SEMINAR

MODALITY

Prerequisites: required of senior majors, but also open to junior majors and junior and senior concentrators who have taken at least four philosophy courses.
In this seminar, we will discuss foundational questions in the theory of metaphysical possibility. Is the notion of metaphysical possibility intelligible? If so, what are the bounds of metaphysical possibility? What justifies us in judging that something is metaphysically possible? What explains the reliability of our judgments of this kind? What is the relation between metaphysical possibility and logical possibility, and the relation between metaphysical possibility and physical possibility? Is metaphysical possibility "metaphysically privileged", or is the question of what is possible relevantly like the question of whether the Parallel Postulate is true? Requirements: One seminar presentation and one term paper.

• Department: Philosophy
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Justin Clarke-Doane
  h-index: 10 Info
• 3 points

SEMINAR

DEMOCRACY,DISAGREEMNT,TOLERATN

Prerequisites: required of senior majors, but also open to junior majors and junior and senior concentrators who have taken at least four philosophy courses.
Can we achieve robust and respectful toleration of disagreement and still preserve stable democratic institutions? This course considers influential attempts by contemporary thinkers to answer this question.

• Department: Philosophy
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Michele Moody-Adams
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

RACE,ETHNICITY IN GLOBAL WORLD

This course covers five sections. First, students will explore sociological, historical, biological and anthropological approaches to the study of race and ethnicity. The historical roots of race theory and how race and ethnicity have changed over time in different places will be analyzed. Second, students will explore the role of race and ethnicity during colonialism. Students will read anti-colonial texts on race and racism such as Aime Cesaire, Frantz Fanon, and Steve Biko, but also Western sociologists such as Pierre Bourdieu and George Steinmetz to understand the racial and ethnic dynamic in the various European empires and their colonies. Third, students will explore the construction of self-styled white men's countries-from South Africa, to North America and Australia-in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th century to the final collapse of the last white supremacist regime in South Africa. Fourth, students will examine immigration and race; how the global flow of people impacts on racial hierarchies in countries and the process of racial integration. In particular, the case of Latinos in the United States and beyond will be studied. Finally, the fifth section is about anti-racism. Students will analyze the global movements to end racism and how we can conceptualize and study this process and its progress.

• Department: Sociology
• T 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Jacob Boersema
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

HUMAN RIGHTS & URBAN PUB SPACE

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Noah B Chasin
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• 3 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

NATIVE AMER & INDIGENOUS FILM

This course will examine filmic representations by Native American and Indigenous filmmakers, screenwriters, producers, and directors in order to query the ways that these Native artists construct and communicate Indigenous self, community, and nation. In many ways, these films serve to counter certain stereotypes of Native people, especially those found in films throughout cinematic history, serving a pedagogical purpose for outgroup, non-Native audiences. However, many, especially more recent, works move away from such autoethnographic purposes, targeting Indigenous audiences and participating in allusive conversations with and between Indigenous artistic works from a variety of genres.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: John Gamber
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 4 points

MODES OF INQUIRY

Corequisites:
CSER W3921
Modes of Inquiry-Lab, which takes place on Mondays 2:10-3:10pm (meets five times a semester).
This class, a combination of a seminar and a workshop, will prepare students to conduct, write up, and present original research. It has several aims and goals. First, the course introduces students to a variety of ways of thinking about knowledge as well as to specific ways of knowing and making arguments key to humanistic and social science fields. Second, this seminar asks students to think critically about the approaches they employ in pursuing their research. The course will culminate in a semester project, not a fully executed research project, but rather an 8-10 page proposal for research that will articulate a question, provide basic background on the context that this question is situated in, sketch preliminary directions and plot out a detailed methodological plan for answering this question. Students will be strongly encouraged to think of this proposal as related to their thesis or senior project. Over the course of the semester, students will also produce several short exercises to experiment with research techniques and genres of writing.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Melissa L Milewski
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• 4 points

TRANSITIONS TO ADULTHOOD

Prerequisites: SOCI W 1000 and SOCI W3010 or permission of instructor. Meets senior requirement.
Adolescence and early adulthood is a critical period in our lives. This research-intensive seminar explores how adolescent transitions are studied, how they compare across different national contexts, and how individual, family, and community factors affect the type and timing of different transitions.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Sylvie R Honig
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• 4 points

SENIOR PROJECT COLLOQUIUM

This course is for American studies majors planning to complete senior projects in the spring. The course is designed to help students clarify their research agenda, sharpen their questions, and locate their primary and secondary sources. Through class discussions and a "workshop" peer review process, each member of the course will enter spring semester with a completed bibliography that will provide an excellent foundation for the work of actually writing the senior essay. The colloquium will meet every other week and is required for everyone planning to do a senior research project.

• Department: American Studies
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Maura L Spiegel
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 1 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

Open to senior chemistry, biochemistry, environmental chemistry, and chemical physics majors; senior chemistry concentrators; and students who have taken or are currently enrolled in CHEM W3098. Senior seminar provides direct access to modern chemical research through selected studies by the students from active fields of chemical research. Topics to be presented and discussed draw from the current scientific literature and/or W3098 research.

