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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: 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 Dalí: 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