Courses
Courses at the Centre are taught by both Core and Associate faculty members at Western, as
Master's students are required to
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.