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C LIT 100.
Introduction to Comparative Literature
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Focus on various practices and methodologies of Comparative Literature as a cross-disciplinary and transnational endeavor, including recent developments and debates on translation studies and world literature in an era of cultural globalization. Content will vary with instructor.
C LIT 101.
Introduction to Literary and Critical Theory
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
How does critical theory help us to read and write literature? Potential foci include structuralism, semiotics, social theory, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, cultural criticism, gender studies and feminism, queer studies, postcolonial criticism, ecocriticism. Content will vary with instructor.
C LIT 102A.
Introduction to Translation I
(4)
ALVES FERREIRA
Prerequisite: Spanish 25 OR Spanish 16B.
Enrollment Comments: Same course as Spanish 115.
Repeat Comments: C LIT 102A is a legal repeat of SPAN 115.
Comprises topics necessary to develop skills that are needed for writing at a specialized level and to carry out written translation into and from Spanish, mostly texts on business and medical topics.
C LIT 102B.
Introduction to Interpreting
(4)
ALVES FERREIRA
Prerequisite: Spanish 25 OR Spanish 16B (may be taken concurrently).
Enrollment Comments: Same course as Spanish 116.
Repeat Comments: C LIT 102B is a legal repeat of SPAN 116.
Comprised of topics necessary in developing skills for interpretation to and from Spanish. Intended mostly for proficient Spanish-language speakers.
C LIT 102C.
Specialized Translation - Technical
(4)
MIGLIO
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Same course as Spanish 117C.
Repeat Comments: C LIT 102C is a legal repeat of SPAN 117C.
Comprised of topics necessary in developing skills for writing at a specialized level, and with specialized vocabulary and format, for the translation of different types of technical texts (instruction manuals, medical, patents, etc.).
C LIT 103.
Going Postal: Epistolary Narratives
(4)
COOK
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing
Repeat Comments: Same course as ENGL 128EN.
Investigates reappearance of the letter-novel at particular historical moments, and paradoxes built into the letter-form itself. Range of works emphasizing eighteenth- and later twentieth-century novels, likely works by Austen, Goethe, Hoffman, James, Montesquieu, Choderlos de Laclos, Lydia Davis, Pynchon.
C LIT 107.
Voyages to the Unknown
(4)
SKENAZI
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or equivalent.
Enrollment Comments: Same course as French 154A.
The impact of the voyages of discovery on late 15th and 16th century Europe. Readings on real and imaginary voyages: Columbus, Cartier, Lery, More, Rabelais, Montaigne.
C LIT 109.
Game and Literature
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
An interdisciplinary inquiry into the motive of game in 18th-20th century literature. Focus is on the moral, psychological and epistemological dimensions of game according to both form and function. Considerations of the stylistic, narrative and rhetorical components of texts.
C LIT 111.
Dreaming in Cultural Context
(4)
PLANE
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Concurrently offered with HIST 101D. Same course as History 101D
Explores dreams and dreaming in multiple historical and cultural contexts and pays particular attention to dreams and dream reports as unconscious and intra-psychic as well as social and cultural communications. A variety of historical, ethnographic, psychoanalytic, and literary texts are considered.
C LIT 113.
Trauma, Memory, Historiography
(4)
DERWIN, WEBER
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit up to a maximum of 8 units with consent of department chair.
How do individuals, communities, cultures, nations remember and/or forget, preserve and/or erase, traumatic events?
C LIT 114.
Dante's "Divine Comedy"
(4)
TURSI
Prerequisite: Upper division standing or instructor approval required
Enrollment Comments: Same course as Italian 114X
Dante's masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, remains among the most astonishing works of world literature. This course follows the pilgrim's progress through Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso in search of "love that moves the sun and the other stars."
C LIT 115.
Introduction to Folk Tales
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: English 10 or Writing 50 or upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Not open for credit to students who have completed Interdisciplinary 115.
Broad survey of folk tales from all over the world. Types, motifs, research, and history.
C LIT 119.
Psychoanalytic Theory
(4)
DERWIN, WEBER, FRADENBURG
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units with consent of department chair.
Topic to be addressed each quarter will be chosen from the following: origins of psychoanalysis; sado-masochism; the death-drive; psychoanalysis and the law; group psychology; psychoanalysis and the media; literature andpsychoanalysis.
C LIT 121.
Epic Heroes, Classic Texts
(4)
JULLIEN
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Same course as Classics 136.
Repeat Comments: Illegal Repeat of C Lit 197 from Fall 2004 to Fall 2006.
Through readings of the three major epics of Greek and Latin Antiquity (the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid, read in English translation) and some of their modern rewritings, this course allows students to (1) explore the changing idea of hero and heroism in the Western tradition, and (2) engage critically with the idea of canonicity and foundational texts in Western literature, and in world literature.
C LIT 122A.
Representations of the Holocaust
(4)
DERWIN
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Not open for credit to students who have completed German 116A.
Close reading of post-Holocaust literature. Taught in English.
C LIT 122B.
Holocaust in France
(4)
DERWIN, NESCI
Enrollment Comments: Same course as French 154E.
Through analysis of testimonies, memoirs, fiction, and film, this course focuses on France under the Nazi occupation. Topics include the Vichy Regime (1940-1945), the Resistance Movement, the Church under Vichy, anti-Semitism, deportations and concentration camp imprisonment, and national memory after World War II.
C LIT 122C.
Holocaust in Italy
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper Division Standing
Through readings of memoir, fiction, and film, this course investigates the fate of Jews under the Italian Fascists of Benito Mussolini (1922-1945). Topics include Fascism, Communism, anti-Semitism, Italian cooperation with the Nazis, the Catholic Church, the Resistance Movement, deportations and extermination camps, and individual / collective memory after World War II. Students will be exposed to great literary and cinematographic works and through them develop a thorough understanding of this pivotal period in modern Italian history.
C LIT 126.
Comparative Black Literatures
(4)
STRONGMAN
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Same course as Black Studies 126.
Using a social constructionist approach to race, this course examines the multiple ways in which racial discourses operate in global literary cultures. It emphasizes that blackness need not be a homogeneous concept in order to continue to be a powerful agent in the postmodern world.
C LIT 128A.
Children's Literature
(4)
SNYDER
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Classic texts and theories of children's literature, from Perrault and Wilde to Freud and Propp. Examination of narrative and ideological strategies for constructing and representing "childhood" in modernity, with emphasis on their relationship to the family and the marketplace.
C LIT 129.
Theory and Text: Representations of the Self in the Renaissance
(4)
SKENAZI
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
An examination of representations of the self in Renaissance literature and culture. Readings will include works by Petrarch, Shakespeare, Castiglione, Montaigne, Quevedo, and theoretical texts by Foucault, Greenblatt, Eakin.
C LIT 130.
Music, Literature and Black Lives
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Explores how African American music and literature influence one another formally, and how music and musicality in African American literature are at the core of its power to resist and subvert racialized violence.
C LIT 133.
Transpacific Literature
(4)
HUANG
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
Repeat Comments: Same course as English 133TL.
Looks at the Pacific as the primary location for literary and historical imagination since the Age of Exploration. Studies the crisscross, transpacific field of inscriptions ranging from Captain Cook to Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Jack London,and Maxine Hong Kingston.
C LIT 134.
Poetics of the Second Language
(4)
TURSI
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing or instructor approval required
What is the effect of writing in a language other than one's own? Why choose to do so in the first place? In this course, we explore the works of various novelists and poets who, for one reason or another, choose to write in a foreign language, turning their back on their so-called "mother tongue." We consider this gesture from many angles, first and foremost that of translation, and, more specifically, self-translation.
C LIT 139.
China in Translation: Theory, Art, History
(4)
MAZANEC
Prerequisite: Upper Division Standing
Uses the case study of translations into and out of China- long regarded as a civilization distinct from west- to explore themes in translation studies. Topics: ideograms, orientalism, modernization, world literature, annotations, musicality, poetic license, adaption.
C LIT 142.
Literary Adaptation in East Asia
(4)
FLEMING
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Explores literary adaptation and intertextuality in East Asia through primary texts and readings from critical theory. Among the texts considered are traditional poetry, The Tale of Genji, Chinese "strange tales," and representations of history and literature in film. Taught in English, with readings in English translation; no knowledge of Chinese or Japanese necessary.
