UNDERGRAD RES IN APPLIED MATH

Prerequisites: Written permission from instructor and approval from adviser.
This course 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 applied mathematics 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: Qiang Du
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• Instructor: Eitan Grinspun
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• Instructor: Kyle Mandli
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• Instructor: Lorenzo M Polvani
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 69 Info
• Instructor: Adam H Sobel
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• Instructor: Marc W Spiegelman
  CULPA: 15 Info
• Instructor: Michael K Tippett
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 43 Info
• Instructor: Michael I Weinstein
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 47 Info
• Instructor: Renata M Wentzcovitch
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• Instructor: chris wiggins
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• 0-4 points

INDENPDENT RSCH NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION

NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION STUDS

Prerequisites: The written permission of the faculty member is required. Points: 1-4
The opportunity to conduct an independent research project in nuclear nonproliferation studies is open to all majors. A product and detailed report is presented by the student when the project is completed.
Section 1: Emlyn Hughes Section 2: Ivana N. Hughes Section 3: Monica Rouco-Molina

• Department: Columbia College
• Instructor: Ivana N Hughes
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 1-4 points

UNDERGRAD RES-ENVIRONMTL ENGIN

This course may be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 points of this course may be counted towards the satisfaction of the B. S. degree requirements. Candidates for the B.S. degree may conduct an investigation in Earth and Environmental Engineering, or carry out a special project under the supervision of EAEE faculty. Credit for the course is contingent on the submission of an acceptable thesis or final report. This course cannot substitute for the Undergraduate design project (EAEE E3999x or EAEE E3999y)

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• Instructor: Kartik Chandran
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 51 Info
• Instructor: Xi Chen
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia h-index: 64 Info
• Instructor: Paul F Duby
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Robert Farrauto
  h-index: 52 Info
• Instructor: Vasilis Fthenakis
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 55 Info
• Instructor: Pierre Gentine
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 43 Info
• 0-3 points

UNDERGRAD RES-ENVIRONMTL ENGIN

This course may be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 points of this course may be counted towards the satisfaction of the B. S. degree requirements. Candidates for the B.S. degree may conduct an investigation in Earth and Environmental Engineering, or carry out a special project under the supervision of EAEE faculty. Credit for the course is contingent on the submission of an acceptable thesis or final report. This course cannot substitute for the Undergraduate design project (EAEE E3999x or EAEE E3999y)

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• Instructor: Upmanu Lall
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 68 Info
• 0-3 points

UNDERGRAD RES-ENVIRONMTL ENGIN

This course may be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 points of this course may be counted towards the satisfaction of the B. S. degree requirements. Candidates for the B.S. degree may conduct an investigation in Earth and Environmental Engineering, or carry out a special project under the supervision of EAEE faculty. Credit for the course is contingent on the submission of an acceptable thesis or final report. This course cannot substitute for the Undergraduate design project (EAEE E3999x or EAEE E3999y)

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• Instructor: Wade McGillis
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• Instructor: Ah-Hyung Alissa Park
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• Instructor: Peter Schlosser
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• Instructor: Ponisseril Somasundaran
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia h-index: 82 Info
• Instructor: Nickolas Themelis
  h-index: 44 Info
• Instructor: Yin Yip Ngai
  h-index: 26 Info
• Instructor: Alan West
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 48 Info
• 0-3 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
• 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

SENIOR THESIS I

Prerequisites: 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.

• Department: Visual Arts
• W 5 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Gregory Amenoff
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 2 points

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Prerequisites: (CHEM UN1404) or CHEM C1404 or the equivalent
Fundamentals of microbiology, genetics and molecular biology, principles of microbial nutrition, energetics and kinetics, application of novel and state-of-the-art techniques in monitoring the structure and function of microbial communities in the environment, engineered processes for biochemical waste treatment and bioremediation, microorganisms and public health, global microbial elemental cycles.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Kartik Chandran
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 51 Info
• 3 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: Martin Stute
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 52 Info
• 3 points

SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE

Prerequisites: SOCI BC1003 or equivalent social science course and permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15 students.
Drawing examples from popular music, religion, politics, race, and gender, explores the interpretation, production, and reception of cultural texts and meanings. Topics include aesthetic distinction and taste communities, ideology, power, and resistance; the structure and functions of subcultures; popular culture and high culture; and ethnography and interpretation.

