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 * [http://columbiacontemporarycivilization.blogspot.com Current List of Contemporary Civilization Books]
 * [http://www.thevarsityshow.com/v111/ "More Core,"] a song in One Hundred and First [[Varsity Show]]
-* [http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2011/10/25/delbanco-says-core-threatened-increasing-class-size-calls-columbia-focus-college "
+* [http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2011/10/25/delbanco-says-core-threatened-increasing-class-size-calls-columbia-focus-college Delbanco says Core threatened by increasing class size, calls on Columbia to focus on the college"] a 2011 article in [[Spec]]
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 * [http://columbiacontemporarycivilization.blogspot.com Current List of Contemporary Civilization Books]
 * [http://www.thevarsityshow.com/v111/ "More Core,"] a song in One Hundred and First [[Varsity Show]]
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 * [http://columbialithum.blogspot.com Current List of Lit Hum Books]
 * [http://columbiacontemporarycivilization.blogspot.com Current List of Contemporary Civilization Books]
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−	The '''Core Curriculum''' is the distinguishing characteristic and hallmark of an undergraduate education at Columbia. Often imitated, rarely credited, and very hyped, the Core is the centerpiece of the undergraduate curriculum at [[Columbia College]]<ref>[[SEAS]] students take a modified version of the Core, as do [[GS]] students. [[Barnard College]] has an entirely separate curriculum, built around the [[Ways of Knowing]]</ref>. In 2012, Professor [[Andrew Delbanco]] warned, "I believe there is today a real threat to the Core. Not sudden abolition so much as slow attrition"<ref> http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/politics/2012/02/5204638/distant-president-and-mysterious-mckinsey-report-send-columbias-lib?page=all</ref>.	+	The '''Core Curriculum''' is the distinguishing characteristic and hallmark of an undergraduate education at Columbia. Often imitated, rarely credited, and very hyped, the Core is the centerpiece of the undergraduate curriculum at [[Columbia College]]<ref>[[SEAS]] students take a modified version of the Core, as do [[GS]] students. [[Barnard College]] has an entirely separate curriculum, built around the [[Ways of Knowing]]</ref>.
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		+	In 2012, Professor [[Andrew Delbanco]] warned, "I believe there is today a real threat to the Core. Not sudden abolition so much as slow attrition"<ref> http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/politics/2012/02/5204638/distant-president-and-mysterious-mckinsey-report-send-columbias-lib?page=all</ref>.

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−	The '''Core Curriculum''' is the distinguishing characteristic and hallmark of an undergraduate education at Columbia. Often imitated, rarely credited, and very hyped, the Core is the centerpiece of the undergraduate curriculum at [[Columbia College]]<ref>[[SEAS]] students take a modified version of the Core, as do [[GS]] students. [[Barnard College]] has an entirely separate curriculum, built around the [[Ways of Knowing]]</ref>.	+	The '''Core Curriculum''' is the distinguishing characteristic and hallmark of an undergraduate education at Columbia. Often imitated, rarely credited, and very hyped, the Core is the centerpiece of the undergraduate curriculum at [[Columbia College]]<ref>[[SEAS]] students take a modified version of the Core, as do [[GS]] students. [[Barnard College]] has an entirely separate curriculum, built around the [[Ways of Knowing]]</ref>. In 2012, Professor [[Andrew Delbanco]] warned, "I believe there is today a real threat to the Core. Not sudden abolition so much as slow attrition"<ref> http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/politics/2012/02/5204638/distant-president-and-mysterious-mckinsey-report-send-columbias-lib?page=all</ref>.
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−	In 2012, Professor [[Andrew Delbanco]] warned, "I believe there is today a real threat to the Core. Not sudden abolition so much as slow attrition"<ref> http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/politics/2012/02/5204638/distant-president-and-mysterious-mckinsey-report-send-columbias-lib?page=all</ref>.

	== History ==		== History ==

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	The '''Core Curriculum''' is the distinguishing characteristic and hallmark of an undergraduate education at Columbia. Often imitated, rarely credited, and very hyped, the Core is the centerpiece of the undergraduate curriculum at [[Columbia College]]. [[SEAS]] students take a modified version of the core, as do [[GS]] students. [[Barnard College]] has an entirely separate curriculum, built around the [[Ways of Knowing]].		The '''Core Curriculum''' is the distinguishing characteristic and hallmark of an undergraduate education at Columbia. Often imitated, rarely credited, and very hyped, the Core is the centerpiece of the undergraduate curriculum at [[Columbia College]]. [[SEAS]] students take a modified version of the core, as do [[GS]] students. [[Barnard College]] has an entirely separate curriculum, built around the [[Ways of Knowing]].
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		+	In 2012, Professor [[Andrew Delbanco]] warned, "I believe there is today a real threat to the Core. Not sudden abolition so much as slow attrition"<ref> http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/politics/2012/02/5204638/distant-president-and-mysterious-mckinsey-report-send-columbias-lib?page=all</ref>.

