English and Comparative Literature
The Department of English and Comparative Literature offers courses in modern American and British literature, Asian American literature and culture, Shakespeare, Milton, James Joyce, Victorian literature, Romantic literature, the novel, postmodern literature, and literature and culture.
For questions about specific courses, contact the department.
Writing Workshops
Further courses in both critical and creative writing can be found under Writing.
For questions about specific courses, contact the department.
Courses
What “wows” us? How is it related to both a sense of the grand and of the small? Of the sacred and the unthinkably devastating? Of the mundane and the unique? This introductory course looks at this question by means of religion (mysticism), aesthetics (the sublime), the psychedelic, and the poetic in terms of how they condition and enable these experiences, often in joint manner. We begin by navigating through a wide range of medieval mystical texts (poetry and prose) ranging in date from Late Antiquity to the fifteenth centuries and explore how wonder, transport, and awe become articulated, often through the trope of love. The second half of the course expands to situate mystery and enchantment in relation to borderline experiences in contemporary contexts. We will explore what these borderline experiences entail, what kind of meaning they promise, and how they isolate or assimilate individuals, mark people and language, inhabit and alter our embodied selves. In addition, we will see how the legacy of mysticism has permeated later traditions of enchantment and its situatedness in contemporary culture, whether it be in the prevalence of love in pop lyric, rave culture, contemporary psychedelic experiences, the sacrality of nature, the mystification of state power, or even just the role of poetry and art in filling a spiritual role in our present. Throughout our readings, we will confront the question of what mysticism and enchantment mean, what they promise and how either can be accessed, how they might center or de-center the human (affirming or displacing the Anthropocene), how women’s and men’s mystical texts compare, and how “literariness” impacts these experiences. How does poetic form or literary prose shape the nature of borderline experience – mysticism included? What do we make of the insistence on bodily experience and how does it relate to biography? Where do we find the language and tropes of mysticism in contemporary culture (psychedelics, fascist propaganda, philosophical meditation) and to what end?
Mystical texts will include works by St. Paul, St. Augustine, Origen, Beatrice of Nazareth and her hagiographer, Hadewijch of Brabant and William of St. Thierry, Marguerite d'Oignt and Guigo II, Marguerite Porete and Meister Eckhart, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, but also works by Huxley and Bataille; all other texts will, however, be read in modern English translation. No prerequisites necessary. Please note that even while we read “old” texts, we will be constantly relating them to the present.
Course Number
CLEN2405W001Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 16:10-17:25We 16:10-17:25Section/Call Number
001/16642Enrollment
22 of 54Instructor
Patricia DaileyThough often thought of in mainstream culture as closed, conservative, and backwards, the medieval world was actually a place where the circulation of people and ideas resulted in generative encounters. This course will consider texts that brush up against the unfamiliar. We’ll read travelogues containing Western views of the East and Muslim views of Christian society, plus texts of questionable literary merit and difficult, artful poetry. Via our course readings, you’ll cross borders into strange lands with unaccountable customs, experience the possibilities of the marvelous, and interact with the afterlife and its denizens. Along the way, you’ll be having your own medieval encounter with worldview(s) that require contextual analysis to recuperate.
Course Number
CLEN3125W001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
We 08:10-10:00Section/Call Number
001/12749Enrollment
21 of 18Instructor
Hannah WeaverSurrounded by friends on the morning of his state-mandated suicide, Socrates invites them to join him in considering the proposition that philosophizing is learning how to die. In dialogues, essays, and letters from antiquity to early modernity, writers have returned to this proposition from Plato’s Phaedo to consider, in turn, what it means for living and dying well. This course will explore some of the most widely read of these works, including by Cicero, Seneca, Jerome, Augustine, Boethius, Petrarch, and Montaigne, with an eye to the continuities and changes in these meanings and their impact on the literary forms that express them.
Application instructions: E-mail Prof. Eden (khe1@columbia.edu) with your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course. Admitted students should register for the course; they will automatically be placed on a wait list from which the instructor will in due course admit them as spaces become available.
Course Number
CLEN3725W001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 14:10-16:00Section/Call Number
001/12751Enrollment
18 of 18Instructor
Kathy EdenCourse Number
CLEN4414W001Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Section/Call Number
001/14156Enrollment
34 of 54Instructor
Kathy EdenThe Middle Ages have long been a source of inspiration for composers of opera. Since the midnineteenth century, mystery plays, troubadour lyrics, enigmatic tapestries, and Arthurian romances have all been showcased on the operatic stage; the last 30 years, in particular, have seen a spike in interest in reenergizing medieval culture for contemporary audiences. Designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students interested in medieval literature and/or the history of lyric theater, this course excavates the medievalist turn in opera, from Wagner to the present day. We’ll ask questions about the nature of intermedial adaptation, the effect of staging in constructing or dispelling medieval allusion, the historically contingent politics of musical antiquarianism and revival, and the enduring appeal of the Middle Ages in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Along the way, we’ll read medieval texts from England, Germany, and Occitania, analyze recorded performances of musical works, visit medieval tapestries at the Cloisters, and take a trip to a much-anticipated new production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde at the Metropolitan Opera.
Course Number
CLEN4750W001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
We 14:10-16:00Section/Call Number
001/16648Enrollment
13 of 18Instructor
Julia DoeHannah WeaverThis course is organized as an intensive reading into works of Gilles Deleuze. Deleuze’s work seems to becoming ever more present and influential. Scholars from various disciplines rely on his thoughts to rethink contemporary world. Deleuze’s thought is a big presence in literary theory, aesthetics, ethics, political theory, race and gender studies, affect studies, film studies, architecture, design, music and even animal studies. This influence is not easy to understand since Deleuze’s work is famously difficult and occasionally obscure; that’s because, as he himself often explained, one can’t simultaneously think and explain why he is thinking what he is thinking. High velocities of thought do not agree with a slow speed of expository writing. Thus, the task of the course will be to unpack some of the most difficult texts of Deleuze and to bring them in relation with the concepts he and Guattari proposed in Thousand Plateaus, perhaps their most famous and influential book. We will start with several works related to history of philosophy (to Hume, Spinoza and Nietzsche) to unearth from them Deleuze’s theory of affect. We will then move to his most difficult texts, such as Difference and Repetion and The Logic of Sense, with a focus on his novel theory of subjectivity, passive synthesis, contemplation, and incorporeal events. This background will enable us to better access Anti-Oedipus and Thousand Plateaus, two texts with which we will spend significant amount of time, focused on concepts such as becoming, intensive and disjunctive syntheses, haptic space, etc. Additionally, we will pay special attention to Deleuze’s theory of baroque and concepts such as point of view and fold. After that we will move to his work in cinema, painting and literature and we will finish with What is Philosophy?, trying to elucidate such concepts as earth, brain and vitalism.
Course Number
CLEN6990G001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 14:10-16:00Section/Call Number
001/16650Enrollment
20 of 18Instructor
Branka ArsicCourse Number
ENGL0003Z001Format
In-PersonPoints
0 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 18:10-20:00We 18:10-20:00Section/Call Number
001/10895Enrollment
0 of 14This course helps students whose first language is not English develop their academic writing skills. The course covers essay structure, rhetoric, grammatical accuracy, paraphrasing, citing sources, critical thinking, and editing/revising work.
The course is thematic: you will explore different topics and themes (current affairs, social issues, etc.) by reading, listening, and discussing material, and then write essays about that material. The instructors will provide extensive feedback to help you edit and revise your own writing.
Course Number
ENGL0005Z001Format
In-PersonPoints
0 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 09:10-11:25Tu 09:10-11:25Th 09:10-11:25Section/Call Number
001/10896Enrollment
0 of 11This course helps students whose first language is not English develop their academic writing skills. The course covers essay structure, rhetoric, grammatical accuracy, paraphrasing, citing sources, critical thinking, and editing/revising work.
The course is thematic: you will explore different topics and themes (current affairs, social issues, etc.) by reading, listening, and discussing material, and then write essays about that material. The instructors will provide extensive feedback to help you edit and revise your own writing.
Course Number
ENGL0005Z002Format
In-PersonPoints
0 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 09:10-11:25Tu 09:10-11:25Th 09:10-11:25Section/Call Number
002/10897Enrollment
0 of 11This course helps students whose first language is not English develop their academic writing skills. The course covers essay structure, rhetoric, grammatical accuracy, paraphrasing, citing sources, critical thinking, and editing/revising work.
The course is thematic: you will explore different topics and themes (current affairs, social issues, etc.) by reading, listening, and discussing material, and then write essays about that material. The instructors will provide extensive feedback to help you edit and revise your own writing.
Course Number
ENGL0006Z001Format
In-PersonPoints
0 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 18:10-20:25We 18:10-20:25Th 18:10-20:25Section/Call Number
001/10898Enrollment
0 of 11This course helps students whose first language is not English develop their academic writing skills. The course covers essay structure, rhetoric, grammatical accuracy, paraphrasing, citing sources, critical thinking, and editing/revising work.
The course is thematic: you will explore different topics and themes (current affairs, social issues, etc.) by reading, listening, and discussing material, and then write essays about that material. The instructors will provide extensive feedback to help you edit and revise your own writing.
Course Number
ENGL0006Z002Format
In-PersonPoints
0 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 18:10-20:25We 18:10-20:25Th 18:10-20:25Section/Call Number
002/10899Enrollment
0 of 11Course Number
ENGL0012Z001Format
In-PersonPoints
0 ptsCourse Number
ENGL0012Z002Format
In-PersonPoints
0 ptsCourse Number
ENGL0012Z003Format
In-PersonPoints
0 ptsCourse Number
ENGL0012Z004Format
In-PersonPoints
0 ptsCourse Number
ENGL0719Z001Format
In-PersonPoints
0 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 18:10-20:00Th 18:10-20:00Section/Call Number
001/10904Enrollment
0 of 10Course Number
ENGL0810Z001Format
In-PersonPoints
0 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Th 12:10-14:00Section/Call Number
001/10905Enrollment
0 of 10Course Number
ENGL1007Z001Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 09:10-11:00Th 09:10-11:00Section/Call Number
001/10906Enrollment
2 of 11Course Number
ENGL1007Z002Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 11:10-13:00Th 11:10-13:00Section/Call Number
002/10907Enrollment
2 of 11Course Number
ENGL1007Z003Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 18:10-20:00We 18:10-20:00Section/Call Number
003/10908Enrollment
0 of 11Course Number
ENGL1007Z004Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 18:10-20:00Th 18:10-20:00Section/Call Number
004/10909Enrollment
0 of 11Course Number
ENGL1007Z005Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C001Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 08:40-09:55We 08:40-09:55Section/Call Number
001/16838Enrollment
16 of 16ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C002Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 08:40-09:55We 08:40-09:55Section/Call Number
002/16865Enrollment
16 of 16ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C003Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 13:10-14:25We 13:10-14:25Section/Call Number
003/17863Enrollment
1 of 16Instructor
Jason UedaENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C007Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 10:10-11:25We 10:10-11:25Section/Call Number
007/16825Enrollment
16 of 16ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C008Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 10:10-11:25We 10:10-11:25Section/Call Number
008/16841Enrollment
16 of 16ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C010Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 11:40-12:55We 11:40-12:55Section/Call Number
010/16382Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Finn AndersonENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C019Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 14:40-15:55We 14:40-15:55Section/Call Number
019/16456Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Laura HydakENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C025Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 16:10-17:25We 16:10-17:25Section/Call Number
025/16468Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Joseph BubarENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C027Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 16:10-17:25We 16:10-17:25Section/Call Number
027/16827Enrollment
16 of 16ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C028Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 17:40-18:55We 17:40-18:55Section/Call Number
028/16471Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Justin SniderENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C029Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 17:40-18:55We 17:40-18:55Section/Call Number
029/16473Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Laura HydakENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C033Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 08:40-09:55Th 08:40-09:55Section/Call Number
033/16492Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Nicholas MayerENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C037Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Th 10:10-11:25Tu 10:10-11:25Section/Call Number
037/16507Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Nicholas MayerENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C042Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 10:10-11:25We 10:10-11:25Section/Call Number
042/16866Enrollment
16 of 16ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C058Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 17:40-18:55Th 17:40-18:55Section/Call Number
058/16619Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Peter HuhneENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C060Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 13:10-14:25We 13:10-14:25Section/Call Number
060/16867Enrollment
16 of 16ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C111Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 11:40-12:55We 11:40-12:55Section/Call Number
111/16407Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Austin ManteleENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C120Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 14:40-15:55We 14:40-15:55Section/Call Number
120/16457Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Joseph BubarENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C135Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Th 10:10-11:25Tu 10:10-11:25Section/Call Number
135/16496Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Alexander BurchfieldENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C139Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 11:40-12:55Th 11:40-12:55Section/Call Number
139/16528Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Alexander BurchfieldENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C144Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 13:10-14:25Th 13:10-14:25Section/Call Number
144/16563Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Stephanie AhrensENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C153Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 14:40-15:55Th 14:40-15:55Section/Call Number
153/16604Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Austin ManteleENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C155Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Th 16:10-17:25Tu 16:10-17:25Section/Call Number
155/16608Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Stephanie AhrensENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C213Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 11:40-12:55We 11:40-12:55Section/Call Number
213/16421Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Andy JoENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C222Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 14:40-15:55We 14:40-15:55Section/Call Number
222/16466Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Christine PrevasENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C223Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 14:40-15:55We 14:40-15:55Section/Call Number
223/16465Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Andy JoENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C226Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 16:10-17:25We 16:10-17:25Section/Call Number
226/16469Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Mary MussmanENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C232Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 08:40-09:55Th 08:40-09:55Section/Call Number
232/16488Enrollment
15 of 16Instructor
Chelsea LargentENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C236Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Th 10:10-11:25Tu 10:10-11:25Section/Call Number
236/16501Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Chelsea LargentENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C259Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 17:40-18:55Th 17:40-18:55Section/Call Number
259/16620Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Mary MussmanENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C306Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 10:10-11:25We 10:10-11:25Section/Call Number
306/16303Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Abigail MelickENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C312Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 11:40-12:55We 11:40-12:55Section/Call Number
312/16413Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Abigail MelickENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C318Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 13:10-14:25We 13:10-14:25Section/Call Number
318/16447Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Abigail MelickENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C324Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 16:10-17:25We 16:10-17:25Section/Call Number
324/16467Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Peter HuhneENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C341Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 11:40-12:55Th 11:40-12:55Section/Call Number
341/16533Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Emily WeitzmanENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C346Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 13:10-14:25Th 13:10-14:25Section/Call Number
346/16568Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Emily WeitzmanENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C350Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 14:40-15:55Th 14:40-15:55Section/Call Number
350/16600Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Emily SuazoENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C356Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Th 16:10-17:25Tu 16:10-17:25Section/Call Number
356/16610Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Austin ManteleENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C404Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 10:10-11:25We 10:10-11:25Section/Call Number
