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This subseries contains materials from the Contemporary Civilization Revision and Advisory committees and faculty and administrators' reports on the state and direction of the course. It also contains materials from the 1968 Arden House Conference, where faculty members were asked to make suggestions about the nature of the class. Box 28 Folder 1 contains more than 20 responses regarding the reading list, pedagogy, and suggested changes in the structure of the classes.

This subseries contains syllabi for Humanities A (Literature Humanities) classes in chronological order, as well as some documents showing the three-year cycles of readings and composite readings lists indicating when each work was taught from 1937 to the date of writing. Nearly all Humanities syllabi are standardized (i.e. there are no instructor-specific syllabi), though there are syllabi showing the respective schedules of different sections, and in the 1970s there was a 'free period' when the instructor might choose a final work to read. Humanities A is a two-semester sequence (A1 and A2), with some sections taught Spring to Fall and therefore designated 'reverse,' yielding course names RA1 or RA2. The subseries contains one folder for syllabi for Methods of Critical Analysis, a short-lived related course from the 1990s.

This subseries contains Humanities A exams in chronological order, as well as one folder containing Methods of Critical Analysis exams.

This subseries contains quizzes from Humanities A, organized alphabetically by author, and then by work. Most folders are also dated, though some for some authors years of folders overlap slightly; a few are undated. Other materials include charts of aggregated results for individual quizzes across the entire Humanities program, broken down by instructor.

This subseries contains resources such as teaching aids, bibliographies, and published papers. The first three folders (Box 26 Folders 1-3) consist of general Humanities teaching aids and bibliographies. The second group (Box 26 Folder 4 to Box 27 Folder 15) is arranged in alphabetical order by author, title, or theme. The final folder contains study guides and discussion questions for Methods of Critical Analysis.

This subseries contains documents from various curricular reviews of Humanities A, such as the Stern Committee, experimental sections to merge English A and Humanities A, student questionnaires, and materials related to the 50th anniversary of Humanities A. Folders are mostly chronological, though Stern Committee folders are at the end of the subseries.

This subseries contains administrative correspondence related to Core funding and resources, staffing deliberations (especially related to retaining senior faculty's participating in the Core and the allocation of graduate preceptorships), communications with department chairs, and responses to student inquiries and complaints. It also contains applications from Barnard students interested in taking Core courses and a folder of external correspondence with other universities offering their own Great Books curriculum or interested in adopting one.

This subseries consists of Core staff directories and memos, room assignments, and schedules.

This subseries contains documents on Core course enrollments, sometimes broken down by non-Columbia College student populations (Engineering, Barnard, etc.).

This subseries consists of materials related to the long-running lunch staff meetings for both Humanities and Contemporary Civilization. It also contains records of lectures by both Columbia and visiting scholars on weekly readings. (Subseries I.1 contains some memos on the lunch meetings for C.C. from 1937 to 1950.)