C LIT 147A.
Language and Knowledge in Medieval Islam
(4)
EL OMARI
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing
Examines representative conceptions and practices of language in Islamic thought and history. Questions addressed in this course range from conceptions of language in exegetical, theological, mystical, and legal traditions to its practices in writing and transmission of knowledge.
C LIT 147B.
The Culture of Medieval Muslim Spain
(4)
REYNOLDS
Prerequisite: Upper Division Standing
Examines the emergence and spread of a distinctive culture in medieval Muslim Spain (Ar. al-Andalus) from the 8th to the early 17th centuries. Topics include literature, music, architecture, and mysticism, as well as intellectual fields such as philosophy and the sciences. These fields will be examined against the background of cultural interactions among both ethnic (e.g., Arab, Berber, Iberian) and sectarian (e.g., Christian, Jewish, Muslim) communities. Hotly debated issues such as cultural influence and modern survivals will also be addressed.
C LIT 148.
Creative Chaos
(4)
VAGT
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Chaos: is it primordial mayhem and confusion? Or does chaos permit the possibility of form and creativity? Course explores the order and disorder of chaos within literary, scientific, and philosophical narratives. From Hesiod and Ovid through Diderot, Wordsworth, and Pynchon.
C LIT 152.
Digital Humanities Practice
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Same course as German 152.
In the 21st century, scholars have increasingly turned to computational methods for the analysis of large corpora of art and literature. While early methods of "distant reading" and "distant viewing" could be realized with off-the-shelf software, contemporary research in the digital humanities requires technical skills beyond ready-made tools. This course provides an introduction to computer programming for the humanities, including, but not limited to concepts from natural language processing, computer vision, and machine learning.
C LIT 153.
Border Narratives
(4)
GUTIERREZ-JONES
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Examination of novels, short stories, and films that engage U.S./Mexico border dynamics. Considering the ways diverse, interactive processes are affecting border culture, and inquiring into the ways cultural products critically respond to these processes.
C LIT 153B.
French Theatre in Translation
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing
A study of French theatre through the centuries, considered within the cultural context of the day (Classicism, the Enlightenment, Romanticism, the Absurd, etc). Plays by Molière, Marivaux, Beaumarchais, Hugo, Musset, Ionesco, and Beckett. Lectures and readings in English.
C LIT 154.
Science Fiction in Eastern Europe
(4)
MCCLAIN
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Same course as Slavic 154.
The genre of science fiction and its development in literature and film in the various cultures of eastern europe. Topics include utopia, dystopia,technology, the "mad" scientist, etc. Taught in English.
C LIT 154I.
Economic Fictions: Literature, Film, and Theory
(4)
POWERS, MALEUVRE
Prerequisite: Upper Division Standing.
How have Western thinkers represented economic concepts since the eighteenth century? Themes may include free market liberalism, labor theories of value, household and family economics, currency/monetary policy, associationism/socialism, globalism/expansionism/colonialism, protectionism, and others. In English.
C LIT 155.
Critical Artificial Intelligence
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Same course as German 155.
Artificial intelligence now affects nearly all aspects of human life and knowledge production, from labor to language, and from fundamental physics to the arts. The pivotal role of the humanities lies in the critical analysis of the specific cultural techniques emerging from this technical revolution: new methods of language processing, image production, scientific reasoning, and social control require new critical and historical approaches. This course provides an introduction to the history and theory of artificial intelligence from the perspective of the humanities. Participants will acquire the skills to analyze and understand the design and construction of machine learning systems, and their philosophical and political implications.
C LIT 161.
Literature of Central Europe
(4)
SPIEKER
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Same course as German 151C and Slavic 151C.
Investigation of the prolific literatures of central Europe, one of the culturally and linguistically most diverse regions of the European continent that has produced writers such as Italo Svevo, Franz Kafka, Robert Musil, Bruno Schultz, and others. Readings in English.
C LIT 162.
Sexuality and Globalization
(4)
AMAR
Examines globalizing cultural politics of sexuality through literature, popular media, subaltern performances, and press discourse from Global South; engages questions of "universalized" LGBTQ identities, Islamic law and sexual rights, militarized masculinities, recognition of transexualities, and queer, anti-racist and feminist globalisms.
