Courses
Students curious about the program are enouraged to take CST 100, Introduction to Critical Social Thought.
Majors work closely with their advisors when choosing courses from among the following six fields:
- Social and Political Theory: On key tendencies and genres of critical inquiry, and competing conceptions of freedom, power, justice, and the good life
- Order and Transformation: On the interplay between continuity and change, stability and disorder, tradition and experimentation in thought and practice
- Cultural Expression and Social Reality: On the interpenetration of cultural representations, modes of perception, technological innovations, and practical reality
- Class and Political Economy: On different social organizations of material production and their implications for relations among individuals, social groups, regions, and peoples
- Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality: On racial power relations, colonial and postcolonial identities, ethnic and communal solidarities and hostilities, and varieties of nationalism
- Gender and Sexuality: On identities and relations grounded in the masculine/feminine distinction; and their transformation by ordinary and unconventional selves, marginal subcultures, social movements, and state policy
Majors are also required to take the Seminar in Critical Social Thought, a one-semester, 300-level, speaking and writing course in which they prepare and present a final analytical/research paper.
