ENVIR SCIENCE 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: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Logan Brenner
CULPA: 5 h-index: 4 Info - 3 points
Punishment Culture
What is punishment, and what might attention to punitive practices teach us about the cultures in which they are used? Modern American culture is so saturated with punishment that it is difficult to know where to begin such an investigation. From childhood education to mass incarceration and from the crafting of financial futures to the training of horses and dogs, punishment is ubiquitous and often unquestioned. In many cases, punishment is the thread that connects allegedly disparate institutions and produces allegedly unforeseen forms of violence. In this course we will question both the practice and its prevalence, combining a genealogy of the concept with case studies in its modern use.
- Department: Anthropology @Barnard
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Instructor:
Kaya N Williams
Info - 4 points
SHANGE & DIGITAL STORYTELLING
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 12 students. Permission of the instructor required. Interested students should complete the application at:
https://bit.ly/AFEN3815
. A poet, performance artist, playwright and novelist, Shange’s stylistic innovations in drama, poetry and fiction and attention to the untold lives of black women have made her an influential figure throughout American arts and in feminist history. We will examine Shange’s works through the dual lenses of “embodied knowledge” and historical context. In conjunction with our multidisciplinary analysis of primary texts, students will be introduced to archival research in Ntozake Shange’s personal archive at Barnard College. Thus the seminar provides an in-depth exploration of Shange's work and milieu as well as an introduction to digital tools, public research and archival practice. Students should have taken a course beyond the intro level from ONE of the following areas: American Literature (through the English Department), Africana Studies, American Studies, Theatre or Women's Studies. You can find more information and apply for the course at
https://bit.ly/AFEN3815
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- Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kim F Hall
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
ARCH ENGAGE: PAST IN PUB EYE
This course provides a panoramic, but intensive, inquiry into the ways that archaeology and its methods for understanding the world have been marshaled for debate in issues of public interest. It is designed to examine claims to knowledge of the past through the lenses of alternative epistemologies and a series of case-based problems that range from the academic to the political, legal, cultural, romantic, and fraudulent.
- Department: Anthropology
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Terence N D'Altroy
CULPA: 37 Info - 4 points
ABSENCE/PRESENCE
Prerequisites: Open to undergrad majors; others with the instructors permission. Across a range of cultural and historic contexts, one encounters traces of bodies - and persons - rendered absent, invisible, or erased. Knowledge of the ghostly presence nevertheless prevails, revealing an inextricable relationship between presence and absence. This course addresses the theme of absent bodies in such contexts as war and other memorials, clinical practices, and industrialization, with interdisciplinary readings drawn from anthropology, war and labor histories, and dystopic science fiction.
- Department: Anthropology @Barnard
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Nicholas A Bartlett
CULPA: 5
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Beyond the Great Wall: Nomadic Empires a
Since Antiquity, the Great Wall has become both a geographical and socio-cultural fault line between steppe nomads and the Chinese. More than a physical and territorial boundary, the Great Wall also functions as a powerful conceptual metaphor, symbolizing the gap between insiders and outsiders. The intellectual discourses of “frontier” and “border” embodied by the Wall have kept alive well into modern China.
The course follows a broadly chronological order from the Xiongnu Empire through the Mongols to modern times. Additionally, it incorporates thematic explorations such as nomadic culture, Sinitic concepts of unity, ethno-cultural diversity, multi-linguistic empires, and so on. We will make use of Chinese literature and art on the one hand, and primary sources from Central Asia on the other, to develop a comprehensive and comparative understanding of both sides of the Great Wall. As such, we ask how the nomads served as agents of change in Eurasian and even world history, and in turn, we problematize some enduring challenges faced by the Chinese state from the past to the present.
Listed as a Global Core, this course assumes no background of Chinese or Central Asian language and literature. Students are expected to engage thoughtfully and critically with course materials, including primary sources translated into English and secondary scholarship. Readings will include classical texts from Sinitic culture as well as diverse literary sources on nomadic peoples, such as The Secret History of the Mongols and travelogues by Marco Polo. These primary texts will be examined alongside secondary scholarship, with visual and material objects integrated to complement the written texts.
