ENGL 10A

Literatures in English to 1700

English · 5 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)

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Survey of major writers and genres, with emphasis on tools for literary analysis such as close reading, argumentation, historical and social context, and critical writing. Minimum of three papers (three to five pages each) or equivalent required.

P/NP or letter grading.

When it runs

Fall 2025
Spring 2026
Fall 2026
Spring 2027

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

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Requisites

Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisites: English Composition 3 or 3H, English 4W or 4HW.

BruinTree reads · Prerequisite

needs reviewconfidence 0.90 · from text

all of

one of
- ENGCOMP 3
- ENGCOMP 3H
one of
- ENGL 4W
- ENGL 4HW

· "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.

ENGL 10A

ENGL 4HWCritical Reading and Writing (Honors)
- ENGCOMP 3English Composition, Rhetoric, and Languageanother path to it
ENGL 4WCritical Reading and Writing
- ENGCOMP 3English Composition, Rhetoric, and Languageanother path to it
ENGCOMP 3English Composition, Rhetoric, and Language

Unlocks

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

ENGL 10A52 more beyond

ENGL 10BLiteratures in English, 1700 to 185052 more beyond
- ENGL 10CLiteratures in English, 1850 to Presentanother path to it
- ENGL 110TWriting in English Major: Transfer Studentsanother path to it
- ENGL 120History of Aesthetics and Critical Theoryanother path to it