UNDERGRAD RESEARCH OR PROJECT

Prerequisites:
approval by a faculty member who agrees to supervise the work.

Independent work involving experiments, computer programming, analytical investigation, or engineering design.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Instructor: David D Yao
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Yi Zhang
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Xunyu Zhou
  h-index: 54 Info
• Instructor: Jenny S Mak
  Info
• 1-3 points

UNDERGRAD RES IN MATERIALS SCI

This course may be repeated for credit, but no more than 6 points of this course may be counted toward the satisfaction of the B.S. degree requirements. Candidates for the B.S. degree may conduct an investigation in materials science or carry out a special project under the supervision of the staff. Credit for the course is contingent upon the submission of an acceptable thesis or final report.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: William Bailey
  CULPA: 12 Info
• Instructor: Katayun Barmak
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 49 Info
• Instructor: Simon Billinge
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 75 Info
• Instructor: Siu-Wai Chan
  h-index: 36 Info
• Instructor: Alexander Gaeta
  Wikipedia h-index: 89 Info
• Instructor: Oleg Gang
  h-index: 45 Info
• Instructor: Irving P Herman
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia h-index: 50 Info
• Instructor: James Im
  Info
• Instructor: Chris A Marianetti
  Info
• Instructor: Ismail C Noyan
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Renata M Wentzcovitch
  Info
• 0-4 points

UNDERGRAD RES IN MATERIALS SCI

This course may be repeated for credit, but no more than 6 points of this course may be counted toward the satisfaction of the B.S. degree requirements. Candidates for the B.S. degree may conduct an investigation in materials science or carry out a special project under the supervision of the staff. Credit for the course is contingent upon the submission of an acceptable thesis or final report.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Yuan Yang
  h-index: 49 Info
• 0-4 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: Permission of the departmental representative required.
For specially selected students, the opportunity to do a research problem in contemporary physics under the supervision of a faculty member. Each year several juniors are chosen in the spring to carry out such a project beginning in the autumn term. A detailed report on the research is presented by the student when the project is complete.

• Department: Physics
• Instructor: Jeremy R Dodd
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 1-5 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: Permission of the departmental representative required.
For specially selected students, the opportunity to do a research problem in contemporary physics under the supervision of a faculty member. Each year several juniors are chosen in the spring to carry out such a project beginning in the autumn term. A detailed report on the research is presented by the student when the project is complete.

• Department: Physics and Astronomy @Barnard
• Instructor: Reshmi Mukherjee
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia h-index: 63 Info
• 1-5 points

INDEPENDENT STDY-UNDERGRADUATE

INDEPENDENT STUDY-UNDERGRAD

• Department: African-American Studies, Institute for Research in
• Instructor: Kevin Fellezs
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Frank Guridy
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Farah Griffin
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Samuel K Jr Roberts
  Info
• 1-4 points

INDEPENDENT STDY-UNDERGRADUATE

• Department: African-American Studies, Institute for Research in
• Instructor: Robert Gooding-Williams
  Wikipedia h-index: 15 Info
• Instructor: Josef Sorett
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 1-4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

SR SEM: ARCHITECTURAL CRITICI

Readings, individual class presentations, and written reports.

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

SENIOR SEMINAR

SR SEM:ARCH'S GLOBL TERRTRIES

Readings, individual class presentations, and written reports.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ignacio Gonzalez Galan
  Info
• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS

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

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• Instructor: John D Phan
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 2 points

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Prerequisites: (CHEM UN1404) or CHEM C1404 or the equivalent
Fundamentals of microbiology, genetics and molecular biology, principles of microbial nutrition, energetics and kinetics, application of novel and state-of-the-art techniques in monitoring the structure and function of microbial communities in the environment, engineered processes for biochemical waste treatment and bioremediation, microorganisms and public health, global microbial elemental cycles.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Shashwat M Vajpeyi
  Info
• 3 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE SEMINAR

Prerequisites:
EESC BC3800
or
EESC BC3801
and a good grounding in basic sciences.
Guided, independent, in-depth research culminating in the senior thesis in the spring. Includes discussion about scientific presentations and posters, data analysis, library research methods and scientific writing. Students review work in progress and share results through oral reports. Weekly seminar to review work in progress and share results through oral and written reports.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Martin Stute
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 52 Info
• 3 points

SENIOR HONORS THESIS SEM

SENIOR HONORS THESIS SEMINAR

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

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Marisa C Buzzeo
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

UNDERGRADUATE THESIS

Prerequisites: Agreement by a faculty member to serve as thesis adviser.
An independent theoretical or experimental investigation by an undergraduate major of an appropriate problem in computer science carried out under the supervision of a faculty member. A formal written report is mandatory and an oral presentation may also be required. May be taken over more than one term, in which case the grade is deferred until all 6 points have been completed. Consult the department for section assignment.

• Department: Computer Science
• Instructor: Tony B Dear
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 1-6 points

INDEPENDENT RES & RESEARCH II

INDEPENDENT RESEARCH

• Department: Political Science
• 1-6 points

SENIOR HONORS THESIS LAB

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

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• Instructor: Christian Rojas
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Marisa C Buzzeo
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Dina C Merrer
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Andrew C Crowther
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Michael Campbell
  Info
• Instructor: Mary Sever
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Rachel Austin
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia h-index: 28 Info
• Instructor: Christina Vizcarra
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 0 points

SENIOR HONORS THESIS LAB

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

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• 0 points

COMMUNITIES AND SOCIAL CHANGE

Examines how changes in the economy, racial composition, and class relations affect community life-how it is created, changed and sometimes lost-with a specific focus on the local urban context. Student research projects will address how contemporary forces such as neoliberalization, gentrification and tourism impact a community's social fabric.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Marnie F Brady
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

SR SEM: FAMILY IN FICTION/FLM

(Formerly ENGL BC3998; this course has been renumbered but has not changed in content.) Looking closely at late Twentieth and Twenty-First Century stories, novels, memoir and films that center on the logic, dysfunction, romance, system, morphing, divorcing and curious maturation of the family. From Alison Bechdel's graphic novel, Fun Home, to the Korean film, The Host, we will explore fresh and a few classic cinematic takes on this theme. We will explore renderings of "family cultures," family feeling, family values, the family as a narrative configuration, and home as a utopian space, a nightmarish landscape, a memory palace and more. Authors and directors will include: Wes Anderson, Gaston Bachelard, Mira Bartok, Alison Bechdel, Joon-ho Bong, Jonathan Franzen, Vivien Gornick, Lasse Hallstrom, Tamara Jenkins, Ang Lee, Mike Leigh, Jim, Sheridan, Todd Solondz, Francois Truffaut, Tennessee Williams, D. W. Winnicott, Andrei Zvyagintsev.

• Department: English @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Maura L Spiegel
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 4 points

HONORS SEMINAR

Prerequisites: open to students in the honors program only.
Discussion of a variety of topics in psychology, with particular emphasis on recent developments and methodological problems. Students propose and discuss special research topics.

• Department: Psychology
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Nim L Tottenham
  Info
• 1 points

ETHNOGRAPHIC CHINA

Contemporary China through the writings of anthropologists who have done fieldwork there during the past decade.

• Department: Anthropology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Myron L Cohen
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

SEMINAR: METAPHYSICS

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

• Department: Philosophy @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Naomi S Dershowitz
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

SEMINAR IN POLITICAL THEORY

HOBBES'S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

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

• Department: Political Science
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: David C Johnston
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 4 points

SEMINAR IN POLITICAL THEORY

JUST SOCIETIES

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

• Department: Political Science
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Bernard Harcourt
  Wikipedia h-index: 37 Info
• 4 points

GENDER & POWER TRANSNATL PERSP

GENDER & POWER IN GLOBAL PERSP

Prerequisites: Instructor approval required
Considers formations of gender, sexuality, and power as they circulate transnationally, as well as transnational feminist movements that have emerged to address contemporary gendered inequalities. Topics include political economy, global care chains, sexuality, sex work and trafficking, feminist politics, and human rights. , If it is a small world after all, how do forces of globalization shape and redefine both men’s and women’s positions as as workers and political subjects? And, if power swirls everywhere, how are transnational power dynamics reinscribed in gendered bodies? How is the body represented in discussions of the political economy of globalization? These questions will frame this course by highlighting how gender and power coalesce to impact the lives of individuals in various spaces including workplaces, the home, religious institutions, refugee camps, the government, and civil society, and human rights organizations. We will use specific sociological and anthropological case studies, to look at how various regimes of power operate to constrain individuals as well as give them new spaces for agency.This course will enable us to think transnationally, historically, and dynamically, using gender as a lens through which to critique relations of power and the ways that power informs our everyday lives and identities.

