GUIDED READING AND RESEARCH

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.

• Department: Religion
• Instructor: Zhaohua Yang
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• Instructor: Thomas F Yarnall
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Clemence C Boulouque
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Bernard Faure
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Robert A Thurman
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Katharina Ivanyi
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Rachel McDermott
  CULPA: 37 Info
• Instructor: Beth A Berkowitz
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 6 Info
• Instructor: Najam I Haider
  CULPA: 8 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth Castelli
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Gale L Kenny
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 1-4 points

DESIGN&ANALYSIS; OF RESEARCH ON LEARNING

Prerequisites: Junior or Senior standing; preference to majors.
Introduction to an institutional perspective on organizations, moving between theoretical discussion of institutions and organizations and empirical research. Coverage of the rise of quantification; how comparative political cultures implement industrial policy; how institutional knowledge affects the environment; and how the Civil Rights movement contended with the American political environment.

• Department: Sociology
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Teresa Sharpe
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 1 points

SENIOR HONORS THESIS LAB

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• Instructor: Christian Rojas
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Marisa C Buzzeo
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Dina C Merrer
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Michael Campbell
  Info
• Instructor: Andrew C Crowther
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 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
• Instructor: Dina C Merrer
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 0 points

POETIC MODERNISM

POETIC MOD:BAUDELAIRE-STEVENS

(Seminar). Modernism can find its roots anywhere from the fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the turn of the 20th century; and it finds them differently depending on whether one refers to "modernism" or "modernity." For the purposes of this class, modernism's beginning will be situated in about the middle of the nineteenth century, in Baudelaire's use of the neologism
modernité
to describe the new urban (and colonialist) sensibility that emerged in the Paris of the time, and more particularly in the seismic poetic shifts that then began to take place. And although many versions or trajectories of poetic modernism can be traced, we will attempt to follow a series of lines that tie the French version of it to the emergence of diverse American voices. Poets to be discussed will include Rimbaud, Apollinaire, Ponge, Crane, Hughes, Eliot, Moore, Stevens and Williams. 
Application instructions:
E-mail Aaron Robertson (ar3488@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
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: David Wills
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

SR SEM: AMERICAN SUBLIME

(Formerly ENGL BC3998; this course has been renumbered but has not changed in content.) "The empty spirit / In vacant space": gothicism, transcendentalism, and postmodern rapture. Traces of the sublime in the American literary landscape, featuring Poe, Melville, Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens, Bishop, Didion, and Robinson.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Margaret S Vandenburg
  CULPA: 59 Info
• 4 points

SR SEM: FAMILY IN FICTION/FLM

(Formerly ENGL BC3998; this course has been renumbered but has not changed in content.) Looking closely at late Twentieth and Twenty-First Century stories, novels, memoir and films that center on the logic, dysfunction, romance, system, morphing, divorcing and curious maturation of the family. From Alison Bechdel's graphic novel, Fun Home, to the Korean film, The Host, we will explore fresh and a few classic cinematic takes on this theme. We will explore renderings of "family cultures," family feeling, family values, the family as a narrative configuration, and home as a utopian space, a nightmarish landscape, a memory palace and more. Authors and directors will include: Wes Anderson, Gaston Bachelard, Mira Bartok, Alison Bechdel, Joon-ho Bong, Jonathan Franzen, Vivien Gornick, Lasse Hallstrom, Tamara Jenkins, Ang Lee, Mike Leigh, Jim, Sheridan, Todd Solondz, Francois Truffaut, Tennessee Williams, D. W. Winnicott, Andrei Zvyagintsev.

• Department: English @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Maura L Spiegel
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 4 points

HIST ENVIRONMENTAL THINKING

Surveying major moments in history of information technologies, this course introduces students to major kinds of historical inquiry-philosophical, engineering, labor, material, social, and cultural-necessary to understand the creation and impact of computers and other information technologies in the last 150 years.

