MODES OF INQUIRY

Corequisites: CSER UN3921 This class, a combination of a seminar and a workshop, will prepare students to conduct, write up, and present original research. It has several aims and goals. First, the course introduces students to a variety of ways of thinking about knowledge as well as to specific ways of knowing and making arguments key to humanistic and social science fields. Second, this seminar asks students to think critically about the approaches they employ in pursuing their research. The course will culminate in a semester project, not a fully executed research project, but rather an 8-10 page proposal for research that will articulate a question, provide basic background on the context that this question is situated in, sketch preliminary directions and plot out a detailed methodological plan for answering this question. Students will be strongly encouraged to think of this proposal as related to their thesis or senior project. Over the course of the semester, students will also produce several short exercises to experiment with research techniques and genres of writing.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Sayantani T Dasgupta
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR PROJECT COLLOQUIUM

This course is for American studies majors planning to complete senior projects in the spring. The course is designed to help students clarify their research agenda, sharpen their questions, and locate their primary and secondary sources. Through class discussions and a workshop peer review process, each member of the course will enter spring semester with a completed bibliography that will provide an excellent foundation for the work of actually writing the senior essay. The colloquium will meet every other week and is required for everyone planning to do a senior research project. Application due June 15. See American Studies website.

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

SENIOR SEMINAR

Open to senior chemistry, biochemistry, environmental chemistry, and chemical physics majors; senior chemistry concentrators; and students who have taken or are currently enrolled in CHEM UN3098. Senior seminar provides direct access to modern chemical research through selected studies by the students from active fields of chemical research. Topics to be presented and discussed draw from the current scientific literature and/or UN3098 research.

• Department: Chemistry
• F 2:40 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Karen E Phillips
  CULPA: 28 h-index: 9 Info
• 2 points

SENIOR SEM IN SCREENWRITING

A seminar for senior film majors. Students will complete a step outline and minimum of 30 pages of their project, including revisions. Through reading/viewing and analyzing selected scripts/films, as well as lectures, exercises and weekly critiques, students will expand their understanding of dramatic writing and narrative-making for film and TV, including adaptations. They will learn appropriate structure for each specific screen-writing form, and endeavor to apply their understanding of drama, character, theme, and structure to their chosen narrative project.

• Department: Film
• R 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Loren-Paul Caplin
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

HONORS RESEARCH

Prerequisites: open to students in the honors program only. Except by special permission of the director of undergraduate studies, no more than 4 points of individual research may be taken in any one term. This includes both PSYC UN3950 and PSYC UN3920. No more than 12 points of PSYC UN3920 may be applied toward the honors program in psychology. Special research topics arranged with the instructors of the department leading toward a senior honors paper.

• Department: Psychology
• Instructor: Nim L Tottenham
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• 1-4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

BUREAUCRATIC POLITICS

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Seminar in American Politics Seminar. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

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

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

POLIT PARTIES IN US POLITICS

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Seminar in American Politics Seminar. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

• Department: Political Science
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Shigeo Hirano
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

SEXUALITY & CITIZENSHIP IN US

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Seminar in American Politics Seminar. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

• Department: Political Science
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Justin H Phillips
  CULPA: 23 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

MEDIA & AMERICAN POLITICS

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Seminar in American Politics Seminar. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

• Department: Political Science
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Brigitte Nacos
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

POLITICS OF INCOME INEQUALITY

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Seminar in American Politics Seminar. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

• Department: Political Science
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Judith Russell
  CULPA: 49 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

IMMIGRATION POLICY & POLITICS

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Seminar in American Politics Seminar. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

• Department: Political Science
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Carlos Vargas-Ramos
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

EQUALITY AND THE LAW

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Seminar in American Politics Seminar. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

• Department: Political Science
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert L Amdur
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

PUB OPINION & POL PARTIES

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 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Oliver A McClellan
  h-index: 3 Info
• 4 points

