COM LIT 1DContemporary Global Literature
Comparative Literature · 5 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
Not open for credit to students with credit for course 2DW or 4DW. Study of major literary texts usually overlooked in courses that focus only on canon of Western literature. Texts may be from areas of African, Asian, Caribbean, European, Latin American, North American, and Middle Eastern literature. Consult Schedule of Classes for topics to be offered in specific term.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 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
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 1D
- 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
8 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 8 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.