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: Janet Metcalfe
  CULPA: 31 h-index: 70 Info
• Instructor: Michael W Morris
  h-index: 68 Info
• Instructor: Kevin Ochsner
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 86 Info
• Instructor: Valerie J Purdie-Greenaway
  Wikipedia h-index: 29 Info
• Instructor: Daphna Shohamy
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 47 Info
• Instructor: Rae Silver
  Wikipedia h-index: 69 Info
• Instructor: Alfredo Spagna
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 15 Info
• Instructor: Yaakov Stern
  Wikipedia h-index: 160 Info
• Instructor: Herbert S Terrace
  CULPA: 29 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Nim L Tottenham
  Info
• Instructor: Sarah Woolley
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 31 Info
• 1-4 points

COMPARATIVE POLITICS SEMINAR

POWER, ORGS & INSTITUTION

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
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Junyan Jiang
  h-index: 8 Info
• 4 points

COMPARATIVE POLITICS SEMINAR

VOTING WITHOUT BORDERS

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
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Chiara Superti
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

COMPARATIVE POLITICS SEMINAR

ELECTORAL RULES & CONSEQUENCES

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
• T 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Smith
  h-index: 17 Info
• 4 points

COMPARATIVE POLITICS SEMINAR

EUROPEAN UNION POLITICS

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
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Simone Paci
  h-index: 0 Info
• 4 points

UNDERGRADUATE SEMINARS II

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. Prerequisite: two years of calculus, at least one year of additional mathematics courses, and the director of undergraduate studies' permission.

• Department: Mathematics @Barnard
• 3 points

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
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Rosalyn Deutsche
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 3 points

Honors Thesis Seminar Part 2

Honors Thesis Sem Pt. 2

The MESAAS honors seminar offers the opportunity to undertake a sustained research project working closely with an individual faculty adviser. It also enables you, as part of a small group of MESAAS students working with the seminar instructor, to develop the skills of academic research and writing and learn how to collaborate with peers and create an engaged intellectual community. This 3-point seminar continues the work begun in the Fall semester of the senior year in MDES 3960 Honors Thesis Seminar Part 1.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Hamid Dabashi
  CULPA: 30 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

POL OF TRADE AID & INVESTMENT

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
• Instructor: Allison J Carnegie
  Info
• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

INTERNATIONAL LAW

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
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Jean Krasno
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

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
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Davit Sahakyan
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

INEQUALITY WITHIN&BTWN NATIONS

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
• Instructor: David E Spiro
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 6 Info
• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

INT'L CRISES SINCE COLD WAR

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
• M 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Jeremiah S Pam
  Info
• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

AMERICAN FOREIGN 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
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Gideon Rose
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Border Crossings Across Languages and Di

border crossings: lang di

In our age of purportedly unsurpassable walls, mobility restrictions, and heightened security, borders are often imagined and understood as physical lines of demarcation protecting state sovereignty and defending cultural specificity. This course seeks to destabilize this notion of a fixed, immovable and potentially sealed border through representations of contemporary border-crossing across various media, in order to show the border, instead, as a concept and device regulating human mobility well beyond its physical location. This course will incorporate literary, visual, and political texts that complicate and expand the imaginary -- spatial, temporal, and poetic -- of the border and border crossings. 

Divided into four parts that underscore the evolution of human interactions with the border from the early 20th Century until the present, this three-credit undergraduate seminar is focused on Europe while including other migratory spaces of the Global North, most notably North America. We will start with a general overview of the border as a concept and a mechanism that simultaneously enables and restricts movement. We will then engage with post-WWI crossings of the borders of the British and French empire as significant historical elements of the creation of the border in relation to discriminated and racialized groups of the 20th Century. Moving on to exploring the formation of the European Union as predicated on a space of free internal circulation opposing a political objective of “zero illegal entries”, we will look at the formation of EU and the US borders as a result of ongoing processes of illegalization. Lastly, we will study the iterations of some of these processes on the High Seas, only in theory a space of free circulation.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Tommaso Manfredini
  Info
• 3 points

