COML courses
329 courses · University of Pennsylvania · Fall 2026
- COML 0004 — India's Literature: Love, War, Wisdom and Humor1 section
- COML 0006 — Hindu Mythology1 section
- COML 0007 — Introduction to Modern South Asian Literatures1 section
- COML 0015 — Writing the Self: Life-Writing, Fiction, Representation1 section
- COML 0021 — Study of a Theme in Cinema1 section
- COML 0022 — Study of a Theme in Global Literature1 section
- COML 0030 — Introduction to Sexuality Studies and Queer Theory1 section
- COML 0038 — Study of a Genre: World Autobiography1 section
- COML 0041 — Study of a Period in Cinematic History1 section
- COML 0052 — Literature and Society: Introduction to Psychoanalysis1 section
- COML 0080 — Laughter and Tricky Topics1 section
- COML 0081 — Decolonizing French Food1 section
- COML 0082 — Caribbean Literature1 section
- COML 0087 — Desire and Deception in Medieval Erotic Literature1 section
- COML 0090 — The Fantastic Voyage from Homer to Science Fiction1 section
- COML 0095 — Universal Language: From the Tower of Babel to Artifical Intelligence1 section
- COML 0103 — Doctors' Notes1 section
- COML 0149 — World Socialist Literature and Film1 section
- COML 0275 — Montage and Revolution: Conceptual Cinema of Sergei Eisenstein1 section
- COML 0303 — First Year Seminar: National Epics1 section
- COML 0309 — First Year Seminar: Jack Kerouac and Postwar Counterculture1 section
- COML 0310 — Reading the City (First-Year Seminar)1 section
- COML 0315 — Jewish Literature in the Middle Ages in Translation1 section
- COML 0320 — Modern Hebrew Literature and Film in Translation1 section
- COML 0361 — First Year Seminar: Collecting and Collectors (SNF Paideia Program Course)1 section
- COML 0478 — Banned Books: Writing Against Censorship1 section
- COML 0482 — Nabokov: Art, Otherworldliness, and Morality1 section
- COML 0502 — BFS--Med/Red Dante in English: Creative Responses to the Divine Comedy1 section
- COML 0507 — Benjamin Franklin Seminar: 20th-Century Literature1 section
- COML 0510 — Benjamin Franklin Seminar: National Epics (Med/Ren)1 section
- COML 0518 — Benjamin Franklin Seminar: Cinema and Globalization1 section
- COML 0519 — Benjamin Franklin Seminar: Postcolonial Literature1 section
- COML 0520 — Capitalism, (Neo)Colonialism, Racism, and Resistance1 section
- COML 0522 — Testimony: Life-writing as Dialogue (SNF Paideia Program Course)1 section
- COML 0523 — Life Writing as Dialogue:Autobiography,Memoir,Auto Fiction and the Diary(SNF Paideia Program…1 section
- COML 0527 — The Aftermath of Slavery: Language, Storytelling, Experimentation1 section
- COML 0540 — Benjamin Franklin Seminar: History of Literary Criticism1 section
- COML 0590 — Benjamin Franklin Seminar: Film Studies1 section
- COML 0615 — Modern Arabic Literature1 section
- COML 0630 — Women in Modern Iranian Literature and Cinema1 section
- COML 0700 — Iranian Cinema: Gender, Politics and Religion1 section
- COML 0701 — Medieval Road Trip: Reading and Writing with Chaucer1 section
- COML 0745 — Revolutionary Papers1 section
- COML 0783 — Writing About Music (Critical-Creative Seminar)1 section
- COML 0784 — Anne Carson and the Unclassifiable Text (Critical-Creative Seminar)1 section
- COML 0810 — Saints and Devils in Literature and Tradition1 section
- COML 1000 — Introduction to Literary Study1 section
- COML 1003 — Cinema and Revolution1 section
- COML 1010 — Freud: The Invention of Psychoanalysis1 section
- COML 1013 — Chaucer: Poetry, Voice, and Interpretation1 section
- COML 1014 — King Arthur: Medieval to Modern1 section
- COML 1015 — Sagas and Skalds: Old Norse Literature in Translation1 section
- COML 1018 — Poetics of Screenplay: The Art of Plotting1 section
- COML 1020 — Marx, Marxism, and the Culture of Revolution1 section
- COML 1021 — Introduction to Renaissance Literature and Culture1 section
- COML 1025 — Narrative Across Cultures1 section
- COML 1026 — Shakespeare Now1 section
- COML 1027 — Sex and Representation1 section
- COML 1030 — Nietzsche's Modernity and the Death of God1 section
