GUIDED READING AND RESEARCH

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.

• Department: Religion
• Instructor: Bernard Faure
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Wayne L Proudfoot
  CULPA: 11 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth Castelli
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Zhaohua Yang
  Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth Castelli
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Gale L Kenny
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Clemence C Boulouque
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 1-4 points

SENIOR THESIS II

Prerequisites:
VIAR R3901
and the instructor's permission. See requirements for a major in visual arts.
Corequisites:
VIAR R3922
.
Students must enroll in both semesters of the course (VIAR R3901 and VIAR R3902). 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
• M 5 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicola G Lopez
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 2 points

SENIOR HONORS THESIS LAB

• 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: John S Magyar
  CULPA: 12 Info
• Instructor: Mary Sever
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Rachel Austin
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia h-index: 28 Info
• Instructor: Christina Vizcarra
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Dina C Merrer
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 0 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 community's social fabric.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jacob Boersema
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

DEVIANCE & SOCIAL CONTROL

In this seminar. we will trace the historic shifts in causal theories of deviance and their significance for the societal response. The readings are classics of social research that have been of great historical impact. They range from the early focus on individual pathologies to sociological explanations, the most recent being attempts to understand deviance as a product of organization factors that result in harmful outcomes. Examples are Katrina, the 2008 financial crisis, and school shootings.

• Department: Sociology
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Diane Vaughan
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

HONORS SEMINAR

Prerequisites: open to students in the honors program only.
Discussion of a variety of topics in psychology, with particular emphasis on recent developments and methodological problems. Students propose and discuss special research topics.

• Department: Psychology
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Kevin Ochsner
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 86 Info
• 1 points

ETHNOGRAPHIC CHINA

• Department: Anthropology
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Myron L Cohen
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

SEMINAR

SEMINAR: FREEDOM AND AUTONOMY

• Department: Philosophy
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Carol Rovane
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 3-4 points

SEMINAR IN POLITICAL THEORY

WHY PRIVATE PROPERTY

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

• Department: Political Science
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Ashraf Ahmed
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• 4 points

VIDEO AS INQUIRY

The goal of this course is to familiarize students with visual production, particularly video production, as a mode of inquiry to explore questions related to race, ethnicity, indigeneity, and other forms of social hierarchy and difference. The class will include readings in visual production as a mode of inquiry and on the basic craft of video production in various genres (fiction, documentary, and experimental). As part of the course, students will produce a video short and complete it by semester's end.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Frances Negron-Muntaner
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

INEQUALITIES U.S. LAW&SOCIETY;

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

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

INEQUALITY, POVERTY & MOBILITY

This is an undergraduate senior seminar in social stratication. 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

STIGMA & DISCRIMINATION

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

• Department: Sociology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Mark L Hatzenbuehler
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• 4 points

GENDER & POWER TRANSNATL PERSP

GENDER & POWER IN GLOBAL PERSP

Prerequisites: Critical Approaches or the instructor's permission.
Considers formations of gender, sexuality, and power as they circulate transnationally, as well as transnational feminist movements that have emerged to address contemporary gendered inequalities. Topics include political economy, global care chains, sexuality, sex work and trafficking, feminist politics, and human rights.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Neferti Tadiar
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

BODY POLITICS SINCE 1945

This seminar will focus on the multiple ways in which art since 1945 has constructed understandings of the body – as heroic, abject, commodified, diseased, erotic, queer and beyond. How does art think the body? How has art produced the body as a discursive, historical, and political object?

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: John T McGrath
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• 4 points

TRADING NATURE

This course explores the scientific and theoretical conceptualization of nature as a market commodity, through the lens of conservation biology.  Students will engage in critical analysis of the 'traditional' forms in which biodiversity has been appropriated as inputs into markets such as fisheries, resource extraction, bushmeat and medicine, as well as new market environmentalism.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Mary E Blair
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

BIOMEDICAL ENGIN DESIGN II

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 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Aaron M Kyle
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• 4 points

WORLD RESPONDS TO THE GREEKS

This course examines the way particular spaces - cultural, urban, literary - serve as sites for the production and reproduction of cultural and political imaginaries. It places particular emphasis on the themes of the polis, the city, and the nation-state as well as on spatial representations of and responses to notions of the Hellenic across time. Students will consider a wide range of texts as spaces - complex sites constituted and complicated by a multiplicity of languages - and ask: How central is the classical past in Western imagination? How have great metropolises such as Paris, Istanbul, and New York fashioned themselves in response to the allure of the classical and the advent of modern Greece? The question of space and the site-specific will also be raised by the very logistics of the course, which will link two classrooms, two groups of students, and two professors - one at Columbia University, and the other at Boğaziçi University, by way of long-distance technologies.   This course fulfills the global core requirement.

