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Minor Requirements
The minor consists of at least five courses selected with the approval of an adviser belonging to the MARS faculty. Courses should be selected from the list below and should include a course in history. At least three different disciplines should be represented. French, Italian, and Spanish are considered to be separate areas of study. Additional courses (notably topical seminars) may be accepted upon petition. It is the responsibility of the student to recognize that certain courses might require departmental prerequisites for which he or she would not necessarily receive credit toward the MARS minor. Only one independent study course and only one non-ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø course will be counted toward the minor. Courses that are appropriate for the MARS minor are sometimes offered as part of the university's Venice study group program.
At least three courses should be at the intermediate level and at least one should be at the 300- or 400- (seminar) level — either an existing seminar or an independent research paper. Senior seminars and honors thesis courses in any department could provide a place for the student's capstone experience.
One year's study of Latin at ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø is recognized as one course toward the minor. While there is no mandated language requirement, it is strongly recommended that students considering graduate school in a medieval or Renaissance field should study Latin at least through the intermediate level. Students are encouraged to explore early literature in Old and Middle English, as well as early period courses in the foreign language departments.
Courses from the following list are appropriate for the MARS minor:
- ARTH 207Â -Â Roman Art
- ARTH 210Â -Â Contemporary Art and Politics in the Middle East
- ARTH 216Â -Â Nature's Mirror: Renaissance Arts 1400-1550
- ARCH 220Â -Â Early Modern European Architecture
- ARTH 226Â -Â Nature's Order: Baroque Arts 1550-1750
- ARCH 244Â -Â Housing the Sacred in Ancient India
- ARTH 311Â -Â The Arts in Venice during the Golden Age (Venice Study Group)
- ARCH 344Â -Â Hindu Temples: Architecture and Sculpture, Architecture as Sculpture
- ARTH 350Â -Â Art and the Goddess
- ENGL 200Â -Â British Literary Traditions
- ENGL 203Â -Â Arthurian Tradition
- ENGL 301Â -Â History of the English Language
- ENGL 302Â -Â The Literature of the Early Middle Ages
- ENGL 303Â -Â Medieval Merchants, Knights, and Pilgrims
- ENGL 321/THEA 321Â -Â Shakespeare ÌýÌý
- ENGL 322/THEA 322Â -Â Shakespeare ÌýÌý
- ENGL 325Â -Â Milton
- ENGL 326Â -Â Shakespeare's Contemporaries
- ENGL 361Â -Â Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- ENGL 385Â -Â Drama, Fiction, and Poetry of Tudor England
- ENGL 386Â -Â Poetry, Prose, and Drama in the Century of the English Revolutions, 1600-1700
- ENGL 402Â -Â Medieval Celtic Literature
- ENGL 408Â -Â Literature of Medieval Women
- ENGL 445Â -Â Life-Writing: The Renaissance
- ENGL 461Â -Â Studies in the Renaissance
- FREN 351Â -Â Introduction to Literature in French: From Chivalry to Versailles
- HIST 202Â -Â Europe in the Middle Ages, c. 300 - 1500
- HIST 232Â -Â The Crusades
- HIST 238Â -Â Europe in the Age of the Renaissance and Reformation
- HIST 241Â -Â Life and Death in Early Modern Britain
- HIST 263Â -Â Cities of the Silk Road
- HIST 331Â -Â Medieval Italy, c. 1000 - 1500
- HIST 332Â -Â Medieval England
- HIST 333Â -Â The Medieval Church
- HIST 338Â -Â The Age of Absolutism in Europe
- HIST 358Â -Â Conquest and Colony: Cultural Encounters in the Americas
- HIST 370Â -Â The Mongol Empire
- LATN 121Â -Â Elementary Latin I
- LATN 122Â -Â Elementary Latin II
- LATN 123Â -Â Intensive Elementary Latin
- MUSI 215Â -Â Music History I: Medieval through Baroque Periods (H&A)
- PHIL 303Â -Â Medieval Philosophy
- POSC 380Â -Â Reason, Faith, and Politics
- RELG 250Â -Â Religion, Othering, Violence in the Middle Ages
- RELG 202Â -Â Introduction to Islam
- SPAN 351Â -Â Spanish Literature: Knights and Troubadours in Medieval Spain
- SPAN 352Â -Â Spanish Literature: Love and Honor in the Golden Age
- SPAN 460Â -Â Spanish Renaissance and Baroque Poetry
- SPAN 461Â -Â Theater of the Golden Age
- SPAN 462Â -Â Cervantes' Don Quijote
- SPAN 468Â -Â Visions and Re-visions of the Spanish Conquest: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program
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