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Please email the fall 2013 Undergraduate Advising Head, David Powelstock, or the COML Undergraduate Department Representatives, Ryan Nicoll and Joseph Babeu!

Course Offerings

The Registrar's site lists the most up-to-date information about our courses. To load class times and professors as well as locations (as soon as assigned), please click on the following link:

Fall 2013 COML classes

Please consider signing up for these exciting fall 2013 courses:

poster for COML 150

COML 150B — Critique of Erotic Reason
Explores transformations in erotic sensibilities in the novel from the early nineteenth century to the present. Works by Goethe, Austen, Kierkegaard, Tolstoy, Schopenhauer, Bronte, Chekhov, Garcia-Marquez, Kundera, and Cormac McCarthy.
Mr. Dowden
Mondays and Wednesdays, 3:30 PM–4:50 PM

Download syllabus here and pdf of poster here.

COML/ENG 141B — Literature and Time
Explores the human experience of temporality and reflection upon it. Texts include: Waiting for Godot, To the Lighthouse, and Combray, along with philosophical speculation by Aristotle, Kierkegaard and Heidegger, as well as two films, La Jeteé and 12 Monkeys. Themes covered by this course include: memory, nostalgia, anxiety, ethics, eternity, and time travel.
Ms. Quinney
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:30 PM–4:50 PM

Our spring 2014 courses are now on-line here:

Spring 2014 COML classes

For complete descriptions of Comparative Literature and Culture courses, please see the current Bulletin here.