Medieval and Renaissance Studies Concentration

Interdisciplinary Concentration in Medieval and Renaissance Studies for English Majors

Seven units, including:

  • ENGL 308 / IDST 390 Interdisciplinary Studies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

  • One 300- or 400-level course in Medieval literature and one 300- or 400-level course in Renaissance literature, chosen from:

    • ENGL302 Literature of the Middle Ages

    • ENGL302 Literature of the English Renaissance

    • ENGL304 Shakespeare

    • ENGL309 Desire and Identity in the Renaissance: The Lyric Tradition

    • ENGL330 Selected Topics in Literature Before the Early to Mid-19th Century

    • ENGL400 Junior/Senior Seminar (depending on topic)

  • Three units from at least two different departments outside of English, chosen from below. Special topics courses in medieval and renaissance may be substituted with prior approval from the departmental coordinator.

    • ARTH309 Image and Icon in Medieval Art

    • ARTH210 Late Antique and Byzantine Art

    • ARTH212 Medieval Art in Western Europe 8th-15th Centuries

    • ARTH215 Art of the Italian Renaissance

    • ARTH216 Art in the Age of Reform

    • ANTH306 The Classical Tradition

    • FREN325 Medieval and Early Modern Society

    • FREN420 The French Middle Ages

    • FREN421 Renaissance

    • HIST225 Medieval Italy

    • HIST227 High Middle Ages

    • HIST230 The Renaissance

    • HIST233 Reformation Europe

    • ITAL423 Le Tre Corone: Dante, Petrarca and Boccaccio

    • LAIS421 Christians, Jews and Muslims from Frontier to Empire:  Medieval Spain

    • LAIS431 Imperial Spain: The Age of Conflict

    • LAIS432 True Lies: Fiction and Truth in Don Quijote

    • RELG358 Desire and Identity in the Renaissance: Self, History and Knowledge

    • PLSC311 Classical Political Thought

    • RELG258 Religion & the Medieval Imagination

    • RELG273 Witchcraft and Its Interpreters

  • A final critical paper examining one or more works relevant to the major shall be completed in the junior or senior year preferably as the final project in ENGL 308/IDST 390 or in another appropriate upper-division English course with prior approval from the concentration coordinators.

  • Students also will be encouraged to consider enrolling in any number of the following courses (these courses will not, however, count toward the six courses in Medieval and Renaissance Studies required of English major concentrators):

    • ARTH121 Survey I: Prehistory through the Middle Ages

    • ARTH122 Survey II: Renaissance to the Present

    • CLSC301 Greek Art and Archeology

    • CLSC302 Roman Art and Archeology

    • ENGL234 Shakespeare

    • FREN422 Le Siècle Classique

    • GREK301 Greek Epic

    • GREK302 Greek Drama

    • HIST223 The Roman Empire

    • PHIL362 Philosophy of Religion

    • RELG241 Introduction to Early Christian Era

    • RELG342 Whores, Dragons, and the Anti-Christ: Revelation and the Apocalyptic Imagination