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Pratt Part-Time Faculty: Introduction to Theory and Critique (71103) in Brooklyn, New York
The Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute is calling for applicants towards the Fall 2024 semester to join our part-time faculty community. The Social Science and Cultural Studies program is home to an interdisciplinary major and several minors, and serves the Institute by providing courses towards Pratt’s General Education core and post-core curriculum.
The SSCS department is looking for instructors to teach two sections of Introduction to Theory and Critique on Pratt’s Brooklyn campus in Fall 2024. Pratt's Introduction to Theory and Critique course meets once per week for three hours.
The sections will meet:
Friday 9:00 am - 11:50 pm.
Friday 2:00 pm - 4:50 pm.
Introduction to Theory and Critique:
This course is an introduction to core concepts in critical theory from the critical traditions of Marxism, psychoanalysis, feminism, queer theory, postcolonial studies, and critical race studies. Students learn the theoretical foundations of concepts such as critique, ideology, power, subjectivity, freedom, and resistance and discuss their political relevance for understanding gender, class, race, and ethnicity, and the histories of capitalism, colonialism, and migration across geographies and social contexts.