Newly Approved Courses
Spring 2021 Newly Approved Courses | Fall 2020 Newly Approved Courses | Summer 2020 Newly Approved Courses
Hundreds of new courses are added to the Columbia undergraduate curriculum each year. So that students may be apprised of these offerings, new courses are collected on this page. Students are encouraged to check back periodically to review these new offerings.
Spring 2021 Newly Approved Courses
Last update: 11/25/20
| Code | Title | Points |
|---|---|---|
| American Studies | ||
| AMST UN3931 | Topics in American Studies (Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Meaning of America) | |
| AMST UN3933 The American Graphic Novel | ||
| Anthropology | ||
| ANTH GU4052 | Post/Socialist Bodies | |
| ANTH GU4378 | Strange Resonances, Close Listening | |
| ANTH GU4349 | Shades of the Political: Anthropological Investigations of Everyday Life in Turkey | |
| Art History and Archaeology | ||
| AHIS GU4521 | Sin and Sodomy | |
| Biological Sciences | ||
| BIOL UN2502 | Foundations for Lab Biology | |
| BIOT GU4161 | ETHICS IN BIOPHARM PAT/REG LAW | |
| Chemistry | ||
| CHEM GU4313 | Peptide and Protein Chemistry | |
| Classics | ||
| CLST UN3030 | Beyond City Limits: Considering the Countryside in the Ancient Roman World | |
| CLST UN3040 | Ethnicity, Power, and Resistance in Ancient Empire | |
| CLCV UN3070 | Polis: the Biography of the Ancient Greek City-State 650 BCE-350 CE | |
| CLLT UN3129 | An Odyssey of Odysseys: Receptions of Homer’s Odyssey from Antiquity to the 21st Century | |
| Institute for Comparative Literature and Society | ||
| CSER UN3305 | Provincializing Prohibition: The “War on Drugs” in the Americas | |
| CPLS GU4323 | Utopia and the Pandemic | |
| CPLS GU4325 | Abolition Medicine: Medical Racisms and Anti-Racisms | |
| CPLS GU4732 | Matters of Life/Death | |
| CLGM GU4550 Greek Poets and their Interluctors | ||
| CPLS GU4800 | Advanced Topics in Medical Humanities (Pandemic and Social Inequality) | |
| Earth and Environmental Sciences | ||
| EESC UN3328 | Glacial Geomorphology | |
| Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology | ||
| EEEB GU4670 | Introduction to Geographical Information Systems | |
| Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race | ||
| CSER UN3041 | The Art ＆ Politics of Memory in Latin America: Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation | |
| CSER UN3304 | Race and Aesthetics in Cinema | |
| CSER UN3964 | Maya Guatemala-Neoliberalism ＆ Resistance | |
| East Asian Languages and Cultures | ||
| BURM UN2102 | Intermediate Burmese II | |
| TWI UN2102 | Intermediate Twi II | |
| TIBT UN2711 | ADVANCED LITERARY TIBETAN II | |
| JPNS UN3402 | JAPANESE POP CULTURE II | |
| EAAS UN3435 | Chinese Revolution, Asian Revolution, World Revolution: Revolution and Radicalism in the Long Twentieth Century | |
| HSEA UN3971 | STATES OF SURVEILLANCE: A GLOBAL HISTORY OF BIG BROTHER | |
| VIET GU4102 | MIXED ADVANCED VIETNAMESE II | |
| EAAS GU4124 | SOUTH KOREAN FILM AS HISTORY | |
| HSEA GU4250 | MADE IN CHINA: CRAFT AND INDUSTRY IN CHINESE HISTORY | |
| HSEA GU4729 | Amdo: The Tibetan, Chinese, Mongolian and Muslim Interface | |
| English and Comparative Literature | ||
| ENGL UN3026 | RENAISSANCE ENGLAND AND THE POETRY OF EXPERIMENT | |
| ENGL UN3048 | British Literature to 1500 | |
| ENGL UN3232 | COUNTERARCHIVES | |
| ENGL UN3482 | LIVES OF PROPERTY IN THE COLONIAL ATLANTIC WORLD | |
| ENGL UN3570 | MODERNISM: STRUGGLE AND UTOPIA | |
| ENGL UN3691 | DESIRE AND DISGUST IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | |
| ENGL UN3789 | AMERICAN NATURE WRITING TO 1900 | |
| ENGL GU4568 Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future | ||
