European Studies

The following 2026-2027 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. 

This Courses that Count list was updated on March 18, 2006. 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 Emily Gowen
 

Key to Requirements:

HS: History Survey
TH: Transnational History
TL: Transnational Literature
Pre-1900: Pre-1900 

 

  • Celtic 137 Celtic Mythology. TBD. (HS) (TH)(TL) (Pre-1900)F
  • Celtic 120 Food and Fantasy in Irish Tradition. TBD. (HS) (TH)(TL) (Pre-1900)Sp

  • Celtic 110 The Origins of Arthur. TBD. (HS) (TH)(TL) (Pre-1900)F

     

  • Classical Studies97A Introduction to the Ancient Greek World. Garland.  (TH) (Pre-1900)F

  • Classical Archaeology 11 Roman Archaeology. Andrews. (HS) (TH)  (Pre-1900) F

     

  • Classical Studies 52 Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Greece. Weiss. (HS)   (Pre-1900) Sp

  • Classical Studies 97B Introduction to the Ancient Roman World. Marin.  (TH) (Pre-1900)Sp

     

  • Comparative Literature 181 Fallen Grace: Heinrich von Kleist. Hamilton.    (Pre-1900)Sp
  • Comparative Literature 110X What is a Novel. Damrosch.   (TL) (Pre-1900) Sp
  • Comparative Literature 156 Songmaking and the Idea of Lyric. Nagy.   (TL)  Sp

  • Comparative Literature 157 From Type to Self in the Middle Ages. Negron. (HS)(TH) (TL)(Pre-1900) Sp

     

  • English 152KD Keats Isn't Dead: How We Live Romanticism. Ravinthiran.    (Pre-1900) Sp
  • English 186PW Every Play Ever Written. Miller. (HS)  (TL) (Pre-1900)Sp
  • English 90LK Ibsen and Checkov. Miller.   (TL)  F
  • English 90HC Hamlet: Act 1. Levine.    (Pre-1900)Sp
  • English 90NC Conrad, Naipaul, Coetzee: Genealogies of the Global. Bhabha.   (TL)  F
  • English 90CL Comic Literature through the Middle Ages. Donoghue.   (TL) (Pre-1900) F
  • English 90LS Literacy Stories. Lynch.   (TL)  F
  • English 90KA The Brontes. Scarry.    (Pre-1900)Sp
  • English 90LV Consciousness in Fiction from Austen to Woolf. Wood.   (TL) (Pre-1900) F
  • English 90QM Metaphysical Poetry: The Seventeenth-Century Lyric and Beyond. Teskey.   (TL) (Pre-1900)F

  • English 90MC Before the Novel: Medieval Romance. Watson.   (TL) (Pre-1900)Sp

     

  • French 40 The Contemporary Francophone World through Cinema. Brisson.   (TL)  Sp
  • French 80BB Beyond the Binary: Sex, Gender, and Nature in Premodern French Writing. Oliver. (HS)  (Pre-1900) Sp
  • French 64 Exploring French Language in North America through Text, Image, and Culture. Brisson.   (TL)  F
  • French 74 Moving Images: Global Narratives in Cinema and Graphic Novels. Rungoo.   (TL)  Sp
  • French 62 Exploring Sustainable Practices in French Industry: Fashion, Cuisine, and Music. Turman.     Sp
  • French 72 Forms of Desire: Pre-Modern French Voices. Oliver. (HS)   (Pre-1900) F

  • French 50 Advanced French II: Justice, Equity, Rights and Language. Turman.     Sp

     

  • Gen Ed 1140 Borders. Lewis.  (TH)   Sp
  • Gen Ed 1044 Deep History. Liebmann and Smail. (HS) (TH) (Pre-1900)F
  • Gen Ed 1030 The Philosopher and the Tyrant. Damrosch. (HS) (TH)(TL) (Pre-1900)Sp
  • Gen Ed 1074 The Ancient Greek Hero. Nagy.    (Pre-1900)F
  • Gen Ed 1185 The Power and Beauty of Being in Between: The Story of Armenia. Maranci.     F
  • Gen Ed 1197 Grimm's Fairy Tales: Echoes of the Past, Reflections of the Present. Pirozhenko.   (TL) (Pre-1900)Sp

  • Gen Ed 1203 How the Germans Embraced Hitler: Politics, Culture, and the Death of Democracy in Germany, 1918-1945. Spreen.  (TH)   F

     

  • German 66 Migration, Journeys, and Borders: Post-Wende German Literature and Culture. Pirozhenko.  (TH) (TL)  F

     

  • Government 94OF Law and Politics in Multicultural Democracies. Liviatan.  (TH)   F
  • Government 94JE Eighteenth Century Political Theories of Revolution. Ecker. (HS) (TH) (TL)(Pre-1900) Sp
  • Government 94UN United Nations. Mikulaschek.  (TH)   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 1203 Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. Ekiert.  (TH)   Sp

     

  • Greek 118 Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and the Epic Cycle. Nagy. (HS) (TH)(TL) (Pre-1900)Sp

     

  • History 58 The British Empire. Jasanoff. (HS) (TH)(TL) (Pre-1900)F
  • History 182 The Origins of the Cold War: The Yalta Conference (1945). Plokhii.  (TH)   F
  • History 145 The Pursuit of Peace in 19th and 20th Centuries. McKenzie. (HS) (TH) (Pre-1900)F
  • History 32B The Ottoman Empire and the World II (1550-1920). Kafadar. (HS) (TH) (Pre-1900)F
  • History 131 Medieival History and Cinema. Kafadar.  (TH) (TL) (Pre-1900)Sp
  • History 82 French Social Thought, Durkheim to Foucault. Gordon. (HS) (TH)(TL)  Sp
  • History 81 German Social Thought, Nietzsche to Habermas. Gordon. (HS) (TH)(TL)  F
  • History 35 Byzantine Civilization. Angelov. (HS) (TH) (Pre-1900)Sp
  • History 14 The First World War. Martin.     Sp
  • History 1935 Political Debates in the Empire of New Rome. Angelov.    (Pre-1900) Sp
  • History 1946 What is Global European History?. Spreen. (HS) (TH)  Sp
  • History 43 France and the World since the 1789 Revolution. Lewis. (HS) (TH) (Pre-1900)F
  • History 1942 The Second World War. Manela.  (TH)   F
  • History 1980 The Soviet Empire. Martin.  (TH)   Sp
  • History 46 Life after Hitler. Spreen.     F
  • History 1989 Recent Debates in Critical Theory. Gordon.     Sp

  • History 55 Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789. Choi. (HS) (TH) (Pre-1900)F

     

  • History & Literature 90AN God Save the Queen! Ruling Women from Rome to the Renaissance. Gilsdorf. (HS) (TH)(TL) (Pre-1900)Sp

  • History & Literature 10AB Introduction to the Medieval World. Gilsdorf & Fitzgerald. (HS) (TH) (Pre-1900)F

     

  • History of Art & Architecture 171M Architecture, Utopia, Authoritarianism. del Real.  (TH) (TL) (Pre-1900)F
  • History of Art & Architecture 13 Introduction to Greek Art and Architecture. Estrin. (HS)(TH) (TL)(Pre-1900) Sp

  • History of Art & Architecture 12 World Cities. Lippit and Roxburgh.  (TH) (TL) Sp

     

  • History of Science 100 Knowing the World: Introduction to the History of Science. Csiszar. (HS)   (Pre-1900)F

  • History of Science 1110 Galileo: Discovery, Faith, Ego, and the Making of Scientific Controversy. Marcus.    (Pre-1900)F

     

