Graduate

LIT 200 Proseminar

The proseminar provides a common experience for entering students, facilitates exchange of ideas and approaches to literary and extra-literary texts, critical issues, and theoretical problems. It focuses on broad aspects of the history of theory and criticism, on the students' critical writing, and on aspects of professional development.

Credits

5

Instructor

Cooppan Vilashini

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Quarter offered

Fall

LIT 201 The Pedagogy of Literature

Provides training for graduate students in university-level pedagogy in general and in the pedagogy of literature specifically. Coordinated by a graduate student who has had substantial experience as a teaching assistant, under the supervision of a faculty member.

Credits

2

Instructor

The Staff

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall

LIT 202 Colloquium

Student receives credit for attending a designated number of freestanding lectures, colloquia, symposia, or conferences during the term and reports orally, or in writing, to instructor. Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Credits

2

Repeatable for credit

Yes

LIT 204 Readings in Literature

Focuses on selected texts or authors in literature and/or theory. Students meet with instructor to discuss readings and deepen their knowledge on a particular author, critic, theorist, or text.

Credits

2

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

LIT 205 Writing and Publication Practicum

Introduces the methods and practice of dissertation writing and publication in literature. Workshop format. Meets one hour per week.

Credits

2

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

LIT 206 Critical Writing Practicum

Reinforces writing and revision skills in the discipline of literary and cultural criticism and theory, covering various genres of writing in the profession. Designed for students preparing for QE or dissertation work. Workshop structure.

Credits

5

Instructor

Sharon Kinoshita

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Winter

LIT 221 Canons

Considers literary canon formation through the lens of neglected or lost works by authors otherwise considered peripheral because of their language, cultural tradition, or regional affiliation.

Credits

5

Requirements

Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

LIT 222 Topics in English Language Literature

Course topic changes; see the Class Search for current topic.

Credits

5

Instructor

Sean Keilen

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

LIT 223 Periods and Movements

Examines a particular historical period or literary movement. Course topic changes; see the Class Search for current topic.

Credits

5

Instructor

Renee Fox

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

LIT 224 Transnational Literatures

Investigation of English language literature which transcends national boundaries. Course topic changes; see the Class Search for current topic.

Credits

5

Instructor

Kirsten Silva Gruesz

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall

LIT 230A Topics in Theory

Explores issues arising in both the modern practice of criticism and in writings on the theory of criticism. Course topic changes; please see the Class Search for current topic.

Credits

5

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

LIT 230B Narrative Theory

A survey of 20th-century narratology, emphasizing structuralist and poststructuralist theories of narrative.

Credits

5

Instructor

Camilo Gomez-Rivas

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Spring

LIT 230C Feminist Theories/Historical Perspectives

A critical examination of feminist and related theories (queer, critical race, post-humanist) and criticism in historical and culturally specific contexts.

Credits

5

Instructor

Kimberly Lau

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

LIT 231A Studies in Literary and Cultural History

Course topic changes; see the Class Search for current topic.

Credits

5

Instructor

Renee Fox, Chris Connery

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Winter

LIT 237A Modernism

Focuses on modernism and the intellectual and social forces which help illuminate that period. Considers concepts by which the innovative tendencies in 20th-century modernist literature and arts have been theorized and periodized, including high and late modernism, avant-garde and experimental, and the concept of global modernisms.

Credits

5

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

LIT 240A Studies in Antiquity

An in-depth study of a topic in Mediterranean and Near Eastern antiquity.

Credits

5

Instructor

Martin Devecka

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Winter

LIT 240G History and Tragedy

Examines history, tragedy, and early science as ways of representing human experience in the Western canon. Topics include truth claims and questions of evidence, the nature of historical events, and tragedy as a political medium.

Credits

5

Instructor

The Staff

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

LIT 243A Studies in Early Modernity

In-depth examination of a topic in Early Modern Studies. Course topic changes; see the Class Search for current topic.

Credits

5

Instructor

Carla Freccero

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall

LIT 243B Early Modern Colonial Encounters

This course will examine primary texts and interpretations, both fictional and archival, of the encounter between western Europe and non-European populations affected by European expansion from the 15th through the 18th centuries.

Credits

5

Instructor

Zachary Zimmer

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

LIT 246 Individual Authors

Focuses on work of a single author in literary historical and/or historical context. Course topic changes; see the Class Search for current topic.

Credits

5

Instructor

Filippo Gianferrari

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Spring

LIT 250 Theory and Methods

Global theories of history and cultural production. Course topic changes; see the Class Search for current topic.

Credits

5

Instructor

Zac Zimmer

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Spring

LIT 251 Topics in Cultural Studies

The course topic changes; see the Class Search for the current topic.

Credits

5

Instructor

Susan Gillman, Christopher Connery

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

LIT 254 Religion and Post-Secular

An introduction to religion studies theory with emphasis on areas pertinent to literary and cultural studies and structured around the idea of the sacred text as scripture, as performed ritually and legally in society, and as problematized by post-colonial perspectives.

Credits

5

Instructor

Camilo Gomez-Rivas

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

LIT 279A Methods and Materials

A combined seminar and creative-writing workshop with a concentrated focus on a particular problem, aspect, or genre of poetry or prose writing. Includes reading and analysis of selected texts with critical responses and creative writing. Explores the productive interaction between various practices of scholarship and creative invention. The course topic changes; please see the Class Search for the current topic.

Credits

5

Instructor

Chris Chen

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Spring

LIT 279B Writing Studio

In this graduate-level, multi-genre course, students develop their own creative projects of publishable quality under the guidance of the instructor.

Credits

5

Instructor

Ronaldo Wilson

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students in the creative/critical concentration or by permission of the instructor.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

LIT 282A Studies in Literary Genres

An in-depth examination of one genre of French literature. Course topic changes; see the Class Search for current topic.

Credits

5

Instructor

The Staff

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

LIT 282B Studies in Literary and Cultural History

In-depth examination of one period of French literature. Course topic changes; see the Class Search for current topic.

Credits

5

Instructor

Carla Freccero

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall

LIT 282C Texts and Contexts

The implications of social and political change examined in terms of literary theory and practice. Equal emphasis placed on literary and other kinds of cultural texts: historical, political, cinematic.

Credits

5

Instructor

G.S. Sahota

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

LIT 282D Topics in Theory

Credits

5

Instructor

Dorian Bell

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

LIT 282F French Literature Outside France

A study of texts written in French-speaking cultures: Belgium, Canada, Africa, the Caribbean.

Credits

5

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

LIT 283A Deutsche Literatur und Kultur

Examination of topics within German literature. Course topic changes; see the Class Search for the current topic.

Credits

5

Instructor

A. Hunter Bivens

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

LIT 285E Boccaccio

Critical study of the Decameron.

Credits

5

LIT 285H Studies in Italian Literature and Culture

Reading proficiency in Italian is required. Close examination of a topic in Italian literature and culture. Course topic changes; see the Class Search for current topic.

Credits

5

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

LIT 288C Don Quijote

Concentrates on the study and analysis of Miguel de Cervantes' major work Don Quijote, with a three-part structure: life and literature in Don Quijote; Cervantes-the father of the modern novel; and madness and ingenio in Don Quijote.

Credits

5

Instructor

Jorge Aladro Font

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

LIT 288F Writing and Re-Writing of the Conquest and Colonial Period in Spanish America

Study of 1) the writings (chronicles, memoirs, diaries, letters) comprising European and indigenous accounts of the encounter and indigenous, criolla, and mestiza writings during the colony; and 2) the re-writings of these events in contemporary post-colonial novels.

Credits

5

Instructor

Zachary Zimmer

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

LIT 288M Cuba

Course topic changes; please see the Class Search for the current topic.

Credits

5

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

LIT 288O The Conquest through the Eyes of Contemporary Writers

Analyzes contemporary writers who fictionalize the phenomenon of the conquest of the Americas. These authors, who combine chronicles, biographies, and accounts with fiction, offer an imaginative way to view history.

