McMicken College of Arts & Sciences
European Studies

Undergraduate Studies

The new Certificate in European Studies is designed to introduce undergraduate students to the ways in which different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences define and approach the study of Europe. The total number of credits required for this certificate is 30. To gain official recognition as having earned the Certificate in European Studies, students must:

1) Complete two Interdisciplinary Courses in European Studies (6 credits):

• “Introduction to European Studies” (EUST 101) in the Sophomore or Junior year (3 credits)
• “Capstone Seminar in European Studies" (EUST 390) in the senior year (3 credits)

2) Complete the Required Courses in College Departments and Disciplines, (12 credits) including:

• Any two of History 113, 114, 115 (European Civilization 1000-1500, 1500-1800, 1800-present) (6 credit hours)
• Any one of Politics 160 (Introduction to Comparative Politics), 180 (Introduction to International Relations), 277 (Government and Politics of Europe I), or 278 (Government and Politics of Europe II) (3 credit hours)
• Geography 124 (World Regional Geography: Europe) (3 credit hours)
• The College language requirement, met in one of the following languages: French, Spanish, German, or Italian. With the approval of the Director of European Studies, another language of historical or contemporary significance for Europe may be substituted.

• Four courses from a list of relevant upper-level courses (see below), all chosen from one of three areas of concentration: social sciences, languages and literatures, and history and philosophy, in consultation with and subject to approval by the Director of European Studies. These courses must be drawn from at least two disciplines, and may include only one course in the student's major.

• Students interested in pursuing a coherent focus (geographic, temporal, etc.) by taking four courses that cross these areas of concentration may do so with prior permission from the Director.

• 15-ANTH-320 Balkan Peoples


• 15-GEOG-216 Geography of Europe
• 15-GEOG-333 Political Geography


• 15-POL-277/577 Government and Politics of Europe I
• 15-POL-278/578 Government and Politics of Europe II
  15-POL-376/676 Politics of the European Union
• 15-POL-240 Development of Political Thought I (Plato to JS Mill)
  15-POL-241 Development of Political Thought II (Plato to JS Mill)
  15-POL-341  Marx and the Marxist Tradition
  15-POL-282 NATO and Alliances in International Politics.


• 15-SOC-304 Survey of Sociological Theory (Classical)
• 15-SOC-305 Survey of Sociological Theory (Contemporary)

• 23-ARTH-371 19th-Century Art to 1850                           
• 23-ARTH-372 19th-Century Art, 1850-1900


• 15-CLAS-221Art and Archaeology of the Ancient World I
• 15-CLAS-222 Art and Archaeology of the Ancient World II
• 15-CLAS-223 Art and Archaeology of the Ancient World III
• 15-CLAS-345 Mythology
• 15-CLAS-375 Topography of Rome
  
  
• 15-HIST-448 Medieval West I
• 15-HIST-449 Medieval West II
• 15-HIST-450 Medieval West III
• 15-HIST-453 Modern German History
• 15-HIST-462/463 Senior Seminar (whenever the subject is European)
• 15-HIST-487 History of Christianity I (Beginnings to 1500)
• 15-HIST-488 History of Christianity II (1500-Present)
• 15-HIST-533 Eastern Europe to 1918
• 15-HIST-534 Eastern Europe since 1918
• 15-HIST-537 Medieval Culture and Society I
• 15-HIST-538 Medieval Culture and Society II
• 15-HIST-539 Medieval Culture and Society III
• 15-HIST-551 The Reformation I
• 15-HIST-552 The Reformation II
• 15-HIST-561 Women in European Society 1650-1800
• 15-HIST-562 Women in European Society 1800-Present
• 15-HIST-565 Tudor England 1485-1603
• 15-HIST-566 Stuart England 1603-1714
• 15-HIST-594 Renaissance Italy
• 15-HIST-595 Renaissance Europe
• 15-HIST-645 Eighteenth Century Britain and the Empire
• 15-HIST-646 Nineteenth Century Britain and the Empire
• 15-HIST-647 20th Century Britain
• 15-HIST-678 Russia, 1855-1917
• 15-HIST-679 Russia, 1917-Present
  
