European Studies Approved Classes
Note: Students should note that some classes may have prerequisites or other departmental restrictions, and some classes may not be offered in every year.
Other Classes, not on this list, may be appropriate. Please consult an ES Advisor.
Approved Classes
Classics
All classes
Religious Studies
- RELS 1002.03: Judaism, Christianity & Islam
- RELS 1201.03: Gods, Heroes & Monsters I
- RELS 1202.03: Gods, Heroes & Monsters II
- RELS 2002.03: Christianity
- RELS 2025.03: Nature, the Human, Community and the Divine in the Pre-Modern West
- RELS 2026.03: Paganism
- RELS 2027.03: Magic Religion and Philosophy
- RELS 2203.03: Philosophy and God
- RELS 2282.03: Catholicism
- RELS 2365.03: Philosophy on Trial
- RELS 2366.03: Gods, Beasts and the Political Animal
- RELS 3008.03: Medieval Church
- RELS 3019.03: Meetings Between Hellenism, Judaism and Islam until the Renaissance
- RELS 3381.03: Medieval Philosophy from Augustine to Anselm
- RELS 3382.03: Medieval Philosophy from Arabic and Jewish Thinkers to Aquinas
- RELS 3411.03: Augustine’s Confessions I
- RELS 3412.03: Augustine’s Confessions II
- RELS 3432.03: St. Augustine on the Trinity Part II
- RELS 3901.06: Neoplatonism
- RELS 4505.06: Medieval Interpreters of Aristotle
Contemporary Studies
- CTMP 2120.03: Wagner
- CTMP 2303.03: Narrative and Meta-Narrative
- CTMP 3000.06: Science and Culture
- CTMP 3192.03: Wittgenstein
- CTMP 3321.03/CTMP 3322.03: The Holocaust
- CTMP 3410.03: Studies in Contemporary Social and Political Thought in the 20th Century.
- CTMP 4000.06: Deconstruction
- CTMP 4301.03: Freud, Lacan and the Critique of Psychoanalysis
- CTMP 4302.03: French Feminist Theory
- CTMP 4410.03: Contemporary Social and Political Thought
Early Modern Studies
All classes
Economics
English
- ENGL 2001.03: British Literature to 1800
- ENGL 2002.03: British Literature after 1800
- ENGL 2018.03: Arthur
- ENGL 2020.03: Sampling Medieval Literature
- ENGL 2028.03: Short Poems in English
- ENGL 2030.03: Literature, Health and Healing
- ENGL 2034.03: The Short Story
- ENGL 2040.03: Mystery and Detective Fiction
- ENGL 2050.03: Literature and Propaganda
- ENGL 2088.03: Images and Texts
- ENGL 2214.06: Shakespeare
- ENGL 2218.03: Gothic fiction
- ENGL 2221.06: Fictions of Development
- ENGL 2229.03: Tragedy
- ENGL 2230.03: Satire
- ENGL 2231.03: Foundation of Science Fiction
- ENGL 2235.03: Tolkien: Fantasy and Medievalism
- ENGL 3001.03: History of Literary Criticism
- ENGL 3002.03: Contemporary Critical Theory
- ENGL 3005.03: Canterbury Tales
- ENGL 3007.06: Old English
- ENGL 3008.03: Introduction to Nordic Saga
- ENGL 3010.03/3011.03: Renaissance Poetry and Culture I/II
- ENGL 3015.03: Renaissance Drama
- ENGL 3017.03: English Poetry and Prose, 1660-1740
- ENGL 3019.03: Poetry and Prose, 1740-1789
- ENGL 3020.03: English Drama, 1660-1800
- ENGL 3022.03: English Fiction to 1820
- ENGL 3025.06: Literature of the Romantic Era 1789-1832
- ENGL 3029.03: Victorian Poetry
- ENGL 3031.03: 19th Century Fiction from Austen to Dickens
- ENGL 3032.03: 19th Century Fiction from Dickens to Hardy
- ENGL 3234.03: British Literature of the Earlier Twentieth Century
- ENGL 3235.03: British Literature of the Later Twentieth Century
- ENGL 3501.03: The Modern Theatre 1: Realism and Responses
- ENGL 3502.03: The Modern Theatre 2: High Modernism
- ENGL 3820.03: Nabokov
Note: Fourth year seminars in English change from year to year. For classes appropriate for European Studies please consult the European Studies coordinator.
French
All classes (except classes on linguistics, and on Quebec, Acadian and other non-European francophone literature and culture)
Gender and Women's Studies
- GWST 2300.03: Making Gender: Male and Female from Antiquity to Mary Wollstonecraft.
- GWST 2320.03: Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe
- GWST 3013.03: Sex and Gender in Reformation Europe
- GWST 3250.03: French Women Writers
- GWST 4402.03: Recent French Feminist Theory
- GWST 4550.03: Literary Women of French Classicism
German
All classes
History
- HIST 1020.03: Europe: Before the French Revolution, and HIST 1021:03: Introduction to Europe: French Revolution to the Present (Can also be taken as HIST 1022.03 and HIST 1023.03 to fullfill the Writing Requirement)
- HIST 2001.03: Early Medieval Europe
- HIST 2002.02: Later Medieval Europe
- HIST 2005.03: Europe 1400-1559
- HIST 2006.03/2007.03: The Atlantic World
- HIST 2015.03: European Military History 1550-1750
- HIST 2019.06: Early Modern Europe, 1450-1650
- HIST 2020.06: Imperial and Soviet Russia
- HIST 2021.03: Soviet Russia
- HIST 2022.03: Imperial Russia
- HIST 2030.06: Germany in 19th and 20th Centuries
- HIST 2032.03: 20th Century Germany
- HIST 2040.06: Modern France
- HIST 2041.03: France from the Revolution to the Great War
- HIST 2060.06: Origins of Modern Italy
- HIST 2061.03: Civilization of Baroque Italy
- HIST 2064.03/ECON 2064.03: Early Modern Economic History
- HIST 2082.03: 20th Century Europe in Literature, Art and Film
- HIST 2100.06: Themes in British History
- HIST 2101.03: Medieval England
- HIST 2106.03: Tudor and Stuart England, 1485-1689
- HIST 2111.03: Modern Britain to 1884
- HIST 2112.03: Modern Britain from 1884 to present
- HIST 2151.03: History of the Scottish People
- HIST 3002.03: Medieval Church
- HIST 3003.03: England in later middle ages
- HIST 3006.03: Renaissance and Reformation Europe
- HIST 3007.03: Pre-Industrial European Society
- HIST 3013.03: Sex and gender in Reformation Europe
- HIST 3040.06: Culture and Behaviour in France 1550-1750
- HIST 3045.03: French Revolution
- HIST 3049.03: The First World War
- HIST 3050.03: Europe and World War II
- HIST 3051.06: National Socialist and Fascist Movements
- HIST 3056.03: Holocaust
- HIST 3070.03: Urban Europe 1850-1950
- HIST 3090.03: Russian Society
- HIST 3091.03: Russian Topics
- HIST 3096.03: History of Ideas in Russia
- HIST 3102.03: Tudor History
- HIST 3103.03: Stuart History
- HIST 3105.03: English Civil War
- HIST 3107.03: English Family
- HIST 3108.03/HIST 3109.03: Topics in the Social and Cultural History of England
- HIST 3112.03: England 1867-1914
- HIST 3113.03: Britain in the Age of the First World War
- HIST 3114.03: Britain from Second World War to Thatcher
- HIST 3116.03: Advanced Seminar in British History
- HIST 4003.03: Medieval Civilization
- HIST 4060.03: Topics in the Civilization of Baroque Italy
- HIST 4090.03/RUSN 4090.03: Soviet History Seminar
- HIST 4105.03: English Civil War
- HIST 4106.03: Topics in Early Modern English History
- HIST 4162.03/THEA 4735.03/MUSC 4360.03: Advanced Seminar in Baroque Culture