• Department: Classics
• R 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Dimitrios Antoniou
  h-index: 5 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: Kevin Ochsner
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 86 Info
• 1-4 points

IGNORANCE

Prerequisites: have completed the CORE science requirements.
Scientific knowledge increases at an exponential rate. Curiously ignorance does not similarly decrease. The basic activity of science is to engage ignorance. In this course we will examine the scientific approach to ignorance, though readings, discussions and visits from working scientists who will discuss the state of ignorance in their field and in their individual laboratories. We hope to gain an understanding of the scientific process by analyzing how it approaches what it doesn't know. We will also include the scientific approach to uncertainty, doubt and failure - all crucial ingredients in the activity of scientific investigation. Requirements will include weekly postings based on readings and visiting lectures, and a final paper. This class will meet only ten times between February 4 and April 15 (thus its value of 2 points). Because of this short, but intense, schedule absences will not be excused and will have a negative impact on the final grade. This course does not satisfy any science requirements. Admission to the course is limited and requires permission of the instructor. This can be gained by submitting a brief (max 350 words) statement outlining your interest in taking this course and what you hope to achieve in the course. "One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done" -Marie Curie, letter to her brother 18 March 1894

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Stuart J Firestein
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 50 Info
• 2 points

PATRONAGE/MONUMENTS OF INDIA

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Vidya Dehejia
  CULPA: 16 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

TROPICAL AGRICULTURE

Prerequisites:
EEEB W2001
and
EEEB W2002
Environmental Biology I and II, or the instructor's permission.
Students will compare productivity, diversity, and ecological processes in the diverse farming systems of Kenya which include highland and lowland, large and small-scale systems, monoculture cereal crops, mixed farming with crops and livestock, pastoral systems, diverse tree crop systems from plantations to multispecies agroforests, and intensive horticulture.  Students spend their time in Kenya learning state of the art techniques for characterizing soils, agricultural landscapes, and ecosystem services.  They will use these methods across the range of farming systems to develop projects comparing various aspects of these systems, and explore sustainability issues from the ecological, agricultural, and livelihood disciplines. This course is part of a semester abroad program in Tropical Biology and Sustainability based in Kenya and cannot be taken separately on campus.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• Instructor: Dustin Rubenstein
  h-index: 36 Info
• 4 points

NOBILITY AND CIVILITY II

• Department: Columbia College
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 4 points

VISITING CRITIC I

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

THE 1960S

THE 1960's

This course will focus on the aesthetic developments of the 1960’s. Situating artworks in historical, political and cultural perspective, we will examine major American artistic movements such as Pop, Minimalism, and Conceptualism, in addition to European arrangements like Zero, Situationism, Arte Povera and Vienna Actionism.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: John T McGrath
  Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

AFRICAN-AMERICAN POLITICS

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

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

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

POLIT PARTIES IN US POLITICS

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

• Department: Political Science
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Shigeo Hirano
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

THE FIRST AMENDMENT

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

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

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP

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

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

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

SEXUALITY&CITIZENSHIP; IN US

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

• Department: Political Science
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Justin H Phillips
  CULPA: 23 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

POL/LEGAL INFLUECNES-FED AGNCS

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

• Department: Political Science
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: John J Sivolella
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• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

POLITICS OF INCOME INEQUALITY

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

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

VISITING CRITIC II

Prerequisites:
VIAR R3921
and the instructor's permission. See requirements for a major in visual arts.
Corequisites:
VIAR R3902
.
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

CONSERV OF AFRICAN LANDSCAPES

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

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• Instructor: Dustin Rubenstein
  h-index: 36 Info
• 4 points

NATURL HIST OF AFRICAN MAMMALS

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

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• Instructor: Dustin Rubenstein
  h-index: 36 Info
• 4 points

