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: Kevin Ochsner
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 86 Info
• Instructor: Valerie J Purdie-Vaughns
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Lois E Putnam
  CULPA: 19 Info
• Instructor: Daphna Shohamy
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 47 Info
• Instructor: Rae Silver
  Wikipedia h-index: 69 Info
• Instructor: Ursula Staudinger
  Wikipedia h-index: 63 Info
• Instructor: Yaakov Stern
  Wikipedia h-index: 160 Info
• Instructor: Kathleen M Taylor
  CULPA: 78 Info
• Instructor: Herbert S Terrace
  CULPA: 29 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Nim L Tottenham
  Info
• Instructor: Elke Weber
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia h-index: 85 Info
• Instructor: Sarah Woolley
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 31 Info
• Instructor: Caroline B Marvin
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Katherine T Fox-Glassman
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 4 Info
• 1-4 points

UNDERGRADUATE SEMINARS II

The subject matter is announced at the start of registration and is different in each section. Each student prepares talks to be given to the seminar, under the supervision of a faculty member or senior teaching fellow.

• Department: Mathematics @Barnard
• Instructor: David A Bayer
  CULPA: 43 Info
• 3 points

SEMINAR IN COMPARATIVE POLITCS

INFORMATION, MEDIA, POL BEHAV

Seminar in Comparative Politics. Interested students must attend the first class meeting after which the instructor will decide whom to admit.

• Department: Political Science
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: John Marshall
  h-index: 20 Info
• 4 points

SEMINAR IN COMPARATIVE POLITCS

POL ECON IN LATIN AMERICA

Seminar in Comparative Politics. Interested students must attend the first class meeting after which the instructor will decide whom to admit.

• Department: Political Science
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Maria Victoria Murillo
  h-index: 37 Info
• 4 points

MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS

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

BILDUNGSROMAN IN EUROPE

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
(Seminar). A survey of major works in the tradition of the European
Bildungsroman
, from what is traditionally taken as its founding example (Goethe's
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
) to early 20th-century revisions to the genre. The seminar will be oriented around charting the ways in which these novels imagined, or refused to imagine, a compromise between individual aspiration and social integration. Subsidiary topics will include: the negotiation of erotic energies; the role of the nation-state in promoting or hindering individual 'development'; professionalism and selfhood; the relationship between the economic, social, and geographical mobility; the characteristic spaces of the form (family; school; 'bohemia'); alternatives to the form required by the consideration of women. Texts include works by Goethe, Balzac, Bronte, Alain-Fournier, Joyce. 
Application Instructions:
E-mail Professor Nicholas Dames (nd122@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Bildungsroman in Europe 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
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicholas Dames
  CULPA: 35 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

HONORS THESIS SEMINAR

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

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

EPISTEMOLOGY

Corequisites:
PHIL W3963
Required Discussion Section (0 points).
What can we know? What is knowledge? What are the different kinds of knowledge? We will read classic and contemporary texts for insight into these questions.

• Department: Philosophy @Barnard
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: David J Friedell
  Info
• 4 points

SEM-PROBLEMS OF LAW & SOCIETY

LAW, SCIENCE AND SOCIETY

This course addresses basic contemporary social issues from several angles of vision: from the perspective of scientists, social scientists, legal scholars, and judges. Through the use of case studies, students will examine the nature of theories, evidence, "facts," proof, and argument as found in the work of scientists and scholars who have engaged the substantive issues presented in the course.

• Department: Sociology
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jonathan Cole
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 34 Info
• 4 points

TECHNOLOGY,WORK, & CAPITALISM

In recent years, public conversations about the relationship between technology and work seem to have been conducted with particular fervor: claims of revolutionary ease and freedom sit side-by-side with dystopian visions of exploitation, surveillance, and growing alienation.  Will technological development lead to widespread deskilling or a new "sharing economy"?  Will it enrich the few at the expense of the many or bring general prosperity?  Are Uber, Etsy, and Amazon vanguards of an ideal future or harbingers of doom?

• Department: History
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Whitney Laemmli
  Info
• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL POL

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
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Johannes Urpelainen
  Info
• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

CIVIL WAR AND PEACE

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 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Dawn Brancati
  h-index: 18 Info
• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

US-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
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew A Cooper
  Info
• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

LAW OF 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
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Brooke C Greene
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

THE UN: PAST & PRESENT

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 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Jean Krasno
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

CONTEMPORARY DIPLOMACY

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
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Rebecca S Murphy
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

POLITICAL VIOLENCE

Seminar in International Relations. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.

• Department: Political Science
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Linda M Kirschke
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

EPISTEMOLOGY - REC

• Department: Philosophy
• T 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• F 11:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Cesar G Cabezas Gamarra
  Info
• Instructor: Simon A Brown
  Info
• 0 points

CULTURE & MENTAL HEALTH

CULTURE, MENTAL HLTH & CLIN PR

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. Limited to juniors & seniors.
This course considers mental disturbance and its relief by examining historical, anthropological, psychoanalytic and psychiatric notions of self, suffering, and cure. After exploring the ways in which conceptions of mental suffering and abnormality are produced, we look at specific kinds of psychic disturbances and at various methods for their alleviation.

• Department: Anthropology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Karen Seeley
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 4 points

IRISH LIT:20TH C.IRISH PROSE

IRISH LIT:20TH C. IRISH PROSE

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
This seminar course looks at the idea of Language and Form in Irish writing in the Twentieth Century. It will examine writing from the Irish Literary Renaissance, including work by Yeats and Synge, and writing by Irish Modernist writers, including Joyce, Beckett and Flann O’Brien. It will also study certain awkward presences in the Irish literary canon, such as Elizabeth Bowen. The class will then read work from later in the century, including the novels of John Banville and John McGahern and the poetry of Seamus Heaney and Eavan Boland.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Colm Toibin
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ART CRITICISM II

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.  Artists will include Ad Reinhart, Daniel Buren, Helio Oiticica, Juan Downey, Hollis Frampton, Victor Burgin, Jeff Wall, Mike Kelley, Coco Fusco, Maria Eichhorn, Jutta Koether, Melanie Gilligan.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicolas Guagnini
  Info
• 4 points

ARABS IN LITERATURE & FILM

This course explores contemporary Arab American and the Arab Diaspora culture and history through literature and film produced by writers and filmmakers of these communities. As a starting historical point, the course explores the idea of
Arabness
, and examines the Arab migration globally, in particular to the U.S., focusing on three periods: 1875-1945, 1945-early 1960s, and late 1960s-present. By reading and viewing the most exciting and best-known literary works and films produced by these writers and filmmakers, students will attain an awareness of the richness and complexity of these societies. Additionally, students will read historical and critical works to help them have a deeper understanding of theses creative works. Discussions revolve around styles and aesthetics as well as identity and cultural politics. Some of the writers the class will cover include, Wajdi Mouawad, Diana Abu Jaber,  Amin Maalouf, Tahar Ben Jelloun,
Anthony Shadid
, Hisham Matar, and Adhaf Soueif.

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

MAJOR 20TH CENTURY PLAYWRIGHTS

IBSEN AND PINTER

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
(Seminar). The course will trace the pattern of the evolving theatrical careers of Henrik Ibsen and Harold Pinter, exploring the nature of and relationships among key features of their emerging aesthetics. Thematic and theatrical exploration involve positioning the plays in the context of the trajectories of modernism and postmodernism and examining, in that context, the emblematic use of stage sets and tableaux; the intense scrutiny of families, friendships, and disruptive intruders; the experiments with temporality, multi-linearity, and split staging; the issues raised by performance and the implied playhouse; and the plays' potential as instruments of cultural intervention. Two papers are required, 5-7 pages and 10-12 pages, with weekly brief responses, and a class presentation. Readings include major plays of both writers and key statements on modernism and postmodernism.
  Application Instructions:
E-mail Professor Austin Quigley (aeq1@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Ibsen and Pinter 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 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Austin E Quigley
  Info
• 4 points

