INDEPENDENT RESEARCH I

• Department: Political Science
• Instructor: Takako K Hikotani
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• Instructor: Fredrick Harris
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• Instructor: Bernard Harcourt
  Wikipedia h-index: 37 Info
• 1-6 points

GUIDED READING AND RESEARCH

Prerequisites: the instructors permission.

• Department: Religion
• Instructor: Gil Anidjar
  CULPA: 22 Info
• Instructor: Courtney Bender
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Clemence C Boulouque
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Michael Como
  CULPA: 20 Info
• Instructor: Matthew Engelke
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia h-index: 25 Info
• Instructor: Katherine Ewing
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 22 Info
• Instructor: Bernard Faure
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: David R Kittay
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Rachel McDermott
  CULPA: 37 Info
• Instructor: David L Moerman
  CULPA: 18 Info
• Instructor: Josef Sorett
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Mark C Taylor
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Yannik Thiem
  h-index: 1 Info
• Instructor: Zhaohua Yang
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• Instructor: Thomas F Yarnall
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth Castelli
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia Info
• 1-4 points

SENIOR THESIS II

Prerequisites: VIAR UN3900 Department approval required. See requirements for a major in visual arts. VIAR UN3900 is the prerequisite for VIAR UN3901. Corequisites: VIAR UN3911 Students must enroll in both semesters of the course (VIAR UN3900 and VIAR UN3901). The student is required to produce a significant body of work in which the ideas, method of investigation, and execution are determined by the student. A plan is developed in consultation with the faculty. Seminars; presentations. At the end, an exhibition or other public venue is presented for evaluation. Studio space is provided.

• Department: Visual Arts
• W 5:15 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicola G Lopez
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 2 points

SENIORS HONORS THESIS LAB

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

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

SENIORS HONORS THESIS LAB

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

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• 0 points

SR SEM: DICKENS

(Formerly ENGL BC3997; this course has been renumbered but has not changed in content.) Charles Dickens: the life, the works, the legend, in as much detail as we can manage in one semester. Reading will be selected by the class, and may include Pickwick Papers, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Bleak House, and selections from his friend John Forsters Life of Charles Dickens.. Special emphasis will be given to the question of what Dickensian means, in the context of Dickenss literary style, his genius for characterization, his love of conviviality, and Victorian extremes of wealth and poverty. . Students will be expected to share in creating the syllabus, presenting new material, and leading class discussion.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: William C Sharpe
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 11 Info
• 4 points

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING DESIGN

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

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Aaron M Kyle
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• 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: Lila Davachi
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 59 Info
• 1 points

VISITING CRITIC I

Prerequisites: Department approval required. See requirements for a major in visual arts. VIAR UN3910 is the prerequisite for VIAR UN3911. Corequisites: VIAR UN3900 (Formerly R3921) Students are required to enroll in both semesters (VIAR UN3910 and VIAR UN3911). A second opinion is provided to the senior students regarding the development of their senior project. Critics consist of distinguished visitors and faculty. Issues regarding the premise, methodology, or presentation of the students ideas are discussed and evaluated on an ongoing basis.

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

SOCIAL CONTEXTS IMMIGRATN LAW

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

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: J.C. Salyer
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

SEMINAR IN POLITCAL THEORY

HUMANS, NATURE & THE FUTURE

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
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Benjamin J Mylius
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• 4 points

VISITING CRITIC II

Prerequisites: VIAR UN3910 Department approval required. See requirements for a major in visual arts. Corequisites: VIAR UN3901 (Formerly R3922) Students are required to enroll in both semesters (VIAR UN3910 and VIAR UN3911). A second opinion is provided to the senior students regarding the development of their senior project. Critics consist of distinguished visitors and faculty. Issues regarding the premise, methodology, or presentation of the students ideas are discussed and evaluated on an ongoing basis.

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

SEMINAR

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
• MW 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• TR 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jenann Ismael
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• Instructor: Frederick Neuhouser
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia h-index: 16 Info
• 3 points

INEQUALITY, POVERTY & MOBILITY

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

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

CROSSOVER CULTURE

The rise of crossover culture: racially segregated markets and genres; organizational environments and the rise of independent labels; the creative process and black-white conflict and connection; the emergence of rock as a white genre; civil rights, Black Power, and the politics of soul; cultural borrowing and the postracial ethos.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Rieder
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 4 points

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
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Sayantani T Dasgupta
  CULPA: 2 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
• Instructor: Casey Blake
  CULPA: 22 Wikipedia Info
• 1 points

NOBILITY/CIVILITY: EAST/WEST I

• Department: Auditing
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jo Ann Cavallo
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 0 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 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Karen E Phillips
  CULPA: 28 h-index: 9 Info
• 2 points

SR SEM: BORDERS AMER LIT

This course will explore representations of voluntary and forced migration as a path toward understanding the formation of literary traditions and histories in the US and the Americas. How do we think about immigrant literature if the immigrant was here before the literature? Where does American literature begin and end if a mobile subject carries her words across borders and genres? In addition to reading fictional and non-fictional narratives of cultural literacy and migration by writers like Frederick Douglass, Julia Alvarez, and Valeria Luiselli, we’ll examine the ways in which contemporary discourses of relocation generate surprising returns to what we might recognize as the proto-exceptionalist and/or post-apocalyptic foundations of American literature and culture.

