Among the interns were sixty law students working with human rights organizations. Columbia requires of its law students forty hours of pro bono work. Half the students, including these summer interns, do more than the requisite. Students in the Film Division of the School of the Arts had their films screened in international festivals in Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, France, England, Germany, Israel, Italy, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Scotland, South Africa, and Spain. Last year Dr. Schechter established a similar program in the Dominican Republic, in which Columbia was joined by Harvard, Ohio State, and Heart Care International.
Students can choose any place in the tropical world and any medical speciality.
International clerkships for medical students are offered by the Center for the Study of Society and Medicine, a multidisciplinary program that examines the complex interactions between medicine and society as new discoveries raise new ethical questions. Professor Sheila M. Rothman '86 '90GSAS organizes an international exchange program for about a dozen fourth-year medical students interested in human rights and refugee problems. Students have gained hands-on clinical experience in Ethiopia, Jordan, Pakistan, Uganda, Zimbabwe, and elsewhere. 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.