Comparative Literature (COML)Arts and Sciences
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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.
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- Schedule of Classes - June 15, 2016 6:14PM EDT
- Course Catalog - June 9, 2016 6:15PM EDT
Classes
COML 1109
Course Description
Matches the first track in our major, Comparative Literary Studies. This course rubric deals with literary works from different cultures or historical periods. Consult the John. S. Knight Writing Seminar ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Reading Poetry
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G19
Instructors
Pollak, N
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Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Writing the "I" in Modern Poetry
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall G26
Instructors
Karmin, H
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Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: The Rhetoric of “Post-Racial” America
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall G22
Instructors
Diabate, N
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Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.
COML 1126
Course Description
Matches the second track in our major, Literary, Visual, and Media Studies. This course rubric deals with courses that compare literature to film, video, performance, and other arts. Consult the John. ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Transf Terrains: Cmg of Age on the Amer Lands
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Alice H. Cook House 106
Instructors
Hussein, K
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Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Poetic Cinema
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Uris Hall 382
Instructors
Huang, J
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Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.
COML 2000
Course Description
This course will introduce you to the field of Visual Studies. Visual Studies seeks to define and improve our visual relationship to nature and culture after the modern surge in technology and knowledge. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 2000, ARTH 2000, VISST 2000
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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
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G64-Kau Aud
Instructors
Moisey, A
COML 2035
Course Description
Science fiction, as Fredric Jameson put it, is "the only kind of literature that can reach back and colonize reality." Today more than ever, when science and technology have penetrated everyday life in ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ENGL 2035, STS 2131
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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
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall G22
Instructors
Banerjee, A
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Rockefeller Hall B16
Instructors
Staff
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- R Rockefeller Hall 105
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Staff
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Meeting Pattern
- F Rockefeller Hall B15
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Staff
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Goldwin Smith Hall 348
Instructors
Staff
COML 2050
Course Description
Could a meter have a meaning? Could there be a reason for a rhyme? And what is lost and gained in translation? We'll think about these and other questions in this introduction to poetry. We'll see ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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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
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 156
Instructors
Pollak, N
COML 2200
Course Description
Borrowing its title from a formulation of Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch, and beginning from the "forays of demoralization" instigated by the Dadas, who bequeathed to surrealism the precious ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 2019, ROMS 2200, VISST 2190
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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
- MWF Stimson Hall 206
Instructors
Maxwell, B
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
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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
- TR Uris Hall G44
Instructors
Diabate, N
COML 3010
Course Description
Students develop a specific dramatic text for full-scale production. The course involves selection of an appropriate text, close analysis of the literary aspects of the play, and group evaluation of its ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LATA 3010, LSP 3010
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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 Goldwin Smith Hall G22
Instructors
Castillo, D
COML 3530
Course Description
This course will explore the classical, medieval, and early modern sources for our notions of monsters, including strange beasts, wild men, demons, witches, and cyborgs. What do these figures tell us ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 3530, FREN 3530
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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
- TR Klarman Hall KG42
Instructors
Long, K
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Additional Information
Conducted in English.
