SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

1-4 points. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: the instructors 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 UN3950 and PSYC UN3920. No more than 8 points ofPSYC UN3950 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: Sheena Iyengar
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• Instructor: Nikolaus Kriegeskorte
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• Instructor: Chujun Lin
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• Instructor: Patricia G Lindemann
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• Instructor: Bianca J Marlin
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• Instructor: Janet Metcalfe
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• Instructor: Meghan Meyer
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• Instructor: Michael W Morris
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• Instructor: Kevin Ochsner
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 86 Info
• Instructor: Valerie J Purdie-Greenaway
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• Instructor: Daphna Shohamy
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 47 Info
• Instructor: Rae Silver
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• Instructor: Larisa H Solomon
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• Instructor: Yaakov Stern
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• Instructor: Herbert S Terrace
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• Instructor: Nim L Tottenham
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• 0-4 points

Computational Models of Decision-Making

Comp Models of Decision-M

We make decisions countless times a day. Computational models have been developed that improve our understanding of how these decisions are made. This course is organized in three parts: perceptual decision-making, value-based decision-making, and computational psychiatry. In part one, perceptual decision-making, we will focus on computational models that can capture and explain decisions in perception, such as categorizing an orientation, or discriminating the direction of moving dots, or estimating the magnitude of a stimulus (e.g., time). We will start by laying the foundations of signal detection theory and Bayesian inference under uncertainty and build to models that incorporate confidence ratings and reaction times. In part two, value-based decision-making, we will move on to decisions that incorporate our values (e.g., ‘Should I go out or stay in and study?’, ‘Should I eat a burger or a salad?’). We will learn the basics of a computational modeling framework that captures how we learn values from rewards and punishments, reinforcement learning, as well as about model-free and model-based learning. Lastly, we will learn how impairments in decision-making that occur in psychopathology (e.g., addiction, anorexia nervosa, anxiety) have been conceptualized and quantified in the relatively new field of computational psychiatry.

• Department: Cognitive Science @Barnard
• Instructor: Andra L Mihali
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• 4 points

UNDERGRADUATE SEMINARS I

Prerequisites: Two years of calculus, at least one year of additional mathematics courses, and the director of undergraduate studies permission. 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
• Instructor: Chiu-Chu Liu
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• 3 points

COMPARATIVE POLITICS SEMINAR

POWER, ORGS & INSTITUTION

Prerequisites: POLS V1501 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Please see here for detailed seminar registration guidelines: http://polisci.columbia.edu/undergraduate-programs/seminar-registration-guidelines. Seminar in Comparative Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.

• Department: Political Science
• Instructor: Junyan Jiang
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• 4 points

COMPARATIVE POLITICS SEMINAR

INFORMATION MEDIA POL BEHAV

Prerequisites: POLS V1501 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Please see here for detailed seminar registration guidelines: http://polisci.columbia.edu/undergraduate-programs/seminar-registration-guidelines. Seminar in Comparative Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.

• Department: Political Science
• Instructor: John Marshall
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• 4 points

COMPARATIVE POLITICS SEMINAR

Democracy's Guardrails?

Prerequisites: POLS V1501 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Please see here for detailed seminar registration guidelines: http://polisci.columbia.edu/undergraduate-programs/seminar-registration-guidelines. Seminar in Comparative Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.

• Department: Political Science
• Instructor: Marjorie Castle
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• 4 points

COMPARATIVE POLITICS SEMINAR

Prerequisites: POLS V1501 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Please see here for detailed seminar registration guidelines: http://polisci.columbia.edu/undergraduate-programs/seminar-registration-guidelines. Seminar in Comparative Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.

