SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH
1-4 points. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: the instructors 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
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Dima Amso
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Christopher Baldassano
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Niall Bolger
CULPA: 4 h-index: 55 Info - 0-4 points
SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH
1-4 points. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: the instructors 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
- 0-4 points
SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH
1-4 points. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: the instructors 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
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Instructor:
Lila Davachi
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Sarah Demoya
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Geraldine Downey
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Katherine T Fox-Glassman
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Bianca J Marlin
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Daphna Shohamy
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Alfredo Spagna
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Herbert S Terrace
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Sarah Woolley
CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 31 Info - 0-4 points
UNDERGRADUATE SEMINARS I
Prerequisites: Two years of calculus, at least one year of additional mathematics courses, and the director of undergraduate studies permission. The subject matter is announced at the start of registration and is different in each section. Each student prepares talks to be given to the seminar, under the supervision of a faculty member or senior teaching fellow.
- Department: Mathematics @Barnard
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Instructor:
Alisa Knizel
Info - 3 points
COMPARATIVE POLITICS SEMINAR
Innovation
Prerequisites: POLS V1501 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Please see here for detailed seminar registration guidelines: http://polisci.columbia.edu/undergraduate-programs/seminar-registration-guidelines. Seminar in Comparative 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 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Caterina Chiopris
Info - 4 points
COMPARATIVE POLITICS SEMINAR
Voters, Leaders & Media
Prerequisites: POLS V1501 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Pre-registration is not permitted. Please see here for detailed seminar registration guidelines: http://polisci.columbia.edu/undergraduate-programs/seminar-registration-guidelines. Seminar in Comparative 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 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Beatrice Bonini
Info - 4 points
Surveillance
SURVEILLANCE
Surveillance has become a ubiquitous term that either conjures images of George Orwell’s
1984
, the popular series
Black Mirror,
or is dismissed as an inconvenience and a concern of only those who engage in criminal activity or have something to hide. Using sociological theories of power, biopower, racialization, and identity formation,
Surveillance
explores the various ways we are monitored by state authorities and corporations and our role in perpetuating the system (un)wittingly.
- Department: Sociology @Barnard
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Randa B Serhan
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
SENIOR RESEARCH SEMINAR
Prerequisites: Course open to Barnard Art History majors only. Independent research for the senior thesis. Students develop and write their senior thesis in consultation with an individual faculty adviser in art history and participate in group meetings scheduled throughout the senior year.
- Department: Art History @Barnard
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Hutchinson
CULPA: 9 Info - 3 points
HONORS THESIS SEMINAR PART 1
Prerequisites: minimum GPA of 3.5 in MESAAS courses. The MESAAS honors seminar offers students the opportunity to undertake a sustained research project under close faculty supervision. The DUS advises on general issues of project design, format, approach, general research methodologies, and timetable. In addition, students work with an individual advisor who has expertise in the area of the thesis and can advise on the specifics of method and content. The thesis will be jointly evaluated by the adviser, the DUS, and the honors thesis TA. The DUS will lead students through a variety of exercises that are directly geared to facilitating the thesis. Students build their research, interpretive, and writing skills; discuss methodological approaches; write an annotated bibliography; learn to give constructive feedback to peers and respond to feedback effectively. The final product is a polished research paper in the range of 40-60 pages. Please note: This is a one-year course that begins in the fall semester (1 point) and continues through the spring semester (3 points). Only students who have completed both semesters will receive the full 4 points of credit.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alison Vacca
Info - 1 points
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR
SECURITY TOPICS
Prerequisites: POLS UN1601 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Seminar in International 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 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jack L Snyder
CULPA: 27 Info - 4 points
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR
Prerequisites: POLS UN1601 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Seminar in International 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 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Allison J Carnegie
Info - 4 points
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR
Pol Multinat'l Enterprise
Prerequisites: POLS UN1601 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Seminar in International 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 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Calvin N Thrall
Info - 4 points
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR
War and Peace
Prerequisites: POLS UN1601 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Seminar in International 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 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sarah Daly
Info - 4 points
ART CRITICISM
This course is a seminar on contemporary art criticism written by artists in the post war period. Such criticism differs from academic criticism because it construes art production less as a discrete object of study than as a point of engagement. It also differs from journalistic criticism because it is less obliged to report art market activity and more concerned with polemics. Art /Criticism I will trace the course of these developments by examining the art and writing of one artist each week. These will include Brian ODoherty/Patrick Ireland, Allan Kaprow, Robert Morris, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Smithson, Art - Language, Dan Graham, Adrian Piper, Mary Kelly, Martha Rosler, Judith Barry and Andrea Fraser. We will consider theoretical and practical implications of each artists oeuvre.
- Department: Art History @Barnard
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
John Miller
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
IMMIGRATION, RACE, AND ASIAN AMERICANS
IMM, RACE, ASIAN AMERICAN
Drawing from evidenced-based social science research, this course will equip students to understand how the laws and policies of America’s past continue to affect the experiences, trajectories, and perceptions of Asian Americans today. Tracing the racial mobility of Asian Americans from “unassimilable to exceptional”, we begin by studying legacies of exclusion and then examine Asian Americans’ experiences in education, affirmative action, the workplace, and the surge of anti-Asian violence during the Covid-19 pandemic.
- Department: Sociology
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jennifer Lee
CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info - 4 points
METHODS & THEORIES OF ART HIST
Prerequisites: Barnard Art History Major Requirement. Enrollment limited only to Barnard Art History majors. Introduction to critical writings that have shaped histories of art, including texts on iconography and iconology, the psychology of perception, psychoanalysis, social history, feminism and gender studies, structuralism, semiotics, and post-structuralism.
- Department: Art History @Barnard
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dorota Biczel
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Instructor:
Alexander Alberro
CULPA: 12
h-index: 17
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- 4 points
Introduction to Genocide Studies
Intro to Genocide Studies
This course provides students with an introduction to the study of genocide.
In this class, we will take a
critical approach
to understanding genocide, meaning:
we will try to avoid easy moralizing and distancing of genocide;
we won’t take existing legal and political definitions of genocide for granted; and
we will think about
power
in relation to genocide perpetration and prevention.
Our strategy will be
interdisciplinary
, meaning:
we will explore the ways historians, psychologist, lawyers, political scientists, and others have tried to understand genocide; and
we will reflect on the limits on what and how we can know about genocide as a human experience.
This course aspires to be
practical
and
applied
, meaning
this course fundamentally
anti-genocidal
in its purpose, and
students will have the opportunity to contribute to and/or develop practical efforts commemorate, advocate against, or prevent the perpetration of genocide.
- Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Glenn Mitoma
Info - 3 points
Development Economics, Democracy & Revol
Dev Econ/Dem/Revolution 2
After World War II, the question of the development of so-called underdeveloped countries became an international priority. The timing was not casual: the demise of the colonial empires and the birth of new countries propagated the ideals of modernization worldwide. Moreover, in a world divided between two superpowers, the fate of less developed countries became a matter of foreign policy concern in the developed ones. Since then, development has become a major challenge for the contemporary world. The new relevance of the issue has also prompted, in the years after World War II, the birth of a new disciplinary field, namely, development economics, which is increasingly at the core of the economics profession, as demonstrated by the Nobel prizes in Economics to W. Arthur Lewis in 1979, to Amartya Sen in 1998, and to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer in 2019, as well as the work on development of other prominent economists such as Dani Rodrik, William Easterly, Jeffrey Sachs, and Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz.
This seminar will explore the trajectory of the idea of development from World War II to the present, with a particular focus on how it has been discussed within the disciplinary field of development economics. We will discuss how different analyses of development processes—how they can be put in motion, how they evolve, and what are their potential outcomes—have intersected debates about dynamics of social and economic change, how the whole development field has been interpreted alternatively as a progressive endeavour or an ideological construct fostering a neocolonial agenda, and how development policies have been judged to strengthen democratic institutions or, on the contrary, as a mechanism reinforcing domestic and international inequality, to be opposed with revolution.
Although the focus of this seminar will be on understanding the history of development rather than shaping its future, graduate students from outside of history (including business, anthropology, political science, economics, human rights, law, sociology, and area studies) are welcomed to register, as this is a topic that would benefit greatly from an interdisciplinary perspective.
