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COML 1104
FWS: Reading Films

We live in an image-saturated world. How do we make sense of the moving image and its powerful roles in shaping culture and mediating our relationship with the world? This course will equip students with ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 20290 COML 1104   SEM 101

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    • MW Clark Hall 294E
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Chakraborty, A

  • 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

  • 20291 COML 1104   SEM 102

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

Syllabi:

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 20292 COML 1104   SEM 103

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

COML 1105
FWS: Books with Big Ideas

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

  • 20286 COML 1105   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/.

Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 20287 COML 1105   SEM 102

  •  

  • 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

  • 20288 COML 1105   SEM 103

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    • MWF Malott Hall 206
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Suarez, N

  • 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

  • 20289 COML 1105   SEM 104

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    • MW McGraw Hall 145
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Wang, Y

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

COML 1106
FWS: Robots

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

  • 20282 COML 1106   SEM 101

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

COML 1119
FWS: A Taste of Russian Literature

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

  • 20281 COML 1119   SEM 101

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

COML 2006
Punk Culture: The Art and Politics of Refusal

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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Syllabi: none

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

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18786 COML 2006   LEC 001

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    • TR Lincoln Hall B20
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Peraino, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18788 COML 2006   DIS 201

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18789 COML 2006   DIS 202

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 2030
Comparative Literature, Film, and Media

Take your love for literature, film and media into uncharted waters. This course explores cutting-edge debates in the humanities today through the prism of in the transnational, multilingual discipline ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18411 COML 2030   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Enrollment limited to: incoming first-year students. To request a permission number, contact the Department of Comparative Literature, complit@cornell.edu.

    Department Consent Required (Add)

COML 2235
New Visions in African Cinema

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 2235, ENGL 2935, PMA 2435

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17946 COML 2235   SEM 101

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 2251
Poetry's Image

Where do we get our images of poets, and of poetry? Along with the images we find in poems themselves, how do poetry and poets figure in fiction and film, in music and popular culture? How do such figures ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 2951

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9235 COML 2251   SEM 101

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 2282
Speculative Asias

This course explores Asian speculative literary fiction and cinema including early mythological influences, science fiction, and contemporary discourses of technoscientific progress. Students will examine ... view course details

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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 2282

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18145 COML 2282   LEC 001

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    • TR Uris Hall 494
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Ma, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 2400
Introduction to U.S. Latinx Literature

Latina/os have always been part of U.S. history, yet the media often represents Latinx as only recent immigrants or as stereotypes that reduce rich cultures into a single, unified category or group of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2401, ENGL 2400, LSP 2400

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9674 COML 2400   SEM 101

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 2580
Imagining the Holocaust

How is the memory of the Holocaust kept alive by means of the literary and visual imagination? Within the historical context of the Holocaust and how and why it occurred, we shall examine major and widely ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 2580, JWST 2580

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10646 COML 2580   LEC 001

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 2754
Wondrous Literatures of the Near East

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: none

  •  5921 COML 2754   LEC 001

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    • MW White Hall 110
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Starr, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3001
Methods of Comparison

What do comparatists do when we approach our objects of study? What enables or justifies comparison across different languages, different genres, different media, and different disciplines? Does all comparison ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  5807 COML 3001   SEM 101

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Enrollment limited to: Comparative Literature (COML) majors or students who intend to declare the major.

COML 3010
Latinx Theatre Production

In this course, we will develop a toolbox of performance techniques based on methods developed in the Spanish-speaking and Latinx contexts. These techniques will be used in preparing short, original, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17931 COML 3010   SEM 101

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    • MW Uris Hall 202
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Castillo, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3012
Remembering Socialism: Literature and Film After the End of History

More than thirty years after the end of the Soviet Union, we have the distance needed to view the twentieth-century state socialist project from a historical perspective–even as Cold War tropes are revived ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3903, GERST 3612, HIST 3012

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10984 COML 3012   SEM 101

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3111
Literature, Art, and the Environment

This course examines how philosophical, architectural, filmic, and literary practices shape our understanding of place and space, engaging with theories of mapping, spatiality, and the built environment. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3911

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 20429 COML 3111   SEM 101

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    • T Uris Hall G20
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Walker, G

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3115
Video and New Media: Art, Theory, Politics

The course will offer an overview of video art, alternative documentary video, and digital installation and networked art. It will analyze four phases of video and new media: (1) the development of video ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 18491 COML 3115   SEM 101

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3240
Blood Politics: Comparative Renaissance Drama

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

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10703 COML 3240   SEM 101

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    • MW Morrill Hall 107
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Lorenz, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3261
Global Cinema and Media

Global Cinema and Media offers a survey of international film and media history from the late nineteenth century to today. Through a focus on key films and significant epochs, the course traces the evolution ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one laboratory. Combined with: PMA 3550, PMA 6550, VISST 3175

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5665 COML 3261   LEC 001

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10687 COML 3261   LAB 401

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3314
Korean Literature and Performance: From P'ansori to K-Pop

