Comparative Literature (COML)Arts and Sciences
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Classes
COML 1109
Course Description
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
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Commun Like Your Own-Lit Encounters W/ Animal
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 350
Instructors
Hussein, K
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: The Ulysses Theme: Coming Home to Ithaca
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall G24
Instructors
Karmin, H
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Latin Amer Paranoiacs—Crime, Conspiracy,Terror
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Uris Hall G22
Instructors
Leraul, D
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Latin Amer Paranoiacs—Crime, Conspiracy,Terror
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Uris Hall G22
Instructors
Leraul, D
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Ukraine and Russia through Gogol’s Eyes
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 164
Instructors
Shapiro, G
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
COML 1126
Course Description
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
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: What is Contemporaneity?
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall G26
Instructors
Steyn, J
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Cinematic Worlds
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Ives Hall 107
Instructors
Wijaya, E
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Aesthetics for Beginners
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Alice H. Cook House 106
Instructors
Molde, K
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Aesthetics for Beginners
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW McGraw Hall 145
Instructors
Molde, K
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
COML 1133
Course Description
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
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS:The Idea(l) of Teaching
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall G22
Instructors
Fu, J
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
COML 2006
Course Description
Punk Culture--comprised of music, fashion, literature, and visual arts--represents a complex critical stance of resistance and refusal that coalesced at a particular historical moment in the mid-1970s, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 2006, ENGL 2906, MUSIC 2006
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Lincoln Hall B20
Instructors
McEnaney, T
Peraino, J
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Lincoln Hall 124
Instructors
Staff
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Lincoln Hall 124
Instructors
Staff
COML 2030
Course Description
Spring: Take your love for literature into uncharted waters. "Introduction to Comparative Literature" journeys beyond national and disciplinary borders to explore the far-reaching implications ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 144
Instructors
Monroe, J
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Additional Information
First semester freshman - by invitation only.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
COML 2230
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 2651, PMA 2635
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall G22
Instructors
Rusten, J
COML 2293
Course Description
Film industries in the Middle East, as in much of the rest of the world, emerged out of efforts at the national level. In the Arab world and Israel, the film industries reflect upon struggles ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: JWST 2793, NES 2793, PMA 2493, VISST 2193
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR White Hall 110
Instructors
Starr, D
COML 2305
Course Description
Remarkable works written BY women and images OF women shape literature, art, music, and personal experience in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This seminar will develop skills in discussion and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 2330, FGSS 2330
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR A D White House 109
Instructors
Chase, C
COML 2754
Course Description
This survey course (which also fulfills an NES major requirement) is a multidisciplinary introduction to Near Eastern civilization, exploring history, literature, religion, art and archeology, and other ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: NES 2754
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR White Hall 106
Instructors
Starr, D
COML 3111
Course Description
That literature and art can express concern over the environment or reflect environmental attitudes is nothing new. This course, however, will open up the possibility that literature, film, and art actively ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 302
Instructors
Pinkus, K
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Additional Information
Core Course for Comparative Literature Majors. Limited to 15 students.
COML 3112
Course Description
Media make things move. Ships transport goods, cars carry passengers, devices transmit information. While origins and destinations often seem the most significant, modern media and cultural mobility also ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 3511, PMA 3511, STS 3511
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G24
Instructors
Born, E
COML 3115
Course Description
The course will provide an overview of video art, alternative documentary video, and digital installation and networked art over the past 50 years. We will analyze four phases of video and new media: ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3115, PMA 3515, ROMS 3115, VISST 3115
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M A D White House 201
Instructors
Murray, T
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Additional Information
Enrollment is Limited to 25 undergraduate students.
COML 3150
Course Description
Beginning with the mid-nineteeth century, the course traces dynamic relays and reciprocal influences among woodblock prints, maps, fiction, films, anime, comics, and digital arts in Japan. We will consider ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 3318, VISST 3318
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Uris Hall G88
Instructors
de Bary, B
COML 3300
Course Description
An introduction (without prerequisites) to fundamental problems of current political theory, filmmaking, and film analysis, along with their interrelationship. Particular emphasis on comparing and contrasting ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 3550, GOVT 3705, PMA 3490
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall 132-HEC Aud
Instructors
Waite, G
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Additional Information
Weekly film screening, TBA.
