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 off-campus experiences in Europe with a coherent set of courses on campus to achieve a greater understanding of both new and old Europes.
Requirements for the Concentration
1. EUST 110: Introduction to European Studies: The Nation State in Europe
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 2012-2013)
ARTH 172 Modern Art: 1890-1945 (not offered in 2012-2013)
ARTH 223 Women in Art
ARTH 226 The Gothic Cathedral
ARTH 240 Art Since 1945
ARTH 245 Modern Architecture
ARTH 247 Architecture Since 1950 (not offered in 2012-2013)
ARTH 285 The Art of Death in the Middle Ages
ARTH 286 Legacies of the Avant-Garde: Dada Then and Now (not offered in 2012-2013)
ARTH 287 Legacies of the Avant-Garde: Constructivism Then and Now (not offered in 2012-2013)
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 (not offered in 2012-2013)
CAMS 228 Avant-Garde Film & Video from Dada to the Beats
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 From Chaucer to Milton: Early English Literature (not offered in 2012-2013)
ENGL 278 London Program: Imperial Britain: Then and Now
ENGL 309 Renaissance Selves (not offered in 2012-2013)
ENGL 350 The Postcolonial Novel: Forms and Contexts
EUST 250 Statebuilding in History and Theory
EUST 279 Cross Cultural Psychology in Prague: Nationalism, Minorities, Migrations
FREN 249 Paris Program: European Identities: Paris and Madrid
FREN 360 Topics in French Studies: Algeria-France (not offered in 2012-2013)
GERM 230 From Gutenberg to Gates: The History and Practice of Printing (not offered in 2012-2013)
GERM 250 Tense Affinities: A History of German Jewish Culture (not offered in 2012-2013)
HIST 137 Early Medieval Worlds
HIST 138 The Making of Europe (not offered in 2012-2013)
HIST 139 Foundations of Modern Europe
HIST 140 Modern Europe 1789-1914 (not offered in 2012-2013)
HIST 141 Europe in the Twentieth Century
HIST 202 Iconoclasm in the Early Middle Ages (not offered in 2012-2013)
HIST 203 Papacy, Church and Empire in the Age of Reform (not offered in 2012-2013)
HIST 207 Rome Program: A Roman Journal: Travelers' Accounts as Source and Experience
HIST 230 Institutional Structure and Culture in the Middle Ages (not offered in 2012-2013)
HIST 232 Renaissance Worlds in France and Italy (not offered in 2012-2013)
HIST 233 Cultures of Empire: Byzantium, 710-1453 (not offered in 2012-2013)
HIST 236 Women's Lives in Pre-Modern Europe
HIST 237 The Enlightenment (not offered in 2012-2013)
HIST 249 Two Centuries of Tumult: Modern Central Europe
HIST 268 The Indian Ocean World in the Age of European Expansion (not offered in 2012-2013)
HIST 395 Dictatorships and Authoritarian Movements
MELA 230 Jewish Collective Memory (not offered in 2012-2013)
MUSC 111 Classical Music: An Introduction (not offered in 2012-2013)
MUSC 120 Introduction to Opera (not offered in 2012-2013)
MUSC 122 Symphonies from Mozart to Mahler
MUSC 210 Medieval and Renaissance Music
MUSC 211 Baroque and Classical Music
MUSC 312 Romantic Music (not offered in 2012-2013)
PHIL 274 Existentialism
POSC 120 Comparative Political Regimes
POSC 228 Foucault: Bodies in Politics (not offered in 2012-2013)
POSC 244 The Politics of the Celtic Fringe
POSC 247 Comparative Nationalism (not offered in 2012-2013)
POSC 255 Post-Modern Political Thought
POSC 256 Nietzsche and Political Philosophy (not offered in 2012-2013)
POSC 259 Justice Among Nations (not offered in 2012-2013)
POSC 263 European Political Economy (not offered in 2012-2013)
POSC 265 Capitalist Crises, Power, and Policy
POSC 268 Global Environmental Politics and Policy (not offered in 2012-2013)
POSC 276 Arendt: Imagination and Politics (not offered in 2012-2013)
POSC 352 Political Theory of Alexis de Tocqueville* (not offered in 2012-2013)
POSC 358 Comparative Social Movements*
POSC 359 Cosmopolitanism* (not offered in 2012-2013)
POSC 383 European Political Economy Seminar in Madrid and Maastricht: Politics of the European Union (not offered in 2012-2013)
RELG 231 From Luther to Kierkegaard (not offered in 2012-2013)
RELG 287 Many Marys (not offered in 2012-2013)
