Courses
The courses listed here are examples of those that fulfill certificate requirements, but appropriate courses may be substituted. Selected upper-level undergraduate courses have been included at the recommendation of program faculty.
Program in Media and Modernity
500 Topics in Literary and Cultural Theory: Art Media Theory
(Doherty and Levin)
500 Art/Architecture (Allen and Foster)
500 Dada: Art or Anti-Art? Aesthetics, Ethics, and Politics in the Face
of Catastrophe (Doherty and Foster)
500 The Situationist International and Learning from Las Vegas
(Colomina and da Costa Meyer)
500 Topics in Media and Modernity (Foster and Levin)
500 Signal to Noise (Joseph and Levin)
500 Modern Architecture as Surveillance (Colomina and Levin)
500 Reading Photographic Writing: An Introduction to the Study
of Photography (Cadava and Jennings)
Program in American Studies
314 Children's Television: History, Politics, Economics
341 The 1950s (Weissman-Joselit)
368 American Museums: History, Theory, and Practices (McCauley)
376 American Art and Culture: The 1960s (Wilmerding)
Anthropology
413 Cultures and Critical Translation (Boon)
501 Proseminar in Anthropology (Boon)
570 The Culture Concept: Contestations (Boon)
Architecture
302 Architecture and the Visual Arts (Papapetros)
403 Topics in the History and Theory of Architecture (Ingraham)
456 Glass in Architecture (Diller)
525 Mapping the City (Boyer)
526 Magic, Machines, and Architecture (Eigen)
539 Situating Knowledge: Critical Intersections of Architecture and Science
(Eigen)
548 Histories and Theories of Architecture: 18th and 19th Centuries (Eigen)
549 Histories and Theories of Architecture: 20th Century (Papapetros/Cohen)
550 Urbanism and the City of Modernity (Boyer)
551 Analysis and Theory of Modern Architecture (Colomina)
552 The Architecture of Psychoanalysis: Topography, Creativity, Form
(Papapetros)
554 Animation: Art, Architecture, History (Papapetros)
557 Technology in History and Modernity (Crary)
565 The History and Theory of Landscape Design (Eigen)
571 Research in Architecture (Colomina)
572 Research in Architecture (Boyer)
572 Feminism, Space, and Visuality (Grosz)
576 Architecture and Media (Colomina)
577 Topics in Architectural Theory: Inside Architecture (Lavin)
584 Memory and Counter-Memory (Rajchman)
588 Dynamic Logics in Architecture (Reiser)
590 Formalisms (Whiting)
591 Feminism, Space, and Visuality (Grosz)
598 Strategies of Description (Diller)
Art and Archaeology
270 Photography and Society (McCauley)
330 Photography and Literature (Jennings)
331 Weimar Germany: Painting, Photography, Film (Doherty)
346 Architecture and the Visual Arts (Papapetros)
348 Masters and Movements of 20th-Century Photography (McCauley)
368 American Museums: History, Theory, and Practices (McCauley)
376 American Art and Culture: The 1960s (Wilmerding)
452 Modernism: The Ends of Art (Warnock)
454 History of Photography (McCauley)
454 Inventing Photography in the Collodion Era
562 American Modernisms: The Art and Artists of the Stieglitz Circle (DeLue)
563 Gesamtkunstwerk (da Costa Meyer)
563 Seminar in Modern Architecture (da Costa Meyer)
564 19th Century Art (Alsdorf)
565 Seminar in Modern Art and Theory (Foster)
565 Dada: Art or Anti-Art? Aesthetics, Ethics, and Politics in the Face
of Catastrophe (Doherty and Foster)
566 Seminar in Modernist Art and Theory: Modernism and the Unconscious
(Doherty)
566 Seminar in Contemporary Art and Theory (Foster)
566 Toward a Critical Dictionary of Postwar Terms (Foster)
567 Photography and World War I (McCauley)
587 Montage: History and Theory (Doherty)
Comparative Literature
340 Literature and Photography (Cadava)
403 The Aesthetic Movement: Forms of Excitement (Corngold)
534 Aesthetic Theory: The Ambiguous "Image" (Brodsky)
534 Critical Aesthetic Theory: Lessing, Diderot, Baudelaire, Benjamin
(Brodsky)
535 Dialectic and Difference (Brodsky)
535 Contemporary Critical Theories: Space, Fiction, Freedom (Draper)
Computer Science
436 Human-Computer Interface Technology (Cook)
Program in European Cultural Studies
320 Totalitarianism and Culture (Rabinbach)
321 Cultural Explosion: Avant-garde and Dictatorship in the Soviet
Union (Kotkin)
340 Literature and Photography (Cadava)
340 Communication and the Arts: Literature and Photography (Cadava)
