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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: The Ulysses Theme: Coming Home to Ithaca
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 369
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.
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:Digital Poetry, or Literary, Visual & SonicArt
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 369
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.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Visual Islam
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 348
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.
COML 1133
Course Description
This course rubric deals with courses that focus on philosophical themes and texts. Consult the John. S. Knight Writing Seminar Program brochure for current year offerings, instructions and ... 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: The World as Text
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 162
Instructors
Alswaid, A
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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: Powers of Literature
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall 124
Instructors
Davenport, 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 2007
Course Description
Is a photograph of an event somehow more real than a written report? Will the novel survive the age of new media? How do Instagram or Twitter change storytelling? In this class we will examine how media ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 2907
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR White Hall 104
Instructors
McEnaney, T
COML 2020
Course Description
What is a "classic"? What is "contemporary"? How did we get "here" from "there"? Where are we heading now? Extending from the Renaissance to the present, this course will focus on texts from Europe and ... 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 Malott Hall 205
Instructors
Monroe, J
COML 2030
Course Description
Spring: Take your love for literature into uncharted waters. "Introduction to Comparative Literature" journeys beyond national and disciplinary borders to explore the far-reaching implications ... 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
Melas, N
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: BSOC 2131, 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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- R Uris Hall G22
Instructors
Staff
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- R Uris Hall 303
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Staff
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Class Number & Section Details
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall G20
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Staff
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Class Number & Section Details
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall 158
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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 Uris Hall 302
Instructors
Pollak, N
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
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 236
Instructors
Schwarz, D
COML 2728
Course Description
In their acceptance speeches for the Nobel Prize in Literature, both the Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz (1988) and the Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk (2006) situate their work between Eastern and Western ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: JWST 2728, NES 2728
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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 White Hall 110
Instructors
Starr, D
COML 2760
Course Description
"Language is a skin," the critic Roland Barthes once wrote: "I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 2760, FGSS 2760, LGBT 2760, PMA 2680
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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 G76-Lewis
Instructors
Hanson, E
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 3021
Course Description
This course juxtaposes the exciting theoretical advances of the late 20th century, including structuralism and post-structuralism, with current developments in 21st century theory such as performance studies, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3021, PMA 3421
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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 G24
Instructors
Caruth, C
Villarejo, A
COML 3024
Course Description
This is an introduction to trauma theory in the context of the concerns of the contemporary world. We will study the unique and enigmatic notion of trauma as it arose in the beginning of the twentieth ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3755
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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 236
Instructors
Caruth, C
COML 3255
Course Description
These are names of an existential dimension commonly taken to have gone missing in our time. The flight of the gods and the death of God have supposedly left a disenchanted world with little room for the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: RELST 3255
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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 KG44
Instructors
Molde, K
COML 3550
Course Description
"My existence is a scandal," Oscar Wilde once wrote, summing up in an epigram the effect of his carefully cultivated style of perversity and paradox. Through their celebration of "art for art's sake" and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3550, FGSS 3550, LGBT 3550
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall G24
Instructors
Hanson, E
COML 3580
Course Description
What role should imaginative arts play in debates about transnational migration, one of the principal factors re-shaping community and communication today? Focusing on literature and film from the late ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3581, GERST 3581, PMA 3481, VISST 3581
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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 158
Instructors
Adelson, L
Haenni, S
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Additional Information
University Course. Taught in English.
COML 3688
Course Description
This seminar will explore the unique "Kafkaesque" universe of metamorphoses, labyrinthine systems of law and (in)-justice, and uncanny societies of humans and animals. Focusing on Franz Kafka's novels ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 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
- TR Rockefeller Hall 189
Instructors
Schwarz, A
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Additional Information
Readings and discussions in English. Students proficient in German at the upper intermediate level or higher may opt to do a substantial portion of the reading in German.
COML 3746
Course Description
The modernist period saw profound transformations in the form, content, and staging of drama, as well as in ideas about theatre and society that remain important today. We will explore the development ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PMA 3746
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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 Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 434
Instructors
Gainor, J
COML 3806
Course Description
Postcolonialism and Transnationalism are significant fields of theory and criticism, and ones not currently the main focus of contemporary drama classes offered through PMA. This course is being created ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 3806, PMA 3806
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Judith Eisner Pavillion 201
Instructors
Stratford, A
COML 3811
Course Description
The modern field of translation studies overlaps most closely with literary studies, but it intersects also with fields such as linguistics and politics. The intense work in translation studies in the ... 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 Klarman Hall KG44
Instructors
Pollak, N
COML 4200
Course Description
No description available. view course details
COML 4227
Course Description
This interdisciplinary seminar would like to offer new hypotheses on the ways literature is understood and experienced by a reader's mind. Our methodology, while non-reductionist, will take into account ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 6227, FREN 4060, FREN 6060
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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 McGraw Hall 365
Instructors
Dubreuil, L
COML 4250
Course Description
This is an introduction to the three 'master thinkers' who have helped determine the discourses of modernity and post-modernity. We consider basic aspects of their work: (a) specific critical and historical ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 4250, GOVT 4735
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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 Baker Laboratory 335
Instructors
Waite, G
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Additional Information
This is a lecture course, but there will be plenty of time for discussion. Formerly GERST 4150 – students who previously took GERST 4150 cannot enroll in this course. Film-screening one evening night per week, TBA.
