Comparative Literature (COML)Arts and Sciences
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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 Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Uris Hall 301
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Tian, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & 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 Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall G24
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Aas, O
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & 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 Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 369
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Lambert, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & 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 Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MWF Uris Hall 331
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Zappa, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & 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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3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW Uris Hall 260
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Karmin, H
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & 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 Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Balch Hall - Tatkon Ctr 3331
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Krivitsky, R
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
COML 2000
Course Description
This course introduces 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. It contains ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. 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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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 132-HEC Aud
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Moisey, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall G19
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Moisey, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
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- W Goldwin Smith Hall G19
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Moisey, A
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Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
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- R Goldwin Smith Hall G19
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Moisey, A
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Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
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- R Goldwin Smith Hall G19
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Moisey, A
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Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall G19
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Moisey, A
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Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall G19
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Moisey, A
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Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
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- R Goldwin Smith Hall G20
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Moisey, A
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Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
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Meeting Pattern
- F Goldwin Smith Hall G20
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Moisey, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
COML 2036
Course Description
Literature has long been understood as a window into the human condition, with nature serving as its mere backdrop. How would our relationship with literature change if we reversed this hierarchy? In an ... 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
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 124
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Banerjee, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
Enrollment limited to: 20 undergraduates.
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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Meeting Pattern
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall 236
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Schwarz, D
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
COML 2703
Course Description
From hieroglyphs to HTML, ancient poetry to audiotape, and Plato's cave to virtual reality, "Thinking Media" offers a multidisciplinary introduction to the most influential media formats of the last three ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 2703, GERST 2703, MUSIC 2703, PMA 2703
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Credits and Grading Basis
3-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF White Hall 110
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Born, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
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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3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Uris Hall G44
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Starr, D
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
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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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW Goldwin Smith Hall G76-Lewis
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Hanson, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
COML 3006
Course Description
What does it mean to live in the aftermath of slavery? How has the human history of slavery contributed to the production of "natural" values that we take for granted—such as community, property, citizenship, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 3692, GOVT 3696, ILRLR 3691, NES 3691
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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 White Hall 106
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Vaziri, P
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
COML 3021
Course Description
Without literary theory, there is no idea of literature, of criticism, of culture. While exciting theoretical paradigms emerged in the late 20th century, including structuralism and poststructuralism, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 6159, ENGL 3021, ENGL 6021, PMA 3421
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Rockefeller Hall 105
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Bachner, A
Caruth, C
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & 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
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Goldwin Smith Hall 232
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Murray, T
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
Please email Professor Murray (tcm1@cornell.edu) with the following information: Your name and Cornell email address, course code and number you wish to be enrolled (example: COML 3115), if you are a current COML Major, graduation month/year. When you are approved, you will receive a permission number for the pre-enrollment period. Thank you.
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COML 3150
Course Description
Beginning with the mid-nineteenth century, the course traces dynamic relays and reciprocal influences among woodblock prints, maps, fiction, films, anime, comics, and digital arts in Japan. We will consider ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 3318, VISST 3318
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall 124
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
de Bary, B
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
COML 3440
Course Description
Tragedy and its audiences from ancient Greece to modern theater and film. Topics: origins of theatrical conventions; Shakespeare and Seneca; tragedy in modern theater and film. Works studied will include: ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 3645, PMA 3724
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 122
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Ahl, F
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
COML 3512
Course Description
The search for the active, good, or just life has increasingly come under pressure by the socio-political and economic conditions in late Capitalism or, in Deleuze's term, the "society of control." The ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 3512, ROMS 3512
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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 181
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Siegel, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
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 Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW White Hall 106
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Hanson, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
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
- TR Uris Hall G88
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Monroe, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
COML 4200
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
Regular Academic Session.
