Courses
Start building your summer today by selecting from hundreds of Columbia courses from various topics of interest. Courses for Summer 2026 are now available, with new offerings being added throughout the winter into early spring.
Please note: listing your desired courses in your visiting application does not automatically register you for those courses, nor does it guarantee seat availability.
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Required discussion section for ECON UN3412: Intro to Econometrics
Uncertainty is ubiquitous and information about that uncertainty plays a key role in economic
decision-making and exchange. In this course, we will first consider how individuals and society
can manage uncertainty. We will then focus on how economic relationships may suffer from
some parties not having all the information that is relevant to their decision-making. We will see
how these kinds of information asymmetries invite lying and cheating. We will also study how
parties can structure their agreements to address the problems that such information asymmetries
create.
Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213. This course examines labor markets through the lens of economics. In broad terms, labor economics is the study of the exchange of labor services for wages—a category that takes in a wide range of topics. Our objective in this course is to lay the foundations for explaining labor market phenomena within an economic framework and subsequently apply this knowledge-structure to a select set of questions. Throughout this process we will discuss empirical research, which will highlight the power (as well as the limitations) of employing economic models to real-world problems. By the end of this course we will have the tools/intuition to adequately formulate and critically contest arguments concerning labor markets.
Wall Street Prep: Economics, Finance, and Analytics
Visiting students can take this course as part of a Focus Area.
The Wall Street Prep: Economics, Finance, and Analytics Focus Area is designed for students who want to gain a better understanding of finance, business, and the complexities of economic systems. Students enhance their academic experience through specialized co-curricular activities exclusive to the city and earn a Certification of Participation.
Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213. Equivalent to ECON UN4415. Introduction to the systematic treatment of game theory and its applications in economic analysis.
Wall Street Prep: Economics, Finance, and Analytics
Visiting students can take this course as part of a Focus Area.
The Wall Street Prep: Economics, Finance, and Analytics Focus Area is designed for students who want to gain a better understanding of finance, business, and the complexities of economic systems. Students enhance their academic experience through specialized co-curricular activities exclusive to the city and earn a Certification of Participation.
Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213. Equivalent to ECON UN4415. Introduction to the systematic treatment of game theory and its applications in economic analysis.
Wall Street Prep: Economics, Finance, and Analytics
Visiting students can take this course as part of a Focus Area.
The Wall Street Prep: Economics, Finance, and Analytics Focus Area is designed for students who want to gain a better understanding of finance, business, and the complexities of economic systems. Students enhance their academic experience through specialized co-curricular activities exclusive to the city and earn a Certification of Participation.
Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213. Equivalent to ECON UN4500. The theory of international trade, comparative advantage and the factor endowments explanation of trade, analysis of the theory and practice of commercial policy, economic integration. International mobility of capital and labor, the North-South debate.
Wall Street Prep: Economics, Finance, and Analytics
Visiting students can take this course as part of a Focus Area.
The Wall Street Prep: Economics, Finance, and Analytics Focus Area is designed for students who want to gain a better understanding of finance, business, and the complexities of economic systems. Students enhance their academic experience through specialized co-curricular activities exclusive to the city and earn a Certification of Participation.
Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 Selected topics in microeconomics.
Prerequisites: Mathematics score of 550 on the SAT exam, taken within the past year. Recommended: MATH S0065. Algebra review, graphs and functions, polynomial functions, rational functions, conic sections, systems of equations in two variables, exponential and logarithmic functions, trigonometric functions and trigonometric identities, applications of trigonometry, sequences, series, and limits.
Foundations of Pre-Medicine
Visiting students can take this course as part of a Focus Area.
The Foundations of Pre-Medicine Focus Area is a flexible program designed for students with an interest in the healthcare sector as well as those completing foundational prerequisite courses for graduate programs such as medicine and nursing. Students enhance their academic experience through specialized co-curricular activities exclusive to the city and earn a Certification of Participation.
Foundations of Pre-Medicine
Visiting students can take this course as part of a Focus Area.
The Foundations of Pre-Medicine Focus Area is a flexible program designed for students with an interest in the healthcare sector as well as those completing foundational prerequisite courses for graduate programs such as medicine and nursing. Students enhance their academic experience through specialized co-curricular activities exclusive to the city and earn a Certification of Participation.
Foundations of Pre-Medicine
Visiting students can take this course as part of a Focus Area.
The Foundations of Pre-Medicine Focus Area is a flexible program designed for students with an interest in the healthcare sector as well as those completing foundational prerequisite courses for graduate programs such as medicine and nursing. Students enhance their academic experience through specialized co-curricular activities exclusive to the city and earn a Certification of Participation.
Foundations of Pre-Medicine
Visiting students can take this course as part of a Focus Area.
The Foundations of Pre-Medicine Focus Area is a flexible program designed for students with an interest in the healthcare sector as well as those completing foundational prerequisite courses for graduate programs such as medicine and nursing. Students enhance their academic experience through specialized co-curricular activities exclusive to the city and earn a Certification of Participation.
Foundations of Pre-Medicine
Visiting students can take this course as part of a Focus Area.
The Foundations of Pre-Medicine Focus Area is a flexible program designed for students with an interest in the healthcare sector as well as those completing foundational prerequisite courses for graduate programs such as medicine and nursing. Students enhance their academic experience through specialized co-curricular activities exclusive to the city and earn a Certification of Participation.