SENIOR THESIS RESEARCH & SEMINAR

SR THESIS RESEARCH & SEMI

This year-long course is open to senior Biology majors. Students will complete an independent research project in Biology under the guidance of a faculty mentor at Barnard or another local institution. Attendance at the weekly seminar is required. By the end of the year, students will write a scientific paper about their project and give an oral presentation about their research at the Barnard Biology Research Symposium.

Completion of this year-long course fulfills the senior capstone requirement for the Biology major. This course must be taken in sequence, beginning with BIOL BC3593 in the Fall and continuing with BIOL BC3594 in the Spring. Acceptance into this course requires confirmation of the research project by the course instructors. A Barnard internal mentor is required if the research project is not supervised by a Barnard faculty member. This course cannot be taken at the same time as BIOL BC3591-BIOL BC3592.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• M 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• 4 points

RSRCH/SEM-NEUROSCNCE&BEHAVIOR

Prerequisites: Open to senior Neuroscience and Behavior majors. Permission of the instructor. This is a year-long course. By the end of the spring semester program planning period during junior year, majors should identify the lab they will be working in during their senior year. Discussion and conferences on a research project culminate in a written and oral senior thesis. Each project must be supervised by a scientist working at Barnard or at another local institution. Successful completion of the seminar substitutes for the major examination.

• Department: Neuroscience & Behavior @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter D Balsam
  CULPA: 25 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth P Bauer
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 21 Info
• Instructor: Alex White
  h-index: 13 Info
• Instructor: Kevin G Bath
  Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

A research and writing workshop designed to help students plan and execute a major research project, and communicate their ideas in a common scholarly language that crosses disciplinary boundaries. Content is determined by students thesis topics, and includes general sessions on how to formulate a proposal and how to generate a bibliography. Students present the fruits of their research in class discussions, culminating in a full-length seminar presentation and the submission of the written thesis.

• Department: Slavic Languages @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: John C Wright
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

GUIDED RESEARCH

Similar to BIOL BC3591-BIOL BC3592, this is a one-semester course that provides students with degree credit for unpaid research 
without 
a seminar component. You may enroll in BIOL BC3597 for between 1-4 credits per semester. As a rule of thumb, you should be spending approximately 3 hours per week per credit on your research project.

A 
Project Approval Form
 must be submitted to the department each semester that you enroll in this course. Your Barnard research mentor (if your lab is at Barnard) or internal adviser in the Biology Department (if your lab is elsewhere) must approve your planned research 
before
 you enroll in BIOL BC3597. You should sign up for your mentor's section. 

This course does not fulfill any Biology major requirements.  It is open to students beginning in their first year.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• Instructor: Elizabeth P Bauer
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 21 Info
• Instructor: Hilary Callahan
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: John Glendinning
  CULPA: 23 h-index: 39 Info
• Instructor: Jordan Balaban
  Info
• Instructor: Jj L Miranda
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Alison Pischedda
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 11 Info
• Instructor: Jonathan Snow
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 18 Info
• Instructor: Brian Morton
  CULPA: 21 Info
• Instructor: Jennifer H Mansfield
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 15 Info
• Instructor: Gabrielle Corradino
  Info
• Instructor: Jessica Goldstein
  CULPA: 14 Info
• Instructor: Emlyn J Resetarits
  Info
• 1-4 points

PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.

• 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
  Info
• Instructor: Rachel Austin
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia h-index: 28 Info
• Instructor: Christina Vizcarra
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Rebecca Donegan
  Info
• Instructor: Meenakshi S Rao
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 2 points

PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• 2 points

OVID S METAMORPHOSES AND THEIR LITERAR

OVID'S METAMORPHOSES

Ovid’s
Metamorphoses
have enchanted, and sometimes troubled, readers since they first appeared in the year 8 CE.    This course is designed first, to read, closely, the
Metamorphoses
in its entirety.  We will look at Hellenistic sources – Hesiod’s
Theogony
, Boios’s
Orthinogonia
, as well as the
Heteroioumena
by Alexander of Colophon.   We will also investigate moments in their complex literary afterlife: in Chaucer’s
Canterbury Tales
, in Shakespeare’s
Tempest
, in Milton’s
Paradise Lost,
as well as Boccaccio and Dante.  Finally we will look at some translations of the
Metamorphoses
, by Caxton and Gower, Dryden and Pope, as well as contemporary translations.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Jhumpa Lahiri
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.

