Comparative Literature (COML)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the 2026-2027 Catalog.

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

  •  2615 COML 1104   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Zhang, X

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    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 Marquez and Shakespeare? These texts and authors re-imagine the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  2616 COML 1105   SEM 102

    • MWF
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Diago Lizarralde, S

  • 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

  •  2617 COML 1105   SEM 103

    • MW
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Wang, Y

  • 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

  •  2618 COML 1105   SEM 105

    • MW
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Zarepour, N

  • 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

  •  2619 COML 1105   SEM 106

    • MWF
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Shokrisaravi, A

  • 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

  •  2620 COML 1105   SEM 107

    • TR
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Chakraborty, A

  • 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

  •  2621 COML 1105   SEM 108

    • MWF
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Perez-Cruz, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    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

  •  2622 COML 1119   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Krivitsky, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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

COML 1141

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  2613 COML 1141   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • 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/.

COML 2030

Take your love for literature, film and media into uncharted waters. This course explores cutting-edge debates in the humanities today through the prism of in the transnational, multilingual discipline ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  2665 COML 2030   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Caruth, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Enrollment limited to: incoming first-year students. To request a permission number, contact the Department of Comparative Literature, complit@cornell.edu.

COML 2241

In this course we will use the Game of Thrones series as a way of familiarizing ourselves with different tools of cultural analysis and approaches in literary theory (such as narratology, psychoanalysis, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: SHUM 2241

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2734 COML 2241   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Bachner, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 2271

This course will explore how in the body of world literature, film and music humans have construed, narrated, imagined the end of time and of the world and sometimes its new beginning. Spanning from ancient ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 2971

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2738 COML 2271   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Melas, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 2400

Latina/os have always been part of U.S. history, yet the media often represents Latinx as only recent immigrants or as stereotypes that reduce rich cultures into a single, unified category or group of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2401ENGL 2400LSP 2400

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8844 COML 2400   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Brady, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 2512

Contemporary World Cinema offers an introduction to some of the most acclaimed international films of the 21st century. We will consider narrative, documentary, animation, and experimental films from multiple ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 2512VISST 2512

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6258 COML 2512   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Haenni, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 2580

How is the memory of the Holocaust kept alive by means of the literary and visual imagination? Within the historical context of the Holocaust and how and why it occurred, we shall examine major and widely ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 2580JWST 2580

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8861 COML 2580   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Schwarz, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 2723

This course raises profound theoretical questions about embodiment, agency, power, and race in virtual spaces. How do digital identities in their intersection with something called race, interact with ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 2723FGSS 2723VISST 2723

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2753 COML 2723   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Diabate, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 2767

Literary forms were developed millennia ago in Egypt and Mesopotamia to teach, inspire admiration, produce consent, generate awe or pity, and move people to action. Students will read in English translation ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: NES 2767

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9034 COML 2767   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Monroe, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3001

What do comparatists do when we approach our objects of study? What enables or justifies comparison across different languages, different genres, different media, and different disciplines? Does all comparison ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  2737 COML 3001   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Walker, G

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Enrollment limited to: Comparative Literature (COML) majors or students who intend to declare the major.

COML 3010

In this course, we will develop a toolbox of performance techniques based on methods developed in the Spanish-speaking and Latinx contexts. These techniques will be used in preparing short, original, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  3617 COML 3010   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Castillo, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3050

This course provides an introduction to the theory of trauma, along with literary, artistic and clinical works that engage with traumatic experience. We will explore the enigmatic notion of an experience ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3051GERST 3513

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2763 COML 3050   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Caruth, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3113

Today, the legacy of the Middle Ages can be found everywhere, from the game of chess to Game of Thrones, the parliament to the university, the Crusades to the Vikings, the nostalgia for tradition to the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  2071 COML 3113   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Born, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3541

Shortly after the 2016 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
  •  2058 COML 3541   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Fleming, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3791

Readings in French and Francophone philosophy and theory, from the 16th century to today. Themes may vary each offering, but can include questions of: death and finitude, gender, existence, affect, literature, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 3790PHIL 2949

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  9374 COML 3791   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Cordova, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 4002

This course provides an introduction to meter and rhyme and to the study of meter and rhyme Verse readings will be short poems written in English, with a particular focus on Shakespeare?s sonnets and the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4002

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2744 COML 4002   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Pollak, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2697 COML 4190   IND 601

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Caruth, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2698 COML 4190   IND 603

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Bachner, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2699 COML 4190   IND 604

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Banerjee, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2700 COML 4190   IND 607

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Castillo, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2701 COML 4190   IND 612

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Diabate, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2702 COML 4190   IND 613

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Dubreuil, L

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2703 COML 4190   IND 615

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Fuhrmann, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2704 COML 4190   IND 616

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Vaziri, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2705 COML 4190   IND 619

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Monroe, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2706 COML 4190   IND 620

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Murray, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2707 COML 4190   IND 622

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Walker, G

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2708 COML 4190   IND 623

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Pollak, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2709 COML 4190   IND 629

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Fleming, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2710 COML 4190   IND 634

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Lorenz, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

COML 4224

This workshop-style course will address the question of how to draw on academic research and expertise to write for a non-specialist audience. We will discuss the benefits of public-facing writing; how ... view course details

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  •  2766 COML 4224   SEM 101

    • T
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Pinkham, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 4251

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 4210GOVT 4015ROMS 4210

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2066 COML 4251   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Waite, G