- COML 1040 — Berlin: History, Politics, Culture1 section
- COML 1050 — War and Representation1 section
- COML 1054 — Forest Worlds: Mapping the Arboreal Imaginary in Literature and Film1 section
- COML 1060 — The Fantastic and Uncanny in Literature: Ghosts, Spirits & Machines1 section
- COML 1070 — Modernisms and Modernities1 section
- COML 1071 — Fascist Cinemas1 section
- COML 1072 — Fashion and Modernity1 section
- COML 1080 — German Cinema1 section
- COML 1081 — 20th-Century British Literature1 section
- COML 1090 — Jewish Films and Literature1 section
- COML 1095 — Fate and Chance in Literature and Culture1 section
- COML 1097 — Madness and Madmen in Russian Culture1 section
- COML 1110 — Jewish American Literature1 section
- COML 1111 — Yiddish Literature and Culture1 section
- COML 1120 — Translating Cultures: Literature on and in Translation1 section
- COML 1121 — Community, Freedom, Violence: Writing the South Asian City1 section
- COML 1130 — Water Worlds: Cultural Responses to Sea Level Rise & Catastrophic Flooding1 section
- COML 1131 — Crime and Criminality in Early America1 section
- COML 1140 — Liquid Histories and Floating Archives1 section
- COML 1141 — Religion and Storytelling1 section
- COML 1160 — Sustainability & Utopianism1 section
- COML 1161 — Comparative Cultures of Climate Storytelling1 section
- COML 1170 — Global Sustainabilities1 section
- COML 1180 — The Art of Revolution1 section
- COML 1181 — Writing the Translation1 section
- COML 1190 — Introduction to Postcolonial Literature1 section
- COML 1191 — World Literature1 section
- COML 1192 — Classics of the World II1 section
- COML 1200 — Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece and Rome1 section
- COML 1201 — Foundations of European Thought: from Rome to the Renaissance1 section
- COML 1210 — Witnessing, Remembering, and Writing the Holocaust1 section
- COML 1215 — Love, Lust and Violence in The Middle Ages1 section
- COML 1225 — The Enlightenment1 section
- COML 1231 — Perspectives in French Literature: Love and Passion1 section
- COML 1232 — Perspectives in French Literature: The Individual and Society1 section
- COML 1250 — Belief and Unbelief in Modern Thought1 section
- COML 1260 — Latinx Literature and Culture1 section
- COML 1261 — Radical Arts in the Americas1 section
- COML 1262 — Tolstoy’s War and Peace and the Age of Napoleon1 section
- COML 1290 — Narrative Emotions1 section
- COML 1310 — Gender, Sexuality, and Literature1 section
- COML 1311 — Introduction to Modern Hebrew Literature1 section
- COML 1351 — Contemporary Fiction & Film in Japan1 section
- COML 1400 — Introduction to Literary Theory1 section
- COML 1427 — Wild Things: Children’s Literature and the Psychoanalytic Study of the Child1 section
- COML 1500 — Greek & Roman Mythology1 section
- COML 1601 — Ancient Drama1 section
- COML 1605 — Ancient World Literature1 section
- COML 1650 — Introduction to Digital Humanities1 section
- COML 1700 — Introduction to Persian Poetic Tradition1 section
- COML 1701 — Scandalous Arts in Ancient and Modern Communities1 section
- COML 1740 — 20th-Century British Novel1 section
- COML 1810 — Sounding Poetry1 section
- COML 1840 — 20th-Century Poetry1 section
- COML 1982 — Study Abroad1 section
- COML 2000 — Topics In Classicism and Literature: Epic Tradition1 section
- COML 2004 — Tolstoy1 section
- COML 2007 — Dostoevsky1 section
- COML 2011 — Literature of Dissent: Art as Protest in 20th-Century Poland and Czechoslovakia1 section
- COML 2012 — Transnational Cinema1 section
- COML 2014 — Medieval Literature Seminar: Premodern Animals1 section
- COML 2017 — Modern Iran and the West Through the Lens of Fiction1 section
- COML 2020 — Russia and the West1 section
- COML 2031 — 18th-Century Seminar: China in the English Imagination1 section
- COML 2071 — Global Modernism Seminar1 section
- COML 2073 — Modernist Animals: How to Rethink the Human-Animal Divide1 section
- COML 2082 — 20th-Century American Literature Seminar1 section
