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COML 1109
FWS: Writing Across Cultures

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: You Don't Know Me

  • 17749 COML 1109   SEM 101

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  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Experimental Arabic Literature

  • 17752 COML 1109   SEM 102

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  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Literary Insomniacs

  • 17751 COML 1109   SEM 103

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  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Reading Poetry

  • 17753 COML 1109   SEM 105

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  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: The Third World and TravelPorn?

  • 17750 COML 1109   SEM 106

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  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: A Taste of Russian Literature

  • 17755 COML 1109   SEM 107

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  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

COML 1126
FWS: Comparative Arts and Media

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Violence and Visuality

  • 17738 COML 1126   SEM 101

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  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Things

  • 17739 COML 1126   SEM 102

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  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Remix Culture

  • 17741 COML 1126   SEM 103

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  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Aesthetics for Beginners

  • 17743 COML 1126   SEM 104

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  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:Contemporary Southeast Asian Independent Cinem

  • 17742 COML 1126   SEM 105

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  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Introduction to Film Analysis

  • 17740 COML 1126   SEM 106

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  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

COML 2020
Great Books: The Great Short Works

What is a classic? What is contemporary? Where are we heading now? Extending from the Enlightenment and Age of Revolutions to the present, this course will focus on texts that have played a pivotal role ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17267 COML 2020   LEC 001

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COML 2030
Introduction to Comparative Literature

Take your love for literature into uncharted waters. "Introduction to Comparative Literature" journeys beyond national and disciplinary borders to explore the far-reaching implications of our increasingly ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9182 COML 2030   SEM 101

  • First semester freshman - by invitation only.

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18175 COML 2030   SEM 102

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

COML 2035
Science Fiction

Science fiction is not merely a literary genre but a whole way of being, thinking, and acting in the modern world. This course explores classic and contemporary science fiction from Frankenstein to The ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: BSOC 2131, ENGL 2035, STS 2131

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17524 COML 2035   LEC 001

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COML 2050
Introduction to Poetry

Could a meter have a meaning?  Could there be a reason for a rhyme?  And what is lost and gained in translation?  We'll think about these and other questions in this introduction to poetry.  We'll see ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17268 COML 2050   SEM 101

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COML 2754
Wondrous Literatures of the Near East

This course examines Near East's rich and diverse literary heritage. We will read a selection of influential and wondrous texts from ancient to modern times, spanning geographically from the Iberian peninsula ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: JWST 2754, NES 2754

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10057 COML 2754   LEC 001

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COML 3150
Literature and Media in Japan

Beginning with the mid-nineteeth century, the course traces dynamic relays and reciprocal influences among woodblock prints, maps, fiction, films, anime, comics, and digital arts in Japan. We will consider ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 3318, VISST 3318

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9491 COML 3150   LEC 001

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COML 3330
America through Russian Eyes

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3331, RUSSL 3330

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17147 COML 3330   SEM 101

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COML 3440
The Tragic Theatre

Tragedy and its audiences from ancient Greece to modern theater and film. Topics: origins of theatrical conventions; Shakespeare and Seneca; tragedy in modern theater and film. Works studied will include: ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 3645, PMA 3724

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9567 COML 3440   LEC 001

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COML 3780
What is a People? The Social Contract and its Discontents

When Jean-Jacques Rousseau introduced the concept of the "general will" in his classic text The Social Contract, he made what was then an unprecedented and scandalous claim: that the people as a whole, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 3780, GOVT 3786

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16140 COML 3780   SEM 101

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COML 3802
Fantasies of Avant-Gardes

What is it to be avant-garde? What do avant-gardes want, and for what purposes? How have desires to be avant-garde changed over time? What does it mean to be avant-garde in the 21st century? Focusing on ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3902, ROMS 3802

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17269 COML 3802   SEM 101

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COML 3815
Reading Nabokov

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3790, RUSSL 3385

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8647 COML 3815   SEM 101

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COML 3975
Afropolitanism

Are you an Afropolitan? Are you a Cosmopolitan? Perhaps yes, perhaps no? How is afropolitanism different from cosmopolitanism, diaspora, or pan-africanism? How about finding it out while exploring the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 3975, ENGL 3975

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17271 COML 3975   SEM 101

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COML 3980
Theorizing Gender and Race in Asian Histories and Literatures

