Great Books from the World at Large: Latin America and Africa

COM LIT XL 4DW

This course studies texts from Latin America (Argentina, Mexico, and Colombia) about the discovery of the New World, European conquest and the efforts to free Latin America from colonial imposition. The African texts studied (Nigeria, South Africa, and Kenya) include stories that protest colonization, call for independence and celebrate African pride.     

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Winter
In Person
Starting at $798.00
As few as 11 weeks
5.0

What you can learn.

  • Address the topics and issues raised by literary works
  • Establish the relevance of a short story’s themes and issues to the story’s author
  • Think about the relevance to your lives of the topics and issues a story raises
  • Master the techniques of coherent and persuasive written literary analysis

About this course:

As David Damrosch reminds us, “Reading a work from a different place and time involves a back-and-forth movement between the familiar and the unfamiliar. A view of the world is always a view from wherever we are, and we inevitably filter what we read through our own experience. But if we don’t impose our expectations onto the new work, its distinctive qualities will enlarge our field of vision.” The Latin American works we read—and write about—include stories by Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina), Carlos Fuentes (Mexico) and Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colombia) about the discovery of the New World, European conquest and the efforts to free Latin America from colonial imposition. The African works we read—and write about—include, in addition to stories by Chinua Achebe (Nigeria), Nadine Gordimer (South Africa) and Nugugiwa Thiong’o (Kenya) that protest colonization, call for independence and celebrate African pride, a play about British presence in West Africa (Death and the King’s Horseman) by Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka.

Winter 2025 Schedule

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Tuesday, Thursday 3:30PM - 5:30PM PT
Future Offering (Opens November 04, 2024 12:00:00 AM)
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Instructor: Leonard Koff
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Fee:
$798.00
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Location: UCLA Extension Gayley Center in Westwood
Refund Deadline
No refunds after January 13, 2025
Course Requirements
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Tue Jan 7, 2025
3:30PM PT - 5:30PM PT
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Thu Jan 9, 2025
3:30PM PT - 5:30PM PT
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Tue Jan 14, 2025
3:30PM PT - 5:30PM PT
UCLA Extension Gayley Center in Westwood
UCLA Extension Gayley Center 119B
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Thu Jan 16, 2025
3:30PM PT - 5:30PM PT
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UCLA Extension Gayley Center 119B
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Tue Jan 21, 2025
3:30PM PT - 5:30PM PT
UCLA Extension Gayley Center in Westwood
UCLA Extension Gayley Center 119B
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Thu Jan 23, 2025
3:30PM PT - 5:30PM PT
UCLA Extension Gayley Center in Westwood
UCLA Extension Gayley Center 119B
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Tue Jan 28, 2025
3:30PM PT - 5:30PM PT
UCLA Extension Gayley Center in Westwood
UCLA Extension Gayley Center 119B
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Thu Jan 30, 2025
3:30PM PT - 5:30PM PT
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UCLA Extension Gayley Center 119B
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Tue Feb 4, 2025
3:30PM PT - 5:30PM PT
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UCLA Extension Gayley Center 119B
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Thu Feb 6, 2025
3:30PM PT - 5:30PM PT
UCLA Extension Gayley Center in Westwood
UCLA Extension Gayley Center 119B
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Tue Feb 11, 2025
3:30PM PT - 5:30PM PT
UCLA Extension Gayley Center in Westwood
UCLA Extension Gayley Center 119B
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Thu Feb 13, 2025
3:30PM PT - 5:30PM PT
UCLA Extension Gayley Center in Westwood
UCLA Extension Gayley Center 119B
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Tue Feb 18, 2025
3:30PM PT - 5:30PM PT
UCLA Extension Gayley Center in Westwood
UCLA Extension Gayley Center 119B
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Thu Feb 20, 2025
3:30PM PT - 5:30PM PT
UCLA Extension Gayley Center in Westwood
UCLA Extension Gayley Center 119B
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Tue Feb 25, 2025
3:30PM PT - 5:30PM PT
UCLA Extension Gayley Center in Westwood
UCLA Extension Gayley Center 119B
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Thu Feb 27, 2025
3:30PM PT - 5:30PM PT
UCLA Extension Gayley Center in Westwood
UCLA Extension Gayley Center 119B
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Tue Mar 4, 2025
3:30PM PT - 5:30PM PT
UCLA Extension Gayley Center in Westwood
UCLA Extension Gayley Center 119B
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Thu Mar 6, 2025
3:30PM PT - 5:30PM PT
UCLA Extension Gayley Center in Westwood
UCLA Extension Gayley Center 119B
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Tue Mar 11, 2025
3:30PM PT - 5:30PM PT
UCLA Extension Gayley Center in Westwood
UCLA Extension Gayley Center 119B
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Thu Mar 13, 2025
3:30PM PT - 5:30PM PT
UCLA Extension Gayley Center in Westwood
UCLA Extension Gayley Center 119B
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Tue Mar 18, 2025
3:30PM PT - 5:30PM PT
UCLA Extension Gayley Center in Westwood
UCLA Extension Gayley Center 119B
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Thu Mar 20, 2025
3:30PM PT - 5:30PM PT
UCLA Extension Gayley Center in Westwood
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