SENIOR SEMINAR

SR SEM:ARCHITECTRE CRITICISM

See the Barnard and Columbia Architecture Department's website for the course description: 
https://architecture.barnard.edu/architecture-department-course-descriptions

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Suzanne Stephens
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• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS

Prerequisites: Senior majors only. Senior Seminar required of all majors in East Asian Studies. Open only to senior majors.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• Instructor: Hana Lethen
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• 3 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

Guided, independent, in-depth research culminating in the senior thesis in the spring. Includes discussion about scientific presentations and posters, data analysis, library research methods and scientific writing. Students review work in progress and share results through oral reports. Weekly seminar to review work in progress and share results through oral and written reports.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points

HONORS TUTORIAL IN MECH ENGIN

Individual study; may be selected after the first term of the junior year by students maintaining a 3.2 grade-point average. Course format may vary from individual tutorial to laboratory work to seminar instruction under faculty supervision. Projects requiring machine-shop use must be approved by the laboratory supervisor. Students may count up to 6 points toward degree requirements. Students must submit both a project outline prior to registration and a final project write up at the end of the semester.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• Instructor: Gerard A Ateshian
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• Instructor: Arvind Narayanaswamy
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• Instructor: Vijay Vedula
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• Instructor: James Hone
  CULPA: 11 h-index: 124 Info
• Instructor: Kristin Myers
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 25 Info
• Instructor: Jeffrey W Kysar
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 37 Info
• Instructor: Vijay Modi
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 40 Info
• Instructor: Qiao Lin
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• Instructor: Matei T Ciocarlie
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• Instructor: Michael J Massimino
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• Instructor: Sunil Agrawal
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• Instructor: Sinisa Vukelic
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 11 Info
• Instructor: Bianca N Howard
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• Instructor: Harry West
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• Instructor: Yevgeniy Yesilevskiy
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• Instructor: Hod Lipson
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• Instructor: Karen Kasza
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• Instructor: Michael Burke
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• 3 points

SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE

Prerequisites: SOCI BC1003 or equivalent social science course and permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15 students. Drawing examples from popular music, religion, politics, race, and gender, explores the interpretation, production, and reception of cultural texts and meanings. Topics include aesthetic distinction and taste communities, ideology, power, and resistance; the structure and functions of subcultures; popular culture and high culture; and ethnography and interpretation.

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

SENIOR THESIS II

Prerequisites: VIAR UN3900 Department approval required. See requirements for a major in visual arts. VIAR UN3900 is the prerequisite for VIAR UN3901. Corequisites: VIAR UN3911 Students must enroll in both semesters of the course (VIAR UN3900 and VIAR UN3901). The student is required to produce a significant body of work in which the ideas, method of investigation, and execution are determined by the student. A plan is developed in consultation with the faculty. Seminars; presentations. At the end, an exhibition or other public venue is presented for evaluation. Studio space is provided.

• Department: Visual Arts
• W 5:15 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Sable Smith
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• 2 points

SENIOR HONORS THESIS SEM

Weekly seminar to accompany Senior Honors Thesis Lab (CHEM BC3903). Focus is on scientific presentation and writing skills and research conduct.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jean Vadakkan
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• 4 points

Senior Project Seminar

SENIOR PROJECT SEMINAR

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

• Department: Cognitive Science @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: John Morrison
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 7 Info
• 1 points

SUPERVISED READINGS II

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

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

• Department: Mathematics
• Instructor: Julien Dubedat
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Amadou Bah
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• Instructor: Andrew J Blumberg
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• Instructor: Simon Brendle
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Francesco Lin
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• Instructor: Mu-Tao Wang
  CULPA: 27 Wikipedia h-index: 25 Info
• 1-3 points

INDEPENDENT RESEARCH II

• Department: Political Science
• Instructor: Shaunna Rodrigues
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• Instructor: Erica D Borghard
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• Instructor: Qin Gao
  h-index: 30 Info
• Instructor: Lincoln A Mitchell
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• Instructor: Judith Russell
  CULPA: 49 Info
• Instructor: Jack L Snyder
  CULPA: 27 Info
• Instructor: Michael Ting
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Robert Y Shapiro
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 1-6 points

GUIDED READING AND RESEARCH

Prerequisites: the instructors permission.