MAJOR 20TH CENTURY PLAYWRIGHTS

IBSEN AND PINTER

The course will trace the pattern of the evolving theatrical careers of Henrik Ibsen and Harold Pinter, exploring the nature of and relationships among key features of their emerging aesthetics. Thematic and theatrical exploration involve positioning the plays in the context of the trajectories of modernism and postmodernism and examining, in that context, the emblematic use of stage sets and tableaux; the intense scrutiny of families, friendships, and disruptive intruders; the experiments with temporality, multi-linearity, and split staging; the issues raised by performance and the implied playhouse; and the plays' potential as instruments of cultural intervention. Two papers are required, 5-7 pages and 10-12 pages, with weekly brief responses, and a class presentation. Readings include major plays of both writers and key statements on modernism and postmodernism.
  Application Instructions: 
E-mail Professor Austin Quigley (aeq1@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Ibsen and Pinter seminar." In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course. 
Admitted students should register for the course; they will automatically be placed on a wait list from which the instructor will in due course admit them as spaces become available.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Austin E Quigley
  Info
• 4 points

MUSLIM ROOTS/ ROUTES IN THE AMERICAS

Muslims’ roots in the Americas are centuries old despite their presence being considered a recent phenomenon. This legacy emerges from migratory movements from the Middle East, Africa, and parts of Asia, which were precipitated by multiple and intersecting factors. This course will trace and examine the historical and contemporary waves of Muslim and Arab (forced) migrations into the Americas to explore how empire, globalization, and war have influenced the flow of people across borders and shaped policies and ideas of belonging in receiving nation-states. We will focus on Arab and Muslim identity in light of gendered, ethnoreligious, class, and national affiliations and investigate the racialization of Islam and the gendered-Orientalist constructions of Arabs and Muslims in the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean (with particular emphasis on Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Cuba, and others). Through interdisciplinary texts and a comparative framework, we will trace how specific diasporic Muslim and Arab subjects have been imagined, received, incorporated or altogether rejected into host nation-states.

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

JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Reynolds
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

CURATORIAL POSTNS 1969-PRES

Contemporary exhibitions studied through a selection of great shows from roughly 1969 to the present that defined a generation. This course will not offer practical training in curating; rather it will concentrate on the historical context of exhibitions, the theoretical basis for their argument, the criteria for the choice in artists and their work, and exhibitions internal/external reception.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Valerie Smith
  Info
• 4 points

FILM NARRATIVE (SEMINAR)

FILM NOIR

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor.

This course will examine the noir tradition in American film between 1941 and 1959. We begin with noir's origins in two turn-of-the-century literary works about Empire, Inc and the divided self of the modern era, Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" and Stevenson's " Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde". We will consider the international roots of Hollywood noir, many of whose directors were European refugees from Hitler, and its depictions of the femme fatale, l'homme fatale, and the world métropole, particularly NYC and LA. Readings will include Marxist, postcolonial, and gender theory, and film history. Films will include "The Killers", "Double Indemnity", "The Big Heat", "The Lodger", "Gilda", "Sunset Blvd", "Sweet Smell of Success", and "Vertigo".

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

SENIOR RESEARCH SEMINAR

Prerequisites: AMST UN3920 A seminar devoted to the research and writing, under the instructors supervision, of a substantial paper on a topic in American studies. Class discussions of issues in research, interpretation, and writing.

• Department: American Studies
• Instructor: Hilary-Anne Hallett
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR PROJECT SEMINAR

The Senior Project Seminar will focus primarily on developing students’ ideas for their research projects while charting their research goals. The course is designed to develop and hone the skills necessary to complete a senior thesis paper or creative project.  An important component of the seminar is the completion of original and independent student research. The seminar provides students a forum in which to discuss their work with both the instructor and their peers.  The professor, who facilitates the colloquium, will also provide students with additional academic support through seminar presentations, one-on-one meetings, and classroom exercises; supplementary to the feedback they receive from their individual faculty advisors.  The course is divided into three main parts: 1.) researching and producing a senior project thesis; 2.) the submission of coursework throughout the spring semester that help lead to a successful completed project; 3.) and an oral presentation showcasing one’s research to those in and beyond the CSER community at the end of the academic year.  This course is reserved for seniors who are completing a CSER senior project and who have successfully completed 
Modes of Inquiry
 in either their junior or senior year.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Darius V Echeverria
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

FIELDWORK

May be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 total points may be used for degree credit. Only for Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering undergraduate students who include relevant off-campus work experience as part of their approved program of study. Final report and letter of evaluation required. May not be used as technical or nontechnical electives or to satisfy any other Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering major requirements. May not be taken for pass/fail credit or audited.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• Instructor: Charles A Zukowski
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• 1-2 points

SENIOR PROJ:RESEARCH FOR MUSIC

Working with her advisor, a student will expand the research project initiated in the Fall Senior Seminar for Music Majors (BC3992x). In order to satisfy the requirement, the student will complete a fifty page research paper.

