SUPERVISED STUDY IN FRANCE: FRANCE

COMPARATIVE POLITICS

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Andrew Wells
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• 4 points

SUPERVISED STUDY IN GERMANY: POLITICAL S

Pol. Theory of Migration

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Carmen Mueller
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• 4 points

SUPERVISED STUDY IN FRANCE: SPANISH

INTRO CONTEMP. SPANISH

The course is a requirement for all the LAIC majors. In this seminar, students develop an individual research project and write an essay under the guidance of the course’s instructor and in dialogue with the other participants’ projects  After an introductory theoretical and methodological section, and a research session at the library, the syllabus is entirely constructed on the students’ projects. Every participant is in charge of a weekly session. Essay outlines and drafts are discussed with the group throughout the semester. The final session is a public symposium with external respondents.

• Department: Global Programs
• 2 points

SENIOR PROJECT IN CREATIVE WRITING

SENIOR PROJ: CREATIVE WRI

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

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

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Ken Chen
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• 4 points

SENIOR SEM FOR MUSIC MAJORS

The goals of this seminar are a) to introduce senior music majors to ethnographic, bibliographic, and archival research methods in music and b) to help the same students develop, focus, implement, draft, revise, and polish a substantive, original piece of research (25-30 pages) which will serve as the senior project. The course will begin with a survey of academic literature on key problems in musicological research and writing, and will progress to a workshop/discussion format in which each week a different student is responsible for assigning readings and leading the discussion on a topic which s/he has formulated and deemed to be of relevance to her own research.

• Department: Music @Barnard
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Lauren E Ninoshvili
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

URBAN STUDIES SENIOR SEMINAR

Prerequisites: Senior standing. Year-long course; participation is for two consecutive terms. No new students admitted for spring. Emphasizes the study of the built environment of cities and suburbs, and the related debates. Readings, class presentations, and written work culminate in major individual projects, under the supervision of faculty trained in architecture, urban design, or urban planning.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• W 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Aaron Passell
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 3 Info
• Instructor: Noah Allison
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• Instructor: Christian Siener
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Andreina Torres Angarita
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• 4 points

SELECTED TOPICS: KYOTO CONSORTIUM FOR J

CHILDHOOD,MEDIA JAP. SOCI

• Department: Global Programs
• 4 points

SELECTED TOPICS: KYOTO CONSORTIUM FOR J

US-JAPAN RELATIONS

• Department: Global Programs
• 4 points

SELECTED TOPICS: KYOTO CONSORTIUM FOR J

JAPAN MODERN ARCHITECTURE

• Department: Global Programs
• 4 points

SELECTED TOPICS: KYOTO CONSORTIUM FOR J

REL. VISUAL CULTURE JAPAN

• Department: Global Programs
• 4 points

SELECTED TOPICS: KYOTO CONSORTIUM FOR J

INDEPENDENT STUDY

• Department: Global Programs
• 4 points

SELECTED TOPICS: KYOTO CONSORTIUM FOR J

MODERN JAPAN LITERATURE

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Miyuki Nishimata
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• 4 points

EBHS SENIOR THESIS SEMINAR

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

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

SUPERVISED STUDY IN GERMANY: GERMAN STUD

Lit. of Refuge&Migration

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Carmen Mueller
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• 3 points

SUPERVISED IND RES-LING THESIS

• Department: Slavic Languages
• F 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
• 1-4 points

HUMAN RIGHTS SENIOR SEMINAR RSRCH METHOD

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

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Tracey Holland
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS IN MATHEMATICS I

SENIOR THESIS MATHEMATICS

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

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

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

• Department: Mathematics @Barnard
• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS IN MATHEMATICS I

SENIOR THESIS MATHEMATICS

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

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

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

• Department: Mathematics @Barnard
• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS IN AMER STUDIES

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

• Department: American Studies
• Instructor: Jeremy Dauber
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS IN COMP LIT/SOC

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

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

Fieldwork

Obtained internship and approval from faculty adviser. Written application must be made prior to registration outlining proposed internship and study program. Final reports required. May not be  taken for pass/fail credit or audited. Fieldwork credits may not count toward any major core, technical elective, and nontechnical requirements. International students must also consult  with the International Students and Scholars Office. Note: only for EAEE undergraduate students  who need relevant off-campus work experience as a part of their program of study as determined by instructor.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• 1-2 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
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Shourideh Molavi
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• 4 points

HONORS RESEARCH

Prerequisites: a formal proposal to be submitted and approved prior to registration; see the director of undergraduate studies for details. A creative/scholarly project conducted under faculty supervision, leading to completion of an honors essay, composition, or the equivalent.

• Department: Music
• Instructor: Zosha Di Castri
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• Instructor: Julia Doe
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• Instructor: Kevin Fellezs
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Aaron A Fox
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Walter M Frisch
  CULPA: 17 Info
• Instructor: Bradford G Garton
  CULPA: 14 Info
• Instructor: Giuseppe Gerbino
  CULPA: 12 Info
• Instructor: Georg Friedrich Haas
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• Instructor: Marcos Balter
  Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Mariusz Kozak
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 5 Info
• Instructor: George Lewis
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia h-index: 18 Info
• Instructor: Jeffrey Milarsky
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Seth Cluett
  h-index: 4 Info
• Instructor: Elaine Sisman
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Benjamin A Steege
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• Instructor: Magdalena Baczewska
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Peter M Susser
  CULPA: 20 Info
• Instructor: Christopher J Washburne
  CULPA: 31 Info
• Instructor: Knar Abrahamyan
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• Instructor: Ruth Opara
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• 2-3 points

INDIVIDL STUDY I

Prerequisites: required methods and theory courses for the major, and the instructors permission. Students wishing to qualify for departmental honors must take W3996y. Students carry out individual research projects and write a senior thesis under the supervision of the instructor and with class discussion. Written and oral progress reports.

