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.  Credit for the course is contingent upon the submission of an acceptable thesis or final report.  No more than 6 points in this course may be counted toward the satisfaction of the B.S. degree requirements.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• Instructor: Lauren E Marbella
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• Instructor: Vivian F McNeill
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• Instructor: Allie Obermeyer
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• Instructor: Ben O'Shaughnessy
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Ah-Hyung Alissa Park
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• Instructor: Dan Steingart
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 36 Info
• 0-6 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.  Credit for the course is contingent upon the submission of an acceptable thesis or final report.  No more than 6 points in this course may be counted toward the satisfaction of the B.S. degree requirements.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• Instructor: Alexander Urban
  h-index: 24 Info
• 0-6 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.  Credit for the course is contingent upon the submission of an acceptable thesis or final report.  No more than 6 points in this course may be counted toward the satisfaction of the B.S. degree requirements.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• Instructor: Venkat Venkatasubramanian
  h-index: 58 Info
• Instructor: Alan West
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 48 Info
• 0-6 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
• R 2 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Annette Insdorf
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: the written permission of the faculty member who agrees to act as supervisor, and the director of undergraduate studies' permission.
For specially selected physics majors, the opportunity to do a research project in contemporary physics under the supervision of a faculty member. A detailed report on the research is presented by the student when the project is completed.

• 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: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 1-5 points

SOCIETAL ADAPT TO TERRORISM

Prerequisites: Junior or Senior standing
Examines how countries have adjusted to the threat of terrorism. How the adaptation reflects the pattern of terrorist attacks, as well as structural and cultural features of the society. Adaptations by individuals, families, and organizational actors.

• Department: Sociology
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Seymour Spilerman
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 31 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

SR SEM. HIST. OF ARCH & FEM

Readings, individual class presentations, and written reports.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Anooradha I Siddiqi
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR HONORS THESIS

SENIOR HONORS THESIS SEMINAR

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

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Christian Rojas
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE SEMINAR

Prerequisites:
EESC BC3800
or
EESC BC3801
and a good grounding in basic sciences.
Guided, independent, in-depth research culminating in the senior thesis in the spring. Includes discussion about scientific presentations and posters, data analysis, library research methods and scientific writing. Students review work in progress and share results through oral reports. Weekly seminar to review work in progress and share results through oral and written reports.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Roisin Commane
  h-index: 25 Info
• 3 points

SENIORS HONORS THESIS LAB

Corequisites: CHEM BC3901
Guided research in Chemistry or Biochemistry, under the sponsorship of a faculty member, leading to the senior thesis. A minimum of 8 hours of research per week, to be arranged.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• Instructor: Christian Rojas
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Marisa C Buzzeo
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Dina C Merrer
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Andrew C Crowther
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Michael Campbell
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• Instructor: Rachel Austin
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia h-index: 28 Info
• Instructor: Christina Vizcarra
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Rachel Austin
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia h-index: 28 Info
• 0 points

RUMOR AND RACIAL CONFLICT

This course will take a transnational look at the strange ways that race and mass rumors have interacted. From the judicial and popular riots in the U.S. justified by recurrent rumors of African-American insurrection, to accusations that French Jews were players in the 'white slave trade,' to tales of white fat-stealing monsters among indigenous people of Bolivia and Peru, rumors play a key role in constructing, enforcing, and contesting regimes of racial identity and domination. In order to grasp rumor's importance for race, we will need to understand how it works, so our readings will cover both instances of racialized rumor-telling, conspiracy theories and mass panics, and some key approaches to how rumors work as a social phenomenon. The instructor will expect you to post a response to the reading on Courseworks each week and to engage actively in class discussion. There will be an in-class midterm exam, and you will be able to choose between writing an independent research project or doing a take-home exam.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Stuart Rockefeller
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• 4 points

INTRO HISTRCAL THEORY& METHOD

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required. Preference to JUNIOR and SOPHOMORE Majors. Fulfills General Education Requirement (GER); Historical Studies (HIS); Reason and Value
Confronts a set of problems and questions attached to the writing of good history by examining the theories and methods historians have devised to address these problems. Its practical focus: to prepare students to tackle the senior thesis and other major research projects. The reading matter for this course crosses cultures, time periods, and historical genres. Fulfills all concentrations within the history major.

• Department: History @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Joel Kaye
  CULPA: 30 Info
• 4 points

ASIAN AMERICAN & PSYCH OF RACE

ASIAN AMERICAN & PSYC OF RACE

This seminar provides an introduction to mental health issues for Asian Americans.  In particular, it focuses on the psychology of Asian Americans as racial/ethnic minorities in the United States by exploring a number of key concepts: immigration, racialization, prejudice, family, identity, pathology, and loss.  We will examine the development of identity in relation to self, family, college, and society.  Quantitative investigation, qualitative research, psychology theories of multiculturalism, and Asian American literature will also be integrated into the course.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Shinhee Han
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

CONTMP PHOTO&RELATED; MEDIA:POL EXHIBITNS

CONTMP PHOTO&REL; MDIA:POL EXBN

An introductory survey of contemporary photography and related media through the framework of current exhibitions in New York City. Exhibitions of photography and video play a particular role in mirroring the present moment, which finds political themes front and center. Prevalent are exhibitions that redress (art) historical erasure, present counter histories, or take direct aim at specific governmental policies.  Through group outings to NYC galleries and museums (approximately 8 trips) we will take stock of which artists are showing, in what contexts, and unpack both artistic and curatorial strategies. In addition to class discussion of what we’ve seen, during our time in the classroom we will look back at the select landmark photography exhibitions, to chart evolutions in the medium and their interrelation with politics.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Joanna Lehan
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• 4 points

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING DESIGN

A two-semester design sequence to be taken in the senior year. Elements of the design process, with specific applications to biomedical engineering: concept formulation, systems synthesis, design analysis, optimization, biocompatibility, impact on patient health and comfort, health care costs, regulatory issues, and medical ethics. Selection and execution of a project involving the design of an actual engineering device or system. Introduction to entrepreneurship, biomedical start-ups, and venture capital. Semester I: statistical analysis of detection/classification systems (receiver operation characteristic analysis, logistic regression), development of design prototype, need, approach, benefits and competition analysis. Semester II: spiral develop process and testing, iteration and refinement of the initial design/prototype and business plan development. A lab fee of $100 each is collected.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Aaron M Kyle
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• 4 points

SOCIAL CONTEXTS IMMIGRATN LAW

Examines the historical and contemporary social, economic, and political factors that shape immigration law and policy along with the social consequences of those laws and policies.  Addresses the development and function of immigration law and aspects of the immigration debate including unauthorized immigration, anti-immigration sentiments, and critiques of immigration policy.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: J.C. Salyer
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

SEMINAR

SEMINAR: PHIL. MUSIC FILM & P

Required of senior majors, but also open to junior majors, and junior and senior concentrators who have taken at least four philosophy courses. This exploration will typically involve writing a substantial research paper. Capped at 20 students with preference to philosophy majors.

• Department: Philosophy
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Lydia Goehr
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED FILM PRODUCTION PRACTICE

Prerequisites: FILM UN2510 or FILM UN2520
Advanced Film Production Practice is an advanced production and lecture course for students who wish to obtain a deeper understanding of the skills involved in screenwriting, directing and producing.  Building on the fundamentals established in the Labs for Fiction and Non-Fiction Filmmaking, this seminar further develops each student’s grasp of the concepts involved in filmmaking through advanced analytical and practical work to prepare Thesis film materials.
Short films are the gateway for any writer/director or producer seeking a career in film.  From pitch to script to final film, students learn the importance of identifying and developing producible ideas and scripts that feature a strong directorial “voice.”  Starting with a close analysis of successful short films, students then apply those principles in writing, directing and producing their own Thesis short film.  A study of the marketplace for short films (festivals and distribution) and the industry and academic options available to emerging filmmakers, enables students to develop an action plan for the completed Thesis short film.

