Courses
Terms offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2005, Fall 2004
Expository writing based on analysis of selected masterpieces of ancient and modern literature. Limited to 10 qualified freshmen and/or sophomores who meet for round-table discussions and attend weekly tutorial sessions. Individual assignments provide each student with the opportunity to exploit his or her linguistic and literary training. H1A satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement, and H1B satisfies the second half.
English Composition in Connection with the Reading of World Literature: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: (a) UC Analytical Writing Placement Exam, (b) a 3.5 grade point average in high school English, (c) a reading knowledge of an ancient or modern foreign language, and (d) permission of the instructor
Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
English Composition in Connection with the Reading of World Literature: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
Expository writing based on analysis of selected masterpieces of ancient and modern literature. Limited to 10 qualified freshmen and/or sophomores who meet for round-table discussions and attend weekly tutorial sessions. Individual assignments provide each student with the opportunity to exploit his or her linguistic and literary training. H1A satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement, and H1B satisfies the second half.
English Composition in Connection with the Reading of World Literature: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: (a) UC Analytical Writing Placement Exam, (b) a 3.5 grade point average in high school English, (c) a reading knowledge of an ancient or modern foreign language, and (d) permission of the instructor
Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
English Composition in Connection with the Reading of World Literature: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Summer 2011 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2005 10 Week Session, Summer 2004 10 Week Session
Expository writing based on analysis of selected masterpieces of ancient and modern literature. Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement.
English Composition in Connection with the Reading of World Literature: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: A passing grade in Subject A examination or course. 1A is prerequisite to 1B
Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement
Hours & Format
Summer:
6 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
English Composition in Connection with the Reading of World Literature: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Summer 2011 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2010 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2009 Second 6 Week Session
Expository writing based on analysis of selected masterpieces of ancient and modern literature. Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement.
English Composition in Connection with the Reading of World Literature: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: A passing grade in Subject A examination or course. 1A is prerequisiteA passing grade in Subject A examination or course. 1A is prerequisite to 1B. to 1B
Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement
Hours & Format
Summer:
6 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
English Composition in Connection with the Reading of World Literature: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023
Expository writing based on analysis of selected masterpieces of ancient and modern literature. R1A satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement, and R1B satisfies the second half.
English Composition in Connection with the Reading of World Literature: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: UC Entry Level Writing Requirement or UC Analytical Writing Placement Exam. 1A or equivalent is prerequisite to 1B
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for COM LIT R1A after completing COM LIT N1A, COLWRIT R1A, COM LIT S1A, COLWRIT 1A, COLWRIT R4A, COM LIT 1AC, COM LIT H1A, COM LIT 1A, or XCOMLIT R1A. A deficient grade in COM LIT R1A may be removed by taking XCOMLIT R1A, or XCOMLIT R1A.
Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Final exam not required.
Formerly known as: 1A
English Composition in Connection with the Reading of World Literature: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Summer 2024 First 6 Week Session
Expository writing based on analysis of selected masterpieces of ancient and modern literature. R1A satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement, and R1B satisfies the second half.
English Composition in Connection with the Reading of World Literature: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: UC Entry Level Writing Requirement or UC Analytical Writing Placement Exam. 1A or equivalent is prerequisite to 1B
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for COM LIT R1B after completing COM LIT N1B, COM LIT S1B, COM LIT H1B, or COM LIT 1B.
Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Final exam not required.
Formerly known as: 1B
English Composition in Connection with the Reading of World Literature: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2001, Fall 2000, Fall 1999
Expository writing done in connection with the reading of selected masterpieces of ancient and modern literature and the study of selected French texts read in the original. Course will prepare students for more advanced work in French. R2A satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement, and R2B satisfies the second half.
English Composition in Connection with Reading of World and French Literature: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Three years of high school French or two years with a B plus average
Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Formerly known as: 2A
English Composition in Connection with Reading of World and French Literature: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
Expository writing done in connection with the reading of selected masterpieces of ancient and modern literature and the study of selected French texts read in the original. Course will prepare students for more advanced work in French. R2A satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement, and R2B satisfies the second half.
