Sample Courses

Sample courses in the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program.

Classics

  • Classics 109 - Classical and Biblical Sources of European and English Literature
  • Classics 120 - Mythology
  • Classics 221 - Women in Classical Mythology
  • Classics 264 - Ancient Sanctuaries and Religion
  • Classics 267 - Archaeology and Time

English

  • English 230 - Touchstones 1: Early British Literature
  • English 312 - Medieval Romances
  • English 314 - Chaucer
  • English 315 - Sex and Gender in the Middle Ages
  • English 320 - Age of Elizabeth
  • English 329 - Shakespeare
  • English 399 - Renaissance Marvels & Monsters

History

  • History 111 - The Rise of the Christian West to A.D. 1000
  • History 112 - Emerging Europe, 1000-1500
  • History 126 - Colonial Latin America
  • History 231 - Medieval England to 1216
  • History 233 - War and Chivalry in Medieval France
  • History 234 - Medieval Spain
  • History 236 - Renaissance Europe
  • History 319 - Joan of Arc & 100 Years War

Italian

  • Italian 260 - Dante
  • Italian 251/411 - Medieval and/or Renaissance Literature

Latin

  • Latin 213, 214 - Intermediate Latin 1, 2
  • Latin 275 - Advanced Latin Workshop
  • Latin 322 - Cicero’s Speeches
  • Latin 323 - Roman Letter Writers
  • Latin 350 - Early Christian Literature
  • Latin 358 - Vergil: Aeneid
  • Latin 366 - Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Music

  • Music 211 - History of Western Music 1
  • Music 260 - Gregorian Chant

Religious Studies

  • Religious Studies 107 - Islam
  • Religious Studies 117 - History of Christianity 1
  • Religious Studies 118 - New Testament
  • Religious Studies 126 - Old Testament
  • Religious Studies 147 - Judaism
  • Religious Studies 165 - Ancient and Medieval Hinduism
  • Religious Studies 190 - History of the Early Church
  • Religious Studies 204 - Early Christian Monasticism
  • Religious Studies 221 - Women in Early Christianity
  • Religious Studies 231 - Early Christian Writers
  • Religious Studies 279 - Religion & Violence
  • Religious Studies 292 - Medieval Christianity
  • Religious Studies 323 - Households & Early Christianity

Russian

  • Russian 299 - Fairytale Russia and the World
  • Russian 299 - Calvary Maidens: Russian Women Writing

Spanish

  • Spanish 400 - Topics in Medieval Spanish Literature
  • Spanish 402 - Don Quixote

Visual Arts History

  • Visual Arts History 201 - Islamic Art
  • Visual Arts History 204 - Arts of Religion
  • Visual Arts History 205 - Global Commerce in 15th-Century Italy
  • Visual Arts History 206 - Art & Antiquity in 16th-Century Italy
  • Visual Arts History 310 - Kings & Caliphs: Art of Luxury