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Current and Archived Syllabi
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The Introductory and Intermediate Courses
Introduction to Critical Social Thought is a 100-level course recommended for students who are curious about the program. Majors may take all of the intermediate core courese, but must take two: either 249 or 250, and one of the following: 251, 252, 253, 254, 255.
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The Capstone Course
The Seminar in Critical Social Thought is a one-semester, 300-level, speaking and writing course in which students will prepare and present a final analytical/research paper on some aspect of their CST theme. Required for all critical social thouht majors.
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The Fields and Illustrative Courses
ISIS: most current information about MHC course offering.
Social and Political Theory: On key tendencies and genres of critical inquiry, and competing conceptions of freedom, power, justice, and the good life. (more)
- Philosophy 201, Philosophical Foundations of Western Thought: The Greek Period
- Philosophy 350, Social and Political Philosophy
- Sociology 223, Development of Social Thought
- Sociology 333, Contemporary Social Theory
- Politics 391, Contemporary Political Ideas:The Idea of Conservatism
- English 334, Projects in Critical Social Thought
- English 349, Globalization's Ghosts: Neo-liberalism and Literature
- Religion 323, Feminist Theologies
Order and Transformation: On the interplay between continuity and change, stability and disorder, tradition and experimentation in thought and practice. (more)
- Russian and Eurasian Studies 350, Revolutions
- Art 342, Seminar in Twentieth-Century Art: Reconstructing Modernity
- History 141,Violence and Social Change in Modern Africa
- Politics 345, Memories of Over-development
- History 150/Medieval Studies 102, Europe and the Atlantic World, 1300-1700
Cultural Expression and Social Reality: On the interpenetration of cultural representations, modes of perception, technological innovations, and practical reality.
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- Art 243, Building the Modern Environment:Architecture 1890-1990
- Religion 230, Spirituals and the Blues
- History 301, Reading the New York Times:Journalism, Power, History
- History 241,African Popular Culture
- English 325,Victorian Literature and Visual Culture
Class and Political Economy: On different social organizations of material production and their implications for relations among individuals, social groups, regions, and peoples. (more)
- Economics 209, US Economic History
- Economics 210, Marxian Economic Theory
- Economics 315, History of Economic Thought
- Geography 311, Third World Development
- Latin American Studies 289, Slavery in the Americas
- Economics 314, Economic Development in the Age of Globalization
- Anthropology 212, Shopping and Swapping: Cultures of Consumption and Exchange
- Educational Studies 260, Mission and Market: Higher Education
Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality: On racial power relations, colonial and postcolonial identities, ethnic and communal solidarities and hostilities, and varieties of nationalism.
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- Film Studies 320, Topics in National/Transnational Cinemas: Specters, Mon-sters, and the Mind
- History 323, Germans, Slavs, and Jews: 1900-1950
- Educational Studies 240, Researching Race and Racism in Education
- English 375, The Conceptual Black Body in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Visual Culture
- Anthropology 316, Globalization and Transnationalism
- Latin American Studies 388/History 388,Postmodernism and Latin America
- Politics 380, The Politics of Ethnic Conflict
Gender and Sexuality: On identities and relations grounded in the masculine/femi-nine distinction; and their transformation by ordinary and unconventional selves, marginal subcultures, social movements, and state policy. (more)
- English 286, Sexuality and Women's Writing
- History 276,American Women's History since 1890
- Sociology 305/Gender Studies 333, Sociol-ogy of Gender
- Religion 207/Gender Studies 210,Women and Gender in Islam
- Religion 306/Gender Studies 333, Sex and the Early Church
- History 301/Gender Studies 333, Bodily Desires: Sexuality in the U.S. from 1900 to the Present