- COML 2083 — Faking it: Liars, Imitators and Cheats in Literature and Film1 section
- COML 2084 — Black Italy: Transnational Identities and Narratives in Afro-Italian Literature1 section
- COML 2180 — Literature of Africa and the African Diaspora1 section
- COML 2190 — Postcolonial Literature Seminar1 section
- COML 2191 — The Dictator Novel as Global Form1 section
- COML 2192 — Narrating Survival1 section
- COML 2200 — Creating New Worlds: The Modern Indian Novel1 section
- COML 2201 — Modern East Asian Texts1 section
- COML 2217 — CU in India - Topics Course1 section
- COML 2225 — Imagining New Futures: Science Fiction and the Fantastic in South Asian Literature1 section
- COML 2231 — The Sanskrit Epics1 section
- COML 2251 — Machiavelli and Modern Political Thought1 section
- COML 2252 — European Intellectual History since 19451 section
- COML 2258 — Existentialism, Structuralism, Poststructuralism: French Thought Since 19451 section
- COML 2310 — Gender, Sexuality, and Literature Seminar1 section
- COML 2320 — Medium Matters: How to Make Books, Cuneiform to Kindle1 section
- COML 2324 — Sanskrit Literature in Translation1 section
- COML 2334 — A Survey of Sanskrit, Pakrit, and Classical Tamil Literature in Translation1 section
- COML 2390 — Clarice Lispector1 section
- COML 2400 — Faces of Love: Gender, Sexuality and the Erotic in Persian Literature1 section
- COML 2401 — Literature and Theory Seminar: Theories of World Literature1 section
- COML 2402 — What is Capitalism? Theories of Marx and Marxism1 section
- COML 2403 — Marx's Century1 section
- COML 2410 — Literary Theory Seminar1 section
- COML 2415 — Fascism and Anti-Fascism1 section
- COML 2420 — Cultural Studies Seminar1 section
- COML 2500 — The Novel and Marriage1 section
- COML 2520 — Contemporary Italy: Pop Culture, Politics, and Peninsular Identity1 section
- COML 2595 — Imagining Environmental Justice1 section
- COML 2800 — Poetry and Poetics Seminar1 section
- COML 2810 — Poetry and Sound Seminar: Music and Literature1 section
- COML 2840 — 20th-Century Poetry Seminar1 section
- COML 2932 — Bollywood and Beyond1 section
- COML 2943 — The Politics of Truth in the Global Documentary1 section
- COML 2960 — Digital and New Media Seminar1 section
- COML 3020 — Literary Translation: Theory and Practice1 section
- COML 3040 — Religious Conflict in France from Past to Present1 section
- COML 3080 — Soccer Beyond the Field: Sport and Politics in Italian Culture1 section
- COML 3097 — Psychoanalysis and Autobiography1 section
- COML 3110 — French Thought After 19681 section
- COML 3120 — The Translation of Poetry/The Poetry of Translation1 section
- COML 3211 — Modern Chinese Poetry in a Global Context1 section
- COML 3220 — Advanced Topics in Global Gender and Sexuality Studies1 section
- COML 3252 — Marx, Nietzsche, Freud: Masters of Suspicion1 section
- COML 3303 — Global Film Theory1 section
- COML 3330 — Dante's Divine Comedy1 section
- COML 3409 — Documentary Forms1 section
- COML 3501 — Writing and Witnessing1 section
- COML 3508 — Queer Forms1 section
- COML 3555 — Japanese Theater1 section
- COML 3603 — Writing, Publishing, and Reading in Early Modern Europe and the Americas1 section
- COML 3701 — Odyssey & Its Afterlife1 section
- COML 3704 — The Iliad and its Afterlife1 section
- COML 3802 — Literary Translation1 section
- COML 3830 — French & Italian Modern Horror1 section
- COML 3922 — European Thought and Culture in the Age of Revolution1 section
- COML 3923 — Twentieth Century European Intellectual History1 section
- COML 3999 — Independent Study1 section
- COML 4300 — Seminar in Modern Hebrew Literature1 section
- COML 4500 — Arabic Literature and Literary Theory1 section
- COML 4525 — Black Visual & Performance Arts in Latin America & the Caribbean1 section
- COML 4998 — Honors Thesis1 section
- COML 4999 — Independent Study1 section
- COML 5010 — Comparative Literature Proseminar1 section
- COML 5041 — 18th-century Visual Cultures of Race & Empire1 section
- COML 5050 — Digital Humanities Studies1 section