• Department: Religion
• Instructor: Gil Anidjar
  CULPA: 22 Info
• Instructor: Courtney Bender
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Clemence C Boulouque
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Michael Como
  CULPA: 20 Info
• Instructor: Matthew Engelke
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia h-index: 25 Info
• Instructor: Katherine Ewing
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 22 Info
• Instructor: Aziza Shanazarova
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• Instructor: Yannik Thiem
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• Instructor: Zhaohua Yang
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• 1-4 points

SENIOR HONORS THESIS LAB

Corequisites: CHEM BC3902 Guided research in Chemistry or Biochemistry, under the sponsorship of a faculty member, leading to the senior thesis. A minimum of 8 hours of research per week, to be arranged.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• Instructor: Christian Rojas
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Marisa C Buzzeo
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• Instructor: Dina C Merrer
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Andrew C Crowther
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• Instructor: Michael Campbell
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• Instructor: Rachel Austin
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia h-index: 28 Info
• Instructor: Christina Vizcarra
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• Instructor: Rebecca Donegan
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• 0 points

SENIOR HONORS THESIS LAB

Corequisites: CHEM BC3902 Guided research in Chemistry or Biochemistry, under the sponsorship of a faculty member, leading to the senior thesis. A minimum of 8 hours of research per week, to be arranged.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• 0 points

Senior Project

Senior Project in Cognitive Science.

• Department: Cognitive Science @Barnard
• Instructor: John Morrison
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 7 Info
• Instructor: Mariusz Kozak
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 5 Info
• Instructor: Janet Metcalfe
  CULPA: 31 h-index: 70 Info
• Instructor: William Foley
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• Instructor: John Glendinning
  CULPA: 23 h-index: 39 Info
• Instructor: Robert E Remez
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia h-index: 23 Info
• Instructor: Luca Iemi
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• Instructor: Christopher Baldassano
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• Instructor: Jon B Freeman
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• Instructor: Michael D Woodford
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• Instructor: John E Wilcox
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• 3 points

ASIAN AMERICAN & PSYCH OF RACE

ASIAN AMERICAN & PSYC OF RACE

This seminar provides an introduction to mental health issues for Asian Americans. In particular, it focuses on the psychology of Asian Americans as racial/ethnic minorities in the United States by exploring a number of key concepts: immigration, racialization, prejudice, family, identity, pathology, and loss. We will examine the development of identity in relation to self, family, college, and society. Quantitative investigation, qualitative research, psychology theories of multiculturalism, and Asian American literature will also be integrated into the course.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Motoni F Hodges
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• 4 points

DEVIANCE & SOCIAL CONTROL

In this seminar. we will trace the historic shifts in causal theories of deviance and their significance for the societal response. The readings are classics of social research that have been of great historical impact. They range from the early focus on individual pathologies to sociological explanations, the most recent being attempts to understand deviance as a product of organization factors that result in harmful outcomes. Examples are Katrina, the 2008 financial crisis, and school shootings.

• Department: Sociology
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Diane Vaughan
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

The Affective Nation: Love and Relations

THE AFFECTIVE NATION

This course’s point of departure is the concept that emotional regimes regulating allowable or forbidden feelings and practices are at the root of social and political order. We will explore the relationship between the construction of the contemporary Spanish nation and the affective sphere through analysis of theoretical and critical works, in addition to nineteenth- through twenty-first century cultural texts—from canonical and noncanonical fiction to popular web sites—that revolve around the subjects of love, marriage, and relationships in relation to matters of citizenship, social class, and gender. Course is conducted entirely in Spanish.This course’s point of departure is the concept that emotional regimes regulating allowable or forbidden feelings and practices are at the root of social and political order. We will explore the relationship between the construction of the contemporary Spanish nation and the affective sphere through analysis of theoretical and critical works, in addition to nineteenth- through twenty-first century cultural texts—from canonical and noncanonical fiction to popular web sites—that revolve around the subjects of love, marriage, and relationships in relation to matters of citizenship, social class, and gender. Course is conducted entirely in Spanish.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Wadda Rios-Font
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 8 Info
• 4 points