• Department: History @Barnard
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Deborah R Coen
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

SR SEM:SXLTY,SIN,SPIRITUALITY

(Formerly ENGL BC3997; this course has been renumbered but has not changed in content.) The first half of the course is grounded in readings from Bible, Augustine, Petrarch and Donne, but the second half with move to later texts including Hawthorne's
The Scarlet Letter
, and Flannery O'Connor stories. We will discuss as a class other texts we might want to add.  For their senior essays, students will come up with their own topics and may explore the relation and intersection between sexuality, sin, and spirituality up into the present, and cross-culturally.

• Department: English @Barnard
• T noon-1:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Achsah Guibbory
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 4 points

HONORS SEMINAR

Prerequisites: open to students in the honors program only.
Discussion of a variety of topics in psychology, with particular emphasis on recent developments and methodological problems. Students propose and discuss special research topics.

• Department: Psychology
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Kevin Ochsner
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 86 Info
• 1 points

VISITING CRITIC I

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. See requirements for a major in visual arts.
VIAR R3910
is the prerequisite for
VIAR R3911
.
Corequisites:
VIAR R3900
.
(Formerly R3921) Students are required to enroll in both semesters (
VIAR R3910
and
VIAR R3911
). A second opinion is provided to the senior students regarding the development of their senior project. Critics consist of distinguished visitors and faculty. Issues regarding the premise, methodology, or presentation of the student's ideas are discussed and evaluated on an ongoing basis.

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

ISSU-MOD NATV AMER TRIBAL GOVT

The seminar will examine the development of modern tribal governments, the issues they face developing effective tribal institutions, whether the Western form of government imposed on tribes by the Federal government raises inherent conflicts with tribal values and culture, whether the Federal trust status of Indian lands is a benefit or a barrier, the efforts to deliver effective health and educational services on reservations, and an examination of innovative approaches to reservation economic development. The seminar will explore what governance approaches have or have not succeeded and what lessons can be learned from those approaches. Certain of the seminar classes will feature presentations by Indian leaders engaged in innovative governmental or economic initiatives.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel S Esq Press
  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
  Info
• 2 points

ETHNOGRAPHIC CHINA

Contemporary China through the writings of anthropologists who have done fieldwork there during the past decade.

• Department: Anthropology
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Myron L Cohen
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

SE SEM: UTOPIAS & DISTOPIAS

(Formerly ENGL BC3998; this course has been renumbered but has not changed in content.) A look first at Thomas More’s
Utopia
and then at the dreams or nightmares it inspired, whether hopeful, ironic, serious, parodic, speculative, nightmarish, or simply interrogatory. Authors include More, Rabelais, Bacon, Margaret Cavendish, William Morris, Bellamy, H.G. Wells, George Orwell, Ursula LeGuin and, if there is time, R.A. Lafferty’s scifi novel starring More and also a young adult novel by Lois Lowry.

• Department: English @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Anne L Prescott
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 4 points

SEMINAR

SEMINAR: Epistemology

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: Tamar A Lando
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

SEMINAR

SELF KNOWLEDGE

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 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher Peacocke
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SEMINAR IN POLITICAL THEORY

RELIG,DEMOC&HUMAN; RIGHTS

Seminar in Political Theory. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.

• Department: Political Science
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jean L Cohen
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia h-index: 63 Info
• 4 points

SEMINAR IN POLITICAL THEORY

GENDER,RELIG&LEGAL; PLURALISM

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
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jean L Cohen
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia h-index: 63 Info
• 4 points

SR SEM:HUMANS & OTHER ANIMALS

(Formerly ENGL BC3998; this course has been renumbered but has not changed in content.) In this seminar, we will engage in an interdisciplinary study of intersections of human and non-human animal identities in selected literary, philosophical and theoretical texts. We will examine how constructions and representations of non-human animal identities confirm understandings and experiences of human ones, including racialized and gendered identities and study the ways in which non-human identities challenge claims to human exceptionalism. Some of the topics along which the readings will be arranged include liminality, (mis)-recognition, metamorphoses, suffering, as well as love. Readings include Aristotle, Euripides, Ovid, Montaigne, Descartes, Shakespeare, Kafka, Woolf, Morrison, Coetzee, Szymborska, Hughes, Haraway, and Derrida and essays by contemporary scholars such as Kim Hall and Karl Steel. Some class time will be devoted to the process of writing the thesis at all significant critical junctures.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Timea Szell
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 4 points

INEQUALITIES U.S. LAW&SOCIETY;

This class will examine the historical roots and ongoing persistence of social, economic, and political inequality and the continuing role that it plays in U.S. society by examining how such issues have been addressed both in social science and in law.

