| MTL200 | Curricular Practical Training | No Description Set |
| MTL299 | Edgework: New Directions in the Study of Culture | Workshop. Required of first-year students in the doctoral program. Methodologies of different disciplines, the possibility and difficulty of interdisciplinary work within these disciplines, and their connection with the individual projects of studen... |
| MTL334A | Concepts of Modernity I: Nihilism | In the 1885 Preface to his unfinished work The Will to Power, Nietzsche declared: "For some time now, our whole European culture has been moving as toward a catastrophe, restlessly, violently, headlong, like a river that wants to reach the end, that... |
| MTL334B | Concepts of Modernity II: Performing Identities | This course examines claims and counter-claims of identity, a heated political and cultural concept over the past few decades. We will consider the ways in which theories of performance have offered generative discursive frameworks for the study of i... |
| MTL334C | Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies | Our course serves both as an introduction to graduate studies and as an introduction to interdisciplinary practice for entering PhD students in MTL at Stanford. Required for first-year graduate students, our course examines major historical and theor... |
| MTL390 | Qualifying Paper | Preparation and writing of the qualifying paper for the Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature. (Staff) |
| MTL398 | Graduate Independent Study | Students pursue a special subject of investigation under supervision of a member of the committee or another faculty member. May be repeated for credit. |
| MTL399 | Reading for Orals | Reading in preparation for the University Oral Examination. May be repeated for credit. |
| MTL801 | TGR Project | No Description Set |
| MTL802 | TGR Dissertation | No Description Set |