- COML 5090 — Topics in Yiddish Literature: Modernist Jewish Poetry1 section
- COML 5110 — Life Writing: Autobiography, Memoir, and the Diary1 section
- COML 5111 — Introduction to Paleography & Book History1 section
- COML 5113 — Topics in South Asian Art1 section
- COML 5120 — Film Noir1 section
- COML 5121 — Facts and Fiction in Autobiographical Writing1 section
- COML 5180 — Old Church Slavonic: History, Language, Manuscripts1 section
- COML 5240 — Topics in Medieval Studies1 section
- COML 5245 — Topics in Medieval Studies: Premodern Animals (c.500-c.1500)1 section
- COML 5250 — Schelling, Goethe, Nature. Thinking Nature with Schelling and Goethe.1 section
- COML 5251 — Literary Translation: Theory and Practice1 section
- COML 5252 — Chaucer and Langland1 section
- COML 5260 — The Trouble with Freud: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Culture1 section
- COML 5300 — Medieval Italian Literature1 section
- COML 5301 — Religion, Race, and Sexuality1 section
- COML 5310 — Dante's Commedia I1 section
- COML 5320 — After Dante’s Divine Comedy: Transmission and Material Form, Creative Adaptation and…1 section
- COML 5350 — The Elemental Turn1 section
- COML 5351 — Petrarch1 section
- COML 5370 — Translating Literature: Theory and Practice1 section
- COML 5380 — Materialism1 section
- COML 5384 — Plato and Aristotle in the Early Modern Period1 section
- COML 5400 — Franz Kafka and J. M. Coetzee1 section
- COML 5410 — Topics in Cultural History1 section
- COML 5411 — Transalpine Tensions: Franco-Italian Rivalries in the Renaissance1 section
- COML 5415 — Orientalisms1 section
- COML 5420 — Topics in Culture.1 section
- COML 5430 — Environmental Humanities: Theory, Method, Practice1 section
- COML 5440 — Public Environmental Humanities1 section
- COML 5450 — Topics: Renaissance Culture1 section
- COML 5460 — Women's Writing in French, 1160–18231 section
- COML 5500 — Etudes sur le XVII siecle1 section
- COML 5520 — Affect Theory and Power1 section
- COML 5525 — Black Visual & Performance Arts in Latin America & the Caribbean1 section
- COML 5550 — Topics in Dutch Studies1 section
- COML 5590 — Myth Through Time and In Time1 section
- COML 5600 — Eighteenth-Century Novel1 section
- COML 5650 — Reading Benjamin Reading Kafka1 section
- COML 5660 — The Long Nineteenth Century: Literature, Philosophy, Culture1 section
- COML 5700 — Topics in Afro-Diasporic Literature and Culture1 section
- COML 5710 — Literature and Multilingualism1 section
- COML 5720 — Iran and the West Through the Lens of Fiction1 section
- COML 5725 — Songs of Dissent: African American Poetry in the 21st Century1 section
- COML 5730 — Topics in Criticism & Theory: Object Theory1 section
- COML 5735 — Topics in Criticism: What is Poetics?1 section
- COML 5771 — Inside the Archive1 section
- COML 5790 — Spinoza After Marx1 section
- COML 5800 — Topics In Aesthetics1 section
- COML 5811 — Modern/Contemporary Italian Culture1 section
- COML 5840 — Fantastic Literature 19th/20th Centuries1 section
- COML 5841 — Environmental Imaginaries1 section
- COML 5842 — Environmental Literature and Media1 section
- COML 5850 — Italian Thought1 section
- COML 5851 — Machiavelli’s Political Thought and its Modern Readers1 section
- COML 5900 — Introduction to Francophone Studies1 section
- COML 5901 — Recent issues in Critical Theory1 section
- COML 5902 — The Lessons of Horror1 section
- COML 5903 — Freud and After1 section
- COML 5904 — Theories of Nationalism1 section
- COML 5910 — Francophone Postcolonial Studies1 section
- COML 5920 — Life, Death, and Revolution in Haiti1 section
- COML 5921 — 20th-Century Literature and Theory1 section
- COML 5925 — The Language of Comics1 section
- COML 5934 — The Politics of Truth in the Global Documentary1 section
- COML 5940 — Cinema and Media Studies Methods1 section
- COML 5945 — Nationalism, Globalism, and Literary Form1 section
- COML 5950 — Travel Literature1 section
- COML 5960 — Marxism1 section
- COML 5965 — Anticolonialism & Marxism1 section
- COML 5980 — Theories of Gender & Sexuality1 section
