Social, Cultural, & Critical Theory
A PhD Minor and Graduate Certificate for other graduate and professional students. Students work with faculty from across seven colleges on such major theoretical traditions as:
- Postmodernism
- Phenomenology
- Postcolonial studies
- Historical materialism
- Cultural studies
- Critical legal studies
- The Frankfurt School
- Psychoanalysis
- Race
- Gender
- Sexuality studies
- Queer theory
Students will egage new movements and directions in social, cultural, and critical theory such as:
- Actor-network theory
- Affect
- Anthropocene studies
- Biopolitics
- Border theory
- Critical area studies
- Theories of financialization
- Critical science studies
- Media geographies
- New materialisms
- Object-oriented ontology
- Posthumanism
- Post-secular theory
- Race critical theory
- Somatechnics
- Trans* theory
- Game studies
- Performance studies
- Visual culture
- And more...