European Studies is for students interested in Europe, past and present. We provide an intellectual and social framework for students to explore issues involving any aspect of continental Europe. The minor helps students integrate their off-campus experiences and language study with campus coursework.
About European Studies
The European Studies minor provides an intellectual meeting ground for students interested in exploring Europe from a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. Drawing courses from a number of different departments, the program in European Studies allows students to integrate their study of a European language and off-campus experiences in Europe with a coherent set of courses on campus to achieve a greater understanding of both new and old Europes.
Requirements for the European Studies Minor
The total number of credits required to complete the minor is 44.
One of the following gateway courses:
- EUST 110: The Power of Place: Memory and Counter-Memory in the European City
- HIST 141: Europe in the Twentieth Century
Four transnational supporting courses that
- approach a theme or issue from a pan-European perspective OR
- compare European countries or regions OR
- compare Europe (or parts of Europe) with another part of the world.
These courses will engage in an examination of such overarching issues asthe relation between individual and community, cultural and linguistic diversity, and globalization. The listing below is not exhaustive, students should consult with the minor director regarding other courses that may fulfill this requirement.
- AFST 330: Black Europe · not offered in 2024-25
- ARTH 101: Introduction to Art History I
- ARTH 102: Introduction to Art History II
- ARTH 172: Modern Art: 1890-1945
- ARTH 235: Revival, Revelation, and Re-animation: The Art of Europe’s “Renaissance” · not offered in 2024-25
- ARTH 236: Baroque Art · not offered in 2024-25
- ARTH 240: Art Since 1945
- ARTH 247: Architecture Since 1950 · not offered in 2024-25
- ARTH 263: Architectural Studies in Europe Program: Prehistory to Postmodernism · not offered in 2024-25
- ARTH 264: Architectural Studies in Europe Program: Managing Monuments: Issues in Cultural Heritage Practice · not offered in 2024-25
- ARTH 341: Art and Democracy
- CAMS 211: Film History II · not offered in 2024-25
- CAMS 214: Film History III
- CCST 270: Creative Travel Writing Workshop
- ENGL 114: Introduction to Medieval Narrative · not offered in 2024-25
- ENGL 135: Imperial Adventures
- ENGL 203: Other Worlds of Medieval English Literature
- ENGL 219: Global Shakespeare · not offered in 2024-25
- ENGL 350: The Postcolonial Novel: Forms and Contexts · not offered in 2024-25
- ENGL 395: Postcolonial Novel: Forms and Contexts
- EUST 159: “The Age of Isms” – Ideals, Ideas and Ideologies in Modern Europe
- EUST 249: The European Union from Constitution to Crisis · not offered in 2024-25
- FREN 206: Contemporary French and Francophone Culture
- FREN 253: The French Revolution, Then and Now
- FREN 255: French and Francophone Studies in Paris Program: Islam in France: Historical Approaches and Current Debates
- FREN 259: French and Francophone Studies in Paris Program: Hybrid Paris
- FREN 308: France and the African Imagination · not offered in 2024-25
- FREN 353: The French Chanson · not offered in 2024-25
- FREN 359: French and Francophone Studies in Paris Program: Hybrid Paris
- FREN 360: The Algerian War of Liberation and Its Representations · not offered in 2024-25
- GWSS 243: Women’s and Gender Studies in Europe Program: Situated Feminisms: Socio-Political Systems and Gender Issues Across Europe
- GWSS 244: Women’s & Gender Studies in Europe Program: Ethics and Politics of Cross-Cultural Research
- GWSS 325: Women’s & Gender Studies in Europe Program: Continental Feminist, Queer, Trans* Theories
- HIST 100: Exploration, Science, and Empire
- HIST 100: Migration and Mobility in the Medieval North
- HIST 137: Early Medieval Worlds in Transformation · not offered in 2024-25
- HIST 139: Foundations of Modern Europe · not offered in 2024-25
- HIST 141: Europe in the Twentieth Century
- HIST 231: Mapping the World Before Mercator
- HIST 232: Renaissance Worlds in France and Italy · not offered in 2024-25
- HIST 233: The Byzantine World and Its Neighbors, 750-ca. 1453
- HIST 236: The Worlds of Hildegard of Bingen · not offered in 2024-25
- HIST 238: The Viking World · not offered in 2024-25
- HIST 244: The Enlightenment and Its Legacies · not offered in 2024-25
- HIST 249: Two Centuries of Tumult: Modern Central Europe · not offered in 2024-25
- HIST 287: From Alchemy to the Atom Bomb: The Scientific Revolution and the Making of the Modern World
- HIST 332: Image Makers and Breakers in the Premodern World · not offered in 2024-25
- HIST 341: The Russian Revolution and its Global Legacies · not offered in 2024-25
- HIST 346: The Holocaust · not offered in 2024-25
- HIST 347: The Global Cold War
- MELA 230: Jewish Collective Memory
- MUSC 111: Music and Storytelling · not offered in 2024-25
- MUSC 211: Race, Gender, and Classical Music · not offered in 2024-25
- MUSC 215: Western Music and its Social Ecosystems, 1830-Present
- PE 338: Sport and Globalization in London and Seville Program: Global Athletics · not offered in 2024-25
- PHIL 272: Early Modern Philosophy: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Philosophy
- PHIL 274: Existentialism
- POSC 120: Democracy and Dictatorship
- POSC 238: Sport and Globalization in London and Seville Program: Globalization and Development: Lessons from Int’l Football · not offered in 2024-25
- POSC 244: The Politics of Eurovision · not offered in 2024-25
- POSC 247: Comparative Nationalism · not offered in 2024-25
- POSC 253: Welfare Capitalisms in Post-War Europe · not offered in 2024-25
- POSC 255: Post-Modern Political Thought · not offered in 2024-25
- POSC 257: Marx for the Twenty-First Century: Ecology, Technology, Dispossession · not offered in 2024-25
- POSC 265: Public Policy and Global Capitalism
- POSC 268: Global Environmental Politics and Policy · not offered in 2024-25
- POSC 276: Imagination in Politics: Resisting Totalitarianism
- POSC 283: Separatist Movements · not offered in 2024-25
- POSC 284: War and Peace in Northern Ireland · not offered in 2024-25
- POSC 352: Political Theory of Alexis de Tocqueville · not offered in 2024-25
- POSC 358: Comparative Social Movements · not offered in 2024-25
- POSC 359: Cosmopolitanism · not offered in 2024-25
- RELG 217: Faith and Doubt in the Modern Age · not offered in 2024-25
- RELG 222: Trauma, Loss, Memory: Holocaust and Genocide · not offered in 2024-25
- RELG 231: From Luther to Kierkegaard · not offered in 2024-25
- RELG 287: Many Marys
- RELG 329: Modernity and Tradition
- SOAN 108: In & Out of Africa: How Transnational Black Lives Matter · not offered in 2024-25
- SOAN 283: Immigration, Citizenship, and Belonging in the U.S.
- SPAN 318: Islamic Spain · not offered in 2024-25
Two country-specific supporting courses in the participating disciplines, each of which focuses on a particular European country or region. Country-specific courses need not address pan-European issues, but students will be expected to bring a comparative awareness of Europe to their learning experience.
