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PhD Minor
PhD MinorOverview
The PhD minor in Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts offers rigorous, structured training for students interested in the interdisciplinary intersection of philosophy with criticism in literature and the arts.
Application and Admission
Students declare the minor in their first year by submitting an Application for PhD Minor eForm via Axess.
Requirements
Program Requirements
Core Seminar
The Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts Core Seminar is team-taught by faculty from philosophy and a literature or arts department.
DLCL 333
Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts Core Seminar
Two Additional Courses
Two additional courses at the 200 level or above deemed by the Committee in Charge to include material of substantial special relevance to the domain of philosophy, literature, and the arts.
At least one of these courses should be offered in a participating department other than the student’s major department (e.g., a philosophy course for students in literature and arts departments, a literature or arts course for philosophy students).
AMSTUD 255D
Identity in the American Imagination
CHINA 371
Posthumanism, Biopolitics, and the Anthropocene in Science Fiction: A Comparative Perspective
CLASSICS 201G
Greek Core I: History of Literature
CLASSICS 202G
Greek Core II: Philosophy, Poetry, and the Arts
CLASSICS 293
Archaeology and Environmental Aesthetics
CLASSICS 381
Classical Seminar: Origins of Political Thought
COMPLIT 371
Posthumanism, Biopolitics, and the Anthropocene in Science Fiction: A Comparative Perspective
COMPLIT 376
How to Think About Catastrophe Toward a Theory of Enlightened Doomsaying
ENGLISH 218
Literature and the Brain
ENGLISH 250A
Character: Studies in Fictional Being
ENGLISH 283
The Sublime and the Ugly
ENGLISH 300A
Theories and Methods in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity
ENGLISH 303A
The Interruption of the Machine: Introduction to Sound Studies through Literature
ENGLISH 313
Performance and Performativity
ENGLISH 366F
Media Theory for Literary Studies
FEMGEN 313
Performance and Performativity
FEMGEN 314
Performing Identities
FILMEDIA 306
Media and Mediums
FRENCH 317
Love, Death and the Afterlife in the Medieval West
FRENCH 319
Sex, Gender, and the Body in Renaissance France
FRENCH 328
Literature, Narrative, and the Self
FRENCH 367
How to Think About Catastrophe Toward a Theory of Enlightened Doomsaying
GERMAN 331
German Literature (1700-1900)
GERMAN 332
German Literature 3: Museum of Modern Poetry
HISTORY 317D
Love, Death and the Afterlife in the Medieval West
HISTORY 355D
Identity in the American Imagination
ILAC 368
Law and (non-)Humanities in Latin America
ILAC 384
Nationalism, Cultural and Political
ITALIAN 317
Love, Death and the Afterlife in the Medieval West
MTL 334A
Concepts of Modernity I: Queer Theory - Literature, Performance, and Art
MTL 334B
Concepts of Modernity II: Aesthetics and Phenomenology
MUSIC 303
The Interruption of the Machine: Introduction to Sound Studies through Literature
PHIL 237
Wittgenstein
PHIL 276A
Classical Seminar: Origins of Political Thought
PHIL 325
Kant's Third Critique
PHIL 335
Topics in Contemporary Aesthetics
POLISCI 330A
Classical Seminar: Origins of Political Thought
POLISCI 337R
How to Think About Catastrophe Toward a Theory of Enlightened Doomsaying
RELIGST 333
Comparative Mysticism
SLAVIC 346
The Russian Novel: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and More
TAPS 302
The Interruption of the Machine: Introduction to Sound Studies through Literature
TAPS 313
Performance and Performativity
TAPS 314
Performing Identities
Two Minor Field Courses
All students take two graduate-level courses providing a structured program of coursework in the student’s minor field (such as philosophy for literature and arts students or literary or arts criticism for philosophy students):
Graduate students in Philosophy take two graduate-level courses in a single literature or one of the arts.
Graduate students in literature or arts departments, including Classics, take two graduate-level courses in Philosophy, at least one of which must be in metaphysics, epistemology, or the philosophies of language, mind, or action (the PHIL 280s series and related upper-level seminars), and at least one of which must be in value theory (understood to include ethics, aesthetics, and political philosophy, the PHIL 270s series and related upper-level seminars)
Graduate students in other departments submit a plan of study for approval by the Faculty Director reflecting graduate-level coursework that provides a background both within philosophy and within the study of literature or the arts that is substantially equivalent to that achieved by philosophy, literature, or arts students in their minor field. Students are advised that this study plan may involve more coursework than would be needed for students whose major field is in literature, arts, or philosophy departments.
Optional Remaining Units
If the five required courses do not total 20 units, students may satisfy the 20-unit requirement by taking units of DLCL 222,or by taking additional graduate-level courses of special relevance at their discretion and with the agreement of their minor advisor.
DLCL 222
Workshop in Philosophy and Literature
Notes:
Students are encouraged to include a member from the minor field on the University Oral Committee or another of the general examination committees if that is judged more appropriate by the student’s departmental and minor advisors. Students in departments that deploy the University Oral as a dissertation defense are advised that a member from the student’s minor field should be involved on the dissertation committee throughout the dissertation writing period.