Introduces upper-level undergraduates and beginning graduate students to the principles of critical and cultural theory. Explores topics of language, textuality, writing, subjectivity, culture, gender, everyday life, and power through the work of primarily, but not exclusively, French thinkers such as Saussure, Barthes, Fanon, Foucault, Derrida, Lyotard, Kristeva, Baudrillard, de Certeau. Taught in English with no knowledge of French necessary.