GER 570

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Modern Critical Theory

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Credit: 4 hours.

Comprehensive introduction to the foundational thinkers, texts, and schools that orient contemporary work in the humanities, from German Idealism to Cultural Studies, Queer Theory, and Postcolonial Theory, among others. The course is intended primarily for beginning graduate students, but also for those who feel they have not covered the development of critical theory in a systematic way. The course will include significant discussion of figures including: Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Adorno, Lacan, Derrida, Foucault, Said, Spivak. Among the topics we will address are: history, the subject, aesthetics, value, power, language, ideology, materiality, gender, sexuality, race, and technology/media studies.

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GER 570 class schedule data for spring 2025
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	39188	Lecture-Discussion	G	3:00PM -5:00PM	W	Literatures, Cultures, & Ling	Hilger, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/25-05/07/25 Section Info: Medical Humanities, and its extension, the Health Humanities, are a growing field of research and teaching with implications far beyond the humanities. This seminar will begin with an overview of the history of and the major debates in the discipline. We will then familiarize ourselves with specific subsets and related fields such as narrative medicine, graphic medicine, public health humanities, translational health humanities, and veterinary humanities. We will also investigate Medical/Health Humanities’ intersections with the study of race, gender, and disability. In addition to narratives by patients and physicians, we will read Susan Sontag’s Illness as Metaphor, MK Czerwiec’s Graphic Medicine Manifesto, Viet Than Nguyen’s The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, Tobin Siebers’ Disability Theory, Anne Fausto Sterling’s Sexing the Body, and Barbara Natterson-Horowitz’ Zoobiquity, among others. Meets with CWL 571