European Studies

The following 2023-2024 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:
Pre-1900: Pre-1900
 
 
  • 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
     
  • Comparative Literature 102Y Literary Biography & Film. Wisniewski   TL  F
  • Comparative Literature 106 Yiddish Short Story. Zaritt   TL  Sp
  • Comparative Literature 107 Politics of Yiddish. Zaritt   TL  F
  • Comparative Literature 188 Futurisms (a comparative history). Schnapp   TL  F
     
  • English 90GS Global Shakespeare. Whittington   TL  F
  • English 90MR Race and Religion in Medieval Literature. Wilson   TL Pre-1900 Sp
  • English 90QM Metaphysical Poetry: The 17th Century Lyric and Beyond. Teskey    Pre-1900 F
  • English 90RY Reading Politically. Menon    Pre-1900 F
  • English 90TK Tolkein's Library. Donoghue   TL Pre-1900 F
  • English 102M Introduction to Old English: Charms, Herbals, Folk Medicine, Miracle Cures. Donoghue    Pre-1900 F
  • English 103D Beowulf and Seamus Heaney. Shack    Pre-1900 Sp
  • English 115B Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales. Wilson    Pre-1900 Sp
  • English 124SG Sex, Gender, and Shakespeare. Niles    Pre-1900 Sp
  • English 131P Milton's Paradise Lost. Teskey    Pre-1900 Sp
  • English 149SB Literature, Science, and the Body in 18th-Century Britain. Yingst    Pre-1900 F
  • English 151AN The Age of the Novel. Menon   TL Pre-1900 Sp
  • English 152KD Keats Isn't Dead: How We Live Romanticism. Ravinthiran    Pre-1900 Sp
  • English 160JE The Joyce Effect. Blum     Sp
  • English 180VW Two Visionary Women: Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and Company. Watson    Pre-1900 Sp
  • English 226S Renaissance Ego Documents. Greenblatt and Koerner    Pre-1900 TL F
  • French 62 Exploring French Language and Culture Through Industry: Fashion, Cabarets, and les Grands Magasins. Turman     Sp
  • French 83 Photography and Literature. Rodriguez     Sp
  • French 117 The Politics and Aesthetics of Mourning. Rodriguez     Sp
  • French 135 Under the Table/Sous la Table. Beizer    Pre-1900 F
  • French 137 Horror in Modern French Fiction. Rodriguez     F
  • French 161 Reading Proust, In Search of Lost Time. Rodriguez     F
     
  • Gen Ed 1034 Texts in Transition. Blair & Whittington    Pre-1900 F
  • Gen Ed 1059 Moral Inquiry in the Novels of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Weir    Pre-1900 Sp
  • Gen Ed 1074 The Ancient Greek Hero. Nagy    Pre-1900 F
  • Gen Ed 1110 Classical Mythology: Myth in Antiquity and Today. Love    Pre-1900 Sp
  • Gen Ed 1156 Modern Art and Modernity. Gough, Joselit, Lajer-Burcharth     Sp
  • Gen Ed 1168 Tragedy Today. Weiss   TL  Sp
  • Gen Ed 1182 Novel Thought: Being (In)Human. Kim     Sp
     
  • German 100 Introduction to German Literature, History, and Thought. Carranza    Pre-1900 Sp
  • German 117 Voices of Diversity in German Literature & Culture. Sutterlin     TL Sp
  • German 119B Great Works, Short Texts: German Stories. Dymek     Sp
  • German 126 The Magic World of Fairy Tales. Pirozhenko     F
  • German 137 Effi Briest and Madame Bovary: The Meaning of Adultery. Vinken TL Sp
  • German 140 German Social Thought, Nietzsche to Habermas. Gordon     F
  • German 145 German and Austrian Modernism: Architecture, Art, Literature. Burgard   TL  Sp
  • German 154 The Frankfurt School on Film and Mass Culture. Rentschler     F
  • German 188 Angst, Sex, and Dreams: The Psychoanalytic Worlds of Freud, Kafka, and Bachmann. Stewart     F
  • German 199 Freedom: A Transatlantic Affair. Carranza  TH TL Pre-1900 F
     
  • Government 94DT Authoritarian Turn in Central and Eastern Europe. Ekiert     Sp
  • Government 1060 Ancient and Medieval Political Philosophy. Nelson    Pre-1900 F
  • Government 1061 The History of Modern Political Philosophy. TBA    Pre-1900 Sp
  • Government 1171 The Making of Modern Politics. Hall     Sp
  • Government 1199 Negotiating Post-Soviet Conflict: The Geopolitics of Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. Bell     Sp
  • Government 1203 Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. Ekiert     Sp
  • Government 1243 Politics and Power in Post-Soviet Russia. Colton     Sp
     
  • History 15P Environment, Markets, and Scarcity in Early Modern Europe and the World, 1450-1800. Hope HS TH  Pre-1900 Sp
  • History 72F East European Identities: Russia and Ukraine. Plokhii  HS TH   Sp
  • History 82F Origins of the Cold War: Yalta Conference. Plokhii  TH   F
  • History 1024 The British Empire. Jasanoff HS TH  Pre-1900 F
  • History 1029 Early Modern Britain, 1485-1714. Cratty HS   Pre-1900 Sp
  • History 1045 The First World War. Martin  TH   F
  • History 1115 Postwar or Postcolonial Germany. Spreen     Sp
  • History 1155 Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789. Herzog HS TH  Pre-1900 F
  • History 1265 Germany, 1848-1949. Johnson HS TH   
  • History 1270 Frontiers of Europe: Ukraine since 1500. Plokhii HS   Pre-1900 F
  • History 1280 History of the Soviet Union, 1917-1991. Martin HS TH   F
  • History 1300 Western Intellectual History: Greco-Roman Antiquity. Hankins    Pre-1900 F
  • History 1301 Western Intellectual History: The Prehistory of Modern Thought. Hankins    Pre-1900 Sp
  • History 1323 German Social Thought, Nietzsche to Habermas. Gordon     F
  • History 1324 French Social Thought, Durkheim to Foucault. Gordon     Sp
  • History 1921 The History of Law in Europe. Herzog HS   Pre-1900 Sp
  • History 1985 Russia, 1991-2023: From Revolution to War. Martin     F
     
  • History & Literature 10AB Introduction to the Medieval World. Gilsdorf & FitzGerald  TH TL Pre-1900 Sp
  • History & Litearture 90EY Human Rights and Humanitarianism in the Modern World. Slobodkin  TH TL  F
  • History & Literature 90FJ Modern Europe and Migration. Sohm  TH TL  Sp
  • History & Literature 90GF Marx at the Mall: Consumer Culture and its Critics. Smith HS TH TL  F
  • History & Literature 90GN: The Global Cold War. Riegel TH TL  Sp
  • History of Art & Architecture 143M The Court of Constantinople: Imperial Art and Ceremonies. Kalavrezou    Pre-1900 Sp
  • History of Art & Architecture 144M Hagia Sophia. Kalavrezou    Pre-1900 F
  • History of Art & Architecture 162V Imagining Witchcraft: Women, Satire, and Enmity in Early Modern Visual Culture (from Dürer to Goya). Koerner & Pereda    Pre-1900 F
  • History of Art & Architecture 172Z Color in the Era of the Colony. Lajer-Burcharth  TH  Pre-1900 Sp
     
  • History of Science 100 Knowing the World: An Introduction to the History of Science. Marcus & Wilson    Pre-1900 F
     
  • 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 111 Italian Cinema: 10 Masterpieces. Erspamer Sp
  • Italian 138 The Cosmos of the Divine Comedy. Pistoja    Pre-1900 F
  • Italian 141 Identity or Community: The Meaning of Epic. Erspamer    Pre-1900 F
  • Italian 162 What is Time?. Erspamer    Pre-1900 F
  • Jewish Studies 111 Encounters Between German and Jewish Thought. Harris     F
  • Medieval Latin 10 Introduction to Medieval Latin Literature. Ziolkowski    Pre-1900 Sp
  • Medieval Latin 151 Virgil in the Middle Ages. Ziolkowski    Pre-1900 Sp
     
  • Medieval Studies 109 Poverty, Wealth, and Religion in the Middle Ages. FitzGerald HS   Pre-1900 F
  • Medieval Studies 117 English Legal History, 600-1600. Donahue HS   Pre-1900 F
  • Medieval Studies 119 Constitutional and Legal History of Medieval Continental Europe. Donahue HS   Pre-1900 Sp
     
  • Philosophy 188 Philosophy and Literature: Proust. Moran     F
  • Philosophy 188A The Philosophy of Jane Austen. Matherne    Pre-1900 Sp
     
  • Religion 1543 Nineteenth Century Religious Thought: Theology and Critique of Religion. Lamberth    Pre-1900 F
     
  • Russian 112 Advanced Russian: Russian Media and Popular Culture. Pastushenkov     Sp
  • Russian 113 Advanced Russian: Language through Literature. Mironava     F
  • Russian 114 Advanced Russian: Language, Ethnicity, and Diversity in Russia. Zalaltdinova     F
     
  • Scandinavian 55 One Hundred Years of Scandinavian Cinema. Broome     Sp
     
  • Slavic 121 Ballet, Past and Present. Khitrova     Sp
  • Slavic 133 Modernist Journeys. Skakov   TL  F
  • Slavic 147 Russian Fiction in the Soviet Era. Weir     Sp
  • Slavic 164 Literature of Catastrophe: Ukraine 1917-2022. TBA     Sp
  • Slavic 171 The Holocaust in Polish Memory and Culture. Kremer     Sp
  • Slavic 175 Between East and West: A Critical Mapping of Polish Culture. Kremer   TL  F
  • Slavic 191 Silent Film. Khitrova     F
  • Slavic 196 Making Sense of the Russo-Ukranian War. Skavov Sp
     
  • Spanish 70B Golden Age Literature. Giro Negron    Pre-1900 F
  • Spanish 80T Worlds of Which History is Made: Translation Workshop on Modern Spain. Aguirre-Oteiza     F
  • Spanish 80TS Translating Boundaries in Spain. Aguirre-Oteiza     Sp
  • Spanish 81 Table Talk and Food Writing. Liander     F
     
  • Swedish 20A Intermediate Swedish: Childhood in Swedish Literature and Culture. Broome     F