NEW DIRECTIONS IN COMPUTING
BUILDING USABLE SECURITY
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
- T 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Lucy Simko
Info - 1-3 points
NEW DIRECTIONS IN COMPUTING
LLM FOUNDATIONS & ETHICS
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
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Smaranda Muresan
h-index: 22 Info - 1-3 points
SENIOR SEMINAR IN COMP LI
Designed for students writing a senior thesis and doing advanced research on two central literary fields in the students major. The course of study and reading material will be determined by the instructor(s) in consultation with students(s).
- Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
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Instructor:
Emily Sun
CULPA: 4
Info
- 4 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
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Instructor:
Faculty
h-index: 37 Info - 1-4 points
SENIOR THESIS IN PERFORMANCE
SR THESIS/PERF: ACTING
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
- M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Crystal Finn
Info - 4 points
SENIOR THESIS IN PERFORMANCE
SR THESIS/PERF: DESIGN
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:
Sandra Goldmark
CULPA: 4
Info
- 4 points
SENIOR THESIS IN PERFORMANCE
SR THESIS/PERF: STG MGT
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 THESIS IN PERFORMANCE
SR THESIS/PERF: DIRECTING
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:
Shannon M Sindelar
Info - 4 points
SENIOR THESIS IN PERFORMANCE
SR THESIS/PERF: PLAYWRITING
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
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Andrew Bragen
Info - 4 points
SENIOR THESIS IN PERFORMANCE
SR THESIS/PERF: SOLO PERF
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
- TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kyle Decamp
Info - 4 points
SENIOR THESIS IN PERFORMANCE
SR THESIS/PERF: DRAMATURGY
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:
Alice A Reagan
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info - 4 points
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:
Vanessa L Agard-Jones
CULPA: 3 Info - 2-6 points
INDEPENDENT STUDY
Prerequisites: Permission of program director in the semester prior to that of independent study.
- Department: Architecture @Barnard
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Instructor:
Kadambari Baxi
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Instructor:
Karen Fairbanks
CULPA: 2 Info -
Instructor:
Ralph Ghoche
CULPA: 1 h-index: 2 Info -
Instructor:
Ignacio Gonzalez Galan
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Instructor:
Anooradha I Siddiqi
CULPA: 1 Info - 1-4 points
SENIOR SEMINAR IN ENGLISH
SR SEM: LABOR,LANGUAGE,AI
Enrollment is 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:
Jonathan L Beller
CULPA: 4
Info
- 4 points
SENIOR SEMINAR IN ENGLISH
SR SEM: PERSIAN&WORLD LIT
Enrollment is 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:
Atefeh Akbari Shahmirzadi
Info - 4 points
SENIOR SEMINAR IN ENGLISH
SR SEM: SINGING IN DARK
Enrollment is 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
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:
Meghan E Hartman
Info - 4 points
SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH
Prerequisites: the department's permission. Supervised Individual Research
- Department: Slavic Languages @Barnard
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Instructor:
John C Wright
CULPA: 1 Info - 2-4 points
SENIOR THESIS IN RESEARCH
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to senior Theatre majors. Combined and special majors may be considered under exceptional circumstances. Permission of the instructor required. In-depth research project culminating in a substantial written thesis on any aspect of drama, performance, or theatre research.
