MEMS Minor courses | Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies

The following courses are approved for the Minor in MEMS. Also, consult the Undergraduate Bulletin for a list of officially approved courses. Other courses, including those offered at Duke University and other institutions, may be eligible for credit toward the minor. For approval, submit a copy of the syllabus and a statement about the course’s engagement with Medieval and Early Modern Studies to Jes Boon (jboon@email.unc.edu), the Interim Program Director.

You can see a list of our current course offerings here.

AMERICAN STUDIES

AMST 054: The Indians’ New Worlds: Southeastern Histories from 1200 to 1800
AMST 110: Introduction to the Cultures and Histories of Native North America

ANTHROPOLOGY

ANTH 054: First-Year Seminar: The Indians’ New Worlds: Southeastern Histories from 1200 to 1800
ANTH 121: Ancient Cities of the Americas
ANTH 231: The Inca and Their Ancestors
ANTH 232: Ancestral Maya Civilizations
ANTH 250: Archaeology of North America

ART HISTORY

ARTH 051: Cathedrals, Abbeys, Castles: Gothic Art and Architecture, ca: 1130–1500
ARTH 055/055H: Art, Gender, and Power in Early Modern Europe
ARTH 151: History of Western Art I
ARTH 158: Introduction to East Asian Art and Architecture
ARTH 160: Art of Mesoamerica
ARTH 258: Chinese Art and Culture: from Song to Qing.
ARTH 264: Medieval Art in Western Europe
ARTH 265: Medieval Iconography
ARTH 272: Northern European Art: Van Eyck to Breugel
ARTH 274: European Baroque Art
ARTH 277: Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America
ARTH 279: The Arts in England, 1450-1650
ARTH 320: Chinese Landscape Representation in the Second Millennium
ARTH 365: Late Medieval Art
ARTH 368: The Renaissance Portrait
ARTH 420: Constructing Femininity: Women in Chinese Painting
ARTH 450: City as Monument: Cordoba and Urbanism in the Medieval Islamicate Mediterranean
ARTH 469: Art of the Aztec Empire
ARTH 471: Northern European Art of the 14th and 15th Centuries
ARTH 472: Early Modern Art, 1400–1750

ASIAN AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES

Arabic

ARAB 151: Arabic Literature through the Ages

Asian Studies

ASIA 50: The Samurai: Gender and Power in Japanese History
ASIA 55: Kung-Fu: The Concept of Heroism in Chinese Culture
ASIA 65: Philosophy on Bamboo: Rethinking Early Chinese Thought
ASIA 76: Traveling to China and Traveling from China in the Premodern World
ASIA 126: Introduction to Persian Literature
ASIA 163: Hindi-Urdu Poetry in Performance
ASIA 211: The Silk Road: Markets, Metaphysics, and Music
ASIA 256: Love in Classical Persian Poetry
ASIA 240: Performance in Southeast Asia: Gongs, Punks, and Shadow Plays
ASIA 332: The Story of Rama in India
ASIA 333: The Mahabharata: Remembered and Reimagined
ASIA 382: The Story of Rama in Indian Culture (Experiential)
ASIA 383: The Mahabharata: Remembered and Reimagined (Experiential)
ASIA 387: Disciplining the Body and Mind: The Martial Arts of East Asia in Religion, History, and Culture
ASIA 418: Family and Gender in Early Modern China and Korea
ASIA 522: Beauty and Power in the Classical Indian World
ASIA 681: Readings in Islamicate Literatures
ASIA 740: Chinese Civilization: A Conceptual History
ASIA 741: Honglou Meng: The Story of the Stone

Chinese

CHIN 150: Introduction to Chinese Civilization
CHIN 252: Introduction to Chinese Culture through Narrative
CHIN 255: Bandit or Hero: Outlawry in Chinese Literature and Films
CHIN 265: Imperial China in Global Objects
CHIN 361: Chinese Traditional Theater
CHIN 439: Environmental China: Premodern Political Ecology
CHIN 475: Confucianism: Origin, History, and Contemporary Relevance
CHIN 476: Daoism: Origin, History, and Contemporary Relevance
CHIN 551: Chinese Poetry in Translation
CHIN 552: Chinese Prose in Translation

