Department of Architecture (Art)
Location: 310 Barnard Hall
Phone: 212-854-8430
Affiliation: Barnard College
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/archprogram/
Main Email Contact: architecture@barnard.edu
The major in architecture provides students with the opportunity to explore the discipline of architecture within the context of the College's commitment to liberal arts. The major is introduced through a series of studio and academic courses that explore the multiple relationships between architectural design, history, theory, and criticism. Students are expected to develop technical skills, design excellence, and a critical understanding of architecture as part of our visual, social, and political history and culture. The major is designed to prepare our students to work in architecture and related disciplines or pursue graduate study. Most of our students take advantage of the resources of New York City and the teaching faculty by working in internships in the city while majoring in the field.

Department of Art History and Archaeology (Art)
Location: 826 Schermerhorn Hall
Phone: 212-854-4505
Affiliation: GSAS
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory/
The Art History and Archeology Department was founded in conjunction with the special resources in archaeology and architecture at the Avery Memorial Library as inspired by great European traditions of archaeology, connoisseurship, and iconology. Well before recent advances, Columbia art historians transcended the geographical and cultural boundaries of the West. Since Paul Wingert expanded the Department's curriculum in the 1930s, coursework in the study of the arts of Africa, Oceania, Native America, the Near East, East Asia is a staple of the Columbia University curriculum, and like Columbia's great teachers of the past--Meyer Schapiro, Rudolf Wittkower, Rober Branner, Howard McP. Davis, Julius Held, Howard Hibbard, Edith Porada, and William Bell Dinsmoor--today's faculty continue to apply art historical methods to illuminate particular works of art, even as they place their works in the broadest cultural context.

Department of Art History – Barnard (Art)
Location: 301 Barnard Hall
Phone: 212-854-2118
Affiliation: Barnard College
Website: http://www.barnard.edu/arthist/
Main Email Contact: esher@barnard.edu
Art History, which is devoted to the study of the visual arts, is one of the broadest of the humanistic disciplines. It is concerned not only with the nature of works of art -- their form, style, and content, but also with the social, political, and cultural circumstances that shape them. The department, fortunate in being located in New York City, one of the world's great art centers, takes full advantage of the rich resources of the city's museums and galleries in its course of study.

Department of Comparative Literature – Barnard (Literature and Writing)
Phone: 212-854-5539
Affiliation: Barnard College
Website: http://www.barnard.edu/complit/
Contact: Peter Connor, Chair- ptc4@columbia.edu
Barnard's Department of Comparative Literature attracts students and faculty with a wide range of interests, stretching from Antiquity to Postmodernism, and from Asia through Europe to the Americas. Both students and faculty engage in study across national boundaries and from an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective.

Department of Dance (Dance)
Phone: 212-854-2995
Affiliation: Barnard College
Website: http://www.barnard.edu/dance/
Main Email Contact: dance@barnard.edu
The Barnard College Department of Dance offers an exceptional dance program that is solidly based on the integration of dance as an art form within a liberal arts curriculum. Its core consists of courses designed to link the development of a dancer's artistic skills with techniques of analysis, problem solving, and critical thinking. The faculty, composed of artists and scholars, encourages a dual approach to the art of dance, promoting the development of artistry and personal style through the performance of historical and contemporary dance texts.

Department of English & Comparative Literature (Literature and Writing)
Location: 602 Philosophy Hall
Phone: 212-854-3215
Affiliation: GSAS
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/english/
With a large faculty of renowned scholars and dedicated teachers, the Department of English and Comparative Literature offers a wide range of courses, recognizing traditional values in the discipline yet reflecting its changing shape.

Department of English – Barnard (Literature and Writing)
Phone: 212-854-2116
Affiliation: Barnard College
Website: http://www.barnard.edu/english/
Main Email Contact: english@barnard.edu
The major in English is designed to foster good writing, effective speaking, and heightened understanding of texts that enrich our culture. Students majoring in English are encouraged to develop their responsiveness to the literary imagination and their sensitivity to literary form through disciplined attention to language and to critical and scholarly methods.

