Society for the Humanities (SHUM)Arts and Sciences

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SHUM 1930

By posing seemingly simple questions such as what is love and who has the right to love, this introductory-level lecture course surveys how love has been experienced and expressed from the pre-modern period ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASIAN 2930FGSS 1940HIST 1930LGBT 1940

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17630 SHUM 1930   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Ghosh, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17631 SHUM 1930   DIS 201

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17632 SHUM 1930   DIS 202

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17633 SHUM 1930   DIS 203

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17634 SHUM 1930   DIS 204

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17635 SHUM 1930   DIS 205

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17636 SHUM 1930   DIS 206

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

SHUM 2158

Founded by Peter the Great in the early eighteenth century, St. Petersburg was built expressly to advertise the triumph of enlightened absolutism at home and to display Russia's status as a major European ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 2158RUSSL 2158

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17663 SHUM 2158   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Litvak, O

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

SHUM 2315

In August 1945, Japan was a devastated country; its cities burned, its people starving, its military and government in surrender. World War II was over. The occupation had begun. What sort of society emerged ... view course details

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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: AMST 2315ASIAN 2258HIST 2315

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17654 SHUM 2315   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Roebuck, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17655 SHUM 2315   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Roebuck, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

SHUM 2350

How does literary language depict the experience of physical suffering? Can a poem or a novel palliate pain, illness, even the possibility of death? From darkly comic narratives of black plague to the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18645 SHUM 2350   LEC 001

    • MWF
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Cohn, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

SHUM 2435

Maoism and Chinese Communism are not history after Mao's death in 1976. In China, Maoism holds the key to the enduring success of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), one of the most remarkable organizations ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: CAPS 2435HIST 2435

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 11534 SHUM 2435   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Sun, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 11535 SHUM 2435   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

SHUM 2455

Bioethics is the study of ethical questions raised by advances in the medical field. Questions we'll discuss will include: Is it morally permissible to advance a patient's death, at his or her request, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: PHIL 2455STS 2451

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17929 SHUM 2455   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Markovits, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18185 SHUM 2455   DIS 201

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18469 SHUM 2455   DIS 202

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18470 SHUM 2455   DIS 203

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

SHUM 2460

Japanese pop culture—anime, manga, video games, music and more—has been a major phenomenon with massive worldwide popularity for the last three decades. In this course, we will explore a wide range of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASIAN 2260FGSS 2260PMA 2460

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9771 SHUM 2460   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Wong, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 19049 SHUM 2460   DIS 201

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Wong, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 19050 SHUM 2460   DIS 202

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Wong, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

SHUM 2703

For description, see GERST 2703. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  5995 SHUM 2703   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Moseley, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

SHUM 2729

An introduction to the story of how human history from the earliest times through to the recent period interrelates with changing climate conditions on Earth. The course explores the whole expanse of human ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 19246 SHUM 2729   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Manning, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

SHUM 2750

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
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 2950

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: The Price is Right

  • 18513 SHUM 2750   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Stephen, K

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

Syllabi: none
  • Topic: After Images: From Photography to AI

  • 18514 SHUM 2750   SEM 102

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Lorca Fuentealba, P

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

SHUM 2805

Trade in and to Asia proved to be a key force in creating our modern "globalized" world. The Indian Ocean and the China Seas converged on Southeast Asia, where a cosmopolitan array of ships from every ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ARTH 2805ASIAN 2285VISST 2805

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  •  5997 SHUM 2805   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • McGowan, K

      Pan, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10351 SHUM 2805   DIS 201

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • McGowan, K

      Pan, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18856 SHUM 2805   DIS 202

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • McGowan, K

      Pan, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

SHUM 3334

The body has been crucially important to Black liberation politics. Not only has it been a site of contestation and control, but it has also served as a productive site of protest, alliance, and collective ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 19147 SHUM 3334   LEC 001

    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Chresfield, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

SHUM 3475

This course addresses central debates in the philosophy of legal punishment. We will analyze the leading theories of punishment, including the familiar retributivist and deterrent alternatives, as well ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LAW 6030PHIL 3475PHIL 6475

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5861 SHUM 3475   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Yost, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

SHUM 3741

This StudioLab course connects critical design teams with researchers, NGOs, and nonprofits working on human rights, public health, and environmental and land rights in the US and abroad. Practicing methods ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3741INFO 6940

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 11189 SHUM 3741   DES 504

    • WF
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • McKenzie, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

SHUM 3750

This course explores the practice, theory, and methodology of humanities research, critical analysis, and communication through writing and oral presentation. We will study the work and impact of humanists ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ANTHR 3950ARTH 3755ASIAN 3375NES 3750

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10099 SHUM 3750   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Ghosh, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10100 SHUM 3750   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Ghosh, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

SHUM 4103

Vladimir Nabokov's legacy at Cornell is not limited to the world-famous literary works he produced here. The university's natural and built environments also provided powerful material for his lifelong ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 4103ENVS 4103

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 20117 SHUM 4103   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Banerjee, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

SHUM 4112

This course provides students with a challenging and interdisciplinary examination of race and space in North American history. It engages public history and critical geographic study through the lens ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 11551 SHUM 4112   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Hyman, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 11552 SHUM 4112   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

