Narrative Studies Major

•  Narrative Studies courses offered in Fall  2013

  Requirements	Units	2013
  Nine or 10 courses totaling 36 units; no more than two at the 100- or 200-level, the rest at the 300- or 400-level, selected from the following lists.

   

  Introduction to Narrative Media (choose one course)			2013
  COLT 101	Masterpieces and Masterminds: Literature and Thought of the West	4	Fall
  CTCS 190	Introduction to Cinema	4	Fall
  CTCS 191	Introduction to Television and Video	4	Fall
  CTIN 309	Introduction to Interactive Entertainment	4
  ENGL 261	English Literature to 1800	4	Fall
  ENGL 262	English Literature Since 1800	4	Fall
  ENGL 263	American Literature	4	Fall
  ENGL 471	Literary Genres and Film	4
  ENGL 481	Narrative Forms in Literature and Film	4
  FACS 150	Visual Culture and Literacy I	4	Fall
  PHIL 446	Aesthetics and the Film	4
  THTR 125	Text Studies for Production	4	Fall
  THTR 403	The Performing Arts	4

   

  Writing and Narrative Forms (choose one or two courses, totaling 4 units)			2013
  CTWR 412	Introduction to Screenwriting, and . . .	2	Fall
  CTWR 415a	. . . Advanced Writing	2	Fall
  ENGL 303	Introduction to Fiction Writing	4	Fall
  ENGL 305	Introduction to Creative Nonfiction	4	Fall
  ENGL 405*	Fiction Writing	4, max 8	Fall
  THTR 365	Playwriting I	4	Fall
  THTR 366*	Playwriting II	4

   

  Popular Culture and Ethnicity (choose one course)			2013
  AMST 200	Introduction to American Studies and Ethnicity	4	Fall
  AMST 274	Exploring Ethnicity Through Film	4
  AMST 285	African-American Popular Culture	4
  ANTH 333	Forms of Folklore	4
  COLT 365	Literature and Popular Culture	4
  CTCS 192	Race, Class and Gender in American Film	4
  CTCS 392	History of the American Film, 1925-1950	4
  CTCS 393	History of the American Film, 1946-1975	4	Fall
  CTCS 394	History of the American Film, 1977-Present	4
  CTCS 407	African-American Cinema	4
  CTCS 414	Chicana/o Cinema	4
  ENGL 392	Visual and Popular Culture	4	Fall
  HIST 380	American Popular Culture	4
  MUSC 400	The Broadway Musical: Reflections of American Diversity, Issues and Experiences	4	Fall
  MUSC 420	Hip-Hop Music and Culture	4	Fall
  MUSC 460	Film Music: History and Function From 1930 to the Present	4	Fall
  THTR 395	Drama as Human Relations	4
  THTR 405	Performing Identities	4	Fall

   

  Narrative in Cross-Cultural Perspective (choose one course)			2013
  ANTH 372	Interpretation of Myth and Narrative	4	Fall
  COLT 264	Asian Aesthetic and Literary Traditions	4
  CTCS 200	History of the International Cinema I	4	Fall
  CTCS 201	History of the International Cinema II	4
  EALC 125	Introduction to Contemporary East Asian Film and Culture	4	Fall
  EALC 332	Korean Literature in English Translation	4
  EALC 342	Japanese Literature and Culture	4
  EALC 452	Chinese Fiction	4
  EALC 455	Japanese Fiction	4
  ENGL 444	Native American Literature	4
  ENGL 445	The Literatures of America: Cross-Cultural Perspectives	4
  FREN 320	French Cinema and French Society: 1900 to the Present	4	Fall
  GERM 360	20th Century German Prose: Texts and Films	4
  ITAL 446	Italian Cinema and Society	4
  THTR 210***	Theory and Practice of World Theatre I	4
  THTR 211***	Theory and Practice of World Theatre II	4	Fall

   

  Western Narrative in Historical Perspective (choose one course)			2013
  CLAS 325	Ancient Epic	4	Fall
  CLAS 337	Ancient Drama	4
  CLAS 380	Approaches to Myth	4
  COLT 312	Heroes, Myths and Legends in Literature and the Arts	4
  ENGL 423*	English Literature of 18th Century (1660-1780)	4	Fall
  ENGL 424*	English Literature of the Romantic Age (1780-1832)	4
  ENGL 425*	English Literature of the Victorian Age (1832-1890)	4	Fall
  ENGL 426*	Modern English Literature (1890-1945)	4
  ENGL 430	Shakespeare	4	Fall
  ENGL 440**	American Literature to 1865	4	Fall
  ENGL 441**	American Literature, 1865-1920	4
  GERM 340	German Prose Fiction From Goethe to Thomas Mann	4
  GERM 372	Literature and Culture in Berlin of the 1920s	4
  SLL 302	Modern Russian Literature	4
  SLL 344	Tolstoy: Writer and Moralist	4
  SLL 345	Literature and Philosophy: Dostoevsky	4	Fall
  SLL 346	Russian Drama and the Western Tradition	4
  SPAN 304	Survey of Fiction (taught in Spanish)	4	Fall
  THTR 301***	Greek and Roman Theatre	4	Fall
  THTR 302***	Shakespeare and His World	4

   

  Contemporary Fiction and Drama (choose one course)			2013
  AMST 448	Chicano and Latino Literature	4
  AMST 449	Asian American Literature	4
  COLT 345	Realist Fiction	4
  COLT 348	Modernist Fiction	4
  COLT 351	Modern and Contemporary Drama	4
  COLT 420	The Fantastic	4
  COLT 472	Los Angeles Crime Fiction	4
  COLT 475	Politics and the Novel	4	Fall
  EALC 354	Modern Chinese Literature in Translation	4
  ENGL 375	Science Fiction	4	Fall
  ENGL 442**	American Literature, 1920 to the Present	4	Fall
  ENGL 447	African American Narrative	4	Fall
  ENGL 455	Contemporary Prose	4
  ENGL 463	Contemporary Drama	4
  FREN 347	Race, Gender and Power in Francophone Literature	4
  SLL 303	Contemporary Russian Literature	4
  SLL 348	Nabokov’s Novels: Art and Exile	4
  THTR 300	Introduction to Modern Drama	4
  THTR 314***	Advanced Topics in Modern Drama	4

   

• Narrative Studies courses offered in Spring 2013

  Requirements	Units	2013
  Nine or 10 courses totaling 36 units; no more than two at the 100- or 200-level, the rest at the 300- or 400-level, selected from the following lists.

   

  Introduction to Narrative Media (choose one course)			2013
  COLT 101	Masterpieces and Masterminds: Literature and Thought of the West	4
  CTCS 190	Introduction to Cinema	4	Spring
  CTCS 191	Introduction to Television and Video	4	Spring
  CTIN 309	Introduction to Interactive Entertainment	4	Spring
  ENGL 261	English Literature to 1800	4	Spring
  ENGL 262	English Literature Since 1800	4	Spring
  ENGL 263	American Literature	4	Spring
  ENGL 471	Literary Genres and Film	4
  ENGL 481	Narrative Forms in Literature and Film	4
  FACS 150	Visual Culture and Literacy I	4	Spring
  PHIL 446	Aesthetics and the Film	4
  THTR 125	Text Studies for Production	4
  THTR 403	The Performing Arts	4	Spring

   

  Writing and Narrative Forms (choose one or two courses, totaling 4 units)			2013
  CTWR 412	Introduction to Screenwriting, and . . .	2	Spring
  CTWR 415a	. . . Advanced Writing	2	Spring
  ENGL 303	Introduction to Fiction Writing	4	Spring
  ENGL 305	Introduction to Creative Nonfiction	4	Spring
  ENGL 405*	Fiction Writing	4, max 8	Spring
  THTR 365	Playwriting I	4	Spring
  THTR 366*	Playwriting II	4	Spring

   

  Popular Culture and Ethnicity (choose one course)			2013
  AMST 200	Introduction to American Studies and Ethnicity	4	Spring
  AMST 274	Exploring Ethnicity Through Film	4	Spring
  AMST 285	African-American Popular Culture	4	Spring
  ANTH 333	Forms of Folklore	4	Spring
  COLT 365	Literature and Popular Culture	4
  CTCS 192	Race, Class and Gender in American Film	4	Spring
  CTCS 392	History of the American Film, 1925-1950	4	Spring
  CTCS 393	History of the American Film, 1946-1975	4
  CTCS 394	History of the American Film, 1977-Present	4	Spring
  CTCS 407	African-American Cinema	4	Spring
  CTCS 414	Chicana/o Cinema	4	Spring
  ENGL 392	Visual and Popular Culture	4
  HIST 380	American Popular Culture	4
  MUSC 400	The Broadway Musical: Reflections of American Diversity, Issues and Experiences	4	Spring
  MUSC 420	Hip-Hop Music and Culture	4	Spring
  MUSC 460	Film Music: History and Function From 1930 to the Present	4
  THTR 395	Drama as Human Relations	4	Spring
  THTR 405	Performing Identities	4