• Department: Chemistry
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Laura J Kaufman
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia Info
• 2 points

MEDIEVAL ENGLISH TEXTS (SEM)

SIR GAWAIN & THE GREEN KNIGHT

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

RE-IMAGINING CUBA,1868-PRESENT

This course explores Cuban/U.S. relations from the nineteenth century to the present. Drawing upon monographs, travel writings, primary documents, and audio/visual materials, students will examine the complex interactions between the island’s population and their U.S. American neighbors across all facets of society. While this is a course primarily rooted in Cuban history, its primary goal is to encourage students to write transnational histories of Cuban/U.S. interaction.

• Department: History
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Frank Guridy
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

NOBILITY/CIVILITY: EAST/WEST I

Prerequisites: one semester of Contemporary Civilization or Literature Humanities, or an equivalent course, and the instructor's 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: Columbia College
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 4 points

CONTEMP CULTURE IN ARAB WORLD

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
This seminar, designed for seniors, aims to acquaint students with the notion and theoretical understanding of culture and to introduce them to a critical method by which they can study and appreciate contemporary culture in the Arab World. The seminar will survey examples of written and cinematic culture (fiction and autobiography), as well as music, dance, and literary criticism in the contemporary Arab world. Students will be reading novels, autobioghraphies and literary criticism, as well as watch films and listen to music as part of the syllabus. All material will be in translation. Films will be subtitled. Songs will be in Arabic.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph A Massad
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

HONORS RESEARCH

Prerequisites: open to students in the honors program only.
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 W3950 and PSYC W3920. No more than 12 points of PSYC W3920 may be applied toward the honors program in psychology. Special research topics arranged with the instructors of the department leading toward a senior honors paper.

• Department: Psychology
• Instructor: Nim L Tottenham
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• 1-4 points

SOCIAL NETWORKS

This seminar is intended as a theoretical and methodological introduction to social network analysis. Though network analysis is an interdisciplinary endeavor, its roots can be found in classical anthropology and sociology. Network analysis focuses on patterns of relations between actors. Both relations and actors can be defined in many ways, depending on the substantive area of inquiry.

• Department: Sociology
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter Bearman
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia h-index: 54 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
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Bernstein
  CULPA: 27 Info
• 4 points

SOCIAL ENTREPENEURSHIP

SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Prerequisites: Must attend first class for instructor permission. Preference to Urban Studies majors. General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC). Only 16 admitted.
Introduction to the main concepts and processes associated with the creation of new social enterprises, policies, programs, and organizations; criteria for assessing business ventures sponsored by non-profits and socially responsible initiatives undertaken by corporations; specific case studies using New York City as a laboratory. To be offered Fall 2011.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Thomas Kamber
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

ANTICOLONIALISM

Through a careful exploration of the argument and style of five vivid anticolonial texts, Mahatma Gandhi's Hind Swaraj, C.L.R. James' The Black Jacobins, Aimé Césaire'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 construction of the image of colonialism and its projected aftermaths established in anti-colonial discourse.

• Department: Anthropology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: David Scott
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 72 Info
• 4 points

MODES OF INQUIRY - LAB

Corequisites:
CSER W3919
Modes of Inquiry.
This lab session meets 5 times a semester, for an hour.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• M 3 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Warren T McKinney
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• 0 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

20TH CENT AFR-AM POLIT THOUGHT

Prerequisites: 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: Fredrick Harris
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• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

TERRORISM & COUNTERTERRORISM

Prerequisites: 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

IMMIGRATION

Prerequisites: 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 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Rodolfo de la Garza
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

BILL OF RIGHTS

Prerequisites: 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

EQUALITY & THE LAW

Prerequisites: 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

POLICY MAKING

Prerequisites: 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 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Judith Russell
  CULPA: 49 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

MAJORITY RULE/MINORITY RIGHTS

Prerequisites: 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: Raymond A Smith
  CULPA: 48 Info
• 4 points

VISITING CRITIC I

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. See requirements for a major in visual arts.
VIAR R3921
is the prerequisite for
VIAR R3922
.
Corequisites:
VIAR R3901
.
Students are required to enroll in both semesters (VIAR R3921 and VIAR R3922). 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
• M 5 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Emily C Henretta
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• 2 points

ASIAN AMERICAN CINEMA

This seminar focuses on the critical analysis of Asian representation and participation in Hollywood by taking a look at how mainstream American cinema continues to essentialize the Asian and how Asian American filmmakers have responded to Hollywood Orientalist stereotypes. We will analyze various issues confronting the Asian American, including yellowface, white patriarchy, male and female stereotypes, the “model minority” myth, depictions of “Chinatowns,” panethnicity, the changing political interpretations of the term "Asian American" throughout American history, gender and sexuality, and cultural hegemonies and privileging within the Asian community.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Eric Gamalinda
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

VISITING CRITIC II

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

LATINO & ASIAN AMER MEMOIR

In this class, we will explore Latino and Asian American memoir, focusing on themes of immigration and duality. How do we construct identity and homeland when we are ‘multiple’? How do we define ourselves and how do others define us? By reading some of the most challenging and exciting memoirs by Latino and Asian Americans, we will attempt to answer these questions and/or at least try to understand these transnational and multicultural experiences. This class combines the critical with the creative—students have to read and critic memoirs as well as write a final 10-page nonfiction creative writing piece. Students will also have the opportunity to speak to some Latino and Asian authors in class or via SKYPE. Students will be asked to prepare questions in advance for the author, whose work(s) we will have read and discussed. This usually arises interesting and thought-provoking conversations and debates. This 'Dialogue Series' within the class exposes students to a wide-range of voices and offers them a deeper understanding of the complexity of duality.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Nathalie Handal
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• 4 points

ADV TOPICS LAW & SOCIETY

Law creates order. And yet, outlaws or lawbreakers are everywhere. Students will learn to ask and answer questions about living law, understanding that it involves law-followers and law-breakers. Students will read and discuss sociological investigations of the law and perform their own research into a significant question about law-in-action.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Deborah Becher
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 4 Info
• 4 points

LATIN MUSIC AND IDENTITY

Latin music has had a historically strained relationship with mainstream music tastes, exploding in occasional 'boom' periods, and receding into invisibility in others. What if this were true because it is a space for hybrid construction of identity that directly reflects a mixture of traditions across racial lines in Latin America? This course will investigate Latin music's transgression of binary views of race in Anglo-American society, even as it directly affects the development of pop music in America. From New Orleans jazz to Texas corridos, salsa, rock, and reggaeton, Latin music acts as both as a soundtrack and a structural blueprint for the 21st century's multicultural experiment. There will be a strong focus on studying Latin music's political economy, and investigating the story it tells about migration and globalization.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Edward Morales
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• 4 points

THE ETHICS/AESTHETCS OF REPRES

This is an interdisciplinary course considering the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of texts witnessing to contemporary experiences of suffering. Coursework is thoroughly comparative and includes readings and viewings of literary and visual representations, including philosophy, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, painting, photography and film. Students are expected to engage with some of the following questions: Who is a/the witness? What are, if any, the ethical imperatives of representing suffering? What may be the aesthetic and/or ethical limits of such representation?

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Nanor Kebranian
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• 3 points

CHINA IN THE MODERN WORLD

The rise of China has impacted world politics and economy in significant ways. How did it happen? This course introduces some unique angles of self-understanding as suggested by Chinese writers, intellectuals, and artists who have participated in the making of modern China and provided illuminating and critical analyses of their own culture, history, and the world. Readings cover a wide selection of modern Chinese fiction and poetry, autobiographical writing, photography, documentary film, artworks, and music with emphasis on the interplays of art/literature, history, and politics. Close attention is paid to the role of storytelling, the mediating powers of technology, new forms of visuality and sense experience, and the emergence of critical consciousness in response to global modernity. In the course of the semester, a number of contemporary Chinese artists, filmmakers, and writers are invited to answer students’ questions.   This course draws on cross-disciplinary methods from art history, film studies, anthropology, and history in approaching texts and other works. The goal is to develop critical reading skills and gain in-depth understanding of modern China and its engagement with the modern world beyond the cold war rhetoric. Our topics of discussion include historical rupture, loss and melancholy, exile, freedom, migration, social bonding and identity, capitalism, nationalism, and the world revolution. All works are read in English translation.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lydia Liu
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

ARABIC PRISON WRITING

This course studies the genealogy of the prison in Arab culture as manifested in memoirs, narratives, and poems. These cut across a vast temporal and spatial swathe, covering selections from the Quran, Sufi narratives from al-Halllaj oeuvre, poetry by prisoners of war: classical, medieval, and modern. It   also studies modern narratives by women prisoners and political prisoners, and narratives that engage with these issues. Arabic prison writing is studied against other genealogies of this prism, especially in the West, to map out the birth of prison, its institutionalization, mechanism, and role. All readings for the course are in English translations.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Muhsin Al-Musawi
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 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: Theodore Hughes
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

MODERN ARABIC NOVELS

This course provides a theoretical and interdisciplinary discussion of the question of conflict and fantasy as it relates to several areas of humanistic research, and introduces students to a fundamental debate about conflict, focusing on modern Arabic writing from Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. Also, it will explore the notions of conflict and fantasy in different historical and political encounters while reading theoretical and philosophical works that address epistemic violence, mental pathology, civil, and colonial wars. All texts are read in English.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Moneera Al-Ghadeer
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• 3 points