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
COML 4251
Course Description
The most intense public encounter between Existentialism and Marxism occurred in immediate post-WWII Europe, its structure remaining alive internationally. Existentialist questions have been traced from ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 4210, GOVT 4015, ROMS 4210
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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 142
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Waite, G
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 6350, ENGL 4981, ENGL 6850, FREN 4350, FREN 6350, SPAN 4350, SPAN 6350
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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
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Monroe, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
Enrollment limited to: 15 students.
COML 4353
Course Description
As a philosophical approach to culture and society emerging out of European contexts, Critical Theory has traditionally excluded questions about the history of racial difference. Yet Critical Theory's ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 6353, GOVT 4356, GOVT 6356
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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 Goldwin Smith Hall 156
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Vaziri, P
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
Enrollment limited to: 15 students. As a philosophical approach to culture and society emerging out of European contexts, Critical Theory has traditionally excluded questions about the history of racial difference. Yet Critical Theory’s insights into processes of subject formation, social relations, mass culture, and general emancipatory drive continue to inform and be of value to scholars of race concerned with the everyday production and transmission of ideas about normative humanity. This course explores contemporary critical scholarship on race, as defined by its relationship to anti-positivist epistemologies, theories of the subject, critiques of traditional ontology and of the aesthetic, and engagement with postcolonial theory, environmental humanities, indigenous studies, and the Black radical tradition. Some familiarity with key figures and ideas in postcolonial studies and Black studies is desirable, but not necessary. Readings will include Sylvia Wynter, Frantz Fanon, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Fred Moten, Kathryn Yusoff, Tiffany Lethabo King, Ronald Judy, Immanuel Kant, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida
COML 4429
Course Description
This extraordinary figure died in 1941, and his death is emblematic of the intellectual depredations of Nazism. Yet since World War II, his influence, his reputation, and his fascination for scholars ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4413, ANTHR 7413, GERST 4413, GERST 6413, JWST 4913, JWST 7913, NES 4913, NES 7913
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- T Morrill Hall 110
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Boyarin, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
COML 4623
Course Description
The modern world relies on a vast array of natural resources to drive its activities, but for most of human history, animals have provided energy to people. Animals were, and often still are, the energy ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 4604, ENGL 4964, SHUM 4644, SHUM 6644, STS 4644, STS 6644
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- T A D White House 109
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Kirk, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
COML 4624
Course Description
The concept of tradition often takes a back seat to modernity, but what does it mean to be part of a tradition? How does tradition revitalize and challenge received views and stimulate individual talent? ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 4649, GERST 6649, JWST 4649, JWST 6649, SHUM 4649, SHUM 6649
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- W A D White House 109
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Redfield, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & 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
Regular Academic Session.
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
COML 4945
Course Description
The course examines how postcolonial African writers and filmmakers engage with and revise controversial images of bodies and sexuality--genital cursing, same-sex desire, HIV/AIDS, genital surgeries, etc. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 4995, ENGL 4995, FGSS 4945, LGBT 4945, VISST 4945
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Uris Hall 438
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Diabate, N
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
Enrollment limited to: 15 students.
COML 4996
Course Description
This seminar explores what German literature and thought, especially the tradition of Critical Theory, can teach us about living in the anthropocene. Taking off from Kant's four questions for ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 6895, GERST 4351, GERST 6351
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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
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Fleming, P
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
COML 6137
Course Description
What are the emotive forces that drive, inform, enable, disrupt, violate or energize narrative structures and the stories we tell? Critics from Sorel, Benjamin, Schmitt, Arendt to Derrida, Zizek and Balibar ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 6525
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- R Goldwin Smith Hall G19
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Schwarz, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
COML 6159
Course Description
Without literary theory, there is no idea of literature, of criticism, of culture. While exciting theoretical paradigms emerged in the late 20th century, including structuralism and poststructuralism, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3021, ENGL 3021, ENGL 6021, 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 Rockefeller Hall 105
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Bachner, A
Caruth, C
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
COML 6160
Course Description
The course provides an introduction to various aspects of translation theory, and emphasizes relations between translation theory and trauma theory, post-structuralism, post-colonial theory, and debates ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 6619, VISST 6619
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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 260
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
de Bary, B
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
COML 6200
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
Regular Academic Session.