- Department: History @Barnard
- T 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Michele Alacevich
Info - 4 points
POST-BACCALAUREATE SEMINAR
This seminar aims to provide students in the post-baccalaureate certificate program with opportunities 1) to (re-)familiarize themselves with a selection of major texts from classical antiquity, which will be read in English, 2) to become acquainted with scholarship on these texts and with scholarly writing in general, 3) to write analytically about these texts and the interpretations posed about them in contemporary scholarship, and 4) to read in the original language selected passages of one of the texts in small tutorial groups, which will meet every week for an additional hour with members of the faculty.
- Department: Classics
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
CULPA: 20
Info
- 3 points
POST-BACCALAUREATE SEMINAR
This seminar aims to provide students in the post-baccalaureate certificate program with opportunities 1) to (re-)familiarize themselves with a selection of major texts from classical antiquity, which will be read in English, 2) to become acquainted with scholarship on these texts and with scholarly writing in general, 3) to write analytically about these texts and the interpretations posed about them in contemporary scholarship, and 4) to read in the original language selected passages of one of the texts in small tutorial groups, which will meet every week for an additional hour with members of the faculty.
- Department: Classics
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
CULPA: 20
Info
- 3 points
Crime and Policing
This course will introduce students to the literature on crime and policing. Readings for the course will be from a broad range of disciplines, including sociology, criminology, law, and public policy. Most weeks, the readings will include relevant “popular press” articles that will help situate the literature in the context of current debates. The course is organized in two parts. The first half will focus on the problems of crime and violence in urban environments. We will review classic and modern ideas and theories explaining crime and violence, and we will look at the evidence describing patterns and trends in crime in recent history. The second half of the course will focus on the approaches to confront crime and violence, with a strong emphasis on policing. We will review the literature on the relationship between crime and policing, and we will learn about the impact that policing practices have on individuals and their communities.
- Department: Sociology
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gerard Torrats-Espinosa
h-index: 6 Info - 4 points
CURATORIAL POSTNS 1969-PRES
Contemporary exhibitions studied through a selection of great shows from roughly 1969 to the present that defined a generation. This course will not offer practical training in curating; rather it will concentrate on the historical context of exhibitions, the theoretical basis for their argument, the criteria for the choice in artists and their work, and exhibitions internal/external reception.
- Department: Art History @Barnard
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Valerie Smith
Info - 4 points
Race, Discrimination, and Racial Inequal
Race, Dscrmttion, Rac Inq
This course focuses on race, discrimination, and racial inequalities. The course will address three key questions: (1) What is race as perceived in the U.S. and Europe, and what are the sources of racial inequalities? (2) What does social science research tell us about patterns and trends of racial inequalities? (3) What policies can alleviate racial inequalities? The course will systematically adopt comparative perspectives focusing on the North American and European contexts. We will also address research on race and racial inequality within an interdisciplinary lens particularly building on sociology, economics, and social psychology.
This course is designed for advanced undergraduate students from Columbia University and Science Po (Paris). We aim for a class of 30 students (15 from each partner university). Class will take place once a week (for 2 hours). In addition, the Columbia TA will conduct a discussion section once a week in which Columbia and Sciences Po students will work together in small groups on class projects that will be presented over the course of the semester. The classes will be organized in a hybrid format. In each campus, the professor will teach his/her class in person and the two classes will be connected via Zoom. The Columbia and Science Po professors will thus co-teach a virtually connected class. The professors will closely coordinate and alternate in leading the lecture and discussion parts of each class.
- Department: Sociology
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
- 4 points
Senior Thesis Seminar I
This seminar is an opportunity to do original sociological research with the support of a faculty member, a teaching assistant, and your fellow classmates. Over the next two semesters you will formulate a research question; design a research strategy; collect and analyze data; and write up your findings. At the end of the academic year, you will submit a completed thesis.
The class is intended as scaffolding to support you in what can sometimes feel like a lonely and disorienting process. The goal is to balance structure to facilitate your work with freedom to develop your projects independently.
This seminar is open only to Sociology majors. Please email the professor for permission to join the course.