TOPICS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE

AFRICAN SPIRITUAL-AMERICAS

Topics in the Black Experience: Honey is my Knife-African Spirituality in the Americas. This seminar will investigate the cultural contributions of Africans in the formation of the contemporary Americas. There will be a particular focus on the African religious traditions that have continued and developed in spite of hostile social and political pressures. Because of their important roles in the continuations of African aesthetics, the areas of visual art, music and dance will be emphasized in the exploration of the topic. This seminar will also discuss two important African ethnic groups: the Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria, and the Bakongo of Central Africa. It will highlight the American religious traditions of these cultures, e.g., Candomblé Nago/Ketu, Santeria/Lucumi, Shango, Xangô, etc., for the Yoruba, and Palo Mayombe, Umbanda, Macumba, Kumina, African-American Christianity, etc., for the Bakongo and other Central Africans. In the course discussions, the Americas are to include Brazil, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, the United States and numerous other appropriate locations. There will also be a focus on visual artists like Charles Abramson, Jose Bedia, Juan Boza, Lourdes Lopez, Manuel Mendive, etc., whose works are grounded in African based religions. In addition, we will explore how African religious philosophy has impacted on every-day life in the Americas, for example in the areas of international athletics, procedures of greeting and degreeting, culinary practices, etc. This course will include presentations by three innovative guest scholars: it will also include an extensive use of audio-visual materials including slides, videos and audio recordings.

• Department: African-American Studies, Institute for Research in
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: C. Daniel Dawson
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• 4 points

TOPICS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE

THE CARIBBEAN METROPOLIS

Topics in the Black Experience: The Caribbean Metropolis. The Caribbean metropolis is productively understood as a circular restaging of the traffic in flesh undertaken during the Middle Passage with its complex history of fugitivity, exile, and forced and more voluntary migrations the globe over. Attending to the historical and contemporary set of social, political, and economic arrangements which gives shape to the urban centers of former colonized capital cities such as Kingston, Port-of-Spain, and Port-au-Prince, to the dense, “cosmopolitan” metropolises of New York, London, and Paris, this course will present historical, literary, visual, musical, and critical ‘texts’ as tools to theorize the Caribbean city broadly imagined. We will examine these urban sites and their too familiar features of violence, spatial and class division with special attention to historical categories of human difference that prepare us to analyze the seemingly outsized importance of the Caribbean in the hemisphere and around the world.

• Department: African-American Studies, Institute for Research in
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard A Blint
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• 4 points

TOPICS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE

CONCEPTS OF RACE & RACISM

Topics in the Black Experience: Concepts of Race and Racism. An intensive examination of a number of important and influential contributions to our understanding of race, racism, and racial oppression as it has evolved from the US Civil Rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s to the present day.  Readings will be drawn from the writings of Martin Luther King, Jr., Cornel West, Charles Mills, Michelle Alexander and Beth Richie.

• Department: African-American Studies, Institute for Research in
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Gooding-Williams
  Wikipedia h-index: 15 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

SHAKESPEARE IN AMERICA

This seminar explores the reception and influence of Shakespeare in the United States from 1776 to the present. Readings include poems, stories, plays, and essays by a broad range of writers, including: Irving, Emerson, Maungwudaus, Aldridge, Bacon, Hawthorne, Lincoln, Melville, Lowell, Dickinson, Whitman, James, Twain, Booth, Addams, Keller, Hughes, Berryman, Thurber, Ransom, McCarthy, Plath, Mori, Ozick, and Smiley. Requirements include an in-class presentation and a term paper.

• Department: American Studies
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: James Shapiro
  CULPA: 25 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

SUPREME COURT IN AMERICAN HIST

As Tocqueville observed, "scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question." As a consequence, the Supreme Court of the United States has been at the center of many of the most significant developments in American history. It has played significant roles in, for example, (1) the creation of the young republic and the achievement of a balance between states and the federal government, (2) race relations including the institution of slavery, (3) the rights of workers, (4) civil rights, and (5) elections. This seminar will explore the Supreme Court's role in American society by examining its decisions on key issues throughout its history. Attend first class for instructor permission.

• Department: American Studies
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Benjamin Rosenberg
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

EQUITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION

In this seminar, we examine the roles colleges and universities play in American society; the differential access high school students have to college based on family background and income, ethnicity, and other characteristics; the causes and consequences of this  differential access; and some attempts to make access more equitable. Readings and class meetings cover the following subjects historically and in the 21st century: the variety of American institutions of higher education; admission and financial aid policies at selective and less selective, private and public, colleges; affirmative action and race-conscious admissions; what "merit" means in college admissions; and the role of the high school in helping students attend college. Students in the seminar are required to spend at least four hours each week as volunteers at the Double Discovery Center (DDC) in addition to completing assigned reading, participating in seminar discussions, and completing written assignments. DDC is an on-campus program that helps New York City high school students who lack many of the resources needed to succeed in college and to be successful in gaining admission and finding financial aid. The seminar integrates students' first-hand experiences with readings and class discussions.

