SUPERVISED SENIOR RESEARCH

Supervised research under the direction of individual members of the department.

• Department: Philosophy
• Instructor: Katja Vogt
  CULPA: 36 Info
• 3 points

SR SEM:INTL TOPICS URB STUDIES

SR SEM:INTL TOPICS URB STDIES

Prerequisites: Senior standing. Admission by application only (available at http://urban.barnard.edu/forms-and-resources). Year-long course; participation is for two consecutive terms. No new students admitted for spring.
A year-long research seminar for students who wish to conduct a senior thesis project that focuses on cities outside of the United States. Topics relating to the rapid urbanization of Latin America, Africa, and Asia are particularly welcome. Seminar meetings will include discussion of relevant readings, as well as occasional class presentations and peer-editing assignments.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Sevin Yildiz
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

INTERDISCIPLINARY SENIOR SEM

Prerequisites: ACLS BC3450. Enrollment limited to Barnard seniors participating in the Athena Scholars Program.
Limited to seniors participating in the Athena Scholars Program.   Students will develop a social action project where they must demonstrate leadership skills in an off-campus setting.  Students will be expected to develop and implement a detailed plan to start their project.  Then they will collaborate with other class members to advance their projects, report to their peers on their accomplishments and have an opportunity to work closely with organizations across the city on their efforts.

• Department: Athena Center for Leadership Studies @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Abigail S Lewis
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY-NON AFAM

• Department: African-American Studies, Institute for Research in
• Instructor: Josef Sorett
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 1-4 points

SENIOR THESIS

Prerequisites: the department's permission.
Required for all thesis writers.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Kellie Jones
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 3-6 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

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

• Department: American Studies
• Instructor: Tamara Mann Tweel
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• 1-4 points

DIRCTD READING-ANCIENT STUDIES

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

• Department: Classics
• Instructor: Marcus Folch
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Collomia Charles
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Helene P Foley
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
  CULPA: 20 Info
• Instructor: Seth R Schwartz
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Katharina Volk
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Gareth Williams
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth K Irwin
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Ellen Morris
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Nancy Worman
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Joseph A Howley
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: John T Ma
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 1-3 points

SUPERVISED STUDY IN FRANCE I

DR: POL CULT SEINE ST DENIS

• Department: Reid Hall Paris Programs
• Instructor: Laurence Gallu
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• 3 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

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

• Department: Anthropology
• Instructor: Brian Boyd
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Myron L Cohen
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 2-6 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

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

• Department: Anthropology
• 2-6 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

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

• Department: Anthropology
• Instructor: Zoe Crossland
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Terence N D'Altroy
  CULPA: 37 Info
• Instructor: E. Valentine Daniel
  CULPA: 27 Info
• Instructor: Brian Goldstone
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• Instructor: Catherine Fennell
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• Instructor: Marilyn Ivy
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 2-6 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

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

• Department: Anthropology
• 2-6 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

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

• Department: Anthropology
• Instructor: Ellen Marakowitz
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 2-6 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

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

• Department: Anthropology
• 2-6 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

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

• Department: Anthropology
• Instructor: Rosalind Morris
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: John Pemberton
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth Povinelli
  CULPA: 14 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Nan A Rothschild
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Partha Chatterjee
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Karen Seeley
  CULPA: 9 Info
• Instructor: Audra Simpson
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Michael Taussig
  CULPA: 33 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Carole Vance
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• Instructor: Lila Abu-Lughod
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info
• Instructor: Ralph L Holloway
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 2-6 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

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

• Department: Anthropology
• 2-6 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

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

• Department: Anthropology
• Instructor: Steven Gregory
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Brinkley Messick
  CULPA: 19 Info
• Instructor: Mahmood Mamdani
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia h-index: 57 Info
• Instructor: David Scott
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 72 Info
• Instructor: Claudio Lomnitz
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Nan A Rothschild
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Sarah B Muir
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 2-6 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

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

• Department: Anthropology
• 2-6 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

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

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• Instructor: Kadambari Baxi
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• Instructor: Karen Fairbanks
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Ralph Ghoche
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 2 Info
• Instructor: Leah M Meisterlin
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 2-4 points

INDEPENDENT RESEARCH

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

• Department: Astronomy
• Instructor: Jules P Halpern
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Independent Study (set up for MLS service learning)

