Global Core

$250,000 alumni gift supports workshops for developing Global Core courses

Arnold Chavkin, Business ’77, and his wife Laura Chang, Business ’77, gave $250,000 to fund a series of workshops focused on developing new Global Core courses and improving existing ones.

By Parul Guliani | Oct 28 01:43 am ET

Stricter standards in place for Global Core

Eighty-four courses are now approved, compared to more than 120 last semester. Grieve emphasized that the committee shortened the list as a result of its new standards, but could expand it again in the future.

By Ben Gittelson | Sep 23 04:26 am ET

Committee rethinking shape, direction of the Global Core

Administrators said they'd likely increase the number of small seminars and create linkages in the Global Core.

By Melanie Broder | Feb 10 04:37 am ET

At year's first CCSC meeting, talk of dining changes, drug policies

The Columbia College Student Council looks toward reforming party policies, the Global Core, and dining plans.

By Leah Greenbaum | Jan 24 01:52 am ET

True globalization, true diversity

Emphasizing diversity at the expense of the Global Core.

By William Theodore de Bary | Oct 28 09:43 pm ET

Global Core is part of the game plan

There's more to the Core than Plato and Augustine.

By Yang Hu | Oct 24 05:45 pm ET

The Global Core lacks substance

Global in culture, narrow in content.

By Stephen Wu | Oct 14 10:51 pm ET

Global Core for our "global community"

One of the ways they imagine the Global Core moving forward is to have team-taught, interdisciplinary courses focused on primary texts, which would be more like Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilization. But, of course, like everything at Columbia, the recent economic crisis has “put a strain on resources” across departments in the humanities and the social sciences.

By Kassandra Lee | Apr 11 08:35 pm ET

Global Core to decrease class sizes

A year after the creation of the Columbia College Global Core requirement, faculty members are evaluating potential classes and looking to downsize large lecture courses to smaller seminars—neither of which have been simple tasks.

By Amber Tunnell | Apr 14 10:45 pm ET

A global guise

What does it even mean to be the “primary focus” of Lit Hum or CC? Should we consider Spain an area of primary focus? Or Russia, with only Dostoevsky on the syllabus?

By Jake Miller | Apr 8 06:42 pm ET

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