Global Core
The Global Core requirement asks students to engage directly with the variety of civilizations and the diversity of traditions that, along with the West, have formed the world and continue to interact in it today. Courses in the Global Core typically explore the cultures of Africa, Asia, the Americas, and the Middle East in an historical context. These courses are organized around a set of primary materials produced in these traditions and may draw from texts or other forms of media, as well as from oral sources or performance, broadly defined.
Global Core courses fall into two categories, and can be, on occasion, a hybrid of the two types: those with a comparative, multidisciplinary, or interdisciplinary focus on specific cultures or civilizations, tracing their existence across a significant span of time, and may include Europe and/or the U.S.; and those that address a common theme or set of analytic questions comparatively (and may include Europe and the U.S.). The Global Core requirement consists of courses that examine areas not the primary focus of Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilization and that, like other Core courses, are broadly introductory, interdisciplinary, and temporally and/or spatially expansive.
All GS students must complete two courses from the List of Approved Global Core Courses for a letter grade. Columbia students who study abroad in an approved program and who take a course that fulfills the aims of the Global Core may petition to have the course count toward the Global Core requirement. For more information on the petition process, the petition application, and specific deadlines, please refer to the relevant section of the GS Study Abroad page.
Global Core Navigator
The Global Core Navigator is a sortable list which allows students to search for approved Global Core courses based on academic approach, region, temporal period, and academic department.
Spring 2025
Last update: 11/20/24
| Code | Title | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | ||
| ANTH UN1008 | THE RISE OF CIVILIZATION | |
| ANTH UN3465 | WOMEN, GENDER POL-MUSLIM WORLD | |
| ANTH UN3947 | TEXT, MAGIC, PERFORMANCE | |
| Art History and Archaeology | ||
| AHUM UN2604 | ARTS OF CHINA, JAPAN AND KOREA | |
| Center for the Core Curriculum | ||
| LACV UN1020 | PRIM TEXTS OF LATIN AMER CIV | |
| Classics | ||
| CLCV UN2441 | EGYPT IN CLASSICAL WORLD | |
| CLCV UN3069 | Society and Power in the Hellenistic Age (Effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
| CLGM UN3920 | WORLD RESPONDS TO THE GREEKS | |
| CLGM GU4600 | Multilingual America: Translation, Migration, Gender | |
| Comparative Literature and Society | ||
| CLGM UN3110 | THE OTTOMAN PAST IN THE GREEK PRESENT | |
| Dance | ||
| DNCE BC2565 | WORLD DANCE HISTORY | |
| East Asian Languages and Cultures | ||
| ASCE UN1361 | INTRO EAST ASIAN CIV: JPN | |
| ASCE UN1363 | INTRO TO EAST ASIAN CIV: KOREA | |
| AHUM UN1400 | COLLOQUIUM ON MAJOR TEXTS | |
| EAAS UN2844 | CULTURE, MENTAL HEALTH, AND HEALING IN EAST ASIA (formerly EAAS UN3844; new course number effective Spring 2025) | |
| EARL UN3310 | The Body and/in Performance: Dance ＆ Drama in Tibet ＆ China (Effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
| EAAS UN3322 | EAST ASIAN CINEMA | |
| EAAS UN3720 | Women in Vietnamese society, history and literature (Effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
| EAAS GU4134 | Sex, Power, Performance: Gender in Chinese Literature (Effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
| EAAS GU4565 | TIBET IN THE WORLD: CULTURAL PRODUCTION AND SOCIAL CHANGE | |
| HSEA GU4847 | MODERN JAPAN | |
| Economics | ||
| ECON GU4325 | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF JAPAN | |
| French and Romance Philology | ||
| FREN OC3719 | VIOLENCE BY AND AGAINST WOMEN (This course is offered in Reid Hall, Paris.) | |
| Germanic Languages | ||
| GERM UN3780 | BERL/ISTANBUL:MIGRATN,CLTR,VAL | |
| History | ||
| HIST UN1004 | ANCIENT HISTORY OF EGYPT | |
| HIST UN1942 | The Year 1000: A World History | |
| HIST UN2444 | THE VIETNAM WAR | |
| HIST UN3608 | Women and Gender in Latin America and the Caribbean (Effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
| HSEA UN3898 | THE MONGOLS IN HISTORY | |