• 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
  Info
• Instructor: Rachel Austin
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia h-index: 28 Info
• Instructor: Christina Vizcarra
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Rebecca Donegan
  Info
• 4 points

PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• 4 points

Introduction to Continuous Control Syste

Intr to Continuous Contro

Introduction to continuous systems with the treatment of classical and state-space formulations. Mathematical concepts, complex variables, integral transforms and their inverses, differential equations, and relevant linear algebra. Classical feedback control, time/frequency domain design, stability analysis, Laplace transform formulation and solutions, block diagram simplification and manipulation, signal flow graphs, modeling physical systems and linearization. state-space formulation and modeling, in parallel with classical single-input single-output formulation, connections between the two formulations. Transient and steady state analysis, methods of stability analysis, such as root locus methods, Nyquist stability criterion, Routh Hurwitz criterion, pole/zero placement, Bode plot analysis, Nichols chart analysis, phase lead and lag compensators, controllability, observability, realization of canonical forms, state estimation in multivariable systems, time-variant systems. Introduction to advanced stability analysis such as Lyapunov stability and simple optimal control formulation.  May not take for credit if already received credit for EEME E4600.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Homayoon Beigi
  Info
• 3 points

METAPHYSICS

Corequisites: PHIL V3611 Required Discussion Section (0 points). Systematic treatment of some major topics in metaphysics (e.g. modality, causation, identity through time, particulars and universals). Readings from contemporary authors.

• Department: Philosophy
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Achille Varzi
  CULPA: 30 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• 4 points

METAPHYSICS

Corequisites: PHIL V3611 Required Discussion Section (0 points). Systematic treatment of some major topics in metaphysics (e.g. modality, causation, identity through time, particulars and universals). Readings from contemporary authors.

• Department: Auditing
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Achille Varzi
  CULPA: 30 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• 0 points

PHYSICAL COSMOLOGY

Prerequisites: one year of calculus-based general physics. The standard hot big bang cosmological model and modern observational results that test it. Topics include the Friedmann equations and the expansion of the universe, dark matter, dark energy, inflation, primordial nucleosynthesis, the cosmic microwave background, the formation of large-scale cosmic structures, and modern cosmological observations.

• Department: Astronomy
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Greg Bryan
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 70 Info
• 3 points

PHYSICAL COSMOLOGY

Prerequisites: one year of calculus-based general physics. The standard hot big bang cosmological model and modern observational results that test it. Topics include the Friedmann equations and the expansion of the universe, dark matter, dark energy, inflation, primordial nucleosynthesis, the cosmic microwave background, the formation of large-scale cosmic structures, and modern cosmological observations.

• Department: Auditing
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Greg Bryan
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 70 Info
• 0 points

DOMESTIC POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELA

DOMESTIC POLITICS AND IR

How does what happens inside a country affect what it does in the international arena? In this course we examine how domestic politics influence international behavior. This of course includes regime type--do democracies behave differently from autocracies, whether in initiating conflict or willingness to cooperate? How might democratic backsliding affect a country's foreign policy, including its alliances? How does regime type affect the capacity to fight and win wars? We will also examine the impact of group interests, the electoral cycle, and bureaucratic dynamics, as well as bargaining--national leaders face a two-level bargaining game while dealing with other states as well as domestic actors. In both discussion and writing assignments you will apply theoretical insights to international politics today as well as to selected historical cases.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Marjorie Castle
  Info
• 3 points

REHEARSAL&PERFRMNCE IN DANCE

Prerequisites: Audition. Do not register for this course until you have been selected at the audition. Subject to cap on studio credit. Can be taken more than once for credit up to a maximum of 3 credits a semester. Students are graded and take part in the full production of a dance as performers, choreographers, designers, or stage technicians.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• 1-3 points

REHEARSAL&PERFRMNCE IN DANCE

Prerequisites: Audition. Do not register for this course until you have been selected at the audition. Subject to cap on studio credit. Can be taken more than once for credit up to a maximum of 3 credits a semester. Students are graded and take part in the full production of a dance as performers, choreographers, designers, or stage technicians.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• TR 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• 1-3 points

REHEARSAL&PERFRMNCE IN DANCE

Prerequisites: Audition. Do not register for this course until you have been selected at the audition. Subject to cap on studio credit. Can be taken more than once for credit up to a maximum of 3 credits a semester. Students are graded and take part in the full production of a dance as performers, choreographers, designers, or stage technicians.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• 1-3 points

