Courses

Courses at the Centre are taught by both Core and Associate faculty members at Western, as well as visiting lecturers.

Master's students are required to fulfill a “breadth requirement” by taking at least one half course from each of groups A & B.

2025-26 COURSES

Fall 2025

Course # Title Instructor Day & Time Category
What Is a Critical Theorist? Methods and Skills Joshua Schuster Tuesday [C]
Allegory and Time Matthew Rowlinson and Anne Schuurman Wednesday [A
On Being: Theory and the Ancestor Ruramisai Charumbira Wednesday [B]
The Politics of Third Spaces: Alterity, Spatiality, and the Social Augusto Riveros Thursday [B]

Winter 2026

Course # Title Instructor Day & Time Category
“Emancipation” and the Afterlife of Slavery Erica S. Lawson Monday [B]
Allegory and Time Matthew Rowlinson and Anne Schuurman Wednesday [A]
Critical Political Theory Nandita Biswas Mellamphy Thursday [B]
Architecture and the Socio-Political Imagination at The End of The World Benjamin Muller Thursday [B]
Psychoanalysis and Indigenous Critical Theory Megan Sherritt Friday [A]

*contact the program for course location and times

Group A: aesthetics, philosophy, psychoanalysis, language theory
Group B: social, cultural and political theory
Group C: topical focus covering theorist(s) from the above areas, as well as 19th-century, modern, and contemporary theory

More information on Course Requirements can be found here.
Course Enrolment Forms can be found here

Historical course offerings: