Comparative Literature (COML)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the 2026-2027 Catalog.

COML 1105

What do Frankenstein and Things Fall Apart have in common? What lies behind the fantastical stories of Aladdin? Do we have to like Garcia Marquez and Shakespeare? These texts and authors re-imagine the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  3071 COML 1105   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Shokrisaravi, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  3072 COML 1105   SEM 102

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Chakraborty, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  3073 COML 1105   SEM 103

    • MWF
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Wortman, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  3074 COML 1105   SEM 104

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • LeGates, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  3075 COML 1105   SEM 105

    • MWF
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Guo, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

COML 1141

In this course, students will learn about animal welfare, behavior, and conservation through international films. We will discuss wildlife, companion, and farm animals in conjunction with human cultures, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  3068 COML 1141   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Bachminska, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

COML 1143

Is Dostoevsky’s Devils (1872) the first novel about modern terrorism? Some readers think so. It is also a novel about parents and children, about generational misunderstandings and their consequences. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  3103 COML 1143   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Pollak, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

COML 1144

What does it mean to approach a text critically? In this course, students will explore a range of primary texts (novels, stories, films) alongside critical texts that offer both interpretive frameworks ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: What is Called Poignancy?

  •  3104 COML 1144   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Zhang, X

  • 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

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 2000, ARTH 2000, VISST 2000

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5150 COML 2000   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5151 COML 2000   DIS 201

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5152 COML 2000   DIS 202

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5153 COML 2000   DIS 203

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5154 COML 2000   DIS 204

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5155 COML 2000   DIS 205

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5156 COML 2000   DIS 206

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5157 COML 2000   DIS 207

    • M
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5158 COML 2000   DIS 208

    • M
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 2035

Science fiction is not merely a literary genre but a whole way of being, thinking, and acting in the modern world. This course explores classic and contemporary science fiction from Frankenstein to The ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: BSOC 2131, ENGL 2035, STS 2131

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17095 COML 2035   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Banerjee, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 2241

In this course we will use the Game of Thrones series as a way of familiarizing ourselves with different tools of cultural analysis and approaches in literary theory (such as narratology, psychoanalysis, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: SHUM 2241

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6073 COML 2241   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Bachner, A

  • 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

  •  6078 COML 2271   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Melas, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 2400

Latina/os have always been part of U.S. history, yet the media often represents Latinx as only recent immigrants or as stereotypes that reduce rich cultures into a single, unified category or group of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2401, ENGL 2400, LSP 2400

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7669 COML 2400   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Brady, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 2512

Contemporary World Cinema offers an introduction to some of the most acclaimed international films of the 21st century. We will consider narrative, documentary, animation, and experimental films from multiple ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 2512, VISST 2512

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8235 COML 2512   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Haenni, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 2591

What is cinema? Does film represent the world, or does it create new ones? Does film help us understand how we see and think, or has it changed our very forms of perception? In this course, students contemplate ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: NES 2591, PMA 2591

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 15403 COML 2591   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Vaziri, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 2691

This lecture course principally examines the writings and visual art of the Russian intelligentsia in relation to the idea of revolution (approximately from the 1820s to the 1920s). How did the intelligentsia ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 2691

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10583 COML 2691   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Verhoeven, C

  • 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
  •  7686 COML 2703   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Shechtman, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 2727

This course introduces the prehistory of “artificial intelligence” (AI), from ancient automata through medieval combinatorics to early modern calculating machines. Putting contemporary debates into historical ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 2727, MEDVL 2737

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7779 COML 2727   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Born, E

  • 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
  •  8453 COML 2750   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Rebhi, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For course description, see https://as.cornell.edu/research/hsp-core-courses.

COML 2754

This course examines Near East's rich and diverse literary heritage. We will read a selection of influential and wondrous texts from ancient to modern times, spanning geographically from the Iberian peninsula ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 15278 COML 2754   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Starr, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3021

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
  •  6064 COML 3021   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Caruth, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3029

In his work "Black Reconstruction in America," Du Bois glosses over a key moment in American revolutionary thinking. Senator Wade of Ohio, among three Whig politicians impatient with Abraham Lincoln's ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 14655 COML 3029   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Farred, G

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3075

What symbolic forms might be adequate to phenomena of such inhuman scale as the sixth extinction or the catastrophic climate change of the Anthropocene? Revisiting important literary theoretical discourses ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3075

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6106 COML 3075   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Melas, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3165

This course will consider efforts to reinvent romantic love, marriage, and parenthood in the French, Russian/Soviet, and American traditions. We will study theoretical writing from influential utopian ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 3165, RUSSL 3165

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6103 COML 3165   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Pinkham, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3300

An introduction (without prerequisites) to fundamental problems of current political theory, filmmaking, and film analysis, along with their interrelationship. Particular emphasis on comparing and contrasting ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 3550, PMA 3490

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7744 COML 3300   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Waite, G

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3340

This course examines the culture and society of al-Andalus (Islamic Spain) from 711, when Islam arrived in Iberia, until 1492 and the demise of Nasrid Granada. Through extensive discussion and analysis ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 15285 COML 3340   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Brann, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3414

What does it mean to be Jewish and Arab? In this course we will read and analyze representations of this contested identity in memoirs, essays, fiction, and film by and about Arab Jews. We will study the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 15394 COML 3414   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Starr, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3550

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3550, FGSS 3550, LGBT 3550

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7622 COML 3550   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Hanson, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3709

The generative age of AI has arrived—and with it a profound question: what happens when machines begin to write the humanities? This seminar takes the most extreme case of modern violence, the Holocaust, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 3709, HIST 3709, JWST 3709