RACE&REPRESENTATION IN ASIAN AMER CINEMA

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

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

LATIN MUSIC AND IDENTITY

Latin music has had a historically strained relationship with mainstream music tastes, exploding in occasional boom periods, and receding into invisibility in others. What if this were true because it is a space for hybrid construction of identity that directly reflects a mixture of traditions across racial lines in Latin America? This course will investigate Latin musics transgression of binary views of race in Anglo-American society, even as it directly affects the development of pop music in America. From New Orleans jazz to Texas corridos, salsa, rock, and reggaeton, Latin music acts as both as a soundtrack and a structural blueprint for the 21st centurys multicultural experiment. There will be a strong focus on studying Latin musics political economy, and investigating the story it tells about migration and globalization.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Edward Morales
  Info
• 4 points

ADV TPCS IMMIGRATN INEQUAL I

Examines processes of immigrant incorporation in the U.S. and other advanced democracies, with a focus on how immigration intersects with categorical inequalities (such as citizenship, social class, race, ethnicity, gender, and religion) in major institutional realms. Under instructor's supervision, students conduct a substantial research project related to course themes.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Randa B Serhan
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

ARABIC PRISON WRITING

This course studies the genealogy of the prison in Arab culture as manifested in memoirs, narratives, and poems. These cut across a vast temporal and spatial swathe, covering selections from the Quran, Sufi narratives from al-Halllaj oeuvre, poetry by prisoners of war: classical, medieval, and modern. It also studies modern narratives by women prisoners and political prisoners, and narratives that engage with these issues. Arabic prison writing is studied against other genealogies of this prism, especially in the West, to map out the birth of prison, its institutionalization, mechanism, and role. All readings for the course are in English translations.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Muhsin Al-Musawi
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

COLONIZATION/DECOLONIZATION

Prerequisites: Open to CSER majors/concentrators only. Others may be allowed to register with the instructors permission. This course explores the centrality of colonialism in the making of the modern world, emphasizing cross-cultural and social contact, exchange, and relations of power; dynamics of conquest and resistance; and discourses of civilization, empire, freedom, nationalism, and human rights, from 1500 to 2000. Topics include pre-modern empires; European exploration, contact, and conquest in the new world; Atlantic-world slavery and emancipation; and European and Japanese colonialism in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The course ends with a section on decolonization and post-colonialism in the period after World War II. Intensive reading and discussion of primary documents.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Mae M Ngai
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Claudio Lomnitz
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SLAVERY/ABOLITION-ATLANTC WRLD

This seminar investigates the experiences of slavery and freedom among African-descended people living and laboring in the various parts of the Atlantic World. The course will trace critical aspects of these two major, interconnected historical phenomena with an eye to how specific cases either manifested or troubled broader trends across various slaveholding societies. The first half of the course addresses the history of slavery and the second half pertains to experiences in emancipation. However, since the abolition of slavery occurs at different moments in various areas of the Atlantic World, the course will adhere to a more thematic and less chronological structure, in its examination of the multiple avenues to freedom available in various regions. Weekly units will approach major themes relevant to both slavery and emancipation, such as racial epistemologies among slaveowners/employers, labor regimes in slave and free societies, cultural innovations among slave and freed communities, gendered discourses and sexual relations within slave and free communities, and slaves’ and free people’s resistance to domination. The goal of this course is to broaden students’ comprehension of the history of slavery and freedom, and to promote an understanding of the transition from slavery to freedom in the Americas as creating both continuities and ruptures in the structure and practices of the various societies concerned.