• Department: American Studies
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Roger Lehecka
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

FREEDOM & CITIZENSHIP IN US

This seminar will examine foundational texts and debates in American political and cultural history. The inherent tension between "freedom" and "citizenship" will serve as the organizing theme. The course is conceived in the model of Contemporary Civilization (CC) and, as in that course, we will focus exclusively on primary texts, the order of readings will be roughly chronological, and the class will be discussion-driven. We will begin with readings from the Puritan settlement of New England and continue with documents surrounding the Revolution, the early Republic, the Civil War, Reconstruction, liberalism, the Civil Rights Movement, and contemporary debates about the nature of American national identity. In addition to the classroom requirements, students will serve a minimum of four hours a week at the Double Discovery Center (DDC) in connection with the Freedom and Citizenship Project, which DDC conducts in partnership with the American Studies Program.

• Department: American Studies
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Roosevelt Montas
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

LANGUAGE CONTACT

This seminar explores the results of language mixture, as demonstrated on the North American continent as well as beyond. All human languages are hybrids to an extent, but post-Neolithic technological developments have made population movement ever more common, resulting in mixture between peoples and the languages they speak. The result has been a panorama of language mixtures of a kind rare to nonexistent before roughly ten thousand years ago, including what are called creoles, pidgins, koines, "vehicular" languages, and nonstandard dialects that straddle the boundary between these categories. Such languages are usually felt as new and/or illegitimate, such that they have had various fates in the media and education, and also occasion vigorous controversies even as to their origins. This seminar will explore America's--and the world's--newest, and in some ways most interesting, languages.

• Department: American Studies
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: John H McWhorter
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• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

HIST & ETHICS OF PHILANTHROPY

This seminar examines the history and ethics of American philanthropy. We will explore the early divide between charity and philanthropy and discuss the moral challenges of both keeping money and giving it away. We will look at the great accomplishments of American philanthropy as well as the longstanding critique that charity fails to address structural inequality. This course is designed to help students analyze and evaluate how philanthropic organizations have addressed major public problems. For this reason, each student will complete a final project that offers an in-depth analysis of a particular social problem, past solutions, and opportunities for productive intervention.

• Department: American Studies
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Tamara Mann Tweel
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• 4 points

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
This seminar explores major features of U.S. constitutional law through close examination of selected decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court. Through student discussion and some lecturing, the seminar addresses issues arising from the Constitution's allocation of power among the three branches of government; the allocation of powers between the National and State governments, including, in particular, the scope of Congress' regulatory powers; and the protection of the individual from arbitrary and discriminatory government conduct, including the protections of the Fifth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments against unequal treatment based on race, gender and sexual orientation, the evolution of the concept of liberty from its protection of economic interests before the New Deal to its current role in protecting individual autonomy and privacy, and some aspects of the First Amendment's protection of freedom of speech and press. More generally the seminar aims to enhance understanding of some main aspects of our constitutional tradition and the judicial process by which it is elaborated.

• Department: Political Science
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sidney Rosdeitcher
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• 4 points

CLIM CHNG/GLOBEL MIGR/HUM RGT

CLIM CHNG/GLOBAL MIGR/HUM RGT

While the existence of processes of anthropogenic climate change is well established, predictions regarding the future consequences of these processes are far less certain. In no area is the uncertainty regarding near and long term effects as pronounced as in the question of how climate change will affect global migration. This course will address the issue of climate migration in four ways.  First, the course will examine the theoretical and empirical literatures that have elucidated the nature of international migration in general.  Second, the course will consider the phenomena of anthropogenic climate change as it relates to migration.  Third, the course will consider how human rights and other legal regimes do or do not address the humanitarian issues created by anthropogenic climate change.  Fourth, the course will synthesize these topics by considering how migration and climate change has arisen as a humanitarian, political, and economic issue in the Pacific.  Human Rights elective.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: John Salyer
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• 4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Prerequisites: the department chair's permission.

• Department: Visual Arts
• Instructor: Joseph J Peet
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• Instructor: Kai McBride
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• Instructor: Rirkrit Tiravanija
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• Instructor: Gregory Amenoff
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• Instructor: Matthew E Buckingham
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• Instructor: Shelly Silver
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• Instructor: Jon Kessler
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• Instructor: Van M Hanos
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• Instructor: Thomas Roma
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• 1-3 points

ARABIA IMAGINED

This course explores Arabia as a global phenomenon. It is organized around primary texts read in English translation. The site of the revelation of the Quran and the location of the sacred precincts of Islam, Arabia is the destination of pilgrimage and the direction of prayer for Muslims worldwide. It also is the locus of cultural expression ranging from the literature of the 1001 Nights to the broadcasts of Al Jazeera. We begin with themes of contemporary youth culture and political movements associated with the Arab Spring. Seminar paper.

