Director: Associate Professor William North
European Studies Concentration (EUST)
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: Europe as Idea and Union
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 (not offered in 2010-2011)
ARTH 172 Modern Art: 1890-1945
ARTH 223 Women in Art
ARTH 240 Art Since 1945
ARTH 286 Legacies of the Avant-Garde: Dada Then and Now
ARTH 340 Theories of Postmodernism
CAMS 211 Film History II
CAMS 214 Film History III
CAMS 217 Border Crossings: Postmodern Perspectives on French and German Cinema
CAMS 228 Avant-Garde Film & Video from Dada to MTV (not offered in 2010-2011)
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 135 Imperial Adventures
ENGL 210 Medieval and Renaissance English Literature
ENGL 309 Renaissance Selves (not offered in 2010-2011)
FREN 249 French Studies Seminar in Paris: European Identities: Paris and Geneva
FREN 349 French Studies Seminar in Paris: European Identities: Paris and Geneva
FREN 360 Topics in French Studies: Algeria-France (not offered in 2010-2011)
GERM 230 From Gutenberg to Gates: The History and Practice of Printing
GERM 249 Tense Affinities: A History of German Jewish Culture (not offered in 2010-2011)
HIST 137 Before Europe: The Early Medieval World, 250-c. 1050 (not offered in 2010-2011)
HIST 138 The Making of Europe
HIST 139 Foundations of Modern Europe (not offered in 2010-2011)
HIST 140 Modern Europe 1789-1914
HIST 141 Europe in the Twentieth Century (not offered in 2010-2011)
HIST 230 Institutional Structure and Culture in the Middle Ages (not offered in 2010-2011)
HIST 232 Renaissance Worlds in France and Italy
HIST 233 Cultures of Empire: Byzantium, 710-1453
HIST 236 Women's Lives in Pre-Modern Europe (not offered in 2010-2011)
HIST 237 The Enlightenment (not offered in 2010-2011)
HIST 238 Topics in Medieval History: Church, Papacy and Empire (not offered in 2010-2011)
HIST 249 Modern Central Europe
HIST 333 Iconoclasm (not offered in 2010-2011)
MELA 230 Jewish Collective Memory
MUSC 111 Western Art Music and Western Civilization
MUSC 120 Introduction to Opera
MUSC 122 Symphonies from Mozart to Mahler
MUSC 210 Medieval and Renaissance Music (not offered in 2010-2011)
MUSC 211 Baroque and Classical Music
MUSC 312 Romantic Music (not offered in 2010-2011)
PHIL 274 Existentialism
POSC 120 Comparative Political Regimes
POSC 247 Comparative Nationalism
POSC 259 Justice Among Nations (not offered in 2010-2011)
POSC 263 European Political Economy
POSC 268 International Environmental Politics and Policies (not offered in 2010-2011)
POSC 276 Arendt: Imagination and Politics
POSC 350 Nietzsche and Political Philosophy*
POSC 352 Political Theory of Alexis de Tocqueville* (not offered in 2010-2011)
POSC 358 Comparative Social Movements*
POSC 383 European Political Economy Seminar in Madrid and Maastricht: Politics of the European Union
RELG 231 From Luther to Kierkegaard
RELG 287 Many Marys
RELG 329 Theology, Pluralism, and Culture (not offered in 2010-2011)
RELG 380 Radical Critiques of Christianity (not offered in 2010-2011)
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 2010-2011)
ARTH 234 Italian Renaissance Art (not offered in 2010-2011)
ARTH 238 Rembrandt, Vermeer and Netherlandish Art (not offered in 2010-2011)
ARTH 251 Ruins and Romantics: English Gothic and Gothic-Revival Art and Architecture
CAMS 213 Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema
ECON 221 Cambridge Program: Contemporary British Economy
ECON 222 Cambridge Program: The Industrial Revolution in Britain
ECON 224 Cambridge Program: British Cultural Exports
ENGL 210 Medieval and Renaissance English Literature
ENGL 213 Christopher Marlowe
ENGL 214 Revenge Tragedy
ENGL 218 The Gothic Spirit
ENGL 222 The Art of Jane Austen
ENGL 244 Shakespeare I
ENGL 281 English Theater and Literature Seminar in London: Regency London
ENGL 282 English Theater and Literature Seminar in London: London Theater
ENGL 285 The Arts of Power: Poetry, Painting, and Propaganda at the English Court (1509-1685)
ENGL 301 The Courtly Chaucer (not offered in 2010-2011)
ENGL 310 Shakespeare II
ENGL 313 Major Works of the English Renaissance: The Faerie Queene (not offered in 2010-2011)
ENGL 323 English Romantic Poetry
ENGL 327 Victorian Novel (not offered in 2010-2011)
FREN 233 The French Cinema (not offered in 2010-2011)
FREN 241 The Lyric and Other Seductions
FREN 243 Cultural Reading
FREN 246 French Studies Seminar in Paris: City of Wonders: Paris in the Arts
FREN 249 French Studies Seminar in Paris: European Identities: Paris and Geneva
FREN 340 Arts of Brevity: Short Fiction
FREN 341 Madame Bovary and Her Avatars
FREN 349 French Studies Seminar in Paris: European Identities: Paris and Geneva
