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CRTSD-1500: Foundations in Critical Studies

Course Description

Foundations in Critical Studies introduces critical thinking skills essential to college-level work in the humanities and sciences. Students develop their critical capacities through close reading and active response to cultural texts and phenomena drawn from multiple disciplines and reflecting diverse perspectives on major themes or topics in contemporary life.

Academic Level: Undergraduate

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Subject

Sections

Fall 2025

Fall 2024

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
CRTSD-1500-1: FiCS: Amends
  • Thu 4:00-07:00PM, Main Bldg - 102 B
CRTSD-1500-2: FiCS: Body Politics
  • Tue 8:00-11:00AM, Main Bldg - E5
CRTSD-1500-3: FiCS: Knowledge Making and Globalization
  • Elizabeth Travelslight
  • Elizabeth Travelslight
  • Mon 4:00-07:00PM, 80 Carolina - P3
CRTSD-1500-4: FiCS: Critical Mapping of Social Space
  • Thu 8:00-11:00AM, Main Bldg - 103

Spring 2024

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
CRTSD-1500-1: FICS: Reorientations
  • Thu 4:00-07:00PM, Main Bldg - E4 (inactive)
CRTSD-1500-2: FiCS: Embodiment
  • Wed 8:00-11:00AM, Main Bldg - E5 (inactive)
CRTSD-1500-3: FiCS: Critical Making
  • Tue 8:00-11:00AM, Main Bldg - W2 (inactive)
CRTSD-1500-4: FiCS: Critical Making
  • Thu 8:00-11:00AM, Hubbell - 131
CRTSD-1500-5: FiCS: Critical Mapping of Social Space
  • Thu 4:00-07:00PM, Hubbell - 131
CRTSD-1500-6: FiCS: The Post-Real
  • Thu 8:00-11:00AM, Hooper GC - GC2
CRTSD-1500-7: FiCS: Sexuality and Identity
  • Mon 4:00-07:00PM, 80 Carolina - P3
CRTSD-1500-8: FiCS: Knowledge Making and Globalization
  • Elizabeth Travelslight
  • Elizabeth Travelslight
  • Mon 4:00-07:00PM, Hubbell - 141
CRTSD-1500-9: FiCS: Modern Democracy: Meanings and Contradictions
  • Thu 4:00-07:00PM, 80 Carolina - P2
CRTSD-1500-10: FiCS: Borders & Social Formations
  • Mon 8:00-11:00AM, 80 Carolina - P4

Fall 2023

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
CRTSD-1500-1: FiCS: Reorientations
  • Thu 4:00-07:00PM, Main Bldg - 103
CRTSD-1500-2: Place & Displacement
  • Mon 8:00-11:00AM, Main Bldg - W2
CRTSD-1500-3: FiCS: The Post-Real
  • Thu 8:00-11:00AM, Main Bldg - W2
CRTSD-1500-4: FiCS: Knowledge Making & Globalization
  • Elizabeth Travelslight
  • Elizabeth Travelslight
  • Mon 4:00-07:00PM, Main Bldg - 103

Fall 2022

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
CRTSD-1500-3: FiCS: Reorientations
  • Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - E2
CRTSD-1500-4: FiCS: The Post Real
  • Thu 8:00-11:00AM, Main Bldg - 141
CRTSD-1500-5: FiCS: The Post Real
  • Wed 8:00-11:00AM, Main Bldg - 102 B
CRTSD-1500-8: FiCS: Embodiment
  • Mon 8:00-11:00AM, Main Bldg - E1

