Newly Approved Courses
Spring 2022 Newly Approved Courses | Fall 2021 Newly Approved Courses | Summer 2021 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 2022 Newly Approved Courses
Last update: 10/18/21
| Code | Title | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | ||
| ANTH UN2141 Frontier Imaginaries | ||
| Art History and Archaeology | ||
| AHIS GU4949 Architecture in the Age of Progress | ||
| Biological Sciences | ||
| BCHM GU4551 A Structural View of Biology | ||
| Comparative Literature and Society | ||
| CPLS UN3231 | Rhetoric of Science: The roles of metaphor and narrative in the scientific enterprise | |
| English and Comparative Literature | ||
| ENTA UN3349 | DISABILITY IN THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE | |
| ENGL UN3389 | AMERICAN EXTINCTIONS: THE MAKING OF THE NEW WORLD | |
| ENTA UN3754 | CRITICAL HISTORIES OF AMERICAN MUSICAL THEATRE | |
| ENTA GU4625 | SHAKESPEARE PERFORMANCE STUDIES | |
| ENGL GU4938 History of Horror | ||
| History | ||
| HIST UN2342 | Britain, Ireland and Empire, 1789-1901 | |
| HIST UN2978 | Science and Pseudoscience: Alchemy to AI | |
| HIST UN3517 The Historical Imagination in Caribbean Literature | ||
| HIST UN3529 | Landscapes of American Modernity, 1880-1940 | |
| HIST UN3572 The Climate Crisis: A History of the Present | ||
| HIST GU4489 Early American Law and Society | ||
| HIST GU4532 Topics in American Civil War and Reconstruction: The Klu Klux Kland and White Supremacy | ||
| HIST GU4711 Occult in the Muslim Past | ||
| HIST GU4723 Politics of Archaeology | ||
| Latin American and Iberian Cultures | ||
| PORT GU4468 | Race, Law, and Culture in Latin America | |
| Music | ||
| MUSI UN2250 Making Noise, Making Music: Composing with DIY, Handmade, and Hacked Electronics | ||
| MUSI UN3127 Bach's Sacred Music | ||
| MUSI GU4407 Songs and Sounds of Protest in Latin America and the Caribbean: Relistening to the 1960s and 1970s | ||
| Religion | ||
| RELI GU4314 Bhatki Texts | ||
| RELI GU4216 | Religion and Capitalism: Faith and the American Market | |
Fall 2021 Newly Approved Courses
Last update: 5/27/21
| Code | Title | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Art History and Archaeology | ||
| AHIS UN2415 | History Painting and Its Afterlives | |
| AHIS UN3017 | Architecture and Deception | |
| AHIS UN3104 | The Art of the Gods: Images of the Divine in the Ancient Mediterranean | |
| AHIS UN3229 | Medieval Monuments and Memory | |
| AHIS UN3614 | Landscape and the Visual Arts in China | |
| AHIS UN3615 | Imperial (Re)Visions: Art and Empire in India | |
| AHIS GU4503 | Planning and Programming An Exhibition, Subject: Childhood | |
| American Studies | ||
| AMST UN3935 | Indigenous Peoples of New York and New England | |
| Anthropology | ||
| ANTH GU4066 | Hydropolitics in Madagascar | |
| ANTH GU4653 | Art beyond Aesthetics: Decolonizing approaches to representation | |
| Biology | ||
| BIOL UN3320 | Regulation of Behaviors for Survival | |
| BIOL GU4036 | Transformative Concepts in Systems Biology | |
| Chemistry | ||
| CHEM GU4164 | Electric Field Effects in Catalysis | |
| Classics | ||
| CLLT UN3126 | Queer Classics: Desire, Embodiment, Backward Glances | |
| CLST UN3041 | The Ancient City and Us: Archaeology of a Relationship | |
| CLGM UN3800 | WRITING RESISTANCE | |
| CLCV GU4160 | Reading Rome in the Middle Ages and Beyond | |
| CLCV GU4180 | Friendship from Antiquity to the Present | |
| CLGM GU4600 | Multilingual America: Translation, Migration, Gender | |
| GRKM GU4821 The Greek Revolution of 1821 and Its Legacies | ||
| Committee on Global Thought | ||
| CGTH GU4200 | Global Food Worlds | |
| Comparative Literature and Society | ||
| CPLS UN3231 | Rhetoric of Science: The roles of metaphor and narrative in the scientific enterprise | |
| Earth and Environmental Sciences | ||
| EESC UN1009 | GLOBAL WARMING FOR GLOBAL LEADERS | |
| EESC UN3109 | CLIMATE PHYSICS | |
| East Asian Languages and Cultures | ||
| CHNS GU4105 | Advanced Chinese Conversation and Composition | |
| EARL GU4328 | Texts, Paintings, and Images of Korean Religions | |
| English and Comparative Literature | ||
| ENTA UN3349 | DISABILITY IN THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE | |
| ENGL UN3387 | AUSTEN, ELIOT, JAMES | |
| ENGL UN3496 | CHARLES DICKENS | |
| ENGL UN3628 | FAULKNER | |
| ENGL UN3642 | LOVE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE | |
| CLEN GU4406 | MEMOIR: LIFE WRITING AND BODILY DIFFERENCE | |
| ENTA GU4672 | RITES IN CRISIS: CONTEMPORARY THEATER AND THE PROBLEM OF REPAIR | |
| French and Romance Philology | ||
| FREN UN3835 | Violence, Politics, and the Graphic Novel | |
| FREN GU4422 | Baudelaire Painter of Modern Life | |
| Germanic Languages | ||
| GERM UN3003 | What is German? Linguistic Variation Across Social and Historical Contexts | |
| CLGR GU4170 | Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain: Morbidity, Modernity and Metaphysics | |
| CLGR GU4252 | What is Fascism? | |
| History | ||
| HIST UN1488 | Indigenous History of North America | |
| HIST UN3164 | Novels of Empire | |
| HIST UN3418 | The Carceral United States | |
| HIST UN3982 | The Quantified State: How Democracy Includes, Excludes, and Governs with Numbers | |
| HIST GU4151 | A Trans-Imperial Society: the History of the Danube River Basin | |
| HIST GU4189 | Composing the Self in Early Modern Europe | |
| HIST GU4301 | Politics and Justice in Latin America through Crime Fiction | |
| HIST GU4512 | Property and Power in 20th Century U.S. | |
| HIST GU4632 | Jews in the Ancient City: Politics and Materiality | |
| Italian | ||
| ITAL UN3669 | Gender/Genre: Italian Renaissance Women Authors | |
| CLIA GU4025 | Italian Migrations | |
| CLIA GU4500 | Mediterranean Humanities | |
| Jewish Studies | ||
| CLYD UN3500 | READINGS IN JEWISH LITERATURE: American Jewish Literature: A survey (Humor: Modern Jewish Literature (ENG)) | |
| Latin American and Iberian Cultures | ||
| SPAN UN3890 | Forensic Fictions in the Premodern Iberian Archive | |
| PORT GU4467 | Race and Decolonial Dialogues in the Americas | |
| SPAN GU4889 | Great Latin American Artists (That Never Existed) | |
| Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies | ||
| MDES UN1030 | “Game of Thrones”: On Epics and Empires | |
| MDES UN2042 | South Asia at the Crossroads of Empires | |
| CLME GU4221 | Literary Encounters and Reading across the Wor(l)ds | |
| MDES GU4266 | Decolonizing the Arabian Nights | |
| Music | ||
| MUSI UN2230 | History and Practice of Electronic Music | |
| MUSI UN3410 | The Multicultural Roots of U.S. Popular Music | |
| MUSI UN3425 | Music, Sound and the Law | |
| Philosophy | ||
| PHIL GU4850 | THE PHILOSOPHY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | |
| Psychology | ||
| COGS UN1001 | Introduction to Cognitive Science | |
| PSYC UN3671 | Motivation Science | |
| Religion | ||
| RELI UN3317 | Deep Tantra: Sex, Violence, Ritual | |
| RELI UN3414 | Changing Places | |
| Slavic Languages | ||
| CLRS GU4214 | The Road to Power: Marxism in Germany and Russia | |
| CLRS GU4214 | The Road to Power: Marxism in Germany and Russia | |
| Sociology | ||
| SOCI GU4983 | The Sociology of Love and Eroticism | |
Summer 2021 Newly Approved Courses
Last update: 3/5/21
| Code | Title | Points |
