Global Core Requirement
Committee on Global Core
General Information, Academic Affairs
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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.
Global Core Navigator
The Global Core Navigator is a sortable list which allows students to search for approved Global Core courses based on academic approach, region, temporal period, and academic department.
Spring 2025
Last updated on November 27, 2025.
Code | Title | Points |
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Anthropology | ||
ANTH UN1008 | THE RISE OF CIVILIZATION | |
ANTH UN3465 | WOMEN, GENDER POL-MUSLIM WORLD | |
ANTH UN3947 | TEXT, MAGIC, PERFORMANCE | |
Art History and Archaeology | ||
AHUM UN2604 | ARTS OF CHINA, JAPAN AND KOREA | |
Center for the Core Curriculum | ||
LACV UN1020 | PRIM TEXTS OF LATIN AMER CIV | |
Classics | ||
CLCV UN2441 | EGYPT IN CLASSICAL WORLD | |
CLCV UN3069 | Society and Power in the Hellenistic Age (Effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
CLGM UN3920 | WORLD RESPONDS TO THE GREEKS | |
CLGM GU4600 | Multilingual America: Translation, Migration, Gender | |
Comparative Literature and Society | ||
CLGM UN3110 | THE OTTOMAN PAST IN THE GREEK PRESENT | |
Dance | ||
DNCE BC2565 | WORLD DANCE HISTORY | |
East Asian Languages and Cultures | ||
ASCE UN1361 | INTRO EAST ASIAN CIV: JPN | |
ASCE UN1363 | INTRO TO EAST ASIAN CIV: KOREA | |
AHUM UN1400 | COLLOQUIUM ON MAJOR TEXTS | |
EAAS UN2844 | CULTURE, MENTAL HEALTH, AND HEALING IN EAST ASIA (formerly EAAS UN3844; new course number effective Spring 2025) | |
EAAS UN3322 | EAST ASIAN CINEMA | |
EARL UN3310 | The Body and/in Performance: Dance & Drama in Tibet & China (Effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
EAAS UN3720 | Women in Vietnamese society, history and literature (Effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
EAAS GU4565 | TIBET IN THE WORLD: CULTURAL PRODUCTION AND SOCIAL CHANGE | |
EAAS GU4134 | Sex, Power, Performance: Gender in Chinese Literature (Effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
HSEA GU4847 | MODERN JAPAN | |
Economics | ||
ECON GU4325 | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF JAPAN | |
French and Romance Philology | ||
FREN OC3719 | VIOLENCE BY AND AGAINST WOMEN (This course is offered in Reid Hall, Paris.) | |
Germanic Languages | ||
GERM UN3780 | BERL/ISTANBUL:MIGRATN,CLTR,VAL | |
History | ||
HIST UN1004 | ANCIENT HISTORY OF EGYPT | |
HIST UN1942 | The Year 1000: A World History | |
HIST UN2444 | THE VIETNAM WAR | |
HIST UN3608 | Women and Gender in Latin America and the Caribbean (Effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
HSEA UN3898 | THE MONGOLS IN HISTORY | |
HIST GU4811 | Encounters with Nature: The History and Politics of Environment, Health and Development in South Asia and Beyond | |
Italian | ||
CLIA GU4500 | Mediterranean Humanities II | |
Jewish Studies | ||
JWST GU4158 | Zionist Thought: Center and Periphery (Effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
Latin American and Iberian Cultures | ||
SPJS UN3303 | JEWISH CULTURE IN TRANSL IN MED IBERIA | |
SPAN UN3349 | HISPANIC CULTURES I (SP) | |
SPAN UN3361 | ARTISTIC HUMANITY | |
SPAN UN3350 | HISPANIC CULTURES II (SP) | |
SPAN UN3489 | Staging Revolt: Masses, Multitudes & Political Performance in the Hispanic World (Effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
SPAN UN3894 | Law, Literature, and Gender in the Hispanic World (Effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies | ||
AHUM UN1399 | COLLOQUIUM ON MAJOR TEXTS: MIDDLE EAST/INDIA | |
MDES UN1630 | Introduction to South Asia (Effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
MDES UN2650 | GANDHI & HIS INTERLOCUTORS | |
MDES UN3260 | RETHINKING MIDDLE EAST POLITCS | |
MDES UN3930 | Iraq: War, Love, and Exile | |
MDES GU4259 | War Narrative: The Arab World | |
MDES GU4637 | Cinema and Colonialism in South Asia | |
Music | ||
AHMM UN3320 | MUSIC IN EAST ASIA | |
MUSI GU4438 | Music and Global Africa (Effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
Religion | ||
RELI UN2309 | HINDUISM | |
RELI UN3314 | QURAN | |
RELI GU4999 | GLOBAL INDIGENOUS RELIGIOUS HISTORIES | |
Slavic Languages | ||
SLCL GU4002 | Folklore Past and Present | |
GEOR GU4042 | Expressive Culture of Soviet and Independent Georgia | |
Urban Studies | ||
URBS UN3351 | URBAN ELSEWHERES: EXPLORING A WORLD OF CITIES |
Fall 2024
Last updated on September 10, 2024.