Spring 2022

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
CRTSD-1500-1: FiCS:Reorientations
  • Mon 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - 101 (inactive)
CRTSD-1500-2: FiCS:Material Culture
  • Wed 8:00-11:00AM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC5
CRTSD-1500-3: FiCS:Material Culture
  • Thu 8:00-11:00AM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC7
CRTSD-1500-4: FiCS : Public Art as Storytelling
  • Ann Skartvedt
  • Ann Skartvedt
  • Sat 8:00-11:00AM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC7
CRTSD-1500-5: FiCS:Networks + Connectivity
  • Brian Karl
  • Brian Karl
  • Thu 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - 103
CRTSD-1500-6: FiCS:The Post Real
  • Wed 8:00-11:00AM, San Francisco - Main Building - 101 (inactive)
CRTSD-1500-7: FiCS : Translating the Self
  • Mon 4:00-07:00PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC12
CRTSD-1500-8: FiCS : Embodiment
  • Mon 8:00-11:00AM
CRTSD-1500-9: FiCS:Thinking Race, Writing Culture
  • Thu 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - 141
CRTSD-1500-11: FiCS : Public Art as Storytelling
  • Ann Skartvedt
  • Ann Skartvedt
  • Thu 8:00-11:00AM, San Francisco - Main Building - 101 (inactive)
CRTSD-1500-12: FiCS:Networks + Connectivity
  • Brian Karl
  • Brian Karl
  • Wed 8:00-11:00AM, San Francisco - Main Building - 102 B

Fall 2021

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
CRTSD-1500-1: FiCS - Reorientations
  • Mon 3:00-03:55PM
CRTSD-1500-2: FiCS - Culture of the Copy
  • Michael Hunter
  • Michael Hunter
  • Mon 2:00-02:55PM
CRTSD-1500-4: FiCS - Building Alternative Futures
  • Thu 2:00-02:55PM
CRTSD-1500-6: FiCS - Values in Action
  • Patricia Maloney
  • Patricia Maloney
  • Thu 3:00-03:55PM

Summer 2021

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
CRTSD-1500-3: FiCS : Reorientations
  • Mon/Wed 5:00-07:00PM

Fall 2020

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
CRTSD-1500-1: FiCS: Values in Action (Disc.)
  • Patricia Maloney
  • Patricia Maloney
  • Thu 4:00-05:30PM
CRTSD-1500-4: FiCS: Revolutions (Disc.) (Online)
  • Brooke Lober
  • Brooke Lober
  • Meeting Time TBD
CRTSD-1500-5: FiCS: Networks + Connections (Disc.)
  • Brian Karl
  • Brian Karl
  • Tue 4:00-05:30PM
CRTSD-1500-6: FiCS: Values in Action: Collective Narratives (Disc.)
  • Ann Skartvedt
  • Ann Skartvedt
  • Wed 12:00-01:30PM
CRTSD-1500-7: FiCS: Values in Action (Lec.)
  • Patricia Maloney
  • Patricia Maloney
  • Thu 5:35-07:05PM
CRTSD-1500-10: FiCS: Revolutions (Lec.) (Online)
  • Brooke Lober
  • Brooke Lober
  • Meeting Time TBD
CRTSD-1500-11: FiCS: Networks + Connections (Lec.)
  • Brian Karl
  • Brian Karl
  • Tue 5:35-07:05PM
CRTSD-1500-12: FiCS: Reorientations (Disc.)
  • Sat 12:00-01:30PM
CRTSD-1500-13: FiCS: Reorientations (Lec.)
  • Sat 1:35-03:05PM
CRTSD-1500-14: FiCS: Values in Action: Collective Narratives (Lec.)
  • Ann Skartvedt
  • Ann Skartvedt
  • Wed 1:35-03:05PM
CRTSD-1500-15: FiCS: Values in Action (Disc.)
  • Patricia Maloney
  • Patricia Maloney
  • Fri 12:00-01:30PM
CRTSD-1500-16: FiCS: Values in Action (Lec.)
  • Patricia Maloney
  • Patricia Maloney
  • Fri 1:35-03:05PM

Summer 2020

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
CRTSD-1500-3: FiCS: Revolutions (Lec.) (Online)
  • Brooke Lober
  • Brooke Lober
CRTSD-1500-4: FiCS: Revolutions (Disc.) (Online)
  • Brooke Lober
  • Brooke Lober

