UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROJECT

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

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• Instructor: Venkat Venkatasubramanian
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• Instructor: Alan West
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• 0-6 points

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROJECT

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

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• 0-6 points

Supervised Individual Research

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

• Department: Cognitive Science
• Instructor: Andres Bendesky
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• Instructor: Elif A Duman
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• 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: Robert Farrauto
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• Instructor: Raymond Farinato
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Pierre Gentine
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 43 Info
• Instructor: Shaina Kelly
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• Instructor: Upmanu Lall
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 68 Info
• Instructor: Vijay Modi
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 40 Info
• Instructor: Nagaraj Devarayasamudram
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• Instructor: Dan Steingart
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 36 Info
• Instructor: Alan West
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 48 Info
• Instructor: Bolun Xu
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• Instructor: Yin Yip Ngai
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• Instructor: Adeyemi Adeleye
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• Instructor: Oscar Nordness
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• 0-3 points

SENIOR SEMINAR IN FILM STUDIES

A seminar for senior film majors planning to write a research paper in film history/theory/culture. Course content changes yearly.

• Department: Film
• R 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Racquel Gates
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• 3 points

UNDERGRAD RESEARCH OR PROJECT

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

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Instructor: Anish Agarwal
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• Instructor: Shipra Agrawal
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• Instructor: Eric Balkanski
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• Instructor: Daniel Bienstock
  h-index: 38 Info
• Instructor: Agostino Capponi
  h-index: 19 Info
• Instructor: Rachel Cummings
  h-index: 16 Info
• Instructor: Antonius B Dieker
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 19 Info
• Instructor: Adam N Elmachtoub
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 13 Info
• Instructor: Yuri Faenza
  h-index: 11 Info
• Instructor: Vineet Goyal
  h-index: 21 Info
• Instructor: Ali Hirsa
  h-index: 8 Info
• Instructor: Anran Hu
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• Instructor: Garud Iyengar
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 30 Info
• Instructor: Hardeep Johar
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• Instructor: Cedric Josz
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 13 Info
• Instructor: Soulaymane Kachani
  CULPA: 12 Info
• Instructor: Yaren Kaya
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• Instructor: Christian Kroer
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• Instructor: Daniel Lacker
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 13 Info
• Instructor: Henry Lam
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• Instructor: Fabrizio Lecci
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• Instructor: Tianyi Lin
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• Instructor: Uday Menon
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• Instructor: Bento Natura
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• Instructor: Jay Sethuraman
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Karl Sigman
  CULPA: 15 Info
• Instructor: Clifford Stein
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• Instructor: Wenpin Tang
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• 1-3 points

UNDERGRAD RESEARCH OR PROJECT

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

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Instructor: Wenpin Tang
  h-index: 6 Info
• Instructor: Kaizheng Wang
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 8 Info
• Instructor: Lily Xu
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• Instructor: David D Yao
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Yi Zhang
  CULPA: 2 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: Katayun Barmak
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 49 Info
• Instructor: Renata M Wentzcovitch
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• Instructor: Yuan Yang
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• 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: 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: Timothy J Halpin-Healy
  CULPA: 6 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 5:15 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Jon Kessler
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• 2 points

INDEPENDENT STDY-UNDERGRADUATE

INDEPENDENT STUDY-UNDERGRAD

• Department: African American and African Diaspora
• Instructor: Farah Griffin
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• Instructor: Brandi Summers
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• Instructor: Frank Guridy
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• 1-4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

SR SEM: ARCHITECTRL CRITICISM

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

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Suzanne Stephens
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• 4 points

SENIOR HONORS THESIS

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

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jean Vadakkan
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• Instructor: Marina Orman
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• 4 points

Senior Project Seminar

SENIOR PROJECT SEMINAR

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

• Department: Cognitive Science @Barnard
• T 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• R 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: John Morrison
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 7 Info
• 1 points

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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: Preom Sarkar
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• 3 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

Guided, independent, in-depth research culminating in the senior thesis in the spring. Includes discussion about scientific presentations and posters, data analysis, library research methods and scientific writing. Students review work in progress and share results through oral reports. Weekly seminar to review work in progress and share results through oral and written reports.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points

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: Mathematics @Barnard
• Instructor: Alisa Knizel
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• 1-3 points

INDEPENDENT RESEARCH I

• Department: Political Science
• Instructor: Jeffrey R Lax
  CULPA: 32 h-index: 22 Info
• Instructor: Michael Ting
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Andrew J Nathan
  CULPA: 44 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• 1-6 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 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Rieder
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS II

Prerequisites: VIAR UN3900 Department approval required. See requirements for a major in visual arts. VIAR UN3900 is the prerequisite for VIAR UN3901. Corequisites: VIAR UN3911 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 5:15 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Jon Kessler
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• 2 points

SENIORS HONORS THESIS LAB

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

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

SENIORS HONORS THESIS LAB

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

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• 0 points

Senior Project

Senior Project in Cognitive Science.

