Eligible Courses

This list of courses that may count for the Medieval Studies major and minor is subject to change and should be used as only a planning guide. Students should consult the program chair and advisor, Dr. Sara Ann Knutson, prior to registering for a course, to confirm that their selected courses will count for their Medieval Studies major or minor.

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  • ASIA 100 Introduction to Traditional Asia
  • ASIA 210 Traditions of Yoga
  • ASIA 250 Introduction to Buddhism
  • ASIA 308 Myth, Ritual and Epic in Ancient India
  • ASIA 314 Premodern Japan
  • ASIA 315 Japan from Feudal to Modern State
  • ASIA 317 The Rise of Korean Civilization
  • ASIA 318 Premodern India
  • ASIA 320 History of Early China
  • ASIA 331 Islam in South Asia (750- 1750)
  • ASIA 334 Writing Women in Premodern East Asia
  • ASIA 340 History of Later Imperial China
  • ASIA 341 Classical Chinese Literature in Translation
  • ASIA 342 Chinese Literature in Translation: The Vernacular Tradition
  • ASIA 344 Topics in Japanese Cultural History I: Aristocrats and Warriors
  • ASIA 346 Topics in Japanese Cultural History II: The Early Modern Age
  • ASIA 347 Traditional Korean Literature in Translation
  • ASIA 348 Poetic Life in Classical India
  • ASIA 358 Literature of Medieval India in Translation
  • ASIA 362 Pre-Modern Japanese Fiction (in Translation)
  • ASIA 370 The Sanskrit Cosmopolis: India and the World, 200- 1500 CE
  • ASIA 371 Foundations of Chinese Thought (Equivalency: PHIL 371)
  • ASIA 372 Development of Traditional Chinese Thought
  • ASIA 378 Philosophical Wisdom of Early India
  • ASIA 381 Daoist (Taoist) Religion and its Philosophical Background
  • ASIA 382 Buddhism in China
  • ASIA 388 Classical South Asian Philosophy (Equivalency: PHIL 388)
  • ASIA 390 History of the Indian Ocean World
  • ASIA 391 Classical Islam
  • ASIA 392 Classical Persian Literature in English Translation
  • ASIA 393 History of Iran from the Sasanians to the Safavids
  • ASIA 398 Narrative Literature in Premodern India
  • ASIA 410 International Relations in Premodern East Asia
  • ASIA 412 Pre-Modern Chinese Poetry (Pre-Qin to Tang)
  • ASIA 413 Pre-Modern Chinese Poetry (Tang to Qing)
  • ASIA 414 Architecture and Urbanism in Islamic South Asia
  • ASIA 428 Mughal India
  • ASIA 429 Rebels, Martyrs, and Outlaws in Early Modern Japan
  • ASIA 440 Cultural History of Imperial China
  • ASIA 491 India and the Persianate World

  • ARTH102 Crisis and Contradiction in Art and the Built Environment
  • ARTH 210 Byzantium: Arts of an Empire
  • ARTH 225 Art, Patrons, and Audiences in the Middle Ages
  • ARTH 261 Pre-Hispanic Arts of Central and South America
  • ARTH 310 Art and the Religious Transformation of the Late Roman Empire. (Equivalency: AMNE 379)
  • ARTH 311 Early Medieval Art
  • ARTH 312 Medieval Art in the Age of Monasticism
  • ARTH 313 Art, Church, Society and their Margins in the Later Middle Ages
  • ARTH 320 Entangled Worlds: Spain and Colonial Latin America (14-17th century)
  • ARTH 321 Public and Private Bodies: Italian Renaissance Art and Culture
  • ARTH 322 Early Modern Italian Art and Culture (ca. 1550-1700)
  • ARTH 323 Heaven and Earth: Renaissance Art and Culture in Northern Europe
  • ARTH 324 Urban and Courtly Arts in Early Modern Northern Europe (1600-1700)
  • ARTH 348 Architecture in North America: Colonial Projects and Disruptions (1605-1867)
  • ARTH 350 Grounding the Islamic Image
  • ARTH 351 Art and Urban Culture in the Islamic World
  • ARTH 352 Historic India: Images, Temples and the Construction of Indian Art History
  • ARTH 354 Mughal India: Art, Architecture and the Spectacle of Empire
  • ARTH 358 Chinese Art for the Afterlife
