Critical Theory Cluster/Certificate Courses
2022-23 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.
African American Studies // all year
AFAM 480-0-21 Topics: Affect and Blackness (Hesse) FQ
AFAM 440-0-20 Black Historiography (Biondi) FQ
AFAM 420-0-20 Expressive Arts and Cultural Studies: Black Expressive Arts (Spigner) WQ
AFAM 444-0-20 Civil Rights/Black Liberation (Taylor) WQ
AFAM 480-0-21 Black Criticism (Jackson) WQ
AFAM 441-0-20 History of Black Women in the Diaspora (Perry ) SQ
AFAM 460-0-20 Black Social and Political Thought (Marquez) SQ
AFAM 480-0-20 Black Studies, Native Studies, and Asian Settler Colonialism (Sharma) SQ
AFAM 480-0-21Afro-Latin America (Bryant) SQ
Co-listed with GNDR_ST 397 Black Feminist Theory (Bey) SQ
Anthropology // all year
ANTHRO 401-2-01 Logic of Inquiry in Anthropology (Robin) FQ
ANTHRO 470-0-20 History of Anthropological Theory (Launay) FQ
ANTHRO 484-0-20 Seminar in Linguistic Anthropology: Language and Media (Shankar) FQ
ANTHRO 486-0-20 Evolution and Biological Anthropology (Kuzawa) FQ
ANTHRO 401-4-1 Logic of Inquiry in Anthropology (Arispe-Bazan) WQ
ANTHRO 490 Sexing the Middle East: Gender and Sexuality in the Making of a Region (Yildiz) WQ
ANTHRO 490-0-22 Topics in Anthropology: Language, Race & Ethnicity in the U.S. (Shankar) SQ
ANTHRO 490-22 REL 482-20 / Anthropology of Religion: Colonial Contexts (Molina) SQ
Art History // all year
ART HIST 460-0/CLT 487/MENA 411 Modernism in the Age of Decolonization (Feldman) FQ
ART HIST 460-0 Socialist Axes of Exchange (Klaier) FQ
ART HIST 460 Studies in 20th & 21st Century Art: Theories of Intention (Zorach) WQ
ART HIST 460-0-3: Studies in 20th & 21st Century Art: Media Theory (Hodge) WQ
- Combined course with COMM_ST and English
Communication Studies // all year
COMM_ST 425-0 Crowds, Riots, and the Politics of Direct Action (FQ)
COMM_ST 414-0 - Classical Rhetoric and Its Afterlives (FQ)
COMM_ST 525-0 - 21 Seminar-Problems in Comm Studies: Media Theory (Hodge) WQ
- Combined course with ART_HIST and English
Comparative Literary Studies // all year
COMP_LIT 487-0-2 Studies in Literature and the Arts: Abstraction [Modernism in the Time of Decolonization (based on Block exhibition)] (Johnson) FQ
COMP_LIT 411-0-20 Critical Practices: Cinema at the End of Film: Theories, Histories, Media (Torlasco) WQ - Combined course with FRENCH
COMP_LIT 487-0-2 Studies in Literature and the Arts: The Right To Look – Photography and Racial and Gender Regimes of Visibility (Uslenghi) WQ
COMP_LIT 488-0-22 Silvia Federici: For a Feminist Politics of the Commons (Ricciardi) WQ
- Combined course with GNDR_ST
COMP_LIT 488-0-23 Special Topics in Comparative Literature: Unethical Media (Verma) WQ
- Combined course with RTVF
COMP_LIT 412-0-20 ASIAN_AM 492 Fanon Now: Race, Gender, Coloniality (Deutscher /We) SQ
COMP_LIT 481-0-: Habit and Habitation: On Walter Benjamin’s Media Anthropology (Deuber-Mankowsky) SQ
(Combined course with GERMAN)
COMP_LIT 486-0-21 Blue Humanities (Feinsod) SQ
COMP_LIT 488-0-2 RTVF 584-0-21 Postcolonial Theory (Padmanabhan) SQ
English // all year
English 410 Introduction to Graduate Studies (Mwangi) FQ
