European Studies
Applicable for the 2024-2025 academic year.
OVERALL DESCRIPTION
The minor in European Studies complements established regional and thematic tracks such as Asian Studies, Latin American Studies, or Russian and Eurasian Studies, and provide students with an opportunity to study a specific context from an interdisciplinary and critical perspective. Many disciplines, departments, and programs at 华体会 focus directly or indirectly on questions concerned with Europe in national, transnational, or comparative contexts. The minor forges new connections between these disciplines, departments, individual faculty members, and students, allowing students to create a personal course of study focused on European issues. In so doing, it provides a platform to share ideas and resources, to collaborate, and to critically interrogate Europe in new and innovative ways.
Students will work with their minor academic advisor to select courses intentionally and strategically as they align with their interests. Students are also encouraged to seek out study abroad opportunities at and beyond CC to fulfill requirements for the minor.
Keystone Course (1 unit):
GS232 Unraveling Europe
This course can be taken at any point in one’s studies and will be taught at least once a year.
Elective Courses (4 units):
Four courses that focus on Europe, one of which must be comparative or transnational in nature. These courses must be from at least two different departments or programs, and not more than one may come from the student’s major department.
These courses are frequently offered at the college. See list of representative courses and contributing faculty members below.
Languages:
Completion of the third block (or the equivalent) at 华体会 of a language historically or commonly spoken in Europe other than English. Those languages include Arabic, French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Students may petition to substitute another language if more relevant to their course of study.
The Integrative Experience (not taken for academic credit):
This capstone experience provides students with the opportunity to critically examine a topic that has captured their interest over the course of their study in the minor. Working under the guidance of their minor academic advisor, these capstones may take different forms. Students may write an interdisciplinary and critical paper (8-10 pages), or they may choose to create a digital liberal arts project. They may present a creative arts project, a documentary film, an original music composition, a choreographed dance, or any other discipline-specific project, which should be accompanied by a short essay in which they contextualize and reflect critically on their work. Presentations of capstones for the minor will take place annually.
List of Representative Courses
Below please find a list of some of the regularly taught courses in European Studies. Although some topics courses that focus on Europe appear on this list, others will be evaluated on an ad hoc basis.
Art
C.Ruiz (Spanish and Portuguese); C.Steckenbiller (German Studies, CGJIR); T.Ragan (History)
The minor in European Studies complements established regional and thematic tracks such as Asian Studies, Latin American Studies, or Russian and Eurasian Studies, and provide students with an opportunity to study a specific context from an interdisciplinary and critical perspective. Many disciplines, departments, and programs at 华体会 focus directly or indirectly on questions concerned with Europe in national, transnational, or comparative contexts. The minor forges new connections between these disciplines, departments, individual faculty members, and students, allowing students to create a personal course of study focused on European issues. In so doing, it provides a platform to share ideas and resources, to collaborate, and to critically interrogate Europe in new and innovative ways.
Minor Requirements
Minimum of 5 unitsStudents will work with their minor academic advisor to select courses intentionally and strategically as they align with their interests. Students are also encouraged to seek out study abroad opportunities at and beyond CC to fulfill requirements for the minor.
Keystone Course (1 unit):
GS232 Unraveling Europe
This course can be taken at any point in one’s studies and will be taught at least once a year.
Elective Courses (4 units):
Four courses that focus on Europe, one of which must be comparative or transnational in nature. These courses must be from at least two different departments or programs, and not more than one may come from the student’s major department.
These courses are frequently offered at the college. See list of representative courses and contributing faculty members below.
Languages:
Completion of the third block (or the equivalent) at 华体会 of a language historically or commonly spoken in Europe other than English. Those languages include Arabic, French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Students may petition to substitute another language if more relevant to their course of study.
The Integrative Experience (not taken for academic credit):
This capstone experience provides students with the opportunity to critically examine a topic that has captured their interest over the course of their study in the minor. Working under the guidance of their minor academic advisor, these capstones may take different forms. Students may write an interdisciplinary and critical paper (8-10 pages), or they may choose to create a digital liberal arts project. They may present a creative arts project, a documentary film, an original music composition, a choreographed dance, or any other discipline-specific project, which should be accompanied by a short essay in which they contextualize and reflect critically on their work. Presentations of capstones for the minor will take place annually.
List of Representative Courses
Below please find a list of some of the regularly taught courses in European Studies. Although some topics courses that focus on Europe appear on this list, others will be evaluated on an ad hoc basis.
Art
- AH115: The Western Tradition from Ancient to Early Renaissance (we have a global alternative)
- AH116: The Western Tradition from High Renaissance to Modern Times (we have a global alternative)
- AH120: Global Architecture I: Pyramids to Cathedrals 3000 BCE-1400 CE
- AH121: Global Architecture II: Renaissance to the 21st Century
- AH207: Greece & Rome
- AH208: Byzantine Art
- AH209: Late Antiquity: Imperial Rome, Mystery Religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam
- AH221: Art of the Renaissance
- AH223: 16th Century Art of Europe
- AH231: The Age of the Baroque: Art and Empire of the 17th Century
- AH232: Art of the Dutch Republic
- AH241: Art and Revolution: Europe in the Nineteenth Century
- AH243: The Birth of Modernism
- AH275: Art in Context: Art and Revolution: Paris in the Nineteenth Century
- AH275: Paris on a Precipice: Early Twentieth Century Challenges in Art and History
- AH342: Turn of the Century Art in London, Paris and Vienna
- CL216: History of the Roman Republic
- CL219: Greek Drama
- CL221: Invention of History
- CL226: Roman History: Literature and Culture of the Augustan Age
- CL236: History of the Roman Empire
- CL250: History of Classical Greece
- CO120: Literature, Power, and Identities: Marginalized Identities
- CO121: Literature, Place, and the World
- CO130: Literature and Contemporary Issues
- CO131: Literature, Texts, and Media: Romantic Encounters
- CO200: Landscape, Monuments, and Myth
- CO220: The World of Odysseus: History & Myth
- CO300: Topics in Comparative Literature: Samuel Beckett
- CO300: Topics in Comparative Literature: Vladimir Nabokov
Economics and Business
English
- EN205: Study of a Genre: Satire
- EN225: Introduction to Shakespeare
- EN280: Afropean Women Writers
- EN329: Milton
- EN302: History of the English Language
- EN311: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
- EN312: The Other Chaucer
- EN313: Dante’s Divine Comedy
- EN321: Renaissance Poetry
- EN326: Studies in Shakespeare
- EN328: Renaissance Drama
- EN352: 18th-Century British Fiction
- EN360: Gender and the Gothic
- EN362: British Romantic Fiction
- EN365: British Romantic Poets
- EN385: Black Writers in Paris 1900-1960
- EN405: Shakespeare in London
Feminist and Gender Studies
- FG214: Hidden Spaces, Hidden Narratives: Intersectionality Studies in Berlin
Film and Media Studies
- FM200: Global Queer Cinema
French
- FR310: Literature & Film
- FR316: Topics in French Culture
- FR319: Topics in French Culture
- FR329: Paris & the Arts
German