Northwestern University The Graduate School 0 courses
The following requirements are in addition to, or further elaborate upon, those requirements outlined in The Graduate School Policy Guide. All courses, past and current, that may count toward the Critical Theory Certificate can be found on the list of approved courses. Students may request a course to count toward the certificate that is not on the list of approved courses by contacting criticaltheory@northwestern.edu. Complete five courses chosen from the list of approved courses, which is updated annually before the beginning of the academic year. Courses for the certificate must be comprised of five letter-graded (A, B, C) courses authorized for graduate credit. Courses counted for the certificate must have a minimum cumulative 3.0 GPA. No more than two courses can be counted towards the certificate from the studentβs degree program. Critical Theory and Literary Studies: Poststructuralism, cultural studies, and postcolonial theory in literary analysis and theory; the influence of psychoanalysis, Marxism, structuralism, semiotics, and post-structuralist thought on contemporary textual analysis; cultural critique and context-centered methodologies. Critical Theory and Philosophy: Themes may include the origins of critical theory in Kant, Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche; the contemporary re-emergence of critical theory in the work of the Frankfurt School; and/or the poststructuralist thinkers such as Derrida and Nancy. Critical Theory and the Study of Politics: The concepts of progress and power in politics and in the study of politics; the sources of modern political critique in the Frankfurt School and phenomenology; the critique of positivism in the social sciences; the critique of sovereignty, identity, and race; empire and post-colonial politics.
The Northwestern University catalog does not list a course sequence for this program.
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