Summer 2025 Courses for Literature Major Requirements

Literature undergraduate majors:

Check your degree audit to see what major requirements you have left unfulfilled.
Identify any priorities, such as requirements with fewer course options (more specificity) than others.
Find the matching requirements under your major below to find the applicable offerings for the year.
If you have multiple options to choose from, check out the course description links below to see more course details and decide on your preferences.
Register as soon as possible and have back-up courses ready (in case your first choice fills before you can secure a seat).

If you want any help with course planning, reach out to our advisors via the VAC. You may message us your questions or request an advising appointment.

Note:

Only the courses below will fulfill these requirements for this Summer Session. Petitions for alternate course options will typically only be considered if there are clearly defined and unavoidable schedule conflicts with an offering (and no additional offerings prior to your planned quarter of graduation). No petitions are guaranteed to be approved, so it is your responsibility to plan your courses accordingly.

If any of the courses below do not automatically apply to these requirements on your degree audit, please send us a message in the VAC. We will manually correct your degree audit. There is no need to submit a petition.

Course Descriptions:

Summer Session 1

Summer Session 2

LT33 - LITERATURES IN SPANISH

Lower Division Requirements

Secondary Language and Literature

None

Pre-Approved Petition Options

Literatures in Spanish (LT33) majors may also choose to take any upper division LTEN courses (LTEN 100-190) to fulfill the Secondary Language and Literature requirement. Students must still complete and send an Undergraduate Petition to litug@ucsd.edu for processing, but the petition will be automatically approved. Any upper division LTEN courses that are applied to the Secondary Language and Literature requirement will not also apply to upper division major requirements.

Upper Division Requirements

Advanced Spanish Reading and Writing

None

Pre-1900 Spanish Literature

None

Spanish Literature

LTSP 123GS - Topics in Modern Spanish Culture *

LTSP 174GS - Topics in Culture and Politics *

LTSP 180 - Film and Visual Arts in Latin America

None

* Courses ending in "GS" are Global Seminars. Students must apply and be accepting into the Global Seminars Program to enroll in these courses.

Pre-Approved Petition Options

Literatures in Spanish (LT33) majors may also apply one 4-unit LTSP 199 (independent study) to this requirement, if a faculty member agrees to supervise such a course. Students must still complete and send an Undergraduate Petition to litug@ucsd.edu for processing, but the petition will be automatically approved.

Petitions for additional LTSP 199 courses to apply to the major requirements are not pre-approved. They will be considered on a case-by-case basis, and they will typically only be approved when there are insufficient upper division LTSP course offerings within the student's projected graduation timeline.

Literature Electives

Any upper division (100-190) course in the following Literature subject codes:
LTAF, LTAM, LTCH, LTCS, LTEA, LTEN, LTEU, LTFR, LTGK, LTGM, LTIT, LTKO, LTLA, LTRU, LTSP, LTTH, LTWL, or LTWR

LT34 - LITERATURE/WRITING

Lower Division Requirements

Secondary Language and Literature

None

Writing

None

U.S. Literature 1865-Present

None

Pre-Approved Petition Options

Literature/Writing (LT34) majors admitted as transfer students may also choose to take specific upper division LTEN courses in place of specific lower division LTEN requirements (not yet completed through transfer coursework). Students must still complete and send an Undergraduate Petition to litug@ucsd.edu for processing, but the petition will be automatically approved. Any upper division LTEN courses that are applied to lower division major requirements will not also apply to upper division major requirements.

For LTEN 26 specifically, the pre-approved upper division substitutions for transfer students are:

Summer Session 1: LTEN 158, LTEN 178, LTEN 181
Summer Session 2: LTEN 169, LTEN 180, LTEN 181

Literature

None

Pre-Approved Petition Options

Literature/Writing (LT34) majors admitted as transfer students may also choose to take specific upper division courses in place of specific lower division LTEN/GSS requirements (not yet completed through transfer coursework). Students must still complete and send an Undergraduate Petition to litug@ucsd.edu for processing, but the petition will be automatically approved. Any upper division courses that are applied to lower division LTEN/GSS requirement will not also apply to upper division major requirements. Students cannot take two upper division courses that are approved to substitute for the same lower division course; it must be two different lower division courses being substituted.

