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Contact Literature
The Literature Department office is located in Humanities 1, room 303, and is open weekdays from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.

(831) 459-4778 litdept@ucsc.edu
Fall Quarter University Deadlines

Wednesday, October 12: Add/Drop/Swap Classes Ends. Deadline to process enrollment transactions.
Wednesday, October 12: Grade Option. Deadline to change grade option.
Wednesday, October 12: Undergraduate Part-Time Program. Deadline to apply for a reduced class load and fees. Office of the Registrar.
Friday, October 21: Declaration/Change of Major or Minor. Deadline to declare or change a major or minor.
Friday, October 21: Announcement of Candidacy/Apply to Graduate. Fall 2016 undergraduate candidates for graduation apply through the student portal.
Resident Humanities parking enforcer. Photo by Kirsten Silva Gruesz

Literature Department Orientation

Welcome to the 2016-2017 school year, Slugs!

Please join the Literature Department tomorrow, Tuesday, September 20 at 10:00am for the 2016 fall undergraduate orientation. The orientation will be held in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Information will be available about the major and minor, concentrations including creative writing, requirements, and more! Undergraduate Program Director Professor A. Hunter Bivens and the department staff will be available to answer questions.

New Department Faculty

The Literature Department faculty and staff extend a warm welcome to Professors Akash Kumar, Amanda Smith, and Zac Zimmer, new faculty in the Literature Department.

Professor Kumar, a Visiting Assistant Professor in 2016-17, has research interests including Dante; medieval Italian lyric; Aristotelian philosophy and science; chess in the medieval and early modern Mediterranean.

Professor Smith's research interests include contemporary Latin American literatures; indigeneity and shamanism; ecocritical theory; geocriticism; space and mapping. 

Professor Zimmer’s research interests include contemporary and comparative colonial-contemporary Latin American literatures and cultural studies; science and technology in society; politics, aesthetics and technology; new media; science fiction.

Creative Writing Application Deadline

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2016 at 3:00 p.m. Creative Writing concentration applications are due to the Literature Department (Humanities 1, room 303) on the second Friday of each quarter by 3:00 p.m.  Applications are available in the Literature Department office, or can be downloaded here.

Admission to the Creative Writing concentration is selective. Interested students are required to take one lower-division workshop at UCSC before applying to the Creative Writing concentration; however, students are strongly encouraged to complete two lower-division workshops (at least one at UCSC) before applying. Students accepted into the Creative Writing concentration of the Literature major will be notified via email on the Friday following the application deadline.

Literature Advising

Faculty advising is available each quarter at the Literature Department office. During fall 2016, Professor Amanda Smith will meet with students wishing to declare the major or minor, and for general advising. Literature staff adviser Julie Hannah Brower is also available to meet with students. Please call (831) 459-4778 to schedule an appointment with a Literature faculty or staff adviser.

The Literature Department has drop-in advising available on Fridays from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. and 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. No appointment is necessary for advising on Fridays.

Seats Available!

The following courses have available seats for Fall 2016. 

Literature Core Courses
LIT 1/Literary Interpretation/Lau
LIT 61H/Introduction to Film Analysis: Gangsters and Destiny: Film Noir/Bell 
LIT 61R/Race in Literature/Montgomery
LIT 61W/Writing and Research Methods/Turk
LIT 80W/Captive Minds: The Literature of Premodern Slavery/Devecka   

Canons *Courses in the LIT 110-119 sequence*
LIT 110A/British Canon, Part 1/Heald   C, H, PO, PR, EL
LIT 114C/Dante’s Divine Comedy/Kumar  C, R, PO, PR

Geographies *Courses in the LIT 130-139 sequence*
LIT 139A/Topics in American Literature and Culture: Alternative Futures and Imagined Pasts/Papazoglakis   G, H, EL, MO

Media *Courses in the LIT 150-159 sequence*
LIT 155J/The Films of John Carpenter/Leicester, Jr.  M, R, EL, MO

Power and Subjectivities *Courses in the LIT 160-169 sequence*
LIT 160F/Topic in Cultural Studies: Blue & Brown: Race, Gender, and Blackness/Wilson, R.V.   M, P, PO, EL, MO, WL
LIT 167E/The Vampire in Literature and Popular Culture/Fox  M, P, EL, MO

Creative Writing  *Courses LIT 90-91, 179, 190V, 190W*
LIT 90/Introduction to Creative Writing/Grady, Villaran, Wagner, Whittington
LIT 91B/Intermediate Poetry Writing/Shufran

French Literature (Speaking, reading, and writing proficiency in French required) *Courses in the LIT 182 sequence*
LIT 182K/Texts and Contexts: Les Animaux/Freccero  H, P, FR, PR

German Literature (Speaking, reading, and writing proficiency in German required) *Courses in the LIT 183 sequence*
LIT 183P/Fear of the Foreign: Xenophobia in German Literature and Culture/Nygaard  G, P, GE, MO

