Advanced Contemporary Theory

3 credits · Graduate

This course offers advanced study of an array of competing constructions of text and culture, drawing on a range of contemporary critical approaches and practices, such as structuralism, poststructuralism, deconstruction, discourse analysis, postmodernism, (post-)Marxism, feminist and gender theory, psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, new historicism, and cultural studies. This course may be repeated to a maximum of 6 credit hours with permission of the instructor and Department Chair if the subject matter of the course differs substantially.