Courses
Core Courses
- EUS 2201: European Society and Culture
- Description: An interdisciplinary survey of European society, culture, and politics since 1900
- Eligible for History
- Fulfills AXLE: International Cultures
- EUS 2203: The Idea of Europe
- Description: European identity from ancient ideals to its reality as the European Union. Emphasis on Europe as cultural construct and definable space. Historical, political, religious, philosophical, and cultural movements for Europe’s claim to legitimacy
- Fulfills AXLE: International Cultures
- EUS 4960: Senior Seminar
- Description: Supervised readings, joint discussions, and independent research on a modern European topic to be selected in consultation with the director of European studies
- Open only to juniors and seniors
Elective Courses
Elective courses (12 credit hours) can be selected from the list below or from approved courses taken abroad. Students are advised to select courses from the social sciences and humanities that complement their areas of special interest and their thematic focus. Questions about course eligibility can be directed to your advisor or the director of undergraduate studies.
- ANTH 3371: Social and Health Consequences of Pandemics
- CLAS 3120: Humor, Ancient to Modern
- CMST 3600: The Rhetorical Tradition
- ECON 3160: Economic History of Europe
- ECON 3600: International Trade
- ECON 3610: International Finance
- ENGL 1111: First-Year Writing Seminar (approved topics)
- ENGL 2310: Representative British Writers (pre-1600)
- ENGL 2311: Representative British Writers (post-1600)
- ENGL 3310: Anglo-Saxon Language and Literature
- ENGL 3314: Chaucer
- ENGL 3316: Medieval Literature
- ENGL 3330: Sixteenth Century
- ENGL 3332: English Renaissance: The Drama
- ENGL 3335 and 3335W: English Renaissance Poetry
- ENGL 3336 and 3336W: Shakespeare: Comedies and Histories
- ENGL 3337 and 3337W: Shakespeare: Tragedies and Romances
- ENGL 3340 and 3340W: Shakespeare: Representative Selections
- ENGL 3346 and 3346W: Seventeenth-Century Literature
- ENGL 3348 and 3348W: Milton
- ENGL 3360 and 3360W: Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (Early)
- ENGL 3361 and 3361W: Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (Late)
- ENGL 3364 and 3364W: The Eighteenth-Century English Novel
- ENGL 3370 and 3370W: The Bible in Literature
- ENGL 3610 and 3610W: The Romantic Period
- ENGL 3611 and 3611W: The Romantic Period II
- ENGL 3614 and 3614W: The Victorian Period
- ENGL 3618 and 3618W: The Nineteenth-Century English Novel
- ENGL 3630 and 3630W: The Modern British Novel
- ENGL 3634 and 3634W: Modern Irish Literature
- ENGL 3640 and 3640W: Modern British and American Poetry: Yeats to Auden
- ENGL 3681: Twentieth-Century Drama
- ENGL 3683 and 3683W: Contemporary British Literature
- ENGL 3740 and 3740W: Critical Theory
- ENGL 3890 and 3890W: Movements in Literature (approved topics)
- ENGL 3892 and 3892W: Problems in Literature (approved topics)
- ENGL 3894 and 3894W: Major Figures in Literature (approved topics)
- ENGL 3898 and 3898W: Special Topics in English and American Literature (approved topics)
- EUS 2208: Conspiracy Theories and Rumors in European and U.S. History
- EUS 2220: Religion and Politics in Modern Europe, 1648–Present
- EUS 2240: Topics in European studies
- EUS 2260: European Cities
- EUS 2800: Pursuing Utopia: Social Justice & Romanticism in the Alps
- FREN 2501W: French Composition and Grammar
- FREN 2614: Advanced Conversational French
- FREN 3111: French for Business
- FREN 3112: Medical French in Intercultural Contexts
- FREN 3113: Advanced French Grammar
- FREN 3222: The Early Modern Novel
- FREN 3224: Media Medievalisms
- FREN 3230: French and Francophone Cinema
- FREN 3620: Age of Louis XIV
- FREN 3621: Enlightenment and Revolution
- FREN 3622: Identity and Family in French & Francophone Culture
- FREN 4025: From Carnival to the “Carnivalesque”
- FREN 4027: Emile Zola: From Naturalist Novels to Social Activism
- FREN 4029: Twentieth-Century French Literature
- FREN 4232: Literature and Law
- FREN 4320: French Women and Feminisms
- FREN 4430: Minority Issues & Immigration in France
- FREN 4432: French Intellectual History
- GSS 1272: Feminism and Film
- GER 1111: First-Year Writing Seminar (approved topics)
- GER 1482: Borders and Crossings: German Literature and Culture from Romanticism to the Present
- GER 2441: Great German Works in English
- GER 2443: A History of German Film
- GER 2444: German Fairy Tales: From Brothers Grimm to Walt Disney
- GER 2445: Nazi Cinema: The Manipulation of Mass Culture
- GER 2552: Topics: 18th and 19th C Culture and Literature
- GER 2553: Topics: 20th and 21st Century Culture and Literature
- GER 2554: Topics in Visual Culture and Media
- GER 3323: From Language to Literature
- GER 3343: The Aesthetics of Violence
- GER 3344: German-Jewish Women Writers
- GER 3345: Love and Friendship
- GER 3375: Art and Rebellion: Literary Experiment in the 1960s and 1970s
- GER 3378: Dreams in Literature
- GER 4535: German Romanticism
- GER 4537: Women and Modernity
- GER 4558: Business German
- GER 4563: The Age of Goethe-Weimar 1775 to 1805
- GER 4564: Pleasures and Perils in Nineteenth-Century Theatre
- GER 4565: Revolutionizing Twentieth-Century Theatre
- GER 4566: Nineteenth-Century Prose
- GER 4567: The German Novel from Kafka to Grass
- GER 4569: Writing under Censorship
- GER 4574: Who Am I? German Autobiographies
- GER 4576: Tales of Travel in Modern German Culture
- HART 1100: History of Western Art: Ancient to Medieval
- HART 1105: History of Western Art: Renaiss to Modern
- HART 1111: First-Year Writing Seminar (approved topics)
- HART 1500W: Impressionism
- HART 2220: Greek Art and Architecture
- HART 2270: Early Christian and Byzantine Art
- HART 2285: Medieval Art
- HART 2310: Italian Art to 1500
- HART 2320W: The Italian Renaissance Workshop
- HART 2325: Great Masters of the Italian Renaissance
- HART 2330: Italian Renaissance Art after 1500
- HART 2360: Northern Renaissance Art
- HART 2362: Fifteenth-Century Northern European Art
- HART 2390: Seventeenth-Century Art
- HART 2600: Eighteenth-Century Art
- HART 2620: Nineteenth-Century European Art
- HART 2622: Neoclassicism and Romanticism
- HART 2650: Nineteenth-Century Architecture: Theory and Practice
- HART 2680: British Art: Tudor to Victorian
- HART 2708: Twentieth-Century British Art
- HART 2710: Twentieth-Century European Art
- HART 2720: Modern Architecture
- HART 2722: Modern Art and Architecture in Paris
- HART 3224: Greek Sculpture
- HART 3226: Greek Vases and Society
- HART 3228W: Gender and Sexuality in Greek Art
- HART 3274: Art and Empire from Constantine to Justinian
- HART 3320 and 3320W: Early Renaissance Florence
- HART 3332: Raphael and the Renaissance
- HART 3334 and 3334W: Michelangelo’s Life and Works
- HART 3364W: The Court of Burgundy
- HART 3605W: French Art in the Age of Louis XV: From Rococo to Neoclassicism
- HART 3790: Monumental Landscapes of Provence
- HIST 1111: First-Year Writing Seminar (approved topics)
- HIST 1350: Western Civilization to 1700
- HIST 1360: Modern Europe, 1650 to 1990: States, Economies, and Knowledge
- HIST 1390: America to 1776: Discovery to Revolution
- HIST 1480: The Darwinian Revolution
- HIST 1500: History of Modern Sciences and Society
- HIST 1510: The Scientific Revolution
- HIST 1580: Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Europe 1400–1800 CE
- HIST 1584W: Foreigners and Citizens: Law and Rights in Modern Europe
- HIST 1600: European Economic History, 1000–1700
- HIST 1700: Western Military History to 1815
- HIST 1730: The U.S. and the Cold War
- HIST 1760: History of Christian Traditions
- HIST 2130: Russia: Old Regime to Revolution
- HIST 2135: Russia: The U.S.S.R. and Afterward
- HIST 2220: Medieval and Renaissance Italy, 1000–1700
- HIST 2230: Medieval Europe, 1000-1350
- HIST 2250: Reformation Europe
- HIST 2260: Revolutionary Europe, 1789-1815
- HIST 2270: Nineteenth-Century Europe
- HIST 2280: Europe, 1900-1945
- HIST 2290: Europe since 1945
- HIST 2293: Muslims in Modern Europe
- HIST 2300: Twentieth-Century Germany
- HIST 2310: France: Renaissance to Revolution
- HIST 2340: Modern France
- HIST 2380: Shakespeare’s Histories and History
- HIST 2382: The Rise of the Tudors
- HIST 2383: A Monarchy Dissolved? From Good Queen Bess to the English Civil War
- HIST 2385: The Real Tudors
- HIST 2410: Victorian England
- HIST 2450: Reform, Crisis, and Independence in Latin America, 1700-1820
- HIST 2595W: Pirates, Plantations, and Power: The English Atlantic World, 1500-1688
- HIST 2720: World War II
- HIST 2800: Modern Medicine
- HIST 2835: Sexuality and Gender in the Western Tradition to 1700
- HIST 2840: Sexuality and Gender in the Western Tradition since 1700
- HIST 3010: Pornography and Prostitution in History
- HIST 3120: Weimar Germany: Modernism and Modernity, 1918-1933
- HIST 3150: Cities of Europe and the Middle East
- HIST 3180: Making of Modern Paris
- HIST 3230: The Art of Empire
- HIST 3260: Revolutionary England, 1603-1710
- HIST 3270: Religion and the Occult in Early Modern Europe
- HIST 3275: Religion and Popular Culture in Nineteenth-Century Europe.
- ITA 1111: First-Year Writing Seminar (approved topics)
- ITA 2203: Intermediate Italian
- ITA 2501W: Grammar and Composition
- ITA 2614: Conversation
- ITA 3000: Introduction to Italian Literature
- ITA 3041: Italian Civilization
- ITA 3100: Literature from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
- ITA 3240: Dante’s Divine Comedy
- ITA 3242: Dante in Historical Context
- ITA 3340: Famous Women from Antiquity to Renaissance
- ITA 3500: Baroque, Illuminismo, and Romanticism in Italy
- ITA 3600: Twentieth-Century Literature: Beauty and Chaos
- ITA 3640: Classic Italian Cinema
- ITA 3641: Contemporary Italian Cinema
- ITA 3642: Italian Visual Culture
- ITA 3701: City Fictions
- ITA 3702: Topics in Contemporary Italian Civilization
- ITA 3802: Contemporary Italian Society and Culture
- JS 1002 and 1002W: Introduction to Jewish studies
- JS 1200: Classical Judaism: Jews in Antiquity
- JS 1220: Jews in the Medieval World
- JS 2210W: Hebrew Literature in Translation
- JS 2250W: Witnesses Who Were Not There: Literature of the Children of Holocaust Survivors
- JS 2270 and 2270W: Jewish Storytelling
- JS 2320: Freud and Jewish Identity
- JS 2340: Jewish Philosophy after Auschwitz
- JS 2450: The Jewish Diaspora
- JS 2640 and 2640W: Jews and Greeks
- JS 3100: The Holocaust
- MUSL 1220: The Symphony
- MUSL 2200W: Music in Western Culture
- MUSL 3220: Opera in the 17th and 18th Centuries
- MUSL 3221: Opera in the 19th Century
- MUSL 3222: Mahler Symphonies: Songs of Irony
- MUSL 3223: Music in the Age of Beethoven and Schubert
- MUSL 3224: Haydn and Mozart
- MUSL 3225: Brahms and the Anxiety of Influence
- MUSL 3227: Music in the Age of Revolution, 1789–1848
- MUSL 3228: J.S. Bach: Learned Musician and Virtual Traveler
- MUSL 3229: Robert Schumann and the Romantic Sensibility
- MUSL 3230: Music and the Construction of National Identity
- MUSL 3890: Selected Topics in Music History (approved topics)
- PHIL 1111: First-Year Writing Seminar (approved topics)
- PHIL 1200 and 1200W: The Meaning of Life
- PHIL 2102: Medieval Philosophy
- PHIL 2103: Modern Philosophy
- PHIL 2104: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
- PHIL 2109: Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy
- PHIL 2110: Contemporary Philosophy
- PHIL 2660: Philosophy of Music
- PHIL 3005: Jewish Philosophy
- PHIL 3007: French Feminism
- PHIL 3009: Existential Philosophy
- PHIL 3010: Phenomenology
- PHIL 3011: Critical Theory
- PHIL 3013: History of Aesthetics
- PHIL 3014: Modernistic Aesthetics
- PHIL 3103: Immanuel Kant
- PHIL 3104: Kierkegaard and Nietzsche
- PHIL 3105: Hegel
- PHIL 3602: Philosophy of History
- PHIL 3620: Political and Social Philosophy
- PHIL 3621: Early Modern Political Philosophy
- PHIL 3622: Contemporary Political Philosophy
- PHIL 3623: Modern Philosophies of Law
- PSCI 1101: Introduction to Comparative Politics
- PSCI 1102: Introduction to International Politics
- PSCI 1103: Justice
- PSCI 2202: Ancient Political Thought
- PSCI 2203: History of Modern Political Philosophy
- PSCI 2210: West European Politics
- PSCI 2220: Crisis Diplomacy
- PSCI 2221: Causes of War
- PSCI 2223: European Political Economy and Economic Institutions
- PSCI 2225: International Political Economy
- PSCI 2226: International Law and Organization
- PSCI 2274: Nature of War
- PSCI 3211: The European Union
- PSCI 4238: Comparative Political Parties
- PORT 2203: Intermediate Portuguese
- PORT 3301: Portuguese Composition and Conversation
- PORT 3892: Special Topics in Portuguese Language, Literature, or Civilization (approved topics)
- RLST 1111: First-Year Writing Seminar (approved topics)
- RLST 1820: Religion, Sexuality, Power
- RLST 2210W: Constructions of Jewish Identity in the Modern World
- RLST 2940: Great Books of Literature and Religion
- RLST 3229: The Holocaust: Its Meanings and Implications
- RLST 3316: Christianity in the Reformation Era
- RLST 3940: The Nature of Evil
- RLST 3941: Religion, Science, and Evolution
- RLST 4834: Post-Freudian Theories and Religion
- RLST 4835: Freudian Theories and Religion
- RLST 4836: The Religious Self according to Jung
- RUSS 1111: First-Year Writing Seminar (approved topics)
- RUSS 1874: Russian Fairy Tales
- RUSS 1910W: 19th Century Russian Literature
- RUSS 1911W: 20th Century Russian Literature
- RUSS 2210: Russia Today: Politics, Economics, and Culture
- RUSS 2230: Russia at War
- RUSS 2273 and 2273W: Russian Science Fiction
- RUSS 2434: The Russian Cinema
- RUSS 2435: Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina and Other Masterpieces
- RUSS 2436: Tolstoy’s War and Peace
- RUSS 2438: Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
- RUSS 2537: Vladimir Nabokov
- RUSS 2639: From the House of the Dead: Stories of Siberia
- RUSS 2745: Radical Art: The Avant-Garde Revolution
- RUSS 2800: Viewing Communism in Eastern Europe
- SOC 3851: Independent Research and Writing (approved topics)
- SOC 4961: Seminars in Selected Topics (approved topics)
- SPAN 1111: First-Year Writing Seminar (approved topics)
- SPAN 2990: Images of the Feminine in Spanish Cinema
- SPAN 3301W: Intermediate Spanish Writing
- SPAN 3302: Spanish for Oral Communication through Cultural Topics
- SPAN 3325: The Way of Saint James
- SPAN 3340: Advanced Conversation
- SPAN 3345: Spanish in Business and the Global Economy
- SPAN 3355: Advanced Conversation through Cultural Issues in Film
- SPAN 3360: Spanish Civilization
- SPAN 3365: Film and Recent Cultural Trends in Spain
- SPAN 4340: History of the Spanish Language
- SPAN 4345: The Languages of Spain
- SPAN 4400: The Origins of Spanish Literature
- SPAN 4405: Literature of the Spanish Golden Age
- SPAN 4410: Spanish Literature from the Enlightenment to 1900
- SPAN 4415: Spanish Literature from 1900 to the Present
- SPAN 4440: Development of the Short Story
- SPAN 4445: Development of the Novel
- SPAN 4450: The Contemporary Novel
- SPAN 4455: Development of Drama
- SPAN 4465: Theory and Practice of Drama
- SPAN 4470: Development of Lyric Poetry
- SPAN 4475: Contemporary Lyric Poetry
- SPAN 4620: Love and Honor in Medieval and Golden Age Literature
- SPAN 4640: Don Quixote
- SPAN 4670: Spanish Realism
- SPAN 4690: Alterity and Migration in Spain