Global Core Requirement

Committee on Global Core 

globalcore@columbia.edu

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.

Anthropology
ANTH UN1008THE RISE OF CIVILIZATION
ANTH UN3465WOMEN, GENDER POL-MUSLIM WORLD
ANTH UN3947TEXT, MAGIC, PERFORMANCE
Art History and Archaeology
AHUM UN2604ARTS OF CHINA, JAPAN AND KOREA
Center for the Core Curriculum
LACV UN1020PRIM TEXTS OF LATIN AMER CIV
Classics
CLCV UN2441EGYPT IN CLASSICAL WORLD
CLCV UN3069Society and Power in the Hellenistic Age (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
CLGM UN3920WORLD RESPONDS TO THE GREEKS
CLGM GU4600Multilingual America: Translation, Migration, Gender
Comparative Literature and Society
CLGM UN3110THE OTTOMAN PAST IN THE GREEK PRESENT
Dance
DNCE BC2565WORLD DANCE HISTORY
East Asian Languages and Cultures
ASCE UN1361INTRO EAST ASIAN CIV: JPN
ASCE UN1363INTRO TO EAST ASIAN CIV: KOREA
AHUM UN1400COLLOQUIUM ON MAJOR TEXTS
EAAS UN2844CULTURE, MENTAL HEALTH, AND HEALING IN EAST ASIA (formerly EAAS UN3844; new course number effective Spring 2025)
EAAS UN3322EAST ASIAN CINEMA
EARL UN3310The Body and/in Performance: Dance & Drama in Tibet & China (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
EAAS UN3720Women in Vietnamese society, history and literature (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
EAAS GU4565TIBET IN THE WORLD: CULTURAL PRODUCTION AND SOCIAL CHANGE
EAAS GU4134Sex, Power, Performance: Gender in Chinese Literature (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
HSEA GU4847MODERN JAPAN
Economics
ECON GU4325ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF JAPAN
French and Romance Philology
FREN OC3719VIOLENCE BY AND AGAINST WOMEN (This course is offered in Reid Hall, Paris.)
Germanic Languages
GERM UN3780BERL/ISTANBUL:MIGRATN,CLTR,VAL
History
HIST UN1004ANCIENT HISTORY OF EGYPT
HIST UN1942The Year 1000: A World History
HIST UN2444THE VIETNAM WAR
HIST UN3608Women and Gender in Latin America and the Caribbean (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
HSEA UN3898THE MONGOLS IN HISTORY
HIST GU4811Encounters with Nature: The History and Politics of Environment, Health and Development in South Asia and Beyond
Italian
CLIA GU4500Mediterranean Humanities II
Jewish Studies
JWST GU4158Zionist Thought: Center and Periphery (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
Latin American and Iberian Cultures
SPJS UN3303JEWISH CULTURE IN TRANSL IN MED IBERIA
SPAN UN3349HISPANIC CULTURES I (SP)
SPAN UN3361ARTISTIC HUMANITY
SPAN UN3350HISPANIC CULTURES II (SP)
SPAN UN3489Staging Revolt: Masses, Multitudes & Political Performance in the Hispanic World (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
SPAN UN3894Law, Literature, and Gender in the Hispanic World (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
AHUM UN1399COLLOQUIUM ON MAJOR TEXTS: MIDDLE EAST/INDIA
MDES UN1630Introduction to South Asia (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
MDES UN2650GANDHI & HIS INTERLOCUTORS
MDES UN3260RETHINKING MIDDLE EAST POLITCS
MDES UN3930Iraq: War, Love, and Exile
MDES GU4259War Narrative: The Arab World
MDES GU4637Cinema and Colonialism in South Asia
Music
AHMM UN3320MUSIC IN EAST ASIA
MUSI GU4438Music and Global Africa (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
Religion
RELI UN2309HINDUISM
RELI UN3314QURAN
RELI GU4999GLOBAL INDIGENOUS RELIGIOUS HISTORIES
Slavic Languages
SLCL GU4002Folklore Past and Present
GEOR GU4042Expressive Culture of Soviet and Independent Georgia
Urban Studies
URBS UN3351URBAN ELSEWHERES: EXPLORING A WORLD OF CITIES

Fall 2024

Last updated on September 10, 2024.

African- American Studies
AFAS UN1001INTRO TO AFRICAN-AMER STUDIES
Anthropology
ANHS GU4001THE ANCIENT EMPIRES
Art History and Archaeology
AHIS UN2622Introduction to East Asian Art: China, Japan, and Korea
Center for the Core Curriculum
AFCV UN1020AFRICAN CIVILIZATION
LACV UN1020PRIM TEXTS OF LATIN AMER CIV
Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
CSER UN1010INTRO TO COMP ETHNIC STUDIES
CSER UN3922RACE&REPRESENTATION IN ASIAN AMER CINEMA
CSER UN3926LATIN MUSIC AND IDENTITY
CSER UN3928COLONIZATION/DECOLONIZATION
Classics
CPLS UN3454STAGING THE EARLY MOD MEDITERR
CLCV UN3535IDENTITY & SOCIETY ANC EGYPT (Effective beginning Fall 2024)
CSGM UN3567THESSALONIKI DOWN THE AGES
GRKM UN3935Hellenism and the Topographical Imagination
Committee on Global Thought
CGTH UN3401Seminar in Global Thought: Inquiries into an Interconnected World
Dance- Barnard
DNCE BC3567DANCES OF INDIA
East Asian Languages and Cultures
ASCE UN1002INTRO MAJOR TPCS: EAST ASIAN
ASCE UN1359INTRO TO EAST ASIAN CIV: CHINA
ASCE UN1365INTRO EAST ASIAN CIV: TIBET
ASCE UN1367INTRO EA CIV: VIETNAM
AHUM UN1400COLLOQUIUM ON MAJOR TEXTS
EAAS UN3710FICTION, FILM, AND MODERN VIETNAM (Effective beginning Fall 2024)
AHUM UN3830COLL ON MODERN EAST ASIA TEXTS
EAAS UN3927CHINA IN THE MODERN WORLD
EAAS GU4534Medieval Travel Writing
HSEA GU4880HISTORY OF MODERN CHINA I
HSEA GU4968Japan 1968: student protest movements in global historical perspective
English and Comparative Literature
ENGL UN3794Trees
CLEN GU4199LITERATURE AND OIL
Film Studies
FILM UN2294WORLD CINEMA: LATIN AMERICA
French and Romance Philology
CLFR OC3821CITY DIPLOMACY (Offered abroad in Reid Hall, Paris.)
FREN GU4022How to Love: Medieval French and Arabic
History
HIST UN2618The Modern Caribbean
HIST UN2660LATIN AMERICAN CIVILIZATION I
HIST UN2709 Medieval Middle East
HIST UN2719HISTORY OF THE MOD MIDDLE EAST
HSWM UN2761GENDER & SEXUALITY IN AFRICA
HSME UN2810HISTORY OF SOUTH ASIA I
HIST GU4681The Nahuas Through Their Sources
Italian
CLIA GU4499Mediterranean Humanities I
Jewish Studies
JWST GU4145Topics in Israeli Cinema
Latin American and Iberian Cultures
SPAN UN3349HISPANIC CULTURES I (SP)
SPAN UN3350HISPANIC CULTURES II (SP)
PORT UN3490BRAZILIAN SOCIETY & CIV (ENG)
Linguistics
LING UN3102
Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
MDES UN1003Premodern Islamic Worlds
MDES UN1030“Game of Thrones”: On Epics and Empires
AHUM UN1399COLLOQUIUM ON MAJOR TEXTS: MIDDLE EAST/INDIA
MDES UN2042South Asia at the Crossroads of Empires
ASCM UN2357INTRO TO INDIAN CIVILIZATION
CLME UN3928ARABIC PRISON WRITING
CLME GU4226ARABIC AUTOBIOGRAPHY GLOBAL DIMENSIONS
Music
MUSI UN2020SALSA, SOCA & REGGAE
AHMM UN3321MUSICS OF INDIA & WEST ASIA
Physics
SCNC UN3001Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Testing: Marshall Islands
Religion
RELI UN2306INTRO TO JUDAISM
RELI UN2308BUDDHISM: EAST ASIAN
RELI UN2405CHINESE RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS
Slavic Languages
RUSS UN3230Tricksters in World Culture: Mockery, Subversion, Rebellion
SLCL UN3100FOLKLORE PAST & PRESENT
CLSL GU4012Holocaust Literature: Critical Thinking in Dark Times
Theatre
THTR UN3154THEATRE TRAD GLOBAL CONTEXT
Women's Studies (Reid Hall, Paris)
WMST OC3550WOMEN & 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.

African-American Studies
AFAS UN1001INTRO TO AFRICAN-AMER STUDIES
AFAS UN1003Blackness and Frenchness: A Radical Genealogy (Effective beginning Spring 2023)
Anthropology
ANTH UN1008THE RISE OF CIVILIZATION
ANTH UN1130Africa and the Anthropologist
ANTH UN2007Indian and Nigerian Film Cultures (Effective beginning Fall 2017 semester)
ANTH V2013Africa in the 21st Century: Aesthetics, Culture, Politics
ANTH V2014Archaeology and Africa: Changing Perceptions of the African Past
ANTH V2020Chinese Strategies: Cultures in Practice
ANTH V2027Changing East Asia Foodways
ANTH UN2031Corpse Life: Anthropological Histories of the Dead [Previously Archaeologies of Death and (Effective beginning Fall 2017)
ANTH V2035Introduction to the Anthropology of South Asia
ANTH V2100Muslim Societies
ANTH UN2141Frontier Imaginaries (Effective begining Spring 2022)
ANTH UN3300Pre-Columbian Histories of Native America
ANTH UN3465WOMEN, GENDER POL-MUSLIM WORLD
ANTH V3525Introduction to South Asian History and Culture
ANTH UN3821Native America
ANTH V3892CONTEMP CENT ASIA:STATES & SOC
ANTH UN3933ARABIA IMAGINED
ANTH UN3947TEXT, MAGIC, PERFORMANCE
ANHS GU4001THE ANCIENT EMPIRES
ANTH G4065Archaeology of Idols
Art History and Archaeology
AHIS UN2119ROME BEYOND ROME (Effective beginning Spring 2018)
AHIS UN2600THE ARTS OF CHINA
AHIS UN2500ARTS OF AFRICA
AHUM UN2604ARTS OF CHINA, JAPAN AND KOREA
AHIS UN2614Chinese Painting of the Song Dynasty (960-1279) (Effective beginning Summer 2021)
AHIS UN2622Introduction to East Asian Art: China, Japan, and Korea (Effective beginning Fall 2024)
AHUM UN2800Arts of Islam, 700-1000 CE (Effective beginning Fall 2017 semester)
AHUM UN2802Arts of Islam: Realignments of Empire and State (ca. 1000-1400) (Effective Spring 2017)
AHUM UN2901MASTERPIECES-INDIAN ART & ARCH
AHIS W3500Yoruba and the Diaspora (Effective beginning Fall 2014; formerly AHIS W3898)
AHIS UN3501African Art: The Next Generation. Focus: Congo (Effective Spring 2017)
AHIS UN3503Contemporary Arts of Africa (Effective beginning Fall 2020)
AHIS W3832Sacred Landscapes of the Ancient Andes (Effective beginning Spring 2016)
AHIS Q4570Andean Art and Architecture (formerly AHIS G4085)
AHIS GU4584 Critical Approaches to Persianate Painting (effective beginning Spring 2019)
Center for the Core Curriculum
AFCV UN1020AFRICAN CIVILIZATION
LACV UN1020PRIM TEXTS OF LATIN AMER CIV
Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
CSER UN1010INTRO TO COMP ETHNIC STUDIES
CSER W3510Novels of Immigration, Relocation, and Diaspora (Also offered as ENGL GU4650, effective Spring 2017)
CSER UN3922RACE&REPRESENTATION IN ASIAN AMER CINEMA
CSER UN3926LATIN MUSIC AND IDENTITY
CSER UN3928COLONIZATION/DECOLONIZATION
CSER W3961 (Wealth and Poverty in America)
Classics
CLCV UN2441EGYPT IN CLASSICAL WORLD (Effective beginning Spring 2018)
CLCV UN3059WORLDS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT (Effective beginning Spring 2017)
CLCV UN3069Society and Power in the Hellenistic Age (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
CLCV W3111Plato and Confucius: Comparative Ancient Philosophies (Effective beginning Spring 2015)
CLCV W3244Global Histories of the Book (Effective beginning Fall 2015)
CLCV UN3535IDENTITY & SOCIETY ANC EGYPT (Effective beginning Fall 2024)
CSGM UN3567THESSALONIKI DOWN THE AGES (Effective Spring 2017)
CLGM UN3920WORLD RESPONDS TO THE GREEKS (formerly "The World Responds to the Greeks: Greece Faces East")
GRKM UN3935Hellenism and the Topographical Imagination (formerly GRKM UN3920 "The World Responds to the Greeks")
CLCV GU4411Egypt in the Classical World (Egypt in the Classical World Effective beginning Spring 2020)
CLGM GU4600Multilingual America: Translation, Migration, Gender (Effective beginning Fall 2021)
Colloquia and Interdepartmental Seminars
INSM UN3920NOBILITY/CIVILITY: EAST/WEST I
INSM UN3921Nobility and Civility II
INSM C3940Science Across Cultures
INSM W3950Friendship in Asian and Western Civilization
Comparative Literature and Society
CLGM UN3110THE OTTOMAN PAST IN THE GREEK PRESENT (Effective beginning Spring 2018 )
CPLS UN3333EAST/WEST FRAMETALE NARRATIVES
CPLS UN3454STAGING THE EARLY MOD MEDITERR
CLGM UN3920WORLD RESPONDS TO THE GREEKS
CPLS W3945Transnational Memory Politics and the Culture of Human Rights (Effective beginning Spring 2014)
CPLS W3955The West in Global Thought
CPLS UN3956Postcolonial Narrative and the Limits of the Human
CPLS W4100Andalusian Symbiosis: Islam and the West (Effective beginning Fall 2014)
CPLS GU4111World Philology (Effective Spring 2017)
Committee on Global Thought
CGTH UN3401Seminar in Global Thought: Inquiries into an Interconnected World (Effective beginning Fall 2018)
CGTH UN3402YOUTH-INTERCONNECTED WRLD (Effective beginning Spring 2019)
Dance- Barnard
DNCE BC3550Dance in Africa (Effective beginning Fall 2022)
DNCE BC3567DANCES OF INDIA (Effective beginning Fall 2018)
DNCE BC2565WORLD DANCE HISTORY (Effective beginning Spring 2019)
DNCE BC2665World 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 UN1002INTRO MAJOR TPCS: EAST ASIAN
ASCE UN1359INTRO TO EAST ASIAN CIV: CHINA
ASCE UN1361INTRO EAST ASIAN CIV: JPN
ASCE UN1363INTRO TO EAST ASIAN CIV: KOREA
ASCE UN1365INTRO EAST ASIAN CIV: TIBET
ASCE UN1367INTRO EA CIV: VIETNAM (Effective beginning Fall 2017)
AHUM UN1400COLLOQUIUM ON MAJOR TEXTS
EAAS UN2342Mythology of East Asia
EAAS UN2844CULTURE, MENTAL HEALTH, AND HEALING IN EAST ASIA (formerly EAAS UN3844; new course number effective Spring 2025)
EAAS UN3114Chinese Theater and Drama Traditions (Effective beginning Spring 2023)
EAAS UN3116Supernatural in East Asia (Effective beginning Spring 2020)
EAAS UN3121Minority Literature in Modern China (Offered Fall 2018 as a one-time course)
EAAS UN3122Modern 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 UN3310The Body and/in Performance: Dance & Drama in Tibet & China (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
EAAS UN3322EAST ASIAN CINEMA (Effective Spring 2017)
EAAS UN3338CULTRL HIST-JAPANESE MONSTERS (Effective Fall 2019)
EAAS V3350Japanese Fiction and Film (Effective beginning Fall 2014)
EAAS UN3710FICTION, FILM, AND MODERN VIETNAM (Effective beginning Fall 2024)
EAAS UN3720Women in Vietnamese society, history and literature (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
AHUM UN3830COLL ON MODERN EAST ASIA TEXTS (Colloquium on Modern East Asian Texts)
EAAS UN3844CULTURE, MENTAL HEALTH, AND HEALING IN EAST ASIA (Effective beginning Fall 2019. New course number EAAS UN2844; effective Spring 2025 semester.)
HSEA Q3870Japan Before 1600 (Effective beginning Spring 2015; formerly HSEA W4870)
EAAS UN3927CHINA IN THE MODERN WORLD
EAAS GU4017Ethnography and Representation in Tibet (Effective beginning Fall 2020)
EAAS GU4111Modern Chinese Poetry in a Global Context (was formerly EAAS UN3122)
EARL W4127Mediations, Perceptions, Words: Poetry in Buddhist Literature (Effective beginning Spring 2016)
EAAS GU4134Sex, Power, Performance: Gender in Chinese Literature (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
EAAS GU4160CULTURES IN COLONIAL KOREA (Effective beginning Spring 2014; formerly EAAS G4160)
HSEA GU4222China's Global Histories: People, Space, and Power (Effective beginning Fall 2019)
EAAS GU4277Japanese Anime and Beyond: Gender, Power and Transnational Media
EARL GU4310LIFE WRIT/TIBET BUDDHIST LIT
EARL GU4312TIBETAN SACRED SPACE(IN COMPARATIVE CONT (Effective beginning Spring 2018 semester)
EAAS GU4233Sonic Modernity in East Asia (Effective beginning Spring 2020)
EAAS GU4412History of Writing in a Cosmopolitan East Asia (Effective beginning Fall 2023)
EAAS GU4445Proletarian Asia - working-class culture from 1930s to present (Effective beginning Spring 2022)
HSEA GU4542The History of the Samurai (Effective beginning Spring 2023 semester)
EAAS GU4534Medieval Travel Writing (Effective beginning Fall 2024)
EAAS GU4565TIBET IN THE WORLD: CULTURAL PRODUCTION AND SOCIAL CHANGE (Effective beginning Spring 2022)
EARL GU4575Tibet in Eurasian Circulatory History (Effective beginning Fall 2023)
HSEA GU4816Comparing Indigeneities (Effective beginning Spring 2020)
HSEA GU4822Troubled Islands of the Indo Pacific (Effective beginning Spring 2017)
HSEA GU4847MODERN JAPAN (Effective beginning Fall 2017)
HSEA W4866Competing Nationalisms in East Asia: Representing Chinese and Tibetan Relations in History (Effective beginning Fall 2015)
HSEA GU4880HISTORY OF MODERN CHINA I
HSEA GU4968Japan 1968: student protest movements in global historical perspective (Effective beginning Fall 2024)
Economics
ECON GU4325ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF JAPAN
English and Comparative Literature
CLEN UN3360Theaters of Gods and Heroes (Effective beginnning Spring 2020)
ENGL UN3489 Black Lives in Pre-Modern Britain
CLEN S3682Human Rights in World Literature and Visual Culture (formerly CLEN S3851)
ENGL UN3794Trees (Effective beginning Fall 2023)
CLEN S3829Fantastic Fictions: Postmodern Asian American Literature (Effective beginning Summer 2020)
ENGL UN3851INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH (Effective beginning Spring 2019)
CLEN UN3933POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE (Effective beginning Fall 2018)
ENTA UN3948African Drama
CLEN GU4199LITERATURE AND OIL (Effective beginning Fall 2020)
CLEN W4200Caribbean Diaspora Literature
ENGL GU4650Novels of Immigration, Relocation, Diaspora (formerly ENGL W3510)
CLEN GU4644REVOLUTION IN/ON THE CARIBBEAN (Effective beginning Fall 2018)
ENTA GU4729GLOBAL ANGLOPHONE DRAMA (Effective beginning Spring 2022)
Film Studies
FILM UN2292Topics in World Cinema: China (Effective beginning Spring 2018)
FILM UN2294WORLD CINEMA: LATIN AMERICA (Effective beginning Fall 2018)
FILM S2295QWorld Cinema: Mexico (Effective beginning Summer 2017)
FILM UN2296ARAB & AFRICAN FILMMAKING (Effective Fall 2019)
FILM GU4020Brazilian Cinema: Cinema Novo and Beyond (Effective beginning Fall 2021)
FILM S4215DContemporary Global Documentary (Effective beginning Summer 2019)
FILM GU4294World Cinema: Latin America (Effective beginning Summer 2021)
French and Romance Philology
CLFR UN3716Francophone Romance : Love and Desire in French Colonial and Post-Colonial Literatures
FREN UN3822Blackness in French: From Harlem to Paris and Beyond (Effective beginning Summer 2021)
CLFR GU4002French Theory in a Global Context (Effective beginning Spring 2022)
CLFR GU4020Contemporary Migrations in the French & North African Context (Effective beginnning Summer 2020)
FREN GU4022How to Love: Medieval French and Arabic (Effective beginning Fall 2024)
CLFR GU4321The Maghreb in Transition: Society & Culture in North Africa Since 1990 (Effective beginning Summer 2021)
CLFR GU4440Remapping Algeria: Poetics and Politics of Space (Effective beginning Spring 2021)
CLFR GU4421The Caribbean Digital (Effective beginning Fall 2020)
CLFR GU4716FRANCOPHONE ROMANCE LOVE, SEX, INTIMACY IN THE FRENCH COLONIAL WORLD (Effective beginning Fall 2019)
Germanic Languages
GERM UN3780BERL/ISTANBUL:MIGRATN,CLTR,VAL
History
HIST UN1942The Year 1000: A World History (Effective beginning Spring 2024)
HIST UN1004ANCIENT HISTORY OF EGYPT
HIST W1054Introduction to Byzantine History (Effective beginning Spring 2016)
HIST UN2003Empire & Nation-Building East Central Europe (Effective beginning Fall 2020)
HIST UN2176REVOLUTION & EMPIRE: HAITI & FRANCE, 1789-1820 (Effective beginning Summer 2022)
HIST UN2336Everyday Communism (Effective beginning Spring 2020)
HIST UN2377WORLD HISTORY SINCE WW II (Effective Spring 2017)
HIST UN2444THE VIETNAM WAR (Effective beginning Spring 2017)
HIST UN2580US - EAST ASIA RELATIONS (Effective beginning Fall 2017 )
HIST UN2618The Modern Caribbean
HIST UN2657Medieval Jewish Cultures (formerly HIST W3657)
HIST UN2660LATIN AMERICAN CIVILIZATION I
HIST UN2661LATIN AMERICAN CIVILIZATION II
HIST UN2701THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE (formerly HIST W3701)
History UN2709 (Effective beginning Fall 2024)