- Department: Theatre @Barnard
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Instructor:
William B Worthen
CULPA: 10
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- 4 points
SENIOR THESIS SEM IN ANTHROPOL
Prerequisites: The instructors permission. Students must have declared a major in Anthropology prior to registration. Students must have a 3.6 GPA in the major and a preliminary project concept in order to be considered. Interested students must communicate/meet with thesis instructor in the previous spring about the possibility of taking the course during the upcoming academic year. Additionally, expect to discuss with the instructor at the end of the fall term whether your project has progressed far enough to be completed in the spring term. If it has not, you will exit the seminar after one semester, with a grade based on the work completed during the fall term. This two-term course is a combination of a seminar and a workshop that will help you conduct research, write, and present an original senior thesis in anthropology. Students who write theses are eligible to be considered for departmental honors. The first term of this course introduces a variety of approaches used to produce anthropological knowledge and writing; encourages students to think critically about the approaches they take to researching and writing by studying model texts with an eye to the ethics, constraints, and potentials of anthropological research and writing; and gives students practice in the seminar and workshop formats that are key to collegial exchange and refinement of ideas. During the first term, students complete a few short exercises that will culminate in a substantial draft of one discrete section of their senior project (18-20 pages) plus a detailed outline of the expected work that remains to be done (5 pages). The spring sequence of the anthropology thesis seminar is a writing intensive continuation of the fall semester, in which students will have designed the research questions, prepared a full thesis proposal that will serve as a guide for the completion of the thesis and written a draft of one chapter. Only those students who expect to have completed the fall semester portion of the course are allowed to register for the spring; final enrollment is contingent upon successful completion of first semester requirements. In spring semester, weekly meetings will be devoted to the collaborative refinement of drafts, as well as working through issues of writing (evidence, voice, authority etc.). All enrolled students are required to present their project at a symposium in the late spring, and the final grade is based primarily on successful completion of the thesis/ capstone project. Note: The senior thesis seminar is open t
- Department: Anthropology
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Lila Abu-Lughod
CULPA: 17 Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info - 4 points
INDEPENDENT STUDY
Prerequisites: Open to majors who have fulfilled basic major requirements or written permission of the staff member who will supervise the project. Specialized reading and research projects planned in consultation with members of the Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures teaching staff.
- Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
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Instructor:
Rachel McDermott
CULPA: 37
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Instructor:
David L Moerman
CULPA: 18
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Nicholas A Bartlett
CULPA: 5
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Matthew L Keegan
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Lili Xia
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Nathanael P Shelley
CULPA: 6
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- 1-4 points
INDIVIDUAL STUDY II
Prerequisites: open only to qualified majors in the department; the director of undergraduate studies permission is required. An opportunity for research under the direction of an individual faculty member. Students intending to write a year-long senior thesis should plan to register for C3996 in the spring semester of their senior year and are strongly advised to consult the undergraduate studies as they plan their programs.
- Department: Sociology @Barnard
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Instructor:
Deborah Becher
CULPA: 8
h-index: 4
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Elizabeth Bernstein
CULPA: 27 Info -
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Maricarmen Hernandez
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Debra Minkoff
CULPA: 6 h-index: 17 Info -
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Mignon R Moore
CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info -
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Jonathan Rieder
CULPA: 17
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Angela Simms
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Amy Zhou
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Instructor:
Randa B Serhan
CULPA: 2 Info - 1-6 points
SENIOR SEMINAR
Intensive study of a philosophical issue or topic, or of a philosopher, group of philosophers, or philosophical school or movement. Open only to Barnard senior philosophy majors.
- Department: Philosophy @Barnard
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Instructor:
Karen Lewis
CULPA: 12 h-index: 7 Info - 4 points
Effective Global Leadership for Economic
Effective Global Leadership II
These two-part mid-career global leadership development courses (1.5 credit course in the summer and spring) provide intensive, collaborative, and highly interactive hands-on instruction, constructive evaluation, and ample opportunities to transform theory into practice. It utilizes cutting-edge, research-based methodologies and customized case studies to build the next generation of leaders that turn differences into opportunities, ideas into solutions, and knowledge into action. Students will acquire a variety of leadership skills in global contexts, including cross-cultural negotiation strategies, consensus building, collaborative facilitation, persuasion, inclusionary leadership, design-thinking-based problem-solving techniques, and public speaking in knowledge-intensive industries. They will gain a competitive edge in their professional careers by participating in a variety of simulation games, role-playing exercises, and mock public policy panels to apply the skills they have learned and receive valuable feedback.
- Department: MPA IN ECON POLICY MANAGEMENT
- 1.5 points
SENIOR ESSAY
A substantial paper, developing from an Autumn workshop and continuing into the Spring under the direction of an individual adviser. Open only to Barnard senior philosophy majors.
- Department: Philosophy @Barnard
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Instructor:
Francey Russell
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
AESTHETICS:EXPER & EXPRESSION
- Department: Philosophy @Barnard
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Instructor:
Christopher P Prodoehl
Info - 3 points
INTRO MODERN ANALYSIS I
Prerequisites: MATH UN1202 or the equivalent, and MATH UN2010. The second term of this course may not be taken without the first. Real numbers, metric spaces, elements of general topology, sequences and series, continuity, differentiation, integration, uniform convergence, Ascoli-Arzela theorem, Stone-Weierstrass theorem.