- HIST 4639.03: Britain, Appeasement and the Origins of World War II
Italian Studies
All classes
Music
- MUSC 1201.03: Music Theory I
- MUSC 1222.03: Music Theory II
- MUSC 1352.03: Music History I
- MUSC 1353.03: Music History II
- MUSC 2221.03: Music Theory III
- MUSC 2222.03: Music Theory IV
- MUSC 2352.03: Music History III
- MUSC 2353.03: Music History IV
- MUSC 3066.03: Women, Gender and Music
- MUSC 3314.03: History of Opera
- MUSC 3221.03: Form and Analysis
- MUSC 3353.03: Chamber Music Literature
- MUSC 3355.03: The Piano and its Literature
- MUSC 4283.03: Early Music Analysis
- MUSC 4285.03: Late 19th Century Chromaticism
- MUSC 4353.03: Music since 1945
- MUSC 4355.03: Narrative Strategies in Nineteenth-Century Music
- MUSC 4356.03: Opera Studies
- MUSC 4360.03/HIST 4162.03/THEA 4735.03: Advaned Seminar in Baroque Culture
Philosophy
Political Science
- POLI 2410.03: Crisis and Consent
- POLI 2420.03: Revolution and Rationality
- POLI 3320.03: European Politics
- POLI 3321.03: Politics of the European Union
- POLI 3430.03: Political Philosophy of Plato
- POLI 3435.03: Machiavelli
- POLI 4479.03: Liberalism
Russian Studies
All classes
Spanish and Latin American Studies
- SPAN 2100.03: Evolving Spain: History, Culture, Society
- SPAN 2105.03: Catalan Language and Culture
- SPAN 2150.03: Hispanic Identities through Film
- SPAN 3020.03: Translation
- SPAN 3025.03: Traducción
- SPAN 3035.03: Advanced Spanish I
- SPAN 3036.03: Advanced Spanish II
- SPAN 3090.03: Spanish Phonetics and Pronunciation
- SPAN 3095.03: Evolution of Spanish
- SPAN 3500.03: Contemporary Spanish Literature
- SPAN 3505.03: Intro to Spanish Literature
Theatre
- THEA 2011.03: Classical Theatre
- THEA 2012.03: Early Modern Theatre
- THEA 4735.03/HIST 4162.03/MUSC 4360.03: Advanced Seminar in Baroque Culture
Approved Classes with some European content (please consult European Studies Coordinator)
Commerce
- COMM 3701.03: The Firm in the International Environment
Economics
Music
- MUSC 2015.06: Music and Cinema
Philosophy
- PHIL 2260.03: Philosophy of Art
- PHIL 2705.03: Philosophy in Literature
- PHIL 3170.03: Theories of Feminism
- PHIL 3660.03: Post-Modern Philosophy
Political Science
- POLI 2300.06: Comparative Politics
- POLI 2410.03: History of Political Thought I
- POLI 2420.03: History of Political Thought II
- POLI 2520.03: Introduction to World Politics
- POLI 2530.03: Introduction to Foreign Policy
- POLI 3320.03: European Politics
- POLI 3321.03: Politics of the European Union
- POLI 3380.03: Politics of Climate Change
- POLI 3401.03: Contemporary Political Thought
- POLI 3450.03: Storm and Stress
- POLI 3475.03: Democratic Theory
- POLI 3431.03: Politics through Film and Literature
- POLI 4587.03: International Political Economy
- POLI 4322.03: The European Union as a Global Actor
- POLI 4323.03: Treaty Reforms in the European Union
Sociology and Social Anthropology
- SOSA 2200.06: Family in Comparative Perspective
- SOSA 3005.03: Knowledge, Work, and Culture in the Contemporary World
- SOSA 3206.03: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Race
- SOSA 3401.03: History of Sociological Thought
Theatre