SEMINAR IN POLITCAL THEORY

Arendt in 20th Century

Seminar in Political Theory. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

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

SEMINAR IN POLITCAL THEORY

FRENCH REV IN POL THOUGHT

Seminar in Political Theory. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

• Department: Political Science
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Daniel Luban
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• 4 points

SEMINAR IN POLITCAL THEORY

Racial Capitalism

Seminar in Political Theory. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

• Department: Political Science
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Charles G Battaglini
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• 4 points

SEMINAR IN POLITCAL THEORY

Persp on Climate Change

Seminar in Political Theory. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. For list of topics and descriptions see: https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

• Department: Political Science
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ben Mylius
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• 4 points

VISITING CRITIC II

Prerequisites: VIAR UN3910 Department approval required. See requirements for a major in visual arts. Corequisites: VIAR UN3901 (Formerly R3922) Students are required to enroll in both semesters (VIAR UN3910 and VIAR UN3911). A second opinion is provided to the senior students regarding the development of their senior project. Critics consist of distinguished visitors and faculty. Issues regarding the premise, methodology, or presentation of the students ideas are discussed and evaluated on an ongoing basis.

• Department: Visual Arts
• Instructor: Emily C Henretta
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• 2 points

SEMINAR

Required of senior majors, but also open to junior majors, and junior and senior concentrators who have taken at least four philosophy courses. This exploration will typically involve writing a substantial research paper. Capped at 20 students with preference to philosophy majors.

• Department: Philosophy @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher P Prodoehl
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• Instructor: Jennifer McDonald
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• 3 points

ADVANCED FILM PRODUCTION PRACTICE

Advanced Film Production Practice is an advanced production and lecture course for students who wish to obtain a deeper understanding of the skills involved in screenwriting, directing and producing.  Building on the fundamentals established in the Labs for Fiction and Non-Fiction Filmmaking, this seminar further develops each student’s grasp of the concepts involved in filmmaking through advanced analytical and practical work to prepare Thesis film materials.

• Department: Film
• R 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Benjamin C Leonberg
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• 3 points

A HISTORY OF AFRICAN CITIES

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mamadou Diouf
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

GENDER & POWER TRANSNATL PERSP

GENDER&POWER TRANSNATL PERSP

This course considers formations of gender, sexuality, and power as they circulate transnationally, as well as transnational feminist and queer movements that have emerged to address contemporary gendered and sexual inequalities. Topics include political economy, global care chains, sexuality, sex work and trafficking, feminist and queer politics, and human rights. If it is a small world after all, how do forces of globalization shape and redefine the relationship between gender, sexuality, and powerful institutions like the state? And, if power swirls everywhere, how are transnational power dynamics reinscribed in gendered bodies? How is the body represented in discussions of nationalism and in the political economy of globalization? These questions will frame this course by highlighting how gender, sexuality, and power coalesce to impact the lives of individuals in various spaces including workplaces, the academy, the home, religious institutions, the government, and civil society, and human rights organizations. This course will enable us to think transnationally, historically, and dynamically, using gender and sexuality as lenses through which to critique relations of power and the ways that power informs our everyday lives and subjectivities.

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Sonia Ahsan
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

BIOMEDICAL ENGIN DESIGN II

A two-semester design sequence to be taken in the senior year. Elements of the design process, with specific applications to biomedical engineering: concept formulation, systems synthesis, design analysis, optimization, biocompatibility, impact on patient health and comfort, health care costs, regulatory issues, and medical ethics. Selection and execution of a project involving the design of an actual engineering device or system. Introduction to entrepreneurship, biomedical start-ups, and venture capital. Semester I: statistical analysis of detection/classification systems (receiver operation characteristic analysis, logistic regression), development of design prototype, need, approach, benefits and competition analysis. Semester II: spiral develop process and testing, iteration and refinement of the initial design/prototype and business plan development. A lab fee of $100 each is collected.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Lauren N Heckelman
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• 4 points

MEDIEVAL ENGLISH TEXTS (SEM)

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

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: David M Yerkes
  CULPA: 41 Info
• 4 points

NOBILITY/CIVILITY: EAST/WEST I

This interdisciplinary colloquium is designed to provide a comparative examination of core human concerns and values across cultures from the ancient to early modern period. This is a discussion-driven course that depends on a close reading of several key literary, philosophical, political, and religious texts from Asia, Africa, and Europe.

