Research Training

Research training course. Recommended in preparation for laboratory related research.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• Instructor: Jose McFaline-Figueroa
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• Instructor: Treena L Arinzeh
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• Instructor: Sanja Vickovic
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• Instructor: Santiago Correa
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• Instructor: Parisa Yousefpour
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• Instructor: Lauren N Heckelman
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• Instructor: Grace McIlvain
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DADA AND SURREALISM

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
• Instructor: Caroline Weber
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• 3 points

READING ITALIANS: HER SIDE OF THE STORY

READING ITALIANS: HER STO

“In Italy, literary fiction has long been considered a man’s game.” So began a
2019 New York Times article discussing the growing international attention being
paid to Italian women writers, particuarly on the heels of Elena Ferrante’s
phenomenal global success. This course will center the female voice and
subjectivity in the Italian literary tradition, with a focus on celebrated prose writers
active from the early twentieth century to the present. Some, recently republished
and reconsidered for the Italian market, have also been re-translated and re-
introduced to a wider English readership. We will trace the reception of female
authors within the Italian critical establishment and abroad, and the role
translation might play in broadening and amplifying their reputation and reach.
We will focus on one author per week, paying special attention to themes of
resistance, rebellion, and self-fashioning. All readings will be in English.

• Department: English @Barnard
• Instructor: Jhumpa Lahiri
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• 3 points

The Art of the Question in Latin America

The Question in Latin Ame

This course investigates the role of the question as a central artistic, political, and epistemological device in Latin American art from the early twentieth century to the present. We will explore how artists have deployed questions not merely as rhetorical devices or titles, but as strategies that shape form, content, and spectatorship—provoking reflection, resistance, and transformation.

Through case studies ranging from Oswald de Andrade’s provocative “Tupy or not Tupy?” (1928) and Marta Minujín’s playful “What types of materials turn you on?” (1968) to Alfredo Jaar’s public survey ¿Es usted feliz? (1981) and Clemencia Lucena’s feminist intervention ¿Qué hacen ellas mientras ellos trabajan? (1970), students will examine the diverse functions of questioning in visual art, performance, literature, and other media. Class discussions will focus on the aesthetic, political, and epistemic implications of questions in art: How do these works shape audience engagement? In what ways do they resist resolution? How do they generate critique, knowledge, or political action? We will also consider transnational and diasporic contexts, exploring how Latin American artists navigate questions across cultural and geographic boundaries.

The course is structured around five modules—Questioning Identity, Questioning the Patriarchy, Questioning Dictatorship, Questioning Spectatorship, and Questioning the Real—that highlight key moments in modern and contemporary Latin American art to uncover how uncertainty and questioning have shaped aesthetic and political imagination.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• Instructor: Jeronimo Duarte Riascos
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• 3 points

UNDERGRAD RESRCH-APPLD PHYSICS

This course may be repeated for credit, but no more than 6 points of this course may be counted toward the satisfaction of the B.S. degree requirements. Candidates for the B.S. degree may conduct an investigation in applied physics or carry out a special project under the supervision of the staff. Credit for the course is contingent upon the submission of an acceptable thesis or final report.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Carlos Paz Soldan
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AMEC Senior Thesis Seminar

The Senior Thesis Seminar is a one-semester requirement for all Barnard College students majoring in Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures (AMEC). This is a working research seminar devoted to helping students produce a substantive piece of writing that will eventually be part of their senior thesis project, the culmination of their work in the major. Students will participate in the seminar as thesis writers and as peer editors. In addition to working with the instructor in the seminar, students will also consult with a faculty member who specializes in the student's area of interest within the AMEC department.

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• Instructor: Matthew L Keegan
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• 4 points

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROJECT

Candidates for the B.S. degree may conduct an investigation of some problem in chemical engineering or applied chemistry or carry out a special project under the supervision of the staff. Up to 6 points may be counted toward the technical elective content requirement. (Note that if more than 3 points of research are pursued, an undergraduate thesis is required.)

