Semester 1fall
Building the department map…
Building the department map…
Department paths
A suggested order for the 4 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 12 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.
Semester 1fall
Semester 2spring
Semester 3fall
Generated from University of Pennsylvania’s catalog, prerequisite, and concentration data. Spotted an error? Departments can adjust labels, ordering, and notes without a code change, so contact us.
Semester 4spring
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate COML coursework.
Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate COML work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.
Showing the 4 COML and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 623 more COML courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on COML, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
Major Requirementsall required
Core Requirements; Core Course 1:; Core Course 2:; Core Course 3: Capstone Seminar or Thesis; or COML 5000-9999; Comparative Literature Electives; Select 1 Theory elective:; Attribute: ACLH; Select 1 Non-Western or Post-Colonial elective; Attribute: ACLP; Select 1 COML elective; (Trans)National Concentration Requirements; Select 8 courses in two national literatures (4 in each):; Attribute: ACLO;
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Core Requirements; Core Course 1:; Core Course 2:; Core Course 3: Capstone Seminar or Thesis; or COML 5000-9999; Comparative Literature Electives; Select 3 COML Electives; COML 0000-4999; Globalization Concentration Requirements; Select 8 course units in Literature or Film and Theory; Select 1 Post-colonial Theory course; Attribute: ACLW; Select 3 Globalization & Culture courses; Attribute: ACLG;
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Major Requirementsall required
Core Requirements; Core Course 1; Core Course 2; Core Course 3: Capstone Seminar or Thesis; or COML 5000-9999; Comparative Literature Electives; Select 2 COML Electives; COML 0000-4999; Select 1 Non-Western or Post-Colonial elective; Attribute: ACLP; Theory Concentration Requirements; Select 4 Theory Courses; Attribute: ACLH; Select 4 Advanced Literature or Film Courses; Attribute: ACLL
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Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in COML. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
3 courses deep, ending at COML 4300
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All COML courses in the Penn catalog
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