• Department: Anthropology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Brinkley Messick
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 4 points

HIST OF THE US-MEXIC0 BORDER

HIST OF THE US-MEXICO BORDER

Beginning in the 1980s, border crossing became an academic rage in the humanities and the social sciences. This was a consequence of globalization, an historical process that reconfigured the boundaries between economy, society, and culture; and it was also a primary theme of post-modernist aesthetics, which celebrated playful borrowing of multiple and diverse historical references. Within that frame, interest in the US-Mexican border shifted dramatically. Since that border is the longest and most intensively crossed boundary between a rich and a poor country, it became a paradigmatic point of reference. Places like Tijuana or El Paso, with their rather seedy reputation, had until then been of interest principally to local residents, but they now became exemplars of post-modern “hybridity,” and were meant to inspire the kind of transnational scholarship that is required in today’s world. Indeed, the border itself became a metaphor, a movable imaginary boundary that marks ethnic and racial distinction in American and Mexican cities. This course is an introduction to the historical formation of the US-Mexican border.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Claudio Lomnitz
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• 4 points

THE FANTASTIC IN PRE-MOD CHINA

GHOSTS, ANIMALS & OTHER WORLDS

This course concentrates on various strange beings, places, and relationships that are represented in works written in China and are usually categorized as the supernatural by modern readers. Presenting students with a picture different from the rational world, we ask questions: How does the supernatural constitute human experiences? In what sense is the supernatural real to us? How does our view of the supernatural resemble or conflict with views engendered in pre-modern society? The course deals with these questions in hopes of deepening the understanding of the supernatural in contrast to our material reality. It situates the Chinese notion of the supernatural in the Western cultural framework in order to gain new perspectives to understand Chinese culture. All readings are in English.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Peng Liu
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• 4 points

ART&SEXUALITY; CONTEMP CULTURE

ART &SEXUALITY; CONTEMP CULTRE

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: John T McGrath
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• 4 points

LITERATURE AND OIL

(Seminar). This course will investigate the connections between literary/cultural production and petroleum as the substance that makes possible the world as we know it, both as an energy source and a component in the manufacture of everything from food to plastic. Our current awareness of oil's scarcity and its myriad costs (whether environmental, political, or social) provides a lens to read for the presence (or absence) of oil in texts in a variety of genres and national traditions. As we begin to imagine a world "beyond petroleum," we will confront ways in which oil shapes both the world we know and how we imagine the world. Oil will feature in questions of theme (texts about "oil"), of literary form (are there common formal conventions of an "oil novel"?), of interpretive method (how to read for oil), of transnational circulation (how does "foreign oil" link US citizens to other spaces?), and of the materiality (or "oiliness") of literary culture (how does the production and circulation of texts, whether print or digital, rely on oil?). Application instructions: E-mail Professor Jennifer Wenzel (jw2497@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Literature and Oil 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: English and Comparative Literature
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer Wenzel
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 15 Info
• 4 points

ANIME EFFECT: JAPANESE MEDIA

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission
Culture, technology, and media in contemporary Japan. Theoretical and ethnographic engagements with forms of mass mediation, including anime, manga, video, and cell-phone novels. Considers larger global economic and political contexts, including post-Fukushima transformations.

• Department: Anthropology
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Marilyn Ivy
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

CUR CONTROV-PRIMATE BEHAV&ECOL;

Prerequisites:
EEEB W1011
or the equivalent.
Critical in-depth evaluation of selected issues in primate socioecology, including adaptationism, sociality, sexual competition, communication, kinship, dominance, cognition, and politics. Emphasizes readings from original literature.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Marina Cords
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 4 points

LONDON: GLOBAL CITY, GLOBAL FICTIONS

TRANSGRESSIVE WOMEN-18C BRIT

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
(Seminar). This course focuses on eighteenth-century English fiction that features "girls gone wild," women who violate the stringent social codes dictating their behaviour in this period. By reading a range of critical texts - some contemporary to us, and others contemporary to the 18th-century writers on our syllabus - we'll learn what constituted "misbehaviour' for women, and who was making the rules. Conduct books, educational treatises, periodical literature, pamphlets and political writings will give us a cultural context, and prepare us to examine how fiction writers were reflecting and refracting codes of conduct to sociopolitical and artistic ends. Because the act of writing itself often constituted misbehaviour for eighteenth-century women, texts by women differ considerably from those by men, with regard to topics, style and genre. The first half of the course focuses on male authors diversely imagining female cross-dressers, lesbians, prostitutes, witches, sadists, and pleasure-seekers. In the second half, we'll see women writers working in two literary modes - the gothic and the novel of manners - to respond to oppressive societal concerns about femininity and modesty. Application instructions: E-mail Instructor Gemmill (kg2402@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Transgressive Women seminar". In your message, include basic information: 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'll automatically be placed on a wait list, from which the instructor will in due course admit them as spaces become available.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Kathleen D Gemmill
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• 4 points

