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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 2025

Lists will be updated as more information becomes available

 

SPRING 2025

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