Comparative Literature (COML)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.

COML 1109

Matches the first track in our major, Comparative Literary Studies. This course rubric deals with literary works from different cultures or historical periods. Consult the John. S. Knight Writing Seminar ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: On the Waterfront

  • 18209 COML 1109   SEM 101

  • For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Writing the "I" in Modern Poetry

  • 18211 COML 1109   SEM 102

  • For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Reading Poetry

  • 18212 COML 1109   SEM 103

  • For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Poetry's Image

  • 18213 COML 1109   SEM 104

  • For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Africa in the European Imaginary

  • 18214 COML 1109   SEM 105

  • For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

COML 1126

Matches the second track in our major, Literary, Visual, and Media Studies.  This course rubric deals with courses that compare literature to film, video, performance, and other arts. Consult the John. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Paying Attention: From Cinema to Video Gaming

  • 18217 COML 1126   SEM 101

  • For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:Transf Terrains: Cmg of Age on the Amer Lands

  • 18218 COML 1126   SEM 102

  • For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Cinematic Worlds

  • 18219 COML 1126   SEM 103

  • For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Poetic Cinema

  • 18220 COML 1126   SEM 104

  • For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

COML 1133

This course rubric deals with courses that focus on philosophical themes and texts.  Consult the John. S. Knight Writing Seminar Program brochure for current year offerings, instructions and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: The World as Text

  • 18224 COML 1133   SEM 101

  • For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Latin American Paranoiacs

  • 18225 COML 1133   SEM 102

  • For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

COML 2010

This course will focus on the question of originality in some of the "great books" of world literature and will ask whether and how originality might refer more to "re-writing" and "re-vision" than it ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17554 COML 2010   LEC 001

COML 2021

This course explores the human dimension of climate change, arguably the most significant crisis ever to confront humanity. Of course, changes in the climate are natural, but it is almost universally knowledged ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: EAS 2021

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 13396 COML 2021   SEM 101

COML 2030

What is Comparative Literature? In this course, we will look at the various answers that this question has elicited. We will learn about the evolution of the discipline by looking at an assortment of literary ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8360 COML 2030   SEM 101

  • First semester freshmen - by invitation only.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18581 COML 2030   SEM 102

  • First semester freshman - by invitation only.

COML 2033

This course will introduce students to some of the most acclaimed works of European fiction by considering why these novels tend to focus on morally, socially, and legally transgressive acts and passions.  ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17884 COML 2033   LEC 001

COML 2230

Study and analysis of 2500 years of comedy (all in English), from Greece (Aristophanes, Menander), Rome (Plautus and Terence), Italy (Machiavelli, The commedia dell' arte), Elizabethan (Shakespeare, Ben ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 2651PMA 2635

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9419 COML 2230   LEC 001

COML 2290

This course offers an introduction to the questions, topics, approaches, and theories that characterize the field of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Studies. Using an interdisciplinary approach ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 2290LGBT 2290

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18775 COML 2290   LEC 001

COML 3021

This course introduces the most exciting and cutting-edge theoretical advances of the 20th and 21st centuries. Taught by two Cornell professors active in the field, along with occasional invited guests, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3021

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9695 COML 3021   LEC 001

COML 3280

An intimate knowledge of the Bible is of fundamental importance in understanding the history of Western civilization: political philosophy, history of science, European and American literature, history ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: RELST 3280

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8700 COML 3280   SEM 101

COML 3330

In this course, we shall look at Russia's perception of America as reflected in the works of its writers for over a hundred-year period. What motivated these writers? Did they go to the United States with ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3331RUSSL 3330

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17951 COML 3330   SEM 101

COML 3541

This course introduces students to Critical Theory, beginning with its roots in the 19th century (i.e., Kant, Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche) and then focusing on its most prominent manifestation in the 20th ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3920GERST 3620GOVT 3636