MATERIALISM & MORALITY IN 19TH C. NOVEL

MOVEMENT & FEELING IN 18 CENT

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
(Seminar). This seminar explores the idea that motion and emotion are interrelated in the eighteenth century. That point may sound obvious enough, but in tracking it we will reject two common misperceptions about British literature from around 1680 to 1798. The first false assumption is that this literature is always static and inward looking. The false second assumption is that, because this period was the Age of Reason, people spent the whole century trying to be rational and not to feel very much. This century was in fact an age of exuberant mobility, much of it driven by economic change, military conflict, colonial expansion, and religious revival. Anglophone writers of the eighteenth century likewise became increasingly preoccupied by human feelings: what they are, how they motivate actions, how they inform social (especially gender-based) identities, how they should be managed, and how they should be performed or communicated. We will set out from the hypothesis that these two developments - motion and emotion - need to be understood together. We will focus on texts that depict travel (and that themselves traveled) through the British Isles, within continental Europe and across the Atlantic Ocean. Writing for the seminar will emphasize crossings: across waterways or turnpikes, across genres or periods, across nations or traditions.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Dustin Stewart
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• 4 points

NINETEENTH-CENTURY CRITICISM

Prerequisites: junior or senior standing, and the instructor's permission.
Selected readings in 19th-century philosophy, literature, and art criticism, with emphasis on problems of modernity and aesthetic experience. Texts include work by Diderot, Kant, Coleridge, Hegel, Emerson, Flaubert, Ruskin, Baudelaire, and Nietzsche.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jonathan K Crary
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

19TH CENTURY SEMINAR

19TH CENTURY THRILLERS

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
(Seminar). This seminar will investigate the ways in which the nineteenth-century novel is shaped by the forces of horror, sensation, suspense and the supernatural. We will ask how the melodramatic imagination, the rhetoric of monstrosity and the procedures of detection mark high narrative realism with the signs of cultural anxieties building up around nineteenth-century revolution, industrialization, capitalism, Catholicism, bigamy and immigration. Looking at representative samples of the Romantic neo-gothic novel, mid-century ghost stories, the highly popular and controversial sensation novels of the 1860s, aestheticism, and fin-de siècle psychological thrillers, we will come away with a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the intersection between the novel and popular entertainment. Readings will include Austen's Northanger Abbey, Brontë's Villette, Braddon's Lady Audeley's Secret, Collins's The Woman in White, Dickens's Bleak House, Du Maurier's Trilby (or Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray), Stoker's Dracula, James's Turn of the Screw, and a selection of ghost stories by Gaskell, Mulock, Hood, Edwards and Riddell. Application Instructions: E-mail Professor Monica Cohen (mlf1@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "19thC Thrillers 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: English and Comparative Literature
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Monica F Cohen
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

GLOBL HIST-THE GREAT RECESSION

The Financial Crisis that struck the United States and Europe in 2007 is the most severe in history. We are still living with its fall out. This course will explore the history of the crisis and the political reaction to it. We will explore how the crisis radiated out from the Atlantic economy where it originated to the rest of the world economy.

• Department: History
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Adam Tooze
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• 4 points

ART OF WITNESS: MEMORIALS

Examines aesthetic responses to collective historical traumas, such as slavery, the Holocaust, the bombing of Hiroshima, AIDS, homelessness, immigration, and the recent attack on the World Trade Center. Studies theories about trauma, memory, and representation. Explores debates about the function and form of memorials.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Rosalyn Deutsche
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 4 points

LAND, NOMAD, NATION

Given that "indigenous" is a category without clear demarcations-that can only be formulated in relation to something deemed less indigenous-this course explores how claims to indigenity have been represented in relation to land and governance, focusing on media of representation, including art, literature, and architecture. In light of recent international movements seeking to establish a framework of "indigenous rights" within the rubric of "universal rights", this course takes note of certain aesthetic corollaries to this negotiation of the universalizable exception. Specifically, we will ask how art and architecture-often associated with place, stability, and longevity-operate in relation to the movements of people or their re-settlement. Relatedly, we will ask how literature both unites people under the rubric of nationality while also operating across national boundaries. Readings will focus on forms of land use, aesthetic representations of land, and relations between land and nation. Finally, we will ask whether claims to political rights and participation must always be rooted (so to speak) in practices of land tenure. The scope of the course is broadly global and focused mostly on the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, although several readings deal with more distant eras. This seminar is open to undergraduate students from all disciplines and should be of especial interest to students of history, anthropology, art history, engineering, and the biological sciences. Open to graduate students with permission from instructor. This course is intended to expand students' historical and critical perspectives on an issue of pressing contemporary importance, touching on the future of rights of both "indigenous" people and migrants. Students will research a topic of their choosing in greater depth and develop maps and texts that illustrate overlapping and perhaps conflicting approaches to land use.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Center for
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• 3 points

PHOTOGRAPHY & VIDEO IN ASIA

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher Phillips
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• 4 points

