Medieval and Renaissance Studies (BA in Interdisciplinary Studies)

Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program

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

1. HIST 240

   The Crusades
   3
2. HIST 355

   Religion in 19th Century America
   3
3. HIST 356

   From Babylon to Bitcoin: A History of Money from 3000 BCE to the Present
   3
4. HIST 358

   European Renaissance
   3
5. HIST 359

   The Reformation in Western Europe
   3
6. HIST 387

   England Under the Tudors, 1485-1603
   3
7. HIST 388

   Britain Under the Stuarts, 1603-1714
   3

Art History and Music

1. ARTH 351

   Medieval Art and Architecture
   3
2. ARTH 353

   Early Christian and Byzantine Art and Architecture
   3
3. ARTH 361

   Perspectives in Italian Renaissance Art
   3
4. ARTH 362

   Northern Renaissance Art, 1400-1600
   3
5. ARTH 365

   Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting
   3
6. MUSC 381

   Medieval & Renaissance Music
   3

Language and Literature

1. ENGL 203

   British Literature I
   3
2. ENGL 205

   Intro to Shakespeare
   3
3. ENGL 311

   Epic and Romance
   3
4. ENGL 314

   Old English
   3
5. ENGL 315

   Beowulf
   3
6. ENGL 316

   Arthurian Literature
   3
7. ENGL 322

   Medieval Literature
   3
8. ENGL 323

   Early Modern British Literature
   3
9. ENGL 324

   Renaissance and Restoration
   3
10. ENGL 325

    English Renaissance Drama
    3
11. ENGL 420

    Studies in Chaucer
    3
12. ENGL 421

    Studies in Shakespeare
    3
13. ENGL 426

    Studies in Milton
    3
14. FREN 316

    Topics in French and Francophone Studies
    3
15. FREN 321

    The Spectacular Culture of Early Modern France
    3
16. HISP 377

    Imagining the Spanish Transatlantic Empire: Early Modern Hispanic Culture

    As published: “Imagining the Spanish Transatlantic Empire: Early Modern Hispanic Culture (1492-1700)”
    3
17. ITAL 309

    Dante and the Medieval Tradition (In English)
    3-4
18. ITAL 312

    Renaissance Italy (In Eng)
    3-4
19. LATN 329

    Medieval Latin
    3
20. LING 303

    History of the English Language
    3

Religion and Philosophy

1. PHIL 232

   Medieval Philosophy
   3
2. RELG 210

   Introduction to the History of Christianity
   3
3. RELG 211

   Introduction to the History of Jewish Thought
   3
4. RELG 212

   Introduction to Islam
   3
5. RELG 334

   The Protestant and Catholic Reformations
   3