• Department: Music @Barnard
• Instructor: Gail R Archer
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 3 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

This course is a requirement for all majors and is taken in the 
Fall
 semester of the Senior year; students may register for the Barnard or Columbia (3991) section. In this academic writing workshop students develop individual research projects under the guidance of the course’s instructor and in dialogue with the other participants’ projects. The final assignment of the senior seminar (6000 words) is the 
senior essay
. It is written in Spanish.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• Instructor: Maja Horn
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

Crisis Management & Municipal Government

Crisis Mgmt & Municip Gov

This 1 credit course is an introduction to the challenges of managing crises, especially public health emergencies, in local government. We will focus on the first 18 months of the Covid-19 pandemic as it played out in New York City, but we will also review case studies from other disasters and public health emergencies: a Covid antecedent in the SARS crisis in Toronto; the Katrina event revealing both debilitating inequities and lack of preparation in New Orleans; the lockdowns and fears emanating from the Ebola crisis.  This course will be instructed by a former government official and feature experts and practitioners from government and advocacy organizations.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Emma Wolfe
  Info
• 1 points

SUPERVISED STUDY IN GERMANY (BCGS)

Art & Environment in USA

N/A

• Department: Global Programs
• 4 points

SUPERVISED STUDY IN GERMANY (BCGS)

Medieval Urban History

N/A

• Department: Global Programs
• 4 points

SUPERVISED STUDIES IN GERMANY (BCGS)

Biochem. & Global Warming

• Department: Global Programs
• 4 points

ROMANTIC MARGINS

British literature of the Romantic period, from the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth
century, displays a fascination with what is on the margins. This manifests itself most
memorably in the unprecedented focus on socially marginalized figures – the beggars,
madmen, abandoned women, and solitary wanderers who populate the pages of Romantic
poetry and fiction. The author too is often figured as an outsider in this period, someone
whose authority derives specifically from his or her position of marginality, looking in
from the fringes. Geographically, the peripheries of the island of Great Britain (Wales
and especially Scotland) were major sites of literary experimentation in the Romantic era,
while the south coast of England attracted particular interest because of the constant
threat of invasion from France during these years. And of course Romantic writers
famously exploited textual margins: many of the major literary works of the period make
innovative use of footnotes, glosses, and other paratextual apparatus. This course
considers these various aspects of Romantic marginality and the intersections between
them. In addition to the work of more canonical authors (William Wordsworth, Samuel
Taylor Coleridge, Walter Scott, Mary Shelley), we will be reading poems, novels, essays,
and letters by writers, especially women, whose work has historically been marginalized.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Erik Gray
  CULPA: 35 Info
• 4 points

Advanced Topics in German Literature

Writing Travel

"Advanced Topics in German Literature” is open to seniors and other advanced undergraduate students who have taken Intro to German Literature (GERM 3333) or an equivalent class. The seminar provides students the opportunity to closely examine a topic from a variety of perspectives and theoretical approaches. Readings and discussion in German. The course is repeatable for credit.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Annie Pfeifer
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

SELECTD TPCS IN GERMAN STUDIES

Female Writers since 1945

• Department: Global Programs
• 0 points

SELECTD TPCS IN GERMAN STUDIES

Analyzing Plays

• Department: Global Programs
• 4 points

BERLIN CONSORTIUM FOR GERMAN STUDIES

Global Masculinities 1900

• Department: Global Programs
• 4 points

SENIOR PROJ: MUSIC REPERTORY

Working with her advisor, a student will develop a vocal or instrumental recital program with representative musical works from a variety of historical periods. In order to satisfy the requirement, the student will present an hour long public performance of the recital program. Students may also satisfy this requirement by composing original vocal or instrumental works.

• Department: Music @Barnard
• Instructor: Gail R Archer
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 3 points

BERLIN CONSORTIUM FOR GERMAN STUDIES

Americas: Police&Punish.

