To earn the master's degree in French cultural studies in Columbia's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, students must reside at Reid Hall, where they do half of their course work. Collaboration between the Sorbonne and our French and Romance Philology Department allows for two doctoral defenses, in Paris and in New York, to earn both the Columbia Ph.D. and the Sorbonne doctorat. Reid Hall, directed by Associate Provost Danielle Haase-Dubosc '69GSAS, also offers an undergraduate program in French art and architecture, courses that focus on the New Europe, and a broad range of French instruction and courses in the humanities and social sciences. We established the Berlin Consortium, based at the Free University in Berlin, in 1995, to offer students from Columbia, Barnard, Chicago, Johns Hopkins, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale an opportunity to study firsthand the emerging impact of a united Berlin and Germany on the rest of Europe. The Mandarin course is taught by three instructors from our Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and seven faculty members from universities in Beijing.
Students live with Chinese families during the nine-week stay.
Columbia students abroad in China, Germany, and Italy Note that 198 Columbia College students participated in study abroad programs in sixty countries. Selected juniors in the College, following a rigorous competition, spent the year at Oxford and Cambridge. Yi-Ping Ong '99C, won the Kellett Scholarship and is spending two years of postgraduate study at Oxford. The College also produced a Marshall Scholar studying at Cambridge, Fulbright scholars studying for advanced degrees in numerous nations, and DAAD scholars studying in Germany. Graduating seniors are also eligible for the Henry Evans Traveling Fellowship and juniors for the Richmond B. Williams Traveling Fellowship, both of which encourage foreign travel.