|---|---|---|
| American Studies | ||
| AMST UN3932 | William James’s Varieties of Religious Experience | |
| Anthropology | ||
| ANTH UN3603 | Religion in Chinese Society | |
| ANTH GU4149 | ART STRIKE: MUSEUM DISSIDENTS ＆ DISSONANCE | |
| ANTH GU4160 Elementary Forms of Populism | ||
| Art History and Archaeology | ||
| AHIS UN2102 | GORE ＆ VIOLENCE IN GREEK ART | |
| AHIS UN3206 | Sacred Travel, Shrines, and Souvenirs in the Medieval World | |
| AHIS UN3321 Modern Titian | ||
| Classics | ||
| CLCV UN3018 | Illness and Healing in the Classical world and beyond | |
| CLGM GU4650 | Hidden emotions, hidden power: mental health in Literature from antiquity to futurity | |
| East Asian Languages and Cultures | ||
| JPNS UN1001 | INTRODUCTORY JAPANESE A | |
| KORN UN1001 | INTRODUCTORY KOREAN A | |
| KORN UN1002 | INTRODUCTORY KOREAN B | |
| CHNS UN1010 | INTRODUCTORY CHINESE A | |
| CHNS UN1011 | INTRODUCTORY CHINESE B | |
| KORN UN1101 | FIRST YEAR KOREAN I | |
| CHNS UN1115 | Accelerated First Year Chinese (W) | |
| TIBT UN1401 First Year Classical Tibetan | ||
| CHNS UN2201 | SECOND YEAR CHINESE N I | |
| EAAS UN3215 | KOREAN LITERATURE ＆ FILM | |
| EAAS UN3343 | JAPANESE CONTEMPORARY CINEMA ＆ MEDIA CULTURE | |
| JPNS UN3402 | JAPANESE POP CULTURE II | |
| HSEA UN3851 | GODS, GHOSTS, AND ANCESTORS: RELIGION IN CHINESE CULTURE AND SOCIETY | |
| CHNS GU4012 | BUSINESS CHINESE I | |
| CHNS GU4015 | MEDIA CHINESE II | |
| CHNS GU4016 | FOURTH YEAR CHINESE II | |
| HSEA GU4251 | A Transpacific Age: China-U.S. Relations in the Long Nineteenth Century | |
| EAAS GU4342 | Pre-1900 Japanese Literature: Through the Lens of Adaptation | |
| HSEA GU4756 | Toward A Social History: Tibetan Societies Across the Himalayan Plateau | |
| EAAS GU4831 | The Supernatural in Modern Japanese Literature and Film | |
| Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology | ||
| EEEB UN3087 | Conservation Biology | |
| EEEB UN3970 Biological Basis of Human Variation | ||
| English and Comparative Literature | ||
| ENGL UN3328 Early American Literature: 1492-1852 | ||
| ENGL UN3494 | THE NOVEL OF SLAVERY | |
| ENGL UN3552 Shakespeare | ||
| ENGL UN3746 Ancient Rome in Early Modern Theater | ||
| ENGL UN3756 Literary Nonfiction | ||
| Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race | ||
| CSER UN3946 | Indigenous Theater, Performance ＆ Politics | |
| CSER UN3947 | Transpacific Media Cultures | |
| CSER UN3948 | Indigenous Language Revitalization in Latin America | |
| Film | ||
| FILM GU4294 | World Cinema: Latin America | |
| FILM GU4305 Digital Storytelling I | ||
| History | ||
| HIST UN3092 | U.S.-Middle East Relations | |
| HIST GU4358 | THEMES IN INTELLECTUAL HIST | |
| HIST GU4945 | SPORT ＆ SOCIETY IN EASTERN EUROPE | |
| HIST GU4962 | Making and Knowing in Early Modern Europe: Hands-On History | |
| Institute for the Study of Human Rights | ||
| HRTS GU4750 Facing the Violent Past: Prevention and Repair | ||
| Jewish Studies | ||
| JWST S4145 | Topics in Israeli Cinema | |
| Journalism | ||
| JOUR S3101 Political Reporting on the Campaign Trail | ||
| JOUR S3102 Journalism in the Age of Activism | ||
| Psychology | ||
| PSYC UN1021 | Science of Psychology: Explorations and Applications | |
| PSYC S1902 Global Bootcamp: Neuroscience of Consciousness | ||
| PSYC UN2481 | Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience | |
| PSYC UN2640 | INTRO TO SOCIAL COGNITION | |
| Slavic Languages | ||
| RUSS UN3221 | LIT ＆ REVOLUTION (20TH C LIT) | |
| UKRN GU4033 Fin de Siecle Ukrainian Literature | ||
| CLRS GU4037 | Poets, Rebels, Exiles: 100 Years of Russians and Rusian Jews in America | |