1917 | Student Army Training Corp "war issues" course at Columbia College. |
1919 | January: Faculty proposes course in Contemporary Civilization. |
1919 | September: Contemporary Civilization commences. |
1920 | John Erskine's General Honors course established. |
1928 | April: Faculty creates two-year Contemporary Civilization course. |
1928 | September: Introduction to Contemporary Civilization in the West (CC-A) begins. |
1929 | Spring: Last semester of Erskine's General Honors course. |
1929 | September: Introduction to Contemporary Problems in the United States (CC-B) begins. |
1932 | February-March: "Modern Marriage" controversy in CC-B. Major revision of CC-B syllabus. |
1932 | September: Colloquium on Important Books established. |
1934 | Discussions about freshman humanities course begin. |
1936 | Committee work on Humanities sequence. |
1937 | Humanities A (later Literature Humanities) requirement begins. Humanities B (music and fine arts) begins as optional sequence. |
1941 | CC-A adopts primary sources as basis for course Revision of Humanities B into Humanities B1 (music) and Humanities B2 (fine arts). |
1945 | Harvard University publishes General Education in a Free Society (the Redbook). |
1946 | Humanities B1 and Humanities B2 abandon lectures in favor of Humanities A format. Columbia College publishes A College Program in Action. |
1947 | Humanities B1 and Humanities B2 become required courses. Oriental Humanities seminar begins. |
1950 | Oriental Civilizations course established. |
1954 | Columbia University Press publishes Chapters in Western Civilization. |
1957 | The Educational Future of Columbia University (MacMahon Report). |
1960 | Introduction to Contemporary Civilization in the West. Third edition. |
1960 | October: "Report of the President's Committee on the Contemporary Civilization Courses in Columbia College" issued (Truman Report). |
1963-64 | Deliberations of Stern Committee on the Humanities. |
1966 | Daniel Bell, Reforming of General Education (Bell Report). |
1968 | Arden House meeting on syllabus for Contemporary Civilization. |
1970 | Faculty votes down Belknap Committee recommendations for ending CC and Humanities requirements. |
1975 | Heyman Center for the Humanities established. |
1977 | Columbia University Press publishes Robert Belknap and Richard Kuhns, Tradition and Innovation. General Education and the Reintegration of the University: A Columbia Report. |
1983 | September: First women enter Columbia College. |
1988 | Report of the Commission on the Core Curriculum (de Bary Report). |
1990 | Extended Core (later Major Cultures) requirement established |