C LIT 162I.
Desire, Sex, and Romance in Traditions of India
(4)
ELISON
Prerequisite: Upper Division standing and one course from the following: RGST 19, 20, 140D, 158C, 159 G-H-J-K-L-M-N-O, 160A, 161D, 169 or equivalent; or instructor approval.
Enrollment Comments: Cross listed with Religious Studies 162I.
Explores questions of love and sex across two thousand years of Indian religious thought. The reading list includes some of the most famous voices in South Asian literary history. We will tour various genres: moral teachings, epic narrative, drama, devotional and mystical poetry, and modern fiction. Yes, we will read the Kama Sutra, and yes, there will be Bollywood films.
C LIT 163.
Digital Visual Studies
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Same course as German 163 and History of Art and Architecture 163.
In the past ten years, the scope of the digital humanities has broadened to include the visual world: "distant reading" became "distant viewing". This visual turn has not only facilitated the digital transformation of traditional disciplines like art history but has also introduced a new set of media-technological questions into the digital humanities discourse: questions concerning the nature of digital images, and the modalities of machine seeing. This course serves as an introduction to the emerging discipline of "digital visual studies" that investigates these questions. Participants will acquire skills in the analysis and critique of digital visual culture and learn to use contemporary digital tools to explore the visual world.
C LIT 164D.
Russian Cosmism
(4)
SPIEKER
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Same course as Slavic 164D.
A focus on fictional and non-fictional texts, films, and art centered on the Russian fascination with outer space, science, and technology, from the 19th century to the present day. Russian Cosmism opens up new perspectives on Russian 19th century philosophy as well as the Russian avant-garde and present-day ideology and politics in Russia. Artists and thinkers considered include A. Bogdanov, N. Federov, K. Malevich, A. Tarkovsky, and many others.
C LIT 165.
East Asian Buddhist Poetry
(4)
MAZANEC
Prerequisite: Upper Division Standing
Introduces Buddhist poetry of China, Japan, and Korea. Emphasizes the diversity of literary encounters with the teachings and practices of Buddhism. Topics include Hanshan, Basho, Zen koans, Gary Snyder, and monastery cats.
C LIT 170.
Translation as Metaphor: Introduction to Translation Theory and Practice
(4)
TURSI, STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing; and completion of quarter 5 or equivalent of the language of study.
The course aims to develop skills in terminology and technologies of translation; it also examines the practical and theoretical issues pertaining to translation as an artistic, cultural, and ethical process. Focus on literary translation as creative research and practice.
C LIT 171.
Post-Colonial Cultures
(4)
PRIETO
Enrollment Comments: Same course as French 154G.
Study of fiction from the Caribbean, West Africa, and the Maghreb. Born of the conflict between and hybridization of widely differing cultural traditions, this course provides insights into the vibrancy of contemporary post-colonial societies, the ongoing legacy of colonialism, and the meaning of multiculturalism. In English.
C LIT 174.
Metamorphosis
(4)
HOLLAND
Narratives of metamorphosis challenge our preconceived notions of identity and form. This course investigates metamorphosis as a scientific, social, and philosophical problem, drawing from literature (Ovid, Stevenson, Kafka, Cortazar, etc.) and the visual arts, including film.
C LIT 175AAZZ.
Literatures of Eurasia
(4)
STAFF
Repeat Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 12 units provided letter designations are different.
Examines literature and culture from a region or regions situated at the crossroads between Europe and Asia, such as Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan), the Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia), or other cultural crossroads in Eurasia. It thus departs from a historic focus on western regions to accommodate the richness and diversity of literature and culture in Eurasia. Topics will vary by instructor. Topics may include: "Armenian Literature," "Literatures of Central Asia," or "Literatures of the Caucasus." Taught in English.
C LIT 175A.
Literatures of Eurasia: Armenian Literature
C LIT 179A.
Revolutions: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud
(4)
WEBER
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Same course as German 179A.
Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud have revolutionized our world: Marx, the political and economic landscape; Nietzsche, the realm of philosophy and literature; and Freud, the way we think of our mind, sexualities, wishes and dreams. Explorations of three revolutionary challenges.
C LIT 179B.
Mysticism
(4)
WEBER
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Not open for credit to students who have completed German 169. Same course as German 179B and Religious Studies 179B.
Analysis of German mystical writing, its roots in ancient Greek texts, revolutionary impact, links with other mystical traditions, and influence on secular literature. Texts include Hildegard von Bingen, Meister Eckhart, Mechthild von Magdeburg, Novalis, Rilke, etc. Taught in English.
C LIT 179C.
Mediatechnology
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Not open for credit to students who have completed German 180. Same course as German 179C and ART 179C.
Telegraph, telephone, phonograph, and film are techniques that have engendered new forms of representation, communication, and thinking. Course studies the impact of these transformations in literature and on literature. Taught in English.
C LIT 180.
The European Renaissance
(4)
HELGERSON
Prerequisite: Writing 2 and 50; or Writing 109AA-ZZ or English 10.
Enrollment Comments: Same course as English 144.
The generic forms of cultural issues characteristic of early modern European poetry, fiction, and drama. Such authors as Petrarch, Boccaccio, More, Rabelais, Ariosto, Montaigne, Camoes, Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, and Cervantes.
C LIT 181AAZZ.
Special Topics in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
(4)
STAFF
Repeat Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 12 units provided letter designations are different.
In-depth examination of specialized topics with contemporary relevance or historical significance within the study of Russian, East European, or Eurasian literature, culture, and thought. Topics will vary by instructor. Topics may include: "Holy Fools," "Childhood in Russian Culture," "Russian and East European Literary Theory," and "Russian Literature and Translation." Taught in English
C LIT 181A.
Special Topics in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies: Holy Fools
C LIT 181B.
Ukrainian Cinema and Culture
C LIT 183.
Cognitive Poetics
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper Division Standing.
This course is designed to enable students to use cognitive neuroscience to read world literature. It is centered around two general issues: how our hunter-gatherer brain supports the production of a wide range of literature and how the study of literature, in turn, can be used to understand our species' cognitive design. This approach introduces students to cutting-edge interdisciplinary research. Studying literature from across the globe together with cognitive neuroscience also explains how universal cognitive capacities actually support local environmental variations in language, script and genre. Students can use this foundational survey course to take specialized classes on literature and emotion, and storytelling and the mind.
C LIT 184A.
From Superman to Spiegelman: The Jewish Graphic Novel
(4)
AMIHAY
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Same course as RG ST 133B.
This survey of graphic novels by Jewish authors will include selections of early comics, works by American authors such as Eisner, Spiegelman, and Pekar, and Israeli graphic novels. The seminar-style discussions will address varied themes, including identity, gender, trauma and memory.
C LIT 184B.
Photography and Religion
(4)
AMIHAY, O.
Prerequisite: Upper Division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Same course as RG ST 110G.
Offers an examination of the relationship between religion and photography through history, based on the consideration of photography as both an artistic medium and a social and performative practice. Alongside analysis of the function of photographs in religious life, we will explore various religious concepts in association with photography. Through meditations on topics as spirit, death, ritual, iconicity, sacred space, and gender, students will become familiar with critical theory of photography, visual analysis, and landmark photographs.
C LIT 184C.
Introduction to Modern Hebrew Literature
(4)
AMIHAY, O.
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing
Enrollment Comments: Same course as Religious Studies 133E.
This seminar offers a broad view of Modern Hebrew literature, from its emergence in the late nineteenth century to the present. Explores literary reflections of the Zionist project and major trends in Israeli culture and politics, while examining connections and tensions between different literary generations in Israel. Readings will include selections from Israeli novels, short stories, poetry and drama in translation but will be available in Hebrew for interested students. Discussions held in English.
C LIT 185.
Science and Technology in European Philosophy
(4)
VAGT
Prerequisite: Upper Division Standing
Introduces various positions from the history and present of European philosophy that speak to questions of science and technology. Readings may include Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, Arendt, Bachelard, Koyré, Caillois, Foucault, Canguilhem, Blumenberg, Serres, Malabou, Stiegler. Topics may include: machine theories, cybernetics, structuralism in science, techniques of simulation, artificial intelligence.
