Courses Approved for Critical Theory Minor
Pre-Approved Courses for critical theory minor 2021-2022 Academic Year
Spring 2022:
Courses subject to change - see CAESAR for additional course information
- AF_AM_ST 339-0: Unsettling Whiteness (Hesse)
- AF_AM_ST 363-0: Racism in Western Modernity (Hesse)
- AF_AM_ST 380-0: Topics African American Stud: Africans and African Americans: Cultural Entanglem (Ayobade)
- AF_AM_ST 380-0: Topics African American Stud: Race, Sexuality and Religion (Greene-Hayes)
- AF_AM_ST 380-0: Topics African American Stud: Black Joy (Mann)
- AF_AM_ST 380-0: Topics African American Stud: U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Africa (unk)
- AMER_ST 301-3: Seminar for Majors: An Emerging Guidebook to Apocalyptic Living (Orsi)
- AMER_ST 310-0: Studies in American Culture: U.S. Gay and Lesbian History (Fenrich)
- AMER_ST 310-0: Studies in American Culture: The Chicago Way (Savage)
- ART_HIST 386-0: Art of Africa (Joja)
- ASIAN_AM 360-0: Studies in Race, Gender: Sex Asian American Sexualities (San Diego)
- ASIAN_AM 370-0: Studies in Diaspora: Filipino Diaspora (Magat)
- ASIAN_AM 376-0: Literary and Cultural Studies: Asian American Feminist & Queer Life Writing (Cheng)
- ASIAN_AM 376-0: Literary and Cultural Studies: Techno-Orientalism (Huang)
- COMP_LIT 301-0: Studies in World Literature: Animal, Animism, Animality (Mwangi)
- COMP_LIT 303-0: Movements and Periods: Finance Fictions: The Japanese "Economic Novel" (Noonan)
- COMP_LIT 307-0: Studies in Gender, Sexuality & Feminist: Queer, Crip: South Korea and Its Discont (We)
- COMP_LIT 320-SA: Critical Theory & Lit. Studies: Kafka's Uncanny "Animals" (Weber)
- COMP_LIT 390-0: Special Topics in Comparative: Images of the Shtetl (Moseley)
- ENGLISH 375-0: Topics in Asian Amer Lit: Techno-Orientalism (Huang)
- FRENCH 386-0: Gender & Writing (Dupas)
- GERMAN 322-0: German Contributions to World: Kafka’s Uncanny Animals (Weber)
- GERMAN 331-0: Shattered Worlds: Representations after the Shoa (Parkinson)
- GNDR_ST 321-0: Gender, Sexuality, and History: Gender, War, and Revolution in the 20th Century (Liu)
- GNDR_ST 321-0: Gender, Sexuality, and History: Pleasure in the Archives (Partridge)
- GNDR_ST 331-0: Sociology of Gender/Sexuality: Heterosexualities: Past, Present & Future (Carrillo)
- GNDR_ST 332-0: Gender, Sexuality, and Health: Disability Justice: Feminism & Social Change (Brown)
- GNDR_ST 332-0: Gender, Sexuality, and Health: Race/Gender/Sex & Science: Identities & Difference (Epstein)
- GNDR_ST 341-0: Transnational Gender/Sexuality: Feminist, Queer, Crip: South Korea and Its Discont (We)
- GNDR_ST 371-0: Gender/Sexuality & Pop Culture: New Media, Gender, & Race (Moretti)
- GNDR_ST 371-0: Gender/Sexuality & Pop Culture: Girlhood in Public Culture (Radway)
- GNDR_ST 381-0: Queer Theory (Enteen)
- GNDR_ST 382-0: Race, Gender, and Sexuality: Gender, Race, & the Holocaust (Cushman)
- GNDR_ST 382-0: Race, Gender, and Sexuality: Race, Sexuality, and Religion in the Americas (Greene-Hayes)
- GNDR_ST 382-0: Race, Gender, and Sexuality: Women of Color Feminist Legacies (Jones-Torregrosa)
- HISTORY 340-0: 20th c. Gender, War & Rev (Liu)
- HISTORY 393-0: Approaches to History: Gender, Race, and the Holocaust (Cushman)