• Department: Political Science
• Instructor: Gemma Dipoppa
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• 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
• Instructor: Elizabeth Hutchinson
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• 3 points

How Race Gets Under Our Skin: The Sociol

RACE, HEALTH, AND BIOMEDI

One of the glaring forms of inequalities that persists today is the race-based gap in access to health care, quality of care, and health outcomes. This course examines how institutionalized racism and the structure of health care contributes to the neglect and sometimes abuse of racial and ethnic minorities. Quite literally, how does race affect one’s life chances? This course covers a wide range of topics related to race and health, including: racial inequalities in health outcomes, biases in medical institutions, immigration status and health, racial profiling in medicine, and race in the genomic era.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• Instructor: Domonique M Reed
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• 4 points

HONORS THESIS SEMINAR PART 1

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
• 1 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

POL OF TRADE AID & INVESTMENT

Prerequisites: POLS UN2601 or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission. Seminar in International Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.

• Department: Political Science
• Instructor: Allison J Carnegie
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• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

TERRORISM

Prerequisites: POLS UN2601 or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission. Seminar in International Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.

• Department: Political Science
• Instructor: Virginia Page Fortna
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• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

SOLVING GLOBAL PROBLEMS

Prerequisites: POLS UN2601 or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission. Seminar in International Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.

• Department: Political Science
• Instructor: Giulio M Gallarotti
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• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

CONFLICT & INT'L INSTITUTIONS

Prerequisites: POLS UN2601 or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission. Seminar in International Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.

• Department: Political Science
• Instructor: Linda M Kirschke
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• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

CAUSES OF WAR

Prerequisites: POLS UN2601 or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission. Seminar in International Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.

• Department: Political Science
• Instructor: Zachary C Shirkey
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

SECURITY TOPICS

Prerequisites: POLS UN2601 or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission. Seminar in International Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.

• Department: Political Science
• Instructor: Jack L Snyder
  CULPA: 27 Info
• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

INEQUALITY WITHIN&BTWN NATIONS

Prerequisites: POLS UN2601 or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission. Seminar in International Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.

• Department: Political Science
• Instructor: David E Spiro
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 6 Info
• 4 points

Asian Americans and the Law

Asian Americans and the Law invites students to examine how U.S. law has shaped the experiences of Asian Americans for nearly 150 years by pairing landmark legal cases with evidence‑based social science research. The course traces a sweeping arc from Chinese Exclusion Acts and Japanese American incarceration to contemporary debates over immigration, affirmative action, and workplace discrimination. By the end of the course, students will gain a broader understanding for the ways in which law operates as a force that structures social life, opportunities, constraints, belonging, and exclusion.

• Department: Sociology
• Instructor: Jennifer Lee
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• 4 points

ART CRITICISM

This seminar explores contemporary art criticism written by artists, with a special focus on how their ideas help us understand today’s visual culture—across galleries, social media, digital platforms, and public space. You do 
not
 need to be an Art History or Visual Arts major to take part in this course. Students from all backgrounds are welcome, and the class aims to provide accessible entry points into thinking about art, images, and culture. Artist-writers approach criticism differently from academic scholars or journalists: rather than treating artworks as distant objects of study or market commodities, they write from inside the processes, politics, and lived experiences that shape artistic production. Their essays often address urgent questions about identity, power, technology, and representation. Many use new media—video, performance, social platforms, and digital images—to expose how culture is made and circulated today. Others directly examine issues of class, racism, gender, labor, and equity, helping us understand how art both reflects and challenges broader social conventions. Throughout the semester, we will read and discuss writings by artists such as Adrian Piper, Martha Rosler, Andrea Fraser, Renée Green, Walead Beshty, Hito Steyerl, Hannah Black, and others who have transformed the field by confronting structures of inequality, interrogating institutions, and using critical writing as a form of artistic practice. Their work opens questions that resonate far beyond the art world. How do images shape public opinion and social movements? Who gets to speak and be seen in contemporary culture? What counts as “authorship” or “truth” in the age of digital reproduction? How can creative practices address histories of exclusion or imagine more equitable futures? Each week, we will focus on a single artist, pairing discussion of their writing with a presentation of their artwork. Assignments will give you practice reading closely, writing clearly, and developing your own critical voice. Whether or not you plan to pursue art-related fields, the analytical skills you’ll gain—interpreting images, unpacking arguments, understanding cultural systems—will be valuable for thinking about the media-saturated world we live in. The course fosters a collaborative, discussion-based environment where all students can participate fully and bring diverse perspectives to our conversations.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• Instructor: John Miller
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• 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
• Instructor: Alexander Alberro
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 17 Info
• 4 points

