Romance Studies (ROMS)Arts and Sciences
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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2017-2018.
Last Updated
- Schedule of Classes - February 16, 2018 10:59AM EST
- Course Catalog - February 12, 2018 11:18AM EST
Classes
ROMS 1102
Course Description
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
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 Cannibal and the Explorer
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 124
Instructors
Sieffert, A
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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.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Weird Fiction from Latin America and the Worl
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 122
Instructors
Paz-Soldan, E
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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.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: The Decameron
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Klarman Hall KG42
Instructors
Di Fenza, A
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
ROMS 1108
Course Description
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
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Literature Afloat, Identities in Motion
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Balch Hall - Tatkon Ctr 3331
Instructors
Vu, Y
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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.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Writing Italy
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Uris Hall 302
Instructors
Eibenstein-Alvisi, I
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.
ROMS 1109
Course Description
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
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Women in Horror: A Feminist Perspective
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR White Hall B06
Instructors
Dani, V
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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.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Human and Non-Human inEuropean Visual Cultures
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 498
Instructors
Turtas, L
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.
ROMS 1113
Course Description
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
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Dante's Examined Life
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Uris Hall 302
Instructors
Eibenstein-Alvisi, I
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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.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Dante's Examined Life
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 160
Instructors
Eibenstein-Alvisi, I
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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.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS:On Love
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Caldwell Hall 400
Instructors
Rodriguez de Rivera, I
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.
ROMS 1114
Course Description
What allows us to make assumptions about people based on the way they speak or dress? How can we understand the deeper meaning of a fairy tale or an episode of The Simpsons? What does macaroni and cheese ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 164
Instructors
Alkire, T
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.
ROMS 1120
Course Description
This course explores the human-animal bond and conflict represented in international films, especially from Hispanic and Francophone countries. We will discuss wildlife, companion and farm animals in ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Statler Hall 441
Instructors
Bachminska, E
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
ROMS 3802
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3802, ENGL 3902
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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 KG44
Instructors
Monroe, J
ROMS 4210
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4251, GERST 4210, GOVT 4015
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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
Waite, G
ROMS 4225
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4413, GERST 4220, VISST 4221
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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 White Hall 104
Instructors
Solanki, T
ROMS 4350
Course Description
As an outstanding figure of critical theory in the twentieth century, Siegfried Kracauer left an astonishingly rich body of work spanning literature and the sociology of mass culture, film criticism and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 4355, GERST 6355, HIST 4235, HIST 6235, JWST 4350, ROMS 6350
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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
- M McGraw Hall 145
Instructors
Traverso, E
ROMS 5080
Course Description
This practicum is designed to better enable the TAs to meet the needs of their students in the understanding and acquisition of the linguistic forms, notions, and functions covered in their course. view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1 Credit Sat/Unsat(Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1 Credit Sat/Unsat(Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1 Credit Sat/Unsat(Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)
ROMS 6070
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 6894, GERST 6070
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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
Fleming, P
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Additional Information
Taught in English. Anchor course. All texts available in English.
ROMS 6100
Course Description
Designed to give insight into how to formulate projects, conduct research, and publish one's work, the colloquium offers a venue for faculty-graduate student dialogue in a collegial, intellectual setting. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
2 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Goldwin Smith Hall 158
Instructors
Keller, P
ROMS 6350
Course Description
As an outstanding figure of critical theory in the twentieth century, Siegfried Kracauer left an astonishingly rich body of work spanning literature and the sociology of mass culture, film criticism and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 4355, GERST 6355, HIST 4235, HIST 6235, JWST 4350, ROMS 4350
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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
- M McGraw Hall 145
Instructors
Traverso, E
ROMS 6944
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 6944, GOVT 6946
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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 Rockefeller Hall 127
Instructors
Diabate, N