404/16292Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Elizabeth FurlongENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C416Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 13:10-14:25We 13:10-14:25Section/Call Number
416/16444Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Elizabeth FurlongENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C430Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 17:40-18:55We 17:40-18:55Section/Call Number
430/16474Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Finn AndersonENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C438Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Th 10:10-11:25Tu 10:10-11:25Section/Call Number
438/16510Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Elizabeth CargileENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C454Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Th 16:10-17:25Tu 16:10-17:25Section/Call Number
454/16606Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Kirkwood AdamsENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C505Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 10:10-11:25We 10:10-11:25Section/Call Number
505/16300Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Christine PrevasENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C509Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 11:40-12:55We 11:40-12:55Section/Call Number
509/16318Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Elizabeth WaltersENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C517Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 13:10-14:25We 13:10-14:25Section/Call Number
517/16446Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Matthew RossiENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C549Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 14:40-15:55Th 14:40-15:55Section/Call Number
549/16599Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Kirkwood AdamsENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C552Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 14:40-15:55Th 14:40-15:55Section/Call Number
552/16603Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Matthew RossiENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C557Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Th 16:10-17:25Tu 16:10-17:25Section/Call Number
557/16612Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Catherine KirchENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C634Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Th 10:10-11:25Tu 10:10-11:25Section/Call Number
634/16493Enrollment
15 of 16Instructor
Sarah WingerterENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C637Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 13:10-14:25Th 13:10-14:25Section/Call Number
637/16569Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Sarah WingerterENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C743Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 11:40-12:55Th 11:40-12:55Section/Call Number
743/16550Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Wally SuphapENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C748Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 13:10-14:25Th 13:10-14:25Section/Call Number
748/16579Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Elizabeth CargileENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C751Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 14:40-15:55Th 14:40-15:55Section/Call Number
751/16602Enrollment
12 of 16Instructor
Wally SuphapENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C815Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 13:10-14:25We 13:10-14:25Section/Call Number
815/16439Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Allison FowlerENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C821Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 14:40-15:55We 14:40-15:55Section/Call Number
821/16460Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Allison FowlerENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C845Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 13:10-14:25Th 13:10-14:25Section/Call Number
845/16567Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Emily SuazoENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C914Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 13:10-14:25We 13:10-14:25Section/Call Number
914/16438Enrollment
5 of 16Instructor
Elizabeth WaltersENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C931Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 08:40-09:55Th 08:40-09:55Section/Call Number
931/16486Enrollment
0 of 16Instructor
Erag RamiziENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010C940Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 11:40-12:55Th 11:40-12:55Section/Call Number
940/16529Enrollment
9 of 16Instructor
Erag RamiziENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010F001Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 11:40-12:55We 11:40-12:55Section/Call Number
001/16830Enrollment
16 of 16ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010F023Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 16:10-17:25We 16:10-17:25Section/Call Number
023/16842Enrollment
16 of 16ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010F025Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 17:40-18:55Th 17:40-18:55Section/Call Number
025/16203Enrollment
10 of 16Instructor
Nicholas MayerENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010F026Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 19:10-20:25We 19:10-20:25Section/Call Number
026/16207Enrollment
8 of 16Instructor
Laura HydakENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010F109Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 13:10-14:25We 13:10-14:25Section/Call Number
109/16075Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Joseph BubarENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010F210Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 13:10-14:25We 13:10-14:25Section/Call Number
210/16085Enrollment
2 of 16Instructor
Christine PrevasENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010F218Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 16:10-17:25We 16:10-17:25Section/Call Number
218/16164Enrollment
5 of 16Instructor
Chelsea LargentENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010F219Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 16:10-17:25We 16:10-17:25Section/Call Number
219/16167Enrollment
3 of 16Instructor
Andy JoENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010F221Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Th 16:10-17:25Tu 16:10-17:25Section/Call Number
221/16173Enrollment
5 of 16Instructor
Mary MussmanENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010F317Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 14:40-15:55Th 14:40-15:55Section/Call Number
317/16149Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Emily WeitzmanENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010F322Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 17:40-18:55We 17:40-18:55Section/Call Number
322/16186Enrollment
15 of 16Instructor
Peter HuhneENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010F406Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 11:40-12:55We 11:40-12:55Section/Call Number
406/16035Enrollment
7 of 16Instructor
Elizabeth FurlongENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010F414Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 14:40-15:55We 14:40-15:55Section/Call Number
414/16122Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Finn AndersonENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010F512Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 13:10-14:25Th 13:10-14:25Section/Call Number
512/16114Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Kirkwood AdamsENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010F513Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 13:10-14:25Th 13:10-14:25Section/Call Number
513/16118Enrollment
5 of 16Instructor
Catherine KirchENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010F515Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 14:40-15:55We 14:40-15:55Section/Call Number
515/16128Enrollment
5 of 16Instructor
Matthew RossiENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010F524Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 17:40-18:55Th 17:40-18:55Section/Call Number
524/16197Enrollment
0 of 16Instructor
Catherine KirchENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010F602Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 08:40-09:55Th 08:40-09:55Section/Call Number
602/16004Enrollment
14 of 16Instructor
Sarah WingerterENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010F708Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 11:40-12:55Th 11:40-12:55Section/Call Number
708/16069Enrollment
9 of 16Instructor
Elizabeth CargileENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010F716Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 14:40-15:55Th 14:40-15:55Section/Call Number
716/16140Enrollment
12 of 16Instructor
Stephanie AhrensENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010F720Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Th 16:10-17:25Tu 16:10-17:25Section/Call Number
720/16170Enrollment
8 of 16Instructor
Wally SuphapENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010F805Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 11:40-12:55We 11:40-12:55Section/Call Number
805/16021Enrollment
11 of 16Instructor
Allison FowlerENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010F807Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 11:40-12:55Th 11:40-12:55Section/Call Number
807/16056Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Emily SuazoENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010F903Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 10:10-11:25We 10:10-11:25Section/Call Number
903/16009Enrollment
11 of 16Instructor
Elizabeth WaltersENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010F904Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Th 10:10-11:25Tu 10:10-11:25Section/Call Number
904/16012Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Erag RamiziENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing, is a one-semester seminar designed to facilitate students’ entry into the intellectual life of the university by teaching them to become more capable and independent academic readers and writers. The course emphasizes habits of mind and skills that foster students’ capacities for critical analysis, argument, revision, collaboration, meta-cognition, and research. Students read and discuss essays from a number of fields, complete regular informal reading and writing exercises, compose several longer essays, and devise a research-based project of their own design.
Courses of Instruction
ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
ENGL CC/GS1010: University Writing (3 points) focuses on developing students’ reading, writing, and thinking, drawing from readings on a designated course theme that carry a broad appeal to people with diverse interests. No University Writing class presumes that students arrive with prior knowledge in the theme of the course. We are offering the following themes this year:
- UW: Contemporary Essays, CC/GS1010.001-.099
- UW: Readings in American Studies, CC/GS1010.1xx
- UW: Readings in Gender and Sexuality, CC/GS1010.2xx
- UW: Readings in Film and Performing Arts, CC/GS1010.3xx
- UW: Readings in Urban Studies, CC/GS1010.4xx (will be sharing 400s with Human Rights)
- UW: Readings in Climate Humanities, CC/GS1010.5xx (will be sharing 500s with Data & Society)
- UW: Readings in Medical Humanities, CC/GS1010.6xx
- UW: Readings in Law & Justice, CC/GS1010.7xx
- UW: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, CC/GS1010.8xx
- University Writing for International Students, CC/GS1010.9xx
For further details about these classes, please visit: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Course Number
ENGL1010F911Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 13:10-14:25Th 13:10-14:25Section/Call Number
911/16089Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Alexander BurchfieldWhat are ghosts? Why are we haunted by them? And why are we so drawn to telling stories about these hauntings? In this class, we will read ghost stories from the 17th century through the present day; in the process, we will examine what these stories reveal about our own preoccupations, fears, and desires. Writers and readers turn to ghost stories for horror and suspense, for sure, but also because they’re a powerful medium for reckoning with history and memory—with the past’s hold over the present—particularly when it comes to violence, loss, oppression, and trauma. Ghost stories engage with issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality; with social otherness; with marginalization. Ghost stories stage problems of justice, vengeance, and guilt. Ghost stories trouble the nature of the body, and the meaning of (and boundaries between) life and death. Ghost stories lend themselves both to fear and to laughter, both to questions and to answers. While exploring all of these topics and themes, we will also consider the trope of storytelling itself, which figures prominently in so many works of the genre. What is wrapped up in the gesture of telling a story, and in the ways, contexts, and reasons in and for which these stories get told? Readings (subject to change) include works by Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton, Henry James, Shirley Jackson, Helen Oyeyemi, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Oscar Wilde, and others.
Course Number
ENGL1045X001Points
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 11:40-12:55Th 11:40-12:55Section/Call Number
001/00614Enrollment
111 of 100Instructor
Penelope UsherThis is a historical survey of literature (mostly narrative) intended primarily for children, which will explore not only the pleasures of imagination but the varieties of narrative and lyric form, as well as the ways in which story-telling gives shape to individual and cultural identity. Drawing on anonymous folk tale from a range of cultures, as well as a variety of literary works produced from the late 17th century to the present, we’ll attend to the ways in which changing forms of children’s literature reflect changing understandings of children and childhood, while trying not to overlook psychological and formal structures that might persist across this history. Readings of the primary works will be supplemented by a variety of critical approaches—psychoanalytic, materialist, feminist, and structuralist—that scholars have employed to understand the variety and appeal of children’s literature.
Course Number
ENGL1075W001Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 10:10-11:25We 10:10-11:25Section/Call Number
001/12761Enrollment
40 of 40Instructor
James AdamsIn the US, Latinxs are often treated in quantitative terms—as checkmarks on census forms, or as data points in demographic surveys. However, Latinxs have always been more than mere numbers: while some have stayed rooted in traditional homelands, and while others have migrated through far-flung diasporas, all have drawn on and developed distinctive ways of imagining and inhabiting the Americas. In this course, we will explore the resulting range of literature and culture: to understand how Latinxs have resisted and/or reinforced settler colonialism and racial capitalism, we will survey two centuries of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, performance, music, visual art, and more. With our interdisciplinary and intersectional approach, we will consider why Latinidad has manifested differently in colonial territories (especially Puerto Rico), regional communities (especially the US–Mexico borderlands), and transnational diasporas (of Cubans, of Dominicans, and of a variety of Central Americans). At the same time, we will learn how Latinxs have struggled with shared issues, such as (anti-) Blackness and
(anti-)Indigeneity, gender and sexuality, citizenship and (il)legality, and economic and environmental (in)justice. During the semester, we will practice Latinx studies both collectively and individually: to enrich the professor’s lectures, the teaching assistants’ engagements, and our in-person discussions, each student will complete a reading journal, a five-page paper, a creative project, and a final exam.
Course Number
ENGL1100W001Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Th 10:10-11:25Tu 10:10-11:25Section/Call Number
001/16653Enrollment
90 of 90Instructor
Carlos NugentPoetry-ish is a class examining how poetry speaks to, merges with, or embeds itself in other
genres in order to make a multimedia social statement. We will look at the intersections between
craft and criticism, audience and experimentation, history and self-expression. Readings will
move from early examples of hybridity to postmodern experimentation to creative examinations
into such contemporary issues as climate change, A.I., and the structural racism that inspired
Black Lives Matter. Genres include legal treaties, programming code, comics, cinema, opera,
jazz, and of course, poetry. Students will be asked to write three short essays, take turns leading
class discussion, submit one longer research-based project, and engage in various creative and
critical writing exercises throughout the semester. Planned authors include Layli Long Soldier,
William Blake, Franny Choi, JP Howard, Vanessa Anglica Villarreal, Douglas Kearney, Daveed
Diggs, and Langston Hughes.
Course Number
ENGL1152X001Points
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 17:40-18:55We 17:40-18:55Section/Call Number
001/00089Enrollment
6 of 15Instructor
Quincy JonesThis First-Year course will engage with literary expressions of the universally interesting topic of relationships. Tony Tanner in his Adultery in the Novel characterizes marriage as “the structure which supports all structure.” Contemporary critics have seen marriage as essential to maintaining the “family values” of the bourgeoisie; feminists and Marxists have challenged the economic assumptions of patriarchally-defined marriage. Folklorists have treated marriage as the endpoint of the search for a safe domestic space. We will touch on this subject, but will also turn to writing about other indispensable relationships that, increasingly, fill our lives. Animals and botanicals—and our relationship with nature—have become so obviously Important in the past ten years that they deserve to underpin our core values, too.
Starting with classic fairy tales and moving on to short fictions, contemporary American poetry, an affectionate study of the psyches of trees, and brief essays on animals we live with, this course will deliver an exportable cluster of ideas that may change our lives.
Course Number
ENGL1246X001Points
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 14:40-15:55We 14:40-15:55Section/Call Number
001/00904Enrollment
5 of 40Instructor
Margaret Ellsberg"I believe in the future of AI changing the world. The question is, who is changing AI? It is really important to bring diverse groups of students and future leaders into the development of AI.” --Fei-Fei Li, Professor, Denning Co-Director Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI
Increasing numbers of AI experts and researchers emphasize the urgent need for college students to develop AI literacy, preparing them for evolving job markets, fostering ethical awareness, and ensuring equitable participation in an AI-driven society. To help them achieve AI literacy, this introductory-level course teaches students how to ethically and effectively use Generative AI (GAI) by exploring how GAI works, how to use it properly, and how to critically evaluate its output. Students will understand AI model functionality, distinguish GAI from traditional AI, examine issues of originality, authorship, intellectual property, copyright, plagiarism, fair use, accuracy, bias, environmental impacts, and privacy - all while developing meta-awareness about how AI simulates certain aspects of human creativity and cognition The course's placement in Barnard's English Department reflects the recognition that AI's development requires interdisciplinary perspectives beyond STEM, as AI research increasingly intersects with humanities and social sciences to address ethical, social, and cultural implications. Through ethics-focused assignments and writing projects culminating in a final research investigation in students' chosen fields, this course empowers students to resist pure AI reliance and actively control these technologies rather than remaining passive observers of AI's expanding influence in academia and society.
Course Number
ENGL1249X001Points
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 08:40-09:55Th 08:40-09:55Section/Call Number
001/00613Enrollment
33 of 30Instructor
Benjamin BreyerThis course covers the second half of William Shakespeare’s career, attending to the major dramatic genres in which he wrote. It will combine careful attention to the plays’ poetic richness with a focus on their theatrical inventiveness, using filmed productions of many of the plays to explore their staging possibilities. At the same time, we will use the plays as thematic springboards to explore the cultural forces – pertaining to, among others things, politics, class, religion, gender, and race – that shaped the moment in which Shakespeare lived and worked.
Course Number
ENGL1336W001Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 10:10-11:25We 10:10-11:25Section/Call Number
001/12765Enrollment
26 of 54Instructor
Julie CrawfordAs a survey of Asian American literature, this course examines recurring cycles of love and fear in Asian North American relations from the late nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. The course has four learning objectives.
First, by the end of the term, you should be able to recognize and explain key aspects of Asian North American cultural and literary representations across the twentieth century.
We will first turn to what became known as “yellow peril,” one effect of exclusion laws that monitored the entrance of Asians into the United States and Canada during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the corresponding phenomenon of Orientalism, the fascination with a binary of Asia and the West. We’ll examine how Asian North American authors respond to later cycles of love and fear, ranging from the forgetting of Japanese internment in North America and the occupation of the Philippines.
The second section turns to how Asian North American authors use innovative creative strategies to resist cycles of love and fear, especially in the wake of war and conflict in Asia and alongside the rise of the model minority.
The final section examines intimacy, communities, and crisis in forms of migration, diaspora, and globalization in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from the global refugee crisis to more recent developments in the wake of COVID-19.
Second, you will interpret literary strategies (what literary scholars call “formal strategies”) and their connection to the text’s argument.
A central claim for this course is that cultural productions make debatable claims and arguments, and that one of the ways they do so is through form (such as the brevity of a poetic line and its layout, different narrators or points of view in a novel, or a drama that moves back and forth in time). How do these authors use literature to respond to, critique, or revise cultural representations of Asia and Asians in America? You will learn how to unpack the argument of text, or, more precisely, what you define as the argument of each work. What cultural issue or problem does the text identify? Why? What is its argument regarding this issue? How does the work support this argument? Does it offer any solutions? If so, what are they? If not, why not?
To that end, we will consider all of these texts might be responding to, commenting on, and even working against dominant cultural assumptions of their time and in ours. Although we will read the texts in rough chronological order, at times, we will break chronology to examine the texts in comparative, thematic clusters.
Third, you will create original and informed analyses of literary works and fine-tune and evaluate your critical reading and writing skills.
You’ll have the opportunity to practice analysis in multiple ways. In your assignments and assessments for the course, you will a) formulate your own arguments about the texts, b) support these arguments with evidence and analysis and c) situate your analyses amid relevant historical and cultural contexts.
Finally, you will reflect upon a) connections between course material and the contemporary world and b) the potential of humanities studies as a method of community and social engagement.
Ideally, you will leave this course with tools and strategies that you will be able to use beyond the boundaries of a course in literary study: thinking critically, analyzing evidence carefully, developing original and creative opinions and arguments, and communicating effectively.
Course Number
ENGL1520W001Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 11:40-12:55Th 11:40-12:55Section/Call Number
001/16654Enrollment
100 of 120Instructor
Denise Cruz Why does literature affect us as it does, why might you want to understand its history, strategies, and meaning, and how exactly do you go about that? This course won’t give you the answer, because there is no single answer. It will instead point the way toward the multitude of possible answers, giving you a variety of critical tools for exploring these questions, and deepening your powers as a thinker, reader, and writer.
The course consists of weekly lectures by department faculty members (ENGL 2000) and small weekly seminars with advanced doctoral candidates (ENGL 2001). The lectures will introduce you to texts from across literary history and in various genres (poetry, drama, prose narrative, etc.), giving you an opportunity to learn from and get to know our renowned faculty members. The intimate seminar setting will give you an opportunity to delve further into these texts and techniques, debate their meaning with one another and an expert guide, and engage in exercises that advance your critical writing and interpretive skills, putting into practice what you’ve learned. You will encounter the wide variety of critical approaches taken by our faculty, your seminar leader, and the discipline at large, while learning to expand upon these approaches and make them your own.
The course is required for English majors and minors (who should take it as early as possible in their Columbia careers), but it is for everyone: advanced students of literature or those new to literary study; committed majors or those still exploring; anyone seeking the excitement and immersion this course offers.
(Note: Students who register for ENGL UN2000 must also register for one of the sections of ENGL UN2001.)
Course Number
ENGL2000W001Points
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Fr 10:10-11:25Section/Call Number
001/12768Enrollment
75 of 75Instructor
Molly MurrayPrerequisites: Students who register for ENGL UN2001 must also register for ENGL UN2000 Approaches to Literary Study lecture. This course is intended to introduce students to the advanced study of literature, through a weekly pairing of a faculty lecture (ENGL 2000) and small seminar led by an advanced doctoral candidate (ENGL 2001). Students in the course will read works from across literary history, learning the different interpretive techniques appropriate to each of the major genres (poetry, drama, and prose fiction). Students will also encounter the wide variety of critical approaches taken by our faculty and by the discipline at large, and will be encouraged to adapt and combine these approaches as they develop as thinkers, readers, and writers. ENGL 2000/2001 is a requirement for both the English Major and English Minor. While it is not a general prerequisite for other lectures and seminars, it should be taken as early as possible in a student's academic program.
Course Number
ENGL2001W001Format
In-PersonPoints
0 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 12:10-14:00Section/Call Number
001/12770Enrollment
15 of 15Prerequisites: Students who register for ENGL UN2001 must also register for ENGL UN2000 Approaches to Literary Study lecture. This course is intended to introduce students to the advanced study of literature, through a weekly pairing of a faculty lecture (ENGL 2000) and small seminar led by an advanced doctoral candidate (ENGL 2001). Students in the course will read works from across literary history, learning the different interpretive techniques appropriate to each of the major genres (poetry, drama, and prose fiction). Students will also encounter the wide variety of critical approaches taken by our faculty and by the discipline at large, and will be encouraged to adapt and combine these approaches as they develop as thinkers, readers, and writers. ENGL 2000/2001 is a requirement for both the English Major and English Minor. While it is not a general prerequisite for other lectures and seminars, it should be taken as early as possible in a student's academic program.
Course Number
ENGL2001W002Format
In-PersonPoints
0 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 14:10-16:00Section/Call Number
002/12771Enrollment
15 of 15Prerequisites: Students who register for ENGL UN2001 must also register for ENGL UN2000 Approaches to Literary Study lecture. This course is intended to introduce students to the advanced study of literature, through a weekly pairing of a faculty lecture (ENGL 2000) and small seminar led by an advanced doctoral candidate (ENGL 2001). Students in the course will read works from across literary history, learning the different interpretive techniques appropriate to each of the major genres (poetry, drama, and prose fiction). Students will also encounter the wide variety of critical approaches taken by our faculty and by the discipline at large, and will be encouraged to adapt and combine these approaches as they develop as thinkers, readers, and writers. ENGL 2000/2001 is a requirement for both the English Major and English Minor. While it is not a general prerequisite for other lectures and seminars, it should be taken as early as possible in a student's academic program.
Course Number
ENGL2001W003Format
In-PersonPoints
0 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 16:10-18:00Section/Call Number
003/12773Enrollment
15 of 15Prerequisites: Students who register for ENGL UN2001 must also register for ENGL UN2000 Approaches to Literary Study lecture. This course is intended to introduce students to the advanced study of literature, through a weekly pairing of a faculty lecture (ENGL 2000) and small seminar led by an advanced doctoral candidate (ENGL 2001). Students in the course will read works from across literary history, learning the different interpretive techniques appropriate to each of the major genres (poetry, drama, and prose fiction). Students will also encounter the wide variety of critical approaches taken by our faculty and by the discipline at large, and will be encouraged to adapt and combine these approaches as they develop as thinkers, readers, and writers. ENGL 2000/2001 is a requirement for both the English Major and English Minor. While it is not a general prerequisite for other lectures and seminars, it should be taken as early as possible in a student's academic program.
Course Number
ENGL2001W004Format
In-PersonPoints
0 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 18:10-20:00Section/Call Number
004/12788Enrollment
8 of 15Prerequisites: Students who register for ENGL UN2001 must also register for ENGL UN2000 Approaches to Literary Study lecture. This course is intended to introduce students to the advanced study of literature, through a weekly pairing of a faculty lecture (ENGL 2000) and small seminar led by an advanced doctoral candidate (ENGL 2001). Students in the course will read works from across literary history, learning the different interpretive techniques appropriate to each of the major genres (poetry, drama, and prose fiction). Students will also encounter the wide variety of critical approaches taken by our faculty and by the discipline at large, and will be encouraged to adapt and combine these approaches as they develop as thinkers, readers, and writers. ENGL 2000/2001 is a requirement for both the English Major and English Minor. While it is not a general prerequisite for other lectures and seminars, it should be taken as early as possible in a student's academic program.
Course Number
ENGL2001W005Format
In-PersonPoints
0 ptsThis lecture course examines the performances through which early modern London (c. 1558-1642) “staged” itself: at the public and private theaters, on the street in civic and royal rituals, and in popular entertainments. In so doing, we will examine how the capital city’s sense of itself came to be shaped by its various performances – its relationship with the crown, with the country, with strangers and foreigners – and how key sites (the “liberties,” the Royal Exchange, the Guildhall, the Thames, Covent Garden, Hyde Park) came to hold meaning for London audiences.
We will be reading texts by dramatists including Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Francis Beaumont, Thomas Middleton, and James Shirley, as well as less studied texts.
Course Number
ENGL2228W001Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 08:40-09:55We 08:40-09:55Section/Call Number
001/16656Enrollment
10 of 54Instructor
Alan Stewart(Lecture). This course examines the works of the major English poets of the period 1830-1900. We will pay special attention to Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning, and their great poetic innovation, the dramatic monologue. We will also be concentrating on poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Christina Rossetti, Matthew Arnold, A. E. Housman, and Thomas Hardy.
Course Number
ENGL2404W001Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 14:40-15:55We 14:40-15:55Section/Call Number
001/12799Enrollment
36 of 54Instructor
Erik GrayThis course approaches modernism as the varied literary responses to the cultural, technological, and political conditions of modernity in the United States. The historical period from the turn of the century to the onset of World War II forms a backdrop for consideration of such authors as Getrude Stein, Willa Cather, Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Djuna Barnes. Assigned readings will cover a range of genres, including novels, poetry, short stories, and contemporary essays.
Course Number
ENGL2826W001Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 13:10-14:25Th 13:10-14:25Section/Call Number
001/12895Enrollment
54 of 54Instructor
Ross PosnockThe bildungsroman is the modern, realist version of the hero’s quest. Instead of slaying dragons and weaving spells, the protagonist of the bildungsroman struggles with what it means to become an adult – or to refuse to. Also known as the novel of development or coming-of-age novel, the bildungsroman typically focuses on growth and development, the cultivation of the self, marriage and vocation. It is a form marked by conflicts and tensions: between the individual and society, between idealism and realism, rebellion and compromise, dreamy inertia and future-oriented action.
The reading list spans works from Europe and the United States, from the 1790s through the 2010s. Lectures will focus on the novel as a literary form in dialogue with other literary works, with historical events, and with ideas drawn from philosophy, psychology, and sociology.
Lectures will address: What fosters human development and what thwarts it? What is a self and what is a life course? How do coming-of-age novels engage with social norms concerning love, work, personhood, and maturity? And how has this literary genre itself changed and developed over time?
This is a 3-point lecture course. In accordance with university guidelines, you should expect to spend about six hours per week outside of class doing the course reading, which will consist entirely of novels and vary from ~150 to ~200 pages per week, and doing the assignments.
Course Number
ENGL2898W001Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Th 16:10-17:25Tu 16:10-17:25Section/Call Number
001/16660Enrollment
64 of 90Instructor
Sharon MarcusThis course centers on the writing of Edmund Spenser (1552–1599), early modern England’s self-styled national poet. We will devote much of our attention to The Faerie Queene, a complex intertwining of romance and epic that is Spenser’s major poetic achievement and the most important understudied work of the English Renaissance. Spenser himself referred to The Faerie Queene as an “endlesse worke” because he couldn’t finish it, but it’s also endless in the sense that it richly rewards deep study. The Faerie Queene envisions a world saturated with meaning, and the poem’s allegory is everywhere engaged with the challenges, dangers, and delights of interpreting it. We will enrich our simultaneous study of Spenser’s poetry and the culture of English early modernity by reading some of his shorter poems, including The Shepheardes Calender, his poetic debut, and the Amoretti, his sonnet sequence.
We will supplement this work with a visit to Columbia’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library, which will highlight the literary, political, and cultural traditions on which Spenser’s work draws. We’ll also attend the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition on Tudor England, which will offer a glimpse of the royal iconography that Spenser’s writing both endorses and critiques.
Finally, we will confront Spenser’s colonialist views as expressed in his View of the State of Ireland, a prose tract he wrote after serving as secretary to Arthur Grey, the architect of England’s brutal attempt to colonize Ireland in the 1580s. Taking Spenser’s poetic and political careers together, this course will uncover the deeply contradictory aims of writing in the early modern humanist tradition, which questioned traditional class hierarchies and imagined new ways of fashioning the self at the same time that it helped to sanction England’s burgeoning imperial ambitions.
Course Number
ENGL2933W001Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 14:40-15:55Th 14:40-15:55Section/Call Number
001/16664Enrollment
9 of 54Instructor
Lauren RobertsonThe seminar will look at the structure of the novel, its plan, with special attention paid to ‘The Odyssey’, but also to the variations in tone in the book, the parodies and elaborate games becoming more complex as the book proceeds. We will examine a number of Irish texts that are relevant to the making of ‘Ulysses’, including Robert Emmett’s speech from the dock, Yeats’s ‘The Countess Cathleen’ and Lady Gregory translations from Irish folk-tales.
Course Number
ENGL3042W001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 12:10-14:00Section/Call Number
001/12896Enrollment
19 of 18Instructor
Colm ToibinAcademic Writing Intensive is a small, intensive writing course for Barnard students in their second or third year who would benefit from extra writing support. Students attend a weekly seminar, work closely with the instructor on each writing assignment, and meet with an attached Writing Fellow every other week. Readings and assignments focus on transferable writing, revision, and critical thinking skills students can apply to any discipline. Students from across the disciplines are welcome. This course is only offered P/D/F. To be considered for the course, please send a recent writing sample to vcondill@barnard.edu, ideally from your First-Year Writing or First-Year Seminar course, or any other writing-intensive humanities or social sciences course at Barnard (no lab reports please).
Course Number
ENGL3102X001Points
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 11:00-12:50Section/Call Number
001/00692Enrollment
10 of 10Instructor
Meredith BenjaminEssay writing above the first-year level. Reading and writing various types of essays to develop one's natural writing voice and craft thoughtful, sophisticated and personal essays.
