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MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES (MRST)

William Quinn, Chair of Studies, Kimpel Hall 333, 575-4301

Professors Candido, Cornell (V.), Cory, Detels, Goodstein, Gross, Levine, Quinn, Spellman, Tsai, Waligorski • Associate Professors Coon, Finlay, Fredrick, Horton, Jacobs, Stephens, Tucker • Assistant Professors Cornell (R.), Sexton

The MRST minor will be administered by the humanities program. This minor encourages undergraduate students to pursue an interdisciplinary study of all aspects of the Middle Ages and Renaissance as a complement to their major field of study.

Requirements for a minor in Medieval and Renaissance Studies (MRST): (15 credit hours). Students must take HIST 1113H/HIST 1113 (World Civ I Honors or nonhonors) or HUMN 1124H/1120E (the medieval segment of the Honors Humanities Project) and complete at least 12 additional credit hours selected from the courses listed below. A maximum of 6 hours may be presented from courses taken in the student's designated major.

Required Core Course (3 hours)

HUMN 1124H Honors Equilibrium of Cultures, 500-1600 CE anddiscussion section, HUMN 1120E orHIST 1113H, Honors World Civ I (may also be taken as nonhonors, HIST 1113, World Civ I)

12 hours of electives to be chosen from the following (a maximum of six hours may be presented from courses taken in the student's major department):

ARHS 4843, Medieval Art
ARHS 4853, Italian Renaissance Art
ARHS 4863, Northern Renaissance Art
ARCH 2233, History of Architecture I
ARCH 4023, Adv Architectural Studies
DRAM 4773, Acting Shakespeare
ENGL 3433, Intro to Chaucer
ENGL 3613, Elizabethan and Jacobean Literature
ENGL 3653, Intro to Shakespeare
LATN 5633, Medieval Latin
SPAN 5203, Medieval Spanish Lit
HIST 3033, Islamic Civilization
HIST 3173, History of London
HIST 4043, Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
HIST 4053, Late Middle Ages
HIST 4073, Renaissance and Reformation, 1300-1600
HIST 4163, Tudor-Stuart England
HIST 4273, Russia to 1801
HIST 4313, China to 1644
HIST 4353, Middle East, 600-1500
HIST 4373, Mongol and Mamluk Middle East, 1250-1520
HIST 4393, Ottoman Empire and Iran (1300-1722)
HUMN 3923H, Honors Colloquium (when offered as a MRST course)
HUMN 425V, Special Topics Colloquium (when offered as a MRST course)
MUHS 3703, History of Music to 1800
PHIL 4013, Platonism and the Origin of Christian Theology
PHIL 4023, Medieval Philosophy
PLSC 3953, Ancient and Medieval Political Thought