COML 2030

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COML 2030
Comparative Literature, Film, and Media

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2020-2021.

Take your love for literature, film and media into uncharted waters. This course journeys beyond national, linguistic and disciplinary borders to explore implications of our globalized and technologized world.  Engage in cutting-edge debates in the fields of comparative literature and film and media studies. Exploring texts from across the globe, we'll read authors like Sappho, Ovid,  Kafka, Césaire, Coetzee, Head, Butler, Borges, Lu Xun, Tawada; watch films by Alain Resnais, Michael Snow, Wong Kar-Wai, Ousmène Sembène, Abbas Kiarostami. Topics will include: postcolonial theory, translation, black studies, gender and sexuality studies, ecocriticism, and media studies. Writing assignments will include the analytical college essay and other forms of critical reflection, such as translation and transmedial analysis.

When Offered Fall.

Distribution Category (LA-AS, ALC-AS)

Comments Open to incoming freshmen. Students must apply in writing to chair of the department of Comparative Literature. Students can submit a petition to the Knight Institute to request that this course fulfill the first-year writing requirement.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19079 COML 2030   SEM 101

    • TR Mcgraw Hall 165
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Melas, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person Transition to Online
    Enrollment limited to students who are able to attend in-person classes in the Ithaca area.

    Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19179 COML 2030   SEM 103

    • TR Statler Hall 341
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Diabate, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person Transition to Online
    Enrollment limited to students who are able to attend in-person classes in the Ithaca area.

    Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 20350 COML 2030   SEM 104

    • TR Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Online

    Department Consent Required (Add)