INDEPENDENT STUDY
This course can be worth 1 to 4 credits (each credit is equivalent to approximately three hours of work per week), and requires a Barnard faculty as a mentor. The course will be taken for a letter grade, regardless of whether the student chooses 1, 2, 3, or 4 credits. The expectations for each of these options are as follows: 1 credit, 3h/week commitment, 5-10 page "Research Report" at the end of the term; 2 credits, 6h/week commitment, 5-10 page "Research Report" at the end of the term; 3 credits, 9h/week commitment, 15-20 page "Research Report" at the end of the term; 4 credits, 12h/week commitment, 15-20 page "Research Report" at the end of the term. "Research Report" is a document submitted to the person grading the student, the instructor of record for the section in which the student has enrolled. If a student is working off-site, then input from the off-site research mentor will inform the grading. The "Research Report" can take a variety of forms: progress reports on data collected, training received, papers read, skills learned, etc.; or organized notes for lab notebooks, lab meetings, etc.; or manuscript-like papers with Intro, Methods, Results, Discussion; or some combination thereof, depending on the maturity of the project. Ultimately, this will take different forms for different students/labs.
- Department: Psychology @Barnard
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Lisa K Son
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Kate M Turetsky
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Kathleen M Taylor
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Tara Well
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Michael Wheaton
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E'Mett McCaskill
CULPA: 38
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Erica Musser
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Alexandra C Horowitz
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Anna Shusterman
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REHEARSAL&PERFRMNCE IN DANCE
The course can be taken for 1-3 credits. Students are graded and take part in the full production of a dance as performers, choreographers, designers, or stage technicians.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- MW 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
- 1-3 points
REHEARSAL&PERFRMNCE IN DANCE
The course can be taken for 1-3 credits. Students are graded and take part in the full production of a dance as performers, choreographers, designers, or stage technicians.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- MW 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
- TR 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
- 1-3 points
REHEARSAL&PERFRMNCE IN DANCE
The course can be taken for 1-3 credits. Students are graded and take part in the full production of a dance as performers, choreographers, designers, or stage technicians.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- TR 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Instructor:
Vincent McCloskey
CULPA: 2 Info - 1-3 points
FOUNDATIONS OF OPTIMIZATION
This first course in optimization focuses on theory and applications of linear optimization, network optimization, and dynamic programming.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Eric Balkanski
h-index: 13 Info - 3 points
METAPHYSICS-REC
- Department: Philosophy
- W 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
- T 11:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Saikeerthi Rachavelpula
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Instructor:
Xingzhi Guo
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THIRD YEAR MOD COLLOQ TIBET I
For those whose knowledge is equivalent to a student who’s completed the Second Year course. The course develops students’ reading comprehension skills through reading selected modern Tibetan literature. Tibetan is used as the medium of instruction and interaction to develop oral fluency and proficiency.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Sonam Tsering
Info - 4 points
CHILDREN AT RISK
Prerequisites: PSYC UN1010, PSYC UN2280, PSYC UN2620, or PSYC UN2680, and the instructors permission. Considers contemporary risk factors in childrens lives. The immediate and enduring biological and behavioral impact of risk factors.
- Department: Psychology
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Geraldine Downey
CULPA: 9
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SENIOR RESEARCH THESIS
Discussions of the student's Independent Research project during the fall and spring terms that culminate in a written and oral senior thesis. Each project must be supervised by a scientist working at Barnard or at another local institution.
- Department: Psychology @Barnard
- M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lisa K Son
CULPA: 25 Info - 1 points
TOPICS IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Prerequisites: (PSYC UN1001) Instructor permission required. A seminar for advanced undergraduate students exploring different areas of clinical psychology. This course will provide you with a broad overview of the endeavors of clinical psychology, as well as discussion of its current social context, goals, and limitations.
- Department: Psychology
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Hannah E Hoch
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Instructor:
Irit Felsen
Info - 4 points
Why do people hurt themselves?: improvin
Presently, suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) are on the rise, particularly among racially and
ethnically minoritized youth. The seminar is designed to enhance understanding of: (a)
prevalence, (b) etiology, (c) risk factors (d) mechanisms (e.g., phenotypes and biological
markers), (e) prevention and treatment approaches, and (f) ethical considerations
- Department: Psychology
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Randy P Auerbach
h-index: 50 Info - 4 points
AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY
This course is concerned with what policy the American government should adopt toward several foreign policy issues in the next decade or so, using materials from contradictory viewpoints. Students will be required to state fairly alternative positions and to use policy analysis (goals, alternatives, consequences, and choice) to reach conclusions.
- Department: Political Science
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth N Saunders
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AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY-DISC
Corequisites: POLS UN3631 This is the required discussion section for POLS UN3631.
- Department: Political Science
- R 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
- R 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- M 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
- M 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
- T 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
- T 11:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Yingtong Chen
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Social Stratification: Past, Present, an
Social Strat: Past, Pres,
This is an undergraduate seminar in social inequality and mobility. Social inequality is broadly defined as the unequal distribution of scarce resources and of the processes by which these resources are allocated to individuals, groups, and populations. The study of inequality en-compasses income and wealth inequality, socioeconomic hierarchies and privileges, poverty and unemployment, social mobility over the life course and across generations, inequality in the educational system, race-ethnic and gender inequality, globalization and the future of work, beliefs, attitudes, and perceptions of inequality and opportunity, neighborhood segregation, and the consequences of inequality and policy interventions. Over this semester, we will investigate such questions as: How likely are individuals to end up in the same social stratum as their par-ents? Will globalization and automation exacerbate or reduce inequality in workplace? Is there growing inequality in the U.S. and around the globe and, if so, why? In this class, we cover the concepts, theories, facts, and methods of analysis used by sociologists to understand social inequality and mobility. This course takes most of its examples from the contemporary U.S., but we will place U.S. in historical and comparative perspectives as well.
Jews in Early Modern Europe, 1492-1750
Jews Early Mod Euro 1492-
A seminar on the historical, political, and cultural developments in the Jewish communities of early-modern Western Europe (1492-1789) with particular emphasis on the transition from medieval to modern patterns. We will study the resettlement of Jews in Western Europe, Jews in the Reformation-era German lands, Italian Jews during the late Renaissance, the rise of Kabbalah, and the beginnings of the quest for civil Emancipation. Field(s): JWS/EME
- Department: History
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Elisheva Carlebach
CULPA: 6
Wikipedia
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GOVERNING THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
Who governs the world economy? Why do countries succeed or fail to cooperate in setting their economic policies? When and how do international institutions help countries cooperate? When and why do countries adopt good and bad economic policies? This course examines how domestic and international politics determine how the global economy is governed. We will study the politics of trade, international investment, monetary, immigration, and environmental policies to answer these questions. The course will approach each topic by examining alternative theoretical approaches and evaluate these theories using historical and contemporary evidence. There will be an emphasis on applying concepts through the analysis of policy-relevant case studies designed specifically for this course.
- Department: Political Science
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Nikhar Gaikwad
h-index: 7 Info - 4 points
GOVERNING GLOBAL ECONOMY-DISC
This is the required discussion section for POLS UN3648
- Department: Political Science
- R 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
- R 11:10 a.m.-noon
- W 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
- W 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- F 11:10 a.m.-noon
- F 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
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Instructor:
Sophia Bongiovi
Info - 0 points
TOPICS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND PHILOSOP
TOPICS IN COG SCI & PHILO
This course will focus on one topic at the intersection of cognitive science and philosophy. Potential topics include free will, consciousness, modularity, mental representation, probabilistic inference, the language of thought, and the computational theory of mind.
- Department: Cognitive Science @Barnard
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Joshua J Kramer
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Instructor:
Soren Schlassa
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PROBABILITY FOR ENGINEERS
Introductory course to probability theory and does not assume any prior knowledge of subject. Teaches foundations required to use probability in applications, but course itself is theoretical in nature. Basic definitions and axioms of probability and notions of independence and conditional probability introduced. Focus on random variables, both continuous and discrete, and covers topics of expectation, variance, conditional distributions, conditional expectation and variance, and moment generating functions. Also Central Limit Theorem for sums of random variables. Consists of lectures, recitations, weekly homework, and in-class exams.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Lily Xu
Info - 3 points
MAFIA MOVIES
Examines representations of the mafia in American and Italian film and literature. Special attention to questions of ethnic identity and immigration. Comparison of the different histories and myths of the mafia in the U.S. and Italy. Readings includes novels, historical studies, and film criticism. Limit 25
- Department: Italian @Barnard
- T 6:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nelson Moe
CULPA: 10 h-index: 6 Info - 3 points
The Ancient Table: Archaeology of Cookin
ANCT TBL: ARCH COOKING &
- Department: Anthropology @Barnard
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Camilla Sturm
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
The Politics of Care
THE POLITICS OF CARE
Semester:
What are the consequences of entrenched inequalities in the context of care? How might we (re)imagine associated practices as political projects? Wherein lie the origins of utopic and dystopic visions of daily survival? How might we track associated promises and failures as they travel across social hierarchies, nationalities, and geographies of care? And what do we mean when we speak of “care”? These questions define the scaffolding for this course. Our primary goals throughout this semester are threefold. First, we begin by interrogating the meaning of “care” and its potential relevance as a political project in medical and other domains. Second, we will track care’s associated meanings and consequences across a range of contents, including urban and rural America, an Amazonia borderland, South Africa, France, and Mexico. Third, we will address temporal dimensions of care, as envisioned and experienced in the here-and-now, historically, and in a futuristic world of science fiction. Finally, and most importantly, we will remain alert to the relevance of domains of difference relevant to care, most notably race, gender, class, and species.
Upper level seminar; 4 points
Summer:
What do we mean when we speak of “care”? How might we (re)imagine practices of care as political and moral projects? What promises, paradoxes, or failures surface amid entrenched inequalities? And what hopes, desires, and fears inform associated utopic and dystopic visions of daily survival? These questions will serve as a scaffolding of sorts for this course, and our primary goals are fourfold.
First,
we will begin by interrogating the meaning of “care” and its potential relevance as a political project in medical and other domains.
Second,
we will track care’s associated meanings and consequences across a range of contents, communities, and geographies of care.
Third
, we will remain alert to the temporal dimensions of care, as envisioned and experienced historically, in the here-and-now, and in the futuristic world of science fiction.
Finally,
we will consider the moral underpinnings of intra-human alongside interspecies care.
