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Programs · Barnard College · 2025-2026

History at Barnard College: what LionPlan checks

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Tell us your school, your major, and what you have taken. A course card then shows what a class satisfies (“Satisfies Probability / Statistics”) and what it unlocks (“Opens up 7 more courses”), plus the section time and instructor rating.

The groups below are the ones LionPlan actually checks for this program. They were transcribed from the 2025-2026 Bulletin. Confirm them with your school before you register.

  1. One 1000-level introductory lecture

    N matching

    1 course matching HIST courses, numbered 1000 to 1999.

    At least one of the three introductory lectures must be at the 1000 level. One exception we cannot encode: a Columbia Global Core course is listed at the 2000 level but counts as a 1000-level course for this requirement.

  2. Two further introductory lectures

    N matching

    2 courses matching HIST courses, numbered 1000 to 2999, not counting courses already used for another group in this program.

    The other two introductory lectures, at the 1000 or 2000 level. Barnard History numbers lectures at 1000 (introductory) and 2000 (other undergraduate); seminars are 3000.

  3. Two seminars

    N matching

    2 courses matching HIST courses, numbered 3000 to 4999, not counting courses already used for another group in this program.

    Two 3000- or 4000-level seminars, one of which must be taken at Barnard or Columbia. The senior research seminar below does not count toward these two.

  4. Senior research seminar

    All of these

    All of these: HIST BC3391, HIST BC3392.

    HIST BC3391 and HIST BC3392, normally taken in sequence beginning in the Fall of senior year. This is where the senior essay (30-50 pages) is written.

  5. Temporal breadth

    Attested

    You confirm this yourself. I have completed a course demonstrating temporal breadth.

    At least one course (lecture or seminar) demonstrating temporal breadth — "usually ... one course that covers themes and topics related to the pre-modern period (generally taken to mean the period before the nineteenth century)". Barnard's numbering does encode region and epoch, but each band is a slice of the last three digits repeated at three course levels, and a selector takes one contiguous range — so you certify this rather than us guessing at it.

  6. Geographic range

    Attested

    You confirm this yourself. I have completed a course demonstrating geographic range, or my concentration already satisfies it.

    At least one course demonstrating geographic range, unless your area of concentration already does so — "If your concentration is geography-based, this means a geographical area or region that is outside your field of study." Whether it applies at all depends on a concentration that is not recorded anywhere we can read.

  7. Six courses in the area of concentration

    Attested

    You confirm this yourself. Six of my eleven courses are in my declared area of concentration.

    Six of the eleven must be in your area of concentration — a region, a period, or a theme, chosen with your adviser. Nothing records which concentration you declared, so you certify this.

  8. Eleven courses

    N matching

    11 courses matching HIST courses, numbered 1000 to 4999.

    The major totals eleven courses. Counted over HIST at the 1000-4999 levels. One deliberate under-count: with an adviser's approval you may include up to two NON-history courses closely related to your concentration, and those will not appear here.

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