Romance Studies (ROMS)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

ROMS 1102

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

  • 18161 ROMS 1102   SEM 101

    • MWF
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • 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

  • 18162 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

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

  • 18141 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

  • 18142 ROMS 1108   SEM 102

    • MWF
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • 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

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

  • 18136 ROMS 1109   SEM 101

    • 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

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

  • 18131 ROMS 1113   SEM 101

    • 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:On Love

  • 18132 ROMS 1113   SEM 102

    • 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:Globally Queer

  • 18133 ROMS 1113   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: Identity & Transformation

  • 18134 ROMS 1113   SEM 104

    • MWF
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • 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

  • 18135 ROMS 1113   SEM 105

    • MWF
    • 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/.

ROMS 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
  • Topic: After Images: From Photography to AI

  •  8538 ROMS 2750   SEM 102

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • 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

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

  •  9517 ROMS 3210   SEM 101

    • MWF
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Alkire, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ROMS 3300

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

  •  7679 ROMS 3300   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Traverso, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ROMS 4334

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
  •  7047 ROMS 4334   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Melas, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ROMS 4825

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 main ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  8206 ROMS 4825   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Dubreuil, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ROMS 5070

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

  •  2463 ROMS 5070   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Torea, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students wishing to be a Teaching Assistant (TA) in Romance Studies.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Sat/Unsat

  •  9853 ROMS 5070   SEM 102

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Amigo-Silvestre, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ROMS 6225

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
  •  7681 ROMS 6225   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Traverso, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ROMS 6334

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
  •  7049 ROMS 6334   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Melas, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ROMS 6825

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 main ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  8209 ROMS 6825   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Dubreuil, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person