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: 11/27/24

Anthropology
ANTH UN1008THE RISE OF CIVILIZATION
ANTH UN3465WOMEN, GENDER POL-MUSLIM WORLD
ANTH UN3947TEXT, MAGIC, PERFORMANCE
Art History and Archaeology
AHUM UN2604ARTS OF CHINA, JAPAN AND KOREA
Center for the Core Curriculum
LACV UN1020PRIM TEXTS OF LATIN AMER CIV
Classics
CLCV UN2441EGYPT IN CLASSICAL WORLD
CLCV UN3069Society and Power in the Hellenistic Age (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
CLGM UN3920WORLD RESPONDS TO THE GREEKS
CLGM GU4600Multilingual America: Translation, Migration, Gender
Comparative Literature and Society
CLGM UN3110THE OTTOMAN PAST IN THE GREEK PRESENT
Dance
DNCE BC2565WORLD DANCE HISTORY
East Asian Languages and Cultures
ASCE UN1361INTRO EAST ASIAN CIV: JPN
ASCE UN1363INTRO TO EAST ASIAN CIV: KOREA
AHUM UN1400COLLOQUIUM ON MAJOR TEXTS
EAAS UN2844CULTURE, MENTAL HEALTH, AND HEALING IN EAST ASIA (formerly EAAS UN3844; new course number effective Spring 2025)
EARL UN3310The Body and/in Performance: Dance & Drama in Tibet & China (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
EAAS UN3322EAST ASIAN CINEMA
EAAS UN3720Women in Vietnamese society, history and literature (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
EAAS GU4134Sex, Power, Performance: Gender in Chinese Literature (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
EAAS GU4565TIBET IN THE WORLD: CULTURAL PRODUCTION AND SOCIAL CHANGE
HSEA GU4847MODERN JAPAN
Economics
ECON GU4325ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF JAPAN
French and Romance Philology
FREN OC3719VIOLENCE BY AND AGAINST WOMEN (This course is offered in Reid Hall, Paris.)
Germanic Languages
GERM UN3780BERL/ISTANBUL:MIGRATN,CLTR,VAL
History
HIST UN1004ANCIENT HISTORY OF EGYPT
HIST UN1942The Year 1000: A World History
HIST UN2444THE VIETNAM WAR
HIST UN3608Women and Gender in Latin America and the Caribbean (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
HSEA UN3898THE MONGOLS IN HISTORY
HIST GU4811Encounters with Nature: The History and Politics of Environment, Health and Development in South Asia and Beyond
Italian
CLIA GU4500Mediterranean Humanities II
Jewish Studies
JWST GU4158Zionist Thought: Center and Periphery (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
Latin American and Iberian Cultures
SPJS UN3303JEWISH CULTURE IN TRANSL IN MED IBERIA
SPAN UN3349HISPANIC CULTURES I (SP)
SPAN UN3350HISPANIC CULTURES II (SP)
SPAN UN3361ARTISTIC HUMANITY
SPAN UN3489Staging Revolt: Masses, Multitudes & Political Performance in the Hispanic World (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
SPAN UN3894Law, Literature, and Gender in the Hispanic World (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
AHUM UN1399COLLOQUIUM ON MAJOR TEXTS: MIDDLE EAST/INDIA
MDES UN1630Introduction to South Asia (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
MDES UN2650GANDHI & HIS INTERLOCUTORS
MDES UN3260RETHINKING MIDDLE EAST POLITCS
MDES UN3930Iraq: War, Love, and Exile
MDES GU4259War Narrative: The Arab World
MDES GU4637Cinema and Colonialism in South Asia
Music
AHMM UN3320MUSIC IN EAST ASIA
MUSI GU4438Music and Global Africa (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
Religion
RELI UN2309HINDUISM
RELI UN3314QURAN
RELI GU4999GLOBAL INDIGENOUS RELIGIOUS HISTORIES
Slavic Languages
SLCL GU4002Folklore Past and Present
GEOR GU4042Expressive Culture of Soviet and Independent Georgia
Urban Studies
