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SCCTMING - Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory

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Program Requirements

Completion requirement

12

Completion requirement

The Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory graduate minor comprises a 12-credit hour graduate curriculum that includes a two-semester set of courses, and two approved elective advanced seminars. At least one of the elective seminars should be from outside the student’s home program.  In addition, graduate students will be expected to include at least one member of the faculty collective from outside their home unit on their orals and dissertation committees. 

CORE COURSES (6 units)

  • course: Introduction to Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory (3)

  • course: Problems in Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory (3)

Completion requirement

Approved Elective Courses 

(Students may petition to count other courses as their elective if they have been permitted entry into the course and it is relevant to their program of study)

ANTHROPOLOGY

  • course: Anthropology of Religion (3)

  • course: Political Ecology (3)

  • course: Anthropology and Education (3)

  • course: History of Anthropological Theory (3)

  • course: History of Anthropological Theory (3)

  • course: Anthropology of Modernity (3)

  • course: Culture and Power (3)

  • course: Anthropology and Global Health (3)

  • course: Cultural Anthropology (1-3)

ARCHITECTURE

  • course: Architecture + Performance (3)

ART HISTORY

  •  course: Theory and Methods in Art History: Renaissance to 1960 (3)

CHINESE STUDIES

  • course: Modern Chinese Literature (3)

EAST ASIAN STUDIES

  • course / course Graduate Readings in Theories and Methods for the Study of Religion (3)

  • course: Creative Humanities and Art Practices: International Perspectives (3)

ENGLISH

  • course: History of Criticism and Theory (3)

  • course: Semiotics and Language (3)

  • course: Studies in Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature and Theory (3)

  • course: Theories of Criticism (3)

  • course: Reader Response Theories (3)

  • course: Contemporary Rhetorical Theories (3)

FRENCH

course: French Theory (3)

GENDER AND WOMEN’S STUDIES

  • course: Latina Feminisms in the Americas (3)

  • course: Gender, Culture, and Capitalism (3)

  • course: Feminist Theories (3)

  • course: Feminist Theories II (3)

  • course: Transnational Feminisms (3)

  • course: Technology and Social Theory (3)

  • course: Moral Politics (3)

  • course: Feminist and Related Social Movements (3)

  • course: Psychoanalysis and Cultural Theory (3)

  • course: Feminist Knowledge and Methods (3)

  • course: Gender and the Law (1-3)

  • course: Latina/o Literary and Cultural Studies (3)

  • course: Queer Theories (3)

  • course: Science and Social Theory (3)

  • course: Sexuality and Aesthetics (3)

  • course: Gender, Sexuality, and International Migration (3)

GEOGRAPHY

  • course: History of Geographic Thought (3)

  • course: Economic Geography (3)

  • course: Cultural Geography (3)

  • course: Urban Geography (3)

  • course: Political Geography (3-9)

  • course: Political Ecology (3)

  • course: Geography and Social Theory (3)

GERMAN STUDIES

  • course: Transcultural and Diasporic Belonging in German-Speaking Contexts (3)

  • course: Criticism and Creativity in German Culture (3)

HIGHER EDUCATION

  • course: Theories of Inequality, Oppression, and Stratification (3)

  • course: Whiteness and Education (3)

  • course: Introduction to Critical Race Theory in Education (3)

  • course: Gender and Education (3)

  • course: Activism in Higher Education (3)

INFORMATION

LAW

  • course: International Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples (1-3)

  • course: Law and Culture (1-3)

  • course: Critical Race Practice (2-3)

  • course: Culture Clash: Tribal Governments in the US Legal System (3)

  • course: CyberLaw (3)

LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE

  • course: Documenting Diverse Cultures and Communities (3)

  • course: Community-Focused Archives and Museums (3)

MEXICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

  • course: The Mexican-American: A Cultural Perspective (3)

  • course: Chicana/o Historiography: Chicana/o Thought (3)

  • course: The Education of Latinas/Latinos (3)

  • course: Advanced Research Methods (3)

MUSIC

SPANISH

  • course: Studies in Spanish-American Nineteenth, Twentieth & Twenty-First Cent. Literature (3)

Completion requirement

SCCT Graduate Committee Member

Students must select one (1) SCCT faculty members from the SCCT Faculty  to represent the minor on their Ph.D. comprehensive examination and final dissertation defense committees. The SCCT faculty committee member should be identified early in the student's program, so they can serve as resources during the student's studies. The SCCT faculty member representing the minor must reside in a home department that is different from the student’s major department.

Completion requirement