Medieval and Renaissance Studies (BA in Interdisciplinary Studies)
Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program
Students will have a designated faculty Advisor in Medieval and Renaissance Studies to help them arrange a coherent program in keeping with the degree requirements of the College and to certify that progress is being made toward graduation. The Director of the program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies will help majors choose an advisor corresponding to the department of their greatest academic interest (including second major or minor, if any). Majors who do not easily fit into an area will be advised by the Director of the program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. For more information contact the Director of the program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Major Computing and Major Writing Requirements: | ||
| Proficiency by fulfilling participating departmental requirements within the program. | ||
| Core Requirements: | ||
| At least 25 of the 34 credit hours must come from 300-level or 400-level courses. Students must take at least one three-credit course from each of groups 1, 2, 3, and 4 below. At least three of those four courses must be 300-level or 400-level courses. Students may petition the Director of the program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies to count appropriate non-listed courses (such as independent studies courses, or irregularly offered upper-level colloquia and senior seminars) toward their major. Students are strongly encouraged to take at least one upper-level seminar or colloquium whose subject matter falls within the field of Medieval and Renaissance Studies. In addition, majors must complete one course above the 202-level in a modern European language, in Arabic, in ancient or modern Hebrew, in Latin, or in ancient Greek (but not including literature in translation courses). Majors who intend to pursue graduate studies are strongly encouraged to seek language training beyond the minimum requirement, and also to prepare a second major, or at least a minor, in one of the traditional disciplines represented. | ||
| Historical Context | ||
| The Crusades | ||
| Religion in 19th Century America | ||
| From Babylon to Bitcoin: A History of Money from 3000 BCE to the Present | ||
| European Renaissance | ||
| The Reformation in Western Europe | ||
| England Under the Tudors, 1485-1603 | ||
| Britain Under the Stuarts, 1603-1714 | ||
| Art History and Music | ||
| Medieval Art and Architecture | ||
| Early Christian and Byzantine Art and Architecture | ||
| Perspectives in Italian Renaissance Art | ||
| Northern Renaissance Art, 1400-1600 | ||
| Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting | ||
| Medieval & Renaissance Music | ||
| Language and Literature | ||
| British Literature I | ||
| Intro to Shakespeare | ||
| Epic and Romance | ||
| Old English | ||
| Beowulf | ||
| Arthurian Literature | ||
| Medieval Literature | ||
| Early Modern British Literature | ||
| Renaissance and Restoration | ||
| English Renaissance Drama | ||
| Studies in Chaucer | ||
| Studies in Shakespeare | ||
| Studies in Milton | ||
| Topics in French and Francophone Studies | ||
| The Spectacular Culture of Early Modern France | ||
| Imagining the Spanish Transatlantic Empire: Early Modern Hispanic Culture (1492-1700) | ||
| Dante and the Medieval Tradition (In English) | ||
| Renaissance Italy (In Eng) | ||
| Medieval Latin | ||
| History of the English Language | ||
| Religion and Philosophy | ||
| Medieval Philosophy | ||
| Introduction to the History of Christianity | ||
| Introduction to the History of Jewish Thought | ||
| Introduction to Islam | ||
| The Protestant and Catholic Reformations | ||
Note:
* Students may count either HIST 359, The Reformation in Western Europe, or RELG 334, The Protestant and Catholic Reformations, but not both, toward a Medieval and Renaissance Studies major or minor.