Global Core
Approved Course List
5.12.15
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.
Students must complete two courses from this list for a letter grade. A full list of offerings and course schedules is available
on the College Bulletin website: http://bulletin.columbia.edu/columbia-college/core-curriculum/global-core-requirement/
African-American Studies
AFAS
C1001
Anthropology
ANTH
ANTH
ANTH
ANTH
ANTH
ANTH
ANTH
ANTH
ANTH
ANTH
ANTH
ANTH
ANTH
ANTH
ANTH
ANHS
ANTH
V1008
V1130
V2013
V2014
V2020
V2027
V2035
V2100
V3300
V3465
V3525
V3821
V3892
V3933
V3947
W4001
G4065
Introduction to African-American Studies
The Rise of Civilization
Africa and the Anthropologist
Africa in the 21st Century: Aesthetics, Culture, Politics
Archaeology and Africa: Changing Perceptions of the African Past
Chinese Strategies: Cultures in Practice
Changing East Asian Foodways
Introduction to the Anthropology of South Asia
Muslim Societies
Pre-Columbian Histories of Native America
Women and Gender Politics in the Muslim World
Introduction to South Asian History and Culture
Native America (formerly ANTH V3090)
Contemporary Central Asia: States and Societies (formerly ANTH V2029)
Arabia Imagined
Text, Magic, Performance
The Ancient Empires
Archaeology of Idols
Art History and Archaeology
AHIS
AHIS
AHUM
AHUM
AHIS
AHIS
V3201
W3208
V3340
V3342
W3898
G4085
The Arts of China
The Arts of Africa
Art in China, Japan, and Korea
Masterpieces of Indian Art and Architecture
Yoruba and the Diaspora (Effective beginning Fall 2014)
Andean Art and Architecture
Center for the Core Curriculum
AFCV
LACV
C1020
C1020
African Civilization
Primary Texts of Latin American Civilization
1|P age
Global Core
Approved Course List
5.12.15
Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
CSER
CSER
CSER
CSER
CSER
CSER
CSER
CSER
W1010
W1600
W1601
W3510
W3922
W3926
W3928
W3961
Classics
CLCV
CLCV
W3111
W3244
Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Studies
Latino/a History
Introduction to Latino/a Studies
Immigration, Relocation and Diaspora: Novels of Immigration
Asian American Cinema
Latin Music and Identity
Colonization/Decolonization
Wealth and Poverty in America (Effective beginning Fall 2013)
Plato and Confucius: Comparative Ancient Philosophies (Effective beginning Spring 2015)
Global Book Histories (Effective beginning Fall 2015)
Colloquia and Interdepartmental Studies
INSM
INSM
INSM
INSM
W3920
W3921
C3940
W3950
Nobility and Civility I
Nobility and Civility II
Science across Cultures
Friendship: Ideals and Practices in Asian and Western Civilizations
Comparative Literature and Society
CPLS
CPLS
CLGM
CPLS
CPLS
CPLS
CPLS
W3333
W3454
V3920
W3945
W3955
W3956
W4100
East/West Frametale Narratives
Blood/Lust: Staging the Early Modern Mediterranean
The World Responds to the Greeks—Greece Faces East
Transnational Memory Politics and the Culture of Human Rights (Effective beginning Spring 2014)
The West in Global Thought
Postcolonial Narrative and the Limits of the Human
Andalusian Symbiosis: Islam and the West (Effective beginning Fall 2014)
East Asian Languages and Cultures
ASCE
ASCE
ASCE
ASCE
ASCE
EAAS
EAAS
AHUM
AHUM
HSEA
EAAS
EAAS
EAAS
EARL
HSEA
V2002
V2359
V2361
V2363
V2365
W3342
V3350
V3400
V3830
W3880
V3927
W4160
W4227
W4310
W4866
HSEA
W4870
Introduction to Major Topics in Asian Civilizations: East Asia
Introduction to East Asian civilizations: China
Introduction to East Asian civilizations: Japan
Introduction to East Asian civilizations: Korea
Introduction to East Asian civilizations: Tibet
Mythology of East Asia (Effective beginning Fall 2015)
The Supernatural in Japanese Fiction and Film (Beyond Realism) (Effective beginning Fall 2014)
Colloquium on Major Texts: East Asia
Colloquium on Modern East Asian Texts
History of Modern China I (Effective beginning Fall 2015)
China in the Modern World
Cultures of Colonial Korea (Effective beginning Spring 2014; formerly EAAS G4160)
East Asia and the Rise of a Global Middle Class (Effective for one term only: Spring 2015)
Life-Writing in Tibetan Buddhist Literature (Effective beginning Spring 2015)
Competing Nationalisms in East Asia: Representing Chinese and Tibetan Relations in History
(Effective beginning Fall 2015)
Japan Before 1600: Premodern Spaces and Places (Effective beginning Spring 2015)
2|P age
Global Core
Approved Course List
5.12.15
Economics
ECON W4325
Economic Organization and Development of Japan
English and Comparative Literature
CLEN
ENGL
W4200
W4650
Germanic Languages
GERM W3780
History
HIST
HIST
HIST
HIST
HIST
HIST
HIST
HIST
HIST
HIST
HIST
HIST
HSME
W1004
W3618
W3657
W3660
W3661
W3665
W3701
W3719
W3764
W3772
W3800
W3803
W3810
HIST
HSEA
HIST
HIST
HIST
HIST
HIST
HIST
HIST
HIST
W3811
W3898
W3902
W3903
W3943
W4103
W4404
W4601
W4678
W4779
Caribbean Diaspora Literature
Novels of Immigration, Relocation, and Diaspora (Effective beginning Spring 2015. Formerly ENGL
W3510, which counted toward the Global Core requirement until Fall 2014.)
Berlin/Istanbul: Migration, Culture, Values (Effective beginning Fall 2015)
Ancient History of Egypt (Effective beginning Spring 2015)
The Modern Caribbean
Medieval Jewish Cultures
Latin American Civilization I
Latin American Civilization II
Economic History of Latin America
The Ottoman Empire (Effective beginning Fall 2013)
History of the Modern Middle East
East African History: Early Times to the Present (Effective beginning Spring 2014)
West African History
Gandhi’s India
The Worlds of Mughal India (Effective beginning Spring 2014)
History of South Asia I: al-Hind to Hindustan (Effective beginning Fall 2013. Formerly HIST W3810,
which counted toward the Global Core requirement until Spring 2013.)
History of South Asia II: Empire and its Aftermath
The Mongols in History
History of the World to 1450 CE (Effective beginning Fall 2014)
History of the World from 1450 CE to the Present (Effective beginning Fall 2013)
Cultures of Empire
Empires and Cultures of the Atlantic World (Effective only for Spring 2014)
Native American History
Jews in the Later Roman Empire, 300-600 CE (Effective beginning Fall 2014)
Indigenous Worlds in Early Latin America (Effective beginning Spring 2015)
Africa and France in the 20th Century (also offered at Reid Hall, Paris)
Latin American and Iberian Cultures
SPAN
SPAN
PORT
SPAN
W3349
W3350
W3350
W3490
SPAN
W3491
Hispanic Cultures I: Islamic Spain through the Colonial Period
Hispanic Cultures II: Enlightenment to the Present
Lusophone Africa and African-Brazilian Cultures
Latin American Humanities I: From Pre-Columbian Civilizations to the Creation of New Nations
(in English)
Latin American Humanities II: From Modernity to the Present (in English)
Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Languages and Cultures
ASCM V2001
ASCM V2003
Introduction to Major Topics in Asian Civilizations: the Middle East and India
Introduction to Islamic Civilization
3|P age
Global Core
Approved Course List
5.12.15
ASCM V2008
MDES W2030
MDES W2041
Contemporary Islamic Civilization
Major Debates in the Study of Africa (Effective beginning Spring 2014. Formerly ANTH V2010,
which counted toward the Global Core requirement until Fall 2013.)
Introduction to Indian Philosophy (Effective beginning Spring 2015)
ASCM
MDES
MDES
CLME
MDES
AHUM
MDES
CLME
CLME
MDES
CLME
MDES
V2357
W2650
W3000
W3032
W3130
V3399
W3445
W3928
W4031
G4052
G4261
G4326
Introduction to the Civilization of India
Gandhi and His Interlocutors (Effective beginning Spring 2015)
Theories of Culture: Middle East and South Asia
Colonialism: Film, Fiction, History, and Theory
East Africa and the Swahili Coast in an Interconnected World (Effective beginning Spring 2015)
Colloquium on Major Texts: Middle East and South Asia
Societies and Cultures across the Indian Ocean (Effective beginning Fall 2013)
Arabic Prison Writing (Effective beginning Fall 2014)
Cinema and Society in Asia and Africa
Locating Africa in the Early 20th-century World
Popular Islam: Asia and Africa
The Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust: Memory and Representation
V2020
V2430
Salsa, Soca, and Reggae: Popular Musics of the Caribbean
Listening and Sound in Cross-Cultural Perspective (Effective beginning Fall 2014. Fomerly MUSI
W4430, which counted toward the Global Core requirement until Spring 2014.)
Introduction to the Musics of East Asia and Southeast Asia
Introduction to the Musics of India and West Asia
Music
MUSI
MUSI
AHMM V3320
AHMM V3321
Religion
RELI
RELI
RELI
RELI
RELI
RELI
V2008
V2205
V2305
V2405
V2645
V3411
Slavic Languages
SLCL
CLRS
CLRS
W3001
W4022
W4190
Sociology
SOCI
W3324
Theatre
THTR
V3000
Buddhism: East Asian
Hinduism
Islam
Chinese Religious Traditions
Religion in Black America: An Introduction
Tantra in South Asia, East Asia, and the West (Effective beginning Spring 2015)
Slavic Cultures
Russian and Asia: Orientalism, Eurasianism, Internationalism (Effective beginning Spring 2015)
Race, Ethnicity, and Narrative, in the Russian/Soviet Empire
Global Urbanism
Theatre Traditions in a Global Context (Effective beginning Fall 2014)
4|P age