Fall 2023 First-Year Writing Seminars
**MW 10:10-11:00a.m.
COML1100SEM001 HumanitiesCoreCourse
**MW 11:15-12:05p.m.
COML1100SEM101 HumanitiesCoreCourse
COML1100SEM102 CANCELLED-HumanitiesCoreCourse
**TR 09:05-09:55a.m.
COML1100SEM103 HumanitiesCoreCourse
**TR 10:10-11:00a.m.
COML1100SEM104 HumanitiesCoreCourse
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 08:00–08:50a.m.
PHIL1111SEM102 PhilosophicalProblems:Framing—TheEthicsandPoliticsofArt
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 09:05–09:55a.m.
COML1104SEM101 ReadingFilms
ENGL1134SEM101 TrueStories
ENGL1158SEM102 AmericanVoices:HauntingsinFiction,PersonalNarrative,andFilm
ENGL1160SEM101 Intersections:Race,Writing,andPower
ENGL1168SEM102
CulturalStudies:TheTwoElizabeths—betweentheSovereignandthe
Woman
ENGL1170SEM101 ShortStories
ENGL1183SEM101 WordandImage
ENGL1183SEM112 WordandImage
GDEV1200SEM102 FollowtheScience?!ThePoliticsofKnowledgeforProgress
MEDVL1101SEM101 AspectsofMedievalCulture:HowtoWriteaLoveLetter—MedievalAdvice
ROMS1113SEM101 ThinkingandThought:Dante'sExaminedLife
ROMS1113SEM104 ThinkingandThought:OnLove
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 10:10–11:00a.m.
ANTHR1101SEM104
Culture,Society,andPower:CanoeCulturesinAmerica—Commerce,
Conquest,Contradictions
COML1105SEM101 BookswithBigIdeas
ENGL1111SEM106 WritingAcrossCultures:AnIntimateEthicsofTranslation
ENGL1160SEM102 Intersections:Race,Writing,andPower
ENGL1167SEM101 ReadingNow
ENGL1170SEM102 ShortStories
ENGL1183SEM108 WordandImage
GERST1122SEM101 LoveandDeathinVienna
LING1100SEM102 Language,Thought,andReality:LanguageMythsandMisconceptions
ROMS1113SEM102 ThinkingandThought:Dante'sExaminedLife
ROMS1113SEM106
ThinkingandThought:TheSick,SicklyandSickening—DisturbedBodiesin
Fiction
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 01:25–02:15p.m.
CLASS1531SEM102 GreekMyth
ENGL1134SEM103 TrueStories
MEDVL1101SEM106 AspectsofMedievalCulture:ConjuringHorrorinMedievalLiterature
SPAN1305SEM101 NarratingtheSpanishCivilWar
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 02:30–03:20p.m.
LING1100SEM105 Language,Thought,andReality:RealitiesofLanguage
MSE1700SEM101 ScientificBreakthroughs:RealityorHyperbole?
PHIL1111SEM104 PhilosophicalProblems:Nietzsche'sGenealogyonMorality
Monday, Wednesday, and
Friday 03:35–04:25p.m.
CLASS1531SEM101 GreekMyth
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 11:15–12:05p.m.
COML1106SEM101 Robots
ENGL1160SEM103 Intersections:Race,Writing,andPower
ENGL1170SEM103 ShortStories
ENGL1183SEM102 WordandImage
LING1100SEM103 Language,Thought,andReality:TheFirstSentence
MEDVL1101SEM103 AspectsofMedievalCulture:MedievalCrossdressings
ROMS1109SEM101 ImageandImagination:AThousandWords—WritingImages
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 12:20–01:10p.m.
ENGL1134SEM102 TrueStories
ENGL1160SEM104 Intersections:Race,Writing,andPower
ENGL1183SEM103 WordandImage
HIST1200SEM101 WritingtheEnvironment
HIST1200SEM105 HistoricalPerspectivesonRape
MEDVL1101SEM105 AspectsofMedievalCulture:MedievalLoveSongs
PHIL1111SEM103 PhilosophicalProblems:Nietzsche'sGenealogyonMorality
Monday and Wednesday 08:40–09:55a.m.
Monday and Wednesday 08:40–09:55a.m.
ANTHR1101SEM101 Culture,Society,andPower:TheMakingofWork
ANTHR1101SEM103 Culture,Society,andPower:MappingOutBlackness
CLASS1525SEM101 IthacaBound:TheOdysseyonScreen
ENGL1111SEM101 WritingAcrossCultures:NarrativesofMonstrosity
ENGL1168SEM101 CulturalStudies:CaféReading
ENGL1170SEM109 ShortStories
ENGL1191SEM101 BritishLiterature:MakingtheMedieval/EarlyModernMiscellany
GDEV1200SEM101 DecolonialFeminismandtheFutureofFood
GOVT1101SEM101 PowerandPolitics:It'sExpensivetobePoor
HD1125SEM103 ScienceastheGreatestGood
HIST1200SEM102 GenderandLawinGlobalHistory
NES1916SEM101 CityandForgetting
PHIL1112SEM105
PhilosophicalConversations:PointingattheMoon—TheFormsandMethods
ofBuddhistPhilosophy
PMA1119SEM101 Utopias
PSYCH1120SEM101 PsychologyandLaw
Monday and Wednesday 10:10–11:25a.m.
BIONB1220SEM102 StoriesInScience
ENGL1111SEM102
CANCELLED-8/16/2023--WritingAcrossCultures:BengaliLiteratureand
Cinema
ENGL1140SEM101 WritingMedicine:StoriesofIllnessandHealing
ENGL1168SEM111 CulturalStudies:ComicsandGraphicMedicine
ENGL1183SEM110 WordandImage
HE1150SEM101 Fashion’sAfterlife:ExploringtheValueofTextileWaste
ROMS1113SEM105 ThinkingandThought:OnLove
WRIT1370SEM101 ElementsofAcademicWriting:WritingaboutPlace
WRIT1370SEM108 ElementsofAcademicWriting:Data,Environment,andSociety
Monday and Wednesday 01:25–02:40p.m.
ENGL1111SEM103 WritingAcrossCultures:TheLiteratureofCareandCareWorkers
ENGL1168SEM103 CulturalStudies:CommunicatingClimateChange
FGSS1100SEM101 CanSciencebeFeminist
HIST1200SEM108 TheEarlyModernDeathPenalty
PHIL1112SEM101 PhilosophicalConversations:Borders,Immigration,andCitizenship
ROMS1102SEM105 TheCraftofStorytelling:Race,Gender,andPostcolonialWriting
SOC1120SEM101 EducationalInequalityandReformEffortsintheU.S.
WRIT1370SEM104 ElementsofAcademicWriting:TheLongGame—ChoicesforaHealthyLife
WRIT1370SEM109 ElementsofAcademicWriting:Data,Environment,andSociety
Monday and Wednesday 02:55–04:10p.m.
ASIAN1111SEM101 EmbodiedDeepEcologicalLiving
ASRC1853SEM101 RaceandColonialisminModernGermany
ASRC1859SEM101 HowtoWriteAboutAfrica
BIONB1220SEM101 EvolutiononIslands:HowIslandsHaveSoManyUniqueSpecies
CLASS1585SEM101 TheFalloftheRomanEmpire
ENGL1105SEM102
CANCELLED-8/7/23--WritingandSexualPolitics:Rethinking
Intimacy—Ace,Aro,andPolyPerspectives
ENGL1134SEM104 TrueStories
ENGL1160SEM105 Intersections:Race,Writing,andPower
ENGL1168SEM104 CulturalStudies:ComicsandGraphicMedicine
ENGL1170SEM105 ShortStories
ENGL1183SEM109 WordandImage
HIST1301SEM101 HistoryoftheEssay
HIST1481SEM101 BlackCaribbeanThought
ITAL1113SEM101
WritingItaly,WritingtheSelf:Jewish-ItalianLiteratureandtheLong
TwentiethCentury
PHIL1112SEM103 PhilosophicalConversations:PhilosophyofArtificialIntelligence
WRIT1420SEM101 ResearchandRhetoric:ASustainedResearchWritingAdventure
Monday and Wednesday 07:30–08:45p.m.
ENGL1130SEM101 WritingtheEnvironment:HereBeDragons
ENGL1140SEM102 WritingMedicine:StoriesofIllnessandHealing
ENGL1170SEM106 ShortStories
ENGL1183SEM104 CANCELLED-8/10/23-WordandImage
HIST1217SEM101 MeritocracyinAmerica?:FromSlaverytoStudentDebt
ROMS1102SEM101 TheCraftofStorytelling:SpiritualAutobiography
ROMS1108SEM101
CulturalIdentities/CulturalDifferences:TheDividedCities:RiodeJaneiroand
MexicoCity
STS1123SEM101 TechnologyandSociety:HistoryofArtificialIntelligence
Monday and Wednesday 11:40–12:55p.m.
ARCH1901SEM101 WaterandtheCity
ENGL1158SEM101 AmericanVoices:RaceandtheAmericanLiteraryImagination
HIST1200SEM104 RaceandMedicineinUnitedStatesHistory
HIST1200SEM106 RevolutionaryAmericas:The1750s-1830sinPoliticalEconomy
HIST1200SEM107 EmotionsinHistory:TheChangingLanguageofFeeling
MUSIC1701SEM102 Sound,Sense,andIdeas:AnimalMusic—FromCicadastoWhales
PHIL1110SEM101 PhilosophyinPractice:EthicsofSexandRelationships
PHIL1112SEM104 PhilosophicalConversations:AncientGreekandRomanSkepticism
PMA1104SEM101 GenderandCrime:TheCaseoftheFemaleDetective
ROMS1102SEM104 TheCraftofStorytelling:Race,Gender,andPostcolonialWriting
ElementsofAcademicWriting:Scrolling,Posting,Liking—StudyingSocial
WRIT1370SEM102
ElementsofAcademicWriting:Scrolling,Posting,Liking—StudyingSocial
Media’sGrasp
WRIT1370SEM103 ElementsofAcademicWriting:TheLongGame—ChoicesforaHealthyLife.
Tuesday and Thursday 08:40–09:55a.m.
ANTHR1101SEM102
Culture,Society,andPower:Desiringthe“Other”—PoliticsofLoveand
Marginality
ARTH1173SEM101 Portraiture
ASIAN1115SEM101 AsianTeaCultures:Ecology,Exploitation,Elixir
CLASS1531SEM103 GreekMyth
COML1104SEM102 ReadingFilms
COML1105SEM102 BookswithBigIdeas
ENGL1111SEM108 WritingAcrossCultures:HybridityandOtherness
ENGL1134SEM107 TrueStories
ENGL1140SEM103 WritingMedicine:StoriesofIllnessandHealing
ENGL1170SEM107 ShortStories
ENGL1183SEM105 WordandImage
ENGL1183SEM111 WordandImage
GOVT1101SEM103 PowerandPolitics:NationandState
GOVT1101SEM105 PowerandPolitics:WritingElectionsAroundtheWorld
HIST1200SEM103 TwilightoftheRomanRepublic:TheGracchitoCleopatra
HIST1200SEM109 WritingHistory:WritingHistoricalGraphicNovels
HIST1200SEM110 WritingHistory:WritingAboutNationalParks
MEDVL1101SEM107 AspectsofMedievalCulture:TheArtofFriendshipintheLatinMiddleAges
NES1945SEM101 TheSearchfortheHistoricalMuhammad
PHIL1112SEM106 PhilosophicalConversations:EthicsandMoralPsychologyinTechnology
PHIL1112SEM107 PhilosophicalConversations:AncientGreekandAsianPhilosophy
PMA1160SEM101 WonderlandsandOtherWorlds
PMA1174SEM101 BackcountryOnstage:TheatreinandofRuralAmerica
PSYCH1140SEM101 HistoryofPsychology
Tuesday and Thursday 10:10–11:25a.m.
ASRC1810SEM101 Grievance:InThreeTexts
ASRC1825SEM101 EducationalInnovationsinAfricaandtheAfricanDiaspora
BIOEE1640SEM101 What’sForDinner?
COML1104SEM103 ReadingFilms
COML1105SEM103 BookswithBigIdeas
ENGL1105SEM103 WritingandSexualPolitics:WomenandtheNovel
ENGL1111SEM105 WritingAcrossCultures:TheEssay,InSoundandColor
ENGL1160SEM106 Intersections:Race,Writing,andPower
ENGL1167SEM103 ReadingNow
ENGL1168SEM108 CulturalStudies:HappinessinShortStories
ENGL1170SEM104 ShortStories
ENGL1270SEM102 WritingAboutLiterature:WritingAboutFiction
GERST1126SEM101 PhilosophiesofViolence:ConceptualizationsofForcefromKanttoZizek
GERST1170SEM101 Marx,Nietzsche,Freud
GOVT1101SEM104 PowerandPolitics:States,PowerandGlobalGovernance
HD1125SEM102 TopicsinHumanDevelopment:TheEmbodiedMind
HE1151SEM101 Children’sEnvironmentalIdentity:AwarenesstoAction
LING1100SEM101 Language,Thought,andReality:HowWe’reLaughterCrafters
MEDVL1101SEM104
AspectsofMedievalCulture:DetailsinDress—ReadingClothinginMedieval
Literature
PHIL1112SEM109 PhilosophicalConversations:LiberalismandNeoliberalism
PMA1171SEM101 ParaisoInfernal:CaribbeanandDiasporicContremporaryArt
ROMS1120SEM101 AnimalsinGlobalCinema:HumanandNon-human
WRIT1370SEM105 ElementsofAcademicWriting:MetaphorinArt,Science,andCulture
Tuesday and Thursday 01:25–02:40p.m.
CLASS1535SEM101 AncientUnderworlds,FreshHells:KatabaticLiteratureandMedia
CRP1109SEM101 AreAllVotesEqual?DisenfranchisementandUrbanRacismintheUSA
ENGL1111SEM107 WritingAcrossCultures:TheDetectiveNovelandFilm
ENGL1134SEM105 TrueStories
ENGL1167SEM105 ReadingNow
ENGL1168SEM106 CulturalStudies:ComicBooks!GraphicNovels!Transmedia!
ENGL1170SEM110 ShortStories
ENGL1183SEM107 WordandImage
GOVT1101SEM106 PowerandPolitics:LiberalismandMarxism
HIST1321SEM101 Post-WorldWarIIAmerica:CrisisandContinuity
JWST1987SEM101 JewsonFilm:VisibleandInvisible
PHIL1112SEM108 PhilosophicalConversations:AsianPhilosophy
ROMS1108SEM102
CulturalIdentities/CulturalDifferences:TheDividedCities:RiodeJaneiroand
MexicoCity
Tuesday and Thursday 02:55–04:10p.m.
ASIAN1111SEM103 WritingDifferencesinAsianEmpires,1500-1800
BIOEE1640SEM102 AGreatWilderness?Northeasttriballandmanagement
CLASS1585SEM102 TheFalloftheRomanEmpire
ENGL1134SEM106 TrueStories
ENGL1140SEM104 WritingMedicine:StoriesofIllnessandHealing
ENGL1167SEM104 ReadingNow
ENGL1167SEM106 ReadingNow
ENGL1168SEM107 CulturalStudies:Race,GenderandWritingaboutHipHop
ENGL1168SEM110 CulturalStudies:Fairytales,Folktales,Witchcraft
ENGL1170SEM111 ShortStories
ENGL1191SEM103 BritishLiterature:MedievalObsessions
GOVT1101SEM102 PowerandPolitics:PoliticsofReproduction
GOVT1101SEM107 PowerandPolitics:LiberalismandMarxism
PHIL1112SEM102 PhilosophicalConversations:PhilosophyofFun:)
PMA1175SEM101 HellisaTeenageGirl:TerrorandTurmoilofGirlhoodinHorrorFilms
ROMS1102SEM103
TheCraftofStorytelling:TransgressiveBodiesinLatinAmericanWritingand
Film
ROMS1113SEM103 ThinkingandThought:Collaboration/Resistance—France1940-44
WRIT1370SEM107 ElementsofAcademicWriting:WritingBacktotheNews
WRIT1450SEM101 CommunicatingBigIdeas:ClimateChangeRhetoric
Tuesday and Thursday 11:40–12:55p.m.
AMST1139SEM101 QueerGirlhoodinAmericanPopCulture
BIOEE1640SEM103
SustainabilityandtheHuman-NatureRelationship:AnExplorationthrough
Science,History,andPersonalExperience
BIOEE1640SEM104
TheEssentialIsInvisibletotheEye:ExploringtheFieldofMicrobiome
Research
CLASS1521SEM101 CANCELLED8/28/2023-TheAncientArtofSubversiveWriting
COML1109SEM101 TheRhetoricofPost-RacialAmerica
ENGL1120SEM102 WritingandCommunityEngagement:LiteraturesofIthaca
ENGL1160SEM107 Intersections:Race,Writing,andPower
ENGL1168SEM109 CulturalStudies:Fairytales,Folktales,Witchcraft
ENGL1170SEM108 ShortStories
ENGL1183SEM106 WordandImage
FGSS1100SEM102 Sensation-alFeminisms
GERST1109SEM101 FromFairyTalestotheUncanny:ExploringtheRomanticConsciousness
LING1100SEM104 Language,Thought,andReality:WordsandPictures
MEDVL1101SEM102 AspectsofMedievalCulture:MedievalAllegoriesandFables
MUSIC1701SEM101
SoundsSenseandIdeas:WhoRuntheWorld?Girls—PopMusic,Genderand
Media
PHIL1110SEM102 PhilosophyinPractice:FeminismforAllGenders
PHIL1111SEM101 PhilosophicalProblems:MoralRelativismandMoralSkepticism
PMA1161SEM101 FoodandtheMedia
WRIT1370SEM106 ElementsofAcademicWriting:FoodforThought
AMERICAN STUDIES 1139
Queer Girlhood in American Pop Culture
Inthemid-twentiethCentury,ArchieComics,Barbies,modelhorses,andgirls’organizationsliketheCamp
FireGirlswereusedtoteachgirlshowtoperformcertainidealizedformsofgirlhoodwhichcentered
heterosexuality,femininity,andwhiteness.Thiswritingseminarwillstartwiththesehistoricalexamplesandwill
investigatehowthesetraditionsandstandardswerecreated,maintained,andinsomecases,destroyed,asseenin
contemporaryAmericanpopculturedepictionsofqueergirlhood.Popculturetextswillincludemovies( Mean
Girls;Fear Street),TV(The Wilds;Powerpuff Girls),andYAliterature(Twilight;The Hunger Games).Wewillbe
exploringthemesofqueergirlhoodthroughvariouswritingassignments:fromcreatingtimecapsulesand
exploringdigitalarchivestowritingfanfictionandengaginginoriginalscholarlyresearch.
SEM101 TR11:40–12:55p.m. VictoriaSerafini 20054 BethMilles
ANTHROPOLOGY 1101
Culture, Society, and Power: The Making of Work
Whatisworkandhowdoesitorganizeourlives?Thiscourseintroducesstudentstokeyscholarlydebates
aroundworkinanthropologyandotherfields.Whilereflectingonhow“labor”isconstituted,disciplined,and
mobilizedunderglobalcapitalism,wewillrethinknarrativesofdevelopmentfromfarmtofactorywork;wewill
examinehowgenderandraceshapelabormigrationtoday;engagedebatesondomesticandcarework;and
imagineformsofpoliticsthroughandbeyondwork.Inadditiontoethnographiesandotheracademictexts,students
willdrawonfiction,film,pamphlets,andphotographytoproducecriticalresponses,shortessays,andafinal
researchpaper.
SEM101 MW08:40–09:55a.m. SampreetyGurung 20056 LucindaRamberg
ANTHROPOLOGY 1101
Culture, Society, and Power: Desiring the “Other”—Politics of Love and Marginality
Throughouttheages,scholars,poets,artists,politicalleadershavedeliberatedonwhatloveis,whatitshould
beorwhatitisn’t.Inthiscourseratherthandefiningloveperse,wewillfocusonconditionsthatitselfrenderlove
viable.Theintricateinterplayofcaste,race,class,ethnicity,anddisabilityinthecontextofloveraisesprofound
inquiriesaboutthecomplexitiesofpowerdynamicsanddesirabilitywithinrelationships.Islovereallyallyou
need?Whataretheemotionalandpoliticalconsequencesofinter-racial,inter-casteandinter-ethniccoupling?
Whereisthemarginalizedloverinthesecouplings?Bydrawinginsightsfromdisciplinessuchascriticalcaste
studies,racestudies,genderandqueerstudies,andemployingaqueerofcolorcritique,thiscoursewillexplorethe
politicaldimensionsoflove.Engagingwithadiverserangeofmixedgenreliteraryworksandvisualmedia,
studentswillgainthenecessaryskillstowritefilmanalyses,reviewessays,andreflectiveresponses.
SEM102 TR08:40–09:55a.m. AkhilKang 20057 LucindaRamberg
ANTHROPOLOGY 1101
Culture, Society, and Power: Mapping Out Blackness
Haveyoueverwonderedhowaplacecametobe?Whydocertainpeoplelivewheretheydo?Orhowrace
andplaceareintertwined?ThiscoursewilldrawfromthetheoreticalframingofBlackGeographiestohelpus
understandhowrace,space,andplacearecentraltoBlackagency,experience,andpractices.Thisgrowingbodyof
scholarshipstretchestheconceptofgeographybeyonditsmostbasicmeaningasphysicallandterrainto
interrogateitsaesthetic,embodied,andinterpersonaldimensions.Relatedly,thetextswewillreadinthiscourse
areauthoredbyscholarsinawiderangeofdisciplines;therefore,exposingstudentstoseveraldifferentstylesof
writing.Assignmentswillincludeliteraryanalyses,ethnographicaccounts,andargumentsaboutgeographic
developments.
SEM103 MW08:40–09:55a.m. KarinaBeras 20058 LucindaRamberg
ANTHROPOLOGY 1101
Culture, Society, and Power: Canoe Cultures in America—Commerce, Conquest, Contradictions
ThecanoehasplayedkeyrolesinthelivesofbothindigenousandimmigrantpeoplesinNorthAmerica.
Nativepeoplesreliedoncanoesfortraversingtheendlesswaterwaysofthenortherninterior,andcolonists
recognizedtheirindispensabilityforsettlement,trade,andwar.Supplyingcanoesforthefurtradeprovided
employmentfornativebuilders,whilethedevelopmentofwood-and-canvasdesignsledtomassproductionand
theadoptionofthecanoeasaleisurecraftbynon-natives.Althoughassociatedtodaywithwildernessappreciation,
canoetrekkingwasinstrumentalhistoricallyinopeninguplandsforresourceextractionanddevelopment.Drawing
onwrittenandoralhistory,ethnography,naturetravelogues,andcanoedesigntexts,studentswillexploreavariety
ofwritingstylesthroughassignmentsrangingfromculturalanalysistotechnicaldescription.
SEM104 MWF10:10–11:00a.m. AdamArcadi 20059 
ARCHITECTURE 1901
Water and the City
Thecity’srelationshipwithwaterisdefinedbyhowthelatteriscontained,whetherasa“river”,‘sea’orin
pipesanddrains.Withtechnologicalinnovationsandnewknowledgeofthenineteenthandtwentiethcentury,
technicalexpertsengineered“modernwater”andpoliticiansuseditasaresourcetostrengthentheapparatusofthe
state.Authors,poets,philosophers,filmmakers,andactivistsalsohelpedinshapingtheculturalimaginationof
waterwithincities.Thewritingassignmentsinthiscoursewillrequirestudentstothinkcriticallyabouthowwaters
withinanurbancontextareexpressedinwritingandhowthoseexpressionshaveaffectedpolicydecisionsabout
urbanprojects(parks,infrastructure,housing,etc.)andpromotedstrategiesofterritorialcontrol.
SEM101 MW11:40–12:55p.m. LabibHossain 20060 KellyKing-O’Brien
ART HISTORY 1173
Portraiture
Howdoesonecapturethelikenessofanindividual?Whatpurposesdoportraitsserve,andbywhichcriteria
maytheybejudged?Arethereaspectsofapersonthateluderepresentation?Wewillposethesequestionsofboth
artisticandliteraryportraits,andseekanswersbywritingaboutportraitshereatCornell:inourmuseums,libraries,
andaroundcampus.Assignmentsmayinclude:anexerciseinformalanalysis(art-historicaldescription);an
exerciseinliteraryanalysis(accountofanepigramonavisualportrait);anexerciseinbiography(accountofthe
subjectofavisualportrait);anexerciseinverbalportraiture(descriptionofapersonbeyondthebiographical).
SEM101 TR08:40–09:55a.m. BenjaminAnderson 20065 
ASIAN STUDIES 1111
Embodied Deep Ecological Living
Howtonegotiatethefloodofnewsofenvironmentaldisasters?Whatisrequiredofbeingahuman
responsiblyinthebiosphere?Thisseminarisdesignedforstudentswhohavegenuineinterestsinpracticingdeep
ecologicalliving.Together,wewillthinkthroughthequestionsaboveandmanymore.Throughoutthesemester,
youwillbeguidedtodevelopyour“auto-theory”ofeco-criticism,andapplyyourauto-theorytocreativeprojects
relevanttoyourinterestsandexpertise(art,communityorbusinessproject,etc.).Potentialwritingassignments
includecuratorialstatement,manifestoofdeepecology,etc.PotentialreadingsandviewingmaterialsincludeDao
De Jing,GeorgeBataille,AnnaTsing,poemsbyGuCheng,TimothyMorton,ChineseartistsXuBingandGuo
Fengyi,Princess Mononoke,etc.
SEM101 MW02:55–04:10p.m. YantingLi 20066 JessicaSands
ASIAN STUDIES 1111
ASIAN STUDIES 1111
Writing Differences in Asian Empires, 1500-1800
Thisisnotthenormalhistorycourseaboutworldempiresthatyoulearnedinhighschool,whichusually
focusesonthewars,treaties,andcommerceinitiatedbytheEuropeanempires.Instead,wewillapproachempires
fromaliteraryandde-Eurocentricperspective––toexplorehowthewritingof(ethnic,ecological,andreligious)
differencesrelatestothegovernanceofthelandandpeoplethattheempiresubjugatedintheearlymodernAsian
empires.andreligious)differencesrelatestothegovernanceofthelandandpeoplethattheempiresubjugatedin
theearlymodernAsianempires.WhiletheprimaryfocusofthereadingsistheChineseempire,itwillbe
supplementedwithcomparativecasesfromotherempireswithinandbeyondAsia.Assuch,“empire”willbe
interrogated,deconstructed,expanded,andreconfigured.Studentswillgaintheskillsofcomparativereadingand
writing,whichculminateinaresearchpaperonarelatedtopic.
SEM103 TR02:55–04:10p.m. YuanyuanDuan 20068 JessicaSands
ASIAN STUDIES 1115
Asian Tea Cultures: Ecology, Exploitation, Elixir
Weexploretheproliferationofthecultivationoftheteaplant(Camelia Sinensis)inSouthandEastAsiaasa
lensforunderstandingecologicaldegradationthroughmonoculture,laborexploitationintheteaplantations,and
theriseofteaasbothadeeplyculturalandreligiousbeverageandacommodityincapitalistexpansion.Wewrite
aboutbotanicalspecimens,teaobjects,non-literaryhistoricalartifacts,primarysourcesontea,argumentsin
criticalhumanities,andexperienceofteaindifferentpreparationsandritualorsocialcontexts.Classesalways
includeinformalwritingandachancetoexperiencedifferentteapreparation.WeattendaJapaneseteaceremony
andalsolearnthehistoryandmethodsofdifferenttearecipessuchaschai.Studentswillemergeasconfident
writersandeducatedteaconnoisseurs.
SEM101 TR08:40–09:55a.m. JaneMarieLaw 20069 
AFRICANA STUDIES AND RESEARCH CENTER 1810
Grievance: In Three Texts
Thiscoursewillconsiderthreetexts:ArthurMiller’sTheCrucible,theUSDeclarationofIndependenceand
theeventofJanuary6th,2021,asallbelongingtothesamephenomenon:theon-goinghistoryofgrievancein
Americanpolitics.Miller’sdramaabouttheSalemwitchtrialsconcatenatestothefoundingdocumentofAmerican
grievance:theUSDeclarationofIndependence.January6th,assuch,showsitselftobe,inthehistoryofUS
politics,nottheexceptionortheaberration.Itistheconstitutivenorm.
SEM101 TR10:10–11:25a.m. GrantFarred 20070 
AFRICANA STUDIES AND RESEARCH CENTER 1825
Educational Innovations in Africa and the African Diaspora
AnintroductoryinterdisciplinarycoursefocusingonAfrica’sgeographical,ecological,social,and
demographiccharacteristics.ItdiscussesAfricanindigenousinstitutionsandvalues,multipleculturalheritageof
African,Islam,Westerncivilization,andemergingAsian/Chineseconnections.Mainhistoricaldevelopmentsand
transition,thecontemporarypolitical,economic,educational,socialandculturalchangewithtechnologicalfactor
willbeanalyzed.Africa’stieswithitsdiasporawithafocusontheUnitedStates(fromthetrans-Atlanticslave
tradetothepresent)andtheevolvingAfropolitanfactor,itsimpactontheemergingworldorderandits
contributiontoworldcivilizationwillalsobeexplored.
SEM101 TR10:10–11:25a.m. N'DriAssie-Lumumba 20071 
AFRICANA STUDIES AND RESEARCH CENTER 1853
AFRICANA STUDIES AND RESEARCH CENTER 1853
Race and Colonialism in Modern Germany
ThiscoursetracesconceptionsofraceinmodernGermanythroughanAfricanaStudiescanon.Thecourse
deploysaculturalhistoryapproachtoconsiderthreemaintopics/eras.Thefirstconcernsquestionsofmapping.We
examinethisbyreadingthe1884BerlinConferenceandemergent“ScrambleforAfrica”inthecontextofrising
Germanethnicexpositions(Völkerschauen)asacentralmechanismofracializationofnewlycolonizedpeoples.
Second,weconsiderthere-appropriationofGermany’sformalcolonialpastforNazipropagandapurposesandthe
advancementofitsownraceideologies.Finally,weexamineneo-colonialelementsincontemporaryGerman
humanitarianpoliticsasexemplifiedinrecruitmentadvertisementproducedbytheGermanarmy,injuxtaposition
withPost-Developmentarguments.Consideringthesetopicsthroughvariouscultural“texts”willintroduceyouto
differentwritingstylesandprepareyouforyourownwritingassignments,rangingfromautobiographicalpiecesto
analyticalreflectionsandafinalresearchproject.
SEM101 MW02:55–04:10p.m. SarahThenBergh 20072 GrantFarred
AFRICANA STUDIES AND RESEARCH CENTER 1859
How to Write About Africa
HowcanalinguisticallyandethnicallydiverseAfricabetreatedasasingleunitofanalysiswithout
reinforcing“thedangersofasinglestory’?Howdoesonewriteaboutacontinentwheremuchofitsknowledge,
history,andtraditionhasbeenpasseddownorally?DoAfricanauthorshaveanethicalobligationtopublishin
theirindigenouslanguages?Thiscourseexaminessomeofthemaincontroversiesanddebatessurrounding
approachestothestudyofAfricancontinent.Itexposesstudentstoarangeofnovels,essays,andacademictexts
thathighlightdifferentrepresentationsofAfricaacrossspaceandtime.Bytheendofthecoursestudentswillbe
equippedwiththeintellectualsensitivitiesneededtostudyAfricaandcriticallyengagewithdebatesarisingamong
Africanists.
SEM101 MW02:55–04:10p.m. RadwaSaad 20073 GrantFarred
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY 1640
What’s For Dinner?
What are we Eating?Howhasourrelationshipwiththefoodweeatchangedoverthelastonehundredyears?
Inthiscoursewewilldiscusstherelationshipbetweenfood,theenvironment,andhumansociety.Wewillexplore
notonlyhowourrelationshipwiththefoodweeathaschanged,butjointlydiscussthebestwaystopresentthis
informationinapersuasivemanner.Thiscoursewillteachstudentshowtocommunicatecomplexand(potentially)
contentiousresearchtoavarietyofaudiences.Usingacharismaticandeasilyaccessibletopic(Food!)wewill
discusshowtheexchangeofscientificideasandtherhetoricalcriticismofscienceinformspolicydecisionsand
publicopinion.
SEM101 TR10:10–11:25a.m. DanielPetticord 20061 ElliotShapiro
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY 1640
A Great Wilderness? Northeast tribal land management
Inmanyhistoryclassroomstoday,studentsaretaughtthatNorthAmericawasasparselypopulateduntamed
wildernessbeforecolonialsettlementin1492.However,thisisadamagingmyth.NativeAmericanshaveshaped
andtendedNorthAmericanecosystemsformillenniatosupportlargestablecommunitiesthroughoutthecontinent.
However,widespreadgenocideofNativeAmericanslefttheseecosystemsuntendeduntilEuropeandescendants
begantoalterlandusemanagement.Thisseminarwillgivestudentstheopportunitytogobeyondtheland
acknowledgementandlearntowriteaboutthedynamicecologicalprocessesthatsupporthumanexistenceusing
localecosystemsasanaturalclassroom.Overthecourseofthesemester,studentshaveopportunitiestohonetheir
writingandscientificskillsbyintegratingdataintonarrativevoice.
SEM102 TR02:55–04:10p.m. LiamZarri 20062 ElliotShapiro
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY 1640
Sustainability and the Human-Nature Relationship: An Exploration through Science, History, and Personal
Experience
Inthisseminaryouwilluseascientist’sperspectivetocontextualizethecurrentclimatechangecrisisand
sustainabilitymovementswiththecomplexitiesofthehuman-naturerelationship.Apressingquestioninour
climaticallychangingworldis:cantherelationshipbetweenhumansandtherestofthenaturalworldbemutually
beneficial?Toexplorethisquestion,wewillfocusmainlyonreadingsfromtwobooks:(1)Dirt: The Erosion of
Civilizationsand(2)Braiding Sweetgrass,andaselectionofothershortreadings,thatusescientificknowledgeas
amainbasisfortheirargumentsorstoriesandexploredifferentaspectsofthehuman-naturerelationship.Essay
assignmentswillspaninstylesfromthecriticalandinvestigativetothepersonalandcreative.Thecoursewill
finishwithyourownproposedanswertoourinitialquestion.
SEM103 TR11:40–12:55p.m. CatalinaMejia 20063 ElliotShapiro
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY 1640
The Essential Is Invisible to the Eye: Exploring the Field of Microbiome Research
Microbesliveonwithinusandwithoutus.Butourexistencesareinextricablyentangledwiththeirs.From
developmenttobehavior,microbesseemtobeimplicatedinavarietyoftheirhost’slifefunctions.Inthiscourse
wewilldepartinanexplorationoftheburgeoningworldofmicrobiomeresearch.Whatitis,howit'sdone,and
mostimportantly,why.Frompopularsciencepiecestoachoose-your-own-adventureexcursionthroughthe
scientificliterature,youwillhavethechancetoexerciseyourcuriosityandhoneyourabilitytoapprehend
informationandevaluateitcritically.Throughamixofpersonalessays,papersynthesis,comparativeanalyses,
andpopularsciencearticles,youwilldeveloptheskillofthinkingdeeplyaboutvarioustopicsandcommunicating
thesethoughtseffectivelythroughwriting.Allthroughthemultidisciplinaryandexcitinglensofhost-microbe
associations.
SEM104 TR11:40–12:55p.m. MadalenaVazFerreiraReal 20064 KnightStaff
NEUROBIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR 1220
Evolution on Islands: How Islands Have So Many Unique Species
DidyouknowthatHawaiihasmorecricketspeciesthanmainlandUSA?orthatlemursareonlyfoundin
Madagascar?Inthiscoursewewilllearnabouthowevolutionshapestheformationofsomanyuniquespecieson
islands,bothintermsofnumberandvariety.Topicswillrangefromislandecologyandbiologytohow
evolutionaryforcesactdifferentlyonislands.Wewillreadseveralfamousauthorsonthistopic,fromDarwinto
Attenborough,andlearntowriteaboutevolutioninapersuasiveandpowerfulwaythatisaccessibletoawide
rangeofaudience.Studentswillgetagoodflavorofwritinginthesciences.Nopriorbackgroundinbiologyis
neededbutcuriositytolearnaboutthistopicwillbehelpful.
SEM101 MW02:55–04:10p.m. RaunakSen 20077 ElliotShapiro
NEUROBIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR 1220
Stories In Science
Storiesareattheheartofhumanity,andhavehelpedtransmitideasandinformationacrossgenerations.
However,there’softenanegativereactiontowardstheideaofscientificstories,whichmightimplylies,
exaggeratedfindings,andmisinformation.Eveninscience,though,storiesareessential.Whetherinagrant
proposalorgivingatalk,scientistsconsciouslycraftnarrativesinordertoexplaintheirresearchinanengaging,
persuasivemanner.Inthiscoursewewillreadanddeconstructexcellentexamplesofscientificstorytelling,
focusingprimarilyonanimalbehaviorandevolutionarybiology,butwithroomtoexpandintoscientifictopicsof
yourowninterest.Then,wewillwriteandrefineourownscientificnarratives,writingforallmannerofaudiences,
inawaythatisaccessibleandinteresting,yetcapturesthenuancesofthesecomplexconcepts.
SEM102 MW10:10–11:25a.m. BhaavyaSrivastava 20078 ElliotShapiro
CLASSICS 1521
CANCELLED 8/28/2023 - The Ancient Art of Subversive Writing
CANCELLED8/28/2023-Covertly“veiled”speechisoftenmorepersuasiveandlessdangerousthanopen
expression.Ifyouspeakyourmindfreely,yourisktheconsequences.Speakersandwritersoverthemillennia,
havetreatedsensitivetopicsinvolvingpoliticalandmoralcensorshipwithcalculatedobliquity,andscholarshave
spelledouthowtheydidit.Wewillexaminetheirvarioustechniques,throughexcerptsdrawnfromancientwriters
(PlatoandVirgil)tothoseofmodernEuropeandtheAmericans(includingKurtVonnegut,JorgeLuisBorges,
Shakespeare,Voltaire,W.S.Gilbert,JosefGoebbels,andGeorgeOrwell).Thefunwillcomeaswetrytomaster
theirskillsourselves,beginningwithelementarypunsandanagrams,inaseriesofgraduatedwritingassignments
eachofwhichwillberevisedandrefined.
SEM101 TR11:40–12:55p.m. FrederickAhl 20493 
CLASSICS 1525
Ithaca Bound: The Odyssey on Screen
Over2500yearsago,HomercomposedtheOdyssey,thestoryofOdysseus’10-yearlongjourneyhometo
Ithaca.Ataleofwarandlove,lossandhopefeaturingpowerfulgods,menacingsorceresses,andinvincible
monsters,theOdysseyhasallthemakingsofagreatmovie.InthebeginningofthecoursewewillreadHomer’s
Odyssey.LaterwewillwatchfilmsandTVepisodesinspiredbyOdysseus’journey,fromMéliès’Ulysses(1905)
to2018BBCseriesTroy.Readingsandmovieswillprovidetheframeworkforclassexercisesandwritten
assignmentsthatwillhelpyouembarkonyourjourneyasacademicwriters.Foryourfinalproject,youwillpitch
totheclassyouradaptationoftheOdysseyandwriteamockupscreenplay.
SEM101 MW08:40–09:55a.m. MatthieuRéal 20497 
CLASSICS 1531
Greek Myth
ThiscoursewillfocusonthestoriesaboutthegodsandheroesoftheGreeksastheyappearinancient
literatureandart.Wewillexaminetherelationshipbetweenmythsandthecultural,religious,andpolitical
conditionsofthesocietyinwhichtheytookshape.Beginningwiththeoriesofmythandproceedingtotheanalysis
ofindividualstoriesandcycles,thematerialwillserveasavehicleforimprovingyourwrittencommunication
skills.Assignmentsincludepreparatorywritingandessaysfocusingonreadingsanddiscussionsinclass.
SEM101 MWF03:35–04:25p.m. OliviaGraves 20079 CourtneyRoby
SEM102 MWF01:25–02:15p.m. BelisariusWelgan 20080 CourtneyRoby
SEM103 TR08:40–09:55a.m. MatthieuRéal 20296 
CLASSICS 1535
Ancient Underworlds, Fresh Hells: Katabatic Literature and Media
Whetheritbeafascinationtowardsdeathorarefusaltogrieveyourlovedones,literarytraditionshave
producedthesekatabaseis(descentnarratives)despitegeographical,chronological,andculturalboundaries.Itis
forthisreasonthatwemustaskthequestions:Whydowereturntohell?Andwhatdoesjourneyingtheresignify?
Andwhatcanwelearnabouttheseculturesandsocietiesthatproducedthesenarrativesviatheirattitudestowards
mortality?FromthestrongintertextualGreco-Romantraditionofthesenarrativestotheomnipresenceofthisplot
deviceacrossorigins,toincreasedmodernandtransmedialones,underworldsoldandnewserveastheperfect
backgroundforastudents’intellectualcuriositiesandaptitudeforvariedstylesofwriting.
SEM101 TR01:25–02:40p.m. StephenFodroczi 20494 CourtneyRoby
CLASSICS 1585
CLASSICS 1585
The Fall of the Roman Empire
TheFallofRomeisaturningpointinpopularhistoricalunderstandingwhichiscommonlyusedtodiscuss
contemporaryreligiouschallenges,refugeecrises,andthefallofstates.Inthiscoursewewillbeginournarrative
atConstantine'sconversiontoChristianityandendattheestablishmentofthebarbariankingdomsinWestern
Europe.WewillexaminehowtheRomanEmpirereactedtomilitarythreats,internalstrife,andthedemandsof
culturalchange.Studentswillwriteessaysexploringtherolereligionplaysinsocietyandthecausesofpolitical
instabilitythroughtheclosereadingofamyriadofprimarytextssuchashistoricalnarratives,polemicalpoetry,
andlettercollections.Togetherwewillask:didRomereally“fall”atall?
SEM101 MW02:55–04:10p.m. ColinBehrens 20565 
SEM102 TR02:55–04:10p.m. ColinBehrens 20566 
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 1100
Humanities Core Course
WhereDoWeComeFrom?WhatandWhereAreWe?WhereAreWeGoing?Posingtheseandother
fundamentalquestions,theHumanitiesCorecourseengagesfirstyearstudentsinthepleasureandchallengeof
humanisticinquiryacrossarangeofdisciplines.Throughthestudyofliterature,film,history,philosophy,popular
culture,andvisualart,andmusicstudentswillprobehowmeaningismadeandlearnvariousformsofanalysisto
gainagreaterunderstandingofhumancreativityandsocialrelations.Thecourseisnotasurvey,butaseriesof
carefulreadingsofkeystoneworksaroundadifferentthemeeachyearandanexplorationofmethodsforanalyzing
thecreationandcontestationofmeaning.Themefor2023-24:Inheritance
SEM001 **MW10:10-11:00a.m. NatalieMelas 20044 
SEM101 **MW11:15-12:05p.m. SongHan 20043 GavinWalker
Pleasenote:Thisisatwo-partclass.EnrollinginasectionofComL1100.101,102,103,or104willautomatically
enrollyouinthisclass.Thiscannotbetakenseparately.Totalcredits=4.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 1100
CANCELLED - Humanities Core Course
CANCELLED-WhereDoWeComeFrom?WhatandWhereAreWe?WhereAreWeGoing?Posingthese
andotherfundamentalquestions,theHumanitiesCorecourseengagesfirstyearstudentsinthepleasureand
challengeofhumanisticinquiryacrossarangeofdisciplines.Throughthestudyofliterature,film,history,
philosophy,popularculture,andvisualart,andmusicstudentswillprobehowmeaningismadeandlearnvarious
formsofanalysistogainagreaterunderstandingofhumancreativityandsocialrelations.Thecourseisnota
survey,butaseriesofcarefulreadingsofkeystoneworksaroundadifferentthemeeachyearandanexplorationof
methodsforanalyzingthecreationandcontestationofmeaning.Themefor2023-24:Inheritance
SEM102 **MW11:15-12:05p.m. SongHan 20045 GavinWalker
PleaseNote:Thisisatwo-partclass.EnrollmentinComL1100.101,1100.102,1100.103,or1100.104
automaticallyalsoenrollsyouinComL1100.001Lecture(MW10:10-11:00am).Totalcredits=4.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 1100
Humanities Core Course
WhereDoWeComeFrom?WhatandWhereAreWe?WhereAreWeGoing?Posingtheseandother
fundamentalquestions,theHumanitiesCorecourseengagesfirstyearstudentsinthepleasureandchallengeof
humanisticinquiryacrossarangeofdisciplines.Throughthestudyofliterature,film,history,philosophy,popular
culture,andvisualart,andmusicstudentswillprobehowmeaningismadeandlearnvariousformsofanalysisto
gainagreaterunderstandingofhumancreativityandsocialrelations.Thecourseisnotasurvey,butaseriesof
carefulreadingsofkeystoneworksaroundadifferentthemeeachyearandanexplorationofmethodsforanalyzing
thecreationandcontestationofmeaning.Themefor2023-24:Inheritance
SEM103 **TR09:05-09:55a.m. NoahValdez 20046 GavinWalker
SEM103 **TR09:05-09:55a.m. NoahValdez 20046 GavinWalker
SEM104 **TR10:10-11:00a.m. EliasBeltran 20047 GavinWalker
PleaseNote:Thisisatwo-partclass.EnrollmentinComL1100.101,1100.102,1100.103,or1100.104
automaticallyalsoenrollsyouinComL1100.001Lecture(MW10:10-11:00am).Totalcredits=4.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 1104
Reading Films
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thetoolsto
understandanddecipherfilmlanguage.Itintroducesandinterrogatesthebasicnotions,technologies,
terminologies,andtheoriesoffilmanalysis.Wewillstudyvisualandcompositionalelements,likemise-en-scène,
cinematography,editing,andsound.Filmswediscusswillincludedifferentgeographies,genres,majordirectors,
schools,andfilmmovements.Throughwritingstudentswilllearntoanalyzefilmswithaccurate,medium-specific
vocabulary,developinformedandnuancedarguments,andcriticallyreflectonthepositionoftheviewer.
SEM101 MWF09:05–09:55a.m. RafaelRodriguez 20084 GavinWalker
SEM102 TR08:40–09:55a.m. JohnUn 20085 
SEM103 TR10:10–11:25a.m. JohnUn 20086 
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 1105
Books with Big Ideas
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human
experienceatitsmostintriguinglevel.Inthiscoursewewilldiscusshumanrights,intimacy,joy,isolation,and
othercontroversiesattheheartofthesebooks.Throughoutthesemester,studentswilllearnhowtoarticulatean
informedandnuancedpositionontheseissuesviaformalpracticesinanalyticalreadings,drafting,peerreview,
andself-editing.Actualselectionofreadingsmayvarydependingontheinstructor’sfocus.
SEM101 MWF10:10–11:00a.m. ConniePerez-Cruz 20087 GavinWalker
SEM102 TR08:40–09:55a.m. XinyuZhang 20088 GavinWalker
SEM103 TR10:10–11:25a.m. GavinWalker 20322 
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 1106
Robots
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“designedto
functionintheplaceofalivingagent,”thenwhatissodisturbingaboutthem?Sincerobotsaredesignedtoreplace
humanlabor(firsteconomic,andnowalsoemotional),dotheyrepresentathreatasmuchastheydoanaid?What
happenswhenrobotsexceedtheirpurpose,andbecomemorehumanlike?Howdorobotsread,write,andfeel?
Howdotheactivitiesofcodingandwriting,ordecodingandreadingdiffer?Studentswillbeequippedwiththe
vocabularyandwritingstrategiestorigorouslyanalyze,compare,anddebatethemeaningofrobotsinthehuman
imaginationfromdifferentepochs,countries,languages,andmedia.Indoingsotheywillwriteinavarietyof
registersaboutplayssuchasR.U.R.byKarelČapek,whoinventedtheterm“robot.”Othermaterialsmayinclude
philosophicaltexts,fiction,videogames,films,graphicnovels,andhip-hopconceptalbums.
SEM101 MWF11:15–12:05p.m. DrorBirger 20089 GavinWalker
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 1109
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 1109
The Rhetoric of Post-Racial America
Raceisaubiquitousyetunder-discussedsubjectinAmerica.Typicallydebateson“race”andskincolorflare
uparoundincidentssuchasthelatestpolicekillingsofblackfolksortheprofilingofSouthAsian,Arab,or
Latino-lookingpeopleatsecuritycheckpoints.Thiscourseoffersopportunitiestowriteaboutraceandskincolor
outsideofintimidatingaccusationsofracism.Writingisnotjustaclassroomsubjectbutatooltocreaterealities
andworlds.Whileimprovingyourwritingskillsandparticipatingincivicdebates,youwillhavetheopportunityto
scrutinizeyourownassumptionsonphysicality.Wewillreadfiction,blogs,journalandnewspaperarticles,and
watchfeaturefilmsanddocumentaries.Writingassignmentswillincludereadingreflections,responses,
summaries,critiques,andanalyticalandargumentativeessays.
SEM101 TR11:40–12:55p.m. NaminataDiabate 20090 
CITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING 1109
Are All Votes Equal? Disenfranchisement and Urban Racism in the USA
Isyourvotemorepowerfulthansomeoneelse’s?Itmightbe.Thiscourseexploreshowandwhyvoting
powerandrepresentationvaryacrossdifferentcitiesandspaces.CitiesareattheheartofU.S.democracybecause
83%ofallpeopleliveinthem.Citiesshapewhorepresentsus–whogetsthepresidency,whowinsintheSenate,
andwhodeterminesfederalpolicies.Urbanvoterdisenfranchisementisweaponizedbybothpoliticalpartiesto
gainadvantages,andthreatentheprinciplesofdemocracy.Studentslearnaboutthemechanismsandideologies
behindvoterdisenfranchisement,includingwho’sdoingit,whyitmattersandtheoutcomes.Theassignments
includestorytellingusingmaps,filmreflectionpapers,literaturereviews,socialmediaposts,anddraftinglettersto
politicianswiththegoalofsocialchange.
SEM101 TR01:25–02:40p.m. JohnPonstingel 20106 
ENGLISH 1105
CANCELLED - 8/7/23--Writing and Sexual Politics: Rethinking Intimacy—Ace, Aro, and Poly Perspectives
CANCELLED-8/7/23--Doyoufindromanticrelationshipsoverratedorfrustrating?Areyouboredby
monogamy?Wouldyouratherdateyourselfthananyoneelse?Doyoulongformoreintimateformsof
friendship—orthinkpoetry,cooking,andbasketballarebetterthansex?Thenthisclassisforyou!Thisclass
exploresthesequestions(andmore!)throughvariousasexual,aromantic,andpolyamorousperspectives.Together
we’llexplorepoems,songs,comics,movies,shortnovels,andessaysfrompeoplesuchasAudreLorde,Angela
Chen,YumiSakugawa,KimTallBear,KobeBryant,KateBornstein,LukasDhontandSashaCagen.Writing
projectsconsistofexperimentswithlanguagethatarefun,analytical,creative,andpersonal.Thiscourseisfor
ALLstudents,regardlessofidentity.
SEM102 MW02:55–04:10p.m. PeterShipman 20075 KateMcCullough
ENGLISH 1105
Writing and Sexual Politics: Women and the Novel
Howhavewomenwritershelpedcreatethemodernnovel?Andhowhaswomen’swritingchangedtheway
weread?Inthiscoursewewillexplorenovelsbyandaboutwomen,fromtheriseofthenovelintheeighteenth
centurytoourowntime.Wewilldiscusstheseworks’storiesofindependence,equality,liberty,hierarchy,and
slavery.Andinapproachingeachnovel,wewillalsoreadandevaluateacriticalessaytohelpuscreateourown
approachtolargerquestionsaboutthe"femaleimagination,"thesocialstatusofwomen,theroleofindependence
infemalecreativity,andtherelationbetweengenderandrace.ThereadingswillincludenovelsbyCharlotte
Brontë,VirginiaWoolf,andToniMorrison.
SEM103 TR10:10–11:25a.m. LauraBrown 20076 
ENGLISH 1111
ENGLISH 1111
Writing Across Cultures: Narratives of Monstrosity
Whatdovampires,witches,andwerewolveshaveincommon?Whatmakesamonster,andwhatdoour
monsternarrativesrevealaboutus—whatwefear,abhor,orfindrepugnant?Howdomonstersfunctionas
scapegoats,andhowmighttheychallengeprevailingnotionsofnormativityand/or“goodness”?Thiscoursetakes
thefigureofthemonsterandtheconceptofmonstrosityasanalyticalvehiclesthatconveyculturalanxieties
aroundrace,gender,sexuality,andability.Wewilltracethewaysinwhichnarrativesofmonstrosityintersectwith
theexclusionarypoliticsthatstructuresystemsofpower.PotentialauthorsandtextsincludeHelenOyeyemi,
AngelaCarter,LilNasX,Jennifer’s BodyandAMC’sInterview with a Vampire.Writingassignmentswillconsist
ofclose-readings,creativepieces,andresearchessays.
SEM101 MW08:40–09:55a.m. AseyKoh 20099 BradZukovic
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CANCELLED - 8/16/2023--Writing Across Cultures: Bengali Literature and Cinema
CANCELLED-8/16/2023--BengaloccupiesadistinctlyculturalplaceinSouthAsia.TheBengal
Renaissanceofnineteenthcenturyandexchangeswithdifferentcountriesduringthenextcenturyledtoan
evolutionofaculturethatispluralandinnovative.ThecoursetraversesBengal(beforepartitionofIndiaand
Pakistan,andlaterWestBengal,afterIndia’sindependence)asauniverse.Wewillbestudyingworksof
RabindranathTagore,TarashankarBandopadhyay,SunilGangopadhyay,MahaswetaDevi,andJoyGoswami
amongothers.WewillalsowatchfilmsofSatyajitRay,AparnaSen,RituparnoGhosh.Oldandpopularsongswill
alsohelpustotrackthemodernismofBengal.Withbothcreativeandcriticalwriting,thecourseallowsstudentsto
delvedeeperintounderstandingofthecosmosofBengal.
SEM102 MW10:10–11:25a.m. ArpitaChakrabarty 20100 GregLonde
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Writing Across Cultures: The Literature of Care and Care Workers
Humanscomeintotheworldhelplessandneedingcare;wegenerallyleavetheworldthatsameway.In
between,wecareforothers—welove,help,andtrytoheal.Thiscourseexaminessomeoftheliteratureoncare,
includingwritingsaboutmotherhood,aboutdoctoringandnursing,andaboutlifeaftergrievousinjuryrequiring
thecaretakingofothers.Whatcanwedoinpayingattentiontothestoriesofthosewhocareandarecaredfor?
TextsmightincludethenovelandfilmNever Let Me Go;thememoirsThe Body UndoneandThe Argonautsand
workontheracialpoliticsofwhodoesthecaretakinginourculturetoday.
SEM103 MW01:25–02:40p.m. MashaRaskolnikov 20101 
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Writing Across Cultures: The Essay, In Sound and Color
Howhasfollowingthe“standards”forcollegeessay-writingharmedwritingvoices?Howcanwepractice
listeningtoouruniquesoundstoinventnewmodesandmethodsofinterpretiveprose?Inthisclasswe’llquestion
what“traditional”essaystructuresandcategoriesare,wheretheycamefrom,andwhattheirlastingeffectsare.
We’llfollowworksbywritersofcolorsuchasMarisaParham’s“.break.dance: a choreo-essayandJJJJJerome
Ellis’The Clearingasguidesforhowtore-imagineessaywritingandhelpuswriteourown.Wewillalso
considerwhatplatformsandaudiencesouressayscanexistinandfor.
SEM105 TR10:10–11:25a.m. IndiaSadaHackle 20103 GregLonde
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Writing Across Cultures: An Intimate Ethics of Translation
Thiscoursewillexploretheideathattranslationisthe“mostintimateactofreading.”Whatexactlyis
differentaboutreadingwithmultipleculturesandgenderedperspectivesinmind?Howmightwetakebettercare
whenwritinginamultilingualworld?Cantranslationhelpusdisruptharmfultraditions,oraretheretimeswhenan
actofrestraint,ofnottranslating,canhelpusavoidviolence?BydiscussingmovieslikeLost in Translationand
Arrival,philosopherslikeÉdouardGlissantandGayatriChakravortySpivak,andexperimentaltranslatorslikeAnn
CarsonandTheresaHakKyungCha,wewilltakedeepdivesintothedreamsandproblemsofmulticultural
solidarity.Alongtheway,wewilluseourownwritingtocreatemeaningfulconnectionswhilereckoningwith
historicaldivisions.
SEM106 MWF10:10–11:00a.m. LauraFrancis 20376 
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Writing Across Cultures: The Detective Novel and Film
Beyondthesmokinggunandthefemmefatale,dodetectivenovelshavemoretosay?Canentertainment
legitimatelyaddresssocialissues?Andcanpopularfictionbeascomplexas“highbrow”literature?Inthisclass
weshallexplorethewaysinwhichdetectivenovelsandfilmsareoftenaTrojanhorseforintricateliteraryforms
andcontents.Specificallyweshalllookatthewaysinwhichtheymakecommentaryonquestionsofgender,race,
class,law,andjustice,thedelicatebalancebetweenorderandfreedom,andage-oldquestionsoffamilialversus
civicduties.
SEM107 TR01:25–02:40p.m. MukomaWaNgugi 20105 
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Writing Across Cultures: Hybridity and Otherness
Weliveinanincreasinglyhybridizedtimeandplaceinhistory.Whenworldscollide,whathappensinthe
in-betweenspacestheycreate?Howareconceptslike“other”codedwithinourintergenerationalmemoriesand
mythologies?Drawingfromavarietyofmedia—frompoetry,toanime,tosciencefiction,andbeyond—thiscourse
willconsidercontextsofrace,trauma,(post-)colonialism,andecology—challengingustoengageinradical
empathyfor“Others”ofallkinds.PossibletextsincludeworksbyCathyParkHong,OctaviaButler,Gabriel
GarciaMarquez,andHayaoMiyazaki.Studentswillcraftcriticalessays,poems,andothercreativeworksinefforts
toexploretheintrinsichumandesirestoseekbelongingandfosterreciprocationwithin—andinspiteof—the
fraughtmarginalityofourworld.
SEM108 TR08:40–09:55a.m. LilyCodera 20467 
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Writing and Community Engagement: Literatures of Ithaca
Ithacaisthesharedgeographywherewelive,study,andwork.ButoutsideofCornell,ithasalsohistorically
beenasiteofcounterculturalactivismandgenerativecreativeactivity.Inthiscoursewe’llexploreliteraryworks
setinIthaca—possiblyincluding,forexample,MattRuff’sFool on the HillandA.R.Ammons’Tape for the Turn
of the Year—butalsotextspublishedinIthaca,bycontemporaryandhistoricsmallpresses,bookartists,and
zinemakers.Togetherwe’llexplorehowIthaca’shistoriccontradictions—betweenIvyLeagueeducation,anarchist
punkcollectives,vegetarianrestaurants,andfeministbookstores—havefueledcreativeactivity.Writing
assignmentswillinvolvehistoricalresearch,unconventionaldocumentaryapproaches,andliteraryanalysis.(And
we’llalllearntosewourownhandmadechapbooks!).
SEM102 TR11:40–12:55p.m. MartinCain 20465 
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Writing the Environment: Here Be Dragons
Drawingitstitlefromfifteenth-centuryglobeswhichlabeledunknownspaceswiththeLatinphrase“hicsunt
dracones,”thisseminarexplorestherelationshipbetweenlegendsofseamonstersandthescientificadvancesthat
enabledhumanstosetsail.We’llencountersomeofthemostunforgettablecreaturesproducedbythehuman
imagination—fromThe Odyssey’swhirlpooltoMoby-DicktothegreatwhitesharkinJaws—analyzinghowthese
storiesgivemagicandmysteryphysicalform.Thenovels,movies,videogames,andpoemswereadwillalso
allowustoexplorehowhumanity’srelationshipwiththeseahaschangedasclimatecatastrophebecomes
upsettinglyreal.Assignmentswillconsistofanalytical,creative,andpersonalessaysthatencouragean
interdisciplinaryapproachtotheoceanicunknownsofourlivestoday.
SEM101 MW07:30–08:45p.m. SusannahSharpless 20111 CharlieGreen
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True Stories
Howdoweunderstandtherealityofothers?Forthatmatter,howdoweknowandunderstandourown
experience?Oneansweriswriting:writingcancrystalizelivedexperienceforothers.Wecanrecordour
observations,ourthoughts,ourfeelingsandinsightsandhopesandfailures,tocommunicatethem,tounderstand
them.Inthiscoursewewillreadnonfictionnarrativesthatexploreandshapetheselfandreality,includingthe
personalessay,memoir,autobiography,documentaryfilm,andjournalism.Wewillwriteessaysthatexploreand
explainthesecomplexissuesofpresentingone'sselfandothers.
SEM101 MWF09:05–09:55a.m. AmandlaThomas-Johnson 20125 CharlieGreen
SEM102 MWF12:20–01:10p.m. JuanHarmon 20126 CharlieGreen
SEM103 MWF01:25–02:15p.m. LauraFrancis 20127 
SEM104 MW02:55–04:10p.m. JaneGlaubman 20128 
SEM105 TR01:25–02:40p.m. WinniebellXinyuZong 20129 CharlieGreen
SEM106 TR02:55–04:10p.m. JaneGlaubman 20459 
SEM107 TR08:40–09:55a.m. MartinCain 20460 
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Writing Medicine: Stories of Illness and Healing
Whatdoesitmeantobehealthy?Howdowedescribeourpain?Whobecomesaphysician?Thepracticeof
medicineisn’tconfinedtoscientificknowledge:itraisesdifficultquestionsaboutculture,identity,andbodies,and
thestorieswetellaboutallofthese.Thiscoursewillfocusonworksofliteratureandmediatothinkabouthow
medicalcarechangesacrosstimeandplace,andtoexploreimagesandnarrativesthatshapeourexpectationsabout
illnessandhealth.Shortwritingassignmentsandlongeressayswilldevelopyourcriticalthinking,strengthenyour
writingskills,andbuildyourawarenessofthecomplexculturallandscapeofmedicalcare.
SEM101 MW10:10–11:25a.m. MirandaCastro 20130 GregLonde
SEM102 MW07:30–08:45p.m. SarahIqbal 20131 GregLonde
SEM103 TR08:40–09:55a.m. HunterPhillips 20132 GregLonde
SEM104 TR02:55–04:10p.m. VirdiCulbreath 20133 GregLonde
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American Voices: Race and the American Literary Imagination
InherbookPlaying in the DarkToniMorrisonwritesoftheneedtointerrogate“whatracialideologydoesto
themind,imagination,andbehaviorofmasters”.NotionsofWhitenesswereforgedagainstnegative,invented
ideasaboutBlacknessandIndigeneity.HowarethesenotionsnotonlyreflectedinmuchoftheAmericanliterary
canonbutproducedbyit?HowhaveBlackwomenwrittenagainstandoutsideofthesenotions?Withthe
assistanceofscholarsandhistoriansofracesuchasMorrison,SaidiyaHartman,andCherylHarris,wewill
examinenovelsbyAmericanwriterssuchasTwain,Stowe,Hurston,andButler.Throughtextualanalysisandour
ownwriting,wewillilluminatetheeffectsomeofAmerica’smostcelebratednovelshavehadonournational
psyche.
SEM101 MW11:40–12:55p.m. MichaelLee 20137 CharlieGreen
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American Voices: Hauntings in Fiction, Personal Narrative, and Film
Whatmakesaplacehaunted?Howarehauntingsusedtoexplorepsychologicalrealities?Whatconnections
existbetweenhauntingandmemory,bothpersonalandhistorical?Thesearesomeofthequestionswewillexplore
throughexaminingvariousgenresincludingfiction,memoir,andfilm.Wewillread,discuss,andwriteaboutthe
workofvarious20thcenturyandcontemporaryAmericanauthorsincludingShirleyJackson(WeHaveAlways
LivedintheCastle)andCarmenMariaMachado(IntheDreamHouse).Filmwillalsobeincorporatedintothis
courseincludingWomenTalkingandepisodesfromTheHauntingofHillHouse.Inadditiontoweeklycontent
reflectionstoprepareforclassdiscussion,writingassignmentsmayincludeabookreview,afilmcritique,a
personalessay,andashortstory.
SEM102 MWF09:05–09:55a.m. SolWooten 20297 CharlieGreen
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Intersections: Race, Writing, and Power
Howdoesraceinformthewayweunderstandtheworldaroundus?Howdowritersexploretheirexperiences
ofraceandcolonialismtochallengeconventionalnotionsofnation,citizenship,knowledge,andself?Inthisclass,
weengagematerialsthatcomplicateourideasofraceinordertoimaginenewformsofidentity,sociallife,and
politicalpossibility.WeengagewithcreatorswhoareBlack,Brown,Indigenous,PeopleofColor,orfromthe
GlobalSouth.Theworkswestudymayincludepodcasts,graphicnovels,memoirs,poetry,plays,orfilms.Writing
projectsmaybecritical,creative,orresearch-based,aswedevelopourunderstandingofraceandidentityandby
extensionourcapacitiesaswriters.
SEM101 MWF09:05–09:55a.m. ColinStragar-Rice 20139 KateMcCullough
SEM102 MWF10:10–11:00a.m. JoelleSimeuJuegouo 20140 KateMcCullough
SEM103 MWF11:15–12:05p.m. AditiShenoy 20141 KateMcCullough
SEM104 MWF12:20–01:10p.m. DerekChan 20142 KateMcCullough
SEM105 MW02:55–04:10p.m. AlyiahGonzales 20143 KateMcCullough
SEM106 TR10:10–11:25a.m. ShacoyaKidwell 20144 KateMcCullough
SEM107 TR11:40–12:55p.m. BanseokHeo 20145 KateMcCullough
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Reading Now
Readingisexperiencinganewrevolutioninthetwentiethandtwenty-firstcenturies.Westillreadpaper
books,butwealsoreadbyscrollingonscreen,throughsearchengines,andinimagesandmemes.Whatkindsof
textsareemerginginthisnewera,andhowdowereadthem?Howdowriting—andourwaysofreading—connect
withtheurgenttopicsbeforeusnow:technologyandsocialcontrol,truthandmedia,climatechangeand
apocalypse,identity,equality,andhumanrights?Thiscoursewillexaminethepasttwentyyearsofwritingina
varietyofgenres,printedand/oronline,fromfictiontomemoirtopoetryandbeyond.Asweread,wewillexplore
anddiscovertheformsthatourownwritingcantakeinresponse.
SEM101 MWF10:10–11:00a.m. ChantéMorris 20081 GregLonde
SEM103 TR10:10–11:25a.m. CourtneyRaisin 20083 GregLonde
SEM104 TR02:55–04:10p.m. ElisávetMakridis 20648 RogerGilbert
SEM105 TR01:25–02:40p.m. LilyCodera 20469 
SEM106 TR02:55–04:10p.m. LilyCodera 20470 
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Cultural Studies: Café Reading
WhatmakesagoodcaféotherthancoffeeandfreeWi-Fi?Inthisclasswe’lllookathowcafésbecomespaces
forcomplexandsometimescontradictorysocial,political,andeconomicrelationships.Wewillconsiderthe
historicalsignificanceofcafésinfinance,culturalmovements,andcommunalsolidarity,howcafésmaychallenge
orsupportparticularmodesofoppression,andhowdifferentorientationsofcafésallowthemtobecomedifferent
sortsofspaces.WewilldiscussauthorswhowriteextensivelyoncaféssuchasErnestHemingway,Toshikazu
Kawaguchi,andNaguibMahfouz,aswell,ofcourse,asthevariouscoffeeshopsofIthaca.Studentswillconsider
howpublicspacessuchascafésbecomeinvestedwithparticularculturalmeaning,andconversely,howcafés
themselvesenablecertainkindsofrelationships.
SEM101 MW08:40–09:55a.m. KyhlStephen 20091 CharlieGreen
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Cultural Studies: The Two Elizabeths—between the Sovereign and the Woman
TherecentdeathofQueenElizabethIIcontinuestoreverberateglobally.Shewasprobablythelastfemale
monarchthatEnglandwillseeforaverylongtime.ButwhataboutthefirstQueenElizabeth?Foronething,she
shookupEnglandbyrulingwithoutahusband.Althoughthesetwoqueensreignedcenturiesapart,howsimilaror
differentwasitforthemtoexercisetheirpowerinaman'sworld?ByconsideringbothElizabethanperiods,this
seminarwillexploresomeoftheissuesthatarisewhenweexaminetherelationshipbetweengenderandpower.
WewillalsointerrogatetensionsarticulatedintheoriesofsovereigntybothintheEarlyModernperiodandtoday,
andhowthesearereflectedinthemediaandliteraryrepresentations.
SEM102 MWF09:05–09:55a.m. RocíoCorralGarcía 20092 CharlieGreen
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Cultural Studies: Communicating Climate Change
Manyofuslikestoriesofpersonalexperience.Butthispreferenceforstoriesontheindividualhumanscale
maybeonereasonthatcontemporarysocietieshavestruggledtodevelopeffectiveresponsestoclimatechange:
ordinarystorytellingmodesaren’tadequatetothelongtimespansandvastreachesofenvironmentalchange.This
coursewillaskyoutoread,write,anddesignmanydifferentformsandgenresinordertoexperimentwiththe
problemofcommunicatingclimatechange,frompie-chartstosciencefictionandfrompoetrytodocumentaryfilm.
Whatcaneachformtellusaboutclimatechangethattheotherscannot?
SEM103 MW01:25–02:40p.m. CarolineLevine 20093 
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Cultural Studies: Comics and Graphic Medicine
Howdoesthemediumofcomicbooksallowauthorstocraftnewstoriesabouthealthandillness?Cangraphic
memoirsandnovelshelprefinemodesofclinicaldialoguebetweenpatientsandcaregivers?Inthisseminarwe’ll
studyrecentcomicsthathelptoilluminatethelivedcontoursofaffliction,recovery,chronicpain,andmental
health.We’lllearnhowartistschallengethedominantvisualvocabulariesbywhichabilityanddisabilitytendtobe
represented.Throughcloseexaminationofcomicsfromthedistantpasttotheongoingpandemic,thisclasswill
helpusdiscoverhowtowriteaboutandfindwordsforourpainsandjoys,aswellashowwecandrawtogether
aroundexperiencesofphysicalchangeandchallenge.
SEM104 MW02:55–04:10p.m. GregLonde 20094 
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Cultural Studies: Comic Books! Graphic Novels! Transmedia!
Graphicnovelsandcomicshavelongmixedresearchandstorytelling.FromMaustoLogicomixtoFun Home,
graphicnovelstacklecomplexhistorical,philosophical,andliteraryissues.TheForBeginnersand
Introducing…comicbooksseriesincludesuchtitlesasClimate Change for Beginners,Black Women for Beginners,
Quantum Theory,Mind and Brain,andDerrida.Finally,thefieldofgraphicmedicinetranslatesmedicalscience
forat-riskcommunities.SupportingCornell’spublicmissionofcommunityengagement,thiscourseteaches
studentstoreadandcomposeargumentativeessays,infocomics,multimediapresentations,andotherformsof
transmediaknowledge.Studentslearncriticalandcreativeskillsforsharingresearchwithspecialists,community
members,policy-makers,fundingagencies,andthegeneralpublicusingsoftwaresuchasWord,ComicLife,and
PowerPoint.
SEM106 TR01:25–02:40p.m. JonMcKenzie 20096 
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Cultural Studies: Race, Gender and Writing about Hip Hop
Hip-hopdominatesourculturallandscapeinfluencingeverythingfromourmusic,toourfashion,tothevery
phrasesweusetoexpressourselves.Fromitshumbleconceptionstoitsculturally-dominantpresent,ithas
popularizedsocial,economic,andpoliticalcritiquesofanti-blackWesternculture.Paradoxically,ithasalso
mobilizedthehyper-masculinity,massconsumerism,andheterosexismthatreinforcestheverycultureitaimsto
challenge.Inthiscoursewewillexamineandwriteourwaythroughtheseparadoxes.Bytheendofthecourse
studentswilldevelopexpositoryessaywritingskillsbyinvestigatingtheraceandgenderpoliticsofhip-hophistory
andculture.
SEM107 TR02:55–04:10p.m. ChelseaFrazier 20097 
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Cultural Studies: Happiness in Short Stories
Shortstoriesencapsulateseveral,easilymissed,emotions.Onesuchcomplexemotionishappiness,which
holdssignificantweightinshortstories.However,whatconstituteshappiness?What’sthehistoryofthisabstract
concept,andhowcanwereflectuponandwritestoriesabouthappinessfrommultipleperspectives,including
feminist,racialjustice,immigration,andcoming-of-ageperspectives?Thiscourseaddressestheseandrelated
inquiriesbyexploringselectedtextswherehappinessisportrayedinitscontradictoryforms.Inadditionyou’ll
engageinwritingassignmentsthatanalyzetheparametersofhappinessinourcomplexworld.Bytheendofthe
courseyou’lldevelopasophisticatedunderstandingofhappinessinshortstories,alongwiththeabilitytocritically
evaluateandreflectonthecomplexityofemotionswithinliteratureandyourownwriting.
SEM108 TR10:10–11:25a.m. ChiomaIwunze 20098 CharlieGreen
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Cultural Studies: Fairytales, Folktales, Witchcraft
SnowWhitewatchedthewickedstepmotherdancetodeathinred-hotironslippers.Isthiswhatwemeanby
“happilyeverafter”?Inthiscoursewewilllookatfairytaleandfolktaletraditionsandtheirlastingimpacton
culturesaroundtheworld,includingGermany,Japan,andtheAfricandiaspora.Specialattentionwillbegivento
thewaysthefiguresfromthesestories,inparticularthewitch,formanimportantpartofourimmediatepresent.
MaterialsincludefairytalesfromtheBrothersGrimm,writingfromAngelaCarter,HelenOyeyemi,andAnne
Sexton,andfilmssuchasThe Song of the SeaandThe Witch.Assignmentswillcovergenressuchaspersonal
essay,textualandfilmanalysis,andcreativenon-fictionwriting.
SEM109 TR11:40–12:55p.m. PaulMcQuade 20620 
SEM110 TR02:55–04:10p.m. PaulMcQuade 20621 
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Cultural Studies: Comics and Graphic Medicine
Howdoesthemediumofcomicbooksallowauthorstocraftnewstoriesabouthealthandillness?Cangraphic
memoirsandnovelshelprefinemodesofclinicaldialoguebetweenpatientsandcaregivers?Inthisseminarwe’ll
studyrecentcomicsthathelptoilluminatethelivedcontoursofaffliction,recovery,chronicpain,andmental
health.We’lllearnhowartistschallengethedominantvisualvocabulariesbywhichabilityanddisabilitytendtobe
represented.Throughcloseexaminationofcomicsfromthedistantpasttotheongoingpandemic,thisclasswill
helpusdiscoverhowtowriteaboutandfindwordsforourpainsandjoys,aswellashowwecandrawtogether
aroundexperiencesofphysicalchangeandchallenge.
SEM111 MW10:10–11:25a.m. GregoryLonde 20670 
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Short Stories
Whatcanashortstorydothatnootherartformcando?Weallconsumeandproducestories.Towriteabout
hownarrativeworks,bothwithinandagainsttradition,istotouchthecoreofidentity,thequickofwhatmakesus
human.Storytellinginformsallwriting.Engagingdiverseauthors,wewillpracticenotonlyreadingsensitivelyand
incisivelybutalsomakingevidence-basedargumentswithpowerandgrace,learningthehabitsofwriting,
revision,anddocumentationthatallowustojoinpublicorscholarlyconversation.Wewillembrace“shortness”as
acompressionofmeaningtounpack.Ourownwritingmayincludecloseanalysesoftexts,synthesesthatplace
storiesincriticaldialogue,andbothcreativeandresearch-basedprojects.
SEM101 MWF09:05–09:55a.m. AsherCourtemanche 20148 DavidFaulkner
SEM102 MWF10:10–11:00a.m. BethstylineChery 20149 DavidFaulkner
SEM103 MWF11:15–12:05p.m. LaurynJones 20150 DavidFaulkner
SEM104 TR10:10–11:25a.m. NatashaAyaz 20151 DavidFaulkner
SEM105 MW02:55–04:10p.m. JiachenWang 20152 DavidFaulkner
SEM106 MW07:30–08:45p.m. CharityYoung 20153 DavidFaulkner
SEM107 TR08:40–09:55a.m. SamanthaO'Brien 20154 DavidFaulkner
SEM108 TR11:40–12:55p.m. CorbinJones 20155 DavidFaulkner
SEM109 MW08:40–09:55a.m. ChristopherHewitt 20377 
SEM110 TR01:25–02:40p.m. NicholasHuelster 20618 
SEM111 TR02:55–04:10p.m. NicholasHuelster 20619 
ENGLISH 1183
Word and Image
Whathappenswhenweadaptbooksintomovies,writefan-fictionaboutvideogames,orcreatepoetryabout
paintings?Whathappenswhenwewriteaboutonegenreasthoughitwereanother?Wehavebeenwritingabout
imagesandmakingimagesaboutwritingforalongtime.Inadditiontoconventionaltypesofartandliteraturelike
paintings,novels,orpoetry,otherformssuchasfilm,videogames,exhibitions,andvirtualrealityofferlivelyareas
foranalysis.Inthisclass,wewillengagewithwidelyvariedculturalforms—including,perhaps,experimental
poetry,medievalmanuscripts,graphicnovels,memoirs,plays,films,podcasts,andmore—todevelopmultiple
medialiteraciesaswesharpenourownwritingaboutculture,literature,andart.
SEM101 MWF09:05–09:55a.m. MeredithCottle 20181 BradZukovic
SEM102 MWF11:15–12:05p.m. MariaAl-Raes 20182 BradZukovic
SEM103 MWF12:20–01:10p.m. ImogenOsborne 20183 BradZukovic
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ENGLISH 1183
CANCELLED - 8/10/23 -Word and Image
CANCELLED-8/10/23-Whathappenswhenweadaptbooksintomovies,writefan-fictionaboutvideo
games,orcreatepoetryaboutpaintings?Whathappenswhenwewriteaboutonegenreasthoughitwereanother?
Wehavebeenwritingaboutimagesandmakingimagesaboutwritingforalongtime.Inadditiontoconventional
typesofartandliteraturelikepaintings,novels,orpoetry,otherformssuchasfilm,videogames,exhibitions,and
virtualrealityofferlivelyareasforanalysis.Inthisclass,wewillengagewithwidelyvariedcultural
forms—including,perhaps,experimentalpoetry,medievalmanuscripts,graphicnovels,memoirs,plays,films,
podcasts,andmore—todevelopmultiplemedialiteraciesaswesharpenourownwritingaboutculture,literature,
andart.
SEM104 MW07:30–08:45p.m. AishvaryaArora 20184 BradZukovic
ENGLISH 1183
Word and Image
Whathappenswhenweadaptbooksintomovies,writefan-fictionaboutvideogames,orcreatepoetryabout
paintings?Whathappenswhenwewriteaboutonegenreasthoughitwereanother?Wehavebeenwritingabout
imagesandmakingimagesaboutwritingforalongtime.Inadditiontoconventionaltypesofartandliteraturelike
paintings,novels,orpoetry,otherformssuchasfilm,videogames,exhibitions,andvirtualrealityofferlivelyareas
foranalysis.Inthisclass,wewillengagewithwidelyvariedculturalforms—including,perhaps,experimental
poetry,medievalmanuscripts,graphicnovels,memoirs,plays,films,podcasts,andmore—todevelopmultiple
medialiteraciesaswesharpenourownwritingaboutculture,literature,andart.
SEM105 TR08:40–09:55a.m. DominiqueJoe 20185 BradZukovic
SEM106 TR11:40–12:55p.m. AngelinaCampos 20186 BradZukovic
SEM107 TR01:25–02:40p.m. BradZukovic 20187 
SEM108 MWF10:10–11:00a.m. RobertRomero 20378 
SEM109 MW02:55–04:10p.m. ChristopherHewitt 20379 
SEM110 MW10:10–11:25a.m. GraceCatherineGreiner 20380 
SEM111 TR08:40–09:55a.m. GraceCatherineGreiner 20466 
SEM112 MWF09:05–09:55a.m. RoberRomero 20726 
ENGLISH 1191
British Literature: Making the Medieval/Early Modern Miscellany
Likeassemblingaplaylistofyourfavoritesongs,makingamedievalmiscellany—abook-lengthcompilation
ofvariousliteraryworks—wasapainstakingprocess,butonewhichcontributedtomodernwaysofthinkingabout
thebook.Inthiscoursewewillexploretheoriginsandearlyevolutionofthebookasweconsiderquestionsof
compilation,editing,andtextualproductioninrelationtomedievalmanuscripts,earlyprintedbooks,andthe
literarytextstheycontain.Wewillalsodrawontheworksofmodernauthorsasweaskwhatthebookasmaterial
objectcantellusaboutitsmakersandreaders,howcompilationandanthologizationcanbeinterpretedaseditorial
acts,andwhat,finally,goesintothemakingofabook.
SEM101 MW08:40–09:55a.m. GraceCatherineGreiner 20381 
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British Literature: Medieval Obsessions
Around1800,poetsandartistslookedtotheMiddleAgesasa“goldenage”ofculture,religiousbelief,and
society,findinginitamodelfortheirownideasaboutindividualfreedoms,creativity,andtheauthenticself.This
classwillexploreRomanticobsessionswithArthurianliterature(fairytales,romance,etc.)andtheaestheticmania
forGothicarchitectureandruins(Keats,Tennyson,Morris,Walpole,Novalis,Goethe).
SEM103 TR02:55–04:10p.m. SamanthaZacher 20197 
SEM103 TR02:55–04:10p.m. SamanthaZacher 20197 
ENGLISH 1270
Writing About Literature: Writing About Fiction
Thiscourseexaminesmodernfiction,withanemphasisontheshortstoryandnovella.Studentswillwrite
criticalessaysontwentiethandtwenty-firstcenturyauthorssuchasAtwood,Baldwin,Bambara,Faulkner,Kafka,
Mukherjee,Nabokov,andSaunders.Wewillfocusonshortfiction,withtheseminarculminatinginthestudyofa
novel,whichwillbesupportedbyanintroductiontolibraryresearchmethodsandarangeofcriticalapproachesto
thebook.Close,attentive,imaginativereadingandwritingwillbecentralthroughout.
SEM102 TR10:10–11:25a.m. JeremyBraddock 20214 
FEMINIST, GENDER & SEXUALITY STUDIES 1100
Can Science be Feminist
Oneofthegreatestachievementsofthefeministmovementhasbeenagreaterrepresentationofwomenin
science.Withthenumbersofwomenscientistsincreasingtoday,hasfeminismreacheditsobjective?Inthiscourse
wewilladdresshowfeminisminscienceisamovementthatencompassesmuchmorethanequalityof
representationwomeninscienceprofessions.Wearegoingtocollectivelyreflecthowsciencecanbe,inmany
aspects,apatriarchalendeavorandhowmencanalsobefeminist.Wewilltacklethesetopicswhilelearninghow
towriteacademically.Wewilllearnaboutthestructure,organization,andexpectationsofacademicundergraduate
assignments,helpingstudentsdeveloptheirwritingskills,andprepareformoreadvancedclassestheywilltakeat
Cornell.
SEM101 MW01:25–02:40p.m. AmandaDomingues 20217 LucindaRamberg
FEMINIST, GENDER & SEXUALITY STUDIES 1100
Sensation-al Feminisms
Thebodyisalwayspoliticized.Buthowdoesthebodyfeelwhenpoliticized?Howdoesthebodyrespond?In
Sensation-alFeminisms,wewillconsidertheimpactsocietyhasonthemarginalizedbody,throughthe
perspectiveoftouch,sight,smell,sound,andtaste.Fromstudyingavant-gardedancersandfilmmakersofthe
1960s,totransgenderanimalstudies,tocontemporaryfeministinvestigationsofthedigestivesystem,thisclass
willwritereviews,closetextualanalyses,researchessays,manifestos,andpersonalreflectionsonawiderangeof
topicsintheartsandsciencesthatwillpushustoconsidertheplaceofourbodiesinbothsocietyandnature,and
thestoriestheytell.
SEM102 TR11:40–12:55p.m. LexiTurner 20218 LucindaRamberg
GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT 1200
Decolonial Feminism and the Future of Food
Thecomplexcrisesimpactingourfoodsystemscallfornewwaysofthinkingandbeing.Decolonialfeminism
andwritingarebothformsofpraxisthatopenuppossibilitiesforpersonalandcollectivetransformation.This
coursecentersworkfromBIPOCscholarsandactivists,includingbellhooks,RajPatel,MaríaLugones,andLinda
TuhiwaiSmith.Wewillalsolookatnon-academicwritingthatdemonstrateshowourreadingsconnectwith
currenteventsandthinking.Throughavarietyofwritingexercises,includingpolicybriefs,essays,andblogposts
forfoodadvocacyorganizations,wewillbuildcompetenceandconfidenceinsuccessful,evidence-basedreading
andwritingthattransfersacrossdisciplines.
SEM101 MW08:40–09:55a.m. EmilyBaker 20219 ElliotShapiro
GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT 1200
GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT 1200
Follow the Science?! The Politics of Knowledge for Progress
Recentpublichealthdebateshavepresentedpolarizedopinionsaboutscience’sroleinpolicymaking,eitheras
asubjectivepoliticaltooloranomniscientforcethatpointstheonlywayforward.Takingglobaldevelopmentas
anentrypoint,wewilllearntonavigatea“post-truth”societybyexploringthepowerandlimitsofscientific
knowledge.Wewillreadscholarlyandpopulartextsthatilluminatethewaysthatscience—whatitisandwhatit
claimstobe—hasglobalizedasetofrelations,norms,andtruthsinthenameofhumanprogress.Drawingon
MarxistandFoucauldiantheoriesofpower,studentswillproducenuancedanalysisoftherolethatscientific
experts,institutions,andtechnologiesplayinbothsolvingandproducingglobalproblemsofhunger,deforestation,
andpoverty.
SEM102 MWF09:05–09:55a.m. SidneyMadsen 20220 ElliotShapiro
GERMAN STUDIES 1109
From Fairy Tales to the Uncanny: Exploring the Romantic Consciousness
Howdidbawdytalesofpeasantsusingmagictoclimbthesocialladdergettransformedintomorallessonsfor
children?TheanswerliesinRomanticismanditsappropriationoftheimaginationasaforceforsocial
transformation.AsRomanticseditedoldertalesforjuvenileconsumptiontheywrotenewonesforadults.Thisnew
fictioncreatedthematrixformodernpopgenreslikefantasy,science-fiction,murdermysteries,andgothichorror.
Tounderstandthisparadigmshiftinmodernculture,wewillread,discuss,andwriteaboutavarietyoftextsthe
Romanticscollected,composed,orinspired,includingpoetryandfilm,inadditiontoclassicfairytalesand
academicscholarshiponthetopic.
SEM101 TR11:40–12:55p.m. SpencerHadley 20222 DouglasMcBride
GERMAN STUDIES 1122
Love and Death in Vienna
Singingboys.Dancinghorses.Waltzingdebutantes.Thosefortunateenoughtoliveinacitywhereeachday
beginswithapastryandendswithatwo-literbottleofwinemustliveacharmedexistence!NotaccordingtoFreud.
AfterdecadesoftreatingthemorbidViennese,heconcludedthathumannaturemustbetornbetweentwowarring
forces:aloveinstinctandadeathdrive.Inthisseminarwe’llexplorebothsidesofVienna’senigmaticcharacter,
itslife-affirminghedonism,anditsself-destructivenihilism,throughthelensofnarrativefictiononpageandon
screen.Alongtheway,we’lllearntowritebetterbyreadingcloselyandcritically.
SEM101 MWF10:10–11:00a.m. DouglasMcBride 20223 
GERMAN STUDIES 1126
Philosophies of Violence: Conceptualizations of Force from Kant to Zizek
Violenceisacomplexconceptwithanuancedhistory.BeginningwithKantandprogressingthrough
philosopherssuchasFriedrichEngels,WalterBenjaminandHannahArendt,thisseminarwillemployclose
readingsofphilosophicaltextstoexplorehowvariousconceptualizationsofviolencehaveshapedthepolitical,
religious,andscientificlandscapesofmodernlife.Inadditiontolearningthisdiscretebodyofknowledge,youwill
useweeklywritingactivitiesandassignedessaystodevelopyourowncriticalvoice.Bysemester’sendyouwill
havegainedacriticaleyetowardstheinstitutionaldilemmasofcontemporarylife,andthroughthoseeyesyouwill
beempoweredwiththevoicetochangeit.
