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Courses

For course descriptions not found in the UC San Diego General Catalog 2024–25, please contact the department for more information.

AFRICAN LITERATURE

Upper Division

Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Additional prerequisites may be specified below.

LTAF 110. African Oral Literature (4)

Survey of various genres of African and oral literary traditions. Oral narrative genres, investigation of proverb, riddle, praise poetry, and epic. Development and use of a methodology to analyze aspects of performance, composition, and education in oral traditional systems.

LTAF 120. Literature and Film of Modern Africa (4)

This course traces the rise of modern literature in traditional African societies disrupted by the colonial and neocolonial experience. Contemporary films by African and Western artists will provide an additional insight into the complex social self-images of the continent. Students may not receive credit for both LTAF 120 and LTAF 120GS.

LTAF 120GS. Literature and Film of Modern Africa (4)

This course traces the rise of modern literature in traditional African societies disrupted by the colonial and neo-colonial experience. Contemporary films by African and western artists will provide additional insight into the complex social self-images of the continent. Department approval required. Students must apply for and be accepted into the Global Seminars Program. Program or materials fees may apply. Students may not receive credit for both LTAF 120 and LTAF 120GS.

LITERATURE OF THE AMERICAS

Lower Division

LTAM 87. First-year Student Seminar (1)

The First-year Student Seminar Program is designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small seminar setting. First-year student seminars are offered in all campus departments and undergraduate colleges, and topics vary from quarter to quarter. Enrollment is limited to fifteen to twenty students, with preference given to entering first-year students.

Upper Division

Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Additional prerequisites may be specified below.

LTAM 100. Latino/a Cultures in the United States (4)

An introductory historical and cultural overview of the various Latino/a populations in the United States with a study of representative cultural texts.

LTAM 105. Gender and Sexuality in Latino/a-Chicano/a Cultural Production (4)

A study of the construction of differences in gender and sexual orientation in Latino/a-Chicano/a literature and other cultural production with an emphasis on examining various theoretical/ideological perspectives on these issues. May be taken for credit up to two times as topics vary.

LTAM 107. Comparative Latino/a and US Ethnic Cultures (4)

A comparative and intersecting study of Latino/a and other US ethnic cultures. Literary texts will be viewed as “windows” into real time and spaces where cultures meet and mix. May be taken for credit up to two times as topics vary.

LTAM 108. Chicano/a and Latino/a Cultures: Intellectual and Political Traditions (4)

The course will center on Chicano/a-Latino/a writers and movements of literary, intellectual, cultural, or political significance. Texts may be read in the original language or in English. May be taken for credit up to two times as topics vary.

LTAM 110. Latin American Literature in Translation (4)

Reading of representative works in Latin American literature with a view to literary analysis (form, theme, meaning), the developmental processes of the literature, and the many contexts: historical, social, cultural. Texts may be read in English. LTAM 110 and LTAM 110GS may be taken for credit for a combined total of three times.

LTAM 111. Comparative Caribbean Discourse (4)

Comparative survey of Caribbean literatures from the Spanish, French, English, and Dutch Caribbean. Literary texts trace historical paradigms including the development of plantation slavery, emancipation, the quest for nationhood, migration, and transnational identities. Films and music may complement discussion.

LTAM 120. Ecocultural Narratives from Latin America (4)

This class examines different narratives of the environment from Latin America. Students are exposed to a variety of cultural sources (film, literature, orality) that question the Western divide between culture and nature, and between humans and non-humans. Particular emphasis will be paid to indigenous and Afro-Latin American ways of understanding nature, culture, and knowledge.

LTAM 140. Topics in Culture and Politics (4)

Study of the relationships between cultural production (literature, film, popular culture), social change, and political conflict, covering topics such as colonialism, imperialism, modernization, social movements, dictatorship, and revolution. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

CHINESE LITERATURE

Upper Division

Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Additional prerequisites may be specified below.

LTCH 101. Readings in Contemporary Chinese Literature (4)

Intended for students who have the competence to read contemporary Chinese texts, poetry, short stories, and criticism in vernacular Chinese. May be taken for credit up to four times as topics vary.

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Graduate

Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

LTCO 201. Theories and Methods of Literary Analysis (4)

Contemporary theories of the significance of literary form. The seminar will concentrate on major interpretive approaches drawn from several areas of literary, cultural, and political analysis, including Marxist theory, feminism, psychoanalytic theory, postcolonial studies, LGBT studies, diaspora studies, and others. The particular focus and approach may vary. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary. Restricted to major code LT77 or consent of instructor and department. Nongraduate students may enroll with consent of instructor.

LTCO 274. Genre Studies (4)

A consideration of a representative selection of works relating to a theme, form, or literary genre. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary. Restricted to major code LT77 or consent of instructor and department.

LTCO 281. Literature and Film (4)

A study of literature and film in relation to one another, to critical and aesthetic theories, and to historical context. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary. Restricted to major code LT77 or consent of instructor and department.

LTCO 282. Literature and Philosophy (4)

Questions and problems from the history of philosophy or from the various fields of philosophy (e.g., epistemology, ethics, logic) in their interaction with intellectual issues and questions addressed by literary criticism and theory. May be taken for credit up to three times. Restricted to major code LT77 or consent of instructor and department.

LTCO 284. Performativity (4)

This interdisciplinary course looks at performativity as a social process of cultural significance. It examines the works of John Searle, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, and Jose Esteban Munoz and underlines the role of performative action in linguistic, literary, cinematic, theatrical, political, and other forms of human interactivity. Restricted to major code LT77 or consent of instructor and department.

LTCO 285. Literature and Aesthetics (4)

Research in literary theory and aesthetic philosophies. Single and multiple authors and topics; Plato and Aristotle, Renaissance treatises, Winckleman, Kant and Hegel in the Enlightenment, Warburg, Heidegger and Panofsky, contemporary art theory, et al. May be taken up to two times for credit when topics vary. Restricted to major code LT77 or consent of instructor and department.

LTCO 287. Culture and Political Theory (4)

A comparative approach of political theory based on historical periods (with the tools of new historicism), various cultures (inspired by anthropological research), and referring to the most important philosophical thinkers from Western and non-Western traditions. May be taken up to three times for credit when topics vary. Restricted to major code LT77 or consent of instructor and department.

LTCO 297. Directed Studies: Reading Course (1–12)

This course may be designed according to an individual student’s needs when seminar offerings do not cover subjects, genres, or authors of interest. No paper required. The 297 courses do not count toward the seminar requirement. Repeatable for credit.

LTCO 298. Special Projects: Writing Course (1–12)

Similar to a 297, but a paper is required. Papers are usually on subjects not covered by seminar offerings. Up to two 298s may be applied toward the twelve-seminar requirement of the doctoral program. Repeatable for credit.

LTCO 299. Dissertation (1–12)

Research for the dissertation. Offered for repeated registration. Open only to PhD students who have advanced to candidacy.

LITERATURE/CULTURAL STUDIES

Lower Division

LTCS 50. Introduction to Cultural Studies (4)

An introduction to cultural studies with a focus on the following areas: literary and historical studies, popular culture, women’s studies, ethnic studies, science studies, and gay/lesbian studies. Particular emphasis on the question of “cultural practices” and their social and political conditions and effects.

LTCS 52. Topics in Cultural Studies (4)

This course is designed to complement LTCS 50, Introduction to Cultural Studies. In this course, cultural studies methods are further introduced and applied to various concrete topics in order to illustrate the practical analysis of culture and cultural forms.

LTCS 87. First-year Student Seminar (1)

Upper Division

Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Additional prerequisites may be specified below.

LTCS 100. Theories and Methods in Cultural Studies (4)

Reading in some of the major theoretical texts that have framed work in cultural studies, with particular emphasis on those drawn from critical theory, studies in colonialism, cultural anthropology, feminism, semiotics, gay/lesbian studies, historicism, and psychoanalytic theory.

LTCS 102. Practicing Cultural Studies (4)

Survey and application of methods central to cultural studies as a critical social practice, examining the relationship between cultural studies and social transformation. Students will study varieties of material culture, and experiment with techniques of reading, interpretation, and intervention.

LTCS 108. Gender, Race, and Artificial Intelligence (4)

This course explores the idea of artificial intelligence in both art and science, its relation to the quest to identify what makes us human, and the roles gender and race have played in both. Students may not receive credit for CGS 108 and LTCS 108.

LTCS 110. Popular Culture (4)

A reading of recent theory on popular culture and a study of particular texts dealing with popular cultural practices, both contemporary and noncontemporary, as sites of conflict and struggle. LTCS 110 and LTCS 110GS may be taken for credit for a combined total of three times.

LTCS 110GS. Popular Culture (4)

A reading of recent theories on popular culture and a study of particular texts dealing with popular cultural practices, both contemporary and noncontemporary, as sites of conflict and struggle. Students must apply and be accepted to the Global Seminars Program. Program or materials fees may apply. LTCS 110 and LTCS 110GS may be taken for credit for a combined total of three times.

LTCS 111. Special Topics in Popular Culture in Historical Context (4)

Exploration of forms of popular culture in different historical and geographical contexts. Topics may include folklore, dime novels and other types of popular literature, racial performances, popular religions, theatrical melodrama, photojournalism, and early film. LTCS 111 and LTCS 111GS may be taken for credit for a combined total of three times.

LTCS 111GS. Special Topics in Popular Culture in Historical Context (4)

Exploration of forms of popular culture in different historical and geographical contexts. Topics may include folklore, dime novels and other types of popular literature, racial performances, popular religions, theatrical melodrama, photojournalism, and early film. Students must apply and be accepted to the Global Seminars Program. Program or materials fees may apply. LTCS 111 and LTCS 111GS may be taken for credit for a combined total of three times.

LTCS 119. Asian American Film and Media (4)

(Cross-listed with CGS 119.) The course explores the politics of pleasure in relation to the production, reception, and performance of Asian American identities in the mass media of film, video, and the internet. The course considers how the “deviant” sexuality of Asian Americans (e.g., hypersexual women and emasculated men) does more than uniformly harm and subjugate Asian American subjects. The texts explored alternate between those produced by majoritarian culture and the interventions made by Asian American filmmakers. Students may not receive credit for LTCS 119 and CGS 119.

LTCS 120. Historical Perspectives on Culture (4)

The course will explore the relation among cultural production, institutions, history, and ideology during selected historical periods. In considering different kinds of texts, relations of power and knowledge at different historical moments will be discussed. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTCS 125. Cultural Perspectives on Immigration and Citizenship (4)

Introduction to the studies of cultural dimensions of immigration and citizenship. Examines the diverse cultural texts—literature, law, film, music, the televisual images, etc.—that both shape and are shaped by immigration and the idea of citizenship in different national and historical contexts. May be taken for credit up to two times as topics vary.

LTCS 130. Gender, Race/Ethnicity, Class, and Culture (4)

The course will focus on the representation of gender, ethnicity, and class in cultural production in view of various contemporary theories of race, sex, and class. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTCS 131. Topics in Queer Cultures/Queer Subcultures (4)

This course examines the intersection of sex, sexuality, and popular culture by looking at the history of popular representations of queer sexuality and their relation to political movements for gay and lesbian rights. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTCS 132. Special Topics in Social Identities and the Media (4)

A study of media representation and various aspects of identity, such as gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, social class, culture, and geopolitical location. Students will consider the various media of film, television, alternative video, advertising, music, and the internet. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTCS 133. Globalization and Culture (4)

Studies of cultural dimensions of immigration and citizenship. This course examines the diverse cultural texts—literature, law, film, music, the televisual images, etc., that both shape and are shaped by immigration and the idea of citizenship in different national and historical contexts. May be taken for credit up to two times as topics vary.

LTCS 134. Culture and Revolution (4)

This course examines the cultural practices of revolutionary societies from the French Revolution to present time. It focuses on China, Cuba, Russia, and Iran and explores how various cultural practices are produced in the course of building revolutionary societies.

LTCS 141. Special Topics in Race and Empire (4)

The role of race and culture within the history of empires; may select a single empire for consideration, such as France, Britain, United States, or Japan, or choose to examine the role of race and culture in comparative histories of colonialism. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTCS 150. Topics in Cultural Studies (4)

The course will examine one or more forms of cultural production or cultural practice from a variety of theoretical and historical perspectives. Topics may include contemporary debates on culture, genres of popular music/fiction/film, AIDS and culture, the history of sexuality, subcultural styles, etc. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTCS 155. Health, Illness, and Global Culture (4)

A medical humanities course that examines compelling written and cinematic accounts of health issues confronting contemporary societies such as environmental pollution, contaminated food supply, recreational drug use, HIV/AIDS, cancer, chronic conditions (allergies, diabetes, obesity, arthritis), famine, natural disasters, and war. May be taken for credit up to two times as topics vary.

