Romance Studies (ROMS)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

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  • Schedule of Classes - November 20, 2025 7:07PM EST

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:The Story & the Self: Race, Gender, Agency

  •  9426 ROMS 1102   SEM 102

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    • MWF
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Rebhi, 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:

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: The Decameron

  •  9427 ROMS 1102   SEM 103

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    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Migiel, M

  • 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: A Guide to Surviving Survival

  •  9428 ROMS 1102   SEM 104

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    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Giordano Perla, F

  • 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: The Italian American

  •  9450 ROMS 1108   SEM 101

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    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • 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/.

Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:Narrating Disability in Hispanic Lit & Culture

  •  9451 ROMS 1108   SEM 102

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    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • 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:Narrating Disability in Hispanic Lit & Culture

  •  9452 ROMS 1108   SEM 103

  •  
    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • 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: Revolution to Radicalism—Terror in French Cul

  •  9453 ROMS 1108   SEM 104

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    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Choinet, A

  • 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:

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:Italian Cinema

  •  9449 ROMS 1109   SEM 101

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    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • 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 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

  •  3747 ROMS 3300   SEM 101

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    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Traverso, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ROMS 3560
Freud and Psychoanalysis

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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Syllabi: none

  • 18034 ROMS 3560   LEC 001

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    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • McNulty, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ROMS 4836
Transcultural Theory

Cultures are never monolithic, and they are very rarely impervious to foreign influences. Exchanges allow for the inception of individual cultures: the widespread process of dual integration and alteration ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •  1264 ROMS 4836   SEM 101

  •  
    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Dubreuil, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ROMS 4944
Digital Biopolitics

This course is a theoretical exploration of digital biopolitics, a convergence of how digital technologies mediate, govern, and regulate life, particularly within frameworks of power and control. Extending ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •  1231 ROMS 4944   SEM 101

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    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Diabate, N

  • 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

  •  3683 ROMS 5070   SEM 101

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    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Torea, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ROMS 6739
Agamben's Homo Sacer

This course will examine Giorgio Agamben’s nine-volume Homo Sacer project. Beginning with Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (1995) and ending with The Use of Bodies (2015) we will follow Agamben’s ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 6739

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6313 ROMS 6739   SEM 101

  •  
    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Attell, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ROMS 6836
Transcultural Theory

Cultures are never monolithic, and they are very rarely impervious to foreign influences. Exchanges allow for the inception of individual cultures: the widespread process of dual integration and alteration ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none

  •  1267 ROMS 6836   SEM 101

  •  
    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Dubreuil, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ROMS 6944
Digital Biopolitics

This course is a theoretical exploration of digital biopolitics, a convergence of how digital technologies mediate, govern, and regulate life, particularly within frameworks of power and control. Extending ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none

  •  1236 ROMS 6944   SEM 101

  •  
    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Diabate, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person