Courses
Course Number | Course Title |
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MEVL 98a | Senior Essay - Signature of the instructor required. |
MEVL 98b | Senior Essay - Signature of the instructor required. |
Primarily for Undergraduate Students
Core Courses
The following courses are approved for the program. Not all are given in any one year. Please consult the Schedule of Classes each semester.
Course Number | Course Title |
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COML/HUM 21a | Renaissance Literary Masterpieces |
ECS 100b | European Cultural Studies Proseminar: Making of European Modernity |
FA 42b | The Age of Cathedrals |
HIST 110a | The Civilization of the Early Middle Ages |
HIST 110b | The Civilization of the High and Late Middle Ages |
HIST 123a | The Renaissance |
HIST 123b | Reformation Europe (1400-1600) |
HIST 126a | Early Modern Europe (1500-1700) |
MUS 131a | History of Music I: Ancient through Early Baroque |
Electives
The following courses are approved for the program. Not all are given in any one year. Please consult the Schedule of Classes each semester.
Course Number | Course Title |
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CLAS 115b | Topics in Greek and Roman History |
CLAS 166a | Medieval Literature: A Millennium of God, Sex and Death |
COML 123a | Perfect Love? |
COML/ENG 149a | Dante's Hell and Its Legacy |
ENG 32b | Chaucer I |
ENG 33a | Shakespeare |
ENG 43a | Major English Authors, Chaucer to Milton |
ENG 43b | Medieval Plays |
ENG 50a | Love Poetry from Sappho to Neruda |
ENG 73a | Witchcraft and Magic in the Renaissance |
ENG 108a | Literature and Heresy |
ENG 123a | Staging the Body in Early Modern England |
ENG 133a | Advanced Shakespeare |
ENG 143b | Global and Refugee Canterbury Tales |
ENG 144a | Medieval Travel Writing |
ENG 152b | Arthurian Literature |
ENG 173a | Spenser and Milton |
ENG 183b | Gods and Humans in the Renaissance |
FA 30a | History of Art I: Antiquity to the Middle Ages |
FA 33b | Islamic Art and Architecture |
FA 45a | Early Renaissance Art in Tuscany from the Age of Dante to the Medici |
FA 45b | Art of the Early Renaissance in Italy |
FA 46b | High and Late Renaissance in Italy |
FA 47b | Renaissance Art in Northern Europe |
FA 48a | Baroque Art and Architecture in Italy |
FA 143a | The Art of Medieval England |
FA 145a | St. Peter's and the Vatican |
FA 149a | The Age of Rubens and Rembrandt |
FA 191b | Studies in Renaissance & Baroque Art: Michelangelo |
FR 120a | The French Middle Ages: Before France Was France |
FR 122b | The Renaissance: When France Became France |
FR 142b | The City and the Book |
HISP 120b | Don Quixote |
HISP 150a | Staging Early Modern Spain: Drama and Society |
HIST 103a | Roman History to 455 CE |
HIST 110a | The Civilization of the Early 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 134b | The Ottoman Empire: From Principality to Republic by way of Empire |
IMES 104a | Islam: Civilization and Institutions |
ITAL 110a | Introduction to Italian Literature |
ITAL 134b | Nella cultura ebraica italiana: cimema e letteratura |
MUS 37b | Back to the Future: Digging for the Roots of Western Music |
MUS 80a | Early Music Ensemble |
MUS 80b | Early Music Ensemble |
MUS 184b | Proseminar in Medieval Music |
MUS 224b | Seminar in Medieval Music |
NEJS 140a | Under Crescent and Cross |
NEJS 140b | Early Modern Jewish History |
NEJS 143a | Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval Spain |
NEJS 144a | Jews in the World of Islam |
NEJS 149a | The Jews of Muslim and Christian Spain |
NEJS 155a | A Jewish Thinker in the Islamic World |
NEJS 188a | The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1800 |
NEJS 194b | Sufi Teachings |
NEJS 195b | Early Islamic History from Mohammad to the Mongols |
NEJS 198a | Islam and the West |
THA 11a | Theater Texts and Theory I |
THA 102b | Shakespeare: On Stage and Screen |
THA 133b | Shakespeare: On Stage and Screen |
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Zoe Weinstein is the academic outreach librarian for the humanities and the liaison for the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program. She helps faculty, staff and students with everything from citations to basic research to dissertations and beyond. Need help? Email Zoe or make an appointment at calendar.library.brandeis.edu.