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Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program and Affiliated Courses +
MEMS 209 / HISTORY 209. The West in the World, 300-1700.
MEMS 210 / HISTORY 210. Early Medieval Europe, 3000-1000.
MEMS 211 / HISTORY 211. The Origins of Europe II.
MEMS 212 / HISTORY 212. The Renaissance.
MEMS 213 / HISTORY 213. The Reformation.
MEMS 240 / HISTART 240. 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 261. Interdisciplinary Topics in the Middle Ages: 22 Ways of Going Medieval.
MEMS 310 / RCHUMS 310. Medieval Sources of Modern Culture.
MEMS 314 / RCHUMS 314. The Figure of Rome in Shakespeare and 16th-Century Painting.
MEMS 333 / ITALIAN 333. Dante's Divine Comedy.
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 / ENGLISH 360. Writing the English Revolution.
MEMS 366 / ENGLISH 366. Shakespeare's Contemporaries: Deadly Love in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama.
MEMS 367 / ENGLISH 367. Shakespeare's Plays: The Elizabethan Years.
MEMS 368 / ENGLISH 368. Shakespeare's Plays: The Jacobean Years.
MEMS 375 / SCAND / 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: Varieties of Translation in Medieval France.
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. Research Methods for Premodern Topics.
African and African-American Studies +
DAAS 200. Introduction to African Studies.
DAAS 246. Africa to 1850.
DAAS 422. Pre-colonial African Culture.
American Culture +
AMCULT 360 / GTBOOKS 350 / HISTORY 350. Debates of the Founding Fathers.
Anthropology +
ANTHRCULT 158. Khipu, Cloth, and Chronicles: A History of Information in the Andes.
ANTHRCUL 346 / HISTORY 347. Latin America: The Colonial Period.
ANTHRCUL 415. Andean Civilization.
ANTHRCUL 417. Indians of Mexico and Guatemala.
ANTHRARC 284. Aztec, Maya, and Inca Civilizations.
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 483 / AAPTIS 480. Intensive Introductory Classical Armenian
Asian Studies +
ASIAN 200 / HISTORY 200. Introduction to Japanese Civilization.
ASIAN 204 / 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 Asian Religions.
ASIAN 221 / GTBOOKS 221. Great Books of China.
ASIAN 222 / GTBOOKS 222. Great Books of Japan.
ASIAN 223 / RELIGION 223. Krishna Speaks: Bhagavad-Gita.
ASIAN 224. Traditions of Poetry in India.
ASIAN 225. Introduction to Hinduism.
ASIAN 226. Other Hearts and Other Minds: Poetries of Asia.
ASIAN 230 / PHIL 230 / RELIGION 230. Introduction to Buddhism.
ASIAN 231 / RELIGION 231. Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism.
ASIAN 241 / HISTORY 251. The Chinese Renaissance.
ASIAN 248 / HISTORY 248. Jesus Comes to Asia.
ASIAN 252. Japanese Encounter with the West.
ASIAN 260. Introduction to Chinese Civilization.
ASIAN 265. Looking at Traditional China Through The Story of the Stone.
ASIAN 265 / PHIL 265 / RCHUMS 265 / HISTART 265. The Arts and Letters of China.
ASIAN 270. Introduction to Pre-modern Korean Civilization.
ASIAN 280. Gender, Sexuality and Power in Premodern China.
ASIAN 300. Love and Death in Japanese Culture.
ASIAN 301. Japanese Women's Literature.
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 324. Islam in South Asia.
ASIAN 325 / RELIGION 383. Zen Buddhism.
ASIAN 326. Introduction to Japanese Buddhism.
ASIAN 363. Chinese Theater and Drama.
ASIAN 364. The Development of Chinese Fiction.
ASIAN 365 / HISTORY 365. Premodern Chinese Science.
ASIAN 370. Acupuncture: Historical and Contemporary Transformations.
ASIAN 450. Japan to 1700: From Origin Myths to Shogun Dynasties.
ASIAN 487. Buddhism in India: Its Doctrines and History.
ASIANLAN 433. Classical Japanese I.
ASIANLAN 469. Advanced Classical Tibetan I.
ASIANLAN 470. Advanced Classical Tibetan II.
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 476. Pagans and Christians.
CLCIV 481. The Classical Tradition.
CLCIV 483 / ACABS 421 / RELIGION 488. Christianity and Hellenistic Civilizations.
English Language and Literature +
ENGLISH 140.003. Arthurian Literature.
ENGLISH 258 / RELIGION 258. The English Bible: Its Literary Aspects and Influences, I.
ENGLISH 267. Introduction to Shakespeare.
ENGLISH 298.006. Early Modern Fictions of Travel and Dislocation.
ENGLISH 308. History of the English Language.
ENGLISH 315. Heretics, Saints, Midwives, Witches, and Writers.
ENGLISH 318. Fictions of Scale: 1680-1730.
ENGLISH 350 / MEMS 350. Literature in English to 1660.
ENGLISH 366 / MEMS 366. Shakespeare's Contemporaries.
ENGLISH 367. MEMS 367. Shakespeare's Plays: The Elizabethan Years.
ENGLISH 368 / MEMS 368. Shakespeare's Plays: The Jacobean Years.
ENGLISH 398.002. Medieval Romance.
ENGLISH 398.003. Shakespeare in Performance and Essay.
ENGLISH 398.004. Literature in the Age of Chaucer.
ENGLISH 403.002 / HISTORY 498. Writing Revolution: Rhetoric and Regicide.
ENGLISH 407.002. The Other Chaucer.
ENGLISH 409/501. Old English.
ENGLISH 410. Middle English.
ENGLISH 415. Early Women Writers.
ENGLISH 442.002. Poetry before Print: Medieval and Early Tudor Lyric Poetry.
ENGLISH 443 / THTREMUS 321. History of Theatre I.
ENGLISH 445. Shakespeare's Rivals.
ENGLISH 449. Medieval Drama.
ENGLISH 450.001. Medieval and Renaissance Literature: Elizabethan Culture and the Faerie Queene
ENGLISH 450.002. Literature and Time in Medieval England.
ENGLISH 451.001. Literature 1600-1830: Poets, Lovers, Madmen.
ENGLISH 451.002. Eighteenth-century Literature and the Museum.
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 378. The History of German Science.
GERMAN 381. Eighteenth to Nineteenth-Century Drama.
GERMAN 449. Spirituality and Madness: Religious Women from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment.
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 212. Great Books in World Literature.
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 103. The Family in the Early Modern World.
HISTORY 132 / AAPTIS 100 / ACABS 100 / HJCS 100. Peoples of the Middle East.
HISTORY 195. American Indians in Diplomacy, Alliance, and War, 1500-1838.
HISTOR 196. World-wide Witchcraft: Witch-Belief and Witch-Hunting in Global Perspective.
HISTORY 197.001. Farmers and Farming in Pre-Industrial Europe.
HISTORY 203 / ASIAN 203. Introduction to Japanese Civilization.
HISTORY 204 / ASIAN 204. East Asia: Early Transformations.
HISTORY 206 / ASIAN 206. Indian Civilization.
HISTORY 207 / ASIAN 207. Southeast Asian Civilizations.
HISTORY 209 / MEMS 209. The West in the World, 300-1700.
HISTORY 210 / MEMS 210. Early Medieval Europe, 300-1000.
HISTORY 211 / MEMS 211. The Origins of Europe II.
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 239. The World Before 1492.
HISTORY 246 / DAAS 246. Africa to 1850.
HISTORY 248. Jesus Comes to Asia: Conversion and Its Consequences.
HISTORY 250. China from the Oracle Bones to the Opium War.
HISTORY 251. The Chinese Renaissance: Cultural Transformations in Eleventh-Century China
HISTORY 253. Introduction to Pre-modern Korean Civilization.
HISTORY 257 / JUDAIC 318. Law in the Premodern World.
HISTORY 260. United States to 1865.
HISTORY 263. Discovering America: Atlantic History I, 1492-1607.
HISTORY 264. Exploring America: Atlantic History II, 1607-1815.
HISTORY 269. Introduction to the Talmud and the Rabbis.
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 from Prehistoric Times to the Present.
HISTORY 301. Discovery of the Universe.
HISTORY 303.004. The Ottoman 'Classical' Age.
HISTORY 317. Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800.
HISTORY 318 / JUDAIC 328. History of Jewish Visual Culture.
HISTORY 323. The French Enlightenment.
HISTORY 325. The History of Islam in South Asia.
HISTORY 328.001. Medieval Egypt.
HISTORY 328.003. Power and Social Control in Medieval England.
HISTORY 328.007. Fictions of Scale, 1680-1730.