RELIGION IN THE CITY

• Department: Religion
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Courtney Bender
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

This course can be worth 1 to 4 credits (each credit is equivalent to approximately three hours of work per week), and requires a Barnard faculty as a mentor. The course will be taken for a letter grade, regardless of whether the student chooses 1, 2, 3, or 4 credits. The expectations for each of these options are as follows: 1 credit, 3h/week commitment, 5-10 page "Research Report" at the end of the term; 2 credits, 6h/week commitment, 5-10 page "Research Report" at the end of the term; 3 credits, 9h/week commitment, 15-20 page "Research Report" at the end of the term; 4 credits, 12h/week commitment, 15-20 page "Research Report" at the end of the term. "Research Report" is a document submitted to the person grading the student, the instructor of record for the section in which the student has enrolled. If a student is working off-site, then input from the off-site research mentor will inform the grading. The "Research Report" can take a variety of forms: progress reports on data collected, training received, papers read, skills learned, etc.; or organized notes for lab notebooks, lab meetings, etc.; or manuscript-like papers with Intro, Methods, Results, Discussion; or some combination thereof, depending on the maturity of the project.  Ultimately, this will take different forms for different students/labs.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• Instructor: Robert Brotherton
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Colin Leach
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 41 Info
• Instructor: Ken Light
  CULPA: 17 h-index: 15 Info
• Instructor: Koleen McCrink
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Michelle Greene
  Info
• Instructor: Robert E Remez
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia h-index: 23 Info
• Instructor: Mariel Roberts
  h-index: None Info
• Instructor: Ann Senghas
  CULPA: 17 Info
• Instructor: Katherine Thorson
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 7 Info
• Instructor: Lisa K Son
  CULPA: 25 Info
• Instructor: Kate M Turetsky
  Info
• Instructor: Susan R Sacks
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Kathleen M Taylor
  CULPA: 78 Info
• Instructor: Tara Well
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Michael Wheaton
  h-index: 31 Info
• Instructor: E'Mett McCaskill
  CULPA: 38 Info
• Instructor: Erica Musser
  Info
• Instructor: Alexandra C Horowitz
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Armita Ghobadi
  Info
• Instructor: Anna Shusterman
  Info
• 1-4 points

COLL: CAUSES OF WAR

Why does war happen, given its huge costs for either side? Why do groups of people systematically kill other groups of people? What do we need to know to prevent war if possible, and prepare for it when necessary? Are wars the purposeful, rational pursuit of policy, the result of miscalculation and misperception, or the result of seemingly inexorably forces over which there is little control? Why are wars sometimes avoided in situations that seem likely to breed conflict? In this course we critically examine the major theoretical approaches to these questions. You will select one or more wars and write a research paper addressing an important theoretical question through your analysis of your cases.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Marjorie Castle
  Info
• 4 points

RELIGION IN THE CITY Discussion

RELIGION IN THE CITY Diss

Discussion section for Religion in the City. Students must register for main lecture course UN3604 to be added to discussion section.

• Department: Religion
• F 10 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• F noon-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Cella Masso-Rivetti
  Info
• 0 points

FOUNDATIONS OF OPTIMIZATION

This first course in optimization focuses on theory and applications of linear optimization, network optimization, and dynamic programming.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Eric Balkanski
  h-index: 13 Info
• 3 points

METAPHYSICS-REC

• Department: Philosophy
• M 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• R 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• R 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Jack Romp
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• Instructor: Anthony D Hejduk
  Info
• Instructor: Jared W Jones
  Info
• 0 points

THIRD YEAR MOD COLLOQ TIBET I

For those whose knowledge is equivalent to a student who’s completed the Second Year course. The course develops students’ reading comprehension skills through reading selected modern Tibetan literature. Tibetan is used as the medium of instruction and interaction to develop oral fluency and proficiency.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Sonam Tsering
  Info
• 4 points

Temples of Kyoto

Perhaps no other single institution has played a more crucial role in the development and preservation of Japanese art and other forms of visual culture than the Buddhist temple, itself an entity that has undergone significant change, particularly in the modern period. This seminar will examine Buddhist temples in the city of Kyoto, Japan’s imperial capital from 794-1867 from their beginnings in the late eighth century into the early modern period. Although architecture and sculpture will be our primary areas of focus, the course will provide students with multiple, interdisciplinary perspectives on the diverse forms of institutional organization, architecture, art, and liturgy that comprise Buddhist houses of worship, with particular attention to their development in the city of Kyoto. We will take a site-specific approach, attending to the following general issues: the legacy of continental practices in such early monasteries as Hōryūji and Tōdaiji in Nara; adaptations to Japanese urban space and landscape at Tōji and Enryakuji; physical changes in temples with the introduction of new sects such as Zen and Pure Land Buddhism; and the transformation of temples in the early modern period.