URBS UN3351URBAN ELSEWHERES: EXPLORING A WORLD OF CITIES

Fall 2024

Last update: 9/10/24

African- American Studies
AFAS UN1001INTRO TO AFRICAN-AMER STUDIES
Anthropology
ANHS GU4001THE ANCIENT EMPIRES
Art History and Archaeology
AHIS UN2622Introduction to East Asian Art: China, Japan, and Korea
Center for the Core Curriculum
AFCV UN1020AFRICAN CIVILIZATION
LACV UN1020PRIM TEXTS OF LATIN AMER CIV
Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
CSER UN1010INTRO TO COMP ETHNIC STUDIES
CSER UN3922RACE&REPRESENTATION IN ASIAN AMER CINEMA
CSER UN3926LATIN MUSIC AND IDENTITY
CSER UN3928COLONIZATION/DECOLONIZATION
Classics
CPLS UN3454STAGING THE EARLY MOD MEDITERR
CLCV UN3535IDENTITY & SOCIETY ANC EGYPT (Effective beginning Fall 2024)
CSGM UN3567THESSALONIKI DOWN THE AGES
GRKM UN3935Hellenism and the Topographical Imagination
Committee on Global Thought
CGTH UN3401Seminar in Global Thought: Inquiries into an Interconnected World
Dance- Barnard
DNCE BC3567DANCES OF INDIA
East Asian Languages and Cultures
ASCE UN1002INTRO MAJOR TPCS: EAST ASIAN
ASCE UN1359INTRO TO EAST ASIAN CIV: CHINA
ASCE UN1365INTRO EAST ASIAN CIV: TIBET
ASCE UN1367INTRO EA CIV: VIETNAM
AHUM UN1400COLLOQUIUM ON MAJOR TEXTS
EAAS UN3710FICTION, FILM, AND MODERN VIETNAM (Effective beginning Fall 2024)
AHUM UN3830COLL ON MODERN EAST ASIA TEXTS
EAAS UN3927CHINA IN THE MODERN WORLD
EAAS GU4534Medieval Travel Writing
HSEA GU4880HISTORY OF MODERN CHINA I
HSEA GU4968Japan 1968: student protest movements in global historical perspective
English and Comparative Literature
ENGL UN3794Trees
CLEN GU4199LITERATURE AND OIL
Film Studies
FILM UN2294WORLD CINEMA: LATIN AMERICA
French and Romance Philology
CLFR OC3821CITY DIPLOMACY (Offered abroad in Reid Hall, Paris.)
FREN GU4022How to Love: Medieval French and Arabic
History
HIST UN2618The Modern Caribbean
HIST UN2660LATIN AMERICAN CIVILIZATION I
HIST UN2709 Medieval Middle East
HIST UN2719HISTORY OF THE MOD MIDDLE EAST
HSWM UN2761GENDER & SEXUALITY IN AFRICA
HSME UN2810HISTORY OF SOUTH ASIA I
HIST GU4681The Nahuas Through Their Sources
Italian
CLIA GU4499Mediterranean Humanities I
Jewish Studies
JWST GU4145Topics in Israeli Cinema
Latin American Iberian Cultures
SPAN UN3349HISPANIC CULTURES I (SP)
SPAN UN3350HISPANIC CULTURES II (SP)
PORT UN3490BRAZILIAN SOCIETY & CIV (ENG)
Linguistics
LING UN3102
Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
MDES UN1003Premodern Islamic Worlds
MDES UN1030“Game of Thrones”: On Epics and Empires
AHUM UN1399COLLOQUIUM ON MAJOR TEXTS: MIDDLE EAST/INDIA
MDES UN2042South Asia at the Crossroads of Empires
ASCM UN2357INTRO TO INDIAN CIVILIZATION
CLME UN3928ARABIC PRISON WRITING
CLME GU4226ARABIC AUTOBIOGRAPHY GLOBAL DIMENSIONS
Music
MUSI UN2020SALSA, SOCA & REGGAE
AHMM UN3321MUSICS OF INDIA & WEST ASIA
Physics
SCNC UN3001Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Testing: Marshall Islands
Religion
RELI UN2306INTRO TO JUDAISM
RELI UN2308BUDDHISM: EAST ASIAN
RELI UN2405CHINESE RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS
Slavic Languages
RUSS UN3230Tricksters in World Culture: Mockery, Subversion, Rebellion
SLCL UN3100FOLKLORE PAST & PRESENT
CLSL GU4012Holocaust Literature: Critical Thinking in Dark Times
Theatre
THTR UN3154THEATRE TRAD GLOBAL CONTEXT
Women's Studies (Reid Hall, Paris)
WMST OC3550WOMEN & SOCIETY - SEX-TRADE ECONOMY

All Approved Courses: Morningside Campus

Last update: 11/27/24

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.