Introduction to Genocide Studies

Intro to Genocide Studies

This course provides students with an introduction to the study of genocide. 

In this class, we will take a
critical approach
to understanding genocide, meaning:


we will try to avoid easy moralizing and distancing of genocide;

we won’t take existing legal and political definitions of genocide for granted; and

we will think about
power
in relation to genocide perpetration and prevention.


Our strategy will be
interdisciplinary
, meaning:


we will explore the ways historians, psychologist, lawyers, political scientists, and others have tried to understand genocide; and

we will reflect on the limits on what and how we can know about genocide as a human experience.


This course aspires to be
practical
and
applied
, meaning


this course fundamentally
anti-genocidal
in its purpose, and

students will have the opportunity to contribute to and/or develop practical efforts commemorate, advocate against, or prevent the perpetration of genocide.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• Instructor: Glenn Mitoma
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• 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
• Instructor: Gareth Williams
  CULPA: 7 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
• Instructor: Gareth Williams
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

Crime and Policing

This course will introduce students to the literature on crime and policing. Readings for the course will be from a broad range of disciplines, including sociology, criminology, law, and public policy.  Most weeks, the readings will include relevant “popular press” articles that will help situate the literature in the context of current debates. The course is organized in two parts. The first half will focus on the problems of crime and violence in urban environments. We will review classic and modern ideas and theories explaining crime and violence, and we will look at the evidence describing patterns and trends in crime in recent history. The second half of the course will focus on the approaches to confront crime and violence, with a strong emphasis on policing. We will review the literature on the relationship between crime and policing, and we will learn about the impact that policing practices have on individuals and their communities.

• Department: Sociology
• Instructor: Gerard Torrats-Espinosa
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• 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
• Instructor: Valerie Smith
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• 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
• Instructor: David Kipping
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• 3 points

Race, Discrimination, and Racial Inequal

Race, Dscrmttion, Rac Inq

This course focuses on race, discrimination, and racial inequalities. The course will address three key questions: (1) What is race as perceived in the U.S. and Europe, and what are the sources of racial inequalities? (2) What does social science research tell us about patterns and trends of racial inequalities? (3) What policies can alleviate racial inequalities? The course will systematically adopt comparative perspectives focusing on the North American and European contexts. We will also address research on race and racial inequality within an interdisciplinary lens particularly building on sociology, economics, and social psychology.

This course is designed for advanced undergraduate students from Columbia University and Science Po (Paris). We aim for a class of 30 students (15 from each partner university). Class will take place once a week (for 2 hours). In addition, the Columbia TA will conduct a discussion section once a week in which Columbia and Sciences Po students will work together in small groups on class projects that will be presented over the course of the semester. The classes will be organized in a hybrid format. In each campus, the professor will teach his/her class in person and the two classes will be connected via Zoom. The Columbia and Science Po professors will thus co-teach a virtually connected class. The professors will closely coordinate and alternate in leading the lecture and discussion parts of each class.

• Department: Sociology
• 4 points

Senior Thesis Seminar I

This seminar is an opportunity to do original sociological research with the support of a faculty member, a teaching assistant, and your fellow classmates. Over the next two semesters you will formulate a research question; design a research strategy; collect and analyze data; and write up your findings. At the end of the academic year, you will submit a completed thesis.

The class is intended as scaffolding to support you in what can sometimes feel like a lonely and disorienting process. The goal is to balance structure to facilitate your work with freedom to develop your projects independently.

This seminar is open only to Sociology majors. Please email the professor for permission to join the course.

• Department: Sociology
• Instructor: Tara Gonsalves
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• 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
• 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 SEMINAR

This course is a requirement for all majors and is taken in the 
Fall
 semester of the Senior year; students may register for the Barnard or Columbia (3991) section. In this academic writing workshop students develop individual research projects under the guidance of the course’s instructor and in dialogue with the other participants’ projects. The final assignment of the senior seminar (6000 words) is the 
senior essay
. It is written in Spanish.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• Instructor: Wadda Rios-Font
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 8 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEM-COMP LIT & SOCIETY

Prerequisites: CPLS UN3900 The senior seminar is a capstone course required of all CLS/MedHum majors and CLS concentrations. Only ICLS students may register. The seminar provides students the opportunity to discuss selected topics in comparative literature and society and medical humanities in a cross-disciplinary, multilingual, and global perspective. Students undertake individual research projects while participating in directed readings and critical dialogues about theory and research methodologies, which may culminate in the senior thesis. Students review work in progress and share results through weekly oral reports and written reports.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• Instructor: Bruno Bosteels
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• 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
• Instructor: Matthew I Palmer
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

Advanced Topics in German Literature

Heinrich von Kleist

"Advanced Topics in German Literature” is open to seniors and other advanced undergraduate students who have taken Intro to German Literature (GERM 3333) or an equivalent class. The seminar provides students the opportunity to closely examine a topic from a variety of perspectives and theoretical approaches. Readings and discussion in German. The course is repeatable for credit.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• Instructor: Dorothea von Muecke
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• 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 PROJECT IN CREATIVE WRITING

SENIOR PROJ: CREATIVE WRI

Enrollment limited to Barnard senior English majors with a concentration in creative writing.

This creative writing workshop represents an opportunity for creative writing concentrators to focus on one large project that will serve as a capstone senior project. As in a typical writing workshop, much of the focus will be on sharing and critiquing student work. Unlike other workshops, in this class students will focus on building out a longer project—such as a more ambitious full-length story for fiction and creative nonfiction writers and a chapbook for poets. This means students will discuss work by writers who may not share their own genre. We will focus on generating new work, developing your writing process, and creating new possibilities and momentum for your piece, as well as trying to create a sense of community among the concentrators. We will also conduct in-class writing exercises in response to short reading assignments and class lectures. Students should be aware of two important notes: (1) This class is limited to senior English majors who have already been approved to be creative writing concentrators; and (2) this course fulfills the requirement for concentrators to finish a senior project, but not the academic senior seminar requirement. This class is about your own writing and that of your classmates. This class will be what you make of it!

• Department: English @Barnard
• Instructor: Ken Chen
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• 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
• Instructor: Lauren E Ninoshvili
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

URBAN STUDIES SENIOR SEMINAR

Prerequisites: Senior standing. 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
• Instructor: Mary Rocco
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Christian Siener
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Andreina Torres Angarita
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• 4 points

EBHS SENIOR THESIS SEMINAR

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission and senior standing as a major or concentrator 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
• Instructor: Jill S Shapiro
  CULPA: 46 Info
• 3 points

SENIOR THESIS/TUTORIAL

Prerequisites: the faculty advisers permission. Senior thesis or tutorial project consisting of independent scholarly work in an area of study of the student’s choosing, under the supervision of a member of the faculty.

