Comparative Literature (COML)Arts and Sciences
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- Schedule of Classes - June 19, 2018 12:09PM EDT
- Course Catalog - March 23, 2018 2:31PM EDT
Classes
COML 1109
Course Description
Matches the first track in our major, Comparative Literary Studies. This course rubric deals with literary works from different cultures or historical periods. Consult the John. S. Knight Writing Seminar ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: You Don't Know Me
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall G20
Instructors
Tal, N
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Cannibal Cultures
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall G22
Instructors
Bachner, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: The Third World and TravelPorn?
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Balch Hall - Tatkon Ctr 3343
Instructors
Pham, V
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: A Taste of Russian Literature
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Balch Hall - Tatkon Ctr 3343
Instructors
Krivitsky, R
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Science Fiction
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 369
Instructors
Alswaid, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
COML 1126
Course Description
Matches the second track in our major, Literary, Visual, and Media Studies. This course rubric deals with courses that compare literature to film, video, performance, and other arts. Consult the John. ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Violence and Visuality
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Balch Hall - Tatkon Ctr 3331
Instructors
Huang, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Remix Culture
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 369
Instructors
Huang, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
COML 2000
Course Description
This course will introduce you to the field of Visual Studies. Visual Studies seeks to define and improve our visual relationship to nature and culture after the modern surge in technology and knowledge. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 2000, ARTH 2000, VISST 2000
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G64-Kau Aud
Instructors
Moisey, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall G24
Instructors
Moisey, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall G24
Instructors
Moisey, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall G24
Instructors
Moisey, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall G24
Instructors
Moisey, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall 181
Instructors
Moisey, A
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Instruction Mode: In Person
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall 181
Instructors
Moisey, A
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Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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- W White Hall 110
Instructors
Moisey, A
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Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W White Hall 106
Instructors
Moisey, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 2021
Course Description
This course explores the human dimension of climate change, arguably the most significant crisis ever to confront humanity. The focus of this course will be narratives--the stories we tell ourselves as ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: EAS 2021, ROMS 2021
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 231
Instructors
Pinkus, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
COML 2230
Course Description
Study and analysis of 2500 years of comedy (all in English), from Greece (Aristophanes, Menander), Rome (Plautus and Terence), Italy (Machiavelli, The commedia dell' arte), Elizabethan (Shakespeare, Ben ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 2651, PMA 2635
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 132
Instructors
Rusten, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 2290
Course Description
This course offers an introduction to the questions, topics, approaches, and theories that characterize the field of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Studies. Using an interdisciplinary approach ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 2290, LGBT 2290
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF White Hall 110
Instructors
Diabate, N
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 2580
Course Description
How is the memory of the Holocaust kept alive by means of the literary and visual imagination? Within the historical context of the Holocaust and how and why it occurred, we shall examine major and widely ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 2580, JWST 2580
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 236
Instructors
Schwarz, D
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 3021
Course Description
This course juxtaposes the exciting theoretical advances of the late 20th century, including structuralism and post-structuralism, with current developments in 21st century theory such as performance studies, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 6159, ENGL 3021, ENGL 6021, PMA 3421
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Statler Hall 341
Instructors
Caruth, C
Villarejo, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 3460
Course Description
Writers are often unable to treat the most deeply controversial issues within their societies persuasively and safely by direct and open challenge, especially in ages and cultures which enforce conformity ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 3646
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall G26
Instructors
Ahl, F
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 3485
Course Description
Beginning in the early days of silent cinema, a rich tradition of what are called "city films," combines technological innovation with the exploration of specific urban spaces. Students in this class ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 3485, ITAL 3485, SPAN 3485
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Morrill Hall 106
Instructors
Keller, P
Lawless, C
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 3541
Course Description
Shortly after the last election, The New Yorker published an article entitled "The Frankfurt School Knew Trump was Coming." This course examines what the Frankfurt School knew by introducing students to ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one discussion. Combined with: ENGL 3920, GERST 3620, GOVT 3636
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G64-Kau Aud
Instructors
Fleming, P
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Taught in English.
Department Consent Required (Add)
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Meeting Pattern
- F Goldwin Smith Hall 236
Instructors
Kohlbry, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Department Consent Required (Add)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Goldwin Smith Hall 283
Instructors
Kohlbry, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Department Consent Required (Add)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F White Hall 106
Instructors
Molde, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Department Consent Required (Add)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Goldwin Smith Hall 160
Instructors
Molde, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Department Consent Required (Add)
COML 3743
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: JWST 3655, NES 3655, NES 6655
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Lincoln Hall B08
Instructors
Starr, D
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 3800
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3820, ENGL 3910, LATA 3800, SPAN 3800
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR White Hall B14
Instructors
Monroe, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 3811
Course Description
The modern field of translation studies overlaps most closely with literary studies, but it intersects also with fields such as linguistics and politics. The intense work in translation studies in the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 160
Instructors
Pollak, N
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 3891
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 3840
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Klarman Hall KG42
Instructors
Greenberg, M
Vallois, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 4001
Course Description
A comprehensive survey of philosophical aesthetics from its inception in the 18th century to the present, this class will pay special attention to questions of authenticity and originality. Theories of ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 312
Instructors
Molde, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 4200
Course Description
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
COML 4429
Course Description
This extraordinary figure died in 1941, and his death is emblematic of the intellectual depradations of Nazism. Yet since World War II, his influence, his reputation, and his fascination for scholars ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4413, ANTHR 7413, GERST 4413, GERST 6413, JWST 4913, JWST 7913, NES 4913, NES 7913
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R McGraw Hall 215
Instructors
Boyarin, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 4616
Course Description
In this seminar we will sustain a particular reading of post-1984 Mexico-US border cultural production as "undocumentation." Specifically, we will focus on performance, conceptual, and cinematic practices ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4620, FGSS 4620, LATA 4620, LSP 4621, ROMS 4625, SHUM 4620, VISST 4620
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R A D White House 110
Instructors
Carroll, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 4618
Course Description
The course reads theoretical texts on liberalism, neoliberalism, and corruption in dialogue with science fiction/fantasy narratives, literary and visual. We will study how the aesthetic features of these ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: SHUM 4622
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T A D White House 110
Instructors
Parry, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 4832
Course Description
Following my credo, "Always the text; always historicize," The Modern Imagination: Major Authors has been a successful course for relatively advanced undergraduates as well as for Ph.D students and MFAs. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4535, ENGL 6530
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R A D White House 110
Instructors
Schwarz, D
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 4860
Course Description
What gives contemporary poetry and poetics its resonance and value? What are its dominant features, audiences, and purposes? What does 21st-century poetry's textual environment look like, and how does ... view course details
COML 4930
Course Description
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
COML 4940
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
COML 4945
Course Description
The course examines how postcolonial African writers and filmmakers engage with and revise controversial images of bodies and sexuality--genital cursing, same-sex desire, HIV/AIDS, genital surgeries, etc. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 4995, ENGL 4995, FGSS 4945, LGBT 4945, VISST 4945
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall 236
Instructors
Diabate, N
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 6159
Course Description
Without literary theory, there is no idea of literature, of criticism, of culture. While exciting theoretical paradigms emerged in the late 20th century, including structuralism and poststructuralism, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3021, ENGL 3021, ENGL 6021, PMA 3421
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Statler Hall 341
Instructors
Caruth, C
Villarejo, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 6200
Course Description
Graduate Students: please bring your faculty signed proposal to 240 Goldwin Smith Hall. view course details
COML 6221
Course Description
"All decolonization," wrote Frantz Fanon, "is successful at the level of description." With an focus on the difference between description and critique and on the uneven relation between the academic ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Olin Library 303
Instructors
Melas, N
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 6285
Course Description
Translation is a cultural, conceptual, and political problem. It lies at the heart of the literary itself. Methodological discussions of "world" literature hinge on it, and Renaissance culture is unthinkable ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 6285
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall 144
Instructors
Lorenz, P
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 6702
Course Description
Deleuze and Guattari famously quipped that Italy lacked "a milieu" for philosophy, that its thinkers remained comets and that Italy had the habit of "burning" its comets. In this course we will not take ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ITAL 6510
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Uris Hall 369
Instructors
Campbell, T
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 6707
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Rockefeller Hall 127
Instructors
Bachner, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 6865
Course Description
What gives contemporary poetry and poetics its resonance and value? What are its dominant features, audiences, and purposes? What does 21st-century poetry's environment look like, and how does it situate ... view course details