UNDERGRAD RESEARCH OR PROJECT

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

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Instructor: Clifford Stein
  CULPA: 31 Wikipedia h-index: 53 Info
• Instructor: Wenpin Tang
  h-index: 6 Info
• Instructor: Van Anh Truong
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Kaizheng Wang
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 8 Info
• Instructor: Ward Whitt
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia h-index: 102 Info
• Instructor: David D Yao
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Yi Zhang
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Xunyu Zhou
  h-index: 54 Info
• Instructor: Jenny S Mak
  Info
• 1-3 points

UNDERGRAD RES IN MATERIALS SCI

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

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Yuan Yang
  h-index: 49 Info
• 0-4 points

UNDERGRAD RES IN MATERIALS SCI

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

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Yuan Yang
  h-index: 49 Info
• 0-4 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: Summer Session (SUMM)
• 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: Reshmi Mukherjee
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia h-index: 63 Info
• 1-5 points

Crime and Culture in Modern Spain

CRIME/CULTURE IN MOD SPAI

The death of absolutist King Fernando VII in 1833 constituted the end of Spain’s 
Antiguo Régimen
, and ushered in the arrival of a constitutional monarchy. The country soon furnished itself with the requisite trappings of modernity, including a liberal juridical system intended to turn subjects into citizens and replace the Black Legend of the obscurantist, Catholic empire with the image of a modern state organized around the rule of law. Inspired by a literature emerging in Europe and the United States as the symbolic counterpart of this turn to ideals of order and reason, Spanish writers tried their hand at appropriating its conventions throughout a century of domestic political turmoil stretching from the First and Second Republics (1868-74 and 1932-36) to the dictatorship of Francisco Franco (1939-75) and the transition to democracy soon after his death. In their own crime and detection novels, Spanish authors probed the contours of the nation’s uneven political and cultural evolution. Class readings and discussion are conducted in Spanish.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• TR 9:30 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Wadda Rios-Font
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED READINGS I

Prerequisites: The written permission of the faculty member who agrees to act as sponsor (sponsorship limited to full-time instructors on the staff list), as well as the permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies. The written permission must be deposited with the Director of Undergraduate Studies before registration is completed. Guided reading and study in mathematics. A student who wishes to undertake individual study under this program must present a specific project to a member of the staff and secure his or her willingness to act as sponsor. Written reports and periodic conferences with the instructor. Supervising Readings do NOT count towards major requirements, with the exception of an advanced written approval by the DUS.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• Instructor: Ivan Corwin
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 34 Info
• 2-3 points

SUPERVISED READINGS I

Prerequisites: The written permission of the faculty member who agrees to act as sponsor (sponsorship limited to full-time instructors on the staff list), as well as the permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies. The written permission must be deposited with the Director of Undergraduate Studies before registration is completed. Guided reading and study in mathematics. A student who wishes to undertake individual study under this program must present a specific project to a member of the staff and secure his or her willingness to act as sponsor. Written reports and periodic conferences with the instructor. Supervising Readings do NOT count towards major requirements, with the exception of an advanced written approval by the DUS.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• Instructor: Ivan Corwin
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 34 Info
• 2-3 points

INDEPENDENT RESEARCH II

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• Instructor: Robert L Amdur
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 1-6 points

SENIOR SEMINAR: BAD ROMANCE

SR SEM: BAD ROMANCE

Romance: the quest for the one true love. This seminar will read romances that go wrong, that end catastrophically, that damage lovers or leave victims along the way. Reading bad romances will illuminate the consuming fantasy of the romance genre, as well as a range of emotions – rage and revenge, narcissism and self-protection, obsession and oblivion – that surface in their wake. We will also look at shifting interpretations of these powerful emotions, from Plato, to the Galenic theory of the humors, to the sociology of court-culture, to Freudian and finally contemporary neurobiological explanations of feelings. Students are welcome to propose texts of their own interests to open this course to the widest range of interests. Weekly individual tutorials with Professor Hamilton on weekends are offered but optional. Readings: Euripides,
Medea
and Sophocles,
Antigone.
Malory,
Sir Tristram de Lyonesse
and Shakespeare,
Othello.
Mme de Lafayette,
The Princesse de Cleves
. Emily Bronte,
Wuthering Heights
. Miranda July,
The First Bad Man
and Curtis Sittenfield,
Prep.
Finally we will view Lina Wertmuller,
Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August
, Wong Kar Wai,
In the Mood for Love
, and Derek Cianfrance,
Blue Valentine
.

• Department: English @Barnard
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Ross T Hamilton
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 4 points

THE FUTURE AS HISTORY

This course explores how people have thought about their future and tried to change it. It examines the philosophical aspects of studying history and the future, and how they are related. It begins with the origins of future thinking in eschatology and millenarian movements, the enlightenment challenge to revelation and religious authority, and utopias and dystopias. Classic texts and scholarly studies will illuminate modern approaches to shaping the future, such as socialism, imperialism, risk analysis, and “modernization” theory, and areas where they have had a particular impact, including urban planning and eugenics.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew J Connelly
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

THE ART OF THE ESSAY

“Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.”― Michel de Montaigne “There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain. It is hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin. You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment.” Annie Dillard, The Writing Life “Find a subject you care about and which in your heart you feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.” Kurt Vonnegut What makes the essay of personal experience an essay rather than a journal entry? How can one's specific experience transcend the limits of narrative and transmit a deeper meaning to any reader? How can a writer transmit the wisdom gained from personal experience without lecturing her reader? In The Art of the Essay, we explore the answers to these questions by reading personal essays in a variety of different forms. We begin with Michel de Montaigne, the 16th-century philosopher who popularized the personal essay as we know it and famously asked, “What do I know?,” and follow the development of the form as a locus of rigorous self-examination, doubt, persuasion, and provocation. Through close reading of a range of essays from writers including Annie Dillard, Salman Rushdie, Jamaica Kincaid, and June Jordan, we analyze how voice, form, and evidence work together to create a world of meaning around an author's experience, one that invites readers into conversations that are at once deeply personal and universal in their consequences and implications.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Wendy C Schor-Haim
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 3 points

ANTI-COLONIALISM

The age of colonialism, so it seems, is long over. Decolonization has resulted in the emergence of postcolonial polities and societies that are now, in many instances, two generations old. But is it clear that the problem of colonialism has disappeared? Almost everywhere in the postcolonial world the project of building independent polities, economies and societies have faltered, sometimes run aground. Indeed, one might say that the anti-colonial dream of emancipation has evaporated. Through a careful exploration of the conceptual argument and rhetorical style of five central anti-colonial texts—C.L.R. James’ The Black Jacobins, Mahatma Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj, Aimé Cesairé’s Discourse on Colonialism, Albert Memmi’s Colonizer and Colonized, and Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth—this course aims to inquire into the image of colonialism as a structure of dominant power, and the image of its anticipated aftermaths: What were the perceived ill-effects of colonial power? What did colonialism do to the colonized that required rectification? In what ways did the critique of colonial power (the identification of what was wrong with it) shape the longing for its anti-colonial overcoming?

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: David Scott
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 72 Info
• 3 points

NOBILITY AND CIVILITY II

Prerequisites: one semester of Contemporary Civilization or Literature Humanities, or an equivalent course, and the instructors 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: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 4 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel Chung
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

US PRESIDENTIAL POWER

Prerequisites: POLS UN1201 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Seminar in American Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 2 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: John J Sivolella
  Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

POLIT PARTIES IN U.S. POLITICS

Prerequisites: POLS UN1201 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Seminar in American Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 9 a.m.-11:10 a.m.
• Instructor: Shigeo Hirano
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

THE FIRST AMENDMENT

Prerequisites: POLS UN1201 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Seminar in American Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 4 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert L Amdur
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 4 points

Race, Place, and the United States

Race, Place, and the US

The course analyzes the relationship between race/ethnicity and spatial inequality, emphasizing the institutions, processes, and mechanisms that shape the lives of urban dwellers. It surveys major theoretical approaches and empirical investigations of racial and ethnic stratification in several urban cities, and their concomitant policy considerations.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Kristin L Murphy
  Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

FREEDOM & CITIZENSHIP IN U.S.

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for section descriptions

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 1 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Roosevelt Montas
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 4 points

William James s Varieties of Religious

W James Varieties of Rel

William James’s
Varieties of Religious Experience
is a classic in two fields: the history of religious thought and American studies.  This course will be devoted to a careful reading of this work (and several short ones) in order to pose the question: is there a typical American approach to religious psychology?  And, if so, what relation might it bear to larger currents in American thought?