• Department: English @Barnard
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Kristin Carter
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 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 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Loren-Paul Caplin
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

NOBILITY/CIVILITY: EAST/WEST I

NOBILITY AND CIVILITY I

This interdisciplinary colloquium is designed to provide a comparative examination of core human concerns and values across cultures from the ancient to early modern period. This is a discussion-driven course that depends on a close reading of several key literary, philosophical, political, and religious texts from Asia, Africa, and Europe. Prerequisites: one semester of Contemporary Civilization or Literature Humanities, or an equivalent course. A team-taught multicultural, interdisciplinary course examining traditions of leadership and citizenship as they appear in the key texts of early Indian, Islamic, Far Eastern, and Western civilizations. One goal is to identify and examine common human values and issues evident in these texts while also recognizing key cultural differences.

• Department: Core (A&S)
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jo Ann Cavallo
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 4 points

CONTEMP CULTURE IN ARAB WORLD

CONTEMP CULTURE 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 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Joseph A Massad
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

HONORS RESEARCH

Prerequisites: open to students in the honors program only. Except by special permission of the director of undergraduate studies, no more than 4 points of individual research may be taken in any one term. This includes both PSYC UN3950 and PSYC UN3920. No more than 12 points of PSYC UN3920 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: Lila Davachi
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 59 Info
• 1-4 points

ADV TOPICS GENDER & SEXUALITY

ADV TPCS GENDER & SEXUALITY

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

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

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

SEXUALITY & CITIZENSHIP IN 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
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Justin H Phillips
  CULPA: 23 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

MEDIA & AMERICAN 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 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Brigitte Nacos
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

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.
• Instructor: Judith Russell
  CULPA: 49 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

IMMIGRATION POLICY & 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
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Carlos Vargas-Ramos
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

TOPICS IN AMERICAN DEMOCRACY

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 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Lincoln A Mitchell
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• 4 points

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 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Yamil R Velez
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 8 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

BUREAUCRATIC 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
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Ting
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

RACE&REPRESENTATION IN ASIAN AMER CINEMA

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

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

LATINX & ASIAN AMER MEMOIR

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

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

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.
• Instructor: Wael Hallaq
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

LATIN MUSIC AND IDENTITY

Latin music has had a historically strained relationship with mainstream music tastes, exploding in occasional boom periods, and receding into invisibility in others. What if this were true because it is a space for hybrid construction of identity that directly reflects a mixture of traditions across racial lines in Latin America? This course will investigate Latin 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 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Edward Morales
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• 4 points

CHINA IN THE MODERN WORLD

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

"SENIOR SEMINAR: ""A D D MOB OF SCRIBB

SR SEM: 19TH-CEN WOMEN WR

(Formerly ENGL BC3997.06; this course has been renumbered but has not changed in content.) In 1855, Nathaniel Hawthorne complained that American publishing was 'wholly given over to a d--d mob of scribbling women,' and that he could not hope to compete with women writers for popularity or sales. Yet Hawthorne's texts were canonized as American classics, while texts by nineteenth-century women writers were largely ignored by the academy until late in the twentieth century. This course considers a variety of texts by nineteenth-century American women, including novels, short fiction, poetry, and journalism. We'll consider women's writing and women's reading through a variety of lenses, including domesticity and women's sphere, political action and suffrage, slavery and abolition, the economics of writing and publishing, sentimentality and anger, and canon formation and literary merit. Authors include Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Susan Warner, Fanny Fern, Harriet Jacobs, Elizabeth Drew Stoddard, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, Nellie Bly, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Gordis
  CULPA: 15 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.
• Instructor: Muhsin Al-Musawi
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

COLONIZATION/DECOLONIZATION

Prerequisites: Open to CSER majors/concentrators only. Others may be allowed to register with the 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
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Manan Ahmed
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 6 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE

AFRICAN SPIRITUAL-AMERICAS

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 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: C. Daniel Dawson
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• 4 points

TOPICS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE

BLACK WOMEN WRITERS

Please refer to Institute for Research in African American Studies for section course descriptions: http://iraas.columbia.edu/

• Department: African American and African Diaspora
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Farah Griffin
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

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 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Marsha B Jean-Charles
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• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

SUPREME COURT IN AMER HISTORY

Please refer to the Center for American Studies website for course descriptions for each section.
americanstudies.columbia.edu