SOCI OF SCHOOLS,TEACH,LEARNING

In this class we will examine the school as a central institution in modern society, and we will grapple with an important question in the sociology of education: what role to schools play in reinforcing or challenging broader patters of social inequality? We will pay special attention to the ways in which students' class, race/ethnicity and gender shape their educational experiences. We will also look at how schools are organized, how schools construct differences among students, and how schools sort kids into different (and unequal) groups. Finally we will explore the types of interventions - at both the individual and organizational levels - that can mitigate inequality in educational achievement and help low-income students to succeed.
One such intervention that has shown promise is tutoring in academic and social and behavioral skills, and interventions that strengthen self-affirmation. A major component of this class is your experience as a tutor. You will be trained as tutors to work with students from local high schools both through in-person tutoring and through tutoring using social networking technologies. Throughout the semester we will combine our academic learning with critical reflection on our experience sin the field. Because you will be working with NYC high school students, we will pay special attention to how NYC high schools are organized and how current issues in education play out in the context of NYC schools.

• Department: Sociology
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jacob Boersema
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

THE GLOBAL AND THE UNIVERSAL

THE GLOBAL & THE UNIVERSAL

In the contemporary world, it has become very important for us to be able to distinguish between "global" and "universal." This course will try to confront this problem through cartography, fiction, film, and political writing. One of my interests for the last decade or so has been to look at the word “Development.” This has led me to the word “Research,” in what is universally referred to as “R&D,” that is to say “Research and Development” – to people as unlike us as possible and connect to the fact that democracy as bodycount majority requires the presence of a democratic society. I prefer "general to "universal." All human social groups, including children as a separate social group, think that something resembling the sphere of life they consider "experience" applies to the generality of humankind: however vaguely defined or not defined at all. We have to work with this if we want to consider what to do with universals, rather than simply with the imposition of Eurocentric universals globally. If tracking the universalizable without universalizing is an approach, who can collectively teach or learn this approach? We require uniformity for the functioning of democratic structures and ethical obligations. Statistics are not unnecessary for the operation of social justice. 3 In this context, we have to think how the everyday “supplements" these requirements. This will oblige us to ask the question: who is the generalized subject or “I” of our classroom? I will consider the subaltern, those who are being globally denied the right to intellectual labor, today and for millennia, and what our obligation is when we generalize from our own limited context. Disability as part of the definition of the democratic subject, and the fact that the presence continually vanishes will be issues in our class.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Center for
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Gayatri C Spivak
  CULPA: 8 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

STUDIES IN MASS CULTURE (SEM)

WRITING MACHINES

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
(Seminar). In Jack London's 1906 short story "The Apostate," an exposé of child labor, the narrator notes of a young millworker: "There had never been a time when he had not been in intimate relationship with machines." Drawing on novels, short stories, dramas, and essays by American and English writers from 1880 to WWII, this course seeks to understand what it means to become "intimate with machines." How did technology shape perception, consciousness, identity, and the understanding of the human in fin de siècle literature? What were the effects of new "writing machines," like the telegraph, phonograph, and typewriter, on traditional conceptions of authorship? How did technology intersect with class, race, and gender politics? What fears and fantasies did new inventions inspire? We will discuss how writers represented the cultural and social impact of technology and why they often felt compelled to invent new literary styles, forms, and movements--such as realism, aestheticism, and modernism--in order to do so. Texts by Herman Melville, Bram Stoker, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Jack London, Sophie Treadwell, Thomas Alva Edison, Henry James, Virginia Woolf, and others. 
Application Instructions:
 E-mail Professor Biers (klb2134@columbia.edu) with the subject heading, "Writing Machines 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.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Katherine L Biers
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

WAYS OF GRAPHIC DESIGN-ING

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Prem Krishnamurthy
  Info
• 4 points

CURATORIAL POSTNS 1969-PRES

Contemporary exhibitions studied through a selection of great shows from roughly 1969 to the present that defined a generation.  This course will not offer practical training in curating; rather it will concentrate on the historical context of exhibitions, the theoretical basis for their argument, the criteria for the choice in artists and their work, and exhibitions’ internal/external reception.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Valerie Smith
  Info
• 4 points

DIGITAL FOOTPRINTS:NYPL RSRCH

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul A Scolieri
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 4 points

FILM NARRATIVE (SEMINAR)

FILM NOIR

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor.
(Seminar).
Application Instructions
: E-mail Professor Douglas (ad34@columbia.edu) with the subject heading, "Film Noir" 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
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Ann Douglas
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

