Students considering a minor in European Studies  are encouraged to meet with the Director as soon as possible to discuss how their interest in European Studies can best be integrated with their major, language study, and off-campus study plans. These conversations do not signify a binding plan, but rather a way to help students take maximum advantage of opportunities both in class and outside of class to learn about Europe.

To complete the minor, students are required to complete the following requirements regarding coursework and off-campus study in Europe.

Minor Requirements

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 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 2024-25)
  • ARTH 236: Baroque Art (not offered 2024-25)
  • ARTH 240: Art Since 1945
  • ARTH 245: Modern Architecture (not offered 2024-25)
  • ARTH 247: Architecture Since 1950 (not offered 2024-25)
  • ARTH 263: Architectural Studies in Europe Program: Prehistory to Postmodernism (not offered 2024-25)
  • ARTH 264: Architectural Studies in Europe Program: Managing Monuments: Issues in Cultural Heritage Practice (not offered 2024-25)
  • ARTH 341: Art and Democracy
  • CAMS 211: Film History II (not offered 2024-25)
  • CAMS 214: Film History III
  • CCST 230: Jewish Collective Memory (not offered 2024-25)
  • CCST 259: Creative Travel Writing Workshop (not offered 2024-25)
  • CCST 270: Creative Travel Writing Workshop
  • ENGL 114: Introduction to Medieval Narrative (not offered 2024-25)
  • ENGL 135: Imperial Adventures
  • ENGL 203: Other Worlds of Medieval English Literature
  • ENGL 219: Global Shakespeare (not offered 2024-25)
  • ENGL 259: Creative Travel Writing Workshop (not offered 2024-25)
  • ENGL 350: The Postcolonial Novel: Forms and Contexts (not offered 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 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 2024-25)
  • FREN 353: The French Chanson (not offered 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 2024-25)
  • GERM 325: The Alps: Heights (and Depths) of Modernity (not offered 2024-25)
  • GWSS 225: Women’s Studies in Europe Program: Gender and the Biopolitics of Health across Europe (not offered 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: Gender and Biopolitics of Health
  • HIST 100: Food and Public Health: Why the Brits Embraced White Bread
  • HIST 100: Food and Public Health: Why the Brits Embraced White Bread
  • HIST 137: Early Medieval Worlds in Transformation (not offered 2024-25)
  • HIST 139: Foundations of Modern Europe (not offered 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 2024-25)
  • HIST 233: The Byzantine World & Its Neighbors
  • HIST 236: The Worlds of Hildegard of Bingen (not offered 2024-25)
  • HIST 238: The Viking World (not offered 2024-25)
  • HIST 244: The Enlightenment and Its Legacies (not offered 2024-25)
  • HIST 247: The First World War as Global Phenomenon (not offered 2024-25)
  • HIST 249: Two Centuries of Tumult: Modern Central Europe (not offered 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 2024-25)
  • HIST 341: The Russian Revolution and its Global Legacies (not offered 2024-25)
  • HIST 346: The Holocaust (not offered 2024-25)
  • HIST 347: The Global Cold War
  • MELA 230: Jewish Collective Memory
  • MUSC 211: Race, Gender, and Classical Music (not offered 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 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 2024-25)
  • POSC 241: Ethnic Conflict (not offered 2024-25)
  • POSC 243: Socio-Political Systems and Gender Issues Across Europe (not offered 2024-25)
  • POSC 244: The Politics of Eurovision (not offered 2024-25)
  • POSC 247: Comparative Nationalism (not offered 2024-25)
  • POSC 253: Welfare Capitalisms in Post-War Europe (not offered 2024-25)
  • POSC 255: Post-Modern Political Thought (not offered 2024-25)
  • POSC 257: Marx for the Twenty-First Century: Ecology, Technology, Dispossession (not offered 2024-25)
  • POSC 265: Public Policy and Global Capitalism
  • POSC 268: Global Environmental Politics and Policy (not offered 2024-25)
  • POSC 276: Imagination in Politics: Resisting Totalitarianism
  • POSC 283: Separatist Movements (not offered 2024-25)
  • POSC 284: War and Peace in Northern Ireland (not offered 2024-25)
  • POSC 352: Political Theory of Alexis de Tocqueville (not offered 2024-25)
  • POSC 358: Comparative Social Movements (not offered 2024-25)
  • POSC 359: Cosmopolitanism (not offered 2024-25)
  • RELG 217: Faith and Doubt in the Modern Age (not offered 2024-25)
  • RELG 222: Trauma, Loss, Memory: Holocaust and Genocide (not offered 2024-25)
  • RELG 225: Faith and Doubt in the Modern Age (not offered 2024-25)
  • RELG 231: From Luther to Kierkegaard (not offered 2024-25)
  • RELG 287: Many Marys
  • RELG 329: Modernity and Tradition
  • SOAN 108: In & Out of Africa: How Transnational Black Lives Matter (not offered 2024-25)