English Composition in Connection with Reading of World and French Literature: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Three years of high school French or two years with a B plus average
Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Formerly known as: 2B
English Composition in Connection with Reading of World and French Literature: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Expository writing done in connection with the reading of selected masterpieces of ancient and modern literature and the study of selected Spanish texts read in the original. Course will help prepare students for more advanced work in Spanish. Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition Requirement.
English Composition in Connection with Reading of World and Hispanic Literature: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Three years of high school Spanish or two years with a B+ average
Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
English Composition in Connection with Reading of World and Hispanic Literature: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Expository writing done in connection with the reading of selected masterpieces of ancient and modern literature and the study of selected Spanish texts read in the original. Course will help prepare students for more advanced work in Spanish. Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition Requirement. This course is in-person.
English Composition in Connection with Reading of World and Hispanic Literature: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Three years of high school Spanish or two years with a B plus average
Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Alternative to final exam.
English Composition in Connection with Reading of World and Hispanic Literature: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2022, Spring 2021
An introductory level exploration of a specific author, work, theme or literary movement in an international context. Emphasis on the ways in which literature has played (and continues to play) a crucial role in the relationship between different cultures, traditions, and languages. Readings and topics to vary from semester to semester.
Episodes in Literary Cultures: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Completion of a 1A course or its equivalent is recommended but not required
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019
An introduction to problems of the comparative study of literature and philosophy. Emphasis on principles of comparative methods and literary and philosophical analysis with focus on selected literary, philosophical, critical, and theoretical texts from antiquity to the present. Readings in English.
Episodes in Literary Cultures: Literature and Philosophy: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Instructors: Zhang, Kaufman, Francois, McGlazer
Episodes in Literary Cultures: Literature and Philosophy: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2019
An introductory level exploration of the study of social and cultural issues in relation to literature. Examining some of the conceptual and thematic places where literature and social sciences topics (race, gender, social and class structure, law) cross over into each others' domains, we will ask what it means to read literary texts along with social sciences methodologies. The focus will be on reading of fiction and alongside methodological texts of the social sciences (linguistics, sociology, law, anthropology, social and cultural theories of gender and ethnicity). Readings and topics to vary from semester to semester.
Episodes in Literary Cultures: Literature and Society: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Lucey
Episodes in Literary Cultures: Literature and Society: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
An introductory level exploration of the study of literature and history. Examining the literature and historical events of a chosen period (ancient, medieval, renaissance and early modern, modern, contemporary), we will engage in readings of literature, art, and critical texts in order better to understand the imaginative and real worlds of other times and places. Readings and topics to vary from semester to semester.
Episodes in Literary Cultures: Literature and History: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructors: Largier, Bezner, Hampton, Ram, Britto
Episodes in Literary Cultures: Literature and History: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2023, Fall 2020, Spring 2019
The Freshman Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small seminar setting. Freshman seminars are offered in all campus departments and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment limited to fifteen freshmen.
Freshman Seminar: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final Exam To be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Terms offered: Spring 2011
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by the faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.
Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-4 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Summer 2002 10 Week Session, Summer 2001 10 Week Session, Summer 1999 10 Week Session
A study of women as portrayed in literature, and of women writers. Selected readings on a topic which varies from summer to summer, detailed consideration of both literary techniques and the problems of women.
Women and Literature: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 5.5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2010, Spring 2008, Fall 2006
Comparative study of masterpieces of world literature.
Introduction to Literary Forms: Forms of the Epic: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Introduction to Literary Forms: Forms of the Epic: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Summer 2010 Second 6 Week Session
Comparative study of masterpieces of world literature.
Introduction to Literary Forms: Forms of the Novel: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Introduction to Literary Forms: Forms of the Novel: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2018, Fall 2009, Spring 2007
Comparative study of masterpieces of world literature.
Introduction to Literary Forms: Forms of the Drama: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Introduction to Literary Forms: Forms of the Drama: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Summer 2020 Second 6 Week Session, Fall 2019, Fall 2017
Comparative study of masterpieces of world literature.
Introduction to Literary Forms: Forms of the Cinema: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Introduction to Literary Forms: Forms of the Cinema: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Comparative study of masterpieces of world literature.
Introduction to Literary Forms: The Epic: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Comparative study of masterpieces of world literature.
Introduction to Literary Forms: The Lyric: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Summer 2003 10 Week Session, Summer 1998 10 Week Session
Comparative study of masterpieces of world literature.
Introduction to Literary Forms: The Novel: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Comparative study of masterpieces of world literature.
Introduction to Literary Forms: The Drama: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Session, Fall 2019, Fall 2017
A creative writing workshop for students who wish to study the theory and practice of writing as they work in a variety of forms and media.
Creative Writing in Comparative Literature: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for Comparative Literature 50 after completing S50 or S50X.
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Study of the ethnic diversity of American literature. Topics will vary from semester to semester, but may include such themes as Cultures of the City, Gender, Race, Ethnicity in U.S. Literature, Race and Identity. Students should consult the department's course bulletin well before the beginning of the semester for details.
Topics in the Literature of American Cultures: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Topics in the Literature of American Cultures: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Summer 2019 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2018 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session
Study of the ethnic diversity of American literature. Topics will vary from summer to summer but may include such themes as gender, race, ethnicity, marriage, sexuality, identity, and the supernatural. Students should check the department's bulletin boards for summer course listings and further details.
Topics in the Literature of American Cultures: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Topics in the Literature of American Cultures: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Summer 2024 8 Week Session, Summer 2023 8 Week Session, Summer 2022 8 Week Session
Study of the ethnic diversity of American literature. Topics will vary from semester to semester, but may include such themes as Cultures of the City, Gender, Race, Ethnicity in U.S. Literature, Race and Identity. Students should consult the department's course bulletin well before the beginning of the semester for details.
Topics in the Literature of American Cultures: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Summer: 8 weeks - 3 hours of web-based lecture and 1 hour of web-based discussion per week
Online: This is an online course.
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Palau
Topics in the Literature of American Cultures: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2022
COMPLIT 80AC: Out of Place in America, is a literature-based course that maps histories and
ongoing practices of exclusion, displacement, and surveillance in the United States as narrated in
works by Native American, African American, Latinx and Asian American writers.
Out of Place in America: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Piatote
Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2014
Group study in a field that may not coincide with that of any regular course and must be specific enough to enable students to write essays based upon their studies.
Directed Group Study for Freshmen and Sophomores: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Lower division standing
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week
8 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
Directed Group Study for Freshmen and Sophomores: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Berkeley Connect is a mentoring program, offered through various academic departments, that helps students build intellectual community. Over the course of a semester, enrolled students participate in regular small-group discussions facilitated by a graduate student mentor (following a faculty-directed curriculum), meet with their graduate student mentor for one-on-one academic advising, attend lectures and panel discussions featuring department faculty and alumni, and go on field trips to campus resources. Students are not required to be declared majors in order to participate.
Course may be repeated for credit.
Berkeley Connect: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of directed group study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
Instructor: Kaufman
Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
An introduction to problems of the comparative study of literature and culture. Emphasis on principles of comparative methods and analysis with focus on selected literary, critical, and theoretical texts from antiquity to the present. Readings in English.
Introduction to Comparative Literature: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2021
An introduction to problems of the comparative study of literatures of the world in international and cross-cultural perspective along with philosophical texts and approaches. Emphasis on principles of comparative methods and analysis with focus on issues of philosophy and ethics along with selected literary, critical, and theoretical texts. Readings in English.
Introduction to Comparative Literature: Literature and Philosophy: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructors: Zhang, Butler, Francois, Volpp
Introduction to Comparative Literature: Literature and Philosophy: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Prior to 2007
An introduction to problems of the comparative study of literatures of the world in international and cross-cultural perspective. Emphasis on principles of comparative methods and analysis with focus on contemporary social and cultural issues in at least one foreign culture along with selected literary, critical, and theoretical texts. Readings in English.
