European Studies Minor

Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Department Chair: Martine Motard-Noar, Ph.D.

Students will complete this interdisciplinary minor with five courses (20 credits) about Europe from the following fields: Art History, Cinema, History, Literature, Political Science and International Studies, Philosophy, and Religious Studies. In addition, students must show a level of proficiency in a European language other than English at the equivalent of four semesters of college study.

No more than two courses can be from the same subject area.

Pan-European Perspective CORE (1 Course):

As a core course, students must choose from one of the courses that offers a pan-European perspective, which will form the basis of the way the student shapes the rest of the minor.

Course Selection (4 Courses):

Art History

English Literature

History

HIS 1134 - Understanding Europe I
HIS 1135 - Understanding Europe II
HIS 1191 - Gender and Society in Ancient Greece
HIS 1T03: Witchcraft, Magic & Medicine
HIS 1T05: Science Pre-Scientific Revolution
HIS 2101 - Cold War as Global Conflict
HIS 2104 - Illusory Frontiers
HIS 2206 - Republican Rome
HIS 2208 - Roman Women
HIS 2213 - The High Middle Ages
HIS 2214 - Late Middle Ages
HIS 2215 - Medieval England
HIS 2219 - Nineteenth Century Europe
HIS 2220 - 20th-Century Europe
HIS 2243 - Empires and Nations in Eastern Europe
HIS 2253 - Reacting to the Premodern Past
HIS 2T10: Medieval Women
HIS 3315 - Seminar: Early European Society
HIS 3316 - Seminar: The Crusades
HIS 3317 - The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century

Interdisciplinary Studies

Political Science

PSI 2213 - Comparative Politics of Europe

Philosophy

Religious Studies

REL 2000 - Christianity: The Basics

World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Study Abroad

European Studies minors are encouraged to spend a semester at the McDaniel Budapest campus. McDaniel College also has student exchange programs with the Université Saint-Louis, Brussels, Belgium, and other opportunities for study abroad in European countries such as France, Germany, and Spain. Students who study abroad will have one course waived.