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

STIGMA & DISCRIMINATION

This course considers stigma and discrimination as general processes that apply to a broad range of phenomena, from mental illness to obesity to HIV/AIDS to racial groups. We will use a conceptual framework that considers power and social stratification to be central to stigma and discrimination. We will focus on both macro- and micro-level social processes and their interconnections, and we will draw on literature from both sociology and psychology.

• Department: Sociology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark L Hatzenbuehler
  Info
• 4 points

AFRICA,EMPIRE & 20TH CENT WRLD

This seminar offers students an opportunity to deepen their knowledge of African political thought and action during the first half of the twentieth century. It brings together readings from a range of disciplines, including history, colonial and post­colonial studies, women's studies, and literary studies as well as primary documents and novels to explore African intellectuals' engagement with European imperialism and international politics, and their positioning of Africa within the twentieth century world.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Jinny K Prais
  Info
• 3 points

BIOMEDICAL ENGIN DESIGN II

A two-semester design sequence to be taken in the senior year. Elements of the design process, with specific applications to biomedical engineering: concept formulation, systems synthesis, design analysis, optimization, biocompatibility, impact on patient health and comfort, health care costs, regulatory issues, and medical ethics. Selection and execution of a project involving the design of an actual engineering device or system. Introduction to entrepreneurship, biomedical start-ups, and venture capital. Semester I: statistical analysis of detection/classification systems (receiver operation characteristic analysis, logistic regression), development of design prototype, need, approach, benefits and competition analysis. Semester II: spiral develop process and testing, iteration and refinement of the initial design/prototype and business plan development. A lab fee of $100 each is collected.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Aaron M Kyle
  Info
• 4 points

MEDIEVAL ENGLISH TEXTS (SEM)

Medieval English Texts: Langla

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 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: David M Yerkes
  CULPA: 41 Info
• 4 points

WORLD RESPONDS TO THE GREEKS

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
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Dimitrios Antoniou
  h-index: 5 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: Kevin Ochsner
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 86 Info
• 1-4 points

IGNORANCE

Prerequisites: have completed the CORE science requirements.
Scientific knowledge increases at an exponential rate. Curiously ignorance does not similarly decrease. The basic activity of science is to engage ignorance. In this course we will examine the scientific approach to ignorance, though readings, discussions and visits from working scientists who will discuss the state of ignorance in their field and in their individual laboratories. We hope to gain an understanding of the scientific process by analyzing how it approaches what it doesn't know. We will also include the scientific approach to uncertainty, doubt and failure - all crucial ingredients in the activity of scientific investigation. Requirements will include weekly postings based on readings and visiting lectures, and a final paper. This class will meet only ten times between February 4 and April 15 (thus its value of 2 points). Because of this short, but intense, schedule absences will not be excused and will have a negative impact on the final grade. This course does not satisfy any science requirements. Admission to the course is limited and requires permission of the instructor. This can be gained by submitting a brief (max 350 words) statement outlining your interest in taking this course and what you hope to achieve in the course. "One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done" -Marie Curie, letter to her brother 18 March 1894

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Stuart J Firestein
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 50 Info
• 2 points

ANTICOLONIALISM

Through a careful exploration of the argument and style of five vivid anticolonial texts, Mahatma Gandhi's
Hind Swaraj
, C.L.R. James' 
The Black Jacobins
, Aimé Césaire's 
Discourse on Colonialism
, Albert Memmi's 
Colonizer and Colonized
, and Frantz Fanon's 
The Wretched of the Earth
, this course aims to inquire into the construction of the image of colonialism and its projected aftermaths established in anti-colonial discourse.

