Romance Studies (ROMS)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2021-2022.

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:
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: The Decameron

  • 19637 ROMS 1102   SEM 101

    • MWF Uris Hall 302
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Migiel, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    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

  • Topic: FWS: Spiritual Autobiography

  • 19638 ROMS 1102   SEM 102

    • MW Uris Hall 302
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Howie, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    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

  • Topic: FWS: Italian Renaissance Comedies

  • 19808 ROMS 1102   SEM 103

    • MWF Malott Hall 206
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Andreoni, G

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    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

  • Topic: FWS:Women's Writing:Writing Women

  • 19809 ROMS 1102   SEM 104

    • MWF Uris Hall 302
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Karczewski, J

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

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:Sailors and Cities:Cultural Exchange in France

  • 19642 ROMS 1108   SEM 101

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

ROMS 1109

What kind of information do images - in photography, painting, and/or film - convey?  What kind of impact do they have on the minds and the bodies of their audiences?  This course foregrounds the role ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:French Cinema in the Margins

  • 19643 ROMS 1109   SEM 101

    • MWF Uris Hall 260
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Pasquer Brochard, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    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

  • Topic: FWS: French Film—1895 to the Present

  • 19685 ROMS 1109   SEM 102

    • TR Uris Hall 260
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Huelster, N

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

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:On Love

  • 19644 ROMS 1113   SEM 101

    • MWF Uris Hall 260
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Rodriguez de Rivera, I

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    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

  • Topic: FWS:On Love

  • 19645 ROMS 1113   SEM 102

    • MWF Uris Hall 260
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Rodriguez de Rivera, I

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    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

  • Topic: FWS:Globally Queer

  • 19646 ROMS 1113   SEM 103

    • MWF Uris Hall 204
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Rodriguez de Rivera, I

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

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

  • 19648 ROMS 1114   SEM 101

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

ROMS 1115

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 19653 ROMS 1115   SEM 101

    • MW Online Meeting
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • von Wittelsbach, K

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

ROMS 3010

When sugar "was king," that is, when it was valued in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as we might value petroleum today, European nations went to war in order to possess the sugar producing islands ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18430 ROMS 3010   LEC 001

    • MW Africana Ctr 111
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Aching, G

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ROMS 4255

Marx, never reading Freud, produced analysis of ideology and fetishism as class struggle; Freud, barely mentioning Marx, produced critique of socialism and communism. Freudo-Marxism began 1920s: Austria/Germany ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18776 ROMS 4255   SEM 101

    • M McGraw Hall 145
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Waite, G

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ROMS 4655

This course asks how Renaissance lyric poetry (including Petrarch, Labé, Ronsard, Shakespeare, Wroth) negotiates questions of gender through poetic innovation and, just as often, through the use of poetic ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18115 ROMS 4655   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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

  •  4749 ROMS 5080   SEM 101

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Bevia, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    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

  •  4881 ROMS 5080   SEM 102

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Illana Mahiques, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    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

  •  4882 ROMS 5080   SEM 103

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Fulginiti, V

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    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

  •  6944 ROMS 5080   SEM 104

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Glidja, F

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  •  6945 ROMS 5080   SEM 105

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Amigo-Silvestre, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  • 20455 ROMS 5080   SEM 106

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Torea, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ROMS 6100

Designed to give insight into how to formulate projects, conduct research, and publish one's work, the colloquium offers a venue for faculty-graduate student dialogue in a collegial, intellectual setting.  ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2 Credits S/U NoAud

  •  7282 ROMS 6100   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ROMS 6255

Marx, never reading Freud, produced analysis of ideology and fetishism as class struggle; Freud, barely mentioning Marx, produced critique of socialism and communism. Freudo-Marxism began 1920s: Austria/Germany ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18777 ROMS 6255   SEM 101

    • M McGraw Hall 145
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Waite, G

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Enrollment limited to Seniors and Graduate Students.

ROMS 6655

This course asks how Renaissance lyric poetry (including Petrarch, Labé, Ronsard, Shakespeare, Wroth) negotiates questions of gender through poetic innovation and, just as often, through the use of poetic ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18119 ROMS 6655   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ROMS 6860

What gives contemporary poetry and poetics its resonance and value? What are its dominant features, audiences, and purposes? What does 21st-century poetry's environment look like, and how does it situate ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16726 ROMS 6860   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person