Newly Approved Courses
Fall 2019 Newly Approved Courses | Summer 2019 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 2020 Newly Approved Courses
Last update: 11/25/19
| Code | Title | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | ||
| ANTH UN2019 | Documentary/Ethnography/Film: Exploration and Experimentation | |
| ANTH UN3893 | The Bomb | |
| Art History and Archaeology | ||
| AHIS UN2317 | Renaissance Architecture | |
| AHIS UN3012 Restitution or Repatriation of Culture Heritage: New Directions? | ||
| AHIS UN3446 | Contemporary Queer Art Practices: Subculture, Sexuality, and the Politics of Performance | |
| AHIS UN3612 | Body, Camera, Action: Japan in Conversation with the Global Avant-Garde | |
| AHIS GU4023 | Medieval Art II: From Pope Gregory to the Eve of the Reformation | |
| AHIS GU4520 | Gothic Nature | |
| AHIS GU4585 | The Early Mosque: Shaping Sacred Space | |
| Biology | ||
| BIOL GU4002 Macromolecular Structure and Interactions | ||
| Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race | ||
| CSER UN3934 | Black/Brown History of Rock and Roll | |
| Classics | ||
| CLCV UN3005 | RACE AND ETHNICITY IN THE GRECO-ROMAN WORLD | |
| CLCV UN3007 | Pagans and Christians in the Later Roman Empire | |
| CLCV UN3220 | War, reality and truth in Thucydides | |
| CLGM GU4300 | Retranslation: Worlding C. P. Cavafy | |
| CLGM GU4450 | How to do things with Homosexual Βodies | |
| Comparative Literature and Society | ||
| CLPS GU4220 | Psychoanalysis and Writing (Freud, Schreber, Lacan) | |
| CPLS GU4315 | Multilingual Technologies and Language Diversity | |
| CLPS GU4510 | Jacques Lacan: An introduction to his work | |
| CPLS GU4892 | Subaltern Urbanism | |
| Earth and Environmetal Sciences | ||
| EESC GU4009 | Chemical Geology | |
| Earth Institute | ||
| ENVB OC2160 | SEE-U Costa Rica: Forest and Agroforest Systems | |
| East Asian Languages and Cultures | ||
| KHMR UN2102 | Intermediate Khmer II | |
| EAAS UN3116 | Supernatural in East Asia | |
| HSEA UN3120 | Borderland Economies of China | |
| EAAS UN3122 | Modern Chinese Poetry in a Global Context | |
| EAAS UN3206 | Migrant Literature: From China to a Global World | |
| VIET UN3102 Third Year Vietnamese II | ||
| JPNS UN3611 | Tokyo Olympics Japanese II- N2 Proficiency Level | |
| JPNS GU4013 | Fourth Year Business Japanese II | |
| HSEA GU4231 | Transpacific Empires | |
| EAAS GU4233 | Sonic Modernity in East Asia | |
| JPNS GU4611 | Tokyo Olympics Japanese II- N1 Proficiency Level | |
| HSEA GU4891 | LAW IN CHINESE HISTORY | |
| HSEA GU4816 | Comparing Indigeneities | |
| Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology | ||
| EEEB OC3021 | Adapation to Changing Climates | |
| English and Comparative Literature | ||
| ENGL UN3042 | Ulysses | |
| CLEN UN3125 Medieval Encounters | ||
| ENGL UN3241 | African American Literature: The Essay | |
| ENGL UN3255 | Victorian Relations | |
| CLEN UN3335 Poetry and Philosophy | ||
| CLEN UN3360 | Theaters of Gods and Heroes | |
| ENTA UN3786 | Studies in Drama: Women on Center Stage | |
| CLEN GU4075 | Occultism, Postcoloniality, and Modernism | |
| ENGL GU4110 | Avant-Garde Feminist Poetry | |
| ENGL GU4215 | Epic Histories: Gibbon/Benjamin | |
| ENGL GU4248 | Literature and Science in Early Modern England | |
| CLEN GU4335 | Poetry and Philosophy | |
| ENGL GU4415 | Victorian Novel | |
| CLEN GU4728 | Literature in the Age of Artificial Intelligence | |
| ENGL GU4750 | Clarissa | |