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Center for
• 1-3 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

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

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• Instructor: Howard Rosenbaum
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• Instructor: Jill S Shapiro
  CULPA: 46 Info
• Instructor: Krista McGuire
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Dustin Rubenstein
  h-index: 36 Info
• Instructor: Marina Cords
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 1-3 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

SR SM:PHENOMENLGY OF PASSIONS

Prerequisites: Sign up through the "SR Seminar" section of myBarnard. Enrollment limited to Barnard senior English majors.
An examination of the human emotional field in literature, music, and art, with accent on the Romantic era (Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Kleist, Beethoven, Caspar David Friedrich) -- in coordination with the more scientific approaches to these phenomena in philosophy, psychoanalysis, and neuroscience. A feeling, an emotion, an affect is something that comes into existence or happens, or that shows (Greek Phainein=to show) itself without our knowing exactly what it is, what caused it, or what it is "showing" or "saying." How are we to interpret it? What is its function? What should we do with it? How is it different from an idea or an action?

• Department: English @Barnard
• M noon-1:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Maire Jaanus
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

SR SEM:FICTION/FLM URBAN WOMN

Prerequisites: Sign up through the "SR Seminar" section of myBarnard. Enrollment limited to Barnard senior English majors or Barnard senior Film majors. Priority given to Barnard Film majors and English majors with a Film concentration.
From Holly Golightly to Hannah Horvath, from Lorelei Lee to Audra Lorde, urban women, fictional and real, re-define gender identity, test boundaries and give us great stories. We will look closely at storytelling strategies, including assemblage, fracturing, simultaneity, mapping, networks, traces, palimpsests. Drawing on De Certeau's The Practice of Everyday Life and Soja's models of flexicity, expolis, metropolarities, simcity, etc., we will explore urban geographies and "spatial practices." Themes include what Virginia Woolf called "street haunting," yearning, ephemerality, and performance. Close reading of novels, memoirs, graphic narrative, short stories and films by Chantal Ackerman, Andrea Arnold, Toni Cade Bambara, Busby Berkeley, Michael Cho, Shirley Clarke, Sofia Coppola, Joan Didion, Elena Ferrante, Christopher Isherwood, Tamara Jenkins, Wong Kar-Wei, Helen Levitt, Anita Loos, Audra Lorde, Mike Leigh, Alan J. Pakula, Dee Rees, Patti Smith, Agnes Varda, and Billy Wilder.

• Department: English @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Maura L Spiegel
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

SR SEM:POETS IN CORRESPONDNCE

Prerequisites: Sign up through the "SR Seminar" section of myBarnard. Enrollment limited to Barnard senior English majors.
How do poets' letters inform our understanding of their poetry? From the eighteenth to the twentieth century, poets have used their intimate correspondence to "baffle absence," as Coleridge remarked. This course will examine the ways several masters of the letter (including Cowper, Keats, Dickinson, Eliot, Bishop, and Lowell, among others) shaped their prose to convey spontaneity in paradoxically artful ways, illuminating their major work as poets and making the private letter a literary form in its own right.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Saskia Hamilton
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

SR SEM: DICKENS

Prerequisites: Sign up through the "SR Seminar" section of myBarnard. Enrollment limited to Barnard senior English majors.
Charles Dickens: the life, the works, the legend, in as much detail as we can manage in one semester.  Reading will include Pickwick Papers, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Bleak House, and selections from his friend John Forster's Life of Charles Dickens, as well as other works to be chosen by the class.  Special emphasis will be given to Dickens's literary style and genius for characterization, in the context of Victorian concerns about money, class, gender, and the role of art in an industrializing society.  Students will be expected to share in creating the syllabus, presenting new material, and leading class discussion.  Be prepared to do a LOT of reading--all of it great!--plus weekly writing on CourseWorks.

