Web address: www.newpaltz.edu/mems
The minor in Medieval and Early Modern Studies is an interdisciplinary program in the art, literature, history, philosophy, religion, and political institutions of Europe and its colonies from the periods between the collapse of the Roman Empire and the French Revolution. Students take courses from seven academic departments: Art History, Black Studies, English, Foreign Languages, History, Philosophy, and Political Science.
For more information about this minor, please contact Katherine French via e-mail at frenchk@newpaltz.edu.
Requirements
- 18 Credits
- Courses from at least three academic departments
- At least two Medieval courses (6 credits) and at least two Early Modern courses (6 credits)
- Up to 3 credits may count for this minor and another minor or major
List 1: Medieval
ARH363 Early Medieval Art
ARH364 Later Medieval Art: Gothic
ENG404 Medieval Literature
HIS207 Medieval Europe
HIS313 Women in Medieval Europe
HIS346 The Black Death
POL220 Classical and Medieval Political Theory
List 2: Early Modern
ARH361 Art of the Renaissance in Italy
ARH362 Northern European Painting
ARH383 Baroque and Rococo Art
ARH390 Italian Renaissance Painting
ARH391 Baroque Painting
ARH440 Italian Art of the 16th Century
ARH442 Eighteenth-Century Arts
BLK231 Development of Afro-Latin American Civilization
BLK301 Precolonial Africa to 1800
BLK311 Blacks in the Caribbean
BLK450 Portuguese in Africa
ENG405 Elizabethan Literature
ENG406 Shakespeare 1
ENG407 Shakespeare 2
ENG408 Seventeenth-Century Literature
ENG413 Eighteenth-Century English Literature
ENG414 Rise of the Novel
FRN413 French Classic Drama
ITA331 Italian Literature in English 1
SPA468 Golden Age Prose
SPA469 Golden Age Drama
HIS305 Women in Early Modern Europe
HIS321 Colonial America
HIS322 American Revolution
HIS349 Renaissance and Reformation
HIS350 Early Modern Europe
HIS357 England from 1485-1815
HIS470 Age of Discovery, 1415-1780
PHI312 Modern Philosophy
PHI323 Modern Political Theory
