# Comparative Literature (COM LIT) courses UC Irvine · 2026-2027 Catalog · 38 courses Source: https://catalogue.uci.edu/allcourses/com_lit/ "Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Fall 2026. ### COM LIT 3 — Just Reading: Developing the Reading Experience - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - (IV and VIII.) 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. ### COM LIT 6 — Topics in Native American and Indigenous Literatures - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary - (IV and VII.) 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. ### COM LIT 8 — Travels in Comparative Literature - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary - (IV) Readings in English and in English translation on such topics as love, war, cities, travel writing, politics, fantasy and science fiction, violence. ### COM LIT 9 — Introduction to Multiculturalism - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 3 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/com-lit.md) - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary - (IV and VII.) 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. ### COM LIT 10 — Topics in World Literature - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/com-lit.md) - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary - (IV and VIII.) Introduction to texts from across the globe and from different historical periods. Readings in English and English translation. ### COM LIT 60A — World Literature - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/com-lit.md) - (IV and VIII.) 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. ### COM LIT 60B — Reading with Theory - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - (IV and VIII) 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. ### COM LIT 60C — Cultural Studies - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - (IV and VIII) 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. ### COM LIT 100A — Nations, Regions, and Beyond - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary 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. ### COM LIT 101W — An Introduction to Translation Studies - **Units:** 4 - **Prerequisite:** Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement. Working knowledge of at least one foreign language - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - (Ib) 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. ### COM LIT 102W — Comparative Studies in Literature and Theory - **Units:** 4 - **Prerequisite:** Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary - (Ib) In-depth discussion of special topics. ### COM LIT 105 — Topics in Comparative Multiculturalism - **Units:** 4 - **Prerequisite:** Satisfactory completion of the lower-division writing requirement - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times 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. ### COM LIT 107 — Colonialisms and Postcolonialisms - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Explores topics such as colonialism and race, decolonization, pre- and postcoloniality, globalization, and the cultural dynamics of colonization and subjectivity. ### COM LIT 110 — Topics in Critical Theory - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary - Restrictions: No Freshman students 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. ### COM LIT 121 — Narrative, Pattern, and Text - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Explores textual patterns, structures, and effects. May include topics such as novel, hypertext, genre, reader responses, intertextuality. ### COM LIT 123 — Literatures in Dialogue - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary 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. ### COM LIT 130 — Gender, Sexuality, Race, Class - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/com-lit.md) - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary 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. ### COM LIT 131 — Psychoanalysis and Culture - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/com-lit.md) - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Discusses major psychoanalytic writings of Freud and others in connection with questions of culture. ### COM LIT 132 — Discourse, Ideologies, and Politics - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Compares ideologies and systems, e.g., nationalism and fundamentalism, as they affect literature and culture in a global context. ### COM LIT 140 — Critical Cultural Studies - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary 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. ### COM LIT 142 — The Metropolis and Other Cultural Geographies - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary 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. ### COM LIT 143 — Literature, Arts, and Media - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary 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. ### COM LIT 144 — Literature, History, and Society - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 4 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/com-lit.md) - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary 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. ### COM LIT 150 — Literature in Translation - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary 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. ### COM LIT 160 — World Cinema - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/com-lit.md) - Repeatability: May be taken 2 times as topics vary Comparative analysis of contemporary film in languages other than English. ### COM LIT 190W — 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 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Restrictions: Comparative Literature majors have the first consideration for enrollment. School of Humanities students only - (Ib) 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. ### COM LIT 199 — Independent Study in Comparative Literature - **Units:** 1-4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 10 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/com-lit.md) - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times To be taken only when the materials to be studied lie outside the normal run of departmental offerings. ### COM LIT 200A — History of Comparative Literature and Introduction to Methods and Theories of CL - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule 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. ### COM LIT 200B — Topics in Theories of Translation - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary 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. ### COM LIT 210 — Comparative Studies - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 3 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/com-lit.md) - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Studies in selected areas of Comparative Literature. Topics addressed vary each quarter. ### COM LIT 280A — Professionalization Seminar - **Units:** 2 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Grading Option: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only 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. ### COM LIT 280B — Professionalization Seminar - **Units:** 2 - **Prerequisite:** COM LIT 280A with a minimum grade of B - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Grading Option: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only 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. ### COM LIT 290 — Reading and Conference - **Units:** 4-12 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 11 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/com-lit.md) - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times Studies in selected areas. Topics addressed vary each quarter. ### COM LIT 291 — Guided Reading Course - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 14 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/com-lit.md) - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times Studies in selected areas. Topics addressed vary each quarter. ### COM LIT 292 — Teaching Practicum - **Units:** 2 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/com-lit.md) - Grading Option: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only 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. ### COM LIT 298 — Pre-Dissertation Research - **Units:** 1-12 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 15 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/com-lit.md) - Grading Option: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only - Repeatability: May be taken for credit 6 times 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. ### COM LIT 299 — Dissertation Research - **Units:** 4-12 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 17 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/com-lit.md) - Grading Option: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times A units-only course for students in the dissertation phase. ### COM LIT 399 — University Teaching - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/com-lit.md) - Grading Option: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times Limited to Teaching Assistants.