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.

 Summer 2025 Newly Approved Courses

Last update: 3/28/25

Art History and Archaeology
AHIS S3107Constructing the Sacred in Ancient Greece and Beyond
AHIS S3448Theories, Methods, and Experiments in Art and AI
AHIS OC3472Museums for Paris, 1793–Today
AHIS OC4047Paris Architecture & Urbanism, 1750–1940
Anthropology
ANTH S4750Messiahs, Millennium & Apocalypse
Classics
CLCV UN1007Aristotle and AI: Thinking tools from antiquity to today
GRKM OC3936Columbia Summer Global Core: The Athens Experience
Comparative Literature and Society
CPLS OC34561968 Paris
Earth and Environmental Science
EESC S4921Paleoceanography
East Asian Languages and Cultures
CHNS UN1105First-Year Chinese I
CHNS UN1106First-Year Chinese II
CHNS UN2205Second-Year Chinese I
CHNS UN2206Second-Year Chinese II
CHNS UN3305Third-Year Chinese I
Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
EEEB OC2201Venice Ecology and Sustainability
Economics
ECON UN2261INTRO TO ACCOUNTING & FINANCE
English and Comparative Literature
ENGL UN3699Yaddo: Shaping the American Century
Film
FILM UN3034 Horror Movies and New York
FILM UN3025Narrative Design for Games and Interactive Experiences
FILM UN3045Film Criticism & Story Development
FILM GU4045Augmented Creativity: practical uses of AI in storytelling, art and design
FILM GU4212Hollywood in China
History
HIST UN2679Atlantic Slave Trade
HIST GU4112The European Enlightenment
HIST GU4239War and Peace: Exploring Contemporary Ukraine
HIST GU4699Medieval Franciscans and their World
Human Rights
HRTS GU4260Human Rights and Populism
Music
MUSI UN2335Film Music
Political Science
POLS UN3108Democracy: Theory & Practice
Psychology
PSYC OC2471Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology - Summer
PSYC OC2472Hallucinations: Case Studies in Interdisciplinary Research
PSYC S2830Clinical Psychology
PSYC S3472Psychedelic Neuroscience: From Molecules to Minds
PSYC S4655The science of me, you and us: insights about the nature of wellbeing from basic and clinical research
Religion
RELI UN3881Indigenous Peoples in International Law I
RELI UN3771 Indigenous Enlightenments: Indigenous Religious and Political Thought in the Americas: c. 1400- c.1800
Theatre
THEA S4105Intro to Playwriting
THEA S4106Advanced Playwriting
THEA S4120Introduction to Moment Work
THEA S4122Dramaturgy & Moment Work
THEA S4315Performing Protest in the Americas
Visual Arts
VIAR UN1706Photo Exhibitions
VIAR UN1707PhotoBook History
Writing
WRIT S3043WHAT IS CREATIVE WRITING FOR? PROSE WRITING IN PARIS
WRIT S4324MISFITS AND MISANTHROPES

