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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: The Ulysses Theme: Coming Home to Ithaca

  • 17441 COML 1109   SEM 101

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

COML 1126
FWS: Comparative Arts and Media

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:Digital Poetry, or Literary, Visual & SonicArt

  • 17442 COML 1126   SEM 101

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

Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Visual Islam

  • 17963 COML 1126   SEM 102

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

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: The World as Text

  • 17404 COML 1133   SEM 101

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

Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Powers of Literature

  • 17405 COML 1133   SEM 102

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

COML 2000
Introduction to Visual Studies

This course will introduce you to the field of Visual Studies.  Visual Studies seeks to define and improve our visual relationship to nature and culture after the modern surge in technology and knowledge.  ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

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

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7843 COML 2000   LEC 001

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COML 2007
Media Studies: Photography/Paper/Film/Code

Is a photograph of an event somehow more real than a written report? Will the novel survive the age of new media? How do Instagram or Twitter change storytelling? In this class we will examine how media ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 2907

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17144 COML 2007   LEC 001

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COML 2020
Great Books: The Great Short Works

What is a "classic"? What is "contemporary"? How did we get "here" from "there"? Where are we heading now? Extending from the Renaissance to the present, this course will focus on texts from Europe and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17146 COML 2020   LEC 001

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COML 2030
Introduction to Comparative Literature

Spring: Take your love for literature into uncharted waters. "Introduction to Comparative Literature" journeys beyond national and disciplinary borders to explore the far-reaching implications ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17148 COML 2030   SEM 101

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COML 2035
Science Fiction

Science fiction, as Fredric Jameson put it, is "the only kind of literature that can reach back and colonize reality." Today more than ever, when science and technology have penetrated everyday life in ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: BSOC 2131, ENGL 2035, STS 2131

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9794 COML 2035   LEC 001

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  •  9795 COML 2035   DIS 201

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  •  9796 COML 2035   DIS 202

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  •  9797 COML 2035   DIS 203

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  •  9798 COML 2035   DIS 204

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COML 2050
Introduction to Poetry

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

  •  9726 COML 2050   SEM 101

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COML 2580
Imagining the Holocaust

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 2580, JWST 2580

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15909 COML 2580   LEC 001

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COML 2728
Modern Middle East Literature in Translation

In their acceptance speeches for the Nobel Prize in Literature, both the Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz (1988) and the Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk (2006) situate their work between Eastern and Western ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: JWST 2728, NES 2728

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16614 COML 2728   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

  • 15913 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

  •  8232 COML 3010   SEM 101

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COML 3021
Literary Theory on the Edge

This course juxtaposes the exciting theoretical advances of the late 20th century, including structuralism and post-structuralism, with current developments in 21st century theory such as performance studies, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3021, PMA 3421

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17182 COML 3021   LEC 001

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COML 3024
Literature, Trauma, and Culture

This is an introduction to trauma theory in the context of the concerns of the contemporary world. We will study the unique and enigmatic notion of trauma as it arose in the beginning of the twentieth ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3755

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15954 COML 3024   SEM 101

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COML 3255
Sacred, Holy, Divine

These are names of an existential dimension commonly taken to have gone missing in our time. The flight of the gods and the death of God have supposedly left a disenchanted world with little room for the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: RELST 3255

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17590 COML 3255   SEM 101

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COML 3550
Decadence

"My existence is a scandal," Oscar Wilde once wrote, summing up in an epigram the effect of his carefully cultivated style of perversity and paradox. Through their celebration of "art for art's sake" and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3550, FGSS 3550, LGBT 3550

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 15924 COML 3550   LEC 001

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COML 3580
Imagining Migration in Film and Literature

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

  • 16374 COML 3580   SEM 101

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  • University Course. Taught in English.

COML 3688
Kafka's Worlds: Castles, Trials, and Tribulations

This seminar will explore the unique "Kafkaesque" universe of metamorphoses, labyrinthine systems of law and (in)-justice, and uncanny societies of humans and animals. Focusing on Franz Kafka's novels ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 3800

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17414 COML 3688   SEM 101

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  • Readings and discussions in English. Students proficient in German at the upper intermediate level or higher may opt to do a substantial portion of the reading in German.