Japanese

JAPN 160: Introduction to Japanese Literature in Translation
JAPN 231: Ancient and Medieval Japanese History and Culture
JAPN 246: Early Modern Japanese History and Culture

Korean

KOR 152: Audiovisual Korea: Music, Art, and Performance from Calligraphy to K-pop

CLASSICS

CLAS 259: Pagans and Christians
CLAS 261: Ancient Magic and Religion
CLAS 300: Classical Rhetoric: The Science of Persuasive Speech in Classical Antiquity and Beyond
CLAS 260: Ancient Medicine
CLAS 364: The Classical Background of English Poetry
CLAS 380: Emperors, Tyrants, Kings, and Rulers in Ancient Greece and Rome
CLAS 415: Roman Law
CLAR 464: Greek Architecture
CLAR 465: Roman Architecture
CLAR 474: Roman Sculpture
CLAR 475: Provinces and Frontiers of the Roman Empire
CLAR 512: Ancient Synagogues

ENGLISH AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

ENGL 115: History of the English Language
ENGL 120: British Literature, Medieval to 18th Century
ENGL 153: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in the Premodern World
ENGL 154: Race and Racism in the Premodern World
ENGL 223: Chaucer
ENGL 224: Survey of Medieval English Literature, excluding Chaucer
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 325: Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
ENGL 327: Renaissance Literature and Its Intellectual Contexts
ENGL 329: Medieval Feminisms
ENGL 330: Perspectives on the Renaissance
ENGL 331: 18th-Century Literature
ENGL 430: Renaissance Literature–Contemporary Issues
ENGL 619: Survey of Old and Middle English Literature
ENGL 620: Introduction to Old English Language and Literature
ENGL 621: Arthurian Romance
ENGL 630: Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
ENGL 660: War in Shakespeare’s Plays

CMPL 120: Great Books I: Epic and Lyric Traditions
CMPL 121: Great Books I: Romancing the World
CMPL 122: Great Books I: Visual Arts and Literature from Antiquity to 1750
CMPL 123: Great Books I: Politics and Literature from Antiquity to 1750
CMPL 124: Great Books I: Science and Literature from Antiquity to 1750
CMPL 220: Global Authors: Jane Austen
CMPL 223: Global Authors: Cervantes
CMPL 225: Global Authors: The Worlds of Shakespeare
CMPL 227: Global Authors: The Middle Ages in World Cinema
CMPL 256: Love in Classical Persian Poetry
CMPL 275: Literature of Pilgrimage
CMPL 277/CMPL 317: Myth, Fable, Novella: The Long History of the Short Story
CMPL 364: The Classical Background of English Poetry.
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 470: Concepts and Perspectives of the Tragic
CMPL 473: Drama, Pageantry, and Spectacle in Medieval Europe
CMPL 487: Literature and the Arts of Love
CMPL 558: The Lives and Times of Medieval Corpses
CMPL 563: Studies in the Anglo-French Renaissance
CMPL 621: Arthurian Romance
CMPL 622: Medieval Cosmopolitanisms
CMPL 624: The Baroque

GERMANIC AND SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

GERM 227: Luther and the Bible
GERM 410: Getting Medieval, or: What Makes us Modern?
GERM 416: The Viking Age
GERM 426: Play Time: Theatre in the Medieval and Early Modern World
GERM 714: Foundations in German Studies I, Medieval and Early Modern
GSLL 212: Game of Thrones and the Worlds of the European Middle Ages
GSLL 250: Central Europe, Medieval to Modern

