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: 9/27/24

Art History and Archaeology
AHIS UN3402Introduction to Design History
Comparative Literature and Society
CPLS GU4545 Wittgenstein in the Machine
English and Comparative Literature
ENGL UN3437John Keats
ENGL UN3438Archives and Afterlives in Postcolonial Texts
ENGL UN3439Afro-Asian Literary Imaginaries
ENGL UN3432Places for Poetry
History
HIST UN3321Solidarity in the Age of Decolonization
HIST UN3507A Trans History of the United States
HIST GU4385Rousseau and the Modern Self
HIST GU4695Urban Waters: ecologies, inequalities, and environmental justice in Latin American cities
Jewish Studies
JWST GU4158Zionist Thought: Center and Periphery
Nepali
NEPA UN1102 Elementary Nepali II
Music
MPP UN1601Performance Seminar MasterClass
MUSI UN3105Prescribing the Piano: Music, Medicine & The Body
MUSI UN3216Piano Literature & Performance: 1900 - Present
Philosophy
PHIL UN3872Personal Identity in Parallel Universes
PHIL GU4090Early Greek Philosophy
Slavic Languages
CLRS GU4039Chekhov and Others
Sociology
SOCI UN2501THE POLITICS OF MASS INCARCERATION
SOCI GU4049Workshop in Gender and Sexuality II

 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 GU4135Opera in Venice
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