Medieval and Renaissance Studies Minor

Select one course:

• MRST 201 - Medieval Civilization I 3 Credit Hours *
• MRST 202 - Medieval Civilization II 3 Credit Hours *

Select at least one but no more than two of the following 200-level foundational courses:

• ARCN 211 - History and Theory of Architecture I 3 Credit Hours *
• ARCN 217 - Honors: History and Theory of Architecture I 3 Credit Hours *
• CLAS 201 - Introduction to Classical Civilization 3 Credit Hours *
• ENGL 201 - British Literature 3 Credit Hours *
• ENGL 206 - Introduction to Shakespeare 3 Credit Hours *
• ENGL 207 - Honors: British Literature 3 Credit Hours *
• ENGL 221 - World Literature 3 Credit Hours *
• MRST 201 - Medieval Civilization I 3 Credit Hours *
• MRST 202 - Medieval Civilization II 3 Credit Hours *
• MRST 261 - Medieval Culture: Readings from the Early Middle Ages, 500-1000 3 Credit Hours
• MRST 262 - Medieval Culture: Readings from the Later Middle Ages, 1000-1500 3 Credit Hours
• MUCO 210 - History of Western Music, Ancient to the Baroque 3 Credit Hours *

Select three or four upper-level elective courses representing from at least two departments and both time periods (Pre-1450 and Post-1450):

• ARTH 425 - Early Christian and Byzantine Art to 1350 3 Credit Hours
• ARTH 441 - Northern European Painting, 1350-1600 3 Credit Hours *
• ARTH 451 - The Art of Italy, 1250-1450 3 Credit Hours *
• ARTH 452 - Art of Italy, 1475-1600 3 Credit Hours *
• ARTH 453 - Art of Southern Europe, 1575-1700 3 Credit Hours
• CLAS 382 - Roman Civilization 3 Credit Hours *
• CLAS 435 - Medieval Latin 3 Credit Hours
• CLAS 445 - Ancient and Medieval Seafaring 3 Credit Hours *
• CLAS 471 - Special Topics in Medieval Latin Literature 3 Credit Hours
• CLAS 472 - Latin Paleography and Book Culture in the Middle Ages I 3 Credit Hours
• CLAS 473 - Latin Paleography and Book Culture in the Middle Ages II 3 Credit Hours
• ENGL 301 - British Culture to 1660 3 Credit Hours *
• ENGL 321 - Introduction to Old English 3 Credit Hours *
• ENGL 401 - Medieval Literature 3 Credit Hours
• ENGL 402 - Chaucer 3 Credit Hours
• ENGL 403 - Introduction to Middle English 3 Credit Hours
• ENGL 404 - Shakespeare I: Early Plays 3 Credit Hours
• ENGL 405 - Shakespeare II: Later Plays 3 Credit Hours
• ENGL 406 - Shakespeare’s Contemporaries I: Renaissance Drama 3 Credit Hours *
• ENGL 409 - Shakespeare’s Contemporaries II: Renaissance Poetry and Prose 3 Credit Hours
• ENGL 410 - Donne, Milton, and Their Contemporaries 3 Credit Hours
• FREN 410 - Topics in Medieval/Early Modern French Literature 3 Credit Hours
• GERM 434 - Extraordinary Wo(Men)―Outcasts, Rebels, Martyrs, and Saints 3 Credit Hours
• HIAS 392 - History of Pre-Modern Japan 3 Credit Hours
• HIAS 394 - Chinese Intellectual History: Early Times 3 Credit Hours *
• HIEU 304 - History of the Early Roman Empire 3 Credit Hours *
• HIEU 305 - History of the Later Roman Empire 3 Credit Hours *
• HIEU 310 - The Byzantine Empire, 284-1453 3 Credit Hours
• HIEU 311 - Early Middle Ages 3 Credit Hours *
• HIEU 312 - High Middle Ages 3 Credit Hours
• HIEU 313 - Later Middle Ages 3 Credit Hours
• HIEU 314 - Renaissance Europe 3 Credit Hours
• HIEU 315 - Reformation Europe 3 Credit Hours
• HIEU 321 - New Testament and Christian Origins 3 Credit Hours *
• HIEU 322 - Martyrs and Monks: Christian History, 100-800 CE 3 Credit Hours *
• HIEU 323 - Deviance and Persecution in the Christian West 3 Credit Hours *
• HIEU 354 - Early Medieval Warfare 3 Credit Hours
• HIEU 383 - Studies in Premodern European History 3 Credit Hours
• HIEU 420 - Invisible Romans 3 Credit Hours
• HIEU 425 - The City of Rome: Antiquity 3 Credit Hours *
• HIEU 429 - Medieval Intellectual History 3 Credit Hours
• HIEU 430 - Gender and Medicine in the Middle Ages 3 Credit Hours
• HIEU 483 - Studies in Medieval and Early Modern European History 3 Credit Hours
• HILA 464 - The Spanish Conquest 3 Credit Hours
• HILA 465 - Gender and Sexuality in Early Latin America 3 Credit Hours
• HIME 382 - Archaeology of Ancient Israel 3 Credit Hours
• HIME 383 - Ancient Jewish History 3 Credit Hours
• ITAL 401 - Dante and Medieval Culture 3 Credit Hours
• *  JAPA 451 - Introduction to Classical Japanese 3 Credit Hours
• MRST 491 - Foreign Study 1-15 Credit Hours
• MRST 492 - Off-Campus Study 1-15 Credit Hours
• MRST 493 - Independent Study 1-15 Credit Hours
• PHIL 320 - Ancient Western Philosophy 3 Credit Hours *
• PHIL 322 - Medieval Philosophy 3 Credit Hours *
• PHIL 324 - 17th- and 18th-Century Philosophy 3 Credit Hours *
• POLS 475 - Ancient and Medieval Political Thought 3 Credit Hours
• REST 332 - Introduction to Islam 3 Credit Hours *
• REST 423 - Seminar in Early Christianity 3 Credit Hours *
• SPAN 334 - Survey of Hispanic Literatures: Beginnings-1700 3 Credit Hours
• THEA 411 - Theatre History I 3 Credit Hours

Note:

Special topics courses, when on a medieval or renaissance topic, may be approved by the IDP Chair and petitioned toward the minor concentration as an upper level elective course.

* Meets Volunteer Core Requirements .