For a long time area studies have overlooked the over-determined links of gender, race/ethnicity, and social class in fields related to East Asia and the trans-Pacific regions. Little attention has been ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 16058 COML 3980   LEC 001

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COML 4007
The Art of Love

Is love an art?  Then it requires knowledge and effort, writes Erich Fromm in the first chapter of The Art of Loving.  His question (from 1956) is not a new one.  This course engages with the long tradition ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17394 COML 4007   SEM 101

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COML 4190
Independent Study

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6459 COML 4190   IND 601

    • TBA

    • McNulty, T

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

COML 4221
Modern Primitives

What is "modern"? What is "primitive"? How can one tell the difference?  This course will examine the complex conjuncture of  art, literature, anthropology and colonialist racism in the early decades of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17274 COML 4221   SEM 101

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  • Core Course for COML Majors. Limited: to 15 students

COML 4228
Topics in Cognitive Science

A course examining the core disciplines of cognitive science using varied themes from semester to semester. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • Topic: Culture, Cognition & the Humanities

  • 18750 COML 4228   LEC 001

  •  
    • T Uris Hall 438

    • Christiansen, M

      Dubreuil, L

COML 4251
Existentialism or Marxism

The most intense public encounter between Existentialism and Marxism occurred in immediate post-WWII Europe, its structure remaining alive internationally. Existentialist questions have been traced from ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 4210, GOVT 4015, ROMS 4210

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17467 COML 4251   SEM 101

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COML 4281
Social Activism and Tactical Media Design

What happens when experience design meets Reverend Billy? Or design thinking encounters the Guerrilla Girls? Tracing such questions, we'll draw on contemporary fields of human-computer interaction and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4705

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17454 COML 4281   SEM 101

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COML 4413
Technologies of Verse

Poems disrupt the flow of reading. In so doing, rather than rendering them transparent, they call attention to their media – often the page or voice. This course will examine the experimental writing techniques ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 4220, ROMS 4225, VISST 4221

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17468 COML 4413   SEM 101

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COML 4521
Cosmopolitanism, Tolerance and Coexistence

What does it mean to call individuals, cities, or societies "cosmopolitan?" What are the implications when one invokes tolerance to resolve conflict? Do appeals for "tolerance" and "coexistence" redefine ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 6521, JWST 4708, NES 4708, NES 6708

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 17306 COML 4521   SEM 101

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COML 4575
Migration in the Americas: Engaged Research Methods and Practice

This course will introduce students to basic concepts and developments related to migrants and migration in Central America, Mexico, and the United States via engaged learning and research. The course ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17390 COML 4575   LEC 001

  •  
    • TR Ives Hall 103

    • Castillo, D

      Cook, M

COML 4614
Corrupting Environmental Media

This course seeks to explore the intersections of corruption and environmental media. We will be analyzing films and other media (including artworks and literary texts) that deal with the environmental ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: SHUM 4616, STS 4616

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17186 COML 4614   SEM 101

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COML 4615
Data Corruption's Deep History

How can studying the deep past of information storage and transmission help us understand our current engagements with information and contemplate its future? In this course we will we will explore the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17187 COML 4615   SEM 101

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COML 4930
Senior Essay

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  6158 COML 4930   IND 601

  •  
    • TBA

    • McNulty, T

  • If you do not see the faculty member you wish to work with, please use 601.

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8424 COML 4930   IND 602

  •  
    • TBA

    • Ahl, F

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8425 COML 4930   IND 603

  •  
    • TBA

    • Bachner, A

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8426 COML 4930   IND 604

  •  
    • TBA

    • Banerjee, A

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8427 COML 4930   IND 606

  •  
    • TBA

    • Caruth, C

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8428 COML 4930   IND 607

  •  
    • TBA

    • Castillo, D

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8429 COML 4930   IND 608

  •  
    • TBA

    • Chase, C

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8430 COML 4930   IND 611

  •  
    • TBA

    • de Bary, B

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8431 COML 4930   IND 612

  •  
    • TBA

    • Diabate, N

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  • 18810 COML 4930   IND 613

  •  
    • TBA

    • Dubreuil, L

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8433 COML 4930   IND 616

  •  
    • TBA

    • Staff

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8434 COML 4930   IND 617

  •  
    • TBA

    • McNulty, T

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  • 18864 COML 4930   IND 618