African-American Studies
AFAS UN1001INTRO TO AFRICAN-AMER STUDIES
AFAS UN1003Blackness and Frenchness: A Radical Genealogy (Effective beginning Spring 2023)
Anthropology
ANTH UN1008THE RISE OF CIVILIZATION
ANTH V1130Africa and the Anthropologist
ANTH UN2007Indian and Nigerian Film Cultures
ANTH V2013Africa in the 21st Century: Aesthetics, Culture, Politics
ANTH V2014Archaeology and Africa: Changing Perceptions of the African Past
ANTH V2020Chinese Strategies: Cultures in Practice
ANTH V2027Changing East Asia Foodways
ANTH UN2031Corpse Life: Anthropological Histories of the Dead [Previously Archaeologies of Death and
ANTH V2035Introduction to the Anthropology of South Asia
ANTH V2100Muslim Societies
ANTH UN2141Frontier Imaginaries (Effective begining Spring 2022)
ANTH UN3300Pre-Columbian Histories of Native America
ANTH UN3465WOMEN, GENDER POL-MUSLIM WORLD
ANTH V3525Introduction to South Asian History and Culture
ANTH UN3821Native America
ANTH V3892CONTEMP CENT ASIA:STATES & SOC
ANTH UN3933ARABIA IMAGINED
ANTH UN3947TEXT, MAGIC, PERFORMANCE
ANHS GU4001THE ANCIENT EMPIRES
ANTH G4065Archaeology of Idols
Art History and Archaeology
AHIS UN2119ROME BEYOND ROME
AHIS UN2500ARTS OF AFRICA
AHIS UN2600THE ARTS OF CHINA
AHUM UN2604ARTS OF CHINA, JAPAN AND KOREA
AHIS UN2614Chinese Painting of the Song Dynasty (960-1279) (Effective beginning Summer 2021)
AHIS UN2622Introduction to East Asian Art: China, Japan, and Korea (Effective beginning Fall 2024)
AHUM UN2800Arts of Islam, 700-1000 CE
AHUM UN2802Arts of Islam: Realignments of Empire and State (ca. 1000-1400)
AHUM UN2901MASTERPIECES-INDIAN ART & ARCH
AHIS W3500Yoruba and the Diaspora
AHIS UN3501African Art: The Next Generation. Focus: Congo
AHIS UN3503Contemporary Arts of Africa (Effective beginning fall 2020)
AHIS W3832Sacred Landscapes of the Ancient Andes
AHIS Q4570Andean Art and Architecture
AHIS GU4584Critical Approaches to Persianate Painting
Center for the Core Curriculum
AFCV UN1020AFRICAN CIVILIZATION
LACV UN1020PRIM TEXTS OF LATIN AMER CIV
Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
CSER UN1010INTRO TO COMP ETHNIC STUDIES
CSER W3510Novels of Immigration, Relocation, and Diaspora
CSER UN3922RACE&REPRESENTATION IN ASIAN AMER CINEMA
CSER UN3926LATIN MUSIC AND IDENTITY
CSER UN3928COLONIZATION/DECOLONIZATION
Classics
CLCV UN2441EGYPT IN CLASSICAL WORLD
CLCV UN3059WORLDS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT
CLCV UN3069Society and Power in the Hellenistic Age (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
CLCV W3111Plato and Confucius: Comparative Ancient Philosophies
CLCV W3244Global Histories of the Book
CLCV UN3535IDENTITY & SOCIETY ANC EGYPT (Effective beginning Fall 2024)
CSGM UN3567THESSALONIKI DOWN THE AGES
CLGM UN3920WORLD RESPONDS TO THE GREEKS
GRKM UN3935Hellenism and the Topographical Imagination
CLCV GU4411Egypt in the Classical World (Effective beginning Spring 2020)
CLGM GU4600Multilingual America: Translation, Migration, Gender (Effective beginning Fall 2021)
Colloquia and Interdepartmental Seminars
INSM UN3920NOBILITY/CIVILITY: EAST/WEST I
INSM UN3921Nobility and Civility II
INSM C3940Science Across Cultures
INSM W3950Friendship in Asian and Western Civilization
Committee on Global Thought
CGTH UN3401Seminar in Global Thought: Inquiries into an Interconnected World
CGTH UN3402YOUTH-INTERCONNECTED WRLD
Comparative Literature and Society
CLGM UN3110THE OTTOMAN PAST IN THE GREEK PRESENT
CPLS UN3333EAST/WEST FRAMETALE NARRATIVES
CPLS UN3454STAGING THE EARLY MOD MEDITERR
CLGM UN3920WORLD RESPONDS TO THE GREEKS
CPLS W3945Transnational Memory Politics and the Culture of Human Rights
CPLS W3955The West in Global Thought
CPLS W3956Postcolonial Narrative and the Limits of the Human
CPLS W4100Andalusian Symbiosis: Islam and the West
CPLS GU4111World Philology
Dance (Barnard)
DNCE BC2565WORLD DANCE HISTORY
DNCE BC3550Dance in Africa (Effective beginning Fall 2022)
DNCE BC3567DANCES OF INDIA
DNCE BC2665World 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 UN1002INTRO MAJOR TPCS: EAST ASIAN
ASCE UN1359INTRO TO EAST ASIAN CIV: CHINA
ASCE UN1361INTRO EAST ASIAN CIV: JPN
ASCE UN1363INTRO TO EAST ASIAN CIV: KOREA
ASCE UN1365INTRO EAST ASIAN CIV: TIBET
ASCE UN1367INTRO EA CIV: VIETNAM
AHUM UN1400COLLOQUIUM ON MAJOR TEXTS
EAAS UN2342Mythology of East Asia
EAAS UN2844CULTURE, MENTAL HEALTH, AND HEALING IN EAST ASIA (Was formerly EAAS UN3844; new course number effective beginning Spring 2025)
EAAS UN3114Chinese Theater and Drama Traditions (Effective beginning Spring 2023)
EAAS UN3116Supernatural in East Asia (Effective beginning Spring 2020)
EAAS UN3121Minority Literature in Modern China
EARL UN3310The Body and/in Performance: Dance & Drama in Tibet & China (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
EAAS UN3322EAST ASIAN CINEMA
EAAS UN3338CULTRL HIST-JAPANESE MONSTERS
EAAS V3350Japanese Fiction and Film
EAAS UN3710FICTION, FILM, AND MODERN VIETNAM (Effective beginning Fall 2024)
EAAS UN3720Women in Vietnamese society, history and literature (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
AHUM UN3830COLL ON MODERN EAST ASIA TEXTS
EAAS UN3844CULTURE, MENTAL HEALTH, AND HEALING IN EAST ASIA (EAAS UN2844 new course number effective Spring 2025)
HSEA Q3870Japan Before 1600
EAAS UN3927CHINA IN THE MODERN WORLD
EAAS GU4017Ethnography and Representation in Tibet (Effective beginning Fall 2020)
EAAS GU4111Modern Chinese Poetry in a Global Context (was formerly EAAS UN3122 "Modern Chinese Poetry in a Global Context")
EARL W4127Mediations, Perceptions, Words: Poetry in Buddhist Literature
EAAS GU4134Sex, Power, Performance: Gender in Chinese Literature (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
EAAS GU4160CULTURES IN COLONIAL KOREA
EAAS GU4277Japanese Anime and Beyond: Gender, Power and Transnational Media
HSEA GU4222China's Global Histories: People, Space, and Power (Effective beginning Fall 2019)
EAAS GU4233Sonic Modernity in East Asia (Effective beginning Spring 2020)
EARL GU4310LIFE WRIT/TIBET BUDDHIST LIT
EARL GU4312TIBETAN SACRED SPACE(IN COMPARATIVE CONT
EAAS GU4412History of Writing in a Cosmopolitan East Asia (Effective beginning Fall 2023)
EAAS GU4445Proletarian Asia - working-class culture from 1930s to present (Effective beginning Spring 2022)
HSEA GU4542The History of the Samurai (Effective beginning Spring 2023)
EAAS GU4534Medieval Travel Writing (Effective beginning Fall 2024)
EAAS GU4565TIBET IN THE WORLD: CULTURAL PRODUCTION AND SOCIAL CHANGE (Effective beginning Spring 2022)
EARL GU4575Tibet in Eurasian Circulatory History (Effective beginning Fall 2023)
HSEA GU4822Troubled Islands of the Indo Pacific
HSEA GU4847MODERN JAPAN
