Transfer Students
What do you need to do to major in comparative literature if you are a transfer student?
1 – First of all, if you have fulfilled UCI’s breadth requirements at your previous institution you need only to complete an upper-division writing course at UCI to complete the campus general education requirements in total. You should note that we offer our own upper division writing course every year (CL102W) so you can fulfill this requirement within the department if you wish. In order to graduate you will need to fulfill the Humanities School requirement as well as the requirements for Comparative Literature.
2 – You should discuss graduation requirements with an Academic Counselor in the Humanities Office of Undergraduate Study.
As a transfer student, you will generally have taken lower-division courses equivalent to Humanities Core 1A-1B-1C - course work in English composition, history and philosophy.
(See http://www.humanities.uci.edu/undergrad/current/school_req.php)
You will also need college-level course work equivalent to UCI’s sixth quarter of study in an acceptable foreign language (generally 2C). You can see how your community college course work applies to the Humanities Core alternative at http://www.assist.org.
3 – For the major in comparative literature you may substitute 60ABC with either two semesters or three quarters of classes in introduction to literature or world literature, broadly speaking, or any national or area-based literature (American literature, British literature, Russian literature, French literature, Japanese literature etc.). We also accept courses in specific genres (drama, poetry, novel) as well as courses in different cultural media (such as a film class). Even as if want to facilitate your transition to UCI, we want to point out that what is special about our 60 series is that we introduce you to reading texts across the globe, from different time periods, different genres and media as well as different theoretical models for reading texts and that we would strongly encourage you to take at least one of our 60 courses.
4 – Additionally, for the major in comparative literature you will need to complete seven upper division courses: at least five of these must be in Comparative Literature but the other two may be other courses in other Humanities departments.
5 – You need to take Comparative Literature 190W (our capstone seminar).
6 – You also have to fulfill our requirement for competence in a foreign language. This can be met in several ways:
I. Two upper-division courses in a foreign literature or culture in which texts are read in the original, or
II. One upper-division course in a foreign literature or culture in which texts are read in the original, plus one upper-division course in a literature or culture in translation.
III. Students of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, or Vietnamese may take three years of language training plus one approved upper-division course in the literature or culture of that language in translation.
IV. Students who study Greek and Latin fulfill the entire requirement by successfully completing two years of college level language training.
V. An Independent Study may substitute for any part of the foreign language requirement when classes in the language or literature desired are not available.
You should know that while we are committed to retaining a standard of multilingualism for our undergraduate majors we want to be flexible about how that is achieved and measured, especially with regards to students who already have abilities in languages that are not taught regularly at the college level (and there are many of you here at Irvine!). This is why we have instituted this last option of an independent study. In other words, if we have students who are native Persian or Tagalog speakers then we would be committed to finding a way to have those linguistic skills count for our major language requirement … either one of our own faculty members would undertake an independent study with that student where he/she would work in that language or we would try to find someone else in the school who has the linguistic abilities to do so. Your second course would then be a course in translation in a related geographical, cultural or linguistic area. If you speak a language other than English and want to have that linguistic competency count for your foreign language requirement in comparative literature please contact the undergraduate director in comparative literature so that we can work out the details.
7 - Credits from the UC Education Abroad Program may be substituted for Departmental language and upper-division requirements.
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