Comparative Literature (COML)Arts and Sciences
Showing 40 results.
Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.
Last Updated
- Schedule of Classes - January 19, 2016 6:14PM EST
- Course Catalog - January 19, 2016 6:21PM EST
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.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
-
Section Topic
Topic: FWS: On the Waterfront
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- TR McGraw Hall 366
Instructors
McEnaney, T
-
Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
FWS Session.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
-
Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Writing the "I" in Modern Poetry
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- MWF Uris Hall G24
Instructors
Karmin, H
-
Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
FWS Session.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
-
Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Reading Poetry
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- MWF Uris Hall 204
Instructors
Pollak, N
-
Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
FWS Session.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
-
Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Poetry's Image
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- TR White Hall 104
Instructors
Monroe, J
-
Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
FWS Session.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
-
Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Africa in the European Imaginary
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- MWF McGraw Hall 1M01F
Instructors
Caserta, S
-
Additional Information
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.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
-
Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Paying Attention: From Cinema to Video Gaming
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- MWF Uris Hall 331
Instructors
Fu, J
-
Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
FWS Session.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
-
Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Transf Terrains: Cmg of Age on the Amer Lands
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 350
Instructors
Hussein, K
-
Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
FWS Session.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
-
Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Cinematic Worlds
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall G20
Instructors
Wijaya, E
-
Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
FWS Session.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
-
Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Poetic Cinema
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- MWF Uris Hall 369
Instructors
Huang, J
-
Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
COML 1133
Course Description
This course rubric deals with courses that focus on philosophical themes and texts. Consult the John. S. Knight Writing Seminar Program brochure for current year offerings, instructions and ... view course details
FWS Session.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
-
Section Topic
Topic: FWS: The World as Text
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 369
Instructors
Alswaid, A
-
Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
FWS Session.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
-
Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Latin American Paranoiacs
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall G24
Instructors
Leraul, D
-
Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
COML 2010
Course Description
This course will focus on the question of originality in some of the "great books" of world literature and will ask whether and how originality might refer more to "re-writing" and "re-vision" than it ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 112
Instructors
Kennedy, W
COML 2021
Course Description
This course explores the human dimension of climate change, arguably the most significant crisis ever to confront humanity. Of course, changes in the climate are natural, but it is almost universally knowledged ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: EAS 2021
-
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- TR Bradfield Hall 1102
Instructors
Mahowald, N
Pinkus, K
-
Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
COML 2030
Course Description
What is Comparative Literature? In this course, we will look at the various answers that this question has elicited. We will learn about the evolution of the discipline by looking at an assortment of literary ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- MWF Uris Hall 382
Instructors
Melas, N
-
Additional Information
First semester freshmen - by invitation only.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
Regular Academic Session.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- MWF Lincoln Hall 107
Instructors
Castillo, D
-
Additional Information
First semester freshman - by invitation only.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
COML 2033
Course Description
This course will introduce students to some of the most acclaimed works of European fiction by considering why these novels tend to focus on morally, socially, and legally transgressive acts and passions. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- TR White Hall 110
Instructors
Saccamano, N
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
-
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- MWF Rockefeller Hall 122
Instructors
Rusten, J
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
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- MWF Warren Hall B02
Instructors
Diabate, N
COML 3021
Course Description
This course introduces the most exciting and cutting-edge theoretical advances of the 20th and 21st centuries. Taught by two Cornell professors active in the field, along with occasional invited guests, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3021
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- MW Rockefeller Hall 115
Instructors
Caruth, C
Culler, J
COML 3280
Course Description
An intimate knowledge of the Bible is of fundamental importance in understanding the history of Western civilization: political philosophy, history of science, European and American literature, history ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: RELST 3280
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G24
Instructors
Carmichael, C
COML 3330
Course Description
In this course, we shall look at Russia's perception of America as reflected in the works of its writers for over a hundred-year period. What motivated these writers? Did they go to the United States with ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3331, RUSSL 3330
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 162
Instructors
Shapiro, G
COML 3541
Course Description
This course introduces students to Critical Theory, beginning with its roots in the 19th century (i.e., Kant, Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche) and then focusing on its most prominent manifestation in the 20th ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3920, GERST 3620, GOVT 3636
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 142
Instructors
Fleming, P
COML 3730
Course Description
The course draws on the world's storehouse of writing, song, and film about bandits, pirates, malingerers, revolutionary appropriators, and other defectors from the sacral order of property. Loyalty and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3710, ENGL 3710
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 128
Instructors
Maxwell, B
COML 3731
Course Description
Critical reflection on the refusal of work, including but not limited to: non-cooperation with routines of production and/or reproduction (among which, strikes, sexual and otherwise),the right to laziness, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3731, ENGL 3931
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- TR White Hall 106
Instructors
Maxwell, B
COML 3781
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 3651, FREN 3560, GERST 3561, ROMS 3560, STS 3651
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- MWF Morrill Hall 107
Instructors
McNulty, T
COML 3815
Course Description
This course offers an exciting trip to the intricate world of Nabokov's fiction. After establishing himself in Europe as a distinguished Russian writer, Nabokov, at the outbreak of World War II, came to ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3790, RUSSL 3385
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 164
Instructors
Shapiro, G
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
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 494
Instructors
Greenberg, M
COML 4190
Course Description
COML 4190 and COML 4200 may be taken independently of each other. view course details
COML 4250
Course Description
This is an introduction to the three 'master thinkers' who have helped determine the discourses of modernity and post-modernity. We consider basic aspects of their work: (a) specific critical and historical ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 4150, GOVT 4735
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- MW White Hall 110
Instructors
Waite, G
COML 4280
Course Description
A study of how biblical ethical and legal rules (in Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy) judge incidents in biblical narratives (those in Genesis through 2 Kings). The links between the laws and the narratives ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: RELST 4280
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- W Uris Hall 494
Instructors
Carmichael, C
-
Additional Information
Enrollment limited to: 15 students.
