What You'll Study
Examine the arts and literatures from the different Early Modern eras. You'll review the political climate and watch culture and religon evolve over centuries. You can take courses like these:
- Medieval Art and Archetecture
- The Later Roman Empire
- Era of the Reformation
- Old English
- Ancient through Medieval Philosophy
The Medieval and Early Modern Studies Minor emphasizes a breadth of experience in the pre-modem world and so has the following requirements:
1. Students will only be granted up to twelve (12) credits per discipline.
2. A minimum of three courses must be at the 3000-level or above.
The Minor requires completion of 18 semester hours as follows:
I. The following course (3 credits)
- RLCL 1214 Medieval World
II. One course from each group (6 credits)
ART AND HISTORY
- ART 3284 Medieval Art and Architecture
- ART 3384 Renaissance Art and Architecture
- ART 3484 Baroque and Rococo Art and Architecture
- HIST 3314 The Later Roman Empire I-11ST 3324 The Medieval World
- HIST 3334 The Renaissance HIST 3344 Era of the Reformation
LITERATURE, LANGUAGES, AND THOUGHT
- ENGL 3204 Medieval Literature
- ENGL 3214 Renaissance Literature
- ENGL 4124 Old English
- FR 3305 Survey of French Literature
- GER 3305 Survey of German Literature
- LAT 2134 Late Medieval Latin
- PHIL 2116 Ancient through Medieval Philosophy
- PHIL/ PSCI 3015 Political Theory
- SPAN 3404 Early Peninsular Culture and Literature
- SPAN 3444 Early Spanish-American Culture and Literature
- SPAN 4304 Studies in Medieval and Golden Age Literature
III. Three additional courses (9 credits) from those listed below or from topics courses relevant to Medieval & Early Modern Studies. Permission to include courses not specifically listed here, however, must be granted by the minor coordinator.
- ART 2385 Survey of the History of Western Art
- ART 3284 Medieval Art and Architecture
- ART 3384 Renaissance Art and Architecture
- ART 3484 Baroque and Rococo Art and Architecture
- ENGL 1634 Introduction to Shakespeare ENGL 2515 Survey of British Literature
- ENGL 3204 Medieval Literature
- ENGL 3214 Renaissance Literature
- ENGL 4124 Old English
- ENGL 4114 Chaucer
- ENGL 4165 Shakespeare
- ENGL 4166 Shakespeare ENGL 4214 Milton
- FR 3305 Survey of French Literature
- GER 3305 Survey of German Literature
- HIST 2345 History of the Middle East
- HIST 3314 The Later Roman Empire
- HIST 3324 The Medieval World
- HIST 3334 The Renaissance
- HIST 3344 Era of the Reformation
- HIST 3424 Tudor and Early Stuart England
- HIST 3524 European Military History to 1789
- HIST 3584 Colonial Latin America
- LAT 2134 Late Medieval Latin
- PHIL 2116 Ancient through Medieval Philosophy
- PHIL/ PSCI 3015 Political Theory
- RLCL 2324 Islam RLCL/ HIST 3504 Age of the Crusades
- RLCL/ JUD 3704 Jews, Christians, and the Idea of Judeo-Christianity
- SPAN 3404 Early Peninsular Culture and Literature
- SPAN 3444 Early Spanish-American Culture and Literature
- SPAN 4304 Studies in Medieval and Golden Age Literature
- STS/ HIST 3705 History of Science
- STS/ HIST 3715 History of Technology
- TA 3105 History of Drama and Theatre
Special offerings, topics courses, Independent Study (4974), Special Study (4984), or Undergraduate Research (4994) in any department, so long as the topic is appropriate, may also be counted towards this minor. Permission to include courses not specifically listed here, however, must be granted by the minor coordinator. Please note that all upper division courses may require prerequisites. Students must take responsibility to familiarize themselves with any other prerequisites that may be required when selecting courses. Students must have an over-all GPA of 2.0 and a GPA of 2.0 in courses completed for the minor order to graduate.