Enrollment limited to 10; 4 points
- Department: Anthropology @Barnard
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gina A Jae
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
Feeling in a Social World: Integrating A
Have you ever noticed how the people around you shape how you feel, and how your emotions influence other people too? This course dives into the intimate links between our social relationships and emotional lives. We will draw from empirical and theoretical readings from a range of disciplines, primarily affective science and relationship science. This class will encourage students to lean into their personal experiences to identify consequential phenomena, and be rigorous about operationalizing them using quantitative methodologies. At the end of the course, students will be equipped with a researcher’s mindset: a perceptive eye for observing relationships and emotions, a bold spirit for cross-pollinating ideas across subfields, an informed reviewer of study methodologies, and a clear science communicator of our profound interdependence with one another.
- Department: Psychology
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Zhouzhou He
Info - 4 points
CLOTHING
Human beings create second, social, skins for themselves. Everyone designs interfaces between their bodies and the world around them. From pre-historic ornaments to global industry, clothing has always been a crucial feature of people’s survival, desires, and identity. This course studies clothing from the perspectives of anthropology, architecture, art, craft, economics, labor, law, psychology, semiotics, sociology, and sustainability. Issues include gender roles, local traditions, world-wide trade patterns, dress codes, the history of European fashion, dissident or disruptive styles, and the environmental consequences of what we wear today.
- Department: Art History @Barnard
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Anne Higonnet
CULPA: 31 Wikipedia Info - 4 points
ORGANIZING INNOVATION
This course examines major innovations in organizations and asks whether innovation itself can be organized. We study a range of forms of organizing (e.g. bureaucratic, post-bureaucratic, and open architecture network forms) in a broad variety of settings: from fast food franchises to the military-entertainment complex, from airline cockpits to Wall Street trading rooms, from engineering firms to mega-churches, from scientific management at the turn of the twentieth century to collaborative filtering and open source programming at the beginning of the twenty-first. Special attention will be paid to the relationship between organizational forms and new digital technologies.
- Department: Sociology
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
David Stark
CULPA: 15
Wikipedia
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ISSUES IN 19TH C FRENCH P
ISSUES IN 19TH C FRENCH ART
AHIS3682OC. Issues in Nineteenth Century Art.
3 points.
Taught in English.
Instructor Nicolas Baudouin, Instructor in Art History.
We will focus on a key artistic period that is full of upheavals. We will particularly consider the affirmation of the individuality of the artist in relation to the institutions and great pictorial movements that have marked the history of French painting of that time.
To enroll in this course, you must apply to the
Columbia Summer in Paris
program through the Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement (UGE).
Global Learning Scholarships available.
Tuition
charges apply.
Please note the program dates are different from the Summer Session Terms. Visit the
UGE
website for the start and end dates for the Columbia in Summer in Paris program.
Please email uge@columbia.edu with any questions you may have.
- Department: Global Programs
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Instructor:
Nicolas Baudouin
Info - 3 points
ISSUES IN 19TH C FRENCH P
ISSUES IN 19TH C FREN ART(ENG)
AHIS3682OC. Issues in Nineteenth Century Art.
3 points.
Taught in English.
Instructor Nicolas Baudouin, Instructor in Art History.
We will focus on a key artistic period that is full of upheavals. We will particularly consider the affirmation of the individuality of the artist in relation to the institutions and great pictorial movements that have marked the history of French painting of that time.
To enroll in this course, you must apply to the
Columbia Summer in Paris
program through the Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement (UGE).
Global Learning Scholarships available.
Tuition
charges apply.
Please note the program dates are different from the Summer Session Terms. Visit the
UGE
website for the start and end dates for the Columbia in Summer in Paris program.
Please email uge@columbia.edu with any questions you may have.
- Department: Global Programs
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Instructor:
Nicolas Baudouin
Info - 3 points
EARLY MODERNISM AND THE CRISIS OF REPRES
EARLY MDRNISM & CRISIS RE
Prerequisites: 20th Century Art recommended. The artistic phenomenon that came to be called Modernism is generally considered one of the most pivotal in the history of late nineteenth and twentieth century art. This course studies the emergence and development of Modernism in all of its complexity. Particular attention will be paid to the ways in which Modern artists responded to the dramatically changing notions of space, time and dimension in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. What impact did these dramatic changes have on existing concepts of representation? What challenges did they pose for artists? To what extent did Modernism contribute to an understanding of the full consequences of these new ideas of time and space? These concerns will lead us to examine some of the major critical and historical accounts of modernism in the arts as they were developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The course will focus specifically on the interrelationships between modernism and the expanding mass cultural formations of the industrial societies in Europe to address a wide range of historical and methodological questions. These include the emergence of modernism in the arts, the collapse of previous modes of representation, the development of new technologies of cultural production, the elaboration of the utopian projects of the avant-gardes, the unfolding of abstract art, the materialization of the readymade, as well as the transformation of concepts of artistic autonomy and cultural institutions. We will first investigate key modernist concepts developed in the late nineteenth century, as well as the crucial work of some of the artists of that moment. This will lead to an examination of the unfolding and consolidation of Cubism in the first decade of the twentieth century, followed by the development of Synthetic Cubism early in the 1910s. The third part of the course will study the impact of Cubism on artistic production in the following decade, focusing primarily on the Italian artists of Futurism, the German avant-garde in the context of Weimar culture, Dadaism, and the Russian and Soviet avant-gardes in the 1910s and 1920’s
- Department: Art History @Barnard
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alexander Alberro
CULPA: 12
h-index: 17
Info
- 4 points
Race and Ethnic Politics
Race has served as an enduring organizing principle of American politics. This course will survey how race shapes politics and how politics shapes race in the United States. First, we focus on the political processes and institutions that “make” race and interrogate what we mean exactly when we say race is socially constructed. We then turn to looking at how racialized groups engage in politics on multiple fronts, paying particular attention to electoral politics and social movements. Throughout the course, we grapple with both the challenges to and possibilities of diversity and racial justice in the contemporary United States. Topics include but are not limited to political representation, voting, intersectionality, citizenship, immigration, community activisms, and solidarity.
