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Columbia's [[faculty]] is arranged into 79 '''Departments of Instruction'''. 78 of these are affiliated with various faculties. One, the [[Department of Physical Education]], stands unaffiliated with any faculty.
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Columbia and its affiliates have many '''Departments of Instruction''' into which [[faculty]] are organised.  
  
==Departments==
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==Columbia University departments==
===Faculty of Arts and Sciences (844, Est. 1880) ===
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According to some sources, there are 79 departments. To date we at WikiCU have identified 78 departments as follows:
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is organized into 30 departments of instruction, typically split into 5 categories
 
Numbers refer to the number of full-time faculty reported
 
by [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/opir/abstract/full_time_faculty.htm OPIR].
 
  
====Humanities (327) ====
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*30 [[Faculty of Arts and Sciences]] departments (844), comprising:
* [[Art History and Archaeology]]
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:*13 [[:Category:Humanities departments|humanities departments]] (327)
* [[Classics]]
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:*6 [[:Category:Social sciences departments|social sciences departments]] (218), including the [[School of International and Public Affairs]]
* [[East Asian Languages and Cultures]]
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:*9 [[:Category:Natural sciences departments|natural sciences departments]] (217)
* [[English and Comparative Literature]]
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:*[[School of Continuing Education]] (19)
* [[French and Romance Philology]]
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:*[[School of the Arts]] (63)
* [[Germanic Languages]]
 
* [[Italian]]
 
* [[Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures]]
 
* [[Music]]
 
* [[Philosophy]]
 
* [[Religion]]
 
* [[Slavic Languages]]
 
* [[Spanish and Portuguese]]
 
  
====Social Sciences (218) ====
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*14 Morningside professional departments (468), comprising:
* [[Anthropology]]
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:*9 [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] [[:Category:SEAS departments|departments]] (152)
* [[Economics]]
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:*[[Columbia Business School]] (131)
* [[History Department|History]]
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:*[[Columbia Law School]] (89)
* [[SIPA|International and Public Affairs]] (which is also a whole Faculty, Est. 1946)
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:*[[School of Social Work]] (43)
* [[Political Science]]
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:*[[Graduate School of Journalism]] (30)
* [[Sociology]]
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:*[[Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation]] (23)
  
====Natural Sciences (217) ====
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*33 [[Columbia University Medical Center]] departments (2163), comprising:
* [[Astronomy]]
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:*18 [[College of Physicians and Surgeons]] [[:Category:Clinical health sciences departments|clinical health sciences departments]] (1667)
* [[Biological Sciences]]
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:*7 [[College of Physicians and Surgeons]] [[:Category:Basic health sciences departments|basic health sciences departments]] (182)
* [[Chemistry]]
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:*6 [[School of Public Health]] [[:Category:Public health departments|departments]] (165)
* [[Earth and Environmental Sciences]]
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:*[[College of Dental Medicine]] (165)
* [[Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology]]
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:*[[School of Nursing]] (78)
* [[Mathematics]]
 
* [[Physics]]
 
* [[Psychology]]
 
* [[Statistics]]
 
  
====Continuing Education (19, Est. 2002) ====
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*[[Department of Physical Education]] (aka [[Columbia Athletics]]) (70) - unaffiliated with any faculty
[[Continuing Education]] is a faculty, a department of instruction, and school all in one.
 
  
====Arts (63, Est. 1948) ====
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==Barnard College departments==
[[School of the Arts|Arts]] is a faculty, department of instruction, and school all in one as well. Within itself, SoA has 4 'divisions' but these are internal designations, and not part of the university-wide designations.
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[[Barnard College]] has its own versions of many of Columbia University's departments. These have not generally been written about on WikiCU to date (as of Dec 2013), but those that have been are listed in [[:Category:Barnard College departments|this category]].
  
=== Morningside Professional (468) ===
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In a few cases, Barnard has departments that Columbia does not, and therefore the Barnard version forms the primary undergraduate department. Known such cases are:
(note that 5 of the schools are also departments; Only Engineering, the largest of the Schools, is subdivided into 9 departments)
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*[[Architecture Department]]
====Architecture (GSAPP) (23, Est. 1896) ====
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*[[Theatre Department]]
====Business  (131, Est. 1916) ====
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*[[Women's Studies Department]]
====Engineering  (152, Est. 1864) ====
 
# Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
 
# Biomedical Engineering
 
# Chemical Engineering
 
# Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
 
# Computer Science
 
# Electrical Engineering
 
# Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
 
# Mechanical Engineering
 
# Mining, Metallurgical, and Mineral Engineering (Henry Krumb School of Mines)
 
====J-school  (30, Est. 1912) ====
 
====Law  (89, Est. 1858) ====
 
====Social Work  (43, Est. 1898) ====
 
  
=== Athletics (70) ===
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Conversely, Barnard sometimes has no equivalent of the Columbia University department, for example in Computer Science and Statistics.
=== Medical Center (2163) ===
 
==== Basic Health Sciences (182) ====
 
# Anatomy and Cell Biology
 
# Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
 
# Genetics and Development
 
# Microbiology
 
# Pathology
 
# Pharmacology
 
# Physiology and Cellular Biophysics
 
  
==== Clinical Health Sciences (1667) ====
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==See also==
Note that, for 2000-2006, Clinical Health Sciences accounted for,
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*[[Department of Public Safety]] - not a department of instruction
on average, %48 of total faculty.
 
  
# Anesthesiology
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[[Category:Departments|*]]
# Biomedical Informatics
 
# Dermatology
 
# Medicine
 
# Neurological Surgery
 
# Neurology
 
# Obstetrics and Gynecology
 
# Ophthalmology
 
# Orthopedic Surgery
 
# Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery
 
# Pediatrics
 
# Psychiatry
 
# Radiation Oncology
 
# Radiology
 
# Rehabilitation Medicine
 
# Surgery
 
# Urology
 
 
 
==== School of Nursing (78, Est. 1892) ====
 
==== School of Public Health (165, Est. 1921) ====
 
# Biostatistics
 
# Environmental Health Sciences
 
# Epidemiology
 
# Health Policy and Management
 
# Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health
 
# Sociomedical Sciences
 
 
 
==== School of Dental and Oral Surgery (165) ====
 
 
 
[[Category:Academic organization]]
 
[[Category:Departments]]
 

Latest revision as of 08:34, 17 December 2013

Columbia and its affiliates have many Departments of Instruction into which faculty are organised.

Columbia University departments

According to some sources, there are 79 departments. To date we at WikiCU have identified 78 departments as follows:

  • 14 Morningside professional departments (468), comprising:

Barnard College departments

Barnard College has its own versions of many of Columbia University's departments. These have not generally been written about on WikiCU to date (as of Dec 2013), but those that have been are listed in this category.

In a few cases, Barnard has departments that Columbia does not, and therefore the Barnard version forms the primary undergraduate department. Known such cases are:

Conversely, Barnard sometimes has no equivalent of the Columbia University department, for example in Computer Science and Statistics.

See also