For Summer 2025 specifically, the pre-approved upper division substitutions for transfer students are:

Summer Session 1: LTAF 120GS (for GSS 21), LTEN 181 (for LTEN 28)
Summer Session 2: LTAM 110 (for GSS 22), LTAM 110GS (for GSS 22), LTEN 180 (for LTEN 29), LTEN 181 (for LTEN 28)

Upper Division Requirements

Writing Workshops

LTWR 102C - Poetry Craft

LTWR 102W - Poetry Workshop

LTWR 109C- Children's Literature Craft

LTWR 102C - Poetry Craft

LTWR 115W - Experimental Writing Workshop

Pre-Approved Petition Options

Literature/Writing (LT34) majors who pursue the Literature Department Honors Program may also apply LTWR 194 (Capstone Course for Writing Majors) and/or LTWR 196 (Honors Thesis) to the Writing Workshops requirement.

Literature/Writing (LT34) majors may also choose to apply up to three instances of the Theatre & Dance department's playwriting courses (TDPW 101, 102 or 104) to the Writing Workshops requirement.

Literature/Writing (LT34) majors may also apply one 4-unit LTWR 199 (independent study) to this requirement, if a faculty member agrees to supervise such a course.

For all these options, students must still complete and send an Undergraduate Petition to litug@ucsd.edu for processing, but the petition will be automatically approved.

Petitions for additional LTWR 199 courses to apply to the major requirements are not pre-approved. They will be considered on a case-by-case basis, and they will typically only be approved when there are insufficient upper division LTWR course offerings within the student's projected graduation timeline.

Writing Theory

None

World Literature Breadth - Latin America

None

LTAM 110 - Latin American Literature in Translation

LTAM 110GS - Latin American Literature in Translation *

* Courses ending in "GS" are Global Seminars. Students must apply and be accepting into the Global Seminars Program to enroll in these courses.

Pre-Approved Petition Options

Literature/Writing (LT34) majors who pursue the Intensive Language Track in Spanish (for the Secondary Language & Literature requirement) may also apply one of their upper division LTSP courses towards the World Literature Breadth - Latin America requirement.

Students must still complete and send an Undergraduate Petition to litug@ucsd.edu for processing, but the petition will be automatically approved.

World Literature Breadth - Europe

None

Pre-Approved Petition Options

Literature/Writing (LT34) majors who pursue the Intensive Language Track in French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, or Russian (for the Secondary Language & Literature requirement) may also apply one of their upper division LTFR, LTGM, LTGK, LTIT, LTLA, or LTRU courses towards the World Literature Breadth - Europe requirement.

Students must still complete and send an Undergraduate Petition to litug@ucsd.edu for processing, but the petition will be automatically approved.

World Literature Breadth - Elective

Any upper division (100-190) course in the following Literature subject codes:
LTAF, LTAM, LTEA, LTEU, or LTWL

Pre-Approved Petition Options

Literature/Writing (LT34) majors who pursue the Intensive Language Track in Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Korean, Latin, Russian, or Spanish (for the Secondary Language & Literature requirement) may also apply one of their upper division LTCH, LTFR, LTGM, LTGK, LTIT, LTKO, LTLA, LTRU, or LTSP courses towards the World Literature Breadth - Elective requirement.

Students must still complete and send an Undergraduate Petition to litug@ucsd.edu for processing, but the petition will be automatically approved.

Literature Electives

Any upper division (100-190) course in the following Literature subject codes:
LTAF, LTAM, LTCH, LTCS, LTEA, LTEN, LTEU, LTFR, LTGK, LTGM, LTIT, LTKO, LTLA, LTRU, LTSP, LTTH, or LTWL

LT36 - LITERATURES IN ENGLISH

Lower Division Requirements

Secondary Language and Literature

None

Survey of British Literature

None

Survey of U.S. Literature

None

Pre-Approved Petition Options

Literatures in English (LT36) majors admitted as transfer students may also choose to take specific upper division courses in place of LTEN 25 and/or 26 (if not yet completed through transfer coursework). Students must still complete and send an Undergraduate Petition to litug@ucsd.edu for processing, but the petition will be automatically approved. Any upper division LTEN courses that are applied to the lower division Survey of U.S. Literature requirement will not also apply to upper division major requirements.