  • SOAN 283: Immigration, Citizenship, and Belonging in the U.S.
  • SPAN 318: Islamic Spain (not offered 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 (not offered 2024-25)
  • ENGL 144: Shakespeare I
  • ENGL 205: “Passing Strange”: Shakespeare’s Othello and its Modern Afterlives (not offered 2024-25)
  • ENGL 206: William Shakespeare: The Henriad (not offered 2024-25)
  • ENGL 207: Princes. Poets. Power (not offered 2024-25)
  • ENGL 209: Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night: A Project Course
  • ENGL 210: From Chaucer to Milton: Early English Literature (not offered 2024-25)
  • ENGL 214: Revenge Tragedy (not offered 2024-25)
  • ENGL 216: Milton (not offered 2024-25)
  • ENGL 218: The Gothic Spirit (not offered 2024-25)
  • ENGL 222: The Art of Jane Austen
  • ENGL 229: The Rise of the Novel (not offered 2024-25)
  • ENGL 244: Shakespeare I
  • ENGL 249: Modern Irish Literature: Poetry, Prose, and Politics (not offered 2024-25)
  • ENGL 274: Ireland Program: Irish Literary Pasts and Presents (not offered 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 2024-25)
  • ENGL 319: The Rise of the Novel (not offered 2024-25)
  • ENGL 323: Romanticism and Reform (not offered 2024-25)
  • ENGL 327: Victorian Novel (not offered 2024-25)
  • ENGL 328: Victorian Poetry (not offered 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 231: Paris: The Eras Tour (not offered 2024-25)
  • FREN 244: Contemporary France and Humor (not offered 2024-25)
  • FREN 250: French History in 10 Objects (not offered 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 2024-25)
  • FREN 310: The Art of Scandal
  • FREN 353: The French Chanson (not offered 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 2024-25)
  • GERM 212: Contemporary Germany in Global Context (not offered 2024-25)
  • GERM 214: What’s New: The Latest Works in German-Speaking Media (not offered 2024-25)
  • GERM 216: German Short Prose (not offered 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 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 2024-25)
  • GERM 267: Catastrophe! Natural Disaster in German Literature (not offered 2024-25)
  • GERM 320: Life under Socialism: Culture and Society in East Germany
  • GERM 321: On the Edge: Monsters, Robots, and Cyborgs (not offered 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 239: Plague, Pox, Poverty: Public Health in Britain (not offered 2024-25)
  • HIST 240: Tsars and Serfs, Cossacks and Revolutionaries: The Empire that was Russia (not offered 2024-25)
  • HIST 241: Russia through Wars and Revolutions (not offered 2024-25)
  • HIST 243: The Peasants are Revolting! Society and Politics in the Making of Modern France (not offered 2024-25)
  • HIST 245: Ireland: Land, Conflict and Memory
  • HIST 250: Modern Germany (not offered 2024-25)
  • HIST 251: Japan and Europe: Worlds Apart?
  • HIST 289: Gender and Ethics in Late Medieval France (not offered 2024-25)
  • HIST 335: Finding Ireland’s Past (not offered 2024-25)
  • POSC 284: War and Peace in Northern Ireland (not offered 2024-25)
  • RUSS 205: Russian in Cultural Contexts
  • RUSS 236: “The Master and Margarita” in Context (not offered 2024-25)
  • RUSS 237: Beyond Beef Stroganoff: Food in Russian Culture (not offered 2024-25)
  • RUSS 239: The Warped Soul of Putin’s Russia (not offered 2024-25)
  • RUSS 242: Russian Short Story
  • RUSS 244: The Rise of the Russian Novel (not offered 2024-25)
  • RUSS 263: Madness and Madmen in Russian Culture (not offered 2024-25)
  • RUSS 266: The Brothers Karamazov
  • RUSS 267: War and Peace
  • RUSS 280: 1917 (not offered 2024-25)
  • RUSS 331: The Wonderful World of Russian Animation
  • RUSS 336: Pushkin (not offered 2024-25)
  • RUSS 342: Post-Soviet Film (not offered 2024-25)
  • RUSS 345: Russian Cultural Idioms of the Nineteenth Century (not offered 2024-25)
  • RUSS 351: Chekhov (not offered 2024-25)
  • SPAN 229: Madrid Program: Current Issues in Spanish Politics
  • SPAN 244: Spain Today: Recent Changes through Narrative and Film (not offered 2024-25)
  • SPAN 255: Beyond the Verse: Spain’s Evolving Poetry (not offered 2024-25)
  • SPAN 301: Greek and Christian Tragedy (not offered 2024-25)
  • SPAN 330: The Invention of the Modern Novel: Cervantes’ Don Quijote
  • SPAN 345: Culture, Capitalism and the Commons (not offered 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 2024-25)
  • THEA 209: Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night: A Project Course
  • THEA 309: Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night

EUST 398: The Global Panorama: A Capstone Workshop for European Studies and Cross-Cultural Studies: Senior Colloquium or CCST 398: The Global Panorama: A Capstone Workshop for European Studies and Cross-Cultural Studies: 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.