- Department: Sociology
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
James Chu
h-index: 18 Info - 4 points
APPROACHES TO E ASIAN STUDIES
This course is intended to provide a focal point for undergraduate majors in East Asian Studies. It introduces students to the analysis of particular objects of East Asian historical, literary, and cultural studies from various disciplinary perspectives. The syllabus is composed of a series of modules, each centered around an object, accompanied by readings that introduce different ways of understanding its meaning.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Robert P Hymes
CULPA: 8 Info - 4 points
SENIOR PROJ:RESEARCH FOR MUSIC
Working with her advisor, a student will expand the research project initiated in the Fall Senior Seminar for Music Majors (BC3992x). In order to satisfy the requirement, the student will complete a fifty page research paper.
- Department: Music @Barnard
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Instructor:
Gail R Archer
CULPA: 24
Info
- 3 points
SENIOR SEMINAR
This course is a requirement for all majors and is taken in the
Fall
semester of the Senior year; students may register for the Barnard or Columbia (3991) section. In this academic writing workshop students develop individual research projects under the guidance of the course’s instructor and in dialogue with the other participants’ projects. The final assignment of the senior seminar (6000 words) is the
senior essay
. It is written in Spanish.
- Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Wadda Rios-Font
CULPA: 4 h-index: 8 Info - 4 points
SENIOR SEM-COMP LIT & SOCIETY
SEN SEM IN COMP LIT & SOCIETY
Prerequisites: CPLS UN3900 The senior seminar is a capstone course required of all CLS/MedHum majors and CLS concentrations. Only ICLS students may register. The seminar provides students the opportunity to discuss selected topics in comparative literature and society and medical humanities in a cross-disciplinary, multilingual, and global perspective. Students undertake individual research projects while participating in directed readings and critical dialogues about theory and research methodologies, which may culminate in the senior thesis. Students review work in progress and share results through weekly oral reports and written reports.
- Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Bruno Bosteels
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Instructor:
Tadas Bugnevicius
Info - 3 points
THESIS RESEARCH SEMINAR
Guided, independent, indepth research experience culminating in the senior essay. Weekly meetings are held to review work in progress, to share results through oral and written reports, and to consider career options for further work in this field.
- Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Matthew I Palmer
CULPA: 5
h-index: 14
Info
- 3 points
SENIOR PROJ: MUSIC REPERTORY
Working with her advisor, a student will develop a vocal or instrumental recital program with representative musical works from a variety of historical periods. In order to satisfy the requirement, the student will present an hour long public performance of the recital program. Students may also satisfy this requirement by composing original vocal or instrumental works.
- Department: Music @Barnard
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Instructor:
Gail R Archer
CULPA: 24
Info
- 3 points
SENIOR PROJECT IN CREATIVE WRITING
SENIOR PROJ: CREATIVE WRI
Enrollment limited to Barnard senior English majors with a concentration in creative writing.
This creative writing workshop represents an opportunity for creative writing concentrators to focus on one large project that will serve as a capstone senior project. As in a typical writing workshop, much of the focus will be on sharing and critiquing student work. Unlike other workshops, in this class students will focus on building out a longer project—such as a more ambitious full-length story for fiction and creative nonfiction writers and a chapbook for poets. This means students will discuss work by writers who may not share their own genre. We will focus on generating new work, developing your writing process, and creating new possibilities and momentum for your piece, as well as trying to create a sense of community among the concentrators. We will also conduct in-class writing exercises in response to short reading assignments and class lectures. Students should be aware of two important notes: (1) This class is limited to senior English majors who have already been approved to be creative writing concentrators; and (2) this course fulfills the requirement for concentrators to finish a senior project, but not the academic senior seminar requirement. This class is about your own writing and that of your classmates. This class will be what you make of it!
SENIOR SEM FOR MUSIC MAJORS
The goals of this seminar are a) to introduce senior music majors to ethnographic, bibliographic, and archival research methods in music and b) to help the same students develop, focus, implement, draft, revise, and polish a substantive, original piece of research (25-30 pages) which will serve as the senior project. The course will begin with a survey of academic literature on key problems in musicological research and writing, and will progress to a workshop/discussion format in which each week a different student is responsible for assigning readings and leading the discussion on a topic which s/he has formulated and deemed to be of relevance to her own research.
- Department: Music @Barnard
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Lauren E Ninoshvili
CULPA: 4 Info - 4 points
URBAN STUDIES SENIOR SEMINAR
Prerequisites: Senior standing. Year-long course; participation is for two consecutive terms. No new students admitted for spring. Emphasizes the study of the built environment of cities and suburbs, and the related debates. Readings, class presentations, and written work culminate in major individual projects, under the supervision of faculty trained in architecture, urban design, or urban planning.
- Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
- W 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Aaron Passell
CULPA: 8
h-index: 3
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Instructor:
Noah Allison
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Instructor:
Christian Siener
CULPA: 1 Info -
Instructor:
Andreina Torres Angarita
Info - 4 points
EBHS SENIOR THESIS SEMINAR
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission and senior standing as a major or concentrator in The Evolutionary Biology of the Human Species (EBHS). Year-long seminar in which senior EBHS majors develop a research project and write a senior thesis. Regular meetings are held to discuss research and writing strategies,review work in progress, and share results through oral and written reports.
- Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
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Instructor:
Jill S Shapiro
CULPA: 46
Info
- 3 points
SUPERVISED IND RES-LING THESIS
- Department: Slavic Languages
- F 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
- 1-4 points
HUMAN RIGHTS SENIOR SEMINAR RSRCH METHOD
This course aims to introduce students to human rights research methods, while providing them with practical research tools. The course will be tailored to students’ interests, disciplinary backgrounds and research areas. The specific topics students will research and the methods they will employ will determine the substantive focus of readings. During the course we will ask the following questions: ‘what is human rights research?, how do you carry out research in an interdisciplinary field?, what distinguishes academic research from applied research and advocacy? While answering these questions, you will become familiar with the literature on human rights methodologies, and you will engage in analysis and critical assessment of important human rights research literature. In addition, the course gives a practical approach to research methodology. You will learn about a diverse set of methodologies, such as interviewing and focus groups, archival research, ethnographic and participant observation, interviewing focus groups, conducting online research; interpretive and non-empirical methods and basic quantitative methodologies to be employed in the study of human rights. As you learn about different methodological approaches, you will develop your own research project. Scholars and practitioners in the field of human rights research will present their work and engage in discussions with students about their own research, challenges, successes and publication venues. NB: This course is geared towards students who commit to writing a senior thesis. It is part of a two-course sequence: HRTS UN3994 Section 001 Human Rights Senior Seminar: Research Methods in the fall and HRTS UN3996 Human Rights Thesis Seminar in the spring. Students who do not intend to write a thesis should enroll in HRTS UN3995 section 001 Human Rights Senior Seminar, which is a one-semester course taught each semester focused on writing a seminar paper.
- Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tracey Holland
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
SENIOR THESIS IN MATHEMATICS I
SENIOR THESIS MATHEMATICS
Majors in Mathematics are offered the opportunity to write an honors senior thesis under the guidance of a faculty member. Interested students should contact a faculty member to determine an appropriate topic, and receive written approval from the faculty advisor and the Director of Undergraduate Studies (faculty sponsorship is limited to full-time instructors on the staff list). Research is conducted primarily during the fall term; the final paper is submitted to the Director of Undergraduate Studies during the subsequent spring term.
MATH UN3994 SENIOR THESIS IN MATHEMATICS I must be taken in the fall term, during which period the student conducts primary research on the agreed topic. An optional continuation course MATH UN3995 SENIOR THESIS IN MATHEMATICS II is available during the spring. The second term of this sequence may not be taken without the first. Registration for the spring continuation course has no impact on the timeline or outcome of the final paper.
Sections of SENIOR THESIS IN MATHEMATICS I and II do NOT count towards the major requirements, with the exception of an advanced written approval by the DUS.
- Department: Mathematics @Barnard
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Instructor:
Faculty
h-index: 37 Info - 4 points
SENIOR THESIS IN MATHEMATICS I
SENIOR THESIS MATHEMATICS
Majors in Mathematics are offered the opportunity to write an honors senior thesis under the guidance of a faculty member. Interested students should contact a faculty member to determine an appropriate topic, and receive written approval from the faculty advisor and the Director of Undergraduate Studies (faculty sponsorship is limited to full-time instructors on the staff list). Research is conducted primarily during the fall term; the final paper is submitted to the Director of Undergraduate Studies during the subsequent spring term.