- Department: Mathematics @Barnard
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Instructor:
Faculty
h-index: 37 Info - 3 points
TOPICS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE
Please refer to Institute for African American and African Diaspora Studies Department for section-by-section course descriptions.
- Department: African American and African Diaspora
- R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Johanna F Almiron
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Instructor:
Vivaldi Jean-Marie
Info - 4 points
(Y)OUR LONGER LIFE
People are living 30 years longer than we did 100 years ago. We have created a whole new stage of life. How do we prepare to benefit from our longer lives? What can you do in your own life? This course explores the personal, population, community, and societal dimensions of our now-longer lives, of aging itself, and the role of health and societal design in the experience of aging. The course examines the meaning of aging and the attendant expectations, myths, fears, and realities. The course examines an aging society as a public health success, the potential for building health futures, the health plan you want to be healthy in old age, and the potential for longer lives and how we unlock it. It addresses the roles public health currently plays and can play in shaping a society for an aging population. The course explores how a public health system—indeed, a society—optimized for an aging population stands to benefit all. The course also examines the physical, cognitive, and psychological aspects of aging, the exposures across our lives that affect these, the attributes and challenges of aging, keys to successful aging, and aging around the globe. The culminating project will design elements of our society that are needed to support the opportunity of having longer lives. This course comprises lectures, class discussions, individual assignments, in-class case activities, and a group project in which students shall take an active role. You will be responsible for regular preparatory assignments, writing assignments, one group project, and attending course sessions. Please note: GSAS students must receive permission from their department before registering for this course.
- Department: Columbia College
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dana March
CULPA: 8
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- 3 points
ELEMENTARY UGARITIC I
- Department: Language Resource Center
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Instructor:
Stephane A Charitos
CULPA: 6
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- 3 points
GENDER IN ANC CHRISTIANITY
This seminar considers the difference gender makes in interpreting ancient Christian texts, ideas, and practices. Topics will include gender hierarchy and homoeroticism, prophecy and authority, outsiders’ views of Christianity, bodily pieties such as martyrdom and asceticism, and gender politics in the establishment of church offices. Emphasis will be placed on close readings of primary sources and selected scholarly framings of these sources.
- Department: Religion @Barnard
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Castelli
CULPA: 17 Wikipedia Info - 4 points
The Just City: Global Debates in Urban P
THE JUST CITY
Urbanization is inherently unequal, inscribing social, economic, environmental, and political unevenness into the spatial fabric of the city. But the distribution of such inequality is not inevitable. Urbanization is a product of the collective decisions we make (or choose not to make) in response to the shared challenges we face in our cities. And, thus, the patterns of urbanization can be changed. This is the task of urban planning and the starting point for this advanced seminar, which asks how we can reshape our cities to be more just—to alleviate inequality rather than compound it. In embarking on this effort, we face numerous “wicked” problems without clear-cut solutions. The approaches one takes in addressing urban inequality are therefore fundamentally normative—they are shaped by one’s place in the world and one’s view of it. The central challenge in addressing inequality is thus establishing a basis for collective action amongst diverse actors with differing—and sometimes conflicting—values and views. In other words, planning the just city a matter of both empathy and debate. In this course, we will endeavor to develop informed positions that can help us engage with others as a basis for taking collective action.
The course is organized into four 3-week modules, each of which addresses a dimension of the just city: equity, democracy, diversity, and sustainability. In the first week of each module, we will discuss how the issue has been understood in history and theory (with an emphasis on tradeoffs between different priorities and values); in the second week, we will apply this discussion to a global case study prepared and presented by a team of students; and in the third week, we will hold an in-class debate to determine what should be done. Specific case studies vary each year.
- Department: Architecture @Barnard
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nick R Smith
h-index: None Info - 4 points
CONTEM AMER JEWISH WOMEN'S LIT
CONTEM AMER JEWSH WOMEN'S LIT
The seminar will focus on trends that have emerged over the past three decades in Jewish American women's writing in the fields of memoirs, fiction and Jewish history: the representation and exploration through fictive narratives of women's experiences in American Jewish orthodox communities; reinterpretation of Jewish history through gender analysis; the recording of migration and exile by Jewish women immigrants from the former Soviet Union, Morocco, Iran, and Egypt; and gender transformations. Texts will be analyzed in terms of genre structures, narrative strategies, the role of gender in shaping content and Jewish identity, and the political, cultural and social contexts in which the works were created. The course aims for students to discuss and critically engage with texts in order to develop the skills of analytical and abstract thinking, as well as the ability to express that critical thinking in writing. Prerequisites:
Both
one introductory WGSS course
and
Critical Approaches to Social and Cultural Theory,
or
Permission of the Instructor.
- Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
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Instructor:
Agnieszka Legutko
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
EMBODIMENT AND BODILY DIFFERENCE
EMBODIMENT & BODILY DIFFE
At once material and symbolic, our bodies exist at the intersection of multiple competing discourses, including the juridical, the techno-scientific, and the biopolitical. In this course, we will draw upon a variety of critical interdisciplinary literatures—including feminist and queer studies, science and technology studies, and disability studies—to consider some of the ways in which the body is constituted by such discourses, and itself serves as the substratum for social relations. Among the key questions we will consider are the following: What is natural about the body? How are distinctions made between presumptively normal and pathological bodies, and between psychic and somatic experiences? How do historical and political-economic forces shape the perception and meaning of bodily difference? And most crucially: how do bodies that are multiply constituted by competing logics of gender, race, nation, and ability offer up resistance to these and other categorizations?
- Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
- F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Margot L Kotler
Info - 4 points
Topics in Moral Psychology
Intensive study of a particular topic in Moral Psychology.
- Department: Philosophy @Barnard
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Instructor:
Francey Russell
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
Technologies of Modern Drama
TECHNOLOGIES OF MOD DRAMA
This seminar will consider theatre intermedially, taking up its use of dramatic writing as one, only one, of its determining technologies. In the first half of the semester we will use a series of philosophical questions—tools vs. technologies, techne vs. medium—to consider several dimensions of modern theatricality as technologies: of gender and genre, of space and place, of the body and its performance. After spring break, we will use the terms generated to consider a series of topics specifically inflected by the design and practice of modern theatricality. Students will each write one longer essay, and will have the opportunity to receive feedback on a draft, if desired.
- Department: Theatre @Barnard
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
William B Worthen
CULPA: 10
Info
- 4 points
DIVINE HUMAN ANIMAL
This course focuses on thinking with animals (Levi-Strauss) through the lens of the religious imagination. The concentration will be primarily on Western religious cultures, especially Judaism and the question of Jewishness.
- Department: Religion @Barnard
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Instructor:
Beth A Berkowitz
CULPA: 2 h-index: 6 Info - 4 points
INDEPENDENT STUDY-GRADUATE
- Department: African American and African Diaspora
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Instructor:
Brandi Summers
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Jafari S Allen
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Instructor:
Farah Griffin
CULPA: 10
Wikipedia
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- 1-4 points
ELEMENTS LATIN PROSE STYLE
Prerequisites: at least four semesters of Latin, or the equivalent. Intensive review of Latin syntax with translation of English sentences and paragraphs into Latin.
- Department: Classics @Barnard
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Instructor:
Kristina Milnor
CULPA: 21
Wikipedia
h-index: 10
Info
- 4 points
INVESTMENT PLANNING
The Investment Planning course explores the essential principles of investing and how to apply them wisely as
wealth advisors. Students will examine how investment wisdom and theory has evolved – from the insights of
Benjamin Graham to Modern Portfolio Theory, the Capital Asset Pricing Model, factor-based investing and more --
and identify how these theories can be utilized as a framework for understanding and using investments of the present and future. Students will calculate and apply mathematical formulas to learn how to manage risk and return in investment portfolios. This course will compare and contrast each of the major asset classes, ranging from cash and near-cash investments to public and private equity, debt and alternative investments. Students will learn how to apply investment skills to deliver and demonstrate value to clients, net of fees and adjusted risk. In addition, this course will emphasize the parallel development of investment knowledge and communication and counseling skills to conduct investment relationships with clients effectively.
- Department: Wealth Management
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Instructor:
Stephen Bodurtha
Info - 3 points
TAX PLANNING
The Tax Planning course explores the various methods of the U.S. tax system, its development, its applicability to individual (and corporate) taxpayers, and steps taxpayers of various income and wealth levels take to determine,
meet, and minimize their tax obligations, depending on their goals. Students will learn how to identify sources, nature, and taxability of taxpayers’ income and gains, to determine the deductibility of any expenses they incur to reduce income, identify credits they may have to offset taxes due, understand filing and payment obligations, and apply the methods of minimizing tax - avoidance, deferral, and use of lower brackets or realization by other taxpayers.
