Graduate Certificate in Social Theory

Graduate Students participating in Committee activities have the opportunity to earn a Graduate Certificate in Social Theory. This Certificate offers students systematic multidisciplinary training in social theory. It augments, and is pursued concurrently with, the regular M.A and Ph.D. degree programs of participating departments. To receive the Certificate, a student must take four courses:

1. ST 500, Introduction to Social Theory, providing students with a broad survey of social theoretical issues spanning the humanities and social sciences,
2. ST 600, Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Social Theory, a topical, team-taught seminar conjoined with a public lecture series,
3. ST 610, disClosure Editorial Collective, offering professional editorial and research experience, and
4. Either ST 690, a topical seminar jointly taught by faculty members from the humanities and social sciences, or an elective theory course from outside the student's home discipline selected from Committee members' offerings.

In total, the Certificate requires ten hours of course work, can be pursued in tandem with regular degree programs, and is open to all graduate students at the University of Kentucky. Undergraduates can take the courses ** with permission of the instructor ** but can only receive an official certificate for their transcript if they take all the courses while enrolled as a graduate student.

Topics of ST 600 have been:

• Law, Sex, Family (2010)
• Consuming Cultures (2009)
• War (2008)
• Migrations, Displacements, and Mobilities (2007)
• Emotion (2006)
• Intimacy (2005)
• Religion & Identity (2004)
• Localizing Globalization (2003)
• Civic Practice/Civil Societies (2002)
• Metropolis (2001)
• Children at the Millennium (2000)
• Masculinity and the Male Body (1999)
• Nation Theory (1998)
• Whiteness (1997)
• Revisioning Ecological-Social Justice (1996)
• Representing Reason (1995)
• Disciplining Boundaries (1994)
• Contemporary Democratic Theory and Democracy (1993)
• The Social and Political Body (1992)
• Objectivity and its Other (1991)
• Reassessing Modernity and Postmodernity (1990)
• Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Social Theory (1989).
  
  
The Committee on Social Theory is also a supportive environment where students readily meet faculty from numerous fields who are enthusiastic about and willing to serve on multidisciplinary thesis and dissertation committees.