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Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program and Affiliated Courses
MEMS 110 / HISTORY 110. Medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation Europe.
MEMS 210 / HISTORY 210. Early Middle Ages, 300-1100.
MEMS 211 / HISTORY 211. Later Middle Ages, 1100-1500.
MEMS 212 / HISTORY 212. The Renaissance.
MEMS 213 / HISTORY 213. The Reformation.
MEMS 240 / HISTART 240. The Visual Arts in Medieval Society
MEMS 250 / HISTART 250. Italian Renaissance Art, I.
MEMS 251 / HISTART 251. Italian Renaissance Art, II.
MEMS 260. Special Topics.
MEMS 310 / RCHUMS 310. Medieval Sources of Modern Culture.
MEMS 314 / RCHUMS 314. The Figure of Rome in Shakespeare and 16th-Century Painting
MEMS 344 / HISTART 344. Early Medieval Kingdoms and Cultures: European Art 400-1000.
MEMS 345 / HISTART 345. Introduction to Medieval Architecture.
MEMS 348 / HISTART 348. The Medieval Book.
MEMS 350 / ENGLISH 350. Literature in English to 1660.
MEMS 360. Special Topics.
MEMS 367 / ENGLISH 367. Shakespeare's Principal Plays.
MEMS 368 / ENGLISH 368. Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
MEMS 375 / SCAND 375 / GERMAN 375. Celtic and Nordic Mythology.
MEMS 377 / FRENCH 367. Literature, History, and Culture of Early Modern France.
MEMS 381 / HISTORY 381. Medieval Jewish History, 500-1492.
MEMS 382 / HISTORY 382. Medieval Jewish History, 1492-1700.
MEMS 386 / FRENCH 366. Medieval Literature, History and Culture.
MEMS 410 / HISTORY 410. Classics of Medieval History.
MEMS 411. Special Topics.
MEMS 414 / History 412. Social and Intellectual History of the Florentine Renaissance.
MEMS 421 / RCHUM 386. Medieval Drama
MEMS 425 / HIST 518. Jews and Christians in Late Renaissance Italy (1400-1650).
MEMS 428 / HIST 414. Northern Renaissance and Reformation.
MEMS 437 / FRENCH 451. French Culture in Literature in the Middle Ages with Visual Assistance
MEMS 440 / LATIN 435. Postclassical Latin I, 500-900 A.D.
MEMS 441 / LATIN 436. Postclassical Latin II, 900-1350 A.D.
MEMS 443 / GERMAN 444. Medieval German Literature in English Translation
MEMS 444 / FRENCH 461. Reading of Old French Texts.
MEMS 445 / FRENCH 462. Literature of the Sixteenth Century.
MEMS 455 / ENGLISH 455. Medieval English Literature
MEMS 457 / ENGLISH 457. Renaissance English Literature.
MEMS 465 / ENGLISH 465. Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales.
MEMS 475 / GERMAN 465 / HISTORY 485. Marriage and Marital Life in History: Medieval and Early Modern Germany.
MEMS 490. Directed Reading.
MEMS 491. Honors Senior Colloquium.
African and African-American Studies
CAAS 200. Introduction to African Studies.
CAAS 422. Pre-colonial African Culture.
CAAS 446. Africa to 1850.
American Culture
AMCULT 360 / GTBOOKS 350 / HISTORY 350. Debates of the Founding Fathers.
Anthropology
ANTHRCUL 346 / HISTORY 347. Latin America: The Colonial Period.
ANTHRCUL 415. Andean Civilization.
ANTHRCUL 417. Indians of Mexico and Guatemala.
ANTHRARC 488(ANTHRCUL 488). Prehistory of Mexico.
ANTHRARC 489(ANTHRCUL 489). Maya and Central American Archaeology.
ANTHRARC 491(ANTHRCUL 491). Prehistory of the Central Andes.
Armenian Studies
ARMENIAN 287 / HISTORY 287. Armenian History from Prehistoric Times to the Present.