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

SENIOR THESIS II

Prerequisites:
VIAR R3900
and the instructor's permission. See requirements for a major in visual arts.
Corequisites:
VIAR R3911
.
(Formerly R3902) Students must enroll in both semesters of the course (
VIAR R3900
and 
VIAR Q3901
). 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.

• Department: Visual Arts
• W 5 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Gregory Amenoff
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 2 points

INDEPENDENT RES & RESEARCH II

INDEPENDENT RESEARCH

• Department: Political Science
• 1-6 points

GUIDED READING AND RESEARCH

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.

• Department: Religion
• Instructor: Robert A Thurman
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Peter J Awn
  CULPA: 31 Info
• Instructor: Robert E Somerville
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Thomas F Yarnall
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Gary Dorrien
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• Instructor: Clemence C Boulouque
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Michael Como
  CULPA: 20 Info
• Instructor: Katherine Pratt Ewing
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 22 Info
• Instructor: Courtney Bender
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Mark C Taylor
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Bernard Faure
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Gil Anidjar
  CULPA: 22 Info
• Instructor: Josef Sorett
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Euan Cameron
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• Instructor: Beth A Berkowitz
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 6 Info
• Instructor: Najam I Haider
  CULPA: 8 Info
• Instructor: John S Hawley
  CULPA: 28 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth Castelli
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: David L Moerman
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• Instructor: Rachel McDermott
  CULPA: 37 Info
• Instructor: Gale L Kenny
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 1-4 points

SR SEM: SHORT FICT AMER WOMEN

Prerequisites: Sign up through the "SR Seminar" section of myBarnard. Enrollment limited to senior Barnard English majors.
(Formerly ENGL BC3997; this course has been renumbered but has not changed in content.) We will explore the rich variety of fiction in shorter forms--short stories and novellas--written by American women. Writers to be studied will include Porter, Stafford, Welty, O'Connor, Olsen, Paley.

• Department: English @Barnard
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Mary Gordon
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SR SEM: AMERICAN SUBLIME

(Formerly ENGL BC3998; this course has been renumbered but has not changed in content.) "The empty spirit / In vacant space": gothicism, transcendentalism, and postmodern rapture. Traces of the sublime in the American literary landscape, featuring Poe, Melville, Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens, Bishop, Didion, and Robinson.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Margaret S Vandenburg
  CULPA: 59 Info
• 4 points

SR SEM: FAMILY IN FICTION/FLM

(Formerly ENGL BC3998; this course has been renumbered but has not changed in content.) Looking closely at late Twentieth and Twenty-First Century stories, novels, memoir and films that center on the logic, dysfunction, romance, system, morphing, divorcing and curious maturation of the family. From Alison Bechdel's graphic novel, Fun Home, to the Korean film, The Host, we will explore fresh and a few classic cinematic takes on this theme. We will explore renderings of "family cultures," family feeling, family values, the family as a narrative configuration, and home as a utopian space, a nightmarish landscape, a memory palace and more. Authors and directors will include: Wes Anderson, Gaston Bachelard, Mira Bartok, Alison Bechdel, Joon-ho Bong, Jonathan Franzen, Vivien Gornick, Lasse Hallstrom, Tamara Jenkins, Ang Lee, Mike Leigh, Jim, Sheridan, Todd Solondz, Francois Truffaut, Tennessee Williams, D. W. Winnicott, Andrei Zvyagintsev.

• Department: English @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Maura L Spiegel
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 4 points

THE NEANDERTALS

150 years after discovery Neandertals remain one of the most enigmatic hominin taxa. What do we understand today about their biology, subsistence, culture, cognitive abilities and eventual fate? Are they simply extinct relatives or do their genes continue in many of us today? In this seminar students critically examine the primary research as we attempt to find answers to some of these questions. Prerequisites: Either EEEB 1010 Human Origins and Evolution or ANTH 1007 Origins of Human Society. EBHS students have priority at the first class session.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Jill S Shapiro
  CULPA: 46 Info
• 4 points

VISITING CRITIC I

Prerequisites: Department approval required. See requirements for a major in visual arts. VIAR UN3910 is the prerequisite for VIAR UN3911.
Corequisites: VIAR UN3900
(Formerly R3921) Students are required to enroll in both semesters (
VIAR UN3910
and
VIAR UN3911
). A second opinion is provided to the senior students regarding the development of their senior project. Critics consist of distinguished visitors and faculty. Issues regarding the premise, methodology, or presentation of the student's ideas are discussed and evaluated on an ongoing basis.