LTCS 165. Special Topics: The Politics of Food (4)

This course will examine the representation and politics of food in literary and other cultural texts. Topics may include food and poverty, the fast food industry, controversies about seed, sustainable food production, myths about hunger, eating and epistemology, aesthetics, etc. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTCS 170. Visual Culture (4)

The course will focus on visual practices and discourses in their intersection and overlap, from traditional media, print, and photography to film, video, TV, computers, medical scanners, and the internet. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTCS 172. Special Topics in Screening Race/Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality (4)

Exploring both Hollywood and international filmmaking, an exploration of screen representations with attention to race/ethnicity, gender, and sexuality in different historical and linguistic contexts. Historical periods may extend from silent, through wartime and cold war, to contemporary era of globalization. LTCS 172 and LTCS 172GS may be taken for credit for a combined total of three times.

LTCS 173. Topics in Violence and Visual Culture (4)

This course focuses on the critical study of representations of violence, such as war, genocide, sexual violence, and crime, across a range of media, including literature, film, photography, and other forms of visual culture. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTCS 180. Programming for the Humanities (4)

Introduction to a script programming language (like Python + NLTK or R) and its usages in the processing of literary and historical digital corpora.

LTCS 198. Directed Group Study (4)

Directed group research, under the guidance of a member of the faculty, in an area not covered in courses currently offered by the department. May be taken for credit up to three times. (P/NP only.) Prerequisites: permission of the department.

LTCS 199. Special Studies (2 or 4)

Individual reading in an area not covered in courses currently offered by the department. May be taken for credit up to three times. (P/NP only.) Prerequisites: permission of the department.

Graduate

Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

LTCS 222. Topics in Theory and History of Film (4)

This course will consider various theoretical approaches to film texts (historical-materialist, feminist, psychoanalytic, semiotic) as well as the history of film, the political economy of film production and distribution, exhibition practices, and spectatorship in national and transnational contexts. May be taken up to three times for credit when topics vary. Restricted to major code LT77 or consent of instructor and department.

LTCS 225. Interdisciplinary and Historical Analysis of Cultural Texts (4)

The seminar will focus on a particular historical period and examine a variety of cultural texts vis-à-vis related historical, economic, political, and sociological discourses. The conjunction and disjunction of approaches will be explored in relation to specific texts. May be taken up to three times for credit when topics vary. Restricted to major code LT77 or consent of instructor and department.

LTCS 250. Topics in Cultural Studies (4)

This seminar will be organized around any of various topic areas relating to cultural studies. These might include studies in colonialism, historicism, gender, sexuality, social institutions, popular culture, subaltern practices, etc. May be taken up to three times for credit when topics vary. Restricted to major code LT77 or consent of instructor and department.

LTCS 256. Cultural Studies of Technoscience (4)

The course will explore work in cultural studies, feminist studies, and queer theory of scientific practices altering social relations, cultural identities, and conceptions of “nature.” Issues may include the AIDS pandemic, genetic research, electronic communities, reproductive technologies, and other topics. May be taken up to three times for credit when topics vary. Restricted to major code LT77 or consent of instructor and department.

LTCS 260. National Cultures (4)

Selected topics on the construction of national cultural identities. Investigation of the dynamics of canon formation and nation building in specific historical contexts. May be taken up to three times for credit when topics vary. Restricted to major code LT77 or consent of instructor and department.

LTCS 297. Directed Studies: Reading Course (1–12)

LTCS 298. Special Projects: Writing Course (1–12)

LTCS 299. Dissertation (1–12)

Research toward the dissertation. Open only to PhD students who have advanced to candidacy. Repeatable for credit.

EAST ASIAN LITERATURES

Upper Division

Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Additional prerequisites may be specified below.

LTEA 100A. Classical Chinese Poetry in Translation (4)

A survey of different genres of traditional Chinese poetry from various periods. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEA 100B. Modern Chinese Poetry in Translation (4)

A survey of Chinese poetry written in the vernacular from 1918 to 1949. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEA 100C. Contemporary Chinese Poetry in Translation (4)

A survey of Chinese poetic development from 1949 to the present. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEA 110A. Classical Chinese Fiction in Translation (4)

The course will focus on a few representative masterpieces of Chinese literature in its classical age, with emphasis on the formal conventions and the social or intellectual presuppositions that are indispensable to their understanding. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEA 110B. Modern Chinese Fiction in Translation (4)

A survey of representative works of the modern period from 1919 to 1949. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEA 110C. Contemporary Chinese Fiction in Translation (4)

An introductory survey of representative texts produced after 1949 with particular emphasis on the social, cultural, and political changes. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEA 120A. Chinese Films (4)

A survey of representative films from different periods of Chinese cinematic development. Priority may be given to Chinese studies majors and literature majors. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEA 120B. Taiwan Films (4)

A survey of “New Taiwan Cinema” of the eighties and nineties. Priority may be given to Chinese studies majors and literature majors. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEA 120C. Hong Kong Films (4)

An examination of representative works of different film genres from Hong Kong. Priority may be given to Chinese studies majors and literature majors. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEA 132. Later Japanese Literature in Translation (4)

An introduction to later Japanese (kogo) literature in translation. Will focus on several “modern” works, placing their forms in the historical context. No knowledge of Japanese required. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEA 138. Japanese Films (4)

LTEA 138GS. Japanese Films (4)

An introduction to Japanese films. Attention given to representative Japanese directors (e.g., Ozu), form (e.g., anime), genre (e.g., feminist revenge horror), or historical context in which films are produced. Priority may be given to Japanese studies majors and literature majors. Students must submit applications to the International Center Program Abroad Office and be accepted into the Global Seminar Program. Program or materials fees may apply.

LTEA 140. Modern Korean Literature in Translation from Colonial Period (4)

A survey of modern Korean prose fiction and poetry from the colonial period. Exploration of major issues such as Japanese colonization, rise of left-wing and right-wing nationalisms, construction of national culture, and relations between tradition and modernity.

LTEA 141. Modern Korean Literature in Translation from 1945 to Present (4)

A survey of modern Korean prose fiction and poetry from 1945 to the 1990s. Examination of literary representations of national division, the Korean War, accelerated industrialization, authoritarian rule, and the labor/agrarian movements.

LTEA 142. Korean Film, Literature, and Popular Culture (4)

A study of modern Korean society and its major historical issues as represented in film, literature, and other popular cultural media such as TV and music video. We will explore additional issues such as cinematic adaptations of prose fiction, fluid distinctions between popular literature and “serious” literature, and the role of mass media under authoritarian rule. May be taken for credit up to two times as topics vary.

LTEA 143. Gender and Sexuality in Korean Literature and Culture (4)

A study of constructions of gender and sexuality in premodern and modern Korean societies. We will discuss literary works as well as historical and ethnographic works on gender relations, representations of masculinity and femininity, and changing roles of men and women in work and family. May be taken for credit up to two times as topics vary.

LTEA 144. Korean American Literature and Other Literatures of Korean Diaspora (4)

An examination of the experiences of the Korean diaspora linked to the historical contexts of modern Korea, Japan, the United States, and other countries. We will focus on literature both about Korea and the Korean immigrant experience written in the United States but will also read from and about other Korean diasporic contexts. May be taken for credit up to two times as topics vary.

LTEA 151. Readings in Tagalog Literature and Culture I (4)

Course will concentrate on selections of literature, history, and cultural texts (painting, drama, religious artifacts) of the 1896 Philippine revolution and the succeeding US takeover of the Philippines. Intermediate fluency in speaking, reading, and writing Tagalog. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEA 152B. Topics in Filipino Literature and Culture (World War II–Present) (4)

Surveys the authors, intellectual currents, and cultural politics of Filipino culture from World War II to the present. Topics may include the dual lingua franca, the birth of “Filipino American” literature, the culture of dictatorship, and new approaches to narrative. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEA 198. Directed Group Study (4)

Research seminars and research, under the direction of a faculty member. May be taken for credit up to three times. (P/NP grades only)

LTEA 199. Special Studies (2 or 4)

Tutorial; individual guided reading in areas of literature not normally covered in courses. May be taken for credit up to three times. (P/NP grades only.)

LITERATURES IN ENGLISH

Lower Division

LTEN 21. Introduction to the Literature of the British Isles: Pre-1660 (4)

An introduction to the literatures written in English in Britain before 1660, with a focus on the interaction of text and history.

LTEN 22. Introduction to the Literature of the British Isles: 1660–1832 (4)

An introduction to the literatures written in English in Britain and Ireland between 1660 and 1832, with a focus on the interaction of text and history.

LTEN 23. Introduction to the Literature of the British Isles: 1832–Present (4)

An introduction to the literatures written in English in Britain, Ireland, and the British Empire (and the former British Empire) from 1832 to the present, with a focus on the interaction of text and history.

LTEN 25. Introduction to the Literature of the United States, Beginnings to 1865 (4)

An introduction to the literatures written in English in the United States from the beginnings to 1865, with a focus on the interaction of text and history.

LTEN 26. Introduction to the Literature of the United States, 1865 to the Present (4)

An introduction to the literatures written in English in the United States from 1865 to the present, with a focus on the interaction of text and history.

LTEN 27. Introduction to African American Literature (4)

A lecture discussion course that examines a major topic or theme in African American literature as it is developed over time and across the literary genres of fiction, poetry, and belles lettres. A particular emphasis of the course is how African American writers have adhered to or departed from conventional definitions of genre.

LTEN 28. Introduction to Asian American Literature (4)

This course provides an introduction to the study of the history, communities, and cultures of different Asian American people in the United States. Students will examine different articulations, genres, conflicts, narrative forms, and characterizations of the varied Asian experience.

LTEN 29. Introduction to Chicano Literature (4)

This course provides an introduction to the literary production of the population of Mexican origin in the United States. Students will examine a variety of texts dealing with the historical (social, economic, and political) experiences of this heterogeneous population.

LTEN 30. Poetry for Physicists (4)

Physicists have spoken of the beauty of equations. The poet John Keats wrote, “Beauty is truth, truth beauty . . .” What did they mean? Students will consider such questions while reading relevant essays and poems. Requirements include one creative exercise or presentation. Students may not receive credit for both LTEN 30 and PHYS 30. Prerequisites: CAT 2 and 3 or DOC 2 and 3 or HUM 1 and 2 or MCWP 40 and 50 or MMW 12 and 13 or WARR 11A-B or WCWP 10A-B. Completion of college writing requirement.

LTEN 31. Introduction to Indigenous Literature (4)

This course provides an introduction to the study of the history, politics, and cultures of tribal nations in the United States and other indigenous peoples across the hemisphere and Oceania impacted by US colonial projects. Students will examine a variety of texts, genres, and periods dealing with the historical (social, economic, and political) experiences of indigenous peoples impacted by US colonization and expansion.

LTEN 87. First-year Student Seminar (1)

Upper Division

Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Additional prerequisites may be specified below.

LTEN 107. Chaucer (4)

A study of Chaucer’s poetic development, beginning with The Book of the Duchess and The Parliament of Fowls, including Troilus and Criseyde, and concluding with substantial selections from The Canterbury Tales.

LTEN 110. Topics: The Renaissance (4)

Major literary works of the Renaissance, an exciting period of social and cultural transformation in England as elsewhere in Europe. Topics may include a central theme (e.g., humanism, reformation, revolution), a genre (e.g., pastoral), or comparison with other arts and sciences. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEN 112. Shakespeare I: The Elizabethan Period (4)

A lecture/discussion course exploring the development of Shakespeare’s dramatic powers in comedy, history, and tragedy, from the early plays to the middle of his career. Dramatic forms, themes, characters, and styles will be studied in the contexts of Shakespeare’s theatre and his society.

LTEN 113. Shakespeare II: The Jacobean Period (4)

A lecture/discussion course exploring the rich and varied achievements of Shakespeare’s later plays, including the major tragedies and late romances. Dramatic forms, themes, characters, and styles will be studied in the contexts of Shakespeare’s theatre and his society.

LTEN 114. Shakespeare III: Text, Stage, and Film (4)

Close study of five Shakespeare plays. Form, theme, action, and language will be studies in the context of Shakespeare’s theatre and society. We will view film and video versions of these plays, focusing on the critical implications of transposing plays to film.