  •  
    • TBA

    • Melas, N

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8435 COML 4930   IND 619

  •  
    • TBA

    • Monroe, J

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8820 COML 4930   IND 620

    • TBA

    • Murray, T

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8436 COML 4930   IND 622

  •  
    • TBA

    • Pinkus, K

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8437 COML 4930   IND 623

  •  
    • TBA

    • Pollak, N

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8439 COML 4930   IND 626

  •  
    • TBA

    • Shapiro, G

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  • 18866 COML 4930   IND 628

  •  
    • TBA

    • Van Clief-Stefanon, L

COML 4940
Senior Essay

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  9149 COML 4940   IND 601

  •  
    • TBA

    • Staff

COML 6007
The Art of Love

Is love an art?  Then it requires knowledge and effort, writes Erich Fromm in the first chapter of The Art of Loving.  His question (from 1956) is not a new one.  This course engages with the long tradition ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17393 COML 6007   SEM 101

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COML 6136
Empathy: Affects and Sociality in Literature and Theory

Examination of affects at the intersections of aesthetics, ethics, politics, philosophy and psychoanalysis.  Points of inquiry: how are social feelings of empathy, solidarity and identification evoked ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 6175

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17470 COML 6136   SEM 101

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COML 6160
Translation, in Theory

The course provides an introduction to various aspects of translation theory, and emphasizes relations between translation theory and trauma theory, post-structuralism, post-colonial theory, and debates ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 6619, VISST 6619

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9254 COML 6160   SEM 101

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COML 6190
Independent Study

Graduate Students: please bring your faculty signed proposal to 240 Goldwin Smith Hall. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6461 COML 6190   IND 601

    • TBA

    • Staff

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

COML 6300
Aesthetics in the Eighteenth Century

A study of the development of aesthetics as a theoretical discipline specifying the genetic process, forms, effects, and judgments peculiar to art. Through readings of primarily British and French criticism ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 6300

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17275 COML 6300   SEM 101

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COML 6375
Migration in the Americas: Engaged Research Methods and Practice

This course will introduce students to basic concepts and developments related to migrants and migration in Central America, Mexico, and the United States via engaged learning and research. The course ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17391 COML 6375   LEC 001

  •  
    • TR Ives Hall 103

    • Castillo, D

      Cook, M

COML 6410
Derrida and Literature

Although questions about literature will run through this course, we will study a range of classic Derrida texts, some quite tangential to literature, and participants may write their final papers on topics ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 6240, FREN 6410

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17277 COML 6410   SEM 101

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COML 6521
Cosmopolitanism, Tolerance and Coexistence

What does it mean to call individuals, cities, or societies "cosmopolitan?" What are the implications when one invokes tolerance to resolve conflict? Do appeals for "tolerance" and "coexistence" redefine ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17307 COML 6521   SEM 101

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COML 6661
Persecution and the Art of Writing

Our title derives from the political philosopher Leo Strauss, who provides our initial analytic, methodological, and theoretical model. We extend beyond Straussian ideological positions to include art ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 16710 COML 6661   SEM 101

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COML 6676
Critical Continental Thought

This seminar will focus on Nietzsche's legacy on 20th/21st century French thought. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 6676, GOVT 6676

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: French

  • 17453 COML 6676   SEM 101

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COML 6680
Theorizing Gender and Race in Asian Histories and Literatures

For a long time area studies have overlooked the over-determined links of gender, race/ethnicity, and social class in fields related to East Asia and the trans-Pacific regions. Little attention has been ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 16061 COML 6680   LEC 001

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COML 6894
Prose of the World: 19th C. Letters

This seminar takes as its theoretical starting point Hegel's notion of the "prose of the world" to describe the modern age, and the 19th c in particular—an age no longer defined by the exception and heroes, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 6070, ROMS 6070

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17469 COML 6894   SEM 101

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  • Taught in English. Anchor course. All texts available in English.

COML 6944
Biopolitics

This course explores the philosophical concept of biopolitics and its diverse translations and/or adaptations across multiple disciplines and across the globe (Africa, Far East, South East Asia, and the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 6946, ROMS 6944

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17279 COML 6944   SEM 101

  •