Cultural, Social, and Political Thought (CSPT)
Faculty of Arts and Science
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 5101
Research Methodology
Credit hours: 1.50
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Advanced investigation of epistemological, ontological, and ethical concerns relating to research methodology.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to a graduate program
Mutually Exclusive:
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 7101
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 5103
Qualitative Interviewing
Credit hours: 1.50
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Advanced exploration of methodological, epistemological, and practical techniques in qualitative interviewing. Emphasis is placed on interview technique, reflexivity, transcription, and interpretation.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to a graduate program
Corequisite(s):Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 5101/Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 7101
Mutually Exclusive:
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 7103
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 5105
Ethnographic Methods
Credit hours: 1.50
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Advanced exploration of core ethnographic techniques and approaches. Includes consideration of critical issues concerning the positioning of the researcher (in terms of 'insider' and 'outsider' perspectives) and the transformation of qualitative data into text.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to a graduate program
Corequisite(s):Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 5101/Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 7101
Mutually Exclusive:
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 7105
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 5107
Discourse Analysis
Credit hours: 1.50
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Advanced exploration of the concept of discourse, theoretical models of discourse, and the different approaches used in the analysis of discourse.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to a graduate program
Corequisite(s):Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 5101/Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 7101
Mutually Exclusive:
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 7107
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 5201
Feminism, Gender, and Sovereignty
Credit hours: 1.50
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Advanced exploration of texts, theories, and actions that animate feminist thought and interrogate gender as a form of social order and control, as well as the social conditions and conflicts in which feminist ideas and practice arise and circulate.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to a graduate program
Mutually Exclusive:
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 7201
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 5207
Culture and History
Credit hours: 1.50
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Advanced exploration of cultural theory and history in Weberian and related traditions. Topics may include historical relations between culture and social practice, and processes of modernization and rationalization as they apply to identity, status, and power.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to a graduate program
Mutually Exclusive:
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 7207
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 5301
Queering Feminism, Gender, and Power
Credit hours: 1.50
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Advanced exploration of texts and theories that disrupt social normativities, as well as the study of the social conditions and conflicts in which queer and feminist thought arise and circulate.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to a graduate program
Mutually Exclusive:
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 7301
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 5303
Critical Theory
Credit hours: 1.50
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Advanced exploration of critical theories of society, culture, and communications. Topics may include hegemony, legitimation, transgression, ideology, and reification.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to a graduate program
Mutually Exclusive:
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 7303
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 5305
Postmodernism/Poststructuralism
Credit hours: 1.50
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Advanced exploration of key debates concerning representation, power, identity, and late capitalism. This course may outline postmodernism and poststructuralism as distinct but overlapping philosophical and artistic traditions that inform the politics of signification, discourse, ideology, and recent economic transformations.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to a graduate program
Mutually Exclusive:
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 7305
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 5307
Settler Colonialism and Postcolonialism
Credit hours: 1.50
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Advanced exploration of historical conditions of (post) Colonialism and Colonial dimensions of multiculturalism. This course may examine the complexities and contradictions within black liberation discourse, diasporic studies, critical multiculturalism, anti-Colonial struggle, and recent discussions of hybridity.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to a graduate program
Mutually Exclusive:
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 7307
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 5701
Professional Skills Seminar
Credit hours: 1.50
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
A series of workshops and presentations relating to the practical aspects of academic study, the development of professional skills, and the enhancement of critical scholarly practices.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to a graduate program
Grading:Pass/Fail
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 5850
Topics in Cultural, Social, and Political Thought
Credit hours: 1.50
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Selected topics to be offered as determined by student program needs and available University resources. Topics may include auto-ethnography, archival research and historical methods, and visual methods.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to a graduate program (Additional Prerequisites may be specified, including any recommended background, for individual offerings)
Mutually Exclusive:
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 7850
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 7101
Research Methodology
Credit hours: 1.50
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Advanced investigation of epistemological, ontological, and ethical concerns relating to research methodology.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to a graduate program
Mutually Exclusive:
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 5101
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 7103
Qualitative Interviewing
Credit hours: 1.50
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Advanced exploration of methodological, epistemological, and practical techniques in qualitative interviewing. Emphasis is placed on interview technique, reflexivity, transcription, and interpretation.
Corequisite(s):Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 7101/Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 5101
Mutually Exclusive:
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 5103
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 7105
Ethnographic Methods
Credit hours: 1.50
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Advanced exploration of core ethnographic techniques and approaches. Includes consideration of critical issues concerning the positioning of the researcher (in terms of 'insider' and 'outsider' perspectives) and the transformation of qualitative data into text.
Corequisite(s):Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 7101/Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 5101
Mutually Exclusive:
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 5105
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 7107
Discourse Analysis
Credit hours: 1.50
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Advanced exploration of the concept of discourse, theoretical models of discourse, and the different approaches used in the analysis of discourse.
Corequisite(s):Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 7101/Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 5101
Mutually Exclusive:
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 5107
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 7201
Feminism, Gender, and Sovereignty
Credit hours: 1.50
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Advanced exploration of texts, theories, and actions that animate feminist thought and interrogate gender as a form of social order and control, as well as the social conditions and conflicts in which feminist ideas and practice arise and circulate.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to a graduate program
Mutually Exclusive:
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 5201
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 7207
Culture and History
Credit hours: 1.50
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Advanced exploration of cultural theory and history in Weberian and related traditions. Topics may include historical relations between culture and social practice, and processes of modernization and rationalization as they apply to identity, status, and power.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to a graduate program
Mutually Exclusive:
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 5207
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 7301
Queering Feminism, Gender, and Power
Credit hours: 1.50
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Advanced exploration of texts and theories that disrupt social normativities, as well as the study of the social conditions and conflicts in which queer and feminist thought arise and circulate.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to a graduate program
Mutually Exclusive:
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 5301
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 7303
Critical Theory
Credit hours: 1.50
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Advanced exploration of critical theories of society, culture, and communications. Topics may include hegemony, legitimation, transgression, ideology, and reification.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to a graduate program
Mutually Exclusive:
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 5303
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 7305
Postmodernism/Poststructuralism
Credit hours: 1.50
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Advanced exploration of key debates concerning representation, power, identity, and late capitalism. This course may outline postmodernism and poststructuralism as distinct but overlapping philosophical and artistic traditions that inform the politics of signification, discourse, ideology, and recent economic transformations.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to a graduate program
Mutually Exclusive:
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 5305
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 7307
Settler Colonialism and Postcolonialism
Credit hours: 1.50
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Advanced exploration of historical conditions of (post) colonialism and colonial dimensions of multiculturalism. This course may examine the complexities and contradictions within black liberation discourse, diasporic studies, critical multiculturalism, anti-colonial struggle, and recent discussions of hybridity.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to a graduate program
Mutually Exclusive:
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 5307
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 7701
Professional Skills Seminar
Credit hours: 1.50
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
A series of workshops and presentations relating to the practical aspects of academic study, the development of professional skills, and the enhancement of critical scholarly practices.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to the Ph.D. program
Grading:Pass/Fail
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 7850
Topics in Cultural, Social, and Political Thought
Credit hours: 1.50
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Selected topics to be offered as determined by student program needs and available University resources. Topics may include auto-ethnography, archival research and historical methods, and visual methods.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to a graduate program (Additional prerequisites may be specified, including any recommended background, for individual offerings)
Mutually Exclusive:
Cultural, Social, and Political Thought 5850