Romance Studies (ROMS)Arts and Sciences
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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2018-2019.
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- Schedule of Classes - May 15, 2019 12:56PM EDT
- Course Catalog - March 4, 2019 1:00PM EST
Classes
ROMS 1102
Course Description
We tell stories for many reasons: to entertain; to seduce; to complain; to think. This course draws upon the literatures and cultures of the romance languages to explore the role of narrative ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Cronica, City, Cinema
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Kennedy Hall 105
Instructors
Carter, S
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Race, Gender and Postcolonial Writing
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Uris Hall 204
Instructors
Finielz, E
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Writing the Self in French Literature
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR White Hall 104
Instructors
Schoene, A
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: The Decameron
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Balch Hall - Tatkon Ctr 3343
Instructors
Andreoni, G
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Apocalypse Now in Latin America
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 312
Instructors
Diaz Klaassen, F
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
ROMS 1108
Course Description
What is a culture, and how do we know one when we see it? This course draws upon the histories and texts of French, Spanish, Italian, and/or Portuguese speaking worlds to discuss issues of identity, ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Women Writing the Mediterranean
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Uris Hall 260
Instructors
von Wittelsbach, K
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Feminisms
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 312
Instructors
Chang, J
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Found in Translation
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 302
Instructors
Hendrickson, J
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS:France Unveiled
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 302
Instructors
Hughes, H
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
ROMS 1109
Course Description
What kind of information do images - in photography, painting, and/or film - convey? What kind of impact do they have on the minds and the bodies of their audiences? This course foregrounds the role ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Life of the Actor/The Actor of Life
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 394
Instructors
Turtas, L
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
ROMS 1113
Course Description
Some of the most important and intriguing thinkers, from the Middle Ages to postmodernity, have done their thinking in the romance languages. This course explores a body of work that would be ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Dante's Examined Life
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Uris Hall 302
Instructors
Eibenstein-Alvisi, I
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Elements of Life
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 160
Instructors
Eibenstein-Alvisi, I
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Elements of Life
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Hans Bethe House 240
Instructors
Recupero, A
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Montaigne, Descartes and the Human Animal
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Uris Hall 394
Instructors
Rosenstock-Murav, P
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
ROMS 3115
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3115, ENGL 3115, PMA 3515, VISST 3115
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Goldwin Smith Hall 232
Instructors
Murray, T
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
ROMS 3220
Course Description
Further study of historical developments in the Romance languages will be interleaved with readings of significant Romance texts from the 9th to 13th centuries, both notarial and literary. Topics covered ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LING 3322
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 122
Instructors
Alkire, T
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Additional Information
Prerequisites: ROMS 3221 or permission of instructor.
ROMS 3560
Course Description
Psychoanalysis considers the human being not as an object of treatment, but as a subject who is called upon to elaborate an unconscious knowledge about what is disrupting her life, through analysis of ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3781, FGSS 3651, FREN 3560, GERST 3561, STS 3651
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW White Hall 106
Instructors
McNulty, T
ROMS 4245
Course Description
This seminar offers a systematic introduction to methods of literary interpretation from Romanticism to the present, with a particular emphasis on the German roots of hermeneutics and critical thought. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4995, GERST 4245, GERST 6245
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T A D White House 110
Instructors
Fleming, P
ROMS 4410
Course Description
There is an astonishing discrepancy between our perception of the Holocaust as a central event of the twentieth century and its marginal place in postwar culture. It is during those years, nevertheless, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4415, COML 6415, FREN 4415, FREN 6415, GERST 4411, GERST 6411, GOVT 4786, GOVT 6786, HIST 4233, HIST 6233, JWST 4410, JWST 6415, ROMS 6410
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M McGraw Hall 145
Instructors
Traverso, E
ROMS 4635
Course Description
A far-reaching distrust and crisis of authority seems to be coextensive with the European Enlightenment and modernity—but what is authority? Amidst the different attempts at definition and classification, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4622, GERST 4635, ROMS 6635, SHUM 4635, SHUM 6635
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M A D White House 110
Instructors
Schuster, A
ROMS 4948
Course Description
The comparative seminar explores pleasure and its relationship with neoliberalism. We will follow adopt an interdisciplinary approach and a historical trajectory, starting with the Ancient world though ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4948, FGSS 4948
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Uris Hall 438
Instructors
Diabate, N
ROMS 5070
Course Description
Focuses on language teaching as facilitation of learning, thus on the learner's processing of language acquisition and the promotion of reflective teaching. Pedagogical approaches will be addressed from ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Sat/Unsat(Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Klarman Hall KG42
Instructors
Redmond, M
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Additional Information
This is the mandatory course for graduate students wishing to TA in Romance Studies.
ROMS 6380
Course Description
Urban Representation Labs are intended to bring students and faculty into direct contact with complex urban representations spanning a wide media spectrum and evoking a broad set of humanist discourses. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARCH 6408, SHUM 6819
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Uris Hall 254
Instructors
Erber, P
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
ROMS 6410
Course Description
There is an astonishing discrepancy between our perception of the Holocaust as a central event of the twentieth century and its marginal place in postwar culture. It is during those years, nevertheless, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4415, COML 6415, FREN 4415, FREN 6415, GERST 4411, GERST 6411, GOVT 4786, GOVT 6786, HIST 4233, HIST 6233, JWST 4410, JWST 6415, ROMS 4410
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M McGraw Hall 145
Instructors
Traverso, E
ROMS 6635
Course Description
A far-reaching distrust and crisis of authority seems to be coextensive with the European Enlightenment and modernity—but what is authority? Amidst the different attempts at definition and classification, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4622, GERST 4635, ROMS 4635, SHUM 4635, SHUM 6635
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M A D White House 110
Instructors
Schuster, A