Code | Title | Points |
---|---|---|
African- American Studies | ||
AFAS UN1001 | INTRO TO AFRICAN-AMER STUDIES | |
Anthropology | ||
ANHS GU4001 | THE ANCIENT EMPIRES | |
Art History and Archaeology | ||
AHIS UN2622 | Introduction to East Asian Art: China, Japan, and Korea | |
Center for the Core Curriculum | ||
AFCV UN1020 | AFRICAN CIVILIZATION | |
LACV UN1020 | PRIM TEXTS OF LATIN AMER CIV | |
Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race | ||
CSER UN1010 | INTRO TO COMP ETHNIC STUDIES | |
CSER UN3922 | RACE&REPRESENTATION IN ASIAN AMER CINEMA | |
CSER UN3926 | LATIN MUSIC AND IDENTITY | |
CSER UN3928 | COLONIZATION/DECOLONIZATION | |
Classics | ||
CPLS UN3454 | STAGING THE EARLY MOD MEDITERR | |
CLCV UN3535 | IDENTITY & SOCIETY ANC EGYPT (Effective beginning Fall 2024) | |
CSGM UN3567 | THESSALONIKI DOWN THE AGES | |
GRKM UN3935 | Hellenism and the Topographical Imagination | |
Committee on Global Thought | ||
CGTH UN3401 | Seminar in Global Thought: Inquiries into an Interconnected World | |
Dance- Barnard | ||
DNCE BC3567 | DANCES OF INDIA | |
East Asian Languages and Cultures | ||
ASCE UN1002 | INTRO MAJOR TPCS: EAST ASIAN | |
ASCE UN1359 | INTRO TO EAST ASIAN CIV: CHINA | |
ASCE UN1365 | INTRO EAST ASIAN CIV: TIBET | |
ASCE UN1367 | INTRO EA CIV: VIETNAM | |
AHUM UN1400 | COLLOQUIUM ON MAJOR TEXTS | |
EAAS UN3710 | FICTION, FILM, AND MODERN VIETNAM (Effective beginning Fall 2024) | |
AHUM UN3830 | COLL ON MODERN EAST ASIA TEXTS | |
EAAS UN3927 | CHINA IN THE MODERN WORLD | |
EAAS GU4534 | Medieval Travel Writing | |
HSEA GU4880 | HISTORY OF MODERN CHINA I | |
HSEA GU4968 | Japan 1968: student protest movements in global historical perspective | |
English and Comparative Literature | ||
ENGL UN3794 | Trees | |
CLEN GU4199 | LITERATURE AND OIL | |
Film Studies | ||
FILM UN2294 | WORLD CINEMA: LATIN AMERICA | |
French and Romance Philology | ||
CLFR OC3821 | CITY DIPLOMACY (Offered abroad in Reid Hall, Paris.) | |
FREN GU4022 | How to Love: Medieval French and Arabic | |
History | ||
HIST UN2618 | The Modern Caribbean | |
HIST UN2660 | LATIN AMERICAN CIVILIZATION I | |
HIST UN2709 Medieval Middle East | ||
HIST UN2719 | HISTORY OF THE MOD MIDDLE EAST | |
HSWM UN2761 | GENDER & SEXUALITY IN AFRICA | |
HSME UN2810 | HISTORY OF SOUTH ASIA I | |
HIST GU4681 | The Nahuas Through Their Sources | |
Italian | ||
CLIA GU4499 | Mediterranean Humanities I | |
Jewish Studies | ||
JWST GU4145 | Topics in Israeli Cinema | |
Latin American and Iberian Cultures | ||
SPAN UN3349 | HISPANIC CULTURES I (SP) | |
SPAN UN3350 | HISPANIC CULTURES II (SP) | |
PORT UN3490 | BRAZILIAN SOCIETY & CIV (ENG) | |
Linguistics | ||
LING UN3102 | ||
Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies | ||
MDES UN1003 | Premodern Islamic Worlds | |
MDES UN1030 | “Game of Thrones”: On Epics and Empires | |
AHUM UN1399 | COLLOQUIUM ON MAJOR TEXTS: MIDDLE EAST/INDIA | |
MDES UN2042 | South Asia at the Crossroads of Empires | |
ASCM UN2357 | INTRO TO INDIAN CIVILIZATION | |
CLME UN3928 | ARABIC PRISON WRITING | |
CLME GU4226 | ARABIC AUTOBIOGRAPHY GLOBAL DIMENSIONS | |
Music | ||
MUSI UN2020 | SALSA, SOCA & REGGAE | |
AHMM UN3321 | MUSICS OF INDIA & WEST ASIA | |
Physics | ||
SCNC UN3001 | Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Testing: Marshall Islands | |
Religion | ||
RELI UN2306 | INTRO TO JUDAISM | |
RELI UN2308 | BUDDHISM: EAST ASIAN | |
RELI UN2405 | CHINESE RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS | |
Slavic Languages | ||
RUSS UN3230 | Tricksters in World Culture: Mockery, Subversion, Rebellion | |
SLCL UN3100 | FOLKLORE PAST & PRESENT | |
CLSL GU4012 | Holocaust Literature: Critical Thinking in Dark Times | |
Theatre | ||
THTR UN3154 | THEATRE TRAD GLOBAL CONTEXT | |
Women's Studies (Reid Hall, Paris) | ||
WMST OC3550 | WOMEN & SOCIETY - SEX-TRADE ECONOMY |
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 November 27, 2024.
Code | Title | Points |
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African-American Studies | ||
AFAS UN1001 | INTRO TO AFRICAN-AMER STUDIES | |
AFAS UN1003 | Blackness and Frenchness: A Radical Genealogy (Effective beginning Spring 2023) | |
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 UN2141 | Frontier Imaginaries (Effective begining Spring 2022) | |
ANTH UN3300 | Pre-Columbian Histories of Native America | |
ANTH UN3465 | WOMEN, GENDER POL-MUSLIM WORLD | |
ANTH V3525 | Introduction to South Asian History and Culture | |
ANTH UN3821 | Native America | |
ANTH V3892 | CONTEMP CENT ASIA:STATES & SOC | |
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 (Effective beginning Spring 2018) | |
AHIS UN2600 | THE ARTS OF CHINA | |
AHIS UN2500 | ARTS OF AFRICA | |
AHUM UN2604 | ARTS OF CHINA, JAPAN AND KOREA | |
AHIS UN2614 | Chinese Painting of the Song Dynasty (960-1279) (Effective beginning Summer 2021) | |
AHIS UN2622 | Introduction to East Asian Art: China, Japan, and Korea (Effective beginning Fall 2024) | |
AHUM UN2800 | Arts of Islam, 700-1000 CE (Effective beginning Fall 2017 semester) | |
AHUM UN2802 | Arts of Islam: Realignments of Empire and State (ca. 1000-1400) (Effective Spring 2017) | |
AHUM UN2901 | MASTERPIECES-INDIAN ART & ARCH | |
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 CIVILIZATION | |
LACV UN1020 | PRIM TEXTS OF LATIN AMER CIV | |
Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race | ||
CSER UN1010 | INTRO TO COMP ETHNIC STUDIES | |
CSER W3510 | Novels of Immigration, Relocation, and Diaspora (Also offered as ENGL GU4650, effective Spring 2017) | |
CSER UN3922 | RACE&REPRESENTATION IN ASIAN AMER CINEMA | |
CSER UN3926 | LATIN MUSIC AND IDENTITY | |
CSER UN3928 | COLONIZATION/DECOLONIZATION | |
CSER W3961 | (Wealth and Poverty in America) | |
Classics | ||
CLCV UN2441 | EGYPT IN CLASSICAL WORLD (Effective beginning Spring 2018) | |
CLCV UN3059 | WORLDS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT (Effective beginning Spring 2017) | |
CLCV UN3069 | Society and Power in the Hellenistic Age (Effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
CLCV W3111 | Plato and Confucius: Comparative Ancient Philosophies (Effective beginning Spring 2015) | |
CLCV W3244 | Global Histories of the Book (Effective beginning Fall 2015) | |
CLCV UN3535 | IDENTITY & SOCIETY ANC EGYPT (Effective beginning Fall 2024) | |
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) | |
CLGM GU4600 | Multilingual America: Translation, Migration, Gender (Effective beginning Fall 2021) | |
Colloquia and Interdepartmental Seminars | ||
INSM UN3920 | NOBILITY/CIVILITY: EAST/WEST I | |
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 | STAGING THE EARLY MOD MEDITERR | |
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 | YOUTH-INTERCONNECTED WRLD (Effective beginning Spring 2019) | |
Dance- Barnard | ||
DNCE BC3550 | Dance in Africa (Effective beginning Fall 2022) | |
DNCE BC3567 | DANCES OF INDIA (Effective beginning Fall 2018) | |
DNCE BC2565 | WORLD DANCE HISTORY (Effective beginning Spring 2019) | |
DNCE BC2665 | World Dance History (Effective Summer 2023. Students may only receive credit for either DNCE BC2665 or DNCE BC2565; not both.) | |
East Asian Languages and Cultures | ||
ASCE UN1002 | INTRO MAJOR TPCS: EAST ASIAN | |