| HIST GU4811 | Encounters with Nature: The History and Politics of Environment, Health and Development in South Asia and Beyond | |
| Italian | ||
| CLIA GU4500 | Mediterranean Humanities II | |
| Latin American and Iberian Cultures | ||
| SPJS UN3303 | JEWISH CULTURE IN TRANSL IN MED IBERIA | |
| SPAN UN3349 | HISPANIC CULTURES I (SP) | |
| SPAN UN3350 | HISPANIC CULTURES II (SP) | |
| SPAN UN3361 | ARTISTIC HUMANITY | |
| SPAN UN3489 | Staging Revolt: Masses, Multitudes ＆ Political Performance in the Hispanic World (Effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
| SPAN UN3894 | Law, Literature, and Gender in the Hispanic World (Effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
| Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies | ||
| AHUM UN1399 | COLLOQUIUM ON MAJOR TEXTS: MIDDLE EAST/INDIA | |
| MDES UN1630 | Introduction to South Asia (Effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
| MDES UN2650 | GANDHI ＆ HIS INTERLOCUTORS | |
| MDES UN3260 | RETHINKING MIDDLE EAST POLITCS | |
| MDES UN3930 | Iraq: War, Love, and Exile | |
| MDES GU4259 | War Narrative: The Arab World | |
| MDES GU4637 | Cinema and Colonialism in South Asia | |
| Music | ||
| AHMM UN3320 | MUSIC IN EAST ASIA | |
| MUSI GU4438 | Music and Global Africa (Effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
| Religion | ||
| RELI UN2309 | HINDUISM | |
| RELI UN3314 | QURAN | |
| RELI GU4999 | GLOBAL INDIGENOUS RELIGIOUS HISTORIES | |
| Slavic Languages | ||
| SLCL GU4002 | Folklore Past and Present | |
| GEOR GU4042 | Expressive Culture of Soviet and Independent Georgia | |
| Urban Studies | ||
| URBS UN3351 | URBAN ELSEWHERES: EXPLORING A WORLD OF CITIES | |
Fall 2024
Last update: 9/10/24
| Code | Title | Points |
|---|---|---|
| African- American Studies | ||
| AFAS UN1001 | INTRO TO AFRICAN-AMER STUDIES | |
| Anthropology | ||
| ANHS GU4001 | THE ANCIENT EMPIRES | |
| Art History and Archaeology | ||
| AHIS UN2622 | Introduction to East Asian Art: China, Japan, and Korea | |
| Center for the Core Curriculum | ||
| AFCV UN1020 | AFRICAN CIVILIZATION | |
| LACV UN1020 | PRIM TEXTS OF LATIN AMER CIV | |
| Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race | ||
| CSER UN1010 | INTRO TO COMP ETHNIC STUDIES | |
| CSER UN3922 | RACE＆REPRESENTATION IN ASIAN AMER CINEMA | |
| CSER UN3926 | LATIN MUSIC AND IDENTITY | |
| CSER UN3928 | COLONIZATION/DECOLONIZATION | |
| Classics | ||
| CPLS UN3454 | STAGING THE EARLY MOD MEDITERR | |
| CLCV UN3535 | IDENTITY ＆ SOCIETY ANC EGYPT (Effective beginning Fall 2024) | |
| CSGM UN3567 | THESSALONIKI DOWN THE AGES | |
| GRKM UN3935 | Hellenism and the Topographical Imagination | |
| Committee on Global Thought | ||
| CGTH UN3401 | Seminar in Global Thought: Inquiries into an Interconnected World | |
| Dance- Barnard | ||
| DNCE BC3567 | DANCES OF INDIA | |
| East Asian Languages and Cultures | ||
| ASCE UN1002 | INTRO MAJOR TPCS: EAST ASIAN | |
| ASCE UN1359 | INTRO TO EAST ASIAN CIV: CHINA | |
| ASCE UN1365 | INTRO EAST ASIAN CIV: TIBET | |
| ASCE UN1367 | INTRO EA CIV: VIETNAM | |
| AHUM UN1400 | COLLOQUIUM ON MAJOR TEXTS | |
| EAAS UN3710 | FICTION, FILM, AND MODERN VIETNAM (Effective beginning Fall 2024) | |
| AHUM UN3830 | COLL ON MODERN EAST ASIA TEXTS | |
| EAAS UN3927 | CHINA IN THE MODERN WORLD | |
| EAAS GU4534 | Medieval Travel Writing | |
| HSEA GU4880 | HISTORY OF MODERN CHINA I | |
| HSEA GU4968 | Japan 1968: student protest movements in global historical perspective | |
| English and Comparative Literature | ||
| ENGL UN3794 | Trees | |
| CLEN GU4199 | LITERATURE AND OIL | |
| Film Studies | ||
| FILM UN2294 | WORLD CINEMA: LATIN AMERICA | |
| French and Romance Philology | ||
| CLFR OC3821 | CITY DIPLOMACY (Offered abroad in Reid Hall, Paris.) | |
| FREN GU4022 | How to Love: Medieval French and Arabic | |
| History | ||
| HIST UN2618 | The Modern Caribbean | |
| HIST UN2660 | LATIN AMERICAN CIVILIZATION I | |
| HIST UN2709 Medieval Middle East | ||
| HIST UN2719 | HISTORY OF THE MOD MIDDLE EAST | |
| HSWM UN2761 | GENDER ＆ SEXUALITY IN AFRICA | |
| HSME UN2810 | HISTORY OF SOUTH ASIA I | |
| HIST GU4681 | The Nahuas Through Their Sources | |
| Italian | ||
| CLIA GU4499 | Mediterranean Humanities I | |
| Jewish Studies | ||
| JWST GU4145 | Topics in Israeli Cinema | |
| Latin American Iberian Cultures | ||
| SPAN UN3349 | HISPANIC CULTURES I (SP) | |
| SPAN UN3350 | HISPANIC CULTURES II (SP) | |