A week-long visit to Kyoto during the first week of November (week of election-day holiday) will be the highlight of the course. In Kyoto we will visit temples and museums to see first-hand the monuments we have studied in the course. Students will compile presentations in advance to serve as the main guides for our visit. These presentations will form a basis for final papers, which will be presented in class during the last three weeks of the semester, and which will be due in written form at the last class of the semester.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 4 points

CHILDREN AT RISK

Prerequisites: PSYC UN1010, PSYC UN2280, PSYC UN2620, or PSYC UN2680, and the instructors permission. Considers contemporary risk factors in childrens lives. The immediate and enduring biological and behavioral impact of risk factors.

• Department: Psychology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• R 1 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Geraldine Downey
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SENIOR RESEARCH THESIS

Discussions of the student's Independent Research project during the fall and spring terms that culminate in a written and oral senior thesis. Each project must be supervised by a scientist working at Barnard or at another local institution.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa K Son
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 1 points

Ethnic Conflict

This course explores the origins and dynamics of ethnic conflict through the lens of several different theoretical approaches. How and where does ethnic conflict emerge and why does it endure? Is it greed or grievance, identity or interest? Why do some cases of ethnic tension and racial hatred boil over into bloodshed and carnage, while other conflict situations simmer well below the level of violence? Why are some inter-group conflicts so explosive and intractable while others yield to compromise and resolution? How is ethnic conflict influenced by factors such as religious nationalism, regime type, economic inequality, demographic shifts, and climate change? Leveraging a range of theoretical frameworks, students will engage with historical case studies and grapple with contemporary issues to understand the causes and conditions involved in conflict emergence, continuation, and resolution.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Tenzin Dorjee
  Info
• 3 points

The Wall Paintings of China

This seminar introduces the murals and screen paintings of pre-modern China, both functioned as “painted walls.” Besides examining the visual attributes of these wall paintings, it attends to their special materiality and spatiality rooted in their media—the wall and the screen—to explore their original functions and interactions with the audience. Special attention will be given to the wall paintings’ themes, motifs, spatial representations, styles, scale, media, placement, contexts of display, and audience. Students will take turns leading seminar discussions to analyze the readings for each week. Every week students will read the assigned essays and write a one or two page, double-space reflection on the content and argument. You will post your reflection with questions on Canvas the night before the seminar.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Yi-Bang Li
  Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Prerequisites: (PSYC UN1001) Instructor permission required. A seminar for advanced undergraduate students exploring different areas of clinical psychology. This course will provide you with a broad overview of the endeavors of clinical psychology, as well as discussion of its current social context, goals, and limitations.

• Department: Psychology
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Hannah E Hoch
  CULPA: 27 Info
• Instructor: Irit Felsen
  Info
• 4 points

THEATRE AND DEMOCRACY

What links concepts of theatre and concepts of democracy? How does theatre promote democracy, spectators’ civic participation, and vice versa, how do concepts and modes of theatre prevent the spectators from assuming civic positions both within and outside a theatrical performance? Arranged in three sections—“Tragedies and Democracies,” “Theatrical Propriety and Liberal Democracy,” and “Rhapsody for Theatre”—this class explores both the promotion and the denial of democratic discourse in the practices of dramatic writing and theatrical performance.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Hana Worthen
  Info
• 4 points

ROAD TRIPS:TRAVEL IN ITAL CIN

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

A Literary History of Marriage

From its origins, and to the present, marriage has been transactional, arranged, and rarely concerned with the desires or interests of the wife. In the eighteenth-century, and especially through the genre of the novel, women began to insist on right to choose their spouse, and the possibility of marrying for love. Perversely, it is at this point that the descriptions of some of the most disastrous and repressive marriages enter literature, and in the twentieth century film. If “the course of true love never did run smooth” this seminar follows its path, investigating the shifts and transformations of marriage. While the focus of the seminar will be on women, we will also consider men, same-sex marriage, questions of marriage and race in the United States, and marriage in China.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Daphne Miriam Merkin
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

GRAND TOUR IN ITALY

• Department: Italian
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria Luisa Gozzi
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND PHILOSOP

TOPICS IN COG SCI & PHILO

This course will focus on one topic at the intersection of cognitive science and philosophy. Potential topics include free will, consciousness, modularity, mental representation, probabilistic inference, the language of thought, and the computational theory of mind.

