Newly Approved Courses
Fall 2021 Newly Approved Courses | Summer 2021 Newly Approved Courses | Spring 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.
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 | |
Spring 2021 Newly Approved Courses
Last update: 11/25/20
| Code | Title | Points |
|---|---|---|
| American Studies | ||
| AMST UN3931 | Topics in American Studies (Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Meaning of America) | |
| AMST UN3933 The American Graphic Novel | ||
| Anthropology | ||
| ANTH GU4052 | Post/Socialist Bodies | |
| ANTH GU4378 | Strange Resonances, Close Listening | |
| ANTH GU4349 | Shades of the Political: Anthropological Investigations of Everyday Life in Turkey | |
| Art History and Archaeology | ||
| AHIS GU4521 | Sin and Sodomy | |
| Biological Sciences | ||
| BIOL UN2502 | Foundations for Lab Biology | |
| BIOT GU4161 | ETHICS IN BIOPHARM PAT/REG LAW | |
| Chemistry | ||
| CHEM GU4313 | Peptide and Protein Chemistry | |
| Classics | ||
| CLST UN3030 | Beyond City Limits: Considering the Countryside in the Ancient Roman World | |
| CLST UN3040 | Ethnicity, Power, and Resistance in Ancient Empire | |
| CLCV UN3070 | Polis: the Biography of the Ancient Greek City-State 650 BCE-350 CE | |
| CLLT UN3129 | An Odyssey of Odysseys: Receptions of Homer’s Odyssey from Antiquity to the 21st Century | |
| Institute for Comparative Literature and Society | ||
| CSER UN3305 | Provincializing Prohibition: The “War on Drugs” in the Americas | |
| CPLS GU4323 | Utopia and the Pandemic | |
| CPLS GU4325 | Abolition Medicine: Medical Racisms and Anti-Racisms | |
| CPLS GU4732 | Matters of Life/Death | |
| CLGM GU4550 Greek Poets and their Interluctors | ||
| CPLS GU4800 | Advanced Topics in Medical Humanities (Pandemic and Social Inequality) | |
| Earth and Environmental Sciences | ||
| EESC UN3328 | Glacial Geomorphology | |
| Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology | ||
| EEEB GU4670 | Introduction to Geographical Information Systems | |
| Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race | ||
| CSER UN3041 | The Art ＆ Politics of Memory in Latin America: Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation | |
| CSER UN3304 | Race and Aesthetics in Cinema | |
| CSER UN3964 | Maya Guatemala-Neoliberalism ＆ Resistance | |
| East Asian Languages and Cultures | ||
| BURM UN2102 | Intermediate Burmese II | |
| TWI UN2102 | Intermediate Twi II | |
| TIBT UN2711 | ADVANCED LITERARY TIBETAN II | |
| JPNS UN3402 | JAPANESE POP CULTURE II | |
| EAAS UN3435 | Chinese Revolution, Asian Revolution, World Revolution: Revolution and Radicalism in the Long Twentieth Century | |
| HSEA UN3971 | STATES OF SURVEILLANCE: A GLOBAL HISTORY OF BIG BROTHER | |
| VIET GU4102 | MIXED ADVANCED VIETNAMESE II | |
| EAAS GU4124 | SOUTH KOREAN FILM AS HISTORY | |
| HSEA GU4250 | MADE IN CHINA: CRAFT AND INDUSTRY IN CHINESE HISTORY | |
| HSEA GU4729 | Amdo: The Tibetan, Chinese, Mongolian and Muslim Interface | |
| English and Comparative Literature | ||
| ENGL UN3026 | RENAISSANCE ENGLAND AND THE POETRY OF EXPERIMENT | |
| ENGL UN3048 | British Literature to 1500 | |
| ENGL UN3232 | COUNTERARCHIVES | |
| ENGL UN3482 | LIVES OF PROPERTY IN THE COLONIAL ATLANTIC WORLD | |
| ENGL UN3570 | MODERNISM: STRUGGLE AND UTOPIA | |
| ENGL UN3691 | DESIRE AND DISGUST IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | |
| ENGL UN3789 | AMERICAN NATURE WRITING TO 1900 | |