ARMENIAN 415 / AAPTIS 473. An Introduction to Classical and Medieval Armenian Literature.
ARMENIAN 478 / AAPTIS 478. Classical Armenian I.
ARMENIAN 479 / AAPTIS 479. Classical Armenian II.
ARMENIAN 483 / AAPTIS 480. Intensive Introductory Classical Armenian
Asian Studies
ASIAN 204(121) / HISTORY 204. East Asia: Early Transformations.
ASIAN 206(111) / HISTORY 206. Indian Civilization.
ASIAN 207(112) / HISTORY 207. Southeast Asian Civilization.
ASIAN 220 / RELIGION 202. Introduction to the Study of Asian Religions.
ASIAN 221 / GTBOOKS 221. Great Books of China.
ASIAN 222 / GTBOOKS 222. Great Books of Japan.
ASIAN 223 / RELIGION 223. Bhagavad-Gita: The Activist View of Hinduism.
ASIAN 224. Traditions of Poetry in India.
ASIAN 226. Other Hearts and Other Minds: Poetries of Asia.
ASIAN 230 / PHIL 230 / RELIGION 230. Introduction to Buddhism.
ASIAN 300. Love and Death in Japanese Culture.
ASIAN 303 / RELIGION 303. Sikhism.
ASIAN 310. The Theater of China and Japan.
ASIAN 312. Traditional Korean Thought.
ASIAN 320. Sikh History I (16th-18th Centuries).
ASIAN 360 / PHIL 360 / RCHUMS 375 / HISTART 387. The Arts and Letters of China.
ASIAN 481 / RELIGION 483. Zen Buddhism.
ASIAN 487. Buddhism in India: Its Doctrines and History.
ASIAN 489. Korean Buddhism.
Classical Studies
LATIN 435 / MEMS 440. Postclassical Latin I, 500-900 A.D.
LATIN 436 / MEMS 441. Postclassical Latin II, 900-1350 A.D.
CLCIV 381 / RELIGION 381. Witchcraft: An Introduction to the History and Literature of Witchcraft
CLCIV 472. Roman Law.
CLCIV 481. The Classical Tradition.
CLCIV 483 / ACABS 421 / RELIGION 488. Christianity and Hellenistic Civilizations.
English Language and Literature
ENGLISH 267. Introduction to Shakespeare.
ENGLISH 308. History of the English Language.
ENGLISH 350 / MEMS 350. Literature in English to 1660.
ENGLISH 367 / MEMS 367. Shakespeare's Principal Plays.
ENGLISH 368 / MEMS 368. Shakespeare and his Contemporaries.
ENGLISH 370. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature.
ENGLISH 401 / RELIGION 481. The English Bible: Its Literary Aspects and Influences, I.
ENGLISH 443 / THTREMUS 321. History of Theatre I.
ENGLISH 445. Shakespeare's Rivals.
ENGLISH 450. Medieval Drama.
ENGLISH 457 / MEMS 457. Renaissance English Literature.
ENGLISH 459. English Neoclassical Literature.
ENGLISH 465 / MEMS 465. Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales.
ENGLISH 467. Topics in Shakespeare.
ENGLISH 469. Milton.
ENGLISH 470. Early American Literature: Key Texts.
Germanic Languages and Literatures
GERMAN 375 / SCAND 375 / MEMS 375. Celtic and Nordic Mythology.
GERMAN 381. Eighteenth to Nineteenth-Century Drama.
GERMAN 465 / MEMS 475 / HISTORY 485. Marriage and Marital Life in History: Medieval and Early Modern Germany.
GERMAN 504. History of the German Language.
GERMAN 512. Introduction to Middle High German.
SCAND 442. The Icelandic Saga (in English Translation).
Great Books
GTBOOKS 191/192. Great Books.
GTBOOKS 201/202. Great Books of the Medieval and Modern World.
GTBOOKS 204. Great Books in Physics.
GTBOOKS 221 / ASIAN 221. Great Books of China.