Spring 2020

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
CRTSD-1500-1: FiCS: Re/Orientations (Disc.)
  • Mon 5:35-07:05PM, Oakland - B Building - B1
CRTSD-1500-2: FiCS: Re/Orientations (Disc.)
  • Wed 4:00-05:30PM, Oakland - B Building - B1
CRTSD-1500-3: FiCS: Re/Orientations (Disc.)
  • Wed 5:35-07:05PM, Oakland - B Building - B3
CRTSD-1500-7: FiCS: Networks and Connections (Disc.)
  • Brian Karl
  • Brian Karl
  • Wed 4:00-05:30PM, San Francisco - Main Building - 103
CRTSD-1500-8: FiCS: Networks and Connections (Disc.)
  • Vanessa Chang
  • Vanessa Chang
  • Wed 5:35-07:05PM, San Francisco - Main Building - E5
CRTSD-1500-10: FiCS: Networks and Connections (Disc.)
  • Michael Hunter
  • Michael Hunter
  • Mon 5:35-07:05PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC7
CRTSD-1500-12: FiCS: Values in Action (Disc.)
  • Ann Skartvedt
  • Ann Skartvedt
  • Tue 5:35-07:05PM, Oakland - B Building - B7
CRTSD-1500-13: FiCS: Values in Action (Disc.)
  • Patricia Maloney
  • Patricia Maloney
  • Thu 5:35-07:05PM, Oakland - B Building - B1
CRTSD-1500-15: FiCS: Critical Making (Disc.)
  • Fri 12:00-01:30PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC3
CRTSD-1500-16: Grief & Haunting in America (Disc.)
  • Patricia Maloney
  • Patricia Maloney
  • Wed 7:15-08:45PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC7
CRTSD-1500-20: FiCS: Social Movements Since 1968 (Disc.)
  • Brooke Lober
  • Brooke Lober
  • Mon 12:00-01:30PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC6
CRTSD-1500-21: FiCS: Intimacies (Disc.)
  • Thu 4:00-05:30PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC2
CRTSD-1500-24: FiCS: Re/Orientations (Lec.)
  • Mon 4:00-05:30PM, Oakland - Founders - Nahl Hall
CRTSD-1500-25: FiCS: Values in Action (Lec.)
  • Ann Skartvedt
  • Patricia Maloney
  • Ann Skartvedt
  • Patricia Maloney
  • Tue 4:00-05:30PM, Oakland - Founders - Nahl Hall
CRTSD-1500-26: FiCS: Networks and Connections (Lec.)
  • Brian Karl
  • Michael Hunter
  • Vanessa Chang
  • Brian Karl
  • Michael Hunter
  • Vanessa Chang
  • Mon 4:00-05:30PM, San Francisco - Main Building - Timken Lecture Hall
CRTSD-1500-27: FiCS: Critical Making (Lec.)
  • Fri 1:35-03:05PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC3
CRTSD-1500-28: FiCS: Social Movements Since 1968 (Lec.)
  • Brooke Lober
  • Brooke Lober
  • Mon 1:35-03:05PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC6
CRTSD-1500-29: FiCS: Intimacies (Lec.)
  • Thu 5:35-07:05PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC2
CRTSD-1500-30: Grief & Haunting in America (Lec.)
  • Patricia Maloney
  • Patricia Maloney
  • Wed 8:50-10:20PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC7
CRTSD-1500-31: FiCS: Intimacies (Disc.)
  • Wed 12:00-01:30PM, Oakland - Ralls - 202
CRTSD-1500-32: FiCS: Intimacies (Lec.)
  • Wed 1:45-03:00PM, Oakland - Ralls - 202
CRTSD-1500-35: FiCS: Critical Making (Disc.)
  • Raegan Truax
  • Raegan Truax
  • Thu 12:00-01:30PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC5
CRTSD-1500-36: FiCS: Critical Making (Lec.)
  • Raegan Truax
  • Raegan Truax
  • Thu 1:35-03:05PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC5