C LIT 186AAZZ.
Interdisciplinary Comparative Literature Studies
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 12 units provided letter designations are different.
Interdisciplinary examination of selected topics, theories, disciplinary issues, and/or methodological questions in the combined study of literature, and other areas of the humanities and humanistic sciences. Course focus will be determined by the instructor(s).
C LIT 186A.
Interdisciplinary Comparative Literature Studies
C LIT 186AA.
Moving Bodies: Stories of Migration
C LIT 186AD.
Adultery in the Novel
C LIT 186B.
Gender in Basque Culture
C LIT 186BB.
The Aftermath of Enlightenment
C LIT 186BU.
Bulgakov
C LIT 186CC.
The Basques Through Film
C LIT 186DD.
Interdisciplinary Comparative Literature Studies
C LIT 186DF.
Documentary Filmmaking & Democracy
C LIT 186E.
Conflict and Memory in Cultural Production
C LIT 186EB.
Basque Studies Through Literature and Culture in Translation (Spanish/English)
C LIT 186EE.
Interdisciplinary Comparative Literature Studies
C LIT 186FF.
NOIR: 1940's Film and Fiction
C LIT 186FL.
Vegetarianism: Food, Literature, Philosophy
C LIT 186FR.
Interdisciplinary Comparative Literature Studies
C LIT 186FW.
Iceland's Folklore and Witchcraft
C LIT 186G.
Dostoevsky
C LIT 186GG.
Interdisciplinary Comparative Literature Studies
C LIT 186GL.
Interdisciplinary Comparative Literature Studies
C LIT 186HH.
Interdisciplinary Comparative Literature Studies
C LIT 186II.
Women and Revolution 1790s and 1960s
C LIT 186IR.
Ideology and Representation
C LIT 186JJ.
Literatures in the Juvenile Justice System - Theory into Practice
C LIT 186LF.
Legal Fictions
C LIT 186LJ.
Literary Journalism
C LIT 186LS.
Literatures of the Sea
C LIT 186MD.
Moby-Dick and the Hunt for Modern Meaning
C LIT 186MI.
Interdisciplinary Comparative Literature Studies
C LIT 186ML.
Iceland's Medieval Literature: Eddas and Sagas
C LIT 186NA.
Interdisciplinary Comparative Literature Studies
C LIT 186NO.
Interdisciplinary Comparative Literature Studies
C LIT 186NW.
Writing Nature from the Sublime to the Anthropocene
C LIT 186PL.
Introduction to the Philosophy of Literature
C LIT 186PO.
Interdisciplinary Comparative Literature Studies
C LIT 186PP.
Poetry & Community Practice
C LIT 186RR.
Romantic Revolutions: Philosophy, History, and the Arts in Europe
C LIT 186SC.
Reading, Writing, and Reimagining the Literatures of Social Change
C LIT 186TT.
Interdisciplinary Comparative Literature Studies
C LIT 186WL.
Wild Literature in the Urban Landscape
C LIT 186YY.
Interdisciplinary Comparative Literature Studies
C LIT 186ZC.
The Zong Case: Slavery, Abolition, and the Zong Massacre: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
C LIT 187.
The Devil in Literature
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper Division Standing
Explores the rich literature around making deals with the devil while focusing on the enduring influence of older literature on modern conceptions of the diabolic.
C LIT 188.
Narrative Studies
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Study of various narrative forms, e.g., novel, short story, essay, memoir, with a specific focus each quarter. Topics to be addressed may include strategies of narration, the history of particular narrative forms, what is meant by literary style.
C LIT 189.
Narrative in the First Person
(4)
STAFF
Repeat Comments: Can only be repeated if being offered by a different instructor.
Autobiography, memoir, lyric, testimony & many fictional works are written in the first-person. This course considers the relationship between first-person narrators, their audiences, and the worlds from which these narrators emerge. Texts and course focus vary with the instructor.
C LIT 190A.
