Critical Theory Cluster/Certificate Courses
2024-25 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 due to department and program course schedules changing throughout the year.
*Students may petition to count courses not listed below by filling out this form.
Fall 2024
Asian Languages and Cultures
ASIAN_LC 492-0-20/COMP_LIT 486-0-20: Human/Nonhuman/Posthuman (Byrnes)
Black Studies
BLK_ST 460-0-20 Race, Politics, Society, and Culture (Pattillo)
BLK_ST 475-0-20: Genealogy of Racism as a Concept: Deconstruction & Governmentality (Hesse)
Communication Studies
COMM_ST 414-0-1: Classical Rhetoric and Its Afterlives (Hariman)
COMM ST 425-0-1: Crowds, Riots, and the Politics of Disorder (Gaonkar)
Comparative LIterary Studies
COMP_LIT 410-0-20/FRENCH 494-0-20: Worlds of Literature (Bush)
COMP_LIT 486-0-20/ASIAN_LC 492-0-20: Human/Nonhuman/Posthuman (Byrnes)
COMP_LIT 487-0-1/MUSICOL 535-0-1: Music Historiography (Dohoney)
English
ENGLISH 465-0-20: Studies in Colonial & Postcolonial Literature (Nadiminti)
French and Italian
FRENCH 494-0-20/COMP_LIT 410-0-20: Worlds of Literature (Bush)
German
GERMAN 404-0-1: Affective Passages (Parkinson)
Gender and Sexuality Studies
GNDR_ST 490-0-26/ POLI_SCI 490-0-23/SOCI 476-0-23: Gender, Power, Politics (Orloff)
Musicology
MUSICOL 535-0-1/COMP_LIT 487-0-1: Music Historiography (Dohoney)
Philosophy
PHIL 315-0-21/COMP_LIT 383-0-21/GNDR_ST 490-0-28: Foucault and Fanon (Deutscher)
PHIL 390-0-21: Feminist Philosophy (Southgate)
PHIL 402-1-20, Proseminar II: Theories of Resistance (Medina)
PHIL 423-0-20, Seminar in Contemporary Philosophy: Alain Locke (Barnes)
Political Science
POLI_SCI 490-0-20/RELIGION 482-0-20: Religion Politics: Global Perspectives (Hurd)
Religious Studies
RELIGION 482-0-20/POLI_SCI 490-0-20: Religion Politics: Global Perspectives (Hurd)
Sociology
SOCIOL 406-1-20 Classical Theory in Sociological Analysis (Espeland)
Winter 2025
Lists will be updated as more information becomes available
Comparative LIterary Studies
COMP_LIT 487-0-1/SPANPORT 450-0-1: Walter Benjamin’s Small History of Photography (Uslenghi)
English
ENGLISH 397-0-20: Cultures of Play (Soni)
German
GERMAN 272-0-1: Luther and the West (Helmer)
Philosophy
PHIL 220-0-20: Introduction to Critical Theory (Alzneur)
PHIL 410-0-3: Special Topics in Philosophy: Human Rights (Lafont)
Political Science
POLI_SCI 469-0-20: Politics after Biopolitics: Foucault and his Critics (Stevens)
Spanish/ Portuguese
SPANPORT 450-0-1/COMP_LIT 487-0-1: Walter Benjamin’s Small History of Photography (Uslenghi)
Spring 2025
Lists will be updated as more information becomes available
English
ENGLISH 441-0-20: Novel Utopias: Critique and Normativity in 18th Century Realism (Soni)
ENGLISH 481-0-20: Mimesis and Its Doubles (West)
Philosophy
PHIL 313-1-21 (graduate): Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (Zuckert)
PHIL 415-0-20: Studies in French Philosophy (Deutscher)
Religious Studies
REL 376-0-20: Christianity and the Making of Modernity (Helmer)
REL 470-0-20: Theology and the Study of Religion (Helmer & Orsi)
Please fill out this form if you would like to petition for a course to count toward the Critical Theory Certificate that is not listed.