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Core Stories

"If we simply reduce beauty to numbers and fame, we might miss out on the many beautiful things the world has to offer"

Tiffany Bryant ’08

Something I learned in the Core was...

Art Hum...with Professor Davis....life changing.

Jerome Korman ’82

The part of the Core experience I enjoyed most was...

Jane Watson ’22

My favorite work in the Core is... Song of Solomon: the way in which Toni Morrison uses language to both tell her story and subv

Lit Hum is the great unifier for Columbia alumni...

Anna Couturier ’10

Lit Hum is the great unifier for Columbia alumni, not because of the conclusions that we arrived at through the texts but by the act of s

Saaket Pradhan ’16

When I think about the Core, these three words come to mind...

Putting yourself in front of the major works of civilization is intimidating. You can teach the course only one way and that’s with humility

Professor Michael Seidel

Putting yourself in front of the major works of civilization is intimidating.

Thinking back, my favorite work covered in the Core was...

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When I think of the Core experience, these three words come to mind...