RELG 329 Theology, Pluralism, and Culture (not offered in 2012-2013)
RELG 380 Radical Critiques of Christianity (not offered in 2012-2013)
SOAN 283 Immigration and Immigrants in Europe and the United States (not offered in 2012-2013)
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 233 Van Eyck, Bosch, Bruegel: Their Visual Culture (not offered in 2012-2013)
ARTH 234 Italian Renaissance Art (not offered in 2012-2013)
ARTH 238 Rembrandt, Vermeer and Netherlandish Art (not offered in 2012-2013)
ARTH 251 Ruins and Romantics: English Gothic and Gothic-Revival Art and Architecture (not offered in 2012-2013)
ARTH 307 Rome: The Art of Michelangelo and Caravaggio
CAMS 212 Contemporary Spanish Cinema (not offered in 2012-2013)
CAMS 232 Cinema Directors: Tarkovsky
CAMS 233 The French Cinema
CAMS 237 Cinemas & Contexts: Russian Film
ECON 221 Cambridge Program: Contemporary British Economy
ECON 222 Cambridge Program: The Industrial Revolution in Britain
ECON 224 Cambridge Program: Economics of Multinational Enterprises
ENGL 210 From Chaucer to Milton: Early English Literature (not offered in 2012-2013)
ENGL 211 Neoclassic, Romantic, and Victorian Literature
ENGL 213 Christopher Marlowe
ENGL 214 Revenge Tragedy
ENGL 216 Milton
ENGL 218 The Gothic Spirit
ENGL 222 The Art of Jane Austen
ENGL 244 Shakespeare I
ENGL 249 Irish Literature
ENGL 282 London Program: London Theater
ENGL 286 London Program: After Sunset: British Fiction, Film and Drama 1945-1989
ENGL 301 The Courtly Chaucer (not offered in 2012-2013)
ENGL 310 Shakespeare II
ENGL 313 Major Works of the English Renaissance: The Faerie Queene (not offered in 2012-2013)
ENGL 319 The Rise of the Novel
ENGL 323 English Romantic Poetry
ENGL 327 Victorian Novel (not offered in 2012-2013)
ENGL 328 Victorian Poetry
FREN 240 The Seven Deadly Sins
FREN 241 Journeys of Self-Discovery
FREN 243 Topics in Cultural Studies: Cultural Reading of Food
FREN 246 Paris Program: Modern French Art
FREN 249 Paris Program: European Identities: Paris and Madrid
FREN 340 Arts of Brevity: Short Fiction
FREN 341 Madame Bovary and Her Avatars
FREN 351 Love, War and Monsters in Early Modern France (not offered in 2012-2013)
FREN 354 Other Worlds (not offered in 2012-2013)
FREN 359 Twentieth Century Literature: The Novel and Memory
GERM 205 Berlin Program: Intermediate Composition and Conversation (not offered in 2012-2013)
GERM 207 Young Adult Literature (not offered in 2012-2013)
GERM 219 German Film after World War II (not offered in 2012-2013)
GERM 231 Damsels, Dwarfs, and Dragons: Medieval German Literature
GERM 247 Fairy Tales, Myths, and Legends (not offered in 2012-2013)
GERM 261 Contemporary German Fiction
GERM 295 Berlin Program: Berlin: The German Metropolis (not offered in 2012-2013)
GERM 312 Rilke and His Circle (not offered in 2012-2013)
GERM 345 Vienna: Dream and Reality
GERM 346 Viennese Culture on Site
GERM 351 The Age of Goethe (not offered in 2012-2013)
HIST 206 Rome Program: Eternal City in Time: Urban Structure and Change
HIST 207 Rome Program: A Roman Journal: Travelers' Accounts as Source and Experience
HIST 239 Britain, c. 1485-1834: From Sceptred Isle to Satanic Mills (not offered in 2012-2013)
HIST 240 Imperial Russia
HIST 241 Russia through Wars and Revolutions (not offered in 2012-2013)
HIST 243 The Peasants are Revolting! Society and Politics in the Making of Modern France (not offered in 2012-2013)
HIST 245 Ireland: The Origin of the Troubles (not offered in 2012-2013)
HIST 248 Berlin Program: Monuments and Memory: A Cultural History of Berlin (not offered in 2012-2013)
HIST 250 Modern Germany
HIST 278 The Spanish Inquisition
HIST 346 The Holocaust (not offered in 2012-2013)
POSC 388 European Political Economy Seminar in Madrid and Maastricht: Spanish Politics and Political Economy (not offered in 2012-2013)
RUSS 150 Contemporary Russian Culture and Society (not offered in 2012-2013)
RUSS 205 Russian in Cultural Contexts
RUSS 227 Moscow Program: Russia East and West (not offered in 2012-2013)
RUSS 244 Russian Literature in Translation: The Novel to 1917 (not offered in 2012-2013)
