Medieval Studies Minor
Requirements
Students must complete at least five upper-level courses in Medieval Studies disciplines, for a total of 15 credits. No more than three of these credits may be transferred from another college or university. Coursework must be at the 2000 level and above, and may also include Variable Topics, Special Topics, Independent Study, Foreign Study, and graduate-level courses, as determined by the course content and consent of one of the Minor Advisors.
The five courses must be drawn from at least four of the following categories:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Arab and Islamic Civilizations | ||
| ARAB 2751 | Arabic Folk Tales and Mirrors for Princes | 3 |
| ARAB 3550W | Classical Arabic Literature | 3 |
| ARAB 3551 | Arabic Travel Narratives | 3 |
| ARAB 3559 | Arabic Poetry and Poetics | 3 |
| ARAB 3751 | Al-Andalus: Music, Literature, and Science in Muslim Spain | 3 |
| Art History | ||
| ARTH 3210/3210W | 3 | |
| ARTH 3220/3220W | 3 | |
| ARTH 3230/3230W | 3 | |
| ARTH 3240/3240W | 3 | |
| ARTH 3260/3260W | 3 | |
| Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies | ||
| CAMS 3102 | Topics in Advanced Latin | 1-6 |
| CAMS 3213 | Ovid and Mythology | 3 |
| CAMS 3224 | 3 | |
| CAMS 3232 | Medieval Latin | 3 |
| CAMS 3244 | Ancient Fictions | 3 |
| CAMS/HIST 3320 | Ancient Greece: Troy to Sparta | 3 |
| CAMS/HIST 3321 | Hellenistic World: Alexander to Cleopatra | 3 |
| CAMS/HIST 3325 | Ancient Rome: Aeneas to Augustus | 3 |
| CAMS/HIST 3326 | Ancient Rome: Emperors and Barbarians | 3 |
| CAMS/HIST 3330 | Palestine Under the Greeks and Romans | 3 |
| CAMS/HIST 3335 | The Early Christian Church | 3 |
| CAMS/HIST 3340 | World of the Later Roman Empire | 3 |
| English | ||
| ENGL 3111 | 3 | |
| ENGL 3301 | Celtic and Norse Myth and Legend | 3 |
| ENGL 3303 | Studies in Early Literature in English | 3 |
| ENGL 3501 | Chaucer | 3 |
| ENGL 3603 | 3 | |
| French | ||
| FREN 3230 | 3 | |
| Hebrew and Judaic Studies | ||
| HEJS 3201 | Selected Books of the Hebrew Bible | 3 |
| HEJS 3241 | Jewish Magic: from Late Antiquity through the Early Modern Period | 3 |
| HEJS 3301 | The Jewish Middle Ages | 3 |
| HEJS 5316 | 3 | |
| HEJS/HIST 3362 | The Black Death: Medieval and Modern Responses to Catastrophe | 3 |
| History | ||
| HIST 2350 | Byzantium | 3 |
| HIST 3360 | Early Middle Ages | 3 |
| HIST 3361 | The High and Later Middle Ages | 3 |
| HIST 3420 | English History to 1603 | 3 |
| HIST 3640 | Andean Societies | 3 |
| HIST 3704 | Medieval Islamic Civilization to 1700 | 3 |
| CAMS/HIST 3320 | Ancient Greece: Troy to Sparta | 3 |
| CAMS/HIST 3321 | Hellenistic World: Alexander to Cleopatra | 3 |
| CAMS/HIST 3325 | Ancient Rome: Aeneas to Augustus | 3 |
| CAMS/HIST 3326 | Ancient Rome: Emperors and Barbarians | 3 |
| CAMS/HIST 3330 | Palestine Under the Greeks and Romans | 3 |
| CAMS/HIST 3335 | The Early Christian Church | 3 |
| CAMS/HIST 3340 | World of the Later Roman Empire | 3 |
| HEJS/HIST 3362 | The Black Death: Medieval and Modern Responses to Catastrophe | 3 |
| Interdepartmental | ||
| INTD 3260 | The Bible, the Holy Land, and History | 3 |
| Italian Literary and Cultural Studies | ||
| ILCS 3253 | 3 | |
| ILCS 3254 | Boccaccio and His Time | 3 |
| ILCS 3255W | Dante's Divine Comedy in English Translation | 3 |
| Music | ||
| MUSI 3401 | 3 | |
| Philosophy | ||
| PHIL 3261 | 3 | |
| Political Science | ||
| POLS 3002 | Classical and Medieval Political Theory | 3 |
| Spanish | ||
| SPAN 3200 | Spanish Civilization to the Modern Period | 3 |
| SPAN 3231 | Great Works of Spanish Literature from its Origins to the Golden Age | 3 |
| SPAN 3261 | 3 | |
The Minor is offered by the Medieval Studies Program. For further information, contact Sherri Olson, Wood Hall, Room 229, 860-486-3552.