Romance Studies (ROMS)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2020-2021.

ROMS 1102

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: The Decameron

  • 18419 ROMS 1102   SEM 101

    • MWF Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
    • Eibenstein-Alvisi, I

  • Instruction Mode: Online
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: The Stranger: Migrant Writing in the Francophone W

  • 18420 ROMS 1102   SEM 102

    • TR Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
    • Hughes, H

  • Instruction Mode: Online
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:Women's Writing:Writing Women

  • 18421 ROMS 1102   SEM 103

    • MWF Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
    • Karczewski, J

  • Instruction Mode: Online
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: The Writing of Life

  • 18422 ROMS 1102   SEM 104

    • TR Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
    • Cash, C

  • Instruction Mode: Online
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: The Art of Persuasion

  • 18423 ROMS 1102   SEM 105

  • 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

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Post Cards From Paradise

  • 18418 ROMS 1108   SEM 101

    • MWF Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
    • Caswell, P

  • Instruction Mode: Online
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

ROMS 1109

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

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  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:Labor and the Arts

  • 19165 ROMS 1109   SEM 101

    • TR Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
    • Pinkus, K

  • Instruction Mode: Online
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

ROMS 1113

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:Dante's Examined Life

  • 18414 ROMS 1113   SEM 101

    • MWF Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
    • Eibenstein-Alvisi, I

  • Instruction Mode: Online
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:On Love

  • 18415 ROMS 1113   SEM 102

    • TR Mcgraw Hall 165
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
    • Rodriguez de Rivera, I

  • 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.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:On Love

  • 18416 ROMS 1113   SEM 103

    • TR Statler Hall 396
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
    • Rodriguez de Rivera, I

  • 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.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: Italian Science Fiction

  • 18417 ROMS 1113   SEM 104

    • MWF Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
    • Fulginiti, V

  • Instruction Mode: Online
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

ROMS 1114

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18413 ROMS 1114   SEM 101

    • MWF Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
    • Alkire, T

  • Instruction Mode: Online
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

ROMS 1120

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

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  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18412 ROMS 1120   SEM 101

    • TR Malott Hall 406
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
    • Bachminska, E

  • 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

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

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Syllabi: none
  •  7532 ROMS 3115   SEM 101

    • M Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
    • Murray, T

  • 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.

ROMS 3560

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

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  • 17525 ROMS 3560   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Enrollment limited to students who are able to attend in-person classes in the Ithaca area.

Syllabi: none
  • 20385 ROMS 3560   LEC 002

    • TR Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
    • McNulty, T

  • Instruction Mode: Online

ROMS 4370

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

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Syllabi: none
  • 16550 ROMS 4370   SEM 101

    • M Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
    • Traverso, E

  • Instruction Mode: Online

ROMS 4715

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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  • 19174 ROMS 4715   SEM 101

    • TR Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
    • Pinkus, K

  • Instruction Mode: Online

ROMS 4948

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

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  • 18969 ROMS 4948   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Enrollment limited to students who are able to attend in-person classes in the Ithaca area.

ROMS 5070

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Sat/Unsat

  •  4418 ROMS 5070   SEM 101

    • T Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
    • Redmond, M

  • Instruction Mode: Online
    This is the mandatory course for graduate students wishing to TA in Romance Studies.

ROMS 5080

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  • 20850 ROMS 5080   SEM 101

    • TBA Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
    • von Wittelsbach, K

  • Instruction Mode: Online

ROMS 6370

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

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Syllabi: none
  • 16554 ROMS 6370   SEM 101

    • M Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
    • Traverso, E

  • Instruction Mode: Online