 Spring 2025 Newly Approved Courses

Last update: 3/28/25

African- American Studies
AFAS UN3002Image Matters: Writing With Photographs from the African Diaspora
AFAS UN3004Introduction to Black Geographies
AFAS UN3005Introduction to Caribbean Art
AFAS UN3006Black Archival Theory and Praxis
AFAS GU4001Revolution and Decolonization in the African Diaspora
AFAS GU4002Writing in the Presence of Ancestors
American Studies
AMST UN3939THE 1980S: A CULTURAL HISTORY
AMST UN3940Versions of the American Dream
Anthropology
ANTH UN2972Unsettling Science: An Introduction to Science, Technology, and Society
ANTH UN3066African American Anthropology
ANTH UN3851Theatricality & the Political
ANTH GU4747Religion in Empire
Art History and Archaeology
AHIS UN2129Before Rome: The Art and Architecture of Italy’s Peoples in the First Millennium BCE
AHIS UN2804Mediterranean Artistic Interactions in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era
AHIS UN3105Sacred Spaces & Divine Images Transformed
AHIS UN3438Land and Landscape
AHIS UN3402Introduction to Design History
AHIS UN3429American Architecture: Skyscrapers & Urbanism
AHIS GU4518Greek Sanctuaries
AHIS GU4534Pastel and the Enlightenment
AHIS GU4856Cities of Knowledge: Mediterranean Artistic Interactions
AHIS GU4946Historicism & Restoration in European Arch.
Classics
GREK UN3016Readings from the Greek New Testament
CLCV UN3069Society and Power in the Hellenistic Age
CLCV UN3090Isiac cults in contexts; Egyptian cults in the Graeco-Roman world
Cognitive Science
COGS UN3951Computational Models of Decision-Making
COGS UN3952Philosophy of Computing
Comparative Literature and Society
CPLS UN3931Life at the End of Life: Palliative Care and Service
CPLS GU4201Advanced Freud Seminar
CPLS GU4375The Poetics of Social Forms: The Legacy of Fredric Jameson
CPLS GU4545Wittgenstein in the Machine
CPLS GU4565Motherhood and Technology: From Conception to Birth
CLPS GU48761001 Nights, Then and Now
Earth and Environmental Sciences
EESC UN1006WHAT'S NEW IN EARTH, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND CLIMATE SCIENCE?
East Asian Languages and Cultures
EAAS UN3720Women in Vietnamese society, history and literature
EAAS GU4134Sex, Power, Performance: Gender in Chinese Literature
EAAS GU4150Childhoods in Modern Japanese Literature
EAAS GU4345Border Thinking in Modern China
EAAS GU4750Exploring "The Tale of Genji": Themes, Contexts, and Aesthetics
Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
EEEB GU4450Ethology and the Evolution of Behavior
English and Comparative Literature
ENGL UN1075Children’s Literature
ENGL UN2792Early Horror
ENGL UN3437John Keats
ENGL UN3438Archives and Afterlives in Postcolonial Texts
ENGL UN3439Afro-Asian Literary Imaginaries
ENGL UN3432Places for Poetry
ENGL UN3444Race, Religion, and Early Modernity
ENGL UN3576U.S. Poetry in the Expanded Field Since 1960
ENGL UN3781Lab Lit, Weird Science, and Speculative Fiction
ENGL UN3884Climate Fictions
ENGL GU4614Ralph Ellison
CLEN GU4578Reading the Haitian Revolution
CLEN GU4598Erasmian Humanism
ENGL GU4885Writers on Writing: Fictions, Theories, Risks, and Rituals
Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
CSER UN3875Performances of Race & Disaster
Film
FILM GU4112Auteur Study: Jane Campion
FILM GU4311Radical Film and Media
FILM GU4350Women's Documentary Across the Globe
FILM GU4925Documentary Modes
French and Romance Philology
FREN UN3412Contemporary French and Francophone Literature: US Goncourt Prize Selection
FREN UN3608Literature and Painting
FREN OC3609Literature and Prostitution
FREN UN3721Female Friendship in Francophone Novels and Cinema
CLFR GU4612Comics in the World: Graphic Albums & Current Events
CLFR GU4722Annie Ernaux: Writing as a Knife
FREN GU4842Radical Enlightenment Women
Germanic Languages
CLYD UN3500READINGS IN JEWISH LITERATURE (The Book of Genesis)
GERM UN3991Advanced Topics in German Literature (Verteufelt human“: Menschlichkeit und Humanität in Philosophie und Literatur)
CLDT GU4000Learned Women from the Low Countries (and beyond)
CLGR GU4821Rumor and Media: Technologies, Circulations, and Credence
History
HIST UN2717The Ottoman Empire and the West in the 19th Century