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16451 COML 3541   SEM 101

COML 3730

The course draws on the world's storehouse of writing, song, and film about bandits, pirates, malingerers, revolutionary appropriators, and other defectors from the sacral order of property. Loyalty and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3710ENGL 3710

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17852 COML 3730   LEC 001

COML 3731

Critical reflection on the refusal of work, including but not limited to: non-cooperation with routines of production and/or reproduction (among which, strikes, sexual and otherwise),the right to laziness, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3731ENGL 3931

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17857 COML 3731   LEC 001

COML 3781

Psychoanalysis considers the human being not as an object of treatment, but as a subject who is called upon to elaborate an unconscious knowledge about what is disrupting her life, through analysis of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17660 COML 3781   LEC 001

COML 3815

This course offers an exciting trip to the intricate world of Nabokov's fiction. After establishing himself in Europe as a distinguished Russian writer, Nabokov, at the outbreak of World War II, came to ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3790RUSSL 3385

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9544 COML 3815   SEM 101

COML 3891

The Second World War and the Occupation of France by German forces had a traumatic impact on the nation's identity.  We will examine the way France has tried to deal with this conflicted period through ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 3840

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16526 COML 3891   SEM 101

COML 4190

COML 4190 and COML 4200 may be taken independently of each other. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6499 COML 4190   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Staff

COML 4250

This is an introduction to the three 'master thinkers' who have helped determine the discourses of modernity and post-modernity. We consider basic aspects of their work: (a) specific critical and historical ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 4150GOVT 4735

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16469 COML 4250   SEM 101

COML 4280

A study of how biblical ethical and legal rules (in Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy) judge incidents in biblical narratives (those in Genesis through 2 Kings). The links between the laws and the narratives ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: RELST 4280

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8702 COML 4280   SEM 101

  • Enrollment limited to: 15 students.

COML 4367

A detailed exploration of the poetic, dramatic and political writings of the great Martinican poet and statesman in their multifarious contexts, influences and dialogues, including: "Black Paris" of the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17861 COML 4367   SEM 101

  • Limited to 15 students.

COML 4520

A reading and discussion of key texts by Renaissance humanists in Italian, French, English, and other European literature from the 14th to the 17th centuries. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17874 COML 4520   SEM 101

  • Limited to 15 students.

COML 4550

In 1615, Cervantes published the Second Part of his already famous Don Quixote.  Four hundred years later, Spanish anthropologists have been excavating the crypt of a Madrid church in order to recover ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: JWST 4950NES 4950SPAN 4550

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17916 COML 4550   SEM 101

COML 4639

This course explores the organization of cultural and scientific knowledge in the form of so-called "encyclopedias", beginning with Pliny the Elder's Natural History and tracing its development in later ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17904 COML 4639   SEM 101

COML 4831

A thorough episode-by-episode study of the art and meaning of Joyce's masterwork Ulysses, the most influential book of the twentieth century. We shall place Ulysses in the context of Joyce's canon, Irish ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4700

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18104 COML 4831   SEM 101

COML 4860

What gives contemporary poetry and poetics its resonance and value? What are its dominant features, audiences, and purposes? What does 21st-century poetry's textual environment look like, and how does ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 4880ENGL 4960SPAN 4880

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17869 COML 4860   SEM 101

  • Core Course for COML Majors. Limited to 15 students. Not offered at the 6000 level this year.

COML 4930

Times TBA individually in consultation with director of Senior Essay Colloquium. Approximately 50 pages to be written over the course of two semesters in the student's senior year under the direction of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  6177 COML 4930   IND 601

    • TBA
    • McNulty, T

  • If you do not see the faculty member you wish to work with, please use 601.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8834 COML 4930   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Ahl, F

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8835 COML 4930   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Bachner, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8836 COML 4930   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Banerjee, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8837 COML 4930   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Carmichael, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8838 COML 4930   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Caruth, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8839 COML 4930   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Castillo, D

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8840 COML 4930   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Chase, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  • 19067 COML 4930   IND 610