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 1 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Lilla
  CULPA: 57 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

HELLENISM AND THE TOPOGRAPHICA

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: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Dimitris Antoniou
  h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

Sociology of Human Rights

SOCIOLOGY OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Sociology came to the study of human rights much later than law, philosophy, or political science. In this course, you’ll learn (1) what constitutes a sociology of human rights and (2) what sociology, its classics, and its diverse methods bring to the empirical study and theory of human rights. We’ll explore the history, social institutions and laws, ideas, practices, and theories of human rights. We’ll become familiar with the social actors, social structures, and relationships involved in practices such as violation, claims-making, advocacy, and protection. We’ll consider how social, cultural, political, and economic forces affect human rights issues. We’ll learn about the questions sociologists ask, starting with the most basic (but far from simple) question, “what is a human right?” We’ll tackle key debates in the field, considering – for instance – whether human rights are universal and how human rights relate to cultural norms/values, national sovereignty, and national security. Finally, we’ll apply the concepts we’ve learned to a wide range of issues (ex: how racial, ethnic, gender, and other social inequalities relate to human rights), rights (ex: LGBTQ rights, the rights of laborers, the rights of refugees), and cases (ex: enslavement, the separation of children from their families, circumcision, sterilization, the use of torture). We’ll consider human rights cases in the United States and across the globe, and how events and actions in one place relate to human rights violations in another.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Rosemary McGunnigle-Gonzales
  Info
• 4 points

Indigenous Theater, Performance & Politi

Indigenous Theater Perf/P

After being marginalized for decades, Indigenous theater and performance studies is now a burgeoning field that draws together attention to the body, the senses, ontology, affect, structural violence, trauma, agency, political life, cultural embodied memory, and sociocultural revitalization.  In this course, we will engage with current theory-building about Indigenous theater and performance and its political implications.  We will explore what attention to performance and embodiment reveals about competing sovereignties, the colonial present, and decolonization; settler colonial ideologies, racism, and gendered structural violences; sensory performativity and the production of imaginaries to resist coloniality; and Indigenous treatment of affect, emotion, embodied intergenerational trauma, vital materiality, and more-than-human relationality.  We will study interpretive approaches; artists’ creative process; Indigenous performance cultures spanning dance, soundscapes, storytelling, and dramatic forms; and critical theoretical frameworks for understanding Indigenous theater and performance.  We will read works by Indigenous scholars and artist-authors and bring into dialogue performances and texts traversing Canada, the U.S., and Latin America.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Czarina F Thelen
  Info
• 4 points

Transpacific Media Cultures

Transpacific Media Cultures underscores the flows and movements of culture, media, ideas, and
communities in, around, and along the Pacific, including Asia, the Americas, and Oceania. This
course is designed to introduce students to a diverse set of contemporary media productions that
are attuned to social, political, and cultural issues across the transpacific. Some of the topics
discussed include race, gender, and sexuality in a networked world; migrant labor; indigenous
rights; the ethics of new media; and, the intersections of media and social justice. Because this
course takes on the study of media from a transpacific and global lens, it necessarily must
contend with and consider seriously various literacies and uneven forms of knowledge creations
in different locales. To that end, we will be studying different forms of cultural productions
(including film, video, multimedia, transmedia storytelling, and poetry) that reveal the
multiplicities, differences, and nuances of worldmaking.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Viola Lasmana
  Info
• 4 points

Indigenous Language Revitalization in La

Why do Indigenous language matter? According to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, two Indigenous languages die every two months. Although Indigenous peoples make up less than 6% of the global population, they speak more than 4,000 of the world’s approximately 6,700 languages. This statistic indicates that the vast majority of the Indigenous languages are seriously endangered due to colonial practices, requiring urgent action for their maintenance and dissemination. This seminar examines the history and current state of Indigenous language revitalization in Latin America, focusing on Quechua in the Andes and the diversity of languages in the Amazon and Mesoamerica. It will approach the official and Indigenous grassroots language planning and policy initiatives. Indigenous languages are not limited to the way Indigenous people communicate; they are an extensive and complex system of knowledge, history, memory, and identity. Therefore, this seminar will focus on how Indigenous people are reclaiming their languages, identities, and conveying their cultures through various methods and activities in rural and urban centers. These include oral traditions, educational pedagogies, music, art performances, and many other innovative efforts, for instance, using media and technological opportunities. The seminar will draw on a variety of academic literature and documentation materials produced by Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars and activists. Students will also have the opportunity to meet with Indigenous language speakers and teachers of the region. Select short films and Indigenous songs will be shown and discussed in class. This course is open to students from all departments interested in Indigenous language, culture, politics, literature, history, media, ethnomusicology, and anyone interested in expanding their critical sociocultural approach to Latin America.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Renzo Aroni
  Info
• 4 points