• Department: Global Programs
• 4 points

BERLIN CONSORTIUM FOR GERMAN STUDIES

Music as Memory: Columbia

• Department: Global Programs
• 4 points

BERLIN CONSORTIUM FOR GERMAN STUDIES

Neo-Aristotelianism

• Department: Global Programs
• 4 points

BERLIN CONSORTIUM FOR GERMAN STUDIES

Pol. Theory&Hist. Ideas

• Department: Global Programs
• 0 points

BERLIN CONSORTIUM FOR GERMAN STUDIES

Transit. Land Question(s)

• Department: Global Programs
• 4 points

THESIS RESEARCH SEMINAR

Guided, independent, indepth research experience culminating in the senior essay. Weekly meetings are held to review work in progress, to share results through oral and written reports, and to consider career options for further work in this field.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points

SUPERVISED STUDY IN FRANCE: FRENCH

FREN FOREIGN LANGUAGE B2

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Andrew Wells
  Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED STUDIES IN FRANCE: HUMANITIE

CENSOR STORYTELL 20-21C

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Andrew Wells
  Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED STUDIES IN FRANCE: HUMANITIE

INTRO PERFORM PUBLIC SPAC

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Andrew Wells
  Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED STUDIES IN FRANCE: HUMANITIE

PHOTOJOURNALISM

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Andrew Wells
  Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED STUDY IN FRANCE: POLITICAL SC

GEOPOLS HERITAGE BALKANS

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Andrew Wells
  Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED STUDY IN FRANCE: POLITICAL SC

INTEL PUBLIC PRIV SECTOR

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Andrew Wells
  Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED STUDY IN FRANCE: POLITICAL SC

GLOB CLIM POLS EU-US PERS

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Andrew Wells
  Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED STUDY IN FRANCE: POLITICAL SC

ISLAM STE:SOCIOPOL CHNGE

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Andrew Wells
  Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED STUDY IN FRANCE: POLITICAL SC

ISREALI POLS THRU CINEMA

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Andrew Wells
  Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED STUDY IN FRANCE: POLITICAL SC

NEGOTIATE MIDEAST CONFLIC

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Andrew Wells
  Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED STUDY IN FRANCE: POLITICAL SC

LAW INTL CONTEMP CNFLCT

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Andrew Wells
  Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED STUDY IN FRANCE: POLITICAL SC

EUR DEM MIDEAST TECHNOPO

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Andrew Wells
  Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED STUDY IN FRANCE: POLITICAL SC

LAW ART LEGAL DEBATES

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Andrew Wells
  Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED STUDY IN FRANCE: POLITICAL SC

PER AUTONOMY POLS LIBERTY

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Andrew Wells
  Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED STUDY IN FRANCE: SUSTAINABLE

SPRVSD STUDY SUSTAIN DEV

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Andrew Wells
  Info
• 4 points

SUPERVISED STUDY IN FRANCE: SOCIOLOGY

DIGITAL SOCIOLOGY

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Andrew Wells
  Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED STUDY IN FRANCE: SOCIOLOGY

SOCI NETWORK DIGITAL AGE

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Andrew Wells
  Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED STUDY IN FRANCE: SOCIOLOGY

SOCIOLOGY OF YOUTH

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Samantha Csenge
  Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED STUDY IN FRANCE: URBAN STUDIE

MAP: APPROACH CARTOGRAPHY

Prerequisites: Senior standing. Year-long course; participation is for two consecutive terms. No new students admitted for spring. Emphasizes the study of the built environment of cities and suburbs, and the related debates. Readings, class presentations, and written work culminate in major individual projects, under the supervision of faculty trained in architecture, urban design, or urban planning.

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Andrew Wells
  Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED STUDY IN GERMANY: COMPARATIV

Reading Victorian Gothic

• Department: Global Programs
• 4 points

SELECTED TOPICS: KYOTO CONSORTIUM FOR J

PROJECT JAPANESE ADVANCE

• Department: Global Programs
• 4 points

SELECTED TOPICS: KYOTO CONSORTIUM FOR J

Japanese Trad. Performing Arts

• Department: Global Programs
• 4 points

SELECTED TOPICS: KYOTO CONSORTIUM FOR J

REL. VISUAL CULTURE JAPAN

• Department: Global Programs
• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR IN FILM AND LITERATURE

SR SEM:FAMILY IN FILM/LIT

Enrollment limited to Barnard senior English majors with a Film Studies concentration and Barnard senior Film Studies majors. To see the current course description, visit the English Department website:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/senior-seminars

• Department: English @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Maura L Spiegel
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS/TUTORIAL

Prerequisites: the faculty advisers permission. Senior thesis or tutorial project consisting of independent scholarly work in an area of study of the student’s choosing, under the supervision of a member of the faculty.