Introduction to Comparative Literature: Society and Culture: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Instructor: Kurke
Introduction to Comparative Literature: Society and Culture: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Prior to 2007
An introduction to problems of the comparative study of literature and historical study. Emphasis on principles of comparative methods and analysis with focus on selected literary, critical, and theoretical texts from antiquity to the present. Readings in English.
Introduction to Comparative Literature: Literary and Cultural History: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Instructors: Kahn, Bezner, Ram, Largier
Introduction to Comparative Literature: Literary and Cultural History: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2021
An introduction to problems of the comparative study of literatures of the world in international and cross-cultural perspective . Emphasis on principles of comparative methods and analysis with focus on contemporary social and cultural issues in at least one foreign culture along with selected literary, critical, and theoretical texts.
Readings in English.
Introduction to Comparative Literature: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructors: Britto, Spackman, Sas, Kronfeld
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
This is a course of beginning Modern Greek involving speaking, reading and writing. Modern Greek pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar and syntax is studied. In this course there is also an emphasis in practice of oral language skills.
Modern Greek Language: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Modern Greek pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar and syntax studied. The forms of writing (prose, poetry, drama) are studied through literary texts as auxiliary to the acquisition of compositional skills.
Modern Greek Composition: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Comparative Literature 112A or consent of instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2013, Spring 2011, Fall 2008
Examination of selected aspects of the Biblical tradition and their relevance to the study of later literature.
The Biblical Tradition in Western Literature: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2019
The literature of Greece, Rome, the Biblical lands, and other ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean basin.
The Ancient Mediterranean World: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Upper division standing or consent of instructor. Graduate students who wish to take this course are required to go back to the original Hebrew, Greek, or Latin texts
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015
The literature of the Middle Ages.
The Middle Ages: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Upper division standing or consent of instructor. Graduate students wishing to enroll must know at least one foreign language relevant to the materials studied
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Fall 2022, Spring 2022
European literature of the Renaissance.
The Renaissance: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Upper division standing or permission of the instructor. Graduate students wishing to enroll must know at least one foreign language relevant to the materials studied
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2021
Literature of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Eighteenth- and 19th-Century Literature: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Upper division standing or consent of instructor. Graduate students wishing to enroll must know at least one foreign language relevant to the materials studied
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023
Literature of the 19th and 20th centuries.
The Modern Period: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Upper division standing or permission of the instructor. Graduate students wishing to enroll must know at least one foreign language relevant to the materials studied
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5-8 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2015, Spring 2012, Fall 2011
Comparative study of American, Native-American, Spanish-American, Caribbean, and Brazilian literature and culture. Readings chosen to illustrate diverse attitudes of Americans toward their culture, politics, and environment.
Fiction and Culture of the Americas: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Summer 2024 8 Week Session, Summer 2023 8 Week Session, Summer 2022 8 Week Session
Study of the ethnic diversity of American literature. Topics will vary from semester to semester, but may include such themes as Cultures of the City, Gender, Race, Ethnicity in U.S. Literature, Race and Identity. Students should consult the department's course bulletin well before the beginning of the semester for details.
On line: Fiction and Culture of the Americas: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Summer: 8 weeks - 3 hours of web-based lecture and 1 hour of web-based discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: McEnaney
Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021
The course takes account—indeed, it focuses on—the modern American lyric poetry, approached both aesthetically and politically, of African American, indigenous peoples of the United States, Asian Americans, and Chicanos/Latinos, as well as European Americans. The course also presents substantial critical materials—philosophy, criticism, historiography, some sociology—by authors from those groups, writings that are about, or in crucial relation to, the poetry that will be the course’s primary focus.
Topics in Literatures of American Cultures - Poetry: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Instructor: Kaufman
Topics in Literatures of American Cultures - Poetry: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019
Study of the earliest myth texts and of the progressive growth of literature out of myth to the present day. Myth and oral composition. Emphasis on the meanings of myth as reflected in varying idioms.
Myth and Literature: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Fall 2020
An independent studies course designed to fulfill a need intrinsic to the undergraduate major's program which cannot otherwise be satisfied because it involves either a literature not covered in regularly scheduled course offerings or a special methodological framework or bias of selection.
