Critical Theory Cluster/Certificate Courses
2020-21 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 (sarah.mcginley@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
- AF_AM_ST 460: Black Social and Political Thought (Marquez) FQ
- AF_AM_ST 480-0-20: Decolonial Black Political Thought (Hesse) FQ
- AF_AM_ST 420: Expressive Arts and Cultural Studies (Weheliye) WQ
- AF_AM_ST 480-0-21: Topics: On Black Education: Towards a Liberatory Praxis (ross) WQ
- AF_AM_ST 440: Black Historiography (Bryant) SQ
Anthropology
- ANTHRO 390-0-23: Queer Criminality and Political Transgression (Noll) FQ
Art History
- ART_HIST 460: Studies in 20th & 21st Century Art: Black Arts Archives in Chicago (Zorach) FQ
- ART_HIST 450: Studies in 19th Century Art: William Blake and Karl Marx (Eisenman / Mitchell) SQ
Communication Studies/Rhetoric and Public Culture
- COMM_ST 525: Feminism Encounters Cultural Studies: An Explosion and Its Afterlives (Radway) SQ
Comparative Literary Studies
- COMP_LIT 410: Theories of Literature: Recounting the Plague: In and Around Literature (Weber) FQ
- COMP_LIT 414: Hemispheric Literature and Politics (Feinsod) FQ
- COMP_LIT 488: Biopolitics and Thanatopolitics ( Deutscher) FQ
- COMP_LIT 488: Unethical Media (Verma) FQ
- COMP_LIT 488: Trauma, Politics, and the Uses of Memory (Parkinson) FQ
- COMP_LIT 411: Derrida/Agamben: Convergences and Disagreements (Ricciardi) WQ
- COMP_LIT 487: German Literature, Critical Thought, New Media since 1945 (Deuber-Mankowsky) SQ
- ENG 461: Hemispheric Literature & Politics (Feinsod) FQ
- ENG 481: Queer Theory and Queer Cinema (Davis) SQ
- GNDR_ST 490: Music, Gender, and Sexuality in the Early Modern Era (Austern) FQ
- GNDR_ST 405: Advanced Feminist Theory (Dietz) WQ
- GNDR_ST 490: Queer Theory (Davis) SQ
- GNDR_ST 490: Sexual Knowledge: Science, Archives, Traces (Liu) SQ
German
- GER 401: German Literature and Critical Thought, 1750-1832 (Fenves) FQ
- GER 402: German Literature and Critical Thought, 1832‐1900: Recounting the Plague: In and Around Literature (Weber) FQ
- GER 402: German Literature and Critical Thought, 1832‐1900 (Weitzman) WQ
- GER 408: Critical Theory and Religion (Helmer) WQ
- GER 402: German Literature and Critical Thought, 1832‐1900 (Weitzman) SQ
- GER 404: German Literature, Critical Thought, and New Media, 1945-present (Deuber-Mankowsky) SQ
- GER 441: Studies in Communication and Culture – Political Theology and Production (Fenves) SQ
History
- HISTORY 405-0-20: Rethinking Black Freedom Struggles (Gadsden) FQ
- HISTORY 405-0-22: Comparative Race (Glassman) FQ
- HISTORY 405-0-24: Mapping the Discipline (Maza) FQ
- HISTORY 405-0-26: The Body in Time (Elliott) FQ
- HISTORY 405-0-20 : Sexual Knowledge: Science, Archives, Traces (Liu) SQ
Performance Studies
- PERF_ST 301: Performance and Activism in Digital Culture (TBA) TBA
- PERF_ST 330: Queer Theory After Catastrophe (TBA) TBA
- PERF_ST 516: Critical/Performance Ethnography (TBA) TBA
- PERF_ST 515: Performance, Race, Media (TBA) TBA
- PERF_ST 516: Critical/Performance Ethnography (TBA) FQ
- PERF_ST 310: (Grad/Undergrad sections) Performance Woman of Color (TBA) WQ
- PERF_ST 515: Black Caribbean Waters: Performing Diasporas (TBA) WQ
- PERF_ST 515: Performance, Race, Media (TBA) WQ
- PERF_ST 317: Feminist Performance (TBA) SQ
- PERF_ST 303: Transnational Flows of Performance (TBA) SQ
Philosophy
- PHIL 380: Philosophy of Art (Zuckert) FQ
- PHIL 415: Studies in French Philosophy (Deutscher) FQ
- PHIL 313: Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (Mueller) WQ
- PHIL 315: Studies in French Philosophy (Deutscher) WQ
- PHIL 423: Studies in Contemporary Philosophy (Lafont) WQ
- PHIL 412: Studies in Modern Philosophy (Zuckert) SQ
Political Science
- POLI_SCI 408: Interpretation in Political Science (Loriaux) SQ
- POLI_SCI 424: Public Opinion, the Media, and Democracy (Page) SQ
- POLI_SCI 440: International Relations Theory (Alter) FQ
- POLI_SCI 441: International Political Economy (Nelson) SQ
- POLI_SCI 447: Critical Studies in World Politics (Loriaux) SQ
- POLI_SCI 490: Politics after Biopolitics (Stevens ) FQ
- POLI_SCI 490: Feminist Theory (Dietz ) WQ
Radio, Television, Film
- RTVF 403: Media & Cultural Theory (Sconce) FQ
- RTVF 584: Unethical Media (Verma) FQ
- RTVF 5XX: Race, Performance and Media (Petty/Chambers-Letson) WQ
- RTVF 584: Postcolonial Media Theory (Padmanabhan) WQ
- RTVF 5XX (433): Feminism & Media Culture (White) SQ
Religious Studies
- REL 481: Theories of Religion (McClish) FQ
- REL 468: Critical Theory and Religion (Helmer) WQ
- REL 471-20: Embodiment/Materility/Affect (Molina) WQ
- REL 471-21: Religion, Race and Politics (Hurt) WQ
- SOCIOL 476: Theories of Race and Ethnicity (Stewart) FQ
- SOCIOL 476: Gender, Power, Politics (Orloff) FQ
- SOCIOL 476: Sociology of Families (Christine Marie Percheski) FQ