HNRS 63WNabokov and Reading Minds
Honors Collegium · 5 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
Designed for College Honors students. Examination of three works by Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-American writer, teacher, translator, lepidopterist, and composer of chess problems. Nabokov’s eclectic writings lend themselves well to precepts of cognitive criticism—way of understanding world through relationship between literacy and thought. Reading and writing about art and science built into course. Satisfies Writing II requirement.
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
Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or English as a Second Language 36.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
HNRS 63W
- 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.