Awards and Prizes

Core Scholars Program

Each year the Core Scholars Program invites anyone who has taken a Core course to reflect on the materials of the Core Curriculum by creating a Core Reflection. Students who create exceptionally creative and well executed Reflections will be honored as Core Scholars; their Core Reflections will be featured here on the Core Curriculum website.

Learn more about becoming a Core Scholar


Preceptor Teaching Awards

Each year we recognize excellence in teaching that honors graduate student instructors in Core courses, including Contemporary Civilization, Literature Humanities, Art Humanities, and Music Humanities. The award is presented at the end-of-year faculty reception.

Meet the honorees


Core Curriculum Prizes

Joshua A. Feigenbaum Prize In Literature Humanities

(2004) Established by Joshua Feigenbaum and awarded to a student who is judged by the faculty to have exhibited excellence in Literature Humanities.

Wallace A. Gray Prize In Literature Humanities

(2004) Established in memory of the late Professor Wallace Gray and awarded annually to the Columbia College undergraduate who is judged by the faculty to have written the best essay in Literature Humanities.

James P. Shenton Prize In Contemporary Civilization

(2004) Awarded annually to the Columbia College undergraduate who is judged by the faculty to have written the best essay in Contemporary Civilization. Established by the Committee on the Core and the Office of the Dean of the College in memory of Professor James P. Shenton, Class of 1949 and GSAS 1955.