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 4429

This extraordinary figure died in 1941, and his death is emblematic of the intellectual depredations of Nazism. Yet since World War II, his influence, his reputation, and his fascination for scholars ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 13148 COML 4429   SEM 101

    • M
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Boyarin, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 4522

Experimental media surfacing from different corners of the Iberian Peninsula, since the emergence of the avant-garde to the Internet age, has a long-standing history of exploring new modes of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: SPAN 4520

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9353 COML 4522   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Keller, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 4711

?Staffage? is a term in the history of landscape painting. It refers to little figures who populate the scene, invariably dwarfed by their surroundings. The few critics who noticed them assigned them various ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  6355 COML 4711   SEM 101

    • T
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Anderson, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 4815

Judith Butler is one of today?s foremost theorists and cultural critics. Even though they are known, above all, for their work in gender studies and queer theory, their theoretical thought ranges widely. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  2757 COML 4815   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Bachner, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  2666 COML 4930   IND 601

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Caruth, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  2667 COML 4930   IND 603

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Bachner, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  2668 COML 4930   IND 604

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Banerjee, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  2669 COML 4930   IND 607

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Castillo, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  2670 COML 4930   IND 612

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Diabate, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  2671 COML 4930   IND 613

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Dubreuil, L

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  2672 COML 4930   IND 615

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Brann, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  2673 COML 4930   IND 616

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Vaziri, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  2674 COML 4930   IND 619

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Monroe, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  2675 COML 4930   IND 622

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Walker, G

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  2676 COML 4930   IND 623

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Pollak, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  2677 COML 4930   IND 629

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Fleming, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  2678 COML 4930   IND 634

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Lorenz, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

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. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  2727 COML 4940   IND 601

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Walker, G

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Prerequisite: COML 4930.

COML 6021

In this course, we will develop a toolbox of performance techniques based on methods developed in the Spanish-speaking and Latinx contexts. These techniques will be used in preparing short, original, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  3623 COML 6021   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Castillo, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2711 COML 6190   IND 601

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Caruth, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2712 COML 6190   IND 603

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Bachner, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2713 COML 6190   IND 604

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Banerjee, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2714 COML 6190   IND 607

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Castillo, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2715 COML 6190   IND 612

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Diabate, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2716 COML 6190   IND 613

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Dubreuil, L

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2717 COML 6190   IND 615

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Fuhrmann, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2718 COML 6190   IND 616

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Vaziri, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2719 COML 6190   IND 619

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Monroe, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2720 COML 6190   IND 620

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • McNulty, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2721 COML 6190   IND 622

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Walker, G

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2722 COML 6190   IND 623

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Pollak, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2723 COML 6190   IND 629

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Fleming, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2725 COML 6190   IND 634

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Lorenz, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2726 COML 6190   IND 643

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

COML 6221

All decolonization, wrote Frantz Fanon, is successful at the level of description. With a focus on the difference between description and critique and on the uneven relation between the academic project ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 6221

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2731 COML 6221   SEM 101

    • W
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Melas, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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COML 6224

This workshop-style course will address the question of how to draw on academic research and expertise to write for a non-specialist audience. We will discuss the benefits of public-facing writing; how ... view course details

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  •  2749 COML 6224   SEM 101

    • T
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Pinkham, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 6290

Structured around guest and public lectures by field members and beyond, the proseminar provides a common experience for students and facilitates the exchange of approaches to theoretical problems and ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit S/U NoAud

  •  2752 COML 6290   SEM 101

    • M
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Diabate, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 6364

In this seminar, we will draw connections between radical theories and movements from the nineteenth century to the present. Rather than identifying isolated trajectories of “Marxism” “anarchism” ... view course details

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  •  2083 COML 6364   SEM 101

    • T
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Jarris, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 6060GERST 6600

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2053 COML 6600   SEM 101

    • W
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Waite, G

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 6610

This seminar will explore the both the intellectual grounding of and the nuts and bolts of feminist pedagogy. In what context did feminist pedagogy emerge and why? How have its practitioners variously ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 6440FGSS 6441

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8833 COML 6610   SEM 101

    • M
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • McCullough, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 6622

To hone our skills in the analysis of topics in Asian studies, we will review critically a number of switchpoints that have produced conceptual difference in recent scholarly work. Asia scholars have laid ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 6622

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 12462 COML 6622   SEM 101

    • M
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Fuhrmann, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 6711

?Staffage? is a term in the history of landscape painting. It refers to little figures who populate the scene, invariably dwarfed by their surroundings. The few critics who noticed them assigned them various ... view course details

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  •  6360 COML 6711   SEM 101

    • T
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Anderson, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 6784

This seminar will offer a critical examination of the literature of perversion (sadism, masochism, fetishism), with readings drawn from major texts of the libertine or S/M traditions (Sade, Sacher-Masoch, ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 6580

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9358 COML 6784   SEM 101

    • T
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • McNulty, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 6815

Judith Butler is one of today’s foremost theorists and cultural critics. Even though they are known, above all, for their work in gender studies and queer theory, their theoretical thought ranges widely. ... view course details

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  •  2760 COML 6815   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Bachner, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 6922

This course offers a systematic in-depth study of Hegel’s Aesthetics, one of the towering monuments in the development of the discipline. In addition to Hegel’s voluminous lectures, we will also consider ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 6920GERST 6920

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2088 COML 6922   SEM 101

    • R
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Gilgen, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person