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Courses Approved for Critical Theory Minor

Pre-Approved Courses for critical theory minor 2025-2026 Academic Year

*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 359-1: Art & Revolution, 1789-1917 - Special Topics in 19th-Century Art  - Thadeus Dowad 

ART-HIST 395-1: Block Party Tonight!: Art’s Impromptu Publics - Museums  - Jessica Ann Hough 

BLK-ST 325-20: Education for Black Liberation  - kihana miraya ross 

BLK-ST 380-20: Queer of Color Fantasy - Topics in African-American Studies - Justin Mann 

BLK-ST 381-20: Black Feminisms in a Francophone Context - Topics in Transnational Black Studies  - Silyane Larcher 

COMM-ST 315-0-20: Rhetoric of Social Movements - Dilip Gaonkar 

COMP-LIT 200-0-20: Introduction to Literary Theory - Alejandra Uslenghi 

COMP-LIT 270-0-3: German Environmentalism - Literatures in Translation - Jorg Kreienbrock 

COMP-LIT 305-0-20: Cinemas of Global Solidarity - Studies in Film, Media, and Visual Culture - Lakshmi Padmanabhan

ENGL 214-20: Introduction to Film and Its Literatures - James Hodge 

ENGL: 382- 20: Ideas of Justice - Literature and Law - Regina Schwartz 

ENGL: 384-20: Toxic Rhetoric - Studies in Literature and the Environment - Sarah Dimick

ENGL: 385-0-21: Romantic Obsession, Colonial Possession - Studies in Literature and Culture  - Johana Staza Godfrey

FRENCH: 280-20: Reading Science - Major Topics in French and Francophone Studies - Ty Blakeney 

FRENCH: 355-20: Sailor: Queer Agent of Empire? - Topics in Modern and Contemporary French Literature and Culture - Ty Blakeney 

GERMAN: 213-0 1: History, Politics, and Culture in 21st Century German  - Denise Meuser 

GERMAN: 246-0 Special Topics in German Literature and Culture

PHIL 221-20: Gender, Politics, & Philosophy - Pascal Brixel

PHIL 280-0- 20: Introduction to the Philosophy of Art - Rachel Zuckert

PHIL 324-20: Charles Mills - Studies in African American Philosophy - Corey Barnes 

PHIL 361-20: Should Some Things Not Be for Sale? - Topics in Social and Political Philosophy - Pascal Brixel

POLI-SCI: 390-26: Digital Propaganda and Repression - Special Topics in Political Science  - Yingdan Lu 

POLI-SCI: 395-0 Political Research Seminar

REL-ST: 261-0 20: Cultivating Environmental Consciousness - Topics in Religion, Nature, and Ecology - Mark McClish

REL-ST: 316-20: Religion and the Body in China - Kevin Buckelew

REL-ST: 318-20: Buddhist Cultures & the Rhetoric of Violence - Topics in East Asian Religions  - Antonio Terrone 

REL-ST: 359-21: Muslim Bodies - Topics in Islam - Usman Hamid 

REL-ST: 382-20: Religion, Law, & Politics: Politics of Religious Diversity - Ely Ester Orrego Torres 

SPANISH 342-0-1: Race and Representation in Latin America - Jorge Coronado 

SPANISH 397-1: Law and its Discontents: Fictions of Criminality I - Topics in Latin American, Latina & Latino, and Iberian Literatures and Cultures (Taught in English)  - Mauricio Oportus 


WINTER 2026

COMP_LIT 301 Studies in World Literature - Nasrin Qader

COMP_LIT 207 Introduction to Critical Theory - Mark Alznauer

ENGL 283 Studies in Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s Environmental Questions (Pre 1830/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment) – Laurie Shannon

ENGL 283 Introduction to Literature and the Environment: Green Thought, Green Worlds (Historical Breadth, Pre AND Post 1830) – Laurie Shannon 

ENGL 332 Renaissance Drama: Playing the Globe: Theaters of London and the World, c. 1600 (Pre 1830) –  Will West

ENGL 398 Honor Seminar – Vivasvan Soni

GERMAN 230 Berlin and the Culture of Democracy – Anna Parkinson

PHIL 220 Introduction to Critical Theory – Mark Alznauer 

PHIL 224 Philosophy, Race, & Racism – Corey Barnes

PHIL 324 Study in African American Philosophy – Corey Barnes

REL-ST 220 Introduction to Hebrew Bible – Barry Wimpfheimer

REL-ST  339 The Art of Rabbinic Narrative – Barry Wimpfheimer

SPANISH 344 Borges – Alejandra Uslenghi

SPANISH 347 Literature and Revolution in Latin America – Jorge Coronado

FRENCH 379 / COMPLIT 302 Reading Across Disciplines 

BLK_ST 380 Reparations – kihana miraya ross

BLK_ST 380 Screening Blackness: On Race, Sexuality, and the M - Mark Lockwood 

POLI_SCI 327 African American Politics (co-listed as AFAM ST 380)

 

SPRING 2026

GERMAN 335 “Minority” Voices in Germany, Anna Parkinson 

COMP_LIT 202 / GERMAN 232 Interpreting Culture: The Theme of Faust Through The Ages, Peter Fenves

POLI_SC 308 Critical Theory and the Study of Politics, Michael Loriaux

PHIL 319 Existentialism and Its Sources, Mark Alznauer 

PHIL 390 Special Topics in Philosophy: Ethics of Rhetoric, Mark Alznauer  

RELIGION 339 Topics in Judaism, Barry Wimpfheimer

BLK_ST 380 Black Political Thought, Barnor Hesse 

BLK_ST 380 Feeling in Black Music, Barnor Hesse 

BLK_ST 380 Blackness and Gender

 

 

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