Comparative Literature (COML)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.

COML 1109

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Reading Poetry

  • 17693 COML 1109   SEM 101

  • For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Writing the "I" in Modern Poetry

  • 17694 COML 1109   SEM 102

  • For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: The Rhetoric of “Post-Racial” America

  • 17695 COML 1109   SEM 103

  • For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.

COML 1126

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:Transf Terrains: Cmg of Age on the Amer Lands

  • 17670 COML 1126   SEM 101

  • For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Poetic Cinema

  • 17671 COML 1126   SEM 102

  • For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.

COML 2000

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2000ARTH 2000VISST 2000

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7184 COML 2000   LEC 001

COML 2035

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ENGL 2035STS 2131

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17571 COML 2035   LEC 001

  • 17572 COML 2035   DIS 201

  • 17573 COML 2035   DIS 202

  • 17574 COML 2035   DIS 203

  • 17575 COML 2035   DIS 204

COML 2050

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17399 COML 2050   SEM 101

COML 2200

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 2019ROMS 2200VISST 2190

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8564 COML 2200   SEM 101

COML 2235

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 2235ENGL 2935

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17328 COML 2235   SEM 101

COML 3010

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LATA 3010LSP 3010

  • 1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7603 COML 3010   SEM 101

COML 3530

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 3530FREN 3530

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16167 COML 3530   LEC 001

  • Conducted in English.

COML 3689

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 3640

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16481 COML 3689   SEM 101

COML 3780

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 3780GOVT 3786

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16171 COML 3780   SEM 101

  • Conducted in English.

COML 3800

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

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Syllabi: none
  • 17405 COML 3800   SEM 101

COML 3892

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 3892ROMS 3892

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17412 COML 3892   SEM 101

COML 4006

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 4577SHUM 4507VISST 4577

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17490 COML 4006   SEM 101

COML 4200

No description available. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9180 COML 4200   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Staff

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18905 COML 4200   IND 620

    • TBA
    • Murray, T

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18934 COML 4200   IND 643

    • TBA
    • Waite, G

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18935 COML 4200   IND 645

    • TBA
    • Joubert, C

COML 4290

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

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Syllabi: none
  • 17414 COML 4290   SEM 101

COML 4339

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

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Syllabi: none
  •  7777 COML 4339   SEM 101

  • Limited to 15 students.

COML 4798

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 6798ITAL 4710ITAL 6710

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16190 COML 4798   SEM 101

COML 4930

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. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8830 COML 4930   IND 601

    • TBA
    • McNulty, T

COML 4940

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. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6174 COML 4940   IND 601

    • TBA
    • McNulty, T

  • If you do not see the faculty member you wish to work with, please use 601.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18966 COML 4940   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Bachner, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7696 COML 4940   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Banerjee, A

  • If you do not see the faculty member you wish to work with, please use 601.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7699 COML 4940   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Castillo, D

  • If you do not see the faculty member you wish to work with, please use 601.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  9133 COML 4940   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Diabate, N

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7703 COML 4940   IND 613

    • TBA
    • Dubreuil, L

  • If you do not see the faculty member you wish to work with, please use 601.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7705 COML 4940   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Maxwell, B

  • If you do not see the faculty member you wish to work with, please use 601.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7713 COML 4940   IND 617

    • TBA
    • McNulty, T

  • If you do not see the faculty member you wish to work with, please use 601.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7714 COML 4940   IND 618

    • TBA
    • Staff

  • If you do not see the faculty member you wish to work with, please use 601.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7715 COML 4940   IND 619

    • TBA
    • Monroe, J

  • If you do not see the faculty member you wish to work with, please use 601.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  9145 COML 4940   IND 620

    • TBA
    • Murray, T

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  9075 COML 4940   IND 622

    • TBA
    • Pinkus, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7716 COML 4940   IND 623

    • TBA
    • Pollak, N

  • If you do not see the faculty member you wish to work with, please use 601.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7717 COML 4940   IND 624

    • TBA
    • Saccamano, N

  • If you do not see the faculty member you wish to work with, please use 601.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7718 COML 4940   IND 626

    • TBA
    • Staff

  • If you do not see the faculty member you wish to work with, please use 601.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  9165 COML 4940   IND 638

    • TBA
    • Schwarz, A

COML 4999

Spring topic: Theories of Affinity view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Theories of Affinity

  •  8573 COML 4999   SEM 101

  • Enrollment limited to: 15 undergraduate students. Required course for COML Majors.

COML 6099

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ROMS 6099

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17977 COML 6099   SEM 101

COML 6200

Graduate Students: please bring your faculty signed proposal to 240 Goldwin Smith Hall. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6175 COML 6200   IND 601

    • TBA
    • McNulty, T

  • 18860 COML 6200   IND 614

    • TBA
    • Kennedy, W

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9153 COML 6200   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Staff

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9158 COML 6200   IND 628

    • TBA
    • Staff

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18936 COML 6200   IND 643

    • TBA
    • Waite, G

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18937 COML 6200   IND 645

    • TBA
    • Joubert, C

COML 6300

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 6300

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17418 COML 6300   SEM 101

COML 6339

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

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Syllabi: none
  •  7780 COML 6339   SEM 101

  • Limited to 15 students.

COML 6350

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

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Syllabi: none
  • 17423 COML 6350   SEM 101

COML 6571

"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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 6370

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15931 COML 6571   SEM 101

COML 6791

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

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16064 COML 6791   SEM 101

COML 6798

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 4798ITAL 4710ITAL 6710

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18206 COML 6798   SEM 101

COML 6893

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

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Syllabi: none
  • 16488 COML 6893   SEM 101