• Department: Film
• M 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Benjamin C Leonberg
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• 3 points

CROSSOVER CULTURE

SOCIOLOGY OF CROSSOVER CULTURE

The rise of crossover culture: racially segregated markets and genres; organizational environments and the rise of independent labels; the creative process and black-white conflict and connection; the emergence of rock as a "white" genre; civil rights, Black Power, and the politics of soul; cultural borrowing and the postracial ethos.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Rieder
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 4 points

SR SEM:LATE VICTORN&MOD; DRAMA

Drama in a period of rapid transition.  The interaction of changing social structures and performative traditions. Protest plays, problem plays, and plays pursuing new social and aesthetic possibilities vie for attention and authority. Our seminar will explore fluid relationships between realism and theatricalism, historicism and modernism, convention and invention, adaptation and interpretation.  We will read texts, view films and stage adaptations, and attend NYC productions.  Playwrights may include Dion Boucicault, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Colin Hazelwood/ Mary Bratton, Arthur Wing Pinero, Patrick Marber, Elizabeth Robins, Evelyn Glover, Lillian Hellman, Oscar Wilde, Theresa Rebeck, George Bernard Shaw, Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekhov, Caryl Churchill, Noel Coward, and Emma Rice.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Patricia D Denison
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

MODES OF INQUIRY

Corequisites: CSER UN3921
This class, a combination of a seminar and a workshop, will prepare students to conduct, write up, and present original research. It has several aims and goals. First, the course introduces students to a variety of ways of thinking about knowledge as well as to specific ways of knowing and making arguments key to humanistic and social science fields. Second, this seminar asks students to think critically about the approaches they employ in pursuing their research. The course will culminate in a semester project, not a fully executed research project, but rather an 8-10 page proposal for research that will articulate a question, provide basic background on the context that this question is situated in, sketch preliminary directions and plot out a detailed methodological plan for answering this question. Students will be strongly encouraged to think of this proposal as related to their thesis or senior project. Over the course of the semester, students will also produce several short exercises to experiment with research techniques and genres of writing.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Sayantani T Dasgupta
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

TRADING NATURE

This course explores the scientific and theoretical conceptualization of nature as a market commodity, through the lens of conservation biology.  Students will engage in critical analysis of the 'traditional' forms in which biodiversity has been appropriated as inputs into markets such as fisheries, resource extraction, bushmeat and medicine, as well as new market environmentalism.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Mary E Blair
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF THE BIBLE

We will read all eight novels of Virginia Woolf, as well as 
A Room of One's Own
 and 
Three Guineas
 and selections from her diaries and criticism.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: David M Yerkes
  CULPA: 41 Info
• 4 points

SR SEM: VIRGINIA WOOLF

We will read all eight novels of Virginia Woolf, as well as 
A Room of One's Own
 and 
Three Guineas
 and selections from her diaries and criticism.

• Department: English @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Mary Gordon
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SENIOR PROJECT COLLOQUIUM

This course is for American studies majors planning to complete senior projects in the spring. The course is designed to help students clarify their research agenda, sharpen their questions, and locate their primary and secondary sources. Through class discussions and a "workshop" peer review process, each member of the course will enter spring semester with a completed bibliography that will provide an excellent foundation for the work of actually writing the senior essay. The colloquium will meet every other week and is required for everyone planning to do a senior research project. Application due June 15. See American Studies website.

• Department: American Studies
• Instructor: Casey Blake
  CULPA: 22 Wikipedia Info
• 1 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

Open to senior chemistry, biochemistry, environmental chemistry, and chemical physics majors; senior chemistry concentrators; and students who have taken or are currently enrolled in
CHEM UN3098
. Senior seminar provides direct access to modern chemical research through selected studies by the students from active fields of chemical research. Topics to be presented and discussed draw from the current scientific literature and/or
UN3098
research.