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Selina Makana
  Info
• 1 points

BIOMEDICAL ENGIN DESIGN II

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

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Aaron M Kyle
  Info
• 4 points

BIOL-AFRICAN ANIMALS & ECOSYST

BIOLOGY OF AFRICAN ANIMALS & E

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Dustin Rubenstein
  h-index: 36 Info
• 4 points

MEDIEVAL ENGLISH TEXTS

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
(Seminar). 
Application Instructions:
E-mail Professor David Yerkes (dmy1@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Medieval English Texts." 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
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: David M Yerkes
  CULPA: 41 Info
• 4 points

HONORS RESEARCH

Prerequisites: open to students in the honors program only.
Except by special permission of the director of undergraduate studies, no more than 4 points of individual research may be taken in any one term. This includes both
PSYC UN3950
and
PSYC UN3920
. No more than 12 points of
PSYC UN3920
may be applied toward the honors program in psychology. Special research topics arranged with the instructors of the department leading toward a senior honors paper.

• Department: Psychology
• Instructor: Nim L Tottenham
  Info
• 1-4 points

SR SEM:18TH CEN WOMAN WRITERS

• Department: English @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: James G Basker
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

NOBILITY AND CIVILITY II

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

• Department: Columbia College
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 4 points

HIGHER EDUCATION AND INEQUALITY

• Department: Sociology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Teresa Sharpe
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 4 points

RENAISSANCE COMEDY

This course also serves as the American Literature concentration senior seminar. 

This course approaches Latinx feminist practice as a highly contested and still-evolving site of cultural production. Among the issues to be explored: Latinx participation in feminist coalition-building across linguistic, racial, ethnic, gender, class, and national borders; Latinx writers' negotiation and critique of cultural theory and practice; and the relationship of Latinx feminist activism to other political movements and practices in the Americas, including religion and spirituality, queer 
latinidad,
 and nationalist, anti-colonial and anti-capitalist movements. Authors studied may include Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa, Cristina García, Norma Alarcón, María Pilar Aquino, Achy Obejas, Julia Álvarez.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lauren E Robertson
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

SR SEM: LATINX FEMINISMS

This course also serves as the American Literature concentration senior seminar. 

This course approaches Latinx feminist practice as a highly contested and still-evolving site of cultural production. Among the issues to be explored: Latinx participation in feminist coalition-building across linguistic, racial, ethnic, gender, class, and national borders; Latinx writers' negotiation and critique of cultural theory and practice; and the relationship of Latinx feminist activism to other political movements and practices in the Americas, including religion and spirituality, queer 
latinidad,
 and nationalist, anti-colonial and anti-capitalist movements. Authors studied may include Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa, Cristina García, Norma Alarcón, María Pilar Aquino, Achy Obejas, Julia Álvarez.

• Department: English @Barnard
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Kristin Carter
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

CONTEMPORARY ELECTORAL POLITIC

Prerequisites: POLS UN1201 or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission. Pre-registration is not permitted.
Seminar in American Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. , For list of topics and descriptions see: 
https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

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

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

US PRESIDENTIAL POWER

Prerequisites: POLS UN1201 or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission. Pre-registration is not permitted.
Seminar in American Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. , For list of topics and descriptions see: 
https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

• Department: Political Science
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: John J Sivolella
  Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

TERRORISM & COUNTERTERRORISM

Prerequisites: POLS UN1201 or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission. Pre-registration is not permitted.
Seminar in American Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. , For list of topics and descriptions see: 
https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

• Department: Political Science
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Brigitte Nacos
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP

Prerequisites: POLS UN1201 or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission. Pre-registration is not permitted.
Seminar in American Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. , For list of topics and descriptions see: 
https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

