COM LIT 250BSeminar in Experimental Critical Theory
Comparative Literature · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Advanced course in critical theory, drawing on wide range of approaches and methods, from anthropology, art, history, literature, performance, philosophy, and political theory. Variable topics are set annually. Includes canonical thinkers (e.g., J. Butler, J. Derrida, M. Detienne, G. Dumézil, F. Héritier, B. Latour, C. Lévi-Strauss, A. Mbembe, E. Renan, M. Strathern) and contemporary critics (e.g., E. Apter, B. Cassin, E. Coccia, S. Bachir Diagne, W. Chi Dimock, P. Frankopan, S. Hartman, L. Lowe, J. Osterhammel, J.-F. Schaub, G. Spivak, E. Viveiros de Castro).
S/U 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: course 250A.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
COM LIT 250B
- COM LIT 250ASeminar in Experimental Critical Theory
- COM LIT 200AProseminar in Comparative Literature I
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 2 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
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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.