B. Elective Nontechnical Courses
(9–11 points of credit)
The following course listing by department specifies the Columbia College, Barnard, or Columbia Engineering courses that either fulfill or do not fulfill the nontechnical requirement.
(Professional, workshop, lab, project, scientific, studio, music instruction, and master’s-level professional courses do not satisfy the 27-point nontechnical requirement.)
AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES: All courses
AMERICAN STUDIES: All courses
ANCIENT STUDIES: All courses
ANTHROPOLOGY:
All courses in sociocultural anthropology
All courses in archaeology except field work
No courses in biological/physical anthropology [V1010, V1011, W3204, V3940, G4147-G4148, W4200, G4700]
ARCHITECTURE: No courses
ART HISTORY AND ARCHEOLOGY: All courses
ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES: All courses
ASTRONOMY: No courses
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES: No courses
BUSINESS: No courses
CHEMISTRY: No courses
CLASSICS: All courses
COLLOQUIA: All courses
COMPARATIVE ETHNIC STUDIES: All courses
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND SOCIETY: All courses
COMPUTER SCIENCE: No courses
CREATIVE WRITING: All courses (This is an exception to the workshop rule.)
DANCE: All courses except performance classes
DRAMA AND THEATRE ARTS: All courses except workshops, rehearsal, or performance classes, THTR BC2120 Technical production, THTR BC3135 Set design, and THTR BC3134 Lighting design
EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES: No courses
EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURE: All courses
ECOLOGY, EVOLUTION, AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY: No courses except EEEB W4700
ECONOMICS: All courses except
W3025 Financial economics
W3211 Intermediate microeconomics
W3213 Intermediate macroeconomics
W3412 Introduction to econometrics
W4020 Economics of uncertainty and information
W4211 Advanced microeconomics
W4213 Advanced macroeconomics
W4251 Industrial organization
W4280 Corporate finance
W4412 Advanced econometrics
W4415 Game theory
W4911 Seminar in microeconomics
W4913 Seminar in macroeconomics
W4918 Seminar in econometrics
BC1003 Introduction to economic reasoning (equivalent to ECON W1105)
BC1007 Mathematical methods for economics
BC2411 Statistics for economics
BC3014 Entrepreneurship
BC3018 Econometrics
BC3033 Intermediate macroeconomic theory
BC3035 Intermediate microeconomic theory
BC3038 International money and finance
EDUCATION: All courses
ENGINEERING: Only
BMEN E4010 Ethics for biomedical engineers
EEHS E3900 History of telecommunications
SCNC W3010 Science, technology and society
ENGLISH AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: All courses
FILM STUDIES: All courses except lab courses and
W3850 Senior seminar in screenwriting
W4005 The film medium: script analysis
FRENCH AND ROMANCE PHILOLOGY: All courses
GERMANIC LANGUAGES: All courses
GREEK: All courses
HISTORY: All courses
HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE: All courses
HUMAN RIGHTS: All courses
ITALIAN: All courses
JAZZ STUDIES: All courses
LATIN: All courses
LATINO STUDIES: All courses
LINGUISTICS: All courses except CLLN W4202
MATHEMATICS: No courses
MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES: All courses
MIDDLE EASTERN AND ASIAN LANGUAGE AND CULTURES: All courses
MUSIC: All courses except performance courses, instrument instruction courses, and workshops
PHILOSOPHY: All courses except
F1401 Elementary logic
V3411 Symbolic logic
W4137 Nonclassical logic
G4431 Introduction to set theory
G4424 Modal logic
CSPH W4801 Mathematical logic I
CSPH G4802 Incompleteness results in logic
Courses in logic
PHYSICAL EDUCATION: No courses
PHYSICS: No courses
POLITICAL SCIENCE: All courses except
W4209 Game theory and political theory
W4291 Advanced topics in quantitative research
W4292 Advanced topics in quantitative research
W4360 Math methods for political science
W4910 Principles of quantitative political research
W4911 Analysis of political data
W4912 Multivariate political analysis
PSYCHOLOGY: Only
W1001 The science of psychology
W2235 Thinking and decision making
W2240 Human communication
W2280 Introduction to developmental psychology
W2610 Introduction to personality
W2620 Abnormal behavior
W2630 Social psychology
W2640 Introduction to social cognition
W2680 Social and personality development
W3615 Children at risk
W3630 Seminar in social cognition
RELIGION: All courses
SLAVIC LANGUAGES: All courses
SOCIOLOGY: All courses except
SOCI V3212 Statistics and methods
SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE: All courses
SPEECH: No courses
STATISTICS: No courses
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: No courses
URBAN STUDIES: All courses
VISUAL ARTS: No more than one course, which must be at the 3000-level or higher (This is an exception to the workshop rule.)
WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES: All courses