Comparative Literature (COML)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

COML 2000

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 2000ARTH 2000VISST 2000

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  •  4267 COML 2000   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5011 COML 2000   DIS 201

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5012 COML 2000   DIS 202

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5013 COML 2000   DIS 203

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5014 COML 2000   DIS 204

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5015 COML 2000   DIS 205

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5016 COML 2000   DIS 206

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5331 COML 2000   DIS 207

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5332 COML 2000   DIS 208

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 2271

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

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

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9768 COML 2271   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Melas, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 2703

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

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Syllabi: none
  •  5202 COML 2703   LEC 001

    • MWF
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Born, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3113

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Syllabi: none
  • 10886 COML 3113   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Born, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3262

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one laboratory. Combined with: PMA 3551PMA 6551VISST 3176

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5432 COML 3262   LEC 001

    • M
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Warner, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10551 COML 3262   LAB 401

    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Warner, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3389

In this course, we will read some of the most influential examples of a genre at the intersection of literature and history: the memoir of the revolutionary. Along the way, we will consider some of the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3989RUSSL 3389

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10199 COML 3389   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Pinkham, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3485

Beginning in the early days of silent cinema, a rich tradition of what are called "city films," combines technological innovation with the exploration of specific urban spaces. Students in this class will ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  9113 COML 3485   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Keller, P

      Lawless, C

    • M
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Keller, P

      Lawless, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Conducted in English.

COML 3541

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Syllabi: none
  •  8994 COML 3541   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Fleming, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3550

"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 3550FGSS 3550LGBT 3550

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 11224 COML 3550   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Hanson, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3780

When Jean-Jacques Rousseau introduced the concept of the "general will" in his classic text The Social Contract, he made what was then an unprecedented and scandalous claim: that the people as a whole, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 3780GOVT 3786

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10440 COML 3780   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • McNulty, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3800

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 Americas? ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  9742 COML 3800   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Monroe, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3985

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 3329CAPS 3329

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5527 COML 3985   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Admussen, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 4200

COML 4190 and COML 4200 may be taken independently of each other. Undergraduate student and faculty advisor to determine course of study and credit hours. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5720 COML 4200   IND 601

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Melas, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

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

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  3723 COML 4200   IND 602

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Monroe, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

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

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4517 COML 4200   IND 603

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Bachner, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

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

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5695 COML 4200   IND 604

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Banerjee, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

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

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4396 COML 4200   IND 606

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Caruth, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

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

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4397 COML 4200   IND 607

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Castillo, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

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

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4398 COML 4200   IND 613

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Dubreuil, L

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

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

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5721 COML 4200   IND 615

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Fuhrmann, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

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

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5722 COML 4200   IND 616

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Vaziri, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

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

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5723 COML 4200   IND 617

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • McNulty, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

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

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5724 COML 4200   IND 620

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Murray, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

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

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5222 COML 4200   IND 622

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Pinkus, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

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

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4399 COML 4200   IND 623

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Pollak, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

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

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5725 COML 4200   IND 629

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Fleming, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

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

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5726 COML 4200   IND 633

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Keller, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

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

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5727 COML 4200   IND 634

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Lorenz, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

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

COML 4334

The seminar will explore relations between the tangible effects of climate on urban, infrastructural, and ecological landscapes in the Caribbean and lived experiences of climate as mediated through literature, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 10766 COML 4334   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Melas, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 4940

Times TBA individually in consultation with director of Senior Essay Colloquium. Approximately 50 pages to be written over the course of two semesters in the student's senior year under the direction of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  4933 COML 4940   IND 601

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Admussen, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  4818 COML 4940   IND 603

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Bachner, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  4400 COML 4940   IND 604

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Banerjee, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  4891 COML 4940   IND 606

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Caruth, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  4401 COML 4940   IND 607

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Castillo, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  4402 COML 4940   IND 613

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Dubreuil, L

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  5736 COML 4940   IND 616

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Vaziri, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  5737 COML 4940   IND 617

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • McNulty, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  5738 COML 4940   IND 620

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Murray, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  5206 COML 4940   IND 622

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Pinkus, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  4405 COML 4940   IND 623

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Pollak, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  5110 COML 4940   IND 629

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Fleming, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  5229 COML 4940   IND 633

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Byrd, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  5739 COML 4940   IND 634

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Fleming, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  5645 COML 4940   IND 646

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Long, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  5646 COML 4940   IND 647

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Terhmina, I

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  5647 COML 4940   IND 648

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Lorenz, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

COML 6124

Interrogating the notion of the margins, this class will explore works of contemporary Arabic literature that represent voices marginalized within the Arabic-speaking communities in which they are produced. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: NES 6124

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 11046 COML 6124   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Starr, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 6200

This course gives students the opportunity to work with a selected instructor to pursue special interests or research not treated in regularly scheduled courses. After getting permission of the instructor, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4661 COML 6200   IND 603

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Bachner, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4403 COML 6200   IND 604

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Banerjee, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4889 COML 6200   IND 606

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Caruth, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4404 COML 6200   IND 607

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Castillo, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4890 COML 6200   IND 613

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Dubreuil, L

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5728 COML 6200   IND 615

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Fuhrmann, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5729 COML 6200   IND 616

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Vaziri, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5730 COML 6200   IND 617

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • McNulty, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5731 COML 6200   IND 620

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Murray, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5732 COML 6200   IND 622

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Pinkus, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5733 COML 6200   IND 629

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Fleming, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5734 COML 6200   IND 633

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Keller, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5735 COML 6200   IND 634

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Lorenz, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5716 COML 6200   IND 649

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Ghanayem, E

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

COML 6250

How does psychoanalysis conceive the human, and what does it offer humanity at the crossroads where we find ourselves today? These questions animate the work of Haitian-Quebecois psychoanalyst Willy Apollon, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 6250

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9706 COML 6250   SEM 101

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • McNulty, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 6334

The seminar will explore relations between the tangible effects of climate on urban, infrastructural, and ecological landscapes in the Caribbean and lived experiences of climate as mediated through literature, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 11111 COML 6334   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Melas, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 6490

This course is intended to familiarize graduate students with the intellectual history, background, and development of Marxist theory in relation to the contemporary literary and cultural-theoretical landscape. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 11044 COML 6490   SEM 101

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Walker, G

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 6681

The history of systems theory involves complex stories of technoscientific change and knowledge production on a global scale. In recent years, scholars have increasingly moved away from the field's ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 6681

  • 3 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 11324 COML 6681   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Ma, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

COML 6685

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 6639

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5601 COML 6685   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Admussen, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person