QUEER PRACTICE

Is there a particularly “queer” way to live? Does a queer perspective mitigate for certain forms of social, interpersonal or political action? Are there sets of vocations, engagements or relationship formations that are, in and of themselves, distinctly queer? Or is queerness something that can infuse or transform pre-existing modes of personal or relational action? How does any of this relate to the version of “queer” one learns in college? Is a university education necessary, or even useful, for living a queer life? Does academic queer theory have any relevance to “real-world” politics, affects or activisms? Do classroom projects within Gender & Sexuality Studies prepare us to engage in projects of social change, political efforts, or in any meaningful way, to work more closely with others on shared goals related to social justice? Does a liberal arts education prepare us to navigate ideological, intellectual and interpersonal differences? To move from a critical gaze at social institutions into institutional change? To become more robust citizens of a world that includes a multiplicity of viewpoints, perspectives and values? Finally, at its best, what should the university classroom do to prepare students to forge their own social and political perspectives, and to move from gaze and consideration into movement and action?

• Department: Sociology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Tey Meadow
  h-index: 8 Info
• 4 points

THE 19TH C HSTRCAL NOVEL & SOC.JUSTICE

19TH C HISTRCL NOVEL&SOC; JUSTI

.......This course investigates how the historical novel wrested its central themes and rhetorical strategies from the voices of the disenfranchised in its purposeful address of pressing social problems: infanticides, poverty, industrial exploitation, class and gender inequality, radical violence, polygamy........

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Monica F Cohen
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR RESEARCH SEMINAR

Prerequisites: AMST W3920
A seminar devoted to the research and writing, under the instructor's supervision, of a substantial paper on a topic in American studies. Class discussions of issues in research, interpretation, and writing.

• Department: American Studies
• F 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew Delbanco
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SENIOR PROJECT SEMINAR

The Senior Paper Colloquium will focus primarily on developing students' ideas for their research projects and discussing their written work. The course is designed to develop and hone the skills necessary to complete the senior paper. Students will receive guidance in researching for and writing an advanced academic paper. Conducted as a seminar, the colloquium provides the students a forum in which to discuss their work with each other. The CSER preceptor, who facilitates the colloquium, will also provide students with additional academic support, supplementary to the advice they receive from their individual faculty sponsors. While most of the course will be devoted to the students' work, during the first weeks of the term, students will read and discuss several ethnic studies-oriented texts to gain insight into the kinds of research projects done in the field.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Anthony Urena
  Info
• 4 points

APPROACHES TO E ASIAN STUDIES

This course is intended to provide a focal point for undergraduate majors in East Asian Studies. It introduces students to the analysis of particular objects of East Asian historical, literary, and cultural studies from various disciplinary perspectives. The syllabus is composed of a series of modules, each centered around an object, accompanied by readings that introduce different ways of understanding its meaning.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert P Hymes
  CULPA: 8 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 SEM-COMP LIT & SOCIETY

Required of all comparative literature and society majors. Intensive research in selected areas of comparative literature and society. There will be two sections of this course for Fall 2016. Topic for 2016: TBA

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Center for
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Rishi K Goyal
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

THESIS RESEARCH SEMINAR

Guided, independent, indepth research experience culminating in the senior essay. Weekly meetings are held to review work in progress, to share results through oral and written reports, and to consider career options for further work in this field.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

ROMANTICISM

Prerequisites: one of the Introduction to German Literature courses and one upper-level literature course, or the instructor's permission.
Required of all German majors in their senior year. Lectures and readings in German.  The topic will be
Romanticism
.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Stefan Andriopoulos
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 12 Info
• 3 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

AESTHESTICS OF REVOLT:POLIT

Prerequisites: Seniors (major or concentrator status).
SENIOR SEMINAR ,
Section 001 - "Iberian Globalization"
, A seminar based on a great variety of primary sources and theoretical texts that help to rethink, from the vantage point of the early modern period, the most unexpected sides of a process today called "globalization." ,
Section 002 - "Emotions in Modern Spanish Culture"
, The Spanish transition to modernity (in politics, class relations, social roles) involved both the appearance of historically new emotions and the establishment of emotional regimes regulating feelings and practices. We will explore this process through readings in affect theory and nineteenth-century print culture (literary and nonliterary). Seniors will write about related problematics in the cultural production of 19th-21st century Spain.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Alberto Medina
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• 3 points