SHUM 4202

There are two contrasting views of the status and role of women in Africa. One view portrays African women as controlled by men in all social institutions. Another view projects women as having a relatively ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 4602ASRC 6602

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 11032 SHUM 4202   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Assie-Lumumba, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

SHUM 4426

This course will explore the culture and society of Choson Korea (1392—1897) through a variety of historical, literary, and visual representations. Following the major political, social, and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 4426

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19378 SHUM 4426   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Son, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

SHUM 4681

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Syllabi: none
  • 17801 SHUM 4681   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Terhmina, I

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

SHUM 4698

According to Aristotle, human beings are political animals because they are speaking animals. What's the connection? What are its implications? Is it anti-political to use violence to compel silence, or ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 6895SHUM 6698

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18597 SHUM 4698   SEM 101

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Markell, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

SHUM 4699

This seminar investigates the emergent concept of the Black Pacific, an area that scholars across multiple disciplines in recent years have begun to shed new light on. This course is designed to encourage ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 4669ASIAN 6699SHUM 6699

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18721 SHUM 4699   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Allen, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

SHUM 4700

We will explore the thesis that far from being dead and therefore gone, the continued presence of the dead is absolutely foundational for the workings of Jewishness. What that "presence" could possibly ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18918 SHUM 4700   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Boyarin, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

SHUM 4701

This course explores nightlife as a temporality that fosters countercultural performances of the self and that serves as a site for the emergence of alternative kinship networks. Focusing on queer communities ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17870 SHUM 4701   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Jaime, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

SHUM 4702

When you work, do you listen to music, or wear noise-cancelling headphones? Why? This course will examine historical choices for silence and interact with local practitioners of various crafts to interrogate ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: SHUM 6702

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18924 SHUM 4702   SEM 101

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • LaValle, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

SHUM 4703

A "glitch" is when something goes "wrong" in digital media—sometimes, however, it is precisely when something "fails" that can tell us about the structures and forces that underlie that media. In this ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18927 SHUM 4703   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Campana, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

SHUM 4750

This course is designed to support seniors in the Humanities Scholars Program working on their capstone projects. Students in the course will be guided in their project research and writing. The course ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  •  5652 SHUM 4750   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Lorca Fuentealba, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Enrollment limited to: seniors in the Humanities Scholars Program.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  •  5740 SHUM 4750   SEM 102

    • M
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Stephen, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Enrollment limited to: seniors in the Humanities Scholars Program.

SHUM 4800

The Rural Humanities seminar will introduce students to the public humanities as both a disciplinary inquiry and a set of practices grounded in public and community engagement. It is intended to train ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: PMA 4450PMA 6450SHUM 6800

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Documenting Local Lives: Filmmaking As Research

  •  6001 SHUM 4800   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Bunn, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Application required. See https://rural.as.cornell.edu/seminar to apply.

  • Topic: Documenting Local Lives: Filmmaking As Research

  •  8936 SHUM 4800   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Bunn, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

SHUM 4860

To explore cultural aspects of imprisonment through a focus on theatre produced by those incarcerated.  Does making theatre in prison seem to assist in transformation? Students create work with PPTG members ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one laboratory. Combined with: PMA 4680

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17887 SHUM 4860   SEM 101

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Levitt, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17888 SHUM 4860   LAB 401

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Levitt, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Taught in Auburn, NY.

SHUM 6681

No description available. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17806 SHUM 6681   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Terhmina, I

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

SHUM 6698

According to Aristotle, human beings are political animals because they are speaking animals. What's the connection? What are its implications? Is it anti-political to use violence to compel silence, or ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 6895SHUM 4698

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18732 SHUM 6698   SEM 101

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Markell, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

SHUM 6699

This seminar investigates the emergent concept of the Black Pacific, an area that scholars across multiple disciplines in recent years have begun to shed new light on. This course is designed to encourage ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 4669ASIAN 6699SHUM 4699

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18730 SHUM 6699   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Allen, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

SHUM 6700

We will explore the thesis that far from being dead and therefore gone, the continued presence of the dead is absolutely foundational for the workings of Jewishness. What that "presence" could possibly ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18919 SHUM 6700   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Boyarin, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

SHUM 6702

When you work, do you listen to music, or wear noise-cancelling headphones? Why? This course will examine historical choices for silence and interact with local practitioners of various crafts to interrogate ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: SHUM 4702

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18923 SHUM 6702   SEM 101

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • LaValle, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

SHUM 6703

A "glitch" is when something goes "wrong" in digital media—sometimes, however, it is precisely when something "fails" that can tell us about the structures and forces that underlie that media. In this ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none
  • 18928 SHUM 6703   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Campana, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

SHUM 6800

The Rural Humanities seminar will introduce students to the public humanities as both a disciplinary inquiry and a set of practices grounded in public and community engagement. It is intended to train ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: PMA 4450PMA 6450SHUM 4800

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Documenting Local Lives: Filmmaking As Research

  •  6002 SHUM 6800   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Bunn, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Application required. See online: rural.as.cornell.edu/seminar to apply.

  • Topic: Documenting Local Lives: Filmmaking As Research

  •  8937 SHUM 6800   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Bunn, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies