Romance Studies (ROMS)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025.

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ROMS 1102
FWS: The Craft of Storytelling

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:Brevity from Boccaccio to ChatGPT

  • 19652 ROMS 1102   SEM 101

  •  
    • MWF

    • Siena, 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

  • Topic: FWS:Weird Fiction from Latin America and the World

  • 19653 ROMS 1102   SEM 102

  •  
    • MWF

    • Prieto, D

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

ROMS 1108
FWS:Cultural Identities; Cultural Differences

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:Writing on Ruins

  • 19625 ROMS 1108   SEM 101

  •  
    • MW

    • Keller, P

  • 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

  • Topic: FWS:Gender and Sexuality in French New Wave Cinema

  • 19626 ROMS 1108   SEM 102

  •  
    • MWF

    • Haillot, J

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

ROMS 1109
FWS: Image and Imagination

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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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:Italian Cinema

  • 19618 ROMS 1109   SEM 101

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    • MWF

    • Eibenstein-Alvisi, I

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

ROMS 1113
FWS: Thinking and Thought

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:On Love

  • 19606 ROMS 1113   SEM 101

  •  
    • TR

    • 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/.

Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:On Love

  • 19608 ROMS 1113   SEM 102

  •  
    • TR

    • 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/.

Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:Globally Queer

  • 19610 ROMS 1113   SEM 103

  •  
    • TR

    • 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/.

Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Identity & Transformation

  • 19612 ROMS 1113   SEM 104

  •  
    • MWF

    • Sama, R

  • 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

  • Topic: FWS:Italian Science Fiction

  • 19615 ROMS 1113   SEM 105

  •  
    • MWF

    • Fulginiti, V

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

ROMS 2750
Introduction to Humanities

These seminars offer an introduction to the humanities by exploring historical, cultural, social, and political themes. Students will explore themes in critical dialogue with a range of texts and media ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • Topic: After Images: From Photography to AI

  • 18929 ROMS 2750   SEM 102

  •  
    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Lorca Fuentealba, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Enrollment preference will be given to students accepted into the Humanities Scholars Program. For course description, see https://as.cornell.edu/research/hsp-core-courses

ROMS 3210
History of Romance Languages I

The Romance languages are the lasting imprint of all that happened to the Latin language as it moved through time, territories, and people of many ethnicities.  While the Latin of antiquity retained its ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LING 3321

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 20450 ROMS 3210   SEM 101

  •  
    • MWF
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Alkire, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ROMS 3300
The Culture of Violence: Europe 1914-1945

At the end of the Great War, Europe has became the realm of a new relationship between violence, culture, and politics. From 1914 to 1945, the continent became the realm of an extraordinary entanglement ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 2333

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17796 ROMS 3300   SEM 101

  •  
    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Traverso, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ROMS 4334
Caribbean Worlds: Landscape, Labor and Climate Imaginaries

The seminar will explore relations between the tangible effects of climate on urban, infrastructural, and ecological landscapes in the Caribbean and lived experiences of climate as mediated through literature, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 11215 ROMS 4334   SEM 101

  •  
    • T
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Melas, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ROMS 4681
Post-Conflict Justice and Resolution in Africa

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

  • 17798 ROMS 4681   SEM 101

  •  
    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Terhmina, I

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ROMS 4825
Literature and Science: Transfers in Poetics and Epistemology

Part epistemology and part experimental humanities, this seminar looks at improbable encounters between the divergent regimes of thought and knowledge expressed by "literature" and the "sciences." Our ... view course details

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  • 18546 ROMS 4825   SEM 101

  •  
    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Dubreuil, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ROMS 5070
Methodology of Romance Language Learning and Teaching

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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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Sat/Unsat

  •  3178 ROMS 5070   SEM 101

  •  
    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Torea, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Enrollment limited to: graduate students wishing to be a Teaching Assistant (TA) in Romance Studies.

ROMS 6225
The Politics of Memory: Uses of the Past

This course calls into question the public use of history. The past is permanently mobilized according to the culture and the problems of the present. Over the last decades, "memory" - a general concept ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17802 ROMS 6225   SEM 101

  •  
    • M
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Traverso, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ROMS 6334
Caribbean Worlds: Landscape, Labor and Climate Imaginaries

The seminar will explore relations between the tangible effects of climate on urban, infrastructural, and ecological landscapes in the Caribbean and lived experiences of climate as mediated through literature, ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none

  • 11217 ROMS 6334   SEM 101

  •  
    • T
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Melas, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ROMS 6681
Post-Conflict Justice and Resolution in Africa

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

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none

  • 17804 ROMS 6681   SEM 101

  •  
    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Terhmina, I

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ROMS 6825
Literature and Science: Transfers in Poetics and Epistemology

Part epistemology and part experimental humanities, this seminar looks at improbable encounters between the divergent regimes of thought and knowledge expressed by "literature" and the "sciences." Our ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none

  • 18549 ROMS 6825   SEM 101

  •  
    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Dubreuil, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person