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Classes
COML 1104
Course Description
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
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 181
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Valdez, N
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Additional Information
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
Course Description
What do Frankenstein and Things Fall Apart have in common? What lies behind the fantastical stories of Aladdin? Do we have to like Garcia Márquez and Shakespeare? These texts and authors re-imagine the ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Clark Hall 294H
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Han, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall G19
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Tilakaratne, P
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Statler Hall 453
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Shou, T
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 127
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Chakraborty, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 156
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Beltran, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 156
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Hussein, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
COML 1106
Course Description
In 2015, Japan's SoftBank Robotics Corporation announced the world's first robot with feelings. Many people were excited, many more disturbed. If robots are simply, as the dictionary suggests, machines ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Comstock Hall-Academic II B104
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Kohlbry, M
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Additional Information
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
Course Description
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
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall 160
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Krivitsky, R
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
COML 1134
Course Description
In this course, we will work with poems of varied styles and traditions. You will learn to understand poetry through analytical writing and through the composition of your own poems. view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Uris Hall 398
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Pollak, N
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 181
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Park, D
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
COML 1137
Course Description
On the eve of his discovery of the treasures of Pharaoh Tutankhamen in the Egyptian desert, archaeologist Howard Carter famously described his findings as 'wonderful things'. This idea of wonder, amazement ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 204
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Hussein, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
COML 2000
Course Description
This course provides an introduction to modes of vision and the historical impact of visual images, visual structures, and visual space on culture, communication, and politics. It examines all aspects ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 2000, ARTH 2000, VISST 2000
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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
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G76-Lewis
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Rickard, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Goldwin Smith Hall G20
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Rickard, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Goldwin Smith Hall G20
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Rickard, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Goldwin Smith Hall G19
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Rickard, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Goldwin Smith Hall G19
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Rickard, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Goldwin Smith Hall 181
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Rickard, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Goldwin Smith Hall 181
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Rickard, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Goldwin Smith Hall G20
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Rickard, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Goldwin Smith Hall G20
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Rickard, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 2009
Course Description
The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. In addition to the more than two million people imprisoned under the criminal justice system, the U.S. government captures even more ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 2909, GOVT 2006, SHUM 2009
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 122
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Ghanayem, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 2034
Course Description
Co-taught by professors in Comparative Literature and Astronomy, this course will introduce students to the fundamentals of astronomy concepts through readings in Black Studies. We will experiment with ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASTRO 2034
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Malott Hall 207
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Stacey, G
Vaziri, P
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 2051
Course Description
The primary work of the course is researching and writing articles about poetry on Wikipedia. The course follows two related tracks: studying poetry and learning how to make it accessible to others. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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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 Klarman Hall KG44
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Pollak, N
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 2523
Course Description
Islamophobia and Judeophobia are ideas and like all ideas they have a history of their own. Although today many might think of Islamophobia or Judeophobia as unchangeable---fear of and hatred for Islam ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 2523, JWST 2523, NES 2523, RELST 2523
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall 142
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Brann, R
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F White Hall B14
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F White Hall B14
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F White Hall B14
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F White Hall B14
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 2703
Course Description
From hieroglyphs to HTML, ancient poetry to audiotape, and Plato's cave to virtual reality, "Thinking Media" offers a multidisciplinary introduction to the most influential media formats of the last three ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 2703, GERST 2703, MUSIC 2703, PMA 2703, SHUM 2703
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 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 142
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Born, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 3006
Course Description
What does it mean to live in the aftermath of slavery? How has the human history of slavery contributed to the production of "natural" values that we take for granted—such as community, property, citizenship, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 3693, ILRLR 3691, NES 3691
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall G24
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Vaziri, P
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 3010
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LATA 3010, LSP 3010, PMA 3010
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts SB21
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Aldape Munoz, J
Castillo, D
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 3021
Course Description
This course examines a range of exciting and provocative 20th- and 21st- century theoretical paradigms for thinking about literature, language and culture. These approaches provide differing, though often ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 6159, ENGL 3021, FREN 3921, PMA 3421, PMA 6421
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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
- TR Klarman Hall KG42
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Caruth, C
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Course open to all levels; no previous knowledge of literary or cultural theory required.
COML 3026
Course Description
We live in an age of algorithms wherein seemingly every aspect of life can be broken down, measured, and even sold as data. But how did we get here? And where are we going? This course privileges literature ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 3040
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Lincoln Hall 107
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Kohlbry, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 3262
Course Description
Global Cinema I and II together offer an overview of international film history from the late nineteenth century to today. Through a focus on key films and significant epochs, the course traces the evolution ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PMA 3551, PMA 6551, VISST 3176
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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 Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts B21
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Bardsley, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 3336
Course Description
This course focuses on a place and a concept where two of the most urgent issues of our times - migration and environmental degradation - converge, collide, and shape each other. It examines borders not ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 6336, LATA 3336, LATA 6336, LSP 3336, LSP 6336, SPAN 3335, SPAN 6335
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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 Sibley Hall 101
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Banerjee, A
Castillo, D
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 3378
Course Description
The rapidly growing literature of the Korean diaspora is one of the most significant developments in Korean literature since the 20th century. As Korean literature has circulated as world literature, it ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AAS 3378, ASIAN 3378
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Rockefeller Hall 104
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Yi, I
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 3440
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 3645, PMA 3724
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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
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 124
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Ahl, F
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 3542
Course Description
This course examines the stories, literary examples, and metaphors at work in elaborating capitalist society and its "hero," the modern economic subject: the so-called "homo oeconomicus." We will examine ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3916, GERST 3610, GOVT 3606, SHUM 3610
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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
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G22
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Fleming, P
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 3702
Course Description
"The pleasure of the text," Roland Barthes writes, "is that moment when my body pursues its own ideas—for my body does not have the same ideas I do." What is this erotics of the text, and what has it been ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3702, FGSS 3702, LGBT 3702, PMA 3702, VISST 3702
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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 Rockefeller Hall 115
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Hanson, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 3743
Course Description
This course examines the historic diversity of the modern Middle East, exploring histories of inter-communal contact and conflict. We begin by investigating the legacy of the Ottoman Empire and the impact ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: JWST 3655, NES 3655, NES 6655, SHUM 3655
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Sibley Hall 208
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Starr, D
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 3800
Course Description
As globalization draws the Americas ever closer together, reshaping our sense of a common and uncommon American culture, what claims might be made for a distinctive, diverse poetry and poetics of the America? ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3820, ENGL 3910, LATA 3800, SPAN 3800
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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
- TR Sibley Hall 115
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Monroe, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 3820
Course Description
Greece and Rome, refracted in nineteenth-century writers, composers, and painters, including: Plautus, re-made by Oscar Wilde; Aristophanic Comedy, Bowdlerized by Bowdler, de-Bowdlerized by Gilbert, Irished ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 3642
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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
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 124
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Ahl, F
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 3891
Course Description
The Second World War and the Occupation of France by German forces had a traumatic impact on the nation's identity. We will examine the way France has tried to deal with this conflicted period through ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 3840
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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 Klarman Hall KG42
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Greenberg, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 3985
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 3329, ASIAN 6639, CAPS 3329, COML 6685
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Lincoln Hall 117
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Admussen, N
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 4015
Course Description
Taking its inspiration from David Hume's famous remark that "reason ought only to be the slave of the passions," this course will consider the Enlightenment's "science of human nature" not as the triumph ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4315
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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 Goldwin Smith Hall 236
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Saccamano, N
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 4090
Course Description
Spinoza was excommunicated, wrote under death threats, and has remained a scandal to philosophy, psychoanalysis, politics, ethics, literature. "Every philosopher has two philosophies, his own and Spinoza's" ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 4290, GOVT 4769, JWST 4790
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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
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Waite, G
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 4200
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
COML 4364
Course Description
This course examines the works of major poets and artists from the Spanish and French- speaking Caribbean from roughly 1925-1945. During this period, two movements—Negrismo and Négritude—emerged, on the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 4151, ROMS 4151
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Credits and Grading Basis
2 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 124
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Aching, G
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 4368
Course Description
This seminar will focus on the writings of the polymorphous Martinican poet and thinker, Édouard Glissant (1928-2011). We will attend to the historical context of French colonialism, particularly in the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 4368, ASRC 6368, COML 6368, FREN 4368, FREN 6368
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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 Sibley Hall 211
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Melas, N
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 4423
Course Description
This course uses the lens of temporality to track transformations in notions of urban personhood and collective life engendered by recent trans-Asia economic shifts. We will develop tools that help unpack ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 4423, ASIAN 6623, COML 6623, FGSS 4504, FGSS 6504, PMA 4504
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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 Rockefeller Hall 110
