Global Core Requirement
Chair of the Global Core Requirement
Prof. Patricia Grieve
302 Casa Hispánica
212-854-4338
peg1@columbia.edu
General Information
Academic Affairs
202 Hamilton
212-851-9814
cc-academic@columbia.edu
Global Core Requirement Website
The Global Core requirement asks students to engage directly with the variety of civilizations and the diversity of traditions that, along with the West, have formed the world and continue to interact in it today. Courses in the Global Core typically explore the cultures of Africa, Asia, the Americas, and the Middle East in an historical context. These courses are organized around a set of primary materials produced in these traditions and may draw from texts or other forms of media, as well as from oral sources or performance, broadly defined.
Global Core courses fall into two categories, and can be, on occasion, a hybrid of the two types: those with a comparative, multidisciplinary, or interdisciplinary focus on specific cultures or civilizations, tracing their existence across a significant span of time, and may include Europe and/or the U.S.; and those that address a common theme or set of analytic questions comparatively (and may include Europe and the U.S.). The Global Core requirement consists of courses that examine areas not the primary focus of Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilization and that, like other Core courses, are broadly introductory, interdisciplinary, and temporally and/or spatially expansive.
Students must complete two courses from the approved list of Global Core courses for a letter grade.
Fall 2020 Approved Courses
As Fall 2020 schedules become available, more courses will be added to this list. Please check back for additional updates. Last updated on August 20, 2020.
| Code | Title | Points |
|---|---|---|
| African-American Studies | ||
| AFAS UN1001 | INTRO TO AFRICAN-AMER STUDIES | |
| Anthropology | ||
| ANHS GU4001 | The Ancient Empires | |
| Art History and Archaeology | ||
| AHUM UN2604 | Art In China, Japan, and Korea | |
| AHUM UN2901 | Masterpieces of Indian Art and Architecture | |
| AHIS UN3503 | Contemporary Arts of Africa (effective beginning Fall 2020) | |
| Center for the Core Curriculum | ||
| AFCV UN1020 | African Civilizations | |
| LACV UN1020 | Primary Texts of Latin American Civilization | |
| Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race | ||
| CSER UN1010 | Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Studies | |
| CSER UN3922 | Race and Representation in Asian American Cinema | |
| CSER UN3926 | Latin Music and Identity | |
| CSER UN3928 | Colonization/Decolonization | |
| Classics | ||
| GRKM UN3935 | Hellenism and the Topographical Imagination | |
| Colloquia and Interdepartmental Seminars | ||
| INSM UN3920 | Nobility and Civility | |
| Committee on Global Thought | ||
| CGTH UN3401 | Seminar in Global Thought: Inquiries into an Interconnected World | |
| Dance- Barnard | ||
| DNCE BC3567 | Dance of India | |
| East Asian Languages and Cultures | ||
| ASCE UN1359 | Introduction to East Asian Civilizations: China | |
| ASCE UN1361 | Introduction to East Asian Civilizations: Japan | |
| ASCE UN1365 | Introduction to East Asian Civilizations: Tibet | |
| ASCE UN1367 | Introduction to East Asian Civilizations: Vietnam | |
| AHUM UN1400 | Colloquium on Major Texts: East Asia | |
| EAAS UN2342 | Mythology of East Asia | |
| EAAS UN3844 | CULTURE, MENTAL HEALTH, AND HEALING IN EAST ASIA | |
| EAAS UN3927 | China in the Modern World | |
| EAAS GU4017 | Ethnography and Representation in Tibet (Effective beginning Fall 2020) | |
| EARL GU4312 | Tibetan Sacred Space (in Comparative Context) | |
| HSEA GU4880 | History of Modern China I | |
| Economics | ||
| ECON GU4325 | Economic Organization and Development of Japan | |
| English and Comparative Literature | ||
| CLEN GU4199 | Literature and Oil (Effective beginning Fall 2020) | |
| CLEN GU4644 | Revolution in/on the Caribbean (Effective beginning Fall 2018) | |
| Film | ||
| FILM UN2292 | Topics in World Cinema: China (Effective beginning Spring 2018) | |
| French | ||
| CLFR GU4421 | The Caribbean Digital (Effective beginning Fall 2020) | |
| History | ||
| HIST UN2003 | Empire ＆ Nation-Building East Central Europe (Effective beginning Fall 2020) | |
| HIST UN2660 | Latin American Civilization I | |
| HIST UN2719 | History of the Modern Middle East | |
| Latin American and Iberian Cultures | ||
| SPAN UN3349 | Hispanic Cultures I: Islamic Spain through the Colonial Period | |
| PORT UN3350 | Lusophone Africa and Afro Brazilian Culture | |
| SPAN UN3350 | Hispanic Cultures II: Enlightenment to the Present | |
| PORT UN3490 | Brazilian Society and Civilization | |
| PORT UN3601 | Race, Medicine and Literature in 19th-Century Brazil (Effective beginning Fall 2020) | |
| Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies | ||
| AHUM UN1399 | Colloquium on Major Texts: Middle East and South Asia | |
| ASCM UN2003 | Introduction to Islamic Civilization | |
| ASCM UN2357 | Introduction to Indian Civilization | |
| MDES UN2641 | Cinemas of India (Effective beginning Fall 2020) | |
| CLME UN3928 | Arabic Prison Writing | |
| MDES GU4259 | War Narrative: The Arab World | |
| Music | ||
| MUSI UN2020 | Salsa, Soca, and Reggae: Popular Musics of the Caribbean | |
| AHMM UN3321 | Introduction To the Musics of India and West Asia | |
| Religion | ||
| RELI UN2205 | Buddhism: Indo-Tibetan | |
| RELI UN2306 | Intro to Judaism | |
| RELI UN2308 | Buddhism: East Asian | |
| RELI GU4304 | Krishna | |
| RELI GU4322 | Exploring the Sharia: Topics in Islamic Law | |
| RELI GU4999 | GLOBAL INDIGENOUS RELIGIOUS HISTORIES (Effective beginning Fall 2020) | |
| Slavic Languages | ||
| SLCL UN3001 | Slavic Cultures | |
| Sociology | ||
| SOCI UN3324 | Global Urbanism | |
| Theatre | ||
| THTR UN3154 | Theatre Traditions in a Global Context | |
Spring 2020 Approved Courses
As Spring 2020 schedules become available, more courses will be added to this list. Please check back for additional updates. Last updated on April 30,2020.
| Code | Title | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | ||
| ANTH UN1008 | The Rise of Civilization | |
| ANTH UN3465 | Women and Gender Politics in the Muslim World | |
| ANTH UN3821 | Native America | |
| Art History and Archaeology | ||
| AHIS UN2119 | Rome Beyond Rome: Roman Art and Architecture in a Global Perspective | |
| AHUM UN2604 | Art In China, Japan, and Korea | |
| AHUM UN2901 | Masterpieces of Indian Art and Architecture | |
| Center for the Core Curriculum | ||
| AFCV UN1020 | African Civilizations | |
| LACV UN1020 | Primary Texts of Latin American Civilization | |
| Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race | ||
| CSER UN1010 | Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Studies | |
| Classics | ||
| CSGM UN3567 | Thessaloniki Down the Ages | |
| CLCV GU4411 | Egypt in the Classical World (Egypt in the Classical World - Effective beginning Spring 2020) | |
| Colloquia and Interdepartmental Seminars | ||
| INSM UN3921 | Nobility and Civility II | |
| Committee on Global Thought | ||
| CGTH UN3402 | Topics in Global Thought: Global 20-Youth in an Interconnected World (Effective beginning Spring 2019) | |
| Comparative Literature and Society | ||
| CLGM UN3110 | The Ottoman Past in the Greek Present | |
| CLGM UN3920 | WORLD RESPONDS TO THE GREEKS | |
| CPLS UN3454 | Blood/Lust: Staging the Early Modern Mediterranean [in English] | |
| Dance- Barnard | ||
| DNCE BC2565 | World Dance History | |
| East Asian Languages and Cultures | ||
| ASCE UN1359 | Introduction to East Asian Civilizations: China | |
| ASCE UN1361 | Introduction to East Asian Civilizations: Japan | |
| ASCE UN1363 | Introduction to East Asian Civilizations: Korea | |
| AHUM UN1400 | Colloquium on Major Texts: East Asia | |
| EAAS UN3116 | Supernatural in East Asia (Effective beginning Spring 2020) | |
| AHUM UN3830 | Colloquium On Modern East Asian Texts | |
| EAAS GU4233 | Sonic Modernity in East Asia (Effective beginning Spring 2020) | |
| EARL GU4310 | Life-Writing in Tibetan Buddhist Literature | |
| HSEA GU4816 | Comparing Indigeneities (Effective beginning Spring 2020) | |
| English and Comparative Literature | ||
| CLEN UN3360 | Theaters of Gods and Heroes (Effective beginning Spring 2020) | |
| ENGL UN3851 | Indian Writing in English (Effective beginning Spring 2019) | |
| CLEN GU4644 | Revolution in/on the Caribbean | |
| History | ||
| HIST UN1004 | Ancient History of Egypt | |
| HIST UN2336 | Everyday Communism (Effective beginning Spring 2020) | |
| HIST UN2661 | LATIN AMERICAN CIVILIZATION II | |
| HIST UN2764 | East African History | |
| HSME UN2811 | South Asia: Empire and Its Aftermath (formerly HIST UN2811) | |
| HIST UN2881 | Vietnam in the World | |
| HIST UN3779 | Africa and France | |
| HSEA UN3898 | The Mongols in History | |
| HIST GU4811 | Encounters with Nature: The History of Environment and Health in South Asia and Beyond | |
| Jewish Studies | ||
| JWST GU4145 Introduction to Israeli Cinema (Effective beginning Spring 2020) | ||
| Latin American and Iberian Cultures | ||
| SPAN UN3349 | Hispanic Cultures I: Islamic Spain through the Colonial Period | |
| PORT UN3350 | Lusophone Africa and Afro Brazilian Culture | |
| SPAN UN3350 | Hispanic Cultures II: Enlightenment to the Present | |
| SPAN UN3361 | Artistic Humanity (Effective beginning Spring 2017) | |
| PORT UN3490 | Brazilian Society and Civilization (Effective beginning Fall 2017) | |
| Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies | ||
| MDES UN1001 | Critical Theory: A Global Perspective (Effective beginning Spring 2018) | |
| AHUM UN1399 | Colloquium on Major Texts: Middle East and South Asia | |
| ASCM UN2008 | CONTEMP ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION | |
| MDES UN3260 | Rethinking Middle East Politics | |
| CLME GU4226 | Arabic Autobiography: Global Dimensions | |
| CLME GU4231 | Cold War Arab Culture | |
| CLME GU4272 | ARABIC LITERATURE AS WORLD LITERATURE (formerly CLME UN3221- change of course number effective Spring 2020) | |
| Music | ||
| AHMM UN3320 Introduction to the Musics of East Asia and Southeast Asia | ||
| Religion | ||
| RELI UN1612 | Religion and the History of Hip Hop (Effective beginning Spring 2020) | |
| RELI UN2309 | Hinduism | |
| RELI UN3407 | Muslims in Diaspora (Effective beginning Spring 2016; formerly RELI V3307) | |
| RELI UN2405 | Chinese Religious Traditions (Same as RELI UN2307) | |
| RELI GU4204 Religions of the Iranian World (Effective Spring 2020) | ||
| Slavic Languages | ||
| GEOR GU4042 | Cultural History: A Georgian Case Study (Effective beginning Spring 2017) | |
All Approved Courses: Morningside Campus
Not all courses are taught each academic year. Below is the full list of all courses offered on the Morningside Heights campus that are approved for the Global Core Requirement, regardless of semester offered. Last updated on August 20,2020.
| Code | Title | Points |
|---|---|---|
| African-American Studies | ||
| AFAS UN1001 | INTRO TO AFRICAN-AMER STUDIES | |
| Anthropology | ||
| ANTH UN1008 | The Rise of Civilization | |
| ANTH UN1130 | Africa and the Anthropologist | |
| ANTH UN2007 | Indian and Nigerian Film Cultures (Effective beginning Fall 2017 semester) | |
| ANTH V2013 | Africa in the 21st Century: Aesthetics, Culture, Politics | |
| ANTH V2014 | Archaeology and Africa: Changing Perceptions of the African Past | |
| ANTH V2020 | Chinese Strategies: Cultures in Practice | |
| ANTH V2027 | Changing East Asia Foodways | |
| ANTH UN2031 | Corpse Life: Anthropological Histories of the Dead [Previously Archaeologies of Death and (Effective beginning Fall 2017) | |
| ANTH V2035 | Introduction to the Anthropology of South Asia | |
| ANTH V2100 | Muslim Societies | |
| ANTH UN3300 | Pre-Columbian Histories of Native America | |
| ANTH UN3465 | Women and Gender Politics in the Muslim World | |
| ANTH V3525 | Introduction to South Asian History and Culture | |
| ANTH UN3821 | Native America | |
| ANTH V3892 | Contemporary Central Asia (formerly ANTH V2029) | |
| ANTH UN3933 | Arabia Imagined | |
| ANTH UN3947 | Text, Magic, Performance | |
| ANHS GU4001 | The Ancient Empires | |
| ANTH G4065 | Archaeology of Idols | |
| Art History and Archaeology | ||
| AHIS UN2119 | Rome Beyond Rome: Roman Art and Architecture in a Global Perspective (Effective beginning Spring 2018) | |
| AHIS UN2600 | Arts of China | |
| AHIS UN2500 | The Arts of Africa | |
| AHUM UN2604 | Art In China, Japan, and Korea | |
| AHUM UN2800 | Arts of Islam: The First Formative Centuries (circa 700-1000) (Effective beginning Fall 2017 semester) | |
| AHUM UN2802 | Arts of Islam: Realignments of Empire and State (ca. 1000-1400) (Effective Spring 2017) | |
| AHUM UN2901 | Masterpieces of Indian Art and Architecture | |
| AHIS W3500 | Yoruba and the Diaspora (Effective beginning Fall 2014; formerly AHIS W3898) | |
| AHIS UN3501 | African Art: The Next Generation. Focus: Congo (Effective Spring 2017) | |
| AHIS UN3503 | Contemporary Arts of Africa (Effective beginning Fall 2020) | |
| AHIS W3832 | Sacred Landscapes of the Ancient Andes (Effective beginning Spring 2016) | |
| AHIS Q4570 | Andean Art and Architecture (formerly AHIS G4085) | |
| AHIS GU4584 Critical Approaches to Persianate Painting (effective beginning Spring 2019) | ||
| Center for the Core Curriculum | ||
| AFCV UN1020 | African Civilizations | |
| LACV UN1020 | Primary Texts of Latin American Civilization | |
| Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race | ||
| CSER UN1010 | Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Studies | |
| CSER W3510 | Novels of Immigration, Relocation, and Diaspora (Also offered as ENGL GU4650, effective Spring 2017) | |
| CSER UN3922 | Race and Representation in Asian American Cinema | |
| CSER UN3926 | Latin Music and Identity | |
| CSER UN3928 | Colonization/Decolonization | |
| CSER W3961 | (Wealth and Poverty in America) | |
| Classics | ||
| CLCV UN2441 | Egypt in the Classical World (Effective beginning Spring 2018) | |
| CLCV UN3059 | WORLDS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT (Effective beginning Spring 2017) | |
| CLCV W3111 | Plato and Confucius: Comparative Ancient Philosophies (Effective beginning Spring 2015) | |
| CLCV W3244 | Global Histories of the Book (Effective beginning Fall 2015) | |
| CSGM UN3567 | Thessaloniki Down the Ages (Effective Spring 2017) | |
| CLGM UN3920 | WORLD RESPONDS TO THE GREEKS (formerly "The World Responds to the Greeks: Greece Faces East") | |
| GRKM UN3935 | Hellenism and the Topographical Imagination (formerly GRKM UN3920 "The World Responds to the Greeks") | |
| CLCV GU4411 | Egypt in the Classical World (Egypt in the Classical World Effective beginning Spring 2020) | |
| Colloquia and Interdepartmental Seminars | ||
| INSM UN3920 | Nobility and Civility | |
| INSM UN3921 | Nobility and Civility II | |
| INSM C3940 | Science Across Cultures | |
| INSM W3950 | Friendship in Asian and Western Civilization | |
| Comparative Literature and Society | ||
| CLGM UN3110 | The Ottoman Past in the Greek Present (Effective beginning Spring 2018 ) | |
| CPLS UN3333 | East/West Frametale Narratives | |
| CPLS UN3454 | Blood/Lust: Staging the Early Modern Mediterranean [in English] | |
| CLGM UN3920 | WORLD RESPONDS TO THE GREEKS | |
| CPLS W3945 | Transnational Memory Politics and the Culture of Human Rights (Effective beginning Spring 2014) | |
| CPLS W3955 | The West in Global Thought | |
| CPLS UN3956 | Postcolonial Narrative and the Limits of the Human | |
| CPLS W4100 | Andalusian Symbiosis: Islam and the West (Effective beginning Fall 2014) | |
| CPLS GU4111 | World Philology (Effective Spring 2017) | |
| Committee on Global Thought | ||
| CGTH UN3401 | Seminar in Global Thought: Inquiries into an Interconnected World (Effective beginning Fall 2018) | |
| CGTH UN3402 | Topics in Global Thought: Global 20-Youth in an Interconnected World (Effective beginning Spring 2019) | |
| Dance- Barnard | ||
| DNCE BC3567 | Dance of India (Effective beginning Fall 2018) | |
| DNCE BC2565 | World Dance History (Effective beginning Spring 2019) | |
| East Asian Languages and Cultures | ||
| ASCE UN1002 | Introduction to Major Topics in Asian Civilizations: East Asia | |
| ASCE UN1359 | Introduction to East Asian Civilizations: China | |
| ASCE UN1361 | Introduction to East Asian Civilizations: Japan | |
| ASCE UN1363 | Introduction to East Asian Civilizations: Korea | |
| ASCE UN1365 | Introduction to East Asian Civilizations: Tibet | |