GTBOOKS 222 / ASIAN 222. Great Books of Japan.
GTBOOKS 350 / AMCULT 360 / HISTORY 350. Debates of the Founding Fathers.
History
HISTORY 110 / MEMS 110. Medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation Europe.
HISTORY 132 / AAPTIS 100 / ACABS 100 / HJCS 100. Peoples of the Middle East.
HISTORY 197. Viloence, The Samurai and Their Women in Japan, 1250-1600.
HISTORY 204(121) / ASIAN 204. East Asia: Early Transformations.
HISTORY 206 / ASIAN 206. Indian Civilization.
HISTORY 207 / ASIAN 207. Southeast Asian Civilizations.
HISTORY 210 / MEMS 210. Early Middle Ages, 300-1100.
HISTORY 211 / MEMS 211. Later Middle Ages, 1100-1500.
HISTORY 212 / MEMS 212. The Renaissance.
HISTORY 213 / MEMS 213. The Reformation.
HISTORY 220. Survey of British History to 1688.
HISTORY 225. Europe and the New World.
HISTORY 246 / CAAS 246. Africa to 1850.
HISTORY 250. China from the Oracle Bones to the Opium War.
HISTORY 263. Discovering America: Atlantic History I, 1492-1607.
HISTORY 264. Exploring America: Atlantic History II, 1607-1815.
HISTORY 278 / AAPTIS 269. Introduction to Turkish Civilizations.
HISTORY 286 / RELIGION 286. A History of Eastern Christianity from the 4th to the 18th Century.
HISTORY 287 / ARMENIAN 287. Armenian History fom Prehistoric Times to the Present.
HISTORY 323(523). French Enlightenment.
HISTORY 328. History of Ireland to 1603.
HISTORY 335(538). The Ottoman Enterprise.
HISTORY 347 / ANTHRCUL 346. Latin America: The Colonial Period.
HISTORY 350 / GTBOOKS 350 / AMCULT 360. Debates of the Founding Fathers.
HISTORY 375 / WOMENSTD 375. A History of Witchcraft: The 1692 Salem Trials in Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspective.
HISTORY 381 / MEMS 381. History of the Jews from the Muslim Conquests to the Spanish Expulsion.
HISTORY 382 / MEMS 382. History of the Jews from the Spanish Expulsion to the Eve of Enlightenment.
History of Art
HISTART 101. Art and Agency in a Premodern World.
HISTART 102. Survey of Western Art History.
HISTART 102. Survey of Asian Art History.
HISTART 250 / MEMS 250. Italian Renaissance Art, I.
HISTART 251 / MEMS 251. Italian Renaissance Art, II.
HISTART 285 / AAPTIS 285. Introduction to the Art and Architecture of the Islamic World.
HISTART 341. The Gothic Age.
HISTART 344 / MEMS 344. Early Medieval Kingdoms and Cultures: European Art 400-1000.
HISTART 345 / MEMS 345. Introduction to Medieval Architecture.
HISTART 387 / ASIAN 360 / PHIL 360 / RCHUMS 375. The Arts and Letters of China.
HISTART 401 / AAPTIS 401. The Art and Architecture of Armenia.
HISTART 405. Artists and Patrons.
HISTART 442 / CLARCH 442. Late Antique and Early Christian Art and Architecture.
HISTART 448. Medieval Manuscript Illumination.
HISTART 453. Venetian Painting.
HISTART 462. Baroque Art in Italy.
HISTART 463. Varieties of Dutch and Flemish Painting.
HISTART 482. Buddhist Art.
HISTART 514. Spanish Art: El Greco to Goya.
HISTART 555. Renaissance Architecture in Italy.
HISTART 562. Baroque Sculpture in Italy and Spain.
HISTART 565. Early Modern Architecture in Italy, Austria, and Germany.
HISTART 581 / AAPTIS 580. Islamic Architecture: Continuity and Innovation.
Judaic Studies
JUDAIC 270 / HJCS 270. Introduction to Rabbinic Literature.
JUDAIC 468 / HJCS 478 / RELIGION 469. Jewish Mysticism.
JUDAIC 470 / HJCS 470 / ACABS 470. Reading the Rabbis.
HJCS 543 / ACABS 543. The Bible in Jewish Tradition.
Linguistics
LING 517 / ANTHRCULT 519 / GERMAN 517. Principles and Methods of Historical Linguistics.
Musicology
MUSICOL 239. History of Western Art Music: Middle Ages through the Baroque.
MUSICOL 345. The History of Music.
MUSICOL 413. History of Opera: 17th and 18th Centuries.
MUSICOL 420. Music of the Baroque.
MUSICOL 477. Medieval Music.
MUSICOL 478. Renaissance Music.
THEORY 442. Eighteenth-Century Counterpoint.
Near East Studies
AAPTIS 100 / ACABS 100 / HISTORY 132. Peoples of the Middle East.
AAPTIS 200 / RELIGION 201. Introduction to World Religions: Near Eastern.
AAPTIS 262 / RELIGION 204. Introduction to Islam.
AAPTIS 269 / HISTORY 278. Introduction to Turkish Civilizations.
AAPTIS 285 / HISTART 285. Introduction to the Art and Architecture of the Islamic World.
AAPTIS 401 / HISTART 401. The Art and Architecture of Armenia
AAPTIS 411. Classical Arabic Grammar.
AAPTIS 434. Arabic Historical Linguistics and Dialectology.
AAPTIS 440. The Literature of the Turks
AAPTIS 451. Introductory Ottoman Turkish, I.
AAPTIS 452. Introductory Ottoman Turkish, II.
AAPTIS 459. Ottoman Turkish Culture.
AAPTIS 461 / HISTORY 442. The First Millennium of the Islamic Near East.
AAPTIS 462 / HISTORY 536. The Rise of Islam.
AAPTIS 463 / HISTORY 537. The Near East in the Period of the Crusades, 945-1258.
AAPTIS 464 / HISTORY 543. Persianate Culture in the Central and Eastern Lands of Islam.
AAPTIS 465 / RELIGION 465. Islamic Mysticism.
AAPTIS 467 / HISTORY 541 / RELIGION 467. Shi'ism: The History of Messianism and the Pursuit of Justice in Islamdom.
AAPTIS 469. Islamic Intellectual History.
AAPTIS 470 / HISTORY 441. The Islamic West: al-Andalus and the Magrib, 600-1500.
AAPTIS 473 / ARMENIAN 415. An Introduction to Classical and Medieval Armenian Literature.
AAPTIS 475. Rumi and the Great Persian Mystical Poets.
AAPTIS 478 / ARMENIAN 478. Classical Armenian I.
AAPTIS 479 / ARMENIAN 479. Classical Armenian II.
AAPTIS 480 / ARMENIAN 483. Intensive Introductory Classical Armenian.
AAPTIS 481. Classical Arabic I.
AAPTIS 482. Classical Arabic II.
AAPTIS 486. Islamic Law.
AAPTIS 488. History of Arabic Literature in English.
AAPTIS 495 / WOMENSTD 471 / HISTORY 546 / RELIGION 496. Gender and Sexuality in Premodern Islam.
AAPTIS 541. Classical Persian Texts.
AAPTIS 551. Readings in Ottoman Turkish.
AAPTIS 565. Qur'anic Studies.
AAPTIS 567. Readings in Classical Islamic Texts.
AAPTIS 568. Classical Arabic Poetry.
AAPTIS 580 / HISTART 581. Islamic Architecture: Continuity and Innovation.
AAPTIS 581. Classical Arabic III.
AAPTIS 582. Classical Arabic IV.
AAPTIS 587. Studies in Pahlavi and Middle Persian.
Philosophy
PHIL 230 / ASIAN 230 / RELIGION 230. Introduction to Buddhism.
PHIL 263 / ASIAN 263. Introduction to Chinese Philosophy.
PHIL 360 / ASIAN 360 / HISTART 387 / RCHUMS 375. The Arts and Letters of China.
PHIL 389. History of Philosophy: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.
PHIL 457 / ASIAN 480 / RELIGION 480. Topics in Buddhism.
Political Science
POLSCI 301(400). Development of Political Thought: To Modern Period.
Religion
RELIGION 201 / ACABS 200 / AAPTIS 200 / HJCS 200. Introduction to World Religions: Near Eastern.
RELIGION 202 / ASIAN 220. Introduction to the Study of Asian Religions.
RELIGION 204 / AAPTIS 262. Introduction to Islam.
RELIGION 223 / ASIAN 223. Bhagavad-Gita: The Activist View of Hinduism.
RELIGION 230 / ASIAN 230 / PHIL 230. Introduction to Buddhism.
RELIGION 286 / HISTORY 286. A History of Eastern Christianity from the 4th to the 18th Century.
RELIGION 303 / ASIAN 303. Sikhism.
RELIGION 350 / ACABS 323. Christianity after the New Testament: The First Six Centuries.
RELIGION 381 / CLCIV 381. Witchcraft: An Introduction to the History and Literature of Witchcraft.
RELIGION 465 / AAPTIS 465. Islamic Mysticism.
RELIGION 467 / AAPTIS 467 / HISTORY 541. Shi'ism: The History of Messianism and the Pursuit of Justice in Islamdom.
RELIGION 469 / HJCS 478 / JUDAIC 468. Jewish Mysticism.
RELIGION 481 / ENGLISH 401. The English Bible: Its Literary Aspects and Influences, I.
RELIGION 483 / ASIAN 481. Zen Buddhism.
RELIGION 488 / ACABS 421 / CLCIV 483. Christianity and Hellenistic Civilizations.
RELIGION 496 / AAPTIS 495 / HISTORY 546 / WOMENSTD 471. Gender and Sexuality in Pre-Modern Islam.
Residential College
RCHUMS 310 / MEMS 310. Medieval Sources of Modern Culture.
RCHUMS 314 / MEMS 314. The Figure of Rome in Shakespeare and 16th-Century Painting.
RCHUMS 344. Tradition and Invention: Aspects of the Arts in 18th-Century Europe.
RCHUMS 375 / ASIAN 360 / PHIL 360 / HISTART 387. The Arts and Letters of China.
RCHUMS 381. Shakespeare on the Stage.
RCHUMS 382. Molière and His Theatre.
RCHUMS 386/MEMS 421. Medieval Drama.
RCHUMS 387. Renaissance Drama.
Romance Languages and Literatures
FRENCH 367 / MEMS 377. Literature, History, and Culture of Early Modern France.
FRENCH 462 / MEMS 445. Literature of the 16th Century.
ITALIAN 333(433) / MEMS 333. Dante's Divine Comedy.
ITALIAN 387. Italian Renaissance Literature.
ITALIAN 390. Medieval Italian Literature.
ITALIAN 483. Ariosto and Tasso.
SPANISH 371. Survey of Spanish Literature, I.
SPANISH 387. Social Forces and Literary Expression in Golden Age Spain.
SPANISH 450. Middle Ages.
SPANISH 456. Golden Age.
SPANISH 458. The Picaresque Novel.
SPANISH 459. Don Quijote.
SPANISH 460. The Spanish Comedia.
SPANISH 470. Latin-American Literature, Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries.
SPANISH 472. Pre-Columbian Societies.
ROMLING 300. Introduction to the Romance Languages.
ROMLING 414 / SPANISH 414. Background of Modern Spanish.
Slavic Languages and Literatures
POLISH 325. Polish Literature in English to 1890.
CZECH 483. Czech Literature from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment.
Study Abroad
(Note: Many study abroad programs may support MEMS study; we list here only those programs specifically directed toward MEMS topics.
STDABRD 304. UM Spring in Florence – Honors.
STDABRD 452. UM at St. Peter's College, Oxford, England.
