Senior Project Seminar

SENIOR PROJECT SEMINAR

Discussion of senior research projects during the fall and spring terms that culminate in written and oral senior theses. Each project must be supervised by a cognitive scientist working at Barnard or Columbia.

• Department: Cognitive Science @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert E Remez
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• 1 points

SUPERVISED READINGS II

Prerequisites: The written permission of the faculty member who agrees to act as sponsor (sponsorship limited to full-time instructors on the staff list), as well as the permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies. The written permission must be deposited with the Director of Undergraduate Studies before registration is completed. Guided reading and study in mathematics. A student who wishes to undertake individual study under this program must present a specific project to a member of the staff and secure his or her willingness to act as sponsor. Written reports and periodic conferences with the instructor. 

Supervising Readings do NOT count towards major requirements, with the exception of an advanced written approval by the DUS.

• Department: Mathematics
• Instructor: Ioannis Karatzas
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• Instructor: George Dragomir
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• Instructor: Elena Giorgi
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• Instructor: Siddhi Krishna
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• Instructor: Florian Johne
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• Instructor: Tudor Padurariu
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• Instructor: Mikhail Khovanov
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• 1-3 points

INDEPENDENT RESEARCH II

• Department: Political Science
• Instructor: Jeffrey R Lax
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• Instructor: Andrew J Nathan
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• Instructor: Andrew Gelman
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• Instructor: Thomas J Christensen
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• Instructor: Nadia Urbinati
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• 1-6 points

SENIOR HONORS THESIS LAB

Corequisites: CHEM BC3902 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
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• Instructor: Marisa C Buzzeo
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• Instructor: Dina C Merrer
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• Instructor: Andrew C Crowther
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• Instructor: Michael Campbell
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• Instructor: Rachel Austin
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• Instructor: Christina Vizcarra
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• Instructor: Rebecca Donegan
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SENIOR HONORS THESIS LAB

Corequisites: CHEM BC3902 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

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

SEMINAR IN POLITCAL THEORY

INDIVIDUAL AUTONOMY IN 21CENT

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
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: David C Johnston
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• 4 points

SEMINAR IN POLITCAL THEORY

THEORIES OF POLTCL ACTION

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.
• Instructor: Karuna Mantena
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• 4 points

SEMINAR IN POLITCAL THEORY

THEORIZING CRISIS OF WEIMER DE

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
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Clara Maier
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• 4 points

SEMINAR IN POLITCAL THEORY

Parties, Elites & Dmcracy

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 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: David Ragazzoni
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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 @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Taylor Carman
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• Instructor: Christia Mercer
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• 3 points

SEMINAR

ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY

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
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Achille Varzi
  CULPA: 30 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• 3 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
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Frances Negron-Muntaner
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• 4 points

THE FUTURE AS HISTORY

This course explores how people have thought about their future and tried to change it. It examines the philosophical aspects of studying history and the future, and how they are related. It begins with the origins of future thinking in eschatology and millenarian movements, the enlightenment challenge to revelation and religious authority, and utopias and dystopias. Classic texts and scholarly studies will illuminate modern approaches to shaping the future, such as socialism, imperialism, risk analysis, and “modernization” theory, and areas where they have had a particular impact, including urban planning and eugenics.

• Department: History
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Matthew J Connelly
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• 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
• W 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Benjamin C Leonberg
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• 3 points

A HISTORY OF AFRICAN CITIES

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Mamadou Diouf
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• 3 points

GENDER & POWER TRANSNATL PERSP

Prerequisites: Instructor approval required 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. If it is a small world after all, how do forces of globalization shape and redefine both men’s and women’s positions as as workers and political subjects? And, if power swirls everywhere, how are transnational power dynamics reinscribed in gendered bodies? How is the body represented in discussions of the political economy of globalization? These questions will frame this course by highlighting how gender and power coalesce to impact the lives of individuals in various spaces including workplaces, the home, religious institutions, refugee camps, the government, and civil society, and human rights organizations. We will use specific sociological and anthropological case studies, to look at how various regimes of power operate to constrain individuals as well as give them new spaces for agency. This course will enable us to think transnationally, historically, and dynamically, using gender as a lens through which to critique relations of power and the ways that power informs our everyday lives and identities.

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Sonia Ahsan
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• 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
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Rieder
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• 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 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Lauren N Heckelman
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• 4 points

MEDIEVAL ENGLISH TEXTS (SEM)

The class will read the poem 
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 
in the original Middle English language of its unique surviving copy of circa 1400, and will discuss both the poem's language and the poem's literary meritThe class will read the poem 
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 
in the original Middle English language of its unique surviving copy of circa 1400, and will discuss both the poem's language and the poem's literary merit.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: David M Yerkes
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• 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
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Ting
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• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

Contempry Electrl Politcs

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: Robert Erikson
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• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

Politics of Policymaking

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
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• 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

POLITICS&POLICY:STATELOCAL GO

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: Gerrard P Bushell
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• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

THE FIRST AMENDMENT

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.
• Instructor: Robert L Amdur
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• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

Public Opinion Research

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
• F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Greg Bovitz
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• 4 points

Gendered Work and Organizations

GENDERED WORK & ORGANIZAT

This course considers how gender shapes the action within different organizations, reflecting and reproducing broader social systems of inequality, identity, violence, and power in the United States. We will address current issues centered on the gendered nature of institutions and organizations, including the work/family debate, bodies at work, sexual harassment, service work, sex work, and sexual violence to illuminate the mechanisms by which systems of gender inequality shape the meanings and practices of individuals and groups within and across organizations and institutions.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Gillian Gualtieri
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• 4 points

NARRATIVE STRAT-SCREENWRITING

Prerequisites: FILM W2420. This workshop is primarily a continuation of Senior Seminar in Screenwriting. Students will either continue developing the scripts they began in Senior Seminar in Screenwriting, or create new ones including a step outline and a minimum of 30 pages. Emphasis will be placed on character work, structure, theme, and employing dramatic devices. Weekly outlining and script writing, concurrent with script/story presentation and class critiques, will ensure that each student will be guided toward the completion of his or her narrative script project.

• Department: Film
• F 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Loren-Paul Caplin
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• 3 points

Dutch Seventeenth Century Art

This course is devoted to a close examination of Dutch art of the seventeenth century, one of the most celebrated chapters in the history of art. Students will be exposed to seminal art historical texts on the period, at the same time as they receive exposure to connoisseurship, conservation, and technical art history.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Adam S Eaker
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• 4 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
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Czarina F Thelen
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• Instructor: Emma Crane
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• 4 points

ADVANCED TOPICS: POLITICS & SOCIETY

ADV TOPICS POLITICS & SOC

Research and writing intensive seminar on civic and political engagement in contemporary American society, along with critical evaluation of methods used to collect and analyze data on political and social life. Requirements include a final research paper based on independent data collection and analysis. Seminar limited to sociology majors with senior standing (except in exceptional circumstances). Fulfills the Research Paper Option for the senior requirement in sociology at Barnard.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• R 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Andrew S Anastasi
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• 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
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Nyle Fort
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• 4 points

Creative Embedded Systems

CREATIVE EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

Ubiquitous computing is creating new canvases and opportunities for creative ideas.
This class explores the use of microprocessors, distributed sensor networks, IoT,
and intermedia systems for the purposes of creative expression. The course is delivered
in a mixed lecture and lab format that introduces the fundamental concepts
and theory behind embedded systems as well as issues particular to their creative
employment. The key objective of the course is for students to conceive of and
implement creative uses of computation.

• Department: Computer Science @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Santolucito
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 8 Info
• 3 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.
• Instructor: Nim L Tottenham
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• Instructor: Lila Davachi
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• 1-3 points

ADVANCED TOPICS RACE & ETHNICITY

Discusses theories of race and ethnicity, distinctions between prejudice, discrimination, and racism, and the intersectionality paradigm. Under instructors 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
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Gillian Gualtieri
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• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

EQUITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for section descriptions

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

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

MUSEUMSMEMORYAMER PUB CULTRE

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for section descriptions

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

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

RACE; POVERTY & AMER CRIM JUST

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for section descriptions

• Department: American Studies
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Cathleen I Price
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• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

TALE OF 2 CITIES NY SAN FRAN

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for section descriptions

• Department: American Studies
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Lynne C Breslin
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• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

LIFE AT THE END OF LIFE

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for section descriptions

• Department: American Studies
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Craig D Blinderman
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• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

THE SUPREME COURT IN AMERICA

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for section descriptions

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

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

AMERICAN CULTURAL CRITICISM

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for section descriptions

• Department: American Studies
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Casey Blake
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• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

HOLLYWOOD'S CINEMA OF '70S

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for section descriptions

• Department: American Studies
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Maura L Spiegel
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 4 points

Islam and the Politics of Modernity

Islam & Politics of Moder

This course explores the relationship between Islam and politics from in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Muslim and Middle Eastern intellectuals have long grappled with the role of Islam in the modern polity. Their often-contested engagements with this question have deeply shaped the political life of the region. In this course, you will explore the genealogy of these debates by analyzing the issues they brought to the fore: the nature of the modern Islamic community, Islam’s relationship to Western imperialism, the challenges posed by the postcolonial nation-state, as well as the various political theologies at play in Islamist movements, in “liberal” conceptions of Islamic doctrines, and in Muslim states’ interpretations of religion.

 

The class follows the intellectual history of the “Islam and Politics” dyad. Students will mostly read primary sources produced by individuals who lived in the Middle East in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: political essays, theological writings, legal texts, constitutions, parliamentary debates, autobiographies. The aim of the course is to examine the thought of Muslim intellectuals who have written about the role of religion in politics and society. Students will learn about the politics of the Middle East by understanding the views, claims, and textual productions of Middle Easterners themselves. This exposure to primary texts will give them a deep understanding of the issues related to religion and politics in the Middle East today.

 

Please note that this course is for students who are interested in
critically and academically

engaging with the issue of Islam and politics. Discussions will be firmly rooted in history, the humanities and the social sciences. This is neither a course on Political Islam (Islamism) nor

a survey of the history of religion and politics throughout the entire Middle East.

 

Secondary literature in English will be assigned, as well as primary sources in English translation. There will be opportunities to read and comment on Arabic primary sources as well, depending on students’ reading abilities.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Youssef Ben Ismail
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• 3 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Prerequisites: the department chairs permission. (Formerly R3932)

• Department: Visual Arts
• Instructor: Matthew E Buckingham
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• Instructor: Delphine A Fawundu
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• Instructor: Nicola G Lopez
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• Instructor: Naeem Mohaiemen
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• Instructor: Joseph J Peet
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• Instructor: Shelly Silver
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• Instructor: Sable Smith
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• Instructor: Tomas Vu Daniel
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• Instructor: David A Cruz
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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
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Bernstein
  CULPA: 27 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.
• Instructor: Rosemary McGunnigle-Gonzales
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• 4 points

ANIME EFFECT: JAPANESE MEDIA

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

• Department: Anthropology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Marilyn Ivy
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• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS SEMINAR

The Senior Seminar will afford thesis writers the chance to workshop their idea, conduct research and/or interviews, work with the IRB protocols (if necessary), learn to work with archival materials, and perform other research activities prior to writing the thesis. Students who choose to write a capstone paper or conduct a capstone project can choose an elective course the following semester. The Thesis Seminar, conducted in the spring semester, is a workshop-oriented course for Senior Thesis writers organized around honing their writing skills while providing guidance to students in their field/disciplinary-specific projects. For example, a student may choose to write a historical biography of an artist while another may pursue a sociological study of the effects of mass incarceration on voting rights. The instructor of the Thesis Seminar, working with a faculty adviser (dependent on the specific field of inquiry in the thesis), will provide feedback and supervise the writing schedule of the students.

• Department: African American and African Diaspora
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Vivaldi Jean-Marie
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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

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
• Instructor: Bahia Munem
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• 4 points

TEXT, MAGIC, PERFORMANCE

TEXT MAGIC PERFORMANCE

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. This course pursues interconnections linking text and performance in light of magic, ritual, possession, narration, and related articulations of power. Readings are drawn from classic theoretical writings, colonial fiction, and ethnographic accounts. Domains of inquiry include: spirit possession, trance states, séance, ritual performance, and related realms of cinematic projection, musical form, shadow theater, performative objects, and (other) things that move on their own, compellingly. Key theoretical concerns are subjectivity - particularly, the conjuring up and displacement of self in the form of the first-person singular I - and the haunting power of repetition. Retraced throughout the course are the uncanny shadows of a fully possessed subject --within ritual contexts and within everyday life.

• Department: Anthropology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: John Pemberton
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• 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: Dima Amso
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 31 Info
• Instructor: Christopher Baldassano
  h-index: 13 Info
• Instructor: Niall Bolger
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 55 Info
• Instructor: Lila Davachi
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 59 Info
• Instructor: Geraldine Downey
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Katherine T Fox-Glassman
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 4 Info
• Instructor: Jon B Freeman
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• Instructor: Norma V Graham
  CULPA: 29 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Carl Hart
  CULPA: 43 Wikipedia h-index: 54 Info
• Instructor: Larisa H Solomon
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• Instructor: Tory Higgins
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia h-index: 134 Info
• Instructor: Donald C Hood
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 81 Info
• Instructor: Sheena Iyengar
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• Instructor: Nikolaus Kriegeskorte
  h-index: 56 Info
• Instructor: Patricia G Lindemann
  CULPA: 64 Info
• Instructor: Bianca J Marlin
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• Instructor: Caroline B Marvin
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 1-4 points