Newly Approved Courses
Hundreds of new courses are added to the Columbia undergraduate curriculum each year. So that students may be apprised of these offerings, new courses are collected on this page. Students are encouraged to check back periodically to review these new offerings.
Spring 2025 Newly Approved Courses
Last update: 11/15/24
| Code | Title | Points |
|---|---|---|
| African- American Studies | ||
| AFAS UN3002 | Image Matters: Writing With Photographs from the African Diaspora | |
| AFAS GU4001 Revolution and Decolonization in the African Diaspora | ||
| AFAS GU4002 Writing in the Presence of Ancestors | ||
| American Studies | ||
| AMST UN3939 | THE 1980S: A CULTURAL HISTORY | |
| AMST UN3940 | Versions of the American Dream | |
| Anthropology | ||
| ANTH UN2972 | Unsettling Science: An Introduction to Science, Technology, and Society | |
| ANTH UN3066 | African American Anthropology | |
| ANTH UN3851 | Theatricality ＆ the Political | |
| ANTH GU4747 | Religion in Empire | |
| Art History and Archaeology | ||
| AHIS UN2129 | Before Rome: The Art and Architecture of Italy’s Peoples in the First Millennium BCE | |
| AHIS UN3105 | Sacred Spaces ＆ Divine Images Transformed | |
| AHIS UN3402 | Introduction to Design History | |
| AHIS UN3429 | American Architecture: Skyscrapers ＆ Urbanism | |
| AHIS GU4518 | Greek Sanctuaries | |
| AHIS GU4946 | Historicism ＆ Restoration in European Arch. | |
| Classics | ||
| GREK UN3016 | Readings from the Greek New Testament | |
| CLCV UN3069 | Society and Power in the Hellenistic Age | |
| CLCV UN3090 | Isiac cults in contexts; Egyptian cults in the Graeco-Roman world | |
| Cognitive Science | ||
| COGS UN3951 | Computational Models of Decision-Making | |
| COGS UN3952 | Philosophy of Computing | |
| Comparative Literature and Society | ||
| CPLS UN3931 | Life at the End of Life: Palliative Care and Service | |
| CPLS GU4375 | The Poetics of Social Forms: The Legacy of Fredric Jameson | |
| CPLS GU4545 | Wittgenstein in the Machine | |
| CPLS GU4565 | Motherhood and Technology: From Conception to Birth | |
| CLPS GU4876 | 1001 Nights, Then and Now | |
| Earth and Environmental Sciences | ||
| EESC UN1006 | WHAT'S NEW IN EARTH, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND CLIMATE SCIENCE? | |
| East Asian Languages and Cultures | ||
| EAAS UN3720 | Women in Vietnamese society, history and literature | |
| EAAS GU4134 | Sex, Power, Performance: Gender in Chinese Literature | |
| EAAS GU4150 | Childhoods in Modern Japanese Literature | |
| EAAS GU4345 | Border Thinking in Modern China | |
| EAAS GU4750 | Exploring "The Tale of Genji": Themes, Contexts, and Aesthetics | |
| Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology | ||
| EEEB GU4450 Ethology and the Evolution of Behavior | ||
| English and Comparative Literature | ||
| ENGL UN1075 | Children’s Literature | |
| ENGL UN2792 | Early Horror | |
| ENGL UN3437 | John Keats | |
| ENGL UN3438 | Archives and Afterlives in Postcolonial Texts | |
| ENGL UN3439 | Afro-Asian Literary Imaginaries | |
| ENGL UN3432 | Places for Poetry | |
| ENGL UN3444 | Race, Religion, and Early Modernity | |
| ENGL UN3576 | U.S. Poetry in the Expanded Field Since 1960 | |
| ENGL UN3781 | Lab Lit, Weird Science, and Speculative Fiction | |
| ENGL UN3884 | Climate Fictions | |
| ENGL GU4614 | Ralph Ellison | |
| CLEN GU4578 | Reading the Haitian Revolution | |
| CLEN GU4598 | Erasmian Humanism | |
| ENGL GU4885 | Writers on Writing: Fictions, Theories, Risks, and Rituals | |
| Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race | ||
| CSER UN3875 | Performances of Race ＆ Disaster | |
| Film | ||
| FILM GU4112 Auteur Study: Jane Campion | ||
| FILM GU4311 Radical Film and Media | ||
| FILM GU4350 Women's Documentary Across the Globe | ||
| FILM GU4925 Documentary Modes | ||
| French and Romance Philology | ||
| FREN UN3412 | Contemporary French and Francophone Literature: US Goncourt Prize Selection | |
| FREN UN3721 | Female Friendship in Francophone Novels and Cinema | |
| CLFR GU4612 | BD Reportage: The Origin and Aesthetics of Graphic Journalism | |
| CLFR GU4722 | Annie Ernaux: Writing as a Knife | |
| FREN GU4842 | Radical Enlightenment Women | |
| Germanic Languages | ||
| CLYD UN3500 | READINGS IN JEWISH LITERATURE (The Book of Genesis) | |
| GERM UN3991 | Advanced Topics in German Literature (Verteufelt human“: Menschlichkeit und Humanität in Philosophie und Literatur) | |
| CLDT GU4000 | Learned Women from the Low Countries (and beyond) | |
| CLGR GU4821 | Rumor and Media: Technologies, Circulations, and Credence | |
| History | ||
| HIST UN2717 | The Ottoman Empire and the West in the 19th Century | |
| HIST UN3049 | Provinces of the Roman Empire | |
| HIST UN3321 | Solidarity in the Age of Decolonization | |
| HIST UN3363 | Feminist Histories of Gender and Sexuality in Modern Britain | |
| HIST UN3507 | A Trans History of the United States | |
| HIST UN3591 | One Person, One Vote? | |
| HIST UN3608 | Women and Gender in Latin America and the Caribbean | |
| HIST UN3786 | History of African Muslims: Timbuktu and Beyond | |
| HIST GU4082 | Medieval Religion: definitions and concepts | |
| HIST GU4255 | A Global History of East Central Europe Before the Modern Times | |
| HIST GU4279 | A Cultural History of the Soviet Century | |
| FRHS GU4354 | RACIAL HISTORIES OF EUROPE (15th- 21st Centuries) | |
| HIST GU4379 | Ever Closer Union?: Histories of European Integration since 1945 | |
| HIST GU4385 | Rousseau and the Modern Self | |
| HIST GU4405 | The Bible in Early America | |
| HIST GU4439 Harm Reduction and/as Historical Analysis | ||
| HIST GU4528 Power, Place, Politics, and Health: Historical Perspectives | ||
| HIST GU4695 | Urban Waters: ecologies, inequalities, and environmental justice in Latin American cities | |
| HIST GU4716 | Imag(in)ing the Ottoman Empire: A visual history, 18th-20th centuries | |
| HIST GU4872 | North Korean History, Culture and Politics | |
| Human Rights | ||
| HRTS GU4850 | Beyond Human Rights Critique | |
| Jewish Studies | ||
| JWST GU4155 | Auteur Study: Steven Spielberg | |
| JWST GU4158 | Zionist Thought: Center and Periphery | |
| JWST GU4601 | The History of Mizrahi Jews | |
| Latin American and Iberian Cultures | ||
| SPAN UN3894 | Law, Literature, and Gender in the Hispanic World | |
| Linguistics | ||
| LING GU4023 | Semantics | |
| Nepali | ||
| NEPA UN1102 | Elementary Nepali II | |
| Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies | ||
| MDES UN1630 | Introduction to South Asia | |
| MDES UN2046 | Slavery, Race, Racism: Global South Experiences and Debates | |
| MDES UN3030 | Spider-Man and the End of History | |
| MDES GU4220 The Arabic Linguistic Tradition | ||
| MDES GU4952 Ottoman Americans: Immigration History in Comparative Perspective | ||
| Music | ||
| MPP UN1601 | Performance Seminar MasterClass | |
| MUSI UN3105 | Prescribing the Piano: Music, Medicine ＆ The Body | |
| MUSI UN3216 | Piano Literature ＆ Performance: 1900 - Present | |
| MUSI GU4204 | Composing for Dance | |
| MUSI GU4215 | Modular Sound Synthesis | |
| MUSI GU4438 | Music and Global Africa | |
| Philosophy | ||
| PHIL UN3716 | TOPICS IN ETHICS | |
| PHIL UN3872 | Personal Identity in Parallel Universes | |
| PHIL GU4090 | Early Greek Philosophy | |
| PHIL GU4717 | Topics in Moral Psychology (Freud and Philosophy) | |
| Physics | ||
| PHYS UN1151 | Origins and Meaning: Independent Study | |
| Political Science | ||
| POLS UN3622 | Ethnic Conflict | |
| POLS UN3911 | SEMINAR IN POLITCAL THEORY (Liberalism, Community, Culture) | |
| POLS UN3961 | INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR (Trade, Migration, and Climate Politics) | |
| POLS UN3961 | INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR (Deterrence and Bargaining) | |
| POLS GU4242 | Political Economy of the Public Sector | |
| Political Science- Applied Mathematics | ||
| PSAM UN3707 | Persuasion at Scale | |
| Psychology | ||
| PSYC UN1950 | Neuroscience Methods: Cells and Circuits | |
| PSYC UN3434 | Prenatal Programming | |
| PSYC GU4274 | Psychology of Procrastination | |
| Religion | ||
| RELI UN2101 | Religion and the Climate Crisis | |
| RELI UN3107 | Psychoanalysis and the ‘Eew’ Factor | |
| Sinhala | ||
| SINH UN3102 | Literary Sinhala II | |
| Slavic Languages | ||
| RUSS UN3107 | Russian Through Theater | |
| CLRS GU4039 | Chekhov and Others | |
| Sociology | ||
| SOCI UN2501 | THE POLITICS OF MASS INCARCERATION | |
| SOCI GU4049 | Workshop in Gender and Sexuality II | |
| SOCI GU4125 | Carcerality, Law, and Punishment Workshop | |
| Sustainable Development | ||
| SDEV UN2100 | Introduction to Climate Justice | |
| SDEV GU4325 Plants, Animals, and Personhood | ||
| SDEV GU4660 Biodiversity and the Climate Crisis | ||
| SDEV GU4680 Climate and Sustainable Water Systems | ||
| Women's and Gender Studies | ||
| WMST UN3155 | Global Histories of the Trans Present | |
| WMST GU4220 | Bodies of Transformation | |
| Writing | ||
| WRIT UN3039 | A PICTURE A THOUSAND WORDS: COMICS AND COLLAGE | |
| WRIT UN3230 | INTERACTIVE MEMOIR | |
| WRIT UN3231 | AT THE NEW YORKER | |
| WRIT UN3232 | EDITING, REVISING, PITCHING, PUBLISHING | |
| WRIT UN3326 | SURREALISM ＆ PROSE POETRY | |
| WRIT UN3328 | LIVING AT THE MOVIES: THE PERSONA POEM IN FILM AND TV | |
Fall 2024 Newly Approved Courses
Last update: 9/27/24
| Code | Title | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Art History and Archaeology | ||
| AHIS UN2622 | Introduction to East Asian Art: China, Japan, and Korea | |
| AHIS UN3239 | Medieval and Renaissance Venice | |
| AHIS UN3466 | AIDS Is Contemporary | |
| AHIS UN3471 | The Harlem Renaissance ＆ Black Modernism | |
| AHCE W4149 | The Roman Art of Engineering: Traditions of Planning, Construction, and Innovation | |
| AHIS GU4746 | Architecture, Labor, Industry, and the (long) “American Century” | |
| Anthropology | ||
| ANTH UN3812 | Accusing Corpse-forensic trace | |
| Astronomy | ||
| ASTR UN3986 | ASTROSTATISTICS | |
| Chemistry | ||
| CHEM GU4149 | Total Synthesis of Natural Products | |
| Cherokee | ||
| CHKR UN1101 Elementary Cherokee I | ||
| CHKR UN1102 Elementary Cherokee II | ||
| Classics | ||
| CLCV UN3016 | Celebrity and Politics in the Greek and Roman Worlds | |
| CLCV UN3535 | IDENTITY ＆ SOCIETY ANC EGYPT | |
| CLST GU4515 | Connecting Histories: Roman Conquests and Coinage | |
| Comparative Literature and Society | ||
| CPLS GU4227 | Blood, Guts, and Lancets: Anatomy in Nineteenth-Century Fiction | |
| CLPS GU4275 | TRAUMA AND PLEASURE | |
| CPLS GU4330 | ETHICS OF CARE IN FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE CINEMA | |
| Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology | ||
| EEEB UN3330 | Explaining Biodiversity: Niches, Complex Systems, Chaos and Neutral Theory | |
| Ethnicity and Race Studies | ||
| CSER UN3523 | INTRODUCTION TO LATINX STUDIES | |
| Earth and Enviornmental Sciences | ||
| EESC UN3904 | INDEPENDENT RESEARCH IN CLIMATE SYSTEM SCIENCE | |
| East Asian Languages and Cultures | ||
| EARL UN3310 | The Body and/in Performance: Dance ＆ Drama in Tibet ＆ China | |
| HSEA UN3320 | Making in Premodern Japan | |
| KORN GU4103 | Korean Language in Contemporary Pop Culture | |
| EAAS GU4534 | Medieval Travel Writing | |
| HSEA GU4815 | Faith and Empire: Art and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism | |
| HSEA GU4968 | Japan 1968: student protest movements in global historical perspective | |
| English and Comparative Literature | ||
| ENGL UN2100 | Drama Before Shakespeare | |
| ENGL UN3475 Melville's Fiction | ||
| ENGL UN3477 | New Suns: Worlding in Black Speculative Fiction | |
| ENGL UN3485 Black Women Writing the City | ||
| ENGL UN3675 | Transpacific Personalities: The Personal Essay and Immigrant History in Asian American Literature | |
| ENTA UN3708 | Reenactment and Performance in 20th ＆ 21st Centuries | |
| CLEN UN3725 | Literary Guides to Living and Dying Well from Plato to Montaigne | |
| CLEN UN3790 | Caribbean Radicalisms in New York, 1890-1990 | |
| ENGL UN3837 UnLondon: Writing (and Re-Writing) Urban Space | ||
| ENGL GU4559 | August Wilson | |
| ENGL GU4462 | Gender and Resistance in Early Modern Literature | |
| CLEN GU4575 | Source Texts of Postcolonial Vision | |
| CLEN GU4777 | Conspiracy Theory | |
| CLEN GU4899 | Resistance Literature | |
| Film | ||
| FILM UN2530 | Lab in the Video Essay | |
| FILM UN3020 | INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES | |
| FILM GU4111 | Auteur Study: David Lynch and The American Imaginary | |
| FILM GU4945 | Contemporary Russian Media | |
| French | ||
| FREN UN3249 | French Through The Visual Arts | |
| FREN UN3557 | Politics of the Psyche in Postwar France | |
| FREN UN3725 | Asylum/ Asile: Theory and Practice of Asylum Law Through Francophone African Asylum Claims in New York | |
| FREN GU4022 | How to Love: Medieval French and Arabic | |
| FREN GU4028 | French Film Aesthetics | |
| FREN GU4082 | Rebel Literature: Politics and the Novel in the Francophone World (1950-1980) | |
| Germanic Languages | ||
| GERM UN2520 | Intermediate Conversation | |
| GERM UN3458 | Medical Surreal: Doctor and Patient Narratives | |
| CLGR UN3458 | Netflix Culture | |
| CLGR GU4271 | Orientalism and Empire | |
| GERM GU4251 | Kant with Arendt | |
| History | ||
| HIST UN2709 Medieval Middle East | ||
| HIST UN1071 | History of Christianity from the Origins to the Reformation | |
| HIST UN2154 | The British Isles and the British Empire, 1485-1815 | |
| HIST UN2851 | Making Modern Korea | |
| HIST UN3328 | Neoliberal Britain? | |
| HIST UN3927 | Global Histories of Plants and Empire, c. 1500-1800 | |
| HIST GU4298 | Food in Modern East Central Europe: A Cultural and Political History | |
| HIST GU4435 | Democracy and its Technocrats | |
| HIST GU4527 | Topics in U.S. Foreign Relations History | |
| HIST GU4363 | Pascal and the Modern Self | |
| HIST GU4374 | Welfare States and Warfare States, Europe and the United States since c. 1870 | |
| HIST GU4681 | The Nahuas Through Their Sources | |
| HIST GU4721 | Archaeology and Heritage in the Ottoman Lands in the Long 19th Century | |
| HIST GU4736 | Ottoman Westernization and Orientalism in the Long 19th Century | |
| Human Rights | ||
| HRTS GU4011 | Indigenous Rights and Settler Colonialism in North America | |
| HRTS GU4985 | Hum Rights, Activism ＆ US Carceral State | |
| Italian | ||
| CLIA UN3024 | Nationalism in Theory and History | |
| CLIA UN3662 | FORBIDDEN BOOKS? CENSORSHIP AND THE CIRCULATION OF AMERICAN LITERATURE UNDER FASCISM | |
| Jewish Studies | ||
| JWST UN2155 | Music, Sound, and Antisemitism | |
| JWST GU4146 | Between Philosophy and Mysticism: Jewish Thought in the Middle Ages | |
| JWST GU4157 | Israeli Politics in Times of Turmoil | |
| Latin American and Iberian Cultures | ||
| SPAN UN2104 | Intermediate Spanish II: Topics on Climate Discourse | |
| SPAN UN3893 | Latin American ＆ Latinx Speculative Fiction in Arts ＆ Media | |
| Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies | ||
| MDES UN1003 | Premodern Islamic Worlds | |
| MDES UN2044 | Religion and Politics in South Asia | |
| MDES UN3634 | Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Global History of Laughter | |
| MDES UN3970 | MESAAS Research Capstone | |
| MDES GU4059 | Race and Racism in the Global South | |
| MDES GU4060 | Reading Marx Historically | |
| MDES GU4655 | India after 1947: Democracy and Majoritarianism | |
| MDES GU4825 | Indo-Islamic Culture in Literature | |
| Music | ||
| MPP UN1414 | Guitar (Popular-Contemporary) Instruction | |
| MUSI UN2010 | ROCK | |
| MUSI UN3213 | Bach Interpretation for Performers | |
| MUSI UN3326 | Genre in Popular Music | |
| MUSI GU4418 | Music and Fashion | |
| Philosophy | ||
| PHIL UN3912 | SEMINAR (Angels, Demons, and Artificial Intelligence) | |
| Political Science | ||
| POLS UN3124 | Gender and Political Theory | |
| POLS UN3630 | POLITCS OF INTL ECON RELATIONS | |
| POLS UN3720 | RESEARCH DESIGN: SCOPE AND METHODS | |
| POLS UN3951 | COMPARATIVE POLITICS SEMINAR (The Comparative Politics of Migration) | |
| POLS UN3961 International Politics Seminar: War and Peace | ||
| POLS UN3961 International Politics Seminar: Security, Policy, and Democracy | ||
| POLS UN3961 International Politics Seminar: The Art and Science of Civil Resistance | ||
| Psychology | ||
| PSYC UN3461 | Music and Cognitive Neuroscience | |
| PSYC UN3820 | Science of Well-Being ＆ Human Potential | |
| PSYC UN3830 | Psychology and the Internet | |
| PSYC GU4625 | Psychology of Religion | |
| Religion | ||
| RELI UN3020 | Science Saves | |
| RELI UN3413 | Muslims in the West | |
| RELI GU4377 | Islam in the Soviet Union and Successor States | |
| RELI GU4425 | Climate, Religion and Colonialism | |
| RELI GU4621 | Religion and Media | |
| Slavic Languages | ||
| RUSS UN3106 | Voices of (Dis)agreement: Russian Culture In and Outside Russia Today | |
| CLSL GU4029 | Bible, Literature, Theory | |
| Sociology | ||
| SOCI UN3986 | Race, Discrimination, and Racial Inequalities on Both Sides of the Atlantic | |
| SOCI GU4048 | Workshop on Gender ＆ Sexuality I | |
| Sustainable Development | ||
| SDEV GU4501 | History of the Climate Crisis | |
| Visual Arts | ||
| VIAR UN2021 | POPULAR ＆ HISTORICAL GESTURES: FIGURE DRAWING | |
| Women's and Gender Studies | ||
| WMST UN3152 | Queer/Trans Holocaust History | |
| Writing | ||
| WRIT UN3037 | BODY ＆ WORD | |
| WRIT UN3038 | WORD. ARTWORK. MIRROR. MULTIPLY: THE VISUAL ARTS AS A POETICS OF SENTENCE, LINE, AND FORM | |
| WRIT UN3365 | 21STC AM POETRY ＆ ITS CONCERNS | |
Summer 2024 Newly Approved Courses
Last update: 9/27/24
| Code | Title | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Art History and Archaeology | ||
| AHIS OC4032 | Visual Storytelling in Renaissance Venice | |
| AHIS S3427 | Making Medieval New York | |
| Biological Sciences | ||
| BIOL UN1201 | Engineered Mouse Models and Identifying Phenotypes In Vivo | |
| English and Comparative Literature | ||
| ENGL S3399 | Home to Harlem: Literature and Culture of the Harlem Renaissance | |
| ENGL UN3395 The Athlete in American Imagination | ||
| ENGL UN3748 | Modern Western Drama and the History of Acting | |
| Film | ||
| FILM S4040 | US Independent Film | |
| FILM S4042 | Post Production with Resolve | |
| FILM S4043 | Post Production with Avid | |
| FILM OC4330 | Cinema of the Arab World | |
| History | ||
| HIST OC3136 | France and the African Diaspora | |
| HIST OC3994 | The Olympics and the Politics of International Sport | |
| Human Rights | ||
| HRTS S4010 | Indigenous Rights and Settler Colonialism in North America | |
| HRTS S4015 | The UN Human Rights System in the Making | |
| Mathematics | ||
| MATH GU4041 | INTRO MODERN ALGEBRA I | |
| Music | ||
| MUSI GU4135 | Opera in Venice | |
| Political Science | ||
| POLS UN3116 | Borders and Immigration | |
| POLS UN3210 | JUDICIAL POLITICS | |
| POLS UN3919 | Seminar in Political Theory | |
| Psychology | ||
| PSYC S3443 | Neuroscience Practicum: Consciousness (Full Title = Summer Practicum in Neuroscience: Next Gen Scholars of Consciousness) | |
| PSYC S3494 | Gene-Environment Interaction and Epigenetics | |
| PSYC GU4237 | Machine Intelligence | |
| Visual Arts | ||
| VIAR UN1702 | INTRO DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY | |