Courses
Minimum of 5 units
Students will work with their minor academic advisor to select courses intentionally and strategically as they align with their interests. Students are also encouraged to seek out study abroad opportunities at and beyond CC to fulfill requirements for the minor.
Completion of the third block (or the equivalent) at Colorado College of a language historically or commonly spoken in Europe other than English. Those languages include Arabic, French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Students may petition to substitute another language if more relevant to their course of study.
Not taken for academic credit
This capstone experience provides students with the opportunity to critically examine a topic that has captured their interest over the course of their study in the minor. Working under the guidance of their minor academic advisor, these capstones may take different forms. Students may write an interdisciplinary and critical paper (8-10 pages), or they may choose to create a digital liberal arts project. They may present a creative arts project, a documentary film, an original music composition, a choreographed dance, or any other discipline-specific project, which should be accompanied by a short essay in which they contextualize and reflect critically on their work. Presentations of capstones for the minor will take place annually.
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Keystone Course
What is “Europe”? What does it mean to be “European”? Who gets to define the boundaries of Europeanness, and what groups have been included or excluded, centered or marginalized as a result? This course seeks to answer such epistemological questions by unraveling and deconstructing some of the central, naturalized, imposed, and often monolithic narratives that have been projected onto and out from Europe. Examining these mechanisms from a critical perspective, students will look at the diverse cultural, linguistic, national, religious, ethnic, racial, and other factors that have continued to shape Europe throughout its history. They will consider debates around issues of identity and ideology, including the histories and legacies of colonialism, imperialism, fascism, and racism, and learn to view Europe as a place of multiplicity and difference, changing institutions, and ever-shifting borders. Taking a transdisciplinary approach that includes literary studies, art history, race and ethnic studies, film and media studies, cultural studies, history, and geography, among other fields and theoretical frameworks, “Unraveling Europe” unsettles the common assumption that Europe is and always has been fundamentally European.
(Meets the Equity and Power: EPG requirement.) 1 unit.
This course can be taken at any point in one’s studies and will be taught at least once a year.
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Elective Courses
Minimum of 4 units
Four courses which focus on Europe, one of which must be comparative or transnational in nature. These courses must be from at least two different departments or programs, and not more than one may come from the student’s major department.
Below is a list of some of the regularly taught courses in European Studies. These are not all the courses that focus on Europe, others will be evaluated on an ad hoc basis.
AH115: The Western Tradition from Ancient to Early Renaissance (we have a global alternative)
AH116: The Western Tradition from High Renaissance to Modern Times (we have a global alternative)
AH120: Global Architecture I: Pyramids to Cathedrals 3000 BCE-1400 CE
AH121: Global Architecture II: Renaissance to the 21st Century
AH207: Greece & Rome
AH208: Byzantine Art
AH209: Late Antiquity: Imperial Rome, Mystery Religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
AH221: Art of the Renaissance
AH223: 16th Century Art of Europe
AH231: The Age of the Baroque: Art and Empire of the 17th Century
AH232: Art of the Dutch Republic
AH241: Art and Revolution: Europe in the Nineteenth Century
AH243: The Birth of Modernism
AH275: Art in Context: Art and Revolution: Paris in the Nineteenth Century
AH275: Paris on a Precipice: Early Twentieth Century Challenges in Art and History
AH342: Turn of the Century Art in London, Paris, and Vienna
CL216: History of the Roman Republic
CL219: Greek Drama
CL221: Invention of History
CL226: Roman History: Literature and Culture of the Augustan Age
CL236: History of the Roman Empire
CL250: History of Classical Greece
CO120: Literature, Power, and Identities: Marginalized Identities
CO121: Literature, Place, and the World
CO130: Literature and Contemporary Issues
CO131: Literature, Texts, and Media: Romantic Encounters
CO200: Landscape, Monuments, and Myth
CO220: The World of Odysseus: History & Myth
CO300: Topics in Comparative Literature: Samuel Beckett
CO300: Topics in Comparative Literature: Vladimir Nabokov
EC255: The Economics of Climate Change
EC385: The Industrial Revolution in Britain
EN205: Study of a Genre: Satire
EN225: Introduction to Shakespeare
EN280: Afropean Women Writers
EN329: Milton
EN302: History of the English Language
EN311: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
EN312: The Other Chaucer
EN313: Dante’s Divine Comedy
EN321: Renaissance Poetry
EN326: Studies in Shakespeare
EN328: Renaissance Drama
EN352: 18th-Century British Fiction
EN360: Gender and the Gothic
EN362: British Romantic Fiction
EN365: British Romantic Poets
EN385: Black Writers in Paris 1900-1960
EN405: Shakespeare in London
FG214: Hidden Spaces, Hidden Narratives: Intersectionality Studies in Berlin
FM200: Global Queer Cinema
FR310: Literature & Film
FR316: Topics in French Culture
FR319: Topics in French Culture
FR329: Paris & the Arts
GR220/320: Multiethnic Germany
GR220/320: Turkish German Cinema
GR220/320: Italian and German Culture through Film
GR220/320: Green Germany
GR220/320: Berlin in Film
GR220/320: Fascist Modernism
GR220/320: Prisons and Prisoners
GR220/320: Representing the Holocaust
GR220/320: Romanticism in Music
GR220/320: Journey to the Dark Side of the Psyche
HY110: Africa and the Second World War
HY110: Encountering the Past: Sorcery, Magic, and Devilry: The History of Witchcraft
HY110: Encountering the Past: Roundheads, Regicide, and Reaction during the English Civil Wars, 1625-60
HY110: The French Revolution
HY110: Revolutions in Writing
HY110: The Animal-Human Boundary
HY111: Berlin, Capital of the Twentieth Century
HY200: The Age of Romance: Music and History in the 19th Century
HY200: Paris on a Precipice: Early Twentieth Century Challenges in Art and History
HY202: Fascism and Its Afterlives in Europe
HY204: Dreamworlds and Nightmares in the Soviet Union
HY224: Mass Culture, Counterculture, Avant-Garde
HY274: The Medieval Imaginary
HY276: Renaissance and Reformation
HY277: Europe in an Age of Absolutism
HY287: Enlightenment Culture
HY302: Crusades
HY307: History of Sex: Traditions
HY324: Haunted Landscapes: History, Memory, and the Built Environment
IT320: The Rise of Fascism: History, Theory, Representations
IT320: Black Italian Cinema and Digital Performance
IT320: Come to Hell: Dante and Our World
IT320: New Italian Cinema
IT320: Italian Mafia Movies
IT320: Italian Neorealist Cinema
IT320: Italian and German Culture through Film
IT320: Love & Anarchy: Romance, Sex, and Politics in Italian Cinema
IT304-305: Gli Italiani e gli Altri: Fra Romanzo, Saggio, Musica e Poesia
IT304-305: Lingue, Arti, Culture e Tradizioni in Italy
MU227: Romanticism in Music
MU228: The Age of Romance: Music and History in the 19th Century
MU283: Mozart and His Age
MU284: Beethoven
MU286: Romantic and Early Modernist Eras
MU398: In the Footsteps of J. S. Bach
PH101: Greek Philosophy
PH201: Modern European Philosophy: Birth of "The Modern Mind"
PH202: Modern European Philosophy: A View from the Margins of Reason
PH203: Enlightenment and Its Discontents
PH205: French Philosophy in Context: 1930 to the Present
PH210: Ancient to Early Modern Western Philosophy
PH244: Classical Social and Political Philosophy
PH245: Modern Social and Political Philosophy
PH260: Existential Philosophy
PH265: Sigmund Freud
PH302: Recent Continental Philosophy
PH342: Critical Theory
PS102: Freedom and Empire: The Drama of Ancient Politics
PS220: Socrates
PS290: Introduction to Political Philosophy
PS308: Comparative Politics: Russia
PS310: Comparative Politics of Central Europe
PS312: Balkan Politics
PS344: Realism and Idealism in Political Philosophy
PS348: Conduct of Russian Foreign Policy
RE110: Bible: Myth and History
RE206: Gender and Sexuality in Biblical Traditions
RE213: Apocalypse
RS200: Chekhov: Inventing the Modern Short Story
RS210: Topics: Russian Woman: The Search for Identity in film, the 1930s to present
RU255: Russian History in Russian Literature I
RU256: Russian History in Russian Literature II
RU350: Tolstoy in Translation
RU351: Dostoevsky in Translation
SO270: Contemporary French Society
SP360: Studies of Periodization: Don Quixote: A Journey through Cervantes’s World
SP370: Genre Studies: Contemporary Spanish Film
SP316: Monstrous Bodies in Spanish Baroque Cultural Productions
SP316: The Other in Spanish Mass Culture Productions: From Baroque Theater to Contemporary Film
SP316: Cultures of Spain
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