HSEA GU4816Comparing Indigeneities (Effective beginning Spring 2020)
HSEA W4866Competing Nationalisms in East Asia: Representing Chinese and Tibetan Relations in History
HSEA GU4880HISTORY OF MODERN CHINA I (Effective beginning Fall 2024)
HSEA GU4968Japan 1968: student protest movements in global historical perspective (Effective beginning Fall 2024)
Economics
ECON GU4325ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF JAPAN
English and Comparative Literature
CLEN UN3360Theaters of Gods and Heroes (Effective beginning Spring 2020)
ENGL UN3489 Black Lives in Pre-Modern Britain (effective beginning Fall 2022)
CLEN S3682Human Rights in World Literature and Visual Culture (was formerly CLEN S3851)
ENGL UN3794Trees (Effective beginning Fall 2023)
CLEN S3829Fantastic Fictions: Postmodern Asian American Literature (Effective beginning Summer 2020)
ENGL UN3851INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH
CLEN GU4199LITERATURE AND OIL (Effective beginning Fall 2020)
CLEN UN3933POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE
ENTA UN3948African Drama
CLEN W4200Caribbean Diaspora Literature
CLEN GU4644REVOLUTION IN/ON THE CARIBBEAN
ENGL GU4650Novels of Immigration, Relocation, Diaspora
ENTA GU4729GLOBAL ANGLOPHONE DRAMA (Effective beginning Spring 2022)
Film
FILM UN2292Topics in World Cinema: China
FILM UN2294WORLD CINEMA: LATIN AMERICA
FILM S2295QWorld Cinema: Mexico
FILM UN2296ARAB & AFRICAN FILMMAKING
FILM GU4020Brazilian Cinema: Cinema Novo and Beyond (Effective beginning Fall 2021)
FILM S4215DContemporary Global Documentary (Effective beginning Summer 2019)
FILM GU4294World Cinema: Latin America (Effective beginning Summer 2021)
French and Romance Philology
CLFR UN3716Francophone Romance : Love and Desire in French Colonial and Post-Colonial Literatures
FREN UN3822Blackness in French: From Harlem to Paris and Beyond (Effective beginning Summer 2021)
CLFR GU4002French Theory in a Global Context (Effective beginning Spring 2022)
CLFR GU4020Contemporary Migrations in the French & North African Context (Effective beginning Summer 2020)
FREN GU4022How to Love: Medieval French and Arabic (Effective beginning Fall 2024)
CLFR GU4440Remapping Algeria: Poetics and Politics of Space (Effective beginning Spring 2021)
CLFR GU4321The Maghreb in Transition: Society & Culture in North Africa Since 1990 (Effective beginning Summer 2021)
CLFR GU4421The Caribbean Digital (Effective beginning Fall 2020)
CLFR GU4716FRANCOPHONE ROMANCE LOVE, SEX, INTIMACY IN THE FRENCH COLONIAL WORLD
Germanic Languages
GERM UN3780BERL/ISTANBUL:MIGRATN,CLTR,VAL
History
HIST UN1004ANCIENT HISTORY OF EGYPT
HIST UN1942The Year 1000: A World History (Effective beginning Spring 2024)
HIST W1054Introduction to Byzantine History
HIST UN2003Empire & Nation-Building East Central Europe (Effective beginning Fall 2020)
HIST UN2336Everyday Communism (Effective beginning Spring 2020)
HIST UN2176REVOLUTION & EMPIRE: HAITI & FRANCE, 1789-1820 (Effective beginning Summer 2022)
HIST UN2377WORLD HISTORY SINCE WW II
HIST UN2444THE VIETNAM WAR
HIST UN2580US - EAST ASIA RELATIONS
HIST UN2618The Modern Caribbean
HIST UN2657Medieval Jewish Cultures
HIST UN2660LATIN AMERICAN CIVILIZATION I
HIST UN2661LATIN AMERICAN CIVILIZATION II
HIST UN2701THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