• Department: Cognitive Science
• Instructor: John E Wilcox
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• Instructor: Meghan Meyer
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• Instructor: John Morrison
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 7 Info
• Instructor: Luca Iemi
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• 3 points

INDEPENDENT RESEARCH IN CLIMATE SYSTEM S

INDEP RESEARCH IN CLIM SY

In this course, students develop and complete a one-semester independent research project in an area of Climate System Science. Each student works closely with a research Mentor, and the course experience for all students is coordinated with a course Instructor. This course fulfills the Capstone experience for the Climate System Science major in DEES. This course cannot be combined with one semester of Senior Seminar UN3901, which is designed as a 1-year course.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• R 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Jacqueline Austermann
  h-index: 18 Info
• 3 points

COMMUNITIES AND SOCIAL CHANGE

Examines how changes in the economy, racial composition, and class relations affect community life-how it is created, changed and sometimes lost-with a specific focus on the local urban context. Student research projects will address how contemporary forces such as neoliberalization, gentrification and tourism impact a communitys social fabric.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Dominic T Walker
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• 4 points

The Dirty Work: Histories of Domestic La

Histories of Domestic Lab

Domestic work - including food preparation, caring for children, and cleaning and maintaining a home - is essential to sustaining human life. Yet this work is often socially invisible. When paid workers undertake domestic labor, it has historically been one of the lowest-paid, most vulnerable and exploited forms of labor. In this course, we will explore how household labor itself and the people who do it have evolved over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, focusing on Britain and the United States as case studies. The course pays particular attention to the gender, class, and racial inequalities that have characterized this work and examples of how both paid and unpaid domestic workers have challenged their exploitation and invisibility in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

• Department: History
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lucy R Sharp
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• 4 points

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING DESIGN

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

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Lauren N Heckelman
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• 4 points

GLOBAL POLITICS OF REPRODUCTION

Comparative, cross-cultural examination of social organization and historical construction of human reproduction, with emphasis on 20th century. Topics include role of states and local and transnational "stratification" of reproduction by race, class, and citizenship; eugenics; population politics; birth control; kinship as social and biological relationship; maternity; paternity; new reproductive technologies.

• Department: History @Barnard
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Nara Milanich
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia 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 students ideas are discussed and evaluated on an ongoing basis.

• Department: Visual Arts
• W 5:15 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Emily C Henretta
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• 2 points

SOCIAL CONTEXTS IMMIGRATN LAW

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

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• M noon-1:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Juliana Valente
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• 4 points

SEMINAR IN POLITCAL THEORY

Arendt in 20th Century

Seminar in Political Theory. 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: Political Science
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Clara Maier
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• 4 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 students ideas are discussed and evaluated on an ongoing basis.

• Department: Visual Arts
• W 5:15 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Emily C Henretta
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• 2 points

SEMINAR

MAJOR SEMINAR IN PHILOSOPHY

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

• Department: Philosophy
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Michele Moody-Adams
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• Instructor: Melissa S Fusco
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• 3 points

INEQUALITY, POVERTY & MOBILITY

INEQUALITY POVERTY & MOBILITY

This is an undergraduate seminar in social stratification. The course focuses on the current American experience with socioeconomic inequality and mobility. The goals of the course are to understand how inequality is conceptualized and measured in the social sciences, to understand the structure of inequality in the contemporary U.S. to learn the principal theories and evidence for long term trends in inequality, to understand the persistence of poverty and the impact of social policies on American rates of poverty, and to understand the forces that both produce and inhibit intergenerational social mobility in the U.S. Given the nature of the subject matter, a minority of the readings will sometimes involve quantitative social science material. The course does not presume that students have advanced training in statistics, and any readings sections that contain mathematical or statistical content will be explained in class in nontechnical terms as needed. In these instances, our focus will not be on the methods, but rather on the conclusions reached by the author concerning the research question that is addressed in the text.

• Department: Sociology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Thomas DiPrete
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points