- Department: Political Science @Barnard
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sonya G Chen
Info - 3 points
GLOBAL AUTHORITARIANISM
Welcome to "Global Authoritarianism." Over the past two decades, scholars and policymakers have grown increasingly alarmed about the state of democracy worldwide. Freedom House, V-Dem, and other monitoring organizations have documented what many call a "democratic recession" in which authoritarian governance is expanding globally while the number of democracies shrinks and democratic institutions within liberal democracies weaken. This purely domestic framing, however, misses how authoritarian states now cooperate with and learn from one another, project power across borders into democracies, exploit the openness of democratic societies, and actively reshape international institutions and norms to serve their interests. Authoritarianism has gone global.
In this course, we will analyze the mechanisms, tools, and strategies that authoritarian states use to extend their reach beyond their borders and push back against the liberal international order. We also confront an uncomfortable reality: many of the networks, institutions, and professional services that enable authoritarian power are actually embedded within democracies themselves, including law firms, lobbyists, financial centers, think tanks, global media outlets and sports leagues based in New York, London and other democratic locations.
- Department: Political Science @Barnard
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Alexander A Cooley
CULPA: 22
h-index: 33
Info
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Modern Library Resources for Scientific
Library Science Research
Guided exploration of chemistry research using modern library resources. Topics include: organization and evaluation of information, information ethics, the history of citation, and use of databases. Culminates in the creation of an online research guide on a specific chemistry topic, using a variety of carefully considered and annotated sources.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- 1 points
DRAMA, THEATRE AND THEORY
Prerequisites: Instructor's permission. (Seminar). Theatre typically exceeds the claims of theory. What does this tell us about both theatre and theory? We will consider why theatre practitioners often provide the most influential theoretical perspectives, how the drama inquires into (among other things) the possibilities of theatre, and the various ways in which the social, spiritual, performative, political, and aesthetic elements of drama and theatre interact. Two papers, weekly responses, and a class presentation are required. Readings include Aristotle, Artaud, Bharata, Boal, Brecht, Brook, Castelvetro, Craig, Genet, Grotowski, Ibsen, Littlewood, Marlowe, Parks, Schechner, Shakespeare, Sowerby, Weiss, and Zeami. Application Instructions: E-mail Professor Austin Quigley (aeq1@columbia.edu) with the subject heading Drama, Theatre, Theory seminar. In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course. Admitted students should register for the course; they will automatically be placed on a wait list, from which the instructor will in due course admit them as spaces become available.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Austin E Quigley
Info - 4 points
ETHICS
Prerequisites: one course in philosophy. Corequisites: PHIL V3711 Required Discussion Section (0 points). This course is mainly an introduction to three influential approaches to normative ethics: utilitarianism, deontological views, and virtue ethics. We also consider the ethics of care, and selected topics in meta-ethics.
- Department: Philosophy
- MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Justin Clarke-Doane
h-index: 10 Info - 4 points
ETHICS
Prerequisites: one course in philosophy. Corequisites: PHIL V3711 Required Discussion Section (0 points). This course is mainly an introduction to three influential approaches to normative ethics: utilitarianism, deontological views, and virtue ethics. We also consider the ethics of care, and selected topics in meta-ethics.
- Department: Auditing
- MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Justin Clarke-Doane
h-index: 10 Info - 0 points
Black/Life/Science
What is the relationship of the production of scientific knowledge to Black life in the Americas? What can thinking that arises out of the intellectual traditions of Black Studies contribute to our understandings of the many genres of science (social, physical, earth, life) and their relationship to justice? Building from these essential questions, this course offers a framework for considering the ways that canonical sciences have constrained, categorized, and delimited Black lives, exploring such themes as: technoscientific constructions of race difference, epigenetic theories about the heritability of trauma, histories of biomedical experimentation, the long durée of eugenicist thinking, and the relationship of racialized (and gendered) bodies to their environments. We will also explore scientific scripts emergent from “below,” like: folk healing, speculative fictions, and Black nationalist origin stories, that have and continue to be sources of imaginative and emancipatory promise. In addition to developing the capacity to read widely across genres of science and critical studies thereof, students will develop skills in the deconstruction and speculative refiguring of scientific discourse.
- Department: Anthropology
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Vanessa L Agard-Jones
CULPA: 3 Info - 4 points
Memory and Monuments in the U.S. West
Memory and Monuments US W
This class explores the relationships among memory, monuments, place, and political power in
the United States West. The course begins with an introduction to the theory of collective
memory and then delves into case studies in New Mexico, California, and Texas. We will
expand our perspective at the end of the course to compare what we have learned with the
recent debates over monuments to the Confederacy. We will consider both physical
manifestations of collective memory such as monuments and architecture as well as intangible
expressions like performance, oral history and folklore.
- Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
- M 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Brian Luna Lucero
Info - 4 points
LEADERSHIP IN ORGANIZATION
Initially, the emphasis is on understanding the challenges confronting leaders and developing skills to effectively deal with these obstacles. Beyond intelligence and technical know-how, what separates effective leaders from other team members is a set of social skills (e.g. impression management, self-awareness). This course identifies these critical leadership skills and provides ideas and tools for improving them. Then, the course considers how social intelligence skills fit the needs of managers at different stages of their careers. In early stages, managers need to achieve a good person-job fit, find mentors, and build an effective social network. At the mid-career stage, managers need to lead an effective unit with increasing complexity and responsibilities. Finally, the course examines challenges managers face at later career stages as they become partners, CFOs, CEOs, etc.
- Department: Mendelson Center
- W 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rachel I McDonald
h-index: 12 Info - 3 points
RESEARCH DESIGN: DATA ANALYSIS
This course examines the basic methods data analysis and statistics that political scientists use in quantitative research that attempts to make causal inferences about how the political world works. The same methods apply to other kinds of problems about cause and effect relationships more generally. The course will provide students with extensive experience in analyzing data and in writing (and thus reading) research papers about testable theories and hypotheses. It will cover basic data analysis and statistical methods, from univariate and bivariate descriptive and inferential statistics through multivariate regression analysis. Computer applications will be emphasized. The course will focus largely on observational data used in cross-sectional statistical analysis, but it will consider issues of research design more broadly as well. It will assume that students have no mathematical background beyond high school algebra and no experience using computers for data analysis.
- Department: Political Science
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Abdullah Aydogan
h-index: 4 Info - 3 points
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
This course provides an introduction to the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) at an undergraduate level. We will discuss properties of human language at different levels of representation (morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics), and will learn how to create systems that can analyze, understand, and generate natural language. We will study machine learning methods used in NLP such as various forms of Neural networks and will focus particularly on conceptual and technical advances of frontier Large Language Models based NLP technologies (think ChatGPT) that are revolutionizing classical computational linguistics and NLP fields. We will also discuss applications such as question answering, summarization, language generation and as well as data, benchmarks and evaluation frameworks. We will discuss ethical aspects of NLP research and applications. Homework assignments will consist of programming projects in Python as well as written interpretation and analysis of the results. Class will also have a midterm and a mini final project instead of a final exam. Prerequisite(s): COMS W3134 or W3136 or W3137 (or equivalent). Background in probability/statistics and linear algebra is also required and experience with Python programming is strongly encouraged. Some previous or concurrent exposure to AI and machine learning is beneficial, but not required.
Please note: Due to significant overlap in content, only one of COMS BC3705 or COMS W4705 may be taken for credit.
- Department: Computer Science @Barnard
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Smaranda Muresan
h-index: 22 Info - 3 points
BEYOND EL DORADO
In this seminar, we will investigate ancient and indigenous art, materials, and aesthetics from areas of what is today Latin America. Taking advantage of New York’s unrivaled museum collections, we will research Pre-Columbian gold and silver work, as well as equally precious stone, shell, textile, and feather works created by artists of ancient Mexico, Central America, and Andean South America. We will also study latter-day histories of collecting, reception, display, appropriation, and activism that shape contemporary understandings of Pre-Columbian art.
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
- M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lisa Trever
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
The World of the Crusades, c.1050-c.1500
What were the Crusades? This seemingly straightforward question is not so easily answered. In fact, there are few historical subjects that are at once so superficially recognizable and yet so inadequately understood. The Crusades have been called armed pilgrimages and penitential holy wars; but also framed as an apocalyptic movement; or a proto-colonial one. Against whom were the Crusades directed? Certainly, they often entailed assaults against Muslims in the Middle East. But they also touched off anti-Jewish pogroms in Europe and were declared and fought against pagans in Livonia; perceived heretics in the south of France; Mongols in Poland and Hungary; and Christian political enemies of the papacy in Italy and elsewhere. This course has three principal aims. The first is to interrogate the origin, evolution, and consequences of the crusading movement in western Europe. The second is to examine and understand the various impacts on, and experiences of, those who were the target of crusading—Muslims, pagans, heretics, political enemies, etc.—in both the Middle East and other regions. Finally, we will conclude by considering the long “afterlife” and complicated reception of the Crusades—both how their study has been institutionalized in scholarship and universities, as well as the various ways they have been remembered, romanticized, appropriated, popularized, and vilified in the West and the Islamic world from the Middle Ages until the present day.
- Department: History
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jesse W Izzo
Info - 4 points
ETHICS - REC
Required discussion section for PHIL UN3701 Ethics
- Department: Philosophy
- M 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
- M 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jonathan M Arking
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Instructor:
Daniel Belgrad
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African Climate and History
This course examines how Africa’s climate has changed in the past and with what consequences for the people living on the continent. It looks at the scope, duration and intensity of past climate events and their impacts, while using these historical climate events to teach fundamental climate concepts. Central to the course is the human experience of these events and the diversity of their responses. The major question underpinning this course is, therefore, how have people responded to past climate events, whether short-term, decadal or longer in scope? This question is predicated on the complexity of human society and moves away from the binary of collapse vs. resilience that dominates much thinking about the impact of climate changes on past societies. This framing recognizes the significance of climate for food production and collection, as well as trade and cosmologies. It does not take climate to be the determining factor in history. Rather it foregrounds the myriad ways people acted in the face of, for example, multi-decadal below average rainfall or long periods of more reliable precipitation.