LTEN 117. Topics: The Seventeenth Century (4)

Selected topics in English literature during a period of social change, religious controversy, emergence of the New Science, and the English Civil War. The course may be devoted to one or more major authors, a particular genre, or a political, social, or literary issue. Readings chosen from writers including Jonson, Donne, Bacon, Milton, Marvell, and Dryden, among others. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEN 120. Topics: The Eighteenth Century (4)

Selected topics in English literature and culture during the “long eighteenth century,” the period between 1660 and 1830. Topics might include satiric writing, the theatre world, radical/reformist discourse, and the emergence of the professional woman writer. Writers include Behn, Wycherley, Congreve, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Wollstonecraft. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEN 124. Topics: The Nineteenth Century (4)

Selected topics in nineteenth-century British literature and culture, drawing on the Romantic and/or Victorian periods (e.g., relationships between literature and imperialism, social and political debate, gender issues, religion, or science). The course could focus solely on topics within either the Romantic or Victorian periods or comprehend writing in both periods. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEN 125. Romantic Poetry (4)

Studies in Romantic poetry, covering the first generation (Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge and their contemporaries) and/or the second generation (Shelley, Keats, Byron and their contemporaries) of Romantic poets. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEN 127. Victorian Poetry (4)

Studies in the poetry of the Victorian age including writers such as Tennyson, the Brownings, Arnold, Rosetti, Hopkins, and their contemporaries. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEN 128. British and Irish Poetry: 1900 to Present (4)

Selected topics in British and Irish poetry in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Topics may include modernism, movement poetry, the British poetry revival, and postcolonial and Black British poetry. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEN 130. Modern British Literature (4)

LTEN 130GS. Modern British Literature (4)

Selected topics concerned with modern British literature; study of various authors, issues, and trends in literatures of the British Isles from the mid-1850s through the present day. Department approval required. Students must apply for and be accepted into the Global Seminars Program. Program or materials fees may apply. LTEN 130GS and LTEN 130 may be taken for credit for a combined total of three times.

LTEN 132. Modern Irish Literature (4)

The Irish Revival and its aftermath: Yeats, Synge, O’Casey, Joyce, Beckett, and their contemporaries. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEN 138. The British Novel: 1680–1790 (4)

Studies in the early period of the development of the English novel. Writers may include Behn, Defoe, Richardson, and Burney. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEN 140. The British Novel: 1790–1830 (4)

Studies in the early nineteenth-century novel, such as the novels of Austen, Wollstonecraft and/or Shelly, the Gothic novel, radical fiction of the 1790s. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEN 142. The British Novel: 1830–1890 (4)

Covers the early and midperiod Victorian novel, including such novelists as Dickens, the Brontes, Thackery, Eliot and their contemporaries. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEN 144. The British Novel: 1890 to Present (4)

Selected topics in the British novel from the late Victorian novel to present-day Black British fiction. Topics include colonial and postcolonial writing, modernism, and post-WWII fiction. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEN 148. Genres in English and American Literature (4)

An examination of one or more genres in English and/or American literature, for example, satire, science fiction, autobiography, comic drama. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEN 149. Topics: English-Language Literature (4)

A consideration of one of the themes that recur in many periods and cultural contexts of English-language literatures for instance, love, politics, identity, gender, race, class, or religion. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEN 150. Gender, Text, and Culture (4)

This course studies representations of the sexes and of their interrelationship in various forms of English-language writing produced during different phases of English history. Emphasis will be placed upon connections of gender and of literature to other modes of social belief, experience, and practice. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEN 152. The Origins of American Literature (4)

Studies in American written and oral literatures from the early colonial to the early national period (1620–1830), with emphasis on the thrust and continuity of American culture, social and intellectual, through the beginnings of major American writing in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEN 153. The Revolutionary War and the Early National Period in US Literature (4)

A critical examination of new texts of various kinds—written and oral, political, philosophical, and literary—functioned in the construction of the political body of the new American republic and the self-conception of its citizens. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEN 154. The American Renaissance (4)

A study of some of the chief works, and the linguistic, philosophical, and historical attitudes informing them, produced by such authors as Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, and Whitman during the period 1836–1865, when the role of American writing in the national culture becomes an overriding concern. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEN 155. Interactions between American Literature and the Visual Arts (4)

An exploration of the connections between the work of individual writers, or movements, and the work of artists in various visual media. The writers studied are always American; the artists or art movements may represent non-American influences on these American writers. Topics could include portraiture and self-portraiture in visual arts and literature, or nature writing and landscape painting. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEN 156. American Literature from the Civil War to World War I (4)

A critical examination of works by such authors as Mark Twain, Henry James, Kate Chopin, and Edith Wharton, who were writing in an age when the frontier was conquered and American society began to experience massive industrialization and urbanization. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEN 157. Captivity and Prison Narratives (4)

A comparative study of narratives of experiences of incarceration, whether through acts of war, commerce, education, crime, or state-sponsored states of exception. Emphasis given to intercultural encounters, identity formation within these encounters, and state uses of and justifications for incarceration. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEN 158. Modern American Literature (4)

A critical examination of American literature in several genres and other facets of US culture produced between the turn of the century and World War II. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEN 159. Contemporary American Literature (4)

A critical examination of American literature in several genres and other facets of US culture produced since World War II. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEN 169. Topics in Latino/a Literature (4)

The course will focus on selected topics in nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first-century Latino/a literature and culture in the United States from a sociohistorical perspective. Topics may include issues of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, social struggle, and political resistance. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEN 171. Comparative Issues in Latino/a Immigration in US Literature (4)

A critical examination of the configuration of Latino/a immigration in US literary and visual culture. The course will focus on Latino immigrant groups, analyzing their relocation in the United States from a theoretical, historical, and social perspective. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEN 172. American Poetry II—Whitman through the Modernists (4)

Reading and interpretation of American poets from Whitman through the principal modernists—Pound, H.D., Eliot, Moore, Stevens, and others. Lectures will set the appropriate context in sociocultural and literary history.

LTEN 174. American Fiction II—Since Middle James (4)

Reading and interpretation of American fiction from Henry James through the principal modernists—Fitzgerald, Stein, Welty, Faulkner, and others. Lectures will set the appropriate context.

LTEN 175A. New American Fiction—Post-World War II to the Present (4)

Reading and interpretation of American fiction from the mid-1940s to the present. Lectures will set the appropriate context in sociocultural and literary history. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEN 175B. New American Poetry—Post-World War II to the Present (4)

Reading and interpretation of American poets whose work has made its major impact since the last war, for instance Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Denise Levertov, Adrienne Rich, Allen Ginsberg, Frank O’Hara, and John Ashbery. Lectures will set the appropriate context in sociocultural and literary history. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEN 176. Major American Writers (4)

A study in depth of the works of major American writers. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEN 178. Comparative Ethnic Literature (4)

A lecture-discussion course that juxtaposes the experience of two or more US ethnic groups and examines their relationship with the dominant culture. Students will analyze a variety of texts representing the history of ethnicity in this country. Topics will vary. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEN 179. Topics: Arab/Muslim American Identity and Culture (4)

This class explores (self) representations of Muslim and Arab Americans in US popular culture with a focus on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Topics include the racing of religion, “the war on terror” in the media, feminism and Islam, immigration, race, and citizenship. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEN 180. Chicano Literature in English (4)

Introduction to the literature in English by the Chicano population, the men and women of Mexican descent who live and write in the United States. Primary focus on the contemporary period.

LTEN 181. Asian American Literature (4)

Selected topics in the literature by men and women of Asian descent who live and write in the United States. LTEN 181 and ETHN 124 may be taken for credit for a combined total of two times.

LTEN 182. Diaspora, Race, and Iranian American Literature (4)

Examines the Iranian American literary and visual cultures, focusing on intersections of class, gender, and race in the context of diaspora everyday life. Renumbered from LTAM 120.

LTEN 183. African American Prose (4)

Analysis and discussion of the novel, the personal narrative, and other prose genres, with particular emphasis on the developing characteristics of African American narrative and the cultural and social circumstances that influence their development. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEN 185. Themes in African American Literature (4)

An intensive examination of a characteristic theme, special issue, or period in African American literature. May be taken for credit up to three times. Students may receive a combined total of twelve units for LTEN 185, LTEN 185GS, and ETHN 174.

LTEN 186. Literature of the Harlem Renaissance (4)

The Harlem Renaissance (1917–39) focuses on the emergence of the “New Negro” and the impact of this concept on black literature, art, and music. Writers studied include Claude McKay, Zora N. Hurston, and Langston Hughes. Special emphasis on new themes and forms.

LTEN 188. Contemporary Caribbean Literature (4)

This course will focus on contemporary literature of the English-speaking Caribbean. The parallels and contrasts of this Third World literature with those of the Spanish- and French-speaking Caribbean will also be explored.

LTEN 189. Twentieth-Century Postcolonial Literatures (4)

The impact of British colonialism, national independence movements, postcolonial cultural trends, and women’s movements on the global production of literary texts in English. Course is organized by topic or geographical/historical location. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEN 192. Senior Seminar in Literatures in English (1)

The Senior Seminar Program is designed to allow senior undergraduates to meet with faculty members in a small group setting to explore an intellectual topic in literature (at the upper-division level). Senior Seminars may be offered in all campus departments. Topics will vary from quarter to quarter. Senior Seminars may be taken for credit up to four times, with a change in topic, and permission of the department. Enrollment is limited to twenty students, with preference given to seniors. Prerequisites: department stamp and/or consent of instructor.

LTEN 196. Honors Thesis (4)

Senior thesis research and writing for students who have been accepted for the Literature Honors Program and who have completed LTWL 191. Oral exam. Prerequisites: department approval.

LTEN 198. Directed Group Study (4)

Research seminars and research, under the direction of a member of the staff. May be taken for credit up to nine times. (P/NP grades only.) Prerequisites: department approval.

LTEN 199. Special Studies (2 or 4)

Tutorial; individual guided reading in an area not normally covered in courses. May be taken for credit up to four times. (P/NP grades only.) Prerequisites: department approval.

Graduate

Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

LTEN 222. Elizabethan Studies (4)

Selected topics in the study of literary, dramatic, and other Elizabethan cultural texts. Emphasis will be upon articulations among a range of discourses, practices, and institutions. May be taken up to two times for credit when topics vary. Restricted to major code LT77 or consent of instructor and department.

LTEN 231. Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Literature (4)

Consideration of one or more figures, texts, or trends in Restoration and eighteenth-century English literature, including Dryden, Pope, Swift, the early novel, satire. May be taken up to three times for credit when topics vary. Restricted to major code LT77 or consent of instructor and department.

LTEN 245. Nineteenth-Century American Studies (4)

Consideration of some of the principal writers and movements in nineteenth-century American literature. May be taken up to three times for credit when topics vary. Restricted to major code LT77 or consent of instructor and department.

LTEN 246. Victorian Literature (4)

Consideration of one or more major figures, texts, or trends in the Victorian period. May be taken up to three times for credit when topics vary. Restricted to major code LT77 or consent of instructor and department.

LTEN 252. Studies in Modern American Literature and Culture (4)

Consideration of one or more major figures, texts, or trends in American literature, in particular the relationship between literature and culture. May be taken up to three times for credit when topics vary. Restricted to major code LT77 or consent of instructor and department.

LTEN 254. Topics in US Minority Literatures and Cultures (4)

Consideration of one or more topics in “minority” traditions of cultural production in the United States, with an emphasis on the relationship among history, politics, and culture. May be taken up to three times for credit when topics vary. Restricted to major code LT77 or consent of instructor and department.

LTEN 256. Postcolonial Discourses (4)

A survey of selected responses to imperialism and colonialism as presented in cultural texts produced by colonized or once-colonized peoples. Related issues to be examined: gender dynamics, class, representing others, mimicry, language, cultural theory, and the politics of literary genres. May be taken up to three times for credit when topics vary. Restricted to major code LT77 or consent of instructor and department.

LTEN 258. Studies in Anglophone African and/or African Diaspora Literature and Culture (4)

Consideration of one or more major figures, texts, performance, or trends in literature and culture of Africa and/or the African Diaspora. Various theories and methodologies may be applied to the representations being studied. May be taken three times for credit as topics vary. Restricted to major code LT77 or consent of instructor and department.

LTEN 259. Transnational Literary Studies (4)

New developments in the study of literature in diverse frameworks, including but not limited to globalization, queer theory, diaspora studies, environmentalism, world literary systems, international literary awards, transnational feminism, literary markets, human rights discourse, and translation studies. May be taken up to three times for credit when topics vary. Restricted to major code LT77 or consent of instructor and department.

LTEN 271. Genres in English (4)

Consideration of one or more genres present in English and/or American literature; for instance, the ballad, landscape poetry, comedy, satire, the familiar essay. May be taken up to three times for credit when topics vary. Restricted to major code LT77 or consent of instructor and department.

LTEN 272. Cultural Traditions in English (4)

The study of writing produced over an extended period of time by members of an identifiable cultural formation as defined (e.g., by political/social ideology, class, religion, ethnicity, or sexual preference). May be taken up to three times for credit when topics vary. Restricted to major code LT77 or consent of instructor and department.

LTEN 281. Practicum in Literary Research and Criticism (4)

This course will focus on strategies for framing, organizing, and drafting projects in literary research. Students will study and apply various forms of literary methodology and will learn about recent developments in bibliography, textual editing, and research. May be taken up to three times for credit when topics vary. Restricted to major code LT77 or consent of instructor and department.

LTEN 297. Directed Studies: Reading Course (1–12)

LTEN 298. Special Projects: Writing Course (1–12)

Similar to a 297, but a paper is required. Papers are usually on subject not covered by seminar offerings. Up to two 298s may be applied toward the twelve-seminar requirement of the doctoral program. Repeatable for credit.

LTEN 299. Dissertation (1–12)

Research for the dissertation. Offered for repeated registration. Open only to PhD students who have advanced to candidacy.

EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN LITERATURES

Lower Division

LTEU 87. First-year Student Seminar (1)

Upper Division

Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Additional prerequisites may be specified below.

LTEU 100. Introduction to Italian Literature (4)

Introduction to representative Italian authors from Dante through the twenty-first century. May be taken up to three times for credit as topics vary.

LTEU 105. Medieval Studies (4)

Studies in medieval culture and thought with focus on the “three crowns” of Italian literature: Dante, Boccaccio, or Petrarca. May be taken for credit up to two times. Students may receive a combined total of eight units for LTEU 105 and LTIT 115.

LTEU 109. Studies in Eighteenth-Century European Literature (4)

Topics to be considered include the age of sensibility, enlightenment, neoclassicism. Attention given to historical and cultural contexts.

LTEU 110. European Romanticism (4)

Attention given to historical and cultural contexts. Topics to be considered include the concept of nature, the reaction to science, the role of the imagination.

LTEU 111. European Realism (4)

This course focuses on nineteenth-century European realism in historical and cultural context. Topics include definitions of realism, the impact of urbanization and industrialization on literary forms and themes, and relations between realism in literature and the visual arts. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEU 130. German Literature in Translation (4)

One or more aspects of German literature, such as major authors, the contemporary novel, nineteenth-century poetry, German expressionism. Texts may be read in English or the original language. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEU 137. Seminars in German Culture (4)

These seminars are devoted to a variety of special topics, including the works of single authors, genre studies, problems in literary history, relations between literature and the history of ideas, literary criticism, literature and society, and the like. May be taken for credit up to two times as topics vary.

LTEU 140. Italian Literature in Translation (4)

One or more periods and authors in Italian literature. Texts will be read in English. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEU 141. French Literature in English Translation (4)

Study of works of French literature of any period in English translation. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEU 146. Studies in Modern Italian Prose (4)

A study of the chief modern Italian prosatori, including D’Annunzio, Calvino, Pavese, and Pasolini. May be taken for credit up to three times. Students may receive a combined total of twelve units for LTEU 146 and LTIT 137.

LTEU 150A. Survey of Russian and Soviet Literature in Translation, 1800–1860 (4)

A study of literary works from 1800–1860. Students may not receive credit for both LTEU 150A and LTRU 110A.

LTEU 150B. Survey of Russian and Soviet Literature in Translation, 1860–1917 (4)

A study of literary works from 1860–1917. Students may not receive credit for both LTEU 150B and LTRU 110B.

LTEU 150C. Survey of Russian and Soviet Literature in Translation, 1917–Present (4)

A study of literary works from 1917 to the present. Students may not receive credit for both LTEU 150C and LTRU 110C.

LTEU 153GS. Environmental Studies in Russia: Lake Baikal (4)

Explores interface between literature, science, and media in context of Russia’s Lake Baikal, a focal point for climate change concerns. Probes physical/biological characteristics, threats to Lake Baikal ecosystem. Analyzes literary representations of Baikal in fiction, poetry, and film, along with journalistic debate on changing ecosystems. Focus on discerning interpretation from alternative fact. Service work, work with Russian specialists. Russian language integrated based on student proficiency. Department approval required. Students must apply and be accepted to the Global Seminars Program. Program or materials fees may apply.

LTEU 154. Russian Culture (4)

An introduction to Russia’s past and present through the cross-disciplinary study of literature, the visual and performing arts, social and political thought, civic rituals, popular entertainments, values and practices from 1825 to the present. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTEU 158. Single Author in Russian Literature in Translation (4)

A study of literary works by a single Russian author. All readings will be in English. LTEU 158 and LTRU 123 may be taken for credit for a combined total of three times as topics vary.

LITERATURES IN FRENCH

Lower Division

(See “Department of Linguistics” for other course offerings in first-year French.)

LTFR 2A. Intermediate French I (5)

First course in a three-quarter sequence designed to prepare students for upper-division French courses. The course is taught entirely in French and emphasizes the development of reading ability, listening comprehension, and conversational and writing skills. Basic techniques of literary analysis. Prerequisites: LIFR 1C/CX or its equivalent, score of 3 on French language AP exam or consent of instructor.

LTFR 2B. Intermediate French II (5)

Second course in a three-quarter sequence designed to prepare students for upper-division French courses. The course is taught entirely in French and emphasizes the development of reading ability, listening comprehension, and conversational and writing skills. Basic techniques of literary analysis. Prerequisites: LTFR 2A or its equivalent, score of 4 on French language or score of 3 on French literature AP exams or consent of instructor.

LTFR 2C. Intermediate French III: Composition and Cultural Contexts (4)

Designed to improve writing and conversational skills. Develop written expression in terms of organization or ideas, structure, vocabulary. Grammar review. Discussions of contemporary novel and film. Prerequisites: LTFR 2B or its equivalent, score of 5 on French language or score of 4 on French literature AP exams or consent of instructor.

Upper Division

Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor. All upper-division courses are taught in French. Additional prerequisites may be specified below.

LTFR 104. Advanced French Reading and Writing (4)

This course will help students transition from lower-division French language courses to upper-division literature courses through close work with original texts to develop comprehension, writing, and analytical skills. May be taken for credit up to three times. Prerequisites: LTFR 2C or consent of instructor.

LTFR 115. Themes in Intellectual and Literary History (4)

Course in a two-quarter sequence designed as an introduction to French literature and literary history. Each quarter will center on a specific theme or problem. It is recommended that majors whose primary literature is French take this sequence as early as possible. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTFR 104.

LTFR 116. Themes in Intellectual and Literary History (4)

LTFR 121. The Middle Ages and the Renaissance (4)

Major literary works of the Middle Ages and Renaissance as seen against the historical and intellectual background of the period. Medieval texts in modern French translation. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTFR 104.

LTFR 122. Topics in Seventeenth-Century French Literature (4)

This course will cover major literary works and problems of seventeenth-century French literature. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTFR 104.

LTFR 123. Eighteenth Century (4)

Major literary works and problems of the eighteenth century. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTFR 104.

LTFR 124. Nineteenth Century (4)

Major literary works of the nineteenth century. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTFR 104.

LTFR 125. Twentieth Century (4)

Major literary works and problems of the twentieth century. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTFR 104.

LTFR 141. Topics in Literatures in French (4)

Examines one or more periods, themes, authors, and approaches in French literature. Topics will vary with instructor. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTFR 104.

LTFR 142. Topics in Literary Genres in French (4)

An examination of one or more major or minor genres of French literature: for example, drama, novel, poetry, satire, prose poem, essay. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTFR 104.

LTFR 143. Topics in Major Authors in French (4)

A study in depth of the works of a major French writer. Recommended for students whose primary literature is French. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTFR 104.

LTFR 164. Topics in Modern French Culture (4)

A course on changing topics such as France during the 1960s, contemporary social and cultural structures (the school system, economy, political parties), myths of America in France, etc. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTFR 104.

LTFR 198. Directed Group Study (4)

Research seminars and research, under the direction of a member of the staff. May be taken for credit up to nine times. (P/NP grades only.) Prerequisites: department approval.

LTFR 199. Special Studies (2 or 4)

Tutorial; individual guided reading in areas of French literature not normally covered in courses. May be taken for credit up to four times. (P/NP grades only.) Prerequisites: department approval.

Graduate

Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

LTFR 297. Directed Studies: Reading Course (1–12)

LTFR 298. Special Projects: Writing Course (1–12)

LTFR 299. Dissertation (1–12)

Research for the dissertation. Offered for repeated registration. Open only to PhD students who have advanced to candidacy.

LITERATURES IN GERMAN

Lower Division

(See “Department of Linguistics” for other course offerings in first-year German.)

LTGM 2A. Intermediate German I (5)

LTGM 2A follows the basic language sequence of the Department of Linguistics and emphasizes the development of reading ability, listening comprehension, and conversational and writing skills. The course includes grammar review and class discussion of reading and audiovisual materials. Specifically, the course prepares students for LIGM 2B and 2C. Prerequisites: LTGM 1C/1CX or its equivalent or score of 3 on AP German language exam or consent of instructor.

LTGM 2B. Intermediate German II (5)

LTGM 2B is a continuation of LTGM 2A for those students who intend to practice their skills in reading, listening comprehension, and writing on a more advanced level. The literary texts are supplemented by readings from other disciplines as well as audiovisual materials. Prerequisites: LTGM 2A or score of 4 on AP German language exam or consent of instructor.

LTGM 2C. Intermediate German III (4)

A course designed for students who wish to improve their ability to speak and write German. Students will read and discuss a variety of texts and films, and complete the grammar review begun in 2A. 2C emphasizes speaking, writing, and critical thinking, and prepares students for upper-division course work in German. Prerequisites: LTGM 2B or equivalent or score of 5 on AP German language exam or consent of instructor.

Upper Division

Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Additional prerequisites may be specified below.

LTGM 100. German Studies I: Aesthetic Cultures (4)

This course offers an overview of German aesthetic culture in its various forms (literature, film, art, music, and architecture) and methods of analysis. Materials will explore the diversity of aesthetic production from the eighteenth century to the present.

LTGM 101. German Studies II: National Identities (4)

This course offers an overview of issues in contemporary and historical German cultures. How has national identity been constructed in the past? What does it mean to be a German in the new Europe? Materials include fiction, historical documents, films, and the internet.

LTGM 130. German Literary Prose (4)

The development of major forms and modes of German literary prose. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTGM 132. German Poetry (4)

The development of major forms and modes of German verse. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTGM 134. New German Cinema (4)

A survey of German cinema from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. Focus on films by such directors as Fassbinder, Herzog, Kluge, Schlӧndorff, von Trotta, and Wenders viewed in historical and cultural context. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTGM 190. Seminars in German Culture (4)

LTGM 198. Directed Group Study (4)

Research seminars and research, under the direction of a member of the staff. May be taken for credit up to nine times. (P/NP grades only.) Prerequisites: department approval.

LTGM 199. Special Studies (2 or 4)

Tutorial; individual guided reading in areas of German literature not normally covered in courses. May be taken for credit up to four times. (P/NP grades only.) Prerequisites: department approval.

Graduate

Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

LTGM 297. Directed Studies: Reading Course (1–12)

LTGM 298. Special Projects: Writing Course (1–12)

GREEK LITERATURE

(See also listings under “Department of Classical Studies.”)

Lower Division

LTGK 1. Beginning Greek (4)

Study of ancient Greek, including grammar and reading.

LTGK 2. Intermediate Greek (I) (4)

Continuation of study of ancient Greek, including grammar and reading. Prerequisites: LTGK 1 or equivalent.

LTGK 3. Intermediate Greek (II) (4)

Continuation of study of ancient Greek, including grammar and reading of texts. Prerequisites: LTGK 1 and 2 or equivalent.

Upper Division

Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Additional prerequisites may be specified below.

LTGK 101. Greek Composition (4)

Greek prose composition. Corequisites: student must be concurrently enrolled in upper-division Literature/Greek course numbered 102 or above.

LTGK 102. Greek Poetry (4)

Readings in Greek from ancient Greek poetry. May be taken for credit up to four times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTGK 1, 2, and 3.

LTGK 103. Greek Drama (4)

Readings in Greek from ancient Greek drama. May be taken for credit up to four times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTGK 1, 2, and 3.

LTGK 104. Greek Prose (4)

Readings in Greek from ancient Greek prose. May be taken for credit up to four times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTGK 1, 2, and 3.

LTGK 105. Topics in Greek Literature (4)

Readings in Greek covering specific topics in ancient Greek literature. May be taken for credit up to four times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTGK 1, 2, and 3.

LTGK 198. Directed Group Study (4)

Directed group study in areas of Greek literature not normally covered in courses. May be taken for credit up to four times as topics vary. (P/NP grades only.) Prerequisites: department approval.

LTGK 199. Special Studies (2 or 4)

Tutorial; individual guided reading in an area not normally covered in courses. May be taken for credit up to four times as topics vary. (P/NP grades only.) Prerequisites: department approval.

LITERATURES IN ITALIAN

Lower Division

(See “Department of Linguistics” for other course offerings in first-year Italian.)

LTIT 2A. Intermediate Italian I (5)

A second-year course in Italian language and literature. Conversation, composition, grammar review, and an introduction to literary and nonliterary texts. Prerequisites: LTIT 1C or LIIT 1C/1CX or its equivalent or a score of 3 on AP Italian Language and Culture Exam or placement result of 3 or 4 on the Language Placement Exam–Italian or consent of instructor.

LTIT 2B. Intermediate Italian II (5)

Continuation of second-year Italian language and literature. Reading, writing, conversation, grammar review, and an introduction to literary genres and contemporary Italian culture and society. Prerequisites: LTIT 2A or its equivalent, or consent of instructor, or a score of 4 on the AP Italian Language and Culture exam.

LTIT 12AR. Italian for Spanish Speakers I (4)

Introduction to the practice of speaking, reading, and writing Italian with an emphasis on linguistic bridges between Italian and Spanish and cultural bridges between Italian and Spanish and Latin American cultures. Regular comparative analysis and metalinguistic reflection allow heritage and second-language speakers of Spanish to move between the two languages, accelerating the acquisition of competence in Italian while consolidating and strengthening competence in Spanish. This course is a distance education course.

LTIT 12BR. Italian for Spanish Speakers II (4)

LTIT 50. Advanced Italian (4)

This course constitutes the sixth and final quarter of the Italian language sequence. It offers an intensive study of Italian grammar, drills in conversation and composition, and readings in modern Italian literature. Prerequisites: LTIT 2A and 2B, or consent of instructor.

Upper Division

Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Additional prerequisites may be specified below.

LTIT 100. Introduction to Literatures in Italian (4)

Reading and discussion of selections from representative authors. Review of grammar as needed. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTIT 50 or its equivalent, or consent of instructor, or a score of 5 on the AP Italian Language and Culture exam.

LTIT 115. Medieval Studies (4)

Studies in medieval culture and thought with focus on one of the “three crowns” of Italian literature: Dante, Boccaccio, or Petrarca. May be taken for credit up to two times. Students may receive a combined total of eight units for LTIT 115 and LTEU 105.

LTIT 122. Studies in Modern Italian Culture (4)

Politics, literature, and cultural issues of twentieth-century Italy. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTIT 50.

LTIT 137. Studies in Modern Italian Prose (4)

LTIT 161. Advanced Stylistics and Conversation (4)

Analysis of Italian essays, journalism, literature. Intensive practice in writing and Italian conversation. May be taken for credit up to two times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTIT 100 or consent of instructor.

LTIT 192. Senior Seminar in Literatures in Italian (1)

LTIT 198. Directed Group Study (4)

Directed group study in areas of Italian literature not normally covered in courses. May be taken for credit up to four times as topics vary. (P/NP grades only.) Prerequisites: department approval.

LTIT 199. Special Studies (2 or 4)

Tutorial; individual guided reading in areas of Italian literature not normally covered in courses. May be taken for credit up to four times as topics vary. (P/NP grades only.) Prerequisites: department approval.

KOREAN LITERATURE

Lower Division

LTKO 1A. Beginning Korean: First Year I (5)

Students develop beginning-level skills in the Korean language, beginning with an introduction to the writing and sound system. The remainder of the course will focus on basic sentence structures and expressions.

LTKO 1B. Beginning Korean: First Year II (5)

Students develop beginning-level skills in the Korean language, with an introduction to the writing and sound system. The remainder of the course will focus on basic sentence structures and expressions. Prerequisites: LTKO 1A or placement test and consent of instructor.

LTKO 1C. Beginning Korean: First Year III (5)

LTKO 2A. Intermediate Korean: Second Year I (5)

This course will help students develop intermediate-level skills in the Korean language. Upon completion of this course, students are expected to have good command of Korean in various daily conversational situations. Prerequisites: LTKO 1C or placement test and consent of instructor.

LTKO 2B. Intermediate Korean: Second Year II (5)

This course will help students develop intermediate-level skills in the Korean language. Upon completion of this course, students are expected to have a good command of Korean in various daily conversational situations. Prerequisites: LTKO 2A or placement test and consent of instructor.

LTKO 2C. Intermediate Korean: Second Year III (5)

Upper Division

Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Additional prerequisites may be specified below.

LTKO 130F. Advanced Korean: Third Year I (4)

Students will learn advanced level skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing Korean, and expand their understanding of Korean culture. Topics: living in Korea, popular Korean food, dating culture in Korea, tour sites and regional products, Hallyu—Korean Wave. Students may receive a combined total of twelve units for LTKO 130, LTKO 130F, LTKO 130W, and LTKO 130P. Prerequisites: LTKO 2C or equivalent level of proficiency with consent of instructor.

LTKO 130W. Advanced Korean: Third Year II (4)

Students will learn advanced level skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing Korean, and expand their understanding of Korean culture. Topics: address terms and interpersonal relations, famous Korean people, Seoul—capital city of Korea, South Korea and North Korea, housing in Korea. Students may receive a combined total of twelve units for LTKO 130, LTKO 130F, LTKO 130W, and LTKO 130P. Prerequisites: LTKO 2C or equivalent level of proficiency with consent of instructor.

LTKO 130P. Advanced Korean: Third Year III (4)

Students will learn advanced level skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing Korean, and expand their understanding of Korean culture. Topics: customs and superstitions, Korean folktales and proverbs, Korean culture of community, Korea during the Japanese colonial period, Korea and Korean. Students may receive a combined total of twelve units for LTKO 130, LTKO 130F, LTKO 130W, and LTKO 130P. Prerequisites: LTKO 2C or equivalent level of proficiency with consent of instructor.

LTKO 135. Readings in Sino-Korean Characters (4)

Students in this course will learn advanced and superior level Sino-Korean vocabulary and characters, skills in reading and understanding advanced and superior level Korean reading materials, and expand their understanding of Korean culture. Upon completion of this course, students are expected to have acquired an expanded vocabulary, knowledge of various expressions using Sino-Korean vocabulary and characters. Prerequisites: LTKO 2C or equivalent level of proficiency with consent of instructor.

LTKO 140. Readings in Korean Literature (4)

Readings in Korean literature and culture from colonial period to present. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTKO 130F or LTKO 130W or LTKO 130F or equivalent proficiency with consent of instructor.

LTKO 149. Readings in Korean Language History and Structure (4)

This course is designed to develop cultural understanding and professional/academic level reading skill for students with coverage of materials on Korean language history from the fifteenth century to the present, previous and current writing systems, and Korean language structure. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTKO 130 or equivalent proficiency with consent of instructor.

LATIN LITERATURE

(See also listings under “Department of Classical Studies.”)

Lower Division

LTLA 1. Beginning Latin (4)

Study of Latin, including grammar and reading.

LTLA 2. Intermediate Latin (I) (4)

Study of Latin, including grammar and reading. Prerequisites: LTLA 1 or equivalent.

LTLA 3. Intermediate Latin (II) (4)

Study of Latin, including grammar and reading. Prerequisites: LTLA 2 or equivalent.

Upper Division

Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Additional prerequisites may be specified below.

LTLA 100. Introduction to Latin Literature (4)

Reading and discussion of selections from representative authors of one or more periods. Review of grammar as needed. May be taken for credit up to two times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTLA 3 or equivalent.

LTLA 102. Latin Poetry (4)

Readings in Latin from Latin poetry. May be taken for credit up to four times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTLA 1, 2, and 3.

LTLA 103. Latin Drama (4)

Readings in Latin from Latin drama. May be taken for credit up to four times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTLA 1, 2, and 3.

LTLA 104. Latin Prose (4)

Readings in Latin from Latin prose. May be taken for credit up to four times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTLA 1, 2, and 3.

LTLA 105. Topics in Latin Literature (4)

Readings in Latin covering specific topics in Latin literature. May be taken for credit up to four times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTLA 1, 2, and 3.

LTLA 198. Directed Group Study (4)

Directed group study in areas of Latin literature not normally covered in courses. May be taken for credit up to four times as topics vary. (P/NP grades only.) Prerequisites: department approval.

LTLA 199. Special Studies (2 or 4)

Tutorial; individual guided reading in areas of Latin literature not normally covered in courses. May be taken for credit up to four times as topics vary. (P/NP grades only.) Prerequisites: department approval.

RUSSIAN LITERATURE

Lower Division

LTRU 1A. First-Year Russian (5)

First-year Russian, with attention to reading, writing, and speaking.

LTRU 1B. First-Year Russian (5)

First-year Russian, with attention to reading, writing, and speaking. Prerequisites: LTRU 1A or its equivalent or consent of instructor.

LTRU 1C. First-Year Russian (5)

First-year Russian, with attention to reading, writing, and speaking. Prerequisites: LTRU 1B or its equivalent or consent of instructor.

LTRU 2A. Second-Year Russian (5)

Second-year Russian grammar, with attention to reading, writing, and speaking. Prerequisites: LTRU 1C or its equivalent or consent of instructor.

LTRU 2B. Second-Year Russian (5)

Second-year Russian grammar, with attention to reading, writing, and speaking. Prerequisites: LTRU 2A or its equivalent or consent of instructor.

Upper Division

Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Additional prerequisites may be specified below.

Note: Many Russian literature courses are cross-listed as courses in European and Eurasian Literatures (LTEU). Lectures and discussions are conducted in English, and students may choose whether to do the reading and writing assignments in translation, in which case they should enroll for the course under its LTEU rubric, or in Russian, in which case they should enroll under the LTRU rubric.

LTRU 104A. Advanced Practicum in Russian: Linguistic Skills Development (4)

Advanced Russian grammar taught for varying ability levels. Close work with original texts and film to develop comprehension, production, and analytical skills. May be taken for credit up to two times. Prerequisites: LTRU 2B or its equivalent or consent of instructor.

LTRU 104B. Advanced Practicum in Russian: Analysis of Text and Film (4)

Development of advanced skills in reading, writing, and conversation. Course based on written and oral texts of various genres and styles. Individualized program to meet specific student needs. May be taken for credit up to two times. Prerequisites: LTRU 104A or its equivalent or consent of instructor.

LTRU 104C. Advanced Practicum in Russian: Analysis of Text and Film (4)

LTRU 110A. Survey of Russian and Soviet Literature in Translation, 1800–1860 (4)

A study of literary works from 1800–1860.

LTRU 110B. Survey of Russian and Soviet Literature in Translation, 1860–1917 (4)

A study of literary works from 1860–1917.

LTRU 110C. Survey of Russian and Soviet Literature in Translation, 1917–present (4)

A study of literary works from 1917–present.

LTRU 123. Single Author in Russian Literature in Translation (4)

Study of the works of a single Russian author. LTEU 158 and LTRU 123 may be taken for credit for a combined total of three times as topics vary.

LTRU 150. Russian Culture (4)

LTRU 198. Directed Group Study (4)

Directed group study in areas of Russian literature not normally covered in courses. May be taken for credit up to four times as topics vary. (P/NP grades only.) Prerequisites: upper-division standing and permission of department.

LTRU 199. Special Studies (2 or 4)

Tutorial; individual guided reading in areas of Russian literature not normally covered in courses. May be taken for credit up to four times as topics vary. (P/NP grades only.) Prerequisites: upper-division standing and permission of department.

LITERATURES IN SPANISH

Lower Division

(See “Department of Linguistics” for other course offerings in first-year Spanish.)

Students entering the Spanish language/literature program must have completed one year of college-level Spanish (Linguistics/Spanish 1C/1CX) or its equivalent at another institution or have the consent of the instructor. Ordinarily, students take LTSP 2A, 2B, and 2C. Native speakers are encouraged to take LTSP 2D, 2E.

LTSP 2A. Intermediate Spanish I: Foundations (5)

Course is taught in Spanish, emphasizing the development of reading ability, listening comprehension, and writing skills. It includes grammar review, weekly compositions, and class discussions. Prerequisites: LISP 1C/1CX or LISP 1D/DX, or score of 3 on AP Spanish Language Exam, or placement result of 3 or 4 the Language Placement Exam—Spanish, or consent of instructor.

LTSP 2B. Intermediate Spanish II: Readings and Composition (5)

Review of major points of grammar with emphasis on critical reading and interpretation of Spanish texts through class discussions, vocabulary development, and written compositions. It is a continuation of LTSP 2A. Prerequisites: LTSP 2A or score of 4 on AP Spanish language or 3 on AP Spanish literature exams or consent of instructor.

LTSP 2C. Intermediate Spanish III: Cultural Topics and Composition (5)

Continuation of LTSP 2B, with special emphasis in writing and translation. It includes discussion of cultural topics as well as grammar review and composition, further developing the ability to read articles, essays, and longer pieces of fiction/nonfictional texts. Prerequisites: LTSP 2B or score of 5 on AP Spanish language or 4 on AP Spanish literature exams or consent of instructor.

LTSP 2D. Intermediate Spanish I: Spanish for Bilingual Speakers (4)

Spanish for native speakers. Designed for bilingual students seeking to become biliterate. Reading and writing skills stressed with special emphasis on improvement of written expression and problems of grammar and orthography. Prepares native speakers with little or no formal training in Spanish for more advanced courses. Prerequisites: native speaking ability and/or consent of instructor.

LTSP 2E. Intermediate Spanish II: Spanish for Bilingual Speakers (4)

Second course in a sequence designed for bilingual students seeking to become biliterate. Special emphasis given to improvement of written expression, grammar, and orthography. Prepares bilingual students with little or no formal training in Spanish for more advanced course work. Prerequisites: LTSP 2D and/or consent of instructor.

LTSP 87. First-year Student Seminar (1)

Upper Division

Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Additional prerequisites may be specified below.

LTSP 100A. Advanced Spanish Reading and Writing for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (4)

Advanced development of writing and reading skills in Spanish through the analysis of cultural production from Latin America and Spain. Introduction to literary and cultural analysis in preparation for upper-division Spanish literature courses and/or to the development of near-native writing and reading proficiency in Spanish. In addition, students will learn how to formulate formal and academic arguments in Spanish for more advanced research in Spanish. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTSP 2C.

LTSP 100B. Advanced Spanish Reading and Writing for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (heritage speakers) (4)

Advanced development of writing and reading skills in Spanish for heritage speakers through the analysis of cultural production from Latin America and Spain. Introduction to literary and cultural analysis in preparation for upper-division Spanish literature courses and/or to perfecting writing and reading proficiency in Spanish. In addition, students will learn how to formulate formal and academic arguments in Spanish as the basis for more advanced research in Spanish. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTSP 2E.

LTSP 101. Major Works of the Middle Ages (4)

Major Spanish literary works of the Middle Ages and Renaissance as seen against the historical and intellectual background of this period. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTSP 100A or 100B, or consent of instructor.

LTSP 116. Representations of Spanish Colonialism (4)

Analysis of selected materials that represent the cultural and political relationship between Spain and its colonies. Close reading of literary texts and historical documents. Specific periods covered will fall between the origins of empire in the early sixteenth century to the demise of imperial Spain in 1898; topics may include cultural exchanges between Spain and Latin America, the Philippines, or the US Southwest. May be taken for credit up to two times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTSP 100A or 100B, or consent of instructor.

LTSP 123. Topics in Modern Spanish Culture (4)

Investigation of selected topics concerning Spanish cultural production after 1800. Topics might focus on a genre (film, popular novel, theatre) or on the transformations of a theme or metaphor (nation, femininity, the uncanny). May be taken for credit up to two times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTSP 100A or 100B, or consent of instructor.

LTSP 134. Literature of the Southern Cone (4)

Study of movements, traditions, key authors, or major trends in Argentine, Paraguayan, Uruguayan, and Chilean literatures, such as gaucho poetry, the realist novel, modern urban narratives, the Borges School, etc. May be taken for credit up to two times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTSP 100A or 100B, or consent of instructor.

LTSP 135A. Mexican Literature before 1910 (4)

Explores the relationships among cultural production, politics, and societal changes in Mexico before the 1910 Revolution, specifically the roles of intellectuals and popular culture in nation-building and modernization. Readings may include didactic literature and historiographic writings, forms of popular discourse, as well as novels and poetry. May be taken for credit up to two times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTSP 100A or 100B, or consent of instructor.

LTSP 135B. Modern Mexican Literature (4)

Study of popular novels, movements, traditions, key authors, or major trends in modern Mexican literature. May be taken for credit up to two times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTSP 100A or 100B, or consent of instructor.

LTSP 136. Andean Literature (4)

Study of movements, traditions, key authors, or major trends in Peruvian, Ecuadorian, and Bolivian literatures, such as indigenismo, urban narrative, and the works of authors such as Vallejo, Icaza, Arguedas, Vargas Llosa. May be taken for credit up to two times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTSP 100A or 100B, or consent of instructor.

LTSP 137. Caribbean Literature (4)

Study of movements, traditions, key authors, or major trends in Caribbean literature in Spanish, such as the romantic movement, the literature of independence, the essay tradition, Afro-Antillean literature, the historical novel. May be taken for credit up to four times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTSP 100A or 100B, or consent of instructor.

LTSP 138. Central American Literature (4)

Study of movements, traditions, key authors, or major trends in the literatures of Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Panama, such as the anti-imperialist novel, indigenismo, guerrilla poetry, and testimonio. May be taken for credit up to two times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTSP 100A or 100B, or consent of instructor.

LTSP 145. Memory, Human Rights, and Culture in Iberia and Latin America (4)

This course analyzes cultural representations (novels, films, poems, theatre plays, performances, etc.) that reconstruct the memory of human rights abuses in Iberia and/or Latin America. The course addresses the relationship between memory and justice in post-dictatorial societies. Prerequisites: LTSP 100A or 100B, or consent of instructor.

LTSP 150. Chicanx/Latinx Cultural Expressions (4)

This course examines Chicanx/Latinx cultural expressions and representations through a broad range of forms, such as television, film, music, literature, etc. Students will explore how past and present social and political experiences inform Chicanx/Latinx expressive forms. Students will also consider the global reach of Chicanx/Latinx cultural forms. Prerequisites: LTSP 100A or 100B, or consent of instructor.

LTSP 150A. Early Latino/a-Chicano/a Cultural Production: 1848 to 1960 (4)

Cross-disciplinary study of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Latino/a-Chicano/a literature, folklore, music, testimonio, or other cultural practices. Specific periods covered will fall between the immediate aftermath of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to the Cuban revolution. May be taken for credit up to two times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTSP 100A or 100B, or consent of instructor.

LTSP 150B. Contemporary Chicano/a-Latino/a Cultural Production: 1960 to Present (4)

Cross-disciplinary study of late twentieth-century Latino/a-Chicano/a literature, the visual and performing arts, film, or other cultural practices. Specific periods covered will fall between the Kennedy years to the era of neoliberalism and the creation of “Hispanic” or Latino identities. May be taken for credit up to two times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTSP 100A or 100B, or consent of instructor.

LTSP 151. Topics in Chicano/a-Latino/a Cultures (4)

Cross-disciplinary study of late twentieth-century Chicano/a-Latino/a literature, the visual and performing arts, film, or other cultural practices. Representative areas of study are social movements, revolution, immigration, globalization, gender and sexuality, cultures of the US-Mexican border, and Chicano/a-Mexicano/a literary relations. May be taken up to two times for credit as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTSP 100A or 100B, or consent of instructor.

LTSP 155. Asia in Latin America (4)

This course introduces students to the comparative and multidisciplinary study of cultural productions and historical formations that link Asia and Latin America. Students will be exposed to diverse methodologies drawn from transpacific studies, postcolonial theory, critical race studies, and the study of imperialism, colonialism, global modernity, and popular cultures. Prerequisites: LTSP 100A or 100B, or consent of instructor.

LTSP 166. Creative Writing (4)

A workshop designed to foster and encourage writing in Spanish of students working on short forms of fiction. The workshop will include discussions of techniques and intensive writing. Prerequisites: LTSP 100A or 100B, or consent of instructor.

LTSP 169. Latin American Popular and Mass Cultures (4)

This class explores Latin American popular culture. Students will be exposed to cultural forms traditionally associated with the popular sectors of Latin American societies such as the soap opera, popular music, TV series, oral narratives, detective fiction, or the romantic novel. These non-elitist forms of cultural expressions will provide access to the structure of feeling of the non-white lower classes in the region. Prerequisites: LTSP 100A or 100B, or consent of instructor.

LTSP 170. Contemporary Theories of Cultural Production (4)

Selected readings in recent cultural and literary theory. Students will be exposed to a variety of methodologies drawn from the Latin American, European, and US traditions. The course is recommended for students who plan to pursue graduate work in literature. May be taken for credit up to two times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTSP 100A or 100B, or consent of instructor.

LTSP 172. Indigenista Themes in Latin American Literature (4)

Study of the literary modes by which nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors have interpreted the themes of indigenous survival and resistance in Latin America, primarily in Mexico and the Andean region. May be taken for credit up to two times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTSP 100A or 100B, or consent of instructor.

LTSP 174. Topics in Culture and Politics (4)

Study of the relationships between cultural production (literature, film, popular cultures), social change, and political conflict, covering topics such as colonialism, imperialism, modernization, social movements, dictatorship, revolution. May be taken for credit up to two times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTSP 100A or 100B, or consent of instructor.

LTSP 175. Feminisms, Gender, and Sexuality in Latin America (4)

This course analyzes feminist studies in Latin America. It addresses the theoretical, intellectual, and activist trajectories as well as the gender and sexuality configurations in the region. In addition, students will be able to work with different types of texts and archives produced in Latin America. May be taken for credit up to two times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTSP 100A or 100B, or consent of instructor.

LTSP 176. Literature and Nation (4)

Study of literature as a means through which the nation has been imagined and as a site of debates over national identity and citizenship. Course materials may focus on Spain and/or Latin America. May be taken for credit up to two times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTSP 100A or 100B, or consent of instructor.

LTSP 177. Literary and Historical Migrations (4)

This course will focus on a variety of Latin American and/or Spanish intra- and international migrations throughout the world and on the literature produced by these exiles or immigrants. May be taken for credit up to two times as topics vary. Prerequisites: LTSP 100A or 100B, or consent of instructor.

LTSP 180. Film and Visual Arts in Latin America (4)

This course analyzes different visual narratives (film, television, art, graffiti, murals, etc.) produced in Latin America. Students will be exposed to both classic and contemporary films from the region as well as to other relevant forms of visual culture in their historical context. These visual narratives will be related both to the political and historical context of Latin America. Prerequisites: LTSP 100A or 100B, or consent of instructor.

LTSP 196. Honors Thesis (4)

Senior thesis research and writing for students who have been accepted for the Literature Honors Program and who have completed LTWL 191. Oral Exam. Prerequisites: department approval.

LTSP 198. Directed Group Study (4)

Directed group study in areas of Spanish literature not normally covered in courses. May be taken for credit up to four times as topics vary. (P/NP grade only.) Prerequisites: department approval.

LTSP 199. Special Studies (2 or 4)

Tutorial: individual guided reading in areas of Spanish literature not normally covered in courses. May be taken for credit up to four times as topics vary. (P/NP grades only.) Prerequisites: upper-division standing and department approval.

Graduate

Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

LTSP 258. Spanish American Prose (4)

Consideration of one or more major figures, texts, trends, or problems in Spanish American prose. May be taken up to three times for credit when topics vary. Restricted to major code LT77 or consent of instructor and department.

LTSP 272. Literature and Society Studies (4)

Special topics in practical criticism involving social and economic historical perspectives. May be taken up to three times for credit when topics vary. Restricted to major code LT77 or consent of instructor and department.

LTSP 297. Directed Studies: Reading Course (1–12)

LTSP 298. Special Projects: Writing Course (1–12)

LTSP 299. Dissertation (1–12)

Research for the dissertation. Offered for repeated registration. Open only to PhD students who have advanced to candidacy.

LITERATURE/THEORY

Courses in theory may apply to various literature majors. Please consult your adviser.

Additional theory courses are offered in the various department sections. See quarterly course descriptions on the Department of Literature website.

Upper Division

Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Additional prerequisites may be specified below.

LTTH 110. History of Criticism (4)

A critical and interpretive review of some of the major documents in criticism from the classical period to the present time.

LTTH 115. Introduction to Critical Theory (4)

A critical review of major contemporary theories of the nature of literature, its sociocultural function, and appropriate modes of evaluation. May be taken for credit up to four times as topics vary.

LTTH 150. Topics in Critical Theory (4)

Selected topics in critical theory such as a particular mode of literary theory; comparative study of theories of text and image; a problem or theme in the history of theory; and issues involved in the relationship between fiction and other discourses (science, law, history, philosophy, music). May be taken for credit up to four times as topics vary.

LTTH 198. Directed Group Study (4)

Directed group study, under the guidance of a member of the faculty, in an area not covered in courses currently offered by the department. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary. (P/NP only.)

LTTH 199. Special Studies (2 or 4)

Individual reading in an area not covered in courses currently offered by the department. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary. (P/NP only.)

Graduate

Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

LTTH 210A. Proseminar on Literary Scholarship (4)

This proseminar, regularly offered in the fall quarter, consists of seven or eight guest lectures by the literature faculty and introduces their research and methodologies. This proseminar is organized by a literature faculty member or the director of doctoral studies. The course is required in the first year of the Department of Literature doctoral program. Restricted to major code LT77 or consent of instructor and department. Prerequisites: department approval.

LTTH 210B. Introduction to Literary Theory (4)

This seminar, regularly offered in the winter quarter, introduces various literary theories that are essential for graduate studies in the field of literature and other related fields. The list of readings is decided by the course instructor in consultation with the department. The course is required in the first year of the Department of Literature doctoral program. Restricted to major code LT77 or consent of instructor and department. Prerequisites: department approval.

LTTH 210C. Practicum in Contemporary Literary Theory (4)

This course, regularly offered in the spring quarter, prepares students for dissertation research, publication, conference presentation, and job search. The course is required in one of the first three years of the Department of Literature doctoral program. Restricted to major code LT77 or consent of instructor and department. Prerequisites: department approval.

