For more than 100 years, the Core Curriculum has prompted students to grapple with the persistent problems of the present by considering the stories, ideas, images, and sounds that have shaped their world.
The Core Curriculum is the cornerstone of undergraduate education at Columbia. It consists of five courses that all students at the College are required to take:
- Literature Humanities
- Contemporary Civilization
- Art Humanities
- Music Humanities
- Frontiers of Science