COMPARATIVE POLITICS SEMINAR

VOTING BEHAVIOR & 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
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Chiara Superti
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

COMPARATIVE POLITICS SEMINAR

DEMOCRACY: CAUSES&CONSEQUENCES;

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
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Dawn Brancati
  h-index: 18 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

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY

Prerequisites:
POLS V1601
or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission.
Seminar in International Relations. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.

• Department: Political Science
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard K Betts
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

THEORIES OF REVOLUTION

Prerequisites:
POLS V1601
or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission.
Seminar in International Relations. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.

• Department: Political Science
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Shahrough Akhavi
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

THE ETHICAL DIMENSIONS OF INTL

Prerequisites:
POLS V1601
or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission.
Seminar in International Relations. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.

• Department: Political Science
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Rajan Menon
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• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

STRAT INTELLIGENCE&POLTCL; DECI

Prerequisites:
POLS V1601
or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission.
Seminar in International Relations. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.

• Department: Political Science
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Albert Bininachvili
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

U.S.-IRAN RELATIONS

Prerequisites:
POLS V1601
or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission.
Seminar in International Relations. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.

• Department: Political Science
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew A Cooper
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• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

THE COLD WAR

Prerequisites:
POLS V1601
or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission.
Seminar in International Relations. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.

• Department: Political Science
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert L Jervis
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

DEBATING HUMAN RIGHTS

Prerequisites:
POLS V1601
or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission.
Seminar in International Relations. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.

• Department: Political Science
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jack L Snyder
  CULPA: 27 Info
• 4 points

ART CRITICISM

This course is a seminar on contemporary art criticism written by artists in the post war period.  Such criticism differs from academic criticism because it construes art production less as a discrete object of study than as a point of engagement.  It also differs from journalistic criticism because it is less obliged to report art market activity and more concerned with polemics.   Art /Criticism I will trace the course of these developments by examining the art and writing of one artist each week.  These will include Brian O’Doherty/Patrick Ireland, Allan Kaprow, Robert Morris, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Smithson, Art & Language, Dan Graham, Adrian Piper, Mary Kelly, Martha Rosler, Judith Barry and Andrea Fraser.  We will consider theoretical and practical implications of each artist’s oeuvre.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: John Miller
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

METHODS & THEORIES OF ART HIST

Prerequisites: Barnard Art History Major Requirement. Enrollment limited only to Barnard Art History majors.
Introduction to critical writings that have shaped histories of art, including texts on iconography and iconology, the psychology of perception, psychoanalysis, social history, feminism and gender studies, structuralism, semiotics, and post-structuralism.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexander Alberro
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Jonathan Reynolds
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

CHILDHOOD & POLICY IN EUR & US

This course explores the relationship between changing perceptions of childhood and the development of social policies over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the United States and Europe. Conceiving of childhood as a social construct, rather than a fixed and biological stage of life, historians of childhood have focused on the experiences of children to understand how society perceives of itself and how it has been affected by economic, political, intellectual, and social shifts over time. In this course, we will ask what might explain similarities and differences in how childhood was perceived across regions and cultures? The course focuses on how various class, racial, and gender inequalities affected the material experience of children in the past and how these clashed with ideologies of childhood, examining whether it is possible for a child to
not
experience a childhood. We will also concentrate on the place of children in the emergence of welfare state programs, paying particular attention to the burgeoning influence of the medical and social sciences. We will ask: what is the relationship between children and the national community? What are some of the instrumental ways in which childhood was used to shape the values or norms of the citizenry? How did concerns about child protection, and tensions regarding the public or private responsibility for children’s well-being, shape the formation of social policy?

• Department: History
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Anna K Danziger Halperin
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• 4 points

POST-BACCALAUREATE SEMINAR

This seminar aims to provide students in the post-baccalaureate certificate program with opportunities 1) to (re-)familiarize themselves with a selection of major texts from classical antiquity, which will be read in English, 2) to become acquainted with scholarship on these texts and with scholarly writing in general, 3) to write analytically about these texts and the interpretations posed about them in contemporary scholarship, and 4) to read in the original language selected passages of one of the texts in small tutorial groups, which will meet every week for an additional hour with members of the faculty.