Course Number
ENGL3104X001Points
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
We 14:10-16:00Section/Call Number
001/00090Enrollment
15 of 12Instructor
Shelly FredmanEssay writing above the first-year level. Reading and writing various types of essays to develop one's natural writing voice and craft thoughtful, sophisticated and personal essays.
Course Number
ENGL3104X002Points
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 12:10-14:00Section/Call Number
002/00204Enrollment
13 of 12Instructor
Margaret EllsbergEssay writing above the first-year level. Reading and writing various types of essays to develop one's natural writing voice and craft thoughtful, sophisticated and personal essays.
Course Number
ENGL3104X003Points
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 12:10-14:00Section/Call Number
003/00207Enrollment
12 of 12Instructor
Vrinda CondillacEssay writing above the first-year level. Reading and writing various types of essays to develop one's natural writing voice and craft thoughtful, sophisticated and personal essays.
Course Number
ENGL3104X004Points
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
We 12:10-14:00Section/Call Number
004/00616Enrollment
13 of 12Instructor
Monica CohenWriting sample required to apply for this course. For the application form and full instructions, please go to https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
Spring 2026: Fiction and Personal Narrative: Crafting the Narrative "I"
In this workshop, we will practice taking creative risks, writing fiction and nonfiction. We will examine four key craft areas: voice, characterization, imagery, and arrangement, both in contemporary published writing and in the writing of the people in this class. In small and large group workshops, we will consider each writer’s work with care and attention to the writer’s vision. By discussing each work-in-progress on its own terms, we will help our fellow writers deepen the meaning and impact of their work. Through risk-taking, and building a creative community, we will also grow and deepen our personal relationships to craft. Model readings will be contemporary short stories or personal essays, mostly written in the first person, including work by Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Tony Tulathimutte, K-Ming Chang, Cleyvis Natera, Melissa Febos, Ling Ma, and Deesha Philyaw.
Course Number
ENGL3106X001Points
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 12:10-14:00Section/Call Number
001/00096Enrollment
0 of 12Instructor
Alexandra WatsonWriting sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here: https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses.
The most exciting, and the most terrifying, aspect of writing fiction is that there are no rules that cannot, under certain conditions, be broken. Good fiction makes and lives by its own rules. In this course, we will discuss common tenets of fiction writing—regarding character, plot, point-of-view, and more—and also examine cases in which writers break rules for the better. This course involves attentive reading of stories by various authors, discussions of craft, in-class writing, and workshops of student fiction. Readings may include Shirley Hazzard, Elias Khoury, James Wood, Elena Ferrante, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Sylvia Townsend Warner, among others.
Course Number
ENGL3108X001Points
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 18:10-20:00Section/Call Number
001/00097Enrollment
0 of 12Instructor
. FACULTYWriting sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here: https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses.
Spring 2026:
Section 1, taught by Angel Nafis: Poetry Belongs With Us As legend Lucille Clifton said, “poetry began when somebody walked out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said, “Ahhh.” That was the first poem.” In this class we will be demystifying the fundamentals of writing poetry by sharpening our most natural sonic and narrative instincts. We will use these instincts to guide our insights as we explore and practice specific craft elements and structural gestures—from the Ode, Elegy, and Sonnet, to Ekphrasis and Erasure. We’ll study the work of contemporary luminaries like Gwendolyn Brooks, Kaveh Akbar, Sharon Olds, Jenny Xie, June Jordan, Ocean Vuong, and more; using their example to inspire us on how best to understand and command the poetic line. Class time will include weekly writing prompts and share-outs. Come prepared to take risks and foster curiosity.
Section 2, taught by Miranda Field: This class approaches poetry as a practice energized as much by playful provocation as by engagement with urgent issues of the day. In-class writing and weekly prompts designed to provoke creative ingenuity will keep you writing, ensuring everyone has new poems to workshop regularly. A list of quotes headed “What is This Thing Called Poetry?” starts the class off with a discussion intended to open our minds and challenge pre-conceived notions on the topic. This will be followed by other, more focused questions and propositions, providing discussion topics for each class: How do artifice and raw reality intertwine in a poem’s making? In what ways can poems deepen our understanding of ourselves, each other, and the world we share? How do we, as poets, unlock the full potential of our chosen medium, language? What do we mean by “voice” in a poem, and when and how does “voice” emerge? Required readings are central to our work together, and specified titles and volumes must be acquired by the third week of the semester. Supplemental material will be provided as handouts and distributed in class.
Course Number
ENGL3110X001Points
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 16:10-18:00Section/Call Number
001/00160Enrollment
0 of 12Instructor
Angel NafisWriting sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here: https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses.
Spring 2026:
Section 1, taught by Angel Nafis: Poetry Belongs With Us As legend Lucille Clifton said, “poetry began when somebody walked out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said, “Ahhh.” That was the first poem.” In this class we will be demystifying the fundamentals of writing poetry by sharpening our most natural sonic and narrative instincts. We will use these instincts to guide our insights as we explore and practice specific craft elements and structural gestures—from the Ode, Elegy, and Sonnet, to Ekphrasis and Erasure. We’ll study the work of contemporary luminaries like Gwendolyn Brooks, Kaveh Akbar, Sharon Olds, Jenny Xie, June Jordan, Ocean Vuong, and more; using their example to inspire us on how best to understand and command the poetic line. Class time will include weekly writing prompts and share-outs. Come prepared to take risks and foster curiosity.
Section 2, taught by Miranda Field: This class approaches poetry as a practice energized as much by playful provocation as by engagement with urgent issues of the day. In-class writing and weekly prompts designed to provoke creative ingenuity will keep you writing, ensuring everyone has new poems to workshop regularly. A list of quotes headed “What is This Thing Called Poetry?” starts the class off with a discussion intended to open our minds and challenge pre-conceived notions on the topic. This will be followed by other, more focused questions and propositions, providing discussion topics for each class: How do artifice and raw reality intertwine in a poem’s making? In what ways can poems deepen our understanding of ourselves, each other, and the world we share? How do we, as poets, unlock the full potential of our chosen medium, language? What do we mean by “voice” in a poem, and when and how does “voice” emerge? Required readings are central to our work together, and specified titles and volumes must be acquired by the third week of the semester. Supplemental material will be provided as handouts and distributed in class.
Course Number
ENGL3110X002Points
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Th 14:10-16:00Section/Call Number
002/00669Enrollment
0 of 12Instructor
Miranda FieldWriting sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here: https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses. What makes a play alive? Often a playwright is surprised into their strongest work. The practices of experimentation and analysis, curiosity and audacity lead to new possibilities. Students will read and respond to plays, identifying elements and strategies, and each week bring in fragments and scenes written in response to weekly prompts. By the middle of the semester, students will choose the piece that feels the most viable and develop it into what in most cases will be a thirty page play. NOTE: Playwriting I (ENGL BC3113) is NOT a prerequisite, and students need not have written a play before.
Course Number
ENGL3114X001Points
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 16:10-18:00Section/Call Number
001/00163Enrollment
0 of 12Instructor
Kathleen TolanWriting sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here: https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses.
Spring 2026Story Writing II is an advanced workshop in writing, with emphasis on the short story. Some experience in the writing of fiction is required. Each week we will read and analyze a variety of published short stories with an eye for craft and authorial decisions that might be applied to our own work. Writers we will read may include: Jean Stafford, Yiyun Li, Bryan Washington, Garth Greenwell, Lorrie Moore, Jamel Brinkley, Ling Ma, Cesar Aira, Mavis Gallant, and more. Exercises and in-depth workshop letters will push students to think more deeply about their own choices and the many layers that make up each work. Conference hours to be arranged.
Course Number
ENGL3116X001Points
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Th 12:10-14:00Section/Call Number
001/00173Enrollment
0 of 12Instructor
Nellie HermannWriting sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here: https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses.
Section 1 (taught by Sarah Wang in Spring 2026) Narrative Strategies: This course will explore the different ways that stories can be told. How a story is written is as important as what a story is about. Is there a turn at the end that changes everything you thought you knew? Is the narrator speaking from inside experience, reportage from the front lines of another world? How can the epistolary form be utilized to effect? Students will workshop their own stories, participate in four in-class generative writing sessions, and read weekly short stories demonstrating various strategies for style, voice, setting, dialogue, form, and point of view. Particular focus will be placed on writing from the margins and writing as an act of bearing witness.
Section 2 (taught by Gina Apostol in Spring 2026): This course will focus particularly on crafting the literary technique of point of view in fiction. Students will craft work with this question in mind: in what ways are art and ethics combined in the crafting of point of view? Students will practice writing from different narration modes: third person limited and omniscient, free indirect discourse, first person, and so on. They will consider the ethics of point of view by reading short stories, among them stories from Borges’s Labyrinths, John Keene’s Counternarratives, and Angela Carter’s Saints and Strangers. Some theoretical matters will include: postcoloniality in narration; identity in narration; ‘queering’ history; and critical race thought. Students will write three different pieces with the crafting of point of view in mind. Students will workshop each other’s pieces as well as discuss the texts in relation to their practice of the art of fiction.
Course Number
ENGL3117X001Points
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 18:10-20:00Section/Call Number
001/00186Enrollment
0 of 12Instructor
Sarah WangWriting sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here: https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses.
Section 1 (taught by Sarah Wang in Spring 2026) Narrative Strategies: This course will explore the different ways that stories can be told. How a story is written is as important as what a story is about. Is there a turn at the end that changes everything you thought you knew? Is the narrator speaking from inside experience, reportage from the front lines of another world? How can the epistolary form be utilized to effect? Students will workshop their own stories, participate in four in-class generative writing sessions, and read weekly short stories demonstrating various strategies for style, voice, setting, dialogue, form, and point of view. Particular focus will be placed on writing from the margins and writing as an act of bearing witness.
Section 2 (taught by Gina Apostol in Spring 2026): This course will focus particularly on crafting the literary technique of point of view in fiction. Students will craft work with this question in mind: in what ways are art and ethics combined in the crafting of point of view? Students will practice writing from different narration modes: third person limited and omniscient, free indirect discourse, first person, and so on. They will consider the ethics of point of view by reading short stories, among them stories from Borges’s Labyrinths, John Keene’s Counternarratives, and Angela Carter’s Saints and Strangers. Some theoretical matters will include: postcoloniality in narration; identity in narration; ‘queering’ history; and critical race thought. Students will write three different pieces with the crafting of point of view in mind. Students will workshop each other’s pieces as well as discuss the texts in relation to their practice of the art of fiction.
Course Number
ENGL3117X002Points
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Th 18:10-20:00Section/Call Number
002/00190Enrollment
0 of 12Instructor
Gina ApostolWriting sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here: https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses.
What drives the music of a poem? How does one create rhythm and song? In what ways do chunks of language sort and arrange the perception of our readers? The purpose of this advanced poetry workshop is to closely study syntax, or in the words of Ellen Bryant Voigt, “the order of the words in each human utterance.” To further build upon our technical foundation as writers, we will also engage in other elements of craft, such as deep imagery, grammatical moods, tone, and poetic closure. We will be reading a variety of poets, including Etel Adnan, Rita Dove, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, John Murrillo, Choi Seungja, and Yuki Tanaka. Be prepared to generate new material independently for peer workshops where you will gain valuable feedback and constructive criticism.
Apart from challenging your poetics on a technical level, I expect you to come to class with a strong desire to create meaning out of your daily lives, your personal or collective histories, and the futures that you are actively imagining. Your openness and willingness to grow as a human, poet, and critical thinker are fundamental to fostering a kind and supportive community in the classroom. Not only will you be writing poems, you will also learn to translate your soul’s language and help others do the same.
Course Number
ENGL3118X001Points
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
We 18:10-20:00Section/Call Number
001/00112Enrollment
0 of 12Instructor
Monica SokOpen only to undergraduates.
This course will introduce you to principles of effective public speaking and debate, and provide practical opportunities to use these principles in structured speaking situations. You will craft and deliver speeches, engage in debates and panel discussions, analyze historical and contemporary speakers, and reflect on your own speeches and those of your classmates. You will explore and practice different rhetorical strategies with an emphasis on information, persuasion and argumentation. For each speaking assignment, you will go through the speech-making process, from audience analysis, purpose and organization, to considerations of style and delivery. The key criteria in this course are content, organization, and adaptation to the audience and purpose. While this is primarily a performance course, you will be expected to participate extensively as a listener and critic, as well as a speaker.
Course Number
ENGL3121X001Points
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 11:40-12:55Th 11:40-12:55Section/Call Number
001/00172Enrollment
10 of 14Instructor
Daniela KempfOpen only to undergraduates.
This course will introduce you to principles of effective public speaking and debate, and provide practical opportunities to use these principles in structured speaking situations. You will craft and deliver speeches, engage in debates and panel discussions, analyze historical and contemporary speakers, and reflect on your own speeches and those of your classmates. You will explore and practice different rhetorical strategies with an emphasis on information, persuasion and argumentation. For each speaking assignment, you will go through the speech-making process, from audience analysis, purpose and organization, to considerations of style and delivery. The key criteria in this course are content, organization, and adaptation to the audience and purpose. While this is primarily a performance course, you will be expected to participate extensively as a listener and critic, as well as a speaker.
Course Number
ENGL3121X002Points
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 13:10-14:25Th 13:10-14:25Section/Call Number
002/00218Enrollment
0 of 14Instructor
Daniela KempfWriting sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here: https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses.
Spring 2026: Drawing Cartoons and Comics
In this class, New Yorker cartoonist and graphic novelist Liana Finck will teach you the basics of making single-panel cartoons, writing and drawing comics, and generally expressing yourself in a mixture of words and pictures. You will learn to diagram your problems, craft jokes, and tell stories visually. You’ll get an overview of useful materials, programs and machines, and how to use all these things with a light enough touch that you can still focus on your art. You will get comfortable with processes for generating ideas and editing your work. We will read some graphic novels, look at lots of cartoons, and dip a toe into the history of colloquial visual storytelling. You will finish the semester with a large body of small-scale work, one serious longer piece, and a better understanding of your voice and what you have to say. My hope is that you’ll leave the class confident in your ability to work visually, and with a regular practice if you want one.
Course Number
ENGL3134X001Points
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
We 11:00-12:50Section/Call Number
001/00158Enrollment
0 of 12Instructor
Liana FinckChaucer as inheritor of late-antique and medieval conventions and founder of early modern literature and the fiction of character. Selections from related medieval texts.
