ELTS 140European Crime Novel
European Languages and Transcultural Studies · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Focus on Italian crime novel, but in larger context of European crime fiction. Readings include some of most important and interesting contemporary authors of Italian detective fiction—Camilleri, Carlotto, de Giovanni, Pastor—to see what crime fiction can say about nation in age of globalization, and about Italy in European Union.
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
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
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.
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