• Department: Anthropology
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: David Scott
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 72 Info
• 4 points

TROPICAL AGRICULTURE

Prerequisites:
EEEB W2001
and
EEEB W2002
Environmental Biology I and II, or the instructor's permission.
Students will compare productivity, diversity, and ecological processes in the diverse farming systems of Kenya which include highland and lowland, large and small-scale systems, monoculture cereal crops, mixed farming with crops and livestock, pastoral systems, diverse tree crop systems from plantations to multispecies agroforests, and intensive horticulture.  Students spend their time in Kenya learning state of the art techniques for characterizing soils, agricultural landscapes, and ecosystem services.  They will use these methods across the range of farming systems to develop projects comparing various aspects of these systems, and explore sustainability issues from the ecological, agricultural, and livelihood disciplines.
This course is part of a semester abroad program in Tropical Biology and Sustainability based in Kenya and cannot be taken separately on campus.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• Instructor: Dustin Rubenstein
  h-index: 36 Info
• 4 points

NOBILITY AND CIVILITY II

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

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

AFRICAN-AMERICAN POL THOUGHT

Prerequisites:
POLS W1201
or the equivalent, and 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 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Fredrick Harris
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

TERRORISM & COUNTERTERRORISM

Prerequisites:
POLS W1201
or the equivalent, and 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

THE FIRST AMENDMENT

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

EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP

Prerequisites:
POLS W1201
or the equivalent, and 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

POL/LEGAL INFLUENCES FED AGNCS

Seminar in American Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.

• Department: Political Science
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: John J Sivolella
  Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

POLICY MAKING

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

AFTERMATH OF 2016 ELECTION

Prerequisites:
POLS W1201
or the equivalent, and 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 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Robert Erikson
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia h-index: 59 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

URBAN POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS

Prerequisites:
POLS W1201
or the equivalent, and 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 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Shigeo Hirano
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

PUBLIC OPINION & POL BEHAVIOR

Prerequisites:
POLS W1201
or the equivalent, and 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 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Y Shapiro
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

CONSERV OF AFRICAN LANDSCAPES

Prerequisites:
EEEB W2001
and
EEEB W2002
Environmental Biology I and II, or the instructor's permission.
Only six percent of Africa's land is protected, and these areas are rarely large enough to sustain wildlife populations.  Mostly, wildlife must share land with people who also face survival challenges.  This course will explore how wildlife and people interact in Kenya, where new approaches to conservation are being developed and implemented.  Lectures will cover the ecology of tropical grasslands and first principles underlying conservation and management of these landscapes.  Field trips and projects will examine the dynamics between human actions and biodiversity conservation.
This course is part of the study abroad program in Kenya on Tropical Biology and Sustainability and cannot be taken separately n campus.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• Instructor: Dustin Rubenstein
  h-index: 36 Info
• 4 points

NATURL HIST OF AFRICAN MAMMALS

Prerequisites:
EEEB W2001
and
EEEB W2002
Environmental Biology I and II, or the instructor's permission.
Introduction to concepts, methods, and material of comparative natural history, with African mammals as focal organisms.  Perspectives include morphology, identification, evolution, ecology, behavior and conservation.  Observations and experiments on a variety of species in different habitats and at a range of scales will provide insights into the adaptive value and underlying mechanistic function of mammalian adaptations. This course is based in Laikipia, but may travel to other sites across Kenya, which might include other conservancies and pastoral group ranches.
This course is part of a semester abroad program in Tropical Biology and Sustainability based in Kenya and cannot be taken separately on campus.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• Instructor: Dustin Rubenstein
  h-index: 36 Info
• 4 points

SUSTAINABLE DEVPT IN PRACTICE

Prerequisites:
EEEB W2001
and
EEEB W2002
Environmental Biology I and II, or the instructor's permission.
Students will study the theory and practical application of sustainable development, touching on urban and rural issues in Kenya and other diverse agro-ecological zones in East Africa.  They will begin at the Columbia Global Centers/Africa in Nairobi by learning about the administrative and socio-political structures that govern Kenya and East Africa followed by an emersion in the history of the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).  Students will then spend time studying agriculture, education, infrastructure, water, and health issues in other urban and rural areas in Kenya and East Africa to understand the need for an integrated approach to sustainable development.  Discussions with communities, field work, practical problem solving, GIS tools, e-tools, modeling, and understanding of the local constraints will form the foundation for this course. 
This course is part of a semester abroad program in Tropical Biology and Sustainability based in Kenya and cannot be taken separately on campus.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• Instructor: Dustin Rubenstein
  h-index: 36 Info
• 4 points

NARRATIVE STRAT-SCREENWRITING

Prerequisites:
FILM W2420.

