Literature Humanities

Chair of Literature Humanities
Nicholas Dames
Theodore Kahan Professor of Humanities
Paul Brooke Program Chair for Literature Humanities
nd122@columbia.edu

Literature Humanities Website

HUMA CC1001  and HUMA CC1002 “Literature Humanities,’’ or “Lit Hum,” as it is popularly known, is a year-long course that offers Columbia College students the opportunity to engage in intensive study and discussion of significant works. A part of the Core Curriculum since 1937, Literature Humanities is not a survey with a fixed syllabus, but an ever-evolving series of carefully selected readings that reward both first encounters and long study. Whether classwork focuses attention on the formal elements of the text, its importance to literary history, or on its significance to contemporary culture and issues, the goal is to consider a range of perspectives across time and cultures that can enhance our understanding of the world and foster a deeper sense of empathy, while also developing crucial skills in close reading, critical thinking, writing, and academic discussion through the analysis of literary works.

Instructors from a range of departments and disciplines meet with groups of approximately twenty-two students for four hours a week in order to discuss texts by Enheduanna, Homer, Sappho, Aeschylus, Plato, Vergil, Augustine, Ibn ‘Arabi, Marie de France, Dante, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Austen, Woolf, Morrison, and Rankine, as well as Hebrew Scriptures, Gospels, and Gilgamesh. 

Registration Procedure

All information concerning registration in HUMA CC1001-HUMA CC1002 is included in the registration materials sent to students. All first-year students are preregistered in Literature HumanitiesStudents can change their section during their registration period prior to the start of the semester and the change of program period during the first two weeks of the semester.

All Core Curriculum courses, including Literature Humanities, must be taken for a letter grade. Students may not drop or withdraw from Literature Humanities after the Core drop deadline, which is also the end of the Change-of-Program period. For more information, see Registration—Dropping Core Courses.

Courses of Instruction

HUMA CC1001 Literature Humanities I. 4.00 points.

In Literature Humanities, students make sense of literary texts together, on paper and in discussion. We read significant and challenging books that require collective exploration in a seminar setting to be best understood and appreciated, books that enable us to ask questions about literature and how it works, about our place in histories and traditions, about ourselves as beings and members of a society. We read with and against the grain of canon and tradition, and we pursue understanding together, in a shared classroom community, to learn not only how to be better readers and writers but also how to be in intellectual community with one another. Over the course of the semester, students become acquainted with specific works of literature; they become aware of those works’ relations to one another; and they become conversant in the questions those works ask and the questions they make it possible for us to ask

Fall 2025: HUMA CC1001
Course Number Section/Call Number Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
HUMA 1001 001/10072 M W 8:10am - 10:00am
313 Hamilton Hall
Adrian Guo-Silver 4.00 20/22
HUMA 1001 002/10076 M W 8:10am - 10:00am
316 Hamilton Hall
Ben Hooyman 4.00 22/22
HUMA 1001 003/12257 M W 8:10am - 10:00am
318 Hamilton Hall
Emma Hitchcock 4.00 21/22
HUMA 1001 004/12258 M W 8:10am - 10:00am
302 Hamilton Hall
Jennifer Rhodes 4.00 22/22
HUMA 1001 005/12259 M W 12:10pm - 2:00pm
307 Uris Hall
Alex Pekov 4.00 22/22
HUMA 1001 006/12260 M W 12:10pm - 2:00pm
402 Hamilton Hall
Ben Hooyman 4.00 21/22
HUMA 1001 007/12261 M W 12:10pm - 2:00pm
407 Mathematics Building
Arden Hegele 4.00 20/22
HUMA 1001 008/12263 M W 12:10pm - 2:00pm
477 Alfred Lerner Hall
Anna Borgarello 4.00 21/22
HUMA 1001 009/12264 M W 12:10pm - 2:00pm
569 Alfred Lerner Hall
Adrian Guo-Silver 4.00 20/22
HUMA 1001 010/12265 M W 12:10pm - 2:00pm
332 Uris Hall
Tamara Hache 4.00 21/22
HUMA 1001 011/12266 M W 12:10pm - 2:00pm
103 Knox Hall
Emma Hitchcock 4.00 21/22
HUMA 1001 012/12267 M W 12:10pm - 2:00pm
Sat Alfred Lerner Hall
Jennifer Rhodes 4.00 21/22
HUMA 1001 013/12269 M W 2:10pm - 4:00pm
307 Uris Hall
Dustin Stewart 4.00 22/22
HUMA 1001 014/12272 M W 2:10pm - 4:00pm
301 Hamilton Hall
Maude Meisel 4.00 21/22
HUMA 1001 015/12274 M W 2:10pm - 4:00pm
318 Hamilton Hall
Laura DiNardo 4.00 21/21
HUMA 1001 016/12275 M W 2:10pm - 4:00pm
307 Pupin Laboratories
Katrina Dzyak 4.00 19/22
HUMA 1001 017/12276 M W 2:10pm - 4:00pm
609 Martin Luther King Building
Rebecca Kastleman 4.00 21/22
HUMA 1001 018/12277 M W 2:10pm - 4:00pm
201 80 Claremont
Sarah bin Tyeer 4.00 22/22
HUMA 1001 019/12278 M W 2:10pm - 4:00pm
602 Lewisohn Hall
Chloe Kitzinger-Shedlock 4.00 21/22
HUMA 1001 020/12279 M W 2:10pm - 4:00pm
306 Hamilton Hall
James Adams 4.00 22/22
HUMA 1001 021/12281 M W 2:10pm - 4:00pm
Sat Alfred Lerner Hall
Tyler Archer 4.00 20/22
HUMA 1001 022/12282 M W 4:10pm - 6:00pm
205 Broadway Residence Hall
Ethan Plaue 4.00 20/22
HUMA 1001 023/12283 M W 4:10pm - 6:00pm
315 Hamilton Hall
Alec Joyner 4.00 22/22
HUMA 1001 024/12284 M W 4:10pm - 6:00pm
224 Pupin Laboratories
Anna Borgarello 4.00 20/22
HUMA 1001 025/12285 M W 4:10pm - 6:00pm
509 Hamilton Hall
Tamara Hache 4.00 20/22
HUMA 1001 026/12286 M W 4:10pm - 6:00pm
609 Hamilton Hall
Matthew Hart 4.00 22/22
HUMA 1001 027/12287 M W 4:10pm - 6:00pm
301 Hamilton Hall
Thomas Preston 4.00 22/22
HUMA 1001 028/12288 M W 4:10pm - 6:00pm
309 Hamilton Hall
Laura DiNardo 4.00 20/22
HUMA 1001 029/12289 M W 6:10pm - 8:00pm
318 Hamilton Hall
Alex Pekov 4.00 21/22
HUMA 1001 030/12290 M W 6:10pm - 8:00pm
309 Hamilton Hall
Alexis Stanley 4.00 21/22
HUMA 1001 031/12291 M W 6:10pm - 8:00pm
301 Hamilton Hall
Thomas Preston 4.00 19/22
HUMA 1001 032/12292 M W 6:10pm - 8:00pm
206 Broadway Residence Hall
Tyler Archer 4.00 19/22
HUMA 1001 033/12293 T Th 8:10am - 10:00am
301 Hamilton Hall
Tylar Colleluori 4.00 22/22
HUMA 1001 034/12294 T Th 8:10am - 10:00am
309 Hamilton Hall
Nancy Workman 4.00 22/22
HUMA 1001 035/12295 T Th 8:10am - 10:00am
111 Carman Hall
Nadrah Mohammed 4.00 21/22
HUMA 1001 036/12296 T Th 8:10am - 10:00am
402 Hamilton Hall
Benjamin VanWagoner 4.00 22/22
HUMA 1001 037/12297 T Th 10:10am - 12:00pm
301 Hamilton Hall
Tylar Colleluori 4.00 22/22
HUMA 1001 038/12298 T Th 10:10am - 12:00pm
111 Carman Hall
Pier Mattia Tommasino 4.00 22/22
HUMA 1001 039/12299 T Th 10:10am - 12:00pm
205 Broadway Residence Hall
Geoffrey Harmsworth 4.00 21/22
HUMA 1001 040/12300 T Th 10:10am - 12:00pm
402 Hamilton Hall
Benjamin VanWagoner 4.00 21/22
HUMA 1001 041/12301 T Th 10:10am - 12:00pm
307 Pupin Laboratories
Skye Savage 4.00 21/22
HUMA 1001 042/12302 T Th 10:10am - 12:00pm
306 Hamilton Hall
Clemence Boulouque 4.00 22/22
HUMA 1001 043/12303 T Th 10:10am - 12:00pm
401 Chandler
Seth Kimmel 4.00 20/22
HUMA 1001 044/12304 T Th 10:10am - 12:00pm
315 Hamilton Hall
Eliza Zingesser 4.00 19/22
HUMA 1001 045/12305 T Th 10:10am - 12:00pm
477 Alfred Lerner Hall
Katherine Manansala 4.00 20/22
HUMA 1001 046/12307 T Th 10:10am - 12:00pm
Sat Alfred Lerner Hall
Ararat Sekeryan 4.00 20/22
HUMA 1001 047/12308 T Th 10:10am - 12:00pm
303 Hamilton Hall
Eleanor Johnson 4.00 20/22
HUMA 1001 048/12309 T Th 12:10pm - 2:00pm
301 Hamilton Hall
Molly Murray 4.00 21/22
HUMA 1001 049/12310 T Th 12:10pm - 2:00pm
602 Northwest Corner
Louis Moffa 4.00 22/22
HUMA 1001 050/12311 T Th 12:10pm - 2:00pm
212d Lewisohn Hall
Jude Webre 4.00 22/22
HUMA 1001 051/12312 T Th 12:10pm - 2:00pm
304 Hamilton Hall
Mark Anderson 4.00 21/22
HUMA 1001 052/12314 T Th 12:10pm - 2:00pm
306 Hamilton Hall
Meg Armstrong 4.00 20/22
HUMA 1001 053/12315 T Th 12:10pm - 2:00pm
477 Alfred Lerner Hall
Eli Mandel 4.00 20/22
HUMA 1001 054/12317 T Th 2:10pm - 4:00pm
307 Uris Hall
Zoe Henry 4.00 22/22
HUMA 1001 055/12319 T Th 2:10pm - 4:00pm
306 Hamilton Hall
Edward Mendelson 4.00 22/22
HUMA 1001 056/12320 T Th 2:10pm - 4:00pm
329 Uris Hall
Rosalie Stoner 4.00 22/22
HUMA 1001 057/12321 T Th 2:10pm - 4:00pm
302 Hamilton Hall
Mia Florin-Sefton 4.00 21/22
HUMA 1001 058/12322 T Th 2:10pm - 4:00pm
307 Pupin Laboratories
Nadrah Mohammed 4.00 20/22
HUMA 1001 059/12323 T Th 2:10pm - 4:00pm
309 Hamilton Hall
Hamid Dabashi 4.00 20/22
HUMA 1001 060/12324 T Th 2:10pm - 4:00pm
402 Hamilton Hall
Hilary-Anne Hallett 4.00 20/22
HUMA 1001 061/12325 T Th 2:10pm - 4:00pm
569 Alfred Lerner Hall
Carlos Nugent 4.00 20/22
HUMA 1001 062/12326 T Th 2:10pm - 4:00pm
306 Uris Hall
Austin Graham 4.00 20/22
HUMA 1001 068/16509 T Th 4:10pm - 6:00pm
313 Pupin Laboratories
Louis Moffa 4.00 21/22
HUMA 1001 069/16983 T Th 4:10pm - 6:00pm
609 Hamilton Hall
Giuseppe Gerbino 4.00 19/22
HUMA 1001 070/16984 T Th 4:10pm - 6:00pm
205 Broadway Residence Hall
Ayten Tartici 4.00 22/22
HUMA 1001 071/16985 T Th 4:10pm - 6:00pm
201 80 Claremont
Jeffrey Wayno 4.00 20/22
HUMA 1001 072/16986 T Th 4:10pm - 6:00pm
507 Hamilton Hall
Skye Savage 4.00 22/22
HUMA 1001 073/16987 T Th 4:10pm - 6:00pm
424 Kent Hall
Katherine Manansala 4.00 22/22
HUMA 1001 074/16988 T Th 4:10pm - 6:00pm
206 Broadway Residence Hall
Samuel Samore 4.00 20/22
HUMA 1001 075/16990 T Th 6:10pm - 8:00pm
111 Carman Hall
Mia Florin-Sefton 4.00 20/22
HUMA 1001 076/16991 T Th 6:10pm - 8:00pm
316 Hamilton Hall
Geoffrey Harmsworth 4.00 19/22
HUMA 1001 077/16992 T Th 6:10pm - 8:00pm
201 80 Claremont
Ararat Sekeryan 4.00 19/22
HUMA 1001 078/16993 T Th 6:10pm - 8:00pm
318 Hamilton Hall
Eduardo Andres Vergara Torres 4.00 20/22
HUMA 1001 079/18124 M W 2:10pm - 4:00pm
601b Fairchild Life Sciences Bldg
Emily Madison 4.00 19/22
HUMA 1001 080/18125 M W 4:10pm - 6:00pm
601b Fairchild Life Sciences Bldg
Emily Madison 4.00 20/22
HUMA 1001 081/18126 T Th 2:10pm - 4:00pm
477 Alfred Lerner Hall
Eduardo Andres Vergara Torres 4.00 20/22
HUMA 1001 082/18127 T Th 6:10pm - 8:00pm
205 Broadway Residence Hall
Ayten Tartici 4.00 18/22
HUMA 1001 083/18128 T Th 6:10pm - 8:00pm
206 Broadway Residence Hall
Samuel Samore 4.00 15/22

HUMA CC1002 Literature Humanities II. 4.00 points.

In Literature Humanities, students make sense of literary texts together, on paper and in discussion. We read significant and challenging books that require collective exploration in a seminar setting to be best understood and appreciated, books that enable us to ask questions about literature and how it works, about our place in histories and traditions, about ourselves as beings and members of a society. We read with and against the grain of canon and tradition, and we pursue understanding together, in a shared classroom community, to learn not only how to be better readers and writers but also how to be in intellectual community with one another. Over the course of the semester, students become acquainted with specific works of literature; they become aware of those works’ relations to one another; and they become conversant in the questions those works ask and the questions they make it possible for us to ask

Spring 2026: HUMA CC1002
Course Number Section/Call Number Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
HUMA 1002 001/10689 M W 8:10am - 10:00am
Room TBA
Adrian Guo-Silver 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 002/10690 M W 8:10am - 10:00am
Room TBA
Ben Hooyman 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 003/10691 M W 8:10am - 10:00am
Room TBA
Emma Hitchcock 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 004/10692 M W 8:10am - 10:00am
Room TBA
Jennifer Rhodes 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 005/10693 M W 12:10pm - 2:00pm
Room TBA
Alex Pekov 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 006/10694 M W 12:10pm - 2:00pm
Room TBA
4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 007/10695 M W 12:10pm - 2:00pm
Room TBA
Naomi Michalowicz 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 008/10696 M W 12:10pm - 2:00pm
Room TBA
Anna Borgarello 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 009/10697 M W 12:10pm - 2:00pm
Room TBA
Adrian Guo-Silver 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 010/10698 M W 12:10pm - 2:00pm
Room TBA
Tamara Hache 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 011/10699 M W 12:10pm - 2:00pm
Room TBA
Emma Hitchcock 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 012/10700 M W 12:10pm - 2:00pm
Room TBA
Jennifer Rhodes 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 013/10701 M W 2:10pm - 4:00pm
Room TBA
Naomi Michalowicz 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 014/10702 M W 2:10pm - 4:00pm
Room TBA
Maude Meisel 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 015/10703 M W 2:10pm - 4:00pm
Room TBA
Laura DiNardo 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 016/10704 M W 2:10pm - 4:00pm
Room TBA
Katrina Dzyak 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 017/10705 M W 2:10pm - 4:00pm
Room TBA
Rebecca Kastleman 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 018/10706 M W 2:10pm - 4:00pm
Room TBA
4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 019/10707 M W 2:10pm - 4:00pm
Room TBA
Chloe Kitzinger-Shedlock 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 020/10708 M W 2:10pm - 4:00pm
Room TBA
James Adams 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 021/10709 M W 2:10pm - 4:00pm
Room TBA
Tyler Archer 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 022/10710 M W 4:10pm - 6:00pm
Room TBA
Ethan Plaue 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 023/10711 M W 4:10pm - 6:00pm
Room TBA
Alec Joyner 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 024/10712 M W 4:10pm - 6:00pm
Room TBA
Anna Borgarello 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 025/10713 M W 4:10pm - 6:00pm
Room TBA
Tamara Hache 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 026/10714 M W 4:10pm - 6:00pm
Room TBA
Matthew Hart 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 027/10715 M W 4:10pm - 6:00pm
Room TBA
Thomas Preston 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 028/10716 M W 4:10pm - 6:00pm
Room TBA
Laura DiNardo 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 029/10717 M W 6:10pm - 8:00pm
Room TBA
Alex Pekov 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 030/10718 M W 6:10pm - 8:00pm
Room TBA
Alexis Stanley 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 031/10719 M W 6:10pm - 8:00pm
Room TBA
Thomas Preston 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 032/10720 M W 6:10pm - 8:00pm
Room TBA
Tyler Archer 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 033/10721 T Th 8:10am - 10:00am
Room TBA
Tylar Colleluori 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 034/10722 T Th 8:10am - 10:00am
Room TBA
Nancy Workman 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 035/10723 T Th 8:10am - 10:00am
Room TBA
Nadrah Mohammed 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 036/10724 T Th 8:10am - 10:00am
Room TBA
Benjamin VanWagoner 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 037/10725 T Th 10:10am - 12:00pm
Room TBA
Tylar Colleluori 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 038/10726 T Th 10:10am - 12:00pm
Room TBA
Pier Mattia Tommasino 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 039/10727 T Th 10:10am - 12:00pm
Room TBA
Geoffrey Harmsworth 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 040/10728 T Th 10:10am - 12:00pm
Room TBA
Benjamin VanWagoner 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 041/10729 T Th 10:10am - 12:00pm
Room TBA
Skye Savage 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 042/10730 T Th 10:10am - 12:00pm
Room TBA
Clemence Boulouque 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 043/10731 T Th 10:10am - 12:00pm
Room TBA
Seth Kimmel 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 044/10732 T Th 10:10am - 12:00pm
Room TBA
Eliza Zingesser 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 045/10733 T Th 10:10am - 12:00pm
Room TBA
Katherine Manansala 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 046/10734 T Th 10:10am - 12:00pm
Room TBA
Ararat Sekeryan 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 047/10735 T Th 10:10am - 12:00pm
Room TBA
Eleanor Johnson 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 048/10736 T Th 12:10pm - 2:00pm
Room TBA
Molly Murray 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 049/10737 T Th 12:10pm - 2:00pm
Room TBA
Louis Moffa 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 050/10738 T Th 12:10pm - 2:00pm
Room TBA
Jude Webre 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 051/10748 T Th 12:10pm - 2:00pm
Room TBA
Mark Anderson 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 052/10749 T Th 12:10pm - 2:00pm
Room TBA
Meg Armstrong 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 053/10750 T Th 12:10pm - 2:00pm
Room TBA
Eli Mandel 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 054/10751 T Th 2:10pm - 4:00pm
Room TBA
Zoe Henry 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 055/10752 T Th 2:10pm - 4:00pm
Room TBA
Edward Mendelson 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 056/10753 T Th 2:10pm - 4:00pm
Room TBA
Rosalie Stoner 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 057/10754 T Th 2:10pm - 4:00pm
Room TBA
Mia Florin-Sefton 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 058/10755 T Th 2:10pm - 4:00pm
Room TBA
Nadrah Mohammed 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 059/10756 T Th 2:10pm - 4:00pm
Room TBA
Hamid Dabashi 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 060/10757 T Th 2:10pm - 4:00pm
Room TBA
Hilary-Anne Hallett 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 061/10758 T Th 2:10pm - 4:00pm
Room TBA
Carlos Nugent 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 062/10759 T Th 2:10pm - 4:00pm
Room TBA
Austin Graham 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 068/10760 T Th 4:10pm - 6:00pm
Room TBA
Louis Moffa 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 069/10761 T Th 4:10pm - 6:00pm
Room TBA
Jacqueline Garcia Suarez 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 070/10762 T Th 4:10pm - 6:00pm
Room TBA
Ayten Tartici 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 071/10763 T Th 4:10pm - 6:00pm
Room TBA
Jeffrey Wayno 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 072/10764 T Th 4:10pm - 6:00pm
Room TBA
Skye Savage 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 073/10765 T Th 4:10pm - 6:00pm
Room TBA
Katherine Manansala 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 074/10766 T Th 4:10pm - 6:00pm
Room TBA
Samuel Samore 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 075/10767 T Th 6:10pm - 8:00pm
Room TBA
Mia Florin-Sefton 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 076/10768 T Th 6:10pm - 8:00pm
Room TBA
Geoffrey Harmsworth 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 077/10769 T Th 6:10pm - 8:00pm
Room TBA
Ararat Sekeryan 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 078/10770 T Th 6:10pm - 8:00pm
Room TBA
Eduardo Andres Vergara Torres 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 079/10771 M W 2:10pm - 4:00pm
Room TBA
Emily Madison 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 080/10772 M W 4:10pm - 6:00pm
Room TBA
Emily Madison 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 081/10773 T Th 2:10pm - 4:00pm
Room TBA
Eduardo Andres Vergara Torres 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 082/10775 T Th 6:10pm - 8:00pm
Room TBA
Ayten Tartici 4.00 0/22
HUMA 1002 083/10776 T Th 6:10pm - 8:00pm
Room TBA
Samuel Samore 4.00 0/22