ENGL 121

Modern and Contemporary Aesthetics and Critical Theory

English · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Investigation of some dominant trends in 19th- and 20th-century aesthetics, critical theory, and interpretation. Topics may include Marxism, psychoanalysis, structuralism, poststructuralism, feminism, and postcolonialism. May not be repeated for credit.

P/NP or letter grading.

When it runs

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
Requisites: courses 10A and 10B, or 11 and 87.

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one of

all of
- ENGL 10A
- ENGL 10B
all of
- ENGL 11
- ENGL 87

· mixed comma-level AND/OR in "courses 10A and 10B, or 11 and 87" — grouping is a best reading

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

ENGL 121

ENGL 10ALiteratures in English to 1700
- 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

Unlocks

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.