Prerequisites: Non-native English speakers must reach Level 10 in the American Language Program prior to registering for ENGL GS1010.
University Writing
helps undergraduates engage in the conversations that form our intellectual community. By reading and writing about scholarly and popular essays, students learn that writing is a process of continual refinement of ideas. Rather than approaching writing as an innate talent, this course teaches writing as a learned skill. We give special attention to textual analysis, research, and revision practices. University Writing offers the following themed sections, all of which welcome students with no prior experience studying the theme. Students interested in a particular theme should register for the section within the specified range of section numbers.
UW: Contemporary Essays (sections from 001 to 069)
. Features contemporary essays from a variety of fields.
UW: Readings in Music (sections in the 070s)
. Features essays that analyze the politics, histories, communities, philosophies, and techniques of music-making, from the classical to the contemporary.
UW: Readings in American Studies (sections in the 100s)
. Features essays that explore the culture, history, and politics that form American identity.
UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality (sections in the 200s).
Features essays that examine relationships among sex, gender, sexuality, race, class, and other forms of identity.
UW: Readings in Human Rights (sections in the 400s).
Features essays that investigate the ethics of belonging to a community and issues of personhood, identity, representation, and action.
UW: Readings in Data Sciences (sections in the 500s).
Features essays that study how our data-saturated society challenges conceptions of cognition, autonomy, identity, and privacy.
UW: Readings in Medical-Humanities (sections in the 600s).
Features essays that explore the disciplines of biomedical ethics and medical anthropology, to challenge our basic assumptions about medicine, care, sickness, and health.
University Writing for International Students (sections in the 900s)
. Open only to international students, these sections emphasize the transition to American academic writing cultures through the study of contemporary essays from a variety of fields. For further details about these classes, please visit:
http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp
.
Prerequisites: Non-native English speakers must reach Level 10 in the American Language Program prior to registering for ENGL GS1010.
University Writing
helps undergraduates engage in the conversations that form our intellectual community. By reading and writing about scholarly and popular essays, students learn that writing is a process of continual refinement of ideas. Rather than approaching writing as an innate talent, this course teaches writing as a learned skill. We give special attention to textual analysis, research, and revision practices. University Writing offers the following themed sections, all of which welcome students with no prior experience studying the theme. Students interested in a particular theme should register for the section within the specified range of section numbers.
UW: Contemporary Essays (sections from 001 to 069)
. Features contemporary essays from a variety of fields.
UW: Readings in Music (sections in the 070s)
. Features essays that analyze the politics, histories, communities, philosophies, and techniques of music-making, from the classical to the contemporary.
UW: Readings in American Studies (sections in the 100s)
. Features essays that explore the culture, history, and politics that form American identity.
UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality (sections in the 200s).
Features essays that examine relationships among sex, gender, sexuality, race, class, and other forms of identity.
UW: Readings in Human Rights (sections in the 400s).
Features essays that investigate the ethics of belonging to a community and issues of personhood, identity, representation, and action.
UW: Readings in Data Sciences (sections in the 500s).
Features essays that study how our data-saturated society challenges conceptions of cognition, autonomy, identity, and privacy.
UW: Readings in Medical-Humanities (sections in the 600s).
Features essays that explore the disciplines of biomedical ethics and medical anthropology, to challenge our basic assumptions about medicine, care, sickness, and health.
University Writing for International Students (sections in the 900s)
. Open only to international students, these sections emphasize the transition to American academic writing cultures through the study of contemporary essays from a variety of fields. For further details about these classes, please visit:
http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp
.
Prerequisites: Non-native English speakers must reach Level 10 in the American Language Program prior to registering for ENGL GS1010.
University Writing
helps undergraduates engage in the conversations that form our intellectual community. By reading and writing about scholarly and popular essays, students learn that writing is a process of continual refinement of ideas. Rather than approaching writing as an innate talent, this course teaches writing as a learned skill. We give special attention to textual analysis, research, and revision practices. University Writing offers the following themed sections, all of which welcome students with no prior experience studying the theme. Students interested in a particular theme should register for the section within the specified range of section numbers.
