General Guidelines

All Columbia College students planning to take summer courses should consult pages 83-84 in the 2009-2010 Columbia College Bulletin or on-line at http://www.college.columbia.edu/bulletin/programs_of_study.

Points for courses taken for R credit may not be used toward the 124 points required for the degree.

The following courses are not approved for Columbia College credit:

Business

S3020                                   Introduction to Marketing and Marketing Management

S4009                                   Financial Accounting

S3020                                   Introduction to Marketing & Marketing Management

Chemistry

S0001                                   Preparation for College Chemistry

Latin American & Caribbean Studies

S4450                                   Latin American Politics: Democracy, Repression, and the Rule of Law

Mathematics

S0065                                   Basic Mathematics

S1003                                   College Algebra and Analytic Geometry

Philosophy

S2301                                   History of Philosophy III: Kant-Nietzsche

S2702                                   Contemporary Moral Philosophy

Physics

S0065                                   Basic Physics

Religion

S2205                                   Hinduism

Sociology

S2220                                   Evaluation of Evidence

S3247                                   The Immigrant Experience, Old and New

Fundraising

Any Course

Landscape Design

Any Course

Strategic Communications

Any Course

Global Core Requirement

The following courses are approved as courses that may be used in partial fulfillment of the Global Core Requirement:

Anthropology

S4109                                   Political Economy of Latin America

S4209                                   Caribbean Societies & Cultures

S4252                                   Native American Indians

History

S4704                                   Topics in Ottoman History: The Black Sea

Middle East and Asian Language and Cultures

S4031                                   Cinema and Society in the Arab World

Latin American & Caribbean Studies

S4420                                   Latin American Immigration: Causes and Politics

S4445                                   Nations and Nationalism in Modern Latin America

S4400                                   Latin America after Independence: A Survey of Political History

Science Requirement

Students should refer to pages 74-78 in the 2009-2010 Columbia College Bulletin (or on-line at http://www.college.columbia.edu/bulletin/core/science.php) for detailed information on fulfilling the Science Requirement.

The following courses are approved for partial fulfillment of the Science Requirement:

Courses designed for non-science majors:

Astronomy

S1403                                   Earth, Moon, and Planets

Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology

S1001                                   Biodiversity

S1011                                   Behavioral Biology of Living Primates

Earth and Environmental Sciences

S1011                                   Introduction to Earth Sciences, I – lecture and lab

S1411                                   Introduction to Earth Sciences, I – lecture

Psychology

S1001                                   The Science of Psychology

S1010                                   Mind, Brain, and Behavior

Additional courses which may have prerequisites:

Biology

S2501                                   Contemporary Biology Laboratory

Chemistry

S1403                                   General chemistry, I

S1404                                   General chemistry, II

S1500                                   General chemistry lab

S3443                                   Organic chemistry, I

S3444                                   Organic chemistry, II

S3543                                   Organic chemistry lab

Computer Science

S1004                                   Introduction to computer programming: Java

S1005                                   Introduction to computer programming: MATLAB

S1007                                   Object-oriented programming and design in Java

S3134                                   Data structures in Java

S3203                                   Discrete math

S4111                                   Introduction to Databases

S4231                                   Analysis of algorithms

S4701                                   Artificial intelligence

Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology

S3015                                   An Introduction to animal behavior through fieldwork

Mathematics

S1101                                   Calculus, I

S1102                                   Calculus, II

S1201                                   Calculus, III

S1202                                   Calculus IV

S2010                                   Linear algebra

S2500                                   Analysis & Optimization

S3027                                   Ordinary differential equations

S4061                                   Introduction to modern analysis, I

S4062                                   Introduction to modern analysis, II

Physics

S1201                                   General physics, I

S1202                                   General physics, II

Psychology

S2230                                   Perceptions and sensory processes

S2450                                   Behavioral neuroscience

S2235                                   Thinking and Decision Making

S3280                                   Seminar in Infant Development

Statistics

S1111                                   Introduction to statistics

S1211                                   Introduction to statistics (with calculus)

S4105                                   Probability

S4315                                   Linear regression models