• Department: Visual Arts
• W 5 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Emily C Henretta
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• 2 points

VISITING CRITIC II

Prerequisites: VIAR UN3910 Department approval required. See requirements for a major in visual arts.
Corequisites: VIAR UN3901
(Formerly R3922) Students are required to enroll in both semesters (
VIAR UN3910
and 
VIAR UN3911
). A second opinion is provided to the senior students regarding the development of their senior project. Critics consist of distinguished visitors and faculty. Issues regarding the premise, methodology, or presentation of the student's ideas are discussed and evaluated on an ongoing basis.

• Department: Visual Arts
• W 5 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Emily C Henretta
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• 2 points

SE SEM:UTOPIAS & DYSTOPIAS

SR SEM: UTOPIAS & DYSTOPIAS

(Formerly ENGL BC3998; this course has been renumbered but has not changed in content.) A look first at Thomas More’s
Utopia
and then at the dreams or nightmares it inspired, whether hopeful, ironic, serious, parodic, speculative, nightmarish, or simply interrogatory. Authors include More, Rabelais, Bacon, Margaret Cavendish, William Morris, Bellamy, H.G. Wells, George Orwell, Ursula LeGuin and, if there is time, R.A. Lafferty’s scifi novel starring More and also a young adult novel by Lois Lowry.

• Department: English @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Anne L Prescott
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 4 points

SEMINAR IN POLITICAL THEORY

TOCQUEVILLE'S OLD REGIME AND T

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. Pre-registration is not permitted.
Seminar in Political Theory. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.

• Department: Political Science
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jon Elster
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 108 Info
• 4 points

SEMINAR IN POLITICAL THEORY

GLOBAL JUSTICE & HUMAN RIGHTS

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. Pre-registration is not permitted.
Seminar in Political Theory. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.

• Department: Political Science
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Maria G Kowalski
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

INEQUALITIES: RACE, CLASS, GENDER, AND S

INEQUALITIES U.S. LAW&SOCIETY;

This class will examine the historical roots and ongoing persistence of social, economic, and political inequality and the continuing role that it plays in U.S. society by examining how such issues have been addressed both in social science and in law.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: John Salyer
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

ISLAM AND MEDIEVAL WEST

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Joseph S Ackley
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

A HISTORY OF AFRICAN CITIES

This seminar offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the history of African cities. It cuts across disciplinary boundaries of history, geography, anthropology, political and cultural sociology, literature and cultural studies, to explore the vaious trajectories of urbanization on the continent.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Mamadou Diouf
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

STIGMA & DISCRIMINATION

This course considers stigma and discrimination as general processes that apply to a broad range of phenomena, from mental illness to obesity to HIV/AIDS to racial groups. We will use a conceptual framework that considers power and social stratification to be central to stigma and discrimination. We will focus on both macro- and micro-level social processes and their interconnections, and we will draw on literature from both sociology and psychology.

• Department: Sociology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark L Hatzenbuehler
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• 4 points

SR SEM:GNDR,SEXLTY&AMER; STAGE

(Formerly ENGL BC3998; this course has been renumbered but has not changed in content.) This seminar investigates how American theatre/performance, as read through the lens of gender and sexuality, operates as a cultural force.  Simply put, the U.S. is obsessed with sex; theatre/performance has proven a fertile medium for America’s expression of this obsession. Exploring texts from the seventeenth through the twenty-first centuries, we will consider how performance intersects with the nation state’s desire to regulate how we “practice” gender both publicly and behind closed doors. How is performance, which always includes gendered/raced/classed/sexualized bodies, situated in relationship to ideas of a national body politic?  How does the American nation state hinge on how gender and sexuality are performed both on-stage and off?  Authors include John Winthrop, Dion Boucicualt, Lillian Hellman, Tennessee Williams, David Henry Hwang, Michel Foucault, Jose Muñoz, Jill Dolan, Suzan-Lori Parks, Holly Hughes, Tony Kushner, Lisa Kron, Margaret Cho and performance groups Split Britches, Five Lesbian Brothers, Pomo Afro Homos.