For Summer 2025 specifically, the pre-approved upper division substitutions for transfer students are:

Summer Session 1: LTEN 158 (for LTEN 26), LTEN 178 (for LTEN 26), LTEN 181 (for LTEN 26)
Summer Session 2: LTEN 169 (for LTEN 26), LTEN 180 (for LTEN 26), LTEN 181 (for LTEN 26)

Multiethnic U.S. Literature

None

Pre-Approved Petition Options

Literatures in English (LT36) majors admitted as transfer students may also choose to take specific upper division courses in place of LTEN 27, 28 and/or 29 (if not yet completed through transfer coursework). Students must still complete and send an Undergraduate Petition to litug@ucsd.edu for processing, but the petition will be automatically approved. Any upper division LTEN courses that are applied to the lower division Multiethnic U.S. Literature requirement will not also apply to upper division major requirements.

For Summer 2025 specifically, the pre-approved upper division substitutions for transfer students are:

Summer Session 1: LTEN 181 (for LTEN 28)
Summer Session 2: LTEN 180 (for LTEN 29), LTEN 181 (for LTEN 28)

Upper Division Requirements

British Literature before 1660 (a)

None

British Literature after 1660 (b)

None

U.S.Literature before 1860 (c)

None

U.S.Literature after 1860 (d)

LTEN 158 - Modern American Literature

LTEN 178 - Comparative Ethnic Literature

LTEN 181 - Asian American Literature

LTEN 149 - Topics: English-Language Literature

LTEN 169 - Topics in Latino/a Literature

LTEN 180 - Chicano Literature in English

LTEN 181 - Asian American Literature

Literary Theory

None

English Literature

LTEN 128GS - British and Irish Poetry: 1900 to Present *

LTEN 158 - Modern American Literature

LTEN 178 - Comparative Ethnic Literature

LTEN 181 - Asian American Literature

LTEN 149 - Topics: English-Language Literature

LTEN 169 - Topics in Latino/a Literature

LTEN 180 - Chicano Literature in English

LTEN 181 - Asian American Literature

* Courses ending in "GS" are Global Seminars. Students must apply and be accepting into the Global Seminars Program to enroll in these courses.

Pre-Approved Petition Options

Literatures in English (LT36) majors who pursue the Literature Department Honors Program may also apply LTEN 196 (Honors Thesis) to this requirement.

Literatures in English (LT36) majors may also apply one 4-unit LTEN 199 (independent study) to this requirement, if a faculty member agrees to supervise such a course.

Students must still complete and send an Undergraduate Petition to litug@ucsd.edu for processing, but these petitions will be automatically approved.

Petitions for additional LTEN 199 courses to apply to the major requirements are not pre-approved. They will be considered on a case-by-case basis, and they will typically only be approved when there are insufficient upper division LTEN course offerings within the student's projected graduation timeline.

World Literature Breadth - Latin America

None

LTAM 110 - Latin American Literature in Translation

LTAM 110GS - Latin American Literature in Translation *

* Courses ending in "GS" are Global Seminars. Students must apply and be accepting into the Global Seminars Program to enroll in these courses.

Pre-Approved Petition Options

Literatures in English (LT36) majors who pursue the Intensive Language Track in Spanish (for the Secondary Language & Literature requirement) may also apply one of their upper division LTSP courses towards the World Literature Breadth - Latin America requirement.

Students must still complete and send an Undergraduate Petition to litug@ucsd.edu for processing, but the petition will be automatically approved.

World Literature Breadth - Europe

None

Pre-Approved Petition Options

Literatures in English (LT36) majors who pursue the Intensive Language Track in French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, or Russian (for the Secondary Language & Literature requirement) may also apply one of their upper division LTFR, LTGM, LTGK, LTIT, LTLA, or LTRU courses towards the World Literature Breadth - Europe requirement.