• Department: Classics
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO CONNOISSEURSHIP

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. Please see Barnard College Art History Department's website for instructions.
Factors involved in judging works of art, with emphasis on paintings; materials; technique, condition, attribution; identification of imitations and fakes; questions of relative quality.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• M 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Maryan Ainsworth
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

A VIRTUAL ENLIGHTENMENT

A seminar and digital laboratory on the material world of the Enlightenment. 4 class sessions will be taught by Metropolitan Museum of Art curators. Instead of writing papers, students will create digital work, leading to a course website. The invention of the private interior, the birth of global capitalism, and the rise of individualism will be studied through their expression in some of the most glorious crafted furnishings ever created.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• T 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Anne Higonnet
  CULPA: 31 Wikipedia Info
• 5 points

INTRO TO URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY

This seminar is an introduction to the theory and methods that have been developed by anthropologists to study contemporary cities and urban cultures. Although anthropology has historically focused on the study of non-Western and largely rural societies, since the 1960s, anthropologists have increasingly directed attention to cities and urban cultures. During the course of the semester, we will examine such topics as: the politics of urban planning, development and land use; race, class, gender and urban inequality; urban migration and transnational communities; the symbolic economies of urban space; and street life. Readings will include the works of Jane Jacobs, Sharon Zukin, and Henri Lefebvre.

• Department: Anthropology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Steven Gregory
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR PROJ:RESEARCH FOR MUSIC

Working with her advisor, a student will expand the research project initiated in the Fall Senior Seminar for Music Majors (BC3992x).  In order to satisfy the requirement, the student will complete a fifty page research paper.

• Department: Music @Barnard
• Instructor: Gail R Archer
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 3 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

Prerequisites: Prerequisites: Course intended to be taken by all Spanish majors during the fall of their senior year. Third-year bridge course (W3300), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350).
This course will work retrospectively through the transatlantic Hispanic tradition, analyzing essays, poems, novels and movies that locate themselves against the larger structure of an empire (be it US, British or Spanish) and its corresponding webs of translation and trade. While "travel writing" in the Hispanic tradition has long included accounts of the New World written back to Spanish readers, we will examine other vectors as well: texts written back to the New World by American travelers in Europe, Spanish and Spanish American impressions of the burgeoning US empire, and textual and cinematic attempts to position the local within a global community of observers, readers and/or viewers. Central topics include the manipulation of the trope of civilization vs. barbarity, the peripheral critique of global capitalism, the question of local vs. universal perspectives on culture, and, above all, the aesthetic and political agendas that further (and are furthered by) the notion of cosmopolitanism, that "placeless place" (in the words of Camilla Fojas) "that remains to be thought.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Ronald D Briggs
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR PROJ: MUSIC REPERTORY

Working with her advisor, a student will develop a vocal or instrumental recital program with representative musical works from a variety of historical periods.   In order to satisfy the requirement, the student will present an hour long public performance of the recital program.  Students may also satisfy this requirement by composing original vocal or instrumental works.

• Department: Music @Barnard
• Instructor: Gail R Archer
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 3 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

Iberian Globalization , How to study the current process designated as “globalization” from the perspective of Early Modern times? How to construct a corpus of sources and ideas on such a relevant topic? Between the 15th and the 17th centuries, with the expansion projects of the Portuguese and Spanish crowns in Africa, Asia, America, and Europe itself, one “conquest” became more crucial than any other ––retaking the words of the philosopher Martin Heidegger, this was “the conquest of the world as an image.” Much earlier than Heidegger, in the late 16th century, the Spanish Jesuit José de Acosta had expressed this idea in an even more palpable way: the world could now be (visually and symbolically) “embraced.”, The process of conquering the world as an image and embracing it with one’s eyes closed was accompanied, however, by myriad challenges: not only mapping the new extension of the empire and updating the information in the Padrón Real from Seville, but also relying on a panoply of local representations of the territories produced from afar; not only exporting the Spanish and the Portuguese languages as a key for the expansion of the empire (as Antonio de Nebrija pointed out in 1492), but also learning local languages (Nahuatl, Maya, Chinese, Japanese, Tupí, Tamil, etc.); not only globalizing European imagery through prints and objects brought to the four parts of the world, but facing the transformation of art histories which had remained, until then, mostly autonomous; not only converting neophytes to Christianity, but innovating conversion techniques and debating on their efficacy; not only recording and depicting the flora and fauna encountered in new lands, but transforming the written and visual taxonomies through which unknown specimens could be described., In this senior seminar we will study a great variety of primary sources to configure a possible “corpus” of research in the field of Iberian globalization: maps drawn or printed from New Spain, Perú, China, or the Philippines (the Relaciones Geográficas or the Mercedes maps, and Matteo Ricci’s or Guaman Poma de Ayala’s world maps); objects and images painted and carved in the most novel materials (corn paste, feathers, mother-of-pearl, lacquer, sandal paste, etc.); conversion books and dictionaries aimed to facilitate the process of Christianization (the Franciscan Diego Valadés’s Rhetorica Christiana or the Jesuit João Rodrigues’s conceptualization of Japanese language); books of natural history on Mexican