COML 4367
Course Description
A detailed exploration of the poetic, dramatic and political writings of the great Martinican poet and statesman in their multifarious contexts, influences and dialogues, including: "Black Paris" of the ... view course details
COML 4520
Course Description
A reading and discussion of key texts by Renaissance humanists in Italian, French, English, and other European literature from the 14th to the 17th centuries. view course details
COML 4550
Course Description
In 1615, Cervantes published the Second Part of his already famous Don Quixote. Four hundred years later, Spanish anthropologists have been excavating the crypt of a Madrid church in order to recover ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: JWST 4950, NES 4950, SPAN 4550
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- T Morrill Hall 110
Instructors
Garces, M
COML 4639
Course Description
This course explores the organization of cultural and scientific knowledge in the form of so-called "encyclopedias", beginning with Pliny the Elder's Natural History and tracing its development in later ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 4639, CLASS 7639, COML 6639, STS 4631, STS 7631
-
Credits and Grading Basis
3-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- T Goldwin Smith Hall 122
Instructors
Platt, V
Roby, C
COML 4831
Course Description
A thorough episode-by-episode study of the art and meaning of Joyce's masterwork Ulysses, the most influential book of the twentieth century. We shall place Ulysses in the context of Joyce's canon, Irish ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4700
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- R Goldwin Smith Hall 236
Instructors
Schwarz, D
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4880, ENGL 4960, SPAN 4880
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- T Uris Hall 382
Instructors
Monroe, J
-
Additional Information
Core Course for COML Majors. Limited to 15 students. Not offered at the 6000 level this year.
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
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, ASRC 6945, COML 6945, ENGL 4995, FGSS 4945, FGSS 6945, LGBT 4945, LGBT 6945, VISST 4945, VISST 6945
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- W Uris Hall 494
Instructors
Diabate, N
-
Additional Information
Enrollment limited: 15 students.
COML 6071
Course Description
This course will consider media as the integration of technological hardware and sets of cultural practices. We will work to recognize how "old" media help us historicize our present moment, and how "new" ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PMA 6471
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- R Uris Hall 382
Instructors
McEnaney, T
-
Additional Information
Limited to 15 students.
COML 6185
Course Description
Niklas Luhmann's systems theory is one of the great theoretical edifices of the last few decades. Ostensibly a sociological theory, Luhmann's work arguably has had its most disruptive, and most enduring, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 6190
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- R Olin Library 403
Instructors
Gilgen, P
COML 6190
Course Description
Graduate Students: please bring your faculty signed proposal to 240 Goldwin Smith Hall. view course details
COML 6367
Course Description
A detailed exploration of the poetic, dramatic and political writings of the great Martinican poet and statesman in their multifarious contexts, influences and dialogues, including: "Black Paris" of the ... view course details
COML 6380
Course Description
An introduction to literary, theatrical and intellectual works on the Tokugawa period (1600-1868). The course will examine the grammatological transformation of Tokugawa literary and theatrical works in ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 6626
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 386
Instructors
Sakai, N
-
Additional Information
Permission of instructor required.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
COML 6409
Course Description
No description available. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARCH 6409, ARTH 6409, SHUM 6409
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- M A D White House 201
Instructors
Murray, T
-
Additional Information
Graduate participants receive $1,000 research stipends. Enrollment by competition: http://urbanismseminars.cornell.edu/apply/ Deadline: July 31, 2015.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
COML 6520
Course Description
A reading and discussion of key texts by Renaissance humanists in Italian, French, English and other European literatures from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries. view course details
COML 6639
Course Description
This course explores the organization of cultural and scientific knowledge in the form of so-called "encyclopedias", beginning with Pliny the Elder's Natural History and tracing its development in later ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 4639, CLASS 7639, COML 4639, STS 4631, STS 7631
-
Credits and Grading Basis
3-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- T Goldwin Smith Hall 122
Instructors
Platt, V
Roby, C
COML 6850
Course Description
The modern or postmodern, and increasingly global, capitalist system rules by overt violence and coercion in tandem with what Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) called the "non-coercive coercion" of "cultural ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 6850, GOVT 6750
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- T Olin Library 403
Instructors
Waite, G
COML 6945
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, ASRC 6945, COML 4945, ENGL 4995, FGSS 4945, FGSS 6945, LGBT 4945, LGBT 6945, VISST 4945, VISST 6945
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- W Uris Hall 494
Instructors
Diabate, N
-
Additional Information
Enrollment limited: 15 students.