Course Offerings
The following represents a full listing of courses available at Carleton College in the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Concentration. Not all courses listed will be available in any given year. Please note that Core Courses may also be counted as Supporting Courses.
Core Courses
- ARTH 101 Introduction to Art History I
- ARTH 180 Medieval Art
- ARTH 234 Italian Renaissance Art
- CLAS 229 The Later Roman Empire, Byzantium, and Islam
- ENGL 110 English Literature, I
- ENGL 130 Shakespeare I
- ENGL 300 Chaucer I: The Canterbury Tales
- ENGL 301 The Courtly Chaucer
- ENGL 308 English Renaissance Verse
- ENGL 310 Shakespeare: The Histories and Comedies
- ENGL 311 Shakespeare: Problem Plays, Tragedies and Romances
- ENGL 313 Major Works of the English Renaissance: The Faerie Queen
- ENGL 314: Major Works of the English Renaissance: Paradise Lost
- FREN 351 Topics in Sixteenth Century Literature: Metamorphoses: Love, War, and Monsters in Early Modern France
- HIST 236 Courtly Queens to Revolutionary Heroines: European Women 1100-1800
- HIST 137 Before Europe: The Early Medieval World, ca. 250-1050
- HIST 138 The Making of Europe
- HIST 139 Foundations of Modern Europe
- HIST 204 Crusade, Contact, and Exchange in the Medieval Mediterranean
- HIST 232 The Renaissance
- HIST 233 Cultures of Empire: Byzantium, 710-1453
- HIST 234 France in the Making, 987-1460
- HIST 243 The Peasants are Revolting! Society and Politics in the Making of Modern France
- LATN 241 Petronius and Apuleius
- LATN 243 Medieval Latin
- MUSC 210 Medieval and Renaissance Music
- PHIL 111 Introduction to Western Philosophy: Ancient and Medieval
- RELG 122 Introduction to Islam
- RELG 123 Muhammad and the Quran
- RELG 231 Protestant Thought
- RELG 263 Sufism
- SOAN 246 Archaeological Methodology
Supporting Courses
(Note: all courses listed as "core courses" also qualify as "supporting courses.")
- ARTH 233 Van Eyck, Bosch, Bruegel: Their Visual Culture
- ARTH 238 Rembrandt and Van Gogh in Their Netherlandish Context
- ARTH 285 Rome: The Age of Michelangelo and Caravaggio
- ENGL 308 English Renaissance Verse
- GERM 230 From Gutenberg to Gates: History and Practice of the Book
- GERM 231 Damsels, Dwarfs, and Dragons: Medieval German Literature
- HIST 110 Age of Elizabeth
- HIST 110 Conquest and Survival in Indigenous Mexico
- HIST 238-01 Topics in Medieval History: Gender and Ethics in Medieval France
- HIST 238-02 Topics in Medieval History: Church, Papacy, and Empire
- HIST 238-03 Topics in Medieval History: The World of Bede
- HIST 265 Empires of the Steppe
- HIST 331 Controversial Histories: Ideological Conflict Consensus in the Pre-modern World
- POSC 250 Ancient Political Philosophy
- RELG 262 Millennialism in Cross-Cultural Perspective
- RELG 264 Muslims on the Margin: A Survey of Islamic Minority Traditions
- SPAN 330 The Invention of the Modern Novel: Cervantes' Don Quijote