Special Topics in Comparative Literature: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
This course frames methodologically selected topics in Modern Greek Literature and places them in their historical, social or cultural context.
Topics in Modern Greek Literature: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Kotzamanidou
Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Seminar-style treatment of a major topic in Comparative Literature. Substantial paper required.
Senior Seminar in Comparative Literature: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Senior standing; 100 and one course from the 151-160 series (the latter may be taken concurrently)
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
Preparation and writing of an honors thesis under the supervision of a member of the faculty.
Honors Course: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Honors standing, 8 units in upper division literature courses, including 100 or the equivalent, and knowledge of a vernacular language or a classical language
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 1-5 hours of independent study per week
8 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2016, Spring 2015
Group study in a field that may not coincide with that of any regular course and must be specific enough to enable students to write essays based upon their studies.
Directed Group Study: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Upper division standing
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of directed group study per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of directed group study per week
8 weeks - 1.5-7.5 hours of directed group study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Berkeley Connect is a mentoring program, offered through various academic departments, that helps students build intellectual community. Over the course of a semester, enrolled students participate in regular small-group discussions facilitated by a graduate student mentor (following a faculty-directed curriculum), meet with their graduate student mentor for one-on-one academic advising, attend lectures and panel discussions featuring department faculty and alumni, and go on field trips to campus resources. Students are not required to be declared majors in order to participate. Course may be repeated for credit.
Berkeley Connect: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of directed group study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
Instructor: Kaufman
Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015
Enrollment restrictions apply.
Supervised Independent Study and Research: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 1-5 hours of independent study per week
8 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Lectures on literary theory, on the study of criticism, and on the methods of comparative literary theory.
Approaches to Comparative Literature: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Admission to graduate standing in Comparative Literature
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
This course is designed to give all new graduate students a broad view of the department's faculty, the courses they teach, and their fields of research. In addition, it will introduce students to some practical aspects of the graduate career, issues that pertain to specific fields of research, and questions currently being debated across the profession. The readings for the course will consist of copies of materials by the department's faculty.
Proseminar: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Required for all first year graduate students
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Graduate
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2023
Application of the methods of Comparative Literature to the study of genres.
Approaches to Genre: Lyric Poetry: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Admission to graduate standing in Comparative Literature: advanced undergraduates may be admitted with the consent of the instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Spring 2021
Application of the methods of Comparative Literature to the study of genres.
Approaches to Genre: The Novel: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Admission to graduate standing in Comparative Literature: advanced undergraduates may be admitted with the consent of the instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2020, Spring 2018
Comparative investigation of a topic in ancient literature between the eighth century B.C.E. and the fourth century C.E. with some attention to subsequent developments.
Studies in Ancient Literature: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Preparation in ancient Greek or Latin and familiarity with at least one modern foreign language
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016
Comparative investigation of a topic in literature and culture between the fifth and the fourteenth centuries.
Studies in Medieval Literature: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Preparation in two medieval languages
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Fall 2021, Fall 2020
Comparative investigation of a topic in Western literature in the Renaissance period.
Studies in Renaissance Literature: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Preparation in two foreign languages
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Fall 2023, Fall 2020, Fall 2018, Spring 2015, Spring 2013, Spring 2011
A close reading and discussion of the major texts of modern aesthetics, from the 18th century to the present, with emphasis on the Continental tradition of Kant, Adorno, and Derrida.
Aesthetics as Critique: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Also listed as: RHETOR C221
Terms offered: Fall 2016, Fall 2013, Spring 2010
Comparative investigation of major themes in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
Studies in the 19th Century: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Preparation in two foreign languages
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2022
Comparative investigation of a topic in literature and culture of the modern period.
Studies in Symbolist and Modern Literature: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Preparation in two foreign languages
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021
Comparative investigation of a topic in contemporary literature and culture.
Studies in Contemporary Literature: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Preparation in two foreign languages
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2013, Spring 2008
Comparative investigation of a literary topic requiring the study of both Near Eastern and Western documents.
Studies in Near Eastern-Western Literary Relations: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Preparation in a Near Eastern or a European language. Undergraduates may be admitted with consent of the instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Studies in Near Eastern-Western Literary Relations: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Comparative study of the historical and systematic relations between literature and other arts such as the visual arts, music, and film.
Studies in the Relations Between Literature and the Other Arts: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Preparation in two foreign languages
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Studies in the Relations Between Literature and the Other Arts: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Comparative investigation of a topic in the theory of literature.
Studies in Literary Theory: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Preparation in two foreign languages
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2017, Fall 2016
Comparative investigation of a literary topic requiring the study of both East Asian and Western documents.
Studies in East-West Literary Relations: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Preparation in two foreign languages, one of which must be an East Asian language
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Formerly known as: C254
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2022, Spring 2021
The course will proceed chiefly through exercises in writing reviews and critical essays, with class discussion of the work that will be done by members of the seminar. Some analytic attention will also be devoted to existing models of critical prose. The class will deal with the minute details that make for lucidity and felicity of style and will also consider larger issues of organization, critical focus, and audience.
The Craft of Critical Writing: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2021
Comparative investigation of a topic in the relationship between philosophy and literature.
Studies in Philosophy and Literature: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Preparation in two foreign languages
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2019
Theory and practice of translation. Students will complete a project in literary translation.
Problems in Literary Translation: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Preparation in two foreign languages or permission of the instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2012, Fall 2010
Comparative investigation of a topic related to the study of gender and/or sexuality in literature and culture.
Gender, Sexuality, and Culture: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2012
Comparative investigation of a topic in ideology, politics, and identity and its relation to the formation of national, colonial, and/or post-colonial literatures and cultures.
Nationalism, Colonialism, and Culture: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Preparation in two foreign languages
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Discussion on problems of the literature of the period.
Continuing Seminars: Renaissance: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Restricted to students who have completed the M.A. and are studying for their qualifying examination in Comparative Literature
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Graduate
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
Primarily for students engaged in preliminary exploration of a restricted field, involving the writing of a report. May not be substituted for available seminars.
Special Study: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Graduate standing
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Summer 2018 8 Week Session, Summer 2017 8 Week Session, Summer 2016 8 Week Session
Primarily for students engaged in preliminary exploration of a restricted field, involving the writing of a report. May not be substituted for available seminars.
Special Study: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Graduate standing
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Summer:
6 weeks - 2.5-5 hours of independent study per week
8 weeks - 2-4 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2021
Writing of the doctoral dissertation.
Directed Research: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Satisfactory completion of the Qualifying Examination
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-12 hours of independent study per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 1-5 hours of independent study per week
8 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Graduate
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020
Course credit for experience gained in academic teaching through employment as a graduate student instructor.
Supervised Teaching in Comparative Literature: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Appointment as a graduate student instructor in the department. Consent of graduate advisor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of independent study per week
8 weeks - 2-7.5 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Professional course for teachers or prospective teachers
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Supervised Teaching in Comparative Literature: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Discussion of the theory and practice of teaching composition at the college level in a department of comparative literature. Prerequisites: Appointment as a graduate student instructor or consent of instructor.
Methods of Teaching Literature and English Composition-Comparative Literature: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Appointment as a graduate student instructor or consent of instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Professional course for teachers or prospective teachers
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Instructor: Jane Stanley
Methods of Teaching Literature and English Composition-Comparative Literature: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019
Individual study for the comprehensive or language requirements in consultation with the Graduate Adviser. Units may not be used to meet either unit or residence requirements for the master's degree.
Individual Study for Master's Students: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Graduate standing
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Graduate examination preparation
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2019
Individual study in consultation with the Graduate Adviser intended to provide opportunity for qualified students to prepare themselves for the various examinations required of candidates for the Ph.D. May not be used for unit or residence requirements for the doctoral degree.
Individual Study for Doctoral Students: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Satisfactory completion of the Master's examination
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 1-5 hours of independent study per week
8 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Comparative Literature/Graduate examination preparation
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.