CMPL courses

143 courses · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Fall 2026

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CMPL 55 — First-Year Seminar: Comics as Literature.
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CMPL 62 — Curiosity and the Birth of the Imagination.
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CMPL 89 — First-Year Seminar: Special Topics.
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CMPL 120 — Great Books I: Epic and Lyric Traditions.
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CMPL 121 — Great Books I: Romancing the World.
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CMPL 122 — Great Books I: Visual Arts and Literature from Antiquity to 1750.
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CMPL 123 — Great Books I: Politics and Literature from Antiquity to 1750.
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CMPL 124 — Great Books I: Science and Literature from Antiquity to 1750.
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CMPL 130 — Great Books II.
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CMPL 131 — Great Books II: Savage, Native, Stranger, Other.
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CMPL 132 — Great Books II: Performance and Cultural Identity in the African Diaspora.
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CMPL 133 — Great Books II: Imaging the Americas from the Late 18th Century to the Present.
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CMPL 134 — Great Books II: Travel and Identity.
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CMPL 142 — Visual Culture II.
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CMPL 143 — History of Global Cinema.
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CMPL 144 — Engaging Film and Media.
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CMPL 150 — Critical Theory: Fear, Love, Laughter, and Loss - Film Genres and Spectatorship.
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CMPL 180 — Race and Ethnicity in Hollywood Productions and Beyond.
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CMPL 198H — Literature in Eastern Europe.
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CMPL 212 — The Cinematic City.
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CMPL 220 — Global Authors: Jane Austen.
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CMPL 223 — Global Authors: Cervantes.
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CMPL 225 — Global Authors: The Worlds of Shakespeare.
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CMPL 227 — Global Authors: The Middle Ages in World Cinema.
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CMPL 230 — Global Crusoe: The Desert-Island Idea in Film and Fiction.
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CMPL 232 — Imagining the City in Modern Korea: Text, Image, Space.
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CMPL 237 — Rebel, Lover, Martyr: Gender and Sexuality in North and South Korean Screen Cultures.
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CMPL 238 — From Martial Arts to Street Dance: Rebellion with Chinese Characteristics.
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CMPL 240 — Introduction to Film Theory.
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CMPL 246 — Body Politics in Modern Korean Literature.
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CMPL 247 — Indigenous Spiritualities in Literatures of China and Taiwan.
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CMPL 250 — Approaches to Comparative Literature.
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CMPL 251 — Introduction to Literary Theory.
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CMPL 254 — Horror and the Global Gothic: Film, Literature, Theory.
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CMPL 255 — The Feast in Film, Fiction, and Philosophy.
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CMPL 256 — Love in Classical Persian Poetry.
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CMPL 257 — The Crisis of Modernity in World Cinema.
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CMPL 258 — Iranian Prison Literature.
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CMPL 259 — Ideology and Aesthetics: Marxism and Literature.
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CMPL 260 — Landscape: Re-Imagining the Natural World.
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CMPL 261 — India and Orientalism.
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CMPL 262 — Film and Politics.
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CMPL 263 — European Exile Cinema.
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CMPL 266 — Weimar Cinema.
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CMPL 268 — Auteur Cinema.
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CMPL 269 — Springtime for Hitler: Jews on Stage from Shakespeare to Mel Brooks.
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CMPL 270 — German Culture and the Jewish Question.
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CMPL 271 — Women in German Cinema.
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CMPL 272 — History of German Cinema.
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CMPL 275 — Literature of Pilgrimage.
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CMPL 277H — Myth, Fable, Novella: The Long History of the Short Story.
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CMPL 279 — Once Upon A Fairy Tale: Fairy Tales and Childhood, Then and Now.
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CMPL 280 — Film Genres.
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CMPL 281 — Holocaust Cinema in Eastern Europe.
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CMPL 282 — Russian Literature in World Cinema.
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CMPL 283 — The Film Factory: A History of Russian/Soviet Cinema.
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CMPL 288 — Graphic Medicine: The Intersection of Health and Comics.
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CMPL 317 — Myth, Fable, Novella: The Long History of the Short Story.
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CMPL 332 — Old, Queer, and Poor: Bad-Aging in Chinese-Speaking Worlds.
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CMPL 359 — Literary Diasporas of the Middle East.
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CMPL 360 — Palestine/Israel in Literature and Film.
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CMPL 364 — The Classical Background of English Poetry.
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CMPL 374 — Modern Women Writers.
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CMPL 375 — New Wave Cinema: Its Sources and Its Legacies.
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CMPL 377 — The World of the Beat Generation: Transcultural Connections.
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CMPL 379 — Cowboys, Samurai, and Rebels in Film and Fiction.
