Comparative Literature (COML)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2018-2019.

COML 1105

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17928 COML 1105   SEM 101

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

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17929 COML 1105   SEM 102

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

COML 1106

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17930 COML 1106   SEM 101

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

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17931 COML 1106   SEM 102

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

COML 1107

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17933 COML 1107   SEM 101

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

COML 1110

"[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

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17934 COML 1110   SEM 101

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

COML 1115

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17935 COML 1115   SEM 101

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

COML 1116

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17932 COML 1116   SEM 101

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

COML 1119

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17936 COML 1119   SEM 101

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

COML 1121

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17937 COML 1121   SEM 101

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

COML 1122

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17958 COML 1122   SEM 101

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

COML 2006

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 2006ENGL 2906MUSIC 2006

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18183 COML 2006   LEC 001

  • 18192 COML 2006   DIS 201

  • 18193 COML 2006   DIS 202

COML 2030

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8533 COML 2030   SEM 101

  • First semester freshman - by invitation only.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9824 COML 2030   SEM 102

COML 2050

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16904 COML 2050   SEM 101

COML 2235

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 2235ENGL 2935

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17139 COML 2235   SEM 101

COML 2754

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

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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: JWST 2754NES 2754

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8779 COML 2754   LEC 001

COML 3240

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3240

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16735 COML 3240   SEM 101

COML 3300

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 3550GOVT 3705PMA 3490

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16961 COML 3300   LEC 001

  • Film Screening TBA.

COML 3440

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

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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 3645PMA 3724

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8642 COML 3440   LEC 001

COML 3542

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GERST 3610GOVT 3606

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17131 COML 3542   LEC 001

  • Taught in English.

  • 17132 COML 3542   DIS 201

  • 17690 COML 3542   DIS 202

COML 3815

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

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

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8131 COML 3815   SEM 101

COML 3971

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3713ROMS 3971

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17135 COML 3971   SEM 101

COML 4190

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6165 COML 4190   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Caruth, C

COML 4364

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Syllabi: none
  •   Seven Week - Second.  Combined with: ASRC 4151ROMS 4151

  • 2 Credits Graded

  • 19016 COML 4364   SEM 101

    • M Uris Hall 204
    • Oct 15 - Dec 4, 2018
    • Staff

COML 4575

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

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  •  9589 COML 4575   LEC 001

    • TR Ives Hall 103
    • Castillo, D

      Cook, M

COML 4621

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4926SHUM 4626SHUM 6626

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16377 COML 4621   SEM 101

COML 4700

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 4481

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16486 COML 4700   SEM 101

COML 4704

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 4407FGSS 4607

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17460 COML 4704   SEM 101

  • Core Course for COML UG Majors. Limited to 15 students.

COML 4930

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  5875 COML 4930   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Caruth, C

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

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7938 COML 4930   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Ahl, F

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7939 COML 4930   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Bachner, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7940 COML 4930   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Banerjee, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7941 COML 4930   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Caruth, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7942 COML 4930   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Castillo, D

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7943 COML 4930   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Chase, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7944 COML 4930   IND 611

    • TBA
    • de Bary, B

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7945 COML 4930   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Diabate, N

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  9965 COML 4930   IND 613

    • TBA
    • Dubreuil, L

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7946 COML 4930   IND 616

    • TBA
    • Vaziri, P

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7947 COML 4930   IND 617

    • TBA
    • McNulty, T

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  9968 COML 4930   IND 618

    • TBA
    • Melas, N

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7948 COML 4930   IND 619

    • TBA
    • Monroe, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8281 COML 4930   IND 620

    • TBA
    • Murray, T

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7949 COML 4930   IND 622

    • TBA
    • Pinkus, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7950 COML 4930   IND 623

    • TBA
    • Pollak, N

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7951 COML 4930   IND 626

    • TBA
    • Shapiro, G

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  9969 COML 4930   IND 628

    • TBA
    • Staff

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  • 18975 COML 4930   IND 633

    • TBA
    • Keller, P

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  • 18776 COML 4930   IND 636

    • TBA
    • McBride, P

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  • 18792 COML 4930   IND 637

    • TBA
    • Schwarz, D

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  • 18793 COML 4930   IND 638

    • TBA
    • Gilbert, R

COML 4940

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8514 COML 4940   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Caruth, C

COML 4947

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 4947FGSS 4947

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17151 COML 4947   SEM 101

COML 6033

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 6235

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16953 COML 6033   LEC 001

  • Taught in English.

COML 6135

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 6040

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16946 COML 6135   SEM 101

  • Readings and discussion in English.

COML 6186

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 6315STS 6131

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17014 COML 6186   LEC 001

  • Taught in English. Enrollment limited to: graduate students only or instructor permission.

COML 6190

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6167 COML 6190   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Caruth, C

COML 6308

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

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Syllabi: none
  • Topic: Mapping Global Spatio-politics Through China

  • 17849 COML 6308   SEM 101

COML 6375

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

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  •  9590 COML 6375   LEC 001

    • TR Ives Hall 103
    • Castillo, D

      Cook, M

COML 6556

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 6556

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16773 COML 6556   SEM 101

COML 6630

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 6630

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16935 COML 6630   SEM 101

  • 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

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 6621

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18908 COML 6686   SEM 101

COML 6736

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 6730CLASS 6736

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17499 COML 6736   SEM 101

COML 6902

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: STS 6902

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17148 COML 6902   SEM 101

  • Enrollment limited to: 15 students.

COML 6920

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 6725PMA 6920

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17247 COML 6920   SEM 101

COML 6960

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 6960NES 6960

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16982 COML 6960   SEM 101

  • Graduate-student status and good reading knowledge of German and English required; exceptions require instructor approval.

COML 6998

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LSP 7352MUSIC 7352

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17163 COML 6998   SEM 101