in a short and a long-term perspective; the question of the Holocaust; the issue Colonial wars, Communism, and the memory of other Genocides in the XXth and XXIth centuries. It ends with the study of some specific testimonies and monuments, in a comparative perspective.

• Department: History
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Henry Rousso
  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 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: C. Daniel Dawson
  Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE

AFRICAN & ASIAN ENCOUNTER

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

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

CLIM CHNG/GLOBEL MIGR/HUM RGT

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: Sociology @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
• 1-3 points

GENDER AND ORGANIZATIONS

This course examines the sociological features of organizations through a gender lens. We will analyze how gender, race, class, and sexuality matter for individuals and groups within a variety of organizational contexts. The course is grounded in the sociological literatures on gender and organizations.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Heather M Hurwitz
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

GLOBAL BESTSELLERS

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission
(Seminar). Students in this course will join millions of readers around the world who have made the texts on the syllabus into bestsellers. Why is it that travelers have found Khalid Hosseini's novel
The Kite Runner
featured prominently in airport bookshops in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa? Such
popularity
on a global scale offers an occasion for
critical reflection
about the transnational economic forces and cultural politics that shape literary supply and demand. Our specific focus will be on novels, memoirs, and films whose authors come from places outside publishing centers of New York and London (Afghanistan, Haiti, India, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa), yet find massive audiences in the US, UK and worldwide. We will do some reading in literary and cultural theory, and we will attend to the material networks of publishing and distribution, in order to understand how these bestsellers emerge, what kinds of conventional narratives or images of otherness they reinforce, and what new narratives and images they might generate. How can we understand the relationship between these texts popularity and their literary role? What frameworks of evaluation and interpretation are appropriate for such texts? What do these texts tell us about globalization?
Application Instructions:
E-mail Professor Wenzel (jw2497@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Global Bestsellers seminar." In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course. Admitted students should register for the course; they will automatically be placed on a wait list from which the instructor will in due course admit them as spaces become available.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer Wenzel
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 15 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
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher Phillips
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN THEORY

HORROR,TRAGEDY,SPECTATORSHIP

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission
(Seminar). Why do we like to watch horror films? tragic films? films with sad endings? Why do we like to look at news of tragedies (or, as Susan Sontag put it, why do we like to "regar[d] the pain of others"?) What do horror and tragedy do for us, or to us? Behind these questions about the meaning of horror and tragedy as aesthetic forms is the haunting question: why do horror and tragedy happen? do they mean anything? Questions about the nature and meaning of tragedy and horror have been at the center of aesthetic thought since the 5th century BC, and remain central to aesthetic, literary, and film theory today. This course offers, effectively, a history of horror and tragedy, moving chronologically, from the earliest dramatic productions to recent films, and from the earliest theories of tragedy to more recent accounts of horror, tragedy, and spectatorship. We will read philosophical texts alongside plays and films from the same era: each revealing the richness of the others and testing the others' limits. Our focus on drama and film allows us to address the central question of spectatorship: what happens when we not only hear a story of horror or tragedy, but when we watch horror or tragedy unfold. Texts include works by Sophocles, Shakespeare, Racine, Mozart, Büchner, Wagner, Georges Méliès Fritz Lang, Bertolt Brecht, Ingmar Bergman, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, with philosophical writings by Aristotle, Augustine, Boethius, Descartes, Hume, Schiller, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud, Benjamin, Derrida, Judith Butler, and more. 
Application instructions:
E-mail Professor Peters (peters@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Horror, Tragedy, and Spectatorship." In your message, include your name, school, major, year of study, relevant courses taken, and 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 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Julie S Peters
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points