- CAMS 212: Contemporary Spanish Cinema
- ECON 221: Cambridge Program: Contemporary British Economy
- ENGL 144: Shakespeare I
- ENGL 205: “Passing Strange”: Shakespeare’s Othello and its Modern Afterlives · not offered in 2024-25
- ENGL 206: William Shakespeare: The Henriad · not offered in 2024-25
- ENGL 207: Princes. Poets. Power · not offered in 2024-25
- ENGL 209: Project Course
- ENGL 210: From Chaucer to Milton: Early English Literature · not offered in 2024-25
- ENGL 214: Revenge Tragedy · not offered in 2024-25
- ENGL 216: Milton · not offered in 2024-25
- ENGL 218: The Gothic Spirit · not offered in 2024-25
- ENGL 222: The Art of Jane Austen
- ENGL 229: The Rise of the Novel · not offered in 2024-25
- ENGL 244: Shakespeare I
- ENGL 249: Modern Irish Literature: Poetry, Prose, and Politics · not offered in 2024-25
- ENGL 274: Ireland Program: Irish Literary Pasts and Presents · not offered in 2024-25
- ENGL 279: Living London Program: Urban Field Studies
- ENGL 281: Reading Multicultural London
- ENGL 282: Living London Program: London Theater
- ENGL 310: Shakespeare II · not offered in 2024-25
- ENGL 319: The Rise of the Novel · not offered in 2024-25
- ENGL 323: Romanticism and Reform · not offered in 2024-25
- ENGL 327: Victorian Novel · not offered in 2024-25
- ENGL 328: Victorian Poetry · not offered in 2024-25
- ENGL 381: Reading Multicultural London
- EUST 207: Rome Program: Italian Encounters
- FREN 204: Intermediate French
- FREN 208: French and Francophone Studies in Paris Program: Contemporary France: Cultures, Politics, Society
- FREN 244: Contemporary France and Humor · not offered in 2024-25
- FREN 250: French History in 10 Objects · not offered in 2024-25
- FREN 253: The French Revolution, Then and Now
- FREN 254: French and Francophone Studies in Paris Program: French Art in Context
- FREN 259: French and Francophone Studies in Paris Program: Hybrid Paris
- FREN 308: France and the African Imagination · not offered in 2024-25
- FREN 310: The Art of Scandal
- FREN 353: The French Chanson · not offered in 2024-25
- FREN 359: French and Francophone Studies in Paris Program: Hybrid Paris
- GERM 153: Nations and Nationalism: A New, Old Idea
- GERM 156: Introduction to German Cinema: Film, Nature, and Nation · not offered in 2024-25
- GERM 212: Contemporary Germany in Global Context · not offered in 2024-25
- GERM 214: What’s New: The Latest Works in German-Speaking Media · not offered in 2024-25
- GERM 216: German Short Prose · not offered in 2024-25
- GERM 217: Queer Culture and Movements in Germany from the 19th Century to Present
- GERM 221: Modern Love: Sex, Gender, and Identity in Austria-Hungary around 1900
- GERM 223: Thinking Green: Sustainability, Literature, and Culture in Germany · not offered in 2024-25
- GERM 240: Half-Lives: Science, Protest, and Nuclear Power in Germany
- GERM 247: Mirror, Mirror: Reflecting on Fairy Tales and Folklore · not offered in 2024-25
- GERM 267: Catastrophe! Natural Disaster in German Literature · not offered in 2024-25
- GERM 320: Life under Socialism: Culture and Society in East Germany
- GERM 321: On the Edge: Monsters, Robots, and Cyborgs · not offered in 2024-25
- HIST 100: Food and Public Health: Why the Brits Embraced White Bread
- HIST 201: Rome Program: Building Power and Piety in Medieval Italy, CE 300-1150
- HIST 206: Rome Program: The Eternal City in Time: Structure, Change, and Identity
- HIST 240: Tsars and Serfs, Cossacks and Revolutionaries: The Empire that was Russia · not offered in 2024-25
- HIST 241: Russia through Wars and Revolutions · not offered in 2024-25
- HIST 243: The Peasants are Revolting! Society and Politics in the Making of Modern France · not offered in 2024-25
- HIST 245: Ireland: Land, Conflict and Memory
- HIST 250: Modern Germany · not offered in 2024-25
- HIST 251: Japan and Europe: Worlds Apart?
