MEMS Minor courses

The following courses may count toward the Minor in MEMS. If you have any questions about whether a course will count toward the minor or not, please contact the MEMS Minor coordinator (Brett Whalen) or your MEMS minor adviser, if one has already been assigned to you.

ANTHROPOLOGY

ANTH 054 FYS: The Indians’ New Worlds: Southeastern Histories from 1200 to 1800

ANTH 121: Ancient Cities of the Americas

ART HISTORY

ART 151: History of Western Art

ART 154: History of Western Art

ART 158: Introduction to the Art and Architecture of Islamic Lands

ART 251: Art and Architecture in the Age of the Caliphs

ART 258: Chinese Art and Culture: from Han to Tang

ART 264: Medieval Survey

ART 265: Medieval Iconography

ART 266: Early and Modern Indian Art (ASIA 266)

ART 270: Early Renaissance in Italy

ART 271: High Renaissance in Italy

ART 273: Art under the Mughal Dynasty (ASIA 273)

ART 274: European Baroque Art

ART 362: Early Christian Art & Modern Response

ART 363: Visualizing Buddhism in Medieval China

ART 450: City as Monument: Cordoba and Urbanism in the Medieval Islamicate Mediterranean

ART 458: Islamic Palaces, Gardens and Court Cultures

ART 467: Celtic Art and Cultures

ART 471: Northern European Art

ART 472: Early Modern Western Art

ART 470: The Moving Image in the Middle Images

ART 490: (Special Topics) Icons and Idols: Art and Debate in the Medieval Period

ART 561: Architecture and Society in Medieval Islamic Spain and North Africa

ASIAN STUDIES

ASIA 131: Southeast Asia to the Early 19th Century (HIST 131)

ASIA 135: South Asian History to 1750 (HIST 135)

ASIA 138: Introduction to Islamic Civilization (HIST 138)

ASIA 180: Introduction to Islamic Civilization (RELI 180)

ASIA 266: Arts of Early and Medieval India (ART 266)

ASIA 273: Arts under the Mughal Dynasty in India (ART 273)

ASIA 286: Samurai, Peasant, Merchant, and Outcaste: Japan under the Tokugawa, 1550-1850 (HIST 286)

ARAB 433: Medieval Arabic Literature in Translation

JAPN 377: Cultural Studies of Early Modern Japan

CLASSICS

CLAS 259: Pagans and Christians in the Age of Constantine

CLAS 418: Byzantine Civilization

ENGLISH AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

ENGL 120: British Literature, Chaucer to Pope

ENGL 223: Middle English Literature-Contemporary Issues

ENGL 225: Shakespeare

ENGL 226: Renaissance Drama

ENGL 227: Literature of the Earlier Renaissance

ENGL 228: Literature of the Later Renaissance

ENGL 230: Milton

ENGL 319: Intro to Medieval English Literature

ENGL 320: Chaucer

ENGL 321: Medieval and Modern Arthurian Romance (CMPL 321)

ENGL 322: Medieval England and Its Literary Neighbors

ENGL 325: Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

ENGL 326: Renaissance Genres

ENGL 327: Renaissance Literature and Its Intellectual Contexts

ENGL 330: Perspectives on the Renaissance

ENGL 331: 18th-Century Literature

ENGL 332: 18th-Century Drama

ENGL 418: Old English Literature-Contemporary Issues

ENGL 430: Renaissance Literature-Contemporary Issues

ENGL 525: Senior Seminar in Renaissance Literature

ENGL 660: War in Shakespeare’s Plays

CMPL 120: Epic and Lyric Traditions

CMPL 121: Romancing the World

CMPL 122: Literary and Visual Traditions from Antiquity to 1700

CMPL 123: Literature and Politics from Classical Antiquity to 1750

CMPL 124: Literature and Science, Antiquity through 1750

CMPL 268: The Medieval Frame Tale: Chaucer, Boccaccio, and the Arabian Nights

CMPL 277: Myth, Fable, Novella: The Long History of the Short Story

CMPL 321: Medieval and Modern Arthurian Romance

CMPL 364: Classical Backgrounds to English Literature

CMPL 365: Cervantes’ Don Quixote and the Birth of the Imagination

CMPL 452: The Middle Ages

CMPL 453: The Erotic Middle Ages

CMPL 454: Literature of the Continental Renaissance in translation

CMPL 456: The 18th-Century Novel

CMPL 458: Sense, Sensibility, Sensuality 1740-1810

CMPL 473: Drama, Pageantry, and Spectacle in Medieval Europe

CMPL 474: Cannibals, Kings, and Holy Men: Ethnography and Early European Literature

CMPL 558: The Lives and Times of Medieval Corpses

CMPL 612: Arthurian Romance

CMPL 622: Medieval Cosmopolitanisms

GERMANIC AND SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES:

GERM 053: First-Year Seminar: Early Germanic Culture: Myth, Magic, Murder and Mayhem

GERM 058: First-Year Seminar: Love in the Middle Ages

GERM 210: Getting Medieval: Knights, Violence and Romance in the Middle Ages and Today