Course Number
ENGL3155X001Points
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 11:40-12:55We 11:40-12:55Section/Call Number
001/00178Enrollment
17 of 35Instructor
Eugene PetraccaCourse Number
ENGL3160X001Points
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
We 14:10-16:00Section/Call Number
001/00161Enrollment
8 of 12Instructor
Achsah GuibboryCourse Number
ENGL3160X003Points
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 14:10-16:00Section/Call Number
003/00198Enrollment
8 of 12Instructor
Jayne HildebrandCourse Number
ENGL3160X004Points
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Th 14:10-16:00Section/Call Number
004/00199Enrollment
12 of 12Instructor
Andrew LynnCourse Number
ENGL3164X001Points
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 08:40-09:55We 08:40-09:55Section/Call Number
001/00099Enrollment
11 of 60Instructor
Peter PlattThe seventeenth century was a century of revolution, giving birth to modern ways of thinking, and calling into question many of the old ways. In the early years, many were affected by melancholy, some believing the world was approaching the endtimes. England experienced plagues, particularly in London, and other catastrophes. So we might find some affinity with our own current situation, facing new challenges, our world turned upside down, which is what many people felt during that time. Out of all of this turmoil, however, came great literature including lyric poems by John Donne and others exploring love and desire, doubt and faith, sex and God. Donne also wrote a series of Devotions grappling with mortality over a course of 23 days when he was suffering from typhus or relapsing fever and almost died. Others turned to find solace in the natural world and friendship (Amelia Lanyer, Katherine Philips, Henry Vaughan). Robert Burton wrote a book on melancholy, which he kept adding to. Francis Bacon thought a revolution in science could redeem the world. Thomas Browne, a physician as well as writer, tackled the problem of intolerance and religious conflict. Thomas Hobbes thought only a firm (authoritarian?) government could reestablish peace and security, while Gerard Winstanley (a “Leveller”) thought that owning land (and money) was the source of all war and misery. Transgressive women had their own ideas. The Quaker leader Margaret Fell defended women's right to preach. We will read selections from these and other writers, understanding them in their historical context and with a sense of their current resonance.The seventeenth century was a century of revolution, giving birth to modern ways of thinking, and calling into question many of the old ways. In the early years, many were affected by melancholy, some believing the world was approaching the endtimes. England experienced plagues, particularly in London, and other catastrophes. So we might find some affinity with our own current situation, facing new challenges, our world turned upside down, which is what many people felt during that time. Out of all of this turmoil, however, came great literature including lyric poems by John Donne and others exploring love and desire, doubt and faith, sex and God. Donne also wrote a series of Devotions grappling with mortality over a course of 23 days when he was suffering from typhus or relapsing fever and almost died. Others turned to find solace in the natural world and friendship (Amelia Lanyer, Katherine Philips, Henry Vaughan). Robert Burton wrote a book on melancholy, which he kept adding to. Francis Bacon thought a revolution in science could redeem the world. Thomas Browne, a physician as well as writer, tackled the problem of intolerance and religious conflict. Thomas Hobbes thought only a firm (authoritarian?) government could reestablish peace and security, while Gerard Winstanley (a “Leveller”) thought that owning land (and money) was the source of all war and misery. Transgressive women had their own ideas. The Quaker leader Margaret Fell defended women's right to preach. We will read selections from these and other writers, understanding them in their historical context and with a sense of their current resonance.
Course Number
ENGL3166X001Points
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 10:10-11:25We 10:10-11:25Section/Call Number
001/00151Enrollment
26 of 30Instructor
Achsah GuibboryTexts from the late Republican period through the Civil War explore a range of intersecting literary, political, philosophical, and theological issues, including the literary implications of American independence, the status of Native Americans, the nature of the self, slavery and abolition, gender and woman's sphere, and the Civil War. Writers include Washington Irving, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Margaret Fuller, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Jacobs, and Emily Dickinson.
Course Number
ENGL3180X001Points
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 08:40-09:55We 08:40-09:55Section/Call Number
001/00157Enrollment
35 of 35Instructor
Victor Zarour ZarzarThis course examines how postmodernism’s profound distrust of language and narrative transforms the form and function of literature. Writers include James Baldwin, Joan Didion, Frank O’Hara, Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Auster, John Ashbery, J.M. Coetzee, Marilynne Robinson, Toni Morrison, Don DeLillo, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Lyn Hejinian.
Course Number
ENGL3189X001Points
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 10:10-11:25Th 10:10-11:25Section/Call Number
001/00156Enrollment
39 of 40Instructor
Kristi-Lynn CassaroOpen to all students.This course teaches clear writing and provides exposure to a range of interpretative strategies. Frequent short papers. Required of all English majors before the end of the junior year. Sophomores are encouraged to take it in the spring semester even before officially declaring their major. Transfer students should plan to take it in the fall semester.
Course Number
ENGL3193X001Points
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 13:10-14:25Th 13:10-14:25Section/Call Number
001/00174Enrollment
12 of 12Instructor
Kristi-Lynn CassaroOpen to all students.This course teaches clear writing and provides exposure to a range of interpretative strategies. Frequent short papers. Required of all English majors before the end of the junior year. Sophomores are encouraged to take it in the spring semester even before officially declaring their major. Transfer students should plan to take it in the fall semester.
Course Number
ENGL3193X002Points
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 14:40-15:55We 14:40-15:55Section/Call Number
002/00175Enrollment
12 of 12Instructor
Eugene PetraccaOpen to all students.This course teaches clear writing and provides exposure to a range of interpretative strategies. Frequent short papers. Required of all English majors before the end of the junior year. Sophomores are encouraged to take it in the spring semester even before officially declaring their major. Transfer students should plan to take it in the fall semester.
Course Number
ENGL3193X003Points
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 11:40-12:55We 11:40-12:55Section/Call Number
003/00176Enrollment
12 of 12Instructor
Michael DickmanAlthough Victorian fiction is best known today for its realist commitment to representing the world “as it really is,” especially in genres such as the courtship novel and the Bildungsroman, Victorian novelists also wrote during an age of enthusiastic scientific inquiry that questioned and revised the very fabric of the reality that realist genres purported to represent. This course will accordingly explore the more adventurous and speculative fiction of the Victorian period that was most closely attuned to these new ways of representing and thinking about reality. How did new scientific developments such as evolutionary theory in biology, and the atomic theory in physics, reshape how writers viewed the relationships between human and animal, self and other, space and time, body and mind? How did departing from traditional realist modes enable Victorian science fiction writers to explore the ethical, social, and political implications of scientific theories in ways that scientific prose may not have envisioned? In this course we will read major works of Victorian fiction, by such authors as Mary Shelley, H.G. Wells, H. Rider Haggard, Robert Louis Stevenson, and others, alongside selections of scientific prose in such fields of Victorian science as biology, physics, mathematics, anthropology, and psychology. Throughout the course, we will understand “science” to include both major developments in the history of science, such as the emergence of evolutionary thought, as well as more eccentric Victorian areas of inquiry, such as phrenology, mesmerism, telepathy, and degeneration. The first three units into which the course is divided each explore a major field of Victorian science alongside a major conceptual category that it challenged and altered: biology and the nature of the human; psychology and the constitution of the self; the physical sciences and the nature of space and time. In each unit, we will investigate how writers’ engagements with these conceptual questions led them to experiment with literary categories such as character, narration, and plot. The course will close with a unit on texts that more broadly address Victorian conceptions of progress, technology, and development. In addition to these specific thematic and formal questions, we will think broadly about how the Victorians understood the value of science and technology in relation to the arts and to literature, and ask what their answers to these questions can offer us as we navigate similar questions today. What does scientific thinking offer to literature, and what kinds of questions can literature answer that scientific prose cannot? Do technological and scientific progress open up utopian vistas for humanity’s future, or are they more likely to lead to dystopian nightmares? Throughout the course, we will explore the resources that the literary imagination offers for thinking through the social consequences of scientific theories.
Course Number
ENGL3215X001Points
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 10:10-11:25Th 10:10-11:25Section/Call Number
001/00155Enrollment
30 of 30Instructor
Jayne HildebrandWriting sample required to apply: https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
In this class we will discuss the narrative of the "American" story, and how stories of immigrants and minority identities redefine and complicate it. The goal of the class is to investigate how writers frame a sense of identity in relation to the "American ideal". We will explore this theme through three creative non-fiction pieces each focusing on a different perspective of place, person, and personal experience. What are your stories, and what makes them "American"?
Course Number
ENGL3229X001Points
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 09:00-10:50Section/Call Number
001/00731Enrollment
0 of 12Instructor
Maria HinojosaThis course examines how poets have engaged with emerging media in the postwar era. We will trace the intersections of poetry with photography, television, video, visual and concrete poetry, and digital environments, and we will consider how shifts in media reshape ideas of authorship, reading, and the materiality of language. Readings to include Marshall McLuhan, John Cage, Frank O’Hara, Charles Olson, Amiri Baraka, Alison Knowles, Hollis Frampton, N.H. Pritchard, Gil Scott-Heron, Jayne Cortez, Bernadette Mayer, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Tan Lin, Glenn Ligon, Jordan Abel, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, and Nick Montfort.
Course Number
ENGL3300W001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Th 14:10-16:00Section/Call Number
001/16663Enrollment
19 of 18Instructor
Paul StephensAn interdisciplinary course focused on environmental humanities and based in the English department, “Changing Climate, Changing World” will examine the representation of nature across time and its implications for global warming and biodiversity from multiple perspectives, emphasizing issues of climate change and environmental justice. The course will provide a conceptual framework for reading and critiquing the representation of nature in the context of historical, economic, social, cultural, scientific and political change.
The course design asks students to address climate change in the context of the industrial revolution before discussing environmental issues in a pre-industrial and finally a post-industrial context. We will begin in media res by addressing issues of industrialization and colonialism in the mid-18th and 19th century before considering indigenous, medieval, and renaissance representations of nature. In the second half of the course, we return to examine contemporary issues from the early 20th century to the present.
The course will meet twice weekly in Spring 2025. One of these meetings will include a lecture with a guest faculty member from Barnard and Columbia, or occasionally with other experts, artists, and activists from New York and beyond, followed by questions from the audience on the lecture. The second meeting will emphasize student discussion of the lecture and associated readings, with the purpose of integrating each lecture into the total course framework. Since all the participating faculty are teaching full time, we will aim to schedule lectures in the late afternoon or evening to minimize conflicts. We would also like to open some of the lectures to the public, either virtually or in person, so that their impact could be felt beyond the class itself.
Course Number
ENGL3321X001Points
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 17:40-18:55We 17:40-18:55Section/Call Number
001/00619Enrollment
31 of 40Instructor
Linn MehtaConcentrating on the drama of early modern England, this course will focus on women who behave badly. Some of these characters cheat, lie, and murder, while others perfect the guise of seeming compliance; some brazenly flout the structures that aim to contain them, while others are subtler in their subversion. We will use these plays to investigate what is by turns exciting, threatening, and frightening about these unruly women, paying attention to the ways that they are punished and sometimes rewarded. We will also attend to the resources of theatrical form, especially the early modern use of boy actors to play women’s parts, to ask how the conditions of staging uphold or undercut the plays’ ideological messages. Finally, we will supplement our reading of this drama with other historical and cultural texts from this period—pamphlets, advice literature, poems, court cases, and ballads—in order to get a better sense of the plays in relation to early modern gender, sexual, and political norms, many of which were crucially different from our own.
Course Number
ENGL3343W001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 12:10-14:00Section/Call Number
001/12901Enrollment
18 of 18Instructor
Lauren RobertsonThe spell cast by a captivating novel or elegant research can lead us to imagine that great writing is a product of the author's innate genius. In reality, the best writing is a product of certain not-very-intuitive practices. This course lifts the veil that obscures what happens in the minds of the best writers. We will examine models of writing development from research in composition studies, cognitive psychology, genre studies, linguistics, ESL studies, and educational psychology. Our classroom will operate as a laboratory for experimenting with the practices that the research identifies. Students will test out strategies that prepare them for advanced undergraduate research, graduate school writing, teaching, editing, and collaborative writing in professional settings. The course is one way to prepare for applying for a job as a peer writing fellow in Columbia’s Writing Center.
Course Number
ENGL3394W001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
We 14:10-16:00Section/Call Number
001/12908Enrollment
20 of 18Instructor
Susan MendelsohnThis course examines public battles over language in American and invites you to situate your linguistic history in the larger context of thesebattles. We will ask, Is Northern English more correct than Southern English? Are Black English speakers disadvantaged in the job market? Should English be our national language? What should the language of instruction be in public schools? Do nonbinary students have a right to determine the pronouns their professors use to address them? These language rights battles play out in Congress, the courts, and classrooms. At stake are voting access, employment rights, learning opportunities, and the pathway to American citizenship.
The first half of the semester will introduce you to sociolinguists’ understandings of language differences. We will put their research in conversation with the lived experiences of diverse Americans by exploring a number of literacy narratives. And as a class, we will carry out research to study the language attitudes and experiences of members of our own community. The second half of the semester features a series of case studies—legal cases, school board fights, academic battles, legislation—that will lay bare the surprising disagreements between what sociolinguists understand about language and what laypeople passionately believe about it. The goal of the course is to equip you to address language rights in ways that account for research and people’s lived experiences.
Course Number
ENGL3402W001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Th 16:10-18:00Section/Call Number
001/12910Enrollment
20 of 18Instructor
Susan MendelsohnCannibals! Orphans! Strikes! Vampires! This course asks how do horror stories employ suspense and disgust to unsettle political, social, and ethical complacency in the hearts and minds of readers and audiences? We will consider the pan-media global adaptations, translations, reiterations, and afterlives of several powerful horror stories—maritime, domestic, industrial, and supernatural-- as they serially repeat across national borders, languages, historical periods, and delivery platforms, from novels, plays, and film to an underwater sculpture, photographs, paintings, advertisements, a graphic novel, and other aesthetic forms. We will read each adaptation in synchronic dialogue with its companions, in diachronic perspective, and through relevant theoretical lenses, comparing the priorities of aesthetic form in the context of the national, cultural, and the historical contingencies of class and race difference. Texts may include the Raft of the Medusa, Jane Eyre, Mary Barton, Germinal, Dracula and the Dybbuk. Familiarity with French, Yiddish, Russian, Wolof (Atlantique), Korean (Parasite) and Persian (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night) welcome but not required. All majors welcome!
(To count this course for the English major, all writing must focus on works originally published in English.)