HIST UN2709 (Effective beginning Fall 2024)
HIST UN2719HISTORY OF THE MOD MIDDLE EAST
HSWM UN2761GENDER & SEXUALITY IN AFRICA
HIST UN2764East African History
HIST UN2772West African History
HIST W2803The Worlds of Mughal India
HSME UN2810HISTORY OF SOUTH ASIA I
HSME UN2811South Asia: Empire and Its Aftermath
HIST W2880Gandhi's India
HIST UN2881VIETNAM IN THE WORLD
HIST Q2900History of the World to 1450 CE
HIST W2943Cultures of Empire
HIST UN3152Byzantine Encounters in the Mediterranean and the Middle East
HIST UN3298Popular Culture in Modern African History (Effective beginning Fall 2019)
HIST Q3400Native American History
HIST S3596HIST OF LATINOS/AS IN THE U.S. (Effective beginning Summer 2022)
HIST UN3601Jews in the Later Roman Empire, 300-600 CE
HIST UN3608Women and Gender in Latin America and the Caribbean (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
HIST W3678Indigenous Worlds in Early Latin America
HIST UN3766African Futures
HIST UN3779AFRICA AND FRANCE
HSEA UN3898THE MONGOLS IN HISTORY
HIST Q3933Empires and Cultures of the Early Modern Atlantic World
HIST GU4301Politics and Justice in Latin America through Crime Fiction (Effective beginning Fall 2021)
HIST GU4660Indigenous Worlds in Early Latin America (Effective beginning Fall 2021)
HIST GU4681The Nahuas Through Their Sources (Effective beginning Fall 2024)
HIST GU4811Encounters with Nature: The History and Politics of Environment, Health and Development in South Asia and Beyond
Italian
ITAL GU4022THE QUR'AN IN EUROPE
CLIA GU4499Mediterranean Humanities I (Effective beginning Fall 2022)
CLIA GU4500Mediterranean Humanities II (Effective beginning Fall 2021)
Jewish Studies
JWST UN3538Jews in the City in the Islamic Middle East (Effective beginning Spring 2021)
JWST GU4145 Introduction to Israeli Cinema (Effective beginning Spring 2020)
JWST GU4148Jewish Histories of the Modern Middle East (Effective beginning Fall 2023)
JWST GU4149A History of Jewish-Muslim Encounters: From the Beginning of Islam Until Today (Effective beginnnig Fall 2023)
JWST GU4158Zionist Thought: Center and Periphery (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
LCRS UN3500Latin American Cities
Latin American and Iberian Cultures
SPJS UN3303JEWISH CULTURE IN TRANSL IN MED IBERIA
SPAN UN3349HISPANIC CULTURES I (SP)
PORT UN3350LUSOPHONE AFR/AFRO-BRAZ CULTRS
SPAN UN3350HISPANIC CULTURES II (SP)
SPAN UN3361ARTISTIC HUMANITY
SPAN UN3489Staging Revolt: Masses, Multitudes & Political Performance in the Hispanic World (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
PORT UN3490BRAZILIAN SOCIETY & CIV (ENG)
SPAN W3490Latin American Humanities I: From Pre-Columbian Civilizations to the Creation of New Nations
SPAN W3491Latin American Humanities II: From Modernity to the Present [In English]
PORT UN3601Race, Medicine and Literature in 19th-Century Brazil (Effective beginning Fall 2020)
SPAN UN3894Law, Literature, and Gender in the Hispanic World (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
Linguistics
LING UN3102
Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
MDES UN1001CRITICAL THEORY: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
MDES UN1003Premodern Islamic Worlds (Effective beginning Fall 2024)
MDES UN1030“Game of Thrones”: On Epics and Empires (Effective beginning Fall 2021)
AHUM UN1399COLLOQUIUM ON MAJOR TEXTS: MIDDLE EAST/INDIA
MDES UN1630Introduction to South Asia (Effective beginning Spring 2025)
ASCM V2001Introduction to Major Topics in the Civilizations of the Middle East and India
ASCM UN2003INTRO TO ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION
ASCM UN2008CONTEMP ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION
MDES UN2006 What is Islam? (Effective beginning Spring 2022)
MDES UN2012Finding Happiness: Readings in Arab-Islamic Texts (Effective beginning Fall 2022)
MDES UN2030Major Debates in the Study of Africa
MDES W2041Introduction to Indian Philosophy
MDES UN2042South Asia at the Crossroads of Empires (Effective beginning Fall 2023)
ASCM UN2357INTRO TO INDIAN CIVILIZATION
MDES UN2641CINEMAS OF INDIA (Effective beginning Fall 2020)
MDES UN2650GANDHI & HIS INTERLOCUTORS
MDES UN3000THEORY AND CULTURE
CLME W3032Colonialism: Film, Fiction, History & Theory
HSME UN3044From Colonial to Global Health
MDES UN3047MESAAS & History: Court Cultures 350-1750 (Effective beginning Spring 2021)
MDES UN3121Literature and Cultures of Struggle in South Africa
MDES UN3130E AFRICA & THE SWAHILI COAST
CLME UN3221ARABIC LITERATURE AS WORLD LITERATURE (renumbered to CLME GU4272- course number change effective Spring 2020 )
MDES UN3260RETHINKING MIDDLE EAST POLITCS
CLME UN3266Decolonizing the Arabian Nights (Was formerly MDES GU4266 "Decolonizing the Arabian Nights". New course number effective beginning Spring 2022.)
MDES UN3335Introduction to Armenian Studies (Effective beginning Fall 2023)
MDES UN3421Islamic Central Asia (Effective beginning Fall 2020- offered as a one-time course)
MDES UN3445SOCIETIES/CULTRS: INDIAN OCEAN
CLME UN3928ARABIC PRISON WRITING
MDES UN3930Iraq: War, Love, and Exile (Effective beginning Spring 2021)
CLME GU4031Cinema and Society In Asia and Africa
MDES G4052Locating Africa in the Early 20th Century World
MDES GU4150Introduction to African Philosophy
CLME GU4225New Millenium Challenges in Arabic Literary Production
CLME GU4226ARABIC AUTOBIOGRAPHY GLOBAL DIMENSIONS
CLME GU4229Afro-Mediterranean Cultural Geographies: Ifriqiya-Tunis
CLME GU4231COLD WAR ARAB CULTURE
CLME GU4241SUFISM: PRIMARY TEXTS/CONTEXTS
CLME G4261Popular Islam: Asia and Africa
MDES GU4259War Narrative: The Arab World (Effective beginning Fall 2019)
CLME GU4262THEMES IN THE ARABIC NOVEL
MDES GU4266Decolonizing the Arabian Nights (Effective beginning Fall 2021. Effective Spring 2022- New course number CLME UN3266)
CLME GU4272ARABIC LITERATURE AS WORLD LITERATURE (formerly CLME UN3221; course number change effective Spring 2020)
MDES G4326The Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust: Memory and Representation
MDES GU4360Armenians and the Modern World (Effective beginning Spring 2024)
MDES GU4634Sound and Listening Cultures of the Indian Subcontinent (Effective beginning Spring 2023)
MDES GU4637Cinema and Colonialism in South Asia
MDES GU4945Contested Histories: A Medieval Jewish Empire? (Effective beginning Spring 2024)
Music
MUSI UN2020SALSA, SOCA & REGGAE
MUSI V2430Listening and Sound in Cross-Cultural Perspective
AHMM UN3320MUSIC IN EAST ASIA
AHMM UN3321MUSICS OF INDIA & WEST ASIA
MUSI GU4113Medieval Mediterranean Love Songs (Effective beginning Spring 2024)
MUSI GU4438Music and Global Africa
MUSI GU4466Sound and Image in Modern East Asian Music
Physics