- Department: History
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- 4 points
African Climate and History
This course examines how Africa’s climate has changed in the past and with what consequences for the people living on the continent. It looks at the scope, duration and intensity of past climate events and their impacts, while using these historical climate events to teach fundamental climate concepts. Central to the course is the human experience of these events and the diversity of their responses. The major question underpinning this course is, therefore, how have people responded to past climate events, whether short-term, decadal or longer in scope? This question is predicated on the complexity of human society and moves away from the binary of collapse vs. resilience that dominates much thinking about the impact of climate changes on past societies. This framing recognizes the significance of climate for food production and collection, as well as trade and cosmologies. It does not take climate to be the determining factor in history. Rather it foregrounds the myriad ways people acted in the face of, for example, multi-decadal below average rainfall or long periods of more reliable precipitation.
- Department: Auditing
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- 0 points
VIOLENCE BY AND AGAINST WOMEN
VIOLENCE BY/AGAINST WOMEN
- Department: Global Programs
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Instructor:
Christelle Taraud
Info - 3 points
PLATO THE RHETORICIAN
Prerequisites: Instructors permission (Seminar). Although Socrates takes a notoriously dim view of persuasion and the art that produces it, the Platonic dialogues featuring him both theorize and practice a range of rhetorical strategies that become the nuts and bolts of persuasive argumentation. This seminar will read a number of these dialogues, including Apology, Protagoras, Ion, Gorgias, Phaedrus, Menexenus and Republic, followed by Aristoles Rhetoric, the rhetorical manual of Platos student that provides our earliest full treatment of the art. Application instructions: E-mail Prof. Eden (khe1@columbia.edu) with your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course. Admitted students should register for the course; they will automatically be placed on a wait list from which the instructor will in due course admit them as spaces become available.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kathy H Eden
CULPA: 19
Wikipedia
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- 4 points
RESEARCH DESIGN: SCOPE AND METHODS
RESEARCH DESIGN: SCOPE&ME
This class aims to introduce students to the logic of social scientific inquiry and research design. Although it is a course in political science, our emphasis will be on the science part rather than the political part — we’ll be reading about interesting substantive topics, but only insofar as they can teach us something about ways we can do systematic research. This class will introduce students to a medley of different methods to conduct social scientific research.
- Department: Political Science
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Cesar Zucco
Info - 4 points
SCOPE AND METHODS - DISC
This is the required discussion section for
POLS UN3720.
- Department: Political Science
- W 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- W 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
- W 11:10 a.m.-noon
- R 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
- R 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
- R 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Konstantinos Niakaros
Info - 0 points
ELITES, PRIVILEGE AND INEQUALITIES
ELITES PRIVILEGE INEQUALI
Based on a historical and sociological approach, this course provides an introduction to the analysis of inequalities by focusing on the social justification of privileges and social boundaries.
Economic and social inequalities are a structuring dimension of societies and are at the center of many analyses in history, economics and sociology. This course offers an in-depth analysis of how inequalities in access to economic resources, political power, and knowledge are justified in different societies by articulating barriers of class, gender, or race. Drawing on works on different historical configurations in Europe but also in America, Africa and Asia, the course encourages an epistemological reflection on the production of social barriers and the social construction of « elites ». Against an approach that naturalizes the concept of « elite », this course will put forward the idea that the very notion of elite is the product of a work of delimitation, of construction of social borders whose analysis can be made by mobilizing the classical tools of social sciences.
The course intends to highlight the fact that there is no natural superiority of an "elite" but rather variable justifications of unequal access to power and economic resources. If inequalities are produced by structural economic logics, the course will pay attention to the fact that the activation of social boundaries always supposes an active work of universalization of their own values. These forms of justification of privilege over time vary in their lexicon but often include elements that are stable from one historical configuration to another, whether it is the way in which the European aristocracy closed the door to the rising bourgeoisie within court societies or the way in which British elites in the nineteenth century, for example, justified their closure to women or to colonized peoples through the building of an elite masculinity (in class, we will refer for instance to the book
Oxbridge Men
by Paul R. Deslandes). The course invites to focus on the manufacture of social boundaries, on the way in which privileges find forms of justification, including in societies that claim to put merit or talent first, as opposed to inheritance or dynastic tradition. The course will also give space to the moments when these social boundaries are criticized, fought and challenged to the point of forcing actors in positions of power to update the justification of their privileges or to le
- Department: Global Programs
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Instructor:
Sylvain Laurens
Info - 3 points
Asylum/ Asile: Theory and Practice of As
Asylum/Asile
is an experiential learning class conducted in collaboration with Project Rousseau, a holistic non-profit organization that helps young people in communities with the greatest need.
Since migrant youth and families began arriving in New York by bus from the southern border, Project Rousseau has been on the frontlines serving them. A large proportion of these migrants are Francophone asylum seekers who need support with their application. This class will teach the theory and practice of asylum law, the specific sociohistorical, cultural, and political contexts that motivates Francophone asylum seekers, especially in the case of Mauritania and Guinea, and the ways in which translation is critical to this process. The class will culminate in students assisting Project Rousseau’s Francophone clients with their asylum applications.
The class is offered in the Fall. Interested students will be able to apply for internships with Project Rousseau in the Spring Semester.
