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2024-2025 General Catalog

Medieval and Early Modern Studies - Institutional Certificate of Proficiency

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College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Department of History

The Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Certificate is an Institutional Certificate of Proficiency that recognizes a student’s proficient knowledge of the history, cultures, literature, art, and religions of the Middle Ages (500-1500) and/or the Early Modern era (1500-1800). To receive the certificate, the student must complete 24 credits in approved medieval and early modern courses as delineated below. All courses counted toward the certificate must be completed with a grade of B or higher.

Core Course

Students must complete one of the following:

HIST 1100 - European History to 1500 (BHU) 3 credit(s) or
HIST 1500 - Pre-Modern World (BHU) 3 credit(s)

Foreign Language Courses

Students must complete six credits in a foreign language at the 2000 level or above.

Elective Courses

Students must complete 15 credits from among at least three of the nine disciplines below:

Art History

ARTH 2710 - Survey of Western Art: Prehistoric to Medieval (BHU) 3 credit(s)
ARTH 3320 - Pre-Columbian Art (CI) 3 credit(s)
ARTH 3340 - African Art (CI) 3 credit(s)
ARTH 3510 - Islamic Visual Cultures (CI/DHA) 3 credit(s)
ARTH 3620 - Early Christian and Byzantine Art (DHA) 3 credit(s)
ARTH 3630 - Medieval Art (CI/DHA) 3 credit(s)
ARTH 3720 - Renaissance Art (CI) 3 credit(s)
ARTH 4210 - Celtic Europe 3 credit(s)
ARTH 4730 - Baroque and Rococo Art 3 credit(s)

Chinese

CHIN 4090 - Readings in Masterworks of Classical Chinese Fiction 3 credit(s)

English

ENGL 3305 - Medieval Literary History 3 credit(s)
ENGL 3310 - Period Studies in British Literature 3 credit(s)
ENGL 3315 - Early Modern British Literary History 3 credit(s)
ENGL 3320 - Period Studies in World Literature 3 credit(s)
ENGL 3325 - Eighteenth-Century British Literary History 3 credit(s)
ENGL 3355 - Literary History of the Early Americas 3 credit(s)
ENGL 3395 - World Literature in Translation 3 credit(s)
ENGL 4300 - Shakespeare 3 credit(s)
ENGL 4350 - Studies in Poetry 3 credit(s)

French

FREN 4610 - Period Studies in French Literature (DHA) 3 credit(s)
FREN 4630 - Once Upon a Time: French and Francophone Fairy Tales 3 credit(s)

German

GERM 3600 - Survey of German Literature I (DHA) 3 credit(s)

History

HIST 3010 - Introduction to Buddhism (DHA) 3 credit(s)
HIST 3020 - Introduction to Hinduism (DHA) 3 credit(s)
HIST 3030 - Introduction to Islam (DHA) 3 credit(s)
HIST 3060 - Introduction to Judaism (DHA) 3 credit(s)
HIST 3150 - Roman History (CI) 3 credit(s)
HIST 3220 - Medieval European Civilization, 500-1500 (CI/DHA) 3 credit(s)
HIST 3225 - Medieval Britain, 500-1500 (DHA) 3 credit(s)
HIST 3230 - Early Modern Europe (DHA) 3 credit(s)
HIST 3250 - Renaissance Europe 1300 to 1520 (CI/DHA) 3 credit(s)
HIST 3270 - The Crusades (DHA) 3 credit(s)
HIST 3482 - Ancient China to 1800 (DHA) 3 credit(s)
HIST 3620 - History of Colonial Latin America 3 credit(s)
HIST 3670 - Slavery in the Atlantic World (CI) 3 credit(s)
HIST 3720 - Colonial America 3 credit(s)
HIST 3730 - American Revolutionary Era 3 credit(s)
HIST 4150 - Japan, Europe, and the Early Modern World 3 credit(s)
HIST 4230 - The History of Christianity in the West (CI/DHA) 3 credit(s)
HIST 4250 - The Reformation in Britain: 1450-1688 3 credit(s)
HIST 4251 - The Tudors, 1485-1603 (DHA) 3 credit(s)
HIST 4260 - Witches, Workers, & Wives: Gender and Family in Early Modern Europe and America (DHA) 3 credit(s)
HIST 4290 - Europe and the French Revolution, 1700-1815 3 credit(s)
HIST 4565 - Medieval Islam (DHA) 3 credit(s)

Philosophy

PHIL 3020 - Survey of Modern Philosophy (CI) 3 credit(s)
PHIL 3710 - Philosophies of East Asia 3 credit(s)
PHIL 4250 - Tolkien and Lewis on Myth and Truth 3 credit(s)

Religious Studies

RELS 3010 - Introduction to Buddhism (DHA) 3 credit(s)
RELS 3020 - Introduction to Hinduism (DHA) 3 credit(s)
RELS 3030 - Introduction to Islam (DHA) 3 credit(s)
RELS 3050 - Introduction to Christianity (DHA) 3 credit(s)
RELS 3060 - Introduction to Judaism (DHA) 3 credit(s)
RELS 3120 - Early Modern Philosophy (CI) (DELETED SUMMER 2024) 3 credit(s)
RELS 3220 - Medieval European Civilization, 500-1500 (CI/DHA) 3 credit(s)
RELS 3270 - The Crusades (DHA) 3 credit(s)
RELS 3420 - Gods and Goddesses of India 3 credit(s)
RELS 3482 - Ancient China to 1800 (DHA) 3 credit(s)
RELS 3820 - Hindu Sacred Texts (CI) 3 credit(s)
RELS 4230 - The History of Christianity in the West (CI/DHA) 3 credit(s)
RELS 4565 - Medieval Islam (DHA) 3 credit(s)

Spanish

SPAN 3600 - Survey of Spanish Literature I (DHA) 3 credit(s)
SPAN 3620 - Survey of Hispanic American Literature I (DHA) 3 credit(s)