UW: Contemporary Essays (sections from 001 to 069)
. Features contemporary essays from a variety of fields.
UW: Readings in Music (sections in the 070s)
. Features essays that analyze the politics, histories, communities, philosophies, and techniques of music-making, from the classical to the contemporary.
UW: Readings in American Studies (sections in the 100s)
. Features essays that explore the culture, history, and politics that form American identity.
UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality (sections in the 200s).
Features essays that examine relationships among sex, gender, sexuality, race, class, and other forms of identity.
UW: Readings in Human Rights (sections in the 400s).
Features essays that investigate the ethics of belonging to a community and issues of personhood, identity, representation, and action.
UW: Readings in Data Sciences (sections in the 500s).
Features essays that study how our data-saturated society challenges conceptions of cognition, autonomy, identity, and privacy.
UW: Readings in Medical-Humanities (sections in the 600s).
Features essays that explore the disciplines of biomedical ethics and medical anthropology, to challenge our basic assumptions about medicine, care, sickness, and health.
University Writing for International Students (sections in the 900s)
. Open only to international students, these sections emphasize the transition to American academic writing cultures through the study of contemporary essays from a variety of fields. For further details about these classes, please visit:
http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp
.
Critical introduction to philosophical problems, ideas and methods.
Corequisites: AMST UN1010
This is the required discussion section for AMST UN1010 Intro to American Studies
This course provides an overview of Asian/ Pacific American history from the late 18th Century until the present day. The course follows a thematic format that begins with European and American empires in Asia and the Pacific. The course surveys significant and interrelated topics -- including anti-Asian movements, immigration and exclusion, various forms of resistance, Orientalism, media representations, the model minority myth, the Asian American movement, identity, and racial, ethnic, and generational conflicts -- in Asian/ Pacific American history of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Each of these concepts and topics will resonant, in various expressions and forms, well into the 21st Century and beyond.
Prerequisites: Corequisite EEEB UN1111
Study of non-human primate behavior from the perspective of phylogeny, adaptation, physiology and anatomy, and life history. Focuses on the four main problems primates face: finding appropriate food, avoiding being eaten themselves, reproducing in the face of competition, and dealing with social partners. Along with
Human Origins & Evolution
, this serves as a core required class for the EBHS program.
What is the nature of our planet and how did it form? This class explores Earth's internal structure, its dynamical character expressed in plate tectonics and earthquakes, and its climate system. It also explores what Earth's future may hold. Lecture and lab. Students who wish to take only the lectures should register for UN
1411
.
Prerequisites: Instructor permission is required. Note: This introductory lab course is intended for students who have not previously been enrolled in a psychology lab course. It is also highly recommended for First Year and Sophomore students, and those who have no experience in any science laboratory course. Students are expected to have completed BC1001 Introduction to Psychology, or its equivalent, in a previous semester, or be enrolled concurrently.
Corequisites: PSYC BC1001
A laboratory-based introduction to experimental methods used in psychological research. Upon successful completion of this course, students will know how to review the primary literature and formulate a hypothesis, design an experiment, analyze data using statistical methods, communicate the results of a scientific study through oral presentation and written manuscript, and carry out research studies under ethical guidelines. Students will be able to apply the acquired knowledge in all disciplines of Psychology and will be prepared to engage in advance research in fields including, but not limited to, Cognition, Learning, Perception, Behavioral Neuroscience, Development, Personality, and Social Psychology. Note that as of Fall 2016, this course replaces PSYC BC1010. This course is comprised of a three hour laboratory section and a 75 minute lab lecture component.
Prerequisites: high school science and math.
A review of the history and environmental consequences of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons of mass destruction (WMD); of how these weapons work, what they cost, how they have spread, how they might be used, how they are currently controlled by international treaties and domestic legislation, and what issues of policy and technology arise in current debates on WMD. What aspects of the manufacture of WMD are easily addressed, and what aspects are technically challenging? It may be expected that current events/headlines will be discussed in class.
This course provides a general introduction to some of the key intellectual debates in Africa by Africans through primary sources, including scholarly works, political tracts, fiction, art, and film. Beginning with an exploration of African notions of spiritual and philosophical uniqueness and ending with contemporary debates on the meaning and historical viability of an African Renaissance, this course explores the meanings of ‘Africa' and ‘being African.' Field(s): AFR*. NO FIRST YEAR STUDENTS PERMITTED.
Introductory design studio to introduce students to architectural design through readings and studio design projects. Intended to develop analytic skills to critique existing media and spaces. Process of analysis used as a generative tool for the students' own design work. Must apply for placement in course. Priority to upperclass students. Class capped at 16.
This course will use an evolutionary perspective to focus on what humans need to eat for survival and health. We will examine how and why sufficient and optimal diets can be obtained through a range of dietary patterns, and how those patterns were rooted in different geographic and cultural regions. We will also compare current patterns with those of humans from 200,000, 12,000 and 100 years ago, and where it is instructive, we will compare the food intake and food system of other animals. Throughout the course, the environmental impact of a given dietary pattern will be considered, and where possible, the economic determinants of individual food intake will be reviewed. We will incorporate a lifespan perspective throughout the course.
Rome and its empire, from the beginning to late antiquity.
Field(s): ANC.
Discussion section required.
It focuses on key texts from Latin America in their historical and intellectual context and seeks to understand their structure and the practical purposes they served using close reading and, when possible, translations. The course seeks to establish a counterpoint to the list of canonical texts of Contemporary Civilization. The selections are not intended to be compared directly to those in CC but to raise questions about the different contexts in which ideas are used, the critical exchanges and influences (within and beyond Latin America) that shaped ideas in the region, and the long-term intellectual, political, and cultural pursuits that have defined Latin American history. The active engagement of students toward these texts is the most important aspect of class work and assignments. NO FIRST YEAR STUDENTS PERMITTED.
MANDATORY Discussion Section for HIST UN 1020 The Romans, 754 BC to 565 AD. Students must also be registered for HIST 1020.
Provides a broad overview of the rapidly expanding field of human rights. Lectures on the philosophical, historical, legal and institutional foundations are interspersed with weekly presentations by frontline advocates from the U.S. and overseas.
Our goal is to gain a general understanding of the history of the country, with the ability to identify its disputed and controversial topics. Often, sharply different and politically loaded viewpoints and interpretations circulate. Like other European countries, Ukraine has not existed as a national entity throughout history, but has emerged in a historical process.
We will discuss different interpretations of medieval Rus, and then survey the history of the region from the end of the sixteenth century to present, paying attention to politics, economy, social structure, ideas, ethnic groups and nationalities, and gender. The topics to be discussed include the Church Union of Brest, Cossack Wars, the autonomous Hetmanate under Russian suzerainty, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Habsburg Empire, Russian Empire, World War I, revolution and short-lived Ukrainian states 1917-21, Ukrainians in the interwar Poland and the Soviet Union, Holodomor or the Great Famine 1932-33, World War II and Holocaust in Ukraine, destalinization in Ukraine, independent Ukraine and its political upheavals, including the recent Russian attack on Ukraine.
MANDATORY Discussion Section for HIST UN 1037 Introduction to History of Ukraine. Students must also be registered for HIST UN 1037.
This course provides an introduction to central approaches and concepts animating the investigation of race and ethnicity. We will not treat either of these categories of difference as a given, nor as separable from other axes of social difference. Rather, we will apply an interdisciplinary and intersectional framework to illuminate how these concepts have come to emerge and cohere within a number of familiar and less familiar socio-cultural and historical contexts. We will consider how racial and ethnic differentiation as fraught but powerful processes have bolstered global labor regimes and imperial expansion projects; parsed, managed, and regulated populations; governed sexed and gendered logics of subject and social formation; and finally, opened and constrained axes of self-understanding, political organization, and social belonging. Special attention will be given to broadening students' understanding of racial and ethnic differentiation beyond examinations of identity. Taken together, theoretical and empirical readings, discussions, and outside film screenings will prepare students for further coursework in race and ethnic studies, as well as fields such as literary studies, women’s studies, history, sociology, and anthropology.