- HISTORY 393-0: Approaches to History: Indigenous Health and Healing (Lanzarotta)
- HUM 370-3: Special Topics in Humanities: Archiving the Barrio: Politics of Memory in Puerto (Rodriguez)
- HUM 370-5: Special Topics in Humanities: Race/Gender/Sex & Science: Identities & Difference (Epstein)
- HUM 370-6: Special Topics in Humanities Digital Performances in the Era of Virality (Fuentes)
- HUM 370-6: Special Topics in Humanities: Who is an Object?: Ancestors, Gods and Intermediar (Puleo)
- HUM 370-6: Special Topics in Humanities: Subversive Forms: Satire (Thompson)
- HUM 370-6: Special Topics in Humanities (unk)
- INTL_ST 395-0: Integrating Project Seminar: The Stuff of Cities: Urban Materiality Throughout (Nissen)
- JWSH_ST 390-0: Topics in Jewish Studies: Conscience & Counterculture: The American Jewish 1 (Hirschhorn)
- JWSH_ST 390-0: Topics in Jewish Studies: Jews and Muslims in Contemporary Spain (McDonald)
- LATINO 392-0: Topics Social Political Issues: Undocumented Immigration in the U.S. Cornejo (Casares)
- LATINO 392-0: Topics Social Political Issues: Feminist Aesthetics of the Erotic (Mendoza)
- LATINO 392-0: Topics Social Political Issues: Archiving the Barrio: Politics of Memory in Puerto (Rodriguez)
- LATINO 392-0: Topics Social Political Issues: Latinx Studies and the Global South (Rua)
- LATINO 393-0: Latina/o Text & Representation (Garcia)
- LATINO 393-0: Latina/o Text & Representation: Visualizing Memory and Testimonio (Mendoza)
- LEGAL_ST 315-0: Corporation in US Law & Culture (Bruner)
- LEGAL_ST 376-0: Topics in Legal Studies: Reality TV and Legal Theory (Bruner)
- MENA 390-4: Adv Topics in MENA: Violence, Ruins, and the Politics of the Past (Suni)
- MENA 390-6: Adv Topics in MENA: Jews & Muslims in Contemporary Spain (McDonald)
- PHIL 361-0: Topics in Social and Political Philosophy: What is Fascism? (D. Johnson)
- POLI_SCI 395-0: Political Research Seminar: Black Political Thought (Tillery)
- RELIGION 349-0: Topics in Christianity: Who Claims Israel? Jews, Christians, Samaritans (Chalmers)
- RELIGION 369-0: Topics in American Religion: Media, Earth and Making a Difference (Taylor)
- RELIGION 379-0: Topics in Comparative Religion: Race, Sexuality, and Religion (Greene-Hayes)
- RELIGION 379-0: Topics in Comparative Religion: Feminist Spirituality (King)
- SOCIOL 376-0: Topics Sociological Analysis: Heterosexualities: Past, Present, Future (Carrillo)
- SOCIOL 376-0: Topics Sociological Analysis: Race/Gender/Sex & Science: Identities & Difference (Epstein)
Winter 2022:
Courses subject to change - see CAESAR for additional course information
- AF_AM_ST 327-0: Politics-Black Popular Culture (Weheliye)
- AF_AM_ST 360-0: James Baldwin and Black Political Thought (Biondi)
- AF_AM_ST 379-0: Black Women Writers (Spigner)
- AF_AM_ST 380-0: Debates in African American Literature (Jackson)
- AF_AM_ST 394-LK: Professional Linkage Seminar ()
- AMER_ST 310-0: History of American Medicine (Lanzarotta)
- AMER_ST 310-0: Modern Jewish American Literature (Mihailescu)
- AMER_ST 310-0: Bad News (Stuelpnagel)
- AMER_ST 310-0: American Teenage Rites of Passage (Taylor)
- AMER_ST 310-0: Parks+Pipeline: Indigenous Environmental Justice (Whitson)
- ANTHRO 307-0: Anthropology of Peace (Miyazaki)
- ART_HIST 386-0: Photography and Africa (Byrd)
- ART_HIST 390-0: Cairo/Paris: Art & Empire in the Modern City (Dowad)
- ASIAN_AM 303-0: Race, Mental Health, and Healing Justice (Nguyen)
- ASIAN_AM 370-0: Korean Diasporas (Yuh)
- ASIAN_AM 380-0: Sex Work in Asian America (San Diego)
- CLASSICS 390-0: Topic-Greco-Roman Civilization (Gunter)
- COMM_ST 324-1: Rhetoric of U.S. Wmn's Rghts I (Ray)
- COMM_ST 394-0: Media Messages, Ideology, and the Formation of Pop (Peterson-Salahuddin)
- COMP_LIT 301-0: Studies in World Literature (Qader)
- COMP_LIT 305-0: Italian Cinema (Torlasco)
- COMP_LIT 306-0: Anticolonial Thought (Feinsod)
- COMP_LIT 307-0: Studies in Gender, Sexuality & (Torlasco)
- COMP_LIT 312-0: Major Authors & Texts (Uslenghi)
- ENGLISH 300-0: Murder on the Bestseller List (Cogswell)
- ENGLISH 300-0: Nausea (Jackson)
- ENGLISH 381-0: Illness and Femininity: Fictions and Facts (Chaskin)
- ENVR_POL 309-0: American Environmental History (Woodhouse)
- FRENCH 362-0: African Lits & Cultures (Qader)
- FRENCH 386-0: Gender & Writing (Dupas)
- FRENCH 395-0: Deciphering the Everyday: Myth, Ideology, Culture (Qader)
- GERMAN 321-3: Recoveries & Transitions: 1945 (von Holt)
- GNDR_ST 332-0: Black Feminist Health Science Studies (Bailey)
- GNDR_ST 332-0: Beyond Porn: Sexuality, Health, and Pleasure (Sullivan)
- GNDR_ST 341-0: Chinese Woman Writers Between Empire & Modernity (Zamperini)
- GNDR_ST 350-6: Early Modern Sexualities (Masten)
- GNDR_ST 353-0: Queer Criminality & Political Transgression (Noll)
- GNDR_ST 361-0: Illness and Femininity: Fictions and Facts (Chaskin)
- GNDR_ST 361-0: Early Modern Sexualities (Masten)
- GNDR_ST 373-0: Women in Chinese Cinema, 1922-2022 (Zamperini)
- GNDR_ST 374-0: Imagining the Internet (Enteen)
- GNDR_ST 382-0: Sex Work in Asian America (San Diego)
- HISTORY 309-0: American Environmental History (Woodhouse)
- HISTORY 393-0: Race and the American Midwest (Kiel)
- HISTORY 393-0: Comparative Fascism (Stokes)
- HISTORY 395-0: Arab Intellectuals and Modernity (Lauziere)
- HUM 325-4: Parks+Pipeline: Indigenous Environmental Justice (Whitson)
- HUM 325-5: Humanities in the Digital Age (Uca)
- HUM 370-4: Race and the American Midwest (Kiel)
- HUM 370-6: India/Pakistan Partition in Lit, Film, & Pop Cultu (Majchrowicz)
- HUM 370-6: The Crime Centered Documentary (Tolchinsky)
- INTL_ST 395-0: Black Internationalism (Montague)
- ITALIAN 377-0: Gender & Sexuality in Ital Cul (Torlasco)
- LATINO 392-0: Violence, the Body, and Resistance (Mendoza)
- MENA 390-4: Comparative Approaches to Ancient Empires (Gunter)
- PERF_ST 312-0: Yoga: Practice, History, and P (Silverstein)
- PERF_ST 322-0: Museums and Cultural Collectio (Baptista)
- PHIL 373-2: The Civically Engaged Life (Kraut)
- RELIGION 318-0: Religion in People's Republic of China (Terrone)
- RELIGION 319-0: Buddhist Cultures & the Rhetoric of Violence (Terrone)
- RELIGION 364-0: American Teenage Rites of Pass (Taylor)
- RELIGION 369-0: Religion in the Digital Age (Uca)
- SOCIOL 376-0: Media, Movements and Social Change (Billard)
- SOCIOL 376-0: Technology, Work, Love and Life (Clark)
- SOCIOL 376-0: Sociology of Illness: The Normal and Pathological (Molina)
- SOCIOL 392-0: How Societies Remember (Kuperberg)
- SOCIOL 392-0: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Culture (Michelson)