• Department: Italian @Barnard
• Instructor: Nelson Moe
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

Prerequisites: Senior standing. Year-long course; participation is for two consecutive terms. No new students admitted for spring. Emphasizes the study of the built environment of cities and suburbs, and the related debates. Readings, class presentations, and written work culminate in major individual projects, under the supervision of faculty trained in architecture, urban design, or urban planning.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Aaron Passell
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 3 Info
• Instructor: Claire D Panetta
  Info
• Instructor: Christian Siener
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

SPECIAL READING COURSE

SPEC READ COURSE: 17TH C TEXTS

See department for course description

• Department: Germanic Languages
• T 10:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
• Instructor: Wijnie de Groot
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 1 points

EBHS SENIOR THESIS SEMINAR

Prerequisites: the instructors permission and senior standing as a major in The Evolutionary Biology of the Human Species (EBHS). Year-long seminar in which senior EBHS majors develop a research project and write a senior thesis. Regular meetings are held to discuss research and writing strategies, review work in progress, and share results through oral and written reports.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Jill S Shapiro
  CULPA: 46 Info
• 3 points

SELECTED TOPICS: FRANCE

CONT. FRENCH CINEMA 1990-2018

Taught in French.

Instructor
: Fabien Delmas "French cinema is characterized by its artistic richness, its vigor and, above all, its diversity. This film history course will function as a journey in which we explore contemporary French cinema. Our itinerary will take us from the 1990s, those of “young French cinema” and neoclassicism, to the end of the 2010s, those of directors like Julie Delpy and Christophe Honoré. Together, we will develop a panorama in which the works of Cédric Klapisch and Nicole Garcia will intersect, as well as those of Céline Sciamma and Arnaud Desplechin.

The objective of this course will be to introduce students to French cinema, its history and its diversity. We will also have the chance to correlate academic knowledge and practical experience, so as to give the students a significant idea of French film activity. While the course is open to all,
a small group of students may apply to go to the Cannes Film Festival, which takes place after the program ends.
The application process is competitive and will take place onsite in February. On this excursion, students will be able to attend screenings and film meetings. To prepare for this event, a module of the course will be devoted to the festival, its history and how this global event has reflected, over the decades, the mutations and evolution of cinematographic art. This trip is all the more important as the Cannes Film Festival has always been connected with the great movements that have fueled, animated and invigorated French cinema. To enroll in this course, you must apply to the
Columbia Summer in Paris Program
 through the Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement (UGE). 
Tuition charges apply; scholarships available.

Please note the program dates are different from the Summer Term A & B dates.

• Department: Global Programs
• 3 points

SELECTED TOPICS: FRANCE

HIST: 20TH CENT WARS IN FR

Taught in French.

Instructor
: Fabien Delmas "French cinema is characterized by its artistic richness, its vigor and, above all, its diversity. This film history course will function as a journey in which we explore contemporary French cinema. Our itinerary will take us from the 1990s, those of “young French cinema” and neoclassicism, to the end of the 2010s, those of directors like Julie Delpy and Christophe Honoré. Together, we will develop a panorama in which the works of Cédric Klapisch and Nicole Garcia will intersect, as well as those of Céline Sciamma and Arnaud Desplechin.

The objective of this course will be to introduce students to French cinema, its history and its diversity. We will also have the chance to correlate academic knowledge and practical experience, so as to give the students a significant idea of French film activity. While the course is open to all,
a small group of students may apply to go to the Cannes Film Festival, which takes place after the program ends.
The application process is competitive and will take place onsite in February. On this excursion, students will be able to attend screenings and film meetings. To prepare for this event, a module of the course will be devoted to the festival, its history and how this global event has reflected, over the decades, the mutations and evolution of cinematographic art. This trip is all the more important as the Cannes Film Festival has always been connected with the great movements that have fueled, animated and invigorated French cinema. To enroll in this course, you must apply to the
Columbia Summer in Paris Program
 through the Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement (UGE). 
Tuition charges apply; scholarships available.

Please note the program dates are different from the Summer Term A & B dates.

