College Faculty Committees

The Columbia College curriculum and its academic policies are determined by the following faculty committees:


Committee on Instruction

The undergraduate curriculum for Columbia College, and all attendant policies, are governed by the Committee on Instruction (COI), a joint committee of Columbia College and the School of General Studies. The COI reviews and approves all new courses which CC and GS students can take for degree credit; reviews and approves all new programs of study (majors, minors, and special programs) as well as all changes to existing programs of study; and determines academic policies that structure the undergraduate academic experience. The COI is co-chaired by the Deans of Columbia College and The School of General Studies and is composed of twelve faculty members (four from each of the three academic divisions), as well as school faculty representatives from Barnard, Engineering, and the School of the Arts. The COI also has four student representatives from CC and GS each year, and is supported by the academic deans and certain administrators from CC and GS. Questions for the COI can be sent to cc-gs-courses@columbia.edu.

Committee on Instruction Members: 2025-2026

  • Josef Sorett, dean of Columbia College, Co-Chair of the Committee on Instruction
  • Lisa Rosen-Metsch, dean of School of General Studies, Co-Chair of the Committee on Instruction
  • Rachel Adams, Department of English and Comparative Literature
  • Matthew Engelke, Department of Religion
  • Stuart Firestein, Department of Biological Sciences
  • Sunil Gulati, Department of Economics
  • Sarah Hansen, Department of Chemistry
  • Dorothea Lasky, School of the Arts
  • Jeffrey Lax, Department of Political Science
  • Barclay Morrison, Department of Biomedical Engineering; vice dean of Undergraduate Programs, School of Engineering and Applied Science
  • Meredith Nettles, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
  • Caterina Pizzigoni, Department of History
  • Valerie Purdie-Greenaway, Department of Psychology
  • Laurie Postlewate, Barnard College
  • Teresa Sharpe, Department of Sociology
Student Representatives:
  • Ronil Awalegaonkar CC'25
  • Sarah Bryden CC'26
  • Durga Chaloli GS'25
  • Christopher Sizemore GS'25
Ex-Officio:
  • Lisa Hollibaugh, dean of Academic Affairs, Columbia College
  • Caroline Marvin, dean of Academic Affairs, School of General Studies
  • Andrew Plaa, dean of Advising, Columbia College and Columbia Engineering
  • Marlyn Delva, dean of Students, School of General Studies
  • Amy Kohn, senior associate director, Academic Affairs, Columbia College
  • Mandeep Singh, assistant director, Academic Affairs, School of General Studies

Newly Approved Courses

The following new courses have been approved for Fall 2025 and Spring 2025. As new courses are added to the list frequently, please visit this site for updates. Additional courses and major/concentration requirements may be found in the Columbia College Bulletin.

Fall 2025 Last updated June 26, 2025.

DEPARTMENT/PROGRAMCOURSE NO. & DESIGNATORTITLE
Art History and ArchaeologyAHIS UN2219Medieval Architecture in Europe
Art History and ArchaeologyAHIS UN3623The Wall Paintings of China
Art History and ArchaeologyAHIS GU4722Medieval Art, Craft, Science
American StudiesAMST UN3941Democracy and De-Democratization, Theory and Practice: The American Case
BusinessBUSI UN3705CAPITAL MARKETS & INVESTMENTS
ClassicsCLCV UN3010Talking Animals and Other Worlds: The Fable & Wisdom Literature From Aesop to Jesus and Beyond
Comparative Literature and SocietyCPLS GU4275Introduction to Narrative Medicine
Comparative Literature and SocietyCPLS GU4399Introduction to Media and Cultural Studies
Earth and Environmental SciencesEESC UN3501MASS EXTINCTIONS: DEATH AND REBIRTH IN THE FOSSIL RECORD
Earth and Environmental SciencesEESC GU4882ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY IN EARTH & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
East Asian Languages and CulturesEAAS UN3001Independent Study
East Asian Languages and CulturesCHNS UN3009Conversational Chinese
East Asian Languages and CulturesEARL UN3261Religion and Revolution in Modern China and the World
East Asian Languages and CulturesEAAS GU4310Narrating Premodern Korea
EnglishENGL UN2262English Literature 1500-1600: Literature for a New England
EnglishENGL UN2269British Literature 1900-1950
EnglishENGL UN2323Writing AI
EnglishENGL UN2603Post-1945 American Literature
EnglishENGL UN2702Early Modern Theater
EnglishENGL UN3153How the Ancients Argued: The Global Rhetorical Tradition
EnglishENGL UN3454Christopher Marlowe
EnglishCLEN OC3793Postcolonial London (This course will be offered in London, UK.)
EnglishENGL GU4017The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism
EnglishENGL GU4222Early American Poetry and Poetics
EnglishENGL GU4322Modern Tragedy
EnglishENGL GU4500H.G. WELLS
EnglishENGL GU4835The Industrial Novel
FilmFILM UN3055Film Adaptation
FilmFILM UN3933Genre: Blockbuster Cinema
FilmFILM GU4946Soviet Avant-garde Cinema of the ‘20s and ‘30s
French and Romance PhilologyFREN UN3473Contemporary Environmental Issues in French
French and Romance PhilologyFREN UN3687Gender Trouble in French and Francophone Literature
French and Romance PhilologyFREN UN3846The 19-Century French Novel
French and Romance PhilologyFREN GU4156What's Left of Enlightenment?
French and Romance PhilologyCLFR GU4188Reading and Rereading Proust
HistoryHIST UN2347Conquests and Transformations: Ireland since 1500
HistoryHIST UN2688The History of Latinos in the U.S.
HistoryHIST UN3691Women, Gender, and the Political Right in Latin America and the Caribbean
HistoryHIST UN3697Food, Race, and Migration
HistoryHIST UN3836Law and Society in Colonial India
HistoryHIST UN3908The Dirty Work: Histories of Domestic Labor
HistoryHIST GU4471JEWS AND RELIGION IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY: ARCHIVAL, THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES
HistoryHIST GU4955Fossil Power: history of global climate politics
ItalianITAL GU4017Renaissance Historians: Bruni, Machiavelli, Guicciardini
Latin American and Iberian CulturesSPAN UN3895Women, Creation, and Feminisms in Contemporary Spain
Latin American and Iberian CulturesSPAN UN3897Nature, Archive, and Gender in Latin American Cultures
Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African StudiesMDES UN3254Colonial Fascism & Revolutionary Violence in the Mediterranean
Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African StudiesMDES UN3357War, Genocide, and their Aftermath
MusicMUSI UN1350Introduction to Musicianship
MusicMUSI UN2351Musicianship: Rhythm
MusicMUSI UN2352Musicianship: Melody
MusicMUSI GU4208Music Production & Studio Composition
MusicMUSI GU4450Music and Global Women
MusicMUSI GU4649Building Sound
PhilosophyPHIL GU4947Classical Indian Philosophy
Political SciencePOLS GU4728Machine Learning & AI for the Social Sciences
Political SciencePOLS UN3685The Rise of the Modern World Economy
Political SciencePOLS UN3921AMERICAN POLITICS SEMINAR (Polling and Democracy)
Political SciencePOLS UN3951COMPARATIVE POLITICS SEMINAR (Innovation: Creativity, Politics, and Social Change)
Political SciencePOLS UN3951COMPARATIVE POLITICS SEMINAR (Voters, Leaders, and the Media)
PsychologyPSYC UN1495 Research Methods: Data Science, Justice, and Social Change
PsychologyPSYC UN3446Social-Emotional Memory in the Developing Brain
ReligionRELI UN1120Love Your Enemies?
ReligionRELI GU4050Christianity and Culture
Slavic LanguagesCLRS UN3317Empire and Periphery: Narratives of Power, Identity, and Resistance in Soviet and Post-Soviet Literature and Film
StatisticsSTAT GU4235 Causal Inference
SociologySOCI UN3286Immigration and Ethnicity in Israel / Palestine
SociologySOCI UN3988Senior Thesis Seminar I
Sustainable DevelopmentSDEV GU4640NATURE, SCIENCE & THE STATE
Visual ArtsVIAR UN3135Medieval to Contemporary Painting Techniques
Visual ArtsVIAR UN3502Animation
WritingWRIT UN3136ART OF THE PARAGRAPH
WritingWRIT UN3233DISRUPTIVE BODIES, DISRUPTIVE TEXTS: TRANS IMAGININGS

Spring 2025 Last updated November 20, 2024.

DEPARTMENT/PROGRAMCOURSE NO. & DESIGNATORTITLE
African American African Diaspora StudiesAFAS UN3002Image Matters: Writing With Photographs from the African Diaspora
African American African Diaspora StudiesAFAS GU4001Revolution and Decolonization in the African Diaspora
African American African Diaspora StudiesAFAS GU4002Writing in the Presence of Ancestors
American StudiesAMST UN3939THE 1980S: A CULTURAL HISTORY
American StudiesAMST UN3940Versions of the American Dream
AnthropologyANTH UN2972Unsettling Science: An Introduction to Science, Technology, and Society
AnthropologyANTH UN3066African American Anthropology
AnthropologyANTH UN3851Theatricality & the Political
AnthropologyANTH GU4747Religion in Empire
Art History and ArchaeologyAHIS UN2129Before Rome: The Art and Architecture of Italy’s Peoples in the First Millennium BCE
Art History and ArchaeologyAHIS UN3105Sacred Spaces & Divine Images Transformed
Art History and ArchaeologyAHIS UN3402Introduction to Design History
Art History and ArchaeologyAHIS UN3429American Architecture: Skyscrapers & Urbanism
Art History and ArchaeologyAHIS GU4518Greek Sanctuaries
Art History and ArchaeologyAHIS GU4946Historicism & Restoration in European Arch.
ClassicsGREK UN3016Readings from the Greek New Testament
ClassicsCLCV UN3069Society and Power in the Hellenistic Age
ClassicsCLCV UN3090Isiac cults in contexts; Egyptian cults in the Graeco-Roman world
Cognitive ScienceCOGS UN3951Computational Models of Decision-Making
Cognitive ScienceCOGS UN3952Philosophy of Computing
Comparative Literature and SocietyCPLS UN3931Life at the End of Life: Palliative Care and Service
Comparative Literature and SocietyCPLS GU4375The Poetics of Social Forms: The Legacy of Fredric Jameson
Comparative Literature and SocietyCPLS GU4545Wittgenstein in the Machine
Comparative Literature and SocietyCPLS GU4825Technology and Justice
Comparative Literature and SocietyCPLS GU4565Motherhood and Technology: From Conception to Birth
Comparative Literature and SocietyCLPS GU48761001 Nights, Then and Now
Earth and Environmental SciencesEESC UN1006WHAT'S NEW IN EARTH, ENVIRONMENTAL, ANDCLIMATE SCIENCE?
East Asian Languages and CulturesEAAS UN3720Women in Vietnamese society, history and literature
East Asian Languages and CulturesEAAS GU4134Sex, Power, Performance: Gender in Chinese Literature
East Asian Languages and CulturesEAAS GU4150Childhoods in Modern Japanese Literature
East Asian Languages and CulturesEAAS GU4345Border Thinking in Modern China
East Asian Languages and CulturesEAAS GU4750Exploring "The Tale of Genji": Themes, Contexts, and Aesthetics
Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental BiologyEEEB GU4450Ethology and the Evolution of Behavior
English and Comparative LiteratureENGL UN1075Children’s Literature
English and Comparative LiteratureENGL UN2792Early Horror
English and Comparative LiteratureENGL UN3437John Keats
English and Comparative LiteratureENGL UN3438Archives and Afterlives in Postcolonial Texts
English and Comparative LiteratureENGL UN3439Afro-Asian Literary Imaginaries
English and Comparative LiteratureENGL UN3432Places for Poetry
English and Comparative LiteratureENGL UN3444Race, Religion, and Early Modernity
English and Comparative LiteratureENGL UN3576U.S. Poetry in the Expanded Field Since 1960
English and Comparative LiteratureENGL UN3781Lab Lit, Weird Science, and Speculative Fiction
English and Comparative LiteratureENGL UN3884Climate Fictions
English and Comparative LiteratureENGL GU4614Ralph Ellison
English and Comparative LiteratureCLEN GU4578Reading the Haitian Revolution
English and Comparative LiteratureCLEN GU4598Erasmian Humanism
English and Comparative LiteratureENGL GU4885Writers on Writing: Fictions, Theories, Risks, and Rituals
Center for the Study of Ethnicity and RaceCSER UN3875Performances of Race & Disaster
FilmFILM GU4112Auteur Study: Jane Campion
FilmFILM GU4311Radical Film and Media
FilmFILM GU4350Women's Documentary Across the Globe
FilmFILM GU4925Documentary Modes
French and Romance PhilologyFREN UN3412Contemporary French and Francophone Literature: US Goncourt Prize Selection
French and Romance PhilologyFREN UN3721Female Friendship in Francophone Novels and Cinema
French and Romance PhilologyCLFR GU4612BD Reportage: The Origin and Aesthetics of Graphic Journalism
French and Romance PhilologyCLFR GU4722Annie Ernaux: Writing as a Knife
French and Romance PhilologyFREN GU4842Radical Enlightenment Women
Germanic LanguagesCLYD UN3500READINGS IN JEWISH LITERATURE (The Book of Genesis)
Germanic LanguagesGERM UN3991Advanced Topics in German Literature (Verteufelthuman“: Menschlichkeit und Humanität in Philosophieund Literatur)
Germanic LanguagesCLDT GU4000Learned Women from the Low Countries (and beyond)
Germanic LanguagesCLGR GU4821Rumor and Media: Technologies, Circulations, and Credence
HistoryHIST UN2717The Ottoman Empire and the West in the 19th Century
HistoryHIST UN3049Provinces of the Roman Empire
HistoryHIST UN3321Solidarity in the Age of Decolonization
HistoryHIST UN3363Feminist Histories of Gender and Sexuality in ModernBritain
HistoryHIST UN3507A Trans History of the United States
HistoryHIST UN3591One Person, One Vote?
HistoryHIST UN3608Women and Gender in Latin America and the Caribbean
HistoryHIST UN3786History of African Muslims: Timbuktu and Beyond
HistoryHIST GU4082Medieval Religion: definitions and concepts
HistoryHIST GU4255A Global History of East Central Europe Before the Modern Times
HistoryHIST GU4279A Cultural History of the Soviet Century
HistoryFRHS GU4354RACIAL HISTORIES OF EUROPE (15th- 21st Centuries)
HistoryHIST GU4379Ever Closer Union?: Histories of European Integration since 1945
HistoryHIST GU4385Rousseau and the Modern Self
HistoryHIST GU4405The Bible in Early America
HistoryHIST GU4439Harm Reduction and/as Historical Analysis
HistoryHIST GU4528Power, Place, Politics, and Health: Historical Perspectives
HistoryHIST GU4695Urban Waters: ecologies, inequalities, and environmental justice in Latin American cities
HistoryHIST GU4716Imag(in)ing the Ottoman Empire: A visual history, 18th-20th centuries
HistoryHIST GU4872North Korean History, Culture and Politics
Human RightsHRTS GU4850Beyond Human Rights Critique
Jewish StudiesJWST GU4155Auteur Study: Steven Spielberg
Jewish StudiesJWST GU4158Zionist Thought: Center and Periphery
Jewish StudiesJWST GU4601The History of Mizrahi Jews
Latin American and Iberian CulturesSPAN UN3894Law, Literature, and Gender in the Hispanic World
LinguisticsLING GU4023Semantics
NepaliNEPA UN1102Elementary Nepali II
Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African StudiesMDES UN1630Introduction to South Asia
Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African StudiesMDES UN2046Slavery, Race, Racism: Global South Experiences and Debates
Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African StudiesMDES UN3030Spider-Man and the End of History
Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African StudiesMDES GU4220The Arabic Linguistic Tradition
Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African StudiesMDES GU4952Ottoman Americans: Immigration History in Comparative Perspective
MusicMPP UN1601Performance Seminar MasterClass
MusicMUSI UN3105Prescribing the Piano: Music, Medicine & The Body
MusicMUSI UN3216Piano Literature & Performance: 1900 - Present
MusicMUSI GU4204Composing for Dance
MusicMUSI GU4215Modular Sound Synthesis
MusicMUSI GU4438Music and Global Africa
PhilosophyPHIL UN3716Topics in Ethics
PhilosophyPHIL UN3872Personal Identity in Parallel Universes
PhilosophyPHIL GU4090Early Greek Philosophy
PhilosophyPHIL GU4717Topics in Moral Psychology (Freud and Philosophy)
PhysicsPHYS UN1151Origins and Meaning: Independent Study
Political SciencePOLS UN3622Ethnic Conflict
Political SciencePOLS UN3911SEMINAR IN POLITCAL THEORY (Liberalism, Community, Culture)
Political SciencePOLS UN3961INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR (Trade, Migration, and Climate Politics)
Political SciencePOLS UN3961INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMINAR (Deterrence and Bargaining)
Political SciencePOLS GU4242Political Economy of the Public Sector
Political Science- Applied MathematicsPSAM UN3707Persuasion at Scale
PsychologyPSYC UN1950Neuroscience Methods: Cells and Circuits
PsychologyPSYC UN3434Prenatal Programming
PsychologyPSYC GU4274Psychology of Procrastination
ReligionRELI UN2101Religion and the Climate Crisis
ReligionRELI UN3107Psychoanalysis and the ‘Eew’ Factor
SinhalaSINH UN3102Literary Sinhala II
Slavic LanguagesRUSS UN3107Russian Through Theater
Slavic LanguagesCLRS GU4039Chekhov and Others
SociologySOCI UN2501THE POLITICS OF MASS INCARCERATION
SociologySOCI GU4049Workshop in Gender and Sexuality II
SociologySOCI GU4125Carcerality, Law, and Punishment Workshop
Sustainable DevelopmentSDEV UN2100Introduction to Climate Justice
Sustainable DevelopmentSDEV GU4325Plants, Animals, and Personhood
Sustainable DevelopmentSDEV GU4660Biodiversity and the Climate Crisis
Sustainable DevelopmentSDEV GU4680Climate and Sustainable Water Systems
Women's and Gender StudiesWMST UN3155Global Histories of the Trans Present
Women's and Gender StudiesWMST GU4220Bodies of Transformation
WritingWRIT UN3039A PICTURE A THOUSAND WORDS: COMICS AND COLLAGE
WritingWRIT UN3230INTERACTIVE MEMOIR
WritingWRIT UN3231AT THE NEW YORKER
WritingWRIT UN3232EDITING, REVISING, PITCHING, PUBLISHING
WritingWRIT UN3326SURREALISM & PROSE POETRY
WritingWRIT UN3328LIVING AT THE MOVIES: THE PERSONA POEM IN FILM AND TV

Committee on the Core

The Committee on the Core (CoC) is the main consultative body for the curriculum of the Core, for the policies that govern the Core, and for certain operations involved in the mounting of the Core. The CoC is convened by the Dean of Columbia College and is composed of the faculty Chairs of each of the “shared” Core courses — i.e., those with a shared curriculum across all sections: Art Humanities, Contemporary Civilization, Frontiers of Science, Literature Humanities, and Music Humanities – as well as the Director of University Writing, the Director of Frontiers of Science, and the Chair of the Committee on the Global Core. The CoC also has three student representatives from CC and GS each year, and is supported by the academic deans and certain administrators from CC and GS. Questions for the Committee on the Core can be sent to core-curriculum@columbia.edu.

Committee on the Core Members: 2025-2026

  • Josef Sorett, dean of Columbia College, convener of the Committee on the Core
  • Ruben Gonzalez, Department Chemistry, chair of Frontiers of Science
  • Joseph Howley, Department of Classics, chair of Literature Humanities
  • Ivana Nikolic Hughes, director of Frontiers of Science
  • Ioannis Mylonopoulos, Department of Art History and Archaeology, chair of Art Humanities
  • Carol Rovane, Department of Philosophy, chair of Contemporary Civilization
  • Benjamin Steege, Department of Music, chair of Music Humanities
  • Nicole Wallack, Department of English and Comparative Literature, director of the Undergraduate Writing Program
Student Representatives:
  • Ishaan Barrett CC'26
  • Alejandra Diaz-Pizarro CC'25
  • Nathan Darmon GS'25
Ex-Officio:
  • Lisa Hollibaugh, dean of Academic Affairs, Columbia College
  • Caroline Marvin, dean of Academic Affairs, School of General Studies
  • Larry Jackson, associate dean of Academic Affairs and director of the Center for the Core Curriculum
  • Christine Butcher, associate director of the Center for the Core Curriculum
  • Scott Harris, assistant director of the Center for the Core Curriculum


Committee on the Global Core

The Committee on the Global Core (CoGC) is responsible for all matters relating to the Global Core requirement, including determining the list of courses approved for the requirement. The CoGC is chaired by a faculty member and is composed of 6-10 faculty members from departments and programs across the humanities, all of whom have experience in designing courses for the specific parameters and goals of the Global Core requirement. The CoGC also includes two student representatives from CC and GS each year, and is supported by the academic deans and certain administrators from CC and GS. Questions for the Committee on the Global Core can be sent to globalcore@columbia.edu.

Faculty interested in proposing new courses for the Global Core requirement can view information regarding the process.

Committee on the Global Core Members: 2025-2026

  • Courtney Bender, Department of Religion, Interim Chair of the Committee on the Global Core
  • Madeleine Dobie, Department of French (on leave 2024-2025)
  • Kevin Fellezs, Department of Music and Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies
  • Frank Guridy, Department of History and Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies
  • Mana Kia, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
  • David Lurie, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures (on leave 2024-2025)
  • Matthew McKelway, Department of Art History and Archaeology
Student Representatives:
  • Ichiro Ng CC'25
  • Devika Goyal GS'26
Ex-Officio:
  • Josef Sorett, dean of Columbia College
  • Lisa Hollibaugh, dean of Academic Affairs, Columbia College
  • Caroline Marvin, dean of Academic Affairs, General Studies
  • Shannon Marquez, dean of Undergraduate Global Engagement
  • Larry Jackson, associate dean of Academic Affairs and director of the Center for the Core Curriculum
  • Mandeep Singh, assistant director of Academic Affairs, General Studies


Committee on Science Instruction

The Committee on Science Instruction (CoSI) is responsible for all matters relating to the Science requirement and for providing leadership on matters related to undergraduate science education. CoSI is chaired by a faculty member and is composed of representative faculty members from each department in the natural sciences, as well as mathematics, statistics, and computer science. CoSI also includes two student representatives from CC and GS each year, and is supported by the academic deans and certain administrators from CC and GS. Questions for CoSI can be sent to cosi@columbia.edu.

Committee on Science Instruction Members: 2025-2026

  • Ruben Gonzalez, Frontiers of Science, Chair of the Committee on Science Instruction
  • James Applegate, Department of Astronomy
  • Brian Borowski, Department of Computer Science
  • Angelo Cacciuto, Department of Chemistry
  • Maria Diuk-Wasser, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
  • Julien Dubedat, Department of Mathematics
  • Bärbel Hönisch, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
  • Patricia Lindemann, Department of Psychology
  • Kerstin Perez, Department of Physics
  • Carol Prives, Department of Biological Sciences
  • Gabriel Young, Department of Statistics
Student Representatives:
  • Kashish Kumar CC'26
  • Johntae Jeffries GS'25
Ex-Officio:
  • Josef Sorett, dean of Columbia College
  • Lisa Hollibaugh, dean of Academic Affairs, Columbia College
  • Caroline Marvin, dean of Academic Affairs, General Studies
  • John Foo, senior assistant director of Center for Teaching & Learning
  • Ivana Nikolic Hughes, director of Frontiers of Science
  • Larry Jackson, associate dean of Academic Affairs and director of the Center for the Core Curriculum
  • Amy Kohn, senior associate director, Academic Affairs, Columbia College


Student representatives to the undergraduate curriculum committees


Each of the undergraduate curriculum committees includes 1-2 student representatives from Columbia College who serve on the committees for a full academic year. Student representatives are current juniors or seniors of the College who can bring to bear their experiences to date of the Core Curriculum and of their major programs of study, as well as the many conversations they have had with their peers throughout their years at Columbia. While students are not voting members of the committees, they play a crucial role in advising faculty members on the student experience of the curriculum and in presenting to faculty members the typical questions and concerns of undergraduate students.

Apply to be a student representative

Columbia College students who are interested in serving as a student representative on a curriculum committee should write to cc-academic@columbia.edu with the following information:

  1. What is your name, your class year, your major field(s) of study, your uni, and your email address?
  2. Why are you interested in serving on a curriculum committee? What are you hoping to learn more about from the committee discussions? What are you hoping to share with faculty committee members?
  3. Which committees committees are of particular interest to you, and why? And for those committees that deal with a particular piece of the undergraduate curriculum (the Core, the Global Core requirement, the Science requirement), what have been your chief impressions of that part of the curriculum so far?
  4. What initial questions do you have about the work of the undergraduate curriculum committees?
  • Please note: In order to serve on a particular curriculum committee in the 2024-2025 academic year, students must be available to meet in person at the scheduled meeting times (with the understanding that it might be necessary to miss an occasional meeting if there is an academic conflict):
    • Committee on Instruction: every Friday morning from 10:00 to 11:30am in Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 semesters
    • Committee on the Core: Fall 2024 meetings: September 25, 10:00-11:30am; October 30, 1:30-3:00pm; November 22, 12:00-1:30pm; December 13, 12:00-1:30pm; Spring 2025 meetings: January 29, 2:00-3:30 pm; March 14, 2:00-3:30 pm; April 25, 12:00-1:30 pm
    • Committee on the Global Core: Fall 2024 meetings: November 8, 1:30-3:00 pm; December 2, 10:30-11:30 am; Spring 2025 meetings:
    • Committee on Science Instruction: Fall 2024 meetings: October 24, 2:30-4:00 pm; November 26, 2:30-4:00 pm; Spring 2025 meetings: March 3, 2:30-4:00 pm; April 11, 3:00-4:30 pm

Interviews for student representatives are held early in the Fall semester, and students who are selected are expected to serve as a representative for the full academic year.