
This electives path is suggested for students who are interested in and plan careers in education in European languages or other aspect of European life and those who are considering graduate study of some aspect of Europe. This path emphasizes the ever evolving and sometimes contentious aspects of European culture and thought. Students will learn about the philosophical and religious groundings of Europe and how Europeans have conceptualized and defined themselves by such categories race, gender, religion, and class.
Art:
2500 Survey of Ancient and Medieval Art
2520 Northern Renaissance
2530 Italian Renaissance
2540 Baroque Art
2550 Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Art
2560 Modern Art
2580 Women artists
2590 Topics in World Art as appropriate
2750 Poetry, Painting, and Paris
Classical Studies:
2000 Roman Legacy
2050 Greek Legacy
3000 Myth
3100 Greek Tragedy
3200 The Classical Epic
3300 Classical Art and Archaeology
3400 Women in Antiquity
3500 Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
3700 Greek and Roman Religion
English:
2010 British Literary History I
2020 British Literary History II
2440: Poetry, Painting, and Paris
3100 Studies in Medieval Literature
3110 Studies in Renaissance Literature
3120 Studies in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature
3130 Studies in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
3200 Special Topics in Literary History as appropriate
3300 Chaucer
3310 Shakespeare and the Play of Genre
3320 Milton
3330 Shakespeare and the Play of Culture
3340 Special Studies in Shakespeare: Shakespeare, and the Play of History
3350 Authorial Studies as appropriate
History:
2310: Ancient European History
2350: European Civilization Since 1789
3300 Topics in European Culture and History
3210 Britain and the World 1688 to 1914
3220 Britain and the World 1914 to the Present
3340 The French Revolution and Napoleon
3350 History of Modern France
3360 European Women's and Gender History
3370 Art and Power in Europe
3530 Renaissance and Reformation
3540 Early Modern Europe
4800 - 4802 Directed Study as appropriate
Modern Languages:
European Studies majors must take 3 courses beyond the B.A. language requirement in a modern European language in which they satisfy that requirement. European Studies minors must take 2 courses beyond the B.A. language requirement in 1 of the 2 modern European languages in which they satisfy that requirement. These courses do not count as electives; rather, they meet the language component requirement of the European Studies major/minor. The following courses will be of particular interest to European Studies majors and minors in satisfying that requirement:
2110 Contemporary (French, Hispanic) Culture
3220 (French, Hispanic) Civilization
Any other 3000-level course in French or Spanish
Any other 4000-level course in French or Spanish
Performing Arts:
2122 The Musical World of the Age of Enlightenment
2132 Women and Music
3112 Romanticism
3142 History of Opera
3000 History and Literature of the Theater I
3010 History and Literature of the Theater II
IDST 2400 Revolution and Romanticism: The Cult of Genius and the Virtuoso as Hero in Nineteenth-Century Musical Europe
Philosophy
2750 Special Topics as appropriate
Phil 2750.01 Radical 19th Century Thought
3010 History of Philosophy I: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
3020 History of Philosophy II: Modern Philosophy
3040 Ancient Philosophy
3060 Twentieth-Century Philosophy: Existentialism
3750 Special Topics as appropriate
4750 Special Topics as appropriate
Religious Studies:
3000 Myth
3110 History of Christian Thought
3120 Modern and Contemporary Theology
Sociology/Anthropology
3850 Archaeology of Greece
3110 Archaeology of Bronze Age Greece
3410 Archaeological Field School
4750 The Archaeology of Empires and Conquest