SEM101 TR10:10–11:25a.m. SethThomas 20224 DouglasMcBride
GERMAN STUDIES 1170
GERMAN STUDIES 1170
Marx, Nietzsche, Freud
AbasicunderstandingofMarx,Nietzsche,andFreudisaprerequisiteforparticipatingincriticaldebatesin
thehumanitiesandsocialsciences.Ourseminarwillexplorekeytermsintherevolutionarymodelsofcritical
analysisthesethinkerspioneered:historicalmaterialism,post-metaphysicalphilosophy,andpsychoanalysis.This
willmeanarticulatingpointsofcontrastaswellasconvergence.Discussionsandwritingexerciseswillfocuson
textsthatcreatedthediscursiveframeworkforcritiquingsocietyandculturetoday.Ourmethodwillproceedfrom
thepremisethatcriticalreading,thinking,andwritingareinseparablemomentsinthesameoperationofcritique.
Thequestionthatguidesthatmethodwillbe:Doalternativewaysofthinkingexistinoppositiontotheoneswe
viewasnatural,inevitable,oruniversal?
SEM101 TR10:10–11:25a.m. NicolauSpadoni 20226 DouglasMcBride
GOVERNMENT 1101
Power and Politics: It's Expensive to be Poor
Imagineasinglemotheroftwowhopaysmoreforhousingpermonthrentingahotelroomratherthanan
apartment,becauseshecannotaffordthesecuritydepositandmostleasingcompaniesrejectherforalowcredit
score.Thiscourseaskshow(andwhy)itisexpensivetobepoorintheUnitedStates.Thosewhocanleastafford
additionalcostsareoftensaddledwithfees,fines,andotherintangibleexpenses.Wewillfocusonsubjectslike
housing,prisons,credit/loans,andgroceries,lookingatthehiddencoststhepoorexperience.Readingavarietyof
scholarly,journalisticandfictionaltexts,studentswillpracticewritingassignmentsrangingfromnewspaper
op-edstoresearchpaperswithmultipleroundsofpeerandinstructorfeedback.
SEM101 MW08:40–09:55a.m. GraceBeals 20227 JamilaMichener
GOVERNMENT 1101
Power and Politics: Politics of Reproduction
Thoughreproductionwaslongrelegatedtotheso-called“privatesphere,”itisimpossibletoignoredebates
overbirth,sex,andbodiesinmodernpolitics.Reproductionfeaturesinmajorpoliticaldebatesinourtime—but
whatis“reproductivepolitics”?(Why)doesthestatehaveaninterestinreproduction?(How)canindividualsset
thetermsoftheirreproductiverightsandresponsibilities?Thiscoursewillgivestudentsthetoolstoanswerthese
questionsbyanalyzingtherelationshipbetweenreproductionandpoliticsintheUnitedStatesandincomparative
perspective.Studentswillhonetheiranalyticalandwritingskillswithshort-formjournalentries,argumentative
essays,aresearchpaper,andopportunitiestoexchangefeedbackwithpeers.
SEM102 TR02:55–04:10p.m. EmilyJackson 20228 KennethRoberts
GOVERNMENT 1101
Power and Politics: Nation and State
Thestateandnationshapeeverythingfromourdailylivestoglobalpolitics.Bothhistoricallyandpresently,
notionsofcitizenship,economicinteractions,conflictmanagement,justice,andtheuseofviolencearestructured
bystatesandnations.Inthiscoursewewillinvestigateasetofinterrelatedthemesincludingnationalism,identity,
andstate-buildingaswemakeourwaythroughamulti-disciplinaryarrayoftexts.Independentessayswillask
studentstoconsiderhownarrativesinfilmsandhumanrelationshipswithgeographyproduce,reflect,and
challengeideasdiscussedinclass.Aresearchproposalsequencewillprovidespaceforstudentstoexplorecourse
themesinacontextthattheyfindcompelling,whileworkshopsanddraftrevisionsalongthewaywillcontributeto
adynamicwritingexperience.
SEM103 TR08:40–09:55a.m. JosephLasky 20229 MatthewEvangelista
GOVERNMENT 1101
GOVERNMENT 1101
Power and Politics: States, Power and Global Governance
Whydointernationalorganizationsexist?Dotheyshapeoutcomesininternationalpolitics?Thiscourse
considerstherolethatinstitutionshaveplayedinaddressingglobalproblems.Somearguetheirroleistrivial,since
thereisnointernationalpoliceforcethatcanconstrainstates.Othersarguetheirroleisprofound,asinstitutions
helpstatesovercomeimportantbarrierstocooperation.Youwillapplythesetheoriestounderstandinstitutions
governingeconomicstability,humanrights,globaldevelopment,andmore.Todoso,youwillcompleteseveral
writingassignmentswhereyoustepintotheshoesofworldleaders.Youwillassesswhetheryourstateshouldjoin
andcomplywithinternationalorganizations;whenitmightmakesensetoleavethem;andhownewinstitutions
shouldbedesignedtoaddresstheworld’schallenges.
SEM104 TR10:10–11:25a.m. RickyClark 20230 
GOVERNMENT 1101
Power and Politics: Writing Elections Around the World
Electionsarethecornerstoneofpowerinthe96democraciesoftheworld—andvitaltomanynon-democratic
countries,offeringbothmomentsofuncertaintyforrulersaswellasbeingatoolusedbythemtoretainpower.But
whatdoelectionsdo?Thecoursewillexamineelectionsacrosstheworldinrealtime.Wanttoknowhowto
understandthesepivotalmoments?Wanttolearnconceptsthatyoucanapplytounfoldingevents,whilegoing
furthertoseeimplicationsforhowtheworldworks?Wanttodescribesomethingthatnoonecouldknowin
advance,becominganexpertinrealworldevents,inrealtime?ThisFWSwilladdresstheseissues,anddevelop
writingthroughessays,pre-electionbriefs,post-electionanalyses,andopinionpieces.
SEM105 TR08:40–09:55a.m. HarryDienes 20298 TomPepinsky
GOVERNMENT 1101
Power and Politics: Liberalism and Marxism
TheMarxistcritiqueofliberalismhastakenonrenewedrelevanceinrecentyears,asprevailingliberal
democraticinstitutionsseemincapableofaddressingourmostpressingcontemporarycrises,fromincome
inequalitytoclimatechange.InthiscourseweengagethedebatebetweenliberalismandMarxismsuch
fundamentalquestionsas:Isthefreemarketagoodmodelforfreedomingeneral?Doescapitalismcontributetoor
underminedemocracy?Isliberalpluralismanadequateresponsetotheintersectionsofrace,gender,andclass
oppression?Wewillreadarangeofhistoricalandcontemporarythinkers,fromKarlMarxandBenjaminConstant
toNancyFraserandCedricRobinson.Studentswilllearnhowtoreadcomplextheoreticaltexts,andhowto
formulateanddefendinterpretiveargumentsaboutthem.
SEM106 TR01:25–02:40p.m. WilliamCameron 20320 
SEM107 TR02:55–04:10p.m. WilliamCameron 20321 
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT 1125
Topics in Human Development: The Embodied Mind
Haveyoueverwonderedifyouseetheworldthesamewaythatotherpeopledo?Howdootheranimalswith
differentbodiesthanusexperiencetheirworlds?WhatwoulditbeliketobeanA.I.withoutabodyatall?Inthis
classwewillexplorehowhavingabodyshapesourexperiencesandeventhewaywethink.Wewillmakeuseof
differentmediatoexaminethemessuchasembodimentacrossspecies,theimpactofdisabilityandpoliticized
bodies,pubertyanddevelopment,andwhatanembodiedA.I.mightlooklike.Studentswillalsobeexpectedto
sharetheirperspectivesthroughactivediscourse,debate,reflectionessays,creativeprojects,andbypracticing
testingoutstandingquestionswithanalyticalandempiricalmethods.
SEM102 TR10:10–11:25a.m. EmmaMurrugarra 20235 KellyKing-O’Brien
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT 1125
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT 1125
Science as the Greatest Good
Thehighestpotentialofscience,fromphysicstophysiology,isservingthepublicgood.Yet,atanational
level,thetrendingsciencewritingisfearaboutthepaceofautomation,debatesabouthowlonghumanshave
beforeclimatechangecausesirrevocableenvironmentaldamage,andgrimprojectionsaboutthepandemic
extendingforyearstocome.Inthiscoursewewillrestorepublicconfidenceinsciencethroughwritingabout
translationalscienceservinghumanity.Studentswillentertheclasswiththeircreativityandpassionfortranslating
knowledgeintoactionandleavewithpolishedwritingscenteredonimpactingthepublic.Thetranslationalscience
studentsexplorewillcenteronsolvingpublicproblemssostudentscanquicklydigestthescienceandfocusonthe
writing.
SEM103 MW08:40–09:55a.m. SenegalMabry 20299 KellyKing-O’Brien
HUMAN ECOLOGY NONDEPARTMENTAL 1150
Fashion’s Afterlife: Exploring the Value of Textile Waste
Whathappenstoyourclotheswhenyougetridofthem?Inexploringthisquestion,thiscoursewillexamine
historicalandcontemporaryissuesofpre-andpost-consumertextilewaste.Asoverconsumptionandrapiddisposal
becamenormalizedbycontemporaryfastfashionmodels,theglobaldamagecausedbythefashionindustryhas
exponentiallyincreased.Usingavarietyofpopularmediaadpeerreviewedarticles,videos,art,andobservation,
studentswillbeaskedtoinvestigatehowtechnicalinnovationsandculturalshiftshavealteredourperceptionsof
usedgarments.Overthecourseofthesemester,studentswillgainconfidenceintheirwritingpracticethrougha
combinationofshort,informalassignments,buildingtowardsformalizedessays.
SEM101 MW10:10–11:25a.m. KatRoberts 20147 JessicaSands
HUMAN ECOLOGY NONDEPARTMENTAL 1151
Children’s Environmental Identity: Awareness to Action
Howdidyourchildhoodexperiencesshapeyourconnectionwithnature?Whatstoriesdowetellchildren
aboutenvironmentalissues?Howcanwedesignchildren’slearningtosupportpro-environmentalbehaviors?This
seminarwillleverageformalandinformalwritingasavehicleforunderstandingandsupportingenvironmental
identitydevelopment(EID)fromchildhoodandthroughoutlife,particularlyinthefaceofenvironmentalcrises.
Studentswilljourneyfromself-reflectionthroughacademicexplorationofEIDtotheanalysisandcomparisonof
medialikechildren’sbooksandTVshows.Studentswillultimatelydeveloptheirownchildren’smediatoenhance
EIDandenvironmentalaction.Toinformtheseexercises,studentswillengagewiththeirownexperiences,
childrenthemselves,andwitharangeofmaterialsincludingscientificliterature,newsarticles,andchildren’s
books.
SEM101 TR10:10–11:25a.m. AbigailBrown 20158 JessicaSands
HISTORY 1200
Writing the Environment
Howdowetellthestoriesoftheenvironmentsthatsurroundus?Thiscourseexploreshowcontemporary
writersblendobservation,history,interviews,andscientificresearchtotellthesestories.Fromclimatechangeto
thegrassyparkdownthestreet,thesubjectsthiscourseaddressesgrantusanopportunitytodiscusstopical
environmentalandsocialconcerns,andtoexaminehowwritershavesuccessfullyandartfullyapproachedthese
issues.ReadingsincludeauthorssuchasAnnieDillard,IanFrazier,JesmynWard,andJohnMcPhee,among
others,andbriefselectionsfromenvironmentaltheoristsandthinkers.Writingassignmentswillincludeshort
exercisestohonespecificwritingskillsandessaysthatwillaskyoutoquestionandbecriticaloftheenvironments
inwhichyouspendyourtime.
SEM101 MWF12:20–01:10p.m. MatthewDallos 20169 TBDTBD
HISTORY 1200
HISTORY 1200
Gender and Law in Global History
Howdoeslawaffectpeople’sgenderidentities?Howdoideasofgenderandsexualityshapetheruleoflaw?
Thesequestionsarebecomingincreasinglypressingaswewitnessanumberofhistoriclegalcasesinrecentyears
suchastheUSSupremeCourt’srulingonabortion.Thiscoursewilltakethisdiscussionintohistoricaland
transnationalperspectives.Wewillexaminehowgenderperformances,thebody,andlawinteractedinthecontext
ofgrowingglobalconnectionssincetheearlymodernperiod.Readingswillcovertopicsrangingfromslaveryin
theAtlanticworldtosexualityinQajarIranandtotransnationalfeminism.Studentswillcompleteaseriesofshort
assignmentsculminatinginalargerprojectofinvestigativewriting.
SEM102 MW08:40–09:55a.m. DuFei 20170 TBDTBD
HISTORY 1200
Twilight of the Roman Republic: The Gracchi to Cleopatra
Howdidasystemfoundedonanti-monarchicalprinciplesdevolveintoceaselesscivilwarandeventual
empire?ThiscoursewilltrackthelasthundredyearsoftheRomanRepublicandinviteyoutoanswerthis
question.Wewillengagewiththepolitical,military,social,andeconomicissuesofthelastcenturyBCEandread
contemporaryaccountsfromadiversesetofgenres.ReadingswillincludethewarcommentariesofJuliusCaesar,
thepersonallettersofCicero,andthehistoriesofSallust,aswellastheworksofother,lessknown,ancient
authors.Throughthecoursewritingassignments,studentswilllearnhowtoengagecriticallywithprimaryand
secondarysources,developascholarlyargument,andconductresearchintoaninquiryoftheirownchoosing.
SEM103 TR08:40–09:55a.m. MatthewGuillot 20171 TBDTBD
HISTORY 1200
Race and Medicine in United States History
WhatroledidraceplayintheemergenceofmodernmedicineintheUnitedStates?Inthiscoursewewillread
acombinationofprimaryandsecondarysourcestotracehownineteenth-andtwentieth-centuryU.S.theorizations
ofracialsciencewerefoundationaltotheprofessionalizationofmedicalpractice.Wewillexaminehowmedical
theoriesconvergedwithracialbeliefsregardingslavery,mentalillness,poverty,andimmigration.Studentswill
writesource-basedanalyticalandargumentativeessaysexploringthewayshistoricalbeliefsaboutraceshaped
medicalpracticeintheUnitedStates.
SEM104 MW11:40–12:55p.m. JeremyPeschard 20172 TBDTBD
HISTORY 1200
Historical Perspectives on Rape
Thisseminarpresentsacross-culturalexaminationofrapeandsexualviolence,fromancienttimestothe
present.Wewillreadfamousstoriesandmythscenteringrapeasaplotpoint;trackthechangingideasofconsent
andnon-consentinlegal,moral,andpopulardiscourse;unpacktheuseofsexualviolenceinsystemsofoppression
suchasslavery,colonialism,andwarfare;investigatethehistoricalinabilityofconceivingofmenasrapevictims;
andexaminethedevelopmentofsexualizedmurder.Throughout,thecoursewilldrawattentiontothewaysin
whichrapehasbeendisguised,excused,orerasedfromhistory,andhowsurvivorsbreakthroughthosesilencing
impulsestotelltheirstories.Studentwritingincludesresponsepapers,bookreviewsofclassicliterature,andafinal
researchessay.
SEM105 MWF12:20–01:10p.m. AustinRaetz 20173 TBDTBD
HISTORY 1200
HISTORY 1200
Revolutionary Americas: The 1750s-1830s in Political Economy
TheAgeofRevolutionswasatimeofheightenedpolemicsandradicalpoliticalexperimentation.Italso
overwhelminglyhappenedintheAmericas.Yet,whyaretheAmericanRevolution,theLatinAmericanWarsof
Independence,andtheHaitianRevolution,seldomthoughtofasintertwinedprocesses?Thiscourseexaminesthe
ideasandprojectssetintomotionduringtheAgeofRevolutionsfromtheperspectiveoftheAmericas(notjustthe
UnitedStates)asthefirstageof“anti-colonial”independencemovements.Thiscoursewillexaminethevarious
politicalfactionsanddebateswithintheAnglophone,Francophone,andHispanophonespheresthroughclose
readingsofprimarysources.StudentswillalsobeintroducedtoscholarssuchasMichel-RolphTrouillot,Ann
Stoler,MarcelaEcheverri,andGordonWood.Studentswillcompletearesearchessay.
SEM106 MW11:40–12:55p.m. MarcosPérezCañizares 20174 TBDTBD
HISTORY 1200
Emotions in History: The Changing Language of Feeling
Inthesixteenthcentury,Montaignecommented,“Ihavelosttwoorthreechildrenininfancy,notwithout
regret,butwithoutgreatsorrow.”Didpeopleinthepastfeeldifferentlythanwedo?Didtheyexperienceemotions
inawaythatwecannotunderstand?Inthisclass,weexplorehowhistorianshavetriedtoreconstructpast
emotionalworlds.Wewillaskwhatsortsofevidencegiveuscluesaboutotheremotionalcultures.Readingswill
drawoneulogies,parentingguidebooks,romanticcorrespondence,andphilosophiesofemotionsuchasRené
Descartes’Passions of the Soul.Writingassignmentswillinvolveconstructingourownargumentsbasedonthe
emotivetextsofthepastinconversationwiththeworkofhistorians.
SEM107 MW11:40–12:55p.m. KaitlinPontzer 20300 
HISTORY 1200
The Early Modern Death Penalty
Itisclearthatthedeathpenaltyisasourceofcontroversyinourtime,buthowdidpre-modernsocietiesview
executions?Inthiscoursewewilllookatearlymoderndescriptionsofexecutionsandthecontroversies
surroundingthem.Wewillconsidertheritualsaroundexecutions,thefinalwordsofthecondemned,andprinted
reactionstoexecutionsintheearlymodernpublicsphere.Specificcasesofinterestwillrangefromroyal
executions,includingCharlesIofEnglandandMarieAntoinette,totreasonousconspirators,suchasGuyFawkes.
Wewilllookatthesocialimportanceofexecutionsfromreligiousdissidentstothievesandhighwaymen.Writing
assignmentswillrequirethoughtfulreflectionsonhistoricalattitudestothelegal,social,political,andemotional
aspectsofexecutions.
SEM108 MW01:25–02:40p.m. KaitlinPontzer 20301 
HISTORY 1200
Writing History: Writing Historical Graphic Novels
Inthiscoursewewilllearnhowtocreateourownshorthistoricalgraphicnovelbasedonaprimarysource
fromtheCornellArchives.Thegoalofthiscourseistolearnhowtofindprimarysources,totransformthemintoa
historicalnarrative,andtocommunicatethisnarrativeinanengagingmanner—theprimaryworkofhistorians.
Thefirsthalfofthesemesterwillbededicatedtoreadinggraphicnovels,suchasWakeorThe Best We Could Do,
andmeetingwiththeirauthorstotalkaboutthecreativeprocess.Inthesecondpartofthesemester,wewillbe
workingcloselywiththestaffattheOlinLibrary’sRareandManuscriptCollectionstoidentifyaprimarysource,
craftanarrative,andgiveitanartisticform.
SEM109 TR08:40–09:55a.m. ParaskaTolan-Szkilnik 20302 
HISTORY 1200
HISTORY 1200
Writing History: Writing About National Parks
InthiscoursestudentswillexplorehowpeoplehavewrittenabouttheplacecurrentlyknownasYosemite
NationalPark.WewillexploretheNativehistory,conservationistefforts,andthepresenteffortstocombatclimate
changeandreckonwithsettlercolonialisminYosemite.TounderstandthehistoryofYosemite,wewillread
historicalmonographs,fiction,long-formjournalism,andprimarysources.Writingassignmentswillincludepark
brochures,op-edpieces,andresearch-basedessays.
SEM110 TR08:40–09:55a.m. CamilleSuarez 20303 
HISTORY 1217
Meritocracy in America?: From Slavery to Student Debt
HowdidyougettoCornell?Isthecollegeadmissionsprocessracist,sexist,classist,orotherwisebasedon
prejudice?Whatabouttheeducationsystemwritlarge?Whatdoesaletterofadmissionmean?CanaGPA,atest
score,anapplicationessay,captureandconveywhoyouare?Areyouanimpostorortherealthing?Cananyone
earn,deserve,meritthekindofopportunitiesonofferintheIvyLeague?Orthecareersthatcanfollow?Through
history,memoir,fiction,andfilm—The Big TestandMy Bondage and My Freedom,The DispossessedandLegally
Blonde—thiscoursewillguidestudentstocriticallyreflectonthemeaningofmeritintheirownlivesandour
largersociety.
SEM101 MW07:30–08:45p.m. CharlesPetersen 20108 
HISTORY 1301
History of the Essay
Theanalyticalessayseemstobethebasicformofnonfictionwriting—butwhy?Andhowdiditcometobe
seenthisway?Whydon’tyoulearntowriteprosepoemsincollege,ormemos,orjustelaboratelists?Orarethose
alsoessays?Howhastheessayvariedacrosstimeandcultures?Howhasitsformbeeninfluencedbyhistorical
forces,andhowdidessayistsbecomeshapersoftheirhistoricalmoments?Theword“essay”justmeansan
attempt,sothiscoursewillbeexperimentalandexploratory,analyzingmanydifferentessaysintheirhistorical
context,andpausingoccasionallytodwellonkeywriterslikeMontaigne,Thoreau,Woolf,Sontag,andBaldwin.
Andofcourseyouwillbeexpectedtomakeseveralattemptsatcreativeessay-writing.
SEM101 MW02:55–04:10p.m. AaronSachs 20323 
HISTORY 1321
Post-World War II America: Crisis and Continuity
WhyaretheyearsfollowingWorldWarIIconsideredsoremarkableinthelandscapeofAmericanhistory?