• Department: American Studies
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Benjamin Rosenberg
  CULPA: 1 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
• Instructor: James Shapiro
  CULPA: 25 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

JOURN&DEMOCRACY:2020 ELECTION

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.
• Instructor: Caroline Miller
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• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

INEQUALITY & DEMOCRACY AMER

Please refer to the Center for American Studies website for course descriptions for each section.
americanstudies.columbia.edu

• Department: American Studies
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard John
  CULPA: 5 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
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Hilary-Anne Hallett
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

Tocqueville: Democratic Mind

Please refer to the Center for American Studies website for course descriptions for each section.
americanstudies.columbia.edu

• Department: American Studies
• M 4:10 p.m.-7:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Lilla
  CULPA: 57 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

US Latinx History

US LATINX HISTORY

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Alex Larotta
  Info
• 4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Prerequisites: the department chairs permission. (Formerly R3932)

• Department: Visual Arts
• Instructor: Matthew E Buckingham
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• Instructor: Susanna Coffey
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Jon Kessler
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Nicola G Lopez
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Elizaveta Meksin
  Info
• Instructor: Joseph J Peet
  Info
• Instructor: Shelly Silver
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Justine Kurland
  Info
• Instructor: Delphine A Fawundu
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• Instructor: Sable Smith
  Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Sara Vanderbeek
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• 1-3 points

HELLENISM&THE TOPOGRAPHICAL IMAGINATION

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: To what extent is meaning and cultural identity, sitespecific? 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? How has Greece as a specific site shaped the study of the Cold War, dictatorships, and crisis?

• Department: Classics
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Dimitris Antoniou
  h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

SENIOR SEMINAR: THE NOVEL AND ECONOMIC J

SR SEM: NOVEL & ECON JUST

The industrial revolution inspired novelists to explore the ways in which money, or the lack of it, forms or deforms our characters. It also inspired the writings of Karl Marx, the great theorist of economic justice. In this seminar we will read five of the greatest nineteenth-century novels – Godwin’s 
Caleb Williams
, Austen’s 
Persuasion
, Flaubert’s 
Madame Bovary
, Eliot’s 
Middlemarch
 and Hardy’s 
Jude the Obscure
 – alongside Marx’s most influential writings. We will pay special attention to Marxist notions of materialism; alienation and human flourishing; capital and labour; classes; and ideology. Special emphasis will also be given to the Marxist approach in the study of culture, the role of intellectuals (such as ourselves) and the relationship between capitalism and culture – through theorists like Gramsci, the Frankfurt School, and Raymond Williams.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Ross T Hamilton
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 4 points

RISE OF THE AFRICAN NOVEL

This course offers a broad historical introduction to the "rise of the African novel." We will read both canonized and non-canonical novels from across sub-Saharan Africa, as well as some of the classic theory and criticism that has attended the development of the novel in and out of Africa over the past century. The course is intended to provide grounding for further focused study in African literature and a general introduction to some of the sociological, aesthetic, political, and historical problematics that have characterized the development of the genre in the late-colonial, postcolonial, and globalization eras.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph R Slaughter
  CULPA: 13 h-index: 13 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 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Mabel O Wilson
  Wikipedia h-index: 8 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
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: David M Yerkes
  CULPA: 41 Info
• 4 points

GLOBAL HEALTH, POLITICS, AND SOCIETY

GLOBAL HEALTH, SOCIETY

What is global health? Where do global health disease priorities come from, and how do the ways that we understand disease shape how we respond to it? What happens when good ideas and good intentions go wrong? This course critically examines the politics of global health and its impact on local institutions and people. Drawing on social science research, the course will address three main themes: 1) how global health priorities are defined and constructed, 2) how our understandings of disease influence our response to that disease, and 3) how efforts to respond to disease intersect with people on the ground, sometimes in unexpected ways. We will examine the global health industry from the vantage point of different institutions and actors – international organizations, governments, local healthcare institutions, healthcare workers, and people living with or at risk of various illnesses like HIV/AIDS, malaria, cancer, and Ebola. A primary goal of this course is to help you to develop skills in critical thinking in relation to global health issues and their impact on society. Students will demonstrate their knowledge through individual writing, class discussion, presentations, and a final research project.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Amy Zhou
  Info
• 4 points

ART OF WITNESS: MEMORIALS

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

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

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
• Instructor: Mariam Aly
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 15 Info
• Instructor: Christopher Baldassano
  h-index: 13 Info
• Instructor: Niall Bolger
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 55 Info
• Instructor: Geraldine Downey
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Katherine T Fox-Glassman
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 4 Info
• Instructor: Norma V Graham
  CULPA: 29 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Carl Hart
  CULPA: 43 Wikipedia h-index: 54 Info
• Instructor: Larisa A Heiphetz
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 1-4 points