Students must still complete and send an Undergraduate Petition to litug@ucsd.edu for processing, but the petition will be automatically approved.

World Literature Breadth - Elective

Any upper division (100-190) course in the following Literature subject codes:
LTAF, LTAM, LTEA, LTEU, or LTWL

Pre-Approved Petition Options

Literatures in English (LT36) majors who pursue the Intensive Language Track in Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Korean, Latin, Russian, or Spanish (for the Secondary Language & Literature requirement) may also apply one of their upper division LTCH, LTFR, LTGM, LTGK, LTIT, LTKO, LTLA, LTRU, or LTSP courses towards the World Literature Breadth - Elective requirement.

Students must still complete and send an Undergraduate Petition to litug@ucsd.edu for processing, but the petition will be automatically approved.

LT41 - WORLD LITERATURE & CULTURE

Lower Division Requirements

Secondary Language and Literature

None

Lower Division Literature Sequence

Any CAT 1, 2, 3 course being offered

Any DOC 1, 2, 3 course being offered

Any HUM 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 course being offered

Any MMW 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 course being offered

Any CAT 1, 2, 3 course being offered

Any DOC 1, 2, 3 course being offered

Any HUM 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 course being offered

Any MMW 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 course being offered

Reminder

World Literature & Culture (LT41) majors must take three courses from any one of the following sequences:

CAT 1, 2, 3
DOC 1, 2, 3
HUM 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
MMW 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
LTEN 21, 22, 23
LTEN 25, 26, 27, 28, 29
LTFR 2A, 2B, 2C
LTGM 2A, 2B, 2C
LTGK 1, 2, 3
LTIT 2A, 2B, 50
LTKO 2A, 2B, 2C
LTLA 1, 2, 3
LTRU 2A, 2B,104A
LTSP 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D, 2E
LTWL 4A, 4C, 4D, 4F, 4M
LTWL 19A, 19B, 19C

Most students will be able to complete this sequence through completion of other requirements (Secondary Language & Literature requirement and/or their college GE requirements), and the applicable courses will count towards both requirements.

Pre-Approved Petition Options

World Literature & Culture (LT41) majors admitted as transfer students may also choose to take specific upper division courses in place of specific lower division LTEN/LTWL courses (if needed). Students must still complete and send an Undergraduate Petition to litug@ucsd.edu for processing, but the petition will be automatically approved. Any upper division courses that are applied to Lower Division Literature Sequence requirement will not also apply to upper division major requirements. Students cannot take multiple upper division courses that are approved to substitute for the same lower division course; it must be three different lower division courses being substituted.

For Summer 2025 specifically, the pre-approved upper division substitutions for transfer students are:

Summer Session 1: LTEN 158 (for LTEN 26), LTEN 178 (for LTEN 26), LTEN 181 (for LTEN 26 or 28)
Summer Session 2: LTEN 169 (for LTEN 26), LTEN 180 (for LTEN 26 or 29), LTEN 181 (for LTEN 26 or 28), LTWL 100 (for LTWL 19A or 19B or 19C)

Upper Division Requirements

World Literature Breadth - Latin America

None

LTAM 110 - Latin American Literature in Translation

LTAM 110GS - Latin American Literature in Translation *

* Courses ending in "GS" are Global Seminars. Students must apply and be accepting into the Global Seminars Program to enroll in these courses.

Pre-Approved Petition Options

World Literature & Culture (LT41) majors who pursue the Intensive Language Track in Spanish (for the Secondary Language & Literature requirement) may also apply one of their upper division LTSP courses towards the World Literature Breadth - Latin America requirement.

Students must still complete and send an Undergraduate Petition to litug@ucsd.edu for processing, but the petition will be automatically approved.

World Literature Breadth - Europe

None

Pre-Approved Petition Options

World Literature & Culture (LT41) majors who pursue the Intensive Language Track in French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, or Russian (for the Secondary Language & Literature requirement) may also apply one of their upper division LTFR, LTGM, LTGK, LTIT, LTLA, or LTRU courses towards the World Literature Breadth - Europe requirement.

