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.
Fall 2025 Newly Approved Courses
Last update: 6/26/25
| Code | Title | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Art History and Archaeology | ||
| AHIS UN2219 | Medieval Architecture in Europe | |
| AHIS UN3623 | The Wall Paintings of China | |
| AHIS GU4722 | Medieval Art, Craft, Science | |
| American Studies | ||
| AMST UN3941 | Democracy and De-Democratization, Theory and Practice: The American Case | |
| Business | ||
| BUSI UN3705 | CAPITAL MARKETS ＆ INVESTMENTS | |
| Chemistry | ||
| SCNC UN1900 | Water | |
| Classics | ||
| CLCV UN3010 | Talking Animals and Other Worlds: The Fable ＆ Wisdom Literature From Aesop to Jesus and Beyond | |
| Comparative Literature and Society | ||
| CPLS GU4275 | Introduction to Narrative Medicine | |
| CPLS GU4399 | Introduction to Media and Cultural Studies | |
| Earth and Environmental Sciences | ||
| EESC UN3501 | MASS EXTINCTIONS: DEATH AND REBIRTH IN THE FOSSIL RECORD | |
| EESC GU4882 | ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY IN EARTH ＆ ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | |
| East Asian Languages and Cultures | ||
| EAAS UN3001 | Independent Study | |
| CHNS UN3009 | Conversational Chinese | |
| EARL UN3261 | Religion and Revolution in Modern China and the World | |
| EAAS GU4310 | Narrating Premodern Korea | |
| HSEA GU4370 | Literati Culture in Pre-Modern China | |
| KORN GU4107 | Business Korean I | |
| English and Comparative Literature | ||
| ENGL UN2262 | English Literature 1500-1600: Literature for a New England | |
| ENGL UN2269 | British Literature 1900-1950 | |
| ENGL UN2323 | Writing AI | |
| ENGL UN2603 | Post-1945 American Literature | |
| ENGL UN2702 | Early Modern Theater | |
| ENGL UN3153 | How the Ancients Argued: The Global Rhetorical Tradition | |
| ENGL UN3454 | Christopher Marlowe | |
| CLEN OC3793 | Postcolonial London (This course will be offered in London, UK.) | |
| ENGL GU4017 | The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism | |
| ENGL GU4222 | Early American Poetry and Poetics | |
| ENGL GU4322 | Modern Tragedy | |
| ENGL GU4500 | H.G. WELLS | |
| ENGL GU4835 | The Industrial Novel | |
| Film | ||
| FILM UN3055 | Film Adaptation | |
| FILM UN3933 | Genre: Blockbuster Cinema | |
| FILM GU4946 | Soviet Avant-garde Cinema of the ‘20s and ‘30s | |
| French and Romance Philology | ||
| FREN UN3473 | Contemporary Environmental Issues in French | |
| FREN UN3687 | Gender Trouble in French and Francophone Literature | |
| FREN UN3846 | The 19-Century French Novel | |
| FREN GU4156 | What's Left of Enlightenment? | |
| CLFR GU4188 | Reading and Rereading Proust | |
| History | ||
| HIST UN2347 | Conquests and Transformations: Ireland since 1500 | |
| HIST UN2688 | The History of Latinos in the U.S. | |
| HIST UN3691 | Women, Gender, and the Political Right in Latin America and the Caribbean | |
| HIST UN3697 | Food, Race, and Migration | |
| HIST UN3836 | Law and Society in Colonial India | |
| HIST UN3908 | The Dirty Work: Histories of Domestic Labor | |
| HIST GU4471 | JEWS AND RELIGION IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY: ARCHIVAL, THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES | |
| HIST GU4955 | Fossil Power: history of global climate politics | |
| Italian | ||
| ITAL GU4017 | Renaissance Historians: Bruni, Machiavelli, Guicciardini | |
| Latin American and Iberian Cultures | ||
| SPAN UN3895 | Women, Creation, and Feminisms in Contemporary Spain | |
| SPAN UN3897 | Nature, Archive, and Gender in Latin American Cultures | |
| Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies | ||
| MDES UN3254 | Colonial Fascism ＆ Revolutionary Violence in the Mediterranean | |
| MDES UN3357 | War, Genocide, and their Aftermath | |
| Music | ||
| MUSI UN1350 | Introduction to Musicianship | |
| MUSI UN2351 | Musicianship: Rhythm | |
| MUSI UN2352 | Musicianship: Melody | |
| MUSI GU4208 | Music Production ＆ Studio Composition | |
| MUSI GU4450 | Music and Global Women | |
| MUSI GU4649 | Building Sound | |
| Philosophy | ||
| PHIL GU4947 | Classical Indian Philosophy | |
| Political Science | ||
| POLS GU4728 | Machine Learning ＆ AI for the Social Sciences | |
| POLS UN3685 | The Rise of the Modern World Economy | |
| POLS UN3921 | AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR (Polling and Democracy) | |
| POLS UN3951 | COMPARATIVE POLITICS SEMINAR (Innovation: Creativity, Politics, and Social Change ) | |
| POLS UN3951 | COMPARATIVE POLITICS SEMINAR (Voters, Leaders, and the Media) | |
| Psychology | ||
| PSYC UN1495 Research Methods: Data Science, Justice, and Social Change | ||
| PSYC UN3446 | Social-Emotional Memory in the Developing Brain | |
| Religion | ||
| RELI UN1120 | Love Your Enemies? | |
| RELI GU4050 | Christianity and Culture | |
| Slavic Languages | ||
| CLRS UN3317 | Empire and Periphery: Narratives of Power, Identity, and Resistance in Soviet and Post-Soviet Literature and Film | |
| Statistics | ||
| STAT GU4235 Casual Inference | ||
| Sociology | ||
| SOCI UN3286 | Immigration and Ethnicity in Israel / Palestine | |
| SOCI UN3988 | Senior Thesis Seminar I | |
| Sustainable Development | ||
| SDEV GU4640 | NATURE, SCIENCE ＆ THE STATE | |
| Visual Arts | ||
| VIAR UN3135 | Medieval to Contemporary Painting Techniques | |
| VIAR UN3502 | Animation | |
| Writing | ||
| WRIT UN3136 | ART OF THE PARAGRAPH | |
| WRIT UN3233 | DISRUPTIVE BODIES, DISRUPTIVE TEXTS: TRANS IMAGININGS | |
Summer 2025 Newly Approved Courses
Last update: 3/28/25
| Code | Title | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Art History and Archaeology | ||
| AHIS S3107 | Constructing the Sacred in Ancient Greece and Beyond | |
| AHIS S3448 | Theories, Methods, and Experiments in Art and AI | |
| AHIS OC3472 | Museums for Paris, 1793–Today | |
| AHIS OC4047 | Paris Architecture ＆ Urbanism, 1750–1940 | |
| Anthropology | ||
| ANTH S4750 | Messiahs, Millennium ＆ Apocalypse | |
| Classics | ||
| CLCV UN1007 | Aristotle and AI: Thinking tools from antiquity to today | |
| GRKM OC3936 | Columbia Summer Global Core: The Athens Experience | |
| Comparative Literature and Society | ||
| CPLS OC3456 | 1968 Paris | |
| Earth and Environmental Science | ||
| EESC S4921 | Paleoceanography | |
| East Asian Languages and Cultures | ||
| CHNS UN1105 | First-Year Chinese I | |
| CHNS UN1106 | First-Year Chinese II | |
| CHNS UN2205 | Second-Year Chinese I | |
| CHNS UN2206 | Second-Year Chinese II | |
| CHNS UN3305 | Third-Year Chinese I | |
| Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology | ||
| EEEB OC2201 | Venice Ecology and Sustainability | |
| Economics | ||
| ECON UN2261 | INTRO TO ACCOUNTING ＆ FINANCE | |
| English and Comparative Literature | ||
| ENGL UN3699 | Yaddo: Shaping the American Century | |
| Film | ||
| FILM UN3034 Horror Movies and New York | ||
| FILM UN3025 | Narrative Design for Games and Interactive Experiences | |
| FILM UN3045 | Film Criticism ＆ Story Development | |
| FILM GU4045 | Augmented Creativity: practical uses of AI in storytelling, art and design | |
| FILM GU4212 | Hollywood in China | |
| History | ||
| HIST UN2679 | Atlantic Slave Trade | |
| HIST GU4112 | The European Enlightenment | |
| HIST GU4239 | War and Peace: Exploring Contemporary Ukraine | |
| HIST GU4699 | Medieval Franciscans and their World | |
| Human Rights | ||
| HRTS GU4260 | Human Rights and Populism | |
| Music | ||
| MUSI UN2335 | Film Music | |
| Political Science | ||
| POLS UN3108 | Democracy: Theory ＆ Practice | |
| Psychology | ||
| PSYC OC2471 | Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology - Summer | |
| PSYC OC2472 | Hallucinations: Case Studies in Interdisciplinary Research | |
| PSYC S2830 | Clinical Psychology | |
| PSYC S3472 | Psychedelic Neuroscience: From Molecules to Minds | |
| PSYC S4655 | The science of me, you and us: insights about the nature of wellbeing from basic and clinical research | |
| Religion | ||
| RELI UN3881 | Indigenous Peoples in International Law I | |
| RELI UN3771 Indigenous Enlightenments: Indigenous Religious and Political Thought in the Americas: c. 1400- c.1800 | ||
| Theatre | ||
| THEA S4105 | Intro to Playwriting | |
| THEA S4106 | Advanced Playwriting | |
| THEA S4120 | Introduction to Moment Work | |
| THEA S4122 | Dramaturgy ＆ Moment Work | |
| THEA S4315 | Performing Protest in the Americas | |
| Visual Arts | ||
| VIAR UN1706 | Photo Exhibitions | |
| VIAR UN1707 | PhotoBook History | |
| Writing | ||
| WRIT S3043 | WHAT IS CREATIVE WRITING FOR? PROSE WRITING IN PARIS | |
| WRIT S4324 | MISFITS AND MISANTHROPES | |
Spring 2025 Newly Approved Courses
Last update: 3/28/25
| Code | Title | Points |
|---|---|---|
| African- American Studies | ||
| AFAS UN3002 | Image Matters: Writing With Photographs from the African Diaspora | |
| AFAS UN3004 | Introduction to Black Geographies | |
| AFAS UN3005 | Introduction to Caribbean Art | |
| AFAS UN3006 | Black Archival Theory and Praxis | |
| AFAS GU4001 | Revolution and Decolonization in the African Diaspora | |
| AFAS GU4002 | Writing in the Presence of Ancestors | |
| American Studies | ||
| AMST UN3939 | THE 1980S: A CULTURAL HISTORY | |
| AMST UN3940 | Versions of the American Dream | |
| Anthropology | ||
| ANTH UN2972 | Unsettling Science: An Introduction to Science, Technology, and Society | |
| ANTH UN3066 | African American Anthropology | |
| ANTH UN3851 | Theatricality ＆ the Political | |
| ANTH GU4747 | Religion in Empire | |
| Art History and Archaeology | ||
| AHIS UN2129 | Before Rome: The Art and Architecture of Italy’s Peoples in the First Millennium BCE | |
| AHIS UN2804 | Mediterranean Artistic Interactions in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era | |
| AHIS UN3105 | Sacred Spaces ＆ Divine Images Transformed | |
| AHIS UN3438 | Land and Landscape | |
| AHIS UN3402 | Introduction to Design History | |
| AHIS UN3429 | American Architecture: Skyscrapers ＆ Urbanism | |
| AHIS GU4518 | Greek Sanctuaries | |
| AHIS GU4534 | Pastel and the Enlightenment | |
| AHIS GU4856 | Cities of Knowledge: Mediterranean Artistic Interactions | |
| AHIS GU4946 | Historicism ＆ Restoration in European Arch. | |
| Classics | ||
| GREK UN3016 | Readings from the Greek New Testament | |
| CLCV UN3069 | Society and Power in the Hellenistic Age | |
| CLCV UN3090 | Isiac cults in contexts; Egyptian cults in the Graeco-Roman world | |
| Cognitive Science | ||
| COGS UN3951 | Computational Models of Decision-Making | |
| COGS UN3952 | Philosophy of Computing | |
| Comparative Literature and Society | ||
| CPLS UN3931 | Life at the End of Life: Palliative Care and Service | |
| CPLS GU4201 | Advanced Freud Seminar | |
| CPLS GU4375 | The Poetics of Social Forms: The Legacy of Fredric Jameson | |
| CPLS GU4545 | Wittgenstein in the Machine | |
| CPLS GU4565 | Motherhood and Technology: From Conception to Birth | |
| CLPS GU4876 | 1001 Nights, Then and Now | |
| Earth and Environmental Sciences | ||
| EESC UN1006 | WHAT'S NEW IN EARTH, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND CLIMATE SCIENCE? | |
| East Asian Languages and Cultures | ||
| EAAS UN3720 | Women in Vietnamese society, history and literature | |
| EAAS GU4134 | Sex, Power, Performance: Gender in Chinese Literature | |
| EAAS GU4150 | Childhoods in Modern Japanese Literature | |
| EAAS GU4345 | Border Thinking in Modern China | |
| EAAS GU4750 | Exploring "The Tale of Genji": Themes, Contexts, and Aesthetics | |
| Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology | ||
| EEEB GU4450 | Ethology and the Evolution of Behavior | |
| English and Comparative Literature | ||
| ENGL UN1075 | Children’s Literature | |
| ENGL UN2792 | Early Horror | |
| ENGL UN3437 | John Keats | |
| ENGL UN3438 | Archives and Afterlives in Postcolonial Texts | |
| ENGL UN3439 | Afro-Asian Literary Imaginaries | |
| ENGL UN3432 | Places for Poetry | |
| ENGL UN3444 | Race, Religion, and Early Modernity | |
| ENGL UN3576 | U.S. Poetry in the Expanded Field Since 1960 | |
| ENGL UN3781 | Lab Lit, Weird Science, and Speculative Fiction | |
| ENGL UN3884 | Climate Fictions | |
| ENGL GU4614 | Ralph Ellison | |
| CLEN GU4578 | Reading the Haitian Revolution | |
| CLEN GU4598 | Erasmian Humanism | |
| ENGL GU4885 | Writers on Writing: Fictions, Theories, Risks, and Rituals | |
| Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race | ||
| CSER UN3875 | Performances of Race ＆ Disaster | |
| Film | ||
| FILM GU4112 | Auteur Study: Jane Campion | |
| FILM GU4311 | Radical Film and Media | |
| FILM GU4350 | Women's Documentary Across the Globe | |
| FILM GU4925 | Documentary Modes | |
| French and Romance Philology | ||
| FREN UN3412 | Contemporary French and Francophone Literature: US Goncourt Prize Selection | |
| FREN UN3608 | Literature and Painting | |
| FREN OC3609 | Literature and Prostitution | |
| FREN UN3721 | Female Friendship in Francophone Novels and Cinema | |
| CLFR GU4612 | Comics in the World: Graphic Albums ＆ Current Events | |
| CLFR GU4722 | Annie Ernaux: Writing as a Knife | |
| FREN GU4842 | Radical Enlightenment Women | |
| Germanic Languages | ||
| CLYD UN3500 | READINGS IN JEWISH LITERATURE (The Book of Genesis) | |
| GERM UN3991 | Advanced Topics in German Literature (Verteufelt human“: Menschlichkeit und Humanität in Philosophie und Literatur) | |
| CLDT GU4000 | Learned Women from the Low Countries (and beyond) | |
| CLGR GU4821 | Rumor and Media: Technologies, Circulations, and Credence | |
| History | ||
| HIST UN2717 | The Ottoman Empire and the West in the 19th Century | |
| HIST UN3049 | Provinces of the Roman Empire | |
| HIST UN3297 | Between Empire and Nation: Ukraine, 1772-1917 | |
| HIST UN3321 | Solidarity in the Age of Decolonization | |
| HIST UN3363 | Feminist Histories of Gender and Sexuality in Modern Britain | |
| HIST UN3507 | A Trans History of the United States | |
| HIST UN3591 | One Person, One Vote? | |
| HIST UN3608 | Women and Gender in Latin America and the Caribbean | |
| HIST UN3786 | History of African Muslims: Timbuktu and Beyond | |
| HIST GU4082 | Medieval Religion: definitions and concepts | |
| HIST GU4237 | Resources and Regimes: Environmental Histories of Central Europe | |
| HIST GU4239 | War and Peace: Exploring Contemporary Ukraine | |
| HIST GU4255 | A Global History of East Central Europe Before the Modern Times | |
| HIST GU4279 | A Cultural History of the Soviet Century | |
| FRHS GU4354 | RACIAL HISTORIES OF EUROPE (15th- 21st Centuries) | |
| HIST GU4379 | Ever Closer Union?: Histories of European Integration since 1945 | |
| HIST GU4385 | Rousseau and the Modern Self | |
| HIST GU4405 | The Bible in Early America | |
| HIST GU4439 Harm Reduction and/as Historical Analysis | ||
| HIST GU4528 Power, Place, Politics, and Health: Historical Perspectives | ||
| HIST GU4695 | Urban Waters: ecologies, inequalities, and environmental justice in Latin American cities | |