- Department: Wealth Management
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Instructor:
Adam Ludman
Info - 3 points
Leadership in Action
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management I Core.
Leadership in Action
integrates strategic leadership frameworks, real-world case studies, and an immersive multi-week simulation to build students’ capacity to lead in complex, high-stakes environments. Through a sequence of applied exercises, ranging from team formation and innovation design to crisis response, students will develop critical skills in decision-making, influence, and organizational change. The course emphasizes adaptive leadership, cross-sector collaboration, and ethical judgment, equipping students to lead effectively under conditions of uncertainty and pressure.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Gary Bagley
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Instructor:
William B Eimicke
Info - 1.5 points
Leadership in Action
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management I Core.
Leadership in Action
integrates strategic leadership frameworks, real-world case studies, and an immersive multi-week simulation to build students’ capacity to lead in complex, high-stakes environments. Through a sequence of applied exercises, ranging from team formation and innovation design to crisis response, students will develop critical skills in decision-making, influence, and organizational change. The course emphasizes adaptive leadership, cross-sector collaboration, and ethical judgment, equipping students to lead effectively under conditions of uncertainty and pressure.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
William B Eimicke
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Instructor:
Teemu Alexander Puutio
Info - 1.5 points
Leadership in Action
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management I Core.
Leadership in Action
integrates strategic leadership frameworks, real-world case studies, and an immersive multi-week simulation to build students’ capacity to lead in complex, high-stakes environments. Through a sequence of applied exercises, ranging from team formation and innovation design to crisis response, students will develop critical skills in decision-making, influence, and organizational change. The course emphasizes adaptive leadership, cross-sector collaboration, and ethical judgment, equipping students to lead effectively under conditions of uncertainty and pressure.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Teemu Alexander Puutio
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Instructor:
Kirsti Samuels
Info - 1.5 points
People Management and Building Organizat
People Management & Org C
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core.
This course explores key themes in people management and organizational culture, equipping students with skills to lead diverse teams and build resilient, high-performing workplaces. Through case studies, simulations, and applied exercises, students will examine talent strategy, performance management, inclusive leadership, and organizational design. The course emphasizes practical tools for navigating complex challenges such as incentive structures, conflict resolution, and talent retention in dynamic global environments.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Teemu Alexander Puutio
Info - 1.5 points
Effective Management in the Public Servi
Management in Public Serv
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core.
This course introduces students to the field of public management, focusing on the tools and strategies managers use to influence organizational behavior and deliver public services. Through lectures, case studies, discussions, and group projects, students will explore management practices in government and in nonprofit and private organizations that partner with the public sector. The course draws on examples from New York City and U.S. agencies, as well as comparative cases from Asia, Latin America, and Europe. A lab section deepens engagement with course materials and features guest speakers from across sectors.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
William B Eimicke
Info - 1.5 points
Crisis Leadership and Adaptive Managemen
Crisis Leadership & Mgmt
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core.
This course equips students with the skills, strategies, and resilience necessary to lead effectively during extreme events and complex crises. Drawing on case studies, personal narratives, and interactive exercises, the course examines how crises —ranging from natural disasters and terrorist attacks to cyber incidents and pandemics —require adaptive management and decisive leadership under intense pressure. Students will examine the multiple forces that shape crisis response, including social, cognitive, operational, and political dynamics. The course provides a framework for assessing risk, coordinating cross-sector efforts, developing crisis communication strategies, and fostering innovation in fast-evolving situations.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- 1.5 points
Crisis Communications
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core.
This course blends crisis communication theory, case studies, and immersive simulations to prepare students for high-stakes communications challenges in the public and nonprofit sectors. Students will develop strategic judgment and tactical skills necessary to lead during crises while practicing rapid-response communication under pressure.
Topics include defining and diagnosing crises, designing messaging strategies, working with the media, coordinating across agencies, and maintaining public trust. The course also explores the role of tone and humor, legal considerations, and the dynamics of internal and external communication during emergencies.