Course Number
ENGL3413X001Points
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 14:40-15:55Th 14:40-15:55Section/Call Number
001/00617Enrollment
50 of 50Instructor
Monica CohenChange is fundamental to our experience as human beings, and the experience of change lies at the heart of most great stories. Sometimes this is a transition that the heroine has desired; other times, alteration and transformation arise from sources mysterious and unknown, or as a result of the journey the story has brought them. This course examines the element of change in a wide range of literature, from Ovid to Maggie Nelson, from Shakespeare to Roxane Gay—but it also provides an opportunity for students to consider the ways in which they, too have been changed—by joy, by trauma, by time. In addition to writing critically about the works we will read together, students will also write a personal essay about their experience of metamorphosis; this essay will be examined in a modified workshop format. At semester’s end, students will re-write and change that same essay, in hopes of seeing how revision on the page might provide a model for understanding the metamorphoses we experience as human beings on this earth. Authors will likely include Ovid, Kafka, Robert Louis Stevenson, Borges, Shaun Tan, Roxane Gay, George Saunders, Arthur C. Clarke, Shakespeare, and Maggie Nelson. There will be a final exam and a critical paper, as well as the personal essay, in two drafts.
Course Number
ENGL3418X001Points
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 11:40-12:55We 11:40-12:55Section/Call Number
001/00093Enrollment
39 of 60Instructor
Jennifer BoylanOn or about 1981, sex changed. The New York Times reported a “rare cancer observed in 41 homosexuals,” a condition that the CDC would name “AIDS” in 1982. HIV/AIDS transformed the shape of queer politics. It encouraged coalitional organizing that necessarily responded to the interlocking nature of race, gender, sexuality, and class. In this course, we will examine literature, film, visual art, performance, theory, and political actions produced during the crisis and in its wake. We will analyze the aesthetic and political strategies artists and activists used to respond to the epidemic. Our texts will be diverse, ranging from diaries and notebooks that chronicle life with AIDS to poems and memoirs that memorialize those who were lost. We will read queer theory and critical essays to enrich our primary readings. Writers and artists under consideration include Gregg Araki, Samuel R. Delany, Tory Dent, Gran Fury, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Essex Hemphill, Gary Indiana, Derek Jarman, Jamaica Kincaid, Larry Kramer, Marlon Riggs, Sarah Schulman, and David Wojnarowicz. Students will have the opportunity to visit an archive to examine artists’ journals and, as a final project, embark upon a research-based curatorial project.
Course Number
ENGL3440W001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Th 16:10-18:00Section/Call Number
001/12914Enrollment
18 of 18Instructor
Connor Spencer“Race and religion are conjoined twins. They are both products of modernity.”—Theodore Vial
In this course, we will turn the clock back to early modernity, exploring the entanglement of concepts of racial and religious difference in the texts and cultural products of early modern England. Beginning in sixteenth century England, we will explore how a distinctive English Protestant identity was fashioned in relation to various religious and racial others, most notably the Jew, the Ottoman “Turk”, and the Black African. We will then turn to the literatures of encounter, exploring how the categories of race and religion were articulated in travel narratives, ethnographic accounts, and political polemic. Finally, we will turn to the writings of Afro-descended and Indigenous Christians, exploring how religious self-fashioning was performed by these racialized subjects.
Conversations throughout the semester will be attentive to the specificities of the period, whilst also serving to recontextualise and unsettle contemporary categories of racial and religious difference. Seminar readings will primarily consist of primary sources from the period including poetry, prose and drama from England and, in the latter part of the semester, its colonies. These will be supplemented with a variety of textual and non-textual materials, including works of art, historical documents, period-specific scholarship, and contemporary theory.
Keywords: race, religion, empire, travel, colonialism, enslavement, conversion.
Course Number
ENGL3444W001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 16:10-18:00Section/Call Number
001/12916Enrollment
17 of 18Instructor
Eli CumingsBeginning with the radical breaks of Whitman, Dickinson, and Baudelaire, this course traces how, over the last two centuries, poets across continents have redefined what poetry can be in the face of modernity, exile, revolution, and personal crisis. Our focus will not be on national traditions in isolation but on the resonances and tensions that emerge when poets in different cultures and eras confront similar questions: What forms can poetry take in times of upheaval? How does exile reshape the lyric voice? When does poetry become a vehicle for revolution? And, in Wallace Stevens’s words, what will suffice for poetry when the theatre of the world has changed so profoundly? We will attend closely to the central issue of translation: how meaning and form shift across languages, and how those shifts shape our understanding of what poetry can do.
We will focus on selections from a single author in each class. Readings and viewings will range from canonical figures such as Emily Dickinson, Pablo Neruda, and Anna Akhmatova to experimental voices like Tristan Tzara, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and Ntozake Shange, alongside contemporary lyricists like Lana Del Rey and Kendrick Lamar.
Course Number
ENGL3456X001Points
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 17:40-18:55Th 17:40-18:55Section/Call Number
001/00838Enrollment
6 of 30Instructor
Victor Zarour ZarzarThis course takes Octavia E. Butler’s enigmatic expression, “There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns” as a guide for exploring the politics of Black speculative fiction, science fiction, and fantasy. With literary, sonic, visual, and cinematic examples, including works from Pauline Hopkins, W.E.B. DuBois, Samuel Delany, Wangechi Mutu, Janelle Monae, Sun Ra, Saul Williams, and others, this class considers the contexts of possibility for re/imagining Black pasts, presents and futures. Paying particular attention to how Black speculative fiction creates new worlds, social orders, and entanglements, students will develop readings informed by ecocriticism, science and technology studies, feminist, and queer studies. We will consider the multiple meanings and various uses of speculation and worlding as we encounter and interpret forms of utopian, dystopian, and (post)apocalyptic thinking and practice. No prerequisites.
Course Number
ENGL3477W001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 14:10-16:00Section/Call Number
001/12918Enrollment
15 of 18Instructor
C. Riley SnortonThe title of this course suggests that there are literatures across the “globe” written in English, and that we will study them. But this statement rests on a series of assumptions: the a priori existence of a globe with latitudes, longitudes, and borders; a singular category of “literature” produced in different geographical locations across the globe; and finally, that these literatures are written in English. During the course of the semester, we will investigate and (occasionally overturn) all three of these assumptions.
In order to do so, we will read across different literary genres (short stories and novels, plays, poetry, and essays), while also reading texts that move between these genres or defy them altogether. We will read texts that were originally written in English, as well as texts that have been translated into English, and we will learn and discuss the term “global anglophone” along with the ways in which this term has been challenged. During our collective readings and discussions, we will map the locations that arise in each text and the locations out of which these texts arise. We will study the relationship between literature, translation, and mapping, and we will learn and discuss the concept of planetary thinking and writing as an alternative to border and global thinking.
Course Number
ENGL3521X001Points
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 14:40-15:55Th 14:40-15:55Section/Call Number
001/00686Enrollment
16 of 30Instructor
Atefeh Akbari ShahmirzadiFrom Frederick Douglass’s The North Star, which insisted that journalism could be a tool for liberation and collective conscience, to today’s digital-first platforms, American journalism has always been a site of struggle over truth, power, and representation. This course explores the power of journalism to shape public conscience — from the days when print was the Twitter of its time to the rise of radio, television, and digital media. At its core, this seminar centers the voices of journalists of conscience — those who speak truth to power, challenge dominant narratives, and reflect the full spectrum of human experience. We will approach journalism through a lens that foregrounds the perspectives of people of color, recognizing how mainstream media has historically erased, distorted, or marginalized their voices while also highlighting the powerful traditions of resistance and self-representation in journalism.
To foster meaningful connection and collaboration, students will be split into groups for the semester. These groups will meet in breakout rooms during each class session to workshop ideas, respond to prompts, and sometimes collaborate on short journalistic pieces. The goal is to make a large seminar feel intimate and to encourage peer-to-peer dialogue throughout the course.
Through weekly readings, in-class discussions, site visits, guest speakers, and multimedia projects, students will examine how journalism has both reflected and resisted dominant narratives across history. Students will also create original work that embodies conscience-based journalism.
Course Number
ENGL3609X001Points
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 11:40-12:55We 11:40-12:55Section/Call Number
001/00685Enrollment
46 of 60Instructor
Maria HinojosaDepression has existed for all time. But our explanations of it has shifted, from sin, to an imbalance of the humours, and a poetic inspiration; from the eighteenth-century mechanistic understanding of the self, to the Freudian family romance that generates trauma, and to our current neuro-genetic understanding of the mind as a machine that can achieve happiness with pharmaceutical intervention. We will follow these permutations, even as we read novels, poems, plays, and view film (and art) for their diagnostic awareness of mental suffering. And we will also ask the question: what if depression comes not from within but without, the intelligent response of aware minds to a world that has become undone.
Course Number
ENGL3644X001Points
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
We 16:10-18:00Section/Call Number
001/00094Enrollment
15 of 16Instructor
DAPHNE MIRIAM MERKINBuried alive. Driven mad with guilt. Dissolved into a vast, anonymous universe. These are some of the terrors that this undergraduate seminar will address as we explore the aesthetic, philosophical, and historical dimensions of early American horror. How did Puritan, Gothic, and other early American horror writers complicate cultural attitudes towards the unthinkable, the cruel, and the perverse in works of supernatural horror? What do Gothic fiction’s enduring tropes—such as haunted houses, doppelgängers, and sentient machines—reveal about the massive social and economic changes of the nineteenth century, including the expansion and intensification of slavery, the expropriation of Indigenous land, and the economic transition to industrial capitalism? And what might early American horror fail to capture about these underlying political realities? Our historical attention to race, labor, and gender will enable us to reconsider canonical American horror literature and illuminate the reliance on early American literary tropes in contemporary horror films for representing the uniquely disturbing experiences of modern life.
Course Number
ENGL3660W001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 12:10-14:00Section/Call Number
001/16666Enrollment
15 of 18Instructor
Ethan PlaueCourse Number
ENGL3726W001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 10:10-12:00Section/Call Number
001/13119Enrollment
20 of 18Instructor
Edward MendelsonThis seminar investigates how American theatre/performance, as read through the lens of gender and sexuality, operates as a cultural force. Simply put, the U.S. is obsessed with sex; theatre/performance has proven a fertile medium for America’s expression of this obsession. Exploring texts from the seventeenth through the twenty-first centuries, we will consider how performance intersects with the nation state’s desire to regulate how we “practice” gender both publicly and behind closed doors and how that intersects, overlaps and influences the politics of American Identity. How is performance, which always includes gendered/raced/classed/sexualized bodies, situated in relationship to ideas of a national body politic? How does the American nation state hinge on how gender and sexuality are performed both on-stage and off?
Course Number
ENGL3750X001Points
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Th 11:00-12:50Section/Call Number
001/00684Enrollment
16 of 18Instructor
Pamela CobrinWhether as sources of artistic creativity, symbols of moral decay, avenues of escape, or
foundations for alternative forms of sociality, drugs are an inexhaustible source of inspiration
for all manner of storytellers. Why is that? This course surveys the narrative history of
“literature on drugs” from three angles: first, we examine poetry and fiction composed under
the influence of mind-altering intoxicants; second, we study literature about drug-induced
experiences and the counter-cultures they have fueled; and we ask why literary criticism is
essential to articulate the danger and allure of drugs, past, present, and future. We will read
from literary psychonauts including William Blake, William S. Burroughs, Philip K. Dick, Allen
Ginsberg, Aldous Huxley, Anaïs Nin, and Hunter S. Thompson; historians of the highly weird like
Michel Foucault and Erik Davis; and an array of primary sources on the legal, therapeutic, and
psychological complexities of drug use, such as Billy Holiday, Sigmund Freud, William James,
and Margaret Mead. We also will consider the cinematic history of literature on drugs with
films like Altered States, Trainspotting, and Apocalypse Now. The course incorporates hands-on
archival work and includes a visit to Columbia’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Course Number
ENGL3768X001Points
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 14:40-15:55Th 14:40-15:55Section/Call Number
001/00683Enrollment
70 of 70Instructor
Nathan GorelickThis course will focus on literary fiction and film about science, scientists, and scientific culture. We’ll ask how and why writers have wanted to represent the sciences and how their work is inspired, in turn, by innovations in scientific knowledge of their time. This is not a class on genre fiction. Unlike a science fiction class, we will cover narratives in a variety of genres—some highly speculative, and some in a more realist vein—thinking about how literary form is related to content. We start with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, often considered the first work of science fiction, before moving to works from across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries including H.G. Welles’s The Island of Dr. Moreau, George Schulyer’s Black No More, Sinclair Lewis’s Arrowsmith, Carl Sagan’s Contact, Richard Powers’s Overstory, and the short stories of Ted Chiang. We will also watch such films as James Whale’s Frankenstein, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, Andrew Niccol’s Gattaca, and Yorgos Lanthemos’s Poor Things.
In addition to asking how science and scientists are represented in these narratives, we’ll also discuss the cultural impact of such scientific innovations as the discovery of electricity, cell theory, eugenics and racial science, vaccines and immunology, space travel, new reproductive technologies, gene editing and more. A STEM background is not required, but students will be expected to have curiosity and motivation to learn about science, as well as its narrative representation.
Course Number
ENGL3781W001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
We 10:10-12:00Section/Call Number
001/13002Enrollment
0 of 18Instructor
Rachel AdamsThe nation’s most distinguished homegrown network of thinkers and writers, the New York intellectuals, clustered in its major decades from the late thirties to the late sixties up and down Manhattan, centered mainly in and around Columbia University and the magazine Partisan Review on Astor Place. Although usually regarded as male dominated—Lionel Trilling, Clement Greenberg and Dwight Macdonald were among the leaders—more recently the three key women of the group have emerged as perhaps the boldest modernist thinkers most relevant for our own time. Arendt is a major political philosopher, McCarthy a distinguished novelist, memoirist, and critic, and Susan Sontag was the most famous public intellectual in the last quarter of the 20th century. This course will explore how this resolutely unsentimental trio—dubbed by one critic as “tough women” who insisted on the priority of reflection over feeling—were unafraid to court controversy and even outrage: Hannah Arendt’s report on what she called the “banality” of Nazi evil in her report on the trial in Israel of Adolph Eichmann in 1963 remains incendiary; Mary McCarthy’s satirical wit and unprecedented sexual frankness startled readers of her 1942 story collection The Company She Keeps; Susan Sontag’s debut Against Interpretation (1966) turned against the suffocatingly elitist taste of the New York intellectuals and welcomed what she dubbed the “New Sensibility”—“happenings,” “camp,” experimental film and all manner of avant-garde production. In her later book On Photography (1977) she critiques the disturbing photography of Diane Arbus, whose images we will examine in tandem with Sontag’s book.
