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Medieval and Early Modern Studies Major

 

The major consists of 30 credits (10 courses) to be distributed in the following manner:

  • Three courses each from two of three categories: medieval (300-1499), early modern (1500-1699), and crossover (spanning medieval and early modern).
  • Any four additional courses listed in the program.
  • The student may take up to four courses in a single department. Of the ten courses, no more than three courses may be taken below the 3000 level, and at least two must be completed at the 4000 level or above.
  • Capstone: During their senior year, students in the major have the opportunity to explore a specific course in depth with the capstone course, MEMS 5110.

Medieval and Early Modern Studies Categories

Medieval

  • ARHS 1010 - Art Survey I: Prehistory through the Middle Ages
  • ARHS 3200 - Early Christian and Byzantine Art
  • ARHS 3210 - Art and Experience in the Middle Ages
  • ASTA 3510 - Pre-modern Japanese Culture
  • ENLS 4120 - Medieval Literature
  • ENLS 4450 - Chaucer
  • FREN 4220 - Medieval French Literature
  • HISA 1020 - The Barbarian West
  • HISA 1030 - Medieval Europe, 1100-1450
  • HISA 2030 - Early Medieval and Byzantine Civilization from Constantine to the Crusades
  • HISA 4140 - The Crusades, 1095-1291
  • HISA 4150 - The Age of the Vikings
  • HISA 2310 - Medieval England
  • HISA 2350 - Medieval Italy
  • HISA 3910 - Special Topics in Medieval and Ancient History
  • HISA 3170 - Medieval Spain
  • HISA 6090 - Seminar in Select Topics in Byzantine History
  • HISA 6230 - Medieval Cities
  • HISA 6270 - Women and Gender in the Middle Ages
  • HISA 4910 - Special Topics in Medieval and Ancient History
  • ITAL 4010 - Topics in Origins and Masterpieces of 13th- and 14th-Century Italian Literature
  • JWST 3500 - The Golden Age of Spanish Jewry I: Moslem Spain
  • JWST 3520 - The Golden Age of Spanish Jewry II: Christian Spain
  • JWST 3530 - Jewish Life and Thought in the High Middle Ages
  • JWST 4110 - Rabbinic Judaism
  • JWST 4350 - Rashi, Halevi, Maimonides: Rabbinical Luminaries of the Middle Ages
  • SPAN 4420 - Introduction to Multicultural Medieval Iberia
  • SPAN 6810 - Reading Medieval Iberia

Crossover

  • ARHS 3310 - Art of the Early Renaissance in Italy
  • ENLS 2010 - Introduction to British Literature I
  • ENLS 4490 - Earlier Major Authors
  • ENLS 5010 - Capstone Seminars
  • FREN 4210 - History of the French Language
  • FREN 6210 - History of the French Language
  • GERM 3550 - German Literature in Translation *
  • GERM 3660 - Love, Death and Sexuality from the Middle Ages to the Baroque
  • HISA 3070 - Topics in Medieval and Renaissance History
  • HISE 1210 - Europe and a Wider World: From the Renaissance to 1789
  • HISE 2240 - Russian History from the 9th to the Mid-19th Centuries
  • HISE 2410 - Spain, 1369-1716
  • HISM 2200 - History of Islam to 1400
  • MUSC 1410 - History of European Art Music to 1750
  • RUSS 3530 - Survey of Russian Art
  • SPAN 4040 - Early Readings in Spanish, 1000-1700
  • SPAN 6510 - History of the Spanish Language

Early Modern

Note(s):

* Only when medieval and early modern studies topic. Director approval required.

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