What does it mean to live a life well lived? The main mission of this course is to provide an up-to-date understanding of theoretical, empirical, and applied advances in the science of well-being and self-actualization. Consideration will be given to conflicting viewpoints and their respective empirical support, including the benefits of embracing both comfortable and uncomfortable emotions, the measurement and development of different models of well-being, and the implications of deliberately attempting to increase well-being. Throughout the course we will engage in experiential learning and practical exercises which will inform our theoretical and empirical understanding of the latest scientific findings and help you in your own personal journey to satisfy the fundamental needs of human existence and bring out the best in yourself. This course is comprised of a lecture and a discussion section.
Prerequisites: BC1001 or permission of the instructor.
Weekly meetings with researchers to discuss the nature of scientific inquiry in psychology; and intellectual, professional, and personal issues in the work of scientists.
This course introduces students to the Harlem Renaissance and complicates a narrative of this movement as primarily-African American. Instead, we read closely and trace the trajectory of much of this thinking and activism to the Caribbean region. Examining central figures including Hubert Harrison, Zora Neale Hurston, and Arturo Schomburg, this course displaces the ideological privileging of the African-American experience, and points instead to the centrality of diasporic experiences and contributions to the Harlem Renaissance.
The aim of the beginning French sequence (French 1101 and French 1102) is to help you to develop an active command of the language. Emphasis is placed on acquiring the four language skills--listening, speaking, reading and writing--within a cultural context, in order to achieve basic communicative proficiency.
Upon completion of the course, students understand, speak, read, and write German at a level enabling them to communicate with native speakers about their background, family, daily activities, student life, work, and living quarters. Daily assignments and laboratory work.
Thia course introduces students to the rudiments of the Irish language, including phonemes and pronunciation, syntactical structure, and verbal conjugations. In addition, a history of the language is provided, as well as a general introduction to Irish culture, including discussions of family and place names. Students are encouraged to begin speaking with basic sentence structures, eventually expanding into more complex verbal conjugations while concentrating on idiomatic expressions. The accumulation of vocabulary is stressed and students are introduced to basic literature in Irish while developing beginning conversational fluency.
Equivalent to
ITAL V1101
. Students will develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in Italian and an understanding of Italian culture. Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to provide basic information in Italian about themselves, their families, interests, likes and dislikes, and daily activities; participate in a simple conversation on everyday topics; to read edited texts on familiar topics; and produce Italian with basic grammatical accuracy and accurate pronunciation.
This course introduces students to the language of Haitian Kreyòl, also called Creole, and is intended for students with little or no prior knowledge of the language. Haitian Kreyòl is spoken by Haiti’s population of nine million and by about one million Haitians in the U.S. Including over 190,000 in the New York City area. In fact, New York City has the second largest population of Kreyòl Speakers after Port--â€au--â€Prince, Haiti’s capital. Through this course, you will develop introductory speaking, reading, and writing skills. We use a communicative approach, balanced with grammatical and phonetic techniques. Classroom and textbook materials are complemented by work with film, radio, and especially music (konpa, rasin, twoubadou, rap, raga, levanjil, vodou tradisyonèl, etc.), as well as with visits to city museums and institutions related to Haiti.
Note:
This course is part of the language exchange program with New York University (NYU). Classes will be held at NYU.
For students who have never studied Latin. An intensive study of grammar with reading of simple prose and poetry.
Prerequisites: high school mathematics through trigonometry or
MATH S1003
, or the equivalent.
Functions, limits, derivatives, introduction to integrals.
What is a just society? What is a good life? How should we live together when we disagree about justice and the good life? Is government essential to living well? What is the best form of government? What rights do we have? How, if at all, can the coercive power of the state be justified? These are some of the enduring questions we will explore. A major goal of the course is to exercise techniques needed to understand a political thinker’s arguments and to construct one’s own.
Prerequisites: BC1001 and instructor permission. Enrollment limited to 20 students per recitation section.
Corequisites: PSYC BC1102
Lecture course introducing students to statistics and its applications to psychological research. The course covers basic theory, conceptual underpinnings, and common statistics.
Introduction to cuneiform script and to the Akkadian language, with emphasis on grammatical structure.