  • Humanities 7 Culture in Context. Kaminsky, Biel, Allison.     F
  • Humanities 6 Translating, Retelling, Performing, Illustrating. Lee-Lenfield. (HS)  (TL)  F
  • Humanities 10A Humanities Colloquium: From Homer to Garcia Marquez. Greenblatt et al..   (TL) (Pre-1900) F

  • Humanities 10B Humanities Colloquium: From Joyce to Homer. Greenblatt et al..   (TL)  Sp

     

  • Italian 146 The Italian Constitution: Foundations of a Republic. Camozzi Pistoja.    (Pre-1900) F
  • Italian 30 Upper Level Italian: Italiano in Verde: Sustainability Issues in the Italian Classroom. Trebaiocchi.     Sp
  • Italian 138 The Cosmos of the Divine Comedy. Camozzi Pistoja.  (TH)(TL) (Pre-1900)F
  • Italian 40 Advanced Italian I: Italian Through Cinema. Trebaiocchi.     Sp

  • Medieval Latin 10 Introduction to Medieal Latin Literature. Fitzgerald. (HS) (TH)(TL) (Pre-1900)Sp

     

  • Medieval Studies 10 Introduction to the Medieval World. Gilsdorf. (HS) (TH) (Pre-1900)F
  • Medieval Studies 111 Sex, Love, and Marriage in the Middle Ages. Gilsdorf. (HS) (TH)(TL) (Pre-1900)Sp

  • Medieval Studies 117 English Legal History 600-1600. Kamali. (HS)   (Pre-1900)Sp

     

  • Modern Greek Studies 103 The Nazis and the Greeks. Roilos.  (TH) (TL)  F

     

  • Philosophy 27 Truth, Lies, and the Press. Siegel.  (TH) (TL)  F

  • Philosophy 7 Introduction to Ancient Greek and Roman Philosphy. Helle. (HS)   (Pre-1900) F

     

  • Russian 111 Fourth-Year Russian: Russian and Post-Soviet Studies. Egorova.   (TL)  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

     

  • Slavic 118 Reading Tolstoy's War and Peace. Buckler.    (Pre-1900)Sp
  • Slavic 132 Russia's Golden Age: Literature, Arts, Cultures. Buckler.    (Pre-1900) F
  • Slavic 144 Communism and the Politics of Culture. Bolton. (HS)(TH) F
  • Slavic 175 Between East and West: A Critical Mapping of Polish Culture. Kremer.  (TH) (TL) F
  • Slavic 177 Fugitives from Utopia: Polish Poets Across the Iron Curtain. Kremer.  (TH) (TL)  Sp
  • Slavic 188 Classics of Short Fiction: Reading the Novella. Bolton.   (TL) (Pre-1900) F
  • Slavic 187 Soviet Musical Imaginaries. Sonevytsky.  (TH) (TL)  F
  • Slavic 193 Introduction to Russian and Soviet Film. Khitrova.  (TH)(TL)  F

  • Slavic 97 Introduction to Slavic Literatures and Cultures. Kremer.  (TH)(TL)  Sp

     

  • Social Studies 98PO States, Empires, and Postcolonialism. Bavbek.     Sp

  • Social Studies 98PV Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School. Clevy.     F

     

  • Spanish 129 Los judios y el judaismo en la literatura midieval iberorromance. Negron.  (TH) (TL) (Pre-1900)Sp
  • Spanish 80TS Translating Boundaries in Modern Spain. Aguirre-Oteiza.  (TH)(TL)  Sp
  • Spanish 122 Spanish Film from Bunuel to Almodovar. Vega-Duran.   (TL)  F

  • Spanish 70C A Tale of Two Spains: A Survey of Spanish Modern Literature and Culture (18th-21st Centuries). Aguirre-Oteiza. (HS) (TH)(TL) (Pre-1900)F

     

  • Theatre, Dance, and Media 138H Hamlet: Act 1. Levine.    (Pre-1900) Sp

     

  • Welsh 227 Welsh Bardic Poetry. TBD.    (Pre-1900)Sp

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