| HIST GU4716 | Imag(in)ing the Ottoman Empire: A visual history, 18th-20th centuries | |
| HIST GU4872 | North Korean History, Culture and Politics | |
| Humanities | ||
| HUMA UN3000 | Practices in Community Building | |
| Human Rights | ||
| HRTS GU4850 | Beyond Human Rights Critique | |
| Jewish Studies | ||
| JWST GU4155 | Auteur Study: Steven Spielberg | |
| JWST GU4158 | Zionist Thought: Center and Periphery | |
| JWST GU4601 | The History of Mizrahi Jews | |
| Latin American and Iberian Cultures | ||
| SPAN UN3894 | Law, Literature, and Gender in the Hispanic World | |
| Linguistics | ||
| LING GU4023 | Semantics | |
| Nepali | ||
| NEPA UN1102 | Elementary Nepali II | |
| Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies | ||
| MDES UN1630 | Introduction to South Asia | |
| MDES UN2046 | Slavery, Race, Racism: Global South Experiences and Debates | |
| MDES UN3030 | Spider-Man and the End of History | |
| MDES GU4220 | The Arabic Linguistic Tradition | |
| MDES GU4952 | Leaving the Ottoman Empire: Ottoman Americans | |
| Music | ||
| MPP UN1601 | Performance Seminar MasterClass | |
| MUSI UN3105 | Prescribing the Piano: Music, Medicine ＆ The Body | |
| MUSI UN3216 | Piano Literature ＆ Performance: 1900 - Present | |
| MUSI GU4204 | Composing for Dance | |
| MUSI GU4215 | Modular Sound Synthesis | |
| MUSI GU4438 | Music and Global Africa | |
| Philosophy | ||
| PHIL UN3716 | TOPICS IN ETHICS | |
| PHIL UN3872 | Personal Identity in Parallel Universes | |
| PHIL GU4090 | Early Greek Philosophy | |
| PHIL GU4717 | Topics in Moral Psychology (Freud and Philosophy) | |
| Physics | ||
| PHYS UN1151 | Origins and Meaning: Independent Study | |
| Political Science | ||
| POLS UN3622 | Ethnic Conflict | |
| POLS UN3911 | SEMINAR IN POLITCAL THEORY (Liberalism, Community, Culture) | |
| POLS UN3961 | INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR (Trade, Migration, and Climate Politics) | |
| POLS UN3961 | INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR (Deterrence and Bargaining) | |
| POLS GU4242 | Political Economy of the Public Sector | |
| Political Science- Applied Mathematics | ||
| PSAM UN3707 | Persuasion at scale: causal inference, machine learning, and evidence-based understanding of the information environment | |
| Psychology | ||
| PSYC UN1950 | Neuroscience Methods: Cells and Circuits | |
| PSYC UN3434 | Prenatal Programming | |
| PSYC GU4274 | Psychology of Procrastination | |
| Religion | ||
| RELI UN2101 | Religion and the Climate Crisis | |
| RELI UN3107 | Psychoanalysis and the ‘Eew’ Factor | |
| Sinhala | ||
| SINH UN3102 | Literary Sinhala II | |
| Slavic Languages | ||
| RUSS UN3107 | Russian Through Theater | |
| CLRS GU4039 | Chekhov and Others | |
| Sociology | ||
| SOCI UN2501 | THE POLITICS OF MASS INCARCERATION | |
| SOCI UN3943 | Life on Mars: Building a New Society in Space | |
| SOCI GU4049 | Workshop in Gender and Sexuality II | |
| SOCI GU4125 | Carcerality, Law, and Punishment Workshop | |
| Sustainable Development | ||
| SDEV UN2100 | Introduction to Climate Justice | |
| SDEV GU4325 Plants, Animals, and Personhood | ||
| SDEV GU4660 Biodiversity and the Climate Crisis | ||
| SDEV GU4680 Climate and Sustainable Water Systems | ||
| Women's and Gender Studies | ||
| WMST UN3155 | Global Histories of the Trans Present | |
| WMST GU4220 | Bodies of Transformation | |
| Writing | ||
| WRIT UN3039 | A PICTURE A THOUSAND WORDS: COMICS AND COLLAGE | |
| WRIT UN3230 | INTERACTIVE MEMOIR | |
| WRIT UN3231 | AT THE NEW YORKER | |
| WRIT UN3232 | EDITING, REVISING, PITCHING, PUBLISHING | |
| WRIT UN3326 | SURREALISM ＆ PROSE POETRY | |
| WRIT UN3328 | LIVING AT THE MOVIES: THE PERSONA POEM IN FILM AND TV | |