• Department: History
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Natasha J Lightfoot
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE

AFRICAN SPIRITUAL-AMERICAS

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

• Department: African American and African Diaspora
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: C. Daniel Dawson
  Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

SUPREME COURT IN AMERICAN HIST

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

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

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

SHAKESPEARE IN AMERICA

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

• Department: American Studies
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: James Shapiro
  CULPA: 25 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

GENDER HIST AND AMERICAN FILM

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

• Department: American Studies
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Hilary-Anne Hallett
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

Tocqueville: Democratic Mind

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

• Department: American Studies
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Lilla
  CULPA: 57 Wikipedia Info
• 4 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
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Mignon R Moore
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info
• 4 points

SOC JUSTICE & HUM RIGHTS

Corequisites: Students must have an internship related to social justice or human rights during This class is intended to complement and enhance the internship experience for students working in internships that relate to social justice and human rights during the Spring 2016 semester. This course will meet bi-weekly to provide an academic framing of the issues that students are working on and to provide an opportunity for students to analyze their internship experience.

• Department: Human Rights (HRTB)
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Widney Brown
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

CLIM CHNG/GLOBAL MIGR/HUM RGT

While the existence of processes of anthropogenic climate change is well established, predictions regarding the future consequences of these processes are far less certain. In no area is the uncertainty regarding near and long term effects as pronounced as in the question of how climate change will affect global migration. This course will address the issue of climate migration in four ways. First, the course will examine the theoretical and empirical literatures that have elucidated the nature of international migration in general. Second, the course will consider the phenomena of anthropogenic climate change as it relates to migration. Third, the course will consider how human rights and other legal regimes do or do not address the humanitarian issues created by anthropogenic climate change. Fourth, the course will synthesize these topics by considering how migration and climate change has arisen as a humanitarian, political, and economic issue in the Pacific. Human Rights elective.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• W 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Patrick F Nason
  Info
• 4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Prerequisites: the department chairs permission. (Formerly R3932)

• Department: Visual Arts
• Instructor: Gregory Amenoff
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Matthew E Buckingham
  Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Susanna Coffey
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Jon Kessler
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Nicola G Lopez
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Delphine A Fawundu
  Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Joseph J Peet
  Info
• Instructor: Shelly Silver
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Sable Smith
  Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Rirkrit Tiravanija
  Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Tomas Vu Daniel
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 1-3 points

POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Sailaja Sastry
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 4 points

Mobilities: Migration and Disabilities

MIGRATION AND DISABILITIE

In this course students will work in an applied setting to learn about issues that impact asylum seekers with disabilities in a real-world context in cooperation with asylum lawyers from the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP). In essence, IRAP will be our “client” and our class projects and assignments will take the form of research projects that produce materials that will be of assistance to immigration lawyers representing asylum seekers with disabilities. In collaboration with IRAP, we will produce reports addressing the challenges faced by asylum seekers with disabilities from Central America. Specifically, students will work in teams to research country conditions issues relating to the challenges faced by people with impairments and disabilities in Central America and in Mexico. Through a series of individual and team assignments students will prepare a report and presentation to be submitted to IRAP at the end of the semester.

• Department: Human Rights (HRTB)
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: J.C. Salyer
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

Indigenous Peoples of New York and New E

Indigenous Peoples NY & N

This course provides an interdisciplinary perspective on Native peoples of present-day New York and New England and on their interactions with settler colonial societies (French, Spanish, British, US). Most of the reading will be by Native authors. In order to provide a firm historical foundation for understanding the dynamics of Indigenous and colonial history our emphasis will be on the period between European settlement and the nineteenth century. Coverage will not be exhaustive; there are too many Native nations in this region for that to be possible. Our focus rather will be on major turning points in Native history which have become flashpoints for controversy among scholars and in the broader public sphere: the relationship between Indians and Pilgrims, King Philip’s War, the so-called Indian Great Awakening, and others. We will also familiarize ourselves with present-day debates in Indigenous Studies including those pertaining to the idea of “ethnographic refusal”—i.e., the idea that Indigenous peoples should resist sharing information about their traditional cultures with non-Indian outsiders especially in academic spaces, where the study of Native Americans has often worked against Indigenous interests. The course should appeal broadly to students interested in Native history, literature, religion, and legal studies.

• Department: American Studies
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Ryan Carr
  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
  Info
• 4 points

CUR CONTROV-PRIMATE BEHAV&ECOL

Prerequisites: EEEB UN1011 or the equivalent. Critical in-depth evaluation of selected issues in primate socioecology, including adaptationism, sociality, sexual competition, communication, kinship, dominance, cognition, and politics. Emphasizes readings from original literature.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Marina Cords
  CULPA: 19 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
• 4 points

CONST/DEMOCRACY-THE MID EAST

Prerequisites: application requirements: SEE UNDERGRAD SEMINAR SECTION OF DEPARTMENT'S WEBSITE. Where the establishment of sustainable democracies is concerned, the Middle East has perhaps the poorest record of all regions of the world since World War II. This is in spite of the fact that two of the first constitutions in the non-Western world were established in this region, in the Ottoman Empire in 1876 and in Iran in 1906. Notwithstanding these and other subsequent democratic and constitutional experiments, Middle Eastern countries have been ruled over the past century by some of the world's last absolute monarchies, as well as a variety of other autocratic, military-dominated and dictatorial regimes. This course, intended primarily for advanced undergraduates, explores this paradox. It will examine the evolution of constitutional thought and practice, and how it was embodied in parliamentary and other democratic systems in the Middle East. It will examine not only the two Ottoman constitutional periods of 1876-78 and 1908-18, and that of Iran from 1905 onwards, but also the various precursors to these experiments, and some of their 20th century sequels in the Arab countries, Turkey and Iran. This will involve detailed study of the actual course of several Middle Eastern countries' democratic experiments, of the obstacles they faced, and of their outcomes. Students are expected to take away a sense of the complexities of the problems faced by would-be Middle Eastern democrats and constitutionalists, and of some of the reasons why the Middle East has appeared to be an exception to a global trend towards democratization in the post-Cold War era.

• Department: History
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Rashid I Khalidi
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Senior Pro Seminar

SENIOR PRO SEMINAR

This course is a seminar for seniors to either write a formal proposal for a capstone project or to begin the research process for a Senior Thesis, which will be written in the Spring semester. This interdisciplinary course provides the necessary structure needed to complete either goal. This will be an interactive class in which students are required to participate and actively engage in each meeting.

• Department: African American and African Diaspora
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Gooding-Williams
  Wikipedia h-index: 15 Info
• 4 points

Transpacific Media Cultures

Transpacific Media Cultures underscores the flows and movements of culture, media, ideas, and
communities in, around, and along the Pacific, including Asia, the Americas, and Oceania. This
course is designed to introduce students to a diverse set of contemporary media productions that
are attuned to social, political, and cultural issues across the transpacific. Some of the topics
discussed include race, gender, and sexuality in a networked world; migrant labor; indigenous
rights; the ethics of new media; and, the intersections of media and social justice. Because this
course takes on the study of media from a transpacific and global lens, it necessarily must
contend with and consider seriously various literacies and uneven forms of knowledge creations
in different locales. To that end, we will be studying different forms of cultural productions
(including film, video, multimedia, transmedia storytelling, and poetry) that reveal the
multiplicities, differences, and nuances of worldmaking.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Viola Lasmana
  Info
• 4 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

1-4 points. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Except by special permission of the director of undergraduate studies, no more than 4 points of individual research may be taken in any one term. This includes both PSYC UN3950 and PSYC UN3920. No more than 8 points ofPSYC UN3950 may be applied toward the psychology major, and no more than 4 points toward the concentration. Readings, special laboratory projects, reports, and special seminars on contemporary issues in psychological research and theory.

• Department: Psychology
• Instructor: Mariam Aly
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 15 Info
• 1-4 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

1-4 points. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Except by special permission of the director of undergraduate studies, no more than 4 points of individual research may be taken in any one term. This includes both PSYC UN3950 and PSYC UN3920. No more than 8 points ofPSYC UN3950 may be applied toward the psychology major, and no more than 4 points toward the concentration. Readings, special laboratory projects, reports, and special seminars on contemporary issues in psychological research and theory.

• Department: Psychology
• 1-4 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

1-4 points. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Except by special permission of the director of undergraduate studies, no more than 4 points of individual research may be taken in any one term. This includes both PSYC UN3950 and PSYC UN3920. No more than 8 points ofPSYC UN3950 may be applied toward the psychology major, and no more than 4 points toward the concentration. Readings, special laboratory projects, reports, and special seminars on contemporary issues in psychological research and theory.

• Department: Psychology
• 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: Norma V Graham
  CULPA: 29 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Carl Hart
  CULPA: 43 Wikipedia h-index: 54 Info
• Instructor: Larisa A Heiphetz
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 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: Caroline B Marvin
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 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: Shigehiro Oishi
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• 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: Ursula Staudinger
  Wikipedia h-index: 63 Info
• Instructor: Yaakov Stern
  Wikipedia h-index: 160 Info
• Instructor: Herbert S Terrace
  CULPA: 29 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Nim L Tottenham
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• Instructor: Elke Weber
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia h-index: 85 Info
• Instructor: Sarah Woolley
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 31 Info
• 1-4 points

UNDERGRADUATE SEMINARS I

Prerequisites: Two years of calculus, at least one year of additional mathematics courses, and the director of undergraduate studies permission. The subject matter is announced at the start of registration and is different in each section. Each student prepares talks to be given to the seminar, under the supervision of a faculty member or senior teaching fellow.

• Department: Mathematics @Barnard
• Instructor: Daniela de Silva
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

COMPARATIVE POLITICS SEMINAR

INFORMATION MEDIA POL BEHAV

Prerequisites: POLS V1501 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Please see here for detailed seminar registration guidelines: http://polisci.columbia.edu/undergraduate-programs/seminar-registration-guidelines. Seminar in Comparative Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

• Department: Political Science
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: John Marshall
  h-index: 20 Info
• 4 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 1

Prerequisites: minimum GPA of 3.5 in MESAAS courses. The MESAAS honors seminar offers students the opportunity to undertake a sustained research project under close faculty supervision. The DUS advises on general issues of project design, format, approach, general research methodologies, and timetable. In addition, students work with an individual advisor who has expertise in the area of the thesis and can advise on the specifics of method and content. The thesis will be jointly evaluated by the adviser, the DUS, and the honors thesis TA. The DUS will lead students through a variety of exercises that are directly geared to facilitating the thesis. Students build their research, interpretive, and writing skills; discuss methodological approaches; write an annotated bibliography; learn to give constructive feedback to peers and respond to feedback effectively. The final product is a polished research paper in the range of 40-60 pages. Please note: This is a one-year course that begins in the fall semester (1 point) and continues through the spring semester (3 points). Only students who have completed both semesters will receive the full 4 points of credit.

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

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

ADVANCES IN INTL POLITICAL ECO

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
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• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

COERCION AND WORLD POLITICS

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 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Sarah Daly
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• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

RULES OF 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
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexander de la Paz
  CULPA: 2 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
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: David E Spiro
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 6 Info
• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

Prerequisites: POLS UN1601 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Seminar in International Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

• Department: Political Science
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jack L Snyder
  CULPA: 27 Info
• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR

SOLVING GLOBAL PROBLEMS

Prerequisites: POLS UN1601 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Seminar in International Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

• Department: Political Science
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Giulio M Gallarotti
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• 4 points

Maya Guatemala-Neoliberalism & Resistanc

Maya Guatemala-NEO & RESI

Guatemala’s recurrent history of Indigenous genocide is closely linked to U.S. interventions. Meanwhile, Maya organizing in Guatemala has helped spearhead Indigenous political visibility globally. This course examines socio-historical dynamics that have shaped Indigenous Guatemala to better understand current crises like migration and postwar violence. We study settler colonialism; Maya land dispossession and labor exploitation; U.S. corporate imperialism via banana republics; Maya autonomy efforts; Maya intellectuals, populist organizing, and the guerrilla revolutionary movement; racism and postwar multiculturalism; genocidal military counterinsurgency; sexual violence and femicide; the social impacts of Guatemalan and U.S. Catholicism and Evangelicalism; postwar neoliberal restructuring; and the rise of the narco-state and resource extraction on Indigenous territories.  We will look at contemporary postwar issues of political disillusionment, militarized “war by other means,” conflicts between Indigenous communities and environmental conservationists, gender and the recovery of Indigenous law and anti-GMO organizing involving Native seed banks.  We pay special attention to Indigenous political action as resistance to highly oppressive regimes of terror.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Czarina F Thelen
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• 4 points

Black Culture/Black Protest

Visual, sonic, literary, and bodily arts have mobilized the passions and uprisings of African descended peoples with rebellious grace for untold centuries. Barred access to or made peripheral in the colonial political structures of white supremacist modernity, Black people around the world used their unique positions and talents as speech with which to represent themselves and their futures. Though some argue that Black culture has been overdetermined by its relationship to resistance efforts, this proximity remains a resource in exposing the motivations that underlie its production, the methods used in its composition, and the consequences that spring from it. The slash here between the two (“Black Culture” and “Black Protest”) highlights their proximity while also noting that they are distinct formations. Our work will be to understand their separate constitutions as well as the ways in which they collide in order to better conceive of and contextualize this history, all while collectively imagining new strategies for and alternatives to our present.

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

The News: The Profession of Journalism G

The News: Journalism Digi

This course examines the profession of journalism in modern society.. The social role of the Press has changed with the advent of digital technologies and the democratization of the production, distribution and consumption of authoritative information. The course looks closely at the practice of newsmaking by examining the people and organizations who interact with one another to create and share news content. Newsmaking is viewed as meaningful collective interaction—that is, a behavior that is the sum of the engagement of multiple social actors, each of whom is motivated by assumptions, norms, and aspirations regarding the value of information and the role of the Press in society. Themes for the course include: (1) how journalists think and work (2) the ways that digital technologies has challenged the Qield of professional journalism and redeQined the role of the “journalist” and “reporter” (3) the evolution of journalism since the Industrial Revolution, with a particular focus on social media and digital transmission of news content (4) the social assumptions and infrastructure that lies behind modern newsmaking (5) the conQlicts, disruptions and tensions that emerge in social organization when new and/or competing technologies are introduced. Substantive topics include, “fake news,” “misinformation,” the challenges of Qirst-hand reporting, the newsroom as an ecosystem, and the rise of social media. Students will read a variety of texts, including: historical studies of journalism: accounts and memoirs of professional journalists; scientiQic research examining the impact of modern digital media; and news articles and contemporary forms of reportage (tweets, podcasts, etc.).

• Department: Sociology
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Sudhir A Venkatesh
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ART CRITICISM

This course is a seminar on contemporary art criticism written by artists in the post war period. Such criticism differs from academic criticism because it construes art production less as a discrete object of study than as a point of engagement. It also differs from journalistic criticism because it is less obliged to report art market activity and more concerned with polemics. Art /Criticism I will trace the course of these developments by examining the art and writing of one artist each week. These will include Brian ODoherty/Patrick Ireland, Allan Kaprow, Robert Morris, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Smithson, Art - Language, Dan Graham, Adrian Piper, Mary Kelly, Martha Rosler, Judith Barry and Andrea Fraser. We will consider theoretical and practical implications of each artists oeuvre.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: John Miller
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

METHODS & THEORIES OF ART HIST

Prerequisites: Barnard Art History Major Requirement. Enrollment limited only to Barnard Art History majors. Introduction to critical writings that have shaped histories of art, including texts on iconography and iconology, the psychology of perception, psychoanalysis, social history, feminism and gender studies, structuralism, semiotics, and post-structuralism.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Alexander Alberro
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Jonathan Reynolds
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