342 Radio, the Avant-Garde, and the Sound of Modernity (Gallo)
345 Modernism and Modernity in Literature and the Visual Arts (Doherty)
370 Weimar Germany: Painting, Photography, Film (Doherty)
English
563 Poetics: Poetry and Difficulty (Wood)
565 The Victorian Novel: Taking Society More Seriously
(Nunokawa)
568 Contemporary Theory (Fuss)
571 Literary and Cultural Theory: Freud's Toolbox (Fuss)
572 Selected Topics in Criticism and Theory (Cadava)
French
363 The 20th Century French Novel (Trezise)
391 Topics in French Cinema: The Shoah in French Film (Trezise)
526 Seminar in 19th and 20th Century French Literature: Literature
of the Holocaust (Trezise)
526 Seminar in 19th and 20th Century French Literature: The Work
of Beckett (Trezise)
583 Contemporary Theories of Subjectivity, Language, and the Relation
Between Them (Trezise)
583 Seminar in Romance Linguistics and Literary Theory:
Michel Foucault (Huet)
German
306 Mass Culture Theory of the Frankfurt School (Jennings)
306 Rhetorics of Surveillance (Levin)
320 The Romantic Quest (Corngold)
326 German Media Theory: Rhetorics of Surveillance (Levin)
370 Weimar Germany: Painting, Photography, Film (Doherty)
371 Art in Germany Since 1960 (Doherty)
372 Writing About Art: Plato to Plath (Doherty)
373 Modernist Colloquies: Photography and Literature (Jennings)
374 Modernism and Modernity in Literature and the Visual Arts
(Doherty)
390 Photography and Literature (Jennings)
516 Figures of Thought: Walter Benjamin's "Short Forms" (Jennings)
516 Kafka Berfore the Law (Corngold)
516 Topics in Twentieth Century Literature: Robert Musil(Jennings)
517 The Great War and Modern German Memory (Corngold)
517 Modernism and Modernity (Doherty and Jennings)
517 Modernism and Modernity: Weimar Baroque (Fore)
520 Image, Interior, Archive (Doherty)
520 Affect, Technology, Value (Doherty)
520 Dada: Art or Anti-Art? Aesthetics, Ethics, and Politics in the Face
of Catastrophe (Doherty and Foster)
520 Montage: History and Theory (Doherty)
521A Frankfurt School Cultural Theory (Jennings and Levin)
521B Nietzsche, Kafka, Heidegger (Corngold)
523 Lyric Poetry (Corngold)
524 Kafka in Sebald and Coetzee (Corngold)
524A The Modernist Novel in German (Corngold)
525 Regimes of Spectacle in Weimar Cinema (Levin)
525 Early German Cinema (Levin)
526 Viennese Modernism (Corngold)
526 Stefan George and his Wider Circle (Corngold)
530 The Function of the Aesthetic: Fashion as Historical Force
(Menninghaus)
565 Seminar in Modernist Art and Theory: Modernism and the Unconscious
(Doherty)
History
561 Intellectual History of Europe since 1880 (Rabinbach)
561 Europe in the 20th Century (Rabinbach and Nachar)
561 Technologies and Their Societies: Historical Perspectives (Thompson)
554 Europe Since 1939 (James/Gross)
561 Intellectual and Cultural History of Modern Europe (Rabinbach)
563 20th Century European History (Kotkin)
563 20th Century European History: Interwar Europe (Rabinbach)
Program in History of Science
595 Introductory Colloquium to the History of Science (Creager)
598 Computers and Organisms (Creager and Mahoney)
599 Introduction to Sound Studies (Thompson)
Music
514 Topics in 19th and Early 20th Century Music: Music and Film
(Morrison/Crist
537 Points of Focus in 20th Century Music (Lansky and Mackey)
545 Contexts of Composition (Lansky)
588 Computer Music Composition (Cook and Trueman)
Philosophy
530 Philosophy of Art (Nehemas)
Slavic Languages and Literatures
336 The Russian Avant-Garde: Art, Film , Object (Fore)
410 Bakhtin, the Russian Formalists, and Cultural Semiotics (Emerson)
531 Bakhtin, the Formalists, and the Tartu School (Emerson)
Sociology
344 Communications, Culture, and Society (Starr)
502 Contemporary Social Theory (DiMaggio)
530 Comparative History of Communications and Culture (Starr)
530W Selected Topics in Social Processes: Sociology of Culture (DiMaggio)
Spanish and Portuguese
250 Magic Lanterns (Gallo)
342 The Wireless Imagination, Radio and the Avant-garde (Gallo)
351 Topics in the Culture of Cities: Buenos Aires, Havana, Mexico City
(Gallo)
548 Freud and the Non-European: Psychoanalysis and Nationalism (Gallo)
548 Visual Culture and New Media in 1990's Mexico City (Gallo)
Program in the Study of Women and Gender
311 Gender, Crime, and Media Culture (Chancer)
Program in Visual Arts
442 Film Theory (Sitney and Levin)