GERM 216: The Viking Age

GERM 220: Women in the Middle Ages (WMST 212)

GERM 310: Höfische Kultur/Courtly Culture

GERM 311: The Crusades

GERM 500: History of the German Language

GERM 502: Middle High German

GERM 505: Early New High German

GERM 508: Old High German

GERM 511: Old Saxon

GERM 514: Old Norse I (Old Icelandic)

GERM 515: Old Norse II (Old Icelandic)

GERM 517: Gothic

GERM 615: History of German Literature I

SLAV 463: Medieval Slavic Culture (RELI 465)

SLAV 500: Old Church Slavonic

HISTORY

HIST 107: Introduction to Medieval History

HIST 110: Native North America (AMST 110)

HIST 127: United States History to 1865

HIST 138: Introduction to Islamic Civilization

HIST 142: Latin America Under Colonial Rule

HIST 151: History of Western Civilization to 1650

HIST 177: The Apocalypse in the Christian Middle Ages (Honors Seminar)

HIST 228: The Medieval Expansion of Europe

HIST 254: War and Society in Early Modern Europe (PWAD 254)

HIST 255: Manor to Machine: The Economic Shaping of Europe

HIST 258: Women in Europe Before 1750

HIST 280: Women and Gender in Latin American History (WMST 80)

HIST 351: Global History of Warfare

HIST 391: The Crusades Research Seminar

HIST 391: Florence, Cradle of the Renaissance

HIST 391: Luther and the German Reformation

HIST 395: Cultural Identities in Colonial North America

HIST 395: Violence in the Early Modern Western World

HIST 397: The History of Race in Latin America

HIST 431: The Medieval Church

Hist 432: The Crusades

Hist 434: Medieval England

Hist 435: The Medieval University

HIST 436: Medieval Theology and the Body

HIST 452: The Renaissance

HIST 453: Mediterranean Societies and Economies in the Renaissance World

HIST 454: The Reformation

HIST 456: France in the Age of Enlightenment, 1715–1787

HIST 457: The French Revolution, 1787–1815

HIST 459: France in the Age of Monarchy, 1337–1715

HIST 460: Late Medieval and Reformation Germany

HIST 461: Early Modern Germany, 1600–1815

HIST 467: Society and Family in Early Modern Europe

HIST 490: Race in Early America

HIST 561: The American Colonial Experience

HIST 574: Spanish Borderlands in North America

HIST 697: Myth and History

LATIN

LATN 205: Medieval Latin

LATN 514: Readings in Latin Literature of Later Antiquity

LATN 530: Introduction to Medieval Latin

MUSIC

MUSC 251: Studies in Music History to 1650

PHILOSOPHY

PHIL 215: Medieval Philosophy

PHIL 220: Modern Philosophy: Descartes to Hume

PHIL 415: Topics in Medieval Philosophy

PHIL 421: Empiricism

PHIL 422: Rationalism

PHIL 470: Political Philosophy from Hobbes to Rousseau

RELIGIOUS STUDIES

RELI 64: Introduction to Islam

RELI 161: Introduction to the History of Christian Traditions

RELI 165: Mysticism

RELI 180: Introduction to Islamic Civilization

RELI 199: Traditional Jewish Writings

RELI 283: The Buddhist Tradition: India, Nepal, and Tibet

RELI 284: The Buddhist Tradition: East Asia

RELI 285: The Buddhist Tradition: Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka

RELI 286: Pre-Modern Japanese Religions

RELI 288: Chinese Religions

RELI 366: Medieval Religious Texts

RELI 367: The Art of Devotion in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

RELI 371: Women Mystics

RELI 450: Sexuality and Marriage in Jewish Tradition and History

RELI 454: The Reformation

RELI 463: Medieval Slavic Culture

RELI 488: Shinto in Japanese History

RELI 525: Jews and the Medieval Bible

RELI 566: Jewish Legal Literature

RELI 581: Sufism

RELI 582: Islam and Islamic Art in South Asia

RELI 584: The Qur’an as Literature

ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

FREN 370: Survey of French Literature I

FREN 371: Survey of French Literature II

FREN 387: Paris/Versailles: The Court and the City in the Seventeenth Century

FREN 595: Writing the Mediterranean: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Early Modern World

ITAL 240: Dante in English Translation

ITAL 241: Italian Renaissance Literature in Translation

ITAL 357: The World of Petrarch and Boccaccio

ITAL 370: Survey of Italian Literature I

ITAL 511: Survey of Italian Literature and Culture I (to 1600)

PORT 501: Survey of Portuguese Literature I

SPAN 280: Cervantes in English Translation

SPAN 371: Survey of Spanish Literature to 1700

SPAN 383: Medieval Spanish Literature

SPAN 384: Spanish Literature of the Renaissance

SPAN 617: Cervantes

SPAN 650: The Spanish Comedia of the Golden Age

WOMEN’S STUDIES

WMST 220: Women in the Middle Ages (GERM 220)

WMST 258: Women in Europe Before 1750 (HIST 258)

WMST 294: Courtship and Courtliness