ENGL 124Theories of Religion
English · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Recommended: courses 120, 121. Examination of relationship between literary and religious practices and traditions. Topics may include legacies of monotheisms, theories of sacrifice, sacrament, gift, and mystical traditions, as well as history of allegory and theological approaches to reading. Selected topics may address literary applications of religious categories as treated in cultural anthropology, philosophy, and critical theory. May be repeated for credit with topic or instructor change.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
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 124
- 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.