    • TBA
    • Culler, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8841 COML 4930   IND 611

    • TBA
    • de Bary, B

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8842 COML 4930   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Diabate, N

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8843 COML 4930   IND 613

    • TBA
    • Dubreuil, L

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8844 COML 4930   IND 614

    • TBA
    • Kennedy, W

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8845 COML 4930   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Maxwell, B

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8846 COML 4930   IND 616

    • TBA
    • McEnaney, T

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8847 COML 4930   IND 617

    • TBA
    • McNulty, T

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8848 COML 4930   IND 618

    • TBA
    • Melas, N

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8849 COML 4930   IND 619

    • TBA
    • Monroe, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  • 10022 COML 4930   IND 620

    • TBA
    • Murray, T

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8850 COML 4930   IND 622

    • TBA
    • Pinkus, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8851 COML 4930   IND 623

    • TBA
    • Pollak, N

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8852 COML 4930   IND 624

    • TBA
    • Saccamano, N

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8853 COML 4930   IND 626

    • TBA
    • Shapiro, G

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  • 10008 COML 4930   IND 629

    • TBA
    • Fleming, P

COML 4940

Times TBA individually in consultation with director of Senior Essay Colloquium. Approximately 50 pages to be written over the course of two semesters in the student's senior year under the direction of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17969 COML 4940   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Staff

COML 4945

The course examines how postcolonial African writers and filmmakers engage with and revise controversial images of bodies and sexuality-genital cursing, same-sex desire, HIV/AIDS, genital surgeries, etc. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18006 COML 4945   SEM 101

  • Enrollment limited: 15 students.

COML 6071

This course will consider media as the integration of technological hardware and sets of cultural practices. We will work to recognize how "old" media help us historicize our present moment, and how "new" ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 6471

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17892 COML 6071   SEM 101

  • Limited to 15 students.

COML 6185

Niklas Luhmann's systems theory is one of the great theoretical edifices of the last few decades. Ostensibly a sociological theory, Luhmann's work arguably has had its most disruptive, and most enduring, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 6190

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16462 COML 6185   SEM 101

COML 6190

Graduate Students: please bring your faculty signed proposal to 240 Goldwin Smith Hall. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6501 COML 6190   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Staff

COML 6367

A detailed exploration of the poetic, dramatic and political writings of the great Martinican poet and statesman in their multifarious contexts, influences and dialogues, including: "Black Paris" of the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17867 COML 6367   SEM 101

  • Limited to 15 students.

COML 6380

An introduction to literary, theatrical and intellectual works on the Tokugawa period (1600-1868). The course will examine the grammatological transformation of Tokugawa literary and theatrical works in ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 6626

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17382 COML 6380   SEM 101

  • Permission of instructor required.

COML 6409

No description available. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARCH 6409ARTH 6409SHUM 6409

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18188 COML 6409   SEM 101

  • Graduate participants receive $1,000 research stipends. Enrollment by competition: http://urbanismseminars.cornell.edu/apply/ Deadline: July 31, 2015.

COML 6520

A reading and discussion of key texts by Renaissance humanists in Italian, French, English and other European literatures from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17877 COML 6520   SEM 101

  • Limited to 15 students.

COML 6639

This course explores the organization of cultural and scientific knowledge in the form of so-called "encyclopedias", beginning with Pliny the Elder's Natural History and tracing its development in later ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17905 COML 6639   SEM 101

COML 6850

The modern or postmodern, and increasingly global, capitalist system rules by overt violence and coercion in tandem with what Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) called the "non-coercive coercion" of "cultural ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 6850GOVT 6750

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17837 COML 6850   SEM 101

COML 6945

The course examines how postcolonial African writers and filmmakers engage with and revise controversial images of bodies and sexuality-genital cursing, same-sex desire, HIV/AIDS, genital surgeries, etc. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18012 COML 6945   SEM 101

  • Enrollment limited: 15 students.