Greek Literature (Reading proficiency in Ancient Greek required) *Courses in the LIT 184 sequence*
LIT 184B/Greek Drama: Euripides’s Alkestis/Bassi  H, M, GR, PR

Italian Literature (Speaking, reading, and writing proficiency in Italian required) *Courses in the LIT 185 sequence*
LIT 185B/Italian Literature and Culture: Celestial Bodies: Italian Literature and the Sciences/Kumar  G, H, IT, PR

Latin Literature (Reading proficiency in Latin required) *Courses in the LIT 186 sequence*
LIT 186B/Roman Poetry: Ovid’s Metamorphoses/Bassi  C, R, IN, PR

Spanish/Latin American/Latino Literature (Speaking, reading, and writing proficiency in Spanish required)
*Course LIT 61Z, courses in the LIT 188-189 sequence, LIT 190X*
LIT 61Z/Introduction to Spanish and Latin American Literary Genres/Aladro 
LIT 188G/Literature and Life in Don Quijote and other Cervantes Texts/Aladro  C, H, PR, SP
LIT 189M/Contemporary Spanish American Prose: Modernidades andinas/Zimmer  G, R, GL, SP, MO, WL
LIT 189S/Popular Culture in Latin American Narrative/Jones  G, R GL, SP, MO, WL

Senior Seminars *Courses in the LIT 190 sequence*
LIT 190F/Studies in Poetry: System and Subject: Reading Race, Gender, and Class in Contemporary US and Canadian Poetry/Chen  R, H, PO, SR, EL, MO
LIT 190L/Topics in World Literature and Cultural Studies: Postcolonial Theory/Cooppan  H, P, GL, SR, MO, WL

 
See the full Literature course listing here

The Fall 2016 Living Writers Reading Series

Reading is Writing


This series features contemporary writers and artists who expose and explore the space between critical discourse and the creative imagination. Readings are on Thursday evenings at 5:20 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall, room 206, and are free and open to the public.

September 29: Chanan Tigay
October 6: Jennifer Chang
October 13: Michelle Tea
October 20: Alfredo Vea
October 27: Elizabeth Willis
November 10: Peter Orner
TBA: Student Reading

Literature Language Requirement

 The Literature Department language requirement has two parts:

1. Reading proficiency in a second language. Students must present evidence of one of the following: One year (three quarters or equivalent) of college level study of a non-English language (e.g. completion of SPANISH 3 at UCSC) OR demonstrated reading ability at this level.

2.  Completion of LIT 102 Translation Theory OR one upper-division course in a non-English literature studied in the original. LIT 102 will be offered in winter 2017.

Reading ability may be demonstrated by successfully completing a language proficiency test. Proficiency tests in Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish are administered each quarter by the Literature Department.

Fall 2016 Language Proficiency Test Days and Times:
Tuesday, October 18 at 1:30 p.m.
Wednesday, October 19 at  9:20 a.m.
Wednesday, November 2 at 1:20 p.m.
Thursday, November 3 at 9:50 a.m.
and by appointment

All exams take place at the Literature Department Office.

In order to be able to enroll in LIT 102, Translation Theory, during their junior year, students should complete the language proficiency requirement by the end of sophomore year. All students who would like to take a language proficiency test are encouraged to do so. Please contact the Literature Department at (831) 459-4778 for more information and to schedule a language proficiency test.

General Literature Major/Minor Information 


All students must complete LIT 1 or its equivalent before declaring the Literature major.

All Literature majors are required to complete Literature 101 prior to enrolling in a Literature senior seminar.

All UCSC students must take a minimum of 75% of their classes for letter grades. Additionally, all Literature majors must take a minimum of 75% of their Literature courses for letter grades. For information on UCSC grade options, please see The Navigator, Chapter 4: Measuring Academic Progress at.

Literature majors must take the senior exit requirement for a letter grade.   

Congratulations, Professors Karen Bassi and Micah Perks!

Professor Karen Bassi's new book, Traces of the Past: Classics Between History and Archaeology, published by University of Michigan Press, is an innovative multidisciplinary study of the relationship between visual perception and temporal meaning in ancient Greek literature and history writing.

In What Becomes Us, a new novel written by Professor Micah Perks and published by Outpost19, twin fetuses tell the story of their mild-mannered mother who abandons her controlling husband to start fresh in a small town in upstate New York. 

Professor Micah Perks will be reading at Bookshop Santa Cruz on October 4. Details are available on Bookshop Santa Cruz's website.

Georgia College MFA in Creative Writing Webinar

Students are invited to attend a Georgia College MFA in Creative Writing Webinar on Wednesday October 5, 2016 @7:00p.m. EST to learn more about the Creative Writing program at Georgia College & State University.  During the one-hour webinar,  information about workshops in all genres, thesis work, and assistantships will be shared. Details on admission requirements will be provided and questions about the program will be answered.  

To register, please click http://www.gcsu.edu/future-students/graduate at the bottom of the page under News & Events.






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