• Department: Italian
• Instructor: Teodolinda Barolini
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth Leake
  Info
• Instructor: Nelson Moe
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 6 Info
• Instructor: Pier Mattia Tommasino
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Konstantia Zanou
  Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED IND RES-LING THESIS

• Department: Slavic Languages
• 1-4 points

Senior Seminar Discussion Section

Discussion session for CPLS 3991, Senior Seminar in Comparative Literature & Society. Mandatory for ICLS seniors in both CLS and MedHum majors.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• 1 points

Senior Seminar Discussion Section

Discussion session for CPLS 3991, Senior Seminar in Comparative Literature & Society. Mandatory for ICLS seniors in both CLS and MedHum majors.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• 1 points

HUMAN RIGHTS SENIOR SEMINAR RSRCH METHOD

This course aims to introduce students to human rights research methods, while providing them with practical research tools. The course will be tailored to students’ interests, disciplinary backgrounds and research areas. The specific topics students will research and the methods they will employ will determine the substantive focus of readings. During the course we will ask the following questions: ‘what is human rights research?, how do you carry out research in an interdisciplinary field?, what distinguishes academic research from applied research and advocacy? While answering these questions, you will become familiar with the literature on human rights methodologies, and you will engage in analysis and critical assessment of important human rights research literature. In addition, the course gives a practical approach to research methodology. You will learn about a diverse set of methodologies, such as interviewing and focus groups, archival research, ethnographic and participant observation, interviewing focus groups, conducting online research; interpretive and non-empirical methods and basic quantitative methodologies to be employed in the study of human rights. As you learn about different methodological approaches, you will develop your own research project. Scholars and practitioners in the field of human rights research will present their work and engage in discussions with students about their own research, challenges, successes and publication venues. NB: This course is geared towards students who commit to writing a senior thesis. It is part of a two-course sequence: HRTS UN3994 Section 001 Human Rights Senior Seminar: Research Methods in the fall and HRTS UN3996 Human Rights Thesis Seminar in the spring. Students who do not intend to write a thesis should enroll in HRTS UN3995 section 001 Human Rights Senior Seminar, which is a one-semester course taught each semester focused on writing a seminar paper.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• Instructor: Tracey Holland
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS IN MATHEMATICS I

SENIOR THESIS MATHEMATICS

Majors in Mathematics are offered the opportunity to write an honors senior thesis under the guidance of a faculty member. Interested students should contact a faculty member to determine an appropriate topic, and receive written approval from the faculty advisor and the Director of Undergraduate Studies (faculty sponsorship is limited to full-time instructors on the staff list). Research is conducted primarily during the fall term; the final paper is submitted to the Director of Undergraduate Studies during the subsequent spring term.

MATH UN3994 SENIOR THESIS IN MATHEMATICS I must be taken in the fall term, during which period the student conducts primary research on the agreed topic. An optional continuation course MATH UN3995 SENIOR THESIS IN MATHEMATICS II is available during the spring. The second term of this sequence may not be taken without the first. Registration for the spring continuation course has no impact on the timeline or outcome of the final paper.

Sections of SENIOR THESIS IN MATHEMATICS I and II do NOT count towards the major requirements, with the exception of an advanced written approval by the DUS.

• Department: Mathematics @Barnard
• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS IN AMER STUDIES

A year-long seminar for outstanding majors who want to conduct research -- or to design a creative project -- on any aspect of American history and culture. During the fall, students will clarify their research agenda or creative topic, sharpen their questions, locate their primary and secondary sources, and begin their project to be completed in the spring perhaps leading to departmental honors. See American Studies website for more details.

• Department: American Studies
• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS IN COMP LIT/SOC

