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2013-2014 Course Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

First-Year Seminar

Courses

  • 48-1100 First Year Seminar

    The First Year Seminar is grounded in interdisciplinary studies in the humanities and social sciences, acclimating students to the four fundamental activities that members of the College community engage in: questioning, exploring, communicating, and evaluating. Topics and texts are selected and studied in ways that will help Columbia students become more competent and confident readers, writers, thinkers, creators, and collaborators. This First-Year Seminar helps prepare students not just for their subsequent years at Columbia, but for their future lives and careers as responsible citizens and authors of the culture of their time.

    3 Credits
    FY
    Requirements New Millennium Study

  • 48-1100HN First Year Seminar: Honors

    The First Year Seminar is grounded in interdisciplinary studies in the humanities and social sciences, acclimating students to the four fundamental activities that members of the College community engage in: questioning, exploring, communicating, and evaluating. Topics and texts are selected and studied in ways that will help Columbia students become more competent and confident readers, writers, thinkers, creators, and collaborators. This First-Year Seminar helps prepare students not just for their subsequent years at Columbia, but for their future lives and careers as responsible citizens and authors of the culture of their time. This is an Honors class.

    3 Credits
    FY
    Requirements Honors Course

  • 48-1101J The Living News: An Intensive Collaboration Fusing Theater and Journalism

    This hands-on, intensive seminar is sparked by The Federal Theater Project’s Living Newspapers of the 1930s - dynamic theatrical productions created by teams of journalists and theater artists, and designed to challenge audiences to face complex social and political issues of the day. Adopting this innovative collaborative structure, students will construct an original Living Newspaper for our time – selecting the topic, researching, news-gathering, conducting interviews, writing and building a draft script, and creating a public staged reading.

    3 Credits

  • 48-2100J Place, Process, and Portfolio: Travel Stories

    This multidisciplinary class engages students in all departments in the travel-writing skills of research, exploration and documentation. Students will examine what they see, hear and read and collaborate to create a multidisciplinary portfolio of work based on their travel experiences. Their final projects will be mounted in an exhibit on campus.

    3 Credits
    PL
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 48-1100 First Year Seminar 
    Requirements Department Permission

  • 48-3950 Undergraduate Research Mentorship

    3 Credits
    Repeatable