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Fuhrmann, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 4429
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4413, ANTHR 7413, GERST 4413, GERST 6413, JWST 4913, JWST 7913, NES 4913, NES 7913
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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 McGraw Hall B65
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Boyarin, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 4627
Course Description
What is the role of the psyche in revolutionary politics? Can there be social revolution without psychic liberation? This class brings together political theory, intellectual history, and psychoanalysis ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 6575, SHUM 4677, SHUM 6677
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 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 109
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Duong, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 4628
Course Description
This course combines literature, film, and other artistic projects in order to explore African forms of collective justice and repair, following the numerous conflicts that have shaken the continent in ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 4681, ASRC 6681, ROMS 4681, ROMS 6681, SHUM 4681, SHUM 6681
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R A D White House 109
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Terhmina, I
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 4861
Course Description
How do questions of genre persist and evolve in the digital age? To what extent do we choose our genres, and in what ways do they choose us? How do genres, platforms, and media intersect and inform one ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 6861, PMA 4461, PMA 6461
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Sibley Hall 101
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Monroe, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 4930
Course Description
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
COML 4940
Course Description
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
COML 6009
Course Description
Though Indigenous literature or, more accurately, literatures are growing both in their production and criticism, we have yet to address the question of settler discourse and writings. Can we conceptualize ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: NES 6009, SHUM 6009
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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
- W White Hall 106
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Ghanayem, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 6020
Course Description
While the old concept of the "mind" has been revamped over the last few decades and is routinely accepted as a "scientific object" (through cognitive studies, especially), the equally ancient idea of the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 6020
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 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 215
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Dubreuil, L
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 6159
Course Description
This course examines a range of exciting and provocative 20th- and 21st- century theoretical paradigms for thinking about literature, language and culture. These approaches provide differing, though often ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3021, ENGL 3021, FREN 3921, PMA 3421, PMA 6421
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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
- TR Klarman Hall KG42
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Caruth, C
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Course open to all levels; no previous knowledge of literary or cultural theory required.
COML 6200
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
COML 6336
Course Description
This course focuses on a place and a concept where two of the most urgent issues of our times - migration and environmental degradation - converge, collide, and shape each other. It examines borders not ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3336, LATA 3336, LATA 6336, LSP 3336, LSP 6336, SPAN 3335, SPAN 6335
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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 Sibley Hall 101
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Banerjee, A
Castillo, D
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 6368
Course Description
This seminar will focus on the writings of the polymorphous Martinican poet and thinker, Édouard Glissant (1928-2011). We will attend to the historical context of French colonialism, particularly in the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 4368, ASRC 6368, COML 4368, FREN 4368, FREN 6368
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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 Sibley Hall 211
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Melas, N
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 6511
Course Description
What is illness? What is health? The human body seems to vacillate between these dichotomous versions of its existence. This seminar traces the cultural/historical developments/traditions that define illness, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 6511
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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
- W Olin Library 403
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Schwarz, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Enrollment limited to graduate students.
COML 6600
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 6060, GERST 6600
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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 Olin Library 403
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Waite, G
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Enrollment limited to graduate students.
COML 6601
Course Description
"You didn't see anything," a woman in a movie says to her dubious lover. "No one sees anything. Ever. They watch, but they don't understand." What is desire in a movie, and how do we know it when we see ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 6600, FGSS 6610, LGBT 6600, PMA 6670
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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 Rockefeller Hall 187
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Hanson, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 6622
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 6622
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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 302
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Fuhrmann, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Preference given to Ph.D. students.
COML 6623
Course Description
This course uses the lens of temporality to track transformations in notions of urban personhood and collective life engendered by recent trans-Asia economic shifts. We will develop tools that help unpack ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 4423, ASIAN 6623, COML 4423, FGSS 4504, FGSS 6504, PMA 4504
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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 Rockefeller Hall 110
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Fuhrmann, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 6685
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 3329, ASIAN 6639, CAPS 3329, COML 3985
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Lincoln Hall 117
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Admussen, N
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 6707
Course Description
Contemporary theory has turned surface phenomena into the grounds and foundations for conceptual work: from moebius-strips to simulacra, from skin to screens, from folds to planes. But theory's "superficial" ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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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
- W Klarman Hall K311
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Bachner, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
COML 6861
Course Description
How do questions of genre persist and evolve in the digital age? To what extent do we choose our genres, and in what ways do they choose us? How do genres, platforms, and media intersect and inform one ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4861, PMA 4461, PMA 6461
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Sibley Hall 101
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Monroe, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person