COM (Comparative Literature)- click for list

Approval Status

Approved

Date Reviewed

September 2021

Only the following UC Davis courses taught under the Comparative Literature major code of COM meet the content requirement for Basic Skills-Writing:

COM 001 -    Major Works of the Ancient World (4)

COM 002 -    Major Works of the Medieval & Early Modern World (4)

COM 003 -    Major Works of the Modern World (4)

COM 004 -    Major Works of the Contemporary World (4)

COM 008 -    Utopias & Their Transformations (4) 

COM 009 -    The Short Story & Novella (4)

COM 011 -    Travel & the Modern World (4)

COM 020 -    Humans & the Natural World (4)

COM 022 -    Literature of the Abnormal Psyche (4)

COM 024 -    Animals in Literature (4)

COM 053A -  Literature of East Asia (4)

COM 053B -  Literature of South Asia (4)

COM 053C -  Literatures of the Islamic World (4)

COM 120 -    Writing Nature: 1750 to the Present (4)

COM 135 -    Women Writers (4)

COM 138 -    Gender & Interpretation in the Renaissance (4)

COM 139 -    Shakespeare & the Classical World (4)

COM 140 -    Thematic & Structural Study of Literature (4)

COM 141 -     Introduction to Critical Theoretical Approaches to Literature & Culture (4)

COM 142 -     Critical Reading & Analysis (4)

COM 144 -     The Grotesque (4)

COM 145 -     Representations of the City (4)

COM 146 -     Myth in Literature (4)

COM 147 -     Modern Jewish Writers (4)

COM 148 -     Mystical Literatures of South Asia & the Middle East (4)

COM 151 -     Colonial and Postcolonial Experience in Literature (4)

COM 152 -     Literature of the Americas (4)

COM 152S -   Literature of the Americans (Taught in Latin American) (4)

COM 153 -     The Forms of Asian Literature (4)

COM 154 -     African Literature (4)

COM 155 -     Classical Literatures of the Islamic World 600-1900 (4)

COM 156 -      The Ramayana (4)

COM 157 -      War & Peace in Literature (4)

COM 158 -      The Detective Story as Literature (4)

COM 159 -      Women in Literature (4)

COM 160A -    The Modern Novel (4)      

COM 160B -     The Modern Drama (4)

COM 161A -     Tragedy (4)

COM 161B -     Comedy (4)

COM 162 -       Writing Love & War in South Asia (4)

 COM 163 -      Biography & Autobiography (4) 

COM 164A -     The European Middle Ages (4)

COM 164B -     The Renaissance (4)

COM 164C -      Baroque & Neoclassicism (4)

COM 164D -     The Enlightenment (4)

COM 165 -        Caribbean Literatures (4)

COM 166 -        Literatures of the Modern Middle East (4)

COM 166A -      The Epic (4)

COM 166B -       The Novel (4)

COM 167 -         Comparative Study of Major Authors (4)

COM 168A -       Romanticism (4)

COM 168B -       Realism & Naturalism (4)

COM 169 -         The Avant-Garde (4)

COM 170 -         The Contemporary Novel (4)

COM 171 -         Partition Literature: South Asia (4)

COM 172 -         A Story for a Life: The Arabian Nights (4)    

COM 175 -        Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (4)

COM 180 -        Selected Topics in Comparative Literature (4)

COM 180S -      Selected Topics in Comparative Literature (Taught Abroad) (4)

COM 195 -        Senior Seminar in Comparative Literature (4)

COM 210 -        Topics & Themes in Comparative Literature (4)

COM 214 -        Approaches to Lyric Poetry (4)

COM 215 -        Forms of Spiritual Quest (4)

COM 220 -        Literary Genres (4)

COM 238 -        Gender & Interpretation (4)

COM 250A -      Research in Primary Literature (4)

COM 250B -      Research in Second Literature (4)

COM 250C -      Research in Third Literature or Special Topic (4)

COM 250D -      Dissertation Prospectus (4)

COM 255 -        Proseminar: Comparative Literature: Past, Present, Future (4)

COM 260 -        Contexts of the 19th-Century Novel (4)

COM 297 -         Directed Independent Study in Primary, Secondary, or Third Literature (4)

 

 

NOTE: Not all COM courses meet the content requirement for Basic Skills-Writing so review this list carefully.