COML 4312
Course Description
In retrospect, was film anything more than some highly flammable strips of celluloid? Taking its cue from the "digital turn," this course rephrases a traditional question asked in film theory about the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 4312, PMA 4512, STS 4821
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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 350
Instructors
Born, E
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Additional Information
Taught in English. Film screening one evening night per week TBA.
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 4414
Course Description
When we speak, we think of our voice as natural to us. This course will interrogate the basis of this assumption by focusing on the voice as a trained cultural technique. In this course, we will look ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 4414
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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 181
Instructors
Solanki, T
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Additional Information
Texts and discussions in English.
COML 4513
Course Description
A pronounced turn away from utopian discourses has long been felt across multiple academic registers—aspects of queer theory rejecting futurity, portions of the radical left adopting a similar politics ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 4513, ENGL 4903
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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 A D White House 110
Instructors
Wilson, R
COML 4771
Course Description
This course examines Indigenous art, new media and film from three distinct interrelated perspectives of aesthetics/theory, technology and history/culture. The relationship between technology and tradition ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4771, AMST 6771, ANTHR 4771, ANTHR 6771, ARTH 4771, ARTH 6771, COML 6771
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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 Goldwin Smith Hall 164
Instructors
Rickard, J
COML 4785
Course Description
This course examines how skin and bodily margins in drama, performance art, and film shape the way we understand the human and its markers of identity, from the strange carapace that Oedipus presents in ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 4602, PMA 4965, SHUM 4612
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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 A D White House 110
Instructors
Worman, N
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 4947
Course Description
In this course, you will explore nakedness as a form of protest by various social movements and in compelling fictional texts. As you analyze nakedness from ancient Greece to 21th century Africa, Asia, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 4947, SHUM 4605
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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 109
Instructors
Diabate, N
COML 6032
Course Description
The "autobiographical" spans millennia and encompasses a vast array of seemingly dissimilar authors and modes of writing: Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, Augustine's and Rousseau's Confessions, Montaigne's ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 6210
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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
Siegel, E
COML 6072
Course Description
What does it mean to "use" a text or literary artifact? What happens to a novel when we examine it as "interactive text" produced in a shared "real time"? How does the use of a particular term help construct ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 6072
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Uris Hall 438
Instructors
McEnaney, T
COML 6142
Course Description
This course takes as its point of departure the foundational questions that have informed interdisciplinary inquiry into vision and visuality in recent decades: What is an image? How do images produce ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 6910, GERST 6910
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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 White Hall B14
Instructors
McBride, P
COML 6200
Course Description
Graduate Students: please bring your faculty signed proposal to 240 Goldwin Smith Hall. view course details
COML 6227
Course Description
This interdisciplinary seminar would like to offer new hypotheses on the ways literature is understood and experienced by a reader's mind. Our methodology, while non-reductionist, will take into account ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4227, FREN 4060, FREN 6060
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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 McGraw Hall 365
Instructors
Dubreuil, L
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 6341
Course Description
The rise of cinema and mechanized representational technologies has provided an informative backdrop for a century long reflection on aesthetics and the excesses of affect, sentiment, and corporeality ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 6341, FREN 6341, PMA 6441, VISST 6341
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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 201
Instructors
Murray, T
COML 6363
Course Description
This course will attempt a critical inquiry into the renewed articulation of World Literature as concept, project and object of study over the last two decades. How can we situate this return with respect ... 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
- W Goldwin Smith Hall 283
Instructors
Melas, N
COML 6630
Course Description
This graduate seminar provides a basic introduction to the thinking of Nietzsche and Heidegger, and to the latter's interpretation and appropriation of the former. A major concern is the articulation of ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 6630
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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 403
Instructors
Waite, G
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Additional Information
The readings are provided in German (and French or Italian in some cases) and in English translations, when these exist. Discussion and papers in English. Students from all disciplines are welcome.
COML 6766
Course Description
This seminar will explore major works of avant-garde literature from the interwar and immediate postwar periods, with the work of George Bataille and his major collaborators and sometime antagonists (André ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 6320
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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 Goldwin Smith Hall 124
Instructors
McNulty, T
COML 6771
Course Description
This course examines Indigenous art, new media and film from three distinct interrelated perspectives of aesthetics/theory, technology and history/culture. The relationship between technology and tradition ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4771, AMST 6771, ANTHR 4771, ANTHR 6771, ARTH 4771, ARTH 6771, COML 4771
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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 Goldwin Smith Hall 164
Instructors
Rickard, J
COML 6866
Course Description
Focusing on a range of theories and practices from the historical avant-gardes (futurism, surrealism, constructivism) and their political cognates (fascism, capitalism, communism) to the 21st century's ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 6866, ROMS 6866
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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 Uris Hall 494
Instructors
Monroe, J