| PORT UN3490 | BRAZILIAN SOCIETY ＆ CIV (ENG) | |
| Linguistics | ||
| LING UN3102 | Endangered Languages in the Global City: Lang, Culture, and Migration in Contempary NYC | |
| Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies | ||
| MDES UN1003 | Premodern Islamic Worlds | |
| MDES UN1030 | “Game of Thrones”: On Epics and Empires | |
| AHUM UN1399 | COLLOQUIUM ON MAJOR TEXTS: MIDDLE EAST/INDIA | |
| MDES UN2042 | South Asia at the Crossroads of Empires | |
| ASCM UN2357 | INTRO TO INDIAN CIVILIZATION | |
| CLME UN3928 | ARABIC PRISON WRITING | |
| CLME GU4226 | ARABIC AUTOBIOGRAPHY GLOBAL DIMENSIONS | |
| Music | ||
| MUSI UN2020 | SALSA, SOCA ＆ REGGAE | |
| AHMM UN3321 | MUSICS OF INDIA ＆ WEST ASIA | |
| Physics | ||
| SCNC UN3001 | Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Testing: Marshall Islands | |
| Religion | ||
| RELI UN2306 | INTRO TO JUDAISM | |
| RELI UN2308 | BUDDHISM: EAST ASIAN | |
| RELI UN2405 | CHINESE RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS | |
| Slavic Languages | ||
| RUSS UN3230 | Tricksters in World Culture: Mockery, Subversion, Rebellion | |
| SLCL UN3100 | FOLKLORE PAST ＆ PRESENT | |
| CLSL GU4012 | Holocaust Literature: Critical Thinking in Dark Times | |
| Theatre | ||
| THTR UN3154 | THEATRE TRAD GLOBAL CONTEXT | |
| Women's Studies (Reid Hall, Paris) | ||
| WMST OC3550 | WOMEN ＆ SOCIETY - SEX-TRADE ECONOMY | |
All Approved Courses: Morningside Campus
Last update: 11/20/24
Note: Not all courses are taught each academic year. Below is the full list of all courses offered on the Morningside Campus that are approved for the Global Core requirement, regardless of semester offered.
| Code | Title | Points |
|---|---|---|
| African-American Studies | ||
| AFAS UN1001 | INTRO TO AFRICAN-AMER STUDIES | |
| AFAS UN1003 | Blackness and Frenchness: A Radical Genealogy (Effective beginning Spring 2023) | |
| Anthropology | ||
| ANTH UN1008 | THE RISE OF CIVILIZATION | |
| ANTH V1130 | Africa and the Anthropologist | |
| ANTH UN2007 | Indian and Nigerian Film Cultures | |
| ANTH V2013 | Africa in the 21st Century: Aesthetics, Culture, Politics | |
| ANTH V2014 | Archaeology and Africa: Changing Perceptions of the African Past | |
| ANTH V2020 | Chinese Strategies: Cultures in Practice | |
| ANTH V2027 | Changing East Asia Foodways | |
| ANTH UN2031 | Corpse Life: Anthropological Histories of the Dead [Previously Archaeologies of Death and | |
| ANTH V2035 | Introduction to the Anthropology of South Asia | |
| ANTH V2100 | Muslim Societies | |
| ANTH UN2141 | Frontier Imaginaries (Effective begining Spring 2022) | |
| ANTH UN3300 | Pre-Columbian Histories of Native America | |
| ANTH UN3465 | WOMEN, GENDER POL-MUSLIM WORLD | |
| ANTH V3525 | Introduction to South Asian History and Culture | |
| ANTH UN3821 | Native America | |
| ANTH V3892 | CONTEMP CENT ASIA:STATES ＆ SOC | |
| ANTH UN3933 | ARABIA IMAGINED | |
| ANTH UN3947 | TEXT, MAGIC, PERFORMANCE | |
| ANHS GU4001 | THE ANCIENT EMPIRES | |
| ANTH G4065 | Archaeology of Idols | |
| Art History and Archaeology | ||
| AHIS UN2119 | ROME BEYOND ROME | |
| AHIS UN2500 | ARTS OF AFRICA | |
| AHIS UN2600 | THE ARTS OF CHINA | |
| AHUM UN2604 | ARTS OF CHINA, JAPAN AND KOREA | |
| AHIS UN2614 | Chinese Painting of the Song Dynasty (960-1279) (Effective beginning Summer 2021) | |
| AHIS UN2622 | Introduction to East Asian Art: China, Japan, and Korea (Effective beginning Fall 2024) | |
| AHUM UN2800 | Arts of Islam, 700-1000 CE | |
| AHUM UN2802 | Arts of Islam: Realignments of Empire and State (ca. 1000-1400) | |
| AHUM UN2901 | MASTERPIECES-INDIAN ART ＆ ARCH | |
| AHIS W3500 | Yoruba and the Diaspora | |
| AHIS UN3501 | African Art: The Next Generation. Focus: Congo | |
| AHIS UN3503 | Contemporary Arts of Africa (Effective beginning fall 2020) | |
| AHIS W3832 | Sacred Landscapes of the Ancient Andes | |
| AHIS Q4570 | Andean Art and Architecture | |
| AHIS GU4584 | Critical Approaches to Persianate Painting | |
| Center for the Core Curriculum | ||
| AFCV UN1020 | AFRICAN CIVILIZATION | |
| LACV UN1020 | PRIM TEXTS OF LATIN AMER CIV | |
| Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race | ||
| CSER UN1010 | INTRO TO COMP ETHNIC STUDIES | |
| CSER W3510 | Novels of Immigration, Relocation, and Diaspora | |
| CSER UN3922 | RACE＆REPRESENTATION IN ASIAN AMER CINEMA | |
| CSER UN3926 | LATIN MUSIC AND IDENTITY | |
| CSER UN3928 | COLONIZATION/DECOLONIZATION | |
| Classics | ||
| CLCV UN2441 | EGYPT IN CLASSICAL WORLD | |
| CLCV UN3059 | WORLDS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT | |
| CLCV UN3069 | Society and Power in the Hellenistic Age (Effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
| CLCV W3111 | Plato and Confucius: Comparative Ancient Philosophies | |
| CLCV W3244 | Global Histories of the Book | |
| CLCV UN3535 | IDENTITY ＆ SOCIETY ANC EGYPT (Effective beginning Fall 2024) | |
| CSGM UN3567 | THESSALONIKI DOWN THE AGES | |
| CLGM UN3920 | WORLD RESPONDS TO THE GREEKS | |
| GRKM UN3935 | Hellenism and the Topographical Imagination | |
| CLCV GU4411 | Egypt in the Classical World (Effective beginning Spring 2020) | |
| CLGM GU4600 | Multilingual America: Translation, Migration, Gender (Effective beginning Fall 2021) | |
| Colloquia and Interdepartmental Seminars | ||
| INSM UN3920 | NOBILITY/CIVILITY: EAST/WEST I | |
| INSM UN3921 | Nobility and Civility II | |
| INSM C3940 | Science Across Cultures | |
| INSM W3950 | Friendship in Asian and Western Civilization | |
| Committee on Global Thought | ||
| CGTH UN3401 | Seminar in Global Thought: Inquiries into an Interconnected World | |
| CGTH UN3402 | YOUTH-INTERCONNECTED WRLD | |
| Comparative Literature and Society | ||
| CLGM UN3110 | THE OTTOMAN PAST IN THE GREEK PRESENT | |
| CPLS UN3333 | EAST/WEST FRAMETALE NARRATIVES | |
| CPLS UN3454 | STAGING THE EARLY MOD MEDITERR | |
| CLGM UN3920 | WORLD RESPONDS TO THE GREEKS | |
| CPLS W3945 | Transnational Memory Politics and the Culture of Human Rights | |
| CPLS W3955 | The West in Global Thought | |
| CPLS W3956 | Postcolonial Narrative and the Limits of the Human | |
| CPLS W4100 | Andalusian Symbiosis: Islam and the West | |
| CPLS GU4111 | World Philology | |
| Dance (Barnard) | ||
| DNCE BC2565 | WORLD DANCE HISTORY | |
| DNCE BC3550 | Dance in Africa (Effective beginning Fall 2022) | |
| DNCE BC3567 | DANCES OF INDIA | |
| DNCE BC2665 | World Dance History (Effective Summer 2023. Students may only receive credit for either DNCE BC2665 or DNCE BC2565; not both.) | |
| East Asian Languages and Cultures | ||
| ASCE UN1002 | INTRO MAJOR TPCS: EAST ASIAN | |
| ASCE UN1359 | INTRO TO EAST ASIAN CIV: CHINA | |
| ASCE UN1361 | INTRO EAST ASIAN CIV: JPN | |
| ASCE UN1363 | INTRO TO EAST ASIAN CIV: KOREA | |
| ASCE UN1365 | INTRO EAST ASIAN CIV: TIBET | |
| ASCE UN1367 | INTRO EA CIV: VIETNAM | |
| AHUM UN1400 | COLLOQUIUM ON MAJOR TEXTS | |
| EAAS UN2342 | Mythology of East Asia | |
| EAAS UN2844 | CULTURE, MENTAL HEALTH, AND HEALING IN EAST ASIA (Was formerly EAAS UN3844; new course number effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
| EAAS UN3114 | Chinese Theater and Drama Traditions (Effective beginning Spring 2023) | |
| EAAS UN3116 | Supernatural in East Asia (Effective beginning Spring 2020) | |
| EAAS UN3121 | Minority Literature in Modern China | |
| EARL UN3310 | The Body and/in Performance: Dance ＆ Drama in Tibet ＆ China (Effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
| EAAS UN3322 | EAST ASIAN CINEMA | |
| EAAS UN3338 | CULTRL HIST-JAPANESE MONSTERS | |
| EAAS V3350 | Japanese Fiction and Film | |
| EAAS UN3710 | FICTION, FILM, AND MODERN VIETNAM (Effective beginning Fall 2024) | |
| EAAS UN3720 | Women in Vietnamese society, history and literature (Effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
| AHUM UN3830 | COLL ON MODERN EAST ASIA TEXTS | |
| EAAS UN3844 | CULTURE, MENTAL HEALTH, AND HEALING IN EAST ASIA (EAAS UN2844 new course number effective Spring 2025) | |
| HSEA Q3870 | Japan Before 1600 | |
| EAAS UN3927 | CHINA IN THE MODERN WORLD | |
| EAAS GU4017 | Ethnography and Representation in Tibet (Effective beginning Fall 2020) | |
| EAAS GU4111 | Modern Chinese Poetry in a Global Context (was formerly EAAS UN3122 "Modern Chinese Poetry in a Global Context") | |
| EARL W4127 | Mediations, Perceptions, Words: Poetry in Buddhist Literature | |
| EAAS GU4134 | Sex, Power, Performance: Gender in Chinese Literature (Effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
| EAAS GU4160 | CULTURES IN COLONIAL KOREA | |
| EAAS GU4277 | Japanese Anime and Beyond: Gender, Power and Transnational Media | |
| HSEA GU4222 | China's Global Histories: People, Space, and Power (Effective beginning Fall 2019) | |
| EAAS GU4233 | Sonic Modernity in East Asia (Effective beginning Spring 2020) | |
| EARL GU4310 | LIFE WRIT/TIBET BUDDHIST LIT | |
| EARL GU4312 | TIBETAN SACRED SPACE(IN COMPARATIVE CONT | |
| EAAS GU4412 | History of Writing in a Cosmopolitan East Asia (Effective beginning Fall 2023) | |
| EAAS GU4445 | Proletarian Asia - working-class culture from 1930s to present (Effective beginning Spring 2022) | |
| HSEA GU4542 | The History of the Samurai (Effective beginning Spring 2023) | |
| EAAS GU4534 | Medieval Travel Writing (Effective beginning Fall 2024) | |
| EAAS GU4565 | TIBET IN THE WORLD: CULTURAL PRODUCTION AND SOCIAL CHANGE (Effective beginning Spring 2022) | |
| EARL GU4575 | Tibet in Eurasian Circulatory History (Effective beginning Fall 2023) | |
| HSEA GU4822 | Troubled Islands of the Indo Pacific | |
| HSEA GU4847 | MODERN JAPAN | |
| HSEA GU4816 | Comparing Indigeneities (Effective beginning Spring 2020) | |
| HSEA W4866 | Competing Nationalisms in East Asia: Representing Chinese and Tibetan Relations in History | |
| HSEA GU4880 | HISTORY OF MODERN CHINA I (Effective beginning Fall 2024) | |
| HSEA GU4968 | Japan 1968: student protest movements in global historical perspective (Effective beginning Fall 2024) | |
| Economics | ||
| ECON GU4325 | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF JAPAN | |
| English and Comparative Literature | ||
| CLEN UN3360 | Theaters of Gods and Heroes (Effective beginning Spring 2020) | |
| ENGL UN3489 Black Lives in Pre-Modern Britain (effective beginning Fall 2022) | ||
| CLEN S3682 | Human Rights in World Literature and Visual Culture (was formerly CLEN S3851) | |
| ENGL UN3794 | Trees (Effective beginning Fall 2023) | |
| CLEN S3829 | Fantastic Fictions: Postmodern Asian American Literature (Effective beginning Summer 2020) | |
| ENGL UN3851 | INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH | |
| CLEN GU4199 | LITERATURE AND OIL (Effective beginning Fall 2020) | |
| CLEN UN3933 | POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE | |
| ENTA UN3948 | African Drama | |
| CLEN W4200 | Caribbean Diaspora Literature | |
| CLEN GU4644 | REVOLUTION IN/ON THE CARIBBEAN | |
| ENGL GU4650 | Novels of Immigration, Relocation, Diaspora | |
| ENTA GU4729 | GLOBAL ANGLOPHONE DRAMA (Effective beginning Spring 2022) | |
| Film | ||
| FILM UN2292 | Topics in World Cinema: China | |
| FILM UN2294 | WORLD CINEMA: LATIN AMERICA | |
| FILM S2295Q | World Cinema: Mexico | |
| FILM UN2296 | ARAB ＆ AFRICAN FILMMAKING | |
| FILM GU4020 | Brazilian Cinema: Cinema Novo and Beyond (Effective beginning Fall 2021) | |
| FILM S4215D | Contemporary Global Documentary (Effective beginning Summer 2019) | |
| FILM GU4294 | World Cinema: Latin America (Effective beginning Summer 2021) | |
| French and Romance Philology | ||
| CLFR UN3716 | Francophone Romance : Love and Desire in French Colonial and Post-Colonial Literatures | |
| FREN UN3822 | Blackness in French: From Harlem to Paris and Beyond (Effective beginning Summer 2021) | |
| CLFR GU4002 | French Theory in a Global Context (Effective beginning Spring 2022) | |
| CLFR GU4020 | Contemporary Migrations in the French & North African Context (Effective beginning Summer 2020) | |
| FREN GU4022 | How to Love: Medieval French and Arabic (Effective beginning Fall 2024) | |
| CLFR GU4440 | Remapping Algeria: Poetics and Politics of Space (Effective beginning Spring 2021) | |
| CLFR GU4321 | The Maghreb in Transition: Society ＆ Culture in North Africa Since 1990 (Effective beginning Summer 2021) | |
| CLFR GU4421 | The Caribbean Digital (Effective beginning Fall 2020) | |
| CLFR GU4716 | FRANCOPHONE ROMANCE LOVE, SEX, INTIMACY IN THE FRENCH COLONIAL WORLD | |
| Germanic Languages | ||
| GERM UN3780 | BERL/ISTANBUL:MIGRATN,CLTR,VAL | |
| History | ||
| HIST UN1004 | ANCIENT HISTORY OF EGYPT | |
| HIST UN1942 | The Year 1000: A World History (Effective beginning Spring 2024) | |
| HIST W1054 | Introduction to Byzantine History | |
| HIST UN2003 | Empire ＆ Nation-Building East Central Europe (Effective beginning Fall 2020) | |
| HIST UN2336 | Everyday Communism (Effective beginning Spring 2020) | |
| HIST UN2176 | REVOLUTION ＆ EMPIRE: HAITI ＆ FRANCE, 1789-1820 (Effective beginning Summer 2022) | |
| HIST UN2377 | WORLD HISTORY SINCE WW II | |