| French | ||
| FREN UN3241 | French Language and Culture through Theater and Performance | |
| FRST OC3827 Politics in Europe- European Politics | ||
| CLFR GU4720 | History & Literature: Going Micro | |
| FREN GU4426 Rousseau, Women and Gender | ||
| History | ||
| HIST UN2235 | The First American Gilded Age, 1870-1919 | |
| HIST UN2298 | The Soviet Century: Russia and Eurasia 1917-present | |
| HIST UN2323 | Nineteenth-Century Britain | |
| HIST UN2336 | Everyday Communism | |
| HIST UN2897 | Topics in Modern Ukrainian History | |
| HIST UN2987 | Technology and US Politics | |
| HIST UN3113 | Popular Culture in the Late Medieval Low Countries | |
| HIST UN3171 | Who Counts?: U.S. Census and Politics | |
| HIST UN3268 | The Critique of Curiosity | |
| HIST UN3277 | History of Urban Crime and Policing in Latin America in Global Perspective | |
| HIST GU4263 Monuments and Memories in 20th Century Europe | ||
| HIST GU4278 | Men in Crisis: Europe, 1890-1945 | |
| HIST GU4522 | Jews, Magic, and Science in Premodern Europe | |
| HIST GU4699 | Medieval Franciscans and their World | |
| HIST GU4773 | American Women’s History; Society, Politics, & the State, 1968-2008 | |
| HIST GU4935 | Science and Art in Early Modern Europe | |
| Human Rights | ||
| HRTS GU4195 | Topics in History, Memory and Transitional Justice | |
| HRTS GU4360 | Menstruation, Gender, and Rights: Interdisciplinary Approaches | |
| HRTS GU4380 | Advocating and Campaigning for Social and Economic Rights | |
| Italian | ||
| ITAL GU4019 | TOPICS in MICROHISTORY | |
| Jewish Studies | ||
| JWST GU4145 Introduction to Israeli Cinema | ||
| JWST GU4990 | Topics in Jewish Studies | |
| Latin American and Iberian Cultures | ||
| SPAN UN3533 | Women, Culture, Activism & Gender in Latin America | |
| Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies | ||
| MDES UN2004 | Conflicts: Regions and Religions | |
| MDES UN3046 | The Intersectional Politics of Religion | |
| MDES GU4049 | Climate and Empire | |
| MDES GU4649 | Political Economy of South Asia | |
| Music | ||
| MUSI GU4109 | Music, Musicians and Mobility in the Early Modern Period | |
| MUSI GU4308 | Theory and Analysis of Jazz and Improvisation | |
| MUSI GU4325 | Introduction to Cognitive Musicology | |
| MUSI GU4406 | Acoustic Ecologies | |
| Political Science | ||
| POLS GU4112 Theories of Political Action | ||
| POLS GU4412 | ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS IN LATIN AMERICA | |
| POLS GU4436 | POPULISM IN EUROPE AND THE WORLD | |
| POLS GU4716 | QUANT METH 2 APPL REG CAUS INF | |
| POLS GU4848 | ISRAELI NATL SEC STRAT POL DEC | |
| POLS GU4863 | INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES | |
| POLS UN3225 | American Constitutional History | |
| POLS UN3245 | Race and Ethnicity In American Politics | |
| POLS UN3591 | CIVIL WARS &POLITICAL VIOLENCE | |
| POLS UN3871 | CHINA'S FOREIGN RELATIONS | |
| POLS UN3912 | Seminar in Political Theory (Nonviolence) | |
| Pyschology | ||
| PSYC GU4482 | Neural Plasticity | |
| PSYC GU4646 | Socio-Ecological Psychology | |
| PSYC GU4673 | Political Psychology | |
| PSYC UN1420 | RESEARCH METHODS - HUMAN BEHAVIOR | |
| PSYC UN1990 | Global Behavioral Science | |
| PSYC UN2470 | Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology | |
| PSYC UN3693 | Stress in an Interpersonal Context | |
| Religion | ||
| RELI GU4204 | Religions of the Iranian World | |
| RELI GU4221 Hegel and Kierkegaard | ||
| RELI UN1612 | Religion and the History of Hip Hop | |
| Slavic Languages | ||
| CLRS UN3311 | Stalin’s Heirs: The Literature of the Thaw | |
| UKRN GU4007 | Advanced Ukrainian Through Literature, Media and Politics II | |
| SLCL GU4059 | Periphery and Its Empires: Ukrainian and Russian Art from Peter the Great to the Present | |
| CLRS GU4191 | A Specter Haunting Europe: Radical Thought from the French Revolution to Russian | |
| CLGR GU4251 | Fascism by the Book: Literature, Culture and Politics in Nazi Germany | |
| Sustainable Development | ||
| SDEV GU4240 Science Communication | ||
| Writing | ||
| WRIT UN3017 | Incarcerated Yet Inspired: Exploring Criminal Justice Through Creative Writing | |
| WRIT UN3126 | Animal Tales | |
| WRIT UN3127 | Time Moves Both Ways | |
| WRIT UN3018 | Inhabiting Form: Writing the Body | |
Fall 2019 Newly Approved Courses
Last update: 6/13/19
| Code | Title | Points |
|---|---|---|
| African American and African Diaspora Studies | ||
| AFAS UN3943 | Senior Pro Seminar | |
| Anthropology | ||
| ANTH UN3662 | Principles of Art in Archaeological Practice | |
| ANTH UN3763 | AIDS, The Arts, Body Cultures | |
| ANTH GU4142 | Language, Culture, Power | |
| Art History and Archaeology | ||
| AHIS UN2105 | Greek Myths Seen Through Ancient Greek and Roman Art | |
| AHIS UN2427 | Twentieth-Century Architecture | |
| AHIS UN3100 | Hellenistic Sculpture: Intellectuals, Gods, Kings & Fishermen | |
| AHIS UN3314 | Inganno and Engaño: Art and the Rhetoric of Deceit between Spain and Italy | |
| AHIS UN3450 | Art and Empire | |
| AHIS UN3611 | Korean Art in the Age of Global Encounters | |
| AHIS GU4150 | Tourism, Nature, and the North American Landscape | |
| AHIS GU4748 | A History of Architectural Theory | |
| AHIS GU4749 | Bauhaus and Architecture | |
| Classics | ||
| CLCV GU4106 | Religions of the Roman world | |
| CLST UN3104 | The Early Silk Road and World of the Indian Ocean (2500 BCE–1000 CE) | |
| Committe on Global Thought | ||
| CGTH GU4100 | Diaspora and Transnationalism: Critical Reflections on the Politics of Homeland | |
| Comparative Litearture and Society | ||
| Advanced Topics in Medical Humanities: Body, Blood,Race, and Culture | ||
| East Asian Languages and Cultures | ||
| VIET UN3101 | Third Year Vietnamese I | |
| EAAS UN3124 | The Supernatural and Boundaries in East Asian Literature and Performance | |
| JPNS UN3610 | Tokyo Olympics Japanese - N2 Level Proficiency | |
| JPNS GU4012 | Fourth Year Business Japanese I | |
| EAAS GU4123 | Japanese Documentary Films | |
| HSEA GU4222 | China's Global Histories: People, Space, and Power | |
| JPNS GU4610 | Tokyo Olympics Japanese - N1 Level Proficiency | |
| EAAS GU4810 | Women and Literary Culture in Japan | |
| HSEA GU4814 | Space and Place in Urbanizing Tibet: Indigenous Experiences in China | |
| HSEA GU4815 | Faith and Empire: Art and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism | |
| Ecology, Evolution, and Envioronmental Biology | ||
| EEEB UN3023 | Scientific Analysis and Presentation | |
| EEEB GU4005 | Conservation Policy | |
| EEEB GU4129 | Zoo Conservation | |
| English and Comparative Literature | ||
| ENTA UN3340 | Environmental crisis on the Shakespearean Stage | |
| ENGL UN3351 | SEVENTEENTH CENTURY POETRY (DONNE, HERBERT, MARVELL) | |
| ENGL UN3398 | Odd Women in Victorian England | |
| ENGL UN3579 | Castaways and Containers: Modernity at Sea | |