HIST UN2719HISTORY OF THE MOD MIDDLE EAST (formerly HIST W3719)
HSWM UN2761GENDER & SEXUALITY IN AFRICA (Effective beginning Fall 2018)
HIST UN2764East African History
HIST UN2772West African History
HIST W2803The Worlds of Mughal India (Effective beginning Spring 2014; formerly HIST W3803)
HSME UN2810HISTORY OF SOUTH ASIA I (formerly HSME W3810)
HSME UN2811South Asia: Empire and Its Aftermath (formerly HIST UN2811)
HIST W2880Gandhi's India (formerly HIST W3800)
HIST UN2881VIETNAM IN THE WORLD (Effective beginning Spring 2019)
HIST Q2900History of the World to 1450 CE (formerly HIST W3902)
HIST W2903History of the World from 1450 CE to the Present (Effective beginning Fall 2013; formerly HIST W2903)
HIST W2943Cultures of Empire (formerly HIST W3943)
HIST UN3152Byzantine Encounters in the Mediterranean and the Middle East (Taught on Morningside going forward, effective Spring 2017)
HIST UN3298Popular Culture in Modern African History (Effective beginning Fall 2019)
HIST Q3400Native American History (formerly HIST W4404)
HIST S3596HIST OF LATINOS/AS IN THE U.S. (Effective beginning Summer 2022)
HIST W3678Indigenous Worlds in Early Latin America (formerly HIST W4678)
HIST UN3766African Futures (Effective beginning Fall 2017)
HIST UN3779AFRICA AND FRANCE
HSEA UN3898THE MONGOLS IN HISTORY
HIST Q3933Empires and Cultures of the Early Modern Atlantic World (Effective only for Spring 2014; formerly HIST W4103)
HIST UN3601Jews in the Later Roman Empire, 300-600 CE (Effective beginning Fall 2014; formerly HIST W4601; renumbered to HIST UN3601, effective Fall 2018)
HIST UN3608Women and Gender in Latin America and the Caribbean (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
HIST GU4301Politics and Justice in Latin America through Crime Fiction (Effective beginning Fall 2021)
HIST GU4660Indigenous Worlds in Early Latin America (Effective beginning Fall 2021)
HIST GU4681The Nahuas Through Their Sources (Effective beginning Fall 2024)
HIST GU4811Encounters with Nature: The History and Politics of Environment, Health and Development in South Asia and Beyond (Effective beginning Spring 2017 semester)
Italian
ITAL GU4022THE QUR'AN IN EUROPE (Effective beginning Fall 2017)
CLIA GU4499Mediterranean Humanities I (Effective beginning Fall 2022)
CLIA GU4500Mediterranean Humanities II (Effective beginning Fall 2021)
Jewish Studies
JWST UN3538Jews in the City in the Islamic Middle East (Effective beginning Spring 2021)
JWST GU4145 Introduction to Israeli Cinema (Effective beginning Spring 2020)
JWST GU4148Jewish Histories of the Modern Middle East (Effective beginning Fall 2023)
JWST GU4149A History of Jewish-Muslim Encounters: From the Beginning of Islam Until Today (Effective beginning Fall 2023)
JWST GU4158Zionist Thought: Center and Periphery (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
LCRS UN3500Latin American Cities (Effective beginning Spring 2017)
Latin American and Iberian Cultures
SPJS UN3303JEWISH CULTURE IN TRANSL IN MED IBERIA ((Effective beginning Fall 2017 semester))
SPAN UN3349HISPANIC CULTURES I (SP)
PORT UN3350LUSOPHONE AFR/AFRO-BRAZ CULTRS
SPAN UN3350HISPANIC CULTURES II (SP)
SPAN UN3361ARTISTIC HUMANITY (Effective beginning Spring 2017)
SPAN UN3489Staging Revolt: Masses, Multitudes & Political Performance in the Hispanic World (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
PORT UN3490BRAZILIAN SOCIETY & CIV (ENG) (Effective beginning Fall 2017 semester)
SPAN UN3490Latin American Humanities I: From Pre-Columbian Civilizations to the Creation of New Nations
SPAN W3491Latin American Humanities II: From Modernity to the Present [In English]
PORT UN3601Race, Medicine and Literature in 19th-Century Brazil (Effective beginning Fall 2020)
SPAN UN3894Law, 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 UN1001CRITICAL THEORY: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE (Effective beginning Spring 2018)
MDES UN1030“Game of Thrones”: On Epics and Empires (Effective beginning Fall 2021)
MDES UN1003Premodern Islamic Worlds (Effective beginning Fall 2024)
AHUM UN1399COLLOQUIUM ON MAJOR TEXTS: MIDDLE EAST/INDIA (formerly AHUM UN3399, new course number effective Fall 2018)
MDES UN1630Introduction to South Asia (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
ASCM V2001Introduction to Major Topics in the Civilizations of the Middle East and India
ASCM UN2003INTRO TO ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION
MDES UN2006 What is Islam? (Effective beginning Spring 2022)
ASCM UN2008CONTEMP ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION
MDES UN2042South Asia at the Crossroads of Empires (Effective beginning Fall 2023)
MDES UN2012Finding Happiness: Readings in Arab-Islamic Texts (Effective beginning Fall 2022)
MDES UN2030Major Debates in the Study of Africa
MDES W2041Introduction to Indian Philosophy (Effective beginning Spring 2015)
ASCM UN2357INTRO TO INDIAN CIVILIZATION
MDES UN2641CINEMAS OF INDIA (Effective beginning Fall 2020)
MDES UN2650GANDHI & HIS INTERLOCUTORS (Gandhi and His Interlocutors; Effective beginning Spring 2015)
MDES UN3000THEORY AND CULTURE
CLME W3032Colonialism: Film, Fiction, History & Theory
HSME UN3044From Colonial to Global Health (Effective beginning Fall 2017 semester)
MDES UN3047MESAAS & History: Court Cultures 350-1750 (Effective beginning Spring 2021)
MDES UN3121Literature and Cultures of Struggle in South Africa (Effective beginning Spring 2017)
MDES UN3130E AFRICA & THE SWAHILI COAST
CLME UN3221ARABIC LITERATURE AS WORLD LITERATURE (Effective beginning Fall 2017 semester- course number changed to CLME GU4272 beginning Spring 2020)
MDES UN3260RETHINKING MIDDLE EAST POLITCS (Effective beginning Spring 2017)
CLME UN3266Decolonizing the Arabian Nights (Was formerly MDES GU4266 "Decolonizing the Arabian Nights". New course number effective beginning Spring 2022.)
MDES UN3335Introduction to Armenian Studies (Effective beginning Fall 2023)
MDES UN3421Islamic Central Asia (Effective beginning Fall 2020)
MDES UN3445SOCIETIES/CULTRS: INDIAN OCEAN (Effective beginning Fall 2013)
CLME UN3928ARABIC PRISON WRITING
MDES UN3930Iraq: War, Love, and Exile (Effective beginning Spring 2021)
CLME GU4031Cinema and Society In Asia and Africa
MDES G4052Locating Africa in the Early 20th Century World
MDES GU4150Introduction to African Philosophy (Effective beginning Spring 2017)
CLME GU4225New Millenium Challenges in Arabic Literary Production (Effective beginning Spring 2019- formerly "Arabic Literary Production"; New title effective Fall 2019)
CLME GU4226ARABIC AUTOBIOGRAPHY GLOBAL DIMENSIONS (Effective beginning Spring 2018)
CLME GU4229Afro-Mediterranean Cultural Geographies: Ifriqiya-Tunis ((Effective beginning Fall 2018))
CLME GU4231COLD WAR ARAB CULTURE
CLME GU4241SUFISM: PRIMARY TEXTS/CONTEXTS
CLME G4261Popular Islam: Asia and Africa
MDES GU4259War Narrative: The Arab World (Effective beginning Fall 2019)
CLME GU4262THEMES IN THE ARABIC NOVEL (Effective beginning Fall 2018)
MDES GU4266Decolonizing the Arabian Nights (Effective beginning Fall 2021. Effective Spring 2022- new course number CLME UN3266)
CLME GU4272ARABIC LITERATURE AS WORLD LITERATURE (was formerly CLME UN3221- change of course number effective Spring 2020)
MDES G4326The Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust: Memory and Representation
MDES GU4360Armenians and the Modern World (Effective beginning Spring 2024)
MDES GU4634Sound and Listening Cultures of the Indian Subcontinent (effective beginning Spring 2023)
MDES GU4637Cinema and Colonialism in South Asia (Effective beginning Spring 2018)
MDES GU4945Contested Histories: A Medieval Jewish Empire? (Effective beginning Spring 2024)
Music
MUSI UN2020SALSA, SOCA & REGGAE
MUSI V2430Listening and Sound in Cross-Cultural Perspective (Effective beginning Fall 2014; formerly MUSI W4430)
AHMM UN3320MUSIC IN EAST ASIA
AHMM UN3321MUSICS OF INDIA & WEST ASIA
MUSI GU4113Medieval Mediterranean Love Songs (Effective beginning Spring 2024)