| ASCE UN1367 | Introduction to East Asian Civilizations: Vietnam (Effective beginning Fall 2017) | |
| AHUM UN1400 | Colloquium on Major Texts: East Asia | |
| EAAS UN2342 | Mythology of East Asia | |
| EAAS UN3116 | Supernatural in East Asia (Effective beginning Spring 2020) | |
| EAAS UN3121 | Minority Literature in Modern China (Offered Fall 2018 as a one-time course) | |
| EAAS UN3122 | Modern Chinese Poetry in a Global Context (Offered Spring 2020 as a one-time course) | |
| EAAS UN3322 | East Asian Cinema (Effective Spring 2017) | |
| EAAS UN3338 | Cultural History of Japanese Monsters (Effective Fall 2019) | |
| EAAS V3350 | Japanese Fiction and Film (Effective beginning Fall 2014) | |
| AHUM UN3830 | Colloquium On Modern East Asian Texts (Colloquium on Modern East Asian Texts) | |
| EAAS UN3844 | CULTURE, MENTAL HEALTH, AND HEALING IN EAST ASIA (Effective beginning Fall 2019) | |
| HSEA Q3870 | Japan Before 1600 (Effective beginning Spring 2015; formerly HSEA W4870) | |
| EAAS UN3927 | China in the Modern World | |
| EAAS GU4017 Ethnography and Representation in Tibet (effective begining Fall 2020) | ||
| EARL W4127 | Mediations, Perceptions, Words: Poetry in Buddhist Literature (Effective beginning Spring 2016) | |
| EAAS W4160 | Cultures of Colonial Korea (Effective beginning Spring 2014; formerly EAAS G4160) | |
| HSEA GU4222 | China's Global Histories: People, Space, and Power (Effective beginning Fall 2019) | |
| EAAS GU4277 | Japanese Anime and Beyond: Gender, Power and Transnational Media | |
| EARL GU4310 | Life-Writing in Tibetan Buddhist Literature | |
| EARL GU4312 | Tibetan Sacred Space (in Comparative Context) (Effective beginning Spring 2018 semester) | |
| EAAS GU4233 | Sonic Modernity in East Asia (Effective beginning Spring 2020) | |
| HSEA GU4816 | Comparing Indigeneities (Effective beginning Spring 2020) | |
| HSEA GU4822 | Troubled Islands of the Indo Pacific (Effective beginning Spring 2017) | |
| HSEA GU4847 | Modern Japan (Effective beginning Fall 2017) | |
| HSEA W4866 | Competing Nationalisms in East Asia: Representing Chinese and Tibetan Relations in History (Effective beginning Fall 2015) | |
| HSEA GU4880 | History of Modern China I | |
| Economics | ||
| ECON GU4325 | Economic Organization and Development of Japan | |
| English and Comparative Literature | ||
| CLEN UN3360 | Theaters of Gods and Heroes (Effective beginnning Spring 2020) | |
| CLEN S3829 | Fantastic Fictions: Postmodern Asian American Literature (Effective beginning Summer 2020) | |
| ENGL UN3851 | Indian Writing in English (Effective beginning Spring 2019) | |
| CLEN UN3933 | Postcolonial Literature (Effective beginning Fall 2018) | |
| CLEN GU4199 | Literature and Oil (Effective beginning Fall 2020) | |
| CLEN W4200 | Caribbean Diaspora Literature | |
| ENGL GU4650 | Novels of Immigration, Relocation, Diaspora (formerly ENGL W3510) | |
| CLEN GU4644 | Revolution in/on the Caribbean (Effective beginning Fall 2018) | |
| Film Studies | ||
| FILM UN2292 | Topics in World Cinema: China (Effective beginning Spring 2018) | |
| FILM UN2294 | World Cinema: Latin America (Effective beginning Fall 2018) | |
| FILM S2295Q | World Cinema: Mexico (Effective beginning Summer 2017) | |
| FILM UN2296 | Arab and African Filmmaking (Effective Fall 2019) | |
| FILM S4215D | Contemporary Global Documentary (Effective beginning Summer 2019) | |
| French and Romance Philology | ||
| CLFR UN3716 | Francophone Romance : Love and Desire in French Colonial and Post-Colonial Literatures | |
| CLFR GU4020 Contemporary Migrations in the French and North African Context (effective beginning Summer 2020) | ||
| CLFR GU4440 Remapping Algeria: Poetics and Politics of Space (Effective beginning Spring 2021) | ||
| CLFR GU4421 | The Caribbean Digital (Effective beginning Fall 2020) | |
| CLFR GU4716 | FRANCOPHONE ROMANCE LOVE, SEX, INTIMACY IN THE FRENCH COLONIAL WORLD (Effective beginning Fall 2019) | |
| Germanic Languages | ||
| GERM UN3780 | Berlin/Istanbul: Migration, Culture, Values (GER) | |
| History | ||
| HIST UN1004 | Ancient History of Egypt | |
| HIST W1054 | Introduction to Byzantine History (Effective beginning Spring 2016) | |
| HIST UN2003 | Empire ＆ Nation-Building East Central Europe (Effective beginning Fall 2020) | |
| HIST UN2336 | Everyday Communism (Effective beginning Spring 2020) | |
| HIST UN2377 | INTERNATIONAL & GLOBAL HISTORY SINCE WWII (Effective Spring 2017) | |
| HIST UN2444 | The Vietnam War (Effective beginning Spring 2017) | |
| HIST UN2580 | THE HISTORY OF UNITED STATES RELATIONS WITH EAST ASIA (Effective beginning Fall 2017 ) | |
| HIST UN2618 | The Modern Caribbean | |
| HIST UN2657 | Medieval Jewish Cultures (formerly HIST W3657) | |
| HIST UN2660 | Latin American Civilization I | |
| HIST UN2661 | LATIN AMERICAN CIVILIZATION II | |
| HIST UN2701 | Ottoman Empire (formerly HIST W3701) | |
| HIST UN2719 | History of the Modern Middle East (formerly HIST W3719) | |
| HSWM UN2761 | Gender and Sexuality in African History (Effective beginning Fall 2018) | |
| HIST UN2764 | East African History | |
| HIST UN2772 | West African History | |
| HIST W2803 | The Worlds of Mughal India (Effective beginning Spring 2014; formerly HIST W3803) | |
| HSME UN2810 | History of South Asia I: al-Hind to Hindustan (formerly HSME W3810) | |
| HSME UN2811 | South Asia: Empire and Its Aftermath (formerly HIST UN2811) | |
| HIST W2880 | Gandhi's India (formerly HIST W3800) | |
| HIST UN2881 | Vietnam in the World (Effective beginning Spring 2019) | |
| HIST Q2900 | History of the World to 1450 CE (formerly HIST W3902) | |
| HIST W2903 | History of the World from 1450 CE to the Present (Effective beginning Fall 2013; formerly HIST W2903) | |
| HIST W2943 | Cultures of Empire (formerly HIST W3943) | |
| HIST UN3152 | Byzantine Encounters in the Mediterranean and the Middle East (Taught on Morningside going forward, effective Spring 2017) | |
| HIST UN3298 | Popular Culture in Modern African History (Effective beginning Fall 2019) | |
| HIST Q3400 | Native American History (formerly HIST W4404) | |
| HIST W3678 | Indigenous Worlds in Early Latin America (formerly HIST W4678) | |
| HIST UN3766 | African Futures (Effective beginning Fall 2017) | |
| HIST UN3779 | Africa and France | |
| HSEA UN3898 | The Mongols in History | |
| HIST Q3933 | Empires and Cultures of the Early Modern Atlantic World (Effective only for Spring 2014; formerly HIST W4103) | |
| HIST UN3601 | Jews in the Later Roman Empire, 300-600 CE (Effective beginning Fall 2014; formerly HIST W4601; renumbered to HIST UN3601, effective Fall 2018) | |
| HIST GU4811 | Encounters with Nature: The History of Environment and Health in South Asia and Beyond (Effective beginning Spring 2017 semester) | |
| Italian | ||
| ITAL GU4022 | The Qur'an in Europe (Effective beginning Fall 2017) | |
| Jewish Studies | ||
| JWST GU4145 Introduction to Israeli Cinema (Effective beginning Spring 2020) | ||
| Latin American and Caribbean Studies | ||
| LCRS UN3500 | Latin American Cities (Effective beginning Spring 2017) | |
| Latin American and Iberian Cultures | ||
| SPJS UN3303 | Jewish Culture in Translation in Medieval Iberia ((Effective beginning Fall 2017 semester)) | |
| SPAN UN3349 | Hispanic Cultures I: Islamic Spain through the Colonial Period | |
| PORT UN3350 | Lusophone Africa and Afro Brazilian Culture | |
| SPAN UN3350 | Hispanic Cultures II: Enlightenment to the Present | |
| SPAN UN3361 | Artistic Humanity (Effective beginning Spring 2017) | |
| PORT UN3490 | Brazilian Society and Civilization (Effective beginning Fall 2017 semester) | |
| SPAN UN3490 | Latin American Humanities I: From Pre-Columbian Civilizations to the Creation of New Nations | |
| SPAN W3491 | Latin American Humanities II: From Modernity to the Present [In English] | |
| PORT UN3601 | Race, Medicine and Literature in 19th-Century Brazil (Effective beginning Fall 2020) | |
| Linguistics | ||
| LING UN3102 | Endangered Languages in the Global City: Lang, Culture, and Migration in Contempary NYC (Effective beginning Fall 2019) | |
| Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies | ||
| MDES UN1001 | Critical Theory: A Global Perspective (Effective beginning Spring 2018) | |