  
• 15-JUDC-379-001 Judaism and Christianity
• 15-JUDC-382 Studies in the Holocaust
• 15-JUDC-387/508-001 Freud and Judaism
• 15-JUDC-395-001 Modern Jewish Thought
• 15-JUDC-480 Jews in Europe
• 15-JUDC-481 Spanish Jewry
• 15-JUDC-482 East European Jews
• 15-JUDC-510 Antisemitism


• 15-PHIL-310 Continental Rationalism  (Descartes, Leibniz, and Spinoza )
• 15-PHIL-311 Empiricism 
• 15-PHIL-362 Existentialism I
• 15-PHIL-363 Nietzsche
• 15-PHIL-364 Existentialism II
• 15-PHIL-545 Descartes
• 15-PHIL-567 Political Philosophy

• 15-ENGB-250 Shakespeare’s Plays
• 15-ENGB-251 20th Century [British] Fiction
• 15-ENGB-306 Introduction to Shakespeare
• 15-ENGB-307 Shakespeare I
• 15-ENGB-308 Shakespeare II
• 15-ENGB-314 History of the Novel I
• 15-ENGB-315 History of the Novel II
• 15-ENGB-316 History of the Novel III
• 15-ENGB-317 19th Century Gothic
• 15-ENGB-329 Issues in Shakespeare
• 15-ENGB-331 Milton
• 15-ENGB-334 Survey of English Literature I
• 15-ENGB-335 Survey of English Literature II
• 15-ENGB-336 Survey of English Literature III
• 15-ENGB-364 Victorian Gothic
• 15-ENGB-401 Seminar in British Literature I
• 15-ENGB-402 Seminar in British Literature II
• 15-ENGB-403 Seminar in British Literature III
• 15-ENGB-421 Blake: Poetry & Illusion
• 15-ENGB-424 Hardy Seminar
• 15-ENGB-425 18th Century British Literature
• 15-ENGB-476 Victorian Literature
• 15-ENGB-514 Middle English Literary Drama
• 15-ENGB-518 Chaucer I
• 15-ENGB-519 Chaucer II
• 15-ENGB-556 Age of Sensibility
• 15-ENGB-558 Scottish Fiction
  
  
• 15-ENGC-345 Literature of Chivalry
• 15-ENGC-358 Western Tradition in Literature
• 15-ENGC-370 Modern Poetry
• 15-ENGC-371 Modern Fiction I
• 15-ENGC-372 Modern Fiction II
• 15-ENGC-383 Celtic Myth and Epic
• 15-ENGC-384 Celtic Romance and Literature
• 15-ENGC-399 Introduction to Literary Theory
• 15-ENGC-419 Theory of Inspiration
• 15-ENGC-421 Feminine Bildungsroman
• 15-ENGC-442 The Baroque
• 15-ENGC-463 Medieval Narrative
• 15-ENGC-464 Medieval Romance
• 15-ENGC-467 Medieval Drama
• 15-ENGC-469 Gothic Paris
• 15-ENGC-503 Theory of Modern Drama
• 15-ENGC-515 Medieval Narrative
• 15-ENGC-516 Medieval Lyric
• 15-ENGC-517 Medieval Romance
• 15-ENGC-531 Medieval Drama
• 15-ENGC-548 Gothic Paris
• 15-ENGC-549 Dante’s Divine Comedy
• 15-ENGC-580 Venice in Literature
• 15-ENGC-584 Old Norse I
• 15-ENGC-585 Old Norse II
• 15-ENGC-586 Old Norse III
• 15-ENGC-661 Welsh I
• 15-ENGC-662 Welsh II
• 15-ENGC-663 Welsh III
• 15-ENGC-664 Modern Irish I
• 15-ENGC-665 Modern Irish II
• 15-ENGC-666 Modern Irish III


