Comparative Literature (COML)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2022-2023.

COML 1104

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18560 COML 1104   SEM 101

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

COML 1105

What do Frankenstein and Things Fall Apart have in common? What lies behind the fantastical stories of Aladdin? Do we have to like Garcia Márquez and Shakespeare? These texts and authors re-imagine the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18567 COML 1105   SEM 101

    • MWF Clark Hall 294H
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Han, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    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

  • 18568 COML 1105   SEM 102

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    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

  • 18569 COML 1105   SEM 103

    • TR Statler Hall 453
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Shou, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    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

  • 18570 COML 1105   SEM 104

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    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

  • 18571 COML 1105   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/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18572 COML 1105   SEM 106

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

COML 1106

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18772 COML 1106   SEM 101

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

COML 1119

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18573 COML 1119   SEM 101

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

COML 1134

In this course, we will work with poems of varied styles and traditions. You will learn to understand poetry through analytical writing and through the composition of your own poems.  view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18574 COML 1134   SEM 101

    • MWF Uris Hall 398
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Pollak, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    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

  • 18575 COML 1134   SEM 102

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

COML 1137

On the eve of his discovery of the treasures of Pharaoh Tutankhamen in the Egyptian desert, archaeologist Howard Carter famously described his findings as 'wonderful things'. This idea of wonder, amazement ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18576 COML 1137   SEM 101

    • TR Uris Hall 204
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Hussein, K

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

COML 2000

This course provides an introduction to modes of vision and the historical impact of visual images, visual structures, and visual space on culture, communication, and politics. It examines all aspects ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 2000ARTH 2000VISST 2000

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4730 COML 2000   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5778 COML 2000   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5779 COML 2000   DIS 202

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5780 COML 2000   DIS 203

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5781 COML 2000   DIS 204

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5782 COML 2000   DIS 205

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5783 COML 2000   DIS 206

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  6218 COML 2000   DIS 207

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  6219 COML 2000   DIS 208

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 2009

The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. In addition to the more than two million people imprisoned under the criminal justice system, the U.S. government captures even more ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 2909GOVT 2006SHUM 2009

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17277 COML 2009   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 2034

Co-taught by professors in Comparative Literature and Astronomy, this course will introduce students to the fundamentals of astronomy concepts through readings in Black Studies. We will experiment with ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASTRO 2034

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17281 COML 2034   LEC 001

    • MW Malott Hall 207
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Stacey, G

      Vaziri, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 2051

The primary work of the course is researching and writing articles about poetry on Wikipedia.  The course follows two related tracks: studying poetry and learning how to make it accessible to others.  ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17189 COML 2051   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 2523

Islamophobia and Judeophobia are ideas and like all ideas they have a history of their own. Although today many might think of Islamophobia or Judeophobia as unchangeable---fear of and hatred for Islam ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 2523JWST 2523NES 2523RELST 2523

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17034 COML 2523   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17213 COML 2523   DIS 201

    • F White Hall B14
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17214 COML 2523   DIS 202

    • F White Hall B14
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17215 COML 2523   DIS 203

    • F White Hall B14
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17216 COML 2523   DIS 204

    • F White Hall B14
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 2703

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

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Syllabi: none
  •  5997 COML 2703   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3006

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 3693ILRLR 3691NES 3691

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17203 COML 3006   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3010

Students develop a specific dramatic text for full-scale production. The course involves selection of an appropriate text, close analysis of the literary aspects of the play, and group evaluation of its ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LATA 3010LSP 3010PMA 3010

  • 1-3 Credits Graded

  • 16959 COML 3010   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3021

This course examines a range of exciting and provocative 20th- and 21st- century theoretical paradigms for thinking about literature, language and culture. These approaches provide differing, though often ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  5455 COML 3021   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Course open to all levels; no previous knowledge of literary or cultural theory required.

COML 3026

We live in an age of algorithms wherein seemingly every aspect of life can be broken down, measured, and even sold as data. But how did we get here? And where are we going? This course privileges literature ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 3040

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18089 COML 3026   SEM 101

    • MW Lincoln Hall 107
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Kohlbry, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3262

Global Cinema I and II together offer an overview of international film history from the late nineteenth century to today. Through a focus on key films and significant epochs, the course traces the evolution ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 3551PMA 6551VISST 3176

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6452 COML 3262   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3336

This course focuses on a place and a concept where two of the most urgent issues of our times - migration and environmental degradation - converge, collide, and shape each other. It examines borders not ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  6446 COML 3336   SEM 101

    • MW Sibley Hall 101
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Banerjee, A

      Castillo, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3378

The rapidly growing literature of the Korean diaspora is one of the most significant developments in Korean literature since the 20th century. As Korean literature has circulated as world literature, it ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AAS 3378ASIAN 3378

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 17618 COML 3378   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3440

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 3645PMA 3724

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6924 COML 3440   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3542