Students must still complete and send an Undergraduate Petition to litug@ucsd.edu for processing, but the petition will be automatically approved.

World Literature Breadth - Elective

Any upper division (100-190) course in the following Literature subject codes:
LTAF, LTAM, LTEA, LTEU, or LTWL

Pre-Approved Petition Options

World Literature & Culture (LT41) majors who pursue the Intensive Language Track in Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Korean, Latin, Russian, or Spanish (for the Secondary Language & Literature requirement) may also apply one of their upper division LTCH, LTFR, LTGM, LTGK, LTIT, LTKO, LTLA, LTRU, or LTSP courses towards the World Literature Breadth - Elective requirement.

Students must still complete and send an Undergraduate Petition to litug@ucsd.edu for processing, but the petition will be automatically approved.

Upper Division Concentration - Language

Chinese: LTCH 101

French: None

German: None

Greek: None

Italian: None

Korean: None

Latin: None

Russian: None

Spanish: LTSP 123GS *, LTSP 174GS *, LTSP 180

Chinese: LTCH 101

French: None

German: None

Greek: None

Italian: None

Korean: None

Latin: None

Russian: None

Spanish: None

* Courses ending in "GS" are Global Seminars. Students must apply and be accepting into the Global Seminars Program to enroll in these courses.

Upper Division Concentration - Historical

None

LTWL 100 - Mythology

Upper Division Concentration - Media

LTAF 120GS - Literature and Film of Modern Africa *

LTCS 172GS - Special Topics in Screening Race/Ethnicity, Gender & Sexuality *

LTEA 142 - Korean Film, Literature, and Popular Culture

LTWL 155 - Gender Studies

LTWL 180GS - Film Studies and Literature: Film History *

LTEA 138 - Japanese Films

LTWL 180GS - Film Studies and Literature: Film History *

LTWL 181 - Film Studies&Lit:Film Movement

LTWL 184 - Film Studies and Literature: Close Analysis of Filmic Text

* Courses ending in "GS" are Global Seminars. Students must apply and be accepting into the Global Seminars Program to enroll in these courses.

Upper Division Concentration - Region

Africa: LTAF 120GS *

Americas: LTEN 158, LTEN 181

Asia: LTCH 101, LTEA 142, LTWL 155

Mediterranean: LTSP 123GS *

Europe: LTSP 123GS *

Africa: None

Americas: LTAM 110 , LTAM 110GS *, LTEN 169, LTEN 180, LTEN 181

Asia: LTCH 101, LTEA 138, LTWL 184

Mediterranean: None

Europe: None

* Courses ending in "GS" are Global Seminars. Students must apply and be accepting into the Global Seminars Program to enroll in these courses.

Literature Electives

Any upper division (100-190) course in the following Literature subject codes:
LTAF, LTAM, LTCH, LTCS, LTEA, LTEN, LTEU, LTFR, LTGK, LTGM, LTIT, LTKO, LTLA, LTRU, LTSP, LTTH, LTWL, or LTWR

LT42 - LITERARY ARTS (FA24 & Beyond)

Lower Division Requirements

Secondary Language and Literature

None

Writing

None

U.S. Literature

None

Pre-Approved Petition Options

Literary Arts (LT42) majors admitted as transfer students may also choose to take specific upper division courses in place of specific lower division LTEN requirements (if not yet completed through transfer coursework). Students must still complete and send an Undergraduate Petition to litug@ucsd.edu for processing, but the petition will be automatically approved. Any upper division LTEN courses that are applied to the lower division major requirements will not also apply to upper division major requirements.