HUMAN RIGHTS & PUBLIC HEALTH
Prerequisites: Enrollment in the course is open to 18 undergraduates who have completed at least one core course in human rights and /or international law. This seminar introduces students to the field of health and human rights. It examines how to advocate for and implement public health strategies using a human rights framework. It takes note of current international and domestic debates about the utility of a ;human rights-based approach; to health, discusses methods and ethics of health-related human rights research, and examines case studies of human rights investigations to explore the role of human rights analysis in promoting public health.
- Department: Human Rights (HRTB)
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Instructor:
Faculty
h-index: 37 Info - 4 points
ANTHROP OF THE ANTHROPOCENE
This course focuses on the political ecology of the Anthropocene. As multiple publics become increasingly aware of the extensive and accelerated rate of current global environmental change, and the presence of anthropogenesis in ever expanding circumstances, we need to critically analyze the categories of thought and action being developed in order to carefully approach this change. Our concern is thus not so much the Anthropocene as an immutable fact, inevitable event, or definitive period of time (significant though these are), but rather for the political, social, and intellectual consequences of this important idea. Thus we seek to understand the creativity of The Anthropocene as a political, rhetorical, and social category. We also aim to examine the networks of capital and power that have given rise to the current state of planetary change, the strategies for ameliorating those changes, and how these are simultaneously implicated in the rhetorical creation of The Anthropocene.
- Department: Anthropology @Barnard
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Paige West
CULPA: 41
h-index: 23
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ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELD RESEARCH IN NYC
This course provides the aspiring anthropologist with an array of primarily qualitative methodological tools essential to successful urban fieldwork. As such, it is a practicum of sorts, where regular field assignments help build one’s ability to record and analyze social behavior by drawing on several key data collection techniques. Because we have the luxury of inhabiting a large, densely populated, international city, this class requires that you take a head-first plunge into urban anthropology. The NYC area will define the laboratory for individually- designed research projects. Be forewarned, however! Ethnographic engagement involves efforts to detect social patterns, but it is often a self-reflexive exercise, too. Readings provide methodological, analytical, and personal insights into the skills, joys, and trials that define successful field research.
- Department: Anthropology @Barnard
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Instructor:
Kaya N Williams
Info - 4 points
SENIOR THESIS SEMINAR I
Prerequisites: Limited to Barnard Anthropology Seniors. Offered every Fall. Discussion of research methods and planning and writing of a Senior Essay in Anthropology will accompany research on problems of interest to students, culminating in the writing of individual Senior Essays. The advisory system requires periodic consultation and discussion between the student and her adviser as well as the meeting of specific deadlines set by the department each semester. Limited to Barnard Senior Anthropology Majors.
- Department: Anthropology @Barnard
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Indigenous Peoples in International Law
Indigenous People in Intl
How did European-Christians justify the colonization of the Americas? Did these justifications vary between different European empires, and between the Protestant and Catholic faiths, and if so, how? Do these justifications remain in effect in modern jurisprudence and ministries? This class explores these questions by introducing students to the Doctrine of Discovery. The Doctrine of Discovery is the defining legal rationale for European Colonization in the Western Hemisphere. The Doctrine has its origins in a body of ecclesiastic, legal, and philosophical texts dating to the late-fifteenth century, and was summarized by Chief Justice John Marshall of the United States Supreme Court, in the final, unanimous decision the judiciary issued on the 1823 case
Johnson v. M’Intosh.
Students will be introduced to the major, primary texts that make up the Doctrine, as well as contemporary critical studies of these texts and the Doctrine in general.
- Department: Religion @Barnard
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Instructor:
Timothy Vasko
CULPA: 3
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- 4 points
ECOCRITICISM FOR THE END TIMES
- Department: Anthropology
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Marilyn Ivy
CULPA: 11
Wikipedia
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READING ITALIANS - PRECEPT
The purpose of this precept is to read short selections of the readings for this course in the original Italian, closely comparing these texts with their English counterparts. Attention will be paid to stylistic, syntactical, and grammatical characteristics of both languages, carefully considering questions of tone, register, cadence, idiomatic expressions, archaisms, and other elements of the translator’s task. In addition to discussing the readings, we will work in class on translating specific passages from Italian into English. Depending on the makeup of the class, the discussions will take place either fully in Italian or in a mix of Italian and English.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Jhumpa Lahiri
Wikipedia Info - 1 points
DADA AND SURREALISM
- Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
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Instructor:
Caroline Weber
CULPA: 8
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READING ITALIANS: HER SIDE OF THE STORY
READING ITALIANS: HER STO
“In Italy, literary fiction has long been considered a man’s game.” So began a
2019 New York Times article discussing the growing international attention being
paid to Italian women writers, particuarly on the heels of Elena Ferrante’s
phenomenal global success. This course will center the female voice and
subjectivity in the Italian literary tradition, with a focus on celebrated prose writers
active from the early twentieth century to the present. Some, recently republished
and reconsidered for the Italian market, have also been re-translated and re-
introduced to a wider English readership. We will trace the reception of female
authors within the Italian critical establishment and abroad, and the role
translation might play in broadening and amplifying their reputation and reach.
We will focus on one author per week, paying special attention to themes of
resistance, rebellion, and self-fashioning. All readings will be in English.
- Department: English @Barnard
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jhumpa Lahiri
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
AMEC Senior Thesis Seminar
The Senior Thesis Seminar is a one-semester requirement for all Barnard College students majoring in Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures (AMEC). This is a working research seminar devoted to helping students produce a substantive piece of writing that will eventually be part of their senior thesis project, the culmination of their work in the major. Students will participate in the seminar as thesis writers and as peer editors. In addition to working with the instructor in the seminar, students will also consult with a faculty member who specializes in the student's area of interest within the AMEC department.
- Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Matthew L Keegan
CULPA: 8 Info - 4 points
SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH
Prerequisites: Permission of the departmental representative required. For specially selected students, the opportunity to do a research problem in contemporary physics under the supervision of a faculty member. Each year several juniors are chosen in the spring to carry out such a project beginning in the autumn term. A detailed report on the research is presented by the student when the project is complete.
- Department: Physics and Astronomy @Barnard
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Instructor:
Timothy J Halpin-Healy
CULPA: 6 Info - 1-5 points
SENIOR SEMINAR
SR SEM: ARCHITECTRL 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
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Instructor:
Suzanne Stephens
Info - 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
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Instructor:
John Morrison
CULPA: 12 h-index: 7 Info - 1 points
SUPERVISED READINGS I
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 @Barnard
- 1-3 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
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Instructor:
Jonathan Rieder
CULPA: 17
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- 4 points
SENIORS HONORS THESIS LAB
Corequisites: CHEM BC3901 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
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Instructor:
Christian Rojas
CULPA: 24
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Marisa C Buzzeo
CULPA: 2 Info -
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Dina C Merrer
CULPA: 24
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Andrew C Crowther
CULPA: 1 Info -
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Michael Campbell
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Rachel Austin
CULPA: 18
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h-index: 28
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Christina Vizcarra
CULPA: 1 Info -
Instructor:
Rebecca Donegan
Info - 0 points
SENIORS HONORS THESIS LAB
Corequisites: CHEM BC3901 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
COMMUNITIES AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Examines how changes in the economy, racial composition, and class relations affect community life-how it is created, changed and sometimes lost-with a specific focus on the local urban context. Student research projects will address how contemporary forces such as neoliberalization, gentrification and tourism impact a communitys social fabric.
- Department: Sociology @Barnard
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Instructor:
Dominic T Walker
Info - 4 points
SOCIAL CONTEXTS IMMIGRATN LAW
Examines the historical and contemporary social, economic, and political factors that shape immigration law and policy along with the social consequences of those laws and policies. Addresses the development and function of immigration law and aspects of the immigration debate including unauthorized immigration, anti-immigration sentiments, and critiques of immigration policy.