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• Instructor: Scott Banta
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• Instructor: Kyle Bishop
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• Instructor: Christopher M Boyce
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• Instructor: Juliana Silva Alves Carneiro
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• Instructor: Jingguang Chen
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• Instructor: Neil D Dolinski
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• Instructor: Christopher J Durning
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• Instructor: Daniel Esposito
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• Instructor: Oleg Gang
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• Instructor: Jingyue Ju
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• Instructor: Sanat Kumar
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• Instructor: Lauren E Marbella
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UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROJECT

Candidates for the B.S. degree may conduct an investigation of some problem in chemical engineering or applied chemistry or carry out a special project under the supervision of the staff. Up to 6 points may be counted toward the technical elective content requirement. (Note that if more than 3 points of research are pursued, an undergraduate thesis is required.)

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• Instructor: Lauren E Marbella
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• Instructor: Allie Obermeyer
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• Instructor: Ben O'Shaughnessy
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• Instructor: Mijo Simunovic
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• Instructor: Dan Steingart
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• Instructor: Alexander Urban
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• Instructor: Venkat Venkatasubramanian
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• Instructor: Alan West
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• Instructor: Asher Williams
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• 0-6 points

UNDERGRAD RES-ENVIRONMTL ENGIN

This course may be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 points of this course may be counted towards the satisfaction of the B. S. degree requirements. Candidates for the B.S. degree may conduct an investigation in Earth and Environmental Engineering, or carry out a special project under the supervision of EAEE faculty. Credit for the course is contingent on the submission of an acceptable thesis or final report. This course cannot substitute for the Undergraduate design project (EAEE E3999x or EAEE E3999y)

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• Instructor: Kartik Chandran
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• Instructor: Robert Farrauto
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• Instructor: Raymond Farinato
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• 0-3 points

UNDERGRAD RES-ENVIRONMTL ENGIN

This course may be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 points of this course may be counted towards the satisfaction of the B. S. degree requirements. Candidates for the B.S. degree may conduct an investigation in Earth and Environmental Engineering, or carry out a special project under the supervision of EAEE faculty. Credit for the course is contingent on the submission of an acceptable thesis or final report. This course cannot substitute for the Undergraduate design project (EAEE E3999x or EAEE E3999y)

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• 0-3 points

UNDERGRAD RES-ENVIRONMTL ENGIN

This course may be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 points of this course may be counted towards the satisfaction of the B. S. degree requirements. Candidates for the B.S. degree may conduct an investigation in Earth and Environmental Engineering, or carry out a special project under the supervision of EAEE faculty. Credit for the course is contingent on the submission of an acceptable thesis or final report. This course cannot substitute for the Undergraduate design project (EAEE E3999x or EAEE E3999y)

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• Instructor: Pierre Gentine
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• Instructor: Shaina Kelly
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• Instructor: Upmanu Lall
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• Instructor: Vijay Modi
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• Instructor: Nagaraj Devarayasamudram
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• Instructor: Dan Steingart
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• Instructor: Alan West
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 48 Info
• Instructor: Bolun Xu
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• Instructor: Yin Yip Ngai
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• Instructor: Adeyemi Adeleye
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• Instructor: Oscar Nordness
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• 0-3 points

SENIOR SEMINAR IN FILM STUDIES

A seminar for senior film majors planning to write a research paper in film history/theory/culture. Course content changes yearly.

• Department: Film
• Instructor: Racquel Gates
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• 3 points