ASCE UN1359 | INTRO TO EAST ASIAN CIV: CHINA | |
ASCE UN1361 | INTRO EAST ASIAN CIV: JPN | |
ASCE UN1363 | INTRO TO EAST ASIAN CIV: KOREA | |
ASCE UN1365 | INTRO EAST ASIAN CIV: TIBET | |
ASCE UN1367 | INTRO EA CIV: VIETNAM (Effective beginning Fall 2017) | |
AHUM UN1400 | COLLOQUIUM ON MAJOR TEXTS | |
EAAS UN2342 | Mythology of East Asia | |
EAAS UN2844 | CULTURE, MENTAL HEALTH, AND HEALING IN EAST ASIA (formerly EAAS UN3844; new course number effective Spring 2025) | |
EAAS UN3114 | Chinese Theater and Drama Traditions (Effective beginning Spring 2023) | |
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. Effective beginning Spring 2022- Course number changed to EAAS GU4111) | |
EARL UN3310 | The Body and/in Performance: Dance & Drama in Tibet & China (Effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
EAAS UN3322 | EAST ASIAN CINEMA (Effective Spring 2017) | |
EAAS UN3338 | CULTRL HIST-JAPANESE MONSTERS (Effective Fall 2019) | |
EAAS V3350 | Japanese Fiction and Film (Effective beginning Fall 2014) | |
EAAS UN3710 | FICTION, FILM, AND MODERN VIETNAM (Effective beginning Fall 2024) | |
EAAS UN3720 | Women in Vietnamese society, history and literature (Effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
AHUM UN3830 | COLL ON MODERN EAST ASIA TEXTS (Colloquium on Modern East Asian Texts) | |
EAAS UN3844 | CULTURE, MENTAL HEALTH, AND HEALING IN EAST ASIA (Effective beginning Fall 2019. New course number EAAS UN2844; effective Spring 2025 semester.) | |
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 beginning Fall 2020) | |
EAAS GU4111 | Modern Chinese Poetry in a Global Context (was formerly EAAS UN3122) | |
EARL W4127 | Mediations, Perceptions, Words: Poetry in Buddhist Literature (Effective beginning Spring 2016) | |
EAAS GU4134 | Sex, Power, Performance: Gender in Chinese Literature (Effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
EAAS GU4160 | CULTURES IN 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 WRIT/TIBET BUDDHIST LIT | |
EARL GU4312 | TIBETAN SACRED SPACE(IN COMPARATIVE CONT (Effective beginning Spring 2018 semester) | |
EAAS GU4233 | Sonic Modernity in East Asia (Effective beginning Spring 2020) | |
EAAS GU4412 | History of Writing in a Cosmopolitan East Asia (Effective beginning Fall 2023) | |
EAAS GU4445 | Proletarian Asia - working-class culture from 1930s to present (Effective beginning Spring 2022) | |
HSEA GU4542 | The History of the Samurai (Effective beginning Spring 2023 semester) | |
EAAS GU4534 | Medieval Travel Writing (Effective beginning Fall 2024) | |
EAAS GU4565 | TIBET IN THE WORLD: CULTURAL PRODUCTION AND SOCIAL CHANGE (Effective beginning Spring 2022) | |
EARL GU4575 | Tibet in Eurasian Circulatory History (Effective beginning Fall 2023) | |
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 | |
HSEA GU4968 | Japan 1968: student protest movements in global historical perspective (Effective beginning Fall 2024) | |
Economics | ||
ECON GU4325 | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF JAPAN | |
English and Comparative Literature | ||
CLEN UN3360 | Theaters of Gods and Heroes (Effective beginnning Spring 2020) | |
ENGL UN3489 Black Lives in Pre-Modern Britain | ||
CLEN S3682 | Human Rights in World Literature and Visual Culture (formerly CLEN S3851) | |
ENGL UN3794 | Trees (Effective beginning Fall 2023) | |
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) | |
ENTA UN3948 | African Drama | |
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) | |
ENTA GU4729 | GLOBAL ANGLOPHONE DRAMA (Effective beginning Spring 2022) | |
