Courses

The Columbia Theatre and Performance Ph.D. student may, with their advisors’ approval, choose courses from any department or faculty in the university, including (among others):

English and Comparative Literature

Anthropology

Slavic Languages

History

East Asian Languages and Cultures

Division of Theatre, School of the Arts

Philosophy

Latin American and Iberian Cultures

Religion

Music

Germanic Languages

French

Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies

Art History and Archaeology

Italian

Classics

Teachers College

The New York City Doctoral Consortium

Students of the Columbia Ph.D. program in Theatre and Performance are not confined to the courses offered by the faculty of Columbia and Barnard. Through the New York City Doctoral Consortium, they may also take courses offered by several other New York City graduate programs:

New York University (NYU), Department of Performance Studies

The New School for Social Research, Graduate Faculty

City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center

Fordham University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences