Summer Session 2025

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For all courses not described here, please refer to the General Catalog course descriptions: https://catalog.ucdavis.edu/courses-subject-code/com

Summer Session I

COM 004—Major Works of the Contemporary World (Sino-American Literature and Film)
Benjamin Fong

This course explores the intersections of race, culture, and identity through Asian American, Chinese, and Sino-American literature and film. Divided into three thematic sequences, it begins by examining how “Asian American” has been constructed through Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1987) and Interior Chinatown (2020). The course turns to different paradigms of “Chinese film,” exploring how nation and ethnicity are constructed in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and In the Mood for Love (2004). Finally, it considers cultural hybridity and the complexities of race and identity across borders in “Sino-American films” such as Saving Face (2004) and Didi (2024).

COM 010L — Master Authors in World Literature: Unamuno, Svevo, Conrad, Gide, Kafka, Faulkner
TBD

Summer Session II

COM 003 — Major Works of the Modern World
Sicily Lerner

COM 007V — Literature of Fantasy & the Supernatural
Michael Subialka