HISTORY 329. Pollution, Contagion and Disease in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
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 357. Islam in Africa.
HISTORY 373. A History of the Western Expansion of the United States.
HISTORY 375 / WOMENSTD 375. A History of Witchcraft: The 1692 Salem Trials in Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspective.
HISTORY 376. History of Ireland to 1603.
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 396. Crossed Destinies: Ibn Khaldun and Tamerlane.
HISTORY 397.002. Crusade and Jihad.
HISTORY 405. Pagans and Christians in the Roman World.
HISTORY 408. Byzantium, 284-867.
HISTORY 409. Byzantine Empire, 867-1453
HISTORY 429. Gender and Sexuality in Pre-modern Islam.
HISTORY 432. Medieval and Early Modern Russia: From the Vikings to Peter the Great.
HISTORY 442. First Millenium of the Islamic Near East.
HISTORY 449. The World the Mongols Made.
HISTORY 450. Japan to 1700: From Origin Myths to Shogun Dynasties.
HISTORY 460. Colonial America.
HISTORY 469. Problems in Precolonial Southeast Asia.
HISTORY 478. Colonial Latin America.
HISTORY 481.002. Spirituality and Madness: Religious Women from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment.
HISTORY 495. The World the Mongols Made.
HISTORY 498. Writing the English Revolution.
History of Art +
HISTART 101. Great Monuments from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages.
HISTART 102. Survey of Western Art History.
HISTART 102. Survey of Asian Art History.
HISTART 194. Art at Medieval Courts.
HISTART 194.001. The Archbishop's Bones: Art, Architecture, and Pilgrimage at Canterbury Cathedral
HISTART 240 / MEMS 240. Visual Arts in Medieval Society
HISTART 250 / MEMS 250. Italian Renaissance Art, I.
HISTART 251 / MEMS 251. Italian Renaissance Art, II.
HISTART 255. Visual Mythology.
HISTART 260. Seventeenth-Century European Painting and Sculpture.
HISTART 265 / ASIAN 265 / PHIL 265 / RCHUMS 265. The Arts and Letters of China.
HISTART 285 / AAPTIS 285. Visual Culture of Islam.
HISTART 341. The Gothic Age:
HISTART 342 / RCHUMS 344. Reason and Passion in the Eighteenth Century.
HISTART 344 / MEMS 344. Early Medieval Kingdoms and Cultures: European Art 400-1000.
HISTART 345 / MEMS 345. Introduction to Medieval Architecture.
HISTART 348. The Medieval Book.
HISTART 351. The Art and Poetry of Michelangelo.
HISTART 352. Art and Philosophy in the Renaissance Tradition.
HISTART 386. Painting and Poetry in China.
HISTART 393.001. Art and Money.
HISTART 393.002. Hieronymous Bosch.
HISTART 394.004. Caravaggio and the Death of Painting.
HISTART 394.002. The Landscape Tradition in Japanese Art.
HISTART 394.008. The Moving Image in the Middle Ages.
HISTART 394.009. The Art of Byzantium and Medieval Western Europe.
HISTART 394.010. Imagining Jerusalem in Art and Architecture from the Renaissance to the Modern Period.
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 453. Venetian Painting.
HISTART 462. Baroque Art in Italy.
HISTART 465. Early Modern Architecture in Italy, Austria, and Germany.
HISTART 463. Dutch and Flemish Painting.
HISTART 482. Buddhist Art.
HISTART 489.004. Early Modern European Print Culture.
HISTART 490. Working with Objects: Islamic Textiles, Metalwork, Ceramics, Glass and Coins.
HISTART 514. Spanish Art: El Greco to Goya.
HISTART 555. Renaissance Architecture in Italy.
HISTART 562. Baroque Sculpture in Italy and Spain.
HISTART 581 / AAPTIS 580. Islamic Architecture: Continuity and Innovation.
Judaic Studies +
JUDAIC 257. Law in the Pre-modern World.
JUDAIC 260. Introduction to the Talmud and the Rabbis.
JUDAIC 270 / HJCS 270. Introduction to Rabbinic Literature.
JUDAIC 317/HJCS 491. Text-ing Judaic: Midrashic Imagination.
JUDAIC 318 / HISTORY 328. Rabbis, Religion and the Beginnings of Jewisheness (001) // Ancient Judaism: Law, History, Religion (002)
JUDAIC 328 / HISTORY 318. History of Jewish Visual Culture.