• Department: Political Science
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Martha K Zebrowski
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

THE FIRST AMENDMENT

Prerequisites: POLS UN1201 or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission. Pre-registration is not permitted.
Seminar in American Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. , For list of topics and descriptions see: 
https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

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

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

POLICYMAKING

Prerequisites: POLS UN1201 or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission. Pre-registration is not permitted.
Seminar in American Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. , For list of topics and descriptions see: 
https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

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

AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR

POLITICS&POLICY;:STATE,LOCAL GO

Prerequisites: POLS UN1201 or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission. Pre-registration is not permitted.
Seminar in American Politics. Students who would like to register should join the electronic wait list. , For list of topics and descriptions see: 
https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-seminars

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

CONSERV OF AFRICAN LANDSCAPES

ECOLOGY & CONSERV OF AFRICAN L

Prerequisites:
EEEB W2001
and
EEEB W2002
Environmental Biology I and II, or the instructor's permission.
Only six percent of Africa's land is protected, and these areas are rarely large enough to sustain wildlife populations.  Mostly, wildlife must share land with people who also face survival challenges.  This course will explore how wildlife and people interact in Kenya, where new approaches to conservation are being developed and implemented.  Lectures will cover the ecology of tropical grasslands and first principles underlying conservation and management of these landscapes.  Field trips and projects will examine the dynamics between human actions and biodiversity conservation.
This course is part of the study abroad program in Kenya on Tropical Biology and Sustainability and cannot be taken separately n campus.

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Dustin Rubenstein
  h-index: 36 Info
• 4 points

SR SEM: SHAKESPEARE∽̱

This course reads “Shakespeare” in relationship to concepts of cultural capital and racial "property" drawn from performance studies and critical race theory. We will use the rich afterlife of Shakespeare’s plays to examine connections between literary appropriation, social power and constructions of race, gender and sexuality. Class readings focus primarily on revisions of two Shakespeare plays, but also consider more evanescent citations and evocations of Shakespeare, his plays, and his characters.

• Department: English @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Kim F Hall
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

SR SEM: COMMON LANGUAGES

Are humans, alone among the species, caught in the clutches of a death drive?  This course revives “the dream of a common language,”* ways to elude the tragic trajectory of alienation.  Writers include Paul Auster, J. M. Coetzee, Mohsin Hamid, David Malouf, Claudia Rankine, *Adrienne Rich, Juan José Saer, and Virginia Woolf.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Margaret S Vandenburg
  CULPA: 59 Info
• 4 points

NARRATIVE STRAT-SCREENWRITING

Prerequisites:
FILM W2420.

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

• Department: Film
• M 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Loren-Paul Caplin
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

VECTOR BIOLOGY

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Dustin Rubenstein
  h-index: 36 Info
• 4 points

SR SEM: TRAD &NONCONFORMITY;

How does a literary lineage develop by challenging its own perceived norms? How can tradition itself be, in other words, unconventional? Focusing on the work of Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf, Jorge Luis Borges, and James Baldwin, we will study texts that suggest the complexity of each author's engagement with his or her literary inheritances.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel Eisendrath
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

LOOKING AT THE DUTCH GOLDEN A

This course meets at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is devoted to close examination of real art-works in a museum context. This year’s focus is on Dutch art of the seventeenth century, one of the most celebrated chapters in the history of art. Students will be exposed to seminal art historical texts on the period, at the same time as they receive exposure to connoisseurship, conservation, and technical art history.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 4 points

ARABIC PRISON WRITING

This course studies the genealogy of the prison in Arab culture as manifested in memoirs, narratives, and poems. These cut across a vast temporal and spatial swathe, covering selections from the Quran, Sufi narratives from al-Halllaj oeuvre, poetry by prisoners of war: classical, medieval, and modern. It   also studies modern narratives by women prisoners and political prisoners, and narratives that engage with these issues. Arabic prison writing is studied against other genealogies of this prism, especially in the West, to map out the birth of prison, its institutionalization, mechanism, and role. All readings for the course are in English translations.

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

COLONIZATION/DECOLONIZATION

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

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Theodore Hughes
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

TERRESTRIAL PALEOECOLOGY

Prerequisites: (EEEB UN2001) and EEEB UN2002) or permission from instructor
Terrestrial paleoecology is the study of vegetation and animals in ancient ecosystems. The paleoecology of eastern Africa is significant because it can shed light on the potential role that climate played in human evolution.  This course aims to teach students the principles of paleoecology primarily through fieldwork, lab work, and research projects. In the first half of the course, students will be introduced to basic methods in the modern Mpala ecosystem. In the second, they will explore the rich record of human evolution in the Turkana Basin.  Students will study bones, teeth, plants, or soils to reconstruct modern and ancient ecosystems.

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Dustin Rubenstein
  h-index: 36 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE

MAROON SOCIETIES IN THE AMERIC

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

• Department: African-American Studies, Institute for Research in
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: C. Daniel Dawson
  Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE

DREAM OF AMERICA:RACE,GENDER&I;

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

• Department: African-American Studies, Institute for Research in
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Zinga A Fraser
  Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE

BLACK MEMOIR

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

• Department: African-American Studies, Institute for Research in
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Josef Sorett
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED TOPICS RACE & ETHNICITY

ADV TOPICS RACE & ETHNICITY

Discusses theories of race and ethnicity, distinctions between prejudice, discrimination, and racism, and the intersectionality paradigm. Under instructor’s guidance students design a research proposal, conduct their own fieldwork and write a research paper on a sociological question relating to race and/or ethnicity.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Mignon R Moore
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

RACE; POVERTY & AMER CRIM JUST

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for section descriptions

• Department: American Studies
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Randolph Jonakait
  Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

LANGUAGES IN AMERICA

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for section descriptions

• Department: American Studies
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: John H McWhorter
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY

Please refer to the Center for American Studies for section descriptions

• Department: American Studies
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Hindus
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• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

HISTORY & ETHICS OF PHILANTHRO

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• Department: American Studies
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Tamara Mann Tweel
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• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

EQUITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION

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• Department: American Studies
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

SHAKESPEARE IN AMERICA

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• Department: American Studies
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: James Shapiro
  CULPA: 25 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

TALE OF 2 CITIES, NY, SAN FRAN

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• Department: American Studies
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Lynne C Breslin
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• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

THE HOLOCAUST IN/AND AMERICA

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• Department: American Studies
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeremy Dauber
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

FROM THE PURITANS TO MARK TWAI

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• Department: American Studies
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Roosevelt Montas
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 4 points

SOC JUSTICE & HUM RIGHTS

Corequisites: Students must have an internship related to social justice or human rights during
This class is intended to complement and enhance the internship experience for students working in internships that relate to social justice and human rights during the Spring 2016 semester. This course will meet bi-weekly to provide an academic framing of the issues that students are working on and to provide an opportunity for students to analyze their internship experience.

• Department: Human Rights (HRTB)
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: J.C. Salyer
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

BUOYANCY

“Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.”
,Michael Caine , We do not live our own desires. Pressing ourselves into heavy molds not made for our bodies compresses us, tears our skin, and bruises our features. It is hard to breathe. We sink. Weight harbors the downward pull. It attaches itself in many ways but there are countless ways to set it down, to be free. This takes practice and skill.  , The common task of this visual arts seminar is to distinguish ourselves from the weight we carry. Through a variety or reading, writing, and making activities we shall seek out and contact levity: that gravity that changes our bodies, make us light of touch, aerates and propels us toward the state of buoyancy. , Not for the faint of heart.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• T 4 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Irena Haiduk
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• 4 points

SOCIOLOGY OF THE BODY

This seminar examines the ways in which the body is discursively constituted, and itself serves as the substratum for social life. Key questions include: How are distinctions made between "normal" and "pathological" bodies, and between the "psychic" and "somatic" realms? How do historical forces shape bodily experience? How do bodies that are racialized, gendered, and classed offer resistance to social categorization?

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Bernstein
  CULPA: 27 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS SEMINAR

The Senior Seminar will afford thesis writers the chance to workshop their idea, conduct research and/or interviews, work with the IRB protocols (if necessary), learn to work with archival materials, and perform other research activities prior to writing the thesis. Students who choose to write a capstone paper or conduct a capstone project can choose an elective course the following semester.
The Thesis Seminar, conducted in the spring semester, is a workshop-oriented course for Senior Thesis writers organized around honing their writing skills while providing guidance to students in their field/disciplinary-specific projects. For example, a student may choose to write a historical biography of an artist while another may pursue a sociological study of the effects of mass incarceration on voting rights. The instructor of the Thesis Seminar, working with a faculty adviser (dependent on the specific field of inquiry in the thesis), will provide feedback and supervise the writing schedule of the students.

• Department: African-American Studies, Institute for Research in
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Josef Sorett
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

COMP STUDY OF CONSTITUTNL CHAL

This course will examine how the American legal system decided constitutional challenges affecting the empowerment of African, Latino, and Asian American communities from the 19th century to the present. Focus will be on the role that race, citizenship, capitalism/labor, property, and ownership played in the court decision in the context of the historical, social, and political conditions existing at the time. Topics include the denial of citizenship and naturalization to slaves and immigrants, government sanctioned segregation, the struggle for reparations for descendants of slavery, and Japanese Americans during World War II.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Elizabeth Ouyang
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

RACE AND RACISMS

In this class we will approach race and racism from a variety of disciplinary and intellectual perspectives, including:  critical race theory/philosophy, anthropology, history and history of science and medicine. We will focus on the development and deployment of the race concept since the mid-19
th
century. Students will come to understand the many ways in which race has been conceptualized, substantiated, classified, managed and observed in the (social) sciences, medicine, and public health. We will also explore the practices and effects of race (and race-making) in familiar and less familiar social and political worlds. In addition to the course's intellectual content, students will gain critical practice in the seminar format -- that is, a collegial, discussion-driven exchange of ideas.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Nadia Abu El-Haj
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

THE BIG AMBITIOUS NOVEL

• Department: Auditing
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Bruce Robbins
  CULPA: 35 Wikipedia h-index: 39 Info
• 0 points

THE BIG AMBITIOUS NOVEL

Critic James Wood has cast doubt on the accomplishment of those contemporary novelists who have tried to carry what Wood calls the "Dickensian" ambition of 19th-century realism to the higher geographical scale of today's globalized society. This seminar will try to assess both their ambition and their success. Readings by Kazuo Ishiguro, Roberto BolaƱo, Elena Ferrante, Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Chimimanda Ngozi Adicihie. 
This seminar proposes to read 5 works of important recent world fiction that are so long, so ambitious, and in some cases so forbidding that they are difficult to work into an ordinary syllabus. The seminar will give each one 2-3 weeks, thereby permitting students the time both to read them with care and to discuss them in detail.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Bruce Robbins
  CULPA: 35 Wikipedia h-index: 39 Info
• 4 points

AFRICAN CULTURAL PRODUCTION

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor required.
This course examines the political aesthetics of African cultural production and how that production provides sites from which African experiences of colonial and postcolonial life are articulated.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Brian Larkin
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 4 points

TEXT, MAGIC, PERFORMANCE

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
This course pursues interconnections linking text and performance in light of magic, ritual, possession, narration, and related articulations of power. Readings are drawn from classic theoretical writings, colonial fiction, and ethnographic accounts. Domains of inquiry include: spirit possession, trance states, séance, ritual performance, and related realms of cinematic projection, musical form, shadow theater, performative objects, and (other) things that move on their own, compellingly. Key theoretical concerns are subjectivity - particularly, the conjuring up and displacement of self in the form of the first-person singular "I" - and the haunting power of repetition. Retraced throughout the course are the uncanny shadows of a fully possessed subject --within ritual contexts and within everyday life.

• Department: Anthropology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: John Pemberton
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

1-4 points. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.,Except by special permission of the director of undergraduate studies, no more than 4 points of individual research may be taken in any one term. This includes both PSYC UN3950 and PSYC UN3920. No more than 8 points ofPSYC UN3950 may be applied toward the psychology major, and no more than 4 points toward the concentration. Readings, special laboratory projects, reports, and special seminars on contemporary issues in psychological research and theory.

• Department: Psychology
• Instructor: Mariam Aly
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 15 Info
• Instructor: Christopher Baldassano
  h-index: 13 Info
• 1-4 points