ENGL 137B

Creative Writing: Advanced Short Story

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

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(Formerly numbered 137.) Further reading in contemporary short stories and exercises in fiction writing, with emphasis on longer stories. Some classroom discussion based on assigned reading, but most on student work. Enrollment in more than one section per term not permitted. May be repeated for maximum of 15 units.

P/NP or letter grading.

When it runs

Fall 2025
Winter 2026
Spring 2026
Fall 2026
Winter 2027
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: courses 4HW or 4W or 20 or 20W, English Composition 3.

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all of

ENGCOMP 3
one of

Requires

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

ENGL 137B

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

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

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