MUSI GU4438Music and Global Africa (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
MUSI GU4466Sound 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 UN3000BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY (Effective beginning Fall 2022)
Religion
RELI UN1612Religion and the History of Hip Hop (Effective beginning Spring 2020)
RELI UN2205BUDDHISM: INDO-TIBETAN (effective Fall 2016)
RELI UN2305ISLAM
RELI UN2306INTRO TO JUDAISM (Effective beginning Fall 2018)
RELI UN2405CHINESE RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS (formerly RELI UN2307)
RELI UN2308BUDDHISM: EAST ASIAN
RELI UN2309HINDUISM
RELI UN2335RELI IN BLACK AMERICA:AN INTRO (formerly RELI V2645)
RELI UN3303Judaism and Translation in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean (effective Spring 2017)
RELI UN3407Muslims in Diaspora (Effective beginning Spring 2016; formerly RELI V3307)
RELI UN3314QURAN (Effective beginning Fall 2023)
RELI UN3425Judaism and Courtly Literature in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia and Italy (Effective beginning Fall 2016 )
RELI Q3511Tantra in South Asia, East Asia & the West (Effective beginning Spring 2015; formerly RELI V3411)
RELI UN3521Muslim Masculinities (Effective beginning Spring 2019)
RELI GU4214African and North African Philosophy: An Introduction (Effective beginning Summer 2021)
RELI GU4215Hinduism Here (Effecrtive beginning Fall 2019)
RELI GU4204 Religions of the Iranian World (Effective Spring 2020)
RELI GU4304Krishna (Effective beginning Fall 2017)
RELI GU4314Bhakti Poets (Effective beginning Spring 2022)
RELI GU4322EXPLORING THE SHARIA: ISLAMIC LAW (Effective beginning Fall 2018)
RELI GU4418On African Theory: Religion, Philosophy, Anthropology (Effective beginning Spring 2019)
RELI GU4999GLOBAL INDIGENOUS RELIGIOUS HISTORIES (Effective beginning Fall 2020)
Slavic Languages
SLCL UN3001SLAVIC CULTURES
SLCL UN3100FOLKLORE PAST & PRESENT (Effective beginning Fall 2021 semester- New course number SLCL GU4002- effective beginning Spring 2025)
RUSS UN3230Tricksters 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 GU4012Holocaust Literature: Critical Thinking in Dark Times (Effective beginning Fall 2023)
CLSL GU4013Jewish Worlds in Eastern Europe: A Journey (Effective beginning Summer 2024)
CLRS GU4022Russia and Asia: Orientalism, Eurasianism, Internationalism
GEOR GU4042Expressive Culture of Soviet and Independent Georgia (Effective beginning Spring 2017)
CLRS W4190Race, Ethnicity, and Narrative, in the Russian/Soviet Empire
Sociology
SOCI UN3324Global Urbanism
Theatre
THTR UN3154THEATRE TRAD GLOBAL CONTEXT (formerly THTR UN3000)
Urban Studies
URBS UN3351URBAN 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.

Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
CSER OC3928Colonization/Decolonization (Effective beginning Summer 2017; taught in Mexico City)
Columbia in Amman and Paris: Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENA) Program
MENA OC4100Migration, 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 OC3920The World Responds to the Greeks: Modernity, Postmodernity, Globality (Effective beginning Spring 2015; taught in Istanbul)
Columbia in London- Queen Mary University
CLEN OC3500LONDON 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 OC3545Comparative Democratic Processes (Effective beginning Summer 2015; taught in Istanbul)
Slavic Languages - Office of Global Programs
Not offered during the Spring 2018 semester
CLSL OC4001The Muslim and the Christian in Balkan Narratives ((Effective beginning Summer 2016; taught in Istanbul))
Reid Hall in Paris
AHIS OC4652The 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 OC4225Arab & 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 OC3719VIOLENCE BY AND AGAINST WOMEN (Effective beginning Spring 2019)
FREN OC3817Black Paris (Effective Spring 2017; taught in Paris)
CLFR OC3821CITY 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 OC3550WOMEN & 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)