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For course descriptions, see the Brandeis University Bulletin.
Courses
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Primarily for Undergraduate Students
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| MERL 98a | Signature of the instructor required. Usually offered every year. |
| MERL 98b | Signature of the instructor required. Usually offered every year. |
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Core Courses
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| HIST 110b | The Civilization of the High and Late Middle Ages |
| HIST 123a | The Renaissance |
| Electives The following courses are approved for the minor. Not all are given in any one year. Please refer to the Schedule of Classes each semester. |
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| CLAS 115b | Topics in Greek and Roman History |
| CLAS 166a | Medieval Literature: A Millennium of God, Sex and Death |
| COML 102a | Love in the Middle Ages |
| COML 103b | Madness and Folly in Renaissance Literature |
| ENG 33a | Shakespeare |
| ENG 43a | Major English Authors, Chaucer to Milton |
| ENG 63a | Renaissance Poetry |
| ENG 73a | Witchcraft and Magic in the Renaissance |
| ENG 103a | Exploring the Self in Seventeenth-Century Poetry |
| ENG 123a | Dream Visions: Genre, History and the Mysterious |
| ENG 133a | Advanced Shakespeare |
| ENG 143a | Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama |
| ENG 152b | Arthurian Literature |
| ENG 173a | Spenser and Milton |
| FA 39b | Islamic Art and Architecture |
| FA 40b | The Formation of Jewish, Christian and Islamic Art |
| FA 41a | Art and the Origins of Europe |
| FA 42b | The Age of Cathedrals |
| FA 43a | The Art of Medieval England |
| FA 45a | St. Peter's and the Vatican |
| FA 51a | Art of the Early Renaissance in Italy |
| FA 54b | Renaissance Art in Northern Europe |
| FA 58b | High and Late Renaissance in Italy |
| FA 60a | Baroque in Italy and Spain |
| FA 63a | The Age of Rubens and Rembrandt |
| HISP 110a | Introduction to Peninsular Spanish Literature |
| HIST 110a | The Civilization of the Early Middle Ages |
| HIST 110b | The Civilization of the High and Late Middle Ages |
| HIST 112b | The Crusades and the Expansion of Medieval Europe |
| HIST 113a | English Medieval History |
| HIST 120a | Britain in the Later Middle Ages |
| HIST 121a | Breaking the Rules: Deviance and Nonconformity in Premodern Europe |
| HIST 123a | The Renaissance |
| HIST 123b | Reformation Europe (1400-1600) |
| HIST 126a | Early Modern Europe (1500-1700) |
| HIST 127b | Household and Family in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1300-1800) |
| HIST 135a | Monarchies and Republics: Early Modern Political Thought |
| IECS 140a | Dante's Divine Comedy |
| IMES 104a | Islam: Civilization and Institutions |
| LAT 125a | Medieval Latin |
| MUS 10a | Early Music Ensemble |
| MUS 10b | Early Music Ensemble |
| MUS 110b | The Authenticity Question: Applying Historical Performance Practices |
| MUS 131b | Music in Medieval and Early Modern Europe |
| NEJS 140a |
History of the Jews from the Maccabees to 1497 |
| NEJS 140b | The Jews in Europe to 1791 |
| NEJS 149a | The Jews of Muslim and Christian Spain |
| NEJS 151b | Ghettos, Gondolas and Gelato: The Italian Jewish Experience |
| NEJS 152a | From Inquisition to Holocaust |
| NEJS 152b |
Anti-Judaism, Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism |
| NEJS 157b |
Medieval Jewish Philosophy |
| NEJS 188a | The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1800 |
| NEJS 194b | Sufi Teachings |
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Elective Courses Counting as Colloquium Course
The following courses may count as medieval and renaissance studies colloquia for the capstone option as outlined in the requirement section; otherwise, they count as an elective. |
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| ESC 100b | European Cultural Studies Proseminar: Making of European Modernity |
| ENG 132b | Chaucer I |
| FA 191b | Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Art |
| FREN 120a | The French Middle Ages: Before France Was France |
| FREN 122b | The Renaissance: When France Became France |
| HECS 150a | Golden Age Drama and Society |
| HISP 120b | Don Quijote |
| HISP 125b | Literary Women in Early Modern Spain |
| HIST 221b | Colloquium in Early Modern European History |
| LAT 125a | Medieval Latin |
| MUS 200b | Proseminar in Medieval Music |
| NEJS 179a | Jewish Literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance |
| NEJS 180a | Love and Passion in Medieval Jewish Literature and Thought |