| ENGL UN3629 | American Nature Poetry: Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens, Frost, Moore | |
| ENGL UN3637 | Poetry and Catastrophe | |
| ENGL UN3722 | Hollywood’s Countercultural Cinema: Movies of the 1970’s | |
| ENGL UN3791 | True Crime: Fact and Feeling | |
| ENTA UN3942 | Drama and the American Dream | |
| CLEN GU4015 | Vernacular Paleography | |
| ENGL GU4213 | Staging Early Modern London | |
| ENGL GU4391 | Nineteenth-Century Thrillers | |
| ENGL GU4400 | Romanticism | |
| ENGL GU4506 | Post-War American Literature: 1945-1985 | |
| CLEN GU4567 | Du Bois, Gramsci, Ambedkar: Three Men on Emancipation | |
| ENGL GU4636 | Science Fiction | |
| ENGL GU4637 | Literature and Health Humanities | |
| CLEN GU4723 | 18th C Comparative Novel | |
| ENTA GU4725 | Technologies of Modern Drama | |
| CLEN GU4771 | The Literary History of Atrocity | |
| ENGL GU4794 | Heroes, Lovers, and Visionaries: English Literature to 1500 | |
| ENGL GU4913 | The Novel Now: Contemporary Fiction in English | |
| Film | ||
| FILM UN2190 | Topics in American Cinema | |
| FILM UN2296 | Arab and African Filmmaking | |
| FILM UN3931 | French Queer Cinema | |
| FILM GU4952 | Film TV and Internet in Brazilian Re-democratization: 1984-2014 | |
| French and Romance Philology | ||
| FREN UN3883 | French Civilization through Graphic Novels and Cinema | |
| FREN UN3920 | "Blanchite" Thinking Whiteness in French | |
| CLFR GU4716 | FRANCOPHONE ROMANCE LOVE, SEX, INTIMACY IN THE FRENCH COLONIAL WORLD | |
| FREN GU4627 | Communism or Democracy? A French Debate at the end of the 20th Century | |
| History | ||
| HIST UN1786 | History of the City in Latin America | |
| HIST UN3019 | Rivers, Politics, and Power in the United States | |
| HIST UN3069 | History of the American Middle Class | |
| HIST UN3087 | Madness to Prozac: The Sciences of the Self in the Modern Era | |
| HIST UN3562 | The Seven Years’ War (1754-1763), Global Perspective: Europe, Asia, Africa, and Americas | |
| HIST GU4085 | Slavery in the Roman World | |
| HIST GU4121 | MARGINS OF HISTORIOGRAPHY: | |
| HIST GU4562 | Black Britain, 1919-2019 | |
| Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies | ||
| JWST GU4510 | Rules and Reasons: Israeli Law vs. Jewish Law | |
| Italian | ||
| ITAL UN3341 | Art Itineraries: Italian through Art | |
| ITAL UN3660 | Terrorism in Literature and Film: Cultural Reflections between Italian Red Brigades & 9/11 | |
| ITAL UN3865 | Introduction to Fashion Studies | |
| ITAL GU4068 | Out of Italy: The Italian Language Across Europe and the Mediterranean (1200-1700) | |
| Linguistics | ||
| LING UN3102 | Endangered Languages in the Global City: Lang, Culture, and Migration in Contempary NYC | |
| Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies | ||
| MDES UN3046 | The Intersectional Politics of Religion | |
| MDES UN3263 | Cannabis and Culture: Hashish, Law and Social History in Egypt | |
| MDES GU4640 | Advanced Urdu | |
| Music | ||
| MUSI UN3343 | Shades of Brown: Music in the South Asian Diaspora | |
| MUSI UN3344 | Curating Popular Music: From Song Pluggers to Spotify | |
| MUSI UN3346 | REIMAGINING RESISTANCE:SOUND AS SUBVERSION IN 20TH & 21ST CENTURY AMERICAN EXPERIMENTALISM | |
| MUSI GU4801 | Music and the Electrical Imaginary | |
| MUSI GU4802 | Sound, Music and Death | |
| MUSI GU4810 | Sound: Foundations | |
| Physical Education | ||
| PHED UN1111 | Cardio Fitness - Hybrid | |
| PHED UN1112 | Mindful Walking | |
| PHED UN1113 | Yoga and Meditation | |