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: Summer Session (SUMM)
• Instructor: Patricia G Lindemann
  CULPA: 64 Info
• 1-4 points

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: Summer Session (SUMM)
• Instructor: Patricia G Lindemann
  CULPA: 64 Info
• 1-4 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

CONTEMPORARY DIPLOMACY

Prerequisites: POLS UN1601 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Seminar in International Relations. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Rebecca S Murphy
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

GLOB ENERGY SECURTY & GEOPLTCS

Prerequisites: POLS UN1601 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Seminar in International Relations. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 9 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Albert Bininachvili
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

Biological Basis of Human Variation

Bio Basis Human Variation

This is a seminar highlighting current topics in human biological variation.  Student presentations and directed discussions will explore the evidence for human variation at the molecular, phenotypic, and behavioral levels, how that diversity is distributed geographically, and the factors responsible.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 9 a.m.-11:10 a.m.
• Instructor: Jessica M Manser
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

MAJOR 20TH CENTURY PLAYWRIGHTS

IBSEN AND PINTER

The course will trace the pattern of the evolving theatrical careers of Henrik Ibsen and Harold Pinter, exploring the nature of and relationships among key features of their emerging aesthetics. Thematic and theatrical exploration involve positioning the plays in the context of the trajectories of modernism and postmodernism and examining, in that context, the emblematic use of stage sets and tableaux; the intense scrutiny of families, friendships, and disruptive intruders; the experiments with temporality, multi-linearity, and split staging; the issues raised by performance and the implied playhouse; and the plays' potential as instruments of cultural intervention. Two papers are required, 5-7 pages and 10-12 pages, with weekly brief responses, and a class presentation. Readings include major plays of both writers and key statements on modernism and postmodernism.
  Application Instructions: 
E-mail Professor Austin Quigley (aeq1@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Ibsen and Pinter seminar." 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: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Austin E Quigley
  Info
• 3 points

ANTHROPOLOGY OF SCIENCE

This course examines specific debates in the history and philosophy of science, and in science and technology studies (STS), with a view towards exploring the relationships among science, technology and society. The first half of the course engages methodological questions and theoretical debates concerning the nature of epistemology, and the significance of social interests, material agency, laboratory and social practices, and “culture(s)” in the making of scientific knowledge.  The second half delves more specifically into the ways in which sciences and technologies are both embedded in and shape contemporary social and political practices and imaginaries

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• MR 11:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Gina A Jae
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

FILM NARRATIVE (SEMINAR)

FILM NOIR

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. This course will consider Hollywood’s noir films of the 1940s and 1950s as urban narratives that simultaneously resisted and enabled the U.S.’s post-WWII superpower status and its internal ethnic and gender norms; examples of French film noir and film criticism will be used as a comparative model. Readings will include original documents, histories, and urban, gender, and film theory; films will include Double Indemnity, Gilda, The Big Heat, Cause of Alarm, The Sweet Smell of Success, In a Lonely Place, Pickup on Main Street, Panique, A Bout de Souffle (Breathless), and On the Waterfront.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Ann Douglas
  CULPA: 10 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: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Steven Gregory
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

FIELDWORK

May be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 total points may be used for degree credit. Only for Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering undergraduate students who include relevant off-campus work experience as part of their approved program of study. Final report and letter of evaluation required. May not be used as technical or nontechnical electives or to satisfy any other Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering major requirements. May not be taken for pass/fail credit or audited.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• Instructor: Charles A Zukowski
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Martha A Kim
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 1-2 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: Summer Session (SUMM)
• Instructor: Tommaso Manfredini
  Info
• 3 points

DIRCTD READING-ANCIENT STUDIES

Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies permission. Program of readings in some aspect of ancient studies, supervised by an appropriate faculty member chosen from the departments offering courses in the program in Ancient Studies. Evaluation by a series of essays, one long paper, or oral or written examination(s).

• Department: Classics @Barnard
• Instructor: Ellen Morris
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: the written permission of the faculty member who agrees to act as a supervisor, and the director of undergraduate studies permission. For specially selected mathematics majors, the opportunity to write a senior thesis on a problem in contemporary mathematics under the supervision of a faculty member.

• Department: Mathematics @Barnard
• Instructor: David A Bayer
  CULPA: 43 Info
• 1-3 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• Instructor: Elizabeth Povinelli
  CULPA: 14 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Paige West
  CULPA: 41 h-index: 23 Info
• 2-6 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Prerequisites: Permission of program director in the semester prior to that of independent study.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• Instructor: Karen Fairbanks
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 1-4 points

PROJECTS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGIN

Projects in Biomedical Enginee

Independent projects involving experimental, theoretical, computational, or engineering design work. May be repeated, but no more than 3 points of this or any other projects or research course may be counted toward the technical elective degree requirements as engineering technical electives.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• Instructor: Elham Azizi
  h-index: 10 Info
• Instructor: Lance Kam
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 38 Info
• Instructor: Tal Danino
  Wikipedia h-index: 18 Info
• 1-3 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
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Jessica M Manser
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 1-3 points

PROJECTS IN ELEC ENGINEERING

May be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 total points may be used for degree credit. Independent project involving laboratory work, computer programming, analytical investigation, or engineering design.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• Instructor: Ioannis Kymissis
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 48 Info
• 0-3 points

PROJECTS IN MECH ENGINEERING

Independent project involving theoretical, computational, experimental, or engineering design work. May be repeated, but no more than 3 points may be counted toward degree requirements. Projects requiring machine-shop use must be approved by the laboratory supervisor. Students must submit both a project outline prior to registration and a final project write-up at the end of the semester.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• Instructor: Gerard H Ateshian
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Arvind Narayanaswamy
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 26 Info
• Instructor: Yevgeniy Yesilevskiy
  h-index: 7 Info
• Instructor: James Hone
  CULPA: 11 h-index: 124 Info
• Instructor: Kristin Myers
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 25 Info
• Instructor: Richard W Longman
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 45 Info
• Instructor: Jeffrey W Kysar
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 37 Info
• Instructor: Vijay Modi
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 40 Info
• Instructor: Peter J. Schuck
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• Instructor: Y. Lawrence Yao
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 95 Info
• Instructor: Qiao Lin
  h-index: 41 Info
• Instructor: Matei T Ciocarlie
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• Instructor: Michael J Massimino
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• Instructor: Michael Burke
  h-index: 22 Info
• Instructor: Sunil Agrawal
  Wikipedia h-index: 65 Info
• Instructor: Sinisa Vukelic
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 11 Info
• Instructor: Hod Lipson
  Wikipedia h-index: 79 Info
• Instructor: Karen Kasza
  h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Vijay Vedula
  h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Hod Lipson
  Wikipedia h-index: 79 Info
• 1-3 points

SUPERVISED INDEPENDENT STUDY

Prerequisites: approval prior to registration; see the director of undergraduate studies for details. A creative/scholarly project conducted under faculty supervision.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• Instructor: Christopher J Washburne
  CULPA: 31 Info
• 3 points

INDIVIDUAL STUDY I

Prerequisites: open only to qualified majors in the department; the director of undergraduate studies permission is required. An opportunity for research under the direction of an individual faculty member. Students intending to write a year-long senior thesis should plan to register for C3996 in the spring semester of their senior year and are strongly advised to consult the undergraduate studies as they plan their programs.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• Instructor: Deborah Becher
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 4 Info
• 1-6 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: the departmental consultant or director of undergraduate studies permission, and the instructors permission. Independent research and the writing of an essay under supervision of a member of the Art History Department. Only one independent study may be counted toward the major.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• Instructor: Elizabeth Hutchinson
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 1-6 points

INDEPENDENT RESEARCH

• Department: American Studies @Barnard
• Instructor: Severin Fowles
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 1-4 points

INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS

Research projects and internships are planned in consultation with members of the department and work is supervised by the major’s adviser.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• Instructor: Camilla Sturm
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Brian Larkin
  CULPA: 16 Info
• Instructor: Severin Fowles
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 2-4 points

UNDERGRADUATE FIELDWORK

May be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 total points may be used toward the 128credit degree requirement. Only for APAM undergraduate students who include relevant off-campus work experience as part of their approved program of study. Final report and letter of evaluation required. Fieldwork credits may not count toward any major core, technical, elective, and nontechnical requirements. May not be taken for pass/fail credit or audited.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Lorenzo M Polvani
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 69 Info
• Instructor: Kyle Mandli
  h-index: 14 Info
• Instructor: Latha Venkataraman
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 55 Info
• Instructor: Michael K Tippett
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 43 Info
• Instructor: Marc W Spiegelman
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 1-2 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.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• Instructor: Frederik Paerels
  CULPA: 21 Info
• 3 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.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• Instructor: Frederik Paerels
  CULPA: 21 Info
• 3 points