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CMPL 380 — Almost Despicable Heroines in Japanese and Western Literature.
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CMPL 382 — Film and Nature.
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CMPL 383 — Literature and Medicine.
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CMPL 385 — Modernist and Postmodernist Narrative.
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CMPL 386 — Adolescence in 20th- and 21st-Century Literature.
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CMPL 387 — French New Wave Cinema.
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CMPL 388 — History of French Cinema I: 1895-1950.
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CMPL 389 — History of French Cinema II: 1950 to the Present.
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CMPL 390 — Special Topics in Comparative Literature.
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CMPL 395 — Research, Creativity, and Innovation in the Humanities.
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CMPL 411 — Critical Theory.
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CMPL 420 — Film, Photography, and the Digital Image.
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CMPL 421 — Avant-Garde Cinema and Experimental Film.
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CMPL 442 — Postcolonial Literature of the Middle East.
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CMPL 450 — Major Works of 20th-Century Literary Theory.
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CMPL 452 — The Middle Ages.
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CMPL 453 — The Erotic Middle Ages.
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CMPL 454 — Literature of the Continental Renaissance in Translation.
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CMPL 456 — The 18th-Century Novel.
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CMPL 459 — Middle Eastern & North African Prison Literature.
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CMPL 460 — Transnational Romanticism: Romantic Movements in Europe and the Americas.
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CMPL 462 — Realism and Naturalism.
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CMPL 463 — Cinema and Surrealism.
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CMPL 466 — Modernism.
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CMPL 467 — Contemporary German and Austrian Cinema.
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CMPL 468 — Aestheticism.
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CMPL 469 — Milan Kundera and World Literature.
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CMPL 470 — Concepts and Perspectives of the Tragic.
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CMPL 472 — The Drama from Ibsen to Beckett.
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CMPL 473 — Drama, Pageantry, and Spectacle in Medieval Europe.
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CMPL 474 — Words and Pictures: Literature and Photography in the 20th Century.
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CMPL 476 — Cultural Theory and Criticism in Eastern Europe.
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CMPL 477 — Wicked Desire: Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, on Page and Screen.
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CMPL 480 — Queering China.
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CMPL 482 — Philosophy and Literature.
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CMPL 483 — Cross-Currents in East-West Literature.
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CMPL 485 — Approaches to 20th-Century Narrative.
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CMPL 487 — Literature and the Arts of Love.
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CMPL 489 — Empire and Diplomacy.
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CMPL 490 — Special Topics.
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CMPL 494 — The Essay Film: Adventures in Modern Cinema since 1945.
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CMPL 495 — Advanced Seminar.
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CMPL 496 — Reading Course.
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CMPL 520 — Cinema, Painting, and The Frame.
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CMPL 527 — Cold War Culture in East Asia: Transnational and Intermedial Connections.
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CMPL 535 — The Cinemas of the Middle East and North Africa.
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CMPL 545 — Chinese Science Fiction.
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CMPL 547 — Documenting Diasporas: Korean Diasporas in Films and Documentaries.
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CMPL 558 — The Lives and Times of Medieval Corpses.
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CMPL 560 — Reading Other Cultures: Issues in Literary Translation.
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CMPL 563 — Studies in the Anglo-French Renaissance.
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CMPL 579 — What is a Medium? German Media Theory from Aesthetics to Cultural Techniques.
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CMPL 621 — Arthurian Romance.
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CMPL 622 — Medieval Cosmopolitanisms.
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CMPL 624 — The Baroque.
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CMPL 685 — Literature of the Americas.
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CMPL 691H — Comparative Lit Senior Honors Thesis Part I.
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CMPL 692H — Comparative Lit Senior Honors Thesis Part II.
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CMPL 700 — Problems and Methods in Comparative Literature.
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CMPL 737 — Topics in Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory.
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CMPL 741 — The Essay and Short Story.
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CMPL 745 — The Vanguards.
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CMPL 747 — The Contemporary Spanish American Novel.
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CMPL 796 — Reading Course.
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CMPL 821 — Reading Ironies.
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CMPL 841 — History of Literary Criticism I: The Origins of Theory and Criticism.
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CMPL 842 — History of Literary Criticism II: 1750-1950.
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CMPL 843 — 20th-Century Literary Theory.
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CMPL 844 — Modern Women Writers.
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CMPL 866 — Melancholia.
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CMPL 890 — Special Topics in Comparative Literature.
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CMPL 892 — Interdisciplinary Seminar in Renaissance Studies.
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CMPL 894 — Seminar.
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CMPL 900 — Research.
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CMPL 992 — Master's (Non-Thesis).
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CMPL 993 — Master's Research and Thesis.
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CMPL 994 — Doctoral Research and Dissertation.
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