European Studies, Minor in

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Professor Dudek, Adviser

European Studies is an interdisciplinary minor program that offers a wide array of courses regarding contemporary and historic Europe. Europe is understood in a broad context including: West, East, Central, and Southern Europe, as well as Russia and the Confederation of Independent States.

Studying European politics, history, languages, economics and culture will give students a better understanding of the foundations of western civilization and the linkage Europe has with the rest of the world. European economic integration, the expansion of NATO, and new forms of globalization have reshaped the role of European nations on the world stage, making it an arena of particular current interest. A minor in European studies will prepare students for careers in government, foreign affairs, international business, education and translation as well as for advanced degrees in European Studies and European Union Studies and Law.

Minor Requirements - Total Semester Hours: 18

A minor in European Studies consists of the successful completion of 18 semester hours, under advisement, with at least 6 hours in-residence as follows: 9 semester hours of Pan European courses and 9 semester hours of electives, as outlined below. Students must take one Pan European course from each of the three areas and at least one elective in both Humanities and Social Sciences as outlined below.

Students may not take more than 6 s.h. in a single discipline. Courses in foreign languages above the University language requirement may be used to satisfy the Humanities elective requirement provided the instructor confirms European content.

Language requirement: In addition to the 18 semester hours cited above, students must also satisfy the BA language requirement in an approved European language other than English, or demonstrate competency in an approved European language other than English. Students are strongly encouraged to reach level 4 or its equivalent, or above, in an approved European language, but it is not required. Language courses applied toward the language requirement do not count toward the 18 semester hours needed to complete the minor.

A) Pan European Courses - Total semester hours: 9

9 semester hours with 3 semester hours from each of the following categories.

B) European Studies Electives - Total Semester Hours: 9

9 s.h. chosen from the two categories below with at least 3 s.h. chosen from Humanities and 3 s.h. from Social Sciences. See program director for accepted courses.

I. Humanities

The following courses fulfill the humanities requirement for European Studies. Other humanities courses with significant European content may apply and require director approval.

