The following 2024-2025 courses count for concentration credit in the European Studies field.
In most cases, this means that at least 50% of the material in the course relates directly to the student’s field. If you find a course that you think is well-suited to your own particular course of study, but that does not appear on the list, please petition the Committee on Instruction for credit, keeping in mind the 50% guideline.
"F" indicates a course offered during the fall semester. "Sp" indicates a course offered during the spring semester.
Please note that this list is subject to change through the start of the semester. Make sure you check back before registering for classes. Look to the key below to determine which courses can count towards specific field requirements. Click on the requirement term to see a short list of courses that fulfill that field requirement. If you have any questions, please direct them to Assistant Director of Studies Laura Quinton.
Key to Requirements:
HS: History Survey
Pre-1900: Pre-1900
- Celtic Languages and Literatures 101 Irish Heroic Saga. Nagy. (Pre-1900) F
- Celtic Languages and Literatures 105 Folklore of Gaelic Ireland. Sumner. (Pre-1900) F
- Celtic Languages and Literatures 109 Finn: The Great Gaelic Hero. Sumner. (Pre-1900) Sp
- Celtic Languages and Literatures 120 Food and Fantasy in Irish Tradition. Nagy. (Pre-1900) Sp
- Celtic Languages and Literatures 137 Celtic Mythology. Nagy. (Pre-1900) F
- Celtic Languages and Literatures 139 Small Nation, Big Ideas: Wales 1900-2023. Hunter. Sp
- Celtic Languages and Literatures 185 Transatlantic Celts: Narratives of Loss and Belonging. Hunter. (TL) F
- Classical Studies 122 Identity and Self in the Medieval Greek Traditiion. Riehle &. Angelov. (Pre-1900) Sp
- Classical Studies 173 Gender in Byzantium. Riehle. (Pre-1900) F
- Comparative Literature 101X Finnegan's Wake and Comparative Literature. Hamilton. (TL) F
- Comparative Literature 114 Mysticism and Literature. Giron Negron. (TL) F
- Comparative Literature 153 Nabokov. Weir. F
- Comparative Literature 171 Counter-Imperialism and Asian-African Literatures. Lienau. (TL) F
- Czech 112 Readings in Czech Literature and Culture. Bolton & Tuckerova. Sp
- English 90LV Consciousness in Fiction from Austen to Woolf. Wood. (TL) (Pre-1900) F
- English 90QM Metaphysical Poetry: The 17th Century Lyric and Beyond. Teskey. (Pre-1900) F
- English 102M Introduction to Old English: Charms, Herbals, Folk Medicine, Miracle Cures. Donoghue. (Pre-1900) F
- English 103G Advanced Old English: Scribes and Manuscripts. Donoghue. (Pre-1900) Sp
- English 110FF Medieval Fanfiction. Wilson. (Pre-1900) Sp
- English 121S Shakespeare from Beginning to End. Greenblatt. (Pre-1900) F
- English 131P John Milton's Paradise Lost. Teskey. (Pre-1900) Sp
- English 141 When Novels were New. Lynch. (Pre-1900) Sp
- English 145A Jane Austen's Fiction and Fans. Lynch. (Pre-1900) F
- English 151AN The Age of the Novel. Menon. (Pre-1900) Sp
- English 157 The Classic Phase of the Novel. Fisher. (TL) (Pre-1900) Sp
- French 62 Exploring Sustainable Practices in French Industry: Fashion, Cuisine, and Music. Turman. Sp
- French 72 Pre-Modern French Voices and Forms of Desire. Instructor TBD. (Pre-1900) Sp
- French 81 Existentialist AF: Absolute Freedom. Kim. Sp
- French 88 Comic Relief: The Power of Humor in Social Fiction. Richman. F
- French 149 Queer Fictions. Kim. Sp
- French 153 The Contemporary French Novel. Kim.