ARCHAEOLOGY SOUTHERN LEVANT

The assigned readings provide an overview of the archaeological character of numerous periods and will serve as a basis for common discussion.  In addition, however, each participant will also track the archaeology of a particular region as it evolved over time.  By focusing attention on micro-regions (specific valleys, wadis, mountain ranges, desert edges, or coastal plains), we will attempt to get as variegated a picture as possible of life in the Southern Levant.  While the legacy of the Bible and fraught political relations in modern times will, of course, be discussed as relevant, they are not the focus of the course.  Rather, each region and each period will be approached with equal interest and on its own terms.

• Department: Classics @Barnard
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Ellen Morris
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

THESIS RESEARCH SEMINAR

Guided, independent, indepth research experience culminating in the senior essay. Weekly meetings are held to review work in progress, to share results through oral and written reports, and to consider career options for further work in this field.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points

WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY

WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY/WORLD PERSP

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission and at least one of the following:
ANTH V1007
,
ANTH V1008
, or
ACLG V2028
.
This capstone seminar explores global archaeology from a postcolonial perspective. We will address the history of archaeological interpretation and explore the politics and practice of archaeology by ,considering specific case studies from around the world. The seminar fulfills the major seminar requirement for the archaeology major.

• Department: Anthropology
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Zoe Crossland
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info
• 4 points

THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

Prerequisites: Senior standing. Admission by application only (available at http://urban.barnard.edu/forms-and-resources). Year-long course; participation is for two consecutive terms. No new students admitted for spring.
Emphasizes the study of the built environment of cities and suburbs, and the related debates. Readings, class presentations, and written work culminate in major individual projects, under the supervision of faculty trained in architecture, urban design, or urban planning.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Aaron Passell
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 3 Info
• 4 points

SPECIAL READING COURSE

SPEC READ COURSE: 17TH C TEXTS

See department for course description

• Department: Germanic Languages
• W 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Wijnie de Groot
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 1 points

EBHS SENIOR THESIS SEMINAR

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission and senior standing as a major in The Evolutionary Biology of the Human Species (EBHS).
Year-long seminar in which senior EBHS majors develop a research project and write a senior thesis. Regular meetings are held to discuss research and writing strategies, review work in progress, and share results through oral and written reports.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Jill S Shapiro
  CULPA: 46 Info
• 1-4 points

SUPERVISED IND RES-LING THESIS

• Department: Slavic Languages
• 1-4 points

TOPICS IN BIOLOGY

CROSSROADS IN BIOETHICS

Prerequisites: Introductory Biology or equivalent.

Topics in Biology: Radiographic Anatomy and Select Pathology (Section 007 Fall semester)
, Radiographic Anatomy and Selective Pathology is a survey course intended for undergraduate students.  This course is not limited to science majors and would be of value to any student that may have an interest in studying the anatomy of the human body. , The course is a systematic approach to the study of the human body utilizing medical imaging.  We will be studying neuro-anatomy, anatomy of the thorax, abdomen, and pelvis.  Vascular and musculoskeletal imaging will be addressed as well.  Modalities will include CT, MRI, PET/CT, and Ultrasound.  Cross sectional imaging will be supplemented with pathology demonstrated on appropriate cross sectional imaging. , The class size will be limited to 15 students.  The lecture will be offered Wednesday evenings from 6:10-7:00 pm.  This will be a 1 credit course offered only during the fall semesters. ,
Topics in Biology: Crossroads in Bioethics (Section 001 Spring semester)
, This two credit multidisciplinary and interactive course will focus on contemporary issues in bioethics and medical ethics. Each topic will cover both the underlying science of new biotechnologies and the subsequent bioethical issues that emerge from these technologies. Each topic will introduce a bioethical principle that will be explored using case studies. Students are expected to prepare for each class based on the assignment so that classroom time will be devoted to discussion, case presentations, and role playing rather than merely lectures. Topics include stem cell research, human reproductive cloning, bioterrorism, neuroethics, genetic screening, medical stem cell tourism, patents and science, forensic science and the interface of science and culture/religion.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: John Loike
  CULPA: 8 Wikipedia Info
• 2 points

SENIOR THESIS IN COMP LIT/SOC

Students who decide to write a senior thesis should enroll in this tutorial. They should also identify, during the fall semester, a member of the faculty in a relevant department who will be willing to supervise their work and who is responsible for assigning the final grade. The thesis is a rigorous research work of approximately 40 pages (including a bibliography formatted in MLA style). It may be written in English or in another language relevant to the student's scholarly interests. The thesis should be turned in on the announced due date as hard copy to the Director of Undergraduate Studies.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Center for
• Instructor: Madeleine Dobie
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 3 points

HUMAN RIGHTS SENIOR SEMINAR

The senior seminar is a capstone course required for the human rights major. The seminar provides students the opportunity to discuss human rights from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and to explore various theoretical approaches and research methodologies. Students undertake individual research projects while collectively examining human rights through directed readings and discussion.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Inga T Winkler
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

SR SEM: NEW YORK FIELD RSRCH

Prerequisites: Senior standing. Admission by application only (available at http://urban.barnard.edu/forms-and-resources). Year-long course; participation is for two consecutive terms. No new students admitted for spring.
Using New York City as a research laboratory, under the guidance of the faculty coordinator, students clarify basic theoretical issues related to their chosen research problem; find ways of making a series of empirical questions operational; collect evidence to test hypotheses; analyze the data using a variety of social science techniques; and produce reports of basic findings.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Meredith B Linn
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

READINGS IN MODERN GREEK

The course allows students in Topics through Greek Film (G4135) with an intermediate to advanced level of Greek to supplement their study of that course‚Äôs theme through materials in Greek. Each week we will be reading short texts (excerpts from novels and essays, blogs, newspaper articles) on a theme discussed that week in G4135.

• Department: Classics
• Instructor: Paraskevi Martzavou
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 1 points

HUMAN RIGHTS THESIS SEMINAR

This course is designed for human rights students who wish to write a honors-eligible thesis. The course will consist of group sessions, during which time students will present their work and participate in discussions, and individual meetings with the thesis supervisor. The course instructor is the thesis supervisor for each student.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Mila H Rosenthal
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• 3 points

HONORS RESEARCH

Prerequisites: a formal proposal to be submitted and approved prior to registration; see the director of undergraduate studies for details.
A creative/scholarly project conducted under faculty supervision, leading to completion of an honors essay, composition, or the equivalent.

• Department: Music
• 0 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

Prerequisites: required methods and theory courses for the major, and the instructor's permission.
Students wishing to qualify for departmental honors must take
W3996y
. Students carry out individual research projects and write a senior thesis under the supervision of the instructor and with class discussion. Written and oral progress reports.

• Department: Sociology
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam Reich
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 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: Kathy H Eden
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Helene P Foley
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth K Irwin
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Paraskevi Martzavou
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Carmela V Franklin
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
  CULPA: 20 Info
• Instructor: Seth R Schwartz
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Deborah Steiner
  CULPA: 12 Info
• Instructor: Gareth Williams
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: James E Zetzel
  CULPA: 8 Info
• Instructor: John T Ma
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Kristina Milnor
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia h-index: 10 Info
• 3 points

SENIOR SEMINAR IN COMP LIT

Designed for students writing a senior thesis and doing advanced research on two central literary fields in the student's major. The course of study and reading material will be determined by the instructor(s) in consultation with students(s).

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Erk Grimm
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 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: Elizabeth K Irwin
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: John T Ma
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

DIRECTED READINGS IN GREEK LIT

DIRECTD READINGS IN GREEK LIT

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: Paraskevi Martzavou
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

DIRECTED READINGS IN GREEK LIT

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: Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 3 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: Seth R Schwartz
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Ellen Morris
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Helene P Foley
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• 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
• Instructor: Stathis Gourgouris
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Maria Hadjipolycarpou
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Paraskevi Martzavou
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 1-4 points

DIRECTED READINGS IN LATIN LIT

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

• Department: Classics
• Instructor: Kathy H Eden
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Carmela V Franklin
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Joseph A Howley
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Gareth Williams
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

DIRECTED READINGS IN LATIN LIT

DIRECTED LATIN READINGS

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

• Department: Classics
• Instructor: James E Zetzel
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points