Course Number
ENGL3832W001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
We 16:10-18:00Section/Call Number
001/13007Enrollment
19 of 18Instructor
Ross PosnockPrerequisites: the instructor's permission. (Seminar). As the great imperial powers of Britain, France, and Belgium, among others, ceded self-rule to the colonies they once controlled, formerly colonized subjects engaged in passionate discussion about the shape of their new nations not only in essays and pamphlets but also in fiction, poetry, and theatre. Despite the common goal of independence, the heated debates showed that the postcolonial future was still up for grabs, as the boundary lines between and within nations were once again redrawn. Even such cherished notions as nationalism were disputed, and thinkers like the Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore sounded the alarm about the pitfalls of narrow ethnocentric thinking. Their call for a philosophy of internationalism went against the grain of ethnic and racial particularism, which had begun to take on the character of national myth. The conflict of perspectives showed how deep were the divisions among the various groups vying to define the goals of the postcolonial nation, even as they all sought common cause in liberation from colonial rule. Nowhere was this truer than in India. The land that the British rulers viewed as a test case for the implementation of new social philosophies took it upon itself to probe their implications for the future citizenry of a free, democratic republic. We will read works by Indian writers responding to decolonization and, later, globalization as an invitation to rethink the shape of their societies. Beginning as a movement against imperial control, anti-colonialism also generated new discussions about gender relations, secularism and religious difference, the place of minorities in the nation, the effects of partition on national identity, among other issues. With the help of literary works and historical accounts, this course will explore the challenges of imagining a post-imperial society in a globalized era without reproducing the structures and subjectivities of the colonial state. Writers on the syllabus include Rabindranath Tagore, M.K. Gandhi, B.R. Ambedkar, Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, Mahasweta Devi, Bapsi Sidwa, Rohinton Mistry, Amitav Ghosh, and Arundhati Roy. Application Instructions: E-mail Professor Viswanathan (gv6@columbia.edu ) with the subject heading Indian Writing in English seminar. In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course.
Course Number
ENGL3851W001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
We 16:10-18:00Section/Call Number
001/13012Enrollment
18 of 18Instructor
Gauri ViswanathanLiterature has always attracted the outsider, and literature itself seems to demand from its writers to momentarily step out of the fray in order to hope to observe it. The modern age has offered different examples of this. When Bernard Levin described V.S. Naipaul as an ‘inquiline’ author — meaning, a guest or a lodger, an animal that lives in another's nest — Naipaul responded:
‘When I see the sun set here at Stonehenge, there is a way that it is somebody else’s sun, somebody else’s landscape, it has somebody’s else's history connected with it. I can't avoid that: that's the way I think.’
When Virginia Woolf received news of the death of Joseph Conrad, she sat down and penned an admiring obituary that opens with what might be read as a presumptuously arrogant statement:
‘Suddenly, without giving us time to arrange our thoughts or prepare our phrases, our guest has left us; and his withdrawal without farewell or ceremony is in keeping with his mysterious arrival, long years ago, to take up his lodging in this country.’
Despite Woolf’s English snobbishness, her words reveal something true about Conrad’s situation, and about the place of many other writers who were, for one reason or another, obliged to operate in foreign lands, inside other languages or states of being, authors such as V.S. Naipaul, Ovid, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, Jean Rhys, Waguih Ghali and David Malouf.
Through the close analysis of a narrow selection of works, this class will chart the ways in which such works reveal the nature and imaginative location of the artist out of place. We will be interested in the question of to what extent is writing a process of mapping an intellectual, aesthetic, psychic or geographical territory. We will be motivated by close reading, interpretation, and the adventure of comparing different portraits of being an outsider-insider.
We may refer to fragments by travellers and explorers such as Leo Africanus, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Bartolomé de las Casas, and Ibn Battuta, or look at the work of artists who crossed boundaries, such as the 15th century Venetian painter Gentile Bellini and the impact of his visit to Mehmed II’s court in 1479, or the influence of the Arabesque on the music of Claude Debussy.
We will explore what it is about literature and, in particular, the novel that has made it so well-suited for portraits of individuals existing out of place.
Course Number
ENGL3865X001Points
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 14:40-15:55We 14:40-15:55Section/Call Number
001/00666Enrollment
18 of 40Instructor
Hisham MatarIf a student wishes to pursue a research project or a course of study not offered by the department, he or she may apply for an Independent Study. Application: 1. cover sheet with signatures of the professor who will serve as the project sponsor and departmental administrator or director of undergraduate studies; 2. project description in 750 words, including any preliminary work in the field, such as a lecture course(s) or seminar(s); 3. bibliography of primary and secondary works to be read or consulted. Please visit the English and Comparative Literature Department website at http://english.columbia.edu/undergraduate/forms for the cover sheet form or see the administrator in 602 Philosophy Hall for the cover sheet form and to answer any other questions you may have.
Course Number
ENGL3871W001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsSpring 2026
Section/Call Number
001/16677Enrollment
1 of 1Instructor
Robert O'MeallyIf a student wishes to pursue a research project or a course of study not offered by the department, he or she may apply for an Independent Study. Application: 1. cover sheet with signatures of the professor who will serve as the project sponsor and departmental administrator or director of undergraduate studies; 2. project description in 750 words, including any preliminary work in the field, such as a lecture course(s) or seminar(s); 3. bibliography of primary and secondary works to be read or consulted. Please visit the English and Comparative Literature Department website at http://english.columbia.edu/undergraduate/forms for the cover sheet form or see the administrator in 602 Philosophy Hall for the cover sheet form and to answer any other questions you may have.
Course Number
ENGL3871W002Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsSpring 2026
Section/Call Number
002/17679Enrollment
0 of 1Instructor
Hannah WeaverWhat is criticism? And what (or who) is a critic? How does a critic write now? This seminar is an approach to these questions through an investigation of the common currency of literary-intellectual life: the book review. It is intended for young writers interested in the world of reviewing— and criticism, literary journalism, the magazine— and is three things at once: a history of 20th and 21st century criticism (exploring the work of major critics past and present); a theoretical exploration of how the literary field has been, and is now, structured; and a practicum in review-writing. Our focus will primarily be the quickly mutating life of public literary criticism in American magazines from WWII to the present. We will read figures such as Lionel Trilling, Elizabeth Hardwick, Susan Sontag, and others, but most of our time will be spent reading significant critics of the past 5-10 years; we will also read three novelistic treatments of the lives of critics and writers; and some time will be devoted to in-person discussions with current editors and writers in NYC about the conditions of their work.
Course Number
ENGL3883W001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 16:10-18:00Section/Call Number
001/16669Enrollment
15 of 15Instructor
Nicholas DamesWhat are the affordances of the novel for modern and contemporary feminisms?
The rise of the novel is often associated with the eighteenth-century in Britain, as authors broke from the conventions of poetry, theater, and romance to reflect contemporary philosophical, economic and social trends of the European Enlightenment (including the rapid increase in female readership). Across the subsequent centuries, the novel—with its emphasis on social realism, psychological depth, and intricate plotlines—has proven to be a shifting, elusive, and often counterintuitive form, taken up and reinvented by figures around the world. This class asks, first: What makes a novel a novel? We will begin by identifying some of the major aesthetic features that have historically defined this slippery genre, from its 18th century underpinnings, to Victorian realism, to the exuberant experimentation of the modernist and postmodernist eras. But we’ll quickly turn our attention to how those features get interrupted, re-interpreted, and even exploded by Black and feminist writers of the 20th century, many of whom look to different, more global and transhistorical models for achieving their vision.
The course will be grounded in five experimental novels written by Black women between the years 1930 and 2000, which emerged to more and less popular success and critical acclaim: Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937); Ann Petry’s The Narrows (1953); Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters (1980); Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987); and Zadie Smith’s White Teeth (2000). We’ll also spend some time with other feminist novel contemporaries, including Kare Chopin’s The Awakening (1899) and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (1953). A final project will ask students to identify a 21st century Afro-feminist novel—ideally one written in the last decade—that they would nominate as present-day inheritor of this heterogenous and dynamic form, with a critical introduction explaining their choice.
Course Number
ENGL3888W001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Th 10:10-12:00Section/Call Number
001/16671Enrollment
9 of 15Instructor
Zoe HenryThis course will primarily consist in the task of translating the remarkably challenging poem Beowulf. We will be reading (smaller) portions of the vast quantity of secondary texts as we negotiate and debate issues raised by our readings and contemporary scholarship. As we work through the language of the text, comparing translations with our own, we will also be tracking concepts. Each student will be using our communal site (location tbd) for posting translations as well as for starting individual projects on word clusters / concepts.
Course Number
ENGL3892W001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 16:10-18:00Section/Call Number
001/13018Enrollment
20 of 18Instructor
David YerkesEnglish translations of the Bible from Tyndale to the present.
Course Number
ENGL3943W001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 10:10-12:00Section/Call Number
001/13019Enrollment
20 of 18Instructor
David YerkesEnrollment limited to Barnard senior English majors with a concentration in creative writing.
This creative writing workshop represents an opportunity for creative writing concentrators to focus on one large project that will serve as a capstone senior project. As in a typical writing workshop, much of the focus will be on sharing and critiquing student work. Unlike other workshops, in this class students will focus on building out a longer project—such as a more ambitious full-length story for fiction and creative nonfiction writers and a chapbook for poets. This means students will discuss work by writers who may not share their own genre. We will focus on generating new work, developing your writing process, and creating new possibilities and momentum for your piece, as well as trying to create a sense of community among the concentrators. We will also conduct in-class writing exercises in response to short reading assignments and class lectures. Students should be aware of two important notes: (1) This class is limited to senior English majors who have already been approved to be creative writing concentrators; and (2) this course fulfills the requirement for concentrators to finish a senior project, but not the academic senior seminar requirement. This class is about your own writing and that of your classmates. This class will be what you make of it!
Course Number
ENGL3992X001Points
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Th 11:00-12:50Section/Call Number
001/00159Enrollment
6 of 10Instructor
Idra NoveyEnrollment limited to Barnard senior English majors with a Film Studies concentration and Barnard senior Film Studies majors. To see the current course description, visit the English Department website: https://english.barnard.edu/english/senior-seminars
Course Number
ENGL3993X001Points
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Th 16:10-18:00Section/Call Number
001/00166Enrollment
16 of 18Instructor
Maura SpiegelEnrollment is limited to Barnard senior English majors. To see the current course description for each section, visit the English Department website: https://english.barnard.edu/english/senior-seminars
Course Number
ENGL3998X001Points
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Th 12:10-14:00Section/Call Number
001/00154Enrollment
11 of 12Instructor
Jonathan BellerEnrollment is limited to Barnard senior English majors. To see the current course description for each section, visit the English Department website: https://english.barnard.edu/english/senior-seminars
Course Number
ENGL3998X002Points
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 16:10-18:00Section/Call Number
002/00200Enrollment
12 of 12Instructor
Atefeh Akbari ShahmirzadiEnrollment is limited to Barnard senior English majors. To see the current course description for each section, visit the English Department website: https://english.barnard.edu/english/senior-seminars
Course Number
ENGL3998X003Points
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 14:10-16:00Section/Call Number
003/00202Enrollment
12 of 12Instructor
Ken ChenEnrollment is limited to Barnard senior English majors. To see the current course description for each section, visit the English Department website: https://english.barnard.edu/english/senior-seminars
Course Number
ENGL3998X004Points
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 17:40-19:30Section/Call Number
004/00689Enrollment
11 of 12Instructor
Eugene PetraccaPrerequisites: the departments permission. This course is open only to those who have applied and been accepted into the departments senior essay program. For information about the program, including deadline for application, please visit http://english.columbia.edu/undergraduate/senior-essay-program.
Course Number
ENGL3999W001Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 18:10-20:00Section/Call Number
001/13024Enrollment
0 of 54Instructor
Jenny DavidsonApplication required: https://english.barnard.edu/english/independent-studies. Senior majors who wish to substitute Independent Study for one of the two required senior seminars should consult the chair. Permission is given rarely and only to students who present a clear and well-defined topic of study, who have a department sponsor, and who submit their proposals well in advance of the semester in which they will register. There is no independent study for screenwriting or film production.
Course Number
ENGL3999X001Points
4 ptsSpring 2026
Section/Call Number
001/01066Enrollment
0 of 1Instructor
Alexandra WatsonApplication required: https://english.barnard.edu/english/independent-studies. Senior majors who wish to substitute Independent Study for one of the two required senior seminars should consult the chair. Permission is given rarely and only to students who present a clear and well-defined topic of study, who have a department sponsor, and who submit their proposals well in advance of the semester in which they will register. There is no independent study for screenwriting or film production.
Course Number
ENGL3999X002Points
4 ptsSpring 2026
Section/Call Number
002/01067Enrollment
0 of 1Instructor
Ken ChenThis class will focus on early modern literature’s fascination with the relationship between women, gender, and political resistance in the early modern period. The works we will read together engage many of the key political analogies of the period, including those between the household and the state, the marital and the social contract, and rape and tyranny. These texts also present multiple forms of resistance to gendered repression and subordination, and reimagine sexual, social, and political relationships in new and creative ways. Readings will include key classical and biblical intertexts, witchcraft and murder pamphlets, domestic conduct books, defenses of women, poetry (by William Shakespeare, Aemilia Lanyer and Lucy Hutchinson), drama (Othello, The Winter’s Tale, and Gallathea), and fiction (by Margaret Cavendish). The class will also include visits to The Morgan Library, Columbia’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Course Number
ENGL4462W001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 14:10-16:00Section/Call Number
001/13030Enrollment
12 of 18Instructor
Julie CrawfordCourse Number
ENGL4729W001Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 08:40-09:55Th 08:40-09:55Section/Call Number
001/13044Enrollment
55 of 120Instructor
Eleanor JohnsonThis course is an intensive study of Aldous Huxley’s influential novel, Brave New World (1932). It aims to introduce students both to the context of Huxley’s world and the extensive reflections it spawned on the reimagining of what Anthony Burgess called “the perfectibility of man” conducted as a “scientific programme.” If Brave New World has entered the lexicon as a moniker for totalitarian overreach and mind conditioning, the novel merits closer examination for the unique means by which it achieves its effects, ranging from radical social engineering to the management of desire. Among the many questions the course addresses are the following: What are readers to make of the inversion of norms that identifies the World State with the acme of modernity and the “savage reservation” with a discredited past that includes concepts like the family? Does this inversion obscure the standpoints from which a critique of the World State can be made? How does Huxley unsettle the terms of analysis of the novel’s politics?
These questions, among others, are posed as learning tools for approaching the novel, the context in which it was written, and the broader influences it exerted. The syllabus assigns several weeks of reading Brave New World alongside relevant secondary criticism, with a view to encouraging students to probe different critical perspectives and identify evolving paradigms that amplify the novel’s cross-disciplinary engagements. Examples of the questions that students are encouraged to address are: Can the World State’s project of control through pleasure effectively eliminate feeling while requiring sensation? Is the technocratic manipulation of time (through the organization of workers’ bodies and labor) undone by a necessary recourse to the eternity-promising drug soma? How is Brave New World both a futuristic view of a dominant world order, which is carefully produced by social engineering and conditioning, and a depiction of a subversive counterculture, uprooting the norms transmitted across generations?