| ENGL GU4821 The Transitions: Trends and Texts of World Transformation | ||
| ENGL GU4836 | BLACK LITERATURE AND VISUAL ART: STUDIES IN COLLABORATION | |
| ENGL GU4975 | PRISON LITERATURE | |
| ENGL GU4931 | NEW YORK INTELLECTUALS: MARY MCCARTHY, HANNAH ARENDT, SUSAN SONTAG | |
| French | ||
| FREN UN3243 | Lang. Culture, Society: La culture pop | |
| FREN UN3762 | Sex, Drugs, and Marxism: France in the 1960's | |
| CLFR OC3821 | City Diplomacy (This course will be taught in Reid Hall.) | |
| CLFR GU4440 | Remapping Algeria: Poetics and Politics of Space | |
| FREN GU4441 | Classical French Moralists | |
| CLFR GU4521 | The Politics of Memory. Remembrance, Ethics and Identity in France since 1945 | |
| Germanic Languages | ||
| CLYD UN3000 | Do you read Jewish? From Yiddish, to Yinglish, to Yiddler, in the US | |
| History | ||
| HIST UN3269 | From Oracles, Fortune and Gifts of God to Mathematics: The History of Risk Before the Probability Calculus, c. 1350 CE – c. 1660 CE | |
| HIST UN3702 | Russia’s Silver Age, 1890-1920 | |
| HIST UN3384 | Brazilian Slavery in its Global Context | |
| HIST GU4090 | Craft, Literature, and Data: Hands-on Material and Digital Methods for the Study of How-to Technical Texts | |
| HIST GU4727 | The History of the End of the World | |
| HIST GU4821 | Italy’s Material Culture, 1945-2015 | |
| HIST GU4844 Outlaws in Asian History | ||
| HIST GU4956 | Mesopotamian Culture and Society in the first millennium BCE | |
| Italian | ||
| CLIA GU4024 | Nationalism in Theory and History | |
| Jewish Studies | ||
| JWST UN3538 | Jews in the City in the Islamic Middle East | |
| Latin American and Iberian Cultures | ||
| PORT UN3443 | Visual Cultures and the City | |
| Linguistics | ||
| LING GU4173 | Hyphenated Minds: Heritage Speakers and Their Vocabularies | |
| Mathematics | ||
| MATH GU4392 | INTRO TO QUANTUM MECHANICS II | |
| Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies | ||
| MDES UN3047 | MESAAS ＆ History: Court Cultures 350-1750 | |
| MDES UN3048 | Pandemics: A Global History | |
| MDES GU4239 | Medicine and Disease in the Pre-Modern Islamic World | |
| Music | ||
| MUSI UN3117 | Singing Against Slavery: Five Centuries of Resistance | |
| Philosophy | ||
| PHIL UN3861 | Language ＆ Society | |
| PHIL GU4080 | Plato | |
| PHIL GU4763 | Feminist, Social and Political Philosophy of Language | |
| Political Science | ||
| POLS UN3112 | GANDHI, KING ＆ POLS OF NONVIOLENCE | |
| POLS UN3177 | REASON AND POLITICS | |
| POLS GU4722 | QUANT METH 2 STAT THEO＆CAUS INF | |
| POLS GU4823 | CHINA AND THE WORLD ECONOMY | |
| Psychology | ||
| PSYC UN1021 | Science of Psychology: Explorations and Applications | |
| PSYC UN2690 | Frontiers of Justice | |
| PSYC GU4224 | Consciousness and Cognitive Science | |
| PSYC GU4493 | Stress and the Brain | |
| PSYC GU4880 | In Service of Equity: Examining Developmental Science through the Lens of Policy | |
| Religion | ||
| RELI UN2335 | RELI IN BLACK AMERICA:AN INTRO | |
| RELI GU4517 | After the Human | |
| Slavic Languages | ||
| SLCL UN3101 | The Slavs: Myths, Literacies and Attitudes | |
| CLRS UN3312 | Thinking Bodies: Literature, Film, Performance | |
| UKRN GU4121 | Agent of Change: Ukrainian Art Between Revolutions | |
| CLSL GU4009 | Hegel: State, History, Freedom | |
| Writing | ||
| WRIT UN3320 | Provocations in Twentieth-Century Poetics | |
| Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality | ||
| WMST UN3655 | Gender and Public Health: Disparities, Pathways, and Policies | |
Summer 2020 Newly Approved Courses
Last update: 6/26/20
| Code | Title | Points |
|---|---|---|
| African American and African Diaspora Studies | ||
| AFAS UN1001 | INTRO TO AFRICAN-AMER STUDIES | |