RUSS 261 Lolita
RUSS 266 Dostoevsky (not offered in 2012-2013)
RUSS 267 War and Peace (not offered in 2012-2013)
RUSS 268 Russian Fiction of the Soviet Period (not offered in 2012-2013)
RUSS 331 Russia's Literature of the Uncanny (not offered in 2012-2013)
RUSS 333 Russian Literature for Children (not offered in 2012-2013)
RUSS 336 Pushkin
RUSS 345 Russian Cultural Idioms of the Nineteenth Century (not offered in 2012-2013)
RUSS 351 Chekhov (not offered in 2012-2013)
RUSS 395 Senior Seminar: The Cult of Stalin
SPAN 209 Madrid Program: Contemporary Spanish History
SPAN 240 Introduction to Spanish Literature (not offered in 2012-2013)
SPAN 244 Spain Today: Recent Changes through Narrative and Film (not offered in 2012-2013)
SPAN 247 Madrid Program: Spanish Art from El Greco to Picasso
SPAN 250 Spanish Cinema (not offered in 2012-2013)
SPAN 256 Lorca, Buñuel, and DalÃÂ: Poetry, Film, and Painting in Spain (not offered in 2012-2013)
SPAN 301 Greek and Christian Tragedy (not offered in 2012-2013)
SPAN 320 New Spanish Voices
SPAN 330 The Invention of the Modern Novel: Cervantes' Don Quijote
SPAN 331 Baroque Desires (not offered in 2012-2013)
SPAN 349 Spanish Seminar in Madrid: Theory and Practice of Urban Life
SPAN 358 The Spanish Civil War
SPAN 366 Jorge Luis Borges: Less a Man Than a Vast and Complex Literature (not offered in 2012-2013)
4. EUST 398: Senior Colloquium.
5. Concentrators must normally participate in an off-campus study program in Europe.
6. 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. The Nation State in Europe This course explores the role of the nation and nationalism within modern Europe and the ways in which ideas and myths about the nation have complemented and competed with conceptions of Europe as a geographic, cultural and political unity. We will explore the intellectual roots of nationalism in different countries as well as their artistic, literary and musical expressions. In addition to examining nationalism from a variety of disciplinary perspectives--sociology, anthropology, history, political science--we will explore some of the watershed, moments of European nationalism such as the French Revolution, the two world wars, and the Maastricht treaty. 6 cr., HU; HI, IS, Fall—P. Petzschmann
EUST 140. Culture or Barbarity? The German Question German culture has had a profound influence on world history, but one often wonders how the culture that produced Goethe, Schiller, Luther, Beethoven, and Kant was also the source of some of the greatest atrocities of the twentieth century. We will attempt to understand the reasons for this dichotomy by considering the development of Germany within the context of Europe from Roman times to the present. 6 cr., HU; HI, IS, Offered in alternate years. Spring—R. Paas
EUST 250. Statebuilding in History and Theory The concept of the "state" has recently seen a scholarly renaissance, inspiring new literatures and comparative studies of Western and non-Western statehood. Its continuing relevance has been highlighted by the financial crisis and the ensuing debate about the "crisis state" as well as by various efforts at "state-building" in response to actual or perceived "failed states" around the world. In this course we use a series of case studies and methods to ask: What traditions of thinking about the state are available to us? Can the Western experience of statehood be universalized and at what cost? What are the alternatives? 6 cr., SS, WR; SI, WR2, Spring—P. Petzschmann
EUST 279. Cross Cultural Psychology in Prague: Nationalism, Minorities, Migrations In this course students will be introduced to the complex phenomena of migration, nationalism, and the formation of ethnic minorities in modern Europe through theory and historical examples. among the topics covered will be European attitudes and policies toward minorities (including Jews, Roma, Muslims, and Africans) and the responses of those minorities to them from assimilation to dual identity to nationalism. HU; HI, IS, Fall—Non-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, Spring—K. Herklotz