Critical Theory Cluster/Certificate Courses
2021-22 Courses counting towards the Graduate Certificate in Critical Theory:
*Students may petition to count courses not listed below by contacting the Critical Theory Cluster administrator (philip.hoskins@northwestern.edu). Please provide the course number/title, description, syllabus (if available), and any other helpful information about the course as it relates to Critical Theory content.
*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 due to department and program course schedules changing throughout the year.
FALL 2021:
- AF_AM_ST 401: Rsch. Seminar in Black Studies (Pattillo)
- AF_AM_ST 480: Black Internationalism (Biondi)
- AF_AM_ST 480: Black Conceptual Methodologies (Hesse)
- ART 425, Fade to Black: Black Cultural Production and the Poetics of Dissolution (Wilson)
- ANTHRO 490: American Suburbias: Race, Class, and Placemaking (Aparicio)
- COMM_ST 425: Public, Publicity, & The Public Sphere (Gaonkar)
- COMM_ST 453: Visual Rhetoric (Hariman)
- COMP_LIT 410: Theories of Literature (Feinsod)
- COMP_LIT 481: Visualizing Radicalism (Gourianova)
- ENG 411: Fade to Black: Black Cultural Production and the Poetics of Dissolution (Wilson)
- ENG 465: Ecology and Postcolonial Forms (Mwangi)
- ENG 481: Racial Ecologies (Huang)
- FRENCH 422: Visual Cult:Art Hist & Lit (Bush)
- GERMAN 402: Lit&Critical Thought 1832-1900 (Weber)
- GERMAN 441: Study Communication & Culture (Weitzman)
- GNDR_ST 390: Sex and the American Empire: Journalism and Frames (Thrasher)
- GNDR_ST 405: Advanced Feminist Theory (Dietz)
- HISTORY 492: The US Empire (Immerwahr)
- PHIL 315: Hegelian Themes in Social Theory (Alznauer)
- PHIL 315: Studies in French Philosophy (Deutscher)
- POLI_SCI 490: Utopian Political Theory (Farr)
- POLI_SCI 490: Advanced Feminist Theory (Dietz)
- SPANISH 397: Under Representation: Is there a mirror for me? Gender, Race and Visual Culture (Uslenghi)
- SPANPORT 480: Brazilian Modern/ism: The Queer Archive (Braga-Pinto)
WINTER 2022:
- AF_AM_ST 403: Theorizing Black Diaspora (Marquez)
- AF_AM_ST 480: Topics - Black Life (Weheliye)
- COMP_LIT 486: Green Materialisms (Wolff)
- COMP_LIT 488: Hannah Arendt (Gottlieb)
- ENG 434: Early Modern Sexualities (Masten)
- ENG 441: Green Materialisms (Wolff)
- ENG 461: Black Speculative Fiction (Mann)
- ENG 461: Hannah Arendt: Poetry, Politics & Thought (Gottlieb)
- ENG 471: 19th Century Black Women Writers (Spigner and Stern)
- ENG 481: Studies in Theories of Feeling (Jackson)
- GERMAN 403: German Literature, Critical Thought and New Media 1900-45 (Fenves)
- GNDR_ST 490: Early Modern Sexualities (Masten)
- MUSICOL 435: Hannah Arendt's Sound Politics (Dohoney)
- PHIL 414: Seminar in German Philosophy (Lafont)
- PHIL 422: Studies in Modern Philosophy (Zuckert)
- POLI_SCI 490: Special Topics in Political Science: Political Theories of Membership (Stevens)
- RTVF 412: Cultural History of Film (Rogers)
- RTVF 584: Cinema and Time (Padmanabhan)
- SOCIOL 440: Economic Sociology (Carruthers)
- SOCIOL 476: Collective Memory (Fine)
- SOCIOL 476: Stratification, Race, and Gender (Quillian)
- SPANPORT 450: Topics in Cultural Studies (Coronado)
SPRING 2022:
- AF_AM_ST 402: Theorizing Black Genders and Sexualities (Bey)
- AF_AM_ST 480: Topics - 19th Century Black Women Writers (Spigner)
- AF_AM_ST 480: Topics - Toni Morrison (Vaughn-Manley)
- COMP_LIT 486: The Politics of Seduction and Consent: Literature, Psychoanalysis and Philosophy (Ricciardi and Alfandary)
- COMP_LIT 488: Studies in French Philosophy (Deutscher)
- COMP LIT 413: Theories of Embodiment in the 20th and 21st Centuries: Transformations, Contentions, Aporias (Berger)
- ENG 471: 19th Century Black Women Writers (Spigner and Stern)
- ENG 481: Studies in Theories of Feeling (Jackson)
- FRENCH 492: Interdisciplinary, Theoretical, and Critical Approaches (Ricciardi)
- FRENCH 494: Theories of Embodiment in the 20th and 21st Centuries: Transformations, Contentions, Aporias (Berger)
- GERMAN 408: Critical Theory and Religion (Helmer)
- GNDR_ST 490: Gender, Power, Politics (Orloff)
- GNDR_ST 490: 19th C. Black Women Writers (Spigner)
- GNDR_ST 490: Toni Morrison (Vaughn)
- GNDR_ST 490: Theorizing Black Genders & Sexualities (Bey)
- MUSICOL 455: Adorno's Musical Thought (Dohoney)
- PHIL 415: Seminar in French Philosophy (Deutscher)
- PHIL 420: Studies in Ancient Philosophy (Cumella)
- PHIL 423: Seminar in Contemporary Phil (Hyska)
- POLI_SCI 485: Global Theory Workshop (Nili)
- POLI_SCI 490: Special Topics in Political Science: Race & American Political Thought (Tillery)
- POLI_SCI 490: Special Topics in Political Science: Politics, Society, and Inequality in the U.S (Chen)
- POLI_SCI 490: Special Topics in Political Science: Religion, Race, & Global Politics (Hurd)
- POLI_SCI 490: Special Topics in Political Science: Modern Islamic Political Thought (Salem)
- REL 462: History and Presence (Orsi)
- REL 471: Religion, Race & Politics: Global and Imperial Perspectives (Hurd)
- REL 473: Buddhist Theocracy and Politics in Tibet (Terrone)
- SOCIOL 440: Stratification: Class, Race, Gender (Quillian)
- SPANPORT 425: Studies in Contemporary Literatures & Cultures (TBA)