INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY

Prerequisites: POLS UN1601 or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission.
International Politics Seminar. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.,Topics for Fall 2017:,Section 001: NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY; Instructor: Richard K Betts,Section 002: CONTEMPORARY DIPLOMACY; Instructor: Rebecca S Murphy,Section 003: INTERNATIONAL LAW; Instructor: Jean Krasno,Section 005: INEQUALITY WITHIN AND BTWN NATIONS:Instructor: David E Spiro,Section 006: THE COLD WAR; Instructor: Robert L Jervis,Section 007: POLITICAL VIOLENCE; Instructor: Linda M Kirschke,Section 008: NORTH KOREA AND WMD; Instructor: Joel Stephen Wit

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

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

CONTEMPORARY DIPLOMACY

Prerequisites: POLS UN1601 or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission.
International Politics Seminar. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.,Topics for Fall 2017:,Section 001: NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY; Instructor: Richard K Betts,Section 002: CONTEMPORARY DIPLOMACY; Instructor: Rebecca S Murphy,Section 003: INTERNATIONAL LAW; Instructor: Jean Krasno,Section 005: INEQUALITY WITHIN AND BTWN NATIONS:Instructor: David E Spiro,Section 006: THE COLD WAR; Instructor: Robert L Jervis,Section 007: POLITICAL VIOLENCE; Instructor: Linda M Kirschke,Section 008: NORTH KOREA AND WMD; Instructor: Joel Stephen Wit

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

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

INTERNATIONAL LAW

Prerequisites: POLS UN1601 or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission.
International Politics Seminar. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.,Topics for Fall 2017:,Section 001: NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY; Instructor: Richard K Betts,Section 002: CONTEMPORARY DIPLOMACY; Instructor: Rebecca S Murphy,Section 003: INTERNATIONAL LAW; Instructor: Jean Krasno,Section 005: INEQUALITY WITHIN AND BTWN NATIONS:Instructor: David E Spiro,Section 006: THE COLD WAR; Instructor: Robert L Jervis,Section 007: POLITICAL VIOLENCE; Instructor: Linda M Kirschke,Section 008: NORTH KOREA AND WMD; Instructor: Joel Stephen Wit

• Department: Political Science
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jean Krasno
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

INEQUALITY WITHIN&BTWN; NATIONS

Prerequisites: POLS UN1601 or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission.
International Politics Seminar. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.,Topics for Fall 2017:,Section 001: NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY; Instructor: Richard K Betts,Section 002: CONTEMPORARY DIPLOMACY; Instructor: Rebecca S Murphy,Section 003: INTERNATIONAL LAW; Instructor: Jean Krasno,Section 005: INEQUALITY WITHIN AND BTWN NATIONS:Instructor: David E Spiro,Section 006: THE COLD WAR; Instructor: Robert L Jervis,Section 007: POLITICAL VIOLENCE; Instructor: Linda M Kirschke,Section 008: NORTH KOREA AND WMD; Instructor: Joel Stephen Wit

• Department: Political Science
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: David E Spiro
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 6 Info
• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

THE COLD WAR

Prerequisites: POLS UN1601 or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission.
International Politics Seminar. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.,Topics for Fall 2017:,Section 001: NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY; Instructor: Richard K Betts,Section 002: CONTEMPORARY DIPLOMACY; Instructor: Rebecca S Murphy,Section 003: INTERNATIONAL LAW; Instructor: Jean Krasno,Section 005: INEQUALITY WITHIN AND BTWN NATIONS:Instructor: David E Spiro,Section 006: THE COLD WAR; Instructor: Robert L Jervis,Section 007: POLITICAL VIOLENCE; Instructor: Linda M Kirschke,Section 008: NORTH KOREA AND WMD; Instructor: Joel Stephen Wit

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

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

POLITICAL VIOLENCE

Prerequisites: POLS UN1601 or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission.
International Politics Seminar. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.,Topics for Fall 2017:,Section 001: NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY; Instructor: Richard K Betts,Section 002: CONTEMPORARY DIPLOMACY; Instructor: Rebecca S Murphy,Section 003: INTERNATIONAL LAW; Instructor: Jean Krasno,Section 005: INEQUALITY WITHIN AND BTWN NATIONS:Instructor: David E Spiro,Section 006: THE COLD WAR; Instructor: Robert L Jervis,Section 007: POLITICAL VIOLENCE; Instructor: Linda M Kirschke,Section 008: NORTH KOREA AND WMD; Instructor: Joel Stephen Wit

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

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

NORTH KOREA AND WMD

Prerequisites: POLS UN1601 or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission.
International Politics Seminar. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.,Topics for Fall 2017:,Section 001: NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY; Instructor: Richard K Betts,Section 002: CONTEMPORARY DIPLOMACY; Instructor: Rebecca S Murphy,Section 003: INTERNATIONAL LAW; Instructor: Jean Krasno,Section 005: INEQUALITY WITHIN AND BTWN NATIONS:Instructor: David E Spiro,Section 006: THE COLD WAR; Instructor: Robert L Jervis,Section 007: POLITICAL VIOLENCE; Instructor: Linda M Kirschke,Section 008: NORTH KOREA AND WMD; Instructor: Joel Stephen Wit

