Comparative Literature (COML)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

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.  Combined with: AMST 2000ARTH 2000VISST 2000

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2675 COML 2000   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 2050

Could a meter have a meaning? Could there be a reason for a rhyme? And what is lost and gained in translation? We'll consider such questions in this introduction to poetry. We'll see how poems are put ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2497 COML 2050   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Pollak, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 2271

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

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

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2581 COML 2271   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Melas, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    To be added to the waitlist, please email complit@cornell.edu.

COML 2552

Throughout Western history, the nature of melancholy (aka depression, its modern counterpart) has both inspired and baffled philosophers, doctors, artists, and writers. Compared to other ailments, affects, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 2550

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2341 COML 2552   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Cordova, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 2750

These seminars offer an introduction to the humanities by exploring historical, cultural, social, and political themes. Students will explore themes in critical dialogue with a range of texts and media ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • Topic: After Images: From Photography to AI

  •  2649 COML 2750   SEM 102

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Lorca Fuentealba, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Enrollment preference given to: students accepted into the Humanities Scholars Program. For course description, see https://as.cornell.edu/research/hsp-core-courses

COML 3017

Images of tattooed, inscribed, and marked bodies abound in popular media, from television series to blogs, from performance art to popular literature. When the body becomes a canvas or text, this raises ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2571 COML 3017   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Bachner, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3264

How have income inequality and climate change, two of the most urgent issues of our time, come to shape the contemporary imagination? What might a poetics of economies or ecologies, or an economical or ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2580 COML 3264   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Monroe, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3336

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

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Syllabi: none
  •  2587 COML 3336   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Banerjee, A

      Castillo, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Please email complit@cornell.edu to be added to the waitlist.

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

  •  2597 COML 3389   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Pinkham, S

  • 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
  •  2546 COML 3800   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Monroe, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 4103

Vladimir Nabokov's legacy at Cornell is not limited to the world-famous literary works he produced here. The university's natural and built environments also provided powerful material for his lifelong ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENVS 4103SHUM 4103

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2593 COML 4103   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Banerjee, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Course open to juniors and seniors only. To be added to the waitlist, please email complit@cornell.edu with your year and major.

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

  •  2514 COML 4200   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • 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 https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2515 COML 4200   IND 602

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • 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 https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2516 COML 4200   IND 603

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • 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 https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2517 COML 4200   IND 604

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • 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 https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2518 COML 4200   IND 606

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • 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 https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2519 COML 4200   IND 607

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • 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 https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2520 COML 4200   IND 613

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • 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 https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2521 COML 4200   IND 615

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • 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 https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2522 COML 4200   IND 616

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • 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 https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2523 COML 4200   IND 617

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • 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 https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2524 COML 4200   IND 620

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • 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 https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2525 COML 4200   IND 622

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • 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 https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2526 COML 4200   IND 623

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • 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 https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2527 COML 4200   IND 629

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • 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 https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2528 COML 4200   IND 633

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • 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 https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2529 COML 4200   IND 634

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • 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 https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

COML 4372

We experience our world (and the histories of our world) increasingly as a conglomerate of spaces of and for containment. These enclosed spaces are multiple, and their strategies of who and how they imprison ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 6372

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2602 COML 4372   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Bachner, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 4380

Why is it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism? At a time when reality appears dystopian, many are quick to dismiss utopian visions as naive or irresponsible. In this seminar, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4380FGSS 4380GERST 4380

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2617 COML 4380   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Jarris, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 4511

The driving dialectic in post-colonial studies has been the colonizer/colonized, or the Third World vs. the West. But slowly the field is letting go of this arrested dialectic and in its place various ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 4512ENGL 4511

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2664 COML 4511   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Ngugi, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 4825

Part epistemology and part experimental humanities, this seminar looks at improbable encounters between the divergent regimes of thought and knowledge expressed by literature and the sciences. Our main ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  2357 COML 4825   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Dubreuil, L

  • 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

  •  2551 COML 4940   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Brann, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  2552 COML 4940   IND 603

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Bachner, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  2553 COML 4940   IND 604

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Banerjee, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  2554 COML 4940   IND 606

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Caruth, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  2555 COML 4940   IND 607

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Castillo, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  2556 COML 4940   IND 613

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Dubreuil, L

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  2557 COML 4940   IND 616

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Vaziri, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  2558 COML 4940   IND 617

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • McNulty, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  2559 COML 4940   IND 620

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Murray, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  2560 COML 4940   IND 622

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Pinkus, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  2561 COML 4940   IND 623

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Pollak, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  2562 COML 4940   IND 629

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Fleming, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  2563 COML 4940   IND 633

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Byrd, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  2564 COML 4940   IND 634

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Fleming, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  2565 COML 4940   IND 646

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Long, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  2566 COML 4940   IND 647

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Terhmina, I

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  2567 COML 4940   IND 648

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Lorenz, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

COML 6159

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 6021PMA 6421

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2572 COML 6159   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Caruth, C

  • 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

  •  2532 COML 6200   IND 603

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Bachner, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2533 COML 6200   IND 604

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Banerjee, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2534 COML 6200   IND 606

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Caruth, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2535 COML 6200   IND 607

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Castillo, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2536 COML 6200   IND 613

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Dubreuil, L

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2537 COML 6200   IND 615

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Fuhrmann, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2538 COML 6200   IND 616

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Vaziri, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2539 COML 6200   IND 617

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • McNulty, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2540 COML 6200   IND 620

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Murray, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2541 COML 6200   IND 622

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Pinkus, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2542 COML 6200   IND 629

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Fleming, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2543 COML 6200   IND 633

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Keller, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2544 COML 6200   IND 634

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Lorenz, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2545 COML 6200   IND 649

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Ghanayem, E

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

COML 6336

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

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Syllabi: none
  •  2583 COML 6336   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Banerjee, A

      Castillo, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 6372

We experience our world (and the histories of our world) increasingly as a conglomerate of spaces of and for containment. These enclosed spaces are multiple, and their strategies of who and how they imprison ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 4372

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2603 COML 6372   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Bachner, A

  • 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

  •  2600 COML 6490   SEM 101

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Walker, G

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 6825

Part epistemology and part experimental humanities, this seminar looks at improbable encounters between the divergent regimes of thought and knowledge expressed by literature and the sciences. Our main ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  2361 COML 6825   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Dubreuil, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person