COML 3746
The Modernist Stage: Plays/Theories/Practices

The modernist period saw profound transformations in the form, content, and staging of drama, as well as in ideas about theatre and society that remain important today.  We will explore the development ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 3746

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17971 COML 3746   LEC 001

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COML 3806
Uncanny Figures and Unsettled Places: Postcolonial and Transnational Drama

Postcolonialism and Transnationalism are significant fields of theory and criticism, and ones not currently the main focus of contemporary drama classes offered through PMA. This course is being created ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 3806, PMA 3806

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18168 COML 3806   SEM 101

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COML 3811
Theory and the Practice of Translation

The modern field of translation studies overlaps most closely with literary studies, but it intersects also with fields such as linguistics and politics.  The intense work in translation studies in the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17180 COML 3811   SEM 101

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COML 4200
Independent Study

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6879 COML 4200   IND 602

    • TBA

    • Ahl, F

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8654 COML 4200   IND 603

    • TBA

    • Bachner, A

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8289 COML 4200   IND 604

    • TBA

    • Banerjee, A

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8291 COML 4200   IND 606

    • TBA

    • Caruth, C

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8292 COML 4200   IND 607

    • TBA

    • Castillo, D

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8964 COML 4200   IND 612

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    • TBA

    • Diabate, N

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8295 COML 4200   IND 613

    • TBA

    • Dubreuil, L

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8298 COML 4200   IND 616

    • TBA

    • McEnaney, T

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8299 COML 4200   IND 617

    • TBA

    • McNulty, T

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8300 COML 4200   IND 618

    • TBA

    • Melas, N

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8301 COML 4200   IND 619

    • TBA

    • Monroe, J

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10136 COML 4200   IND 620

    • TBA

    • Murray, T

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8302 COML 4200   IND 623

    • TBA

    • Pollak, N

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8303 COML 4200   IND 624

    • TBA

    • Saccamano, N

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

COML 4227
Literature and Mind

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 6227, FREN 4060, FREN 6060

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16028 COML 4227   SEM 101

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COML 4250
Marx, Nietzsche, Freud

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 4250, GOVT 4735

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16379 COML 4250   LEC 001

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  • This is a lecture course, but there will be plenty of time for discussion. Formerly GERST 4150 – students who previously took GERST 4150 cannot enroll in this course. Film-screening one evening night per week, TBA.

COML 4312
What was Film?

In retrospect, was film anything more than some highly flammable strips of celluloid? Taking its cue from the "digital turn," this course rephrases a traditional question asked in film theory about the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 4312, PMA 4512, STS 4821

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17980 COML 4312   SEM 101

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  • Taught in English. Film screening one evening night per week TBA.

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

  •  8347 COML 4339   SEM 101

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  • Limited to 15 students.

COML 4414
The Sound of Literature

When we speak, we think of our voice as natural to us. This course will interrogate the basis of this assumption by focusing on the voice as a trained cultural technique.  In this course, we will look ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 4414

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17981 COML 4414   SEM 101

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  • Texts and discussions in English.

COML 4513
Science Fiction and the Value of Utopia/Dystopia

A pronounced turn away from utopian discourses has long been felt across multiple academic registers—aspects of queer theory rejecting futurity, portions of the radical left adopting a similar politics ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 4513, ENGL 4903

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18106 COML 4513   SEM 101

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COML 4771
Indigenous Art, Film, and New Media: Anti-Colonial Strategies

This course examines Indigenous art, new media and film from three distinct interrelated perspectives of aesthetics/theory, technology and history/culture. The relationship between technology and tradition ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17219 COML 4771   SEM 101

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COML 4785
The Body's Edge in Performance

This course examines how skin and bodily margins in drama, performance art, and film shape the way we understand the human and its markers of identity, from the strange carapace that Oedipus presents in ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 4602, PMA 4965, SHUM 4612

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16494 COML 4785   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

  •  8803 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

  • 18438 COML 4940   IND 602

  •  
    • TBA

    • Ahl, F

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 10152 COML 4940   IND 603

    • TBA

    • Bachner, A

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8306 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

  • 18439 COML 4940   IND 606

  •  
    • TBA

    • Caruth, C

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8307 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

  •  8928 COML 4940   IND 612

  •  
    • TBA

    • Diabate, N

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8308 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

  • 18440 COML 4940   IND 616

  •  
    • TBA

    • McEnaney, T

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8313 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

  •  8314 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

  •  8315 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

  •  8936 COML 4940   IND 620

  •  
    • TBA

    • Murray, T

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8316 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

  •  8317 COML 4940   IND 624

  •  
    • TBA

    • Saccamano, N

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

COML 4947
Bio-Politics and Poetics of Nakedness

In this course, you will explore nakedness as a form of protest by various social movements and in compelling fictional texts. As you analyze nakedness from ancient Greece to 21th century Africa, Asia, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 4947, SHUM 4605

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16451 COML 4947   SEM 101

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COML 6032
Writing the Self

The "autobiographical" spans millennia and encompasses a vast array of seemingly dissimilar authors and modes of writing: Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, Augustine's and Rousseau's Confessions, Montaigne's ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 6210

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16387 COML 6032   SEM 101

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COML 6072
Using Texts: Literature and Linguistic Anthropology

What does it mean to "use" a text or literary artifact? What happens to a novel when we examine it as "interactive text" produced in a shared "real time"? How does the use of a particular term help construct ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ANTHR 6072

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 17191 COML 6072   SEM 101

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COML 6142
Vision in Theory

This course takes as its point of departure the foundational questions that have informed interdisciplinary inquiry into vision and visuality in recent decades: What is an image? How do images produce ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 6910, GERST 6910

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16390 COML 6142   SEM 101

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COML 6200
Independent Study

Graduate Students: please bring your faculty signed proposal to 240 Goldwin Smith Hall. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8943 COML 6200   IND 603

  •  
    • TBA

    • Bachner, A

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8310 COML 6200   IND 604

    • TBA

    • Banerjee, A

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18429 COML 6200   IND 606

    • TBA

    • Caruth, C

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8312 COML 6200   IND 607

    • TBA

    • Castillo, D

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18430 COML 6200   IND 612

    • TBA

    • Diabate, N

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18431 COML 6200   IND 613

    • TBA

    • Dubreuil, L

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18432 COML 6200   IND 616

    • TBA

    • McEnaney, T

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18433 COML 6200   IND 617

    • TBA

    • McNulty, T

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18434 COML 6200   IND 618

    • TBA

    • Melas, N

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18435 COML 6200   IND 619

    • TBA

    • Monroe, J

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18436 COML 6200   IND 620

    • TBA

    • Murray, T

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18437 COML 6200   IND 624

  •  
    • TBA

    • Saccamano, N

COML 6227
Literature and Mind

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 4227, FREN 4060, FREN 6060

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16031 COML 6227   SEM 101

  •  

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

  •  8350 COML 6339   SEM 101

  •  

  • Limited to 15 students.

COML 6341
Aesthetics of Excess: Psycho-Philosophical Approaches to Cinematic Technologies

The rise of cinema and mechanized representational technologies has provided an informative backdrop for a century long reflection on aesthetics and the excesses of affect, sentiment, and corporeality ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17208 COML 6341   SEM 101

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COML 6363
World Literature?

This course will attempt a critical inquiry into the renewed articulation of World Literature as concept, project and object of study over the last two decades. How can we situate this return with respect ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17185 COML 6363   SEM 101

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COML 6630
Nietzsche and Heidegger

This graduate seminar provides a basic introduction to the thinking of Nietzsche and Heidegger, and to the latter's interpretation and appropriation of the former. A major concern is the articulation of ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 6630

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16384 COML 6630   SEM 101

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  • The readings are provided in German (and French or Italian in some cases) and in English translations, when these exist. Discussion and papers in English. Students from all disciplines are welcome.

COML 6766
Headless: George Bataille and Friends

This seminar will explore major works of avant-garde literature from the interwar and immediate postwar periods, with the work of George Bataille and his major collaborators and sometime antagonists (André ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 6320

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16119 COML 6766   SEM 101

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COML 6771
Indigenous Art, Film, and New Media: Anti-Colonial Strategies

This course examines Indigenous art, new media and film from three distinct interrelated perspectives of aesthetics/theory, technology and history/culture. The relationship between technology and tradition ... view course details

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  • 17223 COML 6771   SEM 101

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COML 6866
Global Avant-Gardes

Focusing on a range of theories and practices from the historical avant-gardes (futurism, surrealism, constructivism) and their political cognates (fascism, capitalism, communism) to the 21st century's ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 6866, ROMS 6866

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17207 COML 6866   SEM 101

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