- Department: Anthropology @Barnard
- M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
J.C. Salyer
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 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
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Instructor:
Karen Lewis
CULPA: 12 h-index: 7 Info - 3 points
GENDER, SEXUALITY & POWER IN TRANSNATION
GEND,SEX&POWER TRANSNATL
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
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Neferti Tadiar
CULPA: 10
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ADV TOPICS GENDER & SEXUALITY
This research and writing-intensive seminar is designed for senior majors with a background and interest in the sociology of gender and sexuality. The goal of the seminar is to facilitate completion of the senior requirement (a 25-30 page paper) based on ;hands on; research with original qualitative data. Since the seminar will be restricted to students with prior academic training in the subfield, students will be able to receive intensive research training and guidance through every step of the research process, from choosing a research question to conducting original ethnographic and interview-based research, to analyzing and interpreting ones findings. The final goal of the course will be the production of an original paper of standard journal-article length. Students who choose to pursue their projects over the course of a second semester will have the option of revisiting their articles further for submission and publications.
ANTICOLONIALISM
The age of colonialism, so it seems, is long over. Decolonization has resulted in the emergence of postcolonial polities and societies that are now, in many instances, two generations old. But is it clear that the problem of colonialism has disappeared? Almost everywhere in the postcolonial world the project of building independent polities, economies and societies have faltered, sometimes run aground. Indeed, one might say that the anti-colonial dream of emancipation has evaporated. Through a careful exploration of the conceptual argument and rhetorical style of five central anti-colonial texts—C.L.R. James’ The Black Jacobins, Mahatma Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj, Aimé Cesairé’s Discourse on Colonialism, Albert Memmi’s Colonizer and Colonized, and Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth—this course aims to inquire into the image of colonialism as a structure of dominant power, and the image of its anticipated aftermaths: What were the perceived ill-effects of colonial power? What did colonialism do to the colonized that required rectification? In what ways did the critique of colonial power (the identification of what was wrong with it) shape the longing for its anti-colonial overcoming?
- Department: Anthropology
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
David Scott
CULPA: 6
h-index: 72
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- 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
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Instructor:
Tiffany Tseng
Info - 3 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)
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Instructor:
Faculty
h-index: 37 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 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
J.C. Salyer
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
SOCIOLOGY OF THE BODY
This seminar examines the ways in which the body is discursively constituted, and itself serves as the substratum for social life. Key questions include: How are distinctions made between normal and pathological bodies, and between the psychic and somatic realms? How do historical forces shape bodily experience? How do bodies that are racialized, gendered, and classed offer resistance to social categorization?
- Department: Sociology @Barnard
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Bernstein
CULPA: 27 Info - 4 points
Seeking Sanctuary in New York City
In a renewed age of anti-immigrant fervor, the last few years have seen attention focused on people seeking asylum – the process under international law by which people fleeing persecution can seek protection in a country not of their citizenship. New York has become a particular flashpoint with a large influx of asylum seekers, most of them from Latin America. Often, they have arrived on buses sent here by southern governors intending to make the border “problem” that of a so-called “sanctuary city.” How has New York responded? And how does this fit into the city’s long history of refuge?
This course will offer students an introduction to the theory, ethics, and history of the idea of international protection. We will look specifically at how Latin American citizens have engaged with the US asylum system over time and how this engagement has changed the shape of US immigration laws. We will study the origins of the ideas of international protection, who is understood to qualify and why, how the system has changed over time, and what these developments mean for a broader understanding of human rights across borders. We will also take a critical look at asylum, examine ideas of deservingness and innocence and their intersection with categories of race, class and gender, and question what it means for certain people to be constructed as victims and others to be seen as not eligible – or worthy – of protection.
This is an engaged pedagogy course. The class will be organized around a close collaboration with a NY legal organization that has taken on the work of representing many asylum seekers in the city. Students will learn the complexities of US asylum law and will work collectively to use this knowledge, while developing their research skills, to put together reports to be used in active asylum cases.