Department of Music (Music: Instrumental)
Location: 621 Dodge Hall
Phone: 212-854-3825
Affiliation: GSAS
Website: http://www.music.columbia.edu/
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Uniquely among the arts at Columbia, Music has its home in a Department, where its creators, interpreters, and scholars work together. For more than one hundred years, the Department of Music has supported musical study ranging from professional training in composition and scholarship to the criticism and appreciation of music as a liberal art, including a course in the Core Curriculum. Scholarship in Music includes the theoretical, analytical, historical, and ethnographic, combined and reconfigured by renowned faculty who also make close connections to philosophy, psychology, anthropology, history, comparative literature, linguistics, computer science, and other disciplines. Opportunities for solo and ensemble performance are likewise offered at every level, with and without academic credit, in the Music Performance Program. The Department sponsors a variety of concerts, lectures, and colloquia, all open to the public, most free of charge. Some of the Department's work is concentrated in the Center for Ethnomusicology and the Computer Music Center (formerly the Electronic Music Center), two of the most important institutions in their fields. The Fritz Reiner Center for Contemporary Music supports the regular concerts of new work given by Columbia Composers and the Columbia Sinfonietta, presentations by visiting composers, and other projects. The Department's performing ensembles include the Columbia University Orchestra, Columbia University Wind Ensemble, Barnard-Columbia Chorus and Chamber Singers, Collegium Musicum, Jazz Ensembles, World Music ensembles (among them bluegrass and klezmer), and many chamber groups. Music scores and audio and video recordings, as well as listening and viewing facilities, can be found in the Gabe M. Wiener Music and Arts Library. Department students edit and publish the interdisciplinary journal Current Musicology. Additionally, students of all majors may take voice or instrumental lessons through the Music Department.

Department of Music – Barnard (Music: Instrumental)
Affiliation: Barnard College
Website: http://www.barnard.edu/music/
Contact: Gail Archer, Director- ga61@columbia.edu
The Department of Music at Barnard College provides ear-training and musical history courses, as well as a number of performance ensembles with the Columbua Department of Music, including the Barnard-Columbia Chorus, Barnard-Columbia Chamber Chorus, Collegium Musicum, University Orchestra, and the Columbia University Jazz Ensemble.

Department of Theatre (Theatre)
Location: 404 Milbank Hall
Phone: 212-854-2080
Affiliation: Barnard College
Website: http://www.barnard.edu/theatre/
Contact: Heather Seltzer, Departmental Assistant- hseltzer@barnard.edu
The Barnard College Theatre major, a joint program with the Columbia College major in Drama and Theatre Arts, teaches students to create and interpret drama and theatre in the context of a liberal arts curriculum.

Deutsches Haus (Media)
Location: 420 W 116th St
Phone: 212-854-1858
Affiliation: Department of Germanic Languages and Literature
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/german/
Main Email Contact: deutsches-haus@columbia.edu
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Deutsches Haus at Columbia University was the first foreign language house established at an American university in 1911. Initially dedicated to preserving Germany's unique literary tradition, Deutsches Haus today wishes to encourage academic, cultural, and social exchange between members of the Columbia community and the public with programs not only in German, but in Dutch, Finnish, Swedish, and Yiddish as well. Events include academic lectures, film series, conferences, plays, recitals, and informal gatherings. At Kaffeestunde (German coffee hour), Koffieuurtje (Dutch coffee hour), and Kave Sho (Yiddish Coffee Hour) students at all proficiency levels can practice their language skills. Deutsches Haus programs are free and open to the public and provide a cultural resource for the wider intellectual and professional community of New York City.

Digital Media Center (DMC) (Media)
Location: 301 Dodge Hall
Affiliation: School of the Arts
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arts/dmc/
Main Email Contact: dmc-info@columbia.edu
The Digital Media Center's resources serve the graduate students of School of the Arts, allowing students to develop new aesthetic directions in their work. The Center is an affirmation of Columbia University's dedication to providing a creative and intellectual center for artistic achievement using emerging technologies. The Digital Media Center provides training in 3-D modeling, graphic design, physical computing, motion graphics, programming, sound editing, video editing, video effects, web animation, and web design. Facilities and instruction are geared primarily to the needs of students in the Film and Visual Arts divisions.