Severalcriticaleventsanddebatesthatrockedthenationfromthe1940sonwardreverberatetoday,suchas
involvementinwars,civilrights,women’srights,concernsaboutteenagers,andcrisesinAmericancities.Enriched
byavarietyofprimarysources,includingfilmsandTVshows,thiscourseanalyzesthecentralevents,people,and
forcesthattransformedAmericansocietyandculturefromtheyearsafterWorldWarIItothepresent.Thecourse
aimstohelpstudentslearnhowtowritepersuasivelyaboutscholarshipandprimarysources,whilegaininga
deeperappreciationforthelastinginfluenceofthemajorevents,crises,andinterpretationsofpost-WorldWarII
Americanhistory.
SEM101 TR01:25–02:40p.m. KellyKing-O’Brien 20654 
HISTORY 1481
HISTORY 1481
Black Caribbean Thought
HowdidblackradicalCaribbeanintellectualsgrapplewiththeglobalcrisesofracialcapitalisminthe
twentiethcentury?Thisfirst-yearwritingseminarwillexaminethewritingsofC.L.R.James,WalterRodney,
Andaiye,andotherAfro-Caribbeanactivist-intellectuals.Wewilldiscussandanalyzetheworkoftheseinfluential
figuresinfivebriefessays.
SEM101 MW02:55–04:10p.m. RussellRickford 20109 
ITALIAN 1113
Writing Italy, Writing the Self: Jewish-Italian Literature and the Long Twentieth Century
TheJewishcommunityofRomeistheoldestoneinallofEurope,datingbackto200BCE,andtheauthorsof
someofthemostimportanttwentieth-centuryworksofItalianliteratureareJewish.Inthiscoursewewillexamine
howsomeofthesewritershavearticulatedtheselfagainstthebackgroundofthehistoricaleventsthathaveshaped
thepasthundredyears:twoworldwarsanddifferentsocialmovementsofthepre-andpost-WWIIeras.The
seminarincludesseveralfilmscreeningsandameetingwithatleastoneoftheauthorsreadinthecourse.
SEM101 MW02:55–04:10p.m. KoravonWittelsbach 20110 
JEWISH STUDIES 1987
Jews on Film: Visible and Invisible
WhywereJewsvirtuallyinvisibleinfilmsproducedduringtheHollywood’s“goldenage”?Isthisasurprise,
giventheleadingroleplayedbyAmericanJewsinfoundingthestudiosystem?Writingaboutthefilmsstudiedin
thiscoursewillhelpstudentssituateandinterpretthepresence(andabsence)ofcharactersidentifiableasJewsin
Hollywoodfilmsreleasedfromthesilenterathroughthepresent.Wewillviewapproximatelysixfilmsintheir
entiretyandstudyexcerptsfromothers.Filmstobestudiedinwholeorpartmayinclude:The Immigrant,The Jazz
Singer,The Great Dictator,Casablanca,The Apartment,Funny Girl,Annie Hall,Barton Fink,andA Serious Man.
Studentswillwritefilmanalyses,reviewessays,reflectiveresponses,andexplorationsofcontextualmaterial.
Readingsfromfilmstudiesandpopularjournalismwillsituatethesefilmswithinthehistorical,cultural,and
industrialcontextsinwhichtheywereproduced.
SEM101 TR01:25–02:40p.m. EliottShapiro 20112 
LINGUISTICS 1100
Language, Thought, and Reality: How We’re Laughter Crafters
Whydo“Dadjokes”makeusgroan,butrom-comsmakeussmile?Howdoeswordplayintegratewithculture
tobecomemorethansomeantics?Inthisseminar,wewillexplorehowhumor,language,andcultureinteractby
approachingavarietyofhumorousmediums—suchasstand-upcomedy,satiricalessays,cartoons,puns,
etc.—withacriticallens.Studentswillcomposepersonalreflections,reviewsofhumoroustexts,linguistic
analyses,andotherinvestigativeessaysthatwillcontextualizethecoursematerialintoalargerculturalpicture.
Particularemphasiswillbeplacedonwritingwithatargetaudienceinmind.
SEM101 TR10:10–11:25a.m. JohnStarr 20113 JessicaSands
LINGUISTICS 1100
Language, Thought, and Reality: Language Myths and Misconceptions
HumanbeingsareexceptionallygoodatusinglanguagetocreateandpropagatenarrativesABOUTlanguage.
Somelanguagemythsmayseembenign,whileothersareoverlymalicious,deridingspeakersofaparticular
language/dialect.Inthisclasswewilluseavarietyoftextstoexaminecommonmisconceptionsaboutlanguage
(e.g.,thatcertainlanguagesaremore/lesscomplexthanothers,thatparticularconstructssuchasdoublenegation
are“wrong”,etc.)andthereasonswhythesemisconceptionsareheld.Writingassignmentswillincludeanumber
offormalessays,readingresponses,thekeepingofajournal,andafinalcreativeprojectinwhichstudentswill
designtheirownlanguagemyth.
designtheirownlanguagemyth.
SEM102 MWF10:10–11:00a.m. EvelynFettes 20114 JessicaSands
LINGUISTICS 1100
Language, Thought, and Reality: The First Sentence
“What’stheoldestlanguage?”isaquestionthatpeopleoftenasklinguists.Inthisclasswewillexamine
whetheritmakessensetoaskthisquestionatall.Inthisclasswewilllookattheearliestattestedevidencefora
widevarietyoflanguagesandthinkaboutwhatisinvolvedininterpreting,understanding,andevaluatingthisdata.
Howdoweknowwhatistheearliest?Howdowereadwhatiswritteninunknownscripts?Howdoweunderstand
whatiswritten?Whatdoesthewrittenevidencetellusabouttheculturesthatproducedthewriting?Howwasthe
datacollectedandunderwhatcircumstances?Eachstudentwillchoosealanguagetobecomeexpertin.Theywill
learnandwriteabouttheearlylanguagedata.Theywillevaluateandcontroversiesrelatingtothisdataandthey
willreflectonthehistorical,philosophical,andethicalissuesarisingfromthepreservationand/orcollectionofthe
texts.
SEM103 MWF11:15–12:05p.m. MichaelWeiss 20115 
LINGUISTICS 1100
Language, Thought, and Reality: Words and Pictures
Thisclassexploresthecollaborationoflanguageandimageincreatingmeaningsatmultiplelevels.Wewill
discussandwriteaboutpopularculture—caricatures,comics,graphicnovels,andadvertising—alongwithhigh
cultureartifactssuchaspaintingsandilluminatedmanuscripts,examiningtheinterplayandanalogiesbetween
understandinglanguageandinterpretingimages.Wewilldiscussphenomenathatcutacrosswordsandpictures:
bothmayrepresentreality.Asentencemaybetrueorfalse—canthesamebesaidofapicture?Bothlanguageand
visualrepresentationaregovernedbyconventions,andwouldbeimpossiblewithoutthem.Informationmaybe
foregroundedorself-referentandbackgroundedinbothchannels,andcanbeambiguous,contradictory,
nonsensical,orself-referential.
SEM104 TR11:40–12:55p.m. DoritAbusch 20116 
LINGUISTICS 1100
Language, Thought, and Reality: Realities of Language
Languageisfascinating:Itisauniquelyhumanexperienceandafoundationalaspectofhumanlife.Almost
everybodyhastheirownideasaboutwhatlanguageislike,andmanyofthoseideasare,uponcloseinspection,
falseorinaccurate.Inthiscoursewewillexploreselecttopicsthataimtorevealaspectsoftherealitiesoflanguage
drawnfromarangeofsubfieldsoflinguistics.Studentswilldevelopabasicunderstandingofhowlanguage
changesovertime,howlanguageisacquired,andhowlanguageisrepresented.Studentswilllearnhowtoplan,
construct,andexecuteawell-formedacademicessaythroughaseriesofessayassignmentsandin-classwriting
exercises.
SEM105 MWF02:30–03:20p.m. JingGao 20337 JessicaSands
MEDIEVAL STUDIES 1101
Aspects of Medieval Culture: How to Write a Love Letter—Medieval Advice
Whatdoesamedievalloveletterlooklike?Howdidmedievalauthorsexpresstheiraffection?Andhowcan
welearnfromthemtoimproveourownwriting?Inthisclassloveisdefinedbroadlytoincluderomantic,familial,
spiritual,friendly,andothertypesoflove.Wewillreadexamplesofmedievalloveletters,suchasthosebythe
famousloversHeloiseandAbelard,andexplorehowloveletterscanbebothemotionallyrawandrigorously
literary.Wewilllearnwhatmakesaneffectiveargument,howtoevaluateevidence,andhowtoorganizeour
thoughts.Writtenassignmentswillspancreativeandacademicstylesofwriting,includingcomposingyourown
medievalloveletter,preparingstatementsforin-classdebates,andwritingafinalresearchpaper.
SEM101 MWF09:05–09:55a.m. KateBajorek 20117 AndrewHicks
MEDIEVAL STUDIES 1101
Aspects of Medieval Culture: Medieval Allegories and Fables
Allegories(thinkAesop’s fablesorOrwell’sAnimal Farm)useentertainingstoriesabout,say,wilyfoxesor
talkingpigstoaddresscomplexandoftencontroversialmatterssuchassocialmoresorpoliticalcritique.Allegories
wereespeciallypopularinthepre-modernworld,andwewillexaminewhyandhowwritersusedthismodeof
writingtocommentuponpressingreligious,ethical,andpoliticalissues.Whatrhetoricalopportunitiesdoes
allegoryprovideforaddressinghottopics?Wewillexplorethiscentralquestionbyreadingallegoriesabout
theologicaldebates,unjustimprisonment,themeaningoflife,thenatureofthehumanmind,andwomen’sissues.
Studentswilldeveloptheirreadingandwritingskillsbycompletingfourformalessays,engaginginregular
informalwriting,andcraftingtheirownallegory.
SEM102 TR11:40–12:55p.m. SavannahCaldwell 20118 AndrewHicks
MEDIEVAL STUDIES 1101
Aspects of Medieval Culture: Medieval Crossdressings
Theword“habit”canrefertobothwhatwewearandwhatwedo—sowhatdoesitmeantotakeuporputona
newhabit?Towhatextentdoeswhatwewearcorrelatewithwhatwedoandwhoweare?Thiscoursewillexplore
thesymbolicandtransformativepowerofdressthroughvariousmedievalcross-dressingsandtheirafterlives.By
readingtextssuchassaints’lives,thepoetryofMariedeFrance,andtheRomandeSilence,wewillexamine
medievalconceptionsofgender,sexuality,class,andhumanity.Studentswilldeveloptheirwritingandresearch
skillsthroughshortessaysthatculminateinaresearchprojectinwhichstudentswillengagewithmedieval
literatureandmodernscholarlycriticism.
SEM103 MWF11:15–12:05p.m. JordanChauncy 20119 AndrewHicks
MEDIEVAL STUDIES 1101
Aspects of Medieval Culture: Details in Dress—Reading Clothing in Medieval Literature
Aneutraltonedvintagejacket,aneongreenhand-knittedsweater,adesignersuit—theseareallclothes,but
theyeachevokesomethingdifferent.Weallgetdressedeveryday,butwhatwechoosetowearandhowwechoose
torepresentourselvesaswedressisdifferent.Writers,too,tellusimportantdetailswhentheydresstheir
characters;theirchoiceofmaterials,color,andstylerevealcharacters’genderidentities,attitudes,loyalties,and
evenaspirations.ThiscourseexaminesliteraryrepresentationsofgarmentsinmedievalEuropeanliterature.
PrimarysourceswillincludetextsfromacrosstheMiddleAges:Beowulf,Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,parts
ofChaucer’sCanterbury Tales,andmore.Studentswilldeveloptheirwritingskillsthroughinformalreading
responses,guidedresearch,andessaywriting.
SEM104 TR10:10–11:25a.m. AlexaGall 20120 AndrewHicks
MEDIEVAL STUDIES 1101
Aspects of Medieval Culture: Medieval Love Songs
Modernpopsongsrevealhowpassionately,andhowstrangely,peopleactwhenthey’reinlove.Aglanceat
thepastsuggeststhatmaybehumanshavealwaysbeenfoolsinlove.Butwhatweremedievallovesongsabout?
Wouldweevenrecognizethemaslovesongs?Whatkindoflovedotheyexpress?Aretheycomparabletomodern
lovesongs?Andcanyouwriteabetterlovesongthanatwelfth-centurybard?Thiscoursewillexplorethese
questionsthroughfiveessaysandcreativewritingassignmentsthatwilldevelopskillsinthinkingcriticallyabout
shorttextsthroughclosereadingandcomparativeanalysis.
SEM105 MWF12:20–01:10p.m. MarijkePerry 20121 AndrewHicks
MEDIEVAL STUDIES 1101
MEDIEVAL STUDIES 1101
Aspects of Medieval Culture: Conjuring Horror in Medieval Literature
ThiscourseexploreshorrorasaliterarygenreandmodeofartisticexpressionwithinMedievalEurope,ca.
1000–1500C.E.PrimarysourcesincludeworkssuchasThe Dispute between Mary and the Cross,Grettir’sSaga,
SirThomasMalory’sLe Morte d’Arthur,andDanteAlighieri’s Inferno.Studentswillengagequestionssuchas:
whatdefinesthegenreofhorror?whatterrifiedmedievalreaders?andhowdoesthehistoricalexperienceoffear,
terror,disgust,andanxietyasamodeofentertainmentcomparetoourexperiencestoday?Studentswilldevelop
fundamentaltextualanalysisskillsthroughclassmeetings,informalwritingresponses,compositionexercises,and
aself-directedresearchpaper.Usingprimaryandsecondarysources,studentswilldeveloptheirwritingskillsand
producemultipleformalandinformalwritingassignmentsforthiscourse.
SEM106 MWF01:25–02:15p.m. RyanRandle 20122 AndrewHicks
MEDIEVAL STUDIES 1101
Aspects of Medieval Culture: The Art of Friendship in the Latin Middle Ages
ThiscoursewillstudyhowfriendshipwasimaginedandcultivatedintheLatinMiddleAges,exploringwhat
pre-modernfriendshiphastoofferanincreasinglyglobalandrootlessworld.MedievalEuropewasrichinformsof
friendshipandcommunallife:monasteries,universities,tradeguilds,andletterwritingprovidedcontextfor
intimatepersonalandlong-distancerelationships,evenasurbanization,expandinghorizons,andadelugeofnew
ideascreatedachallengingsociologicalspaceanalogoustoourown.Thecoursesurveysancientwriterslike
AristotleandCicero,beforetracingthewaysthepaganinheritancetookrootinaChristianmilieu.Analyticand
creativewritingexerciseswillteachstudentstoengagepoetry,art,architecture,andepistolarycorrespondenceasa
meansoffindingtheirownvoiceinthepolyphonyofhistory.
SEM107 TR08:40–09:55a.m. ZacharyThomas 20123 AndrewHicks
MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING 1700
Scientific Breakthroughs: Reality or Hyperbole?
Scientistsexcitedlyannouncetheirlatestresult—"it’sabreakthrough!”—andsciencejournalistsandothers
proclaimthatthebreakthroughwillrevolutionizeourlives.Butisitso?Oraretheyspeculating,exaggerating,or
complicitinfraud?Somescientificbreakthroughsdochangeourlives(CRISPR-Cas9)whileothersfadeaway
ignominiously(Theranos).Casestudieswillhelpusdevelopacriticaleye:wewillreadred-hotannouncements
alongwithdispassionateretrospectives,identifyingthesignsthatdistinguishflimsyorinflatedclaimsfromsolid
andcrediblestatements.Todetecthypeweneedonlycommonsenseandlogicalreasoning,notspecificordeep
scientificexpertise.Usingcarefullyconstructedandrichlyarguedessays,alongwithdialoguesandspeeches,we
willinterpretandassesstheclaimsofsomeprominentexamplesoftrumpetedbreakthroughs.
SEM101 MWF02:30–03:20p.m. R.BrucevanDover 20134 
MUSIC 1701
Sounds Sense and Ideas: Who Run the World? Girls—Pop Music, Gender and Media
IsCardiBandMeganTheeStallion’s“WAP”videoanempoweringanthemoranobjectifyingspectacle?Can
artistslikeHarryStylesandBadBunnytruly“redefine”masculinity?Thiscourseaskshowfeministorqueer
resistancemightbepossiblewithinthemainstreampopmusicworld.Duringourcourse,wewillapplytheoretical
conceptsfrommediastudiesandfeminist,gender.andsexualitystudiestocriticallyanalyzeworksbyMadonna,
MileyCyrus,Beyoncé,KimPetras,LilNasX,BritneySpears,andMissyElliott(tonameafew)withparticular
attentiongiventotheiruseofmassmedia.Sometheoreticaltopicstobediscussedincludeappropriation,
queer-baiting,post-feminism,andintersectionality.Studentswilldevelopskillsinwritingmusicjournalism,
culturalcriticism,digitalethnography,andhistoricalresearch.
SEM101 TR11:40–12:55p.m. ClaraValenzuela 20135 AnnieLewandowski
MUSIC 1701
MUSIC 1701
Sound, Sense, and Ideas: Animal Music—From Cicadas to Whales
Asmusicallyconsciousbeings,whatmightwediscoveraboutourselves,andaboutthesentientworld,by
exploringthecreativemindsofotherspecies?Inthisclasswe’llinvestigatethebroadworldofanimalmusic
throughtopicsrangingfromtherhythmiccyclesofcicadastotheevolvingsongsofhumpbackwhales.Class
contentwillbedrawnfromscholarlywritings,contemporarynarratives,fieldrecordings,andguestvisitsby
researchersworkinginanimalcommunication.Synthesizingmaterialdrawnfromrecordedandwrittensources,
studentswilldevelopskillsinwritingessaysandreflectionsaboutthenatureofmusic,broadlydefined.
SEM102 MW11:40–12:55p.m. AnnieLewandowski 20136 
NEAR EASTERN STUDIES 1916
City and Forgetting
Thisseminarwillexploretheglobalphenomenonofurbanismacrossdifferenthistoricalandgeographical
contexts.Studentswillcollaborativelydevelopcreativeandcriticalinsightsregardingcityscapesthroughwriting
assignmentsandclassroomdiscussions,consideringcitiesasmultilayeredspacesofforgettinganderasure,with
complexrelationshipstothehistoricalpast.Studentswillexplorehowcities—andsoundsthatreverberate
throughouturbanspaces—alsomakeotherperceptionsoftimeandspacepossible.Theseurbansoundsandother
mediasometimesmakethoseforgottenlayersofthepastdiscernible.furtherrevealingalternativeformsofsocial
interactionsandrelations.
SEM101 MW08:40–09:55a.m. Re’eeHagay 20559 JessicaSands
NEAR EASTERN STUDIES 1945
The Search for the Historical Muhammad
AsthefounderofIslam,Muhammadisoneofthemostinfluentialfiguresinhistory.Animportantsourcefor
hislifeistheSira>ofIbnIshaq(d.761)asredactedbyIbnHisham(d.833),abiographythatopenswith
Muhammad’sbirthin570andendswithhisdeathin632.Inthisseminarwewillreadanddiscussselected
episodesintheSirafromaliterary-historicalperspective,withspecialattentiontobiblicalandpost-biblicalthemes
andmotifsthatcontributedtoshapingtheimageofMuhammadasaholymanandprophet.Studentswillwrite
shortessaysonspecificepisodesinMuhammad’slife—e.g.,hisbirth,NightJourneytoJerusalem,hijratoMedina,
anddeath.
SEM101 TR08:40–09:55a.m. DavidPowers 20146 
PHILOSOPHY 1110
Philosophy in Practice: Ethics of Sex and Relationships
Academicdiscussionsofsextendtofocusonissuesofconsent.Whileconsentisimportant,itofferslimited
guidanceonhowtonavigatesexandromanticrelationships.Thepresenceofconsentmerelytellsusthatthesexin
questionislegal,notwhetheritwasethical.We’lldiscusstheethicsandpoliticsofsexanddesire.Whatmakessex
goodorbad?Howissexconnectedtoloveandromance?Whatareappropriateexpectationsforromantic
relationships?Whatkindsofrelationshipmodelsworkbest?Canshort-termrelationshipsbesuccessful?Should
romanticloveleadtomarriage?We’llstudytheseissuesthroughthedisciplineofphilosophy,whichemphasizes
theimportanceofclearandconcisewriting,whichwillinturnwillmakeyouastronger,clearerthinker.
SEM101 MW11:40–12:55p.m. AdrieneTakaoka 20156 
PHILOSOPHY 1110
PHILOSOPHY 1110
Philosophy in Practice: Feminism for All Genders
It’scommonlythoughtthatfeminismisthedomainofwomen,butgenderequalitywillonlybepossible
throughconcertedcollectiveactionamongpeopleofallgenders.Inthiscourseyou’llcometounderstandwhat
feminismisandwhyit’simportantforpeopleofallgenders.Strongpatriarchalnormsdevaluefemale-coded
practices,suchasworkandfashion.Thisoppresseswomenandgendernon-conformingpeople,anditalsoharms
menbyprescribingrestrictivemasculinitynorms.We’llexploretopicssuchasbiologicalessentialism,misogyny,
masculinity,transgenderissues,genderidentity,genderednorms,genderedfashion,genderedwork,and
pornography.We’llstudytheseissuesthroughthedisciplineofphilosophy,whichemphasizestheimportanceof
clearandconcisewriting,whichwillinturnwillmakeyouastronger,clearerthinker.
SEM102 TR11:40–12:55p.m. AdrieneTakaoka 20157 
PHILOSOPHY 1111
Philosophical Problems: Moral Relativism and Moral Skepticism
Ordinarily,weallknowwhat’srightandwrong.Buttherearesomereasonsforskepticism.Onereasonhasto
dowithrelativism:whatifwhatisrightandwrongissomehowrelativetoindividuals,ortocultures?Another
reasonforskepticismcomesfromreflectiononthesourcesofourintuitionsofmoralrightnessandwrongness:
whatifourmoralintuitionsarenotreallytrustworthy?Thephilosophicalaimoftheseminarwillbetogetclearon
ourownthoughtsonthisdifficultsubject.Tohelpourprogress,weshallstudytheworkofsomerecentandpast
philosophersperplexedbythesequestions.Ourpracticalaimwillbetolearntowriteasclearlyaswethink.
SEM101 TR11:40–12:55p.m. TheoKorzukhin 20159 
PHILOSOPHY 1111
Philosophical Problems: Framing—The Ethics and Politics of Art
Artworksfrequentlyshock,repel,disgust,move,orinviteus,butthesereactionsarerarelygrantedmorethan
afewmomentsofreflection.Rarerstilldostudentswriteaboutthesereactionsatlength,asthereactionsmightbe
containedinacommentoratweetaboutanewsongoracontroversialvideogame.Butbywritingaboutthese
reactionsatlength,contextualizingtheethicalandpoliticalquestionswhichmightarise,andexploringthethoughts
andquestionswhicharise,studentscanreflectandreviseatlengthonanumberofpressingethicalquestions.
Writing,therefore,becomesintegraltothestudyofthissubjectasameasurethroughwhichstudentscanreflecton
complicatedethicalandpoliticalquestionsunderlyingartworks.
SEM102 MWF08:00–08:50a.m. BiancaWaked 20160 ScottMacDonald
PHILOSOPHY 1111
Philosophical Problems: Nietzsche's Genealogy on Morality
InthiscoursewewillreadNietzsche’sGenealogy of Moralityanddiscusssomeofhismostinfluentialideas
suchastheslaverevolt,ressentiment,moralityasaformofasceticism,andthewilltonothingness.Wewilltryto
understandtheseideasintheirhistoricalcontextaswellasintermoftheirphilosophicalmerit.Thewritingwork
willincludefivepapers,expositoryaswellasargumentative.
SEM103 MWF12:20–01:10p.m. SofiJovanovska 20304 
SEM104 MWF02:30–03:20p.m. SofiJovanovska 20305 
PHILOSOPHY 1112
Philosophical Conversations: Borders, Immigration, and Citizenship
Webecomecitizensbybeingborntocitizensorbybeingbornwithintherelevantterritory.Butinothercases
ourrightsdonotdependonwhere,andtowhom,weareborn.Whyiscitizenshipdifferent?Andwhatjustifies
nationalbordersinthefirstplace?Citizensareoftenthoughttohavetherighttokeeppeopleoutoftheircountry.
Whydotheyhavethisright,iftheydo?Andmaytheyuseforcetoenforceit?Yourwritingontheseissueswill
aimatgoodargumentativepractices.Accordingly,youwillworkoncareful,charitableanalysisoftextual
arguments,consideringandrespondingtocounterarguments,andexplainingyourreasoning.Aclear,concise,and
invitingprosestylewillbeemphasized.
SEM101 MW01:25–02:40p.m. BenjaminYost 20161 
PHILOSOPHY 1112
Philosophical Conversations: Philosophy of Fun :)
Whatisfun?Howdoesonehavefun?Thesearen’tjustquestionsposedbyanoverworkedstudent;they’re
richphilosophicalquestionstoexplore.Inthisclasswe’llengagewithmoraltheorieslikehedonism,epicureanism,
andutilitarianism,andlearnwhyPlatosupportsgettingdrunkasawaytohavefunwhendonewell,andwhyhe
thinksit’sdangerouswhendonepoorly.We’llstudycontemporaryphilosophyofgamesandsports,andlearnwhy
gamesandsportsarefun,partlybyplayinggamesourselves.We’lllearnhowwritingislikeagame,andhowit
canbefun,too.Readingswillconsistmainlyofcontemporaryphilosophicalarticles,andstudentscanexpectto
engagewithin-classworksheets,peer-reviewsessions,shortwritingassignmentsforhomework,andfiveessays.
SEM102 TR02:55–04:10p.m. Barbara“Bobbi”Cohn 20162 ScottMacDonald
PHILOSOPHY 1112
Philosophical Conversations: Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
ArtificialIntelligence(AI)isatopicthathasreachedsurprisinglevelsofpopularity.Itisatopicwith
pronouncedeffectsonthelivesofacademicresearchersandlaypersons,alike.Withthisnewfoundpopularity,we
areonlybeginningtorecognizethechallengesthatitpresents,suchasautonomousvehiclesdrivingonthewrong
sidesofstreets,machinesthatnaturallyconversewhilehavingnoapparentformofconsciousness,andmachines
thatseemto“think”inawaythatoutstretchesourowncomputationalcapacities.Wewillthinkaboutthe
philosophicalcommitmentsthathavegivenrisetothesechallenges,andhowwemightaddressthem.Wewill
becomefamiliarwithcognitivescience,thehistoryofphilosophy,linguistics,andlogic.
SEM103 MW02:55–04:10p.m. LavarisMcCellion 20163 ScottMacDonald
PHILOSOPHY 1112
Philosophical Conversations: Ancient Greek and Roman Skepticism
Whatisknowledgeandisitpossible?Canwelivewithoutknowledgeorevenbelief?FromtheThird
CenturyBCEtotheFifthCenturyCE,theGreco-Romanworldwasrivenbyadebateoverskepticism,thethesis
thatnothingcanbeknownorperhapsevenbelieved.Wewillexplorethetwoprincipalvarietiesofancient
skepticism:AcademicSkepticism,developedbyArcesilausandCarneades,andPyrrhonianSkepticism,best
representedbytheworksofSextusEmpiricus.WewillalsoexaminetheearlyworkofAugustineofHippo,a
philosopherwritingatthetwilightoftheRomanEmpire,whofamouslyarguedagainsttheskeptics.Inthiscourse
wewillreconstruct,evaluate,andcloselyscrutinizevariousargumentsbothforandagainstskepticism.
SEM104 MW11:40–12:55p.m. VikramKumar 20164 ScottMacDonald
PHILOSOPHY 1112
Philosophical Conversations: Pointing at the Moon—The Forms and Methods of Buddhist Philosophy
Whydowesuffer?Canyouthinkthethoughtofnotthinking?Whocanyoutrust?Howshortshouldyouclip
yourfingernails?Isthereadifferencebetweenthesacredandthemundane?Inthisclasswewillconsidersuch
questionsaspresentedinBuddhistphilosophy.Theworkstakeinterestinglydifferentwrittenforms.Thewritings
attributedtothehistoricalbuddhaandShantidevawereofteninshortverses.LaterwriterslikeBodhidharma,
Nagarjuna,andDōgenwrotelongerformworks.Zenkoanscanbejustafewwords.Eachofthesegenreswill
provideuniquechallengestohelpimprovethequalityofyourwriting,thinking,andarguments.Youmighteven
learnsomethingabouttheworld.
SEM105 MW08:40–09:55a.m. TimothyKwiatek 20165 
PHILOSOPHY 1112
Philosophical Conversations: Ethics and Moral Psychology in Technology
Whydopeoplefearartificialintelligence(AI)?CouldAIdevelopthekindofagencywemightpraiseor
blame?Coulditbemorallyresponsible?Orareanyconsequencesjusttheresponsibilityofprogrammers?CanAI
betaughtmoralprinciples?CanweoutsourceemotionallabortoAI?Whatisitaboutcommunicationonthe
internetthatmakesitspiraloutofcontrolsoquickly?Whenyou“like”apost,doesthatconstitutepraise?When
youleaveameancomment,canthatconstituteblame?Thiscoursewillfocusonquestionssuchasthesethat
emergeattheintersectionofethics,moralpsychology,andmoderntechnology.Wewillreadinterdisciplinary
sourcesonthissubjectandwillfocusonlearningtothink,communicate,andespeciallywriteclearlyaboutit.
SEM106 TR08:40–09:55a.m. TimothyKwiatek 20166 
PHILOSOPHY 1112
Philosophical Conversations: Ancient Greek and Asian Philosophy
FromancientIndianBuddhistTemples,totheGreekAgoras,andConfuciantemplesofChina,thisclass
exploresancientGrecian,BuddhistandConfucianresponsestoquestionsabouthowtolive,themindandsoul,
piety,goodandevilandmore.EngagingtheworksofthinkerslikePlatoandAristotle,alongwithsayingsofthe
BuddhaandKongzithemselves,andthewritingsoftheirdedicatedstudents,studentswillimprovetheirabilityto
analyzeandthinkcriticallyabouthistoricaltexts.Studentswillalsolearntoclearlyandconciselyexpresstheir
thoughtsandunderstandinginanalytical,comparative,andargumentativewriting.Ultimately,studentswillbreak
downintellectualbarriersbyparticipatinginbotheasternandwesternwaysofthinkingtocommunicateabout
age-oldquestionsinnewandinsightfulways.
SEM107 TR08:40–09:55a.m. BriannaZgurich 20167 
PHILOSOPHY 1112
Philosophical Conversations: Asian Philosophy
TheBuddhaandKongziwerephilosophizingbeforetherenownedSocrateswasevenborn!Howbesttolive
one’slife,conceiveoflife,death,humanity,andobligationformedthebasisofarichintellectualtraditionof
religionandphilosophyinAsia.ThisclassappreciatesandengageswithIndian,Chinese,andJapanesephilosophy
fromSayingsoftheBuddhatoConfucianAnalectsandeventhefatherofmangahimself:TezukaOsamu’sgraphic
novels.Throughengagementwithdifferentphilosophicaltraditions,studentswillimprovetheirabilitytothink
critically,learntoclearlyandconciselyexpressthemselvesanalytical,comparative,andargumentativewriting,and
derivecontemporarysignificancefromtheseviews.Ultimately,studentswillbreakoutoftraditionallywestern
intellectualwaysofthinkingandcommunicateaboutage-oldquestionsinnewandinsightfulways.
SEM108 TR01:25–02:40p.m. BriannaZgurich 20168 
PHILOSOPHY 1112
Philosophical Conversations: Liberalism and Neoliberalism
ThiscourseexaminestheroleofpoliticalliberalisminthemodernhistoryoftheUnitedStates,which
involvesteasingapartthreeinterdependentbutseparatethings:thetheoryofpoliticalliberalism,thepurporteduse
ofthattheoryinthegenesisoftheUnitedStates,andtherolethatliberalismplaysinthecurrentneoliberalpolitical
order.Wewillcombineinvestigationintothehistoricalcircumstanceswhichcontributedtothedevelopmentof
liberalismandtheemergenceofneoliberalism,withcriticismofexistingstatesofaffairsandbrainstormingnew
possiblewaysofbeing.ReadingswillincludeMarx,Rawls,Dubois,Davis,andmore.
SEM109 TR10:10–11:25a.m. ErinGerber 20306 
PERFORMING & MEDIA ARTS 1104
PERFORMING & MEDIA ARTS 1104
Gender and Crime: The Case of the Female Detective
Somesaycrime’saman’sworld,butfemaledetectiveslikeLisbethSalander,ClariceStarlingandMiss
Marplecanbefoundsolvingcrimesandbustingbadguysacrossmedia.DrawingfromTV,film,fictionandtheatre
acrossarangeofculturalmoments,thiscourseexploresthewaysinwhichthefemaledetectiveimpactsthe
conventionsofthecrimenarrativeinwhichshefunctions.Textsinclude How To Get Away With Murder,
Veronica Mars,Silence of the Lambs,andJenniferHealey’svirtualrealitycrimedramaThe Nether.Studentswill
developstrategiesforattentivereadingandthoughtfulwriting.Assignmentsincludereviews,positionpapers,
pitchesandanalyticalresponses,andwillfocusoncriticalthinking,preparation,clearprose,argumentstructure,
andwell-supportedclaims.
SEM101 MW11:40–12:55p.m. AoiseStratford 20685 
PERFORMING & MEDIA ARTS 1119
Utopias
Imagineaworldwithnowar,violence,orinjustice.Forcenturies,storytellershaveenvisionedsuchutopias.
Thiscourseexaminesthepowerfulallureperfectedtomorrowlandsexert,especiallyovertrans,queer,feminist,
disabled,andBIPOCimaginaries.Consideringraceandethnicity,theenvironment,classdivides,formsofgender
andsexuality,disability,andtheroleoftechnology,wewilltransporttovariousutopiasappearinginspeculative
fictiontexts,including:Brave New World;I, Robot;The Giver;Never Let Me Go;Black Mirror;Buffy the Vampire
Slayer;andUtopia Falls.Asweexplore,wewilldevelopautopiancriticalvocabulary.Supplementedby
theoreticaltexts,studentswillengageincriticalandcreativewritingformatsincludingresearchessays,stylistic
imitations,andaprojectimaginativelyrepresentingautopiaoftheirowndesign.
SEM101 MW08:40–09:55a.m. JoshuaCole 20499 
Duetotheoverlapinmaterial,youwillnotreceivecreditforthisclassifyouhavepreviouslytakenFGSS1119
(Fa21)
PERFORMING & MEDIA ARTS 1160
Wonderlands and Other Worlds
Fantasticplacesoftencutintorealitywitha“subtleknife”orfolditviatesseract.Transportedtotimeless
noplacesmasqueradingaswhimsicalflightsoffancy,likeNeverlandorOz,weenterawardrobeintodark,
melancholy,eveneerieimaginarylands.Wejourneyalongsidechildrentouchedbytrauma,andtogetherwe
navigatethemosttreacherousadventures:recoveryandmaturity.Throughdifferentwritingassignmentswewill
crossthesethinborderlandsintoLyra’sOxford,Martin’sFillory,Percy’sCamp Half-Blood,Bastian’sFantasia,
Eve’sBayou,orMiranda’sHanging Rock,andusingcriticalstrategies,explorethem.Withanemphasisoncinema
andtelevisionadaptations(whicharethemselvesfamiliarworldstransformed),andwithparticularfociondiverse
identities,wewillpracticecriticalstrategiestocloselyanalyzeandarticulateinwritingevidence-basedarguments.
SEM101 TR08:40–09:55a.m. JoshuaCole 20496 
PERFORMING & MEDIA ARTS 1161
Food and the Media
Oursisafood-obsessedculture.Whetherwefocusondietandhealth,orbinge-watchcompetitivecooking
shows,orexplorecuisineinrelationtoregional,racial,orethnicidentity,manyofuseither“eattolive”or“liveto
eat.”Televisionproducers,investigativejournalists,bloggers,andculturalcriticsfeedourobsession,generatinga
burgeoningbodyoffood-relatedproseandprogrammingbothinformativeandentertaining.Throughreadingsfrom
GourmetandEating Wellmagazines,screeningsofBeat Bobby FlayandThe Great British Baking Show,and
airingsofSaminNosrat’sHome Cooking,amongothers,wewillexaminetogetherhowfoodsuffusesourmedia
andconstitutesourFoodNation.Assignmentswillincludefoodmemoirs,foodhistories,foodpodcasts,food
criticism,andfoodreporting.
SEM101 TR11:40–12:55p.m. EllenGainor 20179 
PERFORMING & MEDIA ARTS 1171
Paraiso Infernal: Caribbean and Diasporic Contremporary Art
Whatisparadise?IsitacruisethroughtheBahamas?Oranall-inclusivestayinPuntaCana?Isparadisethe
sameforthosewhomustlivewhereyouvacation?Artistshavebeentacklingthesequestionsforyearsanditstime
forustothinkandwritewiththem.Inthiswritingseminarwewilllookatcontemporaryartproducedbyartists
fromtheCaribbeananditsdiasporas,alongsidetheoriesonblackness,aesthetics,decolonization,andqueerness.
Youwilllearntousewordstocaptureartandplaceitindialoguewiththetheory,novels,andmoviesseeninclass.
Bytheendofthesemester,beitbyreadingJamaicaKincaidorexperiencingJoiriMinaya’spieces,youwill
understand“Whatisparadise?.”
SEM101 TR10:10–11:25a.m. GinaGoico 20180 BethMilles
PERFORMING & MEDIA ARTS 1174
Backcountry Onstage: Theatre in and of Rural America
The1920ssawthetransitionintheUnitedStatesfrombeingamajorityruralnationtoamajorityurbanone.
Acenturylater,thoughruralpopulationshaveshrunken,theirsymbolicspaceontheAmericanstagehascontinued
toloomlarge.FromThortonWilder’sOur TowntoSamm-ArtWilliam’sHometoJohnCariani’sAlmost, Maine,
bucolicvalleys,forests,fields,andsmalltownshaveprovedfertilegroundforAmericandramatistsofthelast
centurytoinvestigatequestionsofpolitics,identityandbelonging.Studentswillread,watch,andevenperform
playsandengageindramaticandhistoricanalysisofrurallifeintheUnitedStates.Throughwritinganalytic
essays,personalreflections,researchpapers,andcreativedramatictexts,studentswillhonetheirskillsinrhetoric,
research,andrevision.
SEM101 TR08:40–09:55a.m. AndrewColpitts 20201 BethMilles
PERFORMING & MEDIA ARTS 1175
Hell is a Teenage Girl: Terror and Turmoil of Girlhood in Horror Films
“Hellisateenagegirl”arethefirstwordsutteredbyAnitaLesnickiinthe2009comedy-horrorJennifer’s
Body.Inthiscoursewewillanalyzehowvariousthemesandexperiencesofgirlhoodareexploredinhorrorfilms.
Inconjunctionwithwatchingfilms,wewillreadintroductorytextsinfeministstudiestocontextualizehow
sexuality(andallitsexpressions),negativeemotions(suchasangerordisgust),andlivinginagenderedbodycan
helpuselucidateothertextualoraestheticmeaningsinthefilmswewillwatch.
SEM101 TR02:55–04:10p.m. SyedaHiraMahmood 20202 BethMilles
PSYCHOLOGY 1120
Psychology and Law
Howcanpsychologyresearchinformlegaldecisionsandthewaythelegalsystemoperates?Inthiscoursewe
willanswerthisquestionbyexploringhowsocialandcognitivepsychologyintersectwiththelaw.Studentswill
considerbothwhatpsychologyresearchcantellusaboutthelawandhowitcanbeimplementedintolegal
decisions.Wewillreadbothclassicandrecentpsychologicalresearchpertainingtoissuesinthelawandlegal
documentsthatrelyuponpsychologicalresearch.Throughvariouswritingassignmentsstudentswilllearnto
examinescientificresearch,useempiricalevidencetosupportarguments,andcriticallyanalyzeresearch.Topics
mayincludejurydecision-making,eyewitnesstestimony,raceandthelaw,genderandthelaw,competencyto
standtrial,andpleabargaining.
SEM101 MW08:40–09:55a.m. DanielBialer 20204 KellyKing-O’Brien
PSYCHOLOGY 1140
PSYCHOLOGY 1140
History of Psychology
Thepursuitofpsychologicalunderstandingisasoldashumankind.Fromthespeculationsoftheancient
GreekstoTheScientificRevolutioninthesixteenthcentury,andtotheempiricalresearchofPsychologytoday,
theoriesofthehumanmindandbehaviorhavegonethroughmanydevelopments.Howhavecultural,religious,
economic,andpoliticalfactorsinfluencedthedevelopmentofpsychologicalknowledge?Whatpsychological
theoriesinthepaststillshapeourassumptionsaboutpeopletoday?Inthisseminarwewilldiscussthehistoryof
psychology,byreadingfrombothscientificaswellasfictionaltexts.Studentswillsummarize,compare,evaluate,
andapplydifferentpsychologicaltheoriesintheirwritingassignments.
SEM101 TR08:40–09:55a.m. VivianZhang 20205 KellyKing-O’Brien
ROMANCE STUDIES 1102
The Craft of Storytelling: Spiritual Autobiography
Whatdoesitmeantobe"spiritual"?(Andhowdoesthatcategorygetdistinguishedfromitsfrequent
companion,"religious"?)Howdowetellstoriesaboutpartsofourselvesthatresistdescription;partsofourselves
thatmaygounrecognizedinmuchofourdailylives?(Doesspirituality,putthisway,starttosoundalittlelike
sexuality?)Thiscourseencouragesstudentstodeveloptheirthinkingandwritingskillsthroughclosereadingofa
seriesoflargelyChristiantextsthatwritethespiritwiththebody.Beginningwiththefifth-centuryAfricanbishop
Augustine'sConfessions,we'llmovethroughtheMiddleAgesintomoremodernformsofself-questioningand
self-expression.What,we'llask,dowetalkaboutwhenwetalkaboutGod?Isitmore,orless,likewhatwetalk
aboutwhenwetalkaboutlove?
SEM101 MW07:30–08:45p.m. CaryHowie 20175 
ROMANCE STUDIES 1102
The Craft of Storytelling: Transgressive Bodies in Latin American Writing and Film
Despitebeinghistoricallyinvisibilized,women'sliteraryandartisticproductioninLatinAmericahasgained
tremendousstrengthandrelevanceinthepastdecades.Thisseminarproposesanimaginativeandcriticalapproach
toaselectionofpoems,shortstories,graphicnovels,andsomefilmsandpaintingsbycontemporarywomanartists
fromMéxico,Argentina,Colombia,andPerú.Whatalternativegazedotheybringusontransgressive,diverse,and
resilientbodiesandsubjects--thequeer,thesexualized,theracialized--?Allthereadingsandviewingswillserve
asexcusestoexploreexpository,argumentative,andcreativemodesofwriting.Thepurposeistobecome
cocreatorsofthepossiblemeaningsoftheworkofart,understandingwritingasbothapersonalandcollaborative
process.Studentsofallgendersarewelcometojointhiscommunity!
SEM103 TR02:55–04:10p.m. JulianaTorresForero 20177 IreneEibenstein-Alvisi
ROMANCE STUDIES 1102
The Craft of Storytelling: Race, Gender, and Postcolonial Writing
Thisseminarwillfocusonautobiographicalandlifewritingstoriesbycontemporarywomenwritersfrom
differentareasoftheFrancophoneworld,fromtheFrenchCaribbeantoNorthandWestAfrica.Morespecifically,
wewilllookattheinnovativewaysinwhichfemaleauthorshaveusedliteraryandculturalrepresentationsaswell
asfirst-personnarrativesinordertoraisequestionsofhistory,resistance,andagencyinpostcolonialcontexts.By
discussingintersectionsofrace,class,gender,andpower,wewilladdressissuesofdiasporicexperience,identity
formation,andcreativity.Wewillreadavarietyoftranslatedtextsofdifferentgenres,suchasshortstory,fiction,
autobiography,poetry,andfilm,alongwiththeoreticaltexts.Studentswilldeveloptheirwritingskillsasthey
engage,analyze,andthinkcriticallyabouttheseworks.
