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Insistent Change: Columbia's Core Curriculum at 100
Kempner Gallery
February 17-June 30, 2020

In 1919 Columbia instituted a course of study known as Contemporary Civilization. It was required of every student in order to provide a forum to analyze and discuss primary texts relevant to contemporary problems. Proceeding roughly by decade, this exhibition shows how the course transformed and developed over the years. The exhibition explains how CC's faculty, administrators and students have worked together to keep the course relevant through a succession of crises and changes in the broader political, economic and social realms in the country and the world.