English 455 Studies in 19th Century Literature: Before Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Literature and the Contours of African American Studies (Wilson) WQ
English 465 Studies in Colonial & Postcolonial Literature: Terror in the Postcolony (Nadiminti) WQ
English 471 Studies in American Literature: Black Criticism (Jackson) WQ
ENGLISH 481-0-21: Studies in Literary Theory & Criticism: Media Theory (Hodge) WQ
- Combined course with COMM_ST and ART_HIST
ENGLISH 461-0-20: Blue Humanities (Feinsod) SQ
(Combined with COMP_LIT)
English 471 Studies in American Literature: American Women Auteurs, Novels, and Films: 1895-1960 (Stern) SQ
French and Italian // all year
FRENCH 493 Topics in Literary Theory (Durham) FQ
FRENCH 492-0-20 Topics in Culture and Society: Beyond “French Feminism” (Dupas) WQ
FRENCH 493-0-20 Topics in Literary Theory: Cinema at the End of Film: Theories, Histories, Media (Torlasco) WQ
- Combined course with COMP_LIT
German // all year
GER 441 Studies in Communication and Culture: History of Aesthetics (Weltzman) FQ
GER 408-0 Critical Theory and Religion (Helmer) WQ
GERMAN 403-0-1: German Literature, Critical Thought and New Media 1900-1945: The Uncanny in Theory and in Literature (Weber) SQ
GER 441 Habit and Habitation: On Walter Benjamin’s Media Anthropology (Deuber-Mankowski) SQ
(Combined course with COMP_LIT)
Gender and Sexuality Studies // all year
GNDR_ST 490 SOCIOL 476 Sociology of Sexuality (Carrillo) FQ
GNDR_ST 490 PHIL 461 Philosophy of Protest (Medina) FQ
GNDR_ST 490 HISTORY 405 Sexual Knowledges: Science, Archives, Traces (Liu) FQ
GNDR_ST 490 PERF_ST 515 Queer Love and Loss (Chambers-Letson) FQ
GNDR_ST 372-0-20: Gender, Sexuality, and Performance: Black Women on the Musical Stage (Osseo-Asare) WQ
GNDR_ST 390-0-20: Topics in Gender and Sexuality Studies: Queering Cartography: Reimagining the Map (Porter-Lupu) WQ
GNDR_ST 490 Queer Theory (Enteen) WQ
GNDR_ST 490 Silvia Federici For a Feminist Politics of the Commons (Ricciardi) WQ
- Combined course with COMP_LIT
GNDR_ST 490 REL 482 Feminist Theory and the Study of Religion (Jacoby) WQ
GNDR_ST 397-0-20: Black Feminist Theory (Bey) SQ
(Combined course with ENGLISH and AF_AM_ST)
GNDR_ST 397-0-21: Chinese Feminisms (Zamperini) SQ
History // all year
HIST 405-0-22 Sexual Knowledge: Science, Archives, Traces (Liu) FQ
HIST 405-0-24 Orientalism and its Discontents - Seminar in Historical Analysis (Kinra) FQ
HIST 405-0-26 Mapping the Discipline (Hein) FQ
HIST 405-0-22 Seminar in Historical Analysis - Comparative Racial Thought (Glassman) WQ
HIST 405-0-24-gender-history-as-global-history (Stanley) WQ
HISTORY 405-0-26: Understanding Marx (Cherry) SQ
Musicology // No CT courses 2022-2023
Performance Studies // all year
PERF ST 515 Queer Love and Loss (Chambers-Letson) FQ
PERF ST 305 Critical Race Theory (Chambers-Letson) FQ
PERF ST 410: Studies in Performance (George) FQ
PERF ST 515 Problems in Performance Studies (Christian) FQ
PERF_ST 321-0-1 Performance, Sex and Censorship (Chambers-Letson & Rains) WQ
- Combined course with RTVF
PERF_ST 515-0-21 Seminar: Problems in Performance Studies: Performance, Race and Media (Chambers-Letson & Petty) WQ
- Combined course with RTVF