- Gen Ed 1034 Texts in Transition. Blair & Whittington. (Pre-1900) F
- Gen Ed 1090 What is a Book? From the Clay Tablet to the Kindle. Stern. (Pre-1900) Sp
- Gen Ed 1140 Borders. Lewis. (TH) Sp
- Gen Ed 1183 The English Language Today, Yesterday, and Tomorrow. Donoghue. (Pre-1900) Sp
- German 107 The German Self in Idealism. Dymek. (Pre-1900) Sp
- German 120 The Age of Goethe. Burgard. (Pre-1900) Sp
- German 126 The Magic World of Fairy Tales. Pirozhenko. F
- German 159 100 Years of Queer German Cinema. Dymek. Sp
- German 181 Walter Benjamin's Theory of Modernity. Stewart. F
- German 182 Music, Literature, & the Voice. Hamilton. Sp
- German 192 Artificial Intelligences: Body, Art, and Media in Modern Germany. Stewart. Sp
- Government 1060 Ancient and Medieval Political Philosophy. Nelson. (Pre-1900) F
- Government 1061 The History of Modern Political Philosophy. Instructor TBD. (Pre-1900) Sp
- Government 1171 The Making of Modern Politics. Hall. F
- Government 1237 Decolonizing the South: Nation Building and Empire in the Caucasus. Instructor TBD. Sp
- Government 1243 Politics and Power in Post-Soviet Russia. Instructor TBD. Sp
- History 12S Biography and Autobiography in Renaissance Italy. Hankins. (Pre-1900) F
- History 16H Body Politics: Disability in the British Empire. Mohanty. (TH) Sp
- History 80G Travelers to Byzantium. Angelov. (Pre-1900) F
- History 82F Origins of the Cold War: Yalta Conference. Plokhii. (TH) F
- History 1029 Early Modern Britain, 1485-1715. Cratty. (HS) (Pre-1900) Sp
- History 1035 Byzantine Civilization. Angelov. (HS) (Pre-1900) Sp
- History 1155 Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789. Herzog. (HS) (TH) (Pre-1900) F
- History 1206 France and the World since 1870. Lewis. (HS) (TH) F
- History 1265 Germany, 1848-1949. Frank Johnson. (HS) (TH) F
- History 1270 Frontiers of Europe: Ukraine since 1500. Plokhii. (HS) (Pre-1900) F
- History 1281 The End of Communism. Martin. (TH) F
- History 1301 Western Intellectual History: The Prehistory of Modern Thought. Hankins. (HS) (Pre-1900) Sp
- History 1367 Marx's Capital. Gordon. Sp
- History 1919 Austrian History in Literature. Frank Johnson. F
- History 1921 The History of Law in Europe. Herzog. (HS) (Pre-1900) F
- History 1922 Thomas Mann's Century. Gordon. Sp
- History 1940 Migration, Belonging, and the Law in Europe and the Americas. Herzog & Hoffnung-Garskof. (HS) (TH) F
- History & Literature 90AN God Save the Queen! Ruling Women from Rome to the Renaissance. Gilsdorf. (HS) (TH) (TL) (Pre-1900) F
- History & Litearture 90EJ Espionage: A Cultural History. White. (TL) F
- History & Literature 90FU British Soft Power from Shakespeare to Dua Lipa. Quinton. (HS) (TH) (TL) F
- History & Literature 90GF Marx at the Mall: Consumer Culture and its Critics. Smith. (HS) (TH) (TL) F
- History & Literature 90GT World War II in Image, Text, and Sound. Riegel. (TH) (TL) S
- History of Art & Architecture 15 Introduction to Italian Renaissance Art. Kinew. (Pre-1900) Sp
- History of Art & Architecture 42P Architecture through the Ages: Notre-Dame-de-Paris. Hamburger. (Pre-1900) F
- History of Art & Architecture 56G Spanish Golden Age Painting. Pereda. (Pre-1900) F
- History of Art & Architecture 172Z Color in the Era of the Colony. Lajer-Burcharth. (Pre-1900) Sp
- History of Science 100 Knowing the World: An Introduction to the History of Science. Marcus & Wilson. (Pre-1900)
- Humanities 10A A Humanities Colloquium: From Homer to Garcia Marquez. Greenblatt et al.. F
- Humanities 10B A Humanities Colloquium: From Joyce to Homer. Greenblatt et al.. Sp
- Italian 116 Renaissance Revolutions. Erspamer. (Pre-1900) F
- Italian 138 The Cosmos of the Divine Comedy. Pistoja. (Pre-1900) F
- Italian 165 Preparing the Revolution: Machiavelli, Gramsci, and the Power of the Defeated. Erspamer. Sp
- Jewish Studies 111 Encounters Between German and Jewish Thought. Harris. F
- Medieval Greek 115 Introduction to Byzantine Greek. Riehle. (Pre-1900) Sp
- Medieval Studies 107 Authority and Invention: Medieval Art and Architecture. Instructor TBD. (HS) (Pre-1900) F
- Philosophy 8 Self and World: Early Modern Philosophy. Simmons. (Pre-1900) Sp
- Philosophy 34 Existentialism in Literature and Film. Kelly. F
- Philosophy 133 The Art of Living: 19th Century Philosophy. Matherne. F
- Philosophy 188A The Philosophy of Jane Austen. Matherne. (Pre-1900) Sp
- Portuguese 123A Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies I. Blackmore. F
- Religion 1469 The Protestant Reformations. Sanchez. (Pre-1900) Sp
- Religion 1529 The Holocaust and the Churches, 1933-45. Instructor TBD. Sp
- Religion 1543 Nineteenth Century Religious Thought: Theology and Critique of Religion. Lamberth. (Pre-1900) F
- Romance Studies 162 Landscapes of Cinema. Instructor TBD. S
- Russian 111 Advanced Russian: Russian and Post-Soviet Studies. Instructor TBD. F
- Russian 112 Advanced Russian: Russian Media and Popular Culture. Pastushenkov. Sp
- Russian 113 Advanced Russian: Language through Literature. Mironava. F
- Scandinavian 55 One Hundred Years of Scandinavian Cinema. Broome. Sp
- Scandinavian 160 Intro to Old Norse: Folklore, Philology, and Performance. Mitchell. (Pre-1900) F
- Slavic 118 Reading Tolstoy's War and Peace. Buckler. (Pre-1900) Sp
- Slavic 127 Hacking Russia: Technological Dreams and Nightmares of Russian Culture. Skakov. Sp
- Slavic 132 Russia's Golden Age: Literature, Arts, Cultures. Buckler. (Pre-1900) F
- Slavic 138 Apocalypse Then! Forging the Culture of Medieval Rus'. Flier. (Pre-1900) Sp
- Slavic 154 Nabokov. Weir. F
- Slavic 165 Poetics of Resistance: An Introduction to Ukrainian Literaure. Instructor TBD. F
- Slavic 175 Between East and West: A Critical Mapping of Polish Culture. Kremer. (TL) F
- Slavic 177 Fugitives from Utopia: Polish Poets across the Iron Curtain. Kremer. (TL) Sp
- Slavic 182 The Political Novel. Bolton. (TL) F
- Slavic 185 18th-Century Russian Literature. Khitrova. (Pre-1900) F
- Slavic 186 Russian Drama on Page and Stage. Khitrova. F
- Slavic 187 "In the Beginning was the Pun": Readings in Soviet Postmodernism. Skakov. (TL) F
- Slavic 189 The Other Russia: Twenty-First Century Films, Fictions, States of Mind. Sandler. (TL) F
- Social Studies 98FR Fascism and Far-Right Movements. Callison. Sp
- Social Studies 98PO States, Empires, and Postcolonialism. Bavbek. Sp
- Social Studies 98PV Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School. Clevy. F
- Spanish 70C Tales of Two Spains: A Survey of Spanish Modern Literature and Culture. Aguirre-Oteiza. Sp
- Spanish 72 Introduction to Contemporary Spanish Literature and Culture. Vega-Duran. F
- Spanish 80TS Translating Boundaries in Spain. Aguirre-Oteiza. Sp
- Spanish 88 The History of Women in Spain in Dialogue with Hispanic America. Vega-Duran. (TL) F
- Swedish 20A Intermediate Swedish: Childhood in Swedish Literature and Culture. Broome. F