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Classes
COML 1104
Course Description
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
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 Clark Hall 294E
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Chakraborty, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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
- MWF Rockefeller Hall 189
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Shokrisaravi, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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 Rockefeller Hall 127
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Han, S
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Additional Information
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
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
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G20
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Shou, T
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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
- MW Rockefeller Hall 110
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Zhang, X
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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
- MWF Malott Hall 206
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Suarez, N
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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
- MW McGraw Hall 145
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Wang, Y
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Additional Information
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
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
- TR Rockefeller Hall 103
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Birger, D
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Additional Information
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
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 Goldwin Smith Hall 164
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Krivitsky, R
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Additional Information
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
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, SHUM 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
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Peraino, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Lincoln Hall 124
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Lincoln Hall 124
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 2030
Course Description
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
Regular Academic 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 Goldwin Smith Hall 181
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Melas, N
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Additional Information
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
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, PMA 2435
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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
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall 236
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Diabate, N
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 2251
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 2951
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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
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 124
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Monroe, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 2282
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 2282
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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 494
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Ma, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 2400
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 2401, ENGL 2400, LSP 2400
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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 Rockefeller Hall 112
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Brady, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 2580
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 2580, JWST 2580
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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 236
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Schwarz, D
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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: ENGL 2754, JWST 2754, NES 2754, SHUM 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
- MW White Hall 110
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Starr, D
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 3001
Course Description
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
Regular Academic 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 160
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Bachner, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Enrollment limited to: Comparative Literature (COML) majors or students who intend to declare the major.
COML 3010
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 6021, LATA 3010, LATA 6020, LSP 3010, LSP 6020, PMA 3010, PMA 6010
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Uris Hall 202
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Castillo, D
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 3012
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3903, GERST 3612, HIST 3012
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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 160
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Pinkham, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 3111
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3911
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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
- T Uris Hall G20
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Walker, G
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 3115
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3115, PMA 3515, ROMS 3115, VISST 3115
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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
- M Goldwin Smith Hall 232
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Murray, T
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Morrill Hall 107
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Lorenz, P
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 3261
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one laboratory. Combined with: PMA 3550, PMA 6550, VISST 3175
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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 Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts B21
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Haenni, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts B21
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Haenni, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 3314
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 3314, ASIAN 6614, COML 6314
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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 Rockefeller Hall B15
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Yi, I
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 3340
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 6539, JWST 3539, JWST 6539, MEDVL 3539, MEDVL 6539, NES 3539, NES 6539, RELST 3539, RELST 6539, SPAN 3539, SPAN 6539
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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
- W Stimson Hall 206
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Brann, R
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 3378
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AAS 3378, ASIAN 3378
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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 Rockefeller Hall B15
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Yi, I
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 3685
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 3686, FREN 3685, NES 3686
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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 181
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Terhmina, I
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 3781
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 3651, FREN 3560, GERST 3561, ROMS 3560, STS 3651
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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
- MW McGraw Hall 145
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
McNulty, T
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 3891
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 3840
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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
- MW Morrill Hall 110
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Greenberg, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Caruth, C
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Additional Information
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)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Bachner, A
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Additional Information
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)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Banerjee, A
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Additional Information
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)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Castillo, D
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Additional Information
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)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Diabate, N
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Additional Information
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)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Dubreuil, L
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Additional Information
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)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Fuhrmann, A
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Additional Information
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)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Vaziri, P
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Additional Information
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)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Monroe, J
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Additional Information
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)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Murray, T
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Additional Information
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)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Walker, G
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Additional Information
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)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Pollak, N
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Additional Information
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)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Fleming, P
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Additional Information
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)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Lorenz, P
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Additional Information
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
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ENGL 4240
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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 Rockefeller Hall 183
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Rosenberg, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 4281
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4705, INFO 4940, INFO 6940
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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
- WF Rockefeller Hall 110
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
McKenzie, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 4368
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 4368, ASRC 6368, COML 6368, FREN 4368, FREN 6368
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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
- W Rockefeller Hall 189
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Melas, N
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 4382
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 6382, ENGL 4382, ENGL 6382, GERST 4382, GERST 6382
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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 Rockefeller Hall 110
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Caruth, C
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 4485
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 6485
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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
- R Rockefeller Hall B16
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Walker, G
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 4697
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 6697, SHUM 4697, SHUM 6697
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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
- T A D White House 109
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Mueller, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
COML 4861
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 6861, PMA 4461, PMA 6461
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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
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall 232
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Monroe, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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 6021
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3010, LATA 3010, LATA 6020, LSP 3010, LSP 6020, PMA 3010, PMA 6010
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Uris Hall 202
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Castillo, D
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 6190
Course Description
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
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
COML 6224
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 6224, ROMS 6324
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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
- T White Hall B06
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Pinkham, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Enrollment limited to: graduate students.
COML 6290
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1 Credit S/U NoAud(Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Klarman Hall K311
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Diabate, N
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 6314
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 3314, ASIAN 6614, COML 3314
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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 Rockefeller Hall B15
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Yi, I
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 6368
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 4368, ASRC 6368, COML 4368, FREN 4368, FREN 6368
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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
- W Rockefeller Hall 189
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Melas, N
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 6382
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4382, ENGL 4382, ENGL 6382, GERST 4382, GERST 6382
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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 Rockefeller Hall 110
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Caruth, C
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 6424
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 6424, ITAL 6224, ROMS 6224, SPAN 6224
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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
- W Klarman Hall KG42
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Howie, C
Keller, P
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 6485
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4485
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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
- R Rockefeller Hall B16
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Walker, G
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 6539
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3340, JWST 3539, JWST 6539, MEDVL 3539, MEDVL 6539, NES 3539, NES 6539, RELST 3539, RELST 6539, SPAN 3539, SPAN 6539
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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
- W Stimson Hall 206
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Brann, R
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 6697
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4697, SHUM 4697, SHUM 6697
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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
- T A D White House 109
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Mueller, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
COML 6791
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 6791
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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
- W Uris Hall 438
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Murray, T
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 6861
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4861, PMA 4461, PMA 6461
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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
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall 232
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Monroe, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person