"Who is it that can tell me who I am?”
Thomas Nielsen ’18
My favorite quote from the core is from...
Core Stories
Arina Karkhanis ’21
Something I learned in the Core was...
The same things that affected me have affected scholars, heroes, dreamers, and people of the world for millennia.
Christian Palomares ’22
Something I learned in the Core was...
Michael Behringer ’89
My most memorable Core experience is...
Paul Schwarzbaum ’84
The Core thinker/ who affected me most was… Thucydides
Reading through works like The Iliad and Inferno, I was able to discover not only the author's worldview, but my own.
Nigel Telman '21, Core Scholar
2021 classmates Nigel Telman and Jackie Marchal created "The Forest - An Interpretation of Dante's Allegorical Forest in 'Inferno'", a 20
If I could teach one course forever, it’d be Lit Hum.
Margo Rosen
Former Lit Hum Lecturer
Acknowledging the other side to an argument & active listening is crucial to understanding...
Brian Sarfo ’17
Something I learned in the Core was...
Plato's Republic: It helped me to learn how to think (still working on it!)
John W. Lombardo MD ’69
My favorite work in the Core is...
What I love most is the common knowledge that all Columbians have...
Dina Kotkin Feivelson ’91
Something I learned in the Core was...
Virginia Woolf: She taught me to appreciate the small moments in life.
Jonathan Young ’17
The Core thinker/artist/writer that affected me most was...
Adam Sieff ’11
The Core thinker/artist/writer that affected me most was...
Challenging, disturbing, transforming
David Melamed ’78
When I think about the Core, these three words come to mind...
Emily Sun ’19
The Core made me switch majors!
Johnna Wu ’12
My favorite work in the Core is...
Life-changing, uplifting, timeless
Rita Zhang ’17
When I think about the Core, these three words come to mind...
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
Alan Freeman ’93
The Core thinker/artist/writer that affected me most was...