• Department: Sociology
• Instructor: Sudhir A Venkatesh
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 1-6 points

THE MAJOR SEMINAR

• Department: Classics @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ellen Morris
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

CURRENT RESEARCH IN ASTROPHYS

Prerequisites: two semesters of astronomy classes and two semesters of physics classes. The goal of this course is to introduce astronomy and astrophysics majors to the methods and topics of current astronomical research. The course will also help with the development of critical thinking skills. Each week, the topic of the course will be centered on the subject of the Astronomy department colloquium; this may include research on planets, stars, galaxies or cosmology. There will be two required meetings per week: the first will be to discuss papers related to the colloquium (time TBD), and the second will be the colloquium itself (at 4:15 pm each Wednesday). Grading is Pass/Fail.

• Department: Astronomy
• F 2:10 p.m.-3:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Marcel A Agueros
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 2 points

SPECIAL PROJECT IN ENGLISH

Application required:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/independent-studies
. Senior English majors who are concentrating in writing and who have completed two creative writing courses will normally take this Special Project in combination with an additional creative writing course.

Senior English majors who are concentrating in theatre and who have completed three courses in theatre history/dramatic literature will normally take this Special Project in combination with an additional dramatic literature course. 

For both writing and theatre concentrators, this combined special project counts in place of one senior seminar. 

In certain cases, ENGL BC3999 may be substituted for the Special Project. 

In rare cases, the English Department Chair may permit an English major not concentrating in writing or theatre to take ENGL BC3996 in combination with another course.

• Department: English @Barnard
• Instructor: Peter Platt
  CULPA: 23 Info
• 1 points

THE MAJOR SEMINAR

Prerequisites: junior standing. Required for all majors in classics and classical studies. The topic changes from year to year, but is always broad enough to accommodate students in the languages as well as those in the interdisciplinary major. Past topics include: love, dining, slavery, space, power.

• Department: Classics @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ellen Morris
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

THE MAJOR SEMINAR

Prerequisites: junior standing. Required for all majors in Classics and Classical Studies. The topic changes from year to year but is always broad enough to accommodate students in the languages as well as those in the interdisciplinary major. Past topics include: love, dining, slavery, space, power.

• Department: Classics @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ellen Morris
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

For students who want to do independent study of topics not covered by normal program offerings, or for senior American studies majors working on the Senior Honors Project independent of 3990y. The student must find a faculty sponsor and work out a plan of study; a copy of this plan should be submitted to the program director.

• Department: American Studies
• Instructor: Robert L Amdur
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 1-4 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
• Instructor: Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
  CULPA: 20 Info
• Instructor: Carmela V Franklin
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

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

• Department: Anthropology
• Instructor: Nadia Abu El-Haj
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Lila Abu-Lughod
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info
• Instructor: Vanessa L Agard-Jones
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Naor H Ben-Yehoyada
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Brian Boyd
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Maria Jose de Abreu
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• Instructor: Hannah Chazin
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• Instructor: Zoe Crossland
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Terence N D'Altroy
  CULPA: 37 Info
• Instructor: Catherine Fennell
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• Instructor: Severin Fowles
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth M Green
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Lashaya Howie
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• Instructor: Gina A Jae
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Marilyn Ivy
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Brian Larkin
  CULPA: 16 Info
• Instructor: Claudio Lomnitz
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Mahmood Mamdani
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia h-index: 57 Info
• Instructor: Ellen Marakowitz
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Paige West
  CULPA: 41 h-index: 23 Info
• Instructor: Camilla Sturm
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Nicholas A Bartlett
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth Povinelli
  CULPA: 14 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Rosalind Morris
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Nicholas Glastonbury
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• 2-6 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

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

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

INDEPENDENT RESEARCH

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

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

INDEPENDENT STUDY

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

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• Instructor: Jill S Shapiro
  CULPA: 46 Info
• Instructor: Marina Cords
  CULPA: 19 Info
• Instructor: Andres Bendesky
  h-index: 14 Info
• 1-3 points

SENIOR SEMINAR IN ENGLISH

SR SEM: JOHN DONNE, ETC.

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

• Department: English @Barnard
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Achsah Guibbory
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR IN ENGLISH

SR SEM: VICTORIAN&MODERN DRAMA

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

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Patricia D Denison
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR IN ENGLISH

SR SEM:BLACK LIVES ENLGHT

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

• Department: English @Barnard
• R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: James G Basker
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR IN ENGLISH

SR SEM: 19TH-C AMER WOMEN WRIT

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

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

SUPERVISED RESRCH IN FRANCE I

DR:RACE PEDAGOGY FREN.EDU

• Department: Global Programs
• 4 points

SUPERVISED RESRCH IN FRANCE I

COLON.SLAVERY AGE ENLIGHT

• Department: Global Programs
• 4 points

DIRECTED READINGS IN GREEK LIT

Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies permission. A program of reading in Greek literature, to be tested by a series of short papers, one long paper, or an oral or written examination.

• Department: Classics
• Instructor: Elizabeth K Irwin
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Deborah Steiner
  CULPA: 12 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 3 points

DIRECTED READINGS

Designed for undergraduates who want to do directed reading in a period or on a topic not covered in the curriculum.

• Department: Classics
• Instructor: Nikolas Kakkoufa
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• Instructor: Stathis Gourgouris
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Dimitris Antoniou
  h-index: 5 Info
• 1-4 points