Research Training

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

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• Instructor: Jingguang Chen
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• Instructor: Christopher J Durning
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• Instructor: Daniel Esposito
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• Instructor: Oleg Gang
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• Instructor: Jingyue Ju
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• Instructor: Sanat Kumar
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• Instructor: Lauren E Marbella
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• Instructor: Vivian F McNeill
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• Instructor: Allie Obermeyer
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• Instructor: Ben O'Shaughnessy
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• Instructor: Neil D Dolinski
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• Instructor: Mijo Simunovic
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• Instructor: Dan Steingart
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• Instructor: Alexander Urban
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• Instructor: Venkat Venkatasubramanian
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• Instructor: Alan West
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• Instructor: Asher Williams
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The Art of the Question in Latin America

The Question in Latin Ame

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

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

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

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeronimo Duarte Riascos
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• 3 points

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROJECT

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

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• Instructor: Scott Banta
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• Instructor: Kyle Bishop
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• Instructor: Christopher M Boyce
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• Instructor: Juliana Silva Alves Carneiro
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• Instructor: Jingguang Chen
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• Instructor: Christopher J Durning
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• Instructor: Daniel Esposito
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• Instructor: Oleg Gang
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• Instructor: Jingyue Ju
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• Instructor: Sanat Kumar
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• Instructor: Lauren E Marbella
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• Instructor: Vivian F McNeill
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• Instructor: Allie Obermeyer
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• Instructor: Ben O'Shaughnessy
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• Instructor: Neil D Dolinski
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• Instructor: Mijo Simunovic
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• Instructor: Dan Steingart
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• Instructor: Alexander Urban
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• Instructor: Venkat Venkatasubramanian
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• Instructor: Alan West
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• Instructor: Asher Williams
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• 0-6 points

Supervised Individual Research

Supervised individual research in Cognitive Science.  1-4 points.  May be repeated for credit.

• Department: Cognitive Science @Barnard
• Instructor: John Morrison
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• 1-4 points

INTRO TO COMP LIT & SOCIETY

Introduction to concepts and methods of comparative literature in cross-disciplinary and global context. Topics may include: oral, print, and visual culture; epic, novel, and nation; literature of travel, exile, and diaspora; sex and gender transformation; the human/inhuman; writing trauma; urban imaginaries; world literature; medical humanities. Open only to students who have applied for and declared a major in Comparative Literature and Society or Medical Humanities.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Rishi K Goyal
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• Instructor: Tadas Bugnevicius
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• 3 points

UNDERGRAD RESEARCH OR PROJECT

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

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

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

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

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

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

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

SENIOR THESIS I

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

• Department: Visual Arts
• W 5:15 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Naeem Mohaiemen
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• 2 points

INDEPENDENT STDY-UNDERGRADUATE

INDEPENDENT STUDY-UNDERGRAD

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

SENIOR SEMINAR

SR SEM: ARCH & ENV S ASIA

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

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Anooradha I Siddiqi
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• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

SR SEM: CURATING ARCH

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

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Ignacio Gonzalez Galan
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SENIOR THESIS

Prerequisites: Senior majors only. Senior Seminar required of all majors in East Asian Studies. Open only to senior majors.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• Instructor: Lu Kou
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SENIOR SEMINAR

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.
• 3 points

SENIOR THESIS II

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

• Department: Visual Arts
• W 5:15 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Naeem Mohaiemen
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• 2 points

SENIOR HONORS THESIS SEM

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 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jean Vadakkan
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• Instructor: Marina Orman
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• 4 points

Senior Project Seminar

SENIOR PROJECT SEMINAR

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

• Department: Cognitive Science @Barnard
• T 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• R 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: John Morrison
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• 1 points

Economics of Public Policy

This course has two objectives: First, to develop students' skills in research and writing. Students will learn how to formulate a research question and place it in the context of existing literature and public policy importance, and how to bring economic and econometric tools to bear to answer such questions. Second, the course provides an introduction to the key issues in the economics of public policy. Broadly, we want to know how, when, and why the government should intervene in the economy. We will explore these questions through the lens of a number of key policy areas, including taxation, redistribution and social insurance, and the provision of public goods and services.

• Department: Economics
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael C Best
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• 3 points

SENIOR HONORS THESIS LAB

Corequisites: CHEM BC3902 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
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• Instructor: Marisa C Buzzeo
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• 0 points