ENGL 123Theories of History and Historicism
English · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Recommended: courses 120, 121. Exploration of theories of history and historicism that offer productive approaches to literary texts. Investigation of how theorists negotiate between abstract concepts of history and situated historical narratives, how histories are constructed, troped, and given authority, how histories constitute past and present in relationship to each other to stabilize tradition or induce change, and complex ways that literary texts operate within and on their historical contexts. May be repeated for credit with topic or instructor change.
P/NP 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
Requisites: courses 10A, 10B, and 10C, or 11 and 87.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
ENGL 123
- ENGL 10ALiteratures in English to 1700
- ENGL 10BLiteratures in English, 1700 to 1850
- ENGL 10CLiteratures in English, 1850 to Present
- ENGL 4WCritical Reading and Writing
- ENGL 11Introduction to American Cultures
- ENGL 87Topics in American Cultures
5 direct requisites. Showing 25 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. 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.