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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: You Don't Know Me
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW White Hall 106
Instructors
Tal, N
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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: Experimental Arabic Literature
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Plant Science Building 143
Instructors
Alswaid, A
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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: Literary Insomniacs
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 160
Instructors
Tang, R
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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: Reading Poetry
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 162
Instructors
Pollak, N
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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 Third World and TravelPorn?
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Balch Hall - Tatkon Ctr 3343
Instructors
Pham, V
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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: A Taste of Russian Literature
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 185
Instructors
Krivitsky, R
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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: Violence and Visuality
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Plant Science Building 141
Instructors
Huang, 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: Things
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 260
Instructors
Kohlbry, M
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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: Remix Culture
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF White Hall 110
Instructors
Huang, 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: Aesthetics for Beginners
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Uris Hall G26
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:Contemporary Southeast Asian Independent Cinem
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall 160
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: Introduction to Film Analysis
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Rockefeller Hall 103
Instructors
Lin, S
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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 2020
Course Description
What is a classic? What is contemporary? Where are we heading now? Extending from the Enlightenment and Age of Revolutions to the present, this course will focus on texts that have played a pivotal role ... 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 Rockefeller Hall 230
Instructors
Monroe, J
COML 2030
Course Description
Take your love for literature into uncharted waters. "Introduction to Comparative Literature" journeys beyond national and disciplinary borders to explore the far-reaching implications of our increasingly ... 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 Uris Hall 369
Instructors
Banerjee, A
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Additional Information
First semester freshman - by invitation only.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
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 Malott Hall 203
Instructors
Melas, N
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
COML 2035
Course Description
Science fiction is not merely a literary genre but a whole way of being, thinking, and acting in the modern world. This course explores classic and contemporary science fiction from Frankenstein to The ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: BSOC 2131, ENGL 2035, STS 2131
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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 G24
Instructors
Banerjee, A
COML 2050
Course Description
Could a meter have a meaning? Could there be a reason for a rhyme? And what is lost and gained in translation? We'll think about these and other questions in this introduction to poetry. We'll see ... 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 Lincoln Hall 107
Instructors
Pollak, N
COML 2754
Course Description
This course examines Near East's rich and diverse literary heritage. We will read a selection of influential and wondrous texts from ancient to modern times, spanning geographically from the Iberian peninsula ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: JWST 2754, 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 Rockefeller Hall B16
Instructors
Starr, D
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 Rockefeller Hall B16
Instructors
de Bary, B
COML 3330
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3331, RUSSL 3330
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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 181
Instructors
Shapiro, G
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 Goldwin Smith Hall 124
Instructors
Ahl, F
COML 3780
Course Description
When Jean-Jacques Rousseau introduced the concept of the "general will" in his classic text The Social Contract, he made what was then an unprecedented and scandalous claim: that the people as a whole, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 3780, GOVT 3786
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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 McGraw Hall 366
Instructors
McNulty, T
COML 3802
Course Description
What is it to be avant-garde? What do avant-gardes want, and for what purposes? How have desires to be avant-garde changed over time? What does it mean to be avant-garde in the 21st century? Focusing on ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3902, ROMS 3802
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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 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 181
Instructors
Shapiro, G
COML 3975
Course Description
Are you an Afropolitan? Are you a Cosmopolitan? Perhaps yes, perhaps no? How is afropolitanism different from cosmopolitanism, diaspora, or pan-africanism? How about finding it out while exploring the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 3975, ENGL 3975
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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 Morrill Hall 404
Instructors
Diabate, N
COML 3980
Course Description
For a long time area studies have overlooked the over-determined links of gender, race/ethnicity, and social class in fields related to East Asia and the trans-Pacific regions. Little attention has been ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 3388, ASIAN 6688, COML 6680, FGSS 3580, FGSS 6580
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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 438
Instructors
Sakai, N
COML 4007
Course Description
Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort, writes Erich Fromm in the first chapter of The Art of Loving. His question (from 1956) is not a new one. This course engages with the long tradition ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 6007, FREN 4050, FREN 6050, MEDVL 4050, MEDVL 6050
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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 McGraw Hall 365
Instructors
Howie, C
COML 4190
Course Description
COML 4190 and COML 4200 may be taken independently of each other. Undergraduate student and faculty advisor to determine course of study and credit hours. view course details
COML 4221
Course Description
What is "modern"? What is "primitive"? How can one tell the difference? This course will examine the complex conjuncture of art, literature, anthropology and colonialist racism in the early decades of ... 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
- W Goldwin Smith Hall 236
Instructors
Melas, N
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Additional Information
Core Course for COML Majors. Limited: to 15 students
COML 4228
Course Description
A course examining the core disciplines of cognitive science using varied themes from semester to semester. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: BIONB 4330, COGST 4310, PSYCH 4320
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: Culture, Cognition & the Humanities
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Uris Hall 438