- HIST 288: Reason, Authority, and Love in Medieval France · not offered in 2024-25
- HIST 289: Gender and Ethics in Late Medieval France · not offered in 2024-25
- HIST 335: Finding Ireland’s Past · not offered in 2024-25
- POSC 284: War and Peace in Northern Ireland · not offered in 2024-25
- RUSS 205: Russian in Cultural Contexts
- RUSS 236: “The Master and Margarita” in Context · not offered in 2024-25
- RUSS 237: Beyond Beef Stroganoff: Food in Russian Culture · not offered in 2024-25
- RUSS 239: The Warped Soul of Putin’s Russia · not offered in 2024-25
- RUSS 242: Russian Short Story
- RUSS 244: The Rise of the Russian Novel · not offered in 2024-25
- RUSS 263: Madness and Madmen in Russian Culture · not offered in 2024-25
- RUSS 266: The Brothers Karamazov
- RUSS 267: War and Peace
- RUSS 280: 1917 · not offered in 2024-25
- RUSS 331: The Wonderful World of Russian Animation
- RUSS 342: Post-Soviet Film · not offered in 2024-25
- RUSS 345: Russian Cultural Idioms of the Nineteenth Century · not offered in 2024-25
- RUSS 351: Chekhov · not offered in 2024-25
- SPAN 229: Madrid Program: Current Issues in Spanish Politics
- SPAN 244: Spain Today: Recent Changes through Narrative and Film · not offered in 2024-25
- SPAN 301: Greek and Christian Tragedy · not offered in 2024-25
- SPAN 330: The Invention of the Modern Novel: Cervantes’ Don Quijote
- SPAN 345: Culture, Capitalism and the Commons · not offered in 2024-25
- SPAN 349: Madrid Program: Four Masters of Spanish Art
- SPAN 366: Jorge Luis Borges: Less a Man Than a Vast and Complex Literature · not offered in 2024-25
- THEA 209: Project Course
- THEA 309: Project Course
EUST 398: Senior Colloquium or CCST 398: CCST Panorama: A Capstone Workshop
Minors must normally participate in an off-campus study program in Europe.
The overall balance of courses must include a mix of disciplines and course levels (100s, 200s, 300s). While this balance will be established for each individual student in consultation with the minor coordinator, no more than half of the required minimum of courses may be in one department, and at least half of the required minimum of courses must be above the 100-level.
European Studies Courses
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EUST 101 Elementary Italian
Instruction in spoken and written Italian with particular attention given to developing conversational ability.
- Winter 2025
- S/CR/NC
- No Exploration
- William North 🏫 👤
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EUST 101 Elementary Italian
Instruction in spoken and written Italian with particular attention given to developing conversational ability.
- Winter 2025
- S/CR/NC
- No Exploration
- William North 🏫 👤
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EUST 101 Elementary Czech
This highly recommended language course will meet twice per week and emphasize basic listening and speaking skills. Students will be challenged to utilize their new language skills in everyday situations.
- Fall 2024
- S/CR/NC
- No Exploration
- Ken Abrams 🏫 👤
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EUST 101 Elementary Italian
This course will provide instruction in spoken and written Italian with particular attention given to developing conversational ability.
- Spring 2025
- S/CR/NC
- No Exploration
- William North 🏫 👤
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EUST 102 Elementary Italian II
Building on Elementary Italian, this course focuses on developing student skills in speaking, reading, and writing in Italian. After a brief review of earlier material, the course will orient students to remaining elements of Italian grammar, develop more advanced reading skills, and develop greater listening comprehension and speaking ability. The course will meet three times a week.
Not offered in 2024-25
- 3
- No Exploration
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): EUST 101 – Elementary European Language with a grade of C- or better.
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EUST 110 The Power of Place: Memory and Counter-Memory in the European City
This team-taught interdisciplinary course explores the relationship between memory, place and power in Europe’s cities. It examines the practices through which individuals and groups imagine, negotiate and contest their past in public spaces through art, literature, film and architecture. The instructors will draw on their research and teaching experience in urban centers of Europe after a thorough introduction to the study of memory across different disciplines. Students will be challenged to think critically about larger questions regarding the possibility of national and local memories as the foundation of identity and pride but also of guilt and shame.
