European Studies Concentration (EUST)
Directors: Assistant Professor William North, fall and winter, Professor Dana Strand, spring
The European Studies concentration provides an intellectual meeting ground for students interested in exploring the question of Europe from a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. Including courses in a number of different departments, the program in European Studies offers a comprehensive approach to a region that is emerging as a major economic and political force on the international scene. By allowing students to integrate their study of a European language and their off-campus experience on one of the numerous programs centered in Europe with a coherent set of courses on campus, the concentration encourages a thorough consideration of both the new and the old Europes.
Requirements for the Concentration:
1. EUST 110: Introduction to European Studies
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 History of Printmaking (not offered in 2005-2006)
ARTH 223 Women in Art (not offered in 2005-2006)
ARTH 239 Netherlandish Art on Site (not offered in 2005-2006)
CAMS 238 Border Crossings: Postmodern Perspectives on French and German Cinema (not offered in 2005-2006)
CAMS 240 European Women Filmmakers (not offered in 2005-2006)
ECON 233 European Economic History
ECON 236 Economics of European Union
ECON 250 History of Economic Ideas
FREN 309 Beyond Words: Fine Art of Writing in French
FREN 360 Algeria-France
FREN 395 Autobiographical Lenses: Self/Other/Culture
GERM 278 Sport, Identity and Nationalism
HIST 138 Making of Europe, 1050-1500 (not offered in 2005-2006)
HIST 139 Foundations of Modern Europe
HIST 140 Modern Europe 1789-1914
HIST 141 Europe in the Twentieth Century
HIST 232 The Renaissance (not offered in 2005-2006)
HIST 233 Cultures of Empire: Byzantium 710-1453 (not offered in 2005-2006)
HIST 236 Courtly Queens to Revolutionary Heroines: European Women 1100-1800 (not offered in 2005-2006)
HIST 237 The Enlightenment (not offered in 2005-2006)
HIST 244 History of European Diplomacy
HIST 249 New Central Europe in Historical Perspective (not offered in 2005-2006)
LCST 150 Amazons, Valkyries, Naiads, Dykes: Women Identified and Lesbian Artists in Europe
LCST 270 Degeneration and the Fin de Siècle
MUSC 111 Western Art Music and Western Civilization
MUSC 210 Medieval and Renaissance Music
MUSC 211 Baroque and Classical Music
MUSC 312 Romantic and Modern Music
PHIL 274 Existentialism
POSC 120 Comparative Political Regimes
POSC 238 West European Politics (not offered in 2005-2006)
POSC 244 Post Communist State in East-Central Europe (not offered in 2005-2006)
POSC 263 European Political Economy (not offered in 2005-2006)
POSC 268 International Environmental Politics and Policy
POSC 352 Political Theory of Alexis de Tocqueville (not offered in 2005-2006)
POSC 358 Comparative Social Movements
POSC 383 Maastricht Program: Politics of the European Union (not offered in 2005-2006)
POSC 387 Maastricht Program: The Europe of Regions (not offered in 2005-2006)
RELG 231 Protestant Thought
THEA 343 Modern British and European Drama (not offered in 2005-2006)
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 238 Rembrandt and Netherlandish Art in Context (not offered in 2005-2006)
ARTH 285 Topics in Art History
ECON 231 Soviet and Post-Soviet Economics (not offered in 2005-2006)
ENGL 110 English Literature I
ENGL 111 English Literature II
ENGL 130 Shakespeare I
ENGL 249 Irish Literature
ENGL 300 Chaucer I: The Canterbury Tales (not offered in 2005-2006)
ENGL 308 English Renaissance Verse (not offered in 2005-2006)
ENGL 310 Shakespeare I: Histories and Comedies
ENGL 311 Shakespeare II: Problem Plays: Tragedies and Romances
ENGL 313 The Faerie Queen
ENGL 314 Paradise Lost
ENGL 318 The Gothic Spirit
ENGL 319 Eighteenth-Century Fiction
ENGL 322 The Art of Jane Austen
ENGL 323 English Romantic Poets
ENGL 380 London Program: London Theater
ENGL 381 London Program: Literature and Landscape in Georgian England
FREN 240 Introduction to French Literature: Love and Death in French and Francophone Literatures
FREN 241 Introduction to French Literature: Sexuality and Sagacity
FREN 243 Topics in Cultural Studies: Cinema and Society
FREN 351 Topics in Sixteenth Century: Metamorphoses: Love, War and Monsters in Early Modern France (not offered in 2005-2006)
FREN 359 Twentieth Century Literature: The Novel and Memory
GERM 207 Young Adult Literature
GERM 228 Romanticism: Nature and the Supernatural (not offered in 2005-2006)
GERM 231 Damsels, Dwarfs and Dragons: Medieval German Literature (not offered in 2005-2006)
GERM 241 Minority Voices in German Literature
GERM 244 Berlin Program: Knowledge and its Discontents (not offered in 2005-2006)
GERM 280 Holocaust: Memory and Representations in Translation (not offered in 2005-2006)
GERM 312 Rilke and His Circle (not offered in 2005-2006)
GERM 350 Two Countries One Nation-Germany and the Cold War (not offered in 2005-2006)
GERM 351 Age of Goethe (not offered in 2005-2006)
GERM 355 Topics in German Drama: Twentieth Century Theatrical Experiments (not offered in 2005-2006)
HIST 241 History of Russia Since 1917 (not offered in 2005-2006)
RUSS 150 Contemporary Russian Culture and Society
RUSS 205 Russian in Cultural Contexts
RUSS 226 Magical Russia (not offered in 2005-2006)
RUSS 244 Russian Literature: Novel to 1917 (not offered in 2005-2006)
RUSS 360 Russian Theater in the Twentieth Century (not offered in 2005-2006)
SPAN 209 Madrid Program: Exploring Spanish Culture
SPAN 240 Introduction to Spanish Literature
SPAN 310 Melancholy in Literature and Art
SPAN 324 Lyric and Modernity: The Prose Poem in Spain (not offered in 2005-2006)
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.
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 What is Europe? What defines the "European?" The answers to such questions may seem, in the twenty-first century, all too obvious. Yet is Europe so straightforward? We will investigate what elements over time have worked to create and define "Europe" as a unity, whether political, economic, religious or cultural but also those that have denied, strained, or broken this unity. Through readings, films and contributions from a multi-disciplinary faculty, this course offers an introduction to the conceptual and material compexities of a continent, a category, and a construct: Europe. 6 credits cr., ND, Spring—W. 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 credits cr., ND, Winter—L. Goering