• Department: English @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: William C Sharpe
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 11 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

SR SEM:SEXLTY,SIN,SPIRITUALTY

Prerequisites: Sign up through the "SR Seminar" section of myBarnard. Enrollment limited to Barnard senior English majors.
The topic is huge, but the readings will offer a range of texts giving a historical (and to some extent theoretical) perspective on how sexuality (particularly women's sexuality) and religion have intertwined-how it was been (and continues to be) constructed in relation to sin and/or spirituality in the Western traditions ever since the Bible. Beginning with passages from both the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and the New Testament; we move on to Augustine's Confessions; Petrarch's sonnet sequence about Laura; a selection of John Donne's poetry; Books 4 and 9 of Milton's Paradise Lost  (Adam and Eve in the garden; the temptation/seduction). The syllabus is a work in process, but further readings might include some of the following: Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata, Willa Cather, My Mortal Enemy, Marguerite Duras' The Lover, and Mary Gordon's Spending. I welcome students suggesting other books (especially contemporary novels). We will make reference to contemporary issues, and there is plenty of material in our own times that can be fruitfully examined. You will have considerable freedom to determine your own topic for your senior essay, using the course as simply the starting point.

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

SENIOR SEMINAR

SR SEM: BLACK LITERATURE NOW

Prerequisites: Sign up through the "SR Seminar" section of myBarnard. Enrollment limited to Barnard senior English majors.
This class examines contemporary African American literature, in particular the ways in which recent authors are re-conceiving literary notions of blackness. Beginning in the 1980s with the emergence of "post-soul" literature, this class explores the ways in which authors one or two generations after the Civil Rights Movement reconfigure their sense of racial "belonging" and notions of how to write "blackness" into a text. Along with contemporary African American novels, we will also read key works of contemporary literary and racial theory. Authors may include Trey Ellis, Danzy Senna, Paul Beatty, Colson Whitehead, Percival Everett, ZZ Packer, Martha Southgate, Danielle Evans, Michael Thomas, Ayana Mathis, Victor Lavalle, among others.

• Department: English @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Monica L Miller
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

SR SEM FOR WRITING CONCENTR

Prerequisites: Open only to Barnard senior English majors concentrating in creative writing. Permission required; email Prof. Szell.
A special section of Senor Seminar for writing concentrators specializing in prose. This will lead to the completion of a senior thesis of approximately 50 pages of prose, fiction or non-fiction. The course will meet every second Tuesday with individual meetings with the instructor on alternate weeks.

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

DIRECTED READINGS IN GREEK LIT

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

• Department: Classics
• Instructor: Marcus Folch
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 1-3 points

DIRECTED READINGS IN GREEK LIT

DIRECTED GREEK READINGS

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

• Department: Classics
• Instructor: Collomia Charles
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Kristina Milnor
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia h-index: 10 Info
• Instructor: Helene P Foley
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
  CULPA: 20 Info
• Instructor: Seth R Schwartz
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Katharina Volk
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Gareth Williams
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Nancy Worman
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth K Irwin
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Nancy Worman
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Joseph A Howley
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: John T Ma
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 1-3 points

DIRECTED READINGS

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

• Department: Classics
• Instructor: Karen R Van Dyck
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Maria Hadjipolycarpou
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 1-3 points

DIRECTED READINGS IN LATIN LIT

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

• Department: Classics
• Instructor: Marcus Folch
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Collomia Charles
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 1-3 points

DIRECTED READINGS IN LATIN LIT

DIRECTED LATIN READINGS

Prerequisites: Permission of the department chair required.
To be tested by a series of short papers, one long paper, or an oral or written examination.

• Department: Classics @Barnard
• Instructor: Kristina Milnor
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia h-index: 10 Info
• Instructor: Helene P Foley
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 3 points

DIRECTED READINGS IN LATIN LIT

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

• Department: Classics
• Instructor: Seth R Schwartz
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Katharina Volk
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Gareth Williams
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 1-3 points

DIRECTED READINGS IN LATIN LIT

DIRECTED LATIN READINGS

Prerequisites: Permission of the department chair required.
To be tested by a series of short papers, one long paper, or an oral or written examination.

• Department: Classics @Barnard
• Instructor: Nancy Worman
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

• Department: Slavic Languages
• Instructor: John H McWhorter
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia Info
• 1-4 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

Supervised research under the direction of individual members of the department.

• Department: Philosophy
• Instructor: David Albert
  CULPA: 32 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• Instructor: Akeel Bilgrami
  CULPA: 28 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Taylor Carman
  CULPA: 40 Wikipedia h-index: 19 Info
• Instructor: Justin Clarke-Doane
  h-index: 10 Info
• Instructor: John D Collins
  CULPA: 45 Info
• Instructor: Haim Gaifman
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 30 Info
• 1-3 points