VISITING CRITIC I
Prerequisites: Department approval required. See requirements for a major in visual arts. VIAR UN3910 is the prerequisite for VIAR UN3911. Corequisites: VIAR UN3900 (Formerly R3921) Students are required to enroll in both semesters (VIAR UN3910 and VIAR UN3911). A second opinion is provided to the senior students regarding the development of their senior project. Critics consist of distinguished visitors and faculty. Issues regarding the premise, methodology, or presentation of the students ideas are discussed and evaluated on an ongoing basis.
- Department: Visual Arts
- W 5:15 p.m.-10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Emily C Henretta
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SOCIAL CONTEXTS IMMIGRATN LAW
Examines the historical and contemporary social, economic, and political factors that shape immigration law and policy along with the social consequences of those laws and policies. Addresses the development and function of immigration law and aspects of the immigration debate including unauthorized immigration, anti-immigration sentiments, and critiques of immigration policy.
- Department: Anthropology @Barnard
- M 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
J.C. Salyer
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
SEMINAR IN POLITCAL THEORY
POPULISM, DEMOCRACY & RIGHTS
Seminar in Political Theory. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars
- Department: Political Science
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jean L Cohen
CULPA: 7 Wikipedia h-index: 63 Info - 4 points
SEMINAR IN POLITCAL THEORY
ETHICS OF INT'L RELATIONS
Seminar in Political Theory. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars
- Department: Political Science
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Turkuler Isiksel
CULPA: 3
h-index: 9
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SEMINAR
SEM: TWO DIMENSIONALISM
Required of senior majors, but also open to junior majors, and junior and senior concentrators who have taken at least four philosophy courses. This exploration will typically involve writing a substantial research paper. Capped at 20 students with preference to philosophy majors.
- Department: Philosophy
- F 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Melissa S Fusco
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
SEMINAR
Value of Truth
Required of senior majors, but also open to junior majors, and junior and senior concentrators who have taken at least four philosophy courses. This exploration will typically involve writing a substantial research paper. Capped at 20 students with preference to philosophy majors.
- Department: Philosophy
- R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Katja Vogt
CULPA: 36
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INEQUALITY, POVERTY & MOBILITY
INEQUALITY POVERTY & MOBILITY
This is an undergraduate seminar in social stratification. The course focuses on the current American experience with socioeconomic inequality and mobility. The goals of the course are to understand how inequality is conceptualized and measured in the social sciences, to understand the structure of inequality in the contemporary U.S. to learn the principal theories and evidence for long term trends in inequality, to understand the persistence of poverty and the impact of social policies on American rates of poverty, and to understand the forces that both produce and inhibit intergenerational social mobility in the U.S. Given the nature of the subject matter, a minority of the readings will sometimes involve quantitative social science material. The course does not presume that students have advanced training in statistics, and any readings sections that contain mathematical or statistical content will be explained in class in nontechnical terms as needed. In these instances, our focus will not be on the methods, but rather on the conclusions reached by the author concerning the research question that is addressed in the text.
- Department: Sociology
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Thomas DiPrete
CULPA: 7 Wikipedia Info - 4 points
ADVANCED FILM PRODUCTION PRACTICE
Advanced Film Production Practice is an advanced production and lecture course for students who wish to obtain a deeper understanding of the skills involved in screenwriting, directing and producing. Building on the fundamentals established in the Labs for Fiction and Non-Fiction Filmmaking, this seminar further develops each student’s grasp of the concepts involved in filmmaking through advanced analytical and practical work to prepare Thesis film materials.
- Department: Film
- R 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Benjamin C Leonberg
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MODES OF INQUIRY
Corequisites: CSER UN3921 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 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sayantani T Dasgupta
CULPA: 2 Info - 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
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Instructor:
Mary E Blair
CULPA: 1 Info - 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. Application due June 15. See American Studies website.
- Department: American Studies
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Instructor:
Hilary-Anne Hallett
CULPA: 2 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 UN3098. 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 UN3098 research.
- Department: Chemistry
- F 2:40 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Laura J Kaufman
CULPA: 15 Wikipedia Info - 2 points
SENIOR SEM IN SCREENWRITING
A seminar for senior film majors. Students will complete a step outline and minimum of 30 pages of their project, including revisions. Through reading/viewing and analyzing selected scripts/films, as well as lectures, exercises and weekly critiques, students will expand their understanding of dramatic writing and narrative-making for film and TV, including adaptations. They will learn appropriate structure for each specific screen-writing form, and endeavor to apply their understanding of drama, character, theme, and structure to their chosen narrative project.
- Department: Film
- R 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Loren-Paul Caplin
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
CONTEMP CULTURE IN ARAB WORLD
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.
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Instructor:
Joseph A Massad
CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info - 3 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 ones 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 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Bernstein
CULPA: 27 Info - 4 points
AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR
POLIT PARTIES IN U.S. POLITICS
Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Seminar in American Politics Seminar. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars
- Department: Political Science
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Shigeo Hirano
CULPA: 3
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AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR
POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Seminar in American Politics Seminar. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars
- Department: Political Science
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Yamil R Velez
CULPA: 1 h-index: 8 Info - 4 points
AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR
POLITICAL INEQUALITY
Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Seminar in American Politics Seminar. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars
- Department: Political Science
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Jeffrey R Lax
CULPA: 32 h-index: 22 Info - 4 points
AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR
ISSUES RACE/ETHN IN AMER POL
Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Seminar in American Politics Seminar. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars
- Department: Political Science
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Carlos Vargas-Ramos
CULPA: 4 Info - 4 points
AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR
EQUALITY AND THE LAW
Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Seminar in American Politics Seminar. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars
- Department: Political Science
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Robert L Amdur
CULPA: 16
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AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR
AMERICAN PUBLIC OPINION
Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Seminar in American Politics Seminar. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars
AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR
POLITICS OF INCOME INEQUALITY
Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Seminar in American Politics Seminar. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars
- Department: Political Science
- M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Judith Russell
CULPA: 49 Info - 4 points
AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR
POLICING IN THE US
Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Seminar in American Politics Seminar. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars
- Department: Political Science
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Andrew J McCall
Info - 4 points
RACE&REPRESENTATION IN ASIAN AMER CINEMA
RACE&REPRSNTATN IN ASAM 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.
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Instructor:
Eric Gamalinda
CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info - 4 points
Race, Nation, and American Food Culture
RACE NATION AMER FOOD CUL
Uses theories of race, ethnicity, and nation to ask questions about boundaries, categories, and distinctions about the American food system. Addresses the following questions: How are race, ethnicity, and national identity shaped by patterns of migration? How do processes like multiculturalism, panethnicity, and blending change the meanings and salience of these terms? How do symbols and systems of authenticity shape meaning-making around ethnoracial and national inequality? What does food have to do with race/ethnicity/nation? How are cultural products, like cuisine, markers of broader systems of inequality? How do these systems of inequality affect access to food, what we eat, the workplace, and racialized bodies? How does food serve as a marker of distinction in terms of race, ethnicity, nation, class, and gender? This course encourages students to read broadly in literatures of race, ethnicity, nation, migration and engage theories and ideas in conversation and debate across literatures to develop analytical strategies for understanding the complex landscape of ethnoracial and national inequality in the United States. By focusing analysis on cultural themes and specifically the case of American food culture, students are encouraged to question the utility and applicability of the abstract theories we encounter as well as the contributions and complications of each theory in relation to the others we discuss through a common language of cultural products, most specifically, the accessible discourse of food in American life.
- Department: Sociology @Barnard
- M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gillian Gualtieri
Info - 4 points
CNTRL QUESTIONS IN ISLAMIC LAW
Through detailed discussions of certain landmarks in Islamic legal history (e.g. origins; early formation; sources of law; intellectual make-up; the workings of court; legal change; women in the law; legal effects of colonialism; modernity and legal reform, etc.), the course aims at providing an introductory but integrated view of Islamic law, a definition, so to speak, of what it was/is. Please note, this course must be taken for a letter grade.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Wael Hallaq
CULPA: 9
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LATIN MUSIC AND IDENTITY
LATIN MUSIC AND IDENITY
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 musics 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 centurys multicultural experiment. There will be a strong focus on studying Latin musics political economy, and investigating the story it tells about migration and globalization.
- Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Edward Morales
Info - 4 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
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Muhsin Al-Musawi
CULPA: 8
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COLONIZATION/DECOLONIZATION
Prerequisites: Open to CSER majors/concentrators only. Others may be allowed to register with the instructors 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 10:10 a.m.-noon
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Karl Jacoby
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Instructor:
Natasha J Lightfoot
CULPA: 5
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TOPICS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE
Please refer to Institute for Research in African American Studies for section course descriptions: http://iraas.columbia.edu/
- Department: African American and African Diaspora
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Shanya Cordis
Info - 4 points
TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES
GENDER HIST AND AMERICAN FILM
Please refer to the Center for American Studies website for course descriptions for each section.
americanstudies.columbia.edu
- Department: American Studies
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Hilary-Anne Hallett
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES
SHAKESPEARE IN AMERICA
Please refer to the Center for American Studies website for course descriptions for each section.
americanstudies.columbia.edu
- Department: American Studies
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
James Shapiro
CULPA: 25
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TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES
LANGUAGES of AMERICA
Please refer to the Center for American Studies website for course descriptions for each section.
americanstudies.columbia.edu
- Department: American Studies
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
John H McWhorter
CULPA: 26
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TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES
FREEDOM & CITIZENSHIP IN US
Please refer to the Center for American Studies website for course descriptions for each section.
americanstudies.columbia.edu
- Department: American Studies
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Roosevelt Montas
CULPA: 20
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- 4 points
TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES
AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY
Please refer to the Center for American Studies website for course descriptions for each section.
americanstudies.columbia.edu
- Department: American Studies
- F 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Michael Hindus
Info - 4 points
Psychology/Neuroscience Senior Thesis Ad
Advanced Research Seminar
The seminar component of the Psych/Neuro Senior Thesis Advanced Research program. Students admitted to the research program should plan to take this seminar in the spring of their junior year and in the fall and spring semesters of their senior year. Students are expected to be working in a lab as part of their participation in this program. In addition to supporting students throughout their independent research project, this seminar will introduce students to some of the big questions in the field through its connection with the Psychology Department Colloquium and will train students in reading and evaluating scientific research and communicating their own research findings.
- Department: Psychology
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nim L Tottenham
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Lila Davachi
CULPA: 1 h-index: 59 Info - 1-3 points
SOC JUSTICE & HUM RIGHTS
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: Human Rights (HRTB)
- R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Widney Brown
CULPA: 4
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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: Anthropology @Barnard
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
J.C. Salyer
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
INDEPENDENT STUDY
Prerequisites: the department chairs permission. (Formerly R3932)
- Department: Visual Arts
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Instructor:
Gregory Amenoff
CULPA: 6
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Matthew E Buckingham
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Delphine A Fawundu
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Jon Kessler
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Nicola G Lopez
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Naeem Mohaiemen
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Shelly Silver
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Sable Smith
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Tomas Vu Daniel
CULPA: 4
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David A Cruz
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BUOYANCY
“Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.”,Michael Caine , We do not live our own desires. Pressing ourselves into heavy molds not made for our bodies compresses us, tears our skin, and bruises our features. It is hard to breathe. We sink. Weight harbors the downward pull. It attaches itself in many ways but there are countless ways to set it down, to be free. This takes practice and skill. The common task of this visual arts seminar is to distinguish ourselves from the weight we carry. Through a variety or reading, writing, and making activities we shall seek out and contact levity: that gravity that changes our bodies, make us light of touch, aerates and propels us toward the state of buoyancy. Not for the faint of heart.
- Department: Art History @Barnard
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Irena Haiduk
Info - 4 points
JOURNALISM AND DEMOCRACY: THE 2022 ELECT
JOURNAL & DEMOC THE 2022
The 2022 midterm elections offer a prime opportunity to examine, in real time, the critical role the press plays in the American political process, and how that role has been disrupted in the digital era. We'll look back at some classic pieces of 20th century political journalism, from Theodore White to Hunter Thompson, and compare them to coverage of the 2022 campaign. How have social media and hyper-partisan news sites changed the discourse? Who’s covering groups underrepresented (or misrepresented) in legacy media? And what happens to the decisions voters make when disinformation is exploding and the fact base is under assault?