   

  Narrative in Cross-Cultural Perspective (choose one course)			2013
  ANTH 372	Interpretation of Myth and Narrative	4
  COLT 264	Asian Aesthetic and Literary Traditions	4	Spring
  CTCS 200	History of the International Cinema I	4
  CTCS 201	History of the International Cinema II	4	Spring
  EALC 125	Introduction to Contemporary East Asian Film and Culture	4	Spring
  EALC 332	Korean Literature in English Translation	4
  EALC 342	Japanese Literature and Culture	4	Spring
  EALC 452	Chinese Fiction	4
  EALC 455	Japanese Fiction	4
  ENGL 444	Native American Literature	4	Maymester
  ENGL 445	The Literatures of America: Cross-Cultural Perspectives	4
  FREN 320	French Cinema and French Society: 1900 to the Present	4	Spring
  GERM 360	20th Century German Prose: Texts and Films	4
  ITAL 446	Italian Cinema and Society	4	Spring
  THTR 210***	Theory and Practice of World Theatre I	4	Spring
  THTR 211***	Theory and Practice of World Theatre II	4

   

  Western Narrative in Historical Perspective (choose one course)			2013
  CLAS 325	Ancient Epic	4
  CLAS 337	Ancient Drama	4
  CLAS 380	Approaches to Myth	4
  COLT 312	Heroes, Myths and Legends in Literature and the Arts	4
  ENGL 423*	English Literature of 18th Century (1660-1780)	4
  ENGL 424*	English Literature of the Romantic Age (1780-1832)	4
  ENGL 425*	English Literature of the Victorian Age (1832-1890)	4	Spring
  ENGL 426*	Modern English Literature (1890-1945)	4	Spring
  ENGL 430	Shakespeare	4	Spring
  ENGL 440**	American Literature to 1865	4
  ENGL 441**	American Literature, 1865-1920	4
  GERM 340	German Prose Fiction From Goethe to Thomas Mann	4
  GERM 372	Literature and Culture in Berlin of the 1920s	4
  SLL 302	Modern Russian Literature	4
  SLL 344	Tolstoy: Writer and Moralist	4
  SLL 345	Literature and Philosophy: Dostoevsky	4
  SLL 346	Russian Drama and the Western Tradition	4
  SPAN 304	Survey of Fiction (taught in Spanish)	4
  THTR 301***	Greek and Roman Theatre	4
  THTR 302***	Shakespeare and His World	4	Spring

   

  Contemporary Fiction and Drama (choose one course)			2013
  AMST 448	Chicano and Latino Literature	4	Spring
  AMST 449	Asian American Literature	4	Spring
  COLT 345	Realist Fiction	4
  COLT 348	Modernist Fiction	4
  COLT 351	Modern and Contemporary Drama	4
  COLT 420	The Fantastic	4	Spring
  COLT 472	Los Angeles Crime Fiction	4
  COLT 475	Politics and the Novel	4
  EALC 354	Modern Chinese Literature in Translation	4	Spring
  ENGL 375	Science Fiction	4
  ENGL 442**	American Literature, 1920 to the Present	4	Spring
  ENGL 447	African American Narrative	4	Spring
  ENGL 455	Contemporary Prose	4	Spring
  ENGL 463	Contemporary Drama	4
  FREN 347	Race, Gender and Power in Francophone Literature	4
  SLL 303	Contemporary Russian Literature	4
  SLL 348	Nabokov’s Novels: Art and Exile	4	Spring
  THTR 300	Introduction to Modern Drama	4
  THTR 314***	Advanced Topics in Modern Drama	4	Spring

   

  Two additional courses (three if CTWR 412/CTWR 414 are chosen) (8 units) at the upper-division 300 or 400 level, from different departments, chosen from the lists above.

   

  Capstone Enrollment:
  MDA 490	Directed Research, or
  MDA 494	Directed Creative Project	4

  *Prerequisite required
  **Corequisite required
  ***Recommend preparation suggested
  
  Total: Nine courses, including at least seven upper-division courses, for a total of 36 units.
  
  

• Acceptable NARS substitutions for Spring 2013

   

  COLT 251	Modern Literature and Thought of the West Since 1800	4
  COLT 311	Epic	4
  COLT 374	Women Writers in Europe and America	4
  CTAN 499	Special Topics (The Rise of Digital Hollywood)	2
  CTIN 462 ***	Critical Theory and Analysis of Games	4
  CTWR 321*	Introduction to Television Writing	2
  CTWR 411	Television Script Analysis	2
  CTWR 431	Screenwriters and Their Work	2
  EALC 427***	Women's Lives in Premodern Japanese Literature	4
  EALC 428	Nature and the Ecological Imagination in Japanese Literature	4
  MUJZ 419m	The Jazz Experience: Myths and Culture	4
  MUSC 424	Iconic Figures of Popular Music (Dylan)	2
  MUSC 465	Music, Television and American Culture	4
  MUSC 465	Music, Television and American Culture	4
  SPAN 302*	Survey of Film	4
  SPAN 306*	Survey of Drama	4
  SPAN 372***	Modern and Contemporary Latin American Fiction	4
  SPAN 380***	Literature of Mexico	4
  SPAN 482***	Literature and the City	4

  
  More NARS substitutions may be added for Spring 2013

• Narrative Studies Courses offered in Fall 2012

  
  Category 1: Introduction to Narrative Media
  COLT 101—Masterpieces and Masterminds: Literature & Thought of the West
  CTCS 190—Introduction to Cinema
  CTCS 191—Introduction to Television and Video
  CTIN 309—Introduction to Interactive Entertainment
  ENGL 261—English Literature to 1800
  ENGL 262—English Literature since 1800
  ENGL 263—American Literature
  FACS 150—Visual Culture and Literacy I
  THTR 125—Text Studies for Production
  
  Category 2: Writing and Narrative Forms
  CTWR 412—Introduction to Screenwriting, and
  CTWR 415a—Advanced Writing
  ENGL 303—Introduction to Fiction Writing
  ENGL 305—Introduction to Creative Nonfiction
  ENGL 405*—Fiction Writing
  THTR 365—Playwriting I
  
  Category 3: Popular Culture and Ethnicity
  AMST 200—Introduction to American Studies and Ethnicity
  CTCS 393—History of the American Film, 1946-1975
  ENGL 392—Visual and Popular Culture
  HIST 380—American Popular Culture
  MUSC 400—The Broadway Musical: Reflections of American Diversity, Issues and Experiences
  MUSC 420—Hip-Hop Music and Culture
  MUSC 460—Film Music: History and Function From 1930 to the Present
  THTR 405—Performing Identities
  
  Category 4: Narrative in Cross-Cultural Perspective
  CTCS 200—History of the International Cinema I
  ENGL 445—The Literatures of America: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
  ITAL 446—Italian Cinema and Society
  THTR 211***—Theory and Practice of World Theatre II
  
  Category 5: Western Narrative in Historical Perspective
  ENGL 424*—English Literature of the Romantic Age (1780-1832)
  ENGL 430—Shakespeare
  ENGL 440**—American Literature to 1865
  SPAN 304—Survey of Fiction (taught in Spanish)
  THTR 301***—Greek and Roman Theatre
  
  Category 6: Contemporary Fiction and Drama
  COLT 420—The Fantastic
  ENGL 375—Science Fiction
  ENGL 463—Contemporary Drama

  *Prerequisite required
  **Corequisite required
  ***Recommended preparation suggested

• Acceptable NARS substitutions for Fall 2012

  
  COLT 385 Literature and Justice (4)
  Examination of literary and autobiographical texts that raise questions of justice in multicultural societies; links to theories of justice in historical, political, or philosophical contexts.
  
  EALC 150g Global Chinese Cinema and Cultural Studies (4)
  Examination of the transnational production and circulation of Chinese-language cinema. Analysis of the larger sociocultural significance of films by engaging their historical context.
  
  EALC 344g Korean Literature and Culture (4)
  The history of Korean literature and culture from the ancient to the modern era. Recommended preparation: HIST 105.
  
  EALC 460 Love, Self and Gender in Japanese Literature (4)
  Examines conceptions of love, self, gender, and sexuality in Japanese literature and culture of the modern and pre-modern periods with comparisons to European and Chinese literature.
  
  GR 345 Greek Tragic Poets (4)
  Selected plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.
  
  ITAL 340 Italian Literature from Unification to Fascism (4)
  Reading of standard English translations of selected novels by leading Italian writers (1861-1945).
  
  LAT 320 Vergil (4)
  Studies in the Aeneid or Eclogues and Georgics.
  
  REL 111g The World of the Hebrew Bible (4)
  The Hebrew Bible in the cultural setting of the Ancient Near East; the formation of theological and ethical concepts which have shaped Western culture.
  
  REL 132g Religions of the West (4)
  Examination of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in their origins and their development in relation to Western civilization.