This year-long, three-credit course is mandatory for students who will be writing their Senior Thesis in Comparative Literature and Society or in Medical Humanities. Students who wish to be considered for Departmental honors are required to submit a Senior Thesis. The thesis is a rigorous research work of approximately 40 pages, and it will include citations and a bibliographical apparatus. It may be written in English or, with the permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies, in another language relevant to the students scholarly interests. Although modeled after an independent study, in which core elements of the structure, direction, and pace of the work are decided together by the student and their faculty thesis supervisor, students are nonetheless expected to complete certain major steps in the research and writing process according to the timeline outlined by the ICLS DUS.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• 1.5 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
• Instructor: Shourideh Molavi
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• 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
• Instructor: Susan Boynton
  CULPA: 18 Info
• Instructor: Alessandra M Ciucci
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Zosha Di Castri
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• Instructor: Joseph P Dubiel
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Kevin Fellezs
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Aaron A Fox
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Giuseppe Gerbino
  CULPA: 12 Info
• Instructor: Georg Friedrich Haas
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• Instructor: Mariusz Kozak
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 5 Info
• Instructor: Seth Cluett
  h-index: 4 Info
• Instructor: Magdalena Baczewska
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Peter M Susser
  CULPA: 20 Info
• Instructor: Christopher J Washburne
  CULPA: 31 Info
• Instructor: Ruth Opara
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• 2-3 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).

• Department: Astronomy
• Instructor: Marcel A Agueros
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 2 points

THE MAJOR SEMINAR

A seminar designed to prepare students to develop and bring to completion a substantive piece of original research in an area of their own interest and choosing which may (or may not) be developed into a Senior Thesis the following semester; (ii) a lecture series introducing students to the faculty of the Department of Classics at Columbia University and the methods of scholarly research in the disciplines that comprise classical studies.

• Department: Classics
• Instructor: John T Ma
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 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: Maura L Spiegel
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 1-4 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: Hannah Chazin
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• Instructor: Marilyn Ivy
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Paige West
  CULPA: 41 h-index: 23 Info
• 2-6 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Prerequisites: Permission of the program director in term prior to that of independent study. Independent study form available at departmental office.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• Instructor: Karen Fairbanks
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Kadambari Baxi
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• Instructor: Ralph Ghoche
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 2 Info
• Instructor: Ignacio Gonzalez Galan
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• 1-4 points

INDEPENDENT RESEARCH

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. For an independent research project or independent study, a brief description of the proposed project or reading, with the supervising faculty member's endorsement, is required for registration. A variety of research projects conducted under the supervision of members of the faculty. Observational, theoretical, and experimental work in galactic and extragalactic astronomy and cosmology. The topic and scope of the work must be arranged with a faculty member in advance; a written paper describing the results of the project is required at its completion (note that a two-term project can be designed such that the grade YC is given after the first term). Senior majors in astronomy or astrophysics wishing to do a senior thesis should make arrangements in May of their junior year and sign up for a total of 6 points over their final two terms. Both a substantial written document and an oral presentation of thesis results are required.

• Department: Astronomy
• Instructor: Marcel A Agueros
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 3 points

NEW DIRECTIONS IN COMPUTING

APPLIED CRYPTOGRAPHY

This is an undergraduate seminar for special topics in computing arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis.  Participation requires permission of the instructor.  Since the content of this course changes each time it is offered, it may be repeated for credit.

• Department: Computer Science @Barnard
• Instructor: Eysa Lee
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• 3 points

NEW DIRECTIONS IN COMPUTING

SEMINAR: NEUROSYMBOLIC AI

This is an undergraduate seminar for special topics in computing arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis.  Participation requires permission of the instructor.  Since the content of this course changes each time it is offered, it may be repeated for credit.

• Department: Computer Science @Barnard
• Instructor: Mark Santolucito
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Students conduct research in environmental biology under supervision of a faculty mentor. The topic and scope of the research project must be approved before the student registers for the course.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• Instructor: Jill S Shapiro
  CULPA: 46 Info
• 1-3 points

SENIOR SEMINAR IN ENGLISH

SR SEM:BLACK LIVES ENLGHT

Enrollment limited to Barnard senior English majors. To see the current course description for each section, visit the English Department website:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/senior-seminars

• Department: English @Barnard
• Instructor: James G Basker
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR IN ENGLISH

SR SEM: WRITING ON WATER

Enrollment limited to Barnard senior English majors. To see the current course description for each section, visit the English Department website:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/senior-seminars

• Department: English @Barnard
• Instructor: Yvette Christianse
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• 4 points