JUDAIC 417. The Hebrew Bible and the Visual Arts.
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 (non-Musicology majors only).
MUSICOL 413. History of Opera: 17th and 18th Centuries.
MUSICOL 420. Music of the Baroque.
MUSICOL 421. Music of the Classic Era.
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 291.002. The Ottoman Empire: "Classical Age."
AAPTIS 325. The History of Islam in South Asia.
AAPTIS 381. Introduction to Arab Literature in Translation.
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 468. Islamic Law.
AAPTIS 469. Islamic Intellectual History.
AAPTIS 473 / ARMENIAN 415. An Introduction to Classical and Medieval Armenian Literature.
AAPTIS 475. Rumi and the Great Persian Mystical Poets.
AAPTIS 480 / ARMENIAN 483. Intensive Introductory Classical Armenian.
AAPTIS 488. History of Arabic Literature in English.
AAPTIS 495 / WOMENSTD 471 / HISTORY 546 / RELIGION 496. Gender and Sexuality in Premodern Islam.
AAPTIS 511. Classical Arabic I.
AAPTIS 512. Classical Arabic II.
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 265 / ASIAN 265 / RCHUMS 265 / HISTART 265. The Arts and Letters of China.
PHIL 389. History of Philosophy: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.
PHIL 463. Descarte's System.
PHIL 464. The Scientific Revolution.
Political Science +
POLSCI 301. Development of Political Thought: To Modern Period.
POLSCI 307. American Political Thought: Founding to the Civil War.
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 225 / ASIAN 225. Introduction to Hinduism: Origins and Development of Classical Hinduism.
RELIGION 231 / ASIAN 231. Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism.
RELIGION 258 / ENGLISH 258. The English Bible: Its Literary Aspects and Influences, I.
RELIGION 230 / ASIAN 230 / PHIL 230. Introduction to Buddhism.
RELIGION 248. Jesus Comes to Asia: Conversion and its Consequences in Asia
RELIGION 260. Introduction to Talmud and the Rabbis.
RELIGION 270. Introduction to Rabbinic Literature.
RELIGION 286 / HISTORY 286. A History of Eastern Christianity from the 4th to the 18th Century.
RELIGION 303 / ASIAN 303. Sikhism.
RELIGION 323. Zen: History, Culture and Critique.
RELIGION 325. The History of Islam in South Asia.
RELIGION 326. History of the Jews in the Roman and Early Byzantine Worlds.
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 383 / ASIAN 325. Zen Buddhism.
RELIGION 402. Spirituality and Madness: Religious Women from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment.
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 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 334/ HISTART 352. Art and Philosophy in the Renaissance Tradition.
RCHUMS 344. Reason and Passion in the 18th Century.
RCHUMS 265 / HISTART 265 / ASIAN 265 / PHIL 265 / 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 274. France and the New World.
FRENCH 343. French Enlightenment.
FRENCH 366. Varieties of Translation in Medieval France.
FRENCH 367 / MEMS 377. Literature, History, and Culture of Early Modern France.
FRENCH 368. Enlightenment, Revolution, Romanticism.
FRENCH 462 / MEMS 445. Literature of the 16th Century.
ITALIAN 270. Italian Through Opera.
ITALIAN 317. The Renaissance.
ITALIAN 333 / MEMS 333. Dante's Divine Comedy.
ITALIAN 387 / 483. Italian Renaissance Literature: Ariosto's Orlando furioso
ITALIAN 390. Medieval Italian Literature.
ITALIAN 450. Sex and the City: Boccaccio and Machiavelli
SPANISH 339. Moriscos and Conversos: Re-creating Identities in Early Modern Iberia.
SPANISH 371. Survey of Spanish Literature, I.
SPANISH 373.001. From Cid to Cide Hamete: Muslims in Medieval & EM Iberian Literature.
SPANISH 373.007. Las Novelas ejemplares de Miguel de Cervantes.
SPANISH 373.101. "Of liars, beggars and meddlers"" The Art of Deception in Spain's Early Modern Culture [SP 2013]
SPANISH 381. Colonial Latin American Literature.
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.
ROMLANG 498. Don Juan.
ROMLING 300. Introduction to the Romance Languages.
ROMLANG 400. Mediterranean Encounters: Muslims, Christians and Jews in the Age of Empires (1453-1700).
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. U-M Spring in Florence – Honors.
STDABRD 452. U-M at St. Peter's College, Oxford, England.


