Interdisciplinary Concentration in Medieval and Renaissance Studies for Art History Majors

This concentration is intended to encourage art history majors to develop an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Medieval and Renaissance visual cultures. The concentration aims to expose students to a variety of disciplines, approaches and methodologies by supplementing their upper-level courses in Medieval and Renaissance art with those covering aspects of these historical periods in other academic disciplines. The selection of courses offered through the concentration allows students with a specific interest in Medieval and Renaissance art to broaden their knowledge of the periods, and provides them with opportunities to comprehensively examine topics of interest. Students will meet with their Medieval and Renaissance studies advisor in art history to outline a track of study from among the broad range of interdepartmental courses listed below.

Three 300- or 400-level Department of Art and Art History courses in the areas of early Christian, Medieval or Renaissance art

Three approved courses from at least two different departments outside art and art history, chosen from

CLSC 205 Greek and Roman Mythology: Epic

CLSC 207 Mythology: Greek Drama

CLSC 301 Greek Art and Archaeology

CLSC 302 Roman Art and Archaeology

CLSC 305 Greek and Roman Values

CLSC 306 The Classical Tradition

ENGL 226 Love and War in Medieval Literature

ENGL 234 Shakespeare

ENGL 236 On the Road: Literature of Quest and Pilgrimage

ENGL 301 Literature of the Middle Ages

ENGL 302 Literature of the English Renaissance

ENGL 303 Chaucer

ENGL 304 Shakespeare

ENGL 305 Critical Approaches to Shakespeare

ENGL 306 Milton

ENGL 307 Epic Traditions

ENGL 390 Interdisciplinary Studies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

FREN 411 The French Middle Ages

FREN 421 Renaissance

GREK 301 Greek Epic

GREK 302 Greek Drama

GREK 303 Greek Historiography

GREK 304 Greek Philosophical Prose

HIST 223 The Roman Empire

HIST 225 Medieval Italy

HIST 226 Early Middle Ages

HIST 227 High Middle Ages

HIST 229 Medieval England

HIST 230 Renaissance

ITAL 321 Readings in Italian Literature

LATN 302 Ovid

LATN 303 Roman Epic

LATN 304 Roman Historiography

LATN 305 Horace

LATN 306 Roman Philosophical Literature

LATN 307 Catullus

LATN 308 The Novel

LATN 309 Cicero

LAIS 432 True Lies: Fiction and Truth in Don Quijote

PHIL 271 Ancient Greek Philosophy

RELG 241 Introduction to Early Christian Era

RELG 243 The World of the New Testament

RELG 258 Medieval Religious Thought

RELG 332 Hebrew and Christian Wisdom Literature

RELG 340 Varieties of Early Christianity

RELG 341 Paul and Christian Origins

RELG 342 John and Early Christian Literature

RELG 356 Religious Thought of the Renaissance and Reformation

Senior thesis project on a subject in early Christian, Medieval or Renaissance art

Students also will be encouraged to consider enrolling in any number of the following courses (these courses will not, however, count toward the three courses in Medieval and Renaissance studies taken outside the Department of Art and Art History required for the art history concentration):

FREN 431 Le Siècle Classique

HIST 110 Ideas and Institutions of Western Civilization I

PHIL 281 Philosophy of Art

PHIL 362 Philosophy of Religion

RELG 263 Religion and the Arts