• Department: Cognitive Science @Barnard
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Soren Schlassa
  Info
• 3 points

Roots and Routes: Caribbean and Latinx F

This interdisciplinary seminar explores contemporary literary fiction, visual art, and film from the Latinx and Caribbean diaspora, with a focus on how narrative and aesthetic elements such as characterization, structure, dialogue, setting, tone, and theme, shape meaning and invite new ways of seeing. Students will be encouraged to interrogate their own perspectives by examining the roots and routes of their imaginations, asking not only what they think, but why. The course will include weekly critical and creative assignments, offering students opportunities to respond with essays, sketches, micro-memoirs, and experimental reviews and stories. We will consider engaging fiction as both a political and artistic act—one that can emerge from love or violence, found objects or personal memories, autobiography or current events. Through close readings and viewings, we will challenge, and reimagine dominant narratives and the popular Latinx imaginary. Throughout the course, students will deepen their visual literacy, broaden their understanding of the historical and cultural contexts informing Latinx identities, and develop their own critical and creative voices through multimodal storytelling.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Angie Cruz
  Info
• 4 points

PROBABILITY FOR ENGINEERS

Introductory course to probability theory and does not assume any prior knowledge of subject. Teaches foundations required to use probability in applications, but course itself is theoretical in nature. Basic definitions and axioms of probability and notions of independence and conditional probability introduced. Focus on random variables, both continuous and discrete, and covers topics of expectation, variance, conditional distributions, conditional expectation and variance, and moment generating functions. Also Central Limit Theorem for sums of random variables. Consists of lectures, recitations, weekly homework, and in-class exams.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Kaizheng Wang
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

The Ancient Table: Archaeology of Cookin

ANCT TBL: ARCH COOKING &

Prerequisites: None Humans don’t just eat to live. The ways we prepare, eat, and share our food is a complex reflection of our histories, environments, and ideologies. Whether we prefer coffee or tea, cornbread or challah, chicken breast or chicken feet, our tastes are expressive of social ties and social boundaries, and are linked to ideas of family and of foreignness. How did eating become such a profoundly cultural experience? This seminar takes an archaeological approach to two broad issues central to eating: First, what drives human food choices both today and in the past? Second, how have social forces shaped practices of food acquisition, preparation, and consumption (and how, in turn, has food shaped society)? We will explore these questions from various evolutionary, physiological, and cultural viewpoints, highlighted by information from the best archaeological and historic case studies. Topics that will be covered include the nature of the first cooking, beer-brewing and feasting, writing of the early recipes, gender roles and ‘domestic’ life, and how a national cuisine takes shape. Through the course of the semester we will explore food practices from Pleistocene Spain to historic Monticello, with particular emphasis on the earliest cuisines of China, Mesoamerica, and the Mediterranean.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Camilla Sturm
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

CLOTHING

Human beings create second, social, skins for themselves. Everyone designs interfaces between their bodies and the world around them. From pre-historic ornaments to global industry, clothing has always been a crucial feature of people’s survival, desires, and identity. This course studies clothing from the perspectives of anthropology, architecture, art, craft, economics, labor, law, psychology, semiotics, sociology, and sustainability. Issues include gender roles, local traditions, world-wide trade patterns, dress codes, the history of European fashion, dissident or disruptive styles, and the environmental consequences of what we wear today.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Anne Higonnet
  CULPA: 31 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

MARX, NIETZSCHE & FREUD (ENG)

MARX NIETZSCHE & FREUD (ENG)

Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud have significantly transformed what and how we know. The lecture will explore key concepts from their revolutionary ideas and introduce essential theories vital to the humanities and social sciences, including historical materialism, post-metaphysical philosophy, critical theory, and psychoanalysis. Discussions will focus on some of their most important texts, which continue to shape our critical understanding of society, culture, and human subjectivity. We will especially highlight the similarities and rivalries in their approaches. No prior knowledge of their works is necessary. All texts will be read and discussed in English translation.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Oliver Simons
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

