COL courses
192 courses · Wesleyan University · Fall 2026
- COL 100F — History of Math (Is for Everyone!)1 section
- COL 102F — Bodies and Sexualities in Medieval Islam1 section
- COL 109F — "Real" Love: Subjects of Unreason1 section
- COL 112F — The European Novel from Cervantes to Calvino1 section
- COL 115F — Reading in Slow Motion1 section
- COL 121F — Writing About Social Issues1 section
- COL 123 — Love, Sex, and Marriage in Renaissance Europe1 section
- COL 123F — Love, Sex, and Marriage in Renaissance Europe1 section
- COL 123Z — Love, Sex, and Marriage in Renaissance Europe1 section
- COL 129 — Writing the French Revolution1 section
- COL 130F — Thinking Animals: An Introduction to Animal Studies1 section
- COL 138 — Wesleyan University Collegium Musicum1 section
- COL 138F — Masculinities1 section
- COL 150F — Great Books Unbound: Self and Other1 section
- COL 189 — Introduction to History: History of the Present1 section
- COL 198F — Truth & the Poet: Lyric Subjectivity and Phenomenology for Beginners1 section
- COL 199 — Time Machines: Bringing the Past to the Present and the Future to the Past1 section
- COL 200 — The Narratives of Illness and Recovery1 section
- COL 201 — Writing Nonfiction1 section
- COL 202 — Sex and Sexuality in Islam1 section
- COL 202F — Bodies and Sexualities in Medieval Islam1 section
- COL 203 — World History1 section
- COL 204 — British Literature in the Enlightenment: Individualism, Consumer Culture, and the Public Sphere1 section
- COL 205 — Writing About Healthcare1 section
- COL 207 — Introduction to Postcolonial Studies1 section
- COL 208 — Accessible Writing: Disability, Language, and Media1 section
- COL 209 — Appearing Acts: Visual Histories and Identity Construction Through Photography in Spain1 section
- COL 210 — Living a Good Life1 section
- COL 211 — Art Criticism1 section
- COL 212 — Finance, the Stock Market, and the History of Economic Thought1 section
- COL 213 — Enlightenment and Science1 section
- COL 214 — The Modern and the Postmodern1 section
- COL 215 — Fact into Fiction1 section
- COL 216 — European Intellectual History to the Renaissance1 section
- COL 217 — Love and Loss in Medieval and Early Modern French Literature and Culture1 section
- COL 218 — The Family Memoir: A Contemporary Study of the Genre1 section
- COL 219 — Defiant Echoes: Resistance and Reinvention in the Spanish Canon1 section
- COL 221 — Your Revolutionary Life: Biography as Political Power from Antiquity to Modernity1 section
- COL 222 — Ruin and Redemption: Narrating Twentieth-Century Italy1 section
- COL 223 — Home Movies: Italian "Families" on Film1 section
- COL 224 — Humans and Other Animals1 section
- COL 226 — Dialogue of Poets: Classical and 20th-Century Poetry in Spain and Latin America1 section
- COL 227 — Life Writing: Writing About the Self and from Experience1 section
- COL 227Z — Life Writing: Writing about the Self and from Experience1 section
- COL 228 — Virtue and Vice in History, Literature, and Philosophy1 section
- COL 229 — Heroes, Lovers, and Swindlers: Medieval and Renaissance Spanish Literature and History1 section
- COL 230 — Longform Narrative1 section
- COL 232 — Truth & the Poet: Introduction to Phenomenology and Lyric Thinking1 section
- COL 233 — Visual Sounds: Exploring the Landscape and Architecture of Musical Notation1 section
- COL 235 — Re-imagining Dante's Inferno: Social Justice and the Arts1 section
- COL 236 — Don Quixote: How to Read the Ultimate Novel1 section
- COL 237 — Reporting for Narrative1 section
- COL 238 — Animal Theories/Human Fictions1 section
- COL 239 — Rebels and Rebellions in Early Modern Spain1 section
- COL 241 — Sophomore Colloquium 1: Antiquity1 section
- COL 242 — Sophomore Colloquium 2: The Middle Ages1 section
- COL 243 — Junior Colloquium: The Early Modern Period1 section
- COL 244 — Junior Colloquium 2: The Early Modern Period1 section
- COL 245 — Senior Colloquium 1: The 18th and 19th Century1 section
- COL 246 — Senior Colloquium 2: The 20th and 21st Century1 section
- COL 247 — The Fall of Rome and Other Stories1 section
- COL 248 — Foundations of Critical Theory: Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud1 section
- COL 249 — Thinking By Analogy: The Philosophical Use of a Literary Form1 section
- COL 250 — The Renaissance Woman1 section
- COL 251 — Kafka: Literature, Law, and Power1 section
- COL 252 — Writing Love: Articulations of Passion, Genres of Intimacy1 section
- COL 253 — Journey to the Divine: Islamic Mysticism in Thought and Practice1 section
- COL 254 — Folly & Enlightenment: Madness Before and After the Mind/Body Split1 section
- COL 255 — Entangled Sounding Objects: The Social Life of Musical Instruments1 section
- COL 256 — European Realist Novels1 section
- COL 258 — The Word for World is Information: Ideologies of Language in Science Fiction & Film1 section
- COL 259 — The Human Condition: Arendt, Nietzsche, Marx1 section
- COL 260 — Detective Fiction: Procedure and Paranoia in Spanish Narrative1 section
- COL 262 — Tolstoy1 section
- COL 264 — Civic Responsibility and Places of Remembrance: Historical Consciousness in Germany and Beyond1 section
- COL 265 — Frankfurt School Critical Theory, Then and Now1 section
- COL 266 — History and Limits of Aesthetic Theory1 section
- COL 267 — Practical Criticism1 section
- COL 269 — Modern Aesthetic Theory1 section
- COL 270 — Modernist City-Texts1 section
- COL 271 — The Sonnet: Forms of Love, Death, and Beyond1 section
- COL 272 — Exoticism: Imaginary Geographies in 18th- and 19th-Century French Literature1 section
- COL 273 — The History of Science in Islam1 section
- COL 274 — Outsiders in European Literature1 section
- COL 275 — Moral Complexity in Islam: Origins to the Present1 section
- COL 275Z — "Like Herding Cats"1 section
- COL 276 — Tolstoy: War and Peace and Other Works1 section
- COL 277 — Tolstoy Part Two: Anna Karenina and Later Works1 section
- COL 279 — Good, Evil, Human: German Fairy Tales and Their Cultural Impact1 section
- COL 279F — Good, Evil, Human: German Fairy Tales and Their Cultural Impact1 section
- COL 280 — Image/Word: Narrative and Photography in Contemporary Spain1 section
- COL 281 — Histories of Race: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment1 section
- COL 282 — Death and the Limits of Representation1 section
- COL 283 — The Rationalist Tradition in Early Modern European Philosophy1 section
- COL 285 — When the Empire Strikes Back: (Post) Colonial Theory and Fiction1 section
- COL 286 — Introduction to Literary Translation1 section
- COL 287 — Nietzsche als Versucher1 section
- COL 288 — Introduction to Journalism: Constructing the News1 section
- COL 288Z — Solitude, Society and Loneliness in Romanticism and Modern Culture1 section
- COL 289 — Italian Filmmaking by the Book: Adaptations, Texts, and Contexts1 section
- COL 290 — Nietzsche - Science, Psychology, Genealogy1 section
- COL 291 — Forward, Without Forgetting: The GDR in Literature and Film1 section
- COL 292 — Reason and Its Limits1 section
- COL 293 — Words and Sex: Storytelling, Censorship, and Boccaccio's Decameron1 section
- COL 294 — Soundscapes of Islam1 section
- COL 295 — Rome After Rome: Culture and Empire of Constantinople1 section
- COL 297 — Reading Nietzsche1 section
- COL 298 — Music of Central Asia: From Throat-singing to Heavy Metal1 section
- COL 299 — Palestina: Another Middle Ages1 section
- COL 300 — Infinity and the Mathematization of Nature: Early Modern Perspectives1 section
- COL 301 — Researching and Writing Historical Narrative Nonfiction: A Workshop1 section
- COL 302 — Cultural Criticism and Aesthetic Theory: Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno1 section
- COL 303 — Radical Self-Care1 section
- COL 304 — The Enlightenment You Don't Know1 section
- COL 305 — The Critic and Her Publics1 section
- COL 306 — Spectacles of Violence in Early Modern French Tragedy1 section
- COL 307 — Negotiating French Identity: Migration and Identity in Contemporary France1 section
- COL 308 — Translation in Theory and Practice1 section
- COL 308Z — Contemporary Short Stories in Translation1 section
- COL 309 — The Poet and Truth: Lyric Subjectivity, Phenomenology, and the Structure of Experience1 section
- COL 310 — More-Than-Human-Worlds: Theories and Fictions1 section
- COL 311 — Translation Workshop in Early Modern Spain: Topographies of Love, Arcadia, and History1 section
- COL 312 — Love and Other Useless Pursuits1 section
- COL 313 — Classic Spanish Plays: Love, Violence, and (Poetic) Justice on the Early Modern Stage1 section
- COL 314 — Cuban Literature and Film: Imagination, Revolt, and Melancholia1 section
- COL 315 — German Romanticism: Disenchantment and Re-enchantment1 section
- COL 316 — Newest German Literature and Film1 section
- COL 319 — The Fact: Master Class on Fact Checking1 section
- COL 320 — Places of Remembrance: Historical Consciousness in Germany1 section
- COL 321 — Dialogues of Love: A Close Reading1 section
- COL 323 — Gender and History: Global Feminist Theories and Narratives of the Past1 section
- COL 323Z — Gender and History: Global Feminist Theories and Narratives of the Past1 section
- COL 324 — Interpreting the "New World": France and the Early Modern Americas1 section
- COL 326 — Literary Movements: Conceptual and Experimental Fiction1 section
- COL 327 — Cervantes1 section
- COL 328 — History and Theory1 section
- COL 329 — Madness and Its Others: The Ethics of Intelligibility1 section
- COL 330 — The Craft of Criticism1 section
- COL 332 — European Intellectual History since the Renaissance1 section
- COL 332L — European Intellectual History since the Renaissance- Service Learning1 section
- COL 333 — Do We Truly Choose? Free Will in Philosophy and Theology1 section
- COL 334 — History of Spanish Cinema1 section
- COL 336 — Theories of Translation1 section
- COL 337 — What is (a) Language?1 section
- COL 338 — Utter Nonsense: Modernist Experiments with Meaning1 section
- COL 339 — Reading Theories1 section
- COL 340 — Daemons, Enigmas, and the Cosmic Image: Classical and Modern Allegory1 section
- COL 341 — Plato's REPUBLIC1 section
- COL 347 — Foucault: IYKYK1 section
- COL 350 — History as Tragedy: Genre, Gender, and Power in the Alexiad of Anna Komnena1 section
- COL 351 — Catching Glimpses: Perceiving Infinitesimals in the Scientific Revolution1 section
- COL 352 — Coming Out/Coming of Age: Narratives of Becoming in Italian Culture1 section
- COL 354Z — Self and Text in Roman North Africa: Augustine's Confessions1 section
- COL 355 — The Treason of the Intellectuals: Power, Ethics, and Cultural Production1 section
- COL 359 — Philosophical Classics I: Ancient Western Philosophy1 section
- COL 360 — Philosophical Classics II: Early Modern Philosophy from Descartes Through Kant1 section
- COL 363 — (Un)Popular Performances/Performances (Im)Populaires1 section
- COL 364 — Body Politics: Desire, Sexualities, and Gender, Past and Present1 section
- COL 367 — Female Dicks: Police, Detectives, and Private Investigators in Contemporary Italian Culture1 section
- COL 368 — Nabokov1 section
- COL 369 — Law, Politics, and Order in the Ancient World1 section
- COL 370 — Writing Fiction1 section
- COL 373 — "Real" Love: Subjects of Unreason1 section
- COL 375 — Advanced Research in the Traveler's Lab1 section
- COL 385 — Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt1 section
- COL 386 — A Book of Nonsense: Wittgenstein's Tractatus1 section
- COL 387 — Beyond Growth: Agrarian Visions1 section
- COL 388 — Weimar Modernism and the City of Berlin1 section
- COL 390 — Romanticism-Realism-Modernism1 section
- COL 391 — Diderot: An Encyclopedic Mind1 section
- COL 392 — Empire, Memory, Translation: A Seminar on the Rings of Saturn1 section
- COL 393 — Directed Research in European Studies1 section
- COL 398 — Marxism and Climate Crisis1 section
- COL 399 — Burnout1 section
- COL 401 — Individual Tutorial, Undergraduate1 section
- COL 402 — Individual Tutorial, Undergraduate1 section
- COL 403 — Department/Program Project or Essay1 section
- COL 404 — Department/Program Project or Essay1 section
- COL 407 — Senior Tutorial1 section
- COL 408 — Senior Tutorial1 section
- COL 409 — Senior Thesis Tutorial1 section
- COL 410 — Senior Thesis Tutorial1 section
- COL 411 — Group Tutorial, Undergraduate1 section
- COL 412 — Group Tutorial, Undergraduate1 section
- COL 419 — Student Forum1 section
- COL 420 — Student Forum1 section
- COL 423 — Advanced Research Seminar, Undergraduate1 section
- COL 424 — Advanced Research Seminar, Undergraduate1 section
- COL 465 — Education in the Field, Undergraduate1 section
- COL 466 — Education in the Field, Undergraduate1 section
- COL 491 — Teaching Apprentice Tutorial1 section
- COL 492 — Teaching Apprentice Tutorial1 section
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