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 & AFRICAN FILMMAKING (Effective Fall 2019) | |
FILM GU4020 | Brazilian Cinema: Cinema Novo and Beyond (Effective beginning Fall 2021) | |
FILM S4215D | Contemporary Global Documentary (Effective beginning Summer 2019) | |
FILM GU4294 | World Cinema: Latin America (Effective beginning Summer 2021) | |
French and Romance Philology | ||
CLFR UN3716 | Francophone Romance : Love and Desire in French Colonial and Post-Colonial Literatures | |
FREN UN3822 | Blackness in French: From Harlem to Paris and Beyond (Effective beginning Summer 2021) | |
CLFR GU4002 | French Theory in a Global Context (Effective beginning Spring 2022) | |
CLFR GU4020 | Contemporary Migrations in the French & North African Context (Effective beginnning Summer 2020) | |
FREN GU4022 | How to Love: Medieval French and Arabic (Effective beginning Fall 2024) | |
CLFR GU4321 | The Maghreb in Transition: Society & Culture in North Africa Since 1990 (Effective beginning Summer 2021) | |
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 | BERL/ISTANBUL:MIGRATN,CLTR,VAL | |
History | ||
HIST UN1942 | The Year 1000: A World History (Effective beginning Spring 2024) | |
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 UN2176 | REVOLUTION & EMPIRE: HAITI & FRANCE, 1789-1820 (Effective beginning Summer 2022) | |
HIST UN2336 | Everyday Communism (Effective beginning Spring 2020) | |
HIST UN2377 | WORLD HISTORY SINCE WW II (Effective Spring 2017) | |
HIST UN2444 | THE VIETNAM WAR (Effective beginning Spring 2017) | |
HIST UN2580 | US - EAST ASIA RELATIONS (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 | THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE (formerly HIST W3701) | |
History UN2709 (Effective beginning Fall 2024) | ||
HIST UN2719 | HISTORY OF THE MOD MIDDLE EAST (formerly HIST W3719) | |
HSWM UN2761 | GENDER & SEXUALITY IN AFRICA (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 (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 S3596 | HIST OF LATINOS/AS IN THE U.S. (Effective beginning Summer 2022) | |
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 UN3608 | Women and Gender in Latin America and the Caribbean (Effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
HIST GU4301 | Politics and Justice in Latin America through Crime Fiction (Effective beginning Fall 2021) | |
HIST GU4660 | Indigenous Worlds in Early Latin America (Effective beginning Fall 2021) | |
HIST GU4681 | The Nahuas Through Their Sources (Effective beginning Fall 2024) | |
HIST GU4811 | Encounters with Nature: The History and Politics of Environment, Health and Development in South Asia and Beyond (Effective beginning Spring 2017 semester) | |
Italian | ||
ITAL GU4022 | THE QUR'AN IN EUROPE (Effective beginning Fall 2017) | |
CLIA GU4499 | Mediterranean Humanities I (Effective beginning Fall 2022) | |
CLIA GU4500 | Mediterranean Humanities II (Effective beginning Fall 2021) | |
Jewish Studies | ||
JWST UN3538 | Jews in the City in the Islamic Middle East (Effective beginning Spring 2021) | |
JWST GU4145 Introduction to Israeli Cinema (Effective beginning Spring 2020) | ||
JWST GU4148 | Jewish Histories of the Modern Middle East (Effective beginning Fall 2023) | |
JWST GU4149 | A History of Jewish-Muslim Encounters: From the Beginning of Islam Until Today (Effective beginning Fall 2023) | |
JWST GU4158 | Zionist Thought: Center and Periphery (Effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
Latin American and Caribbean Studies | ||
LCRS UN3500 | Latin American Cities (Effective beginning Spring 2017) | |
Latin American and Iberian Cultures | ||
