Provides students the opportunity to present draft dissertation proposals and draft dissertation chapters.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Guided individual research.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Guided individual research.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Discussion of current research activity in Geometic Topology.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Critical study of current problems in the field of seismology, including such topics as near and deep earthquakes, seismicity, instrument design, and monitoring underground nuclear explosions.
The purposes of the Seminar are (a) to aid graduates in developing and refining material for their dissertation; (b) to give graduates experience in presenting material to a philosophical audience in an informed and supportive environment; (c) to give graduates experience in critically discussing presented material, and thereby to see how their own presentations and work can be developed to withstand critical examination. The Seminar is restricted to Columbia graduate students in their third or later years, and all such students are strongly encouraged to attend. No faculty (other than the organizer) will be present. Those attending the seminar will be expected to make one or more presentations of work in progress. The material for a presentation may range from a near-final draft of a chapter, to an early critical overview of an area with an outline plan for an approach to some chosen problem. We will attempt as far as possible to organize the presentations in such a way that they are grouped by subject-matter, and provide a rational path through the territory we cover.
All anthropology graduate students are required to attend. Reports of ongoing research are presented by staff members, students, and special guests.
Prerequisite:
completion of all M.Phil. requirements. Ph.D. candidates may be required to register for this course every term during the preparation of the dissertation.
Members of the staff, graduate students, and outside speakers present current research.