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 2026 Newly Approved Courses

Last update: 6/29/26

African American Studies
AFAS GU4003Writing and Editing the Black Studies Journal
AFAS GU4010Reading the works of Jamaica Kincaid
AFAS GU4011Black Feminist Theory and Praxis
AFAS GU4012Interdisciplinary Approaches to Black Studies
AFAS GU4014Assurance of Infinity: In the Caribbean
AFAS GU4015Harlem Renaiss. Aesthetics of Subjectivity
Anthropology
ANTH UN2105Archaeologies of Making
ANTH UN3710The Secret Lives of Plants
ANTH UN3777The Social Life of Solidarity
ANTH UN3877FEMINIST AND DECOLONIAL STUDIES IN LATIN AMERICA
ANTH GU4535FEMINIST AND DECOLONIAL STUDIES IN LATIN AMERICA
Art History and Archaeology
AHIS UN2321Northern Baroque Art and Knowledge
AHIS UN3326Images of the Apocalypse
AHIS UN3482The Modern Woman Genius in Paris & New York
AHIS GU4017Sumer: Art & Architecture
AHIS GU4505AI, Imaging, Art
AHIS GU4535Painted Reflections in Early Modern Europe
AHIS GU4559Thinking New York: The Urban Conceptions of Lewis Mumford, Robert Moses, Jane Jacobs, and Rem Koolhaas, and the 20th-Century City That Shaped Them
AHIS GU4841American Conceptualism
Biological Sciences
BIOL UN2600Introductory Independent Biological Research
CSBS UN3761 Lab in Computational Biology
Business Management
BUSI GU4306Capital Markets & Investments
BUSI GU4519Launch Your Startup
Classics
CLCV UN1110Warfare in the Ancient Greek World
CLCV UN3018Illness and Healing in the Classical world and beyond
CLCV UN3996THE MAJOR SEMINAR
Institute of Comparative Literature and Society
CLPS GU4677Resistance and Repair
Earth and Environmental Science
EESC UN3225ERUPTIONS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD: VOLCANOES, CLIMATE, AND SOCIETY
East Asian Languages and Cultures
EAAS UN3263IMAGE-MAKING AND VISUAL CULTURE IN TIBET AND BEYOND, 1900–PRESENT
EAAS UN3462KOREAN FILM AND MEDIA
EAAS UN3913LOVE, GHOSTS, AND CANNIBALISM: THE CHINESE SHORT STORY
English
CLEN UN2122Marxism and Cultural Theory
ENGL UN2225Virginia Woolf
ENGL UN3027Staging Pulp
ENGL UN3019Writing Photography
ENGL UN3031Writing Machines and Machinic Literature before AI
ENGL UN3055US Poetry of the 1960s
ENGL UN3327Old New York
ENGL UN3329What Shakespeare Read
CLEN UN3974London Hellenism and the Modern Imagination: Enlightenment to Postmodernity (This course will be offered abroad in London, UK.)
ENGL GU4131NATURE, RACE, AND INDIGENEITY IN THE U.S.
ENGL GU4132Frankenstein and Its Vicissitudes
ENGL GU4133Worldmaking in the Long Poem
ENGL GU4426The Protest Novel … or Books that Change the World
ENGL GU4728American Transcendentalism
Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
CSER UN3949Global Artivisms
Film
FILM UN2230World Cinema: Latin America-Women Filmmakers
FILM UN3060Haunted Cinema
FILM GU4113Auteur Study: Krzysztof Kieslowski
FILM GU4355Cinema and Television: Entangled Media Histories
French and Romance Philology
CLFR UN3587Global Francophone Cinema
FREN GU4269Literature and Prostitution
Germanic Languages
CLYD UN3520New Yiddish Literature
GERM UN3991Advanced Topics in German Literature (Heinrich von Kleist)
GERM GU4170KAFKA (ENG)
History
HIST UN3394Novels, Netflix & the British Empire
HIST UN3561Art in America, 1968-2000: Culture at the End of History
HIST UN3709The World of the Crusades, c.1050-c.1500 CE
HIST UN2218Modern Ukraine: An Eastern European History of a Borderland
HIST UN2571AI: A History
HIST GU4526Women, Gender and Queer History
Jewish Studies
JWST GU4602Zionism in History: Controversies Local and Global
Latin American and Iberian Cultures
SPAN UN2105Intermediate Spanish II: Telenovelas and TV Series
SPAN UN3300ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT (Hispanic Screen Melodrama)
SPAN UN3300ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT (Women in Spanish Cinema)
SPAN UN3556TOURISM&NATL ID-CONTEMP SPAIN
SPAN UN3901Children and Youth in Caribbean Political Imagination
SPAN UN3902Writing from the Enclosure: Female Conventual Writing & Life in the Spanish World
Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
CLME GU4726Iran and the Persian Cosmopolis: The Rise and Resurrection of a World Civilization
MDES GU4953The Ottoman Empire: History and Legacies
Music
MPP UN1561Popular/Contemporary Ensemble
MUSI UN3011Foundations of House Music Production
Old Irish
OIRI UN1101Elementary Old Irish I
OIRI UN1102Elementary Old Irish II
Political Science
POLS UN3128Weimar: Theory of a Crisis
POLS UN3559Contemporary Turkish Politics
POLS UN3911 Seminar in Political Theory: Bureaucracy and Its Critics
POLS UN3951COMPARATIVE POLITICS SEMINAR (Democracy's Guardrails?)
Psychology
PSYC UN1980Zuckerman Institute Neuroscience and Cognitive Science (ZINC) Undergraduate Lecture Series: Models of Mind, Brain, and Behavior
PSYC UN2800Learning in the Age of AI
PSYC UN3476Top-Down Effects on Perception
PSYC UN3665Feeling in a Social World: Integrating Affective Science and Relationship Science
PSYC GU4665Naturalistic Person Perception
PSYC GU4825Early Memory Development: Fetal Origins to Preschool Systems
Religion
RELI UN3105Religion and Public Health in North America
RELI UN3662Heretics and Heathens: The Politics of Deviance in America
RELI GU4340Early Christian Bodies
Slavic Languages
CLRS GU4114Anarchist Thought, Art, and Action
RUSS GU4127Russian Through Music
Sociology
SOCI UN3644Social Stratification: Past, Present, and Future
SOCI UN3949Political Economy and Society
SOCI UN3967Asian Americans and the Law
Statistics
STAT UN2108Introduction to Applied Data Science
STAT UN3108APPLIED DEEP LEARNING AND AI
STAT GU4208OPTIMIZATION FOR DATA SCIENCE
STAT GU4242ADVANCED MACHINE LEARNING
STAT GU4293TOPICS IN MODERN STATISTICS
Writing
WRIT UN3048WRITING YOUR WORLD WITH LYDIA DAVIS
WRIT UN3049APPROACHES TO INTERIORITY
WRIT UN3137PLANT PEOPLE
WRIT UN3139NIGHTTIME LOGIC
WRIT UN3138AGAINST EXCESS
WRIT UN3329THE POET AND THE MACHINE