Students will engage in hands-on simulations replicating real-world crises, such as natural disasters, viral incidents, and organizational failures. Through weekly assignments and scenario-based exercises, students will gain experience developing crisis memos, talking points, and live-response strategies.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- 1.5 points
Persuasion and Applied Negotiation Skill
Persuasion & Negotiation
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core.
This course is an interactive, practice-focused experience designed to equip students with skills and confidence in negotiation and persuasion across public and private sector contexts. Drawing on negotiation psychology, best practices, and evidence-based approaches, the course will develop students’ ability to navigate complex interpersonal and multilateral dynamics.
Through simulations, roleplays, and real-world case studies, students will learn to apply integrative and distributive negotiation methods, build strong positions and alternatives, and manage collective bargaining, mediation, arbitration, and asymmetric power dynamics.
Course topics include negotiation theory, stakeholder analysis, multilateral and cross-cultural negotiation, and solution-driven communication. Students will develop the ability to assess power dynamics, leverage personal strengths, and contribute effectively in multi-stakeholder settings.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Teemu Alexander Puutio
Info - 1.5 points
Managing Communications
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core.
This course trains students to become effective spokespersons and communications directors in any sector—government, nonprofit, or private enterprise. The class focuses on developing practical skills and insight into the extensive role of communications in achieving organizational goals.
Students will assume the role of a communications executive for a real organization of their choice for the duration of the course. Assignments will be framed from this perspective, including developing a public relations strategy, drafting executive communications, preparing weekly media reports, and planning crisis responses.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Hagar Hajjar Chemali
Wikipedia Info - 1.5 points
Strategic Management of Nonprofit Organi
Strategic Mgmt-Nonprofit
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core.
This course explores how core functional areas, such as governance, finance, talent strategy, communications, and accountability, interconnect to support a nonprofit organization’s mission and strategic goals. Students will examine key management practices in nonprofit settings, emphasizing mission alignment, ethical fundraising, board effectiveness, and impact measurement. Through applied learning, the course equips students with the skills to assess organizational performance, design inclusive cultures, and develop strategic approaches to growth and sustainability.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Gary Bagley
Info - 1.5 points
Decisions and Behavior
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core.
This course introduces students to the field of behavioral economics and the study of individual decision-making. Students will examine how behavior often departs from standard rational models and consider the implications for public policy and management. The course begins with the economic concept of rationality, then proceeds to evidence on systematic deviations, including impatience, framing, reference dependence, and social preferences. Class meetings will incorporate in-class experiments, discussions, and analyses of empirical research. The course concludes with applications to policy design and organizational practices. Students will prepare presentations, participate in recitations, and either develop a policy proposal or complete a final exam to demonstrate their understanding of behavioral approaches to decision-making.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Michael Ting
CULPA: 4 Info - 1.5 points
Sustainability Management
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core.
Sustainability management matters because we only have one planet, and we must learn how to manage our organizations in a way that ensures that our planet is maintained. The course is designed to introduce you to the field of sustainability management. This is not an academic course that reviews the literature of the field and discusses how scholars think about the management of organizations that are environmentally sound. It is a practical, professional course organized around the core concepts of management and the core concepts of sustainability. The course will have a specific emphasis on urban sustainability as the planet’s urban population continues to expand.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Steven Cohen
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 21 Info - 1.5 points
Sustainability Management
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core.
Sustainability management matters because we only have one planet, and we must learn how to manage our organizations in a way that ensures that our planet is maintained. The course is designed to introduce you to the field of sustainability management. This is not an academic course that reviews the literature of the field and discusses how scholars think about the management of organizations that are environmentally sound. It is a practical, professional course organized around the core concepts of management and the core concepts of sustainability. The course will have a specific emphasis on urban sustainability as the planet’s urban population continues to expand.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Steven Cohen
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 21 Info - 1.5 points
Managing Yourself as a Leader: Skills an
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core.
