Courses
Below you will find descriptions for courses offered in this field of study. You will find a general overview of the topics covered and any prerequisite course or grade requirements, credit value and exclusions.
The first digit of the course indicates the general level. Those in the 1000 series are introductory degree level. Courses at the 2000, 3000, 4000 series are typically available to students in the second, third, and fourth year. Courses numbered at the 5000 level or above are graduate level. Courses listed at the 0100 or 0200 series are technology level courses. Courses below the 0100 level are generally non credit courses.
Some courses are listed as exclusionary to one another. This means that students may not obtain credit for both courses as designated.
Not all courses are offered each year. Please consult the current timetable for this year’s offering. For further information please contact the department, or visit the department's website.
Course Descriptions
European Studies Approved Courses
Note: Students should note that some courses may have prerequisites or other departmental restrictions, and some courses may not be offered in every year.
Other courses, not on this list, may be appropriate. Please consult an ES Advisor.
Approved Courses
Classics
All courses
Religious Studies
• RELS 1002.03: Introduction to Western Religions
• RELS 1201.03: Gods, Heroes and Monsters: Ancient Mythology I
• RELS 1202.03: Gods, Heroes and Monsters: Ancient Mythology II
• RELS 2026.03: Paganism
• RELS 2027.03: Magic Religion and Philosophy
• RELS 2203.03: Philosophy and God
• RELS 3019.03: Meetings Between Hellenism, Judaism and Islam until the Renaissance
• RELS 2365.03: Philosophy on Trial
• RELS 3381.03: Medieval Philosophy from Augustine to Anselm
• RELS 3382.03: Medieval Philosophy from Arabic and Jewish Thinkers to Aquinas
• RELS 3432.03: St. Augustine on the Trinity Part II
Contemporary Studies
• CTMP 2303.03: Narrative and Meta-Narrative
• CTMP 3001.03: Science and Culture I: The Discourses of Modernity
• CTMP 3002.03: Science and Culture II: Resetting the Modern
• CTMP 3116.03: Heidegger: Science, Poetry, Thought
• CTMP 3192.03: Wittgenstein
• CTMP 3321.03/CTMP 3322.03: The Holocaust
• CTMP 3410.03: Studies in Contemporary Social and Political Thought in the 20th Century.
• CTMP 4001.03: The Deconstruction of the Tradition: Language and Dispossession
• CTMP 4002.03: The Deconstruction of the Tradition: Precarities
• CTMP 4301.03: Freud, Lacan and the Critique of Psychoanalysis
• CTMP 4302.03: French Feminist Theory
• CTMP 4410.03: Contemporary Social and Political Thought
Early Modern Studies
All courses
Economics
• ECON 2064.03: Early Modern Economic History
• ECON 2219.03: Euros and Cents: From Common Market to European Union
• ECON 2239.03: European Economic History
English
• ENGL 2001.03: British Literature to 1800
• ENGL 2002.03: British Literature after 1800
• ENGL 2018.03: Arthur
• ENGL 2020.03: Sampling Medieval Literature
• ENGL 2028.03: Short Poems in English
• ENGL 2030.03: Literature, Health and Healing
• ENGL 2034.03: The Short Story
• ENGL 2040.03: Mystery and Detective Fiction
• ENGL 2050.03: Literature and Propaganda
• ENGL 2088.03: Images and Texts
• ENGL 2215.03: Young Shakespeare
• ENGL 2217.03: Shakespeare at the Globe
• ENGL 2218.03: Gothic fiction
• ENGL 2229.03: Tragedy
• ENGL 2230.03: Satire
• ENGL 2231.03: Foundation of Science Fiction
• ENGL 2235.03: Tolkien: Fantasy and Medievalism
• ENGL 3001.03: History of Literary Criticism
• ENGL 3002.03: Contemporary Critical Theory
• ENGL 3005.03: Canterbury Tales
• ENGL 3006.03: Old English
• ENGL 3010.03/ENGL 3011.03: Renaissance Poetry and Culture I/II
• ENGL 3015.03: Renaissance Drama
• ENGL 3017.03: English Poetry and Prose, 1660-1740
• ENGL 3019.03: Poetry and Prose, 1740-1789
• ENGL 3020.03: English Drama, 1660-1800
• ENGL 3022.03: English Fiction to 1820
• ENGL 3029.03: Victorian Poetry
• ENGL 3031.03: 19th Century Fiction from Austen to Dickens
• ENGL 3032.03: 19th Century Fiction from Dickens to Hardy
• ENGL 3234.03: British Literature of the Earlier Twentieth Century
• ENGL 3235.03: British Literature of the Later Twentieth Century
• ENGL 3820.03: Nabokov
Note: Fourth year seminars in English change from year to year. For courses appropriate for European Studies please consult the European Studies coordinator.
French
FREN all courses (except courses on linguistics, and on Quebec, Acadian and other non-European francophone literature and culture)
Gender and Women's Studies
• GWST 2300.03: Making Gender: Sex and Gender in Pre-Modern Europe
• GWST 2320.03: Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe
• GWST 4402.03: Recent French Feminist Theory
German
All courses
History
• HIST 2006.03: The Atlantic World, 1450-1650: European Colonization of the Americas
• HIST 2007.03: The Atlantic World, 1650-1800: European Empires in the Americas
• HIST 2015.03: European Military History 1550-1740
• HIST 2021.03: Soviet Russia
• HIST 2022.03: Imperial Russia
• HIST 2032.03: 20th Century Germany
• HIST 2041.03: France from the Revolution to the Great War
• HIST 2061.03: Civilization of Baroque Italy
• HIST 2064.03: Early Modern Economic History
• HIST 2106.03: Tudor and Stuart England, 1485-1689
• HIST 2111.03: Modern Britain to 1884
• HIST 2112.03: Modern Britain from 1884 to present
• HIST 3006.03: Renaissance and Reformation Europe
• HIST 3007.03: Pre-Industrial European Society
• HIST 3045.03: French Revolution
• HIST 3050.03: Europe and World War II
• HIST 3056.03: Holocaust
• HIST 3090.03: Russian Society
• HIST 3092.03: Russian Topics
• HIST 3096.03: History of Ideas in Russia
• HIST 3102.03: Tudor History
• HIST 3103.03: Stuart History
• HIST 3105.03: English Civil War
• HIST 3109.03: Topics in the Social and Cultural History of England, c 1500-1850
• HIST 3113.03: Britain in the Age of the First World War
• HIST 3114.03: Britain from Second World War to Thatcher
• HIST 4090.03: Soviet History Seminar
• HIST 4105.03: English Civil War
• HIST 4106.03: Topics in Early Modern English History
• HIST 4162.06: Advanced Seminar in Baroque Culture
Italian Studies
All courses
Music
• MUSC 1201.03: Music Theory I
• MUSC 1222.03: Music Theory II
• MUSC 3066.03: Women, Gender and Music
• MUSC 3314.03: History of Opera
• MUSC 3221.03: Form and Analysis
• MUSC 3353.03: Chamber Music Literature
• MUSC 4353.03: Music since 1945
• MUSC 4355.03: Narrative Strategies in Nineteenth -Century Music
• MUSC 4356.03: Opera Studies
• MUSC 4360.06: Advanced Seminar in Baroque Culture
Philosophy
• PHIL 2610.03/PHIL 2620.03: History of Philosophy I, II
• PHIL 2710.03: Existentialism
• PHIL 3630.03: Kant
• PHIL 3635.03: 19th Century Philosophy
• PHIL 4190.03/PHIL 4191.03/PHIL 4192.03: Topics in the History of Philosophy
Political Science
• POLI 2410.03: Crisis and Consent
• POLI 2420.03: Revolution and Rationality
• POLI 3320.03: European Politics
• POLI 3321.03: Politics of the European Union
• POLI 4479.03: Liberalism
Russian Studies
All courses
Spanish and Latin American Studies
• SPAN 2100.03: Evolving Spain: History, Culture, Society
• SPAN 2105.03: Catalan Language and Culture
• SPAN 2150.03: Hispanic Identities through Film
• SPAN 3020.03: Translation
• SPAN 3025.03: Traducción
• SPAN 3035.03: Advanced Spanish I
• SPAN 3036.03: Advanced Spanish II
• SPAN 3500.03: Contemporary Spanish Literature
Theatre
• THEA 2011.03: Classical Theatre
• THEA 2012.03: Early Modern Theatre
• THEA 4735.06: Advanced Seminar in Baroque Culture
Approved Courses with some European content (please consult European Studies Coordinator)
Economics
• ECON 3349.06: History of Economic Thought
• ECON 3310.03: Economic Growth in Historical Perspective
Philosophy
• PHIL 2260.03: Philosophy of Art
• PHIL 3170.03: Theories of Feminism
• PHIL 3660.03: Post-Modern Philosophy
Political Science
• POLI 2301.03: Comparative Politics: Developed Demonocracies under Pressure
• POLI 2302.03: Comparative Politics II: The Developing World
• POLI 2410.03: History of Political Thought I
• POLI 2420.03: History of Political Thought II
• POLI 2520.03: Introduction to World Politics
• POLI 2530.03: Introduction to Foreign Policy
• POLI 3320.03: European Politics
• POLI 3321.03: Politics of the European Union
• POLI 3401.03: Contemporary Political Thought
• POLI 3450.03: Storm and Stress
• POLI 3475.03: Democratic Theory
• POLI 3431.03: Politics through Film and Literature
• POLI 4587.03: International Political Economy
• POLI 4322.03: The European Union as a Global Actor
Sociology and Social Anthropology
• SOSA 3005.03: Knowledge, Work, and Culture in the Contemporary World
• SOSA 3206.03: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Race
• SOSA 3401.03: History of Sociological Thought
Theatre
• THEA 3503.03: Modern Theatre
• THEA 3601.03: Playwright in the Theatre A
• THEA 3602.03: Playwright in the Theatre B
• THEA 3911.03: Gender in Theatre: A Cross-Cultural Survey
• THEA 4931.03: Contemporary Theatre