Romance Studies (ROMS)Arts and Sciences
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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2020-2021.
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- Schedule of Classes - August 4, 2021 7:14PM EDT
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Classes
ROMS 1102
Course Description
We tell stories for many reasons: to entertain; to seduce; to complain; to think. This course draws upon the literatures and cultures of the romance languages to explore the role of narrative ... view course details
FWS Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Section Topic
Topic: FWS: The Decameron
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MWFOnline Meeting
- Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
Instructors
Eibenstein-Alvisi, I
Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Online
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Section Topic
Topic: The Stranger: Migrant Writing in the Francophone W
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TROnline Meeting
- Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
Instructors
Hughes, H
Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Online
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Women's Writing:Writing Women
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MWFOnline Meeting
- Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
Instructors
Karczewski, J
Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Online
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Section Topic
Topic: The Writing of Life
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TROnline Meeting
- Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
Instructors
Cash, C
Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Online
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Section Topic
Topic: The Art of Persuasion
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MWFStocking Hall 148
- Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
Instructors
Gibbs, R
Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
Enrollment limited to students who are able to attend in-person classes in the Ithaca area.
ROMS 1108
Course Description
What is a culture, and how do we know one when we see it? This course draws upon the histories and texts of French, Spanish, Italian, and/or Portuguese speaking worlds to discuss issues of identity, ... view course details
FWS Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Post Cards From Paradise
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MWFOnline Meeting
- Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
Instructors
Caswell, P
Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Online
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
ROMS 1109
Course Description
What kind of information do images - in photography, painting, and/or film - convey? What kind of impact do they have on the minds and the bodies of their audiences? This course foregrounds the role ... view course details
FWS Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Labor and the Arts
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TROnline Meeting
- Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
Instructors
Pinkus, K
Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Online
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
ROMS 1113
Course Description
Some of the most important and intriguing thinkers, from the Middle Ages to postmodernity, have done their thinking in the romance languages. This course explores a body of work that would be ... view course details
FWS Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Dante's Examined Life
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MWFOnline Meeting
- Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
Instructors
Eibenstein-Alvisi, I
Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Online
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Section Topic
Topic: FWS:On Love
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TRMcgraw Hall 165
- Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
Instructors
Rodriguez de Rivera, I
Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
Enrollment limited to students who are able to attend in-person classes in the Ithaca area.
FWS Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Section Topic
Topic: FWS:On Love
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TRStatler Hall 396
- Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
Instructors
Rodriguez de Rivera, I
Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
Enrollment limited to students who are able to attend in-person classes in the Ithaca area.
FWS Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Section Topic
Topic: Italian Science Fiction
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MWFOnline Meeting
- Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
Instructors
Fulginiti, V
Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Online
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
ROMS 1114
Course Description
What allows us to make assumptions about people based on the way they speak or dress? How can we understand the deeper meaning of a fairy tale or an episode of The Simpsons? What does macaroni and cheese ... view course details
FWS Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MWFOnline Meeting
- Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
Instructors
Alkire, T
Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Online
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
ROMS 1120
Course Description
In this class, students will learn about animal welfare and conservation through international films. We will discuss wildlife, companion and farm animals in conjunction with human cultures and politics. ... view course details
FWS Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TRMalott Hall 406
- Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
Instructors
Bachminska, E
Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
Enrollment limited to students who are able to attend in-person classes in the Ithaca area.
ROMS 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: COML 3115, ENGL 3115, PMA 3515, VISST 3115
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MOnline Meeting
- Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
Instructors
Murray, T
Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Online
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.Instructor Consent Required (Add)
ROMS 3560
Course Description
Psychoanalysis considers the human being not as an object of treatment, but as a subject who is called upon to elaborate an unconscious knowledge about what is disrupting her life, through analysis of ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3781, COML 6783, FGSS 3651, FREN 3560, FREN 6561, GERST 3561, STS 3651
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TRBill and Melinda Gates Hll G01
- Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
Instructors
McNulty, T
Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Enrollment limited to students who are able to attend in-person classes in the Ithaca area.
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3781, FGSS 3651, FREN 3560, GERST 3561, STS 3651
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TROnline Meeting
- Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
Instructors
McNulty, T
Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Online
ROMS 4370
Course Description
In the last decades, "Holocaust Studies" witnessed an extraordinary expansion, covering different fields of scholarship, from history to literature, from philosophy to aesthetics. This seminar will retrace ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 4375, FREN 6375, GERST 4375, GERST 6375, HIST 4237, HIST 6237, JWST 6370, ROMS 6370
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MOnline Meeting
- Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
Instructors
Traverso, E
Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Online
ROMS 4715
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 4798, COML 6798, FREN 4715, ITAL 4710, ITAL 6710, SPAN 4710
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TROnline Meeting
- Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
Instructors
Pinkus, K
Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Online
ROMS 4948
Course Description
This course examines how African writers, filmmakers, and internet media content creators engage with and revise public images of bodies—specifically pleasure, gender, queerness, genital surgeries, sex ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4948, COML 6948, FGSS 4948, GOVT 6945
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- RStocking Hall 202
- Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
Instructors
Diabate, N
Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Enrollment limited to students who are able to attend in-person classes in the Ithaca area.
ROMS 5070
Course Description
Focuses on language teaching as facilitation of learning, thus on the learner's processing of language acquisition and the promotion of reflective teaching. Pedagogical approaches will be addressed from ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Sat/Unsat(Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TOnline Meeting
- Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
Instructors
Redmond, M
Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Online
This is the mandatory course for graduate students wishing to TA in Romance Studies.
ROMS 5080
Course Description
This practicum is designed to better enable the TAs to meet the needs of their students in the understanding and acquisition of the linguistic forms, notions, and functions covered in their course. view course details
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
1 Credit Sat/Unsat(Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TBA Online Meeting
- Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
Instructors
von Wittelsbach, K
Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Online
ROMS 6370
Course Description
In the last decades, "Holocaust Studies" witnessed an extraordinary expansion, covering different fields of scholarship, from history to literature, from philosophy to aesthetics. This seminar will retrace ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 4375, FREN 6375, GERST 4375, GERST 6375, HIST 4237, HIST 6237, JWST 6370, ROMS 4370
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MOnline Meeting
- Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
Instructors
Traverso, E
Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Online