Requirements for the BA in Narrative Studies
Nine or ten courses totaling 36 units; no more than eight units at the 100- or 200-level, selected from the following lists.
At least 24 units must be unique to Dornsife College for NARS major.
| Introduction to Narrative Media: Choose one course | ||
| COLT 101 | Masterpieces and Masterminds: Literature and Thought of the West | 4 units |
| CTCS 190 | Introduction to Cinema | 4 units |
| CTCS 191 | Introduction to Television and Video | 4 units |
| CTIN 309 | Introduction to Interactive Entertainment | 4 units |
| ENGL 261 | English Literature to 1800 | 4 units |
| ENGL 262 | English Literature since 1800 | 4 units |
| ENGL 263 | American Literature | 4 units |
| ENGL 471 | Literary Genres and Film | 4 units |
| ENGL 481 | Narrative Forms in Literature and Film | 4 units |
| FASC 150 | Visual Culture and Literacy I | 4 units |
| PHIL 446 | Aesthetics and the Film | 4 units |
| THTR 125 | Text Studies for Production | 4 units |
| THTR 403 | The Performing Arts | 4 units |
| Writing and Narrative Forms: Choose one or two courses, totaling four units | ||
| CTWR 412 | Introduction to Screenwriting AND | 2 units |
| CTWR 415a | Advanced Writing | 2 units |
| ENGL 303 | Introduction to Fiction Writing | 4 units |
| ENGL 305 | Introduction to Creative Nonfiction | 4 units |
| ENGL 405 | Fiction Writing (pre-req: 303) | 4 units, 8 max |
| THTR 365 | Playwriting I | 4 units |
| THTR 366 | Playwriting II (pre-req: 365) | 4 units |
| Popular Culture and Ethnicity: Choose one course | ||
| AMST 200m | Introduction to American Studies and Ethnicity | 4 Units |
| AMST 274gm | Exploring Ethnicity through Film | 4 Units |
| AMST 285m | African American Popular Culture | 4 Units |
| ANTH 333 | Forms of Folklore | 4 Units |
| COLT 365 | Literature and Popular Culture | 4 Units |
| CTCS 192m | Race, Class and Gender in American Film | 4 Units |
| CTCS 392 | History of the American Film, 1925-1950 | 4 Units |
| CTCS 393 | History of the American Film, 1946-1975 | 4 Units |
| CTCS 394 | History of the American Film, 1977-Present | 4 Units |
| CTCS 407 | African-American Cinema | 4 Units |
| CTCS 414 | Chicana/o Cinema | 4 Units |
| ENGL 392 | Visual and Popular Culture | 4 Units |
| HIST 380 | American Popular Culture | 4 Units |
| MUSC 400 | The Broadway Musical: Reflections of American Diversity, Issues and Experiences | 4 units |
| MUSC 420m | Hip Hop Music and Culture | 4 Units |
| MUSC 400m | The Broadway Musical: Reflections of American Diversity | 4 Units |
| MUSC 460 | Film Music: History and Function from 1930 to the Present | 4 Units |
| THTR 395m | Drama as Human Relations | 4 Units |
| THTR 405 | Performing Identities | 4 units |
| Narrative in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Choose one course | ||
| ANTH 372 | Interpretation of Myth and Narrative | 4 Units |
| COLT 264 | Asian Aesthetic and Literary Traditions | 4 Units |
| CTCS 200 | History of the International Cinema I | 4 Units |
| CTCS 201 | History of the International Cinema II | 4 Units |
| EALC 125g | Introduction to Contemporary East Asian Film and Culture | 4 Units |
| EALC 332 | Korean Literature in English Translation (taught in English) | 4 Units |
| EALC 342g | Japanese Literature and Culture (taught in English) | 4 Units |
| EALC 452 | Chinese Fiction (taught in English) | 4 Units |
| EALC 455 | Japanese Fiction (taught in English) | 4 Units |
| ENGL 444 | Native American Literature | 4 Units |
| ENGL 445m | The Literatures of America: Cross-Cultural Perspectives | 4 Units |
| FREN 320 | French Cinema and French Society: 1900 to the Present | 4 Units |
| GERM 360 | 20th Century German Prose: Texts and Films | 4 Units |
| ITAL 446 | Italian Cinema and Society (taught in English) | 4 Units |
| THTR 210 | Theory and Practice of World Theatre I | 4 Units |
| THTR 211 | Theory and Practice of World Theatre II | 4 Units |
| Western Narrative in Historical Perspective: Choose one course | ||
| CLAS 325 | Ancient Epic | 4 Units |
| CLAS 337 | Ancient Drama | 4 Units |
| CLAS 380 | Approaches to Myth | 4 Units |
| COLT 312 | Heroes, Myths, and Legends in Literature and the Arts | 4 Units |
| ENGL 423 | English Literature of 18th Century (1660-1780) | 4 Units |
| ENGL 424 | English Literature of the Romantic Age (1780-1832) | 4 Units |
| ENGL 425 | English Literature of the Victorian Age (1832-1890) | 4 Units |
| ENGL 426 | Modern English Literature (1890-1945) (pre-req: 262) | 4 Units |
| ENGL 430 | Shakespeare | 4 Units |
| ENGL 440 | American Literature to 1865 (co-req: 263) | 4 Units |
| ENGL 441 | American Literature, 1865-1920 (co-req: 263) | 4 Units |
| GERM 340 | German Prose Fiction from Goethe to Thomas Mann | 4 Units |
| GERM 372 | Literature and Culture in Berlin of the 1920s | 4 Units |
| SLL 302 | Modern Russian Literature | 4 Units |
| SLL 344 | Tolstoy: Writer and Moralist | 4 Units |
| SLL 345 | Literature and Philosophy: Dostoevsky | 4 Units |
| SLL 346 | Russian Drama and the Western Tradition | 4 Units |
| SPAN 304 | Survey of Fiction | 4 Units |
| SPAN 305 | Survey of Drama | 4 Units |
| THTR 301 | Greek and Roman Theatre (rec. prep: 125 and 201) | 4 Units |
| THTR 302 | Shakespeare and His World (rec. prep: 201, 210, 211) | 4 Units |
| Contemporary Fiction and Drama: Choose one course | ||
| AMST 448m | Chicano and Latino Literature | 4 Units |
| AMST 449m | Asian-American Literature | 4 Units |
| COLT 345 | Realist Fiction | 4 Units |
| COLT 348 | Modernist Fiction | 4 Units |
| COLT 351 | Modern and Contemporary Drama | 4 Units |
| COLT 420 | The Fantastic | 4 Units |
| COLT 472 | Los Angeles Crime Fiction | 4 Units |
| COLT 475 | Politics and the Novel | 4 Units |
| EALC 354 | Modern Chinese Literature in Translation | 4 Units |
| ENGL 375 | Science Fiction | 4 Units |
| ENGL 442 | American Literature, 1920 to the Present (co-req: 263) | 4 Units |
| ENGL 447m | African-American Narrative | 4 Units |
| ENGL 455 | Contemporary Prose | 4 Units |
| ENGL 463 | Contemporary Drama | 4 Units |
| FREN 347 | Race, Gender and Power in Francophone Literature | 4 Units |
| SLL 303 | Contemporary Russian Lit | 4 Units |
| SLL 348 | Nabokov’s Novels: Art and Exile (taught in English) | 4 Units |
| THTR 300 | Introduction to Modern Drama | 4 Units |
| THTR 314 | Advanced Topics in Modern Drama (rec prep: 201, 210, 211) | 4 Units |
| Two additional (four-unit) courses | ||
| These must be at the upper-division 300- or 400-level, from different departments, chosen from the lists above. CTWR 412 and 414 may be combined as one of the two (four-unit) classes. | 8 Units | |
| Capstone Enrollment | ||
| MDA 490 | Directed Research OR | 4 Units |
| MDA 494 | Directed Creative Project | 4 Units |
| TOTAL | ||
| Nine courses, including at least seven at the upper-division level, for a total of 36 units. | ||
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