AH 003 - (AA) Art from Caves to Cathedrals Semester Hours: 3
AH 004 - (AA) Art from the Renaissance to Today Semester Hours: 3
AH 074 - (AA) Contemporary Art Semester Hours: 3
AH 106 - (AA) Italian Renaissance Art Semester Hours: 3
AH 107 - (AA) Renaissance Art in Northern Europe Semester Hours: 3
AH 109 - (AA) The Global Baroque Semester Hours: 3
AH 110 - (AA) Modern Architecture and Design Semester Hours: 3
AH 119 - (AA) 19th-Century Art Semester Hours: 3
AH 120 - (AA) Early 20th-Century Art Semester Hours: 3
AH 188 - (AA) Art in the Age of Rembrandt Semester Hours: 3
CLL 030 - (LT) Literature of the Holocaust Semester Hours: 3
CLL 039 - (LT) Goddesses, Gods, and Heroes: Mythology in the Ancient World Semester Hours: 3
CLL 040 - (LT) Literature of the Emerging Europe Semester Hours: 3
CLL 041 - (LT) Ancient Novel Semester Hours: 3
CLL 042 - (LT) Ancient Comedy Semester Hours: 3
CLL 043 - (LT) Alexander the Great: Fact and Fiction Semester Hours: 3
CLL 044 - (LT) Greek and Roman Epics Semester Hours: 3
CLL 046 - (LT) Sex and Gender in Antiquity Semester Hours: 3
CLL 053 - (LT) Faust Theme Semester Hours: 3
CLL 054 - (LT) The Oedipus Theme Semester Hours: 3
CLL 155 - (LT) Medieval Literature Semester Hours: 3
CLL 161 - (LT) Renaissance Semester Hours: 3
CLL 172 - (LT) European Literature of the 17th and 18th Centuries Semester Hours: 3
CLL 176 - (LT) The Short Story in World Literature: Origins, Examples, Influences Semester Hours: 3
CLL 199 - (LT) Contemporary European Literature Semester Hours: 3 or 4
ENGL 060 - (LT) Constructing British Literature Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 061 - (LT) British Literature 1785 to the Present Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 081 - (LT) Western Literature I Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 082 - (LT) Western Literature II Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 104 - Old English Language and Literature Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 105 - The Middle Ages in England Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 107 - (LT) Canterbury Tales Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 112 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 113 - (LT) Inventing Identities: Yeats, Heaney, and the Emergence of Modern Irish Poetry Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 115 - (LT) Shakespeare: The Earlier Plays and Sonnets Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 116 - Shakespeare: The Later Plays Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 117 - Seminar: Renaissance and 17th-Century Literature Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 119 - Milton: Literature, Liberty, Revolution Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 120 - (LT) British Drama from 1660 to 1789 Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 123 - 20th-Century Anglo-Irish Drama Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 127 - Shakespeare’s Comedy Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 129 - (LT) The 18th Century Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 131 - The 18th-Century British Novel Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 132 - The 19th-Century British Novel Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 153 - (LT) The Romantic Age Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 157 - (LT) Victorian Literature Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 159 - 20th-Century British Poetry Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 163 - (LT) Contemporary Irish American Literature and Culture Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 164 - James Joyce Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 165 - 20th-Century British Novel Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 169 - (LT) Renaissance Pick-Up Artists Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 185 - (LT) Revolutions: British Literature 1945 to the Present Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 186 - (LT) Multicultural British Literature 1945 to the Present Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 187 - (LT) Modern British Literature Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 189 - Contemporary British Theater Semester Hours: 3
EUR 010 A-Z - (IS) Special Topics in European Culture and Politics Abroad Semester Hours: 3
EUR 020 - (IS) Ireland Inside Out Semester Hours: 3
EUR 047 - (IS) The Great Irish Famine Semester Hours: 3
EUR 090 - (BH) Sociology of Contemporary Ireland Semester Hours: 3
FREN 113 - French Civilization Semester Hours: 3
FREN 114 - Introduction to French Literature I Semester Hours: 3