| HIST UN2444 | THE VIETNAM WAR | |
| HIST UN2580 | US - EAST ASIA RELATIONS | |
| HIST UN2618 | The Modern Caribbean | |
| HIST UN2657 | Medieval Jewish Cultures | |
| HIST UN2660 | LATIN AMERICAN CIVILIZATION I | |
| HIST UN2661 | LATIN AMERICAN CIVILIZATION II | |
| HIST UN2701 | THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE | |
| HIST UN2709 (Effective beginning Fall 2024) | ||
| HIST UN2719 | HISTORY OF THE MOD MIDDLE EAST | |
| HSWM UN2761 | GENDER ＆ SEXUALITY IN AFRICA | |
| HIST UN2764 | East African History | |
| HIST UN2772 | West African History | |
| HIST W2803 | The Worlds of Mughal India | |
| HSME UN2810 | HISTORY OF SOUTH ASIA I | |
| HSME UN2811 | South Asia: Empire and Its Aftermath | |
| HIST W2880 | Gandhi's India | |
| HIST UN2881 | VIETNAM IN THE WORLD | |
| HIST Q2900 | History of the World to 1450 CE | |
| HIST W2943 | Cultures of Empire | |
| HIST UN3152 | Byzantine Encounters in the Mediterranean and the Middle East | |
| HIST UN3298 | Popular Culture in Modern African History (Effective beginning Fall 2019) | |
| HIST Q3400 | Native American History | |
| HIST S3596 | HIST OF LATINOS/AS IN THE U.S. (Effective beginning Summer 2022) | |
| HIST UN3601 | Jews in the Later Roman Empire, 300-600 CE | |
| HIST UN3608 | Women and Gender in Latin America and the Caribbean (Effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
| HIST W3678 | Indigenous Worlds in Early Latin America | |
| HIST UN3766 | African Futures | |
| HIST UN3779 | AFRICA AND FRANCE | |
| HSEA UN3898 | THE MONGOLS IN HISTORY | |
| HIST Q3933 | Empires and Cultures of the Early Modern Atlantic World | |
| HIST GU4301 | Politics and Justice in Latin America through Crime Fiction (Effective beginning Fall 2021) | |
| HIST GU4660 | Indigenous Worlds in Early Latin America (Effective beginning Fall 2021) | |
| HIST GU4681 | The Nahuas Through Their Sources (Effective beginning Fall 2024) | |
| HIST GU4811 | Encounters with Nature: The History and Politics of Environment, Health and Development in South Asia and Beyond | |
| Italian | ||
| ITAL GU4022 | THE QUR'AN IN EUROPE | |
| CLIA GU4499 | Mediterranean Humanities I (Effective beginning Fall 2022) | |
| CLIA GU4500 | Mediterranean Humanities II (Effective beginning Fall 2021) | |
| Jewish Studies | ||
| JWST UN3538 | Jews in the City in the Islamic Middle East (Effective beginning Spring 2021) | |
| JWST GU4145 Introduction to Israeli Cinema (Effective beginning Spring 2020) | ||
| JWST GU4148 | Jewish Histories of the Modern Middle East (Effective beginning Fall 2023) | |
| JWST GU4149 | A History of Jewish-Muslim Encounters: From the Beginning of Islam Until Today (Effective beginnnig Fall 2023) | |
| Latin American and Caribbean Studies | ||
| LCRS UN3500 | Latin American Cities | |
| Latin American and Iberian Cultures | ||
| SPJS UN3303 | JEWISH CULTURE IN TRANSL IN MED IBERIA | |
| SPAN UN3349 | HISPANIC CULTURES I (SP) | |
| PORT UN3350 | LUSOPHONE AFR/AFRO-BRAZ CULTRS | |
| SPAN UN3350 | HISPANIC CULTURES II (SP) | |
| SPAN UN3361 | ARTISTIC HUMANITY | |
| SPAN UN3489 | Staging Revolt: Masses, Multitudes ＆ Political Performance in the Hispanic World (Effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
| PORT UN3490 | BRAZILIAN SOCIETY ＆ CIV (ENG) | |
| SPAN W3490 | Latin American Humanities I: From Pre-Columbian Civilizations to the Creation of New Nations | |
| SPAN W3491 | Latin American Humanities II: From Modernity to the Present [In English] | |
| PORT UN3601 | Race, Medicine and Literature in 19th-Century Brazil (Effective beginning Fall 2020) | |
| SPAN UN3894 | Law, Literature, and Gender in the Hispanic World (Effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
| Linguistics | ||
| LING UN3102 | Endangered Languages in the Global City: Lang, Culture, and Migration in Contempary NYC | |
| Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies | ||
| MDES UN1001 | CRITICAL THEORY: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE | |
| MDES UN1003 | Premodern Islamic Worlds (Effective beginning Fall 2024) | |
| MDES UN1030 | “Game of Thrones”: On Epics and Empires (Effective beginning Fall 2021) | |
| AHUM UN1399 | COLLOQUIUM ON MAJOR TEXTS: MIDDLE EAST/INDIA | |
| MDES UN1630 | Introduction to South Asia (Effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
