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Classes
COML 1105
Course Description
What do Frankenstein and Things Fall Apart have in common? What lies behind the fantastical stories of Aladdin? Do we have to like Garcia Márquez and Shakespeare? These texts and authors re-imagine the ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Rockefeller Hall 104
Instructors
Karmin, H
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Balch Hall - Tatkon Ctr 3331
Instructors
Pham, V
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
COML 1106
Course Description
In 2015, Japan's SoftBank Robotics Corporation announced the world's first robot with feelings. Many people were excited, many more disturbed. If robots are simply, as the dictionary suggests, machines ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Uris Hall G26
Instructors
Lambert, M
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall G22
Instructors
Kohlbry, M
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
COML 1107
Course Description
The state of the planet is one of the most urgent issues of our time, yet communicating environmental concerns and engaging the public on environmental issues is never easy. By studying and emulating how ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Uris Hall 312
Instructors
Banerjee, A
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
COML 1110
Course Description
"[T]he Other fixes me with his gaze", so writes Fanon about being seen as a black man. Our course will start from the working premise that racial difference is constructed through the act of looking and ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G20
Instructors
Huang, K
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
COML 1115
Course Description
Have you ever been frustrated with only existing inside your own mind? In this course we will read what authors and thinkers have written about differences between groups of people – like race and gender ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW White Hall 104
Instructors
Tal, N
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
COML 1116
Course Description
What can the seemingly mundane objects that populate everyday life tell us about our relationship to the world? And if art, as A.B. Marx put it, is a "secret confession," what might it confess about this ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall G24
Instructors
Kohlbry, M
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
COML 1119
Course Description
Explore the culinary tradition and culture of Russia in broad historical, geopolitical and socioeconomic context through the lens of Russian folklore, short stories of Gogol, Chekhov, and Bulgakov, works ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 312
Instructors
Krivitsky, R
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
COML 1121
Course Description
For several years now, Ukraine and Russia have been in the headlines as their conflict has captivated the world. Nikolai Gogol (1809-52) is uniquely positioned to provide some answers to many questions ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 156
Instructors
Shapiro, G
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
COML 1122
Course Description
This course will treat basic concepts of aesthetics with reference both to theoretical texts and to artworks of all forms, genres, and periods, as well as to natural phenomena. With care and precision, ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Uris Hall 394
Instructors
Molde, K
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
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, and ... 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
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Lincoln Hall B20
Instructors
Peraino, J
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Lincoln Hall 124
Instructors
Staff
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Lincoln Hall 124
Instructors
Staff
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 White Hall 110
Instructors
Castillo, D
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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 White Hall 114
Instructors
Vaziri, P
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
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 Stimson Hall 206
Instructors
Pollak, N
COML 2235
Course Description
This undergraduate course introduces the formal and topical innovations that African cinema has experienced since its inception in the 1960s. Sections will explore, among others, Nollywood, sci-fi, and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 2235, ENGL 2935
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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 B06
Instructors
Diabate, 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 Goldwin Smith Hall 122
Instructors
Starr, D
COML 3240
Course Description
Blood is everywhere. From vampire shows to video games, our culture seems to be obsessed with it. The course examines the power of "blood" in the early modern period as a figure that continues to capture ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3240
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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 283
Instructors
Lorenz, P
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
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 Goldwin Smith Hall 124
Instructors
Ahl, F
COML 3542
Course Description
This course examines the stories, literary examples, and metaphors at work in elaborating the modern economic subject, the so-called "homo oeconomicus." We will examine material from Locke, Smith, Defoe, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GERST 3610, GOVT 3606
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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 142
Instructors
Fleming, P
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Additional Information
Taught in English.
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F White Hall 104
Instructors
Un, J
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Goldwin Smith Hall 156
Instructors
Un, 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 156
Instructors
Shapiro, G
COML 3971
Course Description
How and why is a book "translated" into an opera? We will study several such works and the operas they inspired: Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, Verdi's Rigoletto, Massenet's Werther, Giordano's Andrea Chénier, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3713, ROMS 3971
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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
Chase, 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 4364
Course Description
No description available. view course details
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Credits and Grading Basis
2 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Uris Hall 204
- Oct 15 - Dec 4, 2018
Instructors
Staff
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
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
COML 4621
Course Description
What does it mean to have a relationship with a work of literature? This course explores three relationships between text and human: one of authorship and authority, one of critique and criticism, and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4926, SHUM 4626, SHUM 6626
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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 A D White House 109
Instructors
Elam, J
COML 4700
Course Description
Problems concerning translation are explored. Although there are many different models of translation, we tend to be confined to the unilateral regime of translation, that is, the very narrow and historically ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 4481
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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 B16
Instructors
Sakai, N
COML 4704
Course Description
Images of tattooed, inscribed, and marked bodies abound in popular media, from television series to blogs, from performance art to popular literature. When the body becomes a canvas or text, this raises ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 4407, FGSS 4607
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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 White Hall B02
Instructors
Bachner, A
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Additional Information
Core Course for COML UG Majors. Limited to 15 students.