COML 3689
Course Description
When did the Self become a central topic for literature? When did fiction begin to describe the individual, its soul and psychic life? This course will trace the history of the individual in German and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 3640
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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
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 156
Instructors
Schwarz, A
COML 3780
Course Description
When Jean-Jacques Rousseau introduced the concept of the "general will" in his classic text The Social Contract, he made what was then an unprecedented and scandalous claim: that the people as a whole, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 3780, GOVT 3786
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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
- TR McGraw Hall 145
Instructors
McNulty, T
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Additional Information
Conducted in English.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
COML 3800
Course Description
As globalization draws the Americas ever closer together, reshaping our sense of a common and uncommon American culture, what claims might be made for a distinctive, diverse poetry and poetics of the America? ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3820, ENGL 3910, LATA 3800, SPAN 3800
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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
- MWF Klarman Hall KG42
Instructors
Monroe, J
COML 3892
Course Description
The class proposes an introduction to literary theory, with special focus on cultural, postcolonial, and subaltern studies. The comparative reflection will engage between English and French, starting with ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 3892, ROMS 3892
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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
- TR Rockefeller Hall 127
Instructors
Joubert, C
COML 4006
Course Description
The aim of this course is to present a map of theories and artistic strategies in order to better understand the validity of the anachronism and obsolescence in today's culture. During recent years, artists ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4577, SHUM 4507, VISST 4577
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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
- R A D White House 110
Instructors
Hernandez Navarro, M
COML 4200
Course Description
No description available. view course details
COML 4290
Course Description
What kinds of poetry might be usefully characterized as "postcolonial" and what are the stakes of such a designation? How common, variable, translatable are values deemed "postcolonial" for particular ... view course details
COML 4339
Course Description
Although the wounded, often feminine, body is the most powerful way of imagining border space in both the Indian subcontinent and the Americas, it is seldom coupled with the embodied practices and performances ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 4440, ASIAN 6640, COML 6339, FGSS 4339, FGSS 6339, LSP 4339, LSP 6339
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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 Morrill Hall 102
Instructors
Banerjee, A
Castillo, D
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Additional Information
Limited to 15 students.
COML 4798
Course Description
This course, offered entirely in English, is open to advanced undergraduates and graduates who want to learn more about the relations of politics to art in general and the cultural politic of "autonomia" ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 6798, ITAL 4710, ITAL 6710
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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 Morrill Hall 102
Instructors
Pinkus, K
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 4999
Course Description
Spring topic: Theories of Affinity view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Section Topic
Topic: Theories of Affinity
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M White Hall B02
Instructors
Bachner, A
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Additional Information
Enrollment limited to: 15 undergraduate students. Required course for COML Majors.
COML 6099
Course Description
The debates over World Literature which have generated fresh critical energies in Comparative Literature form part of a wider "global turn" across the Humanities. The seminar explores the contributions ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ROMS 6099
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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
- R Uris Hall 494
Instructors
Joubert, C
COML 6200
Course Description
Graduate Students: please bring your faculty signed proposal to 240 Goldwin Smith Hall. view course details
COML 6300
Course Description
A study of the development of aesthetics as a theoretical discipline specifying the genetic process, forms, effects, and judgments peculiar to art. Through readings of primarily British and French criticism ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 6300
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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 Olin Library 603
Instructors
Saccamano, N
COML 6339
Course Description
Although the wounded, often feminine, body is the most powerful way of imagining border space in both the Indian subcontinent and the Americas, it is seldom coupled with the embodied practices and performances ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 4440, ASIAN 6640, COML 4339, FGSS 4339, FGSS 6339, LSP 4339, LSP 6339
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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 Morrill Hall 102
Instructors
Banerjee, A
Castillo, D
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Additional Information
Limited to 15 students.
COML 6350
Course Description
What kinds of poetry might be usefully characterized as "postcolonial" and what are the stakes of such a designation? How common, variable, translatable are values deemed "postcolonial" for particular ... view course details
COML 6571
Course Description
"Baroque Files" follows the afterlife of sovereignty, as its representation moves from the symbolic body of the king in the Renaissance into increasingly abstract forms, including public administration. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 6370
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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 Olin Library 303
Instructors
Lorenz, P
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
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M A D White House 110
Instructors
Murray, T
COML 6798
Course Description
This course, offered entirely in English, is open to advanced undergraduates and graduates who want to learn more about the relation of politics to art in general and the cultural politics of "autonomia" ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4798, ITAL 4710, ITAL 6710
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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 Morrill Hall 102
Instructors
Pinkus, K
COML 6893
Course Description
Formations of progressive or revolutionary hope have become increasingly rare and are often replaced, for many working out of the German critical tradition, by critique of Enlightenment. This ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 6890, GERST 6490, JWST 6990, NES 6990
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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 Olin Library 403
Instructors
Boyarin, J
Fleming, P