LTTH 250. Writing and Theory (4)

An overview of issues in modern critical theory as they pertain to writers. Will focus on issues of textuality, cultural forms, and aesthetics as they impact the process and meaning of writing. Restricted to major code LT84 or consent of instructor and department.

LTTH 255. Modern Art Movements and Aesthetics (4)

An introduction to modernist aesthetics with a focus on art and literary movements. Particular attention to be placed on relationships between modern literary movements (realism, imagism, surrealism) and their counterparts in visual arts, music, dance, and theatre, and the ways in which literary movements are components of or responses to issues of political and social identity. Restricted to major code LT84 or consent of instructor and department.

LTTH 260. Job Materials/Career Planning Workshop (4)

This course, taught every spring by the faculty member serving as PhD career adviser, is for ABD students planning a job search for the following year. Students will draft and workshop their materials for academic positions (CV, cover letter, dissertation abstract, teaching statement) as well as learn about career planning and exploration for a wide variety of fields. Students will learn about career paths in and beyond the academy from guest speakers and readings. It is recommended that students have already completed and passed their qualifying exams and advanced to candidacy. Restricted to major codes LT77 and LT85, or consent of instructor and department.

LTTH 298. Special Projects: Writing Course (1–12)

LITERATURES OF THE WORLD

In both lower- and upper-division world literature courses, texts may be read in English translation when necessary, and lectures and discussions are conducted in English.

Lower Division

LTWL 19A-B-C. Introduction to the Ancient Greeks and Romans (4-4-4)

An introductory study of ancient Greece and Rome, their literature, myth, philosophy, history, and art.

LTWL 87. First-year Student Seminar (1)

Upper Division

Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Additional prerequisites may be specified below.

LTWL 100. Mythology (4)

A study of various bodies of myth: their content, form, and meaning. May be taken for credit up to two times as topics vary.

LTWL 101. Death and Life in Ancient Egypt (4)

Who were the Egyptians? What was life like in ancient Egypt? How did they view themselves and the world around them? To answer these questions, this course will take a whirlwind tour covering some 4,000 years. To break up our historical tour de force we will often pause to look at themes that make Egyptian civilization so worth our collective attention. This includes mythology, language and literature, the afterlife, and the legacy of ancient Egypt today. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTWL 102. Life and Death in Ancient Mesopotamia (4)

Who were the people of Mesopotamia? What was life like in ancient Sumer and Babylon? How did they view themselves and the world around them? To answer these questions, this course will take a rapid tour covering about 4,000 years. To break up our historical tour de force we will often pause to look at themes that make Mesopotamian civilization so interesting. This includes mythology, language and literature, magic, medicine, the afterlife, and the legacy of ancient Mesopotamia today.

LTWL 106. The Classical Tradition (4)

Greek and Roman literature in translation. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTWL 110B. Folk and Fairy Tales (4)

A study of folk and fairy tales from various cultures, from the point of view of literary form, psychological meaning, and cultural function. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTWL 114. Children’s Literature (4)

A study of literature written for children in various cultures and periods. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTWL 116. Adolescent Literature (4)

A study of fiction written for the young adult in various cultures and periods. Consideration will be given to the young adult hero in fiction. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTWL 120. Popular Literature and Culture (4)

A study of various popular forms—such as pop music, cult books, film, fashion, magazines, graphic arts—within a broader cultural context. Focus may be on a particular genre (e.g., best sellers) or era (e.g., the sixties). May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTWL 123. Vampires in Literature (4)

A study of representations of the vampire through a variety of methodological perspectives with an emphasis on historical context and cultural symbolism.

LTWL 124. Science Fiction (4)

An exploration of the genre—past and present, in literature and the visual media—as a cultural response to scientific and technological change, as modern mythmaking, and as an enterprise serving a substantial fan subculture. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTWL 128. Introduction to Semiotics and Applications (4)

Semiotics, basically a theory of signification, describes the models and conceptual constructs through which meaning is grasped and produced. Background in the history of semiotics and its dominant models. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTWL 129. Wisdom: The Literature of Authority (4)

What is wisdom? Does wisdom refer to a specific type of discourse; a literary genre; a specific content that holds true transculturally and transtemporally? This class will consider these questions by reading literature from diverse times and places.

LTWL 134. Cinema and Islam (4)

This course examines histories and theories of cinema and Islam. It offers an overview on intersections between film and religious experience in various Muslim cultures, and how such experiences are ultimately grounded in shifting historical and social settings.

LTWL 135. The Buddhist Imaginary (4)

An introduction to the imaginative universe of Indian Buddhism, with a focus on the connection between cosmological models and liberative practices. In this class we read Buddhist narrative and doctrinal literatures, supplemented by archaeological and art historical artifacts.

LTWL 136. Socially Engaged Buddhism (4)

This course explores the writings of Buddhists who actively engage with the problems of the world: social, environmental, economic, political. We will examine the historical development of engaged Buddhism in light of traditional Buddhist concepts of morality, interdependence, and liberation.

LTWL 138. Critical Religion Studies (4)

Selected topics, texts, and problems in the study of religion. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTWL 140. Novel and History in the Third World (4)

This course sets out to explore the relation between the novel and the “dependent” history of the Third World, contrasting and comparing the uses of history in the European novel as defined in the theoretical analysis of Lukacs with uses of history in the Third World novel. An analysis of major themes and movements common to selected ethnic literature in the United States and national literatures in the Third World.

LTWL 143. Arab Literatures and Cultures (4)

Lecture/discussion course focusing on Arab literatures and cultures. It could offer study of any period of Arab cultures, from ante-Islam to the contemporary world. Topics may include themes (e.g., gender, social critique) or focus on specific genres or aesthetics (film, novel, realism). May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTWL 145. South Asian Religious Literatures: Selected Topics (4)

One or two topics in the religious literatures of South Asia will be examined in depth. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTWL 150. Modernity and Literature (4)

Explores the various cross-cultural historical, philosophical, and aesthetic ideas which formed the basis of most twentieth-century literature. Literature from the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa will be studied through lectures and the reading of texts in English translation. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTWL 155. Gender Studies (4)

The study of the construction of sexual differences in literature and culture. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTWL 156. Asian Diasporic Cinema (4)

This course examines the presence of diasporic Asians in the U.S. through film and visual media. The Asian diasporic figures we examine will include the immigrant, the exile, the refugee, the transnational adoptee, the Internet bride, the queer subject, and the restauranteur. How does diaspora challenge and reinforce national identity? How does it interrogate notions of ethnic, racial, and cultural authenticity? In what ways does diaspora trouble the idea of an original homeland?

LTWL 157. Iranian Film (4)

Course sets out to explore the history and theory of Iranian films in the context of the country’s political, cultural, and religious settings since 1945. Students are expected to watch and discuss Iranian films, particularly the postrevolutionary films of Kiarostami and Mokhbalbaf. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTWL 158A. Topics in the New Testament (4)

Literary and sociohistorical considerations of the diverse writings that developed into the New Testament. Topics include Jewish origins of the “Jesus movement” within Greco-Roman culture; varying patterns of belief/practice among earliest communities; oral tradition and development of canon. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTWL 158B. Topics in Early Christian Texts and Cultures (4)

This course investigates the manner in which texts shape religious identities on the individual and communal level in sociohistorical and cultural contexts: various topics include portraits of Jesus, saints’ lives, death and afterlife, martyrdom, demonology, apocalypticism, Christianity, and empire. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTWL 158C. Topics in Other Christianities (4)

A survey of the Christian texts that comprise the fatalities of the battles defining Christian canon (e.g., apocryphal acts, noncanonical gospels, and “Gnostic” texts). Considers the social communities, theological views, religious identities, and practices reflected in largely forgotten texts. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTWL 159. Digital Middle East: Culture, Politics, and Religion (4)

This course examines the role of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) such as the internet, mobile, and satellite TV in the reshaping of the Middle East and North Africa. It will focus on how ICTs like the internet are changing culture, politics, and religion in the region and implication of such transformations.

LTWL 160. Women and Literature (4)

This course will explore the relationship between women and literature, i.e., women as producers of literature, as objects of literary discourse, and as readers. Foreign language texts will be read in translation. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTWL 165. Literature and the Environment (4)

With primarily American (and a couple of English) readings, the course inquires into the relation of human and nonhuman nature. Topics include wilderness, animals, Native American thought, women in nature, description as a kind of writing, the spirituality of place.

LTWL 166. The Yiddish Novel (4)

Yiddish literature is much more than folk songs and jokes. We will read major American and European works by Nobel laureate I. B. Singer, his brother I. J. Singer, and his sister Esther Kreytman, Sholem Aleichem, Mendele, Chava Rozenfarb, and others. (In English translation.)

LTWL 168. Death and Desire in India (4)

This class investigates the link between desire and death in classical and modern Hindu thought. It considers the stories of Hindu deities, as well as the lives of contemporary South Asian men and women, in literature and film.

LTWL 172. Special Topics in Literature (4)

Studies in specialized literary, philosophic, and artistic movements, approaches to literature, literary ideas, historical moments, etc. LTWL 172 and LTWL 172GS may be taken for credit for a combined total of three times.

LTWL 174. Law and Literature (4)

Examines law in its cultural context by investigating the intersections between law and literature. Through readings of literary texts alongside laws, court cases, and legal theory, this course explores the relationships between literary and legal modes of textual interpretation. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTWL 176. Literature and Ideas (4)

The course will center on writers or movements of international literary, cultural, or ideological significance. The texts studied, if foreign, may be read either in the original language or in English. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTWL 177. Literature and Aging (4)

A humanistic approach to the research field of healthy aging. Students learn to bring humanistic practices to the study of aging in the fields of neurobiology, biomedical engineering, neuroscience, and medical education.

LTWL 180. Film Studies and Literature: Film History (4)

The study of film history and its effects upon methods of styles in literary history. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTWL 181. Film Studies and Literature: Film Movement (4)

Study of analogies between literary movements and film movements. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTWL 183. Film Studies and Literature: Director’s Work (4)

Methods of criticism of author’s work applied to the study and analysis of film director’s style and work. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTWL 184. Film Studies and Literature: Close Analysis of Filmic Text (4)

Methods of literary analysis applied to the study of shots, sequences, poetics, and deep structure in filmic discourse. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

LTWL 191. Honors Seminar (4)

Explorations in critical theory and method. This course, designed to prepare students to write an honors thesis, is open only to literature majors invited into the department’s Honors Program.

LTWL 192. Senior Seminar in Literatures of the World (1)

LTWL 194. Capstone Course for Literature Majors (4)

An advanced seminar open to all literature majors in their senior year. Required for those interested in the Honors Program. It offers an integrative experience by considering key facets of the discipline, including literary theory/historiography, knowledge of neighboring disciplines, and relevance of literature/culture studies in various professions outside of academia. Prerequisites: senior standing.

LTWL 194A. Honors Practicum (1)

Honors practicum for those students in the literature department Honors Program. This is a one-unit course for which students in the Honors Program will present their work as part of organized panels at an Honors Program conference (within the department). Students will receive a P/NP grade for LTWL 194A for completing the presentation. Prerequisites: LTWL 194 or LTWR 194, and senior standing.

LTWL 196. Honors Thesis (4)

Senior thesis research and writing for students who have been accepted for the Literature Honors Program and who have completed LTWL 191. Oral exam. Prerequisites: department approval.

LTWL 198. Directed Group Study (4)

Research seminars and research, under the direction of faculty member. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary. Prerequisites: department approval.

LTWL 199. Special Studies (2 or 4)

Tutorial; individual guided reading in areas of literature (in translation) not normally covered in courses. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary. (P/NP grades only.) Prerequisites: upper-division standing and department approval.

Graduate

LTWL 500. Apprentice Teaching in Literature (2 or 4)

Consideration of pedagogical methods appropriate to undergraduate teaching in literature courses under the supervision of instructor of course. Doctoral students in literature are required to participate in undergraduate teaching for a minimum of twelve units (two to four units per quarter) prior to completion of the PhD degree.

LITERATURE/WRITING

Lower Division

LTWR 8A. Writing Fiction (4)

Study of fiction in both theory and practice. Narrative technique studied in terms of subjectivity and atmosphere, description, dialogue, and the editing process will be introduced through readings from the history of the novel and short story. Students are required to attend at least three New Writing Series readings during the quarter. Prerequisites: CAT 2 and 3 or DOC 2 and 3 or HUM 1 and 2 or MCWP 40 and 50 or MMW 12 and 13 or WARR 11A-B or WCWP 10A-B or SYN 1 and 2.

LTWR 8B. Writing Poetry (4)

Study and practice of poetry as artistic and communal expression. Techniques of composition (traditional forms, avant garde techniques, dramatic monologue, performance poetry, and new genre) studied through written and spoken examples of poetry. Students are required to attend at least three New Writing Series readings during the quarter. Prerequisites: CAT 2 and 3 or DOC 2 and 3 or HUM 1 and 2 or MCWP 40 and 50 or MMW 12 and 13 or WARR 11A-B or WCWP 10A-B or SYN 1 and 2.