HIST UN3049Provinces of the Roman Empire
HIST UN3297Between Empire and Nation: Ukraine, 1772-1917
HIST UN3321Solidarity in the Age of Decolonization
HIST UN3363Feminist Histories of Gender and Sexuality in Modern Britain
HIST UN3507A Trans History of the United States
HIST UN3591One Person, One Vote?
HIST UN3608Women and Gender in Latin America and the Caribbean
HIST UN3786History of African Muslims: Timbuktu and Beyond
HIST GU4082Medieval Religion: definitions and concepts
HIST GU4237Resources and Regimes: Environmental Histories of Central Europe
HIST GU4239War and Peace: Exploring Contemporary Ukraine
HIST GU4255A Global History of East Central Europe Before the Modern Times
HIST GU4279A Cultural History of the Soviet Century
FRHS GU4354RACIAL HISTORIES OF EUROPE (15th- 21st Centuries)
HIST GU4379Ever Closer Union?: Histories of European Integration since 1945
HIST GU4385Rousseau and the Modern Self
HIST GU4405The Bible in Early America
HIST GU4439 Harm Reduction and/as Historical Analysis
HIST GU4528 Power, Place, Politics, and Health: Historical Perspectives
HIST GU4695Urban Waters: ecologies, inequalities, and environmental justice in Latin American cities
HIST GU4716Imag(in)ing the Ottoman Empire: A visual history, 18th-20th centuries
HIST GU4872North Korean History, Culture and Politics
Humanities
HUMA UN3000Practices in Community Building
Human Rights
HRTS GU4850Beyond Human Rights Critique
Jewish Studies
JWST GU4155Auteur Study: Steven Spielberg
JWST GU4158Zionist Thought: Center and Periphery
JWST GU4601The History of Mizrahi Jews
Latin American and Iberian Cultures
SPAN UN3894Law, Literature, and Gender in the Hispanic World
Linguistics
LING GU4023Semantics
Nepali
NEPA UN1102Elementary Nepali II
Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
MDES UN1630Introduction to South Asia
MDES UN2046Slavery, Race, Racism: Global South Experiences and Debates
MDES UN3030Spider-Man and the End of History
MDES GU4220The Arabic Linguistic Tradition
MDES GU4952Leaving the Ottoman Empire: Ottoman Americans
Music
MPP UN1601Performance Seminar MasterClass
MUSI UN3105Prescribing the Piano: Music, Medicine & The Body
MUSI UN3216Piano Literature & Performance: 1900 - Present
MUSI GU4204Composing for Dance
MUSI GU4215Modular Sound Synthesis
MUSI GU4438Music and Global Africa
Philosophy
PHIL UN3716TOPICS IN ETHICS
PHIL UN3872Personal Identity in Parallel Universes
PHIL GU4090Early Greek Philosophy
PHIL GU4717Topics in Moral Psychology (Freud and Philosophy)
Physics
PHYS UN1151Origins and Meaning: Independent Study
Political Science
POLS UN3622Ethnic Conflict
POLS UN3911SEMINAR IN POLITCAL THEORY (Liberalism, Community, Culture)
POLS UN3961INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR (Trade, Migration, and Climate Politics)
POLS UN3961INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR (Deterrence and Bargaining)
POLS GU4242Political Economy of the Public Sector
Political Science- Applied Mathematics
PSAM UN3707Persuasion at scale: causal inference, machine learning, and evidence-based understanding of the information environment
Psychology
PSYC UN1950Neuroscience Methods: Cells and Circuits
PSYC UN3434Prenatal Programming
PSYC GU4274Psychology of Procrastination
Religion
RELI UN2101Religion and the Climate Crisis
RELI UN3107Psychoanalysis and the ‘Eew’ Factor
Sinhala
SINH UN3102Literary Sinhala II
Slavic Languages
RUSS UN3107Russian Through Theater
CLRS GU4039Chekhov and Others
Sociology
SOCI UN2501THE POLITICS OF MASS INCARCERATION
SOCI UN3943Life on Mars: Building a New Society in Space
SOCI GU4049Workshop in Gender and Sexuality II
SOCI GU4125Carcerality, Law, and Punishment Workshop
Sustainable Development
SDEV UN2100Introduction 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 UN3155Global Histories of the Trans Present
WMST GU4220Bodies of Transformation
Writing
WRIT UN3039A PICTURE A THOUSAND WORDS: COMICS AND COLLAGE
WRIT UN3230INTERACTIVE MEMOIR
WRIT UN3231AT THE NEW YORKER
WRIT UN3232EDITING, REVISING, PITCHING, PUBLISHING
WRIT UN3326SURREALISM & PROSE POETRY
WRIT UN3328LIVING AT THE MOVIES: THE PERSONA POEM IN FILM AND TV

