APPROACHES TO E ASIAN STUDIES

This course is intended to provide a focal point for undergraduate majors in East Asian Studies. It introduces students to the analysis of particular objects of East Asian historical, literary, and cultural studies from various disciplinary perspectives. The syllabus is composed of a series of modules, each centered around an object, accompanied by readings that introduce different ways of understanding its meaning.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• Instructor: Robert P Hymes
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 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: Wadda Rios-Font
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 8 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEM-COMP LIT & SOCIETY

Prerequisites: CPLS UN3900 The senior seminar is a capstone course required of all CLS/MedHum majors and CLS concentrations. Only ICLS students may register. The seminar provides students the opportunity to discuss selected topics in comparative literature and society and medical humanities in a cross-disciplinary, multilingual, and global perspective. Students undertake individual research projects while participating in directed readings and critical dialogues about theory and research methodologies, which may culminate in the senior thesis. Students review work in progress and share results through weekly oral reports and written reports.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• Instructor: Bruno Bosteels
  Wikipedia h-index: 21 Info
• 3 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
• Instructor: Matthew I Palmer
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

Advanced Topics in German Literature

Heinrich von Kleist

"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
• Instructor: Dorothea von Muecke
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• 3 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

SENIOR PROJECT IN CREATIVE WRITING

SENIOR PROJ: CREATIVE WRI

Enrollment limited to Barnard senior English majors with a concentration in creative writing.

This creative writing workshop represents an opportunity for creative writing concentrators to focus on one large project that will serve as a capstone senior project. As in a typical writing workshop, much of the focus will be on sharing and critiquing student work. Unlike other workshops, in this class students will focus on building out a longer project—such as a more ambitious full-length story for fiction and creative nonfiction writers and a chapbook for poets. This means students will discuss work by writers who may not share their own genre. We will focus on generating new work, developing your writing process, and creating new possibilities and momentum for your piece, as well as trying to create a sense of community among the concentrators. We will also conduct in-class writing exercises in response to short reading assignments and class lectures. Students should be aware of two important notes: (1) This class is limited to senior English majors who have already been approved to be creative writing concentrators; and (2) this course fulfills the requirement for concentrators to finish a senior project, but not the academic senior seminar requirement. This class is about your own writing and that of your classmates. This class will be what you make of it!

• Department: English @Barnard
• Instructor: Ken Chen
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• 4 points

SENIOR SEM FOR MUSIC MAJORS

The goals of this seminar are a) to introduce senior music majors to ethnographic, bibliographic, and archival research methods in music and b) to help the same students develop, focus, implement, draft, revise, and polish a substantive, original piece of research (25-30 pages) which will serve as the senior project. The course will begin with a survey of academic literature on key problems in musicological research and writing, and will progress to a workshop/discussion format in which each week a different student is responsible for assigning readings and leading the discussion on a topic which s/he has formulated and deemed to be of relevance to her own research.

• Department: Music @Barnard
• Instructor: Lauren E Ninoshvili
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

URBAN STUDIES SENIOR SEMINAR

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
• Instructor: Mary Rocco
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Christian Siener
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Andreina Torres Angarita
  Info
• 4 points

EBHS SENIOR THESIS SEMINAR

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission and senior standing as a major or concentrator 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
• Instructor: Jill S Shapiro
  CULPA: 46 Info
• 3 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
• Instructor: Teodolinda Barolini
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth Leake
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• Instructor: Nelson Moe
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 6 Info
• Instructor: Pier Mattia Tommasino
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Konstantia Zanou
  Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED IND RES-LING THESIS

• Department: Slavic Languages
• 1-4 points

Senior Seminar Discussion Section

Discussion session for CPLS 3991, Senior Seminar in Comparative Literature & Society. Mandatory for ICLS seniors in both CLS and MedHum majors.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• 1 points

Senior Seminar Discussion Section

Discussion session for CPLS 3991, Senior Seminar in Comparative Literature & Society. Mandatory for ICLS seniors in both CLS and MedHum majors.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• 1 points

HUMAN RIGHTS SENIOR SEMINAR RSRCH METHOD

This course aims to introduce students to human rights research methods, while providing them with practical research tools. The course will be tailored to students’ interests, disciplinary backgrounds and research areas. The specific topics students will research and the methods they will employ will determine the substantive focus of readings. During the course we will ask the following questions: ‘what is human rights research?, how do you carry out research in an interdisciplinary field?, what distinguishes academic research from applied research and advocacy? While answering these questions, you will become familiar with the literature on human rights methodologies, and you will engage in analysis and critical assessment of important human rights research literature. In addition, the course gives a practical approach to research methodology. You will learn about a diverse set of methodologies, such as interviewing and focus groups, archival research, ethnographic and participant observation, interviewing focus groups, conducting online research; interpretive and non-empirical methods and basic quantitative methodologies to be employed in the study of human rights. As you learn about different methodological approaches, you will develop your own research project. Scholars and practitioners in the field of human rights research will present their work and engage in discussions with students about their own research, challenges, successes and publication venues. NB: This course is geared towards students who commit to writing a senior thesis. It is part of a two-course sequence: HRTS UN3994 Section 001 Human Rights Senior Seminar: Research Methods in the fall and HRTS UN3996 Human Rights Thesis Seminar in the spring. Students who do not intend to write a thesis should enroll in HRTS UN3995 section 001 Human Rights Senior Seminar, which is a one-semester course taught each semester focused on writing a seminar paper.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• Instructor: Tracey Holland
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS IN MATHEMATICS I

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 @Barnard
• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS IN AMER STUDIES

A year-long seminar for outstanding majors who want to conduct research -- or to design a creative project -- on any aspect of American history and culture. During the fall, students will clarify their research agenda or creative topic, sharpen their questions, locate their primary and secondary sources, and begin their project to be completed in the spring perhaps leading to departmental honors. See American Studies website for more details.

• Department: American Studies
• 4 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
• 1.5 points

HUMAN RIGHTS SENIOR 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
• Instructor: Shourideh Molavi
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• 4 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
  CULPA: 18 Info
• Instructor: Alessandra M Ciucci
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Zosha Di Castri
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• Instructor: Joseph P Dubiel
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Kevin Fellezs
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Aaron A Fox
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Giuseppe Gerbino
  CULPA: 12 Info
• Instructor: Georg Friedrich Haas
  Info
• Instructor: Mariusz Kozak
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 5 Info
• Instructor: Seth Cluett
  h-index: 4 Info
• Instructor: Magdalena Baczewska
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Peter M Susser
  CULPA: 20 Info
• Instructor: Christopher J Washburne
  CULPA: 31 Info
• Instructor: Ruth Opara
  Info
• 2-3 points

CURRENT RESEARCH IN ASTROPHYS

Prerequisites: two semesters of astronomy classes and two semesters of physics classes. The goal of this course is to introduce astronomy and astrophysics majors to the methods and topics of current astronomical research. The course will also help with the development of critical thinking skills. Each week, the topic of the course will be centered on the subject of the Astronomy department colloquium; this may include research on planets, stars, galaxies or cosmology. There will be two required meetings per week: the first will be to discuss papers related to the colloquium (time TBD), and the second will be the colloquium itself (at 4:15 pm each Wednesday).

• Department: Astronomy
• Instructor: Marcel A Agueros
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 2 points

THE MAJOR SEMINAR

A seminar designed to prepare students to develop and bring to completion a substantive piece of original research in an area of their own interest and choosing which may (or may not) be developed into a Senior Thesis the following semester; (ii) a lecture series introducing students to the faculty of the Department of Classics at Columbia University and the methods of scholarly research in the disciplines that comprise classical studies.

• Department: Classics
• Instructor: John T Ma
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

For students who want to do independent study of topics not covered by normal program offerings, or for senior American studies majors working on the Senior Honors Project independent of 3990y. The student must find a faculty sponsor and work out a plan of study; a copy of this plan should be submitted to the program director.

• Department: American Studies
• Instructor: Maura L Spiegel
  CULPA: 40 Info
• Instructor: Jeremy Dauber
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia Info
• 1-4 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

• Department: Anthropology
• Instructor: Brian Boyd
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Hannah Chazin
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• Instructor: Marilyn Ivy
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Paige West
  CULPA: 41 h-index: 23 Info
• Instructor: Antara Chakrabarti
  Info
• Instructor: Nadia Abu El-Haj
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Lila Abu-Lughod
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info
• Instructor: Vanessa L Agard-Jones
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Amanda Althoff
  Info
• Instructor: Naor H Ben-Yehoyada
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Jacob A Bessen
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• Instructor: Nicholas A Bartlett
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Myron L Cohen
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Zoe Crossland
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Terence N D'Altroy
  CULPA: 37 Info
• Instructor: Catherine Fennell
  Info
• 2-6 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

• Department: Anthropology
• 2-6 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

• Department: Anthropology
• Instructor: Gina A Jae
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: John Pemberton
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Paloma Rodrigo Gonzales
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• Instructor: Marisa G Ruiz Trejo
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• Instructor: J.C. Salyer
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: David Scott
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 72 Info
• Instructor: Audra Simpson
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Kaya N Williams
  Info
• Instructor: Ellen Marakowitz
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Nicholas Glastonbury
  Info
• Instructor: Rosalind Morris
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Radhika Govindrajan
  Info
• 2-6 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Prerequisites: Permission of the program director in term prior to that of independent study. Independent study form available at departmental office.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• Instructor: Karen Fairbanks
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Kadambari Baxi
  Info
• Instructor: Ralph Ghoche
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 2 Info
• Instructor: Ignacio Gonzalez Galan
  Info
• 1-4 points

INDEPENDENT RESEARCH

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. For an independent research project or independent study, a brief description of the proposed project or reading, with the supervising faculty member's endorsement, is required for registration. A variety of research projects conducted under the supervision of members of the faculty. Observational, theoretical, and experimental work in galactic and extragalactic astronomy and cosmology. The topic and scope of the work must be arranged with a faculty member in advance; a written paper describing the results of the project is required at its completion (note that a two-term project can be designed such that the grade YC is given after the first term). Senior majors in astronomy or astrophysics wishing to do a senior thesis should make arrangements in May of their junior year and sign up for a total of 6 points over their final two terms. Both a substantial written document and an oral presentation of thesis results are required.

• Department: Astronomy
• Instructor: Marcel A Agueros
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 3 points

NEW DIRECTIONS IN COMPUTING

APPLIED CRYPTOGRAPHY

This is an undergraduate seminar for special topics in computing arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis.  Participation requires permission of the instructor.  Since the content of this course changes each time it is offered, it may be repeated for credit.

• Department: Computer Science @Barnard
• Instructor: Eysa Lee
  Info
• 3 points

NEW DIRECTIONS IN COMPUTING

SEMINAR: NEUROSYMBOLIC AI

This is an undergraduate seminar for special topics in computing arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis.  Participation requires permission of the instructor.  Since the content of this course changes each time it is offered, it may be repeated for credit.

• Department: Computer Science @Barnard
• Instructor: Mark Santolucito
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Students conduct research in environmental biology under supervision of a faculty mentor. The topic and scope of the research project must be approved before the student registers for the course.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• Instructor: Jill S Shapiro
  CULPA: 46 Info
• 1-3 points

SENIOR SEMINAR IN ENGLISH

SR SEM:BLACK LIVES ENLGHT

Enrollment limited to Barnard senior English majors. To see the current course description for each section, visit the English Department website:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/senior-seminars

• Department: English @Barnard
• Instructor: James G Basker
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR IN ENGLISH

SR SEM: WRITING ON WATER

Enrollment limited to Barnard senior English majors. To see the current course description for each section, visit the English Department website:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/senior-seminars

• Department: English @Barnard
• Instructor: Yvette Christianse
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR IN ENGLISH

SR SEM: 19TH-C AMER WOMEN WRIT

Enrollment limited to Barnard senior English majors. To see the current course description for each section, visit the English Department website:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/senior-seminars

• Department: English @Barnard
• Instructor: Lisa Gordis
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR IN ENGLISH

SR SEM: VICTORIAN&MODERN DRAMA

Enrollment limited to Barnard senior English majors. To see the current course description for each section, visit the English Department website:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/senior-seminars

• Department: English @Barnard
• Instructor: Patricia D Denison
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

DIRECTED READINGS IN GREEK LIT

Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies permission. A program of reading in Greek literature, to be tested by a series of short papers, one long paper, or an oral or written examination.

• Department: Classics
• Instructor: Rosa M Andujar
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• Instructor: Marcus Folch
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth K Irwin
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: John T Ma
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Paraskevi Martzavou
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Nancy Worman
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

DIRECTED READINGS

Designed for undergraduates who want to do directed reading in a period or on a topic not covered in the curriculum.

• Department: Classics
• Instructor: Nikolas Kakkoufa
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• Instructor: Dimitris Antoniou
  h-index: 5 Info
• Instructor: Karen Van Dyck
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• Instructor: Paraskevi Martzavou
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 1-4 points

DIRECTED READINGS IN LATIN LIT

Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies permission. A program of reading in Latin literature, to be tested by a series of short papers, one long paper, or an oral or written examination.

• Department: Classics
• Instructor: Rosalie Stoner
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• Instructor: Joseph A Howley
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Kristina Milnor
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia h-index: 10 Info
• Instructor: Katharina Volk
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Gareth Williams
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points