SUSTAINABLE DEVPT IN PRACTICE

Prerequisites:
EEEB W2001
and
EEEB W2002
Environmental Biology I and II, or the instructor's permission.
Students will study the theory and practical application of sustainable development, touching on urban and rural issues in Kenya and other diverse agro-ecological zones in East Africa.  They will begin at the Columbia Global Centers/Africa in Nairobi by learning about the administrative and socio-political structures that govern Kenya and East Africa followed by an emersion in the history of the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).  Students will then spend time studying agriculture, education, infrastructure, water, and health issues in other urban and rural areas in Kenya and East Africa to understand the need for an integrated approach to sustainable development.  Discussions with communities, field work, practical problem solving, GIS tools, e-tools, modeling, and understanding of the local constraints will form the foundation for this course.  This course is part of a semester abroad program in Tropical Biology and Sustainability based in Kenya and cannot be taken separately on campus.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• Instructor: Dustin Rubenstein
  h-index: 36 Info
• 4 points

COLONIZATION/DECOLONIZATION

Prerequisites: Open to CSER majors/concentrators only. Others may be allowed to register with the instructor's permission.
This course explores the centrality of colonialism in the making of the modern world, emphasizing cross-cultural and social contact, exchange, and relations of power; dynamics of conquest and resistance; and discourses of civilization, empire, freedom, nationalism, and human rights, from 1500 to 2000. Topics include pre-modern empires; European exploration, contact, and conquest in the new world; Atlantic-world slavery and emancipation; and European and Japanese colonialism in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The course ends with a section on decolonization and post-colonialism in the period after World War II. Intensive reading and discussion of primary documents.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Mae M Ngai
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE

MAROON SOCIETIES IN THE AMER

Topics in the Black Experience: Culture of Freedom: Quilombos, Palenques & Maroon Societies in the Americas and Beyond. Africans in the Americas had various ways of resisting slavery and oppression including work slowdowns, breaking of tools, destruction of crops and property, revolt and escape from captivity. This course, Maroons in the Americas…, will discuss the important societies formed by self-liberated Africans including quilombos and mocambos in Brazil, palenques and cumbes in the Spanish speaking Americas, and maroon societies in the United States, South America and the Caribbean. It will also cover the little known siddi community of Northern Karnataka, India established by Africans fleeing enslavement in Goa.  In addition to creating the first non-indigenous republics in the Americas, maroons gave us pioneering ideas about social responsibility and individual rights, concepts that are still operative in our social philosophy. Revolts and runaways also gave the Americas some exceptional leaders who are still celebrated, including Captain Sebastián Lemba in the Dominican Republic, Yanga in Mexico, King Zumbi in Brazil, King Benkos Bioho in Columbia, King Bayano in Panama, Queen Grandy Nanny and Captain Kojo in Jamaica, King Miguel Guacamaya in Venezuela, Makandal and Boukman in Haiti, and, although not as well known as the others, John Horse (aka Juan Caballo or Gopher John) in the United States and Mexico. Furthermore, we will investigate the numerous quilombos, palenques and maroon societies that still exist, as well as how their ubiquitous ideas are represented in all spheres of society from the arts to cyberspace. Africans in the Americas had various ways of resisting slavery and oppression including work slowdowns, breaking of tools, destruction of crops and property, revolt and escape from captivity. This course, Maroons in the Americas..., will discuss the important societies formed by self-liberated Africans including quilombos and mocambos in Brazil, palenques and cumbes in the Spanish speaking Americas, and maroon societies in the United States, South America and the Caribbean. It will also cover the little known siddi community of Northern Karnataka, India established by Africans fleeing enslavement in Goa. In addition to creating the first non-indigenous republics in the Americas, maroons gave us pioneering ideas about social responsibility and individual rights, concepts that are still operative in our social philosophy. Revolts and runaways also gave the Americas some

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

TOPICS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE

AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S HIST

#sayhername:African American Women’s History  ___Recognizing the intersectionality of the African American women’s experience is paramount to contextualize both interracial and intraracial dialogues about race and gender in the United States. In searching for political freedom and economic opportunity, African American women have historically challenged race and gender norms in order to secure justice for themselves and their communities. The contemporary call to “sayhername” has historical antecedents, as generations of African American women worked to rewrite the Black American narrative to construct independent identities as race women, and thereby position themselves as race leaders. By linking the past to the present, the goal of this course is to explore the role of African American Women as change agents by situating their narratives at the center of the American experience.