- Winter 2025
- 6
- HI, Humanistic Inquiry IS, International Studies WR2 Writing Requirement 2
- David Tompkins 🏫 👤 · Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤 · Sandra Rousseau 🏫 👤 · William North 🏫 👤
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EUST 159 “The Age of Isms” – Ideals, Ideas and Ideologies in Modern Europe
“Ideology” is perhaps one of the most-used (and overused) terms of modern political life. This course will introduce students to important political ideologies and traditions of modern Europe and their role in the development of political systems and institutional practices from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. We will read central texts by conservatives, liberals, socialists, anarchists and nationalists while also considering ideological outliers such as Fascism and Green Political Thought. In addition the course will introduce students to the different ways in which ideas can be studied systematically and the methodologies available.
- Winter 2025
- 6
- IS, International Studies SI, Social Inquiry
- Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
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EUST 207 Rome Program: Italian Encounters
Through a range of interdisciplinary readings, guest lectures, and site visits, this course will provide students with opportunities to analyze important aspects of Italian culture and society, both past and present, as well as to examine the ways in which travelers, tourists, temporary visitors, and immigrants have experienced and coped with their Italian worlds. Topics may include transportation, cuisine, rituals and rhythms of Italian life, urbanism, religious diversity, immigration, tourism, historic preservation, and language. Class discussions and projects will offer students opportunities to reflect on their own encounters with contemporary Italian culture.
- Spring 2025
- 3
- HI, Humanistic Inquiry IS, International Studies
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Acceptance in the Carleton OCS History in Rome Program.
- William North 🏫 👤
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EUST 249 The European Union from Constitution to Crisis
It is difficult to overestimate the importance of the experience of war and conflict for the founding of the European Union. The enlargement of the EU to include the much of Eastern Europe has brought this kind of “History” once again to the fore of policy-making in Brussels and in Europe’s national capitals. It has also exposed the contradictions that have made a coherent European Foreign and Security Policy so difficult to achieve. In this course we will examine the history of the EU’s founding alongside an introduction to the history and politics of Eastern Europe, culminating in an examination of the ongoing war in Ukraine. We will benefit from multiple class visits by Ukraine scholar Prof Komarenko of Tarras Shevchenko University, Ukraine.
Not offered in 2024-25
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EUST 278 Cross-Cultural Psychology Sem in Prague: Politics & Culture in Central Europe-Twentieth Century
This course covers important political, social, and cultural developments in Central Europe during the twentieth century. Studies will explore the establishment of independent nations during the interwar period, Nazi occupation, resistance and collaboration, the Holocaust and the expulsion of the Germans, the nature of the communist system, its final collapse, and the post-communist transformation.
- Fall 2024
- 6
- HI, Humanistic Inquiry IS, International Studies
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Acceptance in Cross-Cultural Studies in Prague Program and student has completed any of the following course(s): PSYC 110 – Principles of Psychology with a grade of C- or better.
- Ken Abrams 🏫 👤
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EUST 398 The Global Panorama: A Capstone Workshop for European Studies and Cross-Cultural Studies
The work of Cross-Cultural Studies and European Studies traverses many disciplines, often engaging with experiences that are difficult to capture in traditional formats. In this course students will create an ePortfolio that reflects, deepens, and narrates the various forms of experiences they have had at Carleton related to their minor, drawing on coursework and off-campus study, as well as such extracurricular activities as talks, service learning, internships and fellowships. Guided by readings and prompts, students will write a reflective essay articulating the coherence of the parts, describing both the process and the results of their pathway through the minor. Considered a capstone for CCST and EUST, but for anyone looking to thread together their experiences across culture. Course is taught as a workshop.
- Winter 2025
- S/CR/NC
- 2
- HI, Humanistic Inquiry IS, International Studies
- Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