UNDERGRAD RESEARCH OR PROJECT

Independent work involving experiments, computer programming, analytical investigation, or engineering design.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Instructor: Anish Agarwal
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• Instructor: Shipra Agrawal
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• Instructor: Eric Balkanski
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• Instructor: Daniel Bienstock
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• Instructor: Agostino Capponi
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• Instructor: Rachel Cummings
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• Instructor: Antonius B Dieker
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 19 Info
• Instructor: Adam N Elmachtoub
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 13 Info
• Instructor: Yuri Faenza
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• Instructor: Vineet Goyal
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• Instructor: Ali Hirsa
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• Instructor: Anran Hu
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• Instructor: Garud Iyengar
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 30 Info
• Instructor: Hardeep Johar
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• Instructor: Cedric Josz
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• Instructor: Soulaymane Kachani
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• Instructor: Yaren Kaya
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• Instructor: Christian Kroer
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• Instructor: Daniel Lacker
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 13 Info
• Instructor: Henry Lam
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• Instructor: Fabrizio Lecci
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• Instructor: Tianyi Lin
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• Instructor: Uday Menon
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• Instructor: Bento Natura
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• Instructor: Jay Sethuraman
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• Instructor: Eric Stratman
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• Instructor: Clifford Stein
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• Instructor: Wenpin Tang
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• Instructor: Harry West
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• Instructor: Kaizheng Wang
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• Instructor: Lily Xu
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• Instructor: David D Yao
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• Instructor: Yi Zhang
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• Instructor: Xunyu Zhou
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• Instructor: Kelly Katsigris
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SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: Permission of the departmental representative required. For specially selected students, the opportunity to do a research problem in contemporary physics under the supervision of a faculty member. Each year several juniors are chosen in the spring to carry out such a project beginning in the autumn term. A detailed report on the research is presented by the student when the project is complete.

• Department: Physics
• Instructor: Jeremy R Dodd
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 1-5 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: Permission of the departmental representative required. For specially selected students, the opportunity to do a research problem in contemporary physics under the supervision of a faculty member. Each year several juniors are chosen in the spring to carry out such a project beginning in the autumn term. A detailed report on the research is presented by the student when the project is complete.

• Department: Physics and Astronomy @Barnard
• Instructor: Timothy J Halpin-Healy
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• 1-5 points

SENIOR THESIS I

Department approval required. See requirements for a major in visual arts. VIAR UN3900 is the prerequisite for VIAR UN3901. Corequisites: VIAR UN3910 (Formerly R3901) Students must enroll in both semesters of the course (VIAR UN3900 and VIAR UN3901). The student is required to produce a significant body of work in which the ideas, method of investigation, and execution are determined by the student. A plan is developed in consultation with the faculty. Seminars; presentations. At the end, an exhibition or other public venue is presented for evaluation. Studio space is provided with a refundable deposit of $150.

• Department: Visual Arts
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INDEPENDENT STDY-UNDERGRADUATE

INDEPENDENT STUDY-UNDERGRAD

• Department: African American and African Diaspora
• Instructor: Kellie Jones
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• Instructor: Brandi Summers
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• Instructor: Farah Griffin
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• Instructor: Edwidge Danticat
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• Instructor: Rachel Grace Newman
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• Instructor: Jafari S Allen
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• Instructor: Nyle Fort
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• 1-4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

SR SEM: ARCHITECTRL CRITICISM

See the Barnard and Columbia Architecture Department's website for the course description: 
https://architecture.barnard.edu/architecture-department-course-descriptions

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• Instructor: Suzanne Stephens
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• 4 points

SENIOR HONORS THESIS

Weekly seminar to accompany Senior Honors Thesis Lab (CHEM BC3903). Focus is on scientific presentation and writing skills and research conduct.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• Instructor: Jean Vadakkan
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• 4 points

SENIOR HONORS THESIS

Weekly seminar to accompany Senior Honors Thesis Lab (CHEM BC3903). Focus is on scientific presentation and writing skills and research conduct.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• 4 points

Senior Project Seminar

SENIOR PROJECT SEMINAR

Discussion of senior research projects during the fall and spring terms that culminate in written and oral senior theses. Each project must be supervised by a cognitive scientist working at Barnard or Columbia.

• Department: Cognitive Science @Barnard
• Instructor: John Morrison
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• Instructor: Elif A Duman
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• 1 points

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Fundamentals of microbiology, genetics and molecular biology, principles of microbial nutrition, energetics and kinetics, application of novel and state-of-the-art techniques in monitoring the structure and function of microbial communities in the environment, engineered processes for biochemical waste treatment and bioremediation, microorganisms and public health, global microbial elemental cycles.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• Instructor: Kartik Chandran
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• 3 points