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- CSLC - Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture
- CTSJ - Critical Theory and Social Justice
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2026-2027 Catalog > Course Descriptions > CTSJ - Critical Theory and Social Justice

CTSJ - Critical Theory and Social Justice

CTSJ 100 Introduction to Critical Theory
CTSJ 101 Tools for Social Justice Activism
CTSJ 103 Justice
CTSJ 104 The New Queer Politics of the Middle East
CTSJ 105 Immigration and Education
CTSJ 106 Representing the Metropolis
CTSJ 107 Introduction to Postcolonial Studies
CTSJ 108 Climate, Refugees and Global Reactionary Authoritarianism
CTSJ 115 Technologies of Resistance in the Middle East and North Africa
CTSJ 120 Power and Politics
CTSJ 138 Introduction to Comparative Genocide Studies
CTSJ 140 Critical Theories of Sexuality
CTSJ 158 The Politics of Holocaust Memory
CTSJ 160 Introduction to Feminist Studies
CTSJ 170 Diasporic Los Angeles: Cultural Narratives of Migration and (Un)Belonging
CTSJ 180 Stupidity
CTSJ 190 How to Build the Revolution: Marxist Theories of Organization
CTSJ 195 Topics in Critical Theory and Social Justice
CTSJ 197 Independent Study
CTSJ 201 Environmental Injustice: Race, Poverty, and The Law
CTSJ 202 The Promise and Failure of Postmodern Politics: Foucault in the Iranian Revolution
CTSJ 203 Disabilities, Schooling, & Sports
CTSJ 204 Torture, Sex, and Metaphysics: Dehumanization Before Abu Ghraib and After
CTSJ 205 ‘Somebody’s Watching Me:’ Everything you wanted to know about conspiracy theories but were too afraid to ask
CTSJ 206 The Middle East & North Africa in the Forever Wars
CTSJ 207 Transformative Justice and Care Praxis
CTSJ 210 Mother Goose to Mother F*!@#$: Children's Lit/Popular Texts
CTSJ 212 Conquest by Law: US Imperialism and Slavery
CTSJ 214 Legal Tools for Social Change
CTSJ 213 Women's Work
CTSJ 215 Language and Power
CTSJ 219 Triumphs and Tribulations of Title IX
CTSJ 220 Intersectionality: Theory and Practice
CTSJ 221 Inequity and the Law
CTSJ 227 Decolonizing Education
CTSJ 228 Theories of Antisemitism
CTSJ 232 The Holocaust: History, Memory, and Justice
CTSJ 235 Exploring Critical Race Theory: Intersections of Law, Power, and Justice
CTSJ 240 Advertising, Identity, and Power + SeeHer Certification
CTSJ 250 Resistance Movements and the Law
CTSJ 255 Women of Color Feminisms
CTSJ 259 Bodies for Exchange: Migrations, Markets, Politics
CTSJ 260 Culture, Resistance, and the Politics of Human Rights in the Americas
CTSJ 270 Children and Childhood
CTSJ 271 Property
CTSJ 280 Rastafari
CTSJ 285 Foucault
CTSJ 290 Asian American Radical Movements
CTSJ 293 Directed Research
CTSJ 295 Topics in Critical Theory and Social Justice
CTSJ 297 Independent Study
CTSJ 300 Research Methods and Critical Inquiry
CTSJ 301 From Testimonio to Ethnography: Critical Qualitative Methods in Latine & Latin American Studies
CTSJ 305 Carceral Aesthetics and Abolitionist Poetics
CTSJ 310 Critical Human Rights Studies
CTSJ 311 Children, Poverty, and Public Policies
CTSJ 315 Racialization of Space
CTSJ 340 Critical Ethnography
CTSJ 342 Fatness
CTSJ 350 Melancholy and Ressentiment in the Postcolonial: What Comes After Postcolonialism?
CTSJ 361 Gender, Race, and Nationality in Latin American and Latinx Film
CTSJ 369 Clinical Psychology Laboratory
CTSJ 370 Transnational Feminisms
CTSJ 375 Indigenous Feminisms
CTSJ 376 Settler Colonialism Studies
CTSJ 384 Bataille
CTSJ 386 Blackness and Anti-Blackness
CTSJ 390 CTSJ Junior Seminar: Advanced Critical Theory
CTSJ 393 Directed Research
CTSJ 394 Critical Theory and Social Justice Journal of Undergraduate Research Colloquium
CTSJ 395 Special Topics in Critical Theory and Social Justice
CTSJ 397 Independent Study
CTSJ 398 Social Justice Practicum
CTSJ 399 Advanced Research Methods: Topics in Guided Collaborative Research
CTSJ 490 Senior Seminar in Critical Theory and Social Justice
CTSJ 497 Independent Study

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