LTWR 8C. Writing Nonfiction (4)

Study of nonfictional prose in terms of genre and craft. Techniques of composition (journalism, essay, letters, reviews) will be studied through written examples of the genre. Prerequisites: CAT 2 and 3 or DOC 2 and 3 or HUM 1 and 2 or MCWP 40 and 50 or MMW 12 and 13 or WARR 11A-B or WCWP 10A-B or SYN 1 and 2. Completion of college writing requirement.

Upper Division

Department approval is required for any students who are not declared literature/writing majors or minors.

Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Additional prerequisites may be specified below.

(See “Department of Theatre and Dance” for course offerings in dramatic writing.)

Prose Fiction, Poetry, Media Workshops

LTWR 100. Short Fiction Workshop (4)

A workshop for students with some experience and special interest in writing fiction. This workshop is designed to encourage regular writing in the short forms of prose fiction and to permit students to experiment with various forms. There will be discussion of student work, together with analysis and discussion of representative examples of short fiction from the present and previous ages. LTWR 100 and LTWR 100GS may be taken for credit for a combined total of three times. Restricted to major/minor code LT34 during first pass of registration. All other students may register during second pass of registration with the approval of the department. Prerequisites: LTWR 8A.

LTWR 101. Writing Fiction in Spanish (4)

A workshop for students with interest in writing fiction in Spanish. Includes discussion of student work, together with analysis and discussion of representative examples of short fiction from the present and previous ages. A working knowledge of Spanish is required. May be taken for credit up to three times. Restricted to major/minor code LT34 during first pass of registration. All other students may register during second pass of registration with the approval of the department. Prerequisites: LTWR 8A; LTSP 50A or 50B or 50C.

LTWR 102. Poetry Workshop (4)

A workshop for students with some experience and special interest in writing poetry. This workshop is designed to encourage regular writing of poetry. There will be discussion of student work, together with analysis and discussion of representative examples of poetry from the present and previous ages. May be taken for credit up to three times. Restricted to major/minor code LT34 during first pass of registration. All other students may register during second pass of registration with the approval of the department. Prerequisites: LTWR 8B.

LTWR 103. Digital Poetics Workshop (4)

This workshop includes instruction on using software and writing basic computer code to allow students to create innovative web-based works that experiment with poetic form, draw on rich media resources, and provide more accessibility and interactivity for public audiences. May be taken for credit up to three times. Restricted to major/minor code LT34 during first pass of registration. All other students may register during second pass of registration with the approval of the department. Prerequisites: LTWR 8B.

LTWR 104A. The Novella I (4)

A two-quarter workshop for fiction writers ready to explore a longer form and committed to developing a single piece over the course of two consecutive quarters. In addition to analyzing student work, we will read and discuss a wide range of published novellas. Two-quarter sequence; students must complete LTWR 104A and LTWR 104B in order to receive final grade in both courses. Restricted to major/minor code LT34 during first pass of registration. All other students may register during second pass of registration with the approval of the department. Prerequisites: LTWR 100.

LTWR 104B. The Novella II (4)

A continuation of LTWR 104A in which fiction writers complete the novella manuscripts they began during the previous quarter. Each student will produce a novella of at least fifty revised pages by the end of the quarter. We will continue to read and discuss published novellas with a particular emphasis on narrative strategy, structure, and revision. Two-quarter sequence; students must complete LTWR 104A and LTWR 104B in order to receive final grade in both courses. Restricted to major/minor code LT34 during first pass of registration. All other students may register during second pass of registration with the approval of the department. Prerequisites: LTWR 104A.

LTWR 106. Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Irrealism Workshop (4)

In this workshop, students will practice skills of narration, characterization, and style with particular attention to the demands of nonrealistic genres, especially the challenge of suspending disbelief in fictional environments that defy conventional logic. Readings and lectures will accompany writing exercises. May be taken for credit up to three times. Restricted to major/minor code LT34 during first pass of registration. All other students may register during second pass of registration with the approval of the department. Prerequisites: LTWR 8A.

LTWR 109. Writing and Publishing Children’s Literature (4)

A workshop in writing for children, with the additional focus of exploring successful approaches to publication of children’s stories. There will be regular weekly reading and writing assignments. May be taken for credit up to three times. Restricted to major/minor code LT34 during first pass of registration. All other students may register during second pass of registration with the approval of the department. Prerequisites: LTWR 8A.

LTWR 110. Screen Writing (4)

A workshop designed to encourage writing of original screenplays and adaptations. There will be discussion of study work, together with analysis of discussion of representative examples of screen writing. May be taken for credit up to three times. Restricted to major/minor code LT34 during first pass of registration. All other students may register during second pass of registration with the approval of the department.

LTWR 113. Intercultural Writing Workshop (4)

This course is an introduction to modes of writing from other cultural systems vastly different from the cultural-aesthetic assumptions of Anglo American writing. While disclosing the limitations of the English language, this course attempts to provide new language strategies for students. May be taken for credit up to three times. Restricted to major/minor code LT34 during first pass of registration. All other students may register during second pass of registration with the approval of the department. Prerequisites: LTWR 8A, 8B, or 8C.

LTWR 114. Graphic Texts Workshop (4)

From illuminated manuscripts to digital literature, from alphabets to concrete poems, from artists’ books to comics, this course explores the histories and techniques of combinatory image/word literary arts. The course may emphasize specific movements or genres. May be taken for credit up to three times. Restricted to major/minor code LT34 during first pass of registration. All other students may register during second pass of registration with the approval of the department. Prerequisites: LTWR 8A or 8B or 8C.

LTWR 115. Experimental Writing Workshop (4)

This workshop explores writing for which the traditional generic distinctions of prose/poetry, fiction/documentary, narrative/discourse do not apply. Students taking this course will be asked to challenge the boundaries of literature to discover new forms and modes of expression. May be taken for credit up to three times. Restricted to major/minor code LT34 during first pass of registration. All other students may register during second pass of registration with the approval of the department. Prerequisites: LTWR 8A, 8B, or 8C.

LTWR 119. Writing for Performance Workshop (4)

A workshop and survey of experimental approaches to the writing and production of performance works in a range of literary genres. Emphasis will be placed on the integration of written texts with nonverbal elements from the visual arts, theatre, and music. May be taken for credit up to three times. Restricted to major/minor code LT34 during first pass of registration. All other students may register during second pass of registration with the approval of the department. Prerequisites: LTWR 8A or 8B.

Nonfiction Prose Workshops

LTWR 120. Personal Narrative Workshop (4)

A workshop designed to encourage regular writing of all forms of personal experience narrative, including journals, autobiography, firsthand biography, and firsthand chronicle. Instructor and students will discuss student work as well as published personal narratives. May be taken for credit up to three times. Restricted to major/minor code LT34 during first pass of registration. All other students may register during second pass of registration with the approval of the department. Prerequisites: LTWR 8A, 8B, or 8C.

LTWR 121. Media Writing Workshop (4)

Workshop focusing on the review, the op-ed piece, the column, the blurb, the profile, the interview, and “content-providing” for websites. We’ll examine current examples of media writing; students will produce a body of work and critique one another’s productions. May be taken for credit up to three times. Restricted to major/minor code LT34 during first pass of registration. All other students may register during second pass of registration with the approval of the department. Prerequisites: LTWR 8C.

LTWR 122. Writing for the Sciences Workshop (4)

A workshop in writing about science for the public. Students will study and then construct metaphors or analogues that introduce readers to scientific perplexities. Completion of LTWR 8A, 8B, or 8C highly recommended. May be taken for credit up to three times. Restricted to major/minor code LT34 during first pass of registration. All other students may register during second pass of registration with the approval of the department.

LTWR 124. Translation of Literary Texts Workshop (4)

A writing workshop on the theory and practice of literary translation. Students will translate literary texts and workshop with the instructor and other course members. Selected readings in translation theory. May be taken for credit up to three times. Restricted to major/minor code LT34 during first pass of registration. All other students may register during second pass of registration with the approval of the department. Prerequisites: LTWR 8A, 8B, or 8C.

LTWR 126. Creative Nonfiction Workshop (4)

A writing, reading, and critical-thinking workshop designed to produce nonfiction pieces that fall outside the limits of the essay form. Included are travel narratives, memoir, and information-based writing that transform their own materials into compelling literature. May be taken for credit up to three times. Restricted to major/minor code LT34 during first pass of registration. All other students may register during second pass of registration with the approval of the department. Prerequisites: LTWR 8C.

LTWR 129. Distributing Literature Workshop (4)

Workshop designed to critique and engage the means of distributing literature within culture. Publishing from “zine” through mainstream publication; web publishings; readings and “slams”; publicity and funding; colloquia with writers; politics and literature; and the uses of performance and media. May be taken for credit up to three times. Restricted to major/minor code LT34 during first pass of registration. All other students may register during second pass of registration with the approval of the department. Prerequisites: LTWR 100, LTWR 102, or LTWR 120.

Writing Process, Written Discourse, and Writing Pedagogy

These courses are not writing workshop courses like those listed above. Rather, they examine various aspects of writing as a field of study and writing pedagogy. Writing majors who plan to teach writing may be particularly interested in these courses.

LTWR 140. History of Writing (4)

A review of the history of the development of alphabets and writing systems. Survey of the rise of literacy since the fifteenth century and analysis of continuing literacy problems in developed and developing countries. Restricted to major/minor code LT34 during first pass of registration. All other students may register during second pass of registration with the approval of the department.

LTWR 143. Stylistics and Grammar (4)

A close look at sentence-level features of written discourse–stylistics and sentence grammars. Students will review recent research on these topics and experiment in their own writing with various stylistic and syntactic options. Restricted to major/minor code LT34 during first pass of registration. All other students may register during second pass of registration with the approval of the department.

LTWR 144. The Teaching of Writing (4)

Wide reading in current theory and practice of teaching writing in schools and colleges. Careful attention to various models of classroom writing instruction and to different approaches in the individual conference. Students in this course may observe instruction in the UC San Diego college writing programs or tutor first-year students in those programs. Restricted to major/minor code LT34 during first pass of registration. All other students may register during second pass of registration with the approval of the department.

LTWR 148. Theory for Writers/Writing for Theory (4)

Hybrid workshop offering writing students a working knowledge of literary theory while exposing literature students to practical techniques from poetry, fiction, and nonfiction to refresh their writing of theoretical nonfiction texts. Discussion of student work and published work. Restricted to major/minor code LT34 during first pass of registration. All other students may register during second pass of registration with the approval of the department.

Directed Study and Special Study

LTWR 194. Capstone Course for Writing Majors (4)

An advanced seminar open to all writing majors in their senior year. Required for those interested in the Honors Program. It offers an integrative experience by considering key facets of the discipline and profession, including relationships between aesthetics/culture and politics, genre writing, craft/technique, literary theories/theories of writing, and distribution/publication. Restricted to major code LT34 or consent of the instructor and department. Prerequisites: senior standing.

LTWR 195. Apprentice Teaching (4)

Undergraduate instruction assistance. A student will 1) assist TA in editing students’ writing for LTWR 8A-B-C during class and outside of class; and 2) prepare a paper and report for the professor at the end of the quarter. May be taken for credit up to two times. Prerequisites: department approval.

LTWR 196. Honors Thesis (4)

Senior thesis research and writing for students who have been accepted for the Literature Honors Program. Prerequisites: department approval.

LTWR 198. Directed Group Study (2 or 4)

Directed group study in areas of writing not normally covered in courses. May be taken for credit up to three times. (P/NP grades only.)

LTWR 199. Special Studies (2 or 4)

Tutorial; individual guidance in areas of writing not normally covered in courses. May be taken for credit up to three times. (P/NP grades only.) Prerequisites: upper-division standing and department approval.

Graduate

Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

LTWR 215. Cross-Genre Workshop (4)

In the generative workshop, writers create intergenre works and practice unconventional workshopping techniques that function less as editorial roundtables and more as discussions of the relationships between aesthetics and culture. Restricted to major code LT84 or consent of instructor and department. May be taken for credit up to five times.

LTWR 220. Topics in Writing (4)

This seminar will be organized around any of various topic areas relating to writing (fiction, poetry, cross-genre, theory). Topics might focus on a genre (film, popular novel, theatre) or on the transformations of a theme or metaphor (nation, femininity, the uncanny). S/U grades only. Restricted to major code LT84 or consent of instructor and department. May be taken for credit three times as content varies.

LTWR 295. MFA Thesis (1–12)

Research for master’s thesis. Offered for repeated registration. Open only to MFA students. Prerequisites: department approval.

LTWR 298. Directed Studies: Writing Course (1–12)

This course may be designed according to an individual student’s needs when seminar offerings do not cover subjects, genres, or authors of interest. May be applied toward the guided research or graduate seminar in literature requirement of the MFA program. Repeatable for credit. Prerequisites: department approval.