- Department: Human Rights (HRTB)
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Instructor:
Jennifer Trowbridge
Info - 5 points
Global Activism
GLOBAL ACTIVISM
This seminar will investigate efforts to coordinate, justify, and understand global activism through lenses of internationalism, solidarity, and universal human rights. We will also study transformations in the global institutional landscape – comprising international finance, supranational unions, and non-governmental organizations – which is itself the contradictory outcome of prior cycles of contestation. We will survey historical precedents, analyze contemporary manifestations, and speculate on the future prospects of global activism. Students will explore cases and concepts by reading scholarly literature and by considering the political practices, texts, and media created by movements themselves.
- Department: Sociology @Barnard
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Instructor:
Andrew S Anastasi
Info - 4 points
HELLENISM&THE TOPOGRAPHICAL IMAGINATION
This course examines the way particular spaces—cultural, urban, literary—serve as sites for the production and reproduction of cultural and political imaginaries. It places particular emphasis on the themes of the polis, the city, and the nation-state as well as on spatial representations of and responses to notions of the Hellenic across time. Students will consider a wide range of texts as spaces—complex sites constituted and complicated by a multiplicity of languages—and ask: To what extent is meaning and cultural identity, sitespecific? How central is the classical past in Western imagination? How have great metropolises such as Paris, Istanbul, and New York fashioned themselves in response to the allure of the classical and the advent of modern Greece? How has Greece as a specific site shaped the study of the Cold War, dictatorships, and crisis?
- Department: Classics
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dimitris Antoniou
h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
ANIME EFFECT: JAPANESE MEDIA
- Department: Anthropology
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Marilyn Ivy
CULPA: 11
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GLOBAL HEALTH, POLITICS, AND SOCIETY
GLOBAL HEALTH, SOCIETY
What is global health? Where do global health disease priorities come from, and how do the ways that we understand disease shape how we respond to it? What happens when good ideas and good intentions go wrong? This course critically examines the politics of global health and its impact on local institutions and people. Drawing on social science research, the course will address three main themes: 1) how global health priorities are defined and constructed, 2) how our understandings of disease influence our response to that disease, and 3) how efforts to respond to disease intersect with people on the ground, sometimes in unexpected ways. We will examine the global health industry from the vantage point of different institutions and actors – international organizations, governments, local healthcare institutions, healthcare workers, and people living with or at risk of various illnesses like HIV/AIDS, malaria, cancer, and Ebola. A primary goal of this course is to help you to develop skills in critical thinking in relation to global health issues and their impact on society. Students will demonstrate their knowledge through individual writing, class discussion, presentations, and a final research project.
Black Americans Abroad
This course focuses on the long history of Black Americans going (and sometimes returning from) abroad. Our exploration will unfold chronologically from the 19th century to the present day, as we trace our subjects’ myriad reasons for setting out beyond their country’s shores. Each week of the course will be devoted to grappling with a set of travelers and international departures characteristic of a given era, including:
Enslaved people’s quests for freedom
Entertainers, creatives, and scientists’ pursuit of professional opportunities during the era of Jim Crow
Scholars, journalists, and diplomats’ search for knowledge and cultural understanding
Modern nomads and expats’ journeys of self-actualization
Our goal is to consider Black Americans’ evolving relationship to the United States and the world at large.
- Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
- R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tamara Walker
Info - 4 points
Computational Models of Decision-Making
Comp Models of Decision-M
We make decisions countless times a day. Computational models have been developed that improve our understanding of how these decisions are made. This course is organized in three parts: perceptual decision-making, value-based decision-making, and computational psychiatry. In part one, perceptual decision-making, we will focus on computational models that can capture and explain decisions in perception, such as categorizing an orientation, or discriminating the direction of moving dots, or estimating the magnitude of a stimulus (e.g., time). We will start by laying the foundations of signal detection theory and Bayesian inference under uncertainty and build to models that incorporate confidence ratings and reaction times. In part two, value-based decision-making, we will move on to decisions that incorporate our values (e.g., ‘Should I go out or stay in and study?’, ‘Should I eat a burger or a salad?’). We will learn the basics of a computational modeling framework that captures how we learn values from rewards and punishments, reinforcement learning, as well as about model-free and model-based learning. Lastly, we will learn how impairments in decision-making that occur in psychopathology (e.g., addiction, anorexia nervosa, anxiety) have been conceptualized and quantified in the relatively new field of computational psychiatry.