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15383 COML 3709   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Burzlaff, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 3750

This course explores the practice, theory, and methodology of humanities research, critical analysis, and communication through writing and oral presentation. We will study the work and impact of humanists ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: CLASS 3850, SHUM 3750

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8481 COML 3750   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Platt, V

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8482 COML 3750   IND 601

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Platt, V

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

COML 3837

Is Homo sapiens the only species capable of producing visual art? Nonhuman great apes, especially, seem to be able to draw, paint, and enjoy such works. Our prehistoric ancestors are responsible for the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  6090 COML 3837   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Dubreuil, L

  • 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 3329, CAPS 3329

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 14479 COML 3985   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Admussen, N

  • 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 4103, SHUM 4103

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6083 COML 4103   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Banerjee, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Enrollment limited to: juniors and seniors.

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

  •  6023 COML 4200   IND 601

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    See https://as.cornell.edu/registrar/independent-study for more information on applying for Independent Study.

COML 4243

This seminar will explore some of the most important psychoanalytic approaches to politics and collective life. from Sigmund Freud's Mass Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego to works by Le Bon, Reich, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 4240, GOVT 4246

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  8426 COML 4243   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • McNulty, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 4251

The most intense public encounter between Existentialism and Marxism occurred in immediate post-WWII Europe, its structure remaining alive internationally. Existentialist questions have been traced from ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 4210, GOVT 4015, ROMS 4210

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7761 COML 4251   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Waite, G

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 4295

Violence is on the rise across the political spectrum. While the left has a long tradition of pacifism, the prevalence of political violence today suggests that we can no longer equate leftism and nonviolence. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 4295

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7794 COML 4295   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Jarris, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 4420

This course explores an unsettling phenomenon: white South African Afrikaners, the architects and for more than 40 years the political exponents of apartheid, now cast themselves as victims of discrimination. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 4420, ASRC 6420, COML 6420

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17063 COML 4420   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Farred, G

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 4810

What does it mean to make and read theory that is truly global? After decades of heightened global circulation, thinking theory and the global together still poses challenges. While we are rightly suspicious ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 6811

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6081 COML 4810   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Bachner, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 4842

What is the “meaning of meaning,” exactly? Are signification, significance, sense, and meaning one and the same? Is “semantics” a sub-branch of linguistics, or what GPT “does,” or a path to poetry? This ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  6095 COML 4842   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Dubreuil, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 4930

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 Multi-Term

  • 17117 COML 4930   IND 601

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Admussen, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

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
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  6048 COML 4940   IND 601

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Brann, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  6049 COML 4940   IND 602

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Bachner, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  6050 COML 4940   IND 603

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Banerjee, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  6051 COML 4940   IND 604

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Caruth, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  6052 COML 4940   IND 605

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Colanzi, L

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  6053 COML 4940   IND 606

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Dubreuil, L

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  6054 COML 4940   IND 607

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Vaziri, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  6055 COML 4940   IND 608

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • McNulty, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  6056 COML 4940   IND 609

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Pollak, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  6057 COML 4940   IND 610

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Fleming, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  6058 COML 4940   IND 611

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Monroe, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  6059 COML 4940   IND 612

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Fleming, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  6060 COML 4940   IND 613

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Walker, G

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  6061 COML 4940   IND 614

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Terhmina, I

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  6062 COML 4940   IND 615

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Lorenz, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

COML 6029

In his work "Black Reconstruction in AMerica," Du Bois glosses over a key moment in American revolutionary thinking. Senator Wade of Ohio, among three Whig politicians impatient with Abraham Lincoln's ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17040 COML 6029   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Farred, G

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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
  •  6070 COML 6159   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • 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

  •  6038 COML 6200   IND 601

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

COML 6414

What does it mean to be Jewish and Arab? In this course we will read and analyze representations of this contested identity in memoirs, essays, fiction, and film by and about Arab Jews. We will study the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 15398 COML 6414   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Starr, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 6420

This course explores an unsettling phenomenon: white South African Afrikaners, the architects and for more than 40 years the political exponents of apartheid, now cast themselves as victims of discrimination. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 4420, ASRC 6420, COML 4420

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17064 COML 6420   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Farred, G

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 6522

This course will offer a survey of critical and interpretive approaches to literature. Based on works by Goethe, Kleist, Hoffmann, Tieck, Keller, Stifter, Rilke, Kafka, Celan, Beckett, Joyce, Woolf and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 6522

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7777 COML 6522   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Schwarz, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 6539

This course examines the culture and society of al-Andalus (Islamic Spain) from 711, when Islam arrived in Iberia, until 1492 and the demise of Nasrid Granada. Through extensive discussion and analysis ... view course details

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  • 15293 COML 6539   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Brann, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 6775

What does it mean to think through stories, especially when one’s métier is theory? This seminar considers modes of non-conceptual thought as an essential practice of twentieth-century theory. Here the ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 6770

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7771 COML 6775   SEM 101

    • R
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Fleming, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 6811

What does it mean to make and read theory that is truly global? After decades of heightened global circulation, thinking theory and the global together still poses challenges. While we are rightly suspicious ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 4810

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6082 COML 6811   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Bachner, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

COML 6842

What is the “meaning of meaning,” exactly? Are signification, significance, sense, and meaning one and the same? Is “semantics” a sub-branch of linguistics, or what GPT “does,” or a path to poetry? This ... view course details

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  •  6099 COML 6842   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Dubreuil, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person