• Department: Chemistry
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Karen E Phillips
  CULPA: 28 h-index: 9 Info
• 2 points

MEDIEVAL ENGLISH TEXTS

CHAUCER

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
(Seminar). 
Application Instructions:
E-mail Professor David Yerkes (dmy1@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Medieval English Texts." 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
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: David M Yerkes
  CULPA: 41 Info
• 4 points

SR SEM: BORDERS AMER LIT

This course will explore representations of voluntary and forced migration as a path toward understanding the formation of literary traditions and histories in the US and the Americas. How do we think about immigrant literature if the immigrant was here before the literature? Where does American literature begin and end if a mobile subject carries her words across borders and genres?  In addition to reading fictional and non-fictional narratives of cultural literacy and migration by writers like Frederick Douglass, Julia Alvarez, and Valeria Luiselli, we’ll examine the ways in which contemporary discourses of relocation generate surprising returns to what we might recognize as the proto-exceptionalist and/or post-apocalyptic foundations of American literature and culture.

• Department: English @Barnard
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Kristin Carter
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEM IN SCREENWRITING

A seminar for senior film majors. Students will complete a step outline and minimum of 30 pages of their project, including revisions. Through reading/viewing and analyzing selected scripts/films, as well as lectures, exercises and weekly critiques, students will expand their understanding of dramatic writing and narrative-making for film and TV, including adaptations. They will learn appropriate structure for each specific screen-writing form, and endeavor to apply their understanding of drama, character, theme, and structure to their chosen narrative project.

• Department: Film
• R 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Loren-Paul Caplin
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

"""Blanchite"" Thinking Whiteness in Fre

Prerequisites: FREN UN3405 or
What are the stakes of the emergence, in French, of a vocabulary to discuss racial formations adapted from US academic and activist discourse? How does the neutrality and invisibility associated with whiteness relate historically to French Republican universalism? How has the lack of a language to critically address whiteness, in particular, affected French and Francophone thought, politics and literature? This class examines the conceptualization and representations of racial whiteness in the French language and in French and Francophone literatures. Foregrounding a republican universalist rebuttal of identity politics and a post-WWII
denunciation of scientifically defined “race”, France has long perplexed foreign observers with such particularities as its restrictions on ethnic statistics and religious symbols. Yet a public debate on the meaning and implications of language used to discuss racial formations is currently underway. This class will reflect on the historical and contemporary significance of this shift in language in three ways. First, by interpreting current discussions of racial identities and whiteness; Second, by gaining a contextual understanding of how language addressing race in French has been shaped through the related histories of colonization, revolution, and migration. Finally by analyzing literary representations of racialized and racializing identities in French and Francophone literature.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Aline C Rogg
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• 3 points

NOBILITY/CIVILITY: EAST/WEST I

NOBILITY AND CIVILITY I

Prerequisites: one semester of Contemporary Civilization or Literature Humanities, or an equivalent course, and the instructor's permission.
A team-taught multicultural, interdisciplinary course examining traditions of leadership and citizenship as they appear in the key texts of early Indian, Islamic, Far Eastern, and Western civilizations. One goal is to identify and examine common human values and issues evident in these texts while also recognizing key cultural differences.

• Department: Core (A&S;)
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 4 points

CONTEMP CULTURE IN ARAB WORLD

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
This seminar, designed for seniors, aims to acquaint students with the notion and theoretical understanding of culture and to introduce them to a critical method by which they can study and appreciate contemporary culture in the Arab World. The seminar will survey examples of written and cinematic culture (fiction and autobiography), as well as music, dance, and literary criticism in the contemporary Arab world. Students will be reading novels, autobioghraphies and literary criticism, as well as watch films and listen to music as part of the syllabus. All material will be in translation. Films will be subtitled. Songs will be in Arabic.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph A Massad
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

RACE&REPRESENTATION; IN ASIAN AMER CINEMA

RACE&REPRSNTATN; IN ASAM CINEMA

This seminar focuses on the critical analysis of Asian representation and participation in Hollywood by taking a look at how mainstream American cinema continues to essentialize the Asian and how Asian American filmmakers have responded to Hollywood Orientalist stereotypes. We will analyze various issues confronting the Asian American, including yellowface, white patriarchy, male and female stereotypes, the “model minority” myth, depictions of “Chinatowns,” panethnicity, the changing political interpretations of the term "Asian American" throughout American history, gender and sexuality, and cultural hegemonies and privileging within the Asian community.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Eric Gamalinda
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

LATINO & ASIAN AMER MEMOIR

In this class, we will explore Latino and Asian American memoir, focusing on themes of immigration and duality. How do we construct identity and homeland when we are ‘multiple’? How do we define ourselves and how do others define us? By reading some of the most challenging and exciting memoirs by Latino and Asian Americans, we will attempt to answer these questions and/or at least try to understand these transnational and multicultural experiences. This class combines the critical with the creative—students have to read and critic memoirs as well as write a final 10-page nonfiction creative writing piece. Students will also have the opportunity to speak to some Latino and Asian authors in class or via SKYPE. Students will be asked to prepare questions in advance for the author, whose work(s) we will have read and discussed. This usually arises interesting and thought-provoking conversations and debates. This 'Dialogue Series' within the class exposes students to a wide-range of voices and offers them a deeper understanding of the complexity of duality.

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

CNTRL QUESTIONS IN ISLAMIC LAW

Through detailed discussions of certain landmarks in Islamic legal history (e.g., origins; early formation; sources of law; intellectual make-up; the workings of court; legal change; women in the law; legal effects of colonialism; modernity and legal reform, etc.), the course aims at providing an introductory but integrated view of Islamic law, a definition, so to speak, of what it was/is. Please note, this course must be taken for a letter grade.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Wael Hallaq
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ADV TOPICS LAW & SOCIETY

ADV TPCS LAW & SOCIETY

Law creates order. And yet, outlaws or lawbreakers are everywhere. Students will learn to ask and answer questions about living law, understanding that it involves law-followers and law-breakers. Students will read and discuss sociological investigations of the law and perform their own research into a significant question about law-in-action.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Deborah Becher
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 4 Info
• 4 points

LATIN MUSIC AND IDENTITY

Latin music has had a historically strained relationship with mainstream music tastes, exploding in occasional 'boom' periods, and receding into invisibility in others. What if this were true because it is a space for hybrid construction of identity that directly reflects a mixture of traditions across racial lines in Latin America? This course will investigate Latin music's transgression of binary views of race in Anglo-American society, even as it directly affects the development of pop music in America. From New Orleans jazz to Texas
corridos
, salsa, rock, and reggaeton, Latin music acts as both as a soundtrack and a structural blueprint for the 21st century's multicultural experiment. There will be a strong focus on studying Latin music's political economy, and investigating the story it tells about migration and globalization.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Edward Morales
  Info
• 4 points

SR SEM: TRAD &NONCONFORMITY;

How does a literary lineage develop by challenging its own perceived norms? How can tradition itself be, in other words, unconventional? Focusing on the work of Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf, Jorge Luis Borges, and James Baldwin, we will study texts that suggest the complexity of each author's engagement with his or her literary inheritances.

• Department: English @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel Eisendrath
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

"SENIOR SEMINAR: ""A D D MOB OF SCRIBB

SR SEM: 19TH-CEN WOMEN WR

(Formerly ENGL BC3997.06; this course has been renumbered but has not changed in content.)  In 1855, Nathaniel Hawthorne complained that American publishing was "wholly given over to a d--d mob of scribbling women," and that he could not hope to compete with women writers for popularity or sales.  Yet Hawthorne's texts were canonized as American classics, while texts by nineteenth-century women writers were largely ignored by the academy until late in the twentieth century.  This course considers a variety of texts by nineteenth-century American women, including novels, short fiction, poetry, and journalism. We'll consider women's writing and women's reading through a variety of lenses, including domesticity and women's sphere, political action and suffrage, slavery and abolition, the economics of writing and publishing, sentimentality and anger, and canon formation and literary merit.  Authors include Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Susan Warner, Fanny Fern, Harriet Jacobs, Elizabeth Drew Stoddard, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, Nellie Bly, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman.