FREN 115A - Introduction to French Literature II Semester Hours: 3
FREN 116A - Readings in Business II Semester Hours: 3
FREN 120 - Provence Today Semester Hours: 3
FREN 151 - (LT) Satire in Various Genres Semester Hours: 3
FREN 155 - (LT) Love Literature through the Ages Semester Hours: 3
FREN 162 - (LT) Seminar in the French Theater Semester Hours: 3
FREN 172 - (LT) The Theater of Corneille, Racine and Moliere Semester Hours: 3
FREN 183 - (LT) Society Under Attack Semester Hours: 3
FREN 191 - (LT) From Romanticism to Symbolism Semester Hours: 3
FREN 192 - (LT) 19th-Century French Novel and Short Story Semester Hours: 3
FREN 195 - (LT) Modern French Theater Semester Hours: 3
FREN 196 - (LT) Modern French Poetry Semester Hours: 3
FREN 197 - (LT) 20th-Century French Novel and Short Story Semester Hours: 3
FRLT 041 - (LT) Me, Myself, and I: Autobiographical Expressions from the French Semester Hours: 3
FRLT 042 - (LT) Heroines Exotic and Erotic: Romantic Women in 19th-Century French Narrative Prose Semester Hours: 3
FRLT 044 - (LT) Major Works of French Literature to 1800 Semester Hours: 3
FRLT 045 - (LT) Major Works of French Literature Since 1800 Semester Hours: 3
FRLT 046 - (LT) Sex, Gender and Love in 20th-Century French Prose Semester Hours: 3
FRLT 047 - (LT) French Literature and the World of Music Semester Hours: 3
FRLT 048 - (LT) The Knightly Heritage in French Literature Semester Hours: 3
FRLT 049 - (LT) Irony in Modern French Literature Semester Hours: 3
FRLT 060 - (LT) Modern French Feminist Thought Semester Hours: 3
FRLT 120 - (LT) Special Topics in French Literature and Civilization Semester Hours: 1-3
GERM 151 - (LT) Masterpieces of German Literature Semester Hours: 3
GERM 152 - (LT) Masterpieces of German Literature Semester Hours: 3
GERM 153 - (LT) Masterpieces of German Literature Semester Hours: 3
GERM 154 - (LT) Masterpieces of German Literature Semester Hours: 3
GERM 155 - (LT) Masterpieces of German Literature Semester Hours: 3
GERM 156 - (LT) Masterpieces of German Literature Semester Hours: 3
GRK 003 - Survey of Greek Prose Style Semester Hours: 3
GRK 125 - (LT) Oratory Semester Hours: 3
GRK 004 - Survey of Greek Poetry Semester Hours: 3
GRK 120 - (LT) Plato Semester Hours: 3
GRK 121 - (LT) Homer Semester Hours: 3
GRK 122 - (LT) Tragedy Semester Hours: 3
GRK 123 - (LT) Comedy Semester Hours: 3
GRK 124 - (LT) Historiography Semester Hours: 3
RHC 013 - (LT) C&E Fall Humanities Semester Hours: 3
RHC 014 - (LT) C&E Spring Humanities Semester Hours: 3
IRE 020 - (IS) Ireland Inside Out Semester Hours: 3
IRE 047 - (IS) The Great Irish Famine Semester Hours: 3
IRE 105 - (LT) Irish Literature in Translation Semester Hours: 3
IRE 110 - (CP) Irish Dance Steps and Studies Semester Hours: 3
IRE 113 - (LT) Inventing Identities: Yeats, Heaney, and the Emergence of Modern Irish Poetry Semester Hours: 3
IRE 123 - 20th-Century Anglo-Irish Drama Semester Hours: 3
IRE 163 - (LT) Contemporary Irish American Literature and Culture Semester Hours: 3
IRE 164 - James Joyce Semester Hours: 3
IRE 180 - (LT) The Outlaw in American Literature: An Irish-American Perspective Semester Hours: 3
ITAL 101 - Language and Reading Semester Hours: 3
ITAL 102 - Three Great Films: Continuing Language Study Semester Hours: 3
ITAL 103 - Italian Through Comics and Fairy Tales–Continuing Language Study Semester Hours: 3
ITAL 104 - 12 Famous Italians You Should Know–Continuing Language Study Semester Hours: 3
ITAL 105 - Music and Culture–Continuing Language Study Semester Hours: 3
ITAL 106 - Made in Italy–Continuing Language Study Semester Hours: 3
ITAL 108 - One-on-One Conversation Skills Semester Hours: 0.5
ITAL 109 - Italian Conversation and Oral Practice Semester Hours: 3
ITAL 110 - Italian Conversation and Oral Practice Semester Hours: 3
ITAL 111 - Grammar Review & New Concepts Semester Hours: 1-3
ITAL 112 - Italian Composition Semester Hours: 1-3
ITAL 116 - Advanced Readings Semester Hours: 1-3
ITLT 040 - (LT) Love and Eros in Italian Literature Semester Hours: 3
ITLT 041 - (LT) To Hell and Back: Dante’s Inferno Semester Hours: 3
ITLT 042 - (LT) Lie, Cheat, and Steal: Short Stories of Decameron Semester Hours: 3
ITLT 050 - (LT) Writing Women in Early Modern Italy Semester Hours: 3
ITLT 068 - (LT) Short Story & Novel in Italy Semester Hours: 3
ITLT 069 - (LT) Italian Stage & Theater Semester Hours: 3
ITLT 090 - (LT) 20th- and 21st-Century Women Writers Semester Hours: 3
ITST 131 - (IS) Italian Cultural Studies I: From Unification to World War I Semester Hours: 3-4
ITST 132 - (IS) Italian Cultural Studies II: From World War I to the Present Semester Hours: 3-4
ITST 142 - (IS) The Italian Mafia: Historical Reality and Fictional Representations Semester Hours: 3
ITST 143 - (IS) Italian Comic Book Culture Semester Hours: 3
ITST 144 - (IS) Italian Food Culture Semester Hours: 3 s.h.
LAT 004 - (LT) Latin Poetry Semester Hours: 3
LAT 112 - Latin Readings Semester Hours: 1-3
LAT 113 - Latin Readings Semester Hours: 1-3
LAT 114 - Latin Readings Semester Hours: 1-3
LAT 115 - Latin Readings Semester Hours: 1-3
LAT 116 - Latin Readings Semester Hours: 1-3
LAT 117 - Latin Readings Semester Hours: 1-3
LAT 118 - Prose Composition I Semester Hours: 1
LAT 119 - Prose Composition II Semester Hours: 1
LAT 120 - (LT) Lyric and Elegiac Poetry Semester Hours: 3
LAT 121 - (LT) Roman Drama Semester Hours: 3
LAT 122 - (LT) Roman Philosophy Semester Hours: 3
LAT 123 - (LT) Roman Novelists Semester Hours: 3
LAT 124 - (LT) Roman Historiography Semester Hours: 3
LAT 125 - (LT) Roman Satire Semester Hours: 3
LIT 005 - Italian Culture and Civilization Semester Hours: 3-4
LIT 041 - (LT) Myth, Literature and Culture of the Greek World Semester Hours: 3
LIT 042 - (LT) The Golden Age of Athens Semester Hours: 3
LIT 043 - (LT) Greek Tragedy Semester Hours: 3
LIT 055 - (LT) Myth, Literature and Culture of the Roman World Semester Hours: 3
LIT 056 - Rome: Birth of an Empire Semester Hours: 3
LIT 057 - (LT) Sex and the City: The Literature of Love in Ancient Rome Semester Hours: 3
LIT 058 - (LT) Literature and Archaeology of the Roman Countryside Semester Hours: 3
LIT 060 - (LT) Brecht and His Epic Theater Semester Hours: 1
LIT 064 - (LT) Romanticism and Realism in German Literature Semester Hours: 3
LIT 065 - (LT) German Literature of the 20th Century: The First Fifty Years Semester Hours: 3
LIT 067 - The 20th Century: From the Establishment of the Two German States to the Present Semester Hours: 3
LIT 068 - Contemporary German Literature and Film as Mirrors of Social Life Semester Hours: 3
LIT 071 - (LT) Russian Culture and the West Semester Hours: 3
LIT 072 - (LT) Love and Death in 19th c. Russian Literature Semester Hours: 3
LIT 073 - (LT) Literature and Revolution Semester Hours: 3
LIT 074 - (LT) Jewish Voices in Russian Culture Semester Hours: 3
LIT 105 - (LT) Irish Literature in Translation Semester Hours: 3
MUS 127 - (AA) Beethoven Semester Hours: 3
MUS 128 - (AA) Wagner Semester Hours: 3
MUS 129 - (AA) Opera Semester Hours: 3
MUS 130 - (AA) Symphonic Literature Semester Hours: 3
RUS 004 - Intermediate Russian Semester Hours: 3
RUS 101 - Advanced Russian Language Semester Hours: 3
RUS 102 - Advanced Russian Language Semester Hours: 3
RUS 103 - Advanced Russian Language Semester Hours: 3
RUS 104 - Advanced Russian Language Semester Hours: 3
RUS 105 - Advanced Russian Language Semester Hours: 3
RUS 106 - Advanced Russian Language Semester Hours: 3
RUS 151 - (LT) Masterpieces of Russian Literature Semester Hours: 3
RUS 152 - (LT) Masterpieces of Russian Literature Semester Hours: 3
RUS 153 - (LT) Masterpieces of Russian Literature Semester Hours: 3
RUS 154 - (LT) Masterpieces of Russian Literature Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 113A - Culture(s) of Spain Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 114A - (LT) Introduction to Spanish Literature I Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 115A - (LT) Introduction to Spanish Literature II Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 120 - Cultural Studies in Spain Today Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 122 - Economic History of Spain and Latin America: Literary Projections Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 128 - (LT) Spain and Latin America Today: Changing World Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 129 - (LT) Changing Times: Spanish Literature and Culture after 1975 Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 131 - (CC) Popular Music in Spanish: Audiences, Industries, Geographies Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 151 - (LT) Medieval and Early Modern Identities Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 162 - (LT) Spanish Golden Age Theater Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 171 - (LT) Don Quixote Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 192 - (LT) Romanticism, Realism and Naturalism Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 195 - (LT) The Generation of 1898 Semester Hours: 3
SPLT 051 - (LT) Don Quixote and the Modern Novel Semester Hours: 3
SPLT 055 - 20th-Century Spanish Outlook Semester Hours: 3
SPLT 056 - Spain Since the Civil War Semester Hours: 3
SPLT 057 - (LT) Going Public: Women Reading and Writing Semester Hours: 3
SPLT 061 - (LT) Love, Romance, and Eroticism in Medieval and Early Modern Spain Semester Hours: 3