- COML 6010 — Italian Literary Theory1 section
- COML 6030 — Poetics of Narrative1 section
- COML 6040 — Religious Conflict in France from Past to Present1 section
- COML 6050 — Modern Literary Theory and Criticism1 section
- COML 6051 — Archives: Theory and Practice1 section
- COML 6090 — Global France1 section
- COML 6100 — Ancient and Medieval Theories and Therapies of the Soul1 section
- COML 6120 — Hannah Arendt: Literature, Philosophy, Politics1 section
- COML 6149 — Socialist and Post-Socialist Worlds1 section
- COML 6160 — Approaches to Literary Texts1 section
- COML 6170 — Cultural History of Medieval Rus (800-1700)1 section
- COML 6175 — History and Memory in/of Socialism1 section
- COML 6176 — Marx and Spinoza, a Subterranean Tradition1 section
- COML 6177 — The Quest for a Universal Language1 section
- COML 6200 — Paris and Philadelphia: Landscapes and Literature of the 19th Century1 section
- COML 6201 — Modern East Asian Texts1 section
- COML 6207 — Reading Caste Critically1 section
- COML 6210 — Reading Marx’s Capital: Divergent Traditions in Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Global South1 section
- COML 6300 — Introduction to Medieval French Literature1 section
- COML 6381 — Troubadours at the Center1 section
- COML 6400 — Studies in the Renaissance1 section
- COML 6460 — Linguistic Culture and Literary Development1 section
- COML 6530 — Russian and Soviet Cultural Institutions1 section
- COML 6570 — Becoming Modern: The German-Jewish Experience1 section
- COML 6592 — Global Film Theory1 section
- COML 6600 — Studies in the Eighteenth Century1 section
- COML 6623 — Literary History and Aesthetics in South Asia1 section
- COML 6627 — South Asia Literature as Comparative Literature1 section
- COML 6631 — The Sanskrit Epics1 section
- COML 6636 — The Problem of Vernacularity in Literary Modernity1 section
- COML 6750 — Topics in 19th Century Literature1 section
- COML 6770 — The Life of Forms: Ontogenesis, Morphology, Literature1 section
- COML 6820 — Seminar on Literary Theory1 section
- COML 6830 — Collective Violence, Trauma, and Representation1 section
- COML 6840 — Topics in Philosophy.1 section
- COML 6860 — Form, Figure, Metaphor1 section
- COML 6910 — Transatlantic Black Feminisms in Francophone Literatures1 section
- COML 6942 — Impossible Innocence: the Films of Luis Buñuel1 section
- COML 6960 — Postcolonial Theory Francophone1 section
- COML 7041 — Melodramatic Tactics1 section
- COML 7080 — Cultural and Literary Theory of Africa and the African Diaspora1 section
- COML 7211 — Modern Chinese Poetry in a Global Context1 section
- COML 7220 — Vernacular Epistemologies1 section
- COML 7255 — Literary Criticism and Theory in Japanese Literature1 section
- COML 7350 — Premodern Trans Studies1 section
- COML 7600 — Realisms Seminar--19th Century to Contemporary1 section
- COML 7640 — Marx and Freud1 section
- COML 7670 — Modernism1 section
- COML 7705 — The Harlem Renaisssance: Then and Now1 section
- COML 7707 — The Iliad and its Receptions1 section
- COML 7708 — Black Classicisms1 section
- COML 7714 — Boethius from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period1 section
- COML 7760 — Partition in South Asia1 section
- COML 7900 — New Directions in Queer and Trans Studies1 section
- COML 7901 — Recent Issues in Critical Theory Related to Gender & Sexuality1 section
- COML 7903 — The Matter of the Archive1 section
- COML 7904 — New Directions in Black Thought and Literature1 section
- COML 7920 — Study of a Genre: The Manifesto1 section
- COML 7941 — Print Cultures of the Global South1 section
- COML 8830 — Dissertation Prospectus Research1 section
- COML 8840 — Dissertation Prospectus Workshop1 section
- COML 8999 — Comparative Literature Seminars1 section
- COML 9810 — M.A. Exam Prep1 section
- COML 9920 — Qualifying Examination Preparation1 section
- COML 9950 — Dissertation1 section
- COML 9990 — Master's Thesis1 section
- COML 9999 — Independent Study and Research1 section
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