• 15-FREN-310 Introduction to French Literature (in French)
• 15-FREN-311 Modern French Literature (in French)
• 15-FREN-313 French Culture through Film (in French)
• 15-FREN-314 France Today (in French)
• 15-FREN-341 Medieval French Literature (in French)
• 15-FREN-342 Renaissance Literature (in French)
• 15-FREN-343 17th Century Literature (in French)
• 15-FREN-344 18th Century Literature (in French)
• 15-FREN-345 19th Century Literature (in French)
• 15-FREN-346 20th Century Literature (in French)
• 15-FREN-371 French Civilization I (in English)
• 15-FREN-372 French Civilization II (in English)
• 15-FREN-373 French Civilization III (in English)
  
  
• 15-GRMN-261 The Faust Myth in German Literature and Culture (in English)
• 15-GRMN-262 German Nobel Laureates (in English)
• 15-GRMN-263 Germany Since the Fall of the Wall (in English)
• 15-GRMN-264 Berlin in the 1920s (in English)
• 15-GRMN-280 German Fairy Tales—The Grimms and Beyond (in English)
• 15-GRMN-396 Germanic Mythology (in English)
• 15-GRMN-341 Seminar in German Literature (in German)
• 15-GRMN-342 Seminar in German Literature (in German)
• 15-GRMN-343 Seminar in German Literature (in German)
• 15-GRMN-441 German “Classical” Drama (in German)
• 15-GRMN-442 “Pop” goes the Novel:  German Pop Literature 1968-98 (in German)
• 15-GRMN-443 German Literature Since the “Wende” (in German)
• 15-GRMN-444 Post-War German Literature (in German)
• 15-GRMN-445 Literature and Culture in Contemporary Berlin (in German)
• 15-GRMN-446 German Poets and their Poetry (in German)
• 15-GRMN-447 Reading the Nineteenth Century (in German)
• 15-GRMN-448 Classics of the Twentieth Century (in German)


• 15-JUDC-301 Advanced Hebrew
  15- JUDC-355-001 Yiddish Literature in Translation
• 15-JUDC-383-001 Literature of the Holocaust


• 15-LATN-301 Latin Prose
• 15-LATN-302 Roman Rhetoric--Cicero
• 15-LATN-303 Latin Lyric & Horace
• 15-LATN-304 Epistolography
• 15-LATN-305 Elegy
• 15-LATN-306 Virgil
• 15-LATN-307 Livy
• 15-LATN-407 Livy and History
• 15-LATN-501-503 Survey of Latin Literature
• 15-LATN-504 Tacitus
• 15-LATN-505 Horace
• 15-LATN-506 Latin Satire
• 15-LATN-507 Histories: Livy and Sallust
• 15-LATN-508 Virgil


• 15-SPAN-312 Spain Today (in Spanish)
• 15-SPAN-320 Hispanic Civilization I (in English)
• 15-SPAN-321 Hispanic Civilization II (in English)
• 15-SPAN-322 Hispanic Civilization III (in English)
• 15-SPAN-372 Medieval Spanish Literature (in Spanish)
• 15-SPAN-373 Golden Age Spanish Literature (in Spanish)
• 15-SPAN-374 18th-19th Century Spanish Literature (in Spanish)
• 15-SPAN-375 20th Century Spanish Literature (in Spanish)
• 15-SPAN-421 Topics in Spanish Literature (in Spanish)


• Study Abroad:


• 15-FREN-500 Study Tour in Paris
• 15-FREN/SPAN-500 French-Spanish Santiago de Compostella Pilgrimage
• 15-GRMN-174 Berlin Program
• 15-GRMN-301-02 Munich Program
• 22-INTB-530 Managing Cultural Differences / COB in Nantes, France