| PHED UN1114 | The Mindful Student | |
| Political Science | ||
| POLS GU4403 | The Political Economy of China | |
| Psychology | ||
| PSYC UN3621 | Creativity and the Good Life | |
| PSYC UN3624 | Adolescent Mental Health: Causes, Correlates, Consequences | |
| PSYC GU4242 | Evolution of Language (Seminar) | |
| PSYC GU4281 | The Psychology of Curiosity | |
| PSYC GU4627 | Seminar in Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive, and Related Disorders | |
| Religion | ||
| RELI UN3309 | Modern Islamic Thought | |
| RELI GU4206 | HISTORY, TIME, AND TRADITION | |
| RELI GU4311 | Fanon: Religion, Race, Philosophy in Africa and beyond | |
| RELI GU4613 | Silence | |
| RELI GU4617 | Image Theories in Chinese Religions | |
| Slavic Languages | ||
| CLRS UN3310 | Crime, Punishment and Redemption: Russian Literature on Trial | |
| UKRN GU4006 | Advanced Ukrainian Through Literature, Media, and Politics | |
| Sociology | ||
| SOCI UN1203 | The Social Animal in the Digital Age | |
| SOCI UN2235 | Sexuality in Social Context | |
| SOCI UN3937 | Sociology of Human Rights | |
| SOCI GU4411 | Politics and Society in Central Eastern Europe | |
| SOCI GU4982 | Risk and Intimacy | |
| Statistics | ||
| STAT UN1010 | Statistics for Activists | |
| Sustainable Development | ||
| SDEV GU4101 | Qualitative Research Methods for Sustainable Development | |
| Visual Arts | ||
| VIAR UN3133 | Color: Theory and Practice | |
| Women's and Gender Studies | ||
| WMST GU4350 | Performing feminist activisms in Contemporary Latin America | |
Summer 2019 Newly Approved Courses
Last update: 3/22/19
| Code | Title | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | ||
| ANTH S3724Q | Human Planet: The Anthropology of Climate Change | |
| Art History and Archaeology | ||
| AHIS OC4651 | Paris, Capital of Modernity? (Taught in Paris, France) | |
| AHIS OC4652 | The Black Voices of Black Model: New Perspectives for the Histories of Art (Taught in Paris, France) | |
| AHIS S2445Q What is Performance Art | ||
| AHUM S2901D | Masterpieces of Indian Art and Architecture | |
| English and Comparative Literature | ||
| ENGL S3267D | The American Sublime from Emerson to Dylan | |
| ENGL S3690Q | The Poetics of the Warrior | |
| ENGL S3829D | YA Fiction | |
| ENGL S3851D | Paradise Lost, Frankenstein, and Paradise | |
| ENGL S3910D | Grief and the Literature of Empire | |
| ENGL S3940D | CONTEMPORARY FICTION AND THE CRITICAL ACT | |
| Film | ||
| FILM OC4225 | Arab & African Filmmaking (Taught in Paris, France) | |
| FILM S4215D | Contemporary Global Documentary | |
| French | ||
| FREN OC3825 | Vie et Societe dans le theatre francais (Taught in Paris, France) | |
| MENA OC4101 Culture/History Seminar of the MENA Program in Amman and Tunis (This caught will be taught abroad). | ||
| History | ||
| HIST S3237D | Questioning Modernity in South Asia and the Middle East | |
| Human Rights | ||
| HRTS S4250Q US Immigration: Rights, Framing, and Advocacy | ||
| HRTS S4330Q Human Righs in Practice | ||
| Italian | ||
| ITAL OC3330 | AWAKENING THE SENSES IN AN ITALIAN CITY (Taught in Venice, Italy) | |
| Journalism | ||
| JOUR S3015D | Introduction to Audio Journalism | |
| JOUR S3019D | War Reporting: The Coverage of Armed Conflicts | |
| Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies | ||
| MDES S2701G | Intermediate Persian I | |
| MDES S2702J | Intermediate Persian II | |
| Religion | ||
| RELI S4325D | Sufism | |