UNDERGRADUATE FIELDWORK

May be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 total points may be used toward the 128-credit degree requirement. Only for BMEN undergraduate students who include relevant off-campus work experience as part of their approved program of study. Final report and letter of evaluation required. Fieldwork credits may not count toward any major core, technical, elective, and non-technical requirements. May not be taken for pass/fail credit or audited.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• Instructor: Lance Kam
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 38 Info
• 1-2 points

FIELDWORK

CEEM undergraduate students only. Written application must be made prior to registration outlining proposed internship/study program. Final reports required. May not be taken for pass/fail credit or audited. International students must also consult with the International Students and Scholars Office.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• Instructor: Jacob Fish
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 54 Info
• 1-2 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required. Examines the theory and practice of transnational feminist activism. We will explore the ways in which race, class, culture and nationality facilitate alliances among women, reproduce hierarchical power relations, and help reconstruct gender. The course covers a number of topics: the African Diaspora, suffrage, labor, development policy, colonialism, trafficking, consumerism, Islam, and the criminal justice system.

• Department: History @Barnard
• Instructor: Gergely Baics
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 1-4 points

FIELDWORK

Prerequisites: Obtained internship and approval from faculty advisor. Only for IEOR undergraduate students who need relevant work experience as part of their program of study. Final reports are required. This course may not be taken for pass/fail credit or audited.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• 1-2 points

FIELDWORK

May be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 total points may be used toward the 128-credit degree requirement. Only for MECE undergraduate students who include relevant on-campus and off-campus work experience as part of their approved program of study. Final report and letter of evaluation required. Fieldwork credits may not count toward any major core, technical, elective, and nontechnical requirements. May not be taken for pass/fail credit or audited.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• Instructor: Kristin Myers
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 25 Info
• 1-2 points

Independent Study

INDEPENDENT STUDY

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• Instructor: Rebecca Jordan-Young
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• 1-4 points

Gospel Music in Modern America

This is an undergraduate course introducing students to the study of religion, African American culture, and black popular music. The course will engage theoretical and historical questions about the emergence and evolution of gospel music as aesthetic performance, commercial product, cultural politics, musical genre, racial performance, and theological terrain across the twentieth century up to the present moment. There are no prerequisites for the course, but prior coursework in African American history, popular music or religious studies is helpful.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Josef Sorett
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Online Math Tutorial for New SIPA Studen

SIPA Online Math Tutorial

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• 0 points

DATA JOURNALISM

Data, Computation, Innovation

• Department: Journalism
• T 2:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Soma
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• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY AND STATISTI

Probability and Statistics

Prerequisites: A good working knowledge of calculus, including derivatives, single and double, limits, sums and series. Life is a gamble and with some knowledge of probability / statistics is easier evaluate the risks and rewards involved. Probability theory allows us take a known underlying model and estimate how likely will we be able to see future events. Statistical Inference allows us to take data we have seen and estimate the missing parts of an unknown model. The first part of the course focus on the former and the second part the latter.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWR 6:05 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Tat Sang Fung
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• 3 points

CLASSICAL JAPANESE I

Prerequisites:
Three years of college-level Japanese or the equivalent.
Eligibility:

This course is open to undergraduates, graduate students, and visiting students This course is intended primarily for beginning students who have no prior knowledge of Classical Japanese (bungo 文語 / kobun 古文 / kogo 古語, etc.). It is designed to give students a systematic and intensive introduction to the grammar of classical Japanese. Texts are taken mainly from the Heian and medieval periods, though texts from later periods will also be introduced. It is expected that by the end of the course students will have acquired a firm foundation in classical Japanese grammar and will be able to read classical Japanese texts with the aid of a dictionary. Students will generally find that they also have an improved grasp of modern Japanese grammar and will also gain experience in using Japanese-Japanese dictionaries. The course will also include some instruction in reading cursive Japanese, primarily variant kana (hentaigana). A
sample syllabus
is available for reference.
Course Schedule:
The course will be taught Monday-Friday in a four hour block (with two short breaks), and the current plan is to hold class from 8 am to 12 noon EST. As part of the application process, applicants will be surveyed about their schedules and it is possible that some adjustments will be made to the class meeting time to accommodate participants in different time zones. The final course schedule will be determined and shared with potential students prior to when students need to confirm participation in the course. To enroll in this course, you must apply to the 
Virtual Kyoto Consortium (KCJS) Summer:  Classical Japanese Program
through the Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement (UGE).  You are required to take Introduction to Classical Japanese II, JPNS4008OC with this course.
Tuition charges apply; scholarships available.

Please note the program dates are different from the Summer Term A & B dates.

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Matthew Fraleigh
  h-index: 6 Info
• 4 points