FREN 351 Topics in Sixteenth Century Literature: Metamorphoses: Love, War and Monsters in Early Modern France (not offered in 2010-2011)
FREN 352 The Court and its Dissenters (not offered in 2010-2011)
FREN 395 Cultures of Autobiography
GERM 205 Berlin Program: Intermediate Composition and Conversation (not offered in 2010-2011)
GERM 207 Young Adult Literature (not offered in 2010-2011)
GERM 216 Studies in German Cinema: Current Issues in Contemporary Film (not offered in 2010-2011)
GERM 231 Damsels, Dwarfs, and Dragons: Medieval German Literature
GERM 244 Berlin Program: Theater in Berlin (not offered in 2010-2011)
GERM 247 Fairy Tales, Myths, and Legends (not offered in 2010-2011)
GERM 295 Berlin: The German Metropolis (not offered in 2010-2011)
GERM 312 Rilke and His Circle
GERM 346 Viennese Culture on Site (not offered in 2010-2011)
GERM 351 The Age of Goethe (not offered in 2010-2011)
GERM 355 Topics in German Drama: Twentieth Century Theatrical Experiments (not offered in 2010-2011)
HIST 235 Dante's Italy (not offered in 2010-2011)
HIST 238 The World of Bede (not offered in 2010-2011)
HIST 239 Britain, c. 1485-1834: From Sceptred Isle to Satanic Mills (not offered in 2010-2011)
HIST 240 Imperial Russia (not offered in 2010-2011)
HIST 241 Russia through Wars and Revolutions (not offered in 2010-2011)
HIST 243 The Peasants are Revolting! Society and Politics in the Making of Modern France (not offered in 2010-2011)
HIST 245 Ireland: The Origin of the Troubles (not offered in 2010-2011)
HIST 248 Berlin Program: Monuments and Memory: A Cultural History of Berlin (not offered in 2010-2011)
HIST 250 Modern Germany
HIST 330 Gender, Ethics and Power in Medieval France (not offered in 2010-2011)
HIST 346 The Holocaust
MELA 240 Turkey Today: An Introduction
MELA 241 Ottoman-Turkish History Through Music
MELA 242 Ethnographies of Turkey
POSC 388 European Political Economy Seminar in Madrid and Maastricht:Spanish Politics and Political Economy
RUSS 150 Contemporary Russian Culture and Society (not offered in 2010-2011)
RUSS 205 Russian in Cultural Contexts
RUSS 227 Moscow Program: Russia East and West (not offered in 2010-2011)
RUSS 244 Russian Literature in Translation: The Novel to 1917
RUSS 255 Russian Cinema: History and Theory (not offered in 2010-2011)
RUSS 266 Dostoevsky
RUSS 267 War and Peace
RUSS 268 Russian Fiction of the Soviet Period (not offered in 2010-2011)
RUSS 331 Russia's Literature of the Uncanny
RUSS 334 Russian Poetry (not offered in 2010-2011)
RUSS 336 Pushkin (not offered in 2010-2011)
RUSS 345 Russian Cultural Idioms of the Nineteenth Century (not offered in 2010-2011)
RUSS 351 Chekhov
RUSS 395 Senior Seminar: The Cult of Stalin (not offered in 2010-2011)
SPAN 209 Spanish Seminar in Madrid: Current News
SPAN 240 Introduction to Spanish Literature (not offered in 2010-2011)
SPAN 244 Spain Today: Recent Changes through Narrative and Film
SPAN 247 Spanish Seminar in Madrid: Spanish Art from El Greco to Picasso
SPAN 250 Spanish Cinema (not offered in 2010-2011)
SPAN 256 Lorca, Buñuel, and DalÃ: Poetry, Film, and Painting in Spain (not offered in 2010-2011)
SPAN 320 New Spanish Voices
SPAN 328 The Roaring Twenties (not offered in 2010-2011)
SPAN 330 The Invention of the Modern Novel: Cervantes' Don Quijote
SPAN 331 Renaissance and Baroque
SPAN 349 Spanish Seminar in Madrid: Theory and Practice of Urban Life
SPAN 358 Topics in Hispanic Literature: The Spanish Civil War (not offered in 2010-2011)
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. Europe as Idea and Union The first half of this course will examine the idea of Europe and how it has been articulated and debated through history. Where does Europe begin and end, geographically and historically, and what has it meant politically and culturally? Then, we will examine the European Union as a political institution and economic entity and as it has coalesced historically. A particular focus on issues of expansion and identity in recent years will occupy us as well. 6 cr., HU, WR; HI, WR2, IS, Offered in alternate years. FallD. Tompkins
EUST 278. Cross-Cultural Psych Seminar in Prague: Politics and Culture in Central Europe in the Twentieth Cent This course covers important political, social, and cultural developments in Central Europe during the twentieth century. Studies will explore the establishment of independent nations during the interwar period, Nazi occupation, resistance and collaboration, the Holocaust and the expulsion of the Germans, the nature of the communist system, its final collapse, and the post-communist transformation. 6 cr., SS; HI, IS, FallNon-Carleton faculty
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; NE, SpringStaff