This course examines Korean literature and performance traditions from the Chosŏn dynasty (1392-1910) to the present. Through performance workshops, the course enables students to experience how Korean ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 3314, ASIAN 6614, COML 6314

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18150 COML 3314   LEC 001

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3340
Islamic Spain: Culture and Society

This course examines the culture and society of al-Andalus (Islamic Spain) from 711, when Islam arrived in Iberia, until 1492 and the demise of Nasrid Granada. Through extensive discussion and analysis ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 18279 COML 3340   LEC 001

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3378
Korean American Literature

The rapidly growing literature of the Korean diaspora is one of the most significant developments in Korean literature since the 20th century. As Korean literature has circulated as world literature, it ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AAS 3378, ASIAN 3378

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18095 COML 3378   LEC 001

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3685
Feminism and Islam in North Africa

The course is a survey of Feminist Islamic thinkers from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt, and their diaspora, featuring both French and Arabic texts in English translation. The purpose of the course ... view course details

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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 3686, FREN 3685, NES 3686

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 12021 COML 3685   SEM 101

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3781
Freud and Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis considers the human being not as an object of treatment, but as a subject who is called upon to elaborate an unconscious knowledge about what is disrupting her life, through analysis of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 18640 COML 3781   LEC 001

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    • MW McGraw Hall 145
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • McNulty, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3891
Occupied France Through Film

The Second World War and the Occupation of France by German forces had a traumatic impact on the nation's identity. We will examine the way France has tried to deal with this conflicted period through ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 3840

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18650 COML 3891   SEM 101

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    • MW Morrill Hall 110
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Greenberg, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 4190
Independent Study

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

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  3539 COML 4190   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Caruth, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4787 COML 4190   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Bachner, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4790 COML 4190   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Banerjee, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4789 COML 4190   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Castillo, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4788 COML 4190   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Diabate, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6026 COML 4190   IND 613

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Dubreuil, L

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6041 COML 4190   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Fuhrmann, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

    Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6027 COML 4190   IND 616

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Vaziri, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4791 COML 4190   IND 619

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Monroe, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5640 COML 4190   IND 620

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Murray, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

    Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4792 COML 4190   IND 622

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Walker, G

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4793 COML 4190   IND 623

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Pollak, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5038 COML 4190   IND 629

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Fleming, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6028 COML 4190   IND 634

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Lorenz, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

    Department Consent Required (Add)

COML 4242
Metamorphoses in Renaissance Literature and Culture

Stories of transformation have been central to literary traditions for thousands of years, but these tales of shape-shifting took on a special life in the English Renaissance, when Ovid's Metamorphoses ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ENGL 4240

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19730 COML 4242   SEM 101

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 19731 COML 4242   IND 601

  •  
    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Rosenberg, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

COML 4281
Human-Centered Design and Engaged Media

This StudioLab course connects critical design teams with researchers, NGOs, and nonprofits working on human rights, public health, and environmental and land rights in the US and abroad. Practicing methods ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4705, INFO 4940, INFO 6940

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5838 COML 4281   DES 501

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 4368
Reading Édouard Glissant

This seminar will focus on the writings of the polymorphous Martinican poet and thinker, Édouard Glissant (1928-2011).  We will attend to the historical context of French colonialism, particularly in the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17949 COML 4368   SEM 101

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 4382
Paul de Man

This course studies major works from the great 20th century literary theorist Paul de Man, one of the founders of deconstruction. We will read carefully works from across his career, including broader ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 19304 COML 4382   SEM 101

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 4485
The Althusserian Legacy

The work of Louis Althusser remains a central and canonical reference for contemporary theory, but also a historical reference of major importance for its intellectual history. Althusser not only taught ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 6485

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17980 COML 4485   SEM 101

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 4697
Is Nature Silent?

Thoreau, in 1841: "Nature is always silent and unpretending as at the break of day." He had just contrasted the robin's song with "the bustle and impatience of man." Why could silence contain birdsong ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 6697, SHUM 4697, SHUM 6697

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 21309 COML 4697   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

COML 4861
Genres, Platforms, Media

How do questions of genre persist and evolve in the age of digital media and A.I.? To what extent do we choose our genres, and in what ways do they choose us? How do genres, platforms, and media intersect ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 6861, PMA 4461, PMA 6461

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17955 COML 4861   SEM 101

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 4930
Senior Essay

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. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  3348 COML 4930   IND 601

  •  
    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Caruth, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  4794 COML 4930   IND 603

  •  
    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Bachner, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  4795 COML 4930   IND 604

  •  
    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Banerjee, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  4796 COML 4930   IND 607

  •  
    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Castillo, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  4797 COML 4930   IND 612

  •  
    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Diabate, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  5496 COML 4930   IND 613

  •  
    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Dubreuil, L

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  6042 COML 4930   IND 615

  •  
    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Brann, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  5499 COML 4930   IND 616

  •  
    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Vaziri, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  4798 COML 4930   IND 619

  •  
    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Monroe, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  4799 COML 4930   IND 622

  •  
    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Walker, G

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  4800 COML 4930   IND 623

  •  
    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Pollak, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  6016 COML 4930   IND 629

  •  
    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Fleming, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  6017 COML 4930   IND 634

  •  
    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Lorenz, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

COML 4940
Senior Essay

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. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  5156 COML 4940   IND 601

  •  
    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Caruth, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
    Prerequisite: COML 4930.

COML 6021
Latinx Theatre Production

In this course, we will develop a toolbox of performance techniques based on methods developed in the Spanish-speaking and Latinx contexts. These techniques will be used in preparing short, original, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17985 COML 6021   SEM 101

  •  
    • MW Uris Hall 202
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Castillo, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 6190
Independent Study

This course gives students the opportunity to work with a selected instructor to pursue special interests or research not treated in regularly scheduled courses. After getting permission of the instructor, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  3540 COML 6190   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Caruth, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4801 COML 6190   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Bachner, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4802 COML 6190   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Banerjee, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4803 COML 6190   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Castillo, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4804 COML 6190   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Diabate, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6018 COML 6190   IND 613

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Dubreuil, L

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6043 COML 6190   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Fuhrmann, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5683 COML 6190   IND 616

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Vaziri, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4805 COML 6190   IND 619

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Monroe, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5684 COML 6190   IND 620

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • McNulty, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4806 COML 6190   IND 622

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Walker, G

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4807 COML 6190   IND 623

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Pollak, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6019 COML 6190   IND 629

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Fleming, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6021 COML 6190   IND 634

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Lorenz, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5791 COML 6190   IND 643

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

COML 6224
Writing for the Public: Adapting Academic Work for a General Audience

This workshop-style course will address the question of how to draw on academic research and expertise to write for a non-specialist audience. We will discuss the benefits of public-facing writing; how ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 6224, ROMS 6324

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18498 COML 6224   SEM 101

  •  
    • T White Hall B06
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Pinkham, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

COML 6290
Comparative Literature Proseminar

Structured around guest and public lectures by field members and beyond, the proseminar provides a common experience for students and facilitates the exchange of approaches to theoretical problems and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit S/U NoAud

  • 20548 COML 6290   SEM 101

  •  

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 6314
Korean Literature and Performance: From P'ansori to K-Pop

This course examines Korean literature and performance traditions from the Chosŏn dynasty (1392-1910) to the present. Through performance workshops, the course enables students to experience how Korean ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 3314, ASIAN 6614, COML 3314

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18151 COML 6314   LEC 001

  •  

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 6368
Reading Édouard Glissant

This seminar will focus on the writings of the polymorphous Martinican poet and thinker, Édouard Glissant (1928-2011).  We will attend to the historical context of French colonialism, particularly in the ... view course details

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  • 17952 COML 6368   SEM 101

  •  

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 6382
Paul de Man

This course studies major works from the great 20th century literary theorist Paul de Man, one of the founders of deconstruction. We will read carefully works from across his career, including broader ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 19734 COML 6382   SEM 101

  •  

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 6424
Beauty, Grief

This course is for anyone drawn to beauty-and anyone who, within the beautiful, finds the trace of a loss. What do we grieve, what do we miss, when we find ourselves in the presence of beauty? And what, ... view course details

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  • 20103 COML 6424   SEM 101

  •  
    • W Klarman Hall KG42
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Howie, C

      Keller, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 6485
The Althusserian Legacy

The work of Louis Althusser remains a central and canonical reference for contemporary theory, but also a historical reference of major importance for its intellectual history. Althusser not only taught ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 4485

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17981 COML 6485   SEM 101

  •  

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 6539
Islamic Spain: Culture and Society

This course examines the culture and society of al-Andalus (Islamic Spain) from 711, when Islam arrived in Iberia, until 1492 and the demise of Nasrid Granada. Through extensive discussion and analysis ... view course details

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  • 18288 COML 6539   SEM 101

  •  

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 6697
Is Nature Silent?

Thoreau, in 1841: "Nature is always silent and unpretending as at the break of day." He had just contrasted the robin's song with "the bustle and impatience of man." Why could silence contain birdsong ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 4697, SHUM 4697, SHUM 6697

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 21311 COML 6697   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

COML 6791
Acoustic Horizons

The course will explore the philosophy, psychoanalysis, and politics of sound along the artistic interface of cinema, video, performance, and new media art.  From analysis of synchronization of sound and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 6791

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19164 COML 6791   SEM 101

  •  
    • W Uris Hall 438
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Murray, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 6861
Genres, Platforms, Media

How do questions of genre persist and evolve in the age of digital media and A.I.? To what extent do we choose our genres, and in what ways do they choose us? How do genres, platforms, and media intersect ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 4861, PMA 4461, PMA 6461

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17957 COML 6861   SEM 101

  •  

  • Instruction Mode: In Person