SCNC UN3001 Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Testing: Marshall Islands (Effective beginning Spring 2021)
Philosophy
PHIL UN3000BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY (Effective beginning Fall 2022)
Religion
RELI UN1612Religion and the History of Hip Hop (Effective beginning Spring 2020)
RELI UN2205BUDDHISM: INDO-TIBETAN
RELI UN2305ISLAM
RELI UN2306INTRO TO JUDAISM
RELI UN2308BUDDHISM: EAST ASIAN
RELI UN2309HINDUISM
RELI UN2335RELI IN BLACK AMERICA:AN INTRO
RELI UN2405CHINESE RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS (formerly RELI UN2307)
RELI UN3303Judaism and Translation in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean
RELI UN3314QURAN (Effective beginning Fall 2023)
RELI UN3407Muslims in Diaspora
RELI UN3425Judaism and Courtly Literature in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia and Italy
RELI Q3511Tantra in South Asia, East Asia & the West
RELI UN3521Muslim Masculinities
RELI GU4214African and North African Philosophy: An Introduction (Effective beginning Summer 2021)
RELI GU4215Hinduism Here
RELI GU4204 Religions of the Iranian World (Effective beginning Spring 2020)
RELI GU4304Krishna
RELI GU4314Bhakti Poets (Effective beginning Spring 2022)
RELI GU4322EXPLORING THE SHARIA: ISLAMIC LAW
RELI GU4418On African Theory: Religion, Philosophy, Anthropology
RELI GU4999GLOBAL INDIGENOUS RELIGIOUS HISTORIES (Effective beginning Fall 2020)
Slavic Languages
SLCL UN3001SLAVIC CULTURES
CLRS GU4022Russia and Asia: Orientalism, Eurasianism, Internationalism
GEOR GU4042Expressive Culture of Soviet and Independent Georgia
SLCL UN3100FOLKLORE PAST & PRESENT (Effective beginning Fall 2021 semester- New course number SLCL GU4002- effective beginning Spring 2025)
RUSS UN3230Tricksters 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 GU4012Holocaust Literature: Critical Thinking in Dark Times (Effective beginning Fall 2023)
CLSL GU4013Jewish Worlds in Eastern Europe: A Journey (Effective beginning Summer 2024)
CLRS W4190Race, Ethnicity, and Narrative, in the Russian/Soviet Empire
Sociology
SOCI UN3324Global Urbanism
Theatre
THTR UN3154THEATRE TRAD GLOBAL CONTEXT
Urban Studies
URBS UN3351URBAN 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

Columbia in Amman and Paris: Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENA) Program
MENA OC4100Migration, Displacement and Diaspora in the French and North African Context
Columbia Summer in Amman and Tunis: Middle Eastern and North African Studies
MENA OC4101Culture/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 OC3920The World Responds to the Greeks: Greece Faces East
Columbia in London- Queen Mary University
CLEN OC3500LONDON IN POSTCOLONIAL FICTION: 'WE ARE HERE BECAUSE YOU WERE THERE
Columbia Summer Program in Tunis and Istanbul: Democracy and Constitutional Engineering
POLS OC3545Comparative Democratic Politics
Slavic Languages- Office of Global Programs
CLSL OC4001The Muslim and the Christian in Balkan Narratives
Reid Hall in Paris
AHIS OC4652The Black Voices of Black Model: New Perspectives for the Histories of Art
FILM OC4225Arab & 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 OC3719VIOLENCE BY AND AGAINST WOMEN
FREN OC3817Black Paris
CLFR OC3821CITY 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 OC3550WOMEN & SOCIETY - SEX-TRADE ECONOMY