COML 4999 - Seminar in Theory

Fall. 4 credits.

Required course for COML Majors.

T. McNulty.

This course is a study of the main trends and issues in contemporary cultural and literary theories, with particular attention to post-structuralism, feminism, queer theory, psychoanalysis, postcolonial studies, and Marxism. Primary readings include Foucault, Butler, Derrida, Zizek, Jameson, Spivak, Sedgwick, and Said.