Fall 2019

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
CRTSD-1500-3: FiCS: Values in Action (Disc.)
  • Patricia Maloney
  • Patricia Maloney
  • Wed 4:00-05:30PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC7
CRTSD-1500-4: FiCS: Values in Action (Disc.)
  • Ann Skartvedt
  • Ann Skartvedt
  • Wed 5:35-07:05PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC7
CRTSD-1500-7: FiCS: Death by Death (Lect.)
  • Mon 4:00-05:30PM, Oakland - B Building - B2
CRTSD-1500-8: FiCS: Embodiment (Disc.)
  • Tue 5:35-07:05PM, Oakland - Founders - Nahl Hall
CRTSD-1500-10: FiCS: Monster Culture (Disc.)
  • Thu 5:35-07:05PM, Oakland - B Building - B3
CRTSD-1500-11: FiCS: Grief and Haunting in America (Lect.)
  • Patricia Maloney
  • Patricia Maloney
  • Fri 12:00-01:30PM, San Francisco - Main Building - 101
CRTSD-1500-13: FiCS: Values in Action (Lect.)
  • Ann Skartvedt
  • Patricia Maloney
  • Ann Skartvedt
  • Patricia Maloney
  • Mon 4:00-05:30PM, San Francisco - Main Building - Timken Lecture Hall
CRTSD-1500-15: FiCS: Death by Death (Disc.)
  • Mon 5:35-07:05PM, Oakland - B Building - B2
CRTSD-1500-16: FiCS: Embodiment (Lect.)
  • Tue 4:00-05:30PM, Oakland - Founders - Nahl Hall
CRTSD-1500-17: FiCS: Grief and Haunting in America (Disc.)
  • Patricia Maloney
  • Patricia Maloney
  • Fri 1:35-03:05PM, San Francisco - Main Building - 101
CRTSD-1500-18: FiCS: Monster Culture (Lect.)
  • Thu 4:00-05:30PM, Oakland - B Building - B3

Spring 2019

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
CRTSD-150-01: FiCS: Re/Orientations
  • Mon 4:00-05:30PM, Founders - Nahl Hall
  • Mon 5:35-07:05PM, B Building - B1
CRTSD-150-02: FiCS: Re/Orientations
  • Mon 4:00-05:30PM, Founders - Nahl Hall
  • Wed 4:00-05:30PM, B Building - B1
CRTSD-150-03: FiCS: Re/Orientations
  • Mon 4:00-05:30PM, Founders - Nahl Hall
  • Wed 5:35-07:05PM, B Building - B3
CRTSD-150-04: FiCS: Re/Orientations
  • Mon 4:00-05:30PM, Founders - Nahl Hall
  • Wed 4:00-05:30PM, B Building - B3
CRTSD-150-05: FiCS:Networks and Connections
  • Michael Hunter
  • Michael Hunter
  • Mon 4:00-05:30PM, Main Building - Timken Lecture Hall
  • Mon 5:35-07:05PM, Grad Center - GC7
CRTSD-150-07: FiCS:Networks and Connections
  • Brian Karl
  • Brian Karl
  • Mon 4:00-05:30PM, Main Building - Timken Lecture Hall
  • Wed 4:00-05:30PM, Main Building - 103
CRTSD-150-08: FiCS:Networks and Connections
  • Vanessa Chang
  • Vanessa Chang
CRTSD-150-09: FiCS:Networks and Connections
  • Brian Karl
  • Brian Karl
CRTSD-150-10: FiCS:Networks and Connections
  • Michael Hunter
  • Michael Hunter
CRTSD-150-11: FiCS: Values in Action
  • Olive McKeon
  • Olive McKeon
  • Tue 4:00-05:30PM, Founders - Nahl Hall
  • Thu 5:35-07:05PM, B Building - B7
CRTSD-150-12: FiCS: Values in Action
  • Ann Skartvedt
  • Ann Skartvedt
  • Tue 4:00-05:30PM, Founders - Nahl Hall
  • Tue 5:35-07:05PM, B Building - B7
CRTSD-150-13: FiCS: Values in Action
  • Patricia Maloney
  • Patricia Maloney
  • Tue 4:00-05:30PM, Founders - Nahl Hall
  • Thu 5:35-07:05PM, B Building - B5
CRTSD-150-14: FiCS: Values in Action
  • TBD
  • TBD
  • Tue 4:00-05:30PM, Founders - Nahl Hall
  • Thu 4:00-05:30PM, B Building - B5
CRTSD-150-15: FiCS: Critical Making
  • Raegan Truax
  • Raegan Truax
  • Fri 12:00-03:00PM, Grad Center - GC3
CRTSD-150-16: Grief and Haunting
  • Patricia Maloney
  • Patricia Maloney
  • Wed 7:15-10:15PM, Grad Center - GC2