Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

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Columbia Graduate School
of Arts and Sciences
TypePrivate
Established1880
DeanCarlos J. Alonso
Students~6,000 students
Location
New York
,
NY
,
U.S.
CampusUrban
Websitegsas.columbia.edu

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (also known as GSAS) is the

graduate school of Columbia University. Founded in 1880, GSAS is responsible for most of Columbia's graduate degree programs in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. The school offers MA and PhD
degrees in approximately 78 disciplines.

History

GSAS began to take shape in the late 19th century, when Columbia, until then a primarily undergraduate institution with a few professional attachments, began to establish graduate faculties in several fields: Political Science (1880), Philosophy (1890), and Pure Science (1892). The graduate faculties, notably, were open to women at a time when many other Columbia schools were not;

Columbia College
did not become a coeducational institution until 1983.

In addition, before 1880, the Master of Arts degree was awarded in the style of Cambridge and Oxford, that is three years after graduation and without further examination. This changed after June 1880, when the trustees implemented an examination for the award of the Master of Arts degree.[1]

The Ph.D was first proposed as a degree in 1873 to be awarded under the auspices of the School of Mines.[2] It was first awarded in 1877.[3] The ability of granting the PhD later expanded to the Faculty of Political Science. The first woman to receive one did so in 1886.

The increasing professionalization of the university brought with it an emphasis on the graduate schools, as presidents such as Seth Low and Nicholas Murray Butler sought to emulate the success of German universities during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Indeed, in the effort to produce as many graduate degree-holders as possible, attempts were made to streamline undergraduate life and center academic life in the graduate-focused departments. Graduate research has flourished at Columbia as a result, and the university has been among the top producers of PhDs in the United States from the inception of the graduate disciplines. In the early 1990s, GSAS and Columbia College faculty were all absorbed into a consolidated Faculty of Arts and Sciences, with familiar complaints among undergraduates and their advocates.

List of academic departments

Notable alumni

Economists

Historians

Literature

Philosophers

  • Mortimer Adler
    – Ph.D. in psychology, 1928
  • Arthur Danto – M.A. 1949, Ph.D. in philosophy, 1952
  • Irwin Edman – Ph.D. in philosophy, 1919
  • Hu Shih – public intellectual in China, Ph.D. 1917

Natural scientists

Performing arts

Social scientists

  • Ruth Benedict – anthropologist, Ph.D. 1923
  • Theos Casimir Bernard – explorer and religionist, M.A. 1936, Ph.D. 1943
  • Kenneth B. Clark
    – educational psychologist, Ph.D. 1940
  • Mamie Phipps Clark – educational psychologist, Ph.D. 1943
  • Gilberto Freyre — Brazilian sociologist, cultural anthropologist and historian, M.A. 1922
  • Robert A. Leonard — linguist, M.A. and M. Phil. 1973, Ph.D 1982
  • Margaret Mead — anthropologist, Ph.D. 1929
  • Lorine Livingston Pruette
    — psychologist, Ph.D. 1924

Politicians

Visual arts

Other fields

References

  1. ^ Columbia College (New York, N. Y. ) (1879). Resolutions passed by the trustees of Columbia College from 1874 to 1879. The Library of Congress. New York : Printed for the College.
  2. hdl:2027/uiug.30112111489271
    . Retrieved 2024-01-23.
  3. ^ Columbia University (1882). Catalogue of the governors, trustees, and officers, and of the alumni and other graduates, Columbia College (originally King's College) in the city of New York, from 1754 to l882. University of California Libraries. New York, The College.
  4. ^ "Requirements and Contacts | Department of Anthropology". anthropology.columbia.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-09-05.
  5. ^ Seligson, Fred Jeremy (2014-03-03). "Korean music expert Heyman dies at 83". The Korea Times. Retrieved 2014-03-04.
  6. ^ RASHBAUM, William K. (April 12, 1996). "HE ADMITS LAUNDERING DRUG CASH". New York Daily News.

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