Comparative Literature (COML)Arts and Sciences

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COML 1104

We live in an image-saturated world. How do we make sense of the moving image and its powerful roles in shaping culture and mediating our relationship with the world? This course will equip students with ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18235 COML 1104   SEM 101

  • 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

  • 18236 COML 1104   SEM 102

  • 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

  • 18237 COML 1104   SEM 103

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

COML 1105

What do Frankenstein and Things Fall Apart have in common? What lies behind the fantastical stories of Aladdin? Do we have to like Garcia Márquez and Shakespeare? These texts and authors re-imagine the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18238 COML 1105   SEM 101

  • 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

  • 18239 COML 1105   SEM 102

  • 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

  • 18240 COML 1105   SEM 103

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

COML 1106

In 2015, Japan's SoftBank Robotics Corporation announced the world's first robot with feelings. Many people were excited, many more disturbed. If robots are simply, as the dictionary suggests, machines ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18152 COML 1106   SEM 101

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

COML 1119

Explore the culinary tradition and culture of Russia in broad historical, geopolitical and socioeconomic context through the lens of Russian folklore, short stories of Gogol, Chekhov, and Bulgakov, works ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18154 COML 1119   SEM 101

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

COML 1125

What is an empire? Could we compare the Romans to the Incas, or the French to the Chinese? How have the ways in which we have represented empires affect our understanding of it? Furthermore, is it possible ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18156 COML 1125   SEM 101

  • 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

  • 18157 COML 1125   SEM 102

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

COML 1127

The cannibal is always the other. Eating human flesh as a practice or a ritual always happens in the remote past or in far-away places. And yet, the cannibal lives among us. In spite of real ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18159 COML 1127   SEM 101

  • This course deals with cannibalism—explicitly violent content will be part of the class. For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/

COML 1134

Poems are puzzles, and in this class you'll figure them out by writing about them.  You'll learn how to answer the key question "What is this poem about?" and how to explain your conclusions to other readers. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18160 COML 1134   SEM 101

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

COML 2030

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

  •  8170 COML 2030   SEM 101

  • First semester freshman - by invitation only.

COML 2035

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 2131ENGL 2035STS 2131

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16676 COML 2035   LEC 001

COML 2050

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

  •  9292 COML 2050   SEM 101

COML 2235

This undergraduate course introduces the formal and topical innovations that African cinema has experienced since its inception in the 1960s. Sections will explore, among others, Nollywood, sci-fi, and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 2235ENGL 2935

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9405 COML 2235   SEM 101

COML 2251

Where do we get our images of poets, and of poetry? Along with the images we find in poems themselves, how do poetry and poets figure in fiction and film, in music and popular culture? How do such figures ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 2951

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16680 COML 2251   SEM 101

COML 2523

Islamophobia and Judeophobia are ideas and like all ideas they have a history of their own. Although today many might think of Islamophobia or Judeophobia as unchangeable---fear of and hatred for Islam ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 2523JWST 2523NES 2523RELST 2523

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16487 COML 2523   LEC 001

  • 16488 COML 2523   DIS 201

  • 16489 COML 2523   DIS 202

  • 16490 COML 2523   DIS 203

  • 16491 COML 2523   DIS 204

COML 2700

What does the representation of sexual encounter in the Arabian Nights ('Alf layla-wa layla) have to do with a politics of race and gender? This course explores the millenia-long history of mediations ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16532 COML 2700   LEC 001

COML 2750

This seminar offers an introduction to the humanities by exploring the historical, cultural, social and political stakes of the Society for the Humanities annual focal theme. Students will consider novels, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 2950GOVT 2755SHUM 2750

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Energy

  • 18122 COML 2750   SEM 101

COML 3261

Global Cinema I and II together offer an overview of international film history from the late nineteenth century to today. Through a focus on key films and significant epochs, the course traces the evolution ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 3550PMA 6550VISST 3175

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16965 COML 3261   LEC 001

COML 3310

This course explores cultural representations of Afro-Asian intimacies and coalition in novels, songs, films, paintings, and poems. What affinities, loves and thefts, and tensions are present in cultural ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18012 COML 3310   SEM 101

COML 3485

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

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Syllabi: none
  • 17600 COML 3485   SEM 101

COML 3541

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one discussion. Combined with: ENGL 3920GERST 3620GOVT 3636

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16130 COML 3541   SEM 101

  • 16131 COML 3541   DIS 201

  • 16132 COML 3541   DIS 202

COML 3780

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 3780GOVT 3786

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17215 COML 3780   SEM 101

COML 3815

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 3790RUSSL 3385

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7837 COML 3815   SEM 101

COML 4190

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

  •  5942 COML 4190   IND 601

    • TBA
    • McNulty, T

  • Permission of instructor required. To apply for independent study, please complete the on-line form at data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

COML 4211

This course focuses on literature as a model and harbinger of posthumanism. The German tradition in particular is rich in literary texts that offer posthuman constellations and experiences avant la lettre. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4972GERST 4211

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16281 COML 4211   SEM 101

COML 4221

What is "modern"? What is "primitive"? Through the lens of contemporary debates, this course will examine the complex conjuncture of art, literature, anthropology and colonial racism in the early decades ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17618 COML 4221   SEM 101

