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Western European Studies: major or minor

Students select courses from the following group to complete the concentration requirements.

  • INTL/FRLG 203 Language and Identity (when appropriate)

  • EUCU 307 Aspects of German Culture

  • FREN 320, 321 French Civilization and Culture I and II

  • GRMN 320 German Civilization I

  • SPAN 320 Civilization of Spain I

  • FLET 321 Early German Literature

  • GRMN 321 German Civilization II

  • FLET 322 Modern German Literature

  • FREN 330, 331 Survey of Literature (French)

  • GRMN 330, 331 Survey of Literature (German)

  • SPAN 330 Survey of Spanish Literature

  • INTL/GEOG 334 Regional Geography of ______________ (when appropriate)

  • INTL/FRLG 345/ URSP 350 Great Cities of the World (when appropriate)

  • INTL/FLET 391 Topics in Foreign Literature in English Translation (when appropriate)

  • GRMN 416 Age of Goethe

  • GRMN 417 Intellectual Life and Culture of 19th Century Germany

  • FREN 420 French Regional Culture

  • GRMN 420 Turn of the Century

  • SPAN 420 Civilization of Spain I

  • FREN 421 French Contemporary Culture

  • GRMN 421 Postwar German Scene

  • SPAN 421 Civilization of Spain II

  • FREN 422 French Cinema

  • FREN 425 French Media

  • FREN 430 The Middle Ages

  • SPAN 430 Literary Genres (Spanish)

  • FREN 431 The 16th Century

  • SPAN 431 Literary Periods

  • FREN 432 The 17th Century

  • FREN 433 The 18th Century

  • FREN 434 The 19th Century

  • FREN 435 The 20th Century

  • INTL/ANTH 455 Anthropology of Development and Globalization (when appropriate)

  • INTL/MRBL 478 International Marketing Strategy (when appropriate)

  • SPAN 485 Spanish Study Abroad (in appropriate location)

  • INTL 491 Topics in International Studies (when appropriate)

  • INTL 492 Independent Study

No more than one course (3 credits) may be counted from the following group:

  • ARTH 310 Medieval Art and Architecture

  • ARTH 315 Renaissance Art and Architecture

  • ARTH 316 Northern Renaissance Art and Architecture

  • ARTH 320 Baroque and Rococo Art and Architecture

  • ARTH 325 19th Century Art and Architecture in Europe

  • ARTH 415 Early Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture

  • ARTH 417 The High Renaissance

  • ARTH 420, 421 The Baroque in Northern Europe; The Baroque in Southern Europe

  • ARTH 422 Spanish Painting: El Greco through Picasso

  • ARTH 423 Rococo and Other Eighteenth-Century Art

  • ARTH 425, 426 Neoclass., Romant., Realism, and Impressionism thru Fin-de-Siécle

  • ARTH 438 The Roots of Modernism

No more than one course (3 credits) may be counted from the following group:

  • HIST 306 Early Middle Ages

  • HIST 307/RELS 308 High Middle Ages

  • HIST 308 Europe in Renaissance

  • HIST/RELS 309 The Reformation

  • HIST 310 Europe in Absolutism and Enlightenment, 1648-1815

  • HIST 311 Zenith of European Power, 1815-1914

  • HIST 312 The Age of Total War: Europe, 1914-1945

  • HIST 313 Post-War Europe, 1945 to Present

  • HIST 315, 316 History of France

  • HIST 317, 318 History of Germany

  • HIST 319-320 History of England

  • HIST 323 History of Spain and Portugal

  • HIST 324 The Holocaust

  • HIST 329, 330 European Social History

  • HIST 331 Nazi Germany

  • HIST 337 The Origins of Modernism 1880-1930

  • HIST 338 History of Socialism

  • HIST/WMNS 339, 340 History of Women in Europe

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