Departmental Courses

Departmental Courses: These are already existing courses, most of the topics vary in nature, that will be open to CT students when they are taught by Core or Affiliate Faculty, and when they treat one of the fields covered in the Core Course sequence. They are arranged in a set of rubrics in order to make it easier for students to devise a coherent program of study in consultation with their advisors. Students are not, however, limited, to these rubrics and may devise a problem or areas of their own for the six course “problem” requirement. Course lists will be updated on a quarterly basis, and each quarter the CT program office will compile a list of available, relevant departmental courses taught by CT Core and Affiliate Faculty.

Philosophical Foundations of Critical Theory
  • Philosophy 211: Kant’s Dialectic (W. Bristow) [Focused Study]
  • Philosophy 214: Hegel (W. Bristow) [Focused Study]
  • Philosophy 216: Husserl’s Philos (D. Smith) [Focused Study]
  • Philosophy 216: Hegel and Kierkegaard (W. Bristow) [Focused Study]
  • Philosophy 222: Consciousness (D Smith) [Focused Study]
  • Philosophy 222: Metaphysics and Rights (D. Smith) [Focused Study]
  • Philosophy 248: Continental Philosophy Workshop (M. Schwab) [Focused Study]
Critical Theory/Theory at the border of disciplines
  • Anthro 202A: Proseminar: History of Anthropological Theory [Theory]
  • Anthro 247A: Structuralism and Post-structuralism (J. Ferguson) [Theory]
  • CL 200: Translation and the Space of Comparison (J. Newman) [Theory]
  • EALL220 Topics in East Asian Cultural Studies, Theory, Culture, East Asia, (Choi) [Focused Study]
  • French 216: Montaigne’s Essais: Theory and Text (R. Regosin)
  • Humanities 200/History 200 (when not limited to history students): Marxism (H. Tinsman) [Theory]
  • Humanities 200/History 200 (when not limited to history students): Foucault and
  • Feminist Theory (M. Poster) [Theory]
  • Humanities 200/History 200 (when not limited to history students): Theorizing Religion in History (U. Strasser) [Theory]
  • Humanities 200/History 200 (when not limited to history students): Nation: Conceptualizing Nationalisms (H. Tinsman) [Focused Study]
  • Humanities 220/CR 220: Literary Theory and Its History (A. Gelley; G. Schwab) [Focused Study]
  • Spanish 239: Intro to Literary Theory (L. Aviles) [Theory]
  • Spanish 239: Fields of Vision (L. Aviles) [Theory]
Intersections of Gender/Race/Class/Sexuality
  • Art History 240: Contemporary Art (D. Joselit) [Focused Study]
  • Classics 205: Petronius Satyrica (P. Sinclair) [Focused Study]
  • History 202: Proseminar in Cold War Culture (J. Wiener) [Focused Study]
  • History 260: Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century America (S. Block) [Focused Study]
  • History 202: Early American Sexuality (S. Block) [Focused Study]
  • History 202/200: Comparative Gender Frontiers, 1600-1900 (S. Block) [Focused Study]
  • History 200/Humanities 200 (when not limited to history students): Gender, Race, Nation: Conceptualizing Nationalisms (H. Tinsman) [Focused Study]
  • Humanities 200/History 200 (when not limited to history students): Theorizing Religion in History (U. Strasser) [Theory]
  • History 202: Gender and Sexuality in Latin American History (H. Tinsman) [Focused Study]
  • History 220: Early Modern Europe: The Sixteenth Century (U. Strasser) [Focused Study]
  • History 290: U.S. Women since 1900 (V. Ruiz) [Focused Study]
Feminism
  • Anthro 246C: Nation, State & Gender (V. Bernal) [Focused Study]
  • Anthro 234B: Gender and Globalization (Bernal) [Focused Study]
  • Art History 240: Feminism and Art History (S. Stein) [Focused Study]
  • CL 210: Gender, Philology, Citizenship: Ancient Tragedy and its Nachleben (J.O. Newman) [Focused Study]
  • CL 210: The Figure of the Madwoman in Feminist Discourse (A. Schlichter) [Focused Study]
  • CL 210: Gender and Tragedy (J.O. Newman) [Focused Study]
  • CL 210: Postcolonial Feminist Studies and the Place of Literature (L. Kang) [Theory]
  • EALL 220 Topics in East Asian Cultural Studies. Colonialism and Women in East Asia (C. Choi) [Focused Study]
  • History 290: U.S. Women since 1900 (V. Ruiz) [Focused Study]
  • Humanities 200/History 200 (when not limited to history students): Foucault and Feminist Theory (M. Poster) [Theory]
  • Spanish 223/WS 201: Spanish Post-War Literature, Women Poets (J. Robbins) [Focused Study]
Critical Race Studies
  • Art History 265: African-American Art 1650-1900 (J. Wilson) [Focused Study]
  • Art History 275: African-American Art 1900 to Present (J. Wilson) [Focused Study]
  • Eng. 210: Desire, Blackness, Consumption (L. Barrett) [Focused Study]
  • Eng. 210: Slavery and Cultural Imagining (L. Barrett) [Focused Study]
  • Eng. 210: Oratorical Culture in the United States: Race, Reform, Reception (S. Mailloux) [Focused Study]
  • History 200/Humanities 200 (when not limited to history students): Race and Ethnicity (T. Foote) [Focused Study]
Nation, Colonialism, Postcolonialism, Globalization
  • Anthro 248A: Approaches to Globalization (W. Maurer) [Focused Study]
  • Anthro 246C: Nation, State & Gender (V. Bernal) [Focused Study]
  • Anthro 289: Law, Colonialism, and Nationalism (W. Maurer) [Focused Study]
  • Anthro 234B: Gender and Globalization (V. Bernal) [Focused Study]
  • Anthro. 246A Studies in the National Order of Things (L. Malkki) [Focused Study]
  • Cl 210: Third World Women Writers in English (K. Katrak) [Focused Study]
  • CL 210: Comparative Dramatic Traditions: Asian American and Postcolonial Writers (K. Katrak) [Focused Study]
  • CL 210: Emergent Subjectivity (G. Schwab) [Focused Study]
  • CL 210: Postcolonial Feminist Studies and the Place of Literature (L. Kang) [Focused Study]
  • EALL220 Topics in East Asian Cultural Studies. Circulation of Cultures
  • (Choi) [Focused Study]
  • EALL220 Topics in East Asian Cultural Studies. Colonialism and Women in East Asia (Choi) [Focused Study]
  • French 218: Maghregian Culture (P. Barbé) [Focused Study]
  • French 225: Poetics of Nature/Francophone Literature (P. Barbé) [Focused Study]
  • French 254: Fictions of Individual and National Identity: Albert Camus and Postcolonial Aesthetics and Politics (D. Carroll) [Focused Study]
  • German 230: German Colonialism (M. Klotz) [Focused Study]
  • German 230: Germany – Ten Years After 1989 (J.H. Smith) [Focused Study]
  • History 200/Humanities 200 (when not limited to history students): Gender, Race, Nation: Conceptualizing Nationalisms (H. Tinsman) [Focused Study]
  • History 200/Humanities 200 (when not limited to history students): Medicine and Culture (D. Haynes) [Focused Study]
  • History 202: Domestic Colonialism and Urban Histories of Mass Resistance (T. Foote) [Focused Study]
  • History 202: Subaltern Studies (V. Chaturvedi) [Focused Study]
  • History 220: Early Modern Europe: The Sixteenth Century (U. Strasser) [Focused Study]
  • History 230: Europe: 1850-1914 (D. Haynes) [Focused Study]
  • History 230: Modern Europe: 1789-1848 (U. Strasser) [Focused Study]
  • History 250: Twentieth-Century Latin America (H. Tinsman) [Focused Study]
  • History 260: Twentieth-Century America (J. Wiener) [Focused Study]
  • Spanish 224: The Discourse of Modernity (J. Robbins) [Focused Study]
  • Spanish 252: Spanish Caribbean Music (R. Fernandez) [Focused Study]
  • Visual Studies 295: Alternative Modernisms: Other Discourses of the New (J. Wilson) [Focused Study]
  • Visual Studies 295: Clocks for Seeing: Cinema/Modernity/Temporality (B. Lim) [Focused Study]
Reading, Visuality, Textuality
  • Art History 233: European Art, 1851-1907 (J.Herbert) [Focused Study]
  • Art History 233: European Art, 1907-1940 [Focused Study]
  • Art History 240: Postmodern Art (D. Joselit) [Focused Study]
  • Art History 240: Contemporary Art (D. Joselit) [Focused Study]
  • Art History 265: African-American Art 1650-1900 (J. Wilson) [Focused Study]
  • Art History 275: African-American Art 1900 to Present (J. Wilson) [Focused Study]
  • Art History 283: 19th Century Photography (S. Stein) [Focused Study]
  • Art History 283: 20th Century Photography (S. Stein) [Focused Study]
  • CL 200: Translation and the Space of Comparison (J.O. Newman) [Focused Study]
  • CL 210: The Rhetorics of Literature (D. Kujundzic) [Focused Study]
  • Eng. 210: Oratorical Culture in the United States: Race, Reform, Reception (S. Mailloux) [Focused Study]
