Comparative Literature (COML)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

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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:: Seeing Cities

  • 17257 COML 1109   SEM 101

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Sensing Place

  • 17258 COML 1109   SEM 102

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:From Occupation to Occupy-Politics &Literature

  • 17259 COML 1109   SEM 103

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Trans Nationalities, Trans Sexualities

  • 17600 COML 1109   SEM 104

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: The Rhetoric of Race

  • 17260 COML 1109   SEM 105

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COML 1126
FWS: Comparative Arts

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: Haunted Cinema

  • 17263 COML 1126   SEM 101

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:Reading the Classics Anew

  • 17264 COML 1126   SEM 102

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COML 1133
FWS: Studies in Literary Theory

This course rubric deals with courses that focus on philosophical themes and texts.  Consult the John. S. Knight Writing Seminar Program brochure for current year offerings, instructions and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Posthuman Fictions

  • 17266 COML 1133   SEM 101

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COML 2000
Introduction to Visual Studies

Provides a broad introduction of modes of vision and the historical impact of visual images, visual structures, and visual space on culture, communication, and politics. The question of "how we see" is ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2000, ARTH 2000, VISST 2000

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7929 COML 2000   LEC 001

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COML 2020
Great Books

This course traces storytelling as it has developed through interaction with a variety of technology, from the Renaissance printing press to today's social media. Through readings of Rabelais, Cervantes, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6464 COML 2020   LEC 001

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COML 2200
Thinking Surrealisms

Borrowing its title from a formulation of Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch, and beginning from the "forays of demoralization" instigated by the Dadas, who bequeathed to surrealism the precious ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 2019, VISST 2190

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16524 COML 2200   SEM 101

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COML 2580
Imagining the Holocaust

What is the role of the literary imagination in keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive for our culture? Within the historical context and raising ethical issues, we shall examine major and widely read ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 2580, JWST 2580

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15462 COML 2580   LEC 001

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COML 2755
Heroines, ArchVillians and AntiHeroes

What makes a heroine heroic? What makes a villain dastardly? In what ways do they differ? In what ways are they similar? Are the values that attach to heroism and villainy uniform across cultures? What ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: NES 2788

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15623 COML 2755   LEC 001

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COML 2760
Desire

"Language is a skin," the critic Roland Barthes once wrote: "I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 15527 COML 2760   LEC 001

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COML 3010
Hispanic Theatre Production

Students develop a specific dramatic text for full-scale production. The course involves selection of an appropriate text, close analysis of the literary aspects of the play, and group evaluation of its ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LATA 3010, LSP 3010

  • 1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8473 COML 3010   SEM 101

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COML 3115
Video and New Media: Art, Theory, Politics

The course will offer an overview of video art, alternative documentary video, and digital installation and networked art. It will analyze four phases of video and new media: (1) the development of video ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17052 COML 3115   SEM 101

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COML 3260
Christianity and Judaism

Study of the New Testament as a product of the first-century Palestinian and Hellenistic Judaism. Other text (also in translation): The Passover Haggadah. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: RELST 3260

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6462 COML 3260   SEM 101

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COML 3300
Political Theory and Cinema

An introduction (without prerequisites) to fundamental problems of current political theory, filmmaking, and film analysis, along with their interrelationship.  Particular emphasis on comparing and contrasting ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 3550, GOVT 3705, PMA 3490

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16361 COML 3300   SEM 101

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  • Students must attend film screenings on Monday or Wednesday evening from 7:30 - 10:30 in Kaufmann Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall.

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

  • 15416 COML 3440   LEC 001

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COML 3566
Aesthetics and Economics

Two models have dominated Western literary aesthetics, one based on Platonic inspiration and another based on Aristotelian craftsmanship and skill. Each has ramifying economic implications, the first based ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17046 COML 3566   SEM 101

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COML 3580
Imaginative Arts of Migration

What role should imaginative arts play in debates about transnational migration, one of the principal factors re-shaping community and communication today?  Focusing on literature and film from the late ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 16380 COML 3580   SEM 101

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    • TR Uris Hall 204

    • Adelson, L

      Haenni, S

COML 3620
Culture of the Later Renaissance

This course explores networks of culture and power that develop over the course of the sixteenth century, from the beginning of the Reformation to the Wars of Religion that swept through the continent.  ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 16349 COML 3620   LEC 001

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  • 16350 COML 3620   DIS 201

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  • 16351 COML 3620   DIS 202

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  • 16352 COML 3620   DIS 203

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  • 16353 COML 3620   DIS 204

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COML 3700
Metropolis: Urban Sites in Literature

An interdisciplinary study of metropolitan life focusing on Berlin and Vienna (1890-1999) and on contemporary global mega-cities as major contexts of artistic modernity and historical change. Topics of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 3560

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8945 COML 3700   SEM 101

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COML 3724
Medieval Travel and Exploration

In the Middle Ages, people traveled for all many reasons: for adventure, for commerce, on pilgrimage, for conquest. We will read the accounts of medieval travelers in order better to understand the motives ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: JWST 3740, MEDVL 3740, NES 3740

