Major Requirements
The major in Critical Theory and Social Justice requires eleven courses (44 units).
COURSEWORK
Students must complete the six required courses listed below.
Required Courses
| CTSJ 100 | Introduction to Critical Theory | 4 units |
| CTSJ 102 | Justice Bootcamp | 4 units |
| CTSJ 300 | Research Methods and Critical Inquiry | 4 units |
| CTSJ 390 | CTSJ Junior Seminar: Interventions | 4 units |
| CTSJ 398 | Social Justice Practicum | 4 units |
| CTSJ 490 | Senior Seminar in Critical Theory - Social Justice | 4 units |
The Junior Seminar will be offered during the spring semester. Students planning to travel abroad during their junior year should do so in the fall semester and may seek approval of the department chair to have one study abroad class count as a CTSJ elective. All requests must include the following: the course syllabus, all assignments completed for the particular class, and the proper completed form from either IPO or the Registrar's Office.
Additional Electives
Students must complete five additional CTSJ electives: one course at the 100-level, one course at the 200-level, and at least two courses at the 300-level. Two of these electives must be methods courses selected from the list below.
Methods
| CTSJ 104 | The New Queer Politics of the Middle East | 4 units |
| CTSJ 108 | Climate, Refugees and Global Reactionary Authoritarianism | 4 units |
| CTSJ 202 | The Promise and Failure of Postmodern Politics: Foucault in the Iranian Revolution | 4 units |
| CTSJ 215/WRD 215 | Language and Power | 4 units |
| CTSJ 285 | Foucault | 4 units |
| CTSJ 310 | Qualitative Interview Methods | 4 units |
| CTSJ 340 | Critical Ethnography | 4 units |
| CTSJ 357 | Law and Empire | 4 units |
| CTSJ 360 | Feminist Methodologies | 4 units |
| CTSJ 384 | Bataille | 4 units |
Students may also apply CTSJ 295 to the Methods requirement only if they have enrolled in the following sections of the course:
- Black Popular Culture // The Black Digital Age
- Blackness, Gender, and Sexuality
- Critical Theory and Psychopathology
CTSJ 395 may apply to the Methods requirement only if students enrolled in the following sections of the course:
- White Queer Theory
- Indigenous Literature as Decolonial Praxis
- Chattel Slavery and It's Afterlives