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
COML 6221
Course Description
"All decolonization," wrote Frantz Fanon, "is successful at the level of description." With a focus on the difference between description and critique and on the uneven relation between the academic project ... 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 Uris Hall 494
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Melas, N
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
Enrollment limited to: 15 students. “All decolonization,” wrote Frantz Fanon, “is successful at the level of description.” With a focus on the difference between description and critique and on the uneven relation between the academic project underlying the subfield of postcolonial studies and histories of colonialism and aspirations to decolonization across the twentieth century, this seminar will offer a retrospective survey on the assemblage of texts that has come under the name “Postcolonial Theory” and inquire into its purchase on this present with particular emphasis on questions of indigeneity and environmental crisis. Authors may include: Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Frantz Fanon, Amilcar Cabral, Aimé Césaire, Edouard Glissant, Achille Mbembe, Sylvia Wynter, David Scott, Leela Gandhi, Marlene Nourbese Philip, Jason Moore, Glenn Coulthard, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Rob Nixon.
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4290, ENGL 4981, ENGL 6850, FREN 4350, FREN 6350, SPAN 4350, SPAN 6350
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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
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Monroe, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
Enrollment limited to: 15 students.
COML 6353
Course Description
As a philosophical approach to culture and society emerging out of European contexts, Critical Theory has traditionally excluded questions about the history of racial difference. Yet Critical Theory's ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4353, GOVT 4356, GOVT 6356
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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 Goldwin Smith Hall 156
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Vaziri, P
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
Enrollment limited to: 15 students. As a philosophical approach to culture and society emerging out of European contexts, Critical Theory has traditionally excluded questions about the history of racial difference. Yet Critical Theory’s insights into processes of subject formation, social relations, mass culture, and general emancipatory drive continue to inform and be of value to scholars of race concerned with the everyday production and transmission of ideas about normative humanity. This course explores contemporary critical scholarship on race, as defined by its relationship to anti-positivist epistemologies, theories of the subject, critiques of traditional ontology and of the aesthetic, and engagement with postcolonial theory, environmental humanities, indigenous studies, and the Black radical tradition. Some familiarity with key figures and ideas in postcolonial studies and Black studies is desirable, but not necessary. Readings will include Sylvia Wynter, Frantz Fanon, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Fred Moten, Kathryn Yusoff, Tiffany Lethabo King, Ronald Judy, Immanuel Kant, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida.
COML 6370
Course Description
After having been reduced to a mere ideological formation of bourgeois origin, aesthetics has recently made a strong comeback in the field of theory. This course probes the reasons for this historical ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 6510, GERST 6510, GOVT 6517, VISST 6500
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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 189
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Gilgen, P
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
COML 6559
Course Description
This course takes as its starting point the thinking of address that emerges from the study of trauma, and explores how the notion of address (its failures, and its new possibilities) help us reconceptualize ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 6559, ROMS 6559
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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 187
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Caruth, C
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
COML 6631
Course Description
The terms "Marx" and "Marxisms" have meant different things to different people, beginning with Marx himself and continuing in his legacy today. As obviously, this legacy remains global (Europe, North ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 6100, GOVT 6706, SPAN 6100
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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 124
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Waite, G
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
COML 6784
Course Description
This seminar will offer a critical examination of the literature of perversion (sadism, masochism, fetishism), with readings drawn from major texts of the libertine or S/M traditions (Sade, Sacher-Masoch, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 6580
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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
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
McNulty, T
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
COML 6895
Course Description
This seminar explores what German literature and thought, especially the tradition of Critical Theory, can teach us about living in the anthropocene. Taking off from Kant's four questions for ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4996, GERST 4351, GERST 6351
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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
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Fleming, P
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person