37 CommentsWe asked and you answered. Below, read the list, compiled from all of your comments, of classes to take before you graduate. The classes are separated by department, then professor, with a separate section for Global Core. Bolded classes are being offered this semester. Go shop and get inspired!
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American Studies: Andrew Delbanco, Foundations of American Literature
Anthropology: Rosalind Morris, Mythology
Art History: Rosalyn Deutsch
Astronomy and Physics: Jacqueline Van Gorkom, Beyond the Solar System
Biology: Solomon Mowshowitz, Immunology
Biology: Nataliya Galafiankis, General Physiology
Chemistry: James Leighton, Organic Chemistry
Civil Engineering: Jose Sanchez, Engineering Graphics
Classics: Gareth Williams, Selections From Latin Literature: Horace
Core: Mark Lilla, Lit Hum; CC
E3B: Jill Shapiro, Explorations in Primate Anatomy
Economics: Xavier Sala-I-Martin, Intermediate Macroeconomics
Economics: Sunil Gulati, Principles of Economics
Electrical Engineering: David Vallancourt, Intro to Electrical Engineering; Digital Information Era
English: James Shapiro, Shakespeare II, Shakespearean Poetry
English: Erik Gray, Victorian Poetry, Romantic Poetry
English: Nicholas Dames, The Victorian Novel
English: Edward Mendelson, Critical Reading, Critical Writing
English: Brent Edwards, Jazz and the Literary Imagination
English: Stephen Massimilla, Modernist British Fiction
History: Alan Brinkley, America since 1945
History: David Rosner, Social History of American Public Health
History: Kenneth Jackson, History of the City of New York
History: Samuel Roberts, Race, Technology and Health in US History
History: Eric Foner, United States in the Era of Civil War and Reconstruction
Linguistics: John McWhorter, Intro to Linguistics
Mathematics: Mu-Tao Wang, Differentiable Manifolds
Mathematics: Dave Bayer, Linear Algebra
Philosophy: Christia Mercer
Physics: Brian Cole, From Quarks to the Cosmos
Political Science: Andrew Nathan, Chinese Foreign Policy
Psychology: Catherine Monk, Abnormal Psychology
Religion: Peter Awn, Islam
Sociology: Shamus Khan, The Social World
Spanish: Francisco Rosales-Varo, Intermediate Spanish I; Spanish Pragmatics
Visual Arts: Thomas Roma, Photo I
Visual Arts: Jon Kessler, Sculpture II
Visual Arts: Rirkrit Tiravanija
Women’s and Gender Studies: Lila Abu-Lughod, Women and Gender Politics in the Muslim World
Women’s and Gender Studies: Beck Young
Global Core
Anthropology: The Rise of Civilization
Anthropology: Mahmood Mamdani, Major Debates in the Study of Africa
Center for Ethnicity and Race: Intro to Comparative Ethnic Studies
EALAC: Gregory Pflugfelder, Cultural History of Japanese Monsters
Religion: Michael Como, Intro to East Asian Buddhism
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37 Comments
@Yess Awn for Islam. Brilliant lecturer. Heavy reading, but even that is all very interesting. You come away feeling like a subject-matter expert.
@E3B JILL SHAPIRO PRIMATE ANATOMY! Take it. SO much fun and she is INCREDIBLE. Favorite class I’ve taken.
@Anonymous Agreed! Immunology is a great class!
But why is Physio on this list?
@Anonymous gulati!!!!!! l0ooveee that man
@Kay Achar The enrollment cap on POLS W4871, Chinese Foreign Politics, is being raised. If you were unable to add the course because it was full, spaces should be available beginning Friday, January 21.
@Also Judith Russell is another great Columbia professor. Very smart, she frequently goes off on tangents but is always entertaining and at the end of the semester as I was writing my final paper I realized I’d learned a lot more than I thought I had. Plus I don’t know if I’ve run into another professor who cares so much about students. She is always available to help out, and has frequently helped students applying for political internships. Smart + nice = worth taking any of her classes
@Yes on Awn Another voice to recommend Dean Awn’s amazing Islam class. Far and away the best class I’ve had at Columbia so far. I’d even recommend it to people who wouldn’t otherwise be interested in the subject, simply because Awn’s lectures are so incredible. Take that class!
@!!! mamdani is hands down the best professor i’ve had at columbia
@Anonymous Organic Chemistry – Nicholas Turro
Intro to Matlab – Itsik Pe’er
Intro to Ear Training – Patrick Zimmerli
Calc III – Josh Greene
Calc IV – Ovidiu Savin
@AWN Islam is not to be missed.
@no no no Physio? Really? Easyish A, but she can’t lecture for shit. Three-fourths of the class walk out after each weekly quiz.
And nooo to Orgo. Snyder is alright, but I don’t get how people love him.
@Anonymous Mark Lilla is a genius. Changed my life, no kidding. :)
@Lee Bollinger RYAN CHANEY!!!!!
@Anonymous Khalidi’s “History of the Modern Middle East” should be on that list! It’s Global Core…
@Anonymous Shitty list.
@Chemistry Scott Snyder: Organic Chemistry I and II.
Hands down the best lecturer ever
@Anonymous Lila Abu-Lughod is a brilliant writer and anthropologist, but she’s far from the best teacher. Women and Gender Politics is pretty disorganized and disjointed, and it really compromises the quality of the course. The content is interesting, but that almost makes it more frustrating. I think there are much better Women’s Studies classes to be taken….
@Mowshowitz's Immunology For the love of God, yes.
@Yes Como is great! His course on Japanese Religious Traditions course might be a better suggestion though (Fall semester course)
@MechE mechatronics
@i'd also add- Jose Ruiz Campillo for spanish-he’s brilliant, hysterical, low pressure, and you learn so much without even realizing because you’re having a blast-that’s not meant to sound lazy, it’s just a total boon in a language class.
Also, any english class with Victoria Rosner, especially Fin de Siecle. She is INCREDIBLE-wonderful lecturer, very funny lady, chooses amazing readings, very accessible during office hours, and really helps you get the best out of yourself in general. Just really, really great.
@Anonymous you are so Eva
@Anonymous HI EVA!
@listen you guys i’m just being miley
@Anonymous I laughed when Physiology was up there in the list. Such an easy A. Just don’t attend lectures.
@lol I find it a little funny that there are only 2 engineering courses on this list… and in reality there’s actually only 1 – Engineering Graphics has absolutely nothing to do with engineering (I’ve taken it)
@Islam is also a global core ;)
@SCIENCE! Yeah, Cultural History of Japanese Monsters is a preeetty, preeetty, preetty fun way of fufilling the Global Core.
New Contender: Latin American Fiction w/ Alfred MacAdam.
Demand: Could we get some painless (low-attendance, straightfoward work, easy grading) science req. recs?
@Anonymous Shoutout to Francisco (Spanish) – nicest, most helpful Columbia prof I have yet to encounter.
@Leighton Chemistry was awful. Breslow was much better
@you're joking Breslow had terrible handwriting and talked into the board. It was awesome having him as a teacher, but Leighton was a way better lecturer.
@whaaaat no reacting!?
@Help please? Anyone have a good American History course to P/D/F if you just want to try out the area?
@cc'11 Brinkley, Post-1945 America
Fields, History of the South
@it's *Lila* Abu-Lughod, Women and Gender *Politics* in the Muslim World
@CC yeaaaaah Pflug!
And yeah Como, though I’d prefer his Japanese Religious Traditions and Bodies and Spirits in East Asia to the Buddhism class. he’s the nicest.
@Anonymous Como’s the best!!!