BA Honours in European Studies

Students must meet the faculty requirements for honours.

Year I

A full-time student takes 30 credit hours in the first year, meeting the distribution requirements of the BA. These courses include:

• 6 credit hours of writing requirement courses
• both HIST 1020.03: Europe:Before the French Revolution, and HIST 1021.03: Europe:French Revolution to the Present; or equivalent course(s) totaling 6 credit hours in a later year
• 6 credit hours of a language other than English
• 6 credit hours of social sciences courses
• 6 credit hours of natural science courses

Notes: Completion of the King’s College Foundation Year Program satisfies the first-year requirements for European Studies, with the exception of the language course and the natural sciences course.

Some students may wish to take another "second language" course in the first year, and postpone one of the other courses until a later year.

Years II to IV

The program consists of a further 90 credit hours including the second year core course and an Honours project. The general requirements for the program are:

• Courses in two contemporary European languages other than English. One of these languages is studied up to 3000/4000 level (six credit hours each year). The minimum requirement for the other language is six credit hours at the first year level, though students are strongly encouraged to take advanced courses in both languages.
• 66-78 credit hours with significant European content. As this is a multidisciplinary program, no more than 30 credit hours above the 1000 level may be taken from one department. No fewer than 36 credit hours must be taken from two other departments. These may include courses from a language department to fulfill the language requirement, or one of the King’s Honours programs. At least 18 credit hours must be at the 3000 level or above, taken in at least two different departments. Courses taken during a study abroad year will need to be counted in the above mix.
• EURO 2101.03, EURO 2102.03
• Students should seek advice from the European Studies Coordinator, who will strive to ensure that courses are included from each of the following areas:
  1. History and Politics:
     Approved ES courses in the departments of History, Political Science, Sociology and Social Anthropology, Economics, Commerce
  2. Literature and Ideas:
     Approved ES courses in the departments of Classics, English, French, German, Italian, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Russian Studies, Spanish
  3. Fine Arts:
     Approved ES courses in the Fountain School of Performing Arts (Cinema and Media Studies, Music, or Theatre)

Approved ES courses in Contemporary Studies, Early Modern History, and Gender and Women's Studies may fit one or more of these groupings. Please consult a European Studies advisor.

In conjunction with the Honours project a fourth year multidisciplinary seminar is required; EURO 4512.03 or an approved equivalent.

• A term of study in the honours program at a European university in a second-language environment. A summer work term in Europe is encouraged.