ANTHROPOLOGY OF SCIENCE

This course examines specific debates in the history and philosophy of science, and in science and technology studies (STS), with a view towards exploring the relationships among science, technology and society. The first half of the course engages methodological questions and theoretical debates concerning the nature of epistemology, and the significance of social interests, material agency, laboratory and social practices, and “culture(s)” in the making of scientific knowledge.  The second half delves more specifically into the ways in which sciences and technologies are both embedded in and shape contemporary social and political practices and imaginaries

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Gina A Jae
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

Abolition: A Social Justice Practicum

ABOLITION: SOC JUSTICE PR

This course will explore the social justice road to punitive abolition—to the abolition of capital punishment and the dominant punitive punishment paradigm in the United States. It will investigate how abolition of the death penalty might be achieved in this country, but also what it might mean to imagine abolition in the context of policing, of the prison, and also of punishment more broadly. The United States incarcerates more of its own than any other country in the world and than any other civilization in history. With over 2,600 inmates on death row, 2.2 million people behind bars, another 5 million people on probation or parole, and over 70 million people in the FBI’s criminal record database, this country now operates a criminal justice system of unparalleled punitiveness. The burden of this system has fallen predominantly on poor communities of color. In fact, in some striking ways, this country’s criminal justice system and reliance on mass incarceration have replaced chattel slavery. As Bryan Stevenson explains, “Slavery didn’t end in 1865. It just evolved.” This course will explore how the country can move from a punitive paradigm to a new paradigm that favors instead education and well-being. It will investigate: (1) how to chart a social justice path toward abolition of the death penalty; (2) how to reimagine the criminal justice system so that it is no longer based on a punitive paradigm; and (3) what it would mean to imagine abolition more broadly of policing and punishment.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• T 4:20 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
• 3 points

POST-BACCALAUREATE SEMINAR

This seminar aims to provide students in the post-baccalaureate certificate program with opportunities 1) to (re-)familiarize themselves with a selection of major texts from classical antiquity, which will be read in English, 2) to become acquainted with scholarship on these texts and with scholarly writing in general, 3) to write analytically about these texts and the interpretations posed about them in contemporary scholarship, and 4) to read in the original language selected passages of one of the texts in small tutorial groups, which will meet every week for an additional hour with members of the faculty.

• Department: Classics
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Darcy Krasne
  h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

POST-BACCALAUREATE SEMINAR

This seminar aims to provide students in the post-baccalaureate certificate program with opportunities 1) to (re-)familiarize themselves with a selection of major texts from classical antiquity, which will be read in English, 2) to become acquainted with scholarship on these texts and with scholarly writing in general, 3) to write analytically about these texts and the interpretations posed about them in contemporary scholarship, and 4) to read in the original language selected passages of one of the texts in small tutorial groups, which will meet every week for an additional hour with members of the faculty.

• Department: Classics
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Darcy Krasne
  h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

MIGRATION & DEVELOPMENT

This is a seminar course on the social structure of migration–the movement of people from place to place–and its developmental consequences. The readings are organized by topic and include examples drawn from many countries, in order to highlight the commonality of migration processes across societies as well as specific societal differences that reflect national differences in social institutions, regional variations in economic development, etc. Papers concerned both with internal migration and international migration are included; as we will see, the apparent distinction between these two forms of migration–the presence of institutional barriers with respect to international migration and the supposed absence of such barriers with respect to internal migration–breaks down in societies that impose institutional constraints on internal migration: China, the former Soviet Union, and apartheid-era South Africa, among others.

• Department: Sociology
• R 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Yao Lu
  h-index: 25 Info
• 4 points

The Quantified State: How Democracy Incl

Numbers have become indispensable to how American know themselves and understand their society. Further, statistical reasoning plays an essential role in the government’s operations. Why have numbers come to play such an important role in modern America? How has numerical data and calculation enabled us to analyze, order, and control the world around us? The course offers a survey of quantification across various domains from politics to governance, crime, education, and economic development. Students will learn how to think critically about the power of quantitative arguments and the ways they are marshalled in specific contexts.

• Department: History
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Alma Steingart
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points