Senior Seminar Schedule, Barnard Political Science

SENIOR RESEARCH SEMINARS

Fall 2008-Spring 2009 Schedule

You can obtain a seminar application from the Department Administrator, 417-A Lehman Hall, or print the on-line form. You may return the completed application in person to the Department Administrator, fax it to 212-854-3024, or mail it to:
Nell Dillon-Ermers
Barnard College
Department of Political Science
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027-6598
Please note that only if you are currently studying away from Barnard, may you submit your application as an email attachment to ndillon@barnard.edu.

Applications for Fall 2008-Spring 2009 must be submitted to the Department Office in 417-A Lehman Hall by 5:00 p.m. on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9. All Barnard Political Science junior majors must apply.

Note: If you are an off-sequence student, i.e. if you are a first-semester junior this spring, you nevertheless should apply now for a senior seminar section, even though you will be taking the first half of the senior seminar next spring semester, and the second half in the following fall. Prior to applying, you must ask your preferred senior seminar instructor if s/he is willing and available to be your senior seminar advisor these two semesters.

Each full section of senior seminar is limited to ten students, with a departmental target of eight. Professors who have opted to teach a "half-section" of senior seminar limit their enrollments to five.

Preference is given to senior Barnard majors, who must complete this two-semester course to graduate. Provided there are vacancies, seniors from other undergraduate divisions of the university are accepted at the instructor's discretion.
Columbia College Political Science Majors who wish to take the Barnard seminar sections must also complete the application and return it to 417-A Lehman Hall. These students should be aware that the Barnard sections are year-long seminars in which each student writes a 50- to 100-page senior essay.

The roster of admitted students will be posted on the "Class Information" bulletin board outside 417-C Lehman Hall after 12 noon on Monday, April 21. The Registrar's program-filing deadline is April 28.

Follow this link for the Registrar's explanation of year "Y" grades for the senior seminar.
Click here for seminar requirements and the current essay due dates.

POLS BC 3761x - 3762y Senior Research Seminar

American Government and Politics

Sec.1	W 6:10-8	Lorraine Minnite SECTION CLOSED American politics; New York City and urban politics and policy; State and local government; Immigration, voting rights and representation; Race, ethnicity and class; Social movements.
Sec.2	Th 4:10-6	Kimberley Johnson American politics; Public policy; Political economy; Urban and local politics; Federalism and intergovernmental relations; Congress.

Comparative Politics and Foreign Government

Sec.3	Th 2:10-4	Mona El-Ghobashy SECTION CLOSED Comparative politics; Politics of the Middle East and North Africa; Social movements; Democratization and de-democratization in the Middle East.
Sec.4	W 4:10-6	Xiaobo Lu SECTION CLOSED Comparative politics; Political economy of transition from state socialism; Political corruption and governance; Chinese politics and society.

International Relations and Foreign Policy

Sec.5	Tu 2:10-4	Séverine Autesserre SECTION CLOSED International relations; Peacekeeping and peacebuilding; Civil wars; African politics; Politics of humanitarian and development aid.
Sec.6	Tu 4:10-6	Alexander Cooley SECTION CLOSED International politics; International political economy; International relations; Post-Communist economic reforms.

Political Theory

Sec.7

W 2:10-4

Ayten Gündogdu SECTION CLOSED
Political theory; History of political thought; Late modern, contemporary, and continental political theory; Democratic theory and theories of citizenship; Human rights, humanitarianism, and international ethics; Cosmopolitanism and its critics; Contemporary struggles for citizenship and rights; Political theory of Hannah Arendt.