Prerequisites: one semester of Contemporary Civilization or Literature Humanities, or an equivalent course. A team-taught multicultural, interdisciplinary course examining traditions of leadership and citizenship as they appear in the key texts of early Indian, Islamic, Far Eastern, and Western civilizations. One goal is to identify and examine common human values and issues evident in these texts while also recognizing key cultural differences.

• Department: Core (A&S)
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 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
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Justin H Phillips
  CULPA: 23 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

Contempry Electrl Politcs

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

• Department: Political Science
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Robert Erikson
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia h-index: 59 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

THE FIRST AMENDMENT

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

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

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

POLITICS&POLICY:STATELOCAL GO

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

• Department: Political Science
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Gerrard P Bushell
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

POLITICS OF POLICYMAKING

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

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

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

TOPICS IN AMERICAN DEMOCRACY

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

• Department: Political Science
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Lincoln A Mitchell
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• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

Media 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
• F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Soubhik Barari
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• 4 points

Gendered Work and Organizations

GENDERED WORK & ORGANIZAT

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

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

NARRATIVE STRAT-SCREENWRITING

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

• Department: Film
• F 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Loren-Paul Caplin
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

Adv Topics Law & Society

ADV TOPICS LAW & SOCIETY

The course will focus on a single topic within US law-and-society scholarship: either the profession of lawyering or the criminalization of immigration. We will critically examine existing research, and then create our own. With the support of their peers and instructor, students will design and complete substantial independent research projects. Limited to sociology majors with senior standing (except in exceptional circumstances), and having taken SOCI UN3217 Law and Society is strongly preferred. Fulfills the Research Paper Option for the senior requirement in sociology at Barnard.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Deborah Becher
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 4 Info
• 4 points

COLONIZATION/DECOLONIZATION

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

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Karl Jacoby
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 8 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE

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

• Department: African American and African Diaspora
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Farah Griffin
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Creative Embedded Systems

CREATIVE EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

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

• Department: Computer Science @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Santolucito
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

Iraq: War, Love, and Exile

Iraq: War, Love and, Exil

This course studies and  explores a  number of Iraqi narratives that have appeared since 2003 and that have a distinctive stylistic and thematic richness with great bearing on social, economic, cultural, and political life in Iraq. Seen against a history of the country and the region, and in conversation with some Afro-Asian and Latin American narratives of war and displacement, these writings assume  global  significance in our reading of  such thematic issues  like war, love, exile, and loss. While always using the past as a background, a source and repository of recollections, the challenge of the 2003 Anglo-America invasion and its institutionalization of segregation and   rupture to keep Iraq in perpetual chaos, is present in the texts. Every narrative sheds light on a number of issues, especially war, horror, loss, trauma, passion and dislocation. This richness in detail is brought up through a number of stylistic innovations that put this writing at the forefront of world cultures and human concerns. An introductory lecture builds up a genealogy for trauma since the Epic of Gilgamesh (2700 BC.) and the lamentations of Astarte.

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

Psychology/Neuroscience Senior Thesis Ad

Advanced Research Seminar

The seminar component of the Psych/Neuro Senior Thesis Advanced Research program. Students admitted to the research program should plan to take this seminar in the spring of their junior year and in the fall and spring semesters of their senior year. Students are expected to be working in a lab as part of their participation in this program. In addition to supporting students throughout their independent research project, this seminar will introduce students to some of the big questions in the field through its connection with the Psychology Department Colloquium and will train students in reading and evaluating scientific research and communicating their own research findings.

• Department: Psychology
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Nim L Tottenham
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• Instructor: Lila Davachi
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 59 Info
• 1-3 points