- Department: Cognitive Science @Barnard
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Instructor:
Andra L Mihali
Info - 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
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Instructor:
Chris Ivanov
Info - 3 points
Philosophy of Computing
Advances in artificial intelligence carry potential for both social good and ethical danger. The purpose of this course is to explore both foundational and applied debates in the philosophy of computing, with a focus on machine learning technologies. Drawing from works in philosophy, computer science, literature, and policy, this course will comprehensively examine the conceptual and normative challenges artificial intelligence presents. The course analyzes present-day challenges through the prism of specific technologies and tools, namely predictive analytics, computer vision, and large language models, and also investigates moral and social questions on the horizon, with an eye to how advancements in computing will impact responsibility, moral status, and relationships.
- Department: Cognitive Science @Barnard
- 4 points
How Race Gets Under Our Skin: The Sociol
RACE, HEALTH, AND BIOMEDI
One of the glaring forms of inequalities that persists today is the race-based gap in access to health care, quality of care, and health outcomes. This course examines how institutionalized racism and the structure of health care contributes to the neglect and sometimes abuse of racial and ethnic minorities. Quite literally, how does race affect one’s life chances? This course covers a wide range of topics related to race and health, including: racial inequalities in health outcomes, biases in medical institutions, immigration status and health, racial profiling in medicine, and race in the genomic era.
- Department: Sociology @Barnard
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Instructor:
Domonique M Reed
Info - 4 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.
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Instructor:
Gareth Williams
CULPA: 7
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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.
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Instructor:
Gareth Williams
CULPA: 7
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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
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Instructor:
Gail R Archer
CULPA: 24
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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
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Instructor:
Wadda Rios-Font
CULPA: 4 h-index: 8 Info - 4 points
SENIOR PROJ: MUSIC REPERTORY
Working with her advisor, a student will develop a vocal or instrumental recital program with representative musical works from a variety of historical periods. In order to satisfy the requirement, the student will present an hour long public performance of the recital program. Students may also satisfy this requirement by composing original vocal or instrumental works.
- Department: Music @Barnard
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Instructor:
Gail R Archer
CULPA: 24
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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!
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
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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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
- W 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Aaron Passell
CULPA: 8
h-index: 3
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Christian Siener
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Instructor:
Andreina Torres Angarita
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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
THE MAJOR SEMINAR
Prerequisites: junior standing. Required for all majors in classics and classical studies. The topic changes from year to year, but is always broad enough to accommodate students in the languages as well as those in the interdisciplinary major. Past topics include: love, dining, slavery, space, power.
THE MAJOR SEMINAR
Prerequisites: junior standing. Required for all majors in Classics and Classical Studies. The topic changes from year to year but is always broad enough to accommodate students in the languages as well as those in the interdisciplinary major. Past topics include: love, dining, slavery, space, power.
SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH
Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.
- Department: Anthropology
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Instructor:
Brian Boyd
CULPA: 6
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Hannah Chazin
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Marilyn Ivy
CULPA: 11
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- 2-6 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.
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
- W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mark Santolucito
CULPA: 1 h-index: 8 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
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Instructor:
James G Basker
CULPA: 7
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- 4 points
SENIOR SEMINAR IN ENGLISH
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
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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
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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
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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
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Instructor:
Rosa M Andujar
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Instructor:
Marcus Folch
CULPA: 6
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Instructor:
Elizabeth K Irwin
CULPA: 7
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John T Ma
CULPA: 4 Info -
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Paraskevi Martzavou
CULPA: 2 Info -
Instructor:
Nancy Worman
CULPA: 23
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- 3 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
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Instructor:
Rosalie Stoner
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Joseph A Howley
CULPA: 7
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Instructor:
Kristina Milnor
CULPA: 21
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h-index: 10
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Instructor:
Katharina Volk
CULPA: 7
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Instructor:
Gareth Williams
CULPA: 7
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- 3 points
SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH
Prerequisites: the written permission of the faculty member who agrees to act as a supervisor, and the director of undergraduate studies permission. For specially selected mathematics majors, the opportunity to write a senior thesis on a problem in contemporary mathematics under the supervision of a faculty member.