This workshop is primarily a continuation of
Senior Seminar in Screenwriting
. Students will either continue developing the scripts they began in
Senior Seminar in Screenwriting
, or create new ones including a step outline and a minimum of 30 pages. Emphasis will be placed on character work, structure, theme, and employing dramatic devices. Weekly outlining and script writing, concurrent with script/story presentation and class critiques, will ensure that each student will be guided toward the completion of his or her narrative script project.

• Department: Film
• W 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Loren-Paul Caplin
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

ADV TPCS IMMIGRATN INEQUAL

Examines processes of immigrant incorporation in the U.S. and other advanced democracies, with a focus on how immigration intersects with categorical inequalities (such as citizenship, social class, race, ethnicity, gender, and religion) in major institutional realms. Under instructor's supervision, students conduct a substantial research project related to course themes.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Christel Kesler
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

COLONIZATION/DECOLONIZATION

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
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Karl Jacoby
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 8 Info
• 4 points

COLLABORATION,RESISTANCE,RETRIBUTION:WES

The Nazi occupation of Western and East-Central Europe during World War II elicited a variety of national and local responses ranging from accommodation to collaboration to outright resistance. How did variations in practices of political, social, and economic domination exercised by the Nazis shape patterns of collaboration and resistance? How did this vary between Western and Eastern Europe? What individual factors/aspects of personal biography shaped decisions about whether or not to collaborate? In the immediate postwar period, how did efforts to identify and punish collaborators reflect prerogatives of national regeneration and state-building? Forty-five years later, the collapse of the socialist dictatorships of East-Central Europe unleashed calls for retribution against “communist collaborators.” How did practices of collaboration and resistance with socialist regimes differ from earlier patterns of collaboration with the Nazis? Have efforts to punish communist collaborators been more successful in righting the wrongs of the past than previous efforts to punish Nazi collaborators? If so, what might account for this? Do „legacies” from earlier efforts to punish Nazi collaborators inform these more recent projects of justice-seeking? How do unresolved justice issues from the immediate postwar period continue to haunt both Western and East-Central Europe?

• Department: Sociology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Louisa M McClintock
  Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE

MAROON SOCIETIES IN THE AMER

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

BLACK CHICAGO

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

SAINTS RELICS MEDVL EUROPE

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

SEMINAR IN INTERNATIONAL FILM

SEM IN INTL FILM:FRENCH CINE

• Department: Film
• T 2 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Edward Turk
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

THE SIXTIES

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for section descriptions

• Department: American Studies
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Todd Gitlin
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

RACE,POVERTY,AMER CRIM JUSTICE

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for section descriptions

• Department: American Studies
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Cathleen I Price
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for section descriptions

• Department: American Studies
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Hindus
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• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN FICTION

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for section descriptions

• Department: American Studies
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam Kirsch
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• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

HIST & ETHICS OF PHILANTHROPY

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for section descriptions

• Department: American Studies
• M 4:10 a.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Tamara Mann Tweel
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• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

THE AMERICAN CITY IMAGINED

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for section descriptions

• Department: American Studies
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

SHAKESPEARE IN AMERICA

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• Department: American Studies
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: James Shapiro
  CULPA: 25 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SOC JUSTICE & HUM RIGHTS SEM

Corequisites: Students must have an internship related to social justice or human rights during
This class is intended to complement and enhance the internship experience for students working in internships that relate to social justice and human rights during the Spring 2016 semester. This course will meet bi-weekly to provide an academic framing of the issues that students are working on and to provide an opportunity for students to analyze their internship experience.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 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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• 1-3 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