- Department: American Studies
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Caroline Miller
Info - 4 points
MEDIA THEORY, MEDIA PRACTICE
MEDIA THEROY, MEDIA PRAC
- Department: Anthropology
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rosalind Morris
CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info - 4 points
Sociology of Human Rights
SOCIOLOGY OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Sociology came to the study of human rights much later than law, philosophy, or political science. In this course, you’ll learn (1) what constitutes a sociology of human rights and (2) what sociology, its classics, and its diverse methods bring to the empirical study and theory of human rights. We’ll explore the history, social institutions and laws, ideas, practices, and theories of human rights. We’ll become familiar with the social actors, social structures, and relationships involved in practices such as violation, claims-making, advocacy, and protection. We’ll consider how social, cultural, political, and economic forces affect human rights issues. We’ll learn about the questions sociologists ask, starting with the most basic (but far from simple) question, “what is a human right?” We’ll tackle key debates in the field, considering – for instance – whether human rights are universal and how human rights relate to cultural norms/values, national sovereignty, and national security. Finally, we’ll apply the concepts we’ve learned to a wide range of issues (ex: how racial, ethnic, gender, and other social inequalities relate to human rights), rights (ex: LGBTQ rights, the rights of laborers, the rights of refugees), and cases (ex: enslavement, the separation of children from their families, circumcision, sterilization, the use of torture). We’ll consider human rights cases in the United States and across the globe, and how events and actions in one place relate to human rights violations in another.
- Department: Sociology
- F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rosemary McGunnigle-Gonzales
Info - 4 points
RACE AND RACISMS
In this class we will approach race and racism from a variety of disciplinary and intellectual perspectives, including: critical race theory/philosophy, anthropology, history and history of science and medicine. We will focus on the development and deployment of the race concept since the mid-19th century. Students will come to understand the many ways in which race has been conceptualized, substantiated, classified, managed and observed in the (social) sciences, medicine, and public health. We will also explore the practices and effects of race (and race-making) in familiar and less familiar social and political worlds. In addition to the courses intellectual content, students will gain critical practice in the seminar format -- that is, a collegial, discussion-driven exchange of ideas.
- Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Catherine Fennell
Info - 4 points
Senior Pro Seminar
SENIOR PRO SEMINAR
This course is a seminar for seniors to either write a formal proposal for a capstone project or to begin the research process for a Senior Thesis, which will be written in the Spring semester. This interdisciplinary course provides the necessary structure needed to complete either goal. This will be an interactive class in which students are required to participate and actively engage in each meeting.
- Department: African American and African Diaspora
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Robert Gooding-Williams
Wikipedia h-index: 15 Info - 4 points
ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF THE BIBLE
ENGLISH TRANSLTNS OF THE
English translations of the Bible from Tyndale to the present.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
David M Yerkes
CULPA: 41 Info - 4 points
SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH
1-4 points. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: the instructors 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 UN3950 and PSYC UN3920. No more than 8 points ofPSYC UN3950 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
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Instructor:
Mariam Aly
CULPA: 5 h-index: 15 Info - 1-4 points
SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH
1-4 points. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: the instructors 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 UN3950 and PSYC UN3920. No more than 8 points ofPSYC UN3950 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
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SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH
1-4 points. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: the instructors 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 UN3950 and PSYC UN3920. No more than 8 points ofPSYC UN3950 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.
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Tory Higgins
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Donald C Hood
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Michael W Morris
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Kevin Ochsner
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Valerie J Purdie-Greenaway
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Daphna Shohamy
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Alfredo Spagna
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Yaakov Stern
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Herbert S Terrace
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Narratives for Living: Planetarity
Narratives for Living:Pla
Is it possible to read literature in such a way as to be coherent with the requirements for the environmental disaster that seems to be upon us? This course will attempt to answer this question through 4 novels dealing with planetarity and climate change. This is a restricted course by interview only. ICLS students will read the Bengali and/or French texts in the original. Students are required to write a 1 page response to the text to be read the next day by midnight the previous day. Class discussions will be constructed on these responses. There will be a colloquium at the end of the semester, requiring oral presentation of a research paper that will engage the entire class.
- Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
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Gayatri C Spivak
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UNDERGRADUATE SEMINARS I
Prerequisites: Two years of calculus, at least one year of additional mathematics courses, and the director of undergraduate studies permission. The subject matter is announced at the start of registration and is different in each section. Each student prepares talks to be given to the seminar, under the supervision of a faculty member or senior teaching fellow.
- Department: Mathematics @Barnard
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Daniela de Silva
CULPA: 21
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COMPARATIVE POLITICS SEMINAR
INFORMATION MEDIA POL BEHAV
Prerequisites: POLS V1501 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Please see here for detailed seminar registration guidelines: http://polisci.columbia.edu/undergraduate-programs/seminar-registration-guidelines. Seminar in Comparative Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars
- Department: Political Science
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John Marshall
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COMPARATIVE POLITICS SEMINAR
CORRUPTION & RULE OF LAW
Prerequisites: POLS V1501 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Please see here for detailed seminar registration guidelines: http://polisci.columbia.edu/undergraduate-programs/seminar-registration-guidelines. Seminar in Comparative Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars
- Department: Political Science
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Timothy M Frye
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SENIOR RESEARCH SEMINAR
Prerequisites: Course open to Barnard Art History majors only. Independent research for the senior thesis. Students develop and write their senior thesis in consultation with an individual faculty adviser in art history and participate in group meetings scheduled throughout the senior year.
- Department: Art History @Barnard
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Rosalyn Deutsche
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HONORS THESIS SEMINAR PART 1
Prerequisites: minimum GPA of 3.5 in MESAAS courses. The MESAAS honors seminar offers students the opportunity to undertake a sustained research project under close faculty supervision. The DUS advises on general issues of project design, format, approach, general research methodologies, and timetable. In addition, students work with an individual advisor who has expertise in the area of the thesis and can advise on the specifics of method and content. The thesis will be jointly evaluated by the adviser, the DUS, and the honors thesis TA. The DUS will lead students through a variety of exercises that are directly geared to facilitating the thesis. Students build their research, interpretive, and writing skills; discuss methodological approaches; write an annotated bibliography; learn to give constructive feedback to peers and respond to feedback effectively. The final product is a polished research paper in the range of 40-60 pages. Please note: This is a one-year course that begins in the fall semester (1 point) and continues through the spring semester (3 points). Only students who have completed both semesters will receive the full 4 points of credit.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
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Hamid Dabashi
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EPISTEMOLOGY
Corequisites: PHIL W3963 Required Discussion Section (0 points). What can we know? What is knowledge? What are the different kinds of knowledge? We will read classic and contemporary texts for insight into these questions.
- Department: Philosophy
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Jessica Collins
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INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR
ADVANCES IN IPE
Prerequisites: POLS UN1601 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Seminar in International Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars
- Department: Political Science
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Allison J Carnegie
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INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR
SOLVING GLOBAL PROBLEMS
Prerequisites: POLS UN1601 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Seminar in International Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars
- Department: Political Science
- R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Giulio M Gallarotti
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INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR
FOREIGN ECONOMIC POLICY
Prerequisites: POLS UN1601 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Seminar in International Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars
- Department: Political Science
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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David E Spiro
CULPA: 1 h-index: 6 Info - 4 points
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
Prerequisites: POLS UN1601 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Seminar in International Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars
- Department: Political Science
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Jack L Snyder
CULPA: 27 Info - 4 points
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR
CONFLICT & INT'L INSTITUTIONS
Prerequisites: POLS UN1601 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Seminar in International Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars
- Department: Political Science
- R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Linda M Kirschke
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR
POP CULTURE & INT'L POLIT
Prerequisites: POLS UN1601 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Seminar in International Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars
- Department: Political Science
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Colleen E Wood
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EPISTEMOLOGY - REC
Required discussion section for PHIL UN3960 Epistemology.
- Department: Philosophy
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Tahlia Pajaczkowska-Russell
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