Critical Theory Cluster/Certificate Courses
2026-27 Courses counting towards the Graduate Certificate in Critical Theory:
*Additional courses may be added as department course information is finalized prior to each quarter. Please check CAESAR for all up-to-date course information. This course list is subject to change as department and program schedules change throughout the year.
*Students may petition to count courses not listed below by filling out this form. (Select Log in with Microsoft, then use your NETID credentials to access the form.)
Fall 2026
BLK_ST 480-0 Citations of Black Political Thought - Graduate Topics in African American Studies - Barnor Hesse - Wed 2:00 PM - 4:50 PM
COMM-ST 425-0 Rhetoric and Ideology of Equality: From Representation and Redistribution to Recognition and Care - Dilip Gaonkar - Mon 2:00 PM - 4:50 PM
ENGLISH 481-0 Queer Theory and Queer Cinema - Studies in Literary Theory & Criticism - Nick Davis - Wed 2:00 PM - 4:50 PM
FRENCH 492/COMP_LIT 410 Theories of Literature/The Historical Avant-Garde (in Theory) - Christopher Bush - Wed 2:00 PM - 4:50 PM
FRENCH 494 / Comp_Lit 486 Interdisciplinary, Theoretical, and Critical Approaches / The Ethics and Politics of Care: From Self to Others - Alessia Ricciardi - Tues 2:00PM - 4:50PM
GERMAN 403-0-1/COMP_LIT 413-0-1 German Literature, Critical Thought and New Media 1900-1945 - Peter Fenves - Mon 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
PHIL 410-0 Protest and Resistance - Seminar: Special Topics in Philosophy - Jose Medina - Mon 2:00 PM - 4:50 PM
RELIGION 471/HISTORY 405/GENDER STUDIES 490 Embodiment/Materiality/Affect-J. Michelle Mollina
SpanPort 450-0-1 / Comp_Lit 487-0-1 Archive Poetics: Subaltern Knowledges & Irreverent - Studies in Literature and the Arts- Alejandra Uslenghi
Winter 2026
ART_HIST 450-0 Visual Language of Protest - Studies in 19th-Century Art - Rebecca Zorach
BLK_ST 440-0 Black Historiography - Kennetta Perry
BLK_ST 480-0 De-Colonial and Third World Marxism - Graduate Topics in African American Studies
- John Marquez
COMP_LIT 411/GERMAN 441 Studies in Communication and Culture: History of Aesthetics - Erica Weitzman
COMP_LIT 486-0 Spatial Thought and the Production of Culture - Studies in Literature & the Disciplines
- Corey Byrnes
GER 408 / REL 468 Critical Theory and Religion Christine Helmer
GSS 490-0 Queer Theory - Topics in Gender and Sexuality Studies - Jillana B Enteen
PHIL 410-0 The Contested Ideal of Value-Freedom - Seminar: Special Topics in Philosophy
- Mark Alznauer
Pol. Sci. 468 Problems in Democratic Thought Jacqueline Stevens
Spring 2026
GAMS400-SPANPORT450 Phenomenology, Then and Now - Miguel Caballero
Phil 415 Studies in French Philosophy - Penelope Deutscher
German 441-0 / CLS XXX Studies in Communication and Culture: topic TBD. Anna Parkinson
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