For Summer 2025 specifically, the pre-approved upper division substitutions for transfer students are:

Summer Session 1: LTEN 158 (for LTEN 26), LTEN 178 (for LTEN 26), LTEN 181 (for LTEN 26)
Summer Session 2: LTEN 169 (for LTEN 26), LTEN 180 (for LTEN 26), LTEN 181 (for LTEN 26)

Literature

None

Pre-Approved Petition Options

Literary Arts (LT42) majors admitted as transfer students may also choose to take specific upper division courses in place of specific lower division LTEN/GSS requirements (not yet completed through transfer coursework). Students must still complete and send an Undergraduate Petition to litug@ucsd.edu for processing, but the petition will be automatically approved. Any upper division courses that are applied to lower division LTEN/GSS requirement will not also apply to upper division major requirements. Students cannot take two upper division courses that are approved to substitute for the same lower division course; it must be two different lower division courses being substituted.

For Summer 2025 specifically, the pre-approved upper division substitutions for transfer students are:

Summer Session 1: LTAF 120GS (for GSS 21), LTEN 181 (for LTEN 28)
Summer Session 2: LTAM 110 (for GSS 22), LTAM 110GS (for GSS 22), LTEN 180 (for LTEN 29), LTEN 181 (for LTEN 28)

Upper Division Requirements

Craft and Reading

LTWR 102C - Poetry Craft

LTWR 109C - Children's Literature Craft

LTWR 102C - Poetry Craft

Pre-Approved Petition Options

Literary Arts (LT42) majors who pursue the Literature Department Honors Program may also apply LTWR 194 (Capstone Course for Writing Majors) to the Craft and Reading requirement.

Literary Arts (LT42) majors may also choose to apply up to two instances of the Theatre & Dance department's playwriting courses (TDPW 101, 102 or 104) to the Craft and Reading requirement.

For all these options, students must still complete and send an Undergraduate Petition to litug@ucsd.edu for processing, but the petition will be automatically approved.

Workshops

LTWR 102W - Poetry Workshop

LTWR 115W - Experimental Writing Workshop

Writing Theory

None

World Literature Breadth - Latin America

None

LTAM 110 - Latin American Literature in Translation

LTAM 110GS - Latin American Literature in Translation *

* Courses ending in "GS" are Global Seminars. Students must apply and be accepting into the Global Seminars Program to enroll in these courses.

Pre-Approved Petition Options

Literary Arts (LT42) majors who pursue the Intensive Language Track in Spanish (for the Secondary Language & Literature requirement) may also apply one of their upper division LTSP courses towards the World Literature Breadth - Latin America requirement.

Students must still complete and send an Undergraduate Petition to litug@ucsd.edu for processing, but the petition will be automatically approved.

World Literature Breadth - Europe

None

Pre-Approved Petition Options

Literary Arts (LT42) majors who pursue the Intensive Language Track in French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, or Russian (for the Secondary Language & Literature requirement) may also apply one of their upper division LTFR, LTGM, LTGK, LTIT, LTLA, or LTRU courses towards the World Literature Breadth - Europe requirement.

Students must still complete and send an Undergraduate Petition to litug@ucsd.edu for processing, but the petition will be automatically approved.

World Literature Breadth - Elective

Any upper division (100-190) course in the following Literature subject codes:
LTAF, LTAM, LTEA, LTEU, or LTWL

Pre-Approved Petition Options

Literary Arts (LT42) majors who pursue the Intensive Language Track in Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Korean, Latin, Russian, or Spanish (for the Secondary Language & Literature requirement) may also apply one of their upper division LTCH, LTFR, LTGM, LTGK, LTIT, LTKO, LTLA, LTRU, or LTSP courses towards the World Literature Breadth - Elective requirement.

Students must still complete and send an Undergraduate Petition to litug@ucsd.edu for processing, but the petition will be automatically approved.

Literature Electives

Any upper division (100-190) course in the following Literature subject codes:
LTAF, LTAM, LTCH, LTCS, LTEA, LTEN, LTEU, LTFR, LTGK, LTGM, LTIT, LTKO, LTLA, LTRU, LTSP, LTTH, or LTWL

Pre-Approved Petition Options

Literary Arts (LT42) majors who pursue the Literature Department Honors Program may also apply LTWR 196 (Honors Thesis) to the Literature Electives requirement.

For all these options, students must still complete and send an Undergraduate Petition to litug@ucsd.edu for processing, but the petition will be automatically approved.