18TH C. BRITISH LITERATURE

POETICS OF THE WARRIOR

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
(Seminar). This course of distinguished poetry about warriors and warfare goes to the intersection of disciplines, where warrior and poet together compete and excel--ingeniously, formally, passionately, consequentially--as allies in dire contest against annihilation and despair. Homer's Iliad heads our list of exemplary titles selected from ancient and classical, mediaeval and early modern sources, including, among others, Sophocles' Ajax, and Philoctetes; Beowulf; Song of Roland; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; The Tale of the Heike; Shakespeare's Henry V; and Milton's Paradise Lost. We also will read histories, memoirs, oratory, and guidebooks, from Yuzan's Budoshoshinshu to General Patton's "The Secret of Victory," from Vegetius' De Re Militari to U.S. Army Field Manual (FM) 6-22. Our reading is historically broad enough to prove the range of virtues, precepts, codes and rules of martial character and action. Yet our poetry also excels in vision and in virtuosity quite apart from how it might cultivate the norms of aristeía, chivalry, or bushido, so that certain of our questions about form and style or imaginative effects might differ in kind from other questions about the closeness or disparity of the practical warrior and the poetic warrior, and the extent to which the latter elevates and inspires the former's conception of himself in times of war and peace. We shall consider how battle narratives which excel as poetry and ring true for the warrior, appealing to his wit and outlook, might replenish the aggrieved and battle-weary mind; how a war poem's beautifully formed and lucidly rendered chaos remembers and regains for him the field of action. Toward my interest in the range of possibilities for military literature as a discipline of study, I welcome not only the novice whose interest is avid but the student knowledgeable about military topics in literature, history, political and social philosophy, and especially the student, who, having served in the Armed Forces, can bring to the seminar table a contemporary military perspective and the fruits of practical wisdom. Application: E-mail Professor Giordani (mg2644@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Poetics of Warrior seminar." In your message, include your name, school, major, year of study, relevant courses taken, and 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

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Marianne Giordani
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

HUMAN RIGHTS & HUMAN WRONGS

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. Please e-mail the instructor at
bc14@columbia.edu
.
This course will examine the tension between two contradictory trends in world politics. On the one hand, we have emerged from a century that has seen some of the most brutal practices ever perpetrated by states against their populations in the form of genocide, systematic torture, mass murder and ethnic cleansing. Many of these abuses occurred after the Holocaust, even though the mantra "never again" was viewed by many as a pledge never to allow a repeat of these practices. Events in the new century suggest that these trends will not end anytime soon. At the same time, since the middle of the twentieth century, for the first time in human history there has been a growing global consensus that all individuals are entitled to at least some level of protection from abuse by their governments. This concept of human rights has been institutionalized through international law, diplomacy, international discourse, transnational activism, and the foreign policies of many states. Over the past two decades, international organizations, non-governmental organizations, and international tribunals have gone further than any institutions in human history to try to stem state abuses. This seminar will try to make sense of these contradictions.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Bruce L Cronin
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 4 points

SOCIAL HIST OF AMER PUB HEALTH

The purpose of this course is to provide students with an historical understanding of the role public health has played in American history. The underlying assumptions are that disease, and the ways we define disease, are simultaneously reflections of social and cultural values, as well as important factors in shaping those values. Also, it is maintained that the environments that we build determine the ways we live and die. The dread infectious and acute diseases in the nineteenth century, the chronic, degenerative conditions of the twentieth and the new, vaguely understood conditions rooted in a changing chemical and human-made environment are emblematic of the societies we created. Among the questions that will be addressed are: How does the health status of Americans reflect and shape our history? How do ideas about health reflect broader attitudes and values in American history and culture? How does the American experience with pain, disability, and disease affect our actions and lives? What are the responsibilities of the state and of the individual in preserving health? How have American institutions--from hospitals to unions to insurance companies--been shaped by changing longevity, experience with disability and death?

• Department: History
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: James K Colgrove
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: the instructor's 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 W3950 and PSYC W3920. No more than 8 points of PSYC W3950 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: Psychology
• Instructor: Niall Bolger
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 55 Info
• Instructor: Frances Champagne
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• Instructor: James P Curley
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• Instructor: Geraldine Downey
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Norma V Graham
  CULPA: 29 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Carl Hart
  CULPA: 43 Wikipedia h-index: 54 Info
• Instructor: Tory Higgins
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia h-index: 134 Info
• Instructor: Donald C Hood
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 81 Info
• Instructor: Sheena Iyengar
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• Instructor: Leonard Matin
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• Instructor: Janet Metcalfe
  CULPA: 31 h-index: 70 Info
• Instructor: Walter Mischel
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• Instructor: Dean Mobbs
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Michael W Morris
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• Instructor: Kevin Ochsner
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 86 Info
• Instructor: Valerie J Purdie-Vaughns
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• Instructor: Lois E Putnam
  CULPA: 19 Info
• Instructor: Daphna Shohamy
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 47 Info
• Instructor: Rae Silver
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• Instructor: Ursula Staudinger
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• Instructor: Yaakov Stern
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• Instructor: Kathleen M Taylor
  CULPA: 78 Info
• Instructor: Herbert S Terrace
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• Instructor: Nim L Tottenham
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• 1-4 points