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  "college": "uc-irvine",
  "edition": "2026-2027",
  "code": "COM LIT",
  "name": "Comparative Literature",
  "sourceUrl": "https://catalogue.uci.edu/allcourses/com_lit/",
  "courses": [
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 3",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "3",
      "title": "Just Reading: Developing the Reading Experience ",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Develops the reading experience apart from writing. Develops tools for sustained attention in reading practice across a wide range of genres and media from across the globe. Students learn to appreciate elements of reading experience such as attention and perplexity.",
      "notes": [
        "(IV and VIII.)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 6",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "6",
      "title": "Topics in Native American and Indigenous Literatures",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Reading literature by Native American/Indigenous writers from the U.S. and beyond. Texts may include an array of genres including, fiction and non-fiction, poetry and prose, film, and video games.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary",
        "(IV and VII.)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 8",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "8",
      "title": "Travels in Comparative Literature",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Readings in English and in English translation on such topics as love, war, cities, travel writing, politics, fantasy and science fiction, violence.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary",
        "(IV)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 9",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "9",
      "title": "Introduction to Multiculturalism",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Various themes and forms of literary and cultural production within a multicultural framework, including African American, Asian American, Chicano/Latino, and Native American literatures and cultures.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary",
        "(IV and VII.)"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 3,
          "open": 3,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/com-lit/#com-lit-9"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 10",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "10",
      "title": "Topics in World Literature",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Introduction to texts from across the globe and from different historical periods. Readings in English and English translation.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary",
        "(IV and VIII.)"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 0,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/com-lit/#com-lit-10"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 60A",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "60A",
      "title": "World Literature",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "An introduction to the comparative study of literatures and cultures in a global context. Studies literary texts and other media across the borders of various cultures, historical periods, and traditions. All texts are read in English translation.",
      "notes": [
        "(IV and VIII.)"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 0,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/com-lit/#com-lit-60a"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 60B",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "60B",
      "title": "Reading with Theory",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Introduction to theory and methods of literary and cultural criticism in a global context. Students read theoretical approaches to literature, culture, and ideas. Marx and Freud, e.g., may be studied alongside readings in narrative poetry, film, song lyrics, novel.",
      "notes": [
        "(IV and VIII)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 60C",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "60C",
      "title": "Cultural Studies",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Introduces students to a variety of cultural practices (literature, blogs, films, radio, comics) from across the globe. Focuses on the ways that context, genre, and medium (e.g., written, visual, oral) affect how these practices are produced, circulated, and received.",
      "notes": [
        "(IV and VIII)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 100A",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "100A",
      "title": "Nations, Regions, and Beyond",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Intensive study of national and regional cultural and literary traditions from across the globe, among them the literary and cultural production of the Middle East, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and Asia.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 101W",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "101W",
      "title": "An Introduction to Translation Studies",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement. Working knowledge of at least one foreign language",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Focuses on theories of translation and on how these theories help students understand the role of translation in the world. Students develop a critical vocabulary for discussing translation in multiple linguistic traditions and complete a final translation project.",
      "notes": [
        "(Ib)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 102W",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "102W",
      "title": "Comparative Studies in Literature and Theory",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "In-depth discussion of special topics.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary",
        "(Ib)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 105",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "105",
      "title": "Topics in Comparative Multiculturalism",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "Satisfactory completion of the lower-division writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Treats the literatures and cultures of one or more minority groups in California and the United States, including African Americans, Asian Americans, Chicano/Latinos, and Native Americans, and their relations to other national literatures.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 107",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "107",
      "title": "Colonialisms and Postcolonialisms",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Explores topics such as colonialism and race, decolonization, pre- and postcoloniality, globalization, and the cultural dynamics of colonization and subjectivity.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 110",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "110",
      "title": "Topics in Critical Theory",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "In-depth discussion of one or more theoretical paradigms, debates, or writers (Marxism, Foucault, Queer Theory, Psychoanalysis) with a special focus on what it means to read and think with theoretical texts.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary",
        "Restrictions: No Freshman students"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 121",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "121",
      "title": "Narrative, Pattern, and Text",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Explores textual patterns, structures, and effects. May include topics such as novel, hypertext, genre, reader responses, intertextuality.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 123",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "123",
      "title": "Literatures in Dialogue",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Studies how texts interact across time and space in a global context. Uses concepts of influence, imitation, and parody, to ask, for example, how the Homeric epics can help us understand Caribbean novels and U.S. movies such as Troy.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 130",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "130",
      "title": "Gender, Sexuality, Race, Class",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Discusses the roles of differences such as race, class, gender, and sexuality in society, culture, and literature across the globe, covering topics such as theoretical and literary representations of queer sexuality, gender performance, critical race theory.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/com-lit/#com-lit-130"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 131",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "131",
      "title": "Psychoanalysis and Culture",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Discusses major psychoanalytic writings of Freud and others in connection with questions of culture.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/com-lit/#com-lit-131"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 132",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "132",
      "title": "Discourse, Ideologies, and Politics",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Compares ideologies and systems, e.g., nationalism and fundamentalism, as they affect literature and culture in a global context.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 140",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "140",
      "title": "Critical Cultural Studies",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Introduces a variety of ways of understanding cultural phenomena in relation to different power structures. These cultural phenomena may include comics, film, literature, sports, music, festivals, telling stories, or eating out.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 142",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "142",
      "title": "The Metropolis and Other Cultural Geographies",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Examines the relationship between space and culture; cultural production in the city, suburb, and/or countryside; spaces in texts and artifacts (film, literature, comics, photographs) in a global context.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 143",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "143",
      "title": "Literature, Arts, and Media",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Explores literature and other arts and media in a global context. May include film and electronic media, fine arts, oral cultures, architecture, in an international framework.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 144",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "144",
      "title": "Literature, History, and Society",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Explores the relationship between literary texts and their historical and social contexts in an international framework. Courses may address, for example, literary and cultural expressions in social revolutions or the way literary texts talk back to medicine, religion, and anthropology.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 4,
          "open": 4,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/com-lit/#com-lit-144"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 150",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "150",
      "title": "Literature in Translation",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "The study of literary works in one or more genres in English translation. May be a comparative study of works from several different original languages or a concentration on works from a single cultural/linguistic tradition.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 160",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "160",
      "title": "World Cinema ",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Comparative analysis of contemporary film in languages other than English.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken 2 times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 0,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/com-lit/#com-lit-160"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 190W",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "190W",
      "title": "Advanced Seminar in Comparative Literature and Theory",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement. Recommended: COM LIT 60A, COM LIT 60B, and COM LIT 60C",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Capstone seminar for the Comparative Literature major. Deepens understanding of the field through investigation of a special topic and a substantial research and writing project.",
      "notes": [
        "Restrictions: Comparative Literature majors have the first consideration for enrollment. School of Humanities students only",
        "(Ib)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 199",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "199",
      "title": "Independent Study in Comparative Literature",
      "units": "1-4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "To be taken only when the materials to be studied lie outside the normal run of departmental offerings.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 10,
          "open": 9,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/com-lit/#com-lit-199"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 200A",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "200A",
      "title": "History of Comparative Literature and Introduction to Methods and Theories of CL",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Seminar designed to introduce graduate students in Comparative Literature to the discipline of Comparative Literature. Issues and theories of comparative literary and cultural study are covered. Strongly recommended for first and second year students before the M.A. exam and review.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 200B",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "200B",
      "title": "Topics in Theories of Translation",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "The reproduction, translation, and transfer of literary and cultural, ideological and political, and symbolic codes and texts have long been the object of study in Comparative Literature. Addresses the diverse ways in which expressive systems interact and intersect.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 210",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "210",
      "title": "Comparative Studies ",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Studies in selected areas of Comparative Literature. Topics addressed vary each quarter.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 3,
          "open": 2,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/com-lit/#com-lit-210"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 280A",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "280A",
      "title": "Professionalization Seminar",
      "units": "2",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "The first of two required professionalization seminars in Comparative Literature. Intended for first and second year students and covers preparation for the M.A. and Ph.D. exams, conference presentations, teaching and classroom management, and publishing journals.",
      "notes": [
        "Grading Option: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 280B",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "280B",
      "title": "Professionalization Seminar",
      "units": "2",
      "prerequisite": "COM LIT 280A with a minimum grade of B",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "The second of two required professionalization seminars in Comparative Literature. Intended for fourth and fifth year students and covers course design, applying for grants, dissertation prospectus and support, and the job application process.",
      "notes": [
        "Grading Option: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 290",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "290",
      "title": "Reading and Conference",
      "units": "4-12",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Studies in selected areas. Topics addressed vary each quarter.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 11,
          "open": 10,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/com-lit/#com-lit-290"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 291",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "291",
      "title": "Guided Reading Course",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Studies in selected areas. Topics addressed vary each quarter.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 14,
          "open": 14,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/com-lit/#com-lit-291"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 292",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "292",
      "title": "Teaching Practicum ",
      "units": "2",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Graduate students develop their pedagogical practices by accompanying a professor teaching a UCI undergraduate class. Meets individually with the professor to discuss relevant pedagogical practices, syllabus design, lecturing, assessment, classroom management, etc. Actively participates in one teaching component.",
      "notes": [
        "Grading Option: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/com-lit/#com-lit-292"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 298",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "298",
      "title": "Pre-Dissertation Research",
      "units": "1-12",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Taken under the direction of the graduate advisor or committee member in preparation for the Ph.D. exam. It can be taken after students have completed the M.A. review and program coursework requirements.",
      "notes": [
        "Grading Option: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only",
        "Repeatability: May be taken for credit 6 times"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 15,
          "open": 15,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/com-lit/#com-lit-298"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 299",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "299",
      "title": "Dissertation Research",
      "units": "4-12",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "A units-only course for students in the dissertation phase.",
      "notes": [
        "Grading Option: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only",
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 17,
          "open": 17,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/com-lit/#com-lit-299"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "COM LIT 399",
      "subject": "COM LIT",
      "number": "399",
      "title": "University Teaching",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Limited to Teaching Assistants.",
      "notes": [
        "Grading Option: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only",
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/com-lit/#com-lit-399"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}