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 [UN1010, UN1011, UN3204, UN3940, GU4147-GU4148, GU4200, GU4700]

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.

EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES: No courses

EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURE: All courses

ECOLOGY, EVOLUTION, AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY: No courses except EEEB GU4321 or GU4700

ECONOMICS: All courses except:
UN3025 Financial economics
UN3211 Intermediate microeconomics
UN3213 Intermediate macroeconomics
UN3412 Introduction to econometrics
UN3981 Applied econometrics
GU4020 Economics of uncertainty and information
GU4211 Advanced microeconomics
GU4213 Advanced macroeconomics
GU4251 Industrial organization
GU4260 Marketing design
GU4280 Corporate finance
GU4301 Economic growth and development
GU4412 Advanced econometrics
GU4413 Econometrics of time series and forecasting
GU4415 Game theory
GU4505 International macroeconomics
GU4526 Transition reforms, globalization, and financial crisis
GU4911 Seminar in microeconomics
GU4913 Seminar in macroeconomics
GU4918 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
CHEN E4020 Protection of industrial and intellectual property
EEHS E3900 History of telecommunications

ENGLISH AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: All courses

FILM STUDIES: All courses except lab courses and
UN3920 Senior seminar in screenwriting
UN2400 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 GU4202

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:
UN1401 Introduction to logic
UN3411 Symbolic logic
GU4137 Nonclassical logics
GU4431 Introduction to set theory
GU4424 Modal logic
CSPH GU4801 Mathematical logic I
CSPH GU4802 Incompleteness results in logic
GU4810 Lattices and Boolean algebras
Courses in logic

PHYSICAL EDUCATION: No courses

PHYSICS: No courses

POLITICAL SCIENCE: All courses except:
UN3220 Logic of collective choice
UN3704 Data analysis and statistics for political science research
UN3720 Scope and methods
GU4730 Game theory and political theory
GU4732 Research topics in game theory
GU4791 Advanced topics in quantitative research
GU4792 Advanced topics in quantitative research
GU4700 Math methods for political science
GU4765 Design and analysis of sample surveys
GU4768 Experimental research: design, analysis and interpretation
GU4710 Principles of quantitative political research
GU4711 Analysis of political data
GU4712 Multivariate political analysis

PSYCHOLOGY: Only:
UN1001 The science of psychology
UN2280 Introduction to developmental psychology
All courses on perception, attention, and cognition topics numbered 2200s, 3200s, or 4200s can be taken as nontech electives except for PSYC UN2235 and UN4289
All courses on social, personality, and abnormal numbered 2600s, 3600s, or 4600s can be taken as nontech electives

RELIGION: All courses

SLAVIC LANGUAGES: All courses

SOCIOLOGY: All courses except SOCI UN3020 Social Statistics

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