The syllabus includes adjacent works, such as Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We (1924), viewed as a direct predecessor to Brave New World, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), and Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange (1962). Students will read Nineteen Eighty-Four to determine whether its depiction of totalitarianism resonates with or differs from Brave New World, and examine what the comparison reveals about the uses of pain and pleasure in both novels. Other novels by Huxley included in the course are Brave New World Revisited, in which Huxley reflected on a changed world after the Second World War and the challenges posed by the Cold War. Brave New World Revisited will provide students with an opportunity to engage with Huxley’s thought process as he reviewed his earlier novel’s aims and re-contextualized them in a significantly altered context. Students will also read Huxley’s final novel, Island (1962), to assess the distance he traveled from the dystopianism of Brave New World to the utopian possibilities of Pala, the imaginary island he envisioned in his last novel.
Course Number
ENGL4851W001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 16:10-18:00Section/Call Number
001/17052Enrollment
7 of 18Instructor
Gauri ViswanathanPrison literature—poems, plays, memoirs, novels, and songs written in prison or about prison—constitute a significant part of American literature. Prisons expose many of the systemic inequalities of American life, above all those based on racism and the enduring legacies of slavery. Using the tools of critical race theory, feminism, and class analysis, this course will explore the forms of cultural expression that have emerged in relationship to the American prison experience. Though the course will touch on the rise of convict leasing, chain gangs, and work farms as part of the penal system under Jim Crow, the main focus will be on developments in the U.S. prison system and in prison literature since the 1960s, roughly from the prison writing of George Jackson, Angela Davis, and Malcolm X to the outpouring of contemporary fiction and poetry about prison life by Jesmyn Ward, Colin Whitehead, Rachel Kushner, and Reginald Betts. This is the era of what Michelle Alexander has called “the new Jim Crow,” the rise of mass incarceration, the partial privatization of the penal system, and the growth of supermax facilities.
Among the questions we will explore together are these: What tools and techniques do writers use to construct the prison experience? What are the affordances offered by various genres (drama, autobiography, poetry, the novel) for exploring the prison system and the systems of oppression that converge at that site? Does some literature of incarceration perpetuate damaging discourses about “felons,” or does it revise and complicate stereotypes and narratives about incarcerated individuals? How do narratives involving change, conversion, growing up, or being defeated operate in various genres of prison literature? What role do mourning, witnessing, testifying, and resistance play in such writing? What is the imagined audience of various genres of prison writing, that is, for whom is it written? What ethical and political demands does such writing make on us as readers, citizens, activists?
Course Number
ENGL4975W001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 10:10-12:00Section/Call Number
001/13050Enrollment
8 of 18Instructor
Jean HowardCourse Number
ENGL5005G001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsSpring 2026
Section/Call Number
001/13055Enrollment
6 of 30Instructor
Rebecca KastlemanThis graduate seminar approaches literature as a social practice—a network of relations among writers, editors, institutions, technologies, and readers. Drawing from literary studies, sociology, and anthropology, we trace the life cycle of the literary work: from the writer’s workshop and the archive, through the institutions that publish, circulate, and preserve it, to the interpretive communities and fan cultures that sustain it.
Core readings pair theoretical frameworks (Bourdieu, Becker, Williams) with empirical ethnographies and case studies (Childress, Radway, Jenkins). The course concludes by examining co-authorship and conspiracy as collective forms of storytelling that test the limits of individual authorship and belief.
Course Number
ENGL6251G001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
We 14:10-16:00Section/Call Number
001/16674Enrollment
6 of 18Instructor
Dennis TenenThis proseminar, which meets alternate weeks for the full academic year, is required for third-year PhD students in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. The seminar will help you prepare for orals, develop your dissertation ideas, expand your research skills, produce articles for publication, and generally extend your professional skills. While we will read some practical “how to” literature and models, the focus will be on writing, workshopping material, and discussing process (time-management, organization, etc). Both out-of-class assignments and in-class writing exercises should serve to extend your ideas—or shake them loose—and bring you closer to a dissertation that represents your vision, makes others want to read your work, and reminds you why you care. By the end of the year, you will have a polished dissertation prospectus and should have submitted at least one article for publication (or have one close-to-ready for submission). Above all, the seminar offers a supportive community, an opportunity to try out ideas (cooked or still raw), and encouragement from your fellow scholar-writer-thinkers as you progress toward your orals and dissertation.
Course Number
ENGL6300G001Format
In-PersonPoints
1 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Th 12:10-14:00Section/Call Number
001/13060Enrollment
1 of 18Instructor
Julie PetersIn this seminar we will discuss past, present, and future challenges facing colleges and universities and their constituencies. The course may be taken for credit or audited.
Topics include the origins of the modern research university; problems of equity and access in the post-secondary educational system; the place of teaching in graduate training; the changing character of humanistic scholarship; the role of colleges and universities as engines of—or obstructions to—social mobility; past and current challenges to intellectual inquiry and academic freedom.
We will hear from visiting speakers on these topics as well as on questions regarding possible career choices for graduate students facing a shrinking market for traditional tenure-track teaching positions.
Course Number
ENGL6631G001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 18:10-20:00Section/Call Number
001/16675Enrollment
4 of 18Instructor
Andrew DelbancoLeonard CassutoPrerequisites: the instructors permission. (Seminar). This course aims to contribute to your professional development while preparing you to teach University Writing, Columbia’s required first-year writing course. By the end of this course, you should have a basic grasp of the goals and structure of University Writing, the principles that inform its design, and the kinds of materials used in the course. While the course has an immediate goal—to prepare you for your fall teaching assignment—it aims simultaneously to enrich your teaching in the broadest sense. Your fall University Writing syllabus, as well as your lesson plans and homework assignments for the first eight classes, are due for review on August 1, 2016. This course will give you opportunity to prepare these materials throughout this semester with the support of the UWP directors, senior instructors, and advising lecturers. This course is the first of your ongoing professional development obligations as a UW instructor. You must successfully complete G6913 to teach in the UWP. Every subsequent semester, you will be required to attend a staff orientation, attend at least one workshop, and meet with your mentor and advising UWP director. All instructors new to the UWP must take this 1-credit, ungraded course during the fall of their first year of teaching. The course is intended to guide instructors through their first semester and emphasizes the practical application of the knowledge and expertise developed in G6913. Successful completion of the course is required for continuation as a UWP instructor.
Course Number
ENGL6913G001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 12:10-14:00Section/Call Number
001/16676Enrollment
4 of 18Instructor
Nicole WallackRecent scholarship in queer theory speaks of “bad education” and “ugly feelings,” “beautiful experiments” and “poor queer studies.” In this survey of mostly recent queer theoretical work we will read a range of texts that debate the use, the abuse and the uselessness of queer theory in an era of anti-intellectual policies aimed at both critical race theory and gender and sexuality studies. While Lee Edelman, in Bad Education, insists that queer theory has nothing to teach us, Paul Preciado in Dysphoria Mundi proposes that the whole world is ailing from a shared dysphoria. Meanwhile, at the intersections of Afro-Pessimism and queer theory, Calvin Warren proposes that to speak of Black trans identities is impossible given the negative ontologies that pertain to Black personhood. Working through oppositions between optimism and pessimism, utopia and dystopia, good and bad feelings, beauty and ugliness, we will ask: What constitutes the ethical in queer theory and how does queer theory approach the good, the bad and the beautiful? At stake here are questions about aesthetic experimentation and politics and unpredictable links between beauty and power, alternative subjects and domination, and bodies and language.
Course Number
ENGL6918G001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 14:10-16:00Section/Call Number
001/13061Enrollment
9 of 18Instructor
Jack HalberstamENGL 6998 GR is a twin listings of an undergraduate English lecture provided to graduate students for graduate credit. If a graduate student enrolls, she/he/they attends the same class as the undergraduate students (unless otherwise directed by the instructor). Each instructor determines additional work for graduate students to complete in order to receive graduate credit for the course. Please refer to the notes section in SSOL for the corresponding (twin) undergraduate 1000 or 2000 level course and follow that course's meeting day & time and assigned classroom. Instructor permission is required to join.
Course Number
ENGL6998G001Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 14:40-15:55We 14:40-15:55Section/Call Number
001/13160Enrollment
1 of 5Instructor
Erik GrayENGL 6998 GR is a twin listings of an undergraduate English lecture provided to graduate students for graduate credit. If a graduate student enrolls, she/he/they attends the same class as the undergraduate students (unless otherwise directed by the instructor). Each instructor determines additional work for graduate students to complete in order to receive graduate credit for the course. Please refer to the notes section in SSOL for the corresponding (twin) undergraduate 1000 or 2000 level course and follow that course's meeting day & time and assigned classroom. Instructor permission is required to join.
Course Number
ENGL6998G002Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 13:10-14:25Th 13:10-14:25Section/Call Number
002/13161Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Ross PosnockENGL 6998 GR is a twin listings of an undergraduate English lecture provided to graduate students for graduate credit. If a graduate student enrolls, she/he/they attends the same class as the undergraduate students (unless otherwise directed by the instructor). Each instructor determines additional work for graduate students to complete in order to receive graduate credit for the course. Please refer to the notes section in SSOL for the corresponding (twin) undergraduate 1000 or 2000 level course and follow that course's meeting day & time and assigned classroom. Instructor permission is required to join.
Course Number
ENGL6998G003Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 16:10-17:25We 16:10-17:25Section/Call Number
003/16678Enrollment
3 of 5Instructor
Patricia DaileyENGL 6998 GR is a twin listings of an undergraduate English lecture provided to graduate students for graduate credit. If a graduate student enrolls, she/he/they attends the same class as the undergraduate students (unless otherwise directed by the instructor). Each instructor determines additional work for graduate students to complete in order to receive graduate credit for the course. Please refer to the notes section in SSOL for the corresponding (twin) undergraduate 1000 or 2000 level course and follow that course's meeting day & time and assigned classroom. Instructor permission is required to join.
Course Number
ENGL6998G004Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Mo 08:40-09:55We 08:40-09:55Section/Call Number
004/16681Enrollment
2 of 5Instructor
Alan StewartENGL 6998 GR is a twin listings of an undergraduate English lecture provided to graduate students for graduate credit. If a graduate student enrolls, she/he/they attends the same class as the undergraduate students (unless otherwise directed by the instructor). Each instructor determines additional work for graduate students to complete in order to receive graduate credit for the course. Please refer to the notes section in SSOL for the corresponding (twin) undergraduate 1000 or 2000 level course and follow that course's meeting day & time and assigned classroom. Instructor permission is required to join.
Course Number
ENGL6998G005Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Th 16:10-17:25Tu 16:10-17:25Section/Call Number
005/16682Enrollment
2 of 5Instructor
Sharon MarcusENGL 6998 GR is a twin listings of an undergraduate English lecture provided to graduate students for graduate credit. If a graduate student enrolls, she/he/they attends the same class as the undergraduate students (unless otherwise directed by the instructor). Each instructor determines additional work for graduate students to complete in order to receive graduate credit for the course. Please refer to the notes section in SSOL for the corresponding (twin) undergraduate 1000 or 2000 level course and follow that course's meeting day & time and assigned classroom. Instructor permission is required to join.
Course Number
ENGL6998G006Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Tu 14:40-15:55Th 14:40-15:55Section/Call Number
006/16683Enrollment
2 of 5Instructor
Lauren RobertsonThe course will trace the playwriting careers of Henrik Ibsen, Harold Pinter, and Suzan-Lori Parks, exploring the nature of and relationships among key features of their evolving aesthetics. Thematic and theatrical exploration involve positioning the plays in the context of the contested 20C trajectories of modernism and postmodernism. History in modernism and the history of modernism have become much-debated concepts, and these playwrights variously confront the challenges of looking back in time to facilitate looking forward. The course examines, in that context, the status of different kinds of history; the claims of family, friendship, and community identifications; the contributions of often disruptive intruders; the issues raised by performance and the implied playhouse; and the plays’ potential as instruments of cultural intervention. Application Instructions: E-mail Professor Austin Quigley (aeq1@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Ibsen and Pinter seminar." In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course. Admitted students should register for the course; they will automatically be placed on a wait list from which the instructor will in due course admit them as spaces become available.
Course Number
ENTA3970W001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
We 16:10-18:00Section/Call Number
001/13064Enrollment
7 of 18Instructor
Austin QuigleyThis seminar will consider theatre intermedially, taking up its use of dramatic writing as one, only one, of its determining technologies. In the first half of the semester we will use a series of philosophical questions—tools vs. technologies, techne vs. medium—to consider several dimensions of modern theatricality as technologies: of gender and genre, of space and place, of the body and its performance. After spring break, we will use the terms generated to consider a series of topics specifically inflected by the design and practice of modern theatricality. Students will each write one longer essay, and will have the opportunity to receive feedback on a draft, if desired.
Course Number
ENTA4725W001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsSpring 2026
Times/Location
Th 10:10-12:00Section/Call Number
001/16679Enrollment
8 of 18Instructor
William WorthenFor whom does the dramatic chorus speak? In this graduate seminar, we track the figure of the chorus in drama, theater, and performance from antiquity to modernity, investigating how the chorus represents collectivity and enacts new social forms onstage. The chorus, as we’ll find, can be an instrument of tyranny or of transformation, depending on the members who comprise it – whether they are an assembly of elders (Sophocles’s Antigone), a gathering of survivors (Euripides’s The Trojan Women), a cadre of revolutionaries (Bertolt Brecht’s The Mother), a crowd of athletes 2 (Elfriede Jelinek’s Sports Play), or a digital network of chattering AI machines (Annie Dorsen’s Prometheus Firebringer). Our seminar attends to how the chorus shifts across historical, geographic, and cultural contexts: from ancient Athens to postwar Germany, and from American mass culture to decolonizing movements in the Caribbean, the chorus has proven to be a remarkably flexible and resilient element of live art. The course offers graduate students a broad introduction to canonical works of dramatic literature both ancient and modern, while also featuring lesser-known plays and productions by emerging artists. For the first two-thirds of the term, our sessions will juxtapose a dramatic text with a work of social theory (by thinkers including Nietzsche, Simmel, and Goffman), as well as at least one scholarly essay. Our broader goal in the course is to develop fluency in critical methods at the intersection of drama, philosophy, and social theory. In this course, that is, we approach theater as not only responsive to traditions of social thought, but also generative of new social practices and collective habits of body and mind. In addition to regular weekly assignments, students will complete one short essay and one seminar-length paper at the end of the term.