Romance Studies (ROMS)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2023-2024. Courses of Study 2023-2024 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

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: Spiritual Autobiography

  • 20175 ROMS 1102   SEM 101

  • 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:Transgressive Bodies & Subject of Work

  • 20177 ROMS 1102   SEM 103

    • TR White Hall B06
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Torres, J

  • 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: Race, Gender and Postcolonial Writing

  • 20307 ROMS 1102   SEM 104

    • MW Weill Hall 224
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Finielz, E

  • 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: Race, Gender and Postcolonial Writing

  • 20308 ROMS 1102   SEM 105

  • 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:The Divided Cities:Rio de Janeiro&Mexico City

  • 20988 ROMS 1108   SEM 101

  • 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:The Divided Cities:Rio de Janeiro&Mexico City

  • 20989 ROMS 1108   SEM 102

    • TR Sibley Hall 115
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Barrientos-Gomez, A

  • 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:A Thousand Words:Writing Images

  • 20178 ROMS 1109   SEM 101

  • 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:Dante's Examined Life

  • 20188 ROMS 1113   SEM 101

    • MWF Morrill Hall 107
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • 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/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:Dante's Examined Life

  • 20189 ROMS 1113   SEM 102

    • MWF Morrill Hall 110
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • 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/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:Collaboration/Resistace:France 1940-44

  • 20190 ROMS 1113   SEM 103

    • TR Uris Hall 260
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Greenberg, M

  • 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

  • 20191 ROMS 1113   SEM 104

    • MWF White Hall B14
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • 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

  • 20192 ROMS 1113   SEM 105

    • MW McGraw Hall 145
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • 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:The Sick, Sickly and Sickening:Disturbed Bodie

  • 20193 ROMS 1113   SEM 106

    • MWF Uris Hall 498
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Duran, R

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

ROMS 1120

In this class, students will learn about animal welfare and conservation through international films. We will discuss wildlife, companion, farm, and lab animals in conjunction with human cultures, politics, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 20194 ROMS 1120   SEM 101

    • TR Uris Hall 369
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Bachminska, E

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

ROMS 4948

The comparative seminar explores pleasure and its relationship with neoliberalism. We will adopt an interdisciplinary approach and a historical trajectory, starting with the Ancient world through ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17776 ROMS 4948   SEM 101

    • R Uris Hall 438
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Diabate, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ROMS 5080

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  •  3785 ROMS 5080   SEM 101

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Baraldi, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Required for all graduate TAs teaching language for the first time in the Department of romance Studies.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  •  3893 ROMS 5080   SEM 102

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Illana Mahiques, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Required for all graduate TAs teaching language for the first time in the Department of romance Studies.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  •  3894 ROMS 5080   SEM 103

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • McAdams, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Required for all graduate TAs teaching language for the first time in the Department of romance Studies.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  •  5539 ROMS 5080   SEM 104

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Amigo-Silvestre, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  •  5540 ROMS 5080   SEM 105

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Torea, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  • 20804 ROMS 5080   SEM 107

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • McAdams, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ROMS 6000

The myth of landscape as a natural, external space for human contemplation, gradually ruined by technology, stubbornly refuses to die. How should we read works from a preindustrial past? Is there a precise ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 19735 ROMS 6000   SEM 101

    • M Uris Hall 262
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Pinkus, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ROMS 6100

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2 Credits S/U NoAud

  •  5813 ROMS 6100   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ROMS 6948

The comparative seminar explores pleasure and its relationship with neoliberalism. We will adopt an interdisciplinary approach and a historical trajectory, starting with the Ancient world through ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17785 ROMS 6948   SEM 101

    • R Uris Hall 438
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Diabate, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person