COML 3440
Course Description
Tragedy and its audiences from ancient Greece to modern theater and film. Topics: origins of theatrical conventions; Shakespeare and Seneca; tragedy in modern theater and film. Works studied will include: ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 3645, PMA 3724
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Lincoln Hall B08
Instructors
Ahl, F
COML 3702
Course Description
"You didn't see anything," a woman in a movie says to her dubious lover. "No one sees anything. Ever. They watch, but they don't understand." What is desire in the cinema? How do we know it when we see ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3702, FGSS 3702, LGBT 3702, PMA 3702, VISST 3702
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall G76-Lewis
Instructors
Hanson, E
COML 3781
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: COML 6783, FGSS 3651, FREN 3560, FREN 6561, GERST 3561, ROMS 3560, STS 3651
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Uris Hall 202
Instructors
McNulty, T
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Uris Hall 262
Instructors
McNulty, T
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Klarman Hall KG42
Instructors
McNulty, T
COML 3800
Course Description
As globalization draws the Americas ever closer together, reshaping our sense of a common and uncommon American culture, what claims might be made for a distinctive, diverse poetry and poetics of the America? ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3820, ENGL 3910, LATA 3800, SPAN 3800
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Klarman Hall KG44
Instructors
Monroe, J
COML 3815
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3790, RUSSL 3385
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 164
Instructors
Shapiro, G
COML 4190
Course Description
COML 4190 and COML 4200 may be taken independently of each other. To apply for independent study, please complete the on-line form https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm. Undergraduate ... view course details
COML 4930
Course Description
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
COML 4940
Course Description
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
COML 6073
Course Description
This seminar explores the symbolic and political tensions and contradictions inherent in the motif of the island, in relation to both its contrast and conflation with the theme of the urban. Cuba stands, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: SHUM 6308
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Section Topic
Topic: Cuba as Project: Urban, Political, and Environment
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Rand Hall 205
Instructors
McEnaney, T
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Additional Information
Department Consent Required (Add)
COML 6130
Course Description
The seminar will examine how space is represented in literary texts and pursue the question whether literary language can be connected to spatial features that are unique to prose, poetry and other poetic ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 6160
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Olin Library 403
Instructors
Schwarz, A
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Additional Information
Discussion in English; texts available in both German and English.
COML 6160
Course Description
The course provides an introduction to various aspects of translation theory, and emphasizes relations between translation theory and trauma theory, post-structuralism, post-colonial theory, and debates ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 6619, VISST 6619
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Uris Hall G44
Instructors
de Bary, B
COML 6190
Course Description
Graduate Students: please bring your faculty signed proposal to 240 Goldwin Smith Hall. view course details
COML 6460
Course Description
This course examines the particular theoretical intersections of panafricanism and feminism through a study of works which address the lives of activist women and men who lived political lives which demanded ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 6510, FGSS 6510
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Africana Ctr 111
Instructors
Boyce Davies, C
COML 6473
Course Description
This seminar will focus on the works of Michel Foucault, Frantz Fanon, Louis Althusser, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, all of whom wrote extensively about the colonization and decolonization of the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 6286
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W A D White House 220-Library
Instructors
Robcis, C
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
COML 6600
Course Description
Some of the most powerful approaches to visual practices have come from outside or from the peripheries of the institution of art history and criticism. This seminar will analyze the interactions between ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 6060, GERST 6600
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Rockefeller Hall 110
Instructors
Waite, G
COML 6601
Course Description
"The pleasure of the text," Roland Barthes writes, "is that moment when my body pursues its own ideas – for my body does not have the same ideas I do." What is this erotics of the text, and what has it ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 6600, FGSS 6610, LGBT 6600, PMA 6670
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall 236
Instructors
Hanson, E
COML 6783
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: COML 3781, FGSS 3651, FREN 3560, FREN 6561, GERST 3561, ROMS 3560, STS 3651
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Uris Hall 202
Instructors
McNulty, T
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Additional Information
Instructor will lead a separate discussion section specifically for graduate students.
COML 6970
Course Description
This course will examine cosmopolitanism as a cultural, moral, and political concept both historically, with reference primarily to the eighteenth century, and theoretically, in contemporary debates. The ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 6970, GOVT 6779
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Olin Library 303
Instructors
Saccamano, N
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Additional Information
Limited to 15 students.