LITS2306 History of Criticism
(formerly E23F):
this course introduces students to the foundations of aesthetics / critical theory through a survey of
the historical development of the field from the Classical period to the early twentieth
century. The course culminates in a comparison of Anglo-American
Modernism with early Feminist, Post-colonial and African American
perspectives. LITS2306 is the pre-requisite for LITS2307 Modern Critical
Theory. This course is foundational to and, thus, should be done before
doing the other Theory courses.
LITS2307 Modern
Literary Theory (formerly E23G): this course introduces students to several modern
Continental schools of philosophy and critical theory (chosen from Psychoanalysis, Marxism,
and Phenomenology) as well as Feminist, Post-colonial and African American thinkers
who have engaged with these schools. LITS2307 is the pre-requisite
for LITS3304 Post-Structuralisms and Post-colonialisms (below).
LITS3303 Modern Critical Theory (formerly E33C): this course introduces students to several modern
Continental schools of philosophy and critical theory (chosen from
Psychoanalysis, Marxism, and Phenomenology) as well as Feminist,
Post-colonial and African American thinkers who have engaged with these
schools. LITS3303 is the pre-requisite
for LITS3304 Post-Structuralisms and Post-colonialisms (below).
LITS3304
Post-Structuralisms and Post-colonialisms
(formerly E33D):
this course introduces students to several contemporary Continental schools of
philosophy and critical theory that may be grouped under the rubric '(Post-)Structuralism'
(chosen from Deconstruction, Dialogism, Foucauldian and Deleuzean Thought,
Structuralism, Structuralist Psychoanalysis, and Structuralist Marxism) as well as Feminist, Post-colonial and African American
thinkers who have engaged with these schools.
