The History of Columbia University

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In the 30s, Columbia offered to read one classic book a week and that was considered a radical thing back in the time. It influenced the way that the curriculum in American higher education developed so many schools adopted versions of this model. Now it's very rare to find the course in which you can do what I did as a first year student at Columbia - encounter all these great thinkers with no discipline or department affiliation.

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Roosevelt Montás. A Senior Lecturer at Columbia University. He holds a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. He was Director of the Center for the Core Curriculum at Columbia College from 2008 to 2018. . a renaissance man who loves literature and writing, as well as being the director of Columbia University's Freedom and Citizenship Program.He speaks and writes on the history, meaning, and future of liberal education and is author of Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation