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Interdisciplinary Concentration in Medieval and Renaissance Studies for English Majors

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:

    • ENGL-302 Literature of the Middle Ages

    • ENGL-302 Literature of the English Renaissance

    • ENGL-304 Shakespeare

    • ENGL-309 Desire and Identity in the Renaissance: The Lyric Tradition

    • ENGL-330 Selected Topics in Literature Before the Early to Mid-19th Century

    • ENGL-400 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.

    • ARTH-309 Image and Icon in Medieval Art

    • ARTH 210 Late Antique and Byzantine Art

    • ARTH-212 Medieval Art in Western Europe 8th-15th Centuries

    • ARTH-215 Art of the Italian Renaissance

    • ARTH-216 Art in the Age of Reform

    • CLSC-306 The Classical Tradition

    • FREN-325 Medieval and Early Modern Society

    • FREN-420 The French Middle Ages

    • FREN-421Renaissance

    • HIST-225 Medieval Italy

    • HIST-227 High Middle Ages

    • HIST-230 The Renaissance

    • HIST-233 Reformation Europe

    • ITAL-423 Le Tre Corone: Dante, Petrarca and Boccaccio

    • LAIS-421 Christians, Jews and Muslims from Frontier to Empire:  Medieval Spain

    • LAIS-431 Imperial Spain: The Age of Conflict

    • LAIS-432 True Lies: Fiction and Truth in Don Quijote

    • LLC-358 Desire and Identity in the Renaissance: Self, History and Knowledge

    • PLSC-311 Classical Political Thought

    • RELG-258 Religion & the Medieval Imagination

    • RELG-273 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):