• Department: English @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Gordis
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 4 points

COLONIZATION/DECOLONIZATION

Prerequisites: Open to CSER majors/concentrators only. Others may be allowed to register with the instructor's permission.
This course explores the centrality of colonialism in the making of the modern world, emphasizing cross-cultural and social contact, exchange, and relations of power; dynamics of conquest and resistance; and discourses of civilization, empire, freedom, nationalism, and human rights, from 1500 to 2000. Topics include pre-modern empires; European exploration, contact, and conquest in the new world; Atlantic-world slavery and emancipation; and European and Japanese colonialism in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The course ends with a section on decolonization and post-colonialism in the period after World War II. Intensive reading and discussion of primary documents.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Karl Jacoby
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 8 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE

AFRICAN SPIRIT IN AMERICA

Please refer to Institute for Research in African American Studies for section course descriptions: http://iraas.columbia.edu/

• Department: African American and African Diaspora
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: C. Daniel Dawson
  Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE

DUBOIS SEMINAR

Please refer to Institute for Research in African American Studies for section course descriptions: http://iraas.columbia.edu/

• Department: African American and African Diaspora
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Gooding-Williams
  Wikipedia h-index: 15 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

FREEDOM & CITIZENSHIP IN US

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for the course descriptions for each section.

• Department: American Studies
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Roosevelt Montas
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

GNDR HISTORY&AMERICAN; FILM

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for the course descriptions for each section.

• Department: American Studies
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Hilary-Anne Hallett
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

IMMIGRANT NEW YORK

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for the course descriptions for each section.

• Department: American Studies
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jessica H Lee
  Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

SUPREME COURT IN AMERICAN HIST

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for the course descriptions for each section.

• Department: American Studies
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Benjamin Rosenberg
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

MUSEUM MEMORY & PUBLIC CULTURE

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for the course descriptions for each section.

• Department: American Studies
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Valerie Paley
  Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

FREDERICK DOUGLASS'S AMERICA

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for the course descriptions for each section.

• Department: American Studies
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Roosevelt Montas
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

American Horror Story

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for the course descriptions for each section.

• Department: American Studies
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeremy Dauber
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

LIFE AT THE END OF LIFE

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for the course descriptions for each section.

• Department: American Studies
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

HOW DEMOCRATIC IS THE US?

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for the course descriptions for each section.

• Department: American Studies
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Luke Mayville
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• 4 points

E MEDIT IN THE LATE BRONZE AGE

This course presents a comparative study of the histories of Egypt, the Near East, Anatolia and the Aegean world in the period from c. 1500-1100 BC, when several of the states provide a rich set of textual and archaeological data. It will focus on the region as a system with numerous participants whose histories will be studied in an international context. The course is a seminar: students are asked to investigate a topic (e.g., diplomacy, kingship, aspects of the economy, etc.) in several of the states involved and present their research in class and as a paper.

• Department: History
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Marc Van de Mieroop
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
This seminar explores major features of U.S. constitutional law through close examination of selected decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court. Through student discussion and some lecturing, the seminar addresses issues arising from the Constitution's allocation of power among the three branches of government; the allocation of powers between the National and State governments, including, in particular, the scope of Congress' regulatory powers; and the protection of the individual from arbitrary and discriminatory government conduct, including the protections of the Fifth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments against unequal treatment based on race, gender and sexual orientation, the evolution of the concept of liberty from its protection of economic interests before the New Deal to its current role in protecting individual autonomy and privacy, and some aspects of the First Amendment's protection of freedom of speech and press. More generally the seminar aims to enhance understanding of some main aspects of our constitutional tradition and the judicial process by which it is elaborated.

• Department: Political Science
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sidney Rosdeitcher
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED TOPICS RACE & ETHNICITY

ADV TOPICS RACE & ETHNICITY

Discusses theories of race and ethnicity, distinctions between prejudice, discrimination, and racism, and the intersectionality paradigm. Under instructor’s guidance students design a research proposal, conduct their own fieldwork and write a research paper on a sociological question relating to race and/or ethnicity.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Mignon R Moore
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info
• 4 points

French Queer Cinema

FRENCH QUEER CINEMA

Close analysis of the representation and treatment of LGBT characters and themes in French-language features by prominent directors, male and female, straight- and queer-identified.  Films studied will mainly be fictional works by post-New Wave moviemakers for whom queer subjectivities and sexualities are, on the whole, no longer marked as deviant, dangerous, or monstrous.  Such artists include Chantal Akerman, Josiane Balasko, Catherine Corsini, Cyril Collard, Jacques Demy, Xavier Dolan, Alain Guiraudie, Abdellatif Kechiche, François Ozon, and André Téchiné.  Films will be situated within social, political, and ideological contexts, with special attention placed on the ways that French-language directors often differ from their Anglophone peers (especially mainstream Hollywood)  in the handling of queer plots and characters.  Readings will include scholarly articles on the films and directors studied; reviews and debates surrounding the movies at the time of their release; recent critical reassessments of French queer filmmaking generally; and aspects of Queer Theory.

• Department: Film
• T 2 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Edward Turk
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

CLIM CHNG/GLOBAL MIGR/HUM RGT

While the existence of processes of anthropogenic climate change is well established, predictions regarding the future consequences of these processes are far less certain. In no area is the uncertainty regarding near and long term effects as pronounced as in the question of how climate change will affect global migration. This course will address the issue of climate migration in four ways.  First, the course will examine the theoretical and empirical literatures that have elucidated the nature of international migration in general.  Second, the course will consider the phenomena of anthropogenic climate change as it relates to migration.  Third, the course will consider how human rights and other legal regimes do or do not address the humanitarian issues created by anthropogenic climate change.  Fourth, the course will synthesize these topics by considering how migration and climate change has arisen as a humanitarian, political, and economic issue in the Pacific.  
Human Rights elective.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Patrick F Nason
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• 4 points

HELLENISM&THE; TOPOGRAPHICAL IMAGINATION

HELLENISM&THE; TOPOGRAPHIC IMAG

Course Overview:
This course examines the way particular spaces—cultural, urban, literary—serve as sites for the production and reproduction of cultural and political imaginaries. It places particular emphasis on the themes of the
polis
, the city, and the nation-state as well as on spatial representations of and responses to notions of the Hellenic across time. Students will consider a wide range of texts as spaces—complex sites constituted and complicated by a multiplicity of languages—and ask: To what extent is meaning and cultural identity, site-specific? How central is the classical past in Western imagination? How have great metropolises such as Paris, Istanbul, and New York fashioned themselves in response to the allure of the classical and the advent of modern Greece? How has Greece as a specific site shaped the study of the Cold War, dictatorships, and crisis?

• Department: Classics
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Dimitrios Antoniou
  h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

SENIOR SEMINAR: THE NOVEL AND ECONOMIC J

Sr Sem: Novel & Econ Just

The industrial revolution inspired novelists to explore the ways in which money, or the lack of it, forms or deforms our characters. It also inspired the writings of Karl Marx, the great theorist of economic justice. In this seminar we will read five of the greatest nineteenth-century novels – Godwin’s
Caleb Williams
, Austen’s
Persuasion
, Flaubert’s
Madame Bovary
, Eliot’s
Middlemarch
and Hardy’s
Jude the Obscure
– alongside Marx’s most influential writings. We will pay special attention to Marxist notions of materialism; alienation and human flourishing; capital and labour; classes; and ideology. Special emphasis will also be given to the Marxist approach in the study of culture, the role of intellectuals (such as ourselves) and the relationship between capitalism and culture – through theorists like Gramsci, the Frankfurt School, and Raymond Williams.