• Department: African-American Studies, Institute for Research in
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Prudence Cumberbatch
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• 4 points

TOPICS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE

ROMARE BEARDEN:HOME IS HARLEM

This course, Romare Bearden: Home is Harlem, is an exploration into one of the greatest American artists finding home in Harlem. Romare Bearden (1911-1988) noted painter, collagist, intellectual and advocate for the arts, spent his childhood and young adult life in Harlem. Known for chronicling the African-American experience, he found rich sources in the Manhattan neighborhoods above 110th Street.  Part of the great migration, Bearden’s family left Charlotte, NC when he was 3 years old, an abrupt departure that inspired a life long desire to create home, and to celebrate the soul of a community.  The Odyssey, one of Bearden’s most well known series, was created in 1977 and inspired by Homer’s Odyssey. Like the ancient epic poem, it is essentially about the artist's own search, and everyman's search for home. This course takes up the issues in The Black Odyssey exhibition, and beyond, examining Harlem as home through Bearden’s eyes, from an artistic perspective, and around what inspired him most –the history, the people, and jazz music.

• Department: African-American Studies, Institute for Research in
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Deidra Harris-Kelley
  Info
• 4 points

INT'L HUMANITARIAN LAW/HUM RGTS

INT'L HUMANITARIAN LAW/HUM RTS

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

ADVANCED TOPICS RACE & ETHNICITY

ADV TOPICS RACE & ETHNICITY

Discusses theories of race and ethnicity, distinctions between prejudice, discrimination, and racism, and the intersectionality paradigm. Under instructor’s guidance students design a research proposal, conduct their own fieldwork and write a research paper on a sociological question relating to race and/or ethnicity.

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

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

HOLLYWOOD COUNTERCULTRL CINEMA

Dominated by outcasts and anti-heroes, movies of the 1970s freshly engaged the conversation about what American society is and should be. A new generation of maverick American auteurs (including Coppola, Altman, Kubrick, Ashby, Lumet, Pakula and Scorcese) saved Hollywood from financial collapse by channeling and giving voice to the frenetic activities of the previous decade--while also speaking directly into the moment. They tackled previously taboo subjects; challenged traditional narrative expectations; revised Classic Hollywood film genres, and engaged race and gender in new ways. Originally considered a "lost generation," the filmmakers of the 1970s are now recognized as having produced a turning point in American filmmaking. Through close-readings of some of the decade's greatest works, and through readings in film, cultural and social theory, this seminar examines the role of movies in American discourse. What do movies do for and to us? What does the current viewer "hear" in film from the past that wasn't heard then? Can we speak of different "styles of heroism" in film eras? Do current movies (and HBO series) pursue different strategies for engaging the present? How has the viewer changed, and how is the context of viewing different today?

• Department: American Studies
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Maura L Spiegel
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

RACE,POVERTY,AMER CRIM JUSTICE

This seminar examines the influence of race and poverty in the American system of confronting the challenge of crime. Students will explore some history, including the various purposes of having an organized criminal justice system within a community; the principles behind the manner in which crimes are defined; and the utility of punishment. Our focus will be on the social, political and economic effects of the administration of our criminal justice system, with emphatic examination of the role of conscious and unconscious racism, as well as community biases against the poor. Students will examine the larger implications for a community and culture that are presented by these pernicious features. We will reflect on the fairness of our past and present American system of confronting crime, and consider the possibilities of future reform. Readings will include historical texts, analytical reports, some biography, and a few legal materials. We will also watch documentary films which illuminate the issues and problems. Attend first class for instructor permission.

• Department: American Studies
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Cathleen I Price
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

MUSEUMS,MEMORY,AMER PUB CULTRE

Description to come.

• Department: American Studies
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Valerie Paley
  Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

AMERICAN JEWISH LITERATURE

In the 20th century, the entrance of Jewish writers into American literature and life resulted in an explosive release of imaginative energies, and the creation of a series of hugely influential works, from "Death of a Salesman" to "Portnoy's Complaint." But what, if anything, makes American Jewish literature a distinctive genre? Can it and should it be distinguished from American literature as a whole? And how does the changing experience of American Jews influence the evolution of their writing? These questions will structure this seminar, which will focus on reading classics of American Jewish fiction, from Abraham Cahan's "The Rise of David Levinsky" to works by Philip Roth and Grace Paley, as well as memoirs by Alfred Kazin and Vivian Gornick and a selection of other genres.