Religion and Human Rights

What is the relationship between religion and human rights? How have different religious traditions conceived of “the human” as a being worthy of inherent dignity and respect, particularly in moments of political, military, economic, and ecological crisis? How and why have modern regimes of human rights privileged some of these ideas and marginalized others? What can these complicated relationships between religion and human rights explain some of the key crises in human rights law and politics today, and what avenues can be charted for moving forward? In this class, we will attempt to answer these questions by first developing a theoretical understanding of some of the key debates about the origins, trajectories, and legacies of modern human rights’ religious entanglements. We will then move on to examine various examples of ideas about and institutions for protecting “humanity” from different regions and histories. Specifically, we will examine how different societies, organizations, and religious traditions have addressed questions of war and violence; freedom of belief and expression; gender and sexual orientation; economic inequality; ecology; and the appropriate ways to punish and remember wrongdoing. In doing so, we will develop a repertoire of theoretical and empirical tools that can help us address both specific crises of human rights in various contexts, as well as the general crisis of faith and and observance of human rights as a universal norm and aspiration for peoples everywhere.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Timothy Vasko
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

ISSUES IN 19TH C FRENCH P

ISSUES IN 19TH C FRENCH ART

AHIS3682OC. Issues in Nineteenth Century Art.
3 points. 
Taught in English.

Instructor Nicolas Baudouin, Instructor in Art History. 

We will  focus on a key artistic period that is full of upheavals. We will particularly consider the affirmation of the individuality of the artist in relation to the institutions and great pictorial movements that have marked the history of French painting of that time.

To enroll in this course, you must apply to the 
Columbia Summer in Paris
 program through the Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement (UGE).  
Global Learning Scholarships available.
  
Tuition 
charges apply. 

Please note the program dates are different from the Summer Session Terms. Visit the 
UGE
 website for the start and end dates for the Columbia in Summer in Paris program.

Please email uge@columbia.edu with any questions you may have.

• Department: Global Programs
• 3 points

Work & Citizenship in 20th-Century Latin

Work/Citizenship 20th-C L

This seminar focuses on the relationship between workers and the state in 20th century Latin America, a period characterized by the recognition of labor unions, the codification of labor laws, the expansion of social and economic rights, and the establishment of welfare regimes. Throughout the course, students will get acquainted with some of the key problems, concepts, and methods through which historians and, to a lesser extent, social scientists have probed such relationship and studied such processes. More concretely, we will examine the class, racial, and gender dynamics that gave shape to labor movements, labor laws, and welfare regimes; a variety of political experiments to court workers, regulate labor, and expand the scope of citizenship; and, finally, the transformations brought about by neoliberalism at the end of the century. Knowledge of Spanish or Portuguese is welcome, but not mandatory.

• Department: History @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Alfonso Salgado
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• 4 points

The Rise of the Modern World Economy

Rise of Modern World Econ

Over the past thousand years, modern capitalism has expanded from its European starting point to the entire world. Modern economic activity started with a commercial revolution in the late Middle Ages, concentrated in European city states like Venice and Genoa. From the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries, European colonialism spread this commercial revolution around the globe. The Industrial Revolution in northwestern Europe led to unprecedented and sustained economic growth, which allowed European nations to dominate the rest of the world economically, politically, and militarily, with mixed results for the rest of the world. Over the past hundred years, global capitalism has continued to present countries, and the people in them, with enormous opportunities, crushing constraints, and major political dilemmas. 

The course is an introductory overview of the economics and politics of international economic activity in historical and theoretical perspective.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Jeffry A Frieden
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• 4 points

The Rise of the Modern World Economy Dis

Modern World Economy Disc

Over the past thousand years, modern capitalism has expanded from its European starting point to the entire world. Modern economic activity started with a commercial revolution in the late Middle Ages, concentrated in European city states like Venice and Genoa. From the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries, European colonialism spread this commercial revolution around the globe. The Industrial Revolution in northwestern Europe led to unprecedented and sustained economic growth, which allowed European nations to dominate the rest of the world economically, politically, and militarily, with mixed results for the rest of the world. Over the past hundred years, global capitalism has continued to present countries, and the people in them, with enormous opportunities, crushing constraints, and major political dilemmas. 

The course is an introductory overview of the economics and politics of international economic activity in historical and theoretical perspective.

• Department: Political Science
• M 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Samantha A Mussell
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• 0 points