	== History ==		== History ==

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−	The '''Core Curriculum''' is the distinguishing characteristic and hallmark of an undergraduate education at Columbia. Often imitated, rarely credited, and very hyped, the Core is the centerpiece of the undergraduate curriculum at [[Columbia College]]. [[SEAS]] students take a modified version of the core, as do [[GS]] students. [[Barnard]] has an entirely separate curriculum, built around the [[Ways of Knowing]].	+	The '''Core Curriculum''' is the distinguishing characteristic and hallmark of an undergraduate education at Columbia. Often imitated, rarely credited, and very hyped, the Core is the centerpiece of the undergraduate curriculum at [[Columbia College]]. [[SEAS]] students take a modified version of the core, as do [[GS]] students. [[Barnard College]] has an entirely separate curriculum, built around the [[Ways of Knowing]].

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	Additionally, [[Columbia College\|CC]] students must fulfill a series of requirements for which they are free to choose the classes. These are 2 [[Global Core]] classes, 2 semesters of Science/Math, 2 semesters of PE, 4 semesters of a Foreign Language (placement in an advanced course/placing out are options), and of course the [[Swim Test]].		Additionally, [[Columbia College\|CC]] students must fulfill a series of requirements for which they are free to choose the classes. These are 2 [[Global Core]] classes, 2 semesters of Science/Math, 2 semesters of PE, 4 semesters of a Foreign Language (placement in an advanced course/placing out are options), and of course the [[Swim Test]].
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		+	SEAS students, on the other hand, follow a modified version of the Core, in which they take UW, select one from among Lit Hum, CC, and Global Core, one from Art Hum and Music Hum, Econ W1105, and between 9 to 11 elective points from approved classes in the [http://bulletin.engineering.columbia.edu/b-elective-nontechnical-courses Elective Nontechnical] list of courses.

	All this adds up to a lot of credits. The required 6 classes alone are a minimum of 29 credits. Major Cultures is a minimum of 7, 2 science courses are 6 more, and PE is at least 2 half credits. That's 43 credits, or more than 1/3 of your degree requirements if you placed out of foreign languages. Add 4 semesters of that and you're well on your way to having half the necessary credits to graduate with narry a mention of electives or major.		All this adds up to a lot of credits. The required 6 classes alone are a minimum of 29 credits. Major Cultures is a minimum of 7, 2 science courses are 6 more, and PE is at least 2 half credits. That's 43 credits, or more than 1/3 of your degree requirements if you placed out of foreign languages. Add 4 semesters of that and you're well on your way to having half the necessary credits to graduate with narry a mention of electives or major.

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-The '''Core Curriculum''' is the distinguishing characteristic and hallmark of an undergraduate education at Columbia. Often imitated, rarely credited, and very hyped, the Core is the centerpiece of the undergraduate curriculum at [[Columbia College]]. [[SEAS]] students take a modified version of the core, as do [[GS]] students. Barnard College has an entirely seperate curriculum, built around the [[Ways of Knowing]].
+The '''Core Curriculum''' is the distinguishing characteristic and hallmark of an undergraduate education at Columbia. Often imitated, rarely credited, and very hyped, the Core is the centerpiece of the undergraduate curriculum at [[Columbia College]]. [[SEAS]] students take a modified version of the core, as do [[GS]] students. [[Barnard]] has an entirely separate curriculum, built around the [[Ways of Knowing]].
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 === The beginning ===
-The idea of a seminar style class devoted to a weekly reading and discussion of the "Great Books" was first floated by english professor [[John Erskine]] in 1917. Erskine's request drew skepticism for a number of reasons, not the least because he also made the near-heretical call for reading the greek and roman classics in translation.
+The idea of a seminar style class devoted to a weekly reading and discussion of the "Great Books" was first floated by english professor [[John Erskine]] in [[1917]]. Erskine's request drew skepticism for a number of reasons, not the least because he also made the near-heretical call for reading the greek and roman classics in translation.
 In 1919 Columbia began a course titled "War Issues" in response to [[World War I]], addressing contemporary thinking on a wide variety of subjects in the social sciences. Many of the texts were written by Columbia faculty members who also taught the classes. This was the beginning of the course that evolved into [[Contemporary Civilization]]. There was no Plato or Aristotle on the War Issues syllabus though.