II. Social Sciences

The following courses fulfill the social sciences European Studies requirement. Other social science courses with significant European content may apply and require director approval.

ANTH 132 - Contemporary Italy: An Anthropological View Semester Hours: 3
ECO 115 - Economics of European Integration Semester Hours: 3
ECO 139 - Economic History of Europe Semester Hours: 3
EUR 010 A-Z - (IS) Special Topics in European Culture and Politics Abroad Semester Hours: 3
EUR 020 - (IS) Ireland Inside Out Semester Hours: 3
EUR 047 - (IS) The Great Irish Famine Semester Hours: 3
EUR 090 - (BH) Sociology of Contemporary Ireland Semester Hours: 3
GEOG 107 - Urban Geography of Western Europe Semester Hours: 3
GEOG 122 - (BH) The Geography of Western Europe Semester Hours: 3
GEOG 123 - (BH) Eastern Europe and the Republics of the Former Soviet Union Semester Hours: 3
HIST 011 - (HP) Ancient and Medieval Worlds: Greece, Rome, Christendom, and the Rise of Islam Semester Hours: 3
HIST 012 - (HP) Modern Worlds: The ‘West’ from the Renaissance to the Present Semester Hours: 3-4
HIST 031 - Jewish History from the Patriarchal Period to the Age of Emancipation Semester Hours: 3
HIST 106A - (HP) Ancient Greece and Rome I Semester Hours: 3
HIST 106B - (HP) Ancient Greece and Rome II Semester Hours: 3
HIST 107 - (HP) Medieval Europe Semester Hours: 3
HIST 108 - (HP) Renaissance Europe Semester Hours: 3
HIST 109 - Kings, Merchants, Peasants, and the Road to Revolution in Europe, 1648-1789 Semester Hours: 3
HIST 112 - The French Revolution Semester Hours: 3
HIST 113 - War and Peace in the Age of Empire Semester Hours: 3
HIST 114 - Manufacturing Modernity: The Industrial Revolution and the Social Transformation of Europe, 1848-1914 Semester Hours: 3
HIST 120 - Reformation Europe, from Luther to Richelieu Semester Hours: 3
HIST 121 - History of England to 1688 Semester Hours: 3
HIST 122 - Modern Britain Semester Hours: 3
HIST 123 - The History of Human Rights Semester Hours: 3
HIST 131 - World War I and Its Aftermath Semester Hours: 3
HIST 132 - World War II and Its Aftermath Semester Hours: 3
HIST 133 - Modern Germany Semester Hours: 3
HIST 135 - Worlds of Enlightenment Semester Hours: 3
HIST 136 - Culture and Ideas in Modern Europe Semester Hours: 3
HIST 139 - Economic History of Europe Semester Hours: 3
HIST 180 - Seminar: British History Semester Hours: 4
HIST 181 - Seminar: Medieval Europe Semester Hours: 4
HIST 182 - Seminar: Early Modern Europe Semester Hours: 4
HIST 183 - Seminar: Modern European History Semester Hours: 4
RHC 011 - (HP) C&E Fall Social Sciences Semester Hours: 3
RHC 012 - (BH) C&E Spring Social Sciences Semester Hours: 3
IB 162 - European Business Semester Hours: 3
IRE 020 - (IS) Ireland Inside Out Semester Hours: 3
IRE 047 - (IS) The Great Irish Famine Semester Hours: 3
IRE 076 - (HP) History of Irish Spirituality Semester Hours: 3
IRE 090 - (BH) Sociology of Contemporary Ireland Semester Hours: 3
IRE 190 - (IS) Readings in Irish Studies Semester Hours: 1-4
ITST 131 - (IS) Italian Cultural Studies I: From Unification to World War I Semester Hours: 3-4
ITST 132 - (IS) Italian Cultural Studies II: From World War I to the Present Semester Hours: 3-4
ITST 142 - (IS) The Italian Mafia: Historical Reality and Fictional Representations Semester Hours: 3
ITST 143 - (IS) Italian Comic Book Culture Semester Hours: 3
ITST 144 - (IS) Italian Food Culture Semester Hours: 3 s.h.
JWST 036 - (HP) The Holocaust: Memory and Representation Semester Hours: 3
JWST 049 - (HP) Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought Semester Hours: 3
PHI 111 - Philosophy and the Holocaust Semester Hours: 3
PHI 113 - The Marxist Philosophers Semester Hours: 3
PHI 114 - Existentialism and Phenomenology Semester Hours: 3
PHI 141 - Ancient and Medieval Philosophy Semester Hours: 3
PHI 143 - Classical Modern Philosophy Semester Hours: 3
PHI 145 - 19th-Century Philosophy Semester Hours: 3
PHI 147 - Contemporary Philosophical Movements Semester Hours: 3
PHI 149 - (HP) French Philosophical Traditions Semester Hours: 3
PSC 132 - European Politics Semester Hours: 3
PSC 133 - Politics of the European Union Semester Hours: 3
PSC 139 - (BH) Russia: Post-Soviet Politics Semester Hours: 3
PSC 142 - Western Political Theory: Plato to Hobbes Semester Hours: 3
PSC 143 - Ideas in Conflict: Modern Democratic and Totalitarian Political Thought Semester Hours: 3
RELI 012 - (HP) Introduction to Western Religious Traditions Semester Hours: 3
RELI 020 - (HP) Magic, Miracle, and Medicine in the Greco-Roman World Semester Hours: 3
RELI 021 - (HP) Gods and Sages - Religious Wisdom in the Ancient World Semester Hours: 3
RELI 028 - (HP) Greco-Roman Religions Semester Hours: 3
SOC 090 - (BH) Sociology of Contemporary Ireland Semester Hours: 3

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European Studies, Minor in

Minor Requirements - Total Semester Hours: 18

A) Pan European Courses - Total semester hours: 9

I. Foundations of Europe: Total Semester Hours: 3

II. Contemporary Europe - Total Semester Hours: 3

III. Ideas and Culture of Europe - Total Semester Hours: 3

B) European Studies Electives - Total Semester Hours: 9

I. Humanities

II. Social Sciences