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Alessandra Russo
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEM FOR MUSIC MAJORS

The goals of this seminar are a) to introduce senior music majors to ethnographic, bibliographic, and archival research methods in music and b) to help the same students develop, focus, implement, draft, revise, and polish a substantive, original piece of research (25-30 pages) which will serve as the senior project. The course will begin with a survey of academic literature on key problems in musicological research and writing, and will progress to a workshop/discussion format in which each week a different student is responsible for assigning readings and leading the discussion on a topic which s/he has formulated and deemed to be of relevance to her own research.

• Department: Music @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lauren E Ninoshvili
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

HEALTHCARE & WELFARE STATE

This course examines state-based guarantees to healthcare through a comparative analysis of different welfare states. It asks why unlike most other advanced, industrial, and wealthy countries, the United States has not guaranteed a right to healthcare. Depending on the country, the place of healthcare amidst other demands for social insurance, which includes unemployment benefits, parental leave, childcare, and pensions varies widely. This course aims towards a closer understanding of the political and social choices that influence whether healthcare is a social right.

• Department: History
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: George J Aumoithe
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• 4 points

THE MAJOR SEMINAR

• Department: Classics
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: John T Ma
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

THE MAJOR SEMINAR

Prerequisites: junior standing.
Required for all majors in classics and classical studies. The topic changes from year to year, but is always broad enough to accommodate students in the languages as well as those in the interdisciplinary major. Past topics include: love, dining, slavery, space, power.

• Department: Classics
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: John T Ma
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED SENIOR RESEARCH

Supervised research under the direction of individual members of the department.

• Department: Philosophy
• Instructor: David Albert
  CULPA: 32 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• Instructor: Akeel Bilgrami
  CULPA: 28 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Taylor Carman
  CULPA: 40 Wikipedia h-index: 19 Info
• Instructor: Justin Clarke-Doane
  h-index: 10 Info
• Instructor: John D Collins
  CULPA: 45 Info
• Instructor: Haim Gaifman
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 30 Info
• Instructor: Lydia Goehr
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Robert Gooding-Williams
  Wikipedia h-index: 15 Info
• Instructor: Axel Honneth
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Patricia Kitcher
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Philip Kitcher
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Tamar A Lando
  CULPA: 8 Info
• Instructor: Wolfgang R Mann
  CULPA: 36 Info
• Instructor: Christia Mercer
  CULPA: 56 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Michele Moody-Adams
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: John Morrison
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 7 Info
• Instructor: Elliot S Paul
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Christopher Peacocke
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Carol Rovane
  CULPA: 13 Info
• Instructor: Kathryn C Tabb
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Achille Varzi
  CULPA: 30 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• Instructor: Katja Vogt
  CULPA: 36 Info
• 3 points

DIRCTD READING-ANCIENT STUDIES

Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies' permission.
Program of readings in some aspect of ancient studies, supervised by an appropriate faculty member chosen from the departments offering courses in the program in Ancient Studies. Evaluation by a series of essays, one long paper, or oral or written examination(s).

• Department: Classics
• 1-3 points

DIRCTD READING-ANCIENT STUDIES

Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies' permission.
Program of readings in some aspect of ancient studies, supervised by an appropriate faculty member chosen from the departments offering courses in the program in Ancient Studies. Evaluation by a series of essays, one long paper, or oral or written examination(s).

• Department: Classics
• Instructor: Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 1-3 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Prerequisites: Permission of the program director in term prior to that of independent study. Independent study form available at departmental office.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• Instructor: Kadambari Baxi
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• Instructor: Karen Fairbanks
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Ralph Ghoche
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 2 Info
• 2-4 points

DIRECTED READINGS IN GREEK LIT

DIRECTED GREEK READINGS

Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies' permission.
A program of reading in Greek literature, to be tested by a series of short papers, one long paper, or an oral or written examination.

• Department: Classics
• Instructor: Collomia Charles
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Kristina Milnor
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia h-index: 10 Info
• Instructor: Helene P Foley
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
  CULPA: 20 Info
• Instructor: Seth R Schwartz
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Gareth Williams
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 1-3 points

DIRECTED READINGS

Designed for undergraduates who want to do directed reading in a period or on a topic not covered in the curriculum.

• Department: Classics
• Instructor: Karen R Van Dyck
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 1-3 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

Supervised research under the direction of individual members of the department.

• Department: Philosophy
• Instructor: David Albert
  CULPA: 32 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• Instructor: Akeel Bilgrami
  CULPA: 28 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Taylor Carman
  CULPA: 40 Wikipedia h-index: 19 Info
• Instructor: Justin Clarke-Doane
  h-index: 10 Info
• Instructor: John D Collins
  CULPA: 45 Info
• Instructor: Haim Gaifman
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 30 Info
• Instructor: Lydia Goehr
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Robert Gooding-Williams
  Wikipedia h-index: 15 Info
• Instructor: Axel Honneth
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Patricia Kitcher
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Philip Kitcher
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Tamar A Lando
  CULPA: 8 Info
• Instructor: Karen Lewis
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 7 Info
• Instructor: Wolfgang R Mann
  CULPA: 36 Info
• Instructor: Christia Mercer
  CULPA: 56 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Michele Moody-Adams
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: John Morrison
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 7 Info
• Instructor: Frederick Neuhouser
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia h-index: 16 Info
• Instructor: Elliot S Paul
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Christopher Peacocke
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Carol Rovane
  CULPA: 13 Info
• Instructor: Kathryn C Tabb
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Achille Varzi
  CULPA: 30 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• Instructor: Katja Vogt
  CULPA: 36 Info
• 1-3 points

SENIOR RESEARCH SEMINAR

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

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Castelli
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

A program of interdisciplinary research leading to the writing of the senior essay. All Africana majors must complete the one-semester Africana Studies Senior Seminar in the fall and submit a senior essay as one of the requirements for this course. A student who has successfully completed the Africana Studies Senior Seminar, has demonstrated the ability to complete a senior thesis, and has obtained approval from the faculty member teaching the Senior Seminar may take an Independent Study with a Barnard or Columbia faculty member or a second thesis seminar in another department in order to complete a senior thesis in Africana Studies in the spring semester.

• Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
• T 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Tina M Campt
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

PROJECTS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGIN

Independent projects involving experimental, theoretical, computational, or engineering design work. May be repeated, but no more than 3 points of this or any other projects or research course may be counted toward the technical elective degree requirements as engineering technical electives.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• Instructor: Gerard H Ateshian
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Tal Danino
  Wikipedia h-index: 18 Info
• Instructor: X. Edward Guo
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 70 Info
• Instructor: Henry Hess
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 45 Info
• Instructor: Andreas Hielscher
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth Hillman
  Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info
• Instructor: Clark T Hung
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 65 Info
• Instructor: Christopher Jacobs
  Wikipedia h-index: 64 Info
• Instructor: Joshua Jacobs
  Wikipedia h-index: 31 Info
• Instructor: Lance Kam
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 38 Info
• Instructor: Elisa Konofagou
  Wikipedia h-index: 71 Info
• Instructor: Aaron M Kyle
  Info
• Instructor: Andrew Laine
  Wikipedia h-index: 43 Info
• Instructor: Edward F Leonard
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 1-3 points