The Columbia Theatre PhD student may choose useful courses from many other departments or colleges, including:

• English and Comparative Literature
• Division of Theatre
• Music
• Art History and Archaeology
• Anthropology
• Philosophy
• Germanic Languages
• Italian
• Slavic Languages
• Spanish and Portugese
• French
• Classics
• History
• Religion
• Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures
• Teachers College
• East Asian Languages and Cultures

The New York City Doctoral Consortium:

Students of the Columbia PhD program in Theatre are not confined to the courses offered by the faculty of Columbia and Barnard. Through "The New York City Doctoral Consortium" they may also take courses offered by several other New York City graduate programs:

• New York University (NYU), Department of Performance Studies
• City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center
• The New School for Social Research, Graduate Faculty
• Fordham University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences