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COM LIT 169Continental African Authors

Comparative Literature · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Introduction to new set of African authors and attempt to discern similarities or differences they may have with major authors such as Achebe, Ngugi, Armath, Soyinka, etc. P/NP or letter grading.

When it runs

  • Winter 2026
  • Fall 2026

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

Requisites

Official UCLA wording

Requisite: one course from 1A, 1B, 1C, 2AW, 2BW, 2CW, or English Composition 3 or 3H.

BruinTree reads · Prerequisite

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  • COM LIT 1A
  • COM LIT 1B
  • COM LIT 1C
  • COM LIT 2AW
  • COM LIT 2BW
  • COM LIT 2CW
  • ENGCOMP 3
  • ENGCOMP 3H
  • · "ENGCOMP 3H" is not in this catalog version

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

COM LIT 169

  • COM LIT 1AWorld Literature: Antiquity to Middle Ages
  • COM LIT 1BPremodern Global Literature
  • ENGCOMP 3English Composition, Rhetoric, and Language
    • ENGCOMP 2Approaches to University Writing
    • ENGCOMP 2IApproaches to University Writing for Multilingual Students
      • ENGCOMP 1BHigh-Intermediate Composition for Multilingual Students1 more beneath
  • COM LIT 1CWorld Literature: Age of Enlightenment to 20th Century
  • COM LIT 2AWSurvey of Literature: Antiquity to Middle Ages
    • ENGCOMP 3English Composition, Rhetoric, and Languageanother path to it
  • COM LIT 2BWExploring Premodern Literature
    • ENGCOMP 3English Composition, Rhetoric, and Languageanother path to it
  • COM LIT 2CWExploring Modern Literature
    • ENGCOMP 3English Composition, Rhetoric, and Languageanother path to it

7 direct requisites. Showing 13 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.

Unlocks

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.