SPJS UN3303 | JEWISH CULTURE IN TRANSL IN MED IBERIA ((Effective beginning Fall 2017 semester)) | |
SPAN UN3349 | HISPANIC CULTURES I (SP) | |
PORT UN3350 | LUSOPHONE AFR/AFRO-BRAZ CULTRS | |
SPAN UN3350 | HISPANIC CULTURES II (SP) | |
SPAN UN3361 | ARTISTIC HUMANITY (Effective beginning Spring 2017) | |
SPAN UN3489 | Staging Revolt: Masses, Multitudes & Political Performance in the Hispanic World (Effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
PORT UN3490 | BRAZILIAN SOCIETY & CIV (ENG) (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) | |
SPAN UN3894 | Law, Literature, and Gender in the Hispanic World (Effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
Linguistics | ||
LING UN3102 | (Effective beginning Fall 2019) | |
Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies | ||
MDES UN1001 | CRITICAL THEORY: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE (Effective beginning Spring 2018) | |
MDES UN1030 | “Game of Thrones”: On Epics and Empires (Effective beginning Fall 2021) | |
MDES UN1003 | Premodern Islamic Worlds (Effective beginning Fall 2024) | |
AHUM UN1399 | COLLOQUIUM ON MAJOR TEXTS: MIDDLE EAST/INDIA (formerly AHUM UN3399, new course number effective Fall 2018) | |
MDES UN1630 | Introduction to South Asia (Effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
ASCM V2001 | Introduction to Major Topics in the Civilizations of the Middle East and India | |
ASCM UN2003 | INTRO TO ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION | |
MDES UN2006 What is Islam? (Effective beginning Spring 2022) | ||
ASCM UN2008 | CONTEMP ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION | |
MDES UN2042 | South Asia at the Crossroads of Empires (Effective beginning Fall 2023) | |
MDES UN2012 | Finding Happiness: Readings in Arab-Islamic Texts (Effective beginning Fall 2022) | |
MDES UN2030 | Major Debates in the Study of Africa | |
MDES W2041 | Introduction to Indian Philosophy (Effective beginning Spring 2015) | |
ASCM UN2357 | INTRO TO INDIAN CIVILIZATION | |
MDES UN2641 | CINEMAS OF INDIA (Effective beginning Fall 2020) | |
MDES UN2650 | GANDHI & 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 350-1750 (Effective beginning Spring 2021) | |
MDES UN3121 | Literature and Cultures of Struggle in South Africa (Effective beginning Spring 2017) | |
MDES UN3130 | E AFRICA & 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 POLITCS (Effective beginning Spring 2017) | |
CLME UN3266 | Decolonizing the Arabian Nights (Was formerly MDES GU4266 "Decolonizing the Arabian Nights". New course number effective beginning Spring 2022.) | |
MDES UN3335 | Introduction to Armenian Studies (Effective beginning Fall 2023) | |
MDES UN3421 | Islamic Central Asia (Effective beginning Fall 2020) | |
MDES UN3445 | SOCIETIES/CULTRS: INDIAN OCEAN (Effective beginning Fall 2013) | |
CLME UN3928 | ARABIC PRISON WRITING | |
MDES UN3930 | Iraq: War, Love, and Exile (Effective beginning Spring 2021) | |
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/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) | |
MDES GU4266 | Decolonizing the Arabian Nights (Effective beginning Fall 2021. Effective Spring 2022- new course number CLME UN3266) | |
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 GU4360 | Armenians and the Modern World (Effective beginning Spring 2024) | |
MDES GU4634 | Sound and Listening Cultures of the Indian Subcontinent (effective beginning Spring 2023) | |
MDES GU4637 | Cinema and Colonialism in South Asia (Effective beginning Spring 2018) | |
MDES GU4945 | Contested Histories: A Medieval Jewish Empire? (Effective beginning Spring 2024) | |