MATH UN3994 SENIOR THESIS IN MATHEMATICS I must be taken in the fall term, during which period the student conducts primary research on the agreed topic. An optional continuation course MATH UN3995 SENIOR THESIS IN MATHEMATICS II is available during the spring. The second term of this sequence may not be taken without the first. Registration for the spring continuation course has no impact on the timeline or outcome of the final paper.
Sections of SENIOR THESIS IN MATHEMATICS I and II do NOT count towards the major requirements, with the exception of an advanced written approval by the DUS.
- Department: Mathematics @Barnard
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Instructor:
Faculty
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SENIOR THESIS IN COMP LIT/SOC
This year-long, three-credit course is mandatory for students who will be writing their Senior Thesis in Comparative Literature and Society or in Medical Humanities. Students who wish to be considered for Departmental honors are required to submit a Senior Thesis. The thesis is a rigorous research work of approximately 40 pages, and it will include citations and a bibliographical apparatus. It may be written in English or, with the permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies, in another language relevant to the students scholarly interests. Although modeled after an independent study, in which core elements of the structure, direction, and pace of the work are decided together by the student and their faculty thesis supervisor, students are nonetheless expected to complete certain major steps in the research and writing process according to the timeline outlined by the ICLS DUS.
- Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
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HUMAN RIGHTS SENIOR SEMINAR
The senior seminar is a capstone course required for the human rights major. The seminar provides students the opportunity to discuss human rights from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and to explore various theoretical approaches and research methodologies. Students undertake individual research projects while collectively examining human rights through directed readings and discussion.
- Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
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Shourideh Molavi
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HONORS RESEARCH
Prerequisites: a formal proposal to be submitted and approved prior to registration; see the director of undergraduate studies for details. A creative/scholarly project conducted under faculty supervision, leading to completion of an honors essay, composition, or the equivalent.
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George Lewis
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THE MAJOR SEMINAR
- Department: Classics @Barnard
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Ellen Morris
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CURRENT RESEARCH IN ASTROPHYS
Prerequisites: two semesters of astronomy classes and two semesters of physics classes. The goal of this course is to introduce astronomy and astrophysics majors to the methods and topics of current astronomical research. The course will also help with the development of critical thinking skills. Each week, the topic of the course will be centered on the subject of the Astronomy department colloquium; this may include research on planets, stars, galaxies or cosmology. There will be two required meetings per week: the first will be to discuss papers related to the colloquium (time TBD), and the second will be the colloquium itself (at 4:15 pm each Wednesday). Grading is Pass/Fail.
- Department: Astronomy
- F 2:10 p.m.-3:25 p.m.
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Marcel A Agueros
CULPA: 9
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SPECIAL PROJECT IN ENGLISH
Application required:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/independent-studies
. Senior English majors who are concentrating in writing and who have completed two creative writing courses will normally take this Special Project in combination with an additional creative writing course.
Senior English majors who are concentrating in theatre and who have completed three courses in theatre history/dramatic literature will normally take this Special Project in combination with an additional dramatic literature course.
For both writing and theatre concentrators, this combined special project counts in place of one senior seminar.
In certain cases, ENGL BC3999 may be substituted for the Special Project.
In rare cases, the English Department Chair may permit an English major not concentrating in writing or theatre to take ENGL BC3996 in combination with another course.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Peter Platt
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THE MAJOR SEMINAR
Prerequisites: junior standing. Required for all majors in classics and classical studies. The topic changes from year to year, but is always broad enough to accommodate students in the languages as well as those in the interdisciplinary major. Past topics include: love, dining, slavery, space, power.
- Department: Classics @Barnard
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Ellen Morris
CULPA: 10
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THE MAJOR SEMINAR
Prerequisites: junior standing. Required for all majors in Classics and Classical Studies. The topic changes from year to year but is always broad enough to accommodate students in the languages as well as those in the interdisciplinary major. Past topics include: love, dining, slavery, space, power.
- Department: Classics @Barnard
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Ellen Morris
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DIRCTD READING-ANCIENT STUDIES
Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies permission. Program of readings in some aspect of ancient studies, supervised by an appropriate faculty member chosen from the departments offering courses in the program in Ancient Studies. Evaluation by a series of essays, one long paper, or oral or written examination(s).
- Department: Classics
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Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
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Carmela V Franklin
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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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Nadia Abu El-Haj
CULPA: 13
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