| ASCM V2001 | Introduction to Major Topics in the Civilizations of the Middle East and India | |
| ASCM UN2003 | INTRO TO ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION | |
| ASCM UN2008 | CONTEMP ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION | |
| MDES UN2006 What is Islam? (Effective beginning Spring 2022) | ||
| MDES UN2012 | Finding Happiness: Readings in Arab-Islamic Texts (Effective beginning Fall 2022) | |
| MDES UN2030 | Major Debates in the Study of Africa | |
| MDES W2041 | Introduction to Indian Philosophy | |
| MDES UN2042 | South Asia at the Crossroads of Empires (Effective beginning Fall 2023) | |
| ASCM UN2357 | INTRO TO INDIAN CIVILIZATION | |
| MDES UN2641 | CINEMAS OF INDIA (Effective beginning Fall 2020) | |
| MDES UN2650 | GANDHI ＆ HIS INTERLOCUTORS | |
| MDES UN3000 | THEORY AND CULTURE | |
| CLME W3032 | Colonialism: Film, Fiction, History & Theory | |
| HSME UN3044 | From Colonial to Global Health | |
| MDES UN3047 | MESAAS ＆ History: Court Cultures 350-1750 (Effective beginning Spring 2021) | |
| MDES UN3121 | Literature and Cultures of Struggle in South Africa | |
| MDES UN3130 | E AFRICA ＆ THE SWAHILI COAST | |
| CLME UN3221 | ARABIC LITERATURE AS WORLD LITERATURE (renumbered to CLME GU4272- course number change effective Spring 2020 ) | |
| MDES UN3260 | RETHINKING MIDDLE EAST POLITCS | |
| CLME UN3266 | Decolonizing the Arabian Nights (Was formerly MDES GU4266 "Decolonizing the Arabian Nights". New course number effective beginning Spring 2022.) | |
| MDES UN3335 | Introduction to Armenian Studies (Effective beginning Fall 2023) | |
| MDES UN3421 | Islamic Central Asia (Effective beginning Fall 2020- offered as a one-time course) | |
| MDES UN3445 | SOCIETIES/CULTRS: INDIAN OCEAN | |
| CLME UN3928 | ARABIC PRISON WRITING | |
| MDES UN3930 | Iraq: War, Love, and Exile (Effective beginning Spring 2021) | |
| CLME GU4031 | Cinema and Society In Asia and Africa | |
| MDES G4052 | Locating Africa in the Early 20th Century World | |
| MDES GU4150 | Introduction to African Philosophy | |
| CLME GU4225 | New Millenium Challenges in Arabic Literary Production | |
| CLME GU4226 | ARABIC AUTOBIOGRAPHY GLOBAL DIMENSIONS | |
| CLME GU4229 | Afro-Mediterranean Cultural Geographies: Ifriqiya-Tunis | |
| CLME GU4231 | COLD WAR ARAB CULTURE | |
| CLME GU4241 | SUFISM: PRIMARY TEXTS/CONTEXTS | |
| CLME G4261 | Popular Islam: Asia and Africa | |
| MDES GU4259 | War Narrative: The Arab World (Effective beginning Fall 2019) | |
| CLME GU4262 | THEMES IN THE ARABIC NOVEL | |
| MDES GU4266 | Decolonizing the Arabian Nights (Effective beginning Fall 2021. Effective Spring 2022- New course number CLME UN3266) | |
| CLME GU4272 | ARABIC LITERATURE AS WORLD LITERATURE (formerly CLME UN3221; course number change effective Spring 2020) | |
| MDES G4326 | The Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust: Memory and Representation | |
| MDES GU4360 | Armenians and the Modern World (Effective beginning Spring 2024) | |
| MDES GU4634 | Sound and Listening Cultures of the Indian Subcontinent (Effective beginning Spring 2023) | |
| MDES GU4637 | Cinema and Colonialism in South Asia | |
| MDES GU4945 | Contested Histories: A Medieval Jewish Empire? (Effective beginning Spring 2024) | |
| Music | ||
| MUSI UN2020 | SALSA, SOCA ＆ REGGAE | |
| MUSI V2430 | Listening and Sound in Cross-Cultural Perspective | |
| AHMM UN3320 | MUSIC IN EAST ASIA | |
| AHMM UN3321 | MUSICS OF INDIA ＆ WEST ASIA | |
| MUSI GU4113 | Medieval Mediterranean Love Songs (Effective beginning Spring 2024) | |
| MUSI GU4438 | Music and Global Africa | |
| MUSI GU4466 | Sound and Image in Modern East Asian Music | |
| Physics | ||
| SCNC UN3001 Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Testing: Marshall Islands (Effective beginning Spring 2021) | ||
| Philosophy | ||
| PHIL UN3000 | BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY (Effective beginning Fall 2022) | |
| Religion | ||
| RELI UN1612 | Religion and the History of Hip Hop (Effective beginning Spring 2020) | |
| RELI UN2205 | BUDDHISM: INDO-TIBETAN | |
| RELI UN2305 | ISLAM | |
| RELI UN2306 | INTRO TO JUDAISM | |
| RELI UN2308 | BUDDHISM: EAST ASIAN | |
| RELI UN2309 | HINDUISM | |
| RELI UN2335 | RELI IN BLACK AMERICA:AN INTRO | |
| RELI UN2405 | CHINESE RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS (formerly RELI UN2307) | |
| RELI UN3303 | Judaism and Translation in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean | |
| RELI UN3314 | QURAN (Effective beginning Fall 2023) | |
| RELI UN3407 | Muslims in Diaspora | |
| RELI UN3425 | Judaism and Courtly Literature in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia and Italy | |
| RELI Q3511 | Tantra in South Asia, East Asia & the West | |
| RELI UN3521 | Muslim Masculinities | |
| RELI GU4214 | African and North African Philosophy: An Introduction (Effective beginning Summer 2021) | |
| RELI GU4215 | Hinduism Here | |
| RELI GU4204 Religions of the Iranian World (Effective beginning Spring 2020) | ||
| RELI GU4304 | Krishna | |
| RELI GU4314 | Bhakti Poets (Effective beginning Spring 2022) | |
| RELI GU4322 | EXPLORING THE SHARIA: ISLAMIC LAW | |
| RELI GU4418 | On African Theory: Religion, Philosophy, Anthropology | |
| RELI GU4999 | GLOBAL INDIGENOUS RELIGIOUS HISTORIES (Effective beginning Fall 2020) | |
| Slavic Languages | ||
| SLCL UN3001 | SLAVIC CULTURES | |
| CLRS GU4022 | Russia and Asia: Orientalism, Eurasianism, Internationalism | |
| GEOR GU4042 | Expressive Culture of Soviet and Independent Georgia | |
| SLCL UN3100 | FOLKLORE PAST ＆ PRESENT (Effective beginning Fall 2021 semester- New course number SLCL GU4002- effective beginning Spring 2025) | |
| RUSS UN3230 | Tricksters in World Culture: Mockery, Subversion, Rebellion (Effective beginning Fall 2022) | |
| CLSL GU4002 Folklore Past and Present (formerly CLSL UN3001- New course number effective beginning Spring 2025) | ||
| CLSL GU4012 | Holocaust Literature: Critical Thinking in Dark Times (Effective beginning Fall 2023) | |
| CLSL GU4013 | Jewish Worlds in Eastern Europe: A Journey (Effective beginning Summer 2024) | |
| CLRS W4190 | Race, Ethnicity, and Narrative, in the Russian/Soviet Empire | |
| Sociology | ||
| SOCI UN3324 | Global Urbanism | |
| Theatre | ||
| THTR UN3154 | THEATRE TRAD GLOBAL CONTEXT | |
| Urban Studies | ||
| URBS UN3351 | URBAN ELSEWHERES: EXPLORING A WORLD OF CITIES (Effective beginning Spring 2021) | |
All Approved Courses: Offered Abroad
Last update: 3/1/24
Note: Not all courses are taught each academic year. Below is the full list of all courses offered abroad through Columbia-sponsored programs that are approved for the Global Core requirement, regardless of semester offered. For more information, consult the Office of Global Programs.
| Code | Title | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Columbia in Amman and Paris: Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENA) Program | ||
| MENA OC4100 | Migration, Displacement and Diaspora in the French and North African Context | |
| Columbia Summer in Amman and Tunis: Middle Eastern and North African Studies | ||
| MENA OC4101 | Culture/History Seminar of the Middle East-North Africa Summer Program in Amman &Tunis | |
| Columbia Global Seminar in Istanbul | ||
| Not offered during the Spring 2018 semester | ||
| CLGM OC3920 | The World Responds to the Greeks: Greece Faces East | |
| Columbia in London- Queen Mary University | ||
| CLEN OC3500 | LONDON IN POSTCOLONIAL FICTION: 'WE ARE HERE BECAUSE YOU WERE THERE | |
| Columbia Summer Program in Tunis and Istanbul: Democracy and Constitutional Engineering | ||
| POLS OC3545 | Comparative Democratic Politics | |
| Slavic Languages- Office of Global Programs | ||
| CLSL OC4001 | The Muslim and the Christian in Balkan Narratives | |
| Reid Hall in Paris | ||
| AHIS OC4652 | The Black Voices of Black Model: New Perspectives for the Histories of Art | |
| FILM OC4225 | Arab & African Filmmaking | |
| CLEN OC3245 Black Americans and the City of Light: A Seminar (Effective beginning Summer 2020) | ||
| FREN OC3330 Paris Noir (same as FREN OC3817-Black Paris- course number effective beginning Summer 2021) | ||
| FILM GU4330 | (Effective beginning Summer 2024) | |
| FREN OC3719 | VIOLENCE BY AND AGAINST WOMEN | |
| FREN OC3817 | Black Paris | |
| CLFR OC3821 | CITY DIPLOMACY (Effective beginning Spring 2021) | |
| FREN OC3821 | "Blackness" in French: from Harlem to Paris and Beyond | |
| HIST UN3136 France and the African Diaspora (Effective beginning Summer 2024) | ||
| FMST GU4325 Waves on New Shores: New Cinema in France, Japan, and Brazil (effective beginning Summer 2022) | ||
| WMST OC3550 | WOMEN ＆ SOCIETY - SEX-TRADE ECONOMY | |