Credits

5

Instructor

Zachary Zimmer

LIT 288P The Avant Garde in Latin America

Emerging from a Europe in crisis, this 20th-century avante-garde movement opened a space in Latin/o American literature for the emergence of a post-western aesthetic exploring a cultural identity in difference. A deconstruction of vanguardismo, lo real maravilloso, lo fantástico, lo mítico-antropológico, and realismo mágico.

Credits

5

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

LIT 288S Citiscapes

Theories of space/place poetics and politics, and the literary and visual re-presentations of urban spaces in Latin/o America. Questions of identity and location in modernist poetics, and the ways difference (gender, ethnicity, and sexuality) inhabit and imagine the post-modern lettered city.

Credits

5

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

LIT 288U Spain in the Eyes/Camera of Pedro Almodovar

Contemporary Spain through the camera of Pedro Almodovar from transgressive enthusiasm, experimentation, and cultural disobedience of the 1980s to more universal themes of human nature and borderline experiences in the pursuit of love, relationships, beauty, and art.

Credits

5

Instructor

Jorge Aladro Font

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

LIT 288W Becoming European

Course considers the process of globalization as it has affected Spain in the last ten years. Through the study of a variety of cultural texts, it explores the challenges presented to national identity and the emergence of new subjectivities and collective identities.

Credits

5

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

LIT 288Y Teoria Critica en America Latina

Overview of contemporary theoretical issues in Latin American cultural critique. Course topic changes; please see the Class Search for the current topic.

Credits

5

Instructor

Amanda Smith

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

LIT 288Z Literatura y sociedad

Analyzes the relationship between Latin American cultural products and their cultural, economic, and political contexts. The course topic changes; please see the Class Search for the current topic.

Credits

5

Instructor

Kirsten Silva Gruesz

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

LIT 291F Advising

Independent study formalizing the advisee-adviser relationship. Regular meetings to plan, assess, and monitor academic progress and to evaluate coursework as necessary. May be used to develop general bibliography of background reading and trajectory of study. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Credits

2

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

LIT 293 Independent Study: Creative Writing

Individual study with a professor in the creative/critical concentration. Written work is required. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

LIT 294 Teaching-Related Independent Study

Directed graduate research and writing coordinated with teaching of undergraduates. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

LIT 295A Directed Reading

Study of literature in English or English translation. Directed reading that does not involve a term paper. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

LIT 295B Directed Reading

Speaking, reading, and writing proficiency in French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, Spanish, or other non-English language required. Directed reading which does not involve a term paper. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

LIT 295C Directed Reading

Study of creative writing. Directed reading that does not involve a term paper. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

LIT 296A Special Student Seminar

Study of literature in English or English translation. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

LIT 296B Special Student Seminar

Speaking, reading, and writing proficiency in French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, Spanish, or other non-English language required. Directed reading which does not involve a term paper. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

LIT 296C Special Student Seminar

Study of creative writing. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

LIT 297A Independent Study

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

LIT 297B Independent Study

Speaking, reading, and writing proficiency in French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, Spanish, or other non-English language required. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Credits

10

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

LIT 297F Independent Study

Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Credits

2

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

LIT 299A Thesis Research

Thesis Research

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

LIT 299B Thesis Research

Thesis Research

Credits

10

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

Cross-listed courses that are managed by another department are listed at the bottom.

Cross-listed Courses

HIS 208 An Introduction to Digital Humanities

Critically examines how digital processes are changing scholarly practice and pedagogy in the humanities. Students experiment with how digital media can impact research and communication for textual scholars, museum professionals, archivists, librarians, public historians and educators.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

LIT 232D

Instructor

Elaine Sullivan

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

PRTR 151 The Deep Read: Special Topics

Small, discussion-based seminar held in conjunction with The Humanities Institute's community reading initiative, The Deep Read. The Deep Read aims to bring together UCSC undergraduates, faculty, and alumni to discuss and think deeply about a text and its key themes and issues. Course is a comprehensive study of The Deep Read book, the author's work, and its relevant contexts. While the textual analysis framework remains consistent every year, the topic, author, and key text changes each year.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

LIT 112Q

General Education Code

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