• Department: English @Barnard
• R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Ross T Hamilton
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 4 points

CUR CONTROV-PRIMATE BEHAV&ECOL;

Prerequisites: EEEB UN1011 or the equivalent.
Critical in-depth evaluation of selected issues in primate socioecology, including adaptationism, sociality, sexual competition, communication, kinship, dominance, cognition, and politics. Emphasizes readings from original literature.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Marina Cords
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 4 points

THE BIG AMBITIOUS NOVEL

Critic James Wood has cast doubt on the accomplishment of those contemporary novelists who have tried to carry what Wood calls the "Dickensian" ambition of 19th-century realism to the higher geographical scale of today's globalized society. This seminar will try to assess both their ambition and their success. Readings by Kazuo Ishiguro, Roberto BolaƱo, Elena Ferrante, Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Chimimanda Ngozi Adicihie. 
This seminar proposes to read 5 works of important recent world fiction that are so long, so ambitious, and in some cases so forbidding that they are difficult to work into an ordinary syllabus. The seminar will give each one 2-3 weeks, thereby permitting students the time both to read them with care and to discuss them in detail.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 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 @Barnard
• Instructor: Daniela de Silva
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

TABOO AND TRANSGRESSION

• Department: Anthropology
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Taussig
  CULPA: 33 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE EVERYDAY

The ‘Ethnography of the Everyday’ offers students an opportunity to engage the discipline’s methods and genres, and the ethico-philosophical questions about representativeness and exemplarity that subtend them.The course will consider the everyday as an alternative concept to ‘culture’ and habitus,’ while looking at the ethnographic works that were informed by those ideas. Students will undertake weekly writing assignments as part of an investigation not only of method, but of aesthetics, expression, and representation in general.

• Department: Anthropology
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Rosalind Morris
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SENIOR RESEARCH SEMINAR

Prerequisites: Course open to Barnard Art History majors only.
Independent research for the senior thesis. Students develop and write their senior thesis in consultation with an individual faculty adviser in art history and participate in group meetings scheduled throughout the senior year.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Rosalyn Deutsche
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 3 points

HONORS THESIS SEMINAR

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

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• T 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Timothy Mitchell
  Wikipedia h-index: 34 Info
• 1 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
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Hutchinson
  CULPA: 9 Info
• Instructor: Jonathan Reynolds
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

THE BIENNIAL MATRIX OF CONTEMPORARY ART

This seminar introduces the relationship between contemporary artistic practices and the landmark survey shows of international contemporary art that are commonly known as “biennials,” but which encompasses not just exhibitions that recur every two years but also triennials, irregular mega-exhibitions known as manifestas, and the quinquennial survey exhibition, documenta. These regularly recurring exhibitions have come, since the late 1980s, to define contemporary art. They are one of the most ubiquitous and celebrated exhibition formats across the globe, appearing in cities as different as Saõ Paulo, Istanbul, Havana, Dakar, Seoul, and Kochi. A large art public encounters contemporary art solely within the frames of these exhibitions, while the constellation of artists and art from diverse cultures and places that these exhibitions feature has generated vital intercultural dialogues.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexander Alberro
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 17 Info
• 4 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
• TR 4:10 a.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
• TR 4:10 a.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
  CULPA: 20 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
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Steven Gregory
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

APPROACHES TO E ASIAN STUDIES

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

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Feng Li
  CULPA: 12 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEM-COMP LIT & SOCIETY

Prerequisites: CPLS UN3900

The senior seminar is a capstone course required of all CLS/MLA majors. 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
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Rishi K Goyal
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

THESIS RESEARCH SEMINAR

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

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew I Palmer
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

THESIS RESEARCH SEMINAR

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

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

EBHS SENIOR THESIS SEMINAR

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

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

SENIOR THESIS/TUTORIAL

Prerequisites: the faculty adviser's 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: Jo Ann Cavallo
  CULPA: 13 Info
• Instructor: Pier Mattia Tommasino
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED IND RES-LING THESIS

• Department: Slavic Languages
• 1-4 points

HUMAN RIGHTS SENIOR SEMINAR RSRCH METHOD

HUMAN RIGHTS RSRCH METHODS

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
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: , Cristina I Dragomir
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• 4 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 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Antoine M Compagnon
  CULPA: 3 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
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter J Rosenblum
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• 4 points

THE MAJOR SEMINAR

• Department: Classics
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Marcus Folch
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points