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Critical Theory Cluster/Certificate Courses

2025-26 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 2025

ART-HIST 470-1 Land as Archive: The Aesthetics of Depletion and R - Studies in History of Architecture  - Hollyamber Kennedy 

 

ART-HIST 460-1: Transdisciplinary Experimentalism and the Art of B - Studies in 20th & 21st-Century Art  - Krista Thompson 

 

BLK-ST 480-0-

COMM-ST: 454-0-1: Making and Unmaking of Audiences and Publics  - Dilip Gaonkar 

 

COMP-LIT 481-20: Marxism and Form - Studies in Literary Theory  - Lakshmi Padmanabhan 

 

FRENCH 493-1 / COMP-LIT 410-20: Topics in Literary Theory  - The Resonances of Trauma -  Alessia Ricciardi

 

GERMAN 401-1: Writing the Revolution -  German Literature and Critical Thought 1750-1832  - Jorg Kreienbrock 

 

PHIL 410-1: Epistemic Injustice and Recognition Theory - Seminar: Special Topics in Philosophy  - Jose Medina

 

POLI-SCI 450-20: Contemporary Theory and Research in Comparative Politics  - Jeffrey Winters 

REL-STUD 481-20: Contemporary Theories of Religion  - J Michelle Molina 

REL-STUD 471- 20: Language and Power - Studies in Religions  - James Bielo 

 

SPAN-PORT 401-1 / COMP-LIT 486-1: Latin American Literature in the Anthropocene: Cri - Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory  - Jorge Coronado 

 

Winter 2025

Lists will be updated as more information becomes available

 

Spring 2025

Lists will be updated as more information becomes available

 

 

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.