HISTORY

HIST 107: Medieval History
HIST 108: Introduction to Early Medieval History 500-1050
HIST 135: History of the Indian Subcontinent to 1750
HIST 138: History of Muslim Societies to 1500
HIST 151: European History to 1650
HIST 158: Early Modern European History, 1450-1815
HIST 221: Under Crescent and Cross: Jews in the Medieval World
HIST 228: Medieval Science
HIST 229: The History of London 43 – 1666
HIST 237: Colonial American History to 1763
HIST 250: Central Europe, Medieval to Modern
HIST 251: The Thirty Years War (1618-1648): Europe in an Age of Crisis
HIST 254: War and Society in Early Modern Europe
HIST 255: Manor to Machine: The Economic Shaping of Europe
HIST 263: Gender and Religion in Premodern Europe
HIST 271: Ancient and Medieval Japanese History and Culture
HIST 303: Medieval Spain
HIST 304H: Conquest and Colonization in the English Atlantic World
HIST 305: Elizabeth I and her World: Gender, Power, and the Beginnings of the Global
HIST 306: Princes and Reformations in Germany, 1400-1600
HIST 307: Religion, Statecraft, and Enlightenment in Germany, 1600-1815
HIST 308: The Renaissance and the Jew
HIST 309: Old Regime France, 1661-1787
HIST 310: The French Revolution
HIST 316H: Globalization and Travel in the Middle Ages
HIST 339: Asia and the Birth of Global Capitalism, 1400-1850
HIST 418: Family and Gender in Early Modern China and Korea
HIST 431: The Medieval Church
HIST 432: The Crusades
HIST 434: Medieval England
HIST 435: The Medieval University
HIST 437: Aristocratic Culture in the Central Middle Ages
HIST 438: Medieval Masculinities, 500-1200

MUSIC

MUSC 214-006 Viol Consort or Baroque Ensemble
MUSC 251: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music

PHILOSOPHY

PHIL 215: Medieval Philosophy
PHIL 220: 17th and 18th Century Western Philosophy
PHIL 415: Medieval Philosophy
PHIL 421: Rationalism
PHIL 422: Empiricism
PHIL 470: Political Philosophy from Hobbes to Rousseau

PEACE, WAR, AND DEFENSE

PWAD 254: War and Society in Early Modern Europe
PWAD 351: Global History of Warfare
PWAD 432: The Crusades
PWAD 489: Epic, Empire, and Diplomacy
PWAD 660: War in Shakespeare’s Plays

RELIGIOUS STUDIES

RELI 108: Classic Jewish Texts: From Bible and Dead Sea Scrolls to Kabbalah and Hasidism
RELI 161: Introduction to the History of Christian Traditions
RELI 164: Heresy and Inquisition: Religion, Ethics, Marginalization
RELI 183 Asian Religions
RELI 184: East Asian Religions
RELI 180: Islam and Muslim Life before 150
RELI 263: Gender and Religion in Premodern Europe
RELI 266: Medieval and Renaissance Christian Cultures
RELI 270: Religion in Western Europe
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 289 Muhammad and the Qur’an
RELI 362: Mary in the Christian Tradition
RELI 450: Sexuality in Jewish Tradition and History
RELI 441: Religion in Early America
RELI 448: Native and Christian: Indigenous Engagements with Christianity
RELI 454: The Reformation
RELI 488: Shinto in Japanese History
RELI 489: Animals in Japanese Religion
RELI 564: Religion, Race, and Inquisition in the Spanish Empire
RELI 581: Sufism
RELI 586: Women and Gender in Japanese Religions

ROMANCE STUDIES

ROML 578: Comparative History of the Romance Languages

French

FREN 315: Imposteur!: Faking and False Identities in French & Francophone Drama & Film
FREN 342: The Art and Power of Conversation: The Enlightenment Salon
FREN 370: French and Francophone Studies to 1789
FREN 387: Paris/ Versailles: The Court and the City in the 17th Century
FREN 421: Old French
FREN 522: French Middle Ages
FREN 562: Poetry of the French Renaissance
FREN 563: Studies in the Anglo-French Renaissance
FREN 583: 18th-Century French Literature and Culture
FREN 670: 17th-Century French Literature and Culture
FREN 675: Literature and Enlightenment, 17th-18th Centuries

Italian

ITAL 51: Contagion and Culture: Lessons from Italy
ITAL 130: Dante’s Divine Comedy:
ITAL 241: The Renaissance Mind and Body
ITAL 330: Italian History and Culture I
ITAL 346: Gender, Sexuality, and Representation in Early Modern Italy
ITAL 357: Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio in English
ITAL 359: Medieval Frauds: Fake News, Counterfeits, and Forgeries
ITAL 372: Poetry, Parchment, Polis

Spanish

SPAN 374: Mesoamerica through its Native Literatures
SPAN 383: Medieval Spanish Literature
SPAN 384: Colonial and 19th Century Spanish American Literature
SPAN 617: Cervantes and the Quijote
SPAN 650: The Spanish Comedia of the Golden Age