Music | ||
MUSI UN2020 | SALSA, SOCA & REGGAE | |
MUSI V2430 | Listening and Sound in Cross-Cultural Perspective (Effective beginning Fall 2014; formerly MUSI W4430) | |
AHMM UN3320 | MUSIC IN EAST ASIA | |
AHMM UN3321 | MUSICS OF INDIA & WEST ASIA | |
MUSI GU4113 | Medieval Mediterranean Love Songs (Effective beginning Spring 2024) | |
MUSI GU4438 | Music and Global Africa (Effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
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) | ||
Philosophy | ||
PHIL UN3000 | BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY (Effective beginning Fall 2022) | |
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 UN2405 | CHINESE RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS (formerly RELI UN2307) | |
RELI UN2308 | BUDDHISM: EAST ASIAN | |
RELI UN2309 | HINDUISM | |
RELI UN2335 | RELI IN BLACK AMERICA:AN INTRO (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 UN3314 | QURAN (Effective beginning Fall 2023) | |
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 GU4214 | African and North African Philosophy: An Introduction (Effective beginning Summer 2021) | |
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 GU4314 | Bhakti Poets (Effective beginning Spring 2022) | |
RELI GU4322 | EXPLORING THE SHARIA: 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 | |
SLCL UN3100 | FOLKLORE PAST & PRESENT (Effective beginning Fall 2021 semester- New course number SLCL GU4002- effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
RUSS UN3230 | Tricksters in World Culture: Mockery, Subversion, Rebellion (Effective beginning Fall 2022) | |
CLSL GU4002 Folklore Past and Present (formerly CLSL UN3001- New course number effective beginning Spring 2025) | ||
CLSL GU4012 | Holocaust Literature: Critical Thinking in Dark Times (Effective beginning Fall 2023) | |
CLSL GU4013 | Jewish Worlds in Eastern Europe: A Journey (Effective beginning Summer 2024) | |
CLRS GU4022 | Russia and Asia: Orientalism, Eurasianism, Internationalism | |
GEOR GU4042 | Expressive Culture of Soviet and Independent Georgia (Effective beginning Spring 2017) | |
CLRS W4190 | Race, Ethnicity, and Narrative, in the Russian/Soviet Empire | |
Sociology | ||
SOCI UN3324 | Global Urbanism | |
Theatre | ||
THTR UN3154 | THEATRE TRAD GLOBAL CONTEXT (formerly THTR UN3000) | |
Urban Studies | ||
URBS UN3351 | URBAN ELSEWHERES: EXPLORING A WORLD OF CITIES (Effective beginning Spring 2021) |
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 March 1, 2024.
Code | Title | Points |
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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 OC3330 Paris Noir (same as FREN OC3817-Black Paris- course number effective beginning Summer 2021) | ||
FILM GU4330 | (Effective beginning Summer 2024- to be offered in Reid Hall, Paris) | |
FREN OC3719 | VIOLENCE BY AND AGAINST WOMEN (Effective beginning Spring 2019) | |
FREN OC3817 | Black Paris (Effective Spring 2017; taught in Paris) | |
CLFR OC3821 | CITY DIPLOMACY (Effective beginning Spring 2021) | |
FREN OC3821 | "Blackness" in French: from Harlem to Paris and Beyond ((Effective beginning Summer 2018)) | |
HIST UN3136 France and the African Diaspora (Effective beginning Summer 2024- To be offered in Reid Hall, Paris) | ||
WMST OC3550 | WOMEN & SOCIETY - SEX-TRADE ECONOMY (Effective Spring 2016, will not be offered Spring 2018; taught in Paris) | |
FMST GU4325 Waves on New Shores: New Cinema in France, Japan, and Brazil (effective beginning Summer 2022) |
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