• Department: English @Barnard
• R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Pamela Cobrin
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

SR:SEM WORDS AND PICTURES

SR SEM:WORDS AND PICTURES Y S

(Formerly ENGL BC3998; this course has been renumbered but has not changed in content.) In this class we will explore literary texts that focus on visual experience, especially painting and sculpture. What kinds of questions do these texts raise about the nature of aesthetic experience? How does what we mean by aesthetic experience change through time? Our readings will range from ancient to modern: Homer, Ovid, Catullus, Chaucer, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Diderot, Balzac, Zola, Woolf, Sebald, among others. We will also read widely in the history of aesthetic philosophy and critical theory.

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

ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF THE BIBLE

A survey on English translations of the Bible from Tyndale to the present.

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

ADV TOPICS GENDER & SEXUALITY

This research and writing-intensive seminar is designed for senior majors with a background and interest in the sociology of gender and sexuality. The goal of the seminar is to facilitate completion of the senior requirement (a 25-30 page paper) based on “hands on” research with original qualitative data. Since the seminar will be restricted to students with prior academic training in the subfield, students will be able to receive intensive research training and guidance through every step of the research process, from choosing a research question to conducting original ethnographic and interview-based research, to analyzing and interpreting one’s findings. The final goal of the course will be the production of an original paper of standard journal-article length. Students who choose to pursue their projects over the course of a  second semester will have the option of revisiting their articles further for submission and publications.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Mignon R Moore
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info
• 4 points

HIGHER EDUCATION AND INEQUALITY

• Department: Sociology
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Teresa Sharpe
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

POLITICAL PARTIES IN U.S. POLI

Prerequisites:
POLS W1201
or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission. Pre-registration is not permitted.
Seminar in American Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.

• Department: Political Science
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Shigeo Hirano
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

REPRESENTATION

Prerequisites:
POLS W1201
or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission. Pre-registration is not permitted.
Seminar in American Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.

• Department: Political Science
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Robert Erikson
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia h-index: 59 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

AFRICAN AMERICAN POLITICS

Prerequisites:
POLS W1201
or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission. Pre-registration is not permitted.
Seminar in American Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.

• Department: Political Science
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Fredrick Harris
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• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

POL/LEGAL INFLUENCES-FED AGNCS

Prerequisites:
POLS W1201
or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission. Pre-registration is not permitted.
Seminar in American Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.

• Department: Political Science
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: John J Sivolella
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• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

TERRORISM & COUNTERTERRORISM

Prerequisites:
POLS W1201
or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission. Pre-registration is not permitted.
Seminar in American Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.

• Department: Political Science
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Brigitte Nacos
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP

Prerequisites:
POLS W1201
or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission. Pre-registration is not permitted.
Seminar in American Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.

• Department: Political Science
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Martha K Zebrowski
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

THE FIRST AMENDMENT

Prerequisites:
POLS W1201
or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission. Pre-registration is not permitted.
Seminar in American Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.

• Department: Political Science
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert L Amdur
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

POLICYMAKING

Prerequisites:
POLS W1201
or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission. Pre-registration is not permitted.
Seminar in American Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list.

• Department: Political Science
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Judith Russell
  CULPA: 49 Info
• 4 points

CONSERV OF AFRICAN LANDSCAPES

Prerequisites:
EEEB W2001
and
EEEB W2002
Environmental Biology I and II, or the instructor's permission.
Only six percent of Africa's land is protected, and these areas are rarely large enough to sustain wildlife populations.  Mostly, wildlife must share land with people who also face survival challenges.  This course will explore how wildlife and people interact in Kenya, where new approaches to conservation are being developed and implemented.  Lectures will cover the ecology of tropical grasslands and first principles underlying conservation and management of these landscapes.  Field trips and projects will examine the dynamics between human actions and biodiversity conservation.
This course is part of the study abroad program in Kenya on Tropical Biology and Sustainability and cannot be taken separately n campus.