This course examines the stories, literary examples, and metaphors at work in elaborating capitalist society and its "hero," the modern economic subject: the so-called "homo oeconomicus." We will examine ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17676 COML 3542   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3702

"The pleasure of the text," Roland Barthes writes, "is that moment when my body pursues its own ideas—for my body does not have the same ideas I do." What is this erotics of the text, and what has it been ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17013 COML 3702   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3743

This course examines the historic diversity of the modern Middle East, exploring histories of inter-communal contact and conflict. We begin by investigating the legacy of the Ottoman Empire and the impact ... view course details

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  • 17115 COML 3743   LEC 001

    • TR Sibley Hall 208
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Starr, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3800

As globalization draws the Americas ever closer together, reshaping our sense of a common and uncommon American culture, what claims might be made for a distinctive, diverse poetry and poetics of the America? ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17283 COML 3800   SEM 101

    • TR Sibley Hall 115
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Monroe, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3820

Greece and Rome, refracted in nineteenth-century writers, composers, and painters, including: Plautus, re-made by Oscar Wilde; Aristophanic Comedy, Bowdlerized by Bowdler, de-Bowdlerized by Gilbert, Irished ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 3642

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16754 COML 3820   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3891

The Second World War and the Occupation of France by German forces had a traumatic impact on the nation's identity. We will examine the way France has tried to deal with this conflicted period through ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 3840

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18073 COML 3891   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3985

Ever since the creation of the concept of a culturally and geographically stable center in China, people have been intentionally excluded from that center. Disgraced officials are sent to far-flung provinces, ... view course details

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  •  6674 COML 3985   SEM 101

    • MW Lincoln Hall 117
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Admussen, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 4015

Taking its inspiration from David Hume's famous remark that "reason ought only to be the slave of the passions," this course will consider the Enlightenment's "science of human nature" not as the triumph ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4315

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17048 COML 4015   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 4090

Spinoza was excommunicated, wrote under death threats, and has remained a scandal to philosophy, psychoanalysis, politics, ethics, literature. "Every philosopher has two philosophies, his own and Spinoza's" ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 4290GOVT 4769JWST 4790

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17737 COML 4090   SEM 101

    • MW White Hall 106
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Waite, G

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 4200

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7641 COML 4200   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Melas, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
    If you do not see the faculty member you wish to work with, please use 601.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4153 COML 4200   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Ahl, F

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5077 COML 4200   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Bachner, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7574 COML 4200   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Banerjee, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4934 COML 4200   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Caruth, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4935 COML 4200   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Castillo, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4936 COML 4200   IND 613

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Dubreuil, L

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7642 COML 4200   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Fuhrmann, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7643 COML 4200   IND 616

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Vaziri, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7644 COML 4200   IND 617

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • McNulty, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7645 COML 4200   IND 620

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Murray, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6026 COML 4200   IND 622

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Pinkus, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4937 COML 4200   IND 623

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Pollak, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7646 COML 4200   IND 629

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Fleming, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7647 COML 4200   IND 633

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Keller, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7648 COML 4200   IND 634

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Lorenz, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

COML 4364

This course examines the works of major poets and artists from the Spanish and French- speaking Caribbean from roughly 1925-1945. During this period, two movements—Negrismo and Négritude—emerged, on the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 4151ROMS 4151

  • 2 Credits Graded

  • 17396 COML 4364   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 4368

This seminar will focus on the writings of the polymorphous Martinican poet and thinker, Édouard Glissant (1928-2011).  We will attend to the historical context of French colonialism, particularly in the ... view course details

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  • 17624 COML 4368   SEM 101

    • T Sibley Hall 211
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Melas, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 4423

This course uses the lens of temporality to track transformations in notions of urban personhood and collective life engendered by recent trans-Asia economic shifts. We will develop tools that help unpack ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  6690 COML 4423   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 4429

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

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Syllabi: none
  • 17320 COML 4429   SEM 101

    • M McGraw Hall B65
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Boyarin, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 4627

What is the role of the psyche in revolutionary politics? Can there be social revolution without psychic liberation? This class brings together political theory, intellectual history, and psychoanalysis ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 6575SHUM 4677SHUM 6677

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16726 COML 4627   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 4628

This course combines literature, film, and other artistic projects in order to explore African forms of collective justice and repair, following the numerous conflicts that have shaken the continent in ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16763 COML 4628   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 4861

How do questions of genre persist and evolve in the digital age? To what extent do we choose our genres, and in what ways do they choose us? How do genres, platforms, and media intersect and inform one ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 6861PMA 4461PMA 6461

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17289 COML 4861   SEM 101

    • TR Sibley Hall 101
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Monroe, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 4930

Times TBA individually in consultation with director of Senior Essay Colloquium. Approximately 50 pages to be written over the course of two semesters in the student's senior year under the direction of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  5163 COML 4930   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Melas, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

COML 4940

Times TBA individually in consultation with director of Senior Essay Colloquium. Approximately 50 pages to be written over the course of two semesters in the student's senior year under the direction of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5699 COML 4940   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Melas, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5410 COML 4940   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Bachner, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4938 COML 4940   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Banerjee, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5500 COML 4940   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Caruth, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4939 COML 4940   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Castillo, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4940 COML 4940   IND 613

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Dubreuil, L

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7665 COML 4940   IND 616

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Vaziri, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7666 COML 4940   IND 617

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • McNulty, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7667 COML 4940   IND 620

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Murray, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6008 COML 4940   IND 622

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Pinkus, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4943 COML 4940   IND 623

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Pollak, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5882 COML 4940   IND 629

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Fleming, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6033 COML 4940   IND 633

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Byrd, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7668 COML 4940   IND 634

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Fleming, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7368 COML 4940   IND 646

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Long, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7369 COML 4940   IND 647

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Terhmina, I

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7370 COML 4940   IND 648

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Yi, I

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

COML 6009

Though Indigenous literature or, more accurately, literatures are growing both in their production and criticism, we have yet to address the question of settler discourse and writings. Can we conceptualize ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: NES 6009SHUM 6009

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18090 COML 6009   SEM 101

    • W White Hall 106
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Ghanayem, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 6020

While the old concept of the "mind" has been revamped over the last few decades and is routinely accepted as a "scientific object" (through cognitive studies, especially), the equally ancient idea of the ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 6020

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19499 COML 6020   SEM 101

    • M McGraw Hall 215
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Dubreuil, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 6159

This course examines a range of exciting and provocative 20th- and 21st- century theoretical paradigms for thinking about literature, language and culture. These approaches provide differing, though often ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  5899 COML 6159   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Course open to all levels; no previous knowledge of literary or cultural theory required.

COML 6200

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5226 COML 6200   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Bachner, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4941 COML 6200   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Banerjee, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5498 COML 6200   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Caruth, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4942 COML 6200   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Castillo, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5499 COML 6200   IND 613

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Dubreuil, L

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7651 COML 6200   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Fuhrmann, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7652 COML 6200   IND 616

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Vaziri, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7653 COML 6200   IND 617

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • McNulty, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7654 COML 6200   IND 620

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Murray, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7655 COML 6200   IND 622

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Pinkus, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7656 COML 6200   IND 629

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Fleming, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7657 COML 6200   IND 633

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Keller, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7658 COML 6200   IND 634

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Lorenz, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7630 COML 6200   IND 649

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Ghanayem, E

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

COML 6336

This course focuses on a place and a concept where two of the most urgent issues of our times - migration and environmental degradation - converge, collide, and shape each other. It examines borders not ... view course details

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  •  6447 COML 6336   SEM 101

    • MW Sibley Hall 101
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Banerjee, A

      Castillo, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 6368

This seminar will focus on the writings of the polymorphous Martinican poet and thinker, Édouard Glissant (1928-2011).  We will attend to the historical context of French colonialism, particularly in the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17639 COML 6368   SEM 101

    • T Sibley Hall 211
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Melas, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 6511

What is illness? What is health? The human body seems to vacillate between these dichotomous versions of its existence. This seminar traces the cultural/historical developments/traditions that define illness, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 6511

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18442 COML 6511   SEM 101

    • W Olin Library 403
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Schwarz, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Enrollment limited to graduate students.

COML 6600

Some of the most powerful approaches to visual practices have come from outside or from the peripheries of the institution of art history and criticism. This seminar will analyze the interactions between ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 6060GERST 6600

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17766 COML 6600   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Enrollment limited to graduate students.

COML 6601

"You didn't see anything," a woman in a movie says to her dubious lover. "No one sees anything. Ever. They watch, but they don't understand."  What is desire in a movie, and how do we know it when we see ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17055 COML 6601   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 6622

To hone our skills in the analysis of topics in Asian studies, we will review critically a number of switchpoints that have produced conceptual difference in recent scholarly work. Asia scholars have laid ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 6622

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19574 COML 6622   SEM 101

    • T Uris Hall 302
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Fuhrmann, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Preference given to Ph.D. students.

COML 6623

This course uses the lens of temporality to track transformations in notions of urban personhood and collective life engendered by recent trans-Asia economic shifts. We will develop tools that help unpack ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  6692 COML 6623   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 6685

Ever since the creation of the concept of a culturally and geographically stable center in China, people have been intentionally excluded from that center. Disgraced officials are sent to far-flung provinces, ... view course details

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  •  7139 COML 6685   SEM 101

    • MW Lincoln Hall 117
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Admussen, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 6707

Contemporary theory has turned surface phenomena into the grounds and foundations for conceptual work: from moebius-strips to simulacra, from skin to screens, from folds to planes. But theory's "superficial" ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17402 COML 6707   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 6861

How do questions of genre persist and evolve in the digital age? To what extent do we choose our genres, and in what ways do they choose us? How do genres, platforms, and media intersect and inform one ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 4861PMA 4461PMA 6461

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18469 COML 6861   SEM 101

    • TR Sibley Hall 101
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Monroe, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person