| AHUM UN1399 | Colloquium on Major Texts: Middle East and South Asia (formerly AHUM UN3399, new course number effective Fall 2018) | |
| ASCM V2001 | Introduction to Major Topics in the Civilizations of the Middle East and India | |
| ASCM UN2003 | Introduction to Islamic Civilization | |
| ASCM UN2008 | CONTEMP ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION | |
| MDES UN2030 | Major Debates in the Study of Africa | |
| MDES W2041 | Introduction to Indian Philosophy (Effective beginning Spring 2015) | |
| ASCM UN2357 | Introduction to Indian Civilization | |
| MDES UN2641 | Cinemas of India (Effective beginning Fall 2020) | |
| MDES UN2650 | Gandhi and His Interlocutors (Gandhi and His Interlocutors; Effective beginning Spring 2015) | |
| MDES UN3000 | Theory and Culture | |
| CLME W3032 | Colonialism: Film, Fiction, History & Theory | |
| HSME UN3044 | From Colonial to Global Health (Effective beginning Fall 2017 semester) | |
| MDES UN3047 | MESAAS ＆ History: Court Cultures and Aesthetics in History, 350-1750 (Effective beginning Spring 2021) | |
| MDES UN3121 | Literature and Cultures of Struggle in South Africa (Effective beginning Spring 2017) | |
| MDES UN3130 | East Africa and the Swahili Coast | |
| CLME UN3221 | Arabic Literature As World Literature (Effective beginning Fall 2017 semester- course number changed to CLME GU4272 beginning Spring 2020) | |
| MDES UN3260 | Rethinking Middle East Politics (Effective beginning Spring 2017) | |
| MDES UN3421 | Islamic Central Asia (Effective beginning Fall 2020) | |
| MDES UN3445 | Societies & Cultures Across the Indian Ocean (Effective beginning Fall 2013) | |
| CLME UN3928 | Arabic Prison Writing | |
| CLME GU4031 | Cinema and Society In Asia and Africa | |
| MDES G4052 | Locating Africa in the Early 20th Century World | |
| MDES GU4150 | Introduction to African Philosophy (Effective beginning Spring 2017) | |
| CLME GU4225 | New Millenium Challenges in Arabic Literary Production (Effective beginning Spring 2019- formerly "Arabic Literary Production"; New title effective Fall 2019) | |
| CLME GU4226 | Arabic Autobiography: Global Dimensions (Effective beginning Spring 2018) | |
| CLME GU4229 | Afro-Mediterranean Cultural Geographies: Ifriqiya-Tunis ((Effective beginning Fall 2018)) | |
| CLME GU4231 | Cold War Arab Culture | |
| CLME GU4241 | Sufism: Primary Texts and Contexts | |
| CLME G4261 | Popular Islam: Asia and Africa | |
| MDES GU4259 | War Narrative: The Arab World (Effective beginning Fall 2019) | |
| CLME GU4262 | Themes in the Arabic Novel (Effective beginning Fall 2018) | |
| CLME GU4272 | ARABIC LITERATURE AS WORLD LITERATURE (was formerly CLME UN3221- change of course number effective Spring 2020) | |
| MDES G4326 | The Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust: Memory and Representation | |
| MDES GU4637 | Cinema and Colonialism in South Asia (Effective beginning Spring 2018) | |
| Music | ||
| MUSI UN2020 | Salsa, Soca, and Reggae: Popular Musics of the Caribbean | |
| MUSI V2430 | Listening and Sound in Cross-Cultural Perspective (Effective beginning Fall 2014; formerly MUSI W4430) | |
| AHMM UN3320 | MUSIC IN EAST ASIA | |
| AHMM UN3321 | Introduction To the Musics of India and West Asia | |
| MUSI GU4466 | Sound and Image in Modern East Asian Music (Effective Spring 2017) | |
| Physics | ||
| SCNC UN3001 Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Testing: Marshall Islands (Effective beginning Spring 2021) | ||
| Religion | ||
| RELI UN1612 | Religion and the History of Hip Hop (Effective beginning Spring 2020) | |
| RELI UN2205 | Buddhism: Indo-Tibetan (effective Fall 2016) | |
| RELI UN2305 | Islam | |
| RELI UN2306 | Intro to Judaism (Effective beginning Fall 2018) | |
| RELI UN2307 | Chinese Religious Traditions | |
| RELI UN2308 | Buddhism: East Asian | |
| RELI UN2309 | Hinduism | |
| RELI V2335 | Religion in Black America: An Introduction (formerly RELI V2645) | |
| RELI UN3303 | Judaism and Translation in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean (effective Spring 2017) | |
| RELI UN3407 | Muslims in Diaspora (Effective beginning Spring 2016; formerly RELI V3307) | |
| RELI UN3425 | Judaism and Courtly Literature in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia and Italy (Effective beginning Fall 2016 ) | |
| RELI Q3511 | Tantra in South Asia, East Asia & the West (Effective beginning Spring 2015; formerly RELI V3411) | |
| RELI UN3521 | Muslim Masculinities (Effective beginning Spring 2019) | |
| RELI GU4215 | Hinduism Here (Effecrtive beginning Fall 2019) | |
| RELI GU4204 Religions of the Iranian World (Effective Spring 2020) | ||
| RELI GU4304 | Krishna (Effective beginning Fall 2017) | |
| RELI GU4322 | Exploring the Sharia: Topics in Islamic Law (Effective beginning Fall 2018) | |
| RELI GU4418 | On African Theory: Religion, Philosophy, Anthropology (Effective beginning Spring 2019) | |
| RELI GU4999 | GLOBAL INDIGENOUS RELIGIOUS HISTORIES (Effective beginning Fall 2020) | |
| Slavic Languages | ||
| SLCL UN3001 | Slavic Cultures | |
| CLRS GU4022 | Russia and Asia: Orientalism, Eurasianism, Internationalism | |
| GEOR GU4042 | Cultural History: A Georgian Case Study (Effective beginning Spring 2017) | |
| CLRS W4190 | Race, Ethnicity, and Narrative, in the Russian/Soviet Empire | |
| Sociology | ||
| SOCI UN3324 | Global Urbanism | |
| Theatre | ||
| THTR UN3154 | Theatre Traditions in a Global Context (formerly THTR UN3000) | |
All Approved Courses: Offered Abroad
Not all courses are taught each academic year. Below is the full list of all courses offered abroad through Columbia-sponsored programs that are approved for the Global Core Requirement, regardless of semester offered. For more information, consult the Office of Global Programs. Last updated on February 20,2020.
| Code | Title | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race | ||
| CSER OC3928 | Colonization/Decolonization (Effective beginning Summer 2017; taught in Mexico City) | |
| Columbia in Amman and Paris: Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENA) Program | ||
| MENA OC4100 | Migration, Displacement and Diaspora in the French and North African Context (taught in Paris, effective beginning Summer2017) (formerly Maghreb-Mashrek: East and West) | |
| Columbia in Amman and Tunis: Middle Eastern and North African Studies | ||
| MENA OC4101 Culture/ History Seminar of the Middle East- North Africa Summer Program in Amman & Tunis (Effective beginning Summer 2019) | ||
| Columbia Global Seminar in Istanbul | ||
| Not offered during the Spring 2018 semester | ||
| CLGM OC3920 | The World Responds to the Greeks: Modernity, Postmodernity, Globality (Effective beginning Spring 2015; taught in Istanbul) | |
| Columbia in London- Queen Mary University | ||
| CLEN OC3500 | LONDON IN POSTCOLONIAL FICTION: 'WE ARE HERE BECAUSE YOU WERE THERE ((Effective beginning Fall 2018)) | |
| Latin American and Caribbean Studies (Global Scholars Program) | ||
| LCRS OC3501 Latin American Cities (Effective beginning Summer 2017) | ||
| Columbia Summer Program in Tunis and Istanbul: Democracy and Constitutional Engineering | ||
| Not offered during the Spring 2018 semester | ||
| POLS OC3545 | Comparative Democratic Processes (Effective beginning Summer 2015; taught in Istanbul) | |
| Slavic Languages - Office of Global Programs | ||
| Not offered during the Spring 2018 semester | ||
| CLSL OC4001 | The Muslim and the Christian in Balkan Narratives ((Effective beginning Summer 2016; taught in Istanbul)) | |
| Reid Hall in Paris | ||
| AHIS OC4652 | The Black Voices of Black Model: New Perspectives for the Histories of Art (Effective beginning Summer 2019) | |
| CLEN OC3245 Black Americans and the City of Light: A Seminar (effective Summer 2020) | ||
| FILM OC4225 | Arab & African Filmmaking (Effective beginning Summer 2019) | |
| FREN OC3719 | Violence by and against Women (Effective beginning Spring 2019) | |
| FREN OC3817 | Black Paris (Effective Spring 2017; taught in Paris) | |
| FREN OC3821 | "Blackness" in French: from Harlem to Paris and Beyond ((Effective beginning Summer 2018)) | |
| WMST OC3550 | Women and Society - The Sex Trade Economy (Effective Spring 2016, will not be offered Spring 2018; taught in Paris) | |
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