HISC courses
159 courses · University of California Santa Cruz · Fall 2026
- HISC 1 — HISC 1Introduction to History of Consciousness: Theory for all1 section
- HISC 5 — HISC 5Time Travel and the Law1 section
- HISC 9 — HISC 9Ecological Marxism1 section
- HISC 12 — HISC 12Historical Introduction to Philosophy1 section
- HISC 20 — HISC 20Democracy and Dictatorship1 section
- HISC 23 — HISC 23What is Communication?1 section
- HISC 60A — HISC 60AWhat is Revolution?1 section
- HISC 60C — HISC 60CWhat Is Resistance?1 section
- HISC 65 — HISC 65What is Belief?1 section
- HISC 70 — HISC 70Gandhi and Us1 section
- HISC 73 — HISC 73Can We Really ‘Save’ Animals?1 section
- HISC 75 — HISC 75Ecological Crisis and Human Freedom1 section
- HISC 80N — HISC 80NProphecy Against Empire1 section
- HISC 80P — HISC 80PThe Black Panther Party: History and Theory of a Political Movement1 section
- HISC 80R — HISC 80RWhat is Space?1 section
- HISC 80S — HISC 80SWar and the Media1 section
- HISC 80T — HISC 80TWhat is the Witch: Terror, Subjectivity, Modernity1 section
- HISC 80U — HISC 80ULabor and Globalization1 section
- HISC 80V — HISC 80VIntroduction to Marxism1 section
- HISC 80W — HISC 80WWhat is Imperialism?1 section
- HISC 82 — HISC 82Another Brick in the Wall1 section
- HISC 83 — HISC 83White Like Me: Whiteness and the Racial Imaginary1 section
- HISC 85 — HISC 85Politics and Religion1 section
- HISC 86 — HISC 86After the Human: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the World1 section
- HISC 87 — HISC 87What is Utopia?1 section
- HISC 102 — HISC 102Philosophy and Poetics1 section
- HISC 103 — HISC 103The Problem of California1 section
- HISC 104 — HISC 104Political Writing1 section
- HISC 105 — HISC 105Antisocial Media1 section
- HISC 106 — HISC 106The U.S. Horror Film: Race, Capitalism, and Monsters1 section
- HISC 107 — HISC 107The Idea of Reality1 section
- HISC 108 — HISC 108Parables for a Warming Planet: The Politics of Climate Change1 section
- HISC 109 — HISC 109Liberalism and Violence1 section
- HISC 110 — HISC 110Histories of the Atom1 section
- HISC 111 — HISC 111States, War, Capitalism1 section
- HISC 112 — HISC 112Foundations in Critical Theory1 section
- HISC 113 — HISC 113History of Capitalism1 section
- HISC 114 — HISC 114Histories of Miseducation1 section
- HISC 115 — HISC 115The Radical Right, A Symptom of Capitalism1 section
- HISC 116 — HISC 116Reading Darwin1 section
- HISC 117 — HISC 117Making the Refugee Century: Non-Citizens and Modernity1 section
- HISC 118 — HISC 118What is Money?1 section
- HISC 119 — HISC 119Politics of Recognition1 section
- HISC 120 — HISC 120What is a State?1 section
- HISC 121 — HISC 121What Is Politics?1 section
- HISC 122 — HISC 122What is the Psyche?1 section
- HISC 124 — HISC 124What is Cinema?1 section
- HISC 125 — HISC 125Queerness and Race1 section
- HISC 127 — HISC 127What is Modernity?1 section
- HISC 128 — HISC 128Why Obey?1 section
- HISC 129 — HISC 129Politics of Violence1 section
- HISC 130 — HISC 130Blackness and the Psychoanalytic Imaginary1 section
- HISC 131 — HISC 131Postcolonial Paths1 section
- HISC 132 — HISC 132Who belongs? Nations, Nationalism, and Political Community1 section
- HISC 133 — HISC 133What Freedom is to Me1 section
- HISC 135 — HISC 135What is Freedom?1 section
- HISC 136 — HISC 136Latin American Thought1 section
- HISC 137 — HISC 137Why Should I Care?1 section
- HISC 138 — HISC 138Fascism and Film1 section
- HISC 140A — HISC 140AAfrica: How to Make a Continent1 section
- HISC 142 — HISC 142What is a Person?1 section
- HISC 144 — HISC 144World-Making and Power1 section
- HISC 147 — HISC 147Truth, Ideology, And Power1 section
- HISC 150 — HISC 150Radical Political Theory1 section
- HISC 152 — HISC 152Critical Ecologies: Thinking, Practice, Change1 section
- HISC 155 — HISC 155Science, Technology and Social Transformation1 section
- HISC 160 — HISC 160Advanced Topics in History of Consciousness1 section
- HISC 163 — HISC 163Freud1 section
- HISC 164 — HISC 164Monster Theory1 section
- HISC 166 — HISC 166Race, Science, and Humanities1 section
- HISC 167 — HISC 167Liberation Technology1 section
- HISC 169 — HISC 169Blue Humanities: Oceans, Humanity, and the Future1 section
- HISC 174 — HISC 174Aliens & Quantum Reality: Does Anybody Really Know What Time (It) Is?1 section
- HISC 185C — HISC 185CComparative Religion: A Critical Introduction1 section
- HISC 185T — HISC 185TMarxism and Feminism1 section
- HISC 186 — HISC 186Quantum Physics and Philosophy1 section
- HISC 187 — HISC 187The Emergence of the Avant-garde from Disenchantment to Dada1 section
- HISC 189 — HISC 189Neither East nor Europe: A Political History1 section
- HISC 190 — HISC 190Nature or Nurture?1 section
- HISC 199 — HISC 199Tutorial1 section
- HISC 203A — HISC 203AApproaches to Critical Inquiry1 section
- HISC 203B — HISC 203BApproaches to History of Consciousness1 section
- HISC 205 — HISC 205Global Political Thought1 section
- HISC 207 — HISC 207Undisciplining Theory1 section
- HISC 208 — HISC 208Humanism and its Critics1 section
- HISC 209 — HISC 209Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit1 section
- HISC 210 — HISC 210New Left Theory1 section
- HISC 214 — HISC 214What is a Subject?1 section
- HISC 215 — HISC 215History of Unconsciousness1 section
- HISC 216 — HISC 216Critical Race/Ethnic Studies1 section
- HISC 217 — HISC 217Critical Human Rights Theory1 section
- HISC 218 — HISC 218French Hegel1 section
- HISC 219 — HISC 219Radical Futures and Visual Culture1 section
- HISC 220 — HISC 220Theories of Democracy and Dictatorship1 section
- HISC 221 — HISC 221Surveillance Culture: Privacy, Publicity, Art, and Critical Social Practice1 section
- HISC 222B — HISC 222BTheories of Late Capitalism1 section
- HISC 223 — HISC 223Althusser1 section
- HISC 224 — HISC 224Marx's Capital Vol. 11 section
- HISC 226 — HISC 226Liberty and Resistance1 section
- HISC 227 — HISC 227Carl Schmitt1 section
- HISC 228 — HISC 228Deleuze and Guattari: A Thousand Plateaus (Readings in Continental Theory)1 section
- HISC 229 — HISC 229Walter Benjamin1 section
- HISC 230A — HISC 230APoetry, Language, Thought1 section
- HISC 230B — HISC 230BPoetry, Language, Thought1 section
- HISC 231 — HISC 231From System to Fragment1 section
- HISC 232 — HISC 232Music, Social, Thought1 section
- HISC 236 — HISC 23620th Century Critical Theory1 section
- HISC 237A — HISC 237AHistorical Materialism1 section
- HISC 237B — HISC 237BHistorical Materialism1 section
- HISC 240 — HISC 240Basic Principles of University-Level Pedagogy1 section
- HISC 242A — HISC 242AViolence and Phenomenology: Fanon/Hegel/Sartre1 section
- HISC 242B — HISC 242BViolence and Phenomenology: Fanon/Hegel/Sartre1 section
- HISC 244 — HISC 244Racial Capitalism1 section
- HISC 246 — HISC 246Black Radicalism1 section
- HISC 248 — HISC 248Black Critical Theory1 section
- HISC 249 — HISC 249Black Ecological Thought1 section
- HISC 252 — HISC 252Poststructuralism1 section
- HISC 258A — HISC 258ARethinking Capitalism1 section
- HISC 258B — HISC 258BRethinking Capitalism1 section
- HISC 261 — HISC 261Intellectual History and the Philosophical Canon1 section
- HISC 262 — HISC 262Critical Theory After Habermas1 section
- HISC 263 — HISC 263European Philosophies of Difference1 section
- HISC 264 — HISC 264The Idea of Africa1 section
- HISC 265A — HISC 265ABiopolitics l: Problematics1 section
- HISC 265B — HISC 265BBiopolitics II: Corporealities1 section
- HISC 267 — HISC 267Capital and Democracy in an Age of Finance1 section
- HISC 269 — HISC 269Property and Possession1 section
- HISC 271 — HISC 271Historical Temporalities1 section
- HISC 272 — HISC 272Deprovincializing Marx1 section
- HISC 273 — HISC 273Introduction to STS: Theory, Method, Practice1 section
- HISC 274 — HISC 274Causality, Language, and Time1 section
- HISC 275 — HISC 275Sovereignties1 section
- HISC 276 — HISC 276Critical STS1 section
- HISC 278 — HISC 278Speculative Ecologies1 section
- HISC 279 — HISC 279Earth-Land-Soil: Geophilosophies in Troubled Grounds1 section
- HISC 282 — HISC 282Art of Independence, Liberation and the Cold War1 section
- HISC 283 — HISC 283Autonomy and Autonomist Politics1 section
- HISC 285 — HISC 285Topics in Political Theology1 section
- HISC 286 — HISC 286Meeting the Universe Halfway1 section
- HISC 291 — HISC 291Advising1 section
- HISC 292 — HISC 292Practicum in Composition1 section
- HISC 293A — HISC 293AField Study1 section
- HISC 293B — HISC 293BField Study1 section
- HISC 293C — HISC 293CField Study1 section
- HISC 294A — HISC 294AInd Study-Teaching1 section
- HISC 294B — HISC 294BInd Study-Teaching1 section
- HISC 294C — HISC 294CInd Study-Teaching1 section
- HISC 295 — HISC 295Directed Reading1 section
- HISC 295A — HISC 295ADirected Reading1 section
- HISC 295B — HISC 295BDirected Reading1 section
- HISC 295C — HISC 295CDirected Reading1 section
- HISC 296 — HISC 296Special Student Seminar1 section
- HISC 297A — HISC 297AIndependent Study1 section
- HISC 297B — HISC 297BIndependent Study1 section
- HISC 297C — HISC 297CIndependent Study1 section
- HISC 298 — HISC 298Doctoral Colloquium1 section
- HISC 299A — HISC 299AThesis Research1 section
- HISC 299B — HISC 299BThesis Research1 section
- HISC 299C — HISC 299CThesis Research1 section
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