COM LIT 1AWorld Literature: Antiquity to Middle Ages
Comparative Literature · 5 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
Not open for credit to students with credit for course 2AW or 4AW. Study of major texts in world literature, with emphasis on Western civilization. Texts include major works and authors such as Iliad or Odyssey , Greek tragedies, portions of Bible, Virgil, Petronius, St. Augustine, and others such as Gilgamesh or Tristan and Iseult .
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement.
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Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
COM LIT 1A
- COM LIT 169Continental African Authors
- CHIN 151Chinese Literature in Translation: Modern Literature
- JAPAN 151Japanese Literature in Translation: Modern
- KOREA 130AReadings in Modern Korean Literature
- SEASIAN 130Topics in Southeast Asian Literature
- JAPAN 154Postwar Japanese Culture through Literature
- KOREA 130BReadings in Modern Korean Literature
- KOREA C151Korean Literature in Translation: Modern
- KOREA 154Contemporary Korean Culture through Literature and Film
9 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 9 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.