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European Studies Concentration (EUST)

Director: Associate Professor William North

The European Studies concentration provides an intellectual meeting ground for students interested in exploring of Europe from a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. Drawing courses from a number of different departments, the program in European Studies allows students to integrate their study of a European language and an off-campus experience in Europe with a coherent set of courses on campus to achieve a greater understanding of both the new and the old Europes.

Requirements for the Concentration

1. EUST 110: Introduction to European Studies: The Age of Cathedrals

2. Four transnational supporting courses that a) approach a theme or issue from a pan-European perspective OR b) compare European countries or regions OR c) compare Europe (or parts of Europe) with another part of the world. These courses will engage in an examination of such overarching issues as the relation between individual and community, cultural and linguistic diversity, and globalization. The list below is not exhaustive; students should consult with the concentration director regarding other courses that may fulfill this requirement.

ARTH 101 Introduction to Art History I

ARTH 102 Introduction to Art History II

ARTH 170 Printmaking: The First Media Revolution

ARTH 223 Women in Art (not offered in 2009-2010)

ARTH 240 Art Since 1945

CAMS 211 Film History II

CAMS 217 Border Crossings: Postmodern Perspectives on French and German Cinema (not offered in 2009-2010)

CAMS 228 Avant-Garde Film & Video from Dada to MTV

ECON 233 European Economic History

ECON 236 Economics of the European Union

ECON 250 History of Economic Ideas

ENGL 114 Introduction to Medieval Narrative

ENGL 309 Renaissance Selves

FREN 249 Paris Program: European Identities: Paris and Berlin

FREN 349 Paris Program: European Identities: Paris and Berlin

FREN 360 Topics in French Studies: Algeria-France (not offered in 2009-2010)

GERM 230 From Gutenberg to Gates: The History and Practice of Printing

HIST 110 Music and Politics in Europe Since Wagner

HIST 139 Foundations of Modern Europe

HIST 140 Modern Europe 1789-1914 (not offered in 2009-2010)

HIST 141 Europe in the Twentieth Century

HIST 230 Institutional Structure and Culture in the Middle Ages

HIST 232 Renaissance Worlds in France and Italy (not offered in 2009-2010)

HIST 233 Cultures of Empire: Byzantium, 710-1453 (not offered in 2009-2010)

HIST 236 Women's Lives in Pre-Modern Europe

HIST 237 The Enlightenment (not offered in 2009-2010)

HIST 238 Topics in Medieval History: Church, Papacy and Empire (not offered in 2009-2010)

HIST 249 Modern Central Europe (not offered in 2009-2010)

HIST 333 Iconoclasm (not offered in 2009-2010)

HIST 395 Dictatorships in Modern Europe

MUSC 111 Western Art Music and Western Civilization

MUSC 120 Introduction to Opera (not offered in 2009-2010)

MUSC 122 Symphonies from Mozart to Mahler

MUSC 210 Medieval and Renaissance Music

MUSC 211 Baroque and Classical Music

MUSC 312 Romantic Music

PHIL 220 Heidegger and Contemporary Philosophy

PHIL 274 Existentialism (not offered in 2009-2010)

POSC 120 Comparative Political Regimes

POSC 259 Justice Among Nations

POSC 263 European Political Economy (not offered in 2009-2010)

POSC 268 International Environmental Politics and Policies

POSC 352 Political Theory of Alexis de Tocqueville* (not offered in 2009-2010)

POSC 358 Comparative Social Movements* (not offered in 2009-2010)

POSC 383 Maastricht Program: Politics of the European Union (not offered in 2009-2010)

RELG 231 Protestant Thought (not offered in 2009-2010)

RELG 329 Theology, Pluralism, and Culture (not offered in 2009-2010)

RELG 380 Radical Critiques of Christianity


3. Two country-specific supporting courses in the participating disciplines, each of which focuses on a particular European country or region. Country-specific courses need not address pan-European issues, but students will be expected to bring a comparative awareness of Europe to their learning experience.

ARTH 230 The Sistine Chapel (not offered in 2009-2010)

ARTH 234 Italian Renaissance Art

ARTH 238 Rembrandt, Vermeer and Netherlandish Art (not offered in 2009-2010)

CAMS 213 Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema (not offered in 2009-2010)

ENGL 110 English Literature, I

ENGL 111 English Literature, II

ENGL 144 Shakespeare I

ENGL 244 Shakespeare I

ENGL 300 Chaucer I: The Canterbury Tales (not offered in 2009-2010)

ENGL 301 The Courtly Chaucer (not offered in 2009-2010)

ENGL 310 Shakespeare II (not offered in 2009-2010)

ENGL 313 Major Works of the English Renaissance: The Faerie Queene

ENGL 318 The Gothic Spirit (not offered in 2009-2010)

ENGL 319 The Rise of the Novel

ENGL 322 The Art of Jane Austen

ENGL 323 English Romantic Poets

ENGL 327 Victorian Novel

ENGL 365 British Comedy (not offered in 2009-2010)

ENGL 380 London Program: London Theater

ENGL 381 London Program: Staging the Early Modern City, 1400-1650

FREN 233 The French Cinema (not offered in 2009-2010)

FREN 240 Introduction to French and Francophone Literatures: Sexuality and Sagacity

FREN 241 Marginality and Renaissance in Francophone America

FREN 243 Topics in Cultural Studies: Cinema and Society

FREN 246 Paris Program: City of Wonders: Paris in the Arts

FREN 340 Arts of Brevity: Short Fiction (not offered in 2009-2010)

FREN 341 Madame Bovary and Her Avatars (not offered in 2009-2010)

FREN 351 Topics in Sixteenth Century Literature: Metamorphoses: Love, War and Monsters in Early Modern France (not offered in 2009-2010)

FREN 352 The Court and its Dissenters (not offered in 2009-2010)

GERM 205 Berlin Program: Intermediate Composition and Conversation

GERM 207 Young Adult Literature

GERM 216 Studies in German Cinema: Current Issues in Contemporary Film (not offered in 2009-2010)

GERM 231 Damsels, Dwarfs, and Dragons: Medieval German Literature (not offered in 2009-2010)

GERM 244 Berlin Program: Theater in Berlin

GERM 247 Fairy Tales, Myths, and Legends

GERM 260 Community and the Individual: German Literature and Life, 1780-1900 (not offered in 2009-2010)

GERM 295 Berlin: The German Metropolis (not offered in 2009-2010)

GERM 312 Rilke and His Circle (not offered in 2009-2010)

GERM 346 Viennese Culture on Site (not offered in 2009-2010)

GERM 351 The Age of Goethe

GERM 355 Topics in German Drama: Twentieth Century Theatrical Experiments (not offered in 2009-2010)

HIST 110 The Russian Revolutions of 1917

HIST 235 Dante's Italy (not offered in 2009-2010)

HIST 238 The World of Bede (not offered in 2009-2010)

HIST 239 Britain, c. 1485-1834: From Sceptred Isle to Satanic Mills

HIST 240 Imperial Russia (not offered in 2009-2010)

HIST 243 The Peasants are Revolting! Society and Politics in the Making of Modern France

HIST 245 Ireland: The Origin of the Troubles (not offered in 2009-2010)

HIST 248 Berlin Program: Monuments and Memory: A Cultural History of Berlin

HIST 250 Modern Germany

HIST 330 Gender, Ethics and Power in Medieval France (not offered in 2009-2010)

RUSS 150 Contemporary Russian Culture and Society

RUSS 205 Russian in Cultural Contexts

RUSS 227 Moscow Program: Russia East and West (not offered in 2009-2010)

RUSS 228 Moscow Program: Russia North and South

RUSS 244 Russian Literature in Translation: The Novel to 1917 (not offered in 2009-2010)

RUSS 255 Russian Cinema: History and Theory

RUSS 266 Dostoevsky (not offered in 2009-2010)

RUSS 267 War and Peace (not offered in 2009-2010)

RUSS 268 Russian Fiction of the Soviet Period (not offered in 2009-2010)

RUSS 332 Reading a Russian Novel (not offered in 2009-2010)

RUSS 334 Russian Poetry (not offered in 2009-2010)

RUSS 336 Pushkin

RUSS 345 Russian Cultural Idioms of the Nineteenth Century (not offered in 2009-2010)

RUSS 351 Chekhov (not offered in 2009-2010)

RUSS 395 Senior Seminar: The Cult of Stalin

SPAN 209 Madrid Program: Current News

SPAN 240 Introduction to Spanish Literature (not offered in 2009-2010)

SPAN 244 Spain Today: Recent Changes through Narrative and Film

SPAN 247 Madrid Program: Spanish Art from El Greco to Picasso

SPAN 250 Spanish Cinema (not offered in 2009-2010)

SPAN 256 Lorca, Buñuel, and Dalí: Poetry, Film, and Painting in Spain (not offered in 2009-2010)

SPAN 320 New Spanish Voices (not offered in 2009-2010)

SPAN 328 The Roaring Twenties (not offered in 2009-2010)

SPAN 330 The Invention of the Modern Novel: Cervantes' Don Quijote (not offered in 2009-2010)

SPAN 349 Madrid Program: Theory and Practice of Urban Life

SPAN 358 Topics in Hispanic Literature: The Spanish Civil War


4. Proficiency (as defined by the College) in a European language other than English. Students are encouraged to take language courses beyond the minimum requirement.

FREN 204 Intermediate French

GERM 204 Intermediate German

RUSS 204 Intermediate Russian

SPAN 204 Intermediate Spanish


5. EUST 398: Senior Colloquium.

6. Concentrators must normally participate in an off-campus study program in Europe.

7. The overall balance of courses must include a reasonable mix of disciplines and course levels (100s, 200s, 300s). While this balance will be established for each individual student in consultation with the concentration coordinator, no more than half of the required minimum of courses may be in one department, and at least half of the required minimum of courses must be above the 100-level. The total number of credits required to complete the concentration is 45.

European Studies Courses

EUST 110. Introduction to European Studies: The Age of Cathedrals Arising over a period of two medieval centuries, the cathedrals of Europe symbolize at once faith, power, local identity, and technological and artistic achievement. Later generations commemorated them in literature and art, destroyed them in their political and religious zeal, and restored them (and continue to restore them) out of a different sort of political zeal as well as a sense of duty to preserve a national and European cultural inheritance. In this course, we seek to understand the cathedral and its enduring legacy in France from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives and using a variety of media and sources. 6 cr., HU, FallW. North

EUST 398. Senior Colloquium Culminates in a final oral presentation that will allow concentrators to synthesize and reflect upon their diverse European studies, including on-campus and off-campus classwork, internships, and cross-cultural experiences. 3 cr., ND, SpringL. Goering