This experiential course focuses on the self-management and interpersonal skills essential for effective leadership in high-pressure, high-stakes situations. Through role-plays, structured exercises, video analysis, and Leadership Labs, students will develop greater self-awareness, communication agility, and emotional resilience. Emphasizing the analysis of leadership failure as a learning tool, the course uses individual student cases to explore how personal patterns and behaviors impact leadership effectiveness. Active participation and small group work are central to this hands-on, practice-based learning environment.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Kirsti Samuels
Info - 1.5 points
CLIMATE CHANGE LAW
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Michael Gerrard
CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
SECOND YEAR DOCTORAL PROPOSAL SEMINAR
2ND YR DOCTORAL PROPOSAL
Prerequisites: 2ND YEAR PHD STATUS IN GOOD STANDING Corequisites: ANTH G6205 Within this seminar, one will master the art of research design and proposal writing, with special emphasis on the skills involved in writing a dissertation prospectus and research proposals that target a range of external funding sources. Foci include: bibliography development; how one crafts and defends a research problem; the parameters of human subjects research - certification; and the key components of grant proposal design. Required of, and limited to, all Second Year PHD anthropology students.
- Department: Anthropology
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Paige West
CULPA: 41
h-index: 23
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- 4 points
LANGUAGE AND ITS LIMITS
This course examines
language and its limits
from the perspective of practice and theory, drawing on linguistic and sociocultural anthropology, semiotics, and deaf and disability studies. The first weeks focus on foundational texts and frameworks for language, semiotics, and communication, paying attention to the placement, and theorization, of boundaries that separate language from not-language and to the work such boundaries (are intended to) do. The second part of the course explores materials where the subjects and objects of study approach or even cross those boundaries, asking what kinds of ethical, intellectual, and relational demands these materials make in both social and analytic contexts. Focal topics may include linguistic relativity; semiotics; modality (signed, spoken, written languages); disability; trauma and colonialism; human-nonhuman communication; and gender. Please email for instructor permission.
- Department: Anthropology @Barnard
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth M Green
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
Global Leadership Seminar II
Global Leadership Sem II
The Global Leadership Seminar II is one of the core classes of the MPA in Global Leadership. It provides students with concrete lessons on the practice of leadership, enables students the opportunity to interface with established leaders across the spheres of government and civil society. The course culminates with each student submitting and presenting a plan to address a global policy challenge.
- Department: MPA in Global Leadership
- 3 points
CRIMINAL LAW
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Bernard E Harcourt
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Instructor:
James Liebman
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Instructor:
Jed S Rakoff
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Debra A Livingston
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
Contending Theories of International Rel
Theories of Int'l Relatio
MIA Politics I Core.
This course introduces MIA students to foundational theories and analytical frameworks used to understand international affairs and the global political economy. Drawing on literature from international relations, comparative politics, political sociology, and economics, the course examines the evolution of international relations scholarship and key debates shaping the field. Through weekly discussions, case-based readings, and structured debates, students will critically engage with competing perspectives on power, institutions, regimes, markets, and global order. Special attention is given to American scholarly traditions and real-world applications, including contemporary issues such as war, climate change, and global inequality.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Lincoln A Mitchell
Info - 1.5 points
PROPERTY (FOUNDATION)
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Thomas W Merrill
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Instructor:
Shyamkrishna Balganesh
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Instructor:
Maeve H Glass
Info - 4 points
TORTS
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Ashraf Ahmed
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Instructor:
Bert Huang
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
Theory and Practice of American Politics
MPA Politics I Core.
This course provides an introduction to American political institutions and their role in shaping public policy. Students will examine how policy decisions, and inaction, affect critical aspects of daily life, including health care, education, public safety, and environmental protection. The course explores the structure and function of U.S. political institutions such as Congress, the presidency, courts, and federalism, and how these compare to other democracies. It also analyzes the influence of actors including interest groups, social movements, the media, and bureaucrats. Through case studies, group work, and applied analysis, students will gain a foundational understanding of the policymaking process, key trends in American politics, and the skills needed to engage with public policy in practice.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Lincoln A Mitchell
Info - 1.5 points
Theory and Practice of American Politics
MPA Politics I Core.
This course provides an introduction to American political institutions and their role in shaping public policy. Students will examine how policy decisions, and inaction, affect critical aspects of daily life, including health care, education, public safety, and environmental protection. The course explores the structure and function of U.S. political institutions such as Congress, the presidency, courts, and federalism, and how these compare to other democracies. It also analyzes the influence of actors including interest groups, social movements, the media, and bureaucrats. Through case studies, group work, and applied analysis, students will gain a foundational understanding of the policymaking process, key trends in American politics, and the skills needed to engage with public policy in practice.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Lincoln A Mitchell
Info - 1.5 points