• Department: American Studies
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam Kirsch
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• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

OLD AGE & AMER WELFARE STATE

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. Attend first class for instructor permission.

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

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

AMERICAN INDEP DOCUMENTARIES

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• Department: American Studies
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Kavery Kaul
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

SOC JUSTICE & HUM RIGHTS SEM

Corequisites: Students must have an internship related to social justice or human rights during
This class is intended to complement and enhance the internship experience for students working in internships that relate to social justice and human rights during the Spring 2016 semester. This course will meet bi-weekly to provide an academic framing of the issues that students are working on and to provide an opportunity for students to analyze their internship experience.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: John Salyer
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

REVOLUTION IN MODERN CHINA

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Gal Gvili
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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: Rirkrit Tiravanija
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• Instructor: Aliza Nisenbaum
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• Instructor: Shelly Silver
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• Instructor: Matthew E Buckingham
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• Instructor: Gregory Amenoff
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Jon Kessler
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Kai McBride
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• Instructor: Douglas Repetto
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• Instructor: Tomas Vu Daniel
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• Instructor: Sanford Biggers
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• Instructor: Nicola G Lopez
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• 1-3 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Prerequisites: the department chair's permission.

• Department: Visual Arts
• 1-3 points

STUDIES IN THE NOVEL

JANE AUSTEN

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
(Seminar). Application instructions: E-mail Prof. Adams (jea2139@columbia.edu) with 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
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: James E Adams
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 4 points

SOCIOLOGY OF THE BODY

This seminar examines the ways in which the body is discursively constituted, and itself serves as the substratum for social life. Key questions include: How are distinctions made between "normal" and "pathological" bodies, and between the "psychic" and "somatic" realms? How do historical forces shape bodily experience? How do bodies that are racialized, gendered, and classed offer resistance to social categorization?

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Bernstein
  CULPA: 27 Info
• 4 points

DADA AND SURREALISM

Of all the prewar avant-garde formations, it is perhaps Dada and Surrealism that loom the largest in the Western imaginary. Perhaps most impactful of all, these were the movements that surrounded one Marcel Duchamp, an artist whose work was central to both. In this seminar, we will trace the entwined histories of these vanguard groups—Dada in its various centers (Zurich, New York, Paris, Berlin, Cologne, and Hanover), and Surrealism, whose zeal for Paris could not prevent its forced, if temporary, dislocation to the United States. We will look to these formations in their aesthetic, theoretical, and political complexity, with special attention to the indispensable role played by women, especially Hannah Höch, Emmy Ball Hennings, and Claude Cahun.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: John T McGrath
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• 4 points

GLOBAL ACTIVISM

This seminar explores social movements and political protest on the global stage. We will bring together the literatures on social movements and the sociology of globalization and transnationalism to explore the emergence, development, dynamics and consequences of global activism.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Heather M Hurwitz
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

GENDER AND ORGANIZATIONS

This course examines the sociological features of organizations through a gender lens. We will analyze how gender, race, class, and sexuality matter for individuals and groups within a variety of organizational contexts. The course is grounded in the sociological literatures on gender and organizations.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Heather M Hurwitz
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

SEMINAR: BLACK INTELLECTUALS

SEMINAR: BLACK INTELLECTURALS

This undergraduate seminar examines a diverse group of black intellectuals' formulations of ideologies and theories relative to racial, economic and gender oppression within the context of dominant intellectual trends. The intellectuals featured in the course each contributed to the evolution of black political thought, and posited social criticisms designed to undermine racial and gender oppression, and labor exploitation around the world. This group of black intellectuals' work will be analyzed, paying close attention to the way that each intellectual inverts dominant intellectual trends, and/or uses emerging social scientific disciplines to counter racism, sexism, and classism. This seminar is designed to facilitate an understanding of the black intellectual tradition that has emerged as a result of African-American thinkers' attempts to develop a unified response to an understanding of the black condition. This course explores of a wide range of primary and secondary sources from several different periods, offering students opportunity to explore the lives and works of some of the most important black intellectuals. We will also consider the way that period-specific intellectual phenomenon-such as Modernism, Marxism, Pan-Africanism, and Feminism-combined with a host of social realities.