Disability in the Humanities
(4)
STAFF, XU
Prerequisite: C LIT 60, Writing 2, or instructor consent
With a view of integrating disability as a critical category into teaching and research, courses approach physical, sensory, and psychological impairments as well as bodily and mental differences in literary, visual, artistic, and popular forms across classical and modern periods. The main fields of study include world literature, art, film studies, philosophy, linguistics, history, and religious studies in conjunction with adjacent fields that help reconfigure the concept of ability and normalcy. Content will vary according to instructors.
C LIT 190B.
Disability and Literature
(4)
STAFF, NESCI, XU
Prerequisite: C LIT 60 or consent of instructor, Writing 2
Readings of canonical and non-canonical texts (fiction, memoir, poetry) through a variety of critical approaches, covering a wide range of impairments and the innovations that disability requires in literary and artistic forms. Content will vary according to instructors.
C LIT 191.
Fantasy and the Fantastic
(4)
JULLIEN
Enrollment Comments: Same course as French 153D.
Course explores the creation of a space where a fantastic perception of reality developed and thrived, hesitating between the real and the supernatural, in the intermediate space of the unexplained and unexplainable. Works by Balzac, Poe, Stevenson, James, and Borges.
C LIT 192AAZZ.
Special Topics course in Comparative Literature
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: UPPER-DIVISION STANDING. MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT TO A MAXIMUM OF 12 UNITS
C LIT 192A.
VIOLENCE AS DE-COLONIZING CATHARSIS: FROM FRANTZ FANON TO THE TRICONTINENTAL MANIFESTO
C LIT 192CA.
Cognitive Approaches to World Literature
C LIT 192CH.
Literature & Politics in China
C LIT 192EO.
Special Topics course in Comparative Literature
C LIT 192RH.
Special Topics course in Comparative Literature
C LIT 192W.
Special Topics course in Comparative Literature
C LIT 193.
Research in Translation Studies
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Comparative Literature 170.
Enrollment Comments: This course will not be applied to the Comparative Literature major or minor requirements.
Individualized instruction to complete the capstone translation project for the Minor in Translation Studies. To be completed with the faculty advisor from the language department of the student's focus.
C LIT 194I.
Internship
(1-4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing; Comparative Literature majors only; consent of department.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit for a maximum of 8 units, but only 4 units may be applied to the major.
Under supervision of Comparative Literature faculty, Comparative Literature majors may obtain credit for work without pay in publishing, editing, journalism, or other employment related to Comparative Literature, World Literature, and/or Translation Studies. Requirements include work hours, regular meetings with professor-mentor, and a final paper presenting and analyzing the student's learning from the internship pertaining to specialization in world literary studies.
C LIT 196H.
Senior Honors Independent Research
(4)
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Prerequisite: Comparative Literature majors only.
Student engages in research leading to a paper of considerable depth and complexity on a topic dealing with the literature of the student's focus.
C LIT 197.
Junior/Senior Seminar
(4)
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Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Formerly numbered Comparative Literature 198.
Selected methodological issues in comparative literature. Topics vary with each instructor.
C LIT 197H.
Senior Honors Seminar
(4)
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Prerequisite: Consent of instructor; honors standing.
This seminar is concurrently offered with graduate seminars. It is designed to expand research skills through an investigation of theoretical issues and readings of both literary and critical texts. It involves extensive research, sophisticated analysis, and creative reflection.
C LIT 199.
Independent Studies in Comparative Literature
(1-5)
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Prerequisite: Upper-division standing; completion of 2 upper-division courses in Comparative Literature.
Enrollment Comments: Students must have a cumulative 3.0 for the proceeding 3 quarter(s). Students must have a cumulative 3.0 for the proceeding 3 quarter(s). Limited to 5 units per quarter and 30 units total in all 98/99/198/199/199AA-ZZ courses combined.
Independent studies with any faculty member. To permit study of a subject desired by the student but not covered in course offerings.
C LIT 199RA.
Independent Research Assistance
(1-4)
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Prerequisite: Upper-division standing; completion of two upper-division courses in Comparative Literature; and, consent of instructor.
Enrollment Comments: Students must have a cumulative 3.0 for the proceeding 3 quarter(s). Students are limited to 5 units per quarter and 30 units total in all 98/99/199/199AA-ZZ courses combined.
Independent research under supervision of a faculty member. May be linked to internship.