  • ARTH 360 Chinese Painting: Word and Image
  • ARTH 362 Art in Japan: Objects and Spaces
  • ARTH 370 Arts of Mexico's Early Peoples
  • ARTH 371 Arts of the Aztec period in Mexico
  • ARTH 372 Maya Public Ritual Arts
  • ARTH 373 Maya Arts of Everyday Life
  • ARTH 432 Seminar in the Art of the Middle Ages
  • ARTH 435 Seminar in Early Modern: Renaissance
  • ARTH 436 Seminar in Early Modern Art
  • ARTH 437 Seminar in Early Modern: 17th Century
  • ARTH 450 Seminar in Art in the Islamic World
  • ARTH 471 Seminar in Pre-Hispanic Art
  • AMNE 160 Introduction to Religions: Judaism, Christianity, Islam
  • AMNE 235 Greek Philosophy I (Equivalency: PHIL 211)
  • AMNE 236 Greek Philosophy II (Equivalency: PHIL 212)
  • AMNE 262 Introduction to Judaism and its Texts
  • AMNE 265 History of Christianity to 800 CE
  • AMNE 279 Byzantium: Arts of an Empire
  • AMNE 331 Jewish Law
  • AMNE 333 Roman Law
  • AMNE 342 Translating the Bible
  • AMNE 363 Talmud, Midrash and the Rabbinic Imagination
  • AMNE 379 Art and the Religious Transformation of the Late Roman Empire
  • LATN 301 Intermediate Latin II
  • LATN 350 Latin Literature of the Classical Period (Prose)
  • LATN 403 (3-12) Studies in Latin Prose and Verse
  • ARBC 420 (3-12) Supervised Study in Classical and Quranic Arabic
  • GREK 351 (3-6) Reading Ancient Greek: Prose
  • GREK 352 (3-6) Reading Ancient Greek: Verse
  • GREK 401 (3-12) Greek Prose
  • GREK 402 (3-12) Greek Verse
  • GREK 403 (3-12) Studies in Ancient Greek Prose and Verse
  • CENS 307 Witches: Myth and Reality
  • GMST 341 Germanophone Literature before 1900
  • GMST 342 Heaven and Earth: Germanophone Culture and Literature before 1700
  • GMST 343 (3) Reason and Revolution: Studies in the 18th Century
  • NORD 338 The Viking World
  • NORD 339 Norse Mythology
  • NORD 341 Sámi Cultures and Histories
  • NORD 415 The World of the Sagas
  • ENGL 318 History of the English Language: Early History
  • ENGL 319 History of the English Language: Later History
  • ENGL 342 Introduction to Old English
  • ENGL 343 Anglo-Saxon and Early Medieval Literature
  • ENGL 344 Middle English Literature
  • ENGL 346 Chaucer
  • ENGL 347 Renaissance Literature
  • ENGL 348 Shakespeare
  • ENGL 349 Seventeenth-Century Literature
  • ENGL 350 Milton
  • RMST 201 Introduction to Literatures and Cultures of the Romance World I: Medieval to Early Modern
  • RMST 300 History of the Romance Languages
  • RMST 321 French Literature from the Middle Ages to the Revolution (Equivalency: MDVL 301)
  • RMST 323 The French Enlightenment
  • RMST 341 Italian Literature and Culture of the Medieval and Early Modern Period
  • RMST 371 The Global Renaissance: Hispanic Cross-Cultural Contacts
  • RMST 453 Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy
  • RMST 454 Topics in the Italian Literature and Culture of the Middle Ages
  • RMST 455 Topics in the Italian Literature and Culture of the Renaissance
  • RMST 456 Classics of Seventeenth-Century Italian Literature and Culture
  • RMST 457 Classics of Eighteenth-Century Italian Literature and Culture
  • FREN 331 Arts, Cultures and Society from the Middle Ages to the Revolution
  • FREN 407 Medieval French Literature
  • FREN 408 Renaissance: Studies in 16th-century French Literature
  • FREN 409 Ancients and Moderns: Studies in 17th-century French Literature
  • FREN 410 Enlightenment and Revolution: Studies in 18th-century French Literature
  • FREN 450 Old French
  • FREN 460 History of the French Language
  • FREN 484 History of the Book
  • FREN 485 Early Encounters: Travel Literature and Colonial Writing in French
  • SPAN 321 Tradition and Diversity in Spanish History and Culture
  • SPAN 357 The Golden Age of Peninsular Literature and Culture
  • SPAN 364 Colonial Encounters in Spanish-American Literature and Culture
  • SPAN 403 History of the Spanish Language
  • SPAN 410 Multicultural Beginnings: Topics in Medieval Literature and Culture
  • SPAN 420 Ascent and Decline: Topics in Golden-Age Peninsular Literature and Culture
  • HIST 101 Global History to 1500 CE
  • HIST 202 Gateway to the Middle Ages
  • HIST 206 Magic, Miracles, and Witchcraft: The Supernatural in Medieval Europe
  • HIST 220 History of Europe
  • HIST 240 Health, Illness and Medicine I: From the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period
  • HIST 256 History of Africa
  • HIST 259 Science, Medicine, and Technology in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds
  • HIST 271 Japan and Global History, 1550 - 1900
  • HIST 273 History of India
  • HIST 279 Steppe Empires in World History
  • HIST 300 Vikings: Then and Now
  • HIST 310 The British Empire to 1850
  • HIST 314 Early Modern Britain
  • HIST 315 Britain 1750-1850
  • HIST 323 Empires, Wars, and Revolutions in Europe and the Americas,1763-1838
  • HIST 327 Colonial America: Encounter and Settlement, 1607 - 1763
  • HIST 328 Rebels in America: Revolution to Civil War, 1763 - 1865
  • HIST 334 African-American History, 1450 - 1850
  • HIST 341 Medieval Jewish History
  • HIST 343 Medieval Gender, Christianity, and the Body
  • HIST 344 Ancient Regime France
  • HIST 347 Medieval and Imperial Russian History, 998 to 1800
  • HIST 354 The Ottoman Empire
  • HIST 362 The Islamic Golden Age
  • HIST 363 Europe in the Early Middle Ages
  • HIST 364 Europe in the Late Middle Ages
  • HIST 365 Europe During the Renaissance
  • HIST 366 Europe During the Reformation
  • HIST 367 Europe in the Age of the Enlightenment
  • HIST 378 History of Early China
  • HIST 379 History of Later Imperial China (1100- 1900)
  • HIST 383 Foundations of Sikh Traditions
  • HIST 385 India from Raj to Republic
  • HIST 387 Voices from Medieval India
  • HIST 388 India in the Early Modern World: Kings, Courtesans, and Saints
  • HIST 392 Scientific Revolution: Circulation of Knowledge in the Early Modern World
  • HIST 401 Seafaring in the Age of Sail
  • HIST 424 Economic History of the Pre-Modern World
  • HIST 436 European Social History
  • HIST 470 Seminar in Medieval History
  • HIST 472 Imagining the Middle Ages
  • HIST 473 Women in the Middle Ages
  • HIST 474 Ideas and Religions of the Middle Ages
  • HIST 476 Law and Society in the Middle Ages
  • HIST 477 Constitutional History of Medieval Europe
  • HIST 478 Medieval Portraits and Personalities
  • HIST 479 Cultural History of Imperial China
  • MUSC120 History of Music I
  • MUSC 121 History of Music II
  • MUSC 352 History of Medieval Music
  • MUSC 353 History of Renaissance Music
  • MUSC 354 Baroque Music
  • MUSC 355 Classical Music
  • MUSC 448 Historical Performance Practice
  • MUSC 454 History of Opera I
  • PHIL 211 Greek Philosophy I (Equivalency: AMNE 235)
  • PHIL 212 Greek Philosophy II (Equivalency: AMNE 236)
  • PHIL 310 The Philosophy of Plato
  • PHIL 311 The Philosophy of Aristotle
  • PHIL 313 Medieval Philosophy
  • PHIL 314 Philosophy in the 17th Century
  • PHIL 315 Philosophy in the 18th Century
  • PHIL 362 History and Philosophy of Economics from Aristotle to Adam Smith
  • PHIL 371 Foundations of Chinese Thought (Equivalency: ASIA 371)
  • PHIL 388 Classical South Asian Philosophy (Equivalency: ASIA 388)
  • PHIL 415 The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant
  • ASIA 455 Adaptations of Japanese Classics
  • NORD 412 Epics of Northern Europe
  • ENGL 241 Shakespeare Now
  • HIST 301 Global Medieval Heritage and Policy
  • HIST 472 Imagining the Middle Ages
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