SEMINAR: BLACK INTELLECTUALS

SEMINAR: BLACK INTELLECTURALS

This undergraduate seminar examines a diverse group of black intellectuals' formulations of ideologies and theories relative to racial, economic and gender oppression within the context of dominant intellectual trends. The intellectuals featured in the course each contributed to the evolution of black political thought, and posited social criticisms designed to undermine racial and gender oppression, and labor exploitation around the world. This group of black intellectuals' work will be analyzed, paying close attention to the way that each intellectual inverts dominant intellectual trends, and/or uses emerging social scientific disciplines to counter racism, sexism, and classism. This seminar is designed to facilitate an understanding of the black intellectual tradition that has emerged as a result of African-American thinkers' attempts to develop a unified response to an understanding of the black condition. This course explores of a wide range of primary and secondary sources from several different periods, offering students opportunity to explore the lives and works of some of the most important black intellectuals. We will also consider the way that period-specific intellectual phenomenon-such as Modernism, Marxism, Pan-Africanism, and Feminism-combined with a host of social realities.

• Department: African-American Studies, Institute for Research in
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Frank Guridy
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

AMER & THE NAT WORLD-1800-PRES

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

COMP STUDY OF CONSTITUTNL CHAL

This course will examine how the American legal system decided constitutional challenges affecting the empowerment of African, Latino, and Asian American communities from the 19th century to the present. Focus will be on the role that race, citizenship, capitalism/labor, property, and ownership played in the court decision in the context of the historical, social, and political conditions existing at the time. Topics include the denial of citizenship and naturalization to slaves and immigrants, government sanctioned segregation, the struggle for reparations for descendants of slavery, and Japanese Americans during World War II.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Elizabeth Ouyang
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Prerequisites: application requirements: SEE UNDERGRAD SEMINAR SECTION OF DEPARTMENT'S WEBSITE.
Where the establishment of sustainable democracies is concerned, the Middle East has perhaps the poorest record of all regions of the world since World War II. This is in spite of the fact that two of the first constitutions in the non-Western world were established in this region, in the Ottoman Empire in 1876 and in Iran in 1906. Notwithstanding these and other subsequent democratic and constitutional experiments, Middle Eastern countries have been ruled over the past century by some of the world's last absolute monarchies, as well as a variety of other autocratic, military-dominated and dictatorial regimes. This course, intended primarily for advanced undergraduates, explores this paradox. It will examine the evolution of constitutional thought and practice, and how it was embodied in parliamentary and other democratic systems in the Middle East. It will examine not only the two Ottoman constitutional periods of 1876-78 and 1908-18, and that of Iran from 1905 onwards, but also the various precursors to these experiments, and some of their 20th century sequels in the Arab countries, Turkey and Iran. This will involve detailed study of the actual course of several Middle Eastern countries' democratic experiments, of the obstacles they faced, and of their outcomes. Students are expected to take away a sense of the complexities of the problems faced by would-be Middle Eastern democrats and constitutionalists, and of some of the reasons why the Middle East has appeared to be an exception to a global trend towards democratization in the post-Cold War era.

• Department: History
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Rashid I Khalidi
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ART OF WITNESS: MEMORIALS

Examines aesthetic responses to collective historical traumas, such as slavery, the Holocaust, the bombing of Hiroshima, AIDS, homelessness, immigration, and the recent attack on the World Trade Center. Studies theories about trauma, memory, and representation. Explores debates about the function and form of memorials.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Rosalyn Deutsche
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 4 points

COLLOQUIUM IN LITERARY THEORY

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 18.
Examination of concepts and assumptions present in contemporary views of literature. Theory of meaning and interpretation (hermeneutics); questions of genre (with discussion of representative examples); a critical analysis of formalist, psychoanalytic, structuralist, post-structuralist, Marxist, and feminist approaches to literature.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Emily Sun
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

POETICS OF THE WARRIOR

POETRY & AESTHETIC IMAGINATION

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

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: Niall Bolger
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 55 Info
• Instructor: Frances Champagne
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: James P Curley
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Geraldine Downey
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia 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
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• Instructor: Leonard Matin
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Janet Metcalfe
  CULPA: 31 h-index: 70 Info
• Instructor: Walter Mischel
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Michael W Morris
  h-index: 68 Info
• 1-4 points