Courses

Primarily for Undergraduate Students

Course Number Course Title
MEVL 98a Senior Essay - Signature of the instructor required.
MEVL 98b Senior Essay - Signature of the instructor required.

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
CLAS 115b Topics in Greek and Roman History
COML 123a Perfect Love?
COML/HUM 21a The Literature of Walking
ECS 100b European Cultural Studies Proseminar: Making of European Modernity
ENG 32b Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and Medieval Dream Visions
ENG 33a Shakespeare
ENG 43b Medieval Play: Drama, LARP, and Video Games
ENG 50a Love Poetry from Sappho to Neruda
ENG 73a Witchcraft and Magic in the Renaissance
ENG 143b Global and Refugee Canterbury Tales
ENG 144a Medieval Travel Writing
ENG 152b Arthurian Literature
ENG 173a Spenser and Milton
FA 30a History of Art I: Antiquity to the Middle Ages
FA 33b Islamic Art and Architecture
FA 42b The Age of Cathedrals
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 149a The Age of Rubens and Rembrandt
FA 191b Studies in Renaissance & Baroque Art: Michelangelo
FR 122b The Renaissance: When France Became France
HIST 103a Roman History to 455 CE
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 134b The Ottoman Empire:  From Principality to Republic by way of Empire
ITAL 110a Introduction to Italian Literature
ITAL 134b Voci e storie della cultura ebraica italiana
MUS 37b Back to the Future: Digging for the Roots of Western Music
MUS 131a History of Music I: Ancient through Early Baroque
MUS 184b Proseminar in Medieval Music
MUS 224b Seminar in Medieval Music
NEJS 104b Islam: Civilization and Institutions
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.