ENGL 135Literature of Americas
English · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Survey of literatures of Americas, with emphasis on complex ways in which letters of North America, Central America, South America, and Caribbean forge distinctly American perspective on global affairs. Spans literature from age of encounter to 19th-century U.S., American revolution and Latin American independence movements and beyond, considering such topics as empire, colonialism, slavery, transnational dynamics, and cross-cultural transformations among indigenous, European, and African civilizations. May be repeated for credit with topic or instructor change.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Spring 2026
- Spring 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
Enforced requisite: English Composition 3.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
ENGL 135
- ENGCOMP 3English Composition, Rhetoric, and Language
- ENGCOMP 2Approaches to University Writing
- ENGCOMP 2IApproaches to University Writing for Multilingual Students
1 direct requisite. Showing 4 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.