Major Requirements

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Major Requirements for Medieval & Early Modern Studies

A total of nine credits, distributed in the following manner:

• A minimum of eight course credits from at least four departments, distributed between the following two categories. Of these eight, no more than four courses may be in a single department.
  
  History, Philosophy, and Religion
  At least three courses selected from among the following:
  
  • Europe: 800-1300 (HIS 101)
  • Europe: 1300-1700 (HIS 102)
  • Europe: the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (HIS 304)
  • Modern Philosophy: Seventeenth Century (PHI 304)
  • The Protestant Revolution (REL 354)
  • With the approval of the Medieval and Early Modern Studies advisor, other appropriate courses from History, Philosophy, and Religion
  Literature and the Arts
  At least three courses selected from among the following:
  
  • Italian Renaissance Art: Art, Architecture, and Humanism (ART 256)
  • Medusa's Gaze: Art in the Age of Galileo (ART 257)
  • Saints and She-Devils (ART 361)
  • English Survey I (ENG 211)
  • Studies in Medieval English Literature (ENG 321)
  • Medieval and Renaissance Drama: Shakespeare's Rivals (ENG 322)
  • Shakespeare I: Comedies and Romances (ENG 323)
  • Shakespeare II: Histories and Tragedies (ENG 324)
  • Studies in Renaissance Non-Dramatic Literature (ENG 325)
  • Milton (ENG 326)
  • Medieval French Literature (FRE 315)
  • The French Renaissance: Sixteenth Century Literature (FRE 321)
  • History of Western Music I: Medieval and Renaissance (MUS 321)
  • History of Western Music II: Baroque and Classical (MUS 322)
  • Golden Age: Romancero and the Comedia (SPA 321)
  • Golden Age: Don Quijote (SPA 322)
  • With the approval of the Medieval and Early Modern Studies advisor, other appropriate courses from literature and the arts
• Senior Project (MEM 485)

Language Requirement

Competence in French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, or Spanish at the 205 level, satisfied by one of the following: (1) 205 or the equivalent; (2) placement into a 300-level course through an examination; or (3) passing a proficiency examination at the 205 level.