| ENGL GU4568 Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future | ||
| ENGL GU4821 The Transitions: Trends and Texts of World Transformation | ||
| ENGL GU4836 | BLACK LITERATURE AND VISUAL ART: STUDIES IN COLLABORATION | |
| ENGL GU4975 | PRISON LITERATURE | |
| ENGL GU4931 | NEW YORK INTELLECTUALS: MARY MCCARTHY, HANNAH ARENDT, SUSAN SONTAG | |
| French | ||
| FREN UN3243 | Lang. Culture, Society: La culture pop | |
| FREN UN3762 | Sex, Drugs, and Marxism: France in the 1960's | |
| CLFR OC3821 | CITY DIPLOMACY (This course will be taught in Reid Hall.) | |
| CLFR GU4440 | Remapping Algeria: Poetics and Politics of Space | |
| FREN GU4441 | Classical French Moralists | |
| CLFR GU4521 | The Politics of Memory. Remembrance, Ethics and Identity in France since 1945 | |
| Germanic Languages | ||
| CLYD UN3000 | Do you read Jewish? From Yiddish, to Yinglish, to Yiddler, in the US | |
| History | ||
| HIST UN3269 | From Oracles to Mathematics | |
| HIST UN3702 | Russia’s Silver Age, 1890-1920 | |
| HIST UN3384 | Brazilian Slavery in its Global Context | |
| HIST GU4090 | Craft, Literature, and Data: Hands-on Material and Digital Methods for the Study of How-to Technical Texts | |
| HIST GU4727 | The History of the End of the World | |
| HIST GU4821 | Italy’s Material Culture, 1945-2015 | |
| HIST GU4844 Outlaws in Asian History | ||
| HIST GU4956 | Mesopotamian Culture and Society in the first millennium BCE | |
| Italian | ||
| CLIA GU4024 | Nationalism in Theory and History | |
| Jewish Studies | ||
| JWST UN3538 | Jews in the City in the Islamic Middle East | |
| Latin American and Iberian Cultures | ||
| PORT UN3443 | Visual Cultures and the City | |
| Linguistics | ||
| LING GU4173 | Hyphenated Minds: Heritage Speakers and Their Vocabularies | |
| Mathematics | ||
| MATH GU4392 | INTRO TO QUANTUM MECHANICS II | |
| Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies | ||
| MDES UN3047 | MESAAS ＆ History: Court Cultures 350-1750 | |
| MDES UN3048 | Pandemics: A Global History | |
| MDES GU4239 | Medicine and Disease in the Pre-Modern Islamic World | |
| Music | ||
| MUSI UN3117 | Singing Against Slavery: Five Centuries of Resistance | |
| Philosophy | ||
| PHIL UN3861 | Language ＆ Society | |
| PHIL GU4080 | PLATO | |
| PHIL GU4763 | Feminist, Social and Political Philosophy of Language | |
| Political Science | ||
| POLS UN3112 | GANDHI, KING ＆ POLS OF NONVIOLENCE | |
| POLS UN3177 | REASON AND POLITICS | |
| POLS GU4722 | QUANT METH 2 STAT THEO＆CAUS INF | |
| POLS GU4823 | CHINA AND THE WORLD ECONOMY | |
| Psychology | ||
| PSYC UN1021 | Science of Psychology: Explorations and Applications | |
| PSYC UN2690 | Frontiers of Justice | |
| PSYC GU4224 | Consciousness and Cognitive Science | |
| PSYC GU4493 | Stress and the Brain | |
| PSYC GU4880 | In Service of Equity: Examining Developmental Science through the Lens of Policy | |
| Religion | ||
| RELI UN2335 | RELI IN BLACK AMERICA:AN INTRO | |
| RELI GU4517 | After the Human | |
| Slavic Languages | ||
| SLCL UN3101 | The Slavs: Myths, Literacies and Attitudes | |
| CLRS UN3312 | Thinking Bodies: Literature, Film, Performance | |
| UKRN GU4121 | Agent of Change: Ukrainian Art Between Revolutions | |
| CLSL GU4009 | Hegel: State, History, Freedom | |
| Writing | ||
| WRIT UN3320 | Provocations in Twentieth-Century Poetics | |
| Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality | ||
| WMST UN3655 | Gender and Public Health: Disparities, Pathways, and Policies | |