 Fall 2024 Newly Approved Courses

Last update: 9/27/24

Art History and Archaeology
AHIS UN2622Introduction to East Asian Art: China, Japan, and Korea
AHIS UN3239Medieval and Renaissance Venice
AHIS UN3466AIDS Is Contemporary
AHIS UN3471The Harlem Renaissance & Black Modernism
AHCE W4149The Roman Art of Engineering: Traditions of Planning, Construction, and Innovation
AHIS GU4746Architecture, Labor, Industry, and the (long) “American Century”
Anthropology
ANTH UN3812Accusing Corpse-forensic trace
Astronomy
ASTR UN3986ASTROSTATISTICS
Chemistry
CHEM GU4149Total Synthesis of Natural Products
Cherokee
CHKR UN1101 Elementary Cherokee I
CHKR UN1102 Elementary Cherokee II
Classics
CLCV UN3016Celebrity and Politics in the Greek and Roman Worlds
CLCV UN3535IDENTITY & SOCIETY ANC EGYPT
CLST GU4515Connecting Histories: Roman Conquests and Coinage
Comparative Literature and Society
CPLS GU4227Blood, Guts, and Lancets: Anatomy in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
CLPS GU4275TRAUMA AND PLEASURE
CPLS GU4330ETHICS OF CARE IN FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE CINEMA
Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
EEEB UN3330Explaining Biodiversity: Niches, Complex Systems, Chaos and Neutral Theory
Ethnicity and Race Studies
CSER UN3523INTRODUCTION TO LATINX STUDIES
Earth and Enviornmental Sciences
EESC UN3904INDEPENDENT RESEARCH IN CLIMATE SYSTEM SCIENCE
East Asian Languages and Cultures
EARL UN3310The Body and/in Performance: Dance & Drama in Tibet & China
HSEA UN3320Making in Premodern Japan
KORN GU4103Korean Language in Contemporary Pop Culture
EAAS GU4534Medieval Travel Writing
HSEA GU4815Faith and Empire: Art and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism
HSEA GU4968Japan 1968: student protest movements in global historical perspective
English and Comparative Literature
ENGL UN2100Drama Before Shakespeare
ENGL UN3475 Melville's Fiction
ENGL UN3477New Suns: Worlding in Black Speculative Fiction
ENGL UN3485 Black Women Writing the City
ENGL UN3675Transpacific Personalities: The Personal Essay and Immigrant History in Asian American Literature
ENTA UN3708Reenactment and Performance in 20th & 21st Centuries
CLEN UN3725Literary Guides to Living and Dying Well from Plato to Montaigne
CLEN UN3790Caribbean Radicalisms in New York, 1890-1990
ENGL UN3837 UnLondon: Writing (and Re-Writing) Urban Space
ENGL GU4559August Wilson
ENGL GU4462Gender and Resistance in Early Modern Literature
CLEN GU4575Source Texts of Postcolonial Vision
CLEN GU4777Conspiracy Theory
CLEN GU4899Resistance Literature
Film
FILM UN2530Lab in the Video Essay
FILM UN3020INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES
FILM GU4111Auteur Study: David Lynch and The American Imaginary
FILM GU4945Contemporary Russian Media
French
FREN UN3249French Through The Visual Arts
FREN UN3557Politics of the Psyche in Postwar France
FREN UN3725Asylum/ Asile: Theory and Practice of Asylum Law Through Francophone African Asylum Claims in New York
FREN GU4022How to Love: Medieval French and Arabic
FREN GU4028French Film Aesthetics
FREN GU4082Rebel Literature: Politics and the Novel in the Francophone World (1950-1980)
Germanic Languages
GERM UN2520Intermediate Conversation
GERM UN3458Medical Surreal: Doctor and Patient Narratives
CLGR UN3458Netflix Culture
CLGR GU4271Orientalism and Empire
GERM GU4251Kant with Arendt
History
HIST UN2709 Medieval Middle East
HIST UN1071History of Christianity from the Origins to the Reformation
HIST UN2154The British Isles and the British Empire, 1485-1815
HIST UN2851Making Modern Korea
HIST UN3328Neoliberal Britain?
HIST UN3927Global Histories of Plants and Empire, c. 1500-1800
HIST GU4298Food in Modern East Central Europe: A Cultural and Political History
HIST GU4435Democracy and its Technocrats
HIST GU4527Topics in U.S. Foreign Relations History
HIST GU4363Pascal and the Modern Self
HIST GU4374Welfare States and Warfare States, Europe and the United States since c. 1870
HIST GU4681The Nahuas Through Their Sources
HIST GU4721Archaeology and Heritage in the Ottoman Lands in the Long 19th Century
HIST GU4736Ottoman Westernization and Orientalism in the Long 19th Century
Human Rights
HRTS GU4011Indigenous Rights and Settler Colonialism in North America
HRTS GU4985Hum Rights, Activism & US Carceral State
Italian
CLIA UN3024Nationalism in Theory and History
CLIA UN3662FORBIDDEN BOOKS? CENSORSHIP AND THE CIRCULATION OF AMERICAN LITERATURE UNDER FASCISM
Jewish Studies
JWST UN2155Music, Sound, and Antisemitism
JWST GU4146Between Philosophy and Mysticism: Jewish Thought in the Middle Ages
JWST GU4157Israeli Politics in Times of Turmoil
Latin American and Iberian Cultures
SPAN UN2104Intermediate Spanish II: Topics on Climate Discourse
SPAN UN3893Latin American & Latinx Speculative Fiction in Arts & Media
Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
MDES UN1003Premodern Islamic Worlds
MDES UN2044Religion and Politics in South Asia
MDES UN3634Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Global History of Laughter
MDES UN3970MESAAS Research Capstone
MDES GU4059Race and Racism in the Global South
MDES GU4060Reading Marx Historically
MDES GU4655India after 1947: Democracy and Majoritarianism
MDES GU4825Indo-Islamic Culture in Literature
Music
MPP UN1414Guitar (Popular-Contemporary) Instruction
MUSI UN2010ROCK
MUSI UN3213Bach Interpretation for Performers
MUSI UN3326Genre in Popular Music
MUSI GU4418Music and Fashion
Philosophy
PHIL UN3912SEMINAR (Angels, Demons, and Artificial Intelligence)
Political Science
POLS UN3124Gender and Political Theory
POLS UN3630POLITCS OF INTL ECON RELATIONS
POLS UN3720RESEARCH DESIGN: SCOPE AND METHODS
POLS UN3951COMPARATIVE 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 UN3461Music and Cognitive Neuroscience
PSYC UN3820Science of Well-Being & Human Potential
PSYC UN3830Psychology and the Internet
PSYC GU4625Psychology of Religion
Religion
RELI UN3020Science Saves
RELI UN3413Muslims in the West
RELI GU4377Islam in the Soviet Union and Successor States
RELI GU4425Climate, Religion and Colonialism
RELI GU4621Religion and Media
Slavic Languages
RUSS UN3106Voices of (Dis)agreement: Russian Culture In and Outside Russia Today
CLSL GU4029Bible, Literature, Theory
Sociology
SOCI UN3986Race, Discrimination, and Racial Inequalities on Both Sides of the Atlantic
SOCI GU4048Workshop on Gender & Sexuality I
Sustainable Development
SDEV GU4501History of the Climate Crisis
Visual Arts
VIAR UN2021POPULAR & HISTORICAL GESTURES: FIGURE DRAWING
Women's and Gender Studies
WMST UN3152Queer/Trans Holocaust History
Writing
WRIT UN3037BODY & WORD
WRIT UN3038WORD. ARTWORK. MIRROR. MULTIPLY: THE VISUAL ARTS AS A POETICS OF SENTENCE, LINE, AND FORM
WRIT UN336521STC AM POETRY & ITS CONCERNS

 Summer 2024 Newly Approved Courses

Last update: 9/27/24

Art History and Archaeology
AHIS OC4032Visual Storytelling in Renaissance Venice
AHIS S3427Making Medieval New York
Biological Sciences
BIOL UN1201Engineered Mouse Models and Identifying Phenotypes In Vivo
English and Comparative Literature
ENGL S3399Home to Harlem: Literature and Culture of the Harlem Renaissance
ENGL UN3395 The Athlete in American Imagination
ENGL UN3748Modern Western Drama and the History of Acting
Film
FILM S4040US Independent Film
FILM S4042Post Production with Resolve
FILM S4043Post Production with Avid
FILM OC4330Cinema of the Arab World
History
HIST OC3136France and the African Diaspora
HIST OC3994The Olympics and the Politics of International Sport
Human Rights
HRTS S4010Indigenous Rights and Settler Colonialism in North America
HRTS S4015The UN Human Rights System in the Making
Mathematics
MATH GU4041INTRO MODERN ALGEBRA I
Music
MUSI GU4135
Political Science
POLS UN3116Borders and Immigration
POLS UN3210JUDICIAL POLITICS
POLS UN3919Seminar in Political Theory
Psychology
PSYC S3443Neuroscience Practicum: Consciousness (Full Title = Summer Practicum in Neuroscience: Next Gen Scholars of Consciousness)
PSYC S3494Gene-Environment Interaction and Epigenetics
PSYC GU4237Machine Intelligence
Visual Arts
VIAR UN1702INTRO DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY