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The rice fields of Java should not be forgotten among the luxuries of New York.

By Joohyun Lee | Dec 7 08:43 pm ET

Plank your way to Columbia

Learn about new and exciting "Planking" variations that can lead to very positive and successful results for your Columbia career.

By Walker Harrison | Nov 1 07:38 pm ET

Black and Blue and White

By Amalia Rinehart | Sep 18 08:07 pm ET

What's in a canon?

It's time to reevaluate what makes Lit Hum and CC readings valuable.

By Po Linn Chia | Sep 5 08:49 pm ET

America, the land Lit Hum forgot

America should have a place in Literature Humanities.

By Lanbo Zhang | Apr 25 08:27 pm ET

Lit Hum cheating sparks fresh scrutiny

“I don’t know if students are cheating more ... but we are catching more cases of plagiarism,” Literature Humanities chair Christia Mercer said on Tuesday.

By Mica Moore | Mar 30 04:26 am ET

Lit Hum expands online programs

A "Core Scholars" program will allow students to showcase their undergraduate work through the new Lit Hum website.

By Rakhi Agrawal | Nov 9 04:02 am ET

Lit Hum and the examined life

The new Lit Hum chair describes what Plato and a website have to say on a life worth living.

By Christia Mercer | Sep 9 10:46 pm ET

Get some (Core) class

All Columbia undergraduates have to take them—the required classes that constitute our early years. But do they go on to constitute part of us? This week, four students assess the foundations of our education. Jennifer Fearon examines what it means to re-read classics in Barnard’s First-Year English, Joseph Rozenshtein writes off University Writing, Sarah Ngu suggests it simply needs a few edits, and Neil Fitzpatrick merges the practical and the pedantic in his position on Literature Humanities.

By Sarah Ngu, Jennifer Fearon, Joseph Rozenshtein, and Neil FitzPatrick | Nov 15 10:45 pm ET

Lit Hum a year later

Much has been said about the Core: It provides a firm grounding in the western canon; it contains too many dead white males; it is a perfectly good impetus for a hunger strike; it is one of the reasons many students (including yours truly) came to Columbia.

By Neil FitzPatrick | Nov 15 06:17 pm ET

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