Fall 2021:
Courses subject to change - see CAESAR for additional course information
- AF_AM_ST 212-2-20 Intro to Af Am History | Gadsden
- AF_AM_ST 220-0-20 Civ Rts & Black Liberation | Biondi
- AF_AM_ST 245-0-20 Black Diaspora & Transnationty | Weheliye
- AF_AM_ST 315-0-20 Religion in the Black Atlantic | Greene-Hayes
- AF_AM_ST 350-0-20 Theorizing Blackness | Weheliye
- AMER_ST 310-0-20 Studies in American Culture: Asian Am Digital Cultures | San Diego
- AMER_ST 310-0-21 Studies in American Culture: Sex and the American Empire: Journalism and Frames | Thrasher
- ANTHRO 390-0-21 Topics In Anthropology: American Suburbias: Race, Class, and Placemaking | Aparicio
- ANTHRO 390-0-23 Topics In Anthropology: Political Ecology | Rosenzweig
- ART_HIST 375-0-1 Media Theory | Hodge
- ASIAN_AM 303-0-20 Social & Cultural Analysis: Asian Am Digital Cultures | San Diego
- ASIAN_AM 360-0-21 Studies in Race, Gender, Sex: Trans Surgeries in Transnational Contexts | Enteen
- ASIAN_AM 376-0-2 Literary and Cultural Studies: Intro to S. Asian Literature | Nadiminti
- ASIAN_LC 300-0-20 Adv Topics in Chinese Culture: Grassroots Revolt in China Today | Henning
- COMM_ST 274-0-20 Power in Entertainment | Jean
- COMM_ST 315-0-20 Rhetoric of Social Movements | Gaonkar
- COMP_LIT 202-0-20 Interpreting Culture: The Theme of Faust Through the Ages | Fenves
- COMP_LIT 202-0-21 Interpreting Culture: The "New" Latin American Narrative | Kerr
- COMP_LIT 300-0-1 Theories and Practices of Read: Jewish Graphic Narratives on the Holocaust | Mihailescu
- COMP_LIT 302-0-1 Reading Across Disciplines | Rosenbrueck
- COMP_LIT 383-0-20 Critical Theory: Studies in French Philosophy | Deutscher
- ENGLISH 300-0-20 Sem in Reading& Interpretation: Ideas of Justice | Schwartz
- ENGLISH 300-0-22 Sem in Reading& Interpretation: Southern Food, Music, and Literature | Cerne
- ENGLISH 366-0-20 African American Literature: Metropolis and AFAM Culture | Wilson Jr
- ENGLISH 368-0-20 Studies in 20th-Century Lit: Intro to S. Asian Literature | Nadiminti
- ENGLISH 381-0-20 Literature & Medicine: Intro to Disability Studies in Literature | Chaskin
- ENVR_POL 390-0-21 Special Topics in Envi Policy: Political Ecology | Rosenzweig
- ENVR_POL 390-0-27 Special Topics in Envi Policy: Red Power: Indigenous Resistance in the US & Canada | Kiel
- FRENCH 379-0-20 Topics in French Lit. & Cul.: World Cinema/National Cinema | Bush
- FRENCH 384-0-20 Women Writing in French: Postwar France through Marguerite Duras | Winston
- GERMAN 230-0-1 Berlin & Culture of Democracy | von Holt
- GERMAN 232-0-1 The Theme of Faust Through the Ages | Fenves
- GERMAN 303-0-1 Speaking as Discovery | Lys
- GERMAN 335-0-1 Minority Voices in Germany | von Holt
- GNDR_ST 230-0-20 Traditions in Feminist Thought | Zamperini
- GNDR_ST 321-0-20 Gender, Sexuality, and History: Paris Noir in the 20th Century | Liu
- GNDR_ST 321-0-21 Gender, Sexuality, and History: US Women's History 1865-Present | Masur
- GNDR_ST 341-0-20 Transnational Gender/Sexuality: Trans-Related Medical Surgeries in Thailand | Enteen
- GNDR_ST 350-4-1 Gender, Sexuality, and History: Paris Noir in the 20th Century | Liu
- GNDR_ST 352-0-20 Gender/Sexuality/Polical Theory: Critical Theory: Studies in French Philosophy | Deutscher
- GNDR_ST 353-0-20 Gender and Citizenship: Deportation Law and Politics | Stevens
- GNDR_ST 372-0-20 Gender/Sexuality & Performance: Women in Rock | Austern
- GNDR_ST 372-0-21 Gender/Sexuality & Performance: Black Feminist Performance | Akinbola
- GNDR_ST 381-0-20 Queer Theory | Enteen
- GNDR_ST 390-0-20 Gender/Sexuality Study: Sex and the American Empire: Journalism and Frames | Thrasher
- HISTORY 200-0-28 New Intro Hist Courses: Black Death and Other Pandemics | Elliott
- HISTORY 200-0-34 New Intro Hist Courses: Zionism and It's Critics | Hirschhorn
- HISTORY 212-2-20 Intro to Af Am History | Gadsden
- HISTORY 300-0-20 New Lectures in History: Red Power: Indigenous Resistance in the US & Canada | Kiel
- HISTORY 300-0-22 New Lectures in History: Independence, Social Change & Revolution in Cuba | Guanche Zaldivar
- HISTORY 303-3-20 Am Women's History, post-1865 | Masur
- HISTORY 395-0-20 Research Seminar: Paris Noir in the 20th Century | Liu
- HUM 225-0-20 Media Theory | Hodge
- HUM 370-4-20 Special Topics in Humanities: Red Power: Indigenous Resistance US & Canada | Kiel
- HUM 370-6-21 Special Topics in Humanities: Under Representation: Is There a Mirror for Me? | Uslenghi
- HUM 370-6-23 Special Topics in Humanities: World Cinema/National Cinema | Bush
- JOUR 390-0-20 Special Topics: Sex and the American Empire: Journalism and Frames | Thrasher
- JWSH_ST 279-0-1 Modern Jewish Literature: Jewish Graphic Narratives on the Holocaust | Mihailescu
- JWSH_ST 280-5-1 Topics in Israel Studies: Zionism and its Critics | Hirschhorn
- LATINO 342-0-1 Latina/o Social Movements: Black Brown Intersections | Marquez
- LATINO 392-0-2 Topics Social Political Issues: Acts of Memory, Mourning, and Protest | Mendoza
- MUSICOL 333-0-1 Topics: Popular Music: Women in Rock | Austern
- PERF_ST 330-0-20 Topics in Performance Studies: Black Feminist Performance | Akinbola
- PHIL 210-1-20 History of Philosophy 1 | Cumella
- PHIL 260-0-20 Introduction: Moral Philosophy | Johnson
- PHIL 314-0-20 Studies in German Philosophy: Hegelian Themes in Social Theory | Alznauer
- PHIL 315-0-20 Studies in French Philosophy | Deutscher
- POLI_SCI 201-0-20 Intro to Political Theory | Stevens
- POLI_SCI 307-0-20 Deportation Law and Politics | Stevens
- POLI_SCI 377-0-20 Drugs and Politics | Arjona
- RELIGION 360-0-20 African American Religions: Religion in the Black Atlantic | Greene-Hayes
- RELIGION 379-0-20 Topics in Comparative Religion: Science Fiction & Social Justice | King
- RTVF 298-0-22 Studies in Media Topics: Power in Entertainment | Jean
- SOCIOL 306-0-1 Sociological Theory | Camic
- SOCIOL 324-0-1 Global Capitalism | Prasad
- SPANISH 231-0-1 New Latin American Narrative | Kerr
- SPANISH 360-0-1 Spain:Study in Culture/Society: Border Cultures in Spain | Caballero Vazquez
- SPANISH 361-0-1 LatAm-Study in Culture/Society: Nature, Violence and Ecocide in Contemporary Latin | Gil Gomez
- SPANISH 397-0-1 Lit/Cult of LatAmer: Under Representation: Is There a Mirror for Me? | Uslenghi
Please contact philip.hoskins@northwestern.edu or criticaltheory@northwestern.edu if you would like to petition for a course to count toward the Critical Theory Minor that is not listed. Please provide the course number, description, reading lists, and syllabus (if available).