• Department: Political Science
• F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Joel Stephen Wit
  Info
• 4 points

CULTURE & MENTAL HEALTH

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

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 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Hutchinson
  CULPA: 9 Info
• Instructor: Jonathan Reynolds
  CULPA: 10 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
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Teresa Sharpe
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 3 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
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 3 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
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 3 points

SOCIAL&POLIT; DEVELOPMENT IN CONTEMP CHIN

SOC&POLIT; DVLPMNT IN CONTEMP C

• Department: Sociology
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Yao Lu
  h-index: 25 Info
• 4 points

POLITICS&AMERICAN; FILM

A survey of American film and politics.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Maura L Spiegel
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 4 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: Andrea Bayer
  Info
• 4 points

ASTROSTATISTICS

Astronomers live in era of “big data”. Whilst astronomers of a century ago collected a handful of photographic plates each night, modern astronomers collect thousands of images encoded by millions of pixels in the same time. Both the volume of data and the ever present desire to dig deeper into data sets has led to a growing interest in the use of statistical methods to interpret observations. This class will provide an introduction to the methods commonly used in understanding astronomical data sets, both in terms of theory and application. It is one six classes the department offers every fourth semester.

• Department: Astronomy
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: David Kipping
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 44 Info
• 3 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
• W 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

SR SEM:EMOTNS MOD SPAN CULT

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).
The Spanish transition from the
Ancien RĂ©gime
to modernity (constitutional government and citizenship, a new class system, changing conceptions of gender and race) involved both the appearance of historically new emotions (beginning with patriotic and romantic love) and the establishment of emotional regimes that regulated allowable and forbidden feelings and practices. We will explore this process through a combination of readings in affect theory and examples of nineteenth-century print culture (literature, journalism, political speech, etc.). Seniors will write papers about related problematics in the context of the cultural production of Spain, from the nineteenth century to the present.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Wadda Rios-Font
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 8 Info
• 4 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 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lydia Liu
  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.
• Instructor: Matthew I Palmer
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

ROMANTIC MARGINS

British literature of the Romantic period, from the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth century, displays a fascination with what is on the margins.  This manifests itself most memorably in the unprecedented focus on socially marginalized figures – the beggars, madmen, abandoned women, and solitary wanderers who populate the pages of Romantic poetry and fiction.  The author too is often figured as an outsider in this period, someone whose authority derives specifically from his or her position of marginality, looking in from the fringes.  Geographically, the peripheries of the island of Great Britain (Wales and especially Scotland) were major sites of literary experimentation in the Romantic era, while the south coast of England attracted particular interest because of the constant threat of invasion from France during these years.  And of course Romantic writers famously exploited textual margins: many of the major literary works of the period make innovative use of footnotes, glosses, and other paratextual apparatus.  This course considers these various aspects of Romantic marginality and the intersections between them.  In addition to the work of more canonical authors (William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Walter Scott, Mary Shelley), we will be reading poems, novels, essays, and letters by writers, especially women, whose work has historically been marginalized.  Application instructions: E-mail Prof. Gray (
eg2155@columbia.edu
) with your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a statement (one paragraph, no more than one page) about why you are interested in taking the course. Please also attach a recent paper from a literature course — or, if this is your first such course, on any humanities subject. (**NOTE: Please do not spend any time or effort worrying about or revising the paper you submit. It will be consulted ONLY if the course is oversubscribed, so please just attach whatever you have.) 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
• F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Erik Gray
  CULPA: 35 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

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
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Alessandra Russo
  CULPA: 5 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.
• Instructor: Matthew I Palmer
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

CALL TO ADV: FROM CAMELOT TO STAR WARS

LURE ROMANCE CAMELOT/STAR WARS

Immensely popular and highly derided, romance as a genre has captivated audiences for centuries. Romance enchants, seduces, and ensnares its audience with narratives that envision a world that is at once fantastical and familiar, distant and immediate, impossible and yet full of endless possibilities. Over the course of the semester, we will explore romance conventions—such as the quest and venturing out into the unknown, love and desire, honor and chivalry—that persist from the medieval period to the present day, attempting to identify what exactly makes romance so appealing. We will read a wide cross-section of medieval verse romances from the French, German, and English traditions. While some of the texts will be provided for you in translation, we will make a concerted effort to learn Middle English as we examine the various poetic forms of insular romance. Toward the end of the semester, we will turn our attention to post-medieval iterations of the genre in gothic fiction, courtship novel, and romantic comedy.  Assignments include short response papers, in-class presentations, an analytical essay, and a final project on a modern romance text.
Application Instructions:
E-mail Aaron Robertson (ar3488@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Romance Seminar Application" 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 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Lydia Y Kertz
  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

SENIOR SEM IN URBAN STUDIES

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

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 7:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Jill S Shapiro
  CULPA: 46 Info
• 1-4 points