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Dustin Rubenstein
  h-index: 36 Info
• 4 points

CNTRL QUESTIONS IN ISLAMIC LAW

CENTRAL QUESTIONS IN ISLAMIC L

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

NATURL HIST OF AFRICAN MAMMALS

Prerequisites:
EEEB W2001
and
EEEB W2002
Environmental Biology I and II, or the instructor's permission.
Introduction to concepts, methods, and material of comparative natural history, with African mammals as focal organisms.  Perspectives include morphology, identification, evolution, ecology, behavior and conservation.  Observations and experiments on a variety of species in different habitats and at a range of scales will provide insights into the adaptive value and underlying mechanistic function of mammalian adaptations. This course is based in Laikipia, but may travel to other sites across Kenya, which might include other conservancies and pastoral group ranches.
This course is part of a semester abroad program in Tropical Biology and Sustainability based in Kenya and cannot be taken separately on campus.

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Dustin Rubenstein
  h-index: 36 Info
• 4 points

VECTOR BIOLOGY

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Dustin Rubenstein
  h-index: 36 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
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Emmanuelle Saada
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 4 points

TERRESTRIAL PALEOECOLOGY

Prerequisites: (EEEB UN2001) and EEEB UN2002) or permission from instructor
Terrestrial paleoecology is the study of vegetation and animals in ancient ecosystems. The paleoecology of eastern Africa is significant because it can shed light on the potential role that climate played in human evolution.  This course aims to teach students the principles of paleoecology primarily through fieldwork, lab work, and research projects. In the first half of the course, students will be introduced to basic methods in the modern Mpala ecosystem. In the second, they will explore the rich record of human evolution in the Turkana Basin.  Students will study bones, teeth, plants, or soils to reconstruct modern and ancient ecosystems.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• Instructor: Kevin Uno
  h-index: 16 Info
• 4 points

SLAVERY/ABOLITION-ATLANTC WRLD

Prerequisites: seminar application required. SEE UNDERGRADUATE SEMINAR SECTION OF THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT'S WEBSITE.
This seminar investigates the experiences of slavery and freedom among African-descended people living and laboring in the various parts of the Atlantic World. The course will trace critical aspects of these two major, interconnected historical phenomena with an eye to how specific cases either manifested or troubled broader trends across various slaveholding societies. The first half of the course addresses the history of slavery and the second half pertains to experiences in emancipation. However, since the abolition of slavery occurs at different moments in various areas of the Atlantic World, the course will adhere to a thematic rather than a chronological structure, in its examination of the multiple avenues to freedom available in various regions. Weekly units will approach major themes relevant to both slavery and emancipation, such as racial epistemologies among slaveowners/employers, labor regimes in slave and free societies, cultural innovations among slave and freed communities, gendered discourses and sexual relations within slave and free communities, and slaves’ and freepeople’s resistance to domination. The goal of this course is to broaden students’ comprehension of the history of slavery and freedom, and to promote an understanding of the transition from slavery to freedom in the Americas as creating both continuities and ruptures in the structure and practices of the various societies concerned.

• Department: History
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Natasha J Lightfoot
  CULPA: 5 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
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Mignon R Moore
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

EQUITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for section descriptions

• Department: American Studies
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

AMERICAN CULTURAL CRITICISM

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• Department: American Studies
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Casey Blake
  CULPA: 22 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY

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• Department: American Studies
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Hindus
  Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

OLD AGE & AMER WELFARE STATE

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• Department: American Studies
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Tamara Mann Tweel
  Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

MUSEUMS, MEMORY & PUB CULTURE

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

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

NY, SAN FRAN & URBAN IDENTITY

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• Department: American Studies
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Lynne C Breslin
  Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

TRANSMEDIA

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• Department: American Studies
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul Levitz
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Prerequisites: the department chair's permission.
(Formerly R3932)

• Department: Visual Arts
• Instructor: Matthew E Buckingham
  Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Nicola G Lopez
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Gregory Amenoff
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Jon Kessler
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Sarah M Sze
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 1-3 points