- Department: Mathematics @Barnard
- 1-4 points
SENIOR RESEARCH SEMINAR
Working research seminar devoted to helping students produce a substantive piece of writing that will represent the culmination of their work at the College and in the major.
- Department: Religion @Barnard
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Instructor:
Hussein Rashid
CULPA: 3 Info - 4 points
SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH
SUPERVISED IND RES:20TH C LIT
- Department: Slavic Languages @Barnard
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Instructor:
John Wright
CULPA: 1 h-index: 44 Info - 1-4 points
SENIOR THESIS IN PERFORMANCE
Prerequisites: Appropriate coursework and substantial production experience, including a major crew assignment in the junior year. Enrollment limited to senior Theatre majors. Combined and special majors may be considered under exceptional circumstances. Permission of the instructor required. Students register for this course to pursue approved theses in acting, design, directing, dramaturgy, solo performance, or stage and production management.
Students will act in, direct, design, stage manage or dramaturg a play in the Barnard Department of Theatre season, or write a short play or solo performance piece that will be produced (according to departmental guidelines) in the Senior Thesis Festival. Collaboration is expected and students will meet weekly with faculty and other seniors. A written proposal must be submitted in the spring of the junior year and be approved. In addition to the performance, an extensive written Casebook is required: see departmental guidelines.
- Department: Theatre @Barnard
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- F 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gisela D Cardenas Ojeda
Info - 4 points
SENIOR THESIS IN PERFORMANCE
Prerequisites: Appropriate coursework and substantial production experience, including a major crew assignment in the junior year. Enrollment limited to senior Theatre majors. Combined and special majors may be considered under exceptional circumstances. Permission of the instructor required. Students register for this course to pursue approved theses in acting, design, directing, dramaturgy, solo performance, or stage and production management.
Students will act in, direct, design, stage manage or dramaturg a play in the Barnard Department of Theatre season, or write a short play or solo performance piece that will be produced (according to departmental guidelines) in the Senior Thesis Festival. Collaboration is expected and students will meet weekly with faculty and other seniors. A written proposal must be submitted in the spring of the junior year and be approved. In addition to the performance, an extensive written Casebook is required: see departmental guidelines.
- Department: Theatre @Barnard
- F 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael Banta
Info - 4 points
SENIOR SEMINAR
A program of interdisciplinary research leading to the writing of the senior essay. All Africana majors must complete the one-semester Africana Studies Senior Seminar in the fall and submit a senior essay as one of the requirements for this course. A student who has successfully completed the Africana Studies Senior Seminar, has demonstrated the ability to complete a senior thesis, and has obtained approval from the faculty member teaching the Senior Seminar may take an Independent Study with a Barnard or Columbia faculty member or a second thesis seminar in another department in order to complete a senior thesis in Africana Studies in the spring semester.
- Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Monica L Miller
CULPA: 10
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- 4 points
SUPERVISED RSRCH IN GREEK LIT
Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies permission. A program of research in Greek literature. Research paper required.
- Department: Classics
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Instructor:
Rosa M Andujar
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Marcus Folch
CULPA: 6
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John T Ma
CULPA: 4 Info -
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Paraskevi Martzavou
CULPA: 2 Info -
Instructor:
Nancy Worman
CULPA: 23
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- 3 points
SUPERVISED RSRCH IN LATIN LIT
Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies permission. A program of research in Latin literature. Research paper required.
- Department: Classics
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Instructor:
Rosalie Stoner
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Instructor:
Joseph A Howley
CULPA: 7
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Instructor:
Kristina Milnor
CULPA: 21
Wikipedia
h-index: 10
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Instructor:
Katharina Volk
CULPA: 7
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Instructor:
Gareth Williams
CULPA: 7
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- 3 points