SENIOR RESEARCH SEMINARS

Please make sure to submit your application for Fall 2009–Spring 2010 to the Department Office in 417-A Lehman Hall by 5:00 p.m. on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8. You can return your completed form to the designated envelope on the bulletin board next to 417-C Lehman Hall. All Barnard Political Science junior majors must apply.

Please note: If you are planning to graduate after next year's fall semester and are therefore doing an off-sequence senior research seminar, i.e. spring–fall, you nevertheless should apply now.
Columbia College and General Studies Political Science majors who wish to take the Barnard sections of POLS BC 3761x-3762y also must complete this application. Please keep in mind that these are year-long seminars in which each student writes a 50-100 page senior essay. No single-semester enrollment is permitted.
 
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. Each full section of senior seminar is limited to ten students, with a departmental target of eight. Professors who opt to teach a "half-section" of senior seminar are limiting their enrollments to five.
 
On the application, please indicate your first and second-choice subfields, which are:
  • American Government and Politics, including the study of the presidency and the bureaucracy, the Congress, the judiciary and the Constitution, political parties and elections, state and local governments, and interest groups and social movements in the United States;

  • International Relations and Foreign Policy, including the study of relationships between nation-states, such as war, intervention, and diplomacy, and aid, trade and investment, as well as international institutions such as the United Nations, and non-state actors who have international influence;

  • Comparative Politics and Foreign Government, including the study of politics in different countries and regions around the world, focusing on what makes national institutions and trajectories similar to or different from each other, such as the rise and fall of democracy, liberalism, radicalism, nationalism, and corruption; and

  • Political Theory, focusing on the philosophy, both ancient and modern, that underpins and sheds light on all of these institutions, processes, and developments.
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
 
If, and only if, you are currently studying away from Barnard, you may submit your application via email to ndillon@barnard.edu as long as you supply all the information requested on the application form, then email again after April 17 to ask about your placement.
 
The roster of placed students will be posted on the "Class Information" bulletin board outside 417-C Lehman Hall after 12 noon on Friday, April 17. The Registrar's program-filing deadline for this fall semester is April 27.

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