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:
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):
ARTH-121 Survey I: Prehistory through the Middle Ages
ARTH-122 Survey II: Renaissance to the Present
CLSC-301 Greek Art and Archeology
CLSC-302 Roman Art and Archeology
ENGL-234 Shakespeare
FREN-422 Le Siècle Classique
GREK-301 Greek Epic
GREK-302 Greek Drama
HIST-223 The Roman Empire
PHIL-362 Philosophy of Religion
RELG-241 Introduction to Early Christian Era
RELG-342 Whores, Dragons, and the Anti-Christ: Revelation and the Apocalyptic Imagination