PERF_ST 515-0-1: Black/Queer Bodies (Akinbola) SQ
Philosophy // all year
PHIL 410 Studies in Ancient Philosophy (Monoson) FQ
PHIL 461 Social and Political Theory: Philosophy of Protest (Medina) FQ
PHIL 361 Topics in Social and Political Philosophy (Martin) FQ
PHIL 315 Studies in French Philosophy (Deutscher) FQ
PHIL 313 Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (Mueller) WQ
PHIL 315-0-20 Studies in French Philosophy (Deutscher) WQ
Phil 467 Seminar in Critical Race Theory (Barnes) WQ
PHIL 410-0-20: Fanon, Now: Race, Gender, Coloniality (We & Deutscher) SQ
(Combined with COMP_LIT)
Political Science // all year
POLI_SCI 441 Art politics (Loriaux), taking place in Paris FQ
POLI_SCI 441: International Political Economy (Nelson) FQ
POLI_SCI 461 Ancient Political Thought (Monoson) FQ
POLI_SCI 440 International Relations Theory (Alter) WQ
POLI_SCI 485 Global Theory Workshop (Nili) SQ
POLI_SCI 469-0-20: Special Topics in Knowledge & Politics (Stevens) SQ
Religious Studies // all year
GER 408 Critical Theory and Religion (Helmer) WQ
REL 460-20 Graduate Seminar: Topics in Christianity: Medieval Women Writers (Newman)
RELIGION 481-1-20 Classical Theories of Religion (Ingram) WQ
REL 482 GNDR_ST 490 Feminist Theory and the Study of Religion (Jacoby) WQ
REL 482-20 / ANTHRO 490-22 Anthropology of Religion: Colonial Contexts (Molina) SQ
Radio, Television, and Film // all year
RTVF 411-0- Cultural History of Television (Spigel) FQ
RTVF 443-21 Intersectionality and New Media - Advanced Seminar in Film & Video (Christian) FQ
RTVF 398-0-22 Symposium: Issues in RTVF: Video Game Theory & Criticism (Fiorilli) WQ
RTVF 398-0-23 Symposium: Issues in RTVF: Film, Media, & Liberation Movements (Turcios) WQ
RTVF 398-0-25 Symposium: Issues in RTVF: Sex, Censorship & the Art of Queer/Trans Life (Chambers-Letson & Rains) WQ
-Combined course with PERF_ST
RTVF 443-0-20 Advanced Seminar in Film & Video: Race, Performance & Media (Chambers-Letson & Petty) WQ
- Combined course with PERF_ST
RTVF 584-0-21 Research Seminar: Unethical Media (Verma) WQ
RTVF 584-0-21 Postcolonial Theory (Padmanabhan) SQ
Slavic Languages // all year
SLAVIC 411-0 Proseminar: Literary Theory and Philosophy (McReynolds) FQ
Sociology // all year
SOCIOL 476-0 Sociology of Sexuality (Carrillo) FQ
SOCIOL 476-0 Global Capitalism and Law (Carruthers) FQ
SOCIOL 406-1 Classical Theory in Sociological Analysis(Bashi-Treitler) FQ
SOCIOL 406-3 Contemporary Theory in Sociological Analysis (Espeland) WQ
SOCIOL 410-0Theories of Race and Ethnicity (Stewart) SQ
Spanish and Portuguese // all year
SPANPORT415-0 Studies in the 19th Century Literature and Cultures (Bouzaglou) FQ
SPANPORT 450-0 Topics in Cultural Studies: Utopia and Dystopia in Caribbean Literature and Culture (Maguire) FQ
SPANPORT 410-0-1 Topics in Early Modern Literatures and Cultures: Keywords in Early Colonial Latin American Literature (Egan) WQ
SPANPORT 455-0-1 Comparative Studies in Latin American and/or Iberian Literature and Cultures: The Right To Look – Photography and Racial and Gender Regimes of Visibility (Uslenghi) WQ
Theatre and Drama // No CT courses 2022-2023
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