SUPERVISED IND RES-LING THESIS

• Department: Slavic Languages
• Instructor: Alan Timberlake
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 1-4 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.
• 4 points

TOPICS IN BIOLOGY

RADIOGRAPHC ANAT/SELECT PATHOL

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 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Jay Hammel
  Info
• 1 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

Prerequisites: completion of either
FREN UN3333-FREN UN3334
or
FREN UN3420-FREN UN3421
, and
FREN UN3405
, or the director of undergraduate studies' or the instructor's permission.
Required of all French and French & Francophone Studies majors. Usually taken by majors during the fall term of their senior year. Critical discussion of a few major literary works along with some classic commentaries on those works. Students critically assess and practice diverse methods of literary analysis.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Pierre Force
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 11 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
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter J Rosenblum
  Info
• 4 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

INDIVIDL STUDY I

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
• Instructor: Adam Reich
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Courtney Bender
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Todd Gitlin
  CULPA: 8 Info
• Instructor: Jennifer C Lena
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 12 Info
• Instructor: Aaron Pallas
  h-index: 37 Info
• Instructor: Michael Schudson
  Wikipedia h-index: 65 Info
• Instructor: Julien Teitler
  h-index: 33 Info
• Instructor: Dan J Wang
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 13 Info
• Instructor: Amy S Wells
  Info
• 1-6 points

THE MAJOR SEMINAR

• Department: Classics
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Marcus Folch
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

CURRENT RESEARCH IN ASTROPHYS

Prerequisites: two semesters of astronomy classes and two semesters of physics classes.
The goal of this course is to introduce astronomy and astrophysics majors to the methods and topics of current astronomical research. The course will also help with the development of critical thinking skills. Each week, the topic of the course will be centered on the subject of the Astronomy department colloquium; this may include research on planets, stars, galaxies or cosmology. There will be two required meetings per week: the first will be to discuss papers related to the colloquium (time TBD), and the second will be the colloquium itself (at 4:15 pm each Wednesday). Grading is Pass/Fail.

• Department: Astronomy
• F 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Mary Putman
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 54 Info
• 1 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
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Marcus Folch
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 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: Dimitrios Antoniou
  h-index: 5 Info
• 1 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
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Marcus Folch
  CULPA: 6 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: 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: 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
• Instructor: Melissa S Fusco
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Taylor Carman
  CULPA: 40 Wikipedia h-index: 19 Info
• Instructor: Karen Lewis
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 7 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
• 3 points

Senior Thesis Seminar

A year-long course for senior majors who want to conduct original research on a topic of their choice in any aspect of sociology. Your research topic should be one that you have a genuine interest in exploring and one that you have spent some time thinking about during your time at Columbia. The topic can be one that arose from a class or an assignment that you have already completed here or from a work or research experience that you have had recently. Prerequisites: Social Theory and Methods for Social Research, and the instructor's permission. Students must have a minimum GPA of 3.6 overall and 3.8 in courses in Sociology. Application to the senior honors thesis seminar will be due on May 1, 2017.

• Department: Sociology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Van C. Tran
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• 4 points

SR SEM:INTL TOPICS URB STUDIES

SR SEM:INTL TOPICS URB STDIES

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.
A year-long research seminar for students who wish to conduct a senior thesis project that focuses on cities outside of the United States. Topics relating to the rapid urbanization of Latin America, Africa, and Asia are particularly welcome. Seminar meetings will include discussion of relevant readings, as well as occasional class presentations and peer-editing assignments.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Sevin Yildiz
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

INTERDISCIPLINARY SENIOR SEM

Prerequisites: ACLS BC3450. Enrollment limited to Barnard seniors participating in the Athena Scholars Program.
Limited to seniors participating in the Athena Scholars Program.   Students will develop a social action project where they must demonstrate leadership skills in an off-campus setting.  Students will be expected to develop and implement a detailed plan to start their project.  Then they will collaborate with other class members to advance their projects, report to their peers on their accomplishments and have an opportunity to work closely with organizations across the city on their efforts.

• Department: Athena Center for Leadership Studies @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Kathryn Kolbert
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

For students who want to do independent study of topics not covered by normal program offerings, or for senior American studies majors working on the Senior Honors Project independent of 3990y. The student must find a faculty sponsor and work out a plan of study; a copy of this plan should be submitted to the program director.

• Department: American Studies
• Instructor: Casey Blake
  CULPA: 22 Wikipedia Info
• 1-7 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
• Instructor: Seth R Schwartz
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Deborah Steiner
  CULPA: 12 Info
• Instructor: Marcus Folch
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Carmela V Franklin
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Paraskevi Martzavou
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Katharina Volk
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Kathy H Eden
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Caitlin Gillespie
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Helene P Foley
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Ellen Morris
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Nancy Worman
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Kristina Milnor
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia h-index: 10 Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

• Department: Anthropology
• Instructor: Brian Boyd
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Myron L Cohen
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Zoe Crossland
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Terence N D'Altroy
  CULPA: 37 Info
• Instructor: Severin Fowles
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Catherine Fennell
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• Instructor: Marilyn Ivy
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 2-6 points