To obtain the minor, students must complete a total of six courses, including an upper-level history course from the following options.
Gateway Courses (at least one of the following):
- HIS 208 Early Medieval Europe
- HIS 209 Late Medieval Europe
- HIS 230 Renaissance Europe
- HIS 231 European Reformations
- HIS 232 Baroque Europe
The remaining five courses must come from at least two separate disciplines chosen from the following list. No more than three courses from any one discipline can count towards the MEMS minor:
Art and Architectural History
- ART 222 Medieval Art and Architecture
- ART 223 Renaissance Art and Architecture
- ART 224 Baroque Art
- ART 350 Special Topics in Art History (when appropriate)
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English
- ENG 218 Film and Literature (when appropriate)
- ENG 221 British Literature Survey (beginnings to 1800)
- ENG 253 Arthurian Literature
- ENG 320 Medieval Literature
- ENG 325 Chaucer
- ENG 327 English Drama 900-1642
- ENG 328 Medieval and Renaissance Tales
- ENG 329 Special Topics in Medieval Literature
- ENG 330 Renaissance Literature
- ENG 331 Shakespeare’s Comedies
- ENG 332 Shakespeare’s Tragedies
- ENG 333 Shakespeare’s History Plays
- ENG 339 Special Topics in Renaissance Literature
- ENG 342 Donne and his Contemporaries
- ENG 343 Milton
- ENG 349 Special Topics in Seventeenth Century Literature
- ENG 350 18th Century English Literature
- ENG 351 Restoration and 18th Century Comic Drama
- ENG 352 18th Century English Novel
- ENG 359 Special Topics in 18th Century Literature
- ENG 411 Seminar (when appropriate)
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Foundations Program
- FND 300 Special Topics (when appropriate)
- FND 310 Special Topics with Travel (when appropriate)
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History
- HIS 203 Byzantine Empire
- HIS 208 Early Medieval Europe
- HIS 209 Late Medieval Europe
- HIS 230 Renaissance Europe
- HIS 231 European Reformations
- HIS 232 Baroque Europe
- HIS 237 Women and Mysticism
- HIS 241 Russia: Pre-Revolutionary Period
- HIS 250 Colonial Latin American History
- HIS 258 Colonial America
- HIS 280 Asia to 1800
- HIS 290 The Islamic Middle East I (to 1800)
- HIS 293 From Jesus to Muhammad: The Near East in Transition
- HIS 389 Special Topics (when appropriate)
- HIS 391 Pro-Seminar (when appropriate)
- HIS 393W Seminar (when appropriate)
- AAS 350 American Studies Seminar at the American Antiquarian Society (when appropriate)
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Latin American Studies
- LAS 395 Special Topics (when appropriate)
- LAS 400 Latin American Studies Seminar (when appropriate)
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Modern and Classical Languages
- CLT 225 Dante’s Comedy
- CLT 234 Cervantes’ Don Quixote
- CLT 296 Special Topics (when appropriate)
- FRE 251 Main Currents in French Literature I
- FRE 332 Molière, Racine, and Corneille: Masterpieces of French Theatre
- SPA 251 Main Currents in Spanish Literature I
- SPA 253 Main Currents in Spanish American Literature I
- SPA 310 Spanish Culture and Civilization I
- SPA 312 Spanish American Culture and Civilization I
- SPA 320 Medieval Spanish Literature
- SPA 331 Spanish Drama of the Golden Age
- SPA 333 Spanish Mysticism
- SPA 334 Cervantes: El Quijote
- SPA 336 Spanish Picaresque
- Also Special Topics Courses in Languages (when appropriate)
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Music History
- MUS 122 History of Music I [Medieval and Renaissance Music]
- MUS 221 Music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
- MUS 223 Bach to Beethoven
- MUS 229 Music and Worship
- MUS 231 History of Opera
- MUS 234 Music of France (when appropriate)
- MUS 400 Special Topics in Music (when appropriate)
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Philosophy
- PHI 355 Augustine and Aquinas
- PHI 357 Crossroads: Islamic, Jewish, and Christian Philosophy
- PHI 359 Special Topics (when appropriate)
- PHI 360 Early Modern Philosophy
- PHI 390 Special Topics in the History of Philosophy (when appropriate)
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Political Science
- POL 352 Early Modern Political Philosophy
- POL 354 Classical Utopias (when appropriate)
- POL 359 Medieval Political Philosophy
- POL 377 The Politics of Just Wars (when appropriate)
- POL 381 Shakespeare’s Politics
- POL 399 Special Topics (when appropriate)
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Sociology and Anthropology
- ANT 132 Intro to Archaeology (when appropriate)
- ANT 232 Historical Archaeology (when appropriate)
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Theology
- THE 352 Medieval Christian Writers
- THE 391 Special Topics (when appropriate)
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