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Julien Blanc
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SUPERVISED IND RES-LING THESIS

• Department: Slavic Languages
• F 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
• 1-4 points

TOPICS IN BIOLOGY

CROSSROADS IN BIOETHICS

Prerequisites: Introductory Biology or equivalent. Topics in Biology: Radiographic Anatomy and Select Pathology (Section 007 Fall semester) , Radiographic Anatomy and Selective Pathology is a survey course intended for undergraduate students. This course is not limited to science majors and would be of value to any student that may have an interest in studying the anatomy of the human body. The course is a systematic approach to the study of the human body utilizing medical imaging. We will be studying neuro-anatomy, anatomy of the thorax, abdomen, and pelvis. Vascular and musculoskeletal imaging will be addressed as well. Modalities will include CT, MRI, PET/CT, and Ultrasound. Cross sectional imaging will be supplemented with pathology demonstrated on appropriate cross sectional imaging. The class size will be limited to 15 students. The lecture will be offered Wednesday evenings from 6:10-7:00 pm. This will be a 1 credit course offered only during the fall semesters. Topics in Biology: Crossroads in Bioethics (Section 001 Spring semester) , This two credit multidisciplinary and interactive course will focus on contemporary issues in bioethics and medical ethics. Each topic will cover both the underlying science of new biotechnologies and the subsequent bioethical issues that emerge from these technologies. Each topic will introduce a bioethical principle that will be explored using case studies. Students are expected to prepare for each class based on the assignment so that classroom time will be devoted to discussion, case presentations, and role playing rather than merely lectures. Topics include stem cell research, human reproductive cloning, bioterrorism, neuroethics, genetic screening, medical stem cell tourism, patents and science, forensic science and the interface of science and culture/religion.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• T 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: John Loike
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• 2 points

SENIOR THESIS IN COMP LIT/SOC

This year-long, three-credit course is mandatory for students who will be writing their Senior Thesis in Comparative Literature and Society or in Medical Humanities. Students who wish to be considered for Departmental honors are required to submit a Senior Thesis. The thesis is a rigorous research work of approximately 40 pages, and it will include citations and a bibliographical apparatus. It may be written in English or, with the permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies, in another language relevant to the students scholarly interests. Although modeled after an independent study, in which core elements of the structure, direction, and pace of the work are decided together by the student and their faculty thesis supervisor, students are nonetheless expected to complete certain major steps in the research and writing process according to the timeline outlined by the ICLS DUS.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• Instructor: Tommaso Manfredini
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• 1.5 points

HUMAN RIGHTS SENIOR SEMINAR

HUMAN RIGHTS SEMINAR

The senior seminar is a capstone course required for the human rights major. The seminar provides students the opportunity to discuss human rights from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and to explore various theoretical approaches and research methodologies. Students undertake individual research projects while collectively examining human rights through directed readings and discussion.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Felisa Tibbitts
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• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS IN MATHEMATICS II

SENIOR THESIS MATHEMATICS

Majors in Mathematics are offered the opportunity to write an honors senior thesis under the guidance of a faculty member. Interested students should contact a faculty member to determine an appropriate topic, and receive written approval from the faculty advisor and the Director of Undergraduate Studies (faculty sponsorship is limited to full-time instructors on the staff list). Research is conducted primarily during the fall term; the final paper is submitted to the Director of Undergraduate Studies during the subsequent spring term.

MATH UN3994 SENIOR THESIS IN MATHEMATICS I must be taken in the fall term, during which period the student conducts primary research on the agreed topic. An optional continuation course MATH UN3995 SENIOR THESIS IN MATHEMATICS II is available during the spring. The second term of this sequence may not be taken without the first. Registration for the spring continuation course has no impact on the timeline or outcome of the final paper.

Sections of SENIOR THESIS IN MATHEMATICS I and II do NOT count towards the major requirements, with the exception of an advanced written approval by the DUS.

• Department: Mathematics
• Instructor: Stephen Miller
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• Instructor: Andrew J Blumberg
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• Instructor: Dusa McDuff
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• 2 points

HONORS RESEARCH

Prerequisites: a formal proposal to be submitted and approved prior to registration; see the director of undergraduate studies for details. A creative/scholarly project conducted under faculty supervision, leading to completion of an honors essay, composition, or the equivalent.

• Department: Music
• Instructor: Susan Boynton
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• Instructor: Alessandra M Ciucci
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• Instructor: Zosha C Di Castri
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• Instructor: Julia Doe
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• Instructor: Joseph P Dubiel
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• Instructor: Kevin Fellezs
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• Instructor: Aaron A Fox
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• Instructor: Walter M Frisch
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• Instructor: Georg Friedrich Haas
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• Instructor: Marcos Balter
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• 2-3 points