Critical Theory Minor

Double-counting note: Weinberg College prohibits double-counting a minor course toward some other major or minor, except where this is explicitly permitted in this catalog. Weinberg College does allow double-counting a minor course toward a general bachelor's degree requirement (i.e. degree requirements other than majors or minors). Other programs or schools may have their own restrictions that supersede this, so check the relevant parts of this catalog for possible limits. 

Course Title
Minor Requirements (6 units)
COMP_LIT 207-0/PHIL 220-0Introduction to Critical Theory
5 interdisciplinary 300-level courses approved by the program, including at least 1 course in each of three generally defined fields:
literary theory
political theory
philosophy

A quarterly list of approved courses may be obtained from the program director or on the program website prior to registration. Students may petition the director of undergraduate studies to count courses not listed or to substitute 1 200-level course for a 300-level course.

Approved 300-level courses

Consult program for additional options, particularly among topics courses where content varies.

Course Title
BLK_ST 325-0Education for Black Liberation
BLK_ST 334-0Gender and Black Masculinity
BLK_ST 339-0Unsettling Whiteness
COMM_ST 315-0Rhetoric of Social Movements
COMM_ST 317-0Voice, Violence, and Democracy
GSS 324-0US Gay and Lesbian History
or HISTORY 324-0 US Gay and Lesbian History
GSS 381-0Queer Theory
GERMAN 335-0'Minority' Voices in Germany
HISTORY 340-0Gender, War, and Revolution in the 20th Century
PHIL 313-1Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' I
PHIL 319-0Existentialism and Its Sources
POLI_SCI 303-0Modernity and Its Discontents
POLI_SCI 306-0American Political Thought
POLI_SCI 307-0Deportation Law and Politics
POLI_SCI 308-0Critical Theory and the Study of Politics
POLI_SCI 327-0African American Politics
POLI_SCI 337-0Gender and Politics
POLI_SCI 361-0Democracy and Autocracy
POLI_SCI 384-0International Responses to Mass Atrocities
RELIGION 316-0Religion and the Body in China
RELIGION 382-0Religion, Law, & Politics: Politics of Religious Diversity
or POLI_SCI 382-0 Religion, Law, & Politics: Politics of Religious Diversity
SOCIOL 356-0Sociology of Gender
SPANISH 342-0Race and Representation in Latin America
SPANISH 344-0Borges
SPANISH 347-0Literature and Revolution in Latin America