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15648 COML 3724   LEC 001

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COML 3980
Theorizing Gender and Race in Asian Histories and Literatures

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

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Syllabi: none

  • 15928 COML 3980   LEC 001

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COML 3985
Literature of Chinese Exile

Ever since the creation of the concept of a culturally and geographically stable center in China, people have been intentionally excluded from that center. Disgraced officials are sent to far-flung provinces, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 3329, ASIAN 6639, COML 6685

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16539 COML 3985   SEM 101

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COML 4019
Romanticism and the Fate of the Senses

What if, William Blake once asked, every bird that flies "is an immense world of delight, closed by your senses five?" Asking what real and possible worlds our habits of sensory perception exclude, Romantic ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4491, SHUM 4991, STS 4981

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17875 COML 4019   SEM 101

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COML 4029
Feeling in Sound: Touch and the New Musical Body

This seminar explores musical, aesthetic, physiological, and mythical  concepts associated with 'touch' in music. Focusing on the relationship between the hand of the musician and musical sound, we will ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: MUSIC 4334, SHUM 4998

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17876 COML 4029   SEM 101

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COML 4106
Cuba: Literature and Technology

How did artists and revolutionary activists take up the media of their day to transform a relatively small island nation into one of the most important and controversial geo-political and cultural hot ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 15694 COML 4106   SEM 101

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COML 4152
Dreaming Romanticism

The story of the Fall, in John Milton's Paradise Lost, is also a story of dreams. Woven into the epic tale of our first encounter with mortality, Adam's and Eve's trances and dream-life tell their own ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4340

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15493 COML 4152   SEM 101

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COML 4200
Independent Study

No description available. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6813 COML 4200   IND 601

    • TBA

    • McNulty, T

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18649 COML 4200   IND 612

  •  
    • TBA

    • Diabate, N

COML 4226
Poetry and Mind

This interdisciplinary seminar would like to offer new hypotheses on the ways poetry is understood and experienced by a reader's mind. Our methodology, while non-reductionist, will take into account the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 6226, FREN 4180, FREN 6180

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17104 COML 4226   SEM 101

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COML 4240
The Animal

In recent years literary representations and philosophical discussions of the status of the animal vis-à-vis the human have abounded. In this course, we will track the literary phenomenology of animality. In ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4260, GERST 4260, GOVT 4279

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16375 COML 4240   SEM 101

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COML 4260
Biblical Seminar II

Topic: Sex and Religion in the Bible view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: RELST 4260

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: ID/DISC of problems in the Old/New Testament

  •  6460 COML 4260   SEM 101

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COML 4339
Bodies at the Border

Although the wounded, often feminine, body is the most powerful way of imagining border space in both the Indian subcontinent and the Americas, it is seldom coupled with the embodied practices and performances ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •  8977 COML 4339   SEM 101

  •  
    • W Uris Hall 204

    • Banerjee, A

      Castillo, D

  • Limited to 15 students.

COML 4429
Walter Benjamin

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

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Syllabi: none

  • 17417 COML 4429   SEM 101

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COML 4700
Translation and Cultural Difference

Problems concerning translation are explored. Although there are many different models of translation, we tend to be confined to the unilateral regime of translation, that is, the very narrow and historically ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 4481

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15931 COML 4700   SEM 101

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COML 4706
Between Asia and Latin America: Transpacific Trends in 20th Century Literature, Art, and Theory

Asia and Latin America no longer occupy the disconnected extremes of an imagined map. Nor do they embody the antipodes of East and West, framing Europe and North America as the symbolic centers.  Rather, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 6706, PORT 4540, PORT 6540

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17103 COML 4706   SEM 101

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COML 4783
Grammatechnics and the Bioarchive

This seminar will explore new forms of biomedia such as transgenic art and tissue culture through the biosemiotic paradigm, which suggests that all life is regulated by "linguistic" principles and that ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16707 COML 4783   SEM 101

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COML 4784
Performance After the Internet

No description available. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 4411, PMA 4411, VISST 4411

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18185 COML 4784   SEM 101

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COML 4831
Reading Joyce's Ulysses

A thorough episode-by-episode study of the art and meaning of Joyce's masterwork Ulysses, the most influential book of the twentieth century. We shall place Ulysses in the context of Joyce's canon, Irish ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4700

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15496 COML 4831   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

  • 17102 COML 4930   IND 601

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    • TBA

    • McNulty, T

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

  •  6815 COML 4940   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 Graded

  •  8653 COML 4940   IND 602

  •  
    • TBA

    • Ahl, F

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

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8654 COML 4940   IND 604

  •  
    • TBA

    • Banerjee, A

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

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8655 COML 4940   IND 605

  •  
    • TBA

    • Carmichael, C

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

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8656 COML 4940   IND 606

  •  
    • TBA

    • Caruth, C

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

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8657 COML 4940   IND 607

  •  
    • TBA

    • Castillo, D

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

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8658 COML 4940   IND 608

  •  
    • TBA

    • Chase, C

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

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8659 COML 4940   IND 610

  •  
    • TBA

    • Culler, J

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

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8660 COML 4940   IND 611

  •  
    • TBA

    • de Bary, B

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

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18344 COML 4940   IND 612

  •  
    • TBA

    • Diabate, N

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8661 COML 4940   IND 613

  •  
    • TBA

    • Dubreuil, L

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

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8662 COML 4940   IND 614

  •  
    • TBA

    • Kennedy, W

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

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8663 COML 4940   IND 615

  •  
    • TBA

    • Maxwell, B

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

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8670 COML 4940   IND 616

  •  
    • TBA

    • McEnaney, T

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

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8671 COML 4940   IND 617

  •  
    • 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 Graded

  •  8672 COML 4940   IND 618

  •  
    • TBA

    • Melas, N

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

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8673 COML 4940   IND 619

  •  
    • TBA

    • Monroe, J

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

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18418 COML 4940   IND 620

  •  
    • TBA

    • Murray, T

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18053 COML 4940   IND 622

  •  
    • TBA

    • Pinkus, K

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8674 COML 4940   IND 623

  •  
    • TBA

    • Pollak, N

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

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8675 COML 4940   IND 624

  •  
    • TBA

    • Saccamano, N

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

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8676 COML 4940   IND 626

  •  
    • TBA

    • Shapiro, G

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

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8677 COML 4940   IND 627

  •  
    • TBA

    • Traisnel, A

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

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18515 COML 4940   IND 638

  •  
    • TBA

    • Schwarz, A

COML 4944
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

  • 16540 COML 4944   SEM 101

  •  
    • W Uris Hall 394

    • Diabate, N

      Traisnel, A

COML 4999
Seminar in Theory

Spring topic: Theories of Affinity view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Theories of Affinity

  • 16538 COML 4999   SEM 101

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  • Enrollment limited to: 15 undergraduate students. Required course for COML Majors.

COML 6156
Trauma Theory Today

This course examines the history, and historicity, of the theory of trauma at crucial moments in the 20th and 21st centuries. We will examine major theoretical texts in relation to their historical contexts ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 6430

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17228 COML 6156   SEM 101

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COML 6200
Independent Study

No description available. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6816 COML 6200   IND 601

    • TBA

    • McNulty, T

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18466 COML 6200   IND 603

  •  
    • TBA

    • Bachner, A

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18478 COML 6200   IND 628

  •  
    • TBA

    • Waite, G

COML 6226
Poetry and Mind

This interdisciplinary seminar would like to offer new hypotheses on the ways poetry is understood and experienced by a reader's mind. Our methodology, while non-reductionist, will take into account the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 4226, FREN 4180, FREN 6180

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17105 COML 6226   SEM 101

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COML 6339
Bodies at the Border

Although the wounded, often feminine, body is the most powerful way of imagining border space in both the Indian subcontinent and the Americas, it is seldom coupled with the embodied practices and performances ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •  8980 COML 6339   SEM 101

  •  
    • W Uris Hall 204

    • Banerjee, A

      Castillo, D

  • Limited to 15 students.

COML 6429
Walter Benjamin

This extraordinary figure died in 1941, and his death is emblematic of the intellectual depradations 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

  • 17419 COML 6429   SEM 101

  •  

COML 6472
The Problem with Rights

In June 2013, in the space of a week, the Supreme Court ruled on affirmative action, the legacy of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). While the first two decisions ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 16803 COML 6472   SEM 101

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COML 6631
Marx and Marxisms

The terms "Marx" and "Marxisms" have meant different things to different people, beginning with Marx himself and continuing in his legacy today.  As obviously, this legacy remains global (Europe, North ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 6100, GOVT 6706, SPAN 6100

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16386 COML 6631   SEM 101

  •  

COML 6680
Theorizing Gender and Race in Asian Histories and Literatures

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

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Syllabi: none

  • 15936 COML 6680   LEC 001

  •  

COML 6685
Literature of Chinese Exile

Ever since the creation of the concept of a culturally and geographically stable center in China, people have been intentionally excluded from that center. Disgraced officials are sent to far-flung provinces, ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 3329, ASIAN 6639, COML 3985

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16541 COML 6685   SEM 101

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COML 6706
Between Asia and Latin America: Transpacific Trends in 20th Century Literature, Art, and Theory

Asia and Latin America no longer occupy the disconnected extremes of an imagined map. Nor do they embody the antipodes of East and West, framing Europe and North America as the symbolic centers. Rather, ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 4706, PORT 4540, PORT 6540

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15773 COML 6706   SEM 101

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COML 6725
Medieval Travel Writing

We will read a selection of medieval travel accounts, paying special attention to the ways in which travelers observed, interacted with, and described the people they encountered and the places they visited. ... view course details

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  • 15652 COML 6725   SEM 101

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COML 6782
Perversions of the Linguistic Turn: Figure, Fetish, Formalization

A number of influential thinkers have contested in recent years the so-called "linguistic turn" in twentieth century thought, and in particular the assumption that the "finitude" or decompletion of language ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 6280

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15757 COML 6782   SEM 101

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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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  • 16545 COML 6944   SEM 101

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    • Diabate, N

      Traisnel, A

COML 6970
Cosmopolitanism

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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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 6970, GOVT 6779

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17114 COML 6970   SEM 101

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