  • French 216: Montaigne’s Essais: Theory and Text (R. Regosin) [Focused Study]
  • French 220: Fiction and Memory: Representations of the Past in 20th Century French Fiction and Film (D. Carroll) [Focused Study]
  • French 232: The Other Autobiography (E.S. Burt) [Focused Study]
  • French 233: Poetry as Resistance (C. Noland) [Focused Study]
  • French 240: Mallarmé (E.S. Burt) [Focused Study]
  • French 240: Baudelaire (E.S. Burt) [Focused Study]
  • History, Memory, and Autobiography in Francophone Literature (P. Barbé) [Focused Study]
  • Spanish 214: Golden Age Literature (L. Aviles) [Focused Study]
  • Spanish 218 Enlightenment Romanticism (G. Navajas) [Focused Study]
  • Spanish 225: Modern Spanish Literature (J. Robbins) [Focused Study]
  • Spanish 239: Fields of Vision (L. Aviles) [Focused Study]
  • Spanish 245: Spanish Cinema: Theories of Narrativity (G. Navajas) [Focused Study]
  • Visual Studies 291: Vision and Visuality (J. Herbert and A Friedberg) [Focused Study]
  • Visual Studies 295: Impressionism and Post Impressionism (J. Herbert) [Focused Study]
  • Visual Studies 295: Ideology and Style in Film (F.T. Rony) [Focused Study]
  • Visual Studies 295: Rhetoric of Realism (H. Herbert) [Focused Study]
  • Visual Studies 295: Light/Body/Image (A. Lippit) [Focused Study]
  • Visual Studies 295: Alternative Modernisms: Other Discourses of the New (J. Wilson) [Focused Study]
  • Visual Studies 295: Clocks for Seeing: Cinema/Modernity/Temporality (B. Lim) [Focused Study]
Theorizing the Aesthetic, the Ethical, the Political
  • Anthro 289: Filth and Social Theory (L. Malkki & J. Ferguson) [Theory]
  • Anthro 242A: The Politics of Ethnography (J. Ferguson) [Theory]
  • Art History 240: Psychedelia (D. Joselit) [Theory]
  • Art History 240: Feminism and Art History (S. Stein) [Theory]
  • CL 210: Baroque Geographies at the Fin-de-Siècle (J.O. Newman) [Focused Study]
  • French 218: The Nature of Feeling: Philosophy and Aesthetics in Enlightenment Literature (S. Gearhart) [Focused Study]
  • French 254: Fictions of Individual and National Identity: Albert Camus and Postcolonial Aesthetics and Politics (D. Carroll) [Focused Study]
  • Philosophy 230: Kant’s First Critique (W. Bristow) [Focused Study]
  • Visual Studies 295: Economies of Fantasy (A Lippit) [Theory]
Media/Mass, Popular and High Cultures
  • Anthro 243A: Cultural Studies and Ethnography (Ferguson) [Theory]
  • Art History 283: 19th Century Photography (S. Stein) [Focused Study]
  • Art History 283: 20th Century Photography (S. Stein) [Focused Study]
  • EALL220 Topics in East Asian Cultural Studies (4). Modernity and Culture in East Asia (Choi) [Focused Study]
  • German 230: German Fascism and Film (M. Klotz) [Focused Study]
  • History 202: American Popular Culture (A. Fahs) [Focused Study]
  • History 260: Twentieth-Century America (A Fahs) [Focused Study]
  • Spanish 252: Spanish Caribbean Music (R. Fernandez) [Focused Study]
  • Visual Studies 295: Spectatorship (A. Friedberg) [Focused Study]
Disciplinary, Interdisciplinary Methodologies
  • Anthro 208A: Anthropological Fieldwork Methods (L. Malkki) [Theory]
  • Anthro 202B: Proseminar: Classical Ethnography[Focused Study]
  • Anthro 202C: Proseminar: Contemporary Ethnography[Focused Study]
  • Anthro 289: Foucault: The Question of Method (J. Ferguson) [Focused Study]
  • CL 200: Methods in Comparative Literature (G. Schwab) [Theory]
  • CL 210: Baroque Geographies at the Fin-de-Siècle (J.O. Newman) [Focused Study]
  • CL 210: Postcolonial Feminist Studies and the Place of Literature (L. Kang) [Focused Study]
  • French 216: Montaigne’s Essais: Theory and Text (R. Regosin) [Focused Study]
  • History 202: Gender and Sexuality in Latin American History (H. Tinsman) [Focused Study]
  • History 202: Subaltern Studies (V. Chaturvedi) [Focused Study]
  • History 250: Twentieth-Century Latin America (H. Tinsman) [Focused Study]
  • History 260: Twentieth-Century America (J. Wiener) [Focused Study]
  • History 290: U.S. Women since 1900 (V. Ruiz) [Focused Study]
  • Visual Studies 291: Vision and Visuality (J. Herbert and A. Friedberg) [Focused Study]
  • Visual Studies 293: Visual Studies Debates (S. Stein, D. Joselit) [Theory]