Romance Studies (ROMS)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2016-2017.

ROMS 1102

We tell stories for many reasons: to entertain; to seduce; to complain; to think. This course draws upon the literatures and cultures of the romance languages to explore the role of narrative ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: The Decameron

  • 17972 ROMS 1102   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: The Decameron

  • 17973 ROMS 1102   SEM 103

    • MWF Uris Hall G88
    • Eibenstein-Alvisi, I

  • 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: Queer Hispanisms

  • 17974 ROMS 1102   SEM 104

    • MW Uris Hall 312
    • Rodriguez de Rivera, I

  • 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: Folk and Fairy Tales

  • 18270 ROMS 1102   SEM 105

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

ROMS 1108

What is a culture, and how do we know one when we see it?  This course draws upon the histories and texts of French, Spanish, Italian, and/or Portuguese speaking worlds to discuss issues of identity, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:The Defiant Muse

  • 17975 ROMS 1108   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:A Fistfull of Bullets

  • 17976 ROMS 1108   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: New Order in the New World

  • 17977 ROMS 1108   SEM 103

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

ROMS 1113

Some of the most important and intriguing thinkers, from the Middle Ages to postmodernity, have done their thinking in the romance languages.  This course explores a body of work that would be ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:Dante's Examined Life

  • 17978 ROMS 1113   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:Understanding "Je suis Charlie"

  • 17979 ROMS 1113   SEM 102

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

ROMS 1114

What allows us to make assumptions about people based on the way they speak or dress? How can we understand the deeper meaning of a fairy tale or an episode of The Simpsons? What does macaroni and cheese ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17980 ROMS 1114   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

  • 18161 ROMS 1114   SEM 102

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

ROMS 3115

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

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Syllabi: none
  • 16678 ROMS 3115   SEM 101

ROMS 3210

The Romance languages are the lasting imprint of all that happened to the Latin language as it moved through time, territories, and people of many ethnicities.  While the Latin of antiquity retained its ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LING 3321

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17501 ROMS 3210   LEC 001

ROMS 3560

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
  •  9989 ROMS 3560   LEC 001

  • 16960 ROMS 3560   DIS 201

  • 16961 ROMS 3560   DIS 202

ROMS 4265

This seminar is designed as an introduction to the later work and thought of Michel Foucault. With a focus on the seminars that Foucault gave at the Collège de France from 1976 to 1984, this course will ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16436 ROMS 4265   LEC 001

  • Conducted in English.

ROMS 5080

This practicum is designed to better enable the TAs to meet the needs of their students in the understanding and acquisition of the linguistic forms, notions, and functions covered in their course. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  •  6510 ROMS 5080   SEM 101

    • TBA
    • Bevia, T

  • Required for all graduate TAs teaching language for the first time in the Department of romance Studies.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  •  6681 ROMS 5080   SEM 102

    • TBA
    • Tissot, D

  • Required for all graduate TAs teaching language for the first time in the Department of romance Studies.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  •  6682 ROMS 5080   SEM 103

    • TBA
    • Torea, T

  • Required for all graduate TAs teaching language for the first time in the Department of romance Studies.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  • 17672 ROMS 5080   SEM 104

    • TBA
    • Waldron, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  • 17673 ROMS 5080   SEM 105

    • TBA
    • Fulginiti, V

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  • 17674 ROMS 5080   SEM 106

    • TBA
    • Staff

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  • 17675 ROMS 5080   SEM 107

    • TBA
    • Amigo-Silvestre, S

ROMS 6225

The course will discuss the phenomenon of play and its implications in politics, art, and economics. What is the meaning and role of play in contemporary society? Is there an essential relationship between ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PORT 6220SPAN 6220

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16554 ROMS 6225   LEC 001

ROMS 6265

This seminar is designed as an introduction to the later work and thought of Michel Foucault. With a focus on the seminars that Foucault gave at the Collège de France from 1976 to 1984, this course will ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16498 ROMS 6265   LEC 001

  • Conducted in English.