Degree Requirements for Medieval Studies Minors
Students must complete at least five upper-level courses in Medieval Studies disciplines, for a total of 15 credits. No more than three of these credits may be transferred from another college or university. Coursework must be at the 2000 level and above, and may also include Variable Topics, Special Topics, Independent Study, Foreign Study, and graduate-level courses, as determined by the course content and consent of one of the Minor Advisors (see below).
The five courses must be drawn from at least four of the following categories.
Arab and Islamic Civilizations
ARAB2751 Arabic Folk Tales and Mirrors for Princes
ARAB3550W Classical Arabic Literature
ARAB3551 Arabic Travel Narratives (language requirement)
ARAB3559 Arabic Poetry and Poetics (language requirement)
ARAB3751 Al-Andalus: Music, Literature, and Science in Muslim Spain
Art History
ARTH3210/3210W Late Antique and Early Byzantine Art
ARTH3220/3220W Early Medieval Art
ARTH3230/3230W Romanesque Art
ARTH3240/3240W Gothic Art
ARTH3260/3260W The Early Illustrated Book
Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
CAMS3102 Topics in Advanced Latin
CAMS3213 Ovid and Mythology
CAMS3224 Vergil and the Roman Epic
CAMS3232 Medieval Latin
CAMS3244 Ancient Fictions
CAMS/HIST3320 Ancient Greece: Troy to Sparta
CAMS/HIST3321 Hellenistic World: Alexander to Cleopatra
CAMS/HIST3325 Ancient Rome: Aeneas to Augustus
CAMS/HIST3330 Palestine under the Greeks and Romans
CAMS/HIST3326 Ancient Rome: Emperors and Barbarians
CAMS/HIST3335 The Early Christian Church
CAMS/HIST3340 World of the Later Roman Empire
English
ENGL3111 Medieval English Literature
ENGL3301 Celtic and Norse Myth and Legend
ENGL3495 Studies in Early Literature in English
ENGL3501 Chaucer
ENGL3603 History of the English Language
French
FREN3230 The Middle Ages: Myths and Legends
Hebrew & Judaic Studies
HEJS3201 Selected Books of the Hebrew Bible
HEJS3241 Jewish Magic from Late Antiquity through the Early Modern Period
HEJS3301 The Jewish Middle Ages
HEJS5316 Dying for God: Jewish Martyrdom in the Middle Ages
HEJS/HIST3362 The Black Death: Medieval and Modern Responses to Catastrophe
History
HIST3350 Byzantium
HIST3360 Early Middle Ages
HIST3361 High and Later Middle Ages
HIST3420 English History to 1603
HIST3460 Italy 1250-1600
HIST3704 Medieval Islamic Civilization to 1700
HIST/CAMS3320 Ancient Greece: Troy to Sparta
HIST/CAMS3321 Hellenistic World: Alexander to Cleopatra
HIST/CAMS3325 Ancient Rome: Aeneas to Augustus
HIST/CAMS3330 Palestine under the Greeks and Romans
HIST/CAMS3326 Ancient Rome: Emperors and Barbarians
HIST/CAMS3335 The Early Christian Church
HIST/CAMS3340 World of the Later Roman Empire
Interdepartmental
INTD3220 Studies in the Culture of the Middle Ages
INTD3260 The Bible
Italian Literary and Cultural Studies:
ILCS3253 Dante and His Time
ILCS3254 Boccaccio and His Time
ILCS3255W Dante’s Divine Comedy in English Translation
Music
MUSI3401 Music History and Literature Before 1750
Philosophy
PHIL3261 Medieval Philosophy
Political Science
POLS3002 Classical and Medieval Political Theory
Spanish
SPAN3200 Spanish Civilization to the Modern Period
SPAN3231 Great Works of Spanish Literature from its Origins to the Golden Age
SPAN3261 Old Spanish Language and Literature
The Minor is offered by the Medieval Studies Program
For further information, contact Sherri Olson (sherri.olson@uconn.edu)