SEM104 MW11:40–12:55p.m. EliseFinielz 20307 
SEM105 MW01:25–02:40p.m. EliseFinielz 20308 
ROMANCE STUDIES 1108
Cultural Identities/Cultural Differences: The Divided Cities: Rio de Janeiro and Mexico City
Inthelastdecades,MexicoandBrazilenduredsocialandpoliticalhardshipsthatshapedtheirrespective
culturallandscapes.Throughapanoramicoverviewofculturalproduction(literature,film,anddocumentaries)this
courseaimstoexploretheurbancentersofRiodeJaneiroandMexicoCityascasestudiesthatdialogueon
socio-politicalissuessuchasrace,class,gender,andmarginality.Theclasswillintroducestudentstotheworksof
contemporaryfiguressuchasClariceLispector,ElenaPoniatowska,CristianeSobral,AlfonsoCuarón,Rubem
Fonseca,andDanielSaldaña-París.Throughwritingassignmentslikereflectionsandessays,thestudentwill
developthenecessarytoolstoexpressthemselvesinwritingandbeabletotalkabouttwoofthemost
misunderstoodcitiesinLatinAmericatoday.
SEM101 MW07:30–08:45p.m. AndyBarrientos-Gómez 99999 
SEM102 TR01:25–02:40p.m. AndyBarriento-Gómez 88888 
ROMANCE STUDIES 1109
Image and Imagination: A Thousand Words—Writing Images
Poemsbasedonpaintings,illustratedbooks,photo-journals,narrativeswithembeddedpictures...Wordsoften
seemtorequireimagestoillustratethem;conversely,imagesgeartowardwordsforexplanationand
contextualization.Whatisthereinthistension?Bywritingaboutimages(frompainting,photography,film,and
digitalmedia)andthewordsengagingthem,youwillrefineyourunderstandingofthisrelationshipbetween
pictures,poemsbasedonpaintings,illustratedbooks,photo-journals,narrativeswithembeddedpictures...Words
oftenseemtorequireimagestoillustratethem;converselyandtext.Studentswillwritepersonaljournals,piece
reviewsfromvisitstothemuseumandarchivesatCornell,reflexiveresponses,andcriticalessays.Readingsfrom
globalliterature(poemsandshortstories),visualstudies,andculturaljournalismwillprovideyouwithan
expressivelanguagethatwillhelpyouassesimage-writinginitshistorical,social,andindustrialcontexts.
SEM101 MWF11:15–12:05p.m. PauloLorca 20178 IreneEibenstein-Alvisi
ROMANCE STUDIES 1113
Thinking and Thought: Dante's Examined Life
Whydowestudy?Whatisthepointoflearning?Doweaspiretomorethancareersuccess?Aphilosopher
oncesaidthat“theunexaminedlifeisnotworthliving.”Isthistrue?Inthiscoursewe’llanswerthisquestionwhile
venturingintoDanteAlighieri’sInferno,aworkthatnotonlydescribesthestateofsoulsafterdeath,butalsourges
ustoconsiderhowwe,inthislife,envisionourselvesandourcommunities.ReadingthepoeminEnglish
translation,weshalluseitasaframeforfurtherinterrogation.Studentswillwritebothanalyticandpersonalessays.
SEM101 MWF09:05–09:55a.m. IreneEibenstein-Alvisi 20188 
SEM102 MWF10:10–11:00a.m. IreneEibensein-Alvisi 20189 
ROMANCE STUDIES 1113
Thinking and Thought: Collaboration/Resistance—France 1940-44
FranceduringWorldWarIIwasadefeatednationwithanoccupyingforeign(German)army.Thereactionof
theFrenchtooccupationhasbeenasourceofcontroversyuntiltoday.Wewillexplorethiscontroversyinaseries
offilmsthatdepictvariousreactionsinacountryoccupiedbyahostileforeignforce;howsomecollaboratedwith
thenewregime,howsomeresistedandhowthegreatmajorityjustsoughttosurvive.Whatarethemoraland
ethicalchoicesthesefilmsreveal?Studentswillbeencouragedtowriteessaysonthedifferentfilmstryingto
explainthe“internal”choicesofthecharacterswhileatthesametimepresentingtheirownmoraldilemmasto
eachsituation.
SEM103 TR02:55–04:10p.m. MitchellGreenberg 20190 
ROMANCE STUDIES 1113
ROMANCE STUDIES 1113
Thinking and Thought: On Love
Loveiseverywhere—inourownlives,butalsoinliterature,film,art,andmedia.Yetwespendverylittletime
thinkingcriticallyaboutloveanditscompanion,sex.Inthiscoursewewillanalyzelovefromamultiplicityof
perspectives,drawingonphilosophical,religious,literary,visual,andsociologicaltexts.Wewillconsidersuch
topicsasphilosophicalapproachestolove,feministthinkingonloveandsex,stateregulationsofsexuality,love
andsexinliterature,film,andpopularculture,sexoncampusandthehook-upculture,aswellastheintersections
betweenrace,ethnicity,classgender,andsexuality.
SEM104 MWF09:05–09:55a.m. ItziarRodriguezdeRivera 20191 
SEM105 MW10:10–11:25a.m. ItziarRodriguezdeRivera 20192 
ROMANCE STUDIES 1113
Thinking and Thought :The Sick, Sickly and Sickening—Disturbed Bodies in Fiction
Ourbodiesplayacentralroleintheexperiencingandperceptionofdailylife.Butwhathappenswhenthey
becomedisturbed?Whenillness,hunger,pain,desire,orsubstancesalterourbodiesmakingthemsick,sickly,and
sickening?Followingthesequestions,wewillbelookingatcontemporarytexts,inwhichalteredanddisturbed
bodiesbecometheprotagonistsofthestories.AuthorsmayincludeSamantaSchweblin,MarianaEnriquez,Ottessa
Moshfegh,andmore.Thewrittenassignmentsforthestudentsincludeformaltexts,afilmreview,creativetexts,
diaryentries,andsummaries.Throughthese,theywillanalyze,compare,andcontrastthedifferentwaysinwhich
recentliteratureexplorestheroleofnarrativeinreflectionsaroundalteredbodiesandtheywillcomplementthese
exerciseswiththeirownviewpointsandexperiences.
SEM106 MWF10:10–11:00a.m. RosamariaDuran 20193 IreneEibenstein-Alvisi
ROMANCE STUDIES 1120
Animals in Global Cinema: Human and Non-human
Inthisclassstudentswilllearnaboutanimalwelfareandconservationthroughinternationalfilms.Wewill
discusswildlife,companion,andfarmanimalsinconjunctionwithhumancultures,politics,andgeography.The
coursewillcovervariousanimalspeciesinfictionfilms,documentaries,andanimatedmovies.Insomemotion
pictures,animalswillbecentral,inothersmoreperipheral.Studentswilllearnhowtocomposeafilmreview,
comeupwithagoodresearchquestion,andassesssourcesofinformation.Theclassincludesguestspeakersand
fieldtripstoCornellbarnandmuseum.Allmoviesaredigitalforstudentstowatchintheirfreetime.Thecourseis
listedas“sustainabilityinclusive”byCornellCampusSustainabilityOffice.
SEM101 TR10:10–11:25a.m. EwaBachminska 20194 
SOCIOLOGY 1120
Educational Inequality and Reform Efforts in the U.S.
Doschoolsameliorateorperpetuatesocialinequalityinoursociety?Whateducationinterventionsarepoised
tomakethebiggestimpactforstudentsandtheirachievement?ThiscoursewillexplorethehistoryofK-12
educationintheU.S.withanemphasisonreformeffortstakenoverthepastfourdecadesandduringthe
coronaviruspandemic.Wewilldraftandrevisepapersontopicssuchas:theachievementgap;vouchers,school
choice,andcharterschoolsystems;standardizedtestingandschoolaccountability;andalternativeteacherlicensure
programslikeTeachforAmerica.Thiscoursewillequipstudentswiththeskillstointerpretsocialscienceresearch,
writecompellingacademicpapers,andcraftinformedresponsestoargumentsinthenewsorpopularmediaabout
schoolingandsociety.
SEM101 MW01:25–02:40p.m. AlexandraCooperstock 20198 KellyKing-O’Brien
SPANISH 1305
SPANISH 1305
Narrating the Spanish Civil War
TheSpanishCivilWarof1936-1939startedasadomesticconflictthatsoonbecameaninternationaleventas
thefirstconfrontationbetweendemocracyandfascism.Thesupportoftheright-wingmilitaryuprisingbyNazi
GermanyandFascistItaly,andsupportoftheleft-wingRepublicanGovernmentbytheSovietUnionand
internationalvolunteers,turnedthestruggleintoarehearsalandprologuetotheSecondWorldWar.Inthisclass
wewillexploretheliterary,photographic,andcinematicrepresentationsofthewarfromitsoutbreaktothe
present,payingparticularattentiontoitsrichinternationalintellectuallegacy.AuthorsmayincludeLangston
Hughes,PabloNerudaanddelGuillermoToro,amongothers.Studentswilldeveloptheircriticalthinkingand
analyticalwritingskillsthroughoralpresentations,readingresponses,andessays.
SEM101 MWF01:25–02:15p.m. ItziarRodriguezdeRivera 20200 
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY STUDIES 1123
Technology and Society: History of Artificial Intelligence
Atthebeginningof2023,ChatGPTdominatesdiscussionsaboutpotentialofAItoreplacehuman’s
intelligence.Butwhatdoesintelligencemeanforamachine?Thiscourseaimsatsketchinganoutlineofthehistory
ofAI,wherevariousnarratives,imaginaries,methodologies,andconstructionsofAIwereinvolved.Theconcept
ofAIisjustasrichastheconceptofintelligence,whichishighlyflexibleanddynamicalthroughoutthehistory.
Bytheendofthecourse,wewillcometounderstandthefieldofAIasadynamicalrealmconstructed/influenced
bythesocio-politicalcontext.Alsointhiscourse,youwilllearnhowtocriticallyengagewithacademicarticles,
proposeaninterestingresearchquestion,andfinisharesearchpaperontopicsrelatedtothehistoryofAI.
SEM101 MW07:30–08:45p.m. JiuhengHe 20203 KellyKing-O’Brien
WRITING 1370
Elements of Academic Writing: Writing about Place
Howdotheplacesweliveshapeourexperienceoftheworld?Whatstylisticchoiceshaveotherwritersused
toconveyasenseofplace,andhowcanwelearnfromthesetechniques?Inthisclasswewillusetheconceptof
placetoexplorearangeofessaytopics.Usingethnographictechniqueslikeparticipationandobservation,students
willworktowritetheirownethnographyofaplace.TheWRIT1370/80classroomisadynamicworkspacewhere
studentscollaboratewithpeerstoposequestions,examineideas,andsharedrafts.Withsmallerclasssizesand
weeklystudent/teacherconferences,WRIT1370/80providesanindividualizedsettingforstudentstolearnflexible
andsustainablestrategiesforstudyingessentialelementsofacademicwritingandforproducingclear,precise
academicprosethatcanaddressavarietyofaudiencesandmeetdiverserhetoricalaims.
SEM101 MW10:10–11:25a.m. ScottSorrell 20206 
WRIT1370providesamoreintensiveandindividualizedlearningenvironmentthatisparticularlyappropriatefor
studentswhohavenothadmuchformalhighschoolwritinginstruction;areunfamiliarwithacademicor
research-basedwriting,orfeelagener
WRITING 1370
Elements of Academic Writing: Scrolling, Posting, Liking—Studying Social Media’s Grasp
Howdoestheuseofsocialmediaapps,likeTwitter,Instagram,andTikTok,influencehowwethink,feel,and
engagewiththeworldaroundus?Beyondthepersonaleffects,howaresocialmediacontroversiesaroundcontent
moderation,politics,oractivismshapingsociety?Wewillanalyzesocialmediaandourexperienceswithitaswell
assummarizeandsynthesizedifferentperspectivesandresearchtocometoourownconclusionsaboutsocial
media’sinfluence.TheWRIT1370/80classroomisadynamicworkspacewherestudentscollaboratewithpeersto
posequestions,examineideas,andsharedrafts.Withsmallerclasssizesandweeklystudent/teacherconferences,
WRIT1370/80providesanindividualizedsettingforstudentstolearnflexibleandsustainablestrategiesfor
studyingessentialelementsofacademicwritingandforproducingclear,preciseacademicprosethatcanaddressa
varietyofaudiencesandmeetdiverserhetoricalaims.
SEM102 MW11:40–12:55p.m. KateNavickas 20207 
WRIT1380providesamoreintensiveandindividualizedlearningenvironmentthatisparticularlyappropriatefor
studentswhohavenothadmuchformalhighschoolwritinginstruction;areunfamiliarwithacademicor
research-basedwriting,orfeelagener
WRITING 1370
Elements of Academic Writing: The Long Game—Choices for a Healthy Life.
Livinglongerwithoutlivingbetterdoesn’tmakemuchsense.Haveyoubeeninterestedinhealthandwellness
foryears?Ordoyouhaveanewfoundcuriosityaboutlongevity?Thiswritingseminarteachesessentialacademic
writingskillsontopicsthathelpuslivehealthierandlongerlives.InspiredbymedicalauthorslikeDr.PeterAttia,
MD,wewillreflectuponourpersonalhealthchoices:nutrition,exercise,mentalhealth,andsleepanddiscover
waystoimprovethem.*Thiscourseisidealformultilingual,international,andrefugeestudents.TheWRIT
1370/80classroomisadynamicworkspacewherestudentscollaboratewithpeerstoposequestions,examineideas,
andsharedrafts.Withsmallerclasssizesandweeklystudent/teacherconferences,WRIT1370/80providesan
individualizedsettingforstudentstolearnflexibleandsustainablestrategiesforstudyingessentialelementsof
academicwritingandforproducingclear,preciseacademicprosethatcanaddressavarietyofaudiencesandmeet
diverserhetoricalaims.
SEM103 MW11:40–12:55p.m. JessicaSands 20208 
Thiscourseisparticularlyappropriateformultilingualwriters.WRIT1370providesamoreintensiveand
individualizedlearningenvironmentthatisparticularlyappropriateforstudentswhohavenothadmuchformal
highschoolwritinginstruction;are
WRITING 1370
Elements of Academic Writing: The Long Game—Choices for a Healthy Life
Livinglongerwithoutlivingbetterdoesn’tmakemuchsense.Haveyoubeeninterestedinhealthandwellness
foryears?Ordoyouhaveanewfoundcuriosityaboutlongevity?Thiswritingseminarteachesessentialacademic
writingskillsontopicsthathelpuslivehealthierandlongerlives.InspiredbymedicalauthorslikeDr.PeterAttia,
MD,wewillreflectuponourpersonalhealthchoices:nutrition,exercise,mentalhealth,andsleepanddiscover
waystoimprovethem.*Thiscourseisidealformultilingual,international,andrefugeestudents.TheWRIT
1370/80classroomisadynamicworkspacewherestudentscollaboratewithpeerstoposequestions,examineideas,
andsharedrafts.Withsmallerclasssizesandweeklystudent/teacherconferences,WRIT1370/80providesan
individualizedsettingforstudentstolearnflexibleandsustainablestrategiesforstudyingessentialelementsof
academicwritingandforproducingclear,preciseacademicprosethatcanaddressavarietyofaudiencesandmeet
diverserhetoricalaims.
SEM104 MW01:25–02:40p.m. JessicaSands 20209 
Thiscourseisparticularlyappropriateformultilingualwriters.WRIT1370providesamoreintensiveand
individualizedlearningenvironmentthatisparticularlyappropriateforstudentswhohavenothadmuchformal
highschoolwritinginstruction;are
WRITING 1370
Elements of Academic Writing: Metaphor in Art, Science, and Culture
Metaphoristheessenceofhumancreativity—aformofthought,desireandthelanguageoftheunconscious
mind.Howdoesmetaphoroperateinliterature,popculture,politics,andthethoughtoftheoreticalscientistssuch
asEinsteinandRichardFeynman?Canweimproveourcapacitytothinkmetaphorically?TheWRIT1370/80
classroomisadynamicworkspacewherestudentscollaboratewithpeerstoposequestions,examineideas,and
sharedrafts.Withsmallerclasssizesandweeklystudent/teacherconferences,WRIT1370/80providesan
individualizedsettingforstudentstolearnflexibleandsustainablestrategiesforstudyingessentialelementsof
academicwritingandforproducingclear,preciseacademicprosethatcanaddressavarietyofaudiencesandmeet
diverserhetoricalaims.
SEM105 TR10:10–11:25a.m. BradZukovic 20210 
WRIT1380providesamoreintensiveandindividualizedlearningenvironmentthatisparticularlyappropriatefor
studentswhohavenothadmuchformalhighschoolwritinginstruction;areunfamiliarwithacademicor
research-basedwriting,orfeelagener
WRITING 1370
Elements of Academic Writing: Food for Thought
Howdoesthefoodonyourtabletellastoryaboutyou,yourfamily,yourcommunity,yournation?Howdo
wemakefoodchoices,andhowarethesechoicescomplicatedbythecultural,socio-economic,andpoliticalforces
thatbothcreateandcombatwidespreadinternationalhungerandfoodinsecurity?TheWRIT1370/80classroomis
adynamicworkspacewherestudentscollaboratewithpeerstoposequestions,examineideas,andsharedrafts.
Withsmallerclasssizesandweeklystudent/teacherconferences,WRIT1370/80providesanindividualizedsetting
forstudentstolearnflexibleandsustainablestrategiesforstudyingessentialelementsofacademicwritingandfor
producingclear,preciseacademicprosethatcanaddressavarietyofaudiencesandmeetdiverserhetoricalaims.
SEM106 TR11:40–12:55p.m. TracyCarrick 20211 
WRIT1380providesamoreintensiveandindividualizedlearningenvironmentthatisparticularlyappropriatefor
studentswhohavenothadmuchformalhighschoolwritinginstruction;areunfamiliarwithacademicor
research-basedwriting,orfeelagener
WRITING 1370
Elements of Academic Writing: Writing Back to the News
Studentswillensconcethemselvesindebatesragingwithinthecontemporarynewsmedia—suchaspolitics,
conflictswithinhighereducation,genderequality,internationalcrises,Americanpopularculture—andwillwrite
aboutcontemporarycontroversiestodifferentaudiencesinavarietyofmediums,suchasargumentativeessays,
investigativepieces,andblogposts.TheWRIT1370/80classroomisadynamicworkspacewherestudents
collaboratewithpeerstoposequestions,examineideas,andsharedrafts.Withsmallerclasssizesandweekly
student/teacherconferences,WRIT1370/80providesanindividualizedsettingforstudentstolearnflexibleand
sustainablestrategiesforstudyingessentialelementsofacademicwritingandforproducingclear,preciseacademic
prosethatcanaddressavarietyofaudiencesandmeetdiverserhetoricalaims.
SEM107 TR02:55–04:10p.m. KellyKing-O’Brien 20212 
WRIT1380providesamoreintensiveandindividualizedlearningenvironmentthatisparticularlyappropriatefor
studentswhohavenothadmuchformalhighschoolwritinginstruction;areunfamiliarwithacademicor
research-basedwriting,orfeelagener
WRITING 1370
Elements of Academic Writing: Data, Environment, and Society
Fromsmartphonestosatellitestobackyardairqualitymonitors,newtechnologiesgeneratevastquantitiesof
dataabouthumansandourenvironments.Dataoptimistsbelieveourunprecedentedcapacitytocreateinformation
willallowustoaddresstoughsocialandenvironmentalproblems.Butbigdataalsoraisenewquestions:whatcan
datatellus,andwhatareitslimits?Whocontrolsdata,andwhatdotheydowithit?Inthiscourse,wewillexplore
thesocialandtechnologicalprocessesthatproducedata,andhowdatashapescontemporaryenvironmental
problems.Studentswillwritewithandaboutdata,developevidence-basedarguments,andpracticecommunicating
fordifferentaudiences.TheWRIT1370/80classroomisadynamicworkspacewherestudentscollaboratewith
peerstoposequestions,examineideas,andsharedrafts.Withsmallerclasssizesandweeklystudent/teacher
conferences,WRIT1370/80providesanindividualizedsettingforstudentstolearnflexibleandsustainable
strategiesforstudyingessentialelementsofacademicwritingandforproducingclear,preciseacademicprosethat
canaddressavarietyofaudiencesandmeetdiverserhetoricalaims.
SEM108 MW10:10–11:25a.m. EwanRobinson 20634 
SEM109 MW01:25–02:40p.m. EwanRobinson 20635 
WRIT1380providesamoreintensiveandindividualizedlearningenvironmentthatisparticularlyappropriatefor
studentswhohavenothadmuchformalhighschoolwritinginstruction;areunfamiliarwithacademicor
research-basedwriting,orfeelagener
WRITING 1420
Research and Rhetoric: A Sustained Research Writing Adventure
Drawinguponpersonalexperiencesandinterests,studentswillselecttheirowntopicandcomposearesearch
portfoliothathighlightssignificantanalyticresearch.WewillexploretheCornellLibrarygatewaytodevelop
college-levelresearchskills:usingdatabases,evaluatinginformation,andengagingresponsiblywithsourcesto
produceeffectiveacademicwriting.Studentswilllearnstrategiesforsummarizing,analyzing,synthesizingand
acknowledgingsources;developingathesisthatemergesfromresearch;andfortalkingabouttheprocessof
researchandwriting.TheWriting1420classroomwillfunctionasadynamicworkspaceinwhichstudentswill
collaboratewithpeerstoworkshopwriting,evaluatesources,brainstormconnectionsbetweensourcesand
emergingideas,analyzeevidence,andevendosomein-classwriting.Thiscourseisespeciallyappropriatefor
studentsinterestedinbuildingacademicresearchandwritingskillswithaneyetowardadvancedprojects.
SEM101 MW02:55–04:10p.m. KateNavickas 20215 
WRITING 1450
Communicating Big Ideas: Climate Change Rhetoric
Recordheatandhistoricfloods,epicdroughtsandragingwildfires.Thesearejustafewexamplesofhowthe
worldischangingduetoanthropogenic(orhuman-induced)climatechange.increasinglybeingInthisclasswe
willreadandwriteaboutissuesofenvironmentaljusticefromdifferentgenresanddisciplinaryperspectives.Some
ofthequestionswewilladdressinclude:howscientiststalktopolicymakers,howyoungpeopleconnecttothe
naturalworldandeachother,howindigenouspeoplemakeuseoftraditionalknowledgetokeepthelandin
balance,andhowpeopleacrosstheglobespeakoutforclimatejustice.
SEM101 TR02:55–04:10p.m. ScottSorrell 20309 