COML 4229

Seminar on the essential features and qualities of culture and how it impacts human endeavors.  Because understanding culture necessarily requires interaction across multiple areas of study, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COGST 4150COGST 6150PSYCH 4150

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17825 COML 4229   SEM 101

    • T Uris Hall 205
    • Christiansen, M

      Dubreuil, L

COML 4250

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 4250GOVT 4735

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16198 COML 4250   LEC 001

COML 4471

The premodern world played a crucial role in the formation of postmodern theory. 'Biblical exegesis', 'negative theology', 'inner experience', and other premodern concepts and practices were taken up by ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17675 COML 4471   SEM 101

COML 4575

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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  • 17857 COML 4575   SEM 101

COML 4640

This course examines contemporary literary and cultural memory work that mediates the emergence of nuclear energy in Asia and the Pacific after World War Two as a transpacific settler colonial and racial ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16970 COML 4640   SEM 101

COML 4642

This course addresses psychoanalytic understandings of psychic energy, its sources and functions, and its manifestations as mania or psychosis. Students will be introduced to foundational psychoanalysts: ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4962SHUM 4642SHUM 6642

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16974 COML 4642   SEM 101

COML 4709

Recent theory has tended to focused on difference. What if we looked at its complementary or supplementary others instead? This course will analyze a range of theoretical concepts that hinge on sameness ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 6709GERST 6709

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16910 COML 4709   SEM 101

COML 4902

The environmental humanities pose a radically different set of questions to texts, materials, and contexts that were previously approached in terms of human intentions and actions alone. This seminar explores ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 6902STS 4902STS 6902

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17004 COML 4902   SEM 101

COML 4930

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

  •  5656 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

  •  7671 COML 4930   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Ahl, F

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7672 COML 4930   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Bachner, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7673 COML 4930   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Banerjee, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7674 COML 4930   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Caruth, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7675 COML 4930   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Castillo, D

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7676 COML 4930   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Chase, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7677 COML 4930   IND 611

    • TBA
    • de Bary, B

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7678 COML 4930   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Diabate, N

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8851 COML 4930   IND 613

    • TBA
    • Dubreuil, L

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7679 COML 4930   IND 616

    • TBA
    • Vaziri, P

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7680 COML 4930   IND 617

    • TBA
    • McNulty, T

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8854 COML 4930   IND 618

    • TBA
    • Melas, N

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7681 COML 4930   IND 619

    • TBA
    • Monroe, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7971 COML 4930   IND 620

    • TBA
    • Murray, T

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7682 COML 4930   IND 622

    • TBA
    • Pinkus, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7683 COML 4930   IND 623

    • TBA
    • Pollak, N

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7684 COML 4930   IND 626

    • TBA
    • Shapiro, G

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8855 COML 4930   IND 628

    • TBA
    • Staff

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  9786 COML 4930   IND 633

    • TBA
    • Keller, P

COML 4940

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

  •  8156 COML 4940   IND 601

    • TBA
    • McNulty, T

COML 4944

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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  • 16901 COML 4944   SEM 101

COML 6190

This course gives students the opportunity to work with a selected instructor to pursue special interests or research not treated in regularly scheduled courses. After getting permission of the instructor, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7686 COML 6190   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Banerjee, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17388 COML 6190   IND 618

    • TBA
    • Melas, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17389 COML 6190   IND 620

    • TBA
    • Murray, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19156 COML 6190   IND 643

    • TBA
    • Waite, G

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19164 COML 6190   IND 644

    • TBA
    • Waite, G

COML 6285

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 6285

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17448 COML 6285   SEM 101

COML 6369

Expanded Practice Seminars bring students and faculty in the humanities and the design disciplines together around a common and pressing urban issue such as the cultural and material practices induced ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARCH 6308ARCH 6408SHUM 6308

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Climate Imaginaries and Migration in the Caribbean

  • 18083 COML 6369   SEM 101

COML 6375

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
  • 14588 COML 6375   SEM 101

COML 6481

This seminar investigates the productive relationship that ties literary criticism to media studies in the North-American and European humanities—for the latter we will especially focus on the German-language ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 6481PMA 6481ROMS 6481

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16251 COML 6481   SEM 101

COML 6600

Some of the most powerful approaches to visual practices have come from outside or from the peripheries of the institution of art history and criticism. This seminar will analyze the interactions between ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 6060GERST 6600

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16175 COML 6600   SEM 101

COML 6709

Recent theory has tended to focused on difference. What if we looked at its complementary or supplementary others instead? This course will analyze a range of theoretical concepts that hinge on sameness ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 4709GERST 6709

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16911 COML 6709   SEM 101

COML 6793

Study of short stories and a novel that self-consciously foreground questions of narrative form and technique and the process of reading. Authors to be read include Balzac, Borges, Calvino, Coover, Cortazar, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 6155

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16615 COML 6793   SEM 101

COML 6902

The environmental humanities pose a radically different set of questions to texts, materials, and contexts that were previously approached in terms of human intentions and actions alone. This seminar explores ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 4902STS 4902STS 6902

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9412 COML 6902   SEM 101

  • Enrollment limited to: 15 students.

COML 6944

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
  • 16905 COML 6944   SEM 101

COML 6970

This course will examine cosmopolitanism as a cultural, moral, and political concept both historically, with reference primarily to the eighteenth century, and theoretically, in contemporary debates. The ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 6970GOVT 6779

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17736 COML 6970   SEM 101