This certificate offers students a background in philosophical foundations of critical theory. Drawing on disciplines such as philosophy, psychoanalysis, Marxism, literary criticism and sociology, critical theory develops analytical tools for describing and evaluating modern society and cultural production.
Requirements
Procedures
To complete the certificate program a student must:
- Enroll in the certificate program by emailing the Certificate Director and the Graduate Program Assistant, Karen Hawley.
- Once a student has completed the requirements for the certificate, they should complete the Certificate Completion Worksheet and submit it to the Graduate Program Assistant, Karen Hawley. Note: Worksheet should be submitted the semester the student competes the certificate requirements (or any semester thereafter); certificate is awarded when the student completes their graduate program. Once the director has approved the worksheet, and once student completes their graduate program, the certificate will be added to the student's transcript.
Graduate Certificate Forms and Links
For more information contact the Certificate Director or the Graduate Program Assistant, Karen Hawley, (303) 492-3529.
Required Courses and Credits
A total of 12 credit hours are required for completion of the certificate. Of those, 6 credits are earned through a two-course core sequence designed to provide the intellectual history and philosophical foundations for contemporary research directions in critical theory. Students must also take two electives in theory. These courses may be from the list below, and students can also request that the director approve other theory courses.
Students must obtain a grade of B or above in each course taken toward the certificate.
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Required Courses | ||
| Students are required to take the following 2 core graduate courses. Although they may be taken in any order, we encourage students to take them in order when possible. Neither of these courses may be taken as an independent study. | ||
| GRMN 5030 | Foundations of Critical Theory | 3 |
| GRMN 5051 | Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School | 3 |
| Electives | ||
| Select two additional elective courses in theory from the list below. Students may also submit a request to the director to recognize courses not listed by submitting a copy of the current syllabus. (Except under extraordinary circumstance, independent study courses do not count toward the graduate certificate.) | 6 | |
| Advanced Seminar in Cultural Anthropology | ||
| Seminar: Contemporary Theory in Cultural Anthropology | ||
| Seminar: Ethnography and Cultural Theory | ||
| Topics in Film Theory | ||
| Colloquium in Film Aesthetics | ||
| Seminar: Methods/Theories of Art History | ||
| Communication Research and Theory | ||
| Rhetorical Theory | ||
| Social and Cultural Theory | ||
| Survey of Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory | ||
| Advanced Special Topics | ||
| Environmental Philosophy | ||
| Indigenous Thought and Theory: Foundations in NAIS | ||
| Literary Theory, Part I | ||
| Special Topics: Geography | ||
| Development Geography | ||
| Seminar: Cultural Geography | ||
| Readings in Cultural History and Theory | ||
| Readings in European Intellectual History | ||
| Seminar: U.S. Intellectual History | ||
| Linguistic Anthropology | ||
| Language and Gender in Cultural Perspective | ||
| Syntactic Theory | ||
| Media Theories | ||
| Critical Theories of Media and Culture | ||
| Proseminar in Media Communication Theory 1 | ||
| Proseminar in Media and Communication Theory 2 | ||
| Contemporary Moral Theory | ||
| Contemporary Political Philosophy | ||
| Seminar in Environmental Philosophy | ||
| Philosophy of Mind | ||
| Philosophy of Language | ||
| Seminar: Political Theory | ||
| Graduate Seminar in Sociological Theory | ||
| Feminist Theory | ||
| Seminar: Critical Approaches to Iberian & Latin American Literatures and Cultures | ||
| Feminist Theories | ||
| Queer Theories | ||
| Total Credit Hours | 12 | |