• Department: African-American Studies, Institute for Research in
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Frank Guridy
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

TRANSNATL WORLD/MOD KORN CULTR

This course explores the history of cross-border migration, travel, and exchange as it has been represented and debated in twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Korean cultural prodcution. Using literary texts, films, and relevant secondary scholarship, we will consider how a range of writers and filmmakes used narratives of transnational movement -- the crossing of Korea's borders in both directions by both Koreans and non-Koreans -- in order to both conceptualize Korea's place in a changing world and re-fashion the bounds of Korean identity.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: I Jonathan Kief
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• 4 points

COMP STUDY OF CONSTITUTNL CHAL

This course will examine how the American legal system decided constitutional challenges affecting the empowerment of African, Latino, and Asian American communities from the 19th century to the present. Focus will be on the role that race, citizenship, capitalism/labor, property, and ownership played in the court decision in the context of the historical, social, and political conditions existing at the time. Topics include the denial of citizenship and naturalization to slaves and immigrants, government sanctioned segregation, the struggle for reparations for descendants of slavery, and Japanese Americans during World War II.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Elizabeth Ouyang
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

QUEER THEORIES & HISTORIES

Queer Theories

This course examines a genealogy of contemporary debates in queer theory beginning with feminist debates on sexuality and power in the 1970s and moving through critical race theory, the rise of antinormativity, affect theory, and posthumanism. Will fulfill Feminist Theory requirement.

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Povinelli
  CULPA: 14 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

LONDON:GLOBAL CITY,GLOBAL FICT

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Roger Luckhurst
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• 4 points

LIT, MEDICINE & TECHNOLOGY

Contemporary biomedical technologies have delivered an unprecedented ability to refashion our bodies and by extension the social institutions in which bodies circulate and become meaningful. But these technologies have also wrought unexpected changes in social and cultural institutions like the family and the novel. And the novel has always responded to technological change in its preoccupation with revolutions, industrial and digital, while also becoming an object of those changes as the printing press gives way to digital ways of reading, producing and structuring texts. Technology has broadened medicine's involvement in everyday life and new literary genres like the neuro-novel and the illness memoir have risen in response. By reading technological change in terms of health and illness, family structures and literary innovation, we will engage with the medical, cultural and representational meanings developed by many of these new technologies. Readings will include but not be limited to novels and memoirs by Shelley Jackson, Lucy Grealy, Maggie Nelson, Kazuo Ishiguro and Tom McCarthy.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Center for
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Rishi K Goyal
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

CONTEMP THRY & METH-HIST SOCI

New methods from network analysis and natural language processing are opening up new and exciting opportunities in historical sociology. This course presents the current state of the field through an exploration of its central theoretical themes, its main methodological challenges, and its more representatives empirical work, in order to expose students to the way in which these new new approaches are providing new solutions to the old challenges of explanation in historical perspective.

• Department: Sociology
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Jose Tomas Atria
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• 4 points

MATERIALISM/MORALITY-19C NOVEL

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Monica F Cohen
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSUMPTION

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor required. Enrollment limited to 20 students.
Examines theories and ethnographies of consumption as well as the political economy of production and consumption. Compares historic and current consumptive practices, compares exchange based economies with post-Fordist economies. Engages the work of Mauss, Marx, Godelier, Baudrillard, Appadurai, and Douglas among others.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Bruce S Burnside
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• 4 points

COLLOQUIUM IN LITERARY THEORY

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 18.
Examination of concepts and assumptions present in contemporary views of literature. Theory of meaning and interpretation (hermeneutics); questions of genre (with discussion of representative examples); a critical analysis of formalist, psychoanalytic, structuralist, post-structuralist, Marxist, and feminist approaches to literature.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Emily Sun
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

POETICS OF THE WARRIOR

SATIRE AND SENSIBILITY

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

FRIENDSHIP IN ASIA/WESTERN CIV

The colloquium studies ideals and practices of friendship in East Asia and the West. How have two great civilizations understood exemplary friendship in changing historical settings? Literary, historical, and social science approaches. Students are expected to participate actively and to write a substantial paper, working closely with one or both instructors.

• Department: Columbia College
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 4 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
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: James P Curley
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 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
• 1-4 points