 Summer 2026 Newly Approved Courses

Last update: 6/29/26

Art History and Archaeology
AHUM S2815Masterpieces of Islamic Art
AHIS S3013Mapping Trade and Connecting Cultures
AHIS S3106Archaic Greek Ceramics
AHIS S3324Baroque Masters at the Met: Bernini, Velazquez, and Rembrandt
AHIS S3473Contemporary Art in New York
Biological Sciences
BIOL S3018Microbiology
Chemistry
CHEM S0001PREPARATION-COLLEGE CHEMISTRY (This course will be offered online.)
Classics
CLCV OC3300 Ancient Athletics in Greece (This course will be offered in Athens, Greece.)
Earth and Environmental Sciences
EESC UN2500Earth's Past and Present Climate
Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
EEEB S3015ANIMAL BEHAVIOR THRU FIELDWORK (This course will be offered online.)
English
ENGL UN3049Victorian Crime Stoppers
ENGL UN3050Law and Literature
ENGL UN3051Henry James: The Shorter Fiction
ENGL UN3052The 1990s – A Literary History
ENGL UN3053Reading and Writing Memoir
ENGL UN3054Sex and Gender across Long Time
ENGL UN3153How the Ancients Argued: The Global Rhetorical Tradition
ENGL UN3699Arts Matronage in America
ENGL GU4932ESSAYISM
Film
FILM GU4039TV Writing Revision
French and Romance Philology
FREN OC3419Paris l’autre: a city in history, film and fiction (This course will be offered at Reid Hall, Paris.)
FREN OC3465Auteur.es, Cinéastes, Actrices: The Women of French and Francophone Cinema (This course will be offered at Reid Hall, Paris.)
History
HIST UN3729Colonization/Decolonization
Italian
ITAL GU4022THE QUR'AN IN EUROPE
Music
AHMM UN3321MUSICS OF INDIA & WEST ASIA
MUSI GU4630RECORDED SOUND
Psychology
PSYC S3433Prenatal Programming
PSYC UN3626Why do people hurt themselves?: improving our understanding of suicidal thoughts and behaviors
Statistics
STAT UN3104Applied Bayesian Analysis
Writing
WRIT GU4325WRITING NEW YORK CITY

 Spring 2027 Newly Approved Courses

Last update: 6/29/26

Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
EEEB UN3310The Naturalist: Origins, Ethics & Modern Practice of Natural History
English
CLEN UN2803The Nineteenth-Century European Novel
CLEN GU4819The Undead: Revenance in Literature and Film
French and Romance Philology
FREN UN3688Writing Desire: Sex and Sexual Politics in Modern French Literature
Germanic Languages
CLGR UN3461Modern German Literature and the Unconscious
Philosophy
PHIL UN3873Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy
Slavic Languages
CLRS UN3318Persona, Performance, and High Society Life in 19th -Century Russian Literature