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 4947
Course Description
In this course, you will explore nakedness as a form of protest by various social movements and in compelling fictional texts. As you analyze nakedness from ancient Greece to 21th century Africa, Asia, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 4947, FGSS 4947
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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 Klarman Hall KG42
Instructors
Diabate, N
COML 6033
Course Description
Critical-aesthetic models about the role of art and literature in the search for the active, good, or just life are increasingly under pressure by the conditions of late capitalism, which assimilates ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 6235
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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 Olin Library 403
Instructors
Siegel, E
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Additional Information
Taught in English.
COML 6135
Course Description
The tradition of tragic thought has had an enormous impact on theories of modernity. This seminar will explore the ways in which models of the tragic (and tragedy) have influenced the formation and theoretical ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 6040
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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 403
Instructors
Schwarz, A
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Additional Information
Readings and discussion in English.
COML 6186
Course Description
This graduate course is dedicated to an in-depth exploration of the recent emergence of Posthumanism as a new theoretical paradigm in cultural and literary studies. Hardly a unified theory, Posthumanism ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 6315, STS 6131
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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 403
Instructors
Gilgen, P
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Additional Information
Taught in English. Enrollment limited to: graduate students only or instructor permission.
COML 6190
Course Description
Graduate Students: please bring your faculty signed proposal to 240 Goldwin Smith Hall. view course details
COML 6308
Course Description
Expanded Practice Seminars bring students and faculty in the humanities and the design disciplines together around a common and pressing urban issue such as the cultural and material practices induced ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARCH 6408, ARCH 6509, ASIAN 6630, SHUM 6308, VISST 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: Mapping Global Spatio-politics Through China
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Sibley Hall 261B
Instructors
Bachner, A
Lok, L
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
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
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
COML 6556
Course Description
This course will serve as an introduction to trauma theory as it (re)emerged near the end of the 20th century as well as a rethinking of its fundamental terms in light of new theoretical developments and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 6556
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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
Caruth, C
COML 6630
Course Description
This graduate seminar provides a basic introduction to the thinking of Nietzsche and Heidegger, and to the latter's interpretation and appropriation of the former. A major concern is the articulation of ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 6630
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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 231
Instructors
Waite, G
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Additional Information
The readings are provided in German (and French or Italian in some cases) and in English translations, when these exist. Discussion and papers in English. Students from all disciplines are welcome.
COML 6686
Course Description
This course argues that modern literary strictures – such as market forces, censorship, and new media forms – are contiguous with and interpretable in the same way as more traditional literary strictures ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 6621
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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
- M White Hall B02
Instructors
Admussen, N
COML 6736
Course Description
This course explores the use of "speech that brings the subject matter vividly before the eyes." Known in classical antiquity as ekphrasis, this trope has received intense attention in recent decades across ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 6730, CLASS 6736
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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 GM09
Instructors
Platt, V
COML 6902
Course Description
Designed for an interdisciplinary audience, this seminar explores the theoretical and methodological potentials of a broad range of scholarship in the environmental humanities. Together we will discuss ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: STS 6902
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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 124
Instructors
Banerjee, A
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Additional Information
Enrollment limited to: 15 students.
COML 6920
Course Description
The course will consider the aesthetic and politics of "touch" in dialogue with critical, artistic innovations.. Emphasizing differentiations between interactivity and immersion in art and theory, the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 6725, PMA 6920
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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 Goldwin Smith Hall 232
Instructors
Murray, T
COML 6960
Course Description
New forms of German literature emerged in the wake of transnational labor migration, especially after 1989. Taking leave of a sociological model that interprets this literature only in terms of intercultural ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 6960, NES 6960
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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
Adelson, L
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Additional Information
Graduate-student status and good reading knowledge of German and English required; exceptions require instructor approval.
COML 6998
Course Description
Borders are highly contested sites and their representation plays a fundamental role in a variety of identity discourses. The place of borders in contemporary political discourse also speaks of the anxiety ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LSP 7352, MUSIC 7352
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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 Lincoln Hall 117
Instructors
Madrid, A