| AFAM GU4000 Gospel Music in Modern America | ||
| AFAM GU4468 Post-1945 Jazz | ||
| Anthropology | ||
| ANTH S1008 | THE RISE OF CIVILIZATION | |
| Art History and Archaeology | ||
| AHIS S2409 | Architecture, 1750-1890 | |
| AHIS S2600 | THE ARTS OF CHINA | |
| AHIS S4654 Painting in the Mid-Twentieth Century, 1929- 1980 | ||
| AHIS S4655 Performing the City | ||
| Biochemistry | ||
| BCHM GU4501 | BIOCHEM I-STRUCTURE/METABOLISM | |
| Biology | ||
| BIOL GU4310 | Virology | |
| Classics | ||
| CLCV UN3059 | WORLDS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT | |
| CLCV UN3111 | PLATO&CONFUCIUS: COMP ANC PHIL | |
| Earth and Environmental Sciences | ||
| EESC UN1004 Dinosaurs and the History of Life | ||
| Economics | ||
| ECON GU4301 | ECONOMIC GROWTH ＆ DEVELOPMNT I | |
| ECON GU4321 | Economic Development | |
| ECON GU4370 | Political Economy | |
| English and Comparative Literature | ||
| CLEN OC3245 Black Americans and the City of Light | ||
| ENGL S3826 Jane Austen and the Poets | ||
| CLEN S3484 Inventions of the Self: Autofiction, Therapy, and Neuroplasticity | ||
| CLEN S3987Q Narrative Forms of Medicine: Forms of Autobiography | ||
| ENGL S3493 | ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF THE BIBLE | |
| CLEN S4521 Topics in Comparative Literature: Defining Life | ||
| French | ||
| FREN UN3242 | French Language, Culture, and Society through the Discovery of Paris | |
| FREN UN3883 | French Civilization through Graphic Novels and Cinemas | |
| CLFR GU4020 | Contemporary Migrations in the French & North African Context | |
| History | ||
| HIST UN2478 | US INTELLECTUAL HIST 1865-PRES | |
| HIST UN2952 | Pandemics: A Global History | |
| HIST UN3335 | 20TH CENT NEW YOUR CITY HIST | |
| HIST UN3998 | SUPERVISED INDEPENDENT RSRCH | |
| Italian | ||
| ITAL UN3643 History of Italian Cinema | ||
| Music | ||
| AHMM UN3320 | MUSIC IN EAST ASIA | |
| MUSI UN2240 | The Song Within Us: Composition, Analysis, Performance | |
| Philosophy | ||
| HUMA S1200 | PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS ON LOVE, LOSS, ＆ HUMAN NATURE | |
| PHIL UN3800 | PHILOSOPHY, JUSTICE AND SOCIAL ACTIVISM | |
| Physics | ||
| PHYS UN1111 | Origins and Meaning | |
| Political Science | ||
| POLS UN3100 | Justice | |
| POLS UN3260 | LATINO POLITICAL EXPERIENCE | |
| POLS UN3671 China's Foreign Relations | ||
| POLS UN3720 | RESEARCH DESIGN: SCOPE AND METHODS | |
| POLS GU4708 | EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH: EXPLORING POLITICAL PHENOMENA | |
| POLS GU4835 | FRML&INFRML TERRORIST ACTRS | |
| Psychology | ||
| PSYC UN1991 | Global Behavioral Science - Summer Practicum | |
| PSYC UN2470 | Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology | |
| PSYC UN2280 | Introduction to Developmental Psychology | |
| Religion | ||
| RELI UN1612 | Religion and the History of Hip Hop | |
| RELI S2335 Religion in Black America: An Introduction | ||
| RELI S4619 Islam in Popular Culture | ||
| Sociology | ||
| SOCI UN1050 | Understanding Society | |
| Statistics | ||
| STAT GU4224 | BAYESIAN STATISTICS | |
| Sustainable Development | ||
| SDEV GU4250 | CLIMATE CHANGE:RESILIENCE＆ADAPTATION | |
| Women's Studies | ||
| WMST UN2340 | Women, Power, and Popular Music | |
| Writing | ||
| WRIT UN3215 | WRITING THE VISUAL | |
Fall 2020 Newly Approved Courses
Last update: 8/21/20
| Code | Title | Points |
|---|---|---|
| American Studies | ||
| AMST UN3930 | Tocqueville: The Democratic Mind | |
| Anthropology | ||
| ANTH UN3624 | Radical Realisms: Anthropology, Modernism, Fiction | |
| ANTH UN3664 | FIELDWORK AT EDGE OF THE VIDEO FRAME | |
| ANTH UN3725 | Politics of Recognition | |
| ANTH GU4145 | Zora | |
| Art History and Archaeology | ||
| AHIS UN3316 | Mediterranean Maps | |
| AHIS UN3327 | Building Before Industrialization | |
| AHIS UN3417 | Medieval Revival: Collecting, Copying, and Co-opting the Past | |
| AHIS UN3453 | Women Artists in Eighteenth-Century Europe | |
| AHIS UN3503 | Contemporary Arts of Africa | |
| AHIS GU4532 | The Lives of Titian | |
| AHIS GU4574 | Picturing a New World: Illustrated Manuscripts in Early Colonial Mexico and Peru | |
| AHIS GU4740 | Re-Reading American Photographs | |
| AHIS GU4948 | American Government Architecture: Governance and Governmentality | |
| Burmese | ||
| BURM UN2101 | Intermediate Burmese | |
| Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race | ||
| CSER UN3303 | Whiteness, Sentiment and Political Belonging | |
| CSER UN3444 | The Decolonial Appeal: Desiring Decolonization in Sites of Representation | |
| CSER GU4361 Documenting Disaster | ||
| Classics | ||
| CLCV UN3008 | The Age of Augustus | |
| Committee on Global Thought | ||
| CGTH GU4325 | Freedom of Expression and Information in the Time of Globalization | |
| Institute for Comparative Literature and Society | ||
| CPLS GU4235 | The Novel and Neuroscience | |
| CPLS GU4810 | Theories of the Subject | |
| Earth and Environmental Sciences | ||
| EESC GU4524 | Biogeochemistry | |
| East Asian Languages and Cultures | ||
| TIBT UN2710 | ADVANCED LITERARY TIBETAN | |
| EAAS UN3343 | Japanese Contemporary Cinema and Media Culture | |
| JPNS UN3401 | JAPANESE POP CULTURE | |
| VIET GU4101 | MIXED ADVANCED VIETNAMESE I | |
| CHNS GU4112 | ADVANCED BUSINESS CHINESE | |
| EARL GU4410 | TIBETAN MONASTIC INSTITUTIONS | |
| EAAS GU4236 | CHINA'S LONG 1980's: INTERROGATING THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF REFORM AND OPENING | |
| EARL GU4510 | ASIA GOES TO HELL | |
| English and Comparative Literature | ||
| ENGL UN3018 | DESPAIR AND APOCALYPSE IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE | |
| ENGL UN3032 | Pope | |
| ENGL UN3475 | Aestheticism: Art and Life | |
| CLEN UN3564 | Dostoevsky and Nabokov: Narratives of Transgression and Madness | |
| ENGL UN3648 | Comics, Health, and Embodiment | |
| ENGL UN3805 | The Political Novel | |
| ENGL UN3728 | American Transcendentalism | |
| ENGL GU4232 | TRADE AND TRAFFIC WITH EARLY MODERN ENGLAND | |
| ENGL GU4812 | Conquests, Colonialism, and the Normans | |
| ENGL GU4836 | BLACK LITERATURE AND VISUAL ART: STUDIES IN COLLABORATION | |
| French | ||
| CLFR GU4421 | The Caribbean Digital | |
| CLFR GU4500 | Pandemics in Francophone Literature and History | |
| Germanic Languages | ||
| CLGR UN3000 | Grimms' Fairy Tales: Power, Gender & Narrative | |
| CLGR GU4000 | Literature and Rhetoric (in German and English) | |
| History | ||
| HIST UN2003 | Empire ＆ Nation-Building East Central Europe | |
| HIST UN2883 | The History of the End of the World | |
| HIST UN3023 | Mobility and Identity in the Roman World | |
| HIST UN3234 | The Idea of Conspiracy in European Culture | |
| HIST UN2565 | American History at the Movies | |
| HIST UN3241 | Global Urban History of Housing Justice | |
| HIST UN3272 | Modern Southeast Asian History | |
| HIST GU4229 | POLITICS ＆ SEXUALITY IN THE COLD WAR | |
| HIST GU4438 | POLITICAL HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICA | |
| HIST GU4692 | Violence in Mexico: A Historical Approach | |
| HIST GU4693 | WRITERS ON HISTORY: THOMAS MANN | |
| HIST GU4812 | The People’s Republic of China and the World | |
| HIST GU4926 | Spatial History Lab | |
| HIST GU4927 | Mapping 19th Century New York | |
| HIST GU4943 | MODERN BALKAN HISTORIES | |
| HIST GU4945 | SPORT & SOCIETY IN EASTERN EUROPE | |
| Italian | ||
| ITAL UN3643 | History of Italian Cinema | |
| CLIA GU4023 | Travel Literature in and from the Mediterranean, 18th-19th centuries | |
| Jewish Studies | ||
| JWST GU4538 | History of Jews in the Islamic World in Modern Times | |
| Latin American and Iberian Cultures | ||
| SPAN UN3366 | Unseen Things: Fantastic Narratives in Contemporary Spain | |
| SPAN UN3887 | The End of Monuments | |
| SPAN UN3888 | Women Without Measure: Approaches to Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art | |
| PORT GU4033 | Language ＆ Queer Brazil (ENG) | |
| PORT GU4466 The Imaginaries of Asia and Latin America | ||
| Linguistics | ||
| LING UN3103 | Language, Brain and Mind | |
| Mathematics | ||
| MATH GU4200 | MATHEMATICS AND THE HUMANITIES | |
| MATH GU4391 | INTRO TO QUANTUM MECHANICS | |
| Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies | ||
| MDES UN3421 | Islamic Central Asia | |
| MDES UN3422 | Infrastructure Matters: Development, Environment, Political Struggle | |
| MDES GU4265 | Sufism, Sharia, and Politics | |
| MDES GU4629 | Transregional | |
| MDES GU4713 | Persian for Heritage Speakers I | |
| MDES GU4718 | Persian Poetry (In Translation) | |
| MDES GU4915 | A History of African Cities | |
| Music | ||
| MUSI UN3431 | Sensing the Amazon: Song, Sound ＆ Image | |
| MUSI GU4108 | Critical Approaches to Opera Studies | |
| Physics | ||
| SCNC UN3002 | Chernobyl | |
| Political Science | ||
| POLS UN3534 | AUTOCRACY AND DEMOCRACY | |
| POLS UN3704 | RESEARCH DESIGN: DATA ANALYSIS | |
| POLS GU4423 | POLITICAL ECONOMY ANALYSIS OF ELITES ＆ INSTITUTIONS | |
| POLS GU4700 | MATH ＆ STATS FOR POLI SCI | |
| POLS GU4813 International Conflict Experts | ||
| POLS GU4814 Civil and Ethnic War | ||
| Psychology | ||
| PSYC GU4202 | Theories of Change in Human Development | |
| PSYC GU4282 | The Neurobiology and Psychology of Play | |
| PSYC GU4612 | Frontiers of Justice | |
| PSYC GU4930 | Fundamentals of Human Brain Imaging: from theory to practice | |
| Public Health | ||
| PUBH UN3400 | Data Science and Health Equity in New York City | |
| Religion | ||
| RELI UN1320 | Losing My Religion | |
| RELI UN2506 | From Exodus to the Coronavirus: Scriptures and Narratives of Religious Responses to Epidemics | |
| RELI UN2312 | Religion and Nasty Women | |
| RELI UN3207 | In the Margins of the Middle Ages: Religious Minorities in the Medieval Latin West | |
| RELI UN3208 | Aaahh Real Monsters: Critical Monster Studies | |
| RELI UN3232 | Museums and Sacred Things | |
| RELI GU4207 | Religion and the Afro-Native Experience | |
| RELI GU4209 | Religion, Politics and Culture in Contemporary Black America | |
| RELI GU4213 | Islam and the Secular: Rethinking Concepts of Religion in North-Western Africa and the Middle East | |
| RELI GU4222 | Heidegger and Derrida | |
| RELI GU4307 | BUDDHISM ＆ DAOISM IN CHINA | |
| RELI GU4417 | Recovering Place | |
| Sociology | ||
| SOCI UN3120 | Trust and Mistrust in Science and Expertise | |
| SOCI UN3677 | The Organization of Diversity | |
| SOCI UN3966 | The News: The Profession of Journalism Goes Digital | |
| SOCI GU4801 | Israell and the Palestinians | |
| Slavic Languages | ||
| CLRS GU4213 | Cold War Reason: Cybernetics and the Systems Sciences | |
| TWI | ||
| TWI UN2101 | Intermediate Twi I | |
| Visual Arts | ||
| VIAR UN3134 | Painting: Color, Materials and Techniques | |
| Women's Studies | ||
| WMST UN3225 | TRANSGENDER STUDIES - THEMES AND TOPICS | |
| WMST UN3265 | Queer ＆ Trans Migration | |
| WMST GU4235 | Indigenous Feminisms | |
| Writing | ||
| WRIT UN3019 | Prose Poem or Poetic Prose?—Defining and Exploring a Literary Genre | |
| WRIT UN3023 | Hauntings: Ghosts, Presences ＆ Residues in the Literary Imagination | |