Instructors
Christiansen, M
Dubreuil, L
COML 4251
Course Description
The most intense public encounter between Existentialism and Marxism occurred in immediate post-WWII Europe, its structure remaining alive internationally. Existentialist questions have been traced from ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 4210, GOVT 4015, ROMS 4210
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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 G64-Kau Aud
Instructors
Waite, G
COML 4281
Course Description
What happens when experience design meets Reverend Billy? Or design thinking encounters the Guerrilla Girls? Tracing such questions, we'll draw on contemporary fields of human-computer interaction and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4705
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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 M Van Rensselaer Hall 166N
Instructors
McKenzie, J
COML 4413
Course Description
Poems disrupt the flow of reading. In so doing, rather than rendering them transparent, they call attention to their media – often the page or voice. This course will examine the experimental writing techniques ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 4220, ROMS 4225, VISST 4221
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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 White Hall 104
Instructors
Solanki, T
COML 4521
Course Description
What does it mean to call individuals, cities, or societies "cosmopolitan?" What are the implications when one invokes tolerance to resolve conflict? Do appeals for "tolerance" and "coexistence" redefine ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 6521, JWST 4708, NES 4708, NES 6708
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Goldwin Smith Hall 160
Instructors
Starr, D
COML 4575
Course Description
This course will introduce students to basic concepts and developments related to migrants and migration in Central America, Mexico, and the United States via engaged learning and research. The course ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 6375, DSOC 4312, DSOC 6312, ILRIC 4312, ILRIC 6312, LSP 4312, LSP 6312
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Ives Hall 103
Instructors
Castillo, D
Cook, M
COML 4614
Course Description
This course seeks to explore the intersections of corruption and environmental media. We will be analyzing films and other media (including artworks and literary texts) that deal with the environmental ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: SHUM 4616, STS 4616
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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 A D White House 110
Instructors
Mukherjee, R
COML 4615
Course Description
How can studying the deep past of information storage and transmission help us understand our current engagements with information and contemplate its future? In this course we will we will explore the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARKEO 4618, CLASS 4632, MEDVL 4718, SHUM 4618, STS 4618
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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 A D White House 109
Instructors
Roby, C
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 6007
Course Description
Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort, writes Erich Fromm in the first chapter of The Art of Loving. His question (from 1956) is not a new one. This course engages with the long tradition ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4007, FREN 4050, FREN 6050, MEDVL 4050, MEDVL 6050
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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 McGraw Hall 365
Instructors
Howie, C
COML 6136
Course Description
Examination of affects at the intersections of aesthetics, ethics, politics, philosophy and psychoanalysis. Points of inquiry: how are social feelings of empathy, solidarity and identification evoked ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 6175
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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
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 Rockefeller Hall 376
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 6300
Course Description
A study of the development of aesthetics as a theoretical discipline specifying the genetic process, forms, effects, and judgments peculiar to art. Through readings of primarily British and French criticism ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 6300
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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 Olin Library 303
Instructors
Saccamano, N
COML 6375
Course Description
This course will introduce students to basic concepts and developments related to migrants and migration in Central America, Mexico, and the United States via engaged learning and research. The course ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4575, DSOC 4312, DSOC 6312, ILRIC 4312, ILRIC 6312, LSP 4312, LSP 6312
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Ives Hall 103
Instructors
Castillo, D
Cook, M
COML 6410
Course Description
Although questions about literature will run through this course, we will study a range of classic Derrida texts, some quite tangential to literature, and participants may write their final papers on topics ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 6240, FREN 6410
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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 A D White House 110
Instructors
Culler, J
COML 6521
Course Description
What does it mean to call individuals, cities, or societies "cosmopolitan?" What are the implications when one invokes tolerance to resolve conflict? Do appeals for "tolerance" and "coexistence" redefine ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4521, JWST 4708, NES 4708, NES 6708
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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
- T Goldwin Smith Hall 160
Instructors
Starr, D
COML 6661
Course Description
Our title derives from the political philosopher Leo Strauss, who provides our initial analytic, methodological, and theoretical model. We extend beyond Straussian ideological positions to include art ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 6780, GERST 6780, GOVT 6785, JWST 6780
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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 White Hall 106
Instructors
Waite, G
COML 6676
Course Description
This seminar will focus on Nietzsche's legacy on 20th/21st century French thought. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 6676, GOVT 6676
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Section Topic
Topic: French
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T White Hall 114
Instructors
Rubenstein, D
COML 6680
Course Description
For a long time area studies have overlooked the over-determined links of gender, race/ethnicity, and social class in fields related to East Asia and the trans-Pacific regions. Little attention has been ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 3388, ASIAN 6688, COML 3980, FGSS 3580, FGSS 6580
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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 438
Instructors
Sakai, N
COML 6894
Course Description
This seminar takes as its theoretical starting point Hegel's notion of the "prose of the world" to describe the modern age, and the 19th c in particular—an age no longer defined by the exception and heroes, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 6070, ROMS 6070
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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 A D White House 110
Instructors
Fleming, P
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Additional Information
Taught in English. Anchor course. All texts available in English.
COML 6944
Course Description
This course explores the philosophical concept of biopolitics and its diverse translations and/or adaptations across multiple disciplines and across the globe (Africa, Far East, South East Asia, and the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 6946, ROMS 6944
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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 Rockefeller Hall 127
Instructors
Diabate, N