Art Hum...with Professor Davis....life changing.
Jerome Korman ’82
The part of the Core experience I enjoyed most was...
Core Stories
If forced at gunpoint, I couldn't choose choose between Lit Hum and CC. They were profoundly transformative experiences.
Tony Barreca ’75
My favorite part of the Core experience was...
At the end of that first year, I knew that I could pick up any book no matter how overdetermined, no matter how prejudged...
Professor Julie Crawford
Those first few years teaching LitHum, I stayed up until 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning three or four nights a week working my way through n
Doug Wolf ’88
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.
Lit Hum and CC opened my eyes to civilization as a conversation, how authors wrote in response to their predecessors...
Jonathan Rosand ’88
Lit Hum and CC opened my eyes to civilization as a conversation, how authors wrote in response to their predecessors and how my classmate
Tiffany Bryant ’08
Something I learned in the Core was...
...the single institution to which I'm most indebted is Columbia College and Columbia University. I think it completely changed me...
Tony Kushner ’78
"Learning is a painful experience sometimes.
Vito Vincenti ’54
As told by John Vincenti CC'90
The Core is the soul of the University. It is the place where we concern ourselves not with what we know, but with who we are...
Roosevelt Montas ’95
The Core is the soul of the University. It is the place where we concern ourselves not with what we know, but with who we are.
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
Lit Hum is a course about problems people have never been able to solve.
Professor Edward Mendelson
Re my CC experience some fragmented highlights:
Arthur Lavis ’61
A reading from Thorsten Veblen's Theory of Conspicuous Consumption engrained in me the sense to make economic decisions based primarily o
Fred Katayama ’82
Something I learned in the Core was...
Charles Callan ’78
Something I learned in the Core was...
Saaket Pradhan ’16
When I think about the Core, these three words come to mind...
Gregorian chants for Music Hum because it exposed and elevated me to a different place and perspective.
Dehua "Wah" Chen ’92
My favorite work in the Core is...
Great and constructive ideas can come from anybody at any time.
Alan Freeman ’93
Something I learned in the Core was...