UC Davis 2008-2010 General Catalog - General Catalog - UC Davis

192 Comparative Literature
study in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine,
and other science fields as well as law and business,
besides of course journalism and publishing, teaching,
or graduate study in literature.
A.B. Major Requirements:
Option A
UNITS
Preparatory Subject Matter ............. 16-46
Comparative Literature 1 or 2; 3 or 4 ....... 8
Two other lower division courses in
Comparative Literature (selected from 1-53C
excluding the 10 series. Cannot include the
two required courses in the 1-4 series) ...... 8
Foreign language: sufficient preparation to
ensure satisfactory performance at the upper
division level..................................... 0-30
Depth Subject Matter ............................ 40
Five upper division Comparative Literature
courses including at least one course in a
major period (such as 164A-164B-164C-
164D), movement (such as 168A-168B, 169)
or genre (such as 160A-160B, 161A-161B,
163, 166A-166B) and including
Comparative Literature 141 ...................20
Three upper division literature courses in a
language other than English ..................12
Two additional upper division literature
courses in Comparative Literature or in any
other program including English or literature
in translation.......................................... 8
Total Units for the Major
(Option A) ....................................... 56-86
Recommended
Anthropology 2; Classics 10; English 171A,
171B; French 114; History 4A-4B-4C, 101;
Linguistics 1, 4, 163; Philosophy 24, 123;
Religious Studies 2.
Major Adviser. J. Sharlet
Option B: Asian Emphasis
Preparatory Subject Matter ............. 14-44
Comparative Literature 1or 2; 3 or 4 ........ 8
Two other lower division courses from
Comparative Literature 53 series .............. 6
Foreign language: sufficient preparation to
ensure satisfactory performance at the upper
division level in an Asian language ..... 0-30
Depth Subject Matter ............................ 40
Comparative Literature 141 and 151 ....... 8
Four other upper division Comparative
Literature courses such as Comparative
Literature 153 or 166, (or any other
Comparative Literature courses with an Asian
emphasis)............................................16
Note: Courses in the East Asian Languages
and Cultures Department can be substituted
for these courses with the approval of an
adviser.
Three upper division literature courses in an
Asian language....................................12
One additional upper division course selected
from Film Studies, Asian American Studies,
History or Religious Studies ..................... 4
Total Units for the Major
(Option B: Asian Emphasis).............. 54-84
Minor Program Requirements:
The minor in Comparative Literature allows students
to combine courses in Comparative Literature with
courses in a national literature, including English or
foreign literatures in translation. There is no foreign
language requirement for the minor.
UNITS
Comparative Literature......................... 24
Comparative Literature 1, 2, 3, or 4 ......... 4
At least five upper division literature courses,
at least four of which are in Comparative
Literature (Comparative Literature 141
recommended).....................................20
Courses should be chosen in consultation
with, and with the approval of, the adviser.
Minor Adviser. Same as Major Adviser.
Advising. All Comparative Literature majors and
minors must consult with their adviser, individually, at
least once at the beginning and once at the end of
each academic year.
Honors Program. Candidates for high or highest
honors in Comparative Literature must write a senior
thesis under the direction of a faculty member
approved by the Program Director. For this purpose,
in addition to fulfilling all other major requirements,
honors candidates must enroll in 6 units of Comparative
Literature 194H during the first two quarters of
the senior year. Only students who have attained a
cumulative GPA of 3.500 in all courses satisfying the
major (except elementary foreign language courses)
at the end of the junior year will be eligible for the
honors program.
Teaching Credential Subject Representative.
The Staff; see the Teaching Credential/M.A. Program
on page 109.
Graduate Study. See Comparative Literature (A
Graduate Group), on page 195. See also Graduate
Studies, on page 104.
Courses in Comparative Literature
(COM)
Lower Division Courses
1. Great Books of Western Culture: The
Ancient World (4)
Lecture/discussion—4 hours. Prerequisite: completion
of Subject A requirement. An introduction,
through class discussion and frequent written assignments,
to some of the great books of western civilization
from The Epic of Gilgamesh to St. Augustine’s
Confessions. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt (cannot be
used to satisfy a college or university composition
requirement and GE writing experience simultaneously).—I,
II, III. (I, II, III.)
2. Great Books of Western Culture: From
the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment (4)
Lecture/discussion—4 hours. Prerequisite: completion
of Subject A requirement. An introduction,
through class discussion and frequent written assignments,
to some of the great books of western civilization
from Dante’s Inferno to Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.
GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt (cannot be used to satisfy a
college or university composition requirement and
GE writing experience simultaneously).—I, II, III. (I,
II, III.)
3. Great Books of Western Culture: The
Modern Crisis (4)
Lecture/discussion—4 hours. Prerequisite: completion
of Subject A requirement. An introduction,
through class discussion and frequent written assignments,
to some of the great books of western civilization
from Goethe’s Faust to Beckett’s Waiting for
Godot. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt (cannot be used to
satisfy a college or university composition requirement
and GE writing experience simultaneously).—I,
II, III. (I, II, III.)
4. Major Books of the Contemporary World
(4)
Lecture/discussion—4 hours. Prerequisite: completion
of Subject A requirement. Comparative study of
selected major Western and non-Western texts composed
in the period from 1945 to the present. Intensive
focus on writing about these texts, with frequent
papers written about these works. GE credit:
ArtHum, Div, Wrt (cannot be used to satisfy a college
or university composition requirement and GE
writing experience simultaneously).—I, II, III. (I, II,
III.)
5. Fairy Tales, Fables, and Parables (4)
Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. An introduction
to fairy tales, fables, and parables as recurrent
forms in literature, with such readings as tales from
Aesop and Grimm, Chaucer and Shakespeare,
Kafka and Borges, Buddhist and Taoist parables, the
Arabian Nights, and African American folklore. GE
credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.—I, II, III. (I, II, III.) Schildgen,
Sharlet
6. Myths and Legends (4)
Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Introduction to
the comparative study of myths and legends, excluding
those of Greece and Rome, with readings from
Near Eastern, Teutonic, Celtic, Indian, Japanese,
Chinese, African and Central American literary
sources. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.—I, II. (I, II.)
Schein, McLean, Venkatesan
7. Literature of Fantasy and the
Supernatural (4)
Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. The role of
fantasy and the supernatural in literature: tales of
magic, hallucination, ghosts, and metamorphosis,
including diverse authors such as Shakespeare, P’u
Sung-Ling, Kafka, Kawabata, Fuentes, and Morrison.
GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.—II, III. (II, III.)
8. Utopias and their Transformations (4)
Lecture/discussion—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite:
satisfaction of the Subject A requirement. A consideration,
in literary works from different ages, of
visionary and rational perceptions of a lost paradise,
Golden Age, or Atlantis—and of the inhuman
nightmares that can result from perversions of the
utopian dream of perfection. GE credit: ArtHum,
Wrt.—(I.)
9. The Short Story and Novella (4)
Lecture/discussion—3 hours; term paper. An introduction
to shorter forms of prose fiction by major
authors of different countries, with special emphasis
on the modern period. GE credit: ArtHum, Div,
Wrt.—(III.)
10A-N. Master Authors in World Literature
(2)
Lecture/discussion—1 two-hour session. Designed
primarily to acquaint the non-literature major with a
cross-section of writings by the world’s most important
authors; readings in English translation. Content
alternates among the following segments: (A) Gilgamesh,
Ramayana, Beowulf, Nibelungenlied; (B)
Metamorphoses, Decameron, Arabian Nights, Canterbury
Tales; (C) Chanson de Roland, El Cid, Igor’s
Campaign, Morte D’Arthur; (D) Sakuntala, Tristan
and Isolde, Aucassin and Nicolette, Gawain and the
Green Knight; (E) Swift, Rabelais, La Celestina, Simplicissimus;
(F) Cervantes, Saikaku, Fielding, Voltaire;
(G) Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Lope de Vega/
Calderón, Molière/Racine, Lessing/Schiller; (H)
Goethe, Byron, Stendhal, Pushkin, Lermontov; (I)
Hoffmann, Gogol, Poe, Hawthorne, Maupassant,
Chekhov, Melville; (J) Flaubert, Twain, Turgenev,
Galdós, Ibsen; (K) Balzac, Dostoevski/Tolstoi,
Hardy, Shaw, Strindberg; (L) Unamuno, Svevo, Conrad,
Gide, Kafka, Faulkner; (M) Rilke/Yeats, Joyce/
Woolf, Mann/Céline, Bulgakov/Tanizaki, O’Neill/
Brecht, Lorca/Pirandello; (N) Camus/Sartre, García
Márquez/Grass, Borges/Sarraute, Bellow/
Nabokov, Beckett/Pinter, Genet/ Dürrenmatt. May
be repeated for credit in different subject area. Limited
enrollment. (P/NP grading only.)—I, II, III. (I, II,
III.)
12. Introduction to Women Writers (4)
Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite:
completion of subject A requirement. Survey of fiction,
drama, and poetry by women writers from all
continents. Concerns of women compared in light of
their varied social and cultural traditions. Literary
analysis of voice, imagery, narrative strategies and
diction. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.—III. Lokke
13. Dramatic Literature (3)
Lecture—3 hours. Prerequisite: completion of Subject
A requirement or the equivalent. Introduction,
through careful reading of selected plays, to some of
the major forms of Western drama, from the earliest
tragedies of ancient Greece to the contemporary
American theater. Offered in alternate years. GE
credit: ArtHum, Wrt.—II. Finney
14. Introduction to Poetry (3)
Lecture/discussion—3 hours. Prerequisite: completion
of Subject A requirement. Comparative study of
poetry in a variety of lyric and other poetic forms
Quarter Offered: I=Fall, II=Winter, III=Spring, IV=Summer; 2009-2010 offering in parentheses
General Education (GE) credit: ArtHum=Arts and Humanities; SciEng=Science and Engineering; SocSci=Social Sciences; Div=Social-Cultural Diversity; Wrt=Writing Experience