- Department: French
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
- 3 points
DATA SCIENCE FOR POLITICS
This course explores techniques to harness the power of “big data” to answer questions related to political science and/or American politics. We will teach students how to use R—a popular open-source programming language—to obtain, clean, analyze, and visualize data. We will focus on applied problems using real data wherever possible, with a particular focus on R’s “Tidyverse.” In total, in this course we will cover concepts such as reading data in various formats (including “cracking” atypical government data sources and pdf documents); web scraping; data joins; data manipulation and cleaning (including string variables and regular expressions); data mining; making effective data visualizations; using data to make informed prediction, and basic text analysis. We will also cover programming basics including writing functions and loops in R. Finally, we will discuss how to use R Markdown to communicate our results effectively to outside audiences. No previous knowledge of R is required.
- Department: Political Science @Barnard
- TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael Miller
CULPA: 18 h-index: 14 Info - 3 points
POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Six major concepts of political philosophy including authority, rights, equality, justice, liberty and democracy are examined in three different ways. First the conceptual issues are analyzed through contemporary essays on these topics by authors like Peters, Hart, Williams, Berlin, Rawls and Schumpeter. Second the classical sources on these topics are discussed through readings from Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Marx, Plato, Mill and Rousseau. Third some attention is paid to relevant contexts of application of these concepts in political society, including such political movements as anarchism, international human rights, conservative, liberal, and Marxist economic policies as well as competing models of democracy.
- Department: Philosophy
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Axel Honneth
CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
Lab in Computational Biology
LAB COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
Hands-on experience addressing real-world biological questions through computational approaches. Biological data analysis for genomic, transcriptomic, and metagenomic data, using bioinformatics tools and pipelines for problems such as for sequence alignment, variant calling, and RNA-seq analysis. Topics include data processing, public database usage, genome assembly, metagenomic classification, and ethical considerations in genomics.
- Department: Computer Science
- TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Itsik Pe'er
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
Experimental Research
Randomized experimentation is an important methodology in political science. In this course, we will discuss the logic of experimentation, its strengths and weaknesses compared to other methodologies, and the ways in which experimentation has been -- and could be -- used to investigate political phenomena. Students will learn how to interpret, design, and execute experiments.
- Department: Political Science
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Donald P Green
CULPA: 2 h-index: 87 Info - 4 points
EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH-DISC
This is the required discussion section for POLS UN3768.
- Department: Political Science
- F 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
- F 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
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Instructor:
Muzhi Liu
Info - 0 points
The Social Life of Solidarity
Calls for solidarity are a ubiquitous feature of contemporary political life. When someone acts “in solidarity with” they both recognize their own difference – be it one of geography, community, positionality – and propose to act in a way that meaningfully bonds them to others across this difference. While undeniably central to social movements, “solidarity” looks radically different across contexts. As a result, the organizing question of this course holds incredible political importance: What is solidarity? How does one act in solidarity? What are the possibilities and pitfalls of the term as an analytical frame and political demand?
Anthropologists have a head start in answering this question. The concept of solidarity has been central since the foundations of the discipline. This course places anthropological theories of solidarity in dialogue with literature on both social and political movements and ethnographically insightful accounts of the little things we do (talk, listen, joke, celebrate) that are essential to forms of social solidarity. Through our readings and discussions, we will consider both what these theories offer our understanding of contemporary political and social life and how political and social life might allow us to develop, critique, or complicate these theories.
- Department: Anthropology
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jacob A Bessen
Info - 4 points
Prints in 17th-Century Holland: A Curato
Holland in the seventeenth century was home to some of the most innovative and influential printmakers in the history of art, most important among them, Rembrandt van Rijn. In addition, known for producing the most professional engravers, it became the main center for the issuing and distribution of prints in Europe. Held primarily in The Met’s Drawings and Prints Study Room, this class examines printmaking from this period in its many forms – from masterworks of Dutch landscape to political broadsheets. Reproductive printmakers and peintres-graveur, professional printmakers and amateurs will be considered. How prints were made, published, and sold will be explored. Students will learn how to identify techniques as well as quality of impression by examining original works in the collection of The Met’s Department of Drawings and Prints. We will also look at the subject from the point of view of the museum curator – how works are collected and exhibitions created.
- Department: Art History @Barnard
- M 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Nadine M Orenstein
Info - 4 points
SENIOR ESSAY RESEARCH METHODS
SENIOR ESSAY SEMINAR
The senior essay research methods seminar, offered in several sections in the fall semester, lays out the basic building blocks of literary and cultural studies. What kinds of questions do literary and cultural critics ask, and what kinds of evidence do they invoke to support their arguments? What formal properties characterize pieces of criticism that we find especially interesting and/or successful? How do critics balance the desire to say something fresh vis-a-vis the desire to say something sensible and true? What mix of traditional and innovative tools will best serve you as a critical writer? Voice, narrative, form, language, history, theory and the practice known as “close reading” will be considered in a selection of exemplary critical readings. Readings will also include “how-to” selections from recent guides including Amitava Kumar’s Every Day I Write the Book, Eric Hayot’s The Elements of Academic Style and Aaron Ritzenberg and Sue Mendelsohn’s How Scholars Write.
The methods seminar is designed to prepare those students who choose to write a senior essay to complete a substantial independent project in the subsequent semester. Individual assignments will help you discover, define and refine a topic; design and pursue a realistic yet thrilling research program or set of protocols; practice “close reading” an object (not necessarily verbal or textual) of interest; work with critical sources to develop your skills of description and argument; outline your project; build out several sections of the project in more detail; and come up with a timeline for your spring semester work. In keeping with the iterative nature of scholarly research and writing, the emphasis is more on process than on product, but you will end the semester with a clear plan for your essay itself as well as for the tasks you will execute to achieve that vision the following semester.
The methods seminar is required of all students who wish to write a senior essay in their final semester. Students who enroll in the methods seminar and decide not to pursue a senior essay in the spring will still receive credit for the fall course.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Sharon Marcus
CULPA: 8
Wikipedia
h-index: 19
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Instructor:
Aaron Ritzenberg
CULPA: 4
h-index: 4
Info
- 3 points
INDEPENDENT STUDY
- Department: Education @Barnard
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Instructor:
Thea R Abu El-Haj
Info - 1-4 points
INDEPENDENT STUDY
Students who wish to do an independent study project (I.S.P.), should speak with a Political Science faculty member willing to serve as sponsor, then fill out a Request for Approval of Credit for Independent Study (see Registrars link below) and obtain signatures from the sponsor and from our Department Chair. File this form with the Committee on Programs and Academic Standing, which must approve all requests. (It must be filed with the C.P.A.S. well before the Registrars program-filing deadline for the semester of the I.S.P.) Note that no credit is given for an internship or job experience in or by itself, but credit is given for an academic research paper written in conjunction with an internship, subject to the procedures outlined above. The internship and the I.S.P. can be in the same semester, or you may do the I.S.P. in the semester following the internship. A project approved for three or four points counts as an elective course for the purpose of the ten-course major or five-course minor requirement. No more than two such three- or four-point projects may be used for the major, and no more than one for the minor. An independent study project may not be used to satisfy either the colloquium or senior seminar requirement. Each instructor is limited to sponsoring one independent study project per semester. The Registrar will assign a POLS BC 3799 section and call number unique to the faculty sponsor. The Registrars ISP form: http://www.barnard.edu/sites/default/files/inline/indstudy.pdf. The Political Science faculty: http://polisci.barnard.edu/faculty-directory.
- Department: Political Science @Barnard
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Instructor:
Faculty
h-index: 37 Info - 1-4 points
INDEPENDENT STUDY
Students who wish to do an independent study project (I.S.P.), should speak with a Political Science faculty member willing to serve as sponsor, then fill out a Request for Approval of Credit for Independent Study (see Registrars link below) and obtain signatures from the sponsor and from our Department Chair. File this form with the Committee on Programs and Academic Standing, which must approve all requests. (It must be filed with the C.P.A.S. well before the Registrars program-filing deadline for the semester of the I.S.P.) Note that no credit is given for an internship or job experience in or by itself, but credit is given for an academic research paper written in conjunction with an internship, subject to the procedures outlined above. The internship and the I.S.P. can be in the same semester, or you may do the I.S.P. in the semester following the internship. A project approved for three or four points counts as an elective course for the purpose of the ten-course major or five-course minor requirement. No more than two such three- or four-point projects may be used for the major, and no more than one for the minor. An independent study project may not be used to satisfy either the colloquium or senior seminar requirement. Each instructor is limited to sponsoring one independent study project per semester. The Registrar will assign a POLS BC 3799 section and call number unique to the faculty sponsor. The Registrars ISP form: http://www.barnard.edu/sites/default/files/inline/indstudy.pdf. The Political Science faculty: http://polisci.barnard.edu/faculty-directory.
- Department: Political Science @Barnard
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Instructor:
Faculty
h-index: 37 Info - 1-4 points
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.
- 3 points
INDEPENDENT STUDY
Independent Projects
- Department: Film
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Instructor:
Robert King
CULPA: 7
Info
- 1-4 points
SEM IN CONTEMP ART PRACTICE
(Formerly R4601) New York City is the most abundant visual arts resource in the world. Visits to museums, galleries, and studios on a weekly basis. Students encounter a broad cross-section of art and are encouraged to develop ideas about what is seen. The seminar is led by a practicing artist and utilizes this perspective. Columbia College and General Studies Visual Arts Majors must take this class during their junior year. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.
- Department: Visual Arts
- T 4 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Keli Safia Maksud
Info - 3 points
SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS
Modeling, description, and classification of signals and systems. Continuous-time systems. Time domain analysis, convolution. Frequency domain analysis, transfer functions. Fourier series. Fourier and Laplace transforms. Discrete-time systems and the Z transform.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- TR 7:10 p.m.-8:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Xiaodong Wang
CULPA: 15 Info - 3.5 points
The Political Novel
Is the political novel a genre? It depends on your understanding both of politics and of the novel. If politics means parties, elections, and governing, then few novels of high quality would qualify. If on the other hand “the personal is the political,” as the slogan of the women’s movement has it, then almost everything the novel deals with is politics, and few novels would not qualify. This seminar will try to navigate between these extremes, focusing on novels that center on the question of how society is and ought to be constituted. Since this question is often posed ambitiously in so-called “genre fiction” like thrillers and sci-fi, which is not always honored as “literature,” it will include some examples of those genres as well as uncontroversial works of the highest literary value like Melville’s “Benito Cereno,” Ellison’s “Invisible Man,” and Camus’s “The Plague.”
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- 4 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
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kaya N Williams
Info - 4 points
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING LAB I
Fundamental considerations